CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL TARGET DEVICE AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING CONTENT INFORMATION THEREOF

• US 20130124692A1
• Filed: 11/13/2012
• Published: 05/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yang, Seungryul, Cho, Hyeoncheol, Kang, Youngwook, Uhm, Yoonsik, Lee, Jongyeop, Jeon, Chanhun, Jeon, Beomjin, Yoon, Jeonghwan
• Granted Patent: US 9,608,836 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2812 describing content present in a home automation network, e.g. audio video content retrieval from the Internet G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44227 Monitoring of local network, e.g. connection or bandwidth variations; Detecting new devices in the local network configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; monitoring connectivity in data switched networks H04L43/0811
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72

Abstract

Provided are control device and a method of controlling a server. The method includes requesting an aggregated device list to the aggregate server; receiving the aggregated device list from the aggregate server; selecting at least one aggregated device from the received aggregated device list; requesting, to the aggregate server, content information collected from the selected aggregated device; and receiving, from the aggregate server, the content information of the selected aggregated device transmitted.

Claims

1. A method of controlling an aggregate server that collects content information stored in an aggregated device, the method comprising:

requesting an aggregated device list to the aggregate server;

receiving the aggregated device list from the aggregate server;

selecting at least one aggregated device from the received aggregated device list;

requesting, to the aggregate server, content information collected from the selected aggregated device; and

receiving, from the aggregate server, the content information of the selected aggregated device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the selecting of the at least one aggregated device comprises selecting the aggregate server or at least one of aggregated devices, which is a collection target of the content information.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the requesting, to the aggregate server, content information collected from the selected aggregated device comprises:

when at least one aggregated device is selected, requesting the content information collected from the selected aggregated device; and

when the aggregate server is selected, requesting the content information locally stored in the aggregate server.

4. The method according to claim 2, further comprising changing the aggregate server from a first aggregate server into a second aggregate server;

wherein the selecting of the at least one aggregated device comprises selecting the first aggregate server in order to collect content information locally stored in the first aggregate server.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein

the requesting, to the aggregate server, content information collected from the selected aggregated device comprises requesting, to the second aggregate server, the content information locally stored in the first aggregate serve;

and

the receiving, from the aggregate server, content information of the selected aggregated device comprises receiving, from the second aggregate server, the content information locally stored in the first aggregate server.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the aggregated device list comprises a unique device name of at least one aggregated device.

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

selecting at least one aggregated device from the received aggregated device list; and

transmitting a setting request on an aggregated device list consisting of only the selected aggregated device.

8. The method according to claim 1, where a request on the aggregated device list, a selection on the aggregated device from the aggregated device list, or a request on content information collected from the selected aggregated device is an operation in response to a user input.

9. A method of controlling an aggregate server that collects content information stored in an aggregated device, the method comprising:

transmitting a content information change request signal to the aggregate server; and

transmitting, to the aggregate server, a recovery request signal of content information changed in response to the content information change request signal.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the content information change request signal or the recovery request signal in response to a user input signal.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the content information change request signal comprises a content information update request signal or a content information destroy request signal.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the content information update request signal comprises at least one of identifier information on the content information, original identifier information, identifier information on an aggregated device, which is an origin where the content information is collected, and information on a content that the content information represents,

wherein the identifier information on the content information corresponds to identifier information assigned from the aggregate server and the original identifier information corresponds to identifier information assigned from the aggregated device.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the content information change request signal comprises at least one of identifier information on content information and identifier information on an aggregated device, which is an origin where content information is collected.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein the content information change request signal requests the aggregate server to collect the changed content information from the aggregated device in response to the content information change request signal.

15. A control device for controlling an aggregate server that collects content information stored in an aggregated device, the device comprising:

a network interface transmitting a content information change request signal to the aggregate server and transmitting a recovery request signal of changed content information to the aggregate server; and

a control unit controlling the network interface to transmit a content information change request signal and a recovery request signal of the content information changed in response to the content information change request signal, to the aggregate server.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the content information change request signal or the recovery request signal in response to a user input signal.

17. The device according to claim 15, wherein the content information change request signal comprises a content information update request signal or a content information destroy request signal.

18. The device according to claim 17, wherein the content information update request signal comprises at least one of identifier information on the content information, original identifier information, identifier information on an aggregated device, which is an origin where the content information is collected, and information on a content that the content information represents,

wherein the identifier information on the content information corresponds to identifier information assigned from the aggregate server and the original identifier information corresponds to identifier information assigned from the aggregated device.

19. The method according to claim 15, wherein the content information change request signal comprises at least one of identifier information on content information and identifier information on an aggregated device, which is an origin where content information is collected.

20. The method according to claim 15, wherein the content information change request signal requests the aggregate server to collect the changed content information from the aggregated device in response to the content information change request signal.