METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING FEED INFORMATION IN MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20130275531A1
• Filed: 04/16/2013
• Published: 10/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Juyoun, HAHM, Seongil
• Granted Patent: US 9,615,220 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A method and apparatus for collecting feed information in a mobile terminal are disclosed. The method and apparatus collects information explicitly clipped by a user as well as content items exchanged between users as feed information. The method for collecting feed information in a mobile terminal includes: detecting a share event corresponding to transmission or reception of content through a communication application implemented in the mobile terminal; generating feed information based on the content; and storing the generated feed information.

Claims

1. A method for collecting feed information in a mobile terminal, comprising:

detecting a share event corresponding to transmission or reception of content through a communication application implemented in the mobile terminal;

generating feed information based on the content; and

storing the generated feed information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the share event corresponds to transmission of the content by the mobile terminal to a second mobile terminal through the communication application or corresponds to reception of the content by the mobile terminal from the second mobile terminal through the communication application.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the feed information is generated using metadata of the content, and wherein the metadata includes information describing the content, information on users sharing the content, and context information describing a context in which the content is shared.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

activating a share action during execution of a second application other than the communication application;

executing the communication application upon the activating of the share action;

transmitting content related to the second application through the communication application; and

generating and storing feed information for the content related to the second application.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

executing the communication application,

wherein the share event for the content is received while the communication application is executed.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the communication application comprises at least one of a messaging application, a messenger application, an e-mail application, and a social networking service application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing of the generated feed information further comprises updating a feed list based on the generated feed information.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising displaying the feed list on a screen of the mobile terminal according to user input which slides the feed list from a boundary between a bezel of the mobile terminal and the screen towards an inner portion of the screen.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

displaying a function selection menu according to user input on the feed list, the function selection menu comprising entries enabling a user to select one of a sharing function, a profile function, and an edit function; and

executing one of the sharing function, the profile function, and the edit function according to user input on the function selection menu.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

displaying, when the sharing function is selected from the function selection menu, an application selection menu providing selectable communication applications;

executing one of the communication applications selected from the application selection menu; and

transmitting feed information selected from the feed list through the executed communication application.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising generating, when a change has occurred in feed information, new feed information reflecting the change and storing the new feed information.

12. The method of claim 2, further comprising displaying the generated feed information through a feed interface.

13. A mobile terminal comprising:

a storage unit which stores an application program; and

a control unit which controls a process of generating feed information based on transmission or reception of content by executing the application program,

wherein the application program includes instructions that are configured to detect a share event corresponding to the transmission or the reception of the content through a communication application, generate the feed information based on the content, and store the generated feed information.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, further comprising:

a wireless communication unit which sends and receives the feed information and the content through the communication application; and

a display unit which displays the sent and received content and displays a feed list of the feed information.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the share event corresponds to transmission of the content by the mobile terminal to a second mobile terminal through the communication application or corresponds to reception of the content by the mobile terminal from the second mobile terminal through the communication application.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the feed information is generated using metadata of the content, and wherein the metadata includes information describing the content, information on users sharing the content, and context information describing a context in which the content is shared.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the control unit controls a process of executing the communication application in response to activation of a share action during execution of a second application, transmitting content related to the second application through the communication application, and generating and storing feed information for the content related to the second application.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 14, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display the feed list on a screen according to user input by sliding the feed list from a boundary between a bezel of the mobile terminal and the screen of the display unit towards an inner portion of the screen.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein the feed list is composed of entries, each of which includes a type region, a metadata region and an image region.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the control unit controls an operation of displaying the generated feed information through a feed interface,

wherein the feed interface includes a capture view region, a capture panel region and a share panel region.

21. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program that is configured to cause a computer to:

detect a share event corresponding to transmission or reception of content through a communication application;

generate feed information based on the content; and

store the generated feed information.

22. A method to generate information to be displayed on a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

detecting an exchange of content between the mobile terminal and another mobile terminal; and

automatically generating feed information based on the content,

wherein the feed information comprises information indicating content which is shared between the mobile terminal and the other mobile terminal.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the automatically generating comprises:

extracting metadata related to the content; and

automatically generating the feed information based on the metadata

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the feed information further comprises information indicating content which is shared between the mobile terminal and a plurality of additional mobile terminals.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein the content is sent from the mobile terminal to the other mobile terminal as an attachment to a message.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the message comprises a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) message.

27. The method of claim 22, wherein the mobile terminal comprises a touch panel which is configured to enable a user to perform the exchange of content.