APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CUSTOMIZED INTERFACE

• US 20130111516A1
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KT Corporation
• Original Assignee: KT Corporation
• Inventors: SON, Eui-Seung, LEE, Won-Yeol, PAIK, Eun-Kyoung, KIM, Hyun-Pyo, KIM, Joo-Hee
• Application Number:
  US13/614,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20130111516A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4367 Establishing a secure communication between the client and a peripheral device or smart card
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• 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 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6334 for authorisation, e.g. by transmitting a key wireless communications network key management H04W12/04; wireless communications network access security H04W12/08

Abstract

An apparatus for providing an interface customized to contents among a plurality of contents is disclosed. The apparatus includes a contents provider configured to receive, from a first device, user information of the first device and a content request signal that requests the contents among the plurality of contents, and provide the requested contents to the first device based on the received user information of the first device, an interface request receiver configured to receive, from a second device, user information of the second device and an interface request signal that requests interface data, and an interface data provider configured to authenticate the second device by using both the user information of the first device and the user information of the second device, and provide interface data corresponding to the provided contents to the second device if the second device is authenticated.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing an interface customized to contents among a plurality of contents, the apparatus comprising:

a contents provider configured to receive, from a first device, first user information of the first device and a content request signal that requests the contents among the plurality of contents, and provide the requested contents to the first device based on the received first user information of the first device;

an interface request receiver configured to receive, from a second device, second user information of the second device and an interface request signal that requests interface data; and

an interface data provider configured to authenticate the second device by using the first user information of the first device and the second user information of the second device, and provide interface data corresponding to the provided contents to the second device if the second device is authenticated.

2. The apparatus of claim 1,

wherein if the interface data is updated by the second device, the interface data provider updates the interface data based on update information from the second device.

3. The apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the first user information of the first device and the second user information of the second device include subscriber information containing authority to use the plurality of contents, and contents user information corresponding to the requested contents.

4. The apparatus of claim 3,

wherein the interface data provider authenticates the second device by using the subscriber information.

5. The apparatus of claim 4,

wherein the requested contents are game contents, and the content user information includes avatar information related to the game contents.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein an interface is displayed on a screen of the second device based on the provided interface data.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first user information is the same as the second user information.

8. A method for providing an interface customized to contents among a plurality of contents, the method comprising:

receiving, from a first device, first user information of the first device and a content request signal that requests the contents among the plurality of contents;

providing the requested contents to the first device based on the received first user information of the first device;

receiving, from a second device, second user information of the second device and an interface request signal that requests interface data;

authenticating the second device by using the first user information of the first device and the second user information of the second device; and

providing interface data corresponding to the provided contents to the second device if the second device is authenticated.

9. The method of claim 8,

wherein the first user information of the first device and the second user information of the second device include subscriber information containing authority to use the plurality of contents, and contents user information corresponding to the requested contents.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein if the interface data is updated by the second device, the interface data is updated based on update information from the second device.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the second device is authenticated using the subscriber information.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the requested contents are game contents and the content user information includes avatar information related to game contents.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein an interface is displayed on a screen of the second device based on the provided interface data.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the first user information is the same as the second user information.

15. An apparatus for providing an interface customized to contents among a plurality of contents, the apparatus comprising:

a contents provider configured to receive first user information of the first device and a content request signal that requests the contents among the plurality of contents, and provide the requested contents to the first device based on the received first user information of the first device;

an interface request receiver configured to receive second user information of the second device and an interface request signal that requests interface data; and

an interface data provider configured to authenticate the second device by using the first user information of the first device and the second user information of the second device, and provide interface data corresponding to the provided contents to the second device if the second device is authenticated.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein an interface is displayed on a screen of the second device based on the provided interface data.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the first user information is the same as the second user information.

18. A method for providing an interface customized to contents among a plurality of contents, the method comprising:

receiving first user information of the first device and a content request signal that requests the contents among the plurality of contents;

providing the requested contents to the first device based on the received first user information of the first device;

receiving second user information of the second device and an interface request signal that requests interface data;

authenticating the second device by using the first user information of the first device and the second user information of the second device; and

providing interface data corresponding to the provided contents to the second device if the second device is authenticated.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein an interface is displayed on a screen of the second device based on the provided interface data.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the first user information is the same as the second user information.