METHOD OF CONTROLLING DEVICE USING RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR

• US 20090128301A1
• Filed: 07/02/2008
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jeong, Seong-hua, PARK, Hong-seok
• Application Number:
  US12/166,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20090128301A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.400
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces

Abstract

A method of controlling a device by using radio frequency identification (RFID). The method includes wirelessly reading out by a first device information relating to data stored in a second device from the second device, determining an operation to be performed by the second device based on the read out information, and wirelessly recording a command corresponding to the determined operation into the second device.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a second device by a first device by using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), the method comprising:

wirelessly reading out by the first device information relating to data stored in the second device from the second device;

determining in the first device an operation to be performed by the second device based on the read out information; and

wirelessly recording a command corresponding to the determined operation into the second device by the first device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

outputting the information relating to the data stored in the second device, wherein the determining is performed based on the output information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the information relating to the data stored comprises at least one of a list of the data and metadata of the data.

4. A method of controlling an operation of a device, the method comprising:

searching for whether a command corresponding to an operation to be performed by the device is stored in the device when a power source is applied to the device; and

controlling the device to selectively perform the operation corresponding to the command based on a result of the searching,

wherein the device comprises an electronic tag and the searching is performed to determine whether the command is recorded in the electronic tag.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the operation comprises at least one of deleting, reproducing, and executing data stored in the device, and receiving data from an external device.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein information relating to data stored in the device is changed due to the performance of the operation, and the method further comprises:

refreshing the information relating to the data according to the change, wherein the information relating to the data comprises at least one from a list of the data and metadata of the data.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the device is connected to an external device, and the method further comprises:

converting a format of the command into a format readable by the external device.

8. An apparatus to control a second device by a first device by using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), the apparatus comprising:

a reading unit of the first device to wirelessly read out from the second device information relating to data stored in the second device by the first device;

an operation determining unit of the first device to determine an operation to be performed by the second device based on the read out information; and

a recording unit to wirelessly record a command corresponding to the determined operation into the second device.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

an output unit to output the information read out from the second device relating to the data stored in the second device, wherein the operation determining unit determines the operation based on the output information.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the information relating to the stored data comprises at least one of a list of the data and metadata of the data.

11. An apparatus to control an operation of a device, the apparatus comprising:

an electronic tag in which a command corresponding to an operation to be performed by the device is recorded;

a searching unit to search for whether the command is recorded in the electronic tag when a power source is applied to the device; and

a control unit to control the device to selectively perform the operation corresponding to the command based on the search result.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the operation comprises at least one of deleting, reproducing, and executing data stored in the device, and receiving data from an external device.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, when information relating to data stored in the device is changed, and further comprising:

a refresh unit to refresh the information relating to the data according to the change,

wherein the information relating to the data comprises at least one from a list of the data and metadata of the data.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the device is connected to an external device, and further comprising:

a converting unit to convert a format of the command into a format readable by the external device.

15. A computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for executing the method of controlling a second device by a first device by using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), the method comprising:

wirelessly reading out by the first device information relating to data stored in the second device from the second device;

determining in the first device an operation to be performed by the second device based on the read out information; and

wirelessly recording a command corresponding to the determined operation into the second device by the first device.

16. A computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for executing the method of controlling an operation of a device, the method comprising:

searching for whether a command corresponding to an operation to be performed by the device is stored in the device when a power source is applied to the device; and

controlling the device to selectively perform the operation corresponding to the command based on a result of the searching,

wherein the device comprises an electronic tag and the searching is performed to determine whether the command is recorded in the electronic tag.

17. An apparatus to wirelessly control a second device by a first device, comprising:

a reading unit of the first device to read out information related to data stored in a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag disposed in the second device;

a display of the first device to display the read out information of the second device; and

a recording unit of the first device to store in the RFID tag of the second device a command entered in the first device according to the display of the read out information of the second device.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the first device has a power source and the second device has no power source or display.

19. A method of controlling a second device by a first device, the method comprising:

reading by the first device information related to data stored in a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag disposed in the second device;

displaying in the first device the read out information of the second device; and

storing in the RFID tag of the second device a command entered in the first device according to the displaying of the read out information of the second device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the second device includes no power source or display.

21. An apparatus using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), the apparatus comprising:

a memory device having a memory to store data;

a RFID tag to communicate with a wireless device to receive a command from the wireless device and to store the command; and

a terminal to connect to a terminal of an external device to communicate with the external device to control the external device according to the stored command.