DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT USING THE SAME

• US 20130047065A1
• Filed: 04/12/2012
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sangseok Lee
• Inventors: LEE, Sangseok
• Granted Patent: US 9,426,529 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

A display device and a method for providing content in the display device are disclosed, in which a display displays a menu screen including selectable icons representing a plurality of execution modes that indicate versions of content to be displayed, and a controller detects a user action for selecting an icon, identifies an execution mode indicated by the selected icon, in response to the detected user action, and executes the content in the identified execution mode. The plurality of execution modes may include edited version mode, Web mode, and application mode.

Claims

1. A method for providing content in a display device, the method comprising:

displaying a menu screen including selectable icons representing a plurality of execution modes that indicate versions of content to be displayed;

detecting a user action for selecting an icon;

identifying an execution mode indicated by the selected icon, in response to the detected user action; and

executing the content in the identified execution mode.

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

accessing a memory area in which a content list including items associated with the icons is stored; and

configuring the menu screen using the content list.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the versions of the content include at least one of a Web version, an application version, or an edit version.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of execution modes include at least one of edited version mode, Web mode or application mode.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the execution comprises, when the execution mode indicated by the selected icon is edited version mode, executing an edited application associated with the content.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the edited application is an application associated with the content, edited to reflect information, a function, and a setting of a Web page associated with the content.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein an execution screen of the edited application further includes a selectable icon indicating edit mode being an operation mode for providing a service of editing the content.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the execution comprises:

launching a Web browser and connecting to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with the content through the launched Web browser, when the execution mode indicated by the selected icon is Web mode; and

executing an application associated with the content, when the execution mode indicated by the selected icon is application mode.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein an execution screen of the content displays a selectable icon indicating an execution mode other than the execution mode indicated by the selected icon.

10. A method for providing content in a display device, the method comprising:

detecting a user action for requesting execution of content;

displaying the requested content in response to the detected user action;

detecting a user action for requesting movement to a Web;

searching for a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with the displayed content in response to the detected user action;

launching a browser and connecting to the detected URL through the launched browser; and

displaying a Web page received as a result of the connection on the browser.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the content is a pre-stored application.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein a content provider associated with the content is identical to a content provider connected through the URL.

13. The method according to claim 10, wherein the searching for a URL comprises searching for the URL in a link table including a content name, a URL, and information that maps the content name to the URL.

14. The method according to claim 10, wherein the displaying of the requested content further comprises displaying a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for receiving the request for movement to the Web.

15. The method according to claim 10, wherein the displaying of the requested content comprises:

selecting the displayed content based on information about a version of the content associated with a logged-on user; and

displaying the selected content.

16. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

detecting a user action for requesting reflecting a function of the Web page in the content; and

updating the content by reflecting the function of the Web page in the content in response to the detected user action.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the updating of the content comprises:

obtaining position information indicating a position at which the function of the Web page is displayed and function information for providing the function of the Web page; and

updating the content based on the obtained position information and the obtained function information.

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

detecting a user action for requesting reflecting a setting of the Web page in the content; and

updating the content by reflecting the setting of the Web page in the content in response to the detected user action.

19. A display device comprising:

a display configured to display a menu screen including selectable icons representing a plurality of execution modes that indicate versions of content to be displayed; and

a controller configured to detect a user action for selecting an icon, to identify an execution mode indicated by the selected icon, in response to the detected user action, and to execute the content in the identified execution mode.

20. A display device comprising:

a controller configured to detect a user action for requesting execution of content, to control display of the requested content in response to the detected user action, to detect a user action for requesting movement to a Web, to search for a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with the content in response to the detected user action, to launch a browser, and to control connection to the detected URL through the launched browser; and

a network interface configured to receive a Web page transmitted as a result of the connection.