COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR PORTABLE TERMINAL

• US 20120102155A1
• Filed: 10/20/2011
• Published: 04/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: ROH, Ho-Hyun
• Application Number:
  US13/277,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20120102155A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 11/00 Transmission systems employing sonic, ultrasonic or infrasonic waves

Abstract

A communication method for a portable terminal preferably includes emitting, by a transmission portable terminal, at least one of light or sound and notifying a server of emission details, sensing, by a reception portable terminal, the emitted light or sound and notifying the server of sensing details. The transmission portable terminal transmits data to the server, and receives by each of one or more reception portable terminals which have sensed the light or sound, the data through the server.

Claims

1. A communication method for a portable terminal, the communication method comprising:

emitting, by a transmission portable terminal, at least one of light or sound and notifying a server of emission details of the light or sound emitted;

sensing, by a reception portable terminal, the emitted light or sound and the reception portable terminal notifying the server of sensing details; and

transmitting data to the server by the transmission portable terminal, and receiving the data through the server by each of one or more reception portable terminals which have sensed the light or sound.

2. The communication method of claim 1, further comprising the transmission portable terminal receiving from the server a list of the one or more reception portable terminals that have sensed the light or sound emitted from the transmission portable terminal, and the transmission portable terminal displaying the received list.

3. The communication method of claim 2, further comprising, after the transmission portable terminal displays the list of the one or more reception portable terminals that have sensed the light or sound, receiving from a user selection a selection of whether to re-emit at least one of the light and sound.

4. The communication method of claim 2, further comprising re-emitting by the transmission portable terminal, one of the light or sound.

5. The communication method of claim 3, further comprising re-emitting by the transmission portable terminal, one of the light or sound.

6. The communication method of claim 1, further comprising each of the reception portable terminals receiving a list of one or more reception portable terminals that have sensed the light or sound, from the server and displaying the received list.

7. The communication method of claim 1, wherein the emission details comprise at least one of information about whether or not the flash has been emitted , an emission time, and an emission position.

8. The communication method of claim 1, wherein the sensing details comprise at least one of information about whether or not the emitted flash is sensed, a sensing time, and a sensing position.

9. The communication method of claim 1, wherein the emitted sound comprises a sound with a non-audible frequency band.

10. The communication method of claim 1, wherein the server checks the transmission portable terminal and one or more reception portable terminals that have sensed the light or sound emitted from the transmission portable terminal through the emission details and the sensing details.

11. A system for portable terminal data exchange by at least three portable terminals, said system comprising:

a transmission portable terminal;

a plurality of reception portable terminals;

a server in communication with said transmission portable terminal and the plurality of reception portable terminals;

the transmission portable terminal having a sharing mode in which a light emission or sound emission module for contacting the plurality of reception portable terminals;

the plurality of portable terminals also having sharing mode that when enabled senses the light or sound emitted by the transmission portable terminal;

wherein the server receives notification from the reception mobile terminals when the reception portable terminals sense a light or sound emitted from the transmission portable terminal, and the server provides the transmission portable terminal with a list of reception portable terminals that notified the server of sensing the light or sound emitted;

wherein the transmission portable terminals transmits sharing data to the server which retransmits the sharing data to the plurality of reception portable terminals.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the server provides the reception portable terminals with a list identifying all of the reception portable terminals that respectively notified the server that an emitted light or sound has been sensed.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein each of the reception portable terminals displays a message identifying the transmission portable terminal that emitted light or sound.

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein each of the reception portable terminals displays a message identifying all the reception portable terminals that notified the server that an emitted light or sound was sensed.