METHOD FOR BROWSING INTERNET OF THINGS AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME

• US 20140108943A1
• Filed: 10/11/2013
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Original Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: KIM, Jae-Ho, LEE, Sang-Shin, WON, Kwang-Ho, AHN, Il-Yeup, SONG, Min-Hwan, YUN, Jaeseok
• Application Number:
  US14/052,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20140108943A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/007 using computer methods
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A method for browsing Internet of things (IoT) and an apparatus using the same are provided. In the method for browsing IoT, when a mobile device executes a browser, the browser receives information on IoT devices and displays the IoT devices on a map in the form of an icon. Accordingly, the browser displays the IoT devices on the map in the form of an icon, and provides various IoT services, so that the user can easily search for many IoT devices, connect them and receive services.

Claims

1. A method for browsing Internet of things (IoT) of a mobile device, the method comprising:

executing, by the mobile device, a browser;

receiving, by the browser, information on IoT devices; and

displaying, by the browser, the IoT devices on a map in a form of an icon.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the executing comprises, when an IoT browser icon is selected or a specific code is read on an initial screen by a user, executing, by the mobile device, an IoT browser.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying comprises, when the IoT devices are superimposed one on another on a specific area, displaying a plural IoT device icon displaying a number of corresponding IoT devices.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising, when the icon is selected, displaying, by the IoT browser, an application list screen corresponding to an IoT device corresponding to the selected icon,

wherein the application list screen displays different buttons on corresponding application items according to whether each application is installed or not and whether each application is updated or not.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising providing a favorite list on specific locations or specific IoT devices.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displaying comprises displaying an icon of an IoT device that is accessible and an icon of an IoT device that is inaccessible in different forms.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the displaying comprises displaying the icon of the IoT device that is accessible in color and displaying the icon of the IoT device that is inaccessible in black and white.

8. A computer readable recording medium on which software for executing the method for browsing the IoT as claimed in claim 1 is recorded.