USER TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION USING THE SAME

• US 20140040469A1
• Filed: 08/06/2013
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHO, Hyung-rae, KWEON, Ji-hyeon, LEE, Kang-min
• Granted Patent: US 10,498,776 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/401 wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel real-time or time sensitive sessions, e.g. white board sharing or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/203 for converged personal network application service interworking, e.g. OMA converged personal network services [CPNS]

Abstract

A user terminal apparatus and a communication method using the same are provided. A user terminal apparatus includes an inputter configured to receive a request for an access to a second user terminal apparatus; a communicator configured to receive service information including at least one communication service provided in the second user terminal apparatus; a displayer configured to display the service information; and a controller configured to, when at least one of the service information is selected, access the second user terminal apparatus through a communication service corresponding to the selected service information.

Claims

1. A user terminal apparatus comprising:

an inputter configured to receive a request for an access to a second user terminal apparatus;

a communicator configured to receive service information including at least one communication service provided in the second user terminal apparatus;

a displayer configured to display the service information; and

a controller configured to, when at least one of the service information is selected, access the second user terminal apparatus through a communication service corresponding to the selected service information.

2. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the service information is a packaged information including information about at least one function provided by at least one external apparatus connected to the second user terminal apparatus and information on each external apparatus.

3. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the displayer displays a user interface (UI) frame in which the service information is listed, and

wherein a size and a format of the UI frame are determined according to a number of the service information.

4. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the displayer displays a UI frame in which the service information is arranged in a predetermined priority order thereof.

5. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when an identification (ID) of the second user terminal apparatus is included in the request for an access, the communicator provides a communication route to the second user terminal apparatus corresponding to the identification and requests the second user terminal apparatus for the service information through the communication route.

6. A user terminal apparatus, comprising:

a communicator configured to receive a service information request from a second user terminal apparatus; and

a controller configured to generate service information about at least one available function in the user terminal apparatus from among at least one function of an external apparatus connected to the user terminal apparatus and to transmit the generated service information to the second user terminal apparatus through the communicator, in response to the service information request.

7. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the controller searches for an activated external apparatus from among at least one external apparatus, selects at least one available function from among functions provided in the searched external apparatus, and generate the service information based on identification information of the searched external apparatus and information about the selected at least one available function.

8. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the controller transmits the service information request to a gateway configured to provide an access to a network of the external apparatus, receives the service information from the gateway, and transmits the received service information to the second user terminal apparatus.

9. A communication method using a user terminal apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving a request for an access to a second user terminal apparatus;

receiving service information including at least one communication service provided in the second user terminal apparatus;

displaying the service information; and

when at least one of the displayed service information is selected, accessing the second user terminal apparatus through a communication service corresponding to the selected service information.

10. The communication method according to claim 9,

wherein the service information includes information about at least one function provided by at least one external apparatus connected to the second user terminal apparatus and identification information about the at least one external apparatus.

11. The communication method according to claim 9,

wherein the displaying comprises displaying the service information in a UI frame, wherein a size and a format of the UI frame are determined according to a number of the service information.

12. The communication method according to claim 9,

wherein the displaying comprises displaying a UI frame in which the service information is arranged in a predetermined priority order thereof.

13. The communication method according to claim 9,

wherein, in the receiving the request, a telephone number of the second user terminal apparatus is included in the request for an access, and

the accessing comprises providing a communication route to the second user terminal apparatus using the telephone number and requesting the second user terminal apparatus for the service information through the communication route.

14. A communication method using a user terminal apparatus, the method comprising:

connecting with at least one external apparatus;

receiving a service information request from a second user terminal apparatus;

generating service information about at least one available function of the at least one external apparatus according to the service information request; and

transmitting the generated service information to the second user terminal apparatus.

15. The communication method according to claim 14,

wherein the generating comprises searching for an activated external apparatus selected from at least one external apparatus, selecting an available function from among functions provided in the searched external apparatus, and generating the service information based on identification information of the searched external apparatus and information about the at least one available function thereof.

16. The communication method according to claim 14,

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the service information request to a gateway configured to provide an access to a network of the at least one external apparatus;

and

receiving the service information from the gateway and transmitting the received service information to the second user terminal apparatus.

17. A user terminal apparatus comprising:

a storage configured to store identification information of at least one second user terminal apparatus;

a user interface configured to provide at least one communication service available in a second user terminal apparatus corresponding to specific identification information; and

a controller configured to perform the at least one communication service when the at least one communication service is selected.

18. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the controller performs the at least one communication service by connecting to the second user terminal based on the specific identification information of the second user terminal apparatus.

19. The user terminal apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the at least one communication service available in the second user terminal apparatus is obtained based on a connection state between the second user terminal apparatus and an external server, which provides the at least one communication service.