METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING CONTENT

• US 20140280788A1
• Filed: 05/28/2014
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SEO, Hyung-jin
• Granted Patent: US 10,244,026 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4621 Controlling the complexity of the content stream or additional data, e.g. lowering the resolution or bit-rate of the video stream for a mobile client with a small screen arrangements for using the results of monitoring on user's side in broadcast systems H04H60/65; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for converting browsed content in a device are provided. The method includes receiving a request signal for information related to the browsed content from an external device; detecting at least one of a document object and a view from the browsed content based on information about the external device contained in the request signal; converting the browsed content into data that can be browsed on the external device according to the at least one of the document object and the view based on the information about the external device; and transmitting the converted data to the external device, wherein the browsed content is currently browsed at the device.

Claims

1. A method for converting a browsed content at a device, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a request signal for information related to the browsed content from an external device;

detecting at least one of a document object and a view from the browsed content based on information about the external device contained in the request signal;

converting the browsed content into data that can be browsed on the external device according to the at least one of the document object and the view based on the information about the external device; and

transmitting the converted data to the external device,

wherein the browsed content is currently browsed at the device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the document object and the view includes at least one selected from details entered at the content, accessed internet pages or all text information contained in the internet pages, keywords extracted from text information, a hyperlink, a title, address and content in a specific region of a screen of the device currently being viewed.

3. A method for converting a browsed content, comprising the steps of:

receiving a request signal for information related to the browsed content from an external device via a plurality of ports to each of which information about the external device is assigned;

detecting at least one of a document object and a view from the browsed content based on the information about the external device;

converting the browsed content into data that can be browsed on the external device according to the at least one of the document object and the view and according to a respective content type assigned to each of the plurality of ports; and

transmitting the data to the external device via the plurality of ports, wherein the browsed content is currently browsed at the device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one of the document object and the view includes at least one selected from details entered at the content, accessed internet pages or all text information contained in the internet pages, keywords extracted from text information, a hyperlink, a title, address and content in a specific region of a screen of the device currently being viewed.

5. An apparatus for converting a content browsed at a device, the apparatus comprising:

a receiver for receiving a request signal for information related to the browsed content from an external device;

a controller for detecting at least one of a document object and a view from the browsed content based on information about the external device contained in the request signal and for converting the browsed content into data that can be browsed on the external device according to the at least one of the document object and the view based on the information about the external device; and

a transmitter for sending the converted data to the external device,

wherein the browed content is currently browsed at the device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one of the document object and the view includes at least one selected from details entered at the content, accessed internet pages or all text information contained in the internet pages, keywords extracted from text information, a hyperlink, a title, address and content in a specific region of a screen of the device currently being viewed.

7. An apparatus for converting a browsed content, the apparatus comprising:

a plurality of ports to each of which information about an external device is assigned;

a receiver for receiving a request signal for information related to the browsed content from the external device via the port;

a controller for detecting at least one of a document object and a view from the browsed content based on the information about the external device and converts the browsed content into data that can be browsed on the external device according to the at least one of the document object and the view and according to a respective content type assigned to each of the plurality of ports; and

a transmitter for sending the resulting data to the external device via the plurality of ports,

wherein the browsed content is currently browsed at the device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one of the document object and the view includes at least one selected from details entered at the content, accessed internet pages or all text information contained in the internet pages, keywords extracted from text information, a hyperlink, a title, address and content in a specific region of a screen of the device currently being viewed.

9. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium on which a program for implementing a method for converting a browsed content at a device is recorded, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a request signal for information related to the browsed content from an external device;

detecting at least one of a document object and a view from the browsed content based on information about the external device contained in the request signal;

converting the browsed content into data that can be browsed on the external device according to the at least one of the document object and the view based on the information about the external device; and

transmitting the converted data to the external device,

wherein the browsed content is currently browsed at the device.

10. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium on which a program for implementing a method for converting browsed content is recorded, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a request signal for information related to the browsed content from an external device via a plurality of ports to each of which information about the external device is assigned;

detecting at least one of a document object and a view from the browsed content based on the information about the external device;

converting the browsed content into data that can be browsed on the external device according to the at least one of the document object and the view and according to a respective content type assigned to each of the plurality of ports; and

transmitting the data to the external device via the plurality of ports,

wherein the browsed content is currently browsed at the device.