System and method for transmitting/receiving data by using a mobile communication terminal in a zigbee pan

• US 8,244,550 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2008
• Issued: 08/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Sim, Dae-Hyun, Kim, Kwang-Jun, Kim, Jae-Ho, Han, Young-Seop, Yi, Yun-Chul, Choi, Woo-Jun, Cho, Beom-Soo, Lee, Jeong-Eun
• Primary Examiner(s): OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P
• Application Number:
  US12/124,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20080291854A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,546 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 705/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal equipped with a Zigbee communication module for transmitting/receiving contents data in a Zigbee Personal Area Network (PAN) and a method for transmitting/receiving data by a mobile communication terminal in a communication system of the Zigbee PAN are provided. The communication system of the Zigbee PAN includes a first terminal equipped with a Zigbee communication module capable of Zigbee communication, for generating contents data for extracting a tag from the generated contents data, generating profile information using the tag, and for broadcasting the profile information and the contents data in the Zigbee PAN, and a second terminal for comparing a tag of the contents data detected from the received profile information with a previously stored tag upon receiving the profile information broadcasted from the first terminal, and then for receiving the contents data if the detected tag of the contents data and the previously stored tag coincide with each other.

Claims

1. A communication system of a Zigbee Personal Area Network (PAN), comprising:

a first terminal equipped with a Zigbee communication module, for generating contents data, for extracting a tag from the generated contents data, for generating profile information using the tag, and for broadcasting the profile information and the contents data in the Zigbee PAN; and

a second terminal for comparing a tag of the contents data detected from the received profile information with a previously stored tag upon receiving the profile information broadcasted from the first terminal, and for receiving the contents data if the detected tag of the contents data and the previously stored tag coincide with each other.

2. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first terminal receives an input from a user, and then generates the contents data.

3. The communication system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the second terminal compares the tag detected from the profile information with the previously stored tag upon receiving the profile information, and receives the contents data if the previously stored tag coincides with the tag of the profile information.

4. The communication system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the previously stored tag is stored through an input from a user of the second terminal.

5. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the contents data corresponds to at least one of an advertisement, a guidance, multimedia data and a text message.

6. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the profile information comprises at least one tag extracted from the contents data, and the tag corresponds to at least one of a character and an image included in the contents data.

7. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein upon receiving the contents data, the second terminal generates log data including at least one of contents data, a reception time point at which the contents data is received, a tag of the contents data, a position at which the contents data is received, and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the first terminal, and then stores the generated log data.

8. The communication system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the second terminal compares the log data generated upon receiving the contents data with previously stored log data to determine if the generated log data coincides with the previously stored log data, and then updates the log data to store the updated log data if the generated log data coincides with the previously stored log data.

9. The communication system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the second terminal informs the user that the generated log data and the previously stored log data coincide with each other if the generated log data and the previously stored log data coincide with each other.

10. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second terminal displays the contents data upon receiving the contents data.

21. The communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second terminal is at least one mobile communication terminal.

11. A method for transmitting/receiving data by a mobile communication terminal including a Zigbee communication module in a communication system of a Zigbee Personal Area Network (PAN), the method comprising:

generating contents data, extracting a tag from the generated contents data, generating profile information using the tag, and broadcasting the profile information and the contents data in the Zigbee PAN, by a first terminal;

receiving, by a second terminal, the broadcasted profile information to compare a tag of the contents data detected from the received profile information with a previously stored tag; and

receiving, by the second terminal, the contents data broadcasted by the first terminal if the detected tag of the contents data and the previously stored tag coincide with each other.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first terminal receives an input from a user, and then generates the contents data.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the receiving of the contents data comprises:

requesting the first terminal to transfer contents data if the previously stored tag coincides with the tag of the profile information; and

receiving the contents data from the first terminal.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the previously stored tag is stored through a user input from a user of the second terminal.

15. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the contents data corresponds to at least one of an advertisement, a guidance, multimedia data and a text message.

16. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the profile information comprises at least one tag extracted from the contents data, and the tag corresponds to at least one of a character and an image included in the contents data.

17. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the receiving of the contents data comprises:

receiving, by the second terminal, the contents data; and

generating log data including at least one of contents data, a reception time point at which the contents data is received, a tag of the contents data, a position at which the contents data is received, and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the first terminal, and then storing the generated log data.

18. The method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the generating of the log data comprises:

comparing, by the second terminal, the generated log data with previously stored log data to determine if the generated log data coincides with the previously stored log data; and

updating the log data to store the updated log data if the generated log data coincides with the previously stored log data.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the updating of the log data comprises informing, by the second terminal, the user that the generated log data and the previously stored log data coincide with each other if the generated log data and the previously stored log data coincide with each other.

20. The method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising displaying, by the second terminal, the contents data upon receiving the contents data.

22. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the second terminal is at least one mobile communication terminal.