METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DISPLAY DLNA DEVICES

• US 20120150889A1
• Filed: 11/30/2011
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHOI, Jong-yun
• Application Number:
  US13/307,328
• Publication Number:
  US 20120150889A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method and apparatus to display at least one device connected through a DLNA way in a DLNA device including searching device information of one or more peripheral apparatuses, extracting URLs of media files corresponding to the one or more peripheral apparatuses respectively from the searched device information, and if there is a URL of a media file corresponding to a respective peripheral apparatus, receiving the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus from the URL, and displaying a UI to access the media files corresponding to the one or more peripheral apparatuses along with model names of the one or more peripheral apparatuses.

Claims

1. A method of displaying at least one device connected through a DLNA way in a DLNA device, the method comprising:

searching device information of one or more peripheral apparatuses;

extracting URLs of media files corresponding to the one or more peripheral apparatuses respectively from the searched device information;

if there is a URL of a media file corresponding to a respective peripheral apparatus, receiving the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus from the URL; and

displaying a UI to access the media files corresponding to the one or more peripheral apparatuses along with model names of the one or more peripheral apparatuses.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising:

if there is no URL of the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus, transmitting the model name of the respective peripheral apparatus to a specified web server; and

receiving a media file corresponding to the model name of the respective peripheral apparatus from the specified web server.

3. The method according to claim 1, comprising:

if the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus is not included in the searched device information, transmitting the model name of the respective peripheral apparatus to a specified web server; and

receiving a media file corresponding to the model name of the respective peripheral apparatus from the specified web server.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the device information is a device description XML file.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus includes at least one of an image file, a video file, and an audio file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the video file and the audio file are files including a detailed description on how to use the respective peripheral apparatus.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the searching device information of the one or more peripheral apparatuses comprises searching device information of the one or more peripheral apparatuses using a UPnP SSDP protocol.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus comprises receiving the media file using a HTTP protocol.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing the received media file.

10. A DLNA device display apparatus to display at least one device connected through a DLNA way, the apparatus comprising:

a device information search unit to search device information of one or more peripheral apparatuses;

a device information extracting unit to extract URLs of media files corresponding to the one or more peripheral apparatuses and model names of the one or more peripheral apparatuses respectively;

a media file receiving unit which, if there is a URL of a media file corresponding to a respective peripheral apparatus, receives the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus from the URL; and

a display unit to display a UI to access the media files corresponding to the one or more peripheral apparatuses along with model names of the one or more peripheral apparatuses.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

a model name transmitting unit which, if there is no URL of the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus, transmits the model name of the respective peripheral apparatus to a specified web server,

wherein the media file receiving unit receives a media file corresponding to the model name of the respective peripheral apparatus from the specified web server.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the model name transmitting unit transmits the model name of the respective peripheral apparatus to a specified web server if the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus is not included in the searched device information,

wherein the media file receiving unit receives a media file corresponding to the model name of the respective peripheral apparatus from the specified web server.

13. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the device information is a device description XML file.

14. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus includes at least one of an image file, a video file, and an audio file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the video file and the audio file are files including a detailed description on how to use the respective peripheral apparatus.

16. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the device information search unit searches device information of the one or more peripheral apparatuses using a UPnP SSDP protocol.

17. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the media file receiving unit receives the media file corresponding to the respective peripheral apparatus using a HTTP protocol.

18. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

a storage unit to store the received media file.