METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA

• US 20120185562A1
• Filed: 01/18/2012
• Published: 07/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KOO, Min-soo
• Granted Patent: US 9,294,594 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

A method of transmitting data and a method of processing data, the methods including acquiring basic data of a type defined in the open API and extended data of a type not defined in the open API; converting the extended data to data of a type defined in the open API; and invoking the open API and transmitting the basic data and the converted extended data to the server.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting data to a server by using an open application programming interface (API), the method comprising:

acquiring basic data of a type defined in the open API and extended data of a type not defined in the open API;

converting the extended data to data of a type defined in the open API; and

invoking the open API and transmitting the basic data and the converted extended data to the server.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting a message generated by adding the extended data to the basic data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the message comprises identification information for distinguishing the basic data and the extended data.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the basic data is processed by a first module, and

the extended data is processed by a second module.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the message comprises identification information regarding the second module for processing the extended data.

6. A method of processing data received by using an open API, the method comprising:

separating basic data of a type defined in the open API and extended data of a type not defined in the open API from the received data; and

processing the basic data and the extended data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the received data comprises a message generated by adding the extended data to the basic data.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the separating is based on identification information for distinguishing the basic data and the extended data.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein, the basic data is processed by a first module, and

the extended data is processed by a second module.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the processing comprises acquiring identification information regarding the second module from the extended data.

11. A device for transmitting data to a server, the device comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires basic data of a type defined in an open application programming interface (API) that corresponds to the server and extended data of a type not defined in the open API;

a converting unit that converts the extended data to data of a type defined in the open API; and

a transmitting unit that invokes the open API and transmits the basic data and the converted extended data to the server.

12. The device of claim 11, further comprising a generating unit that generates message by adding the extended data to the basic data,

wherein the transmitting unit invokes the open API and transmits the message.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the generating unit adds identification information for distinguishing the basic data and the extended data to the extended data.

14. The device of claim 12, wherein the basic data is processed by a first module, and

the extended data is processed by a second module.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the generating unit adds identification information regarding the second module for processing the extended data.

16. A device for processing data received by using an open application programming interface (API), the device comprising:

a receiving unit that invokes the open API and receives data from a server;

a separating unit that separates basic data of a type defined in the open API and extended data of a type not defined in the open API from the received data; and

a processing unit that processes the basic data and the extended data.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the receiving unit invokes the open API and receives a message generated by adding the extended data to the basic data.

18. The device of claim 16, wherein the separating unit separates extended data based on identification information for distinguishing the basic data and the extended data.

19. The device of claim 16, wherein, in the processing unit, the basic data is processed by a first module, and

the extended data is processed by a second module.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein the processing unit acquires identification information regarding the second module from the extended data.

21. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon instructions for executing a method comprising:

converting extended data of a type not defined in an open application programming interface (API) corresponding to the server to a type defined in the API to generate converted extended data; and

transmitting basic data defined in the API and the converted extended data

22. (canceled)