APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE INFORMATION

• US 20100060790A1
• Filed: 09/10/2009
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Joo-yoen
• Application Number:
  US12/557,000
• Publication Number:
  US 20100060790A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/563
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/254 Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server arrangements for maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00; network services using third party service providers H04L67/53
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4886 for displaying a ticker, e.g. scrolling banner for news, stock exchange, weather data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program

Abstract

An apparatus and method for providing service information. A method for providing service information includes receiving data including service information and time information, comparing the time information with the current time, and displaying the service information if a time indicated by the time information is within a predetermined time period including the current time.

Claims

1. A method for providing service information, the method comprising:

receiving data including service information and time information;

comparing the time information with a current time; and

displaying the service information if a time indicated by the time information is within a predetermined time period including the current time.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the receiving the data, the data is received through the Internet.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying the service information comprises executing an application program to display the service information.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying the service information comprises displaying the service information only if the time indicated by the time information is within the predetermined time period.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising, if the time indicated by the time information is not within the predetermined time period, terminating execution of an application program to display the service information.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the service information is at least one of stock information, news information, weather information, and information related to an image.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the time information is information regarding a time when the service information is generated.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the current time is a time which is set in a device displaying the service information, and the current time is based on at least one of a time input by a user, a time contained in a broadcast signal, and a time received from an external device.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the service information corresponds to at least one of information input by a user and caption information related to a displayed image.

10. A method for providing service information, the method comprising:

receiving service information corresponding to service request information through the Internet; and

displaying only service information among the received service information which is generated within a predetermined time period including a current time.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the service information is at least one of stock information, news information, weather information, and information related to an image.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the current time is a time which is set in a device displaying the service information, and the current time is based on at least one of a time input by a user, a time contained in a broadcast signal, and a time received from an external device.

13. The method according to claim 10, wherein the service request information is at least one of information input by a user and caption information related to a displayed image.

14. An image apparatus comprising:

an interface unit which receives data including service information and time information; and

a display unit which displays the service information if a time indicated by the time information is within a predetermined time period including a current time.

15. The image apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the interface unit receives the data through the Internet.

16. The image apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the display unit does not display the service information if the time indicated by the time information is not within the predetermined time period.

17. The image apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the time information is information regarding a time when the service information is generated.

18. The image apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the service information is at least one of stock information, news information, weather information, and information related to an image.

19. The image apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the current time is a time which is set in the image apparatus, and the current time is based on at least one of a time input by a user, a time contained in a broadcast signal, and a time received from an external device.

20. The image apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the service information corresponds to at least one of information input by a user and caption information related to a displayed image.

21. A method for providing information, the method comprising:

receiving data from an information service, the data comprising displayable content and an associated time indication;

comparing the time indication with a current time to determine a difference between the time indication and the current time; and

displaying the content only if the difference between the time indication and a current time is less than a predetermined value.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the time indication represents a time at which the displayable content was generated.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the displayable content provides information which is most accurate at a time indicated by the time indication.