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

• US 8,612,425 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2012
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• 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:
  US13/442,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20120198014A1
• Time in Patent Office: 617 Days
• Field of Search: 707/705, 707/722, 707/736, 707/758, 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 reception apparatus comprising:

a communication module, in the digital content reception apparatus, to receive data comprising a message and a serial number that uniquely represents a first multimedia content

corresponding to at least one of a time information and a location information of a sender of the message without receiving the first multimedia content, the message comprising alphanumeric text;

a control module to extract the first multimedia content without user input corresponding to the serial number from among a plurality of serial numbers each representing a plurality of different multimedia content stored in the digital content reception apparatus; and

a content processing module to generate content by combining the message and the first multimedia content; and

an output module to output the content.

2. The digital content reception apparatus of claim 1, wherein, if the data comprises a second multimedia content, the content processing module generates content by combining the message and the second multimedia content.

3. The digital content reception apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a storage module that stores the first multimedia content and the serial number that uniquely represents the first multimedia content.

4. The digital content reception apparatus of claim 3, wherein the control module extracts the first multimedia content from the storage module.

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

6. A digital content reception method performed in a digital content reception apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving, in the digital content reception apparatus, data comprising a message and a serial number that uniquely represents a first multimedia content corresponding to at least one of a time information and a location information of a sender of the message without receiving the first multimedia content, the message comprising alphanumeric text;

extracting, without user input, the first multimedia content corresponding to the serial

number from among a plurality of serial numbers each representing a plurality of different multimedia content stored in the digital content reception apparatus;

generating content by combining the message and the first multimedia content; and

outputting the content.

7. The digital content reception method of claim 6, wherein, if the data comprises a second multimedia content, the generating of the content comprises generating content by combining the message and the second multimedia content.

8. The digital content reception method of claim 6, wherein the extracting comprises extracting the first multimedia content and the serial number that uniquely represents the first multimedia content from a storage module disposed in the digital content reception apparatus.

9. The digital content reception method of claim 6, wherein the first multimedia content comprises at least one of a still image, a moving image, and audio data.

10. The digital content reception method of claim 6, further comprising extracting a stylized font for the alphanumeric text, the font corresponding to at least one of the time information and the location information.

11. At least one non-transitory medium comprising computer readable code to control at least one processing element to implement the method of claim 6.

12. A digital content communication system using time information and location information of a user, the system comprising:

a digital content transmission apparatus to transmit an alphanumeric message combined with an identification number that uniquely represents a first multimedia content without transmitting the first multimedia content, the content corresponding to at least one of the time information and the location information of the user; and

a digital content reception apparatus to,

receive the combined alphanumeric message and the identification number,

retrieve the first multimedia content without user input from a memory of the digital content reception apparatus based on the identification number received, and

output the combined alphanumeric message and the first multimedia content.