SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENTS BASED ON SEAMLESS INFORMATION

• US 20120311100A1
• Filed: 06/04/2012
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KT Corporation
• Original Assignee: KT Corporation
• Inventors: KIM, Ji-hoon, KIM, Young-suk, CHOI, Kyong-hyang, HA, Tae-sook
• Application Number:
  US13/487,910
• Publication Number:
  US 20120311100A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312

Abstract

A method for displaying contents based on seamless information is provided. The method includes receiving display history information of multimedia contents, including stop information indicating a stop location in the multimedia contents, from one of a plurality of devices, generating seamless information about the multimedia contents based on the display history information of the multimedia contents, and transmitting the generated seamless information to one or more of the plurality of devices, where the devices that received the transmitted seamless information store the seamless information and one of the devices displays the multimedia contents based on the stored seamless information.

Claims

1. A method of providing a seamless multimedia contents service, the method comprising:

receiving by a content server, from one of a plurality of devices, display history information related to multimedia contents comprising stop information indicating a stop location in the multimedia contents;

generating seamless information about the multimedia contents based on the display history information; and

transmitting the generated seamless information to at least one of the plurality of devices;

wherein the at least one of the plurality of devices that received the transmitted seamless information, stores the seamless information, and

wherein the at least one of the plurality of devices displays the multimedia contents based on the stored seamless information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the seamless information comprises at least one of identification information of the multimedia contents, the stop information of the multimedia contents, and setting information of the multimedia contents.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the setting information of the multimedia contents comprises additional information regarding the multimedia contents, wherein the additional information is input by a user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting the generated seamless information comprises if one device of the plurality of devices is not connected to the content server, the content server periodically transmits the seamless information to the one device until the seamless information is transmitted to the one device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the seamless information further comprises a user identification and at least one of a memo and a book mark.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining devices from the plurality of devices that belong to a user based on the received display history information and transmitting the generated seamless information to each of the determined devices.

5. A content server for providing a seamless service of multimedia contents, the content server comprising:

a user device management unit configured to manage information on a user and information on a plurality of devices that belong to the user;

a content management unit configured to manage information on multimedia contents obtained by the user;

a seamless information generation unit configured to generate seamless information about the multimedia contents based on display history information comprising stop information indicating a stop location in the multimedia contents received from one of the plurality of devices; and

a device communication unit configured to transmit the seamless information to the plurality of devices and configured to receive the display history information from the one of the plurality of devices,

wherein the seamless information is stored in the plurality of devices, and

wherein one of the plurality of devices displays the multimedia contents based on the stored seamless information.

6. The server of claim 5, wherein the seamless information comprises at least one of identification information of the multimedia contents, the stop information of the multimedia contents, and setting information of the multimedia contents.

7. The server of claim 5, wherein, if the seamless information has not been transmitted to one device of the plurality of devices, the device communication unit periodically transmits the seamless information to the one device until the seamless information is transmitted to the one device.

8. A device for displaying multimedia contents, the device comprising:

a content display unit configured to display one of a plurality of multimedia contents obtained by a user;

a display history information generation unit configured to generate display history information of the multimedia contents based on a stopped location in displaying of the multimedia contents;

a communication unit configured to transmit the generated display history information to a content server and configured to receive seamless information from the content server; and

a controller configured to match the seamless information with the multimedia contents,

wherein the content display unit displays the multimedia contents based on the seamless information received by the communication unit.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the seamless information comprises at least one of identification information of the multimedia contents, the stop information of the multimedia contents, and setting information of the multimedia contents,

wherein the setting information of the multimedia contents comprises additional information regarding the multimedia contents, and

wherein the additional information is input by a user.

12. A method of displaying multimedia contents, the method comprising:

displaying the multimedia contents;

stopping the displaying of the multimedia contents;

determining a position of the stopping in the multimedia contents;

generating display history information comprising identification of the multimedia content displayed, the stopping position;

transmitting the history information and an identification of a user to a server;

receiving from the server seamless information; and

resuming display of the multimedia contents from the stopped position based on the received seamless information without having network connectivity.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the seamless information comprises identification of a user, identification of the multimedia contents, and the stop position.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the seamless information comprises setting information.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

determining by the server a device that transmitted the display history information;

determining by the server at least one other device that belongs to the user based on the received user information; and

transmitting by the server the seamless information to the at least one other device.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the resuming the display comprises resuming the display of the multimedia content from the stopped position by the other device without having connectivity to the server.