CLIENT AND SERVER TERMINALS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20120331042A1
• Filed: 05/08/2012
• Published: 12/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kyunglang Park, Sungho Woo, Woohyoung Shin
• Inventors: SHIN, Woohyoung, Woo, Sungho, Park, Kyunglang
• Granted Patent: US 9,219,798 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/122 using management policies backup systems G06F11/1446; file migration policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Client and server terminals and method for controlling the same are disclosed, by which a use of a terminal is facilitated in further consideration of user'"'"'s convenience. According to at least one of embodiments of the present invention, a specific folder (or all folders) storing files of the server terminal can be recognized as a folder in the corresponding client terminal to facilitate the files of the server terminal to be used by a user of the client terminal more conveniently.

Claims

1. A client device comprising:

a display unit;

a communication unit configured to communicate with a server device having a server memory including at least one server folder; and

a controller configured to;

if a communication with the server device is established and a specific sever folder of the server memory is accessed according to a file sharing system scheme, automatically scan the specific server folder, and

if an application related to at least one file within the scanned specific server folder is executed, automatically upload at least one indicator of the at least one file to the application.

2. The client device of claim 1, wherein the communication unit communicates with the server device by UDP/IP or TCP/IP.

3. The client device of claim 1, wherein if the communication unit establishes the communication, the controller transmits a prescribed identifier to the server device and controls the server device to store the identifier.

4. The client device of claim 3, wherein when the communication is established, the controller controls the communication unit to transmit an access request signal for an access to the server folder to the server device in a manner that the access request signal contains an identifier identical to the transmitted prescribed identifier and wherein if the stored identifier is equal to the identifier contained in the access request signal, the controller receives a grant signal for the access request signal from the server device and controls the communication unit to access the specific server folder by the file sharing system scheme.

5. The client device of claim 3, wherein the prescribed identifier comprises an IP (internet protocol) address of the client device.

6. The client device of claim 1, further comprising a position-location module configured to obtain a current location of the client device, wherein if the current location of the client device lies within a preset location range, the controller controls the communication to be automatically established between the communication unit and the server device.

7. The client device of claim 1, wherein when the communication unit accesses a previously set specific wireless AP, the controller controls the communication to be automatically established between the communication unit and the server device via the accessed wireless AP.

8. The client device of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the at least one indicator to be displayed on a corresponding screen region of the executed application displayed on the display unit in a manner that the at least one indicator is automatically uploaded to the application.

9. The client device of claim 8, wherein when the server folder is scanned, the controller receives at least one thumbnail of the at least one file in the server folder from the server device and wherein if the application is executed, the controller controls the received at least one thumbnail to be automatically uploaded as the at least indicator to the application.

10. The client device of claim 8, wherein when one of the at least one indicator is selected, the controller receives a corresponding file of the selected indicator from the server device without executing the corresponding file in the server device and controls the received file to be executed in the application.

11. The client device of claim 8, wherein when a command for deleting one of the displayed at least one indicator is inputted, the controller controls a corresponding file of the server device to be deleted together with the indicator or controls the corresponding file of the server device not to be deleted despite deleting the indicator.

12. The client device of claim 1, wherein the controller controls an access icon including an IP (internet protocol) address information of the server device to be displayed on the display unit and wherein if the access icon is selected, the controller controls the communication unit to establish the communication with the server device.

13. The client device of claim 12, wherein the access icon further includes at least one of an information on the specific server folder of the server memory of the server device and a communication password information for establishing the communication with the server device.

14. The client device of claim 12, wherein if the communication with the server device is disengaged, the controller controls the access icon to be created automatically or by a user selection.

15. The client device of claim 1, wherein when a file is added to the specific server folder, the controller receives a file addition indication signal from the server device and controls the specific server folder to be automatically scanned again in response to the received file addition indication signal.

16. The client device of claim 1, wherein the controller controls the specific server folder to be automatically scanned periodically after the specific server folder has been accessed.

17. The client device of claim 1, wherein the file sharing system scheme comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of NFS (network file system) scheme, SMB (server message block) scheme and CIFS (common internet file system) scheme.

18. The client device of claim 1, further comprising a mobile terminal.

19. A server device comprising:

a memory including at least one folder;

a communication unit configured to communicate with a client device;

a controller configured to;

if the communication unit establishes the communication with the client device, receive and save a prescribed identifier from the client device,

receive an access request signal for an access to a specific folder of the memory from the client device in a manner that the access request signal contains an identifier identical to the transmitted prescribed identifier, and

if the saved identifier is equal to the identifier contained in the access request signal, control the specific folder to be accessed by a file sharing system scheme by transmitting a grant signal for the access request signal to the client device.

20. The server device of claim 19, wherein as the communication with the client device is established, if the specific folder is accessed by the client device in accordance with the file sharing system scheme, the controller controls the specific folder to be automatically scanned by the client device.

21. The server device of claim 20, wherein when the specific folder is scanned, the controller controls an indicator of at least one file in the scanned specific folder to be transmitted to the client device.

22. A method of controlling a client device, comprising:

communicating with a server device having a server memory including at least one server folder;

if a communication with the server device is established and a specific sever folder of the server memory is accessed according to a file sharing system scheme, automatically scanning the specific server folder; and

if an application related to at least one file within the scanned specific server folder is executed, automatically uploading at least one indicator of the at least one file to the application.

23. An electronic recording medium encoded to enable a client device to execute:

a command for communicating with a server device having a server memory including at least one server folder;

a command for, if a communication with the server device is established and a specific sever folder of the server memory is accessed according to a file sharing system scheme, automatically scanning the specific server folder; and

a command for, if an application related to at least one file within the scanned specific server folder is executed, automatically uploading at least one indicator of the at least one file to the application.

24. A method of controlling a server device, comprising:

attempting a communicate with a client device;

if the communication with the client device is established, receiving and saving a prescribed identifier from the client device;

receiving an access request signal for an access to a specific folder of the memory from the client device in a manner that the access request signal contains an identifier identical to the transmitted prescribed identifier; and

if the saved identifier is equal to the identifier contained in the access request signal, controlling the specific folder to be accessed by a file sharing system scheme by transmitting a grant signal for the access request signal to the client device.

25. An electronic recording medium encoded to enable a server device to execute:

a command for attempting a communicate with a client device;

a command for, if the communication with the client device is established, receiving and saving a prescribed identifier from the client device;

a command for receiving an access request signal for an access to a specific folder of the memory from the client device in a manner that the access request signal contains an identifier identical to the transmitted prescribed identifier; and

a command for, if the saved identifier is equal to the identifier contained in the access request signal, controlling the specific folder to be accessed by a file sharing system scheme by transmitting a grant signal for the access request signal to the client device.