Method and apparatus for displaying personalized user interface

• US 20090265646A1
• Filed: 04/03/2009
• 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, Kyung-mo, Cho, Seong-ho, Park, Ho-yeon
• Granted Patent: US 9,424,053 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/762
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00501 Tailoring a user interface [UI] to specific requirements

Abstract

A method of displaying a user interface (UI), wherein the displaying is performed by a client, is provided. The method includes receiving UI data from a server, generating the UI to be displayed based on the received UI data and characteristics of the client and displaying the generated UI.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a user interface (UI), wherein the displaying is performed by a client, the method comprising:

receiving UI data from a server;

generating the UI based on the UI data and characteristics of the client; and

displaying the generated UI.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the UI data is encoded in a multimedia data format using a scene-description technology based on a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standard.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the UI data comprises information about a dynamic configuration of the UI.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the generating of the UI comprises comparing the characteristics of the client against the information about the dynamic configuration of the UI.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the information about the dynamic configuration of the UI is used in the generating of the UI by changing at least one of a color, a form, a background image, and a font of the UI.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the UI data comprises data for a plurality of UI objects.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the generating of the UI comprises selecting at least one of the plurality of UI objects based on the characteristics of the client.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the characteristics of the client comprise at least one of a performance of the client, a user profile of the client, a network type to which the client is connected, and external information.

23. A computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for causing a computer to execute the method of claim 1.

9. A method of providing a user interface (UI) from a server to a client, the method comprising:

generating UI data comprising information about a dynamic configuration of the UI; and

transmitting the UI data to the client,

wherein the client generates the UI based on the information about the dynamic configuration of the UI and characteristics of the client.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the UI data is encoded in a multimedia data format using a scene-description technology based on a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standard.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the information about the dynamic configuration of the UI is used in the generating of the UI by changing at least one of a color, a form, a background image, and a font of the UI.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the UI data comprises data for a plurality of UI objects, which the client can use to select one or more of a plurality of UI objects.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein each one of the plurality of UI objects is a minimum unit of the UI in which a predetermined event is generated from interaction with a user.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the information about the dynamic configuration of the UI includes representation information indicating how the UI objects are to be arranged in the UI.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the characteristics of the client comprise at least one of a performance of the client, a user profile of the client, a network type to which the client is connected, and external information.

24. A computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for causing a computer to execute the method of claim 9.

16. An apparatus for displaying a user interface (UI) of a client, the apparatus comprising:

a connection unit receiving UI data from a server;

a UI generation unit generating the UI to be displayed based on the UI data and characteristics of the client; and

a display unit displaying the generated UI.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the UI data is encoded in a multimedia data format using a scene-description technology based on a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standard.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the UI data comprises information about a dynamic configuration of the UI.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the characteristics of the client comprise a use pattern of UI objects by a user, indicating preferences of the user regarding the UI objects.

20. An apparatus for providing a user interface (UI) to a client of a server, the apparatus comprising:

a UI data generation unit generating UI data comprising information about a dynamic configuration of the UI; and

a connection unit transmitting the UI data to the client,

wherein the client generates the UI based on the information about the dynamic configuration of the UI and characteristics of the client.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the UI data is encoded in a multimedia data format using a scene-description technology based on a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standard.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the UI data comprises information about a dynamic configuration of the UI.