APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DELIVERING CONTENT BETWEEN APPLICATIONS

• US 20100175011A1
• Filed: 09/21/2009
• Published: 07/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Song, Mee-sun, Lee, Jin-suk, Kim, Seo-young
• Application Number:
  US12/563,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20100175011A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]

Abstract

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of delivering content between applications. Content which is to be delivered from a source application to a target application may be extracted according to a user input signal, a content type describing object and a content extraction scheme corresponding to a content type. For example, the source application may be a web application including information received through a network, and the target application may be a local application which is executed using information stored in the apparatus, and vice versa.

Claims

1. An apparatus for delivering content between applications, the apparatus comprising:

a user interface to receive a user input signal for delivering content from a source application;

a content transfer manager to detect the content, which is to be delivered from the source application, among contents according to the user input signal by using a content type describing object which defines the content to be extracted and a content extraction scheme corresponding to a content type; and

a controller to deliver the content extracted from the source application to a target application.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the content type describing object comprises content type information, a function describing a scheme of detecting content corresponding to the content type, and a function describing a scheme of extracting information contained in the content.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein:

the content type describing object further comprises a presentation code function to provide a code for presentation of the delivered content, and

the controller displays the delivered content on the target application using the presentation code function.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the content comprises at least one of text, audio, an image, a widget, a microformat, and a Java scripter library.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the content type describing object is newly registered or deleted.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user input signal is a signal to execute a drag and drop operation or a copy and paste operation.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the content transfer manager installs or uninstalls the content delivered to the target application.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller creates user interface feedback information to display a process of delivering the content extracted from the source application is to the target application and provides the user interface feedback information.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the source application is a web application including information received through a network, and the target application is a local application which is executed using information stored in the apparatus, and vice versa.

10. A method of delivering content between applications, the method comprising:

receiving a user input signal used to deliver content from a source application;

extracting content which is to be delivered from the source application among contents according to the user input signal by using a content type describing object which defines the content to be extracted and a content extraction scheme corresponding to a content type; and

delivering the content extracted from the source application to a target application.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the content type describing object comprises content type information, a function describing a scheme of detecting the content type and a function describing a scheme of extracting information contained in content.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein:

the content type describing object further comprises a presentation code function to provide a code for presentation of the delivered content, and

the delivering of the content comprises displaying the delivered content on the target application using the presentation code function.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the content comprises at least one of text, audio, an image, a widget, a microformat, and a Java scripter library.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising registering or deleting the content type describing object.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the user input signal is a signal configured to execute a drag and drop operation or a copy and paste operation.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising installing or uninstalling the content which has been delivered and inserted into the target application.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the delivering of the content comprises providing user interface feedback information to display a process of delivering the content extracted from the source application to the target application.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the source application is a web application comprising information received through a network, and the target application is a local application, which is executed using information stored in the apparatus, and vice versa.