Method and apparatus for generating user interface

• US 20090265645A1
• Filed: 03/13/2009
• Published: 10/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Ryu, Young-sun, Park, Ho-Yeon
• Granted Patent: US 9,389,881 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/762
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131

Abstract

Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a user interface (UI). The method receives a plurality of UIs from a plurality of servers and generates and displays a combined UI by combining (or aggregating) the plurality of UIs, so that a user can control a plurality of devices through a client.

Claims

1. A method of generating a user interface (UI), the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of UIs from at least two servers; and

generating a combined UI by combining the plurality of UIs received from the at least two servers.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of UIs received from the at least two servers is encoded in a multimedia data format by using an MPEG scene-description technology.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of UIs received from the at least two servers includes information used to present objects included in the at least two UIs, information about events generated by the objects, and information about functions called to process the events.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the generating of the combined UI comprises:

decoding the plurality of UIs that are encoded in the multimedia data format;

analyzing the information used to present objects included in the at least two UIs, the information about events generated by the objects, and the information about functions called to process the events with regard to the plurality of decoded UIs; and

generating the combined UI by combining the plurality of UIs based on a result of the analyzing.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the generating of the combined UI by aggregating the plurality of UIs based on the result of the analyzing comprises:

generating the combined UI by disposing the plurality of UIs based on the information used to present the objects.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the generating of the combined UI by combining the plurality of UIs based on the result of the analyzing comprises:

generating the combined UI so as to generate a combined event by combining at least two events of the plurality of UIs based on the information about the events and the information about the functions.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the generating of the combined UI by aggregating the plurality of UIs based on the result of the analyzing comprises:

generating the combined UI so as to generate a combined event related to at least one of the events of the plurality of UIs based on the information about the events and the information about the functions.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of UIs received from at least two servers are widgets received from the at least two servers.

17. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of claim 1.

9. An apparatus for generating a UI, the apparatus comprising:

a connecting unit receiving a plurality of UIs from at least two servers; and

a UI generating unit generating a combined UI by combining the plurality of UIs received from the at least tow servers.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the plurality of UIs from the at least two servers is encoded in a multimedia data format by using an MPEG scene-description technology.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the plurality of UIs from the at least two servers includes information used to present objects included in at least two UIs, information about events generated by the objects, and information about functions called to process the events.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the UI generating unit comprises:

a decoding unit decoding the plurality of UIs that are encoded in the multimedia data format;

an analyzing unit analyzing the information used to present objects included in the at least two UIs, the information about events generated by the objects, and the information about functions called to process the events with regard to the decoded UIs; and

an combining unit generating the combined UI by combining the plurality of UIs based on a result of the analyzing.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the aggregating unit generates the combined UI by disposing the plurality of UIs based on the information used to present the objects.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the aggregating unit generates the combined UI so as to generate a combined event by combining at least two events of the plurality of UIs based on the information about the events and the information about the functions.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the aggregating unit generates the combined UI so as to generate a combined event related to at least one of the events of the plurality of UIs based on the information about the events and the information about the functions.

16. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the plurality of UIs are widgets.