ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTENT SHARING METHOD

• US 20140059707A1
• Filed: 08/14/2013
• Published: 02/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: JUNG, Youn-gun, CHO, Chi-Hyun
• Granted Patent: US 9,479,936 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/29
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/06 including a wireless LAN interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals download of applications H04M1/72406; transfer of messages, e.g. SMS, e-mail or MMS H04M1/7243
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/24 Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests monitoring of server performance or load G06F11/34; arrangements for observation, testing or troubleshooting for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• 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 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• 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 21/633 Control signals issued by server directed to the network components or client management of faults, events, alarms in data networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security

Abstract

A method of sharing content for an electronic device is provided. The electronic device is capable of changing contents that are to be shared when a network changes. The content sharing method includes storing a list of contents shared between the electronic device and another electronic device via a network formed using an access point, such that the contents match the access point, and setting contents included in a list of contents stored to match the access point as contents to be shared in response to the electronic device being connected to the network via the access point.

Claims

1. A method of sharing content for an electronic device, the method comprising:

storing a list of contents shared between the electronic device and another device via a network formed using an access point such that the contents match the access point; and

setting contents included in the list of contents stored to match the access point as contents to be shared, in response to the electronic device being connected to the network via the access point.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the setting of the contents included in the list of contents stored to match the access point as the contents to be shared comprises setting as a content to be shared a content that shares at least one piece of meta data with the contents included in the list of contents stored to match the access point,.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

checking a received signal strength indication (RSSI) of the access point; and

canceling the setting of the contents as the contents to be shared, when the RSSI is less than or equal to a predetermined value.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the electronic device is connected to the network which includes a plurality of access points; and

outputting an alarm which indicates the connection to the network including the plurality of access points.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the outputting of the alarm comprises displaying a list of the plurality of access points to which the electronic device is connected.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the setting of the contents included in the list of contents stored to match the access point as the contents to be shared comprises setting the contents as the contents to be shared, based on times when the contents are shared using the access point and the current time.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing of the list of contents shared with the other device such that the contents match the access point comprises storing the contents to match the other device that shares the contents with the electronic device, and

the setting of the contents included in the list of contents stored to match the access point as the contents to be shared comprises setting the matched contents as the contents to be shared, in response to a device connected to the network formed using the access point connected to the electronic device and the other device that shares the contents with the electronic device being the same.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the setting of the contents included in the list of contents stored to match the access point as the contents to be shared comprises setting the contents to be shared in units of types of content.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing of the list of contents shared between the electronic device and the other device using the access point comprises storing the list of contents shared with the other device in a separate server, and

the setting of the contents included in the stored list of contents as the contents to be shared comprises:

receiving from the server the list of contents stored to match the access point in response to the electronic device being connected to the access point; and

setting the contents included in the received list of contents as the contents to be shared.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the contents shared between the electronic device and the other device via the access point comprise a content transmitted from the electronic device to a cloud server, via the access point.

21. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having recorded thereon a program, wherein the program, when executed by a processor of a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of claim 1.

11. An electronic device capable of sharing contents with another device, the electronic device comprising:

a list-of-shared contents storage configured to store a list of contents shared between the electronic device and the other device via a network formed using an access point, where the contents match the access point; and

a contents-to-be shared setting module configured to set contents included in the list of contents stored to match the access point as contents to be shared, in response to the electronic device being connected to the network via the access point.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the contents-to-be shared setting module not only sets the contents included in the list of contents stored to match the access point but also sets a content that shares at least one piece of meta data with the contents included in the list of contents, as the contents to be shared.

13. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the contents-to-be shared setting module checks a received signal strength indication (RSSI) of the access point, and cancels the setting of the contents as the contents to be shared in response to the RSSI being less than or equal to a predetermined value.

14. The electronic device of claim 11, further comprising an alarm generator configured to output an alarm which indicates that the electronic device is connected to a network including a plurality of access points in response to a determination that the electronic device is connected to the network including the plurality of access points.

15. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the alarm generator outputs to a screen of the electronic device a list of the plurality of access points to which the electronic device is connected.

16. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the contents-to-be shared setting module sets the contents to be shared, based on times when the contents are shared using the access point and the current time.

17. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the list-of-shared contents storage stores the contents to match the other device that shares the contents with the electronic device, and

the contents-to-be shared setting module sets the contents matching the access point as the contents to be shared in response to a device connected to the network formed using the access point to which the electronic device is connected and the other device that shares the contents being the same.

18. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the contents-to-be shared setting module sets the contents to be shared in units of types of content.

19. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the list-of-shared contents storage is configured to store the list of contents shared with the other electronic device via the access point in a server, and

the contents-to-be shared setting module is configured to receive the list of contents stored to match the access point from the server, in response to the electronic device being connected to the access point, and sets the contents included in the received list of contents as the contents to be shared.

20. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the contents shared between the electronic device and the other device comprises a content transmitted from the electronic device to a cloud server, via the access point.