Apparatus, method and medium for transmission and/or reception of digital content based on time or location information

• US 8,180,764 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2007
• Issued: 05/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Ryu, Hee-seob, Lee, Sang-goog
• Primary Examiner(s): Jami, Hares
• Application Number:
  US11/797,757
• Publication Number:
  US 20070213082A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,835 Days
• Field of Search: 707/3, 707/705, 707/736, 707/758, 707/722, 707/912, 707/913, 707/999.1, 709/201, 709/206, 709/207
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/489 using time information
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/184 Messaging devices, e.g. message centre
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/912 Applications of a database
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/913 Multimedia

Abstract

A digital content transmission apparatus, method and medium, and a digital content reception apparatus, method and medium enable multimedia content, extracted according to the location and time of a transmitting mobile terminal, and alphanumeric text, to be combined into a single message sent to a receiving mobile terminal, thereby allowing a user of the transmitting mobile terminal to reflect the circumstances facing the user in the message. The digital content transmission apparatus includes an input module to receive an alphanumeric message, a state searching module to search for time information and location information of the message, a control module to extract a serial number of a first multimedia content corresponding to the time information and the location information, and a communication module to transmit data into which the message and the extracted serial number are combined.

Claims

1. A digital content transmission apparatus comprising:

an input module to input a message comprising alphanumeric text;

a state searching module to search for at least one of time information corresponding to the message and location information corresponding to the message without user input;

a control module to automatically extract a serial number, which uniquely represents first multimedia content corresponding to at least one of the time information and the location information, from among a plurality of serial numbers each representing a plurality of different multimedia content; and

a communication module to automatically transmit data into which the message and the extracted serial number are combined, the extracted serial number being transmitted in place of the multimedia content.

2. The digital content transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the state searching module comprises:

a time searching unit which searches for the time information corresponding to the message; and

a location searching unit which searches for the location information corresponding to the message.

3. The digital content transmission apparatus of claim 2, wherein the location searcher searches for the location information using at least one of a cell identification (ID) method, an Angle-Of-Arrival (AOA) method, a Time-Of-Arrival (TOA) method, a Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) method, a Global Positioning System (GPS) method, an Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) method, an Enhanced-Observed Time Difference (E-OTD) method, and a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) method.

4. The digital content transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the location information comprises WGS84 coordinate information or transverse coordinate information.

5. The digital content transmission apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a storage module to store a second multimedia content corresponding to at least one of the time information and the location information, or to store a second serial number of the second multimedia content.

6. The digital content transmission apparatus of claim 5, wherein the control module extracts the serial number of the first multimedia content from the serial numbers stored in the storage module.

7. The digital content transmission apparatus of claim 5, wherein the storage module may be disposed in an external apparatus in a network.

8. The digital content transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data comprises at least one of the message and the first multimedia content.

9. The digital content transmission apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a data generation module which generates the data.

10. The digital content transmission apparatus of claim 9, wherein the data generation module changes a font of the message according to at least one of the time information and the location information.

11. The digital content transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first multimedia content comprises at least one of a still image, a moving image, and audio data.

12. The digital content transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the amount of data required to transmit the serial number is less than the amount of data required to transmit the first multimedia content.

13. A digital content transmission method comprising:

inputting a message comprising alphanumeric text;

searching, without user input, for at least one of time information and location information that correspond to the input message;

automatically extracting a serial number, which uniquely represents a first multimedia content corresponding to at least one of the time information and the location information, from among a plurality of serial numbers each representing a plurality of different multimedia content; and

automatically transmitting data into which the message and the extracted serial number are combined, the extracted serial number being transmitted in place of the multimedia content.

14. The digital content transmission method of claim 13, wherein the searching comprises:

searching for the time information corresponding to the message; and

searching for the location information corresponding to a sender of the message.

15. The digital content transmission method of claim 14, wherein the searching for the location information comprises searching for the location information using at least one of a cell identification (ID) method, an Angle-Of-Arrival (AOA) method, a Time-Of-Arrival (TOA) method, a Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) method, a Global Positioning System (GPS) method, an Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) method, an Enhanced-Observed Time Difference (E-OTD) method, and a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) method.

16. The digital content transmission method of claim 13, wherein the location information comprises WGS84 coordinate information or transverse coordinate information.

17. The digital content transmission method of claim 13 further comprising storing a second multimedia content corresponding to at least one of the time information and the location information, or serial numbers of the second multimedia content.

18. The digital content transmission method of claim 17, wherein the extracting comprises extracting the serial number of the first multimedia content from the stored serial numbers.

19. The digital content transmission method of claim 13, wherein the data comprises at least one of the message and the first multimedia content.

20. The digital content transmission method of claim 13, further comprising generating the data.

21. The digital content transmission method of claim 20, wherein the generating of the data comprises changing a font of the message according to at least one of the time information and the location information.

22. The digital content transmission method of claim 13, wherein the first multimedia content comprises at least one of a still image, a moving image, and audio data.

23. The digital content transmission method of claim 13, wherein the amount of data required to transmit the serial number is less than the amount of data required to transmit the first multimedia content.

24. A digital content transmission apparatus comprising:

a state searching module to search, without user input, for at least one of time information and location information, each corresponding to an input message comprised of alphanumeric text;

a control module to automatically extract a serial number, which uniquely represents first multimedia content corresponding to at least one of the time information and the location information, from among a plurality of serial numbers each representing a plurality of different multimedia content; and

a communication module to automatically transmit the message and the extracted serial number together, the serial number being transmitted instead of the corresponding multimedia content so as to minimize a quantity of data to be transmitted.