SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CLOUD-BASED USER INTERFACES AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20180160173A1
• Filed: 12/01/2017
• Published: 06/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alticast Corporation, Altimedia Corp. (Alticast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alticast Corporation
• Inventors: SONG, Moon Kyu, KIM, Woo Hyuck, JUNG, Hyun Il
• Granted Patent: US 10,567,837 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• 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 21/44213 Monitoring of end-user related data arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4516 involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

Disclosed are a system for providing cloud-based user interfaces and a method thereof. More particularly, a subscriber terminal device according to the present disclosure may include a control command receiver configured to receive a first control command including description information on a template repeated on a UI (User Interface) screen and a second control command including a replication command for the template from a remote application server; a template generator configured to generate a template the based on the description information on the template; a UI resource acquirer configured to acquire a UI resource based on the second control command; and a UI element generator configured to generate UI elements based on replication of the template and apply the UI resource to the UI element.

Claims

1. A subscriber terminal device, comprising:

a control command receiver configured to receive a first control command including description information on a template repeated on a UI (User Interface) screen and a second control command including a replication command for the template from a remote application server;

a template generator configured to generate a template the based on the description information on the template template;

a UI resource acquirer configured to acquire a UI resource based on the second control command; and

a UI element generator configured to generate UI elements based on replication of the template and apply the UI resource to the UI element.

2. The subscriber terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the second control command comprises information on the number of the generated UI elements, a UI resource information applied to each of the UI elements when the number of the generated UI elements is plural, and screen coordinate information on each of the UI elements.

3. The subscriber terminal device according to claim 2, further comprising renderer configured to render the UI elements based on the screen coordinate information on each of the UI elements and provide a UI screen to a display device.

4. The subscriber terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising a controller that comprises at least one processor, wherein, when the control command receiver receives a third control command designating the template as a local UI, the control command receiver transfers the third control command to the controller.

5. A remote application server, comprising:

a control command receiver configured to generate a control command for configuring a UI screen displayed on a subscriber terminal device;

a controller configured to control generation of the control command; and

a communicator configured to transmit the control command to the subscriber terminal device,

wherein the controller, when a template is repeatedly used in the UI screen, generates description information on the template,

the control command generator generates a first control command comprising the description information on the template, and

the controller controls the control command generator to generate a second control command comprising a replication command for the template and information on a UI resource to be applied to the UI element.

6. The remote application server according to claim 5, wherein the second control command comprises information on the number of the generated UI elements, a UI resource information applied to each of the UI elements when the number of the generated UI elements is plural, and screen coordinate information on each of the UI elements.

7. A method of providing UIs of a remote application server in a cloud-based UI provision system, the method comprising:

determining whether a template of a UI element comprised in a UI screen is repeatedly used in a subscriber terminal device;

generating description information on the template when the template is repeatedly used;

generating a first control command comprising the description information on the template;

generating a second control command comprising a replication command for the template and information on a UI resource to be applied to the UI element; and

transmitting the at least one of the first control command and the second control command to the subscriber terminal device.

8. A computer program stored in a computer readable recording medium to perform the method according to claim 7.