CONTENTS CONTROL IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20160119418A1
• Filed: 06/23/2015
• Published: 04/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHO, Ik-Hwan
• Granted Patent: US 10,009,421 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/101 based on network conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/83 Generation or processing of protective or descriptive data associated with content; Content structuring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• 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

Disclosed is an electronic device including a storage module that stores contents, and a content control module that transmits the contents to at least one other electronic device. The content control module may store log information in the storage module which is recorded in connection with access to the contents by the electronic device or the at least one other electronic device as attribute information (metadata) related to the contents.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a storage module that stores contents; and

a content control module configured to transmit the contents to at least one other electronic device, and store log information in the storage module which is recorded in connection with access to the contents by the electronic device or the at least one other electronic device as attribute information related to the contents.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the contents include at least one of an image, text, audio data and video.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the log information includes at least one of capture information, edit information, share information, and transmission information.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one other electronic device comprises a cloud server, a social media server, or a web server.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the content control module stores the contents such that the attribute information is included as a part of the contents.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the contents are first contents, and the content control module displays the first contents or at least one of second contents received in relation to the first contents from the other electronic devices on a display functionally connected to the content control module using the attribute information.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the content control module further receives other log information or other contents from the at least one other electronic device or an external electronic device using the attribute information.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the content control module stores the other log information or the other contents as at least part of the attribute information related to the contents.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the content control module transmits at least some of the attribute information to the at least one other electronic device separately from the contents or as a part of the contents.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the content control module transmits attribute information updated in connection with the contents to the at least one other electronic device.

11. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the content control module displays an indicator to distinguish the contents from other contents while displaying a content list including the contents and the other contents.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the content control module displays other contents received in connection with the contents using the attribute information, while concurrently displaying the contents.

13. An electronic device comprising:

a storage module that stores contents; and

a content control module configured to receive other contents from at least one other electronic device, and identify logs recorded in connection with access to the contents by the at least one other electronic device using attribute information related to the other contents.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the content control module identifies information of the at least one other electronic device having received the other contents from the attribute information, and receives additional information related to the other contents from the at least one other electronic device.

15. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the additional information includes at least one of popularity information related to the other contents and original contents of the other contents.

16. An electronic device comprising:

a storage module that stores contents received from at least one other electronic device; and

a content control module configured to store log information in the storage module which is recorded in connection with access to the contents by the electronic device or the least one other electronic device as attribute information related to the contents.

17. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the log information includes at least one of capture information, edit information, share information, and transmission information.

18. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the at least one other electronic device comprises a device having a display function.

19. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the content control module stores the contents such that the attribute information is included as a part of the contents.

20. The electronic device of claim 16, the content control module stores information of other contents generated while displaying the contents as the attribute information.

21. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the content control module receives a request for particular information related to the contents from the at least one other electronic device, detects the particular information from the attribute information, and transmits the detected particular information to the at least one other electronic device.

22. The electronic device of claim 21, wherein the particular information includes at least one of popularity information related to the contents and original contents of the contents.

23. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the content control module updates attribute information of the contents based on update attribute information received in connection with the contents from the other electronic devices.

24. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the content control module stores other contents received in connection with the contents from the other electronic devices as at least part of the attribute information.

25. A method of controlling contents by an electronic device, the method comprising:

transmitting the contents to at least one other electronic device; and

storing log information recorded in connection with access to the contents by the electronic device or the at least one other electronic device as attribute information related to the contents.

26. A method of controlling contents by an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving contents from at least one other electronic device; and

identifying logs recorded in connection with access to the contents by the at least one other electronic device using attribute information related to the contents.

27. A method of controlling contents by an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving contents from at least one other electronic device; and

storing log information recorded in connection with access to the contents by the electronic device or the at least one other electronic device as attribute information related to the contents.