WEARABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING WIDGET THEREOF

• US 20190311401A1
• Filed: 09/08/2017
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: KIM, Tae-jeoung, KIM, Hyun-hak, WOO, Hong-uk, PARK, Ki-chul
• Granted Patent: US 11,341,529 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/163 Indexing scheme relating to constructional details of the computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/014 Hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history

Abstract

A wearable device and a method for providing a widget thereof are provided. A method for providing a widget in a wearable device of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: sensing status information of a user; transmitting the status information of the user to an external server; selecting an application type to be provided from the external server according to a user command; receiving, from the external server, information on at least one application corresponding to the status information of the user on the basis of the selected application type and the status information of the user; and providing, on a screen, a widget corresponding to an application selected by the user among the at least one application.

Claims

1. A wearable apparatus comprising:

a sensor configured to sense status information of a user;

a communicator configured to transmit the status information of the user to an external server; and

a processor configured to;

select an application topic to be provided from the external sever based on a user command,

receive information on at least one application corresponding to the status information of the user from the external server through the communicator based on the selected application topic and the status information of the user, and

provide a widget corresponding to an application selected by a user from among the at least one application on a screen.

2. The wearable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the external server is configured to:

analyze and store the status information of the user,

identify an application corresponding to the status information of the user from the selected application topic,

store information on the identified application, and

transmit the information on the identified application to the wearable apparatus based on the status information of the user.

3. The wearable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein information on the at least one application includes user interface (UI) data including content data corresponding to the at least one application.

4. The wearable apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the processor is further configured to, based on the at least one application including a plurality of applications, provide a widget corresponding to each of the plurality of applications on the screen in a scrolling order based on a user command for selecting and scrolling the widget.

5. The wearable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to, based on the widget being selected by a user command, execute a web-application connected to the widget.

6. The wearable apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the processor is further configured to, based on there being no web application connected to the widget, request a web-application to the external server, and provide a web application page provided from the external server on the screen.

7. The wearable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to set the user command to provide a widget corresponding to an application designated in a specific context among the at least one application on the screen.

8. The wearable apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to control the communicator to transmit the status information of the user periodically, or based on the status information the user satisfying a predetermined condition, to transmit the status information of the user to the external server.

9. A method for providing a widget of a wearable apparatus, the method comprising:

sensing status information of a user;

transmitting the status information of the user to an external server;

selecting an application topic to be provided from the external server based on a user command;

receiving information on at least one application corresponding to the status information of the user from the external server based on the selected application topic and the status information of the user; and

providing a widget corresponding to an application selected by a user from among the at least one application on a screen.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the external server is configured to:

analyze and store the status information of the user,

identify an application corresponding to the status information of the user from the selected application topic,

store information on the identified application, and

transmit the information on the identified information to the wearable apparatus based on the status information of the user.

11. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein information on the at least one application is user interface (UI) data including content data corresponding to the at least one application within a UI layout page stored in the external server.

12. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the providing comprises, based on the at least one application including a plurality of applications, providing a widget corresponding to each of the plurality of applications on the screen in a scrolling order based on a user command for selecting and scrolling the widget.

13. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the providing further comprises executing a web application connected to the widget based on selecting the widget by a user command.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the providing comprises, based on there being no web application connected to the widget, requesting the web-application to the web server, and providing a web application UI provided from the external server on the screen.

15. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the providing comprises setting the user command to provide a widget corresponding a designated application in a specific context among the at least one application to the screen preferentially.