Home network system and method of recording broadcasting content thereof

• US 8,650,597 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2007
• Issued: 02/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Nam, Kyoung Don, Park, In Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Pendleton, Brian T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lewis, Jonathan V
• Application Number:
  US11/776,277
• Publication Number:
  US 20080163322A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,407 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 725/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2747 Remote storage of video programs received via the downstream path, e.g. from the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17336 Handling of requests in head-ends

Abstract

A home network system and a method of recording broadcasting content thereof are provided, and includes requesting, by the mobile terminal, the server to send the broadcasting content; receiving, by the server, the broadcasting content from a broadcasting station and sending the received broadcasting content to the mobile terminal; displaying, by the mobile terminal, the received broadcasting content; requesting, if the displaying of the broadcasting content is interrupted, by the mobile terminal, the server to record the interrupted broadcasting content; and recording, by the server, the broadcasting content from an interrupted time point of the broadcasting content.

Claims

1. A method of recording broadcasting content in a home network system including a wireless mobile terminal and a home terminal connected to a server through a wireless communication network, comprising:

requesting, by the wireless mobile terminal, the server to send the broadcasting content through the wireless communication network;

receiving, by the server, the broadcasting content from a broadcasting station and sending the received broadcasting content to the wireless mobile terminal through the wireless communication network;

displaying, by the wireless mobile terminal, the received broadcasting content;

if the displaying of the broadcasting content is interrupted, sending to the server through the wireless communication network, by the wireless mobile terminal, recording request information of the interrupted broadcasting content comprising an interrupted point in time of the interrupted broadcasting content;

recording, by the server, the interrupted broadcasting content from the interrupted point in time according to the recording request information of the interrupted broadcasting content;

requesting, by the wireless mobile terminal or a home terminal, the server to reproduce the recorded broadcasting content; and

receiving and displaying the recorded broadcasting content from the server,

wherein sending the recording request information of the interrupted broadcasting content comprises;

determining whether the interrupted broadcasting content is a specific broadcasting content specified by the user; and

when the interrupted broadcasting content is the specific broadcasting content, sending the recording request information to the server without input from the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the broadcasting content is one of terrestrial, satellite, and cable broadcasting content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording request information further comprises at least one of a type of broadcasting of the broadcasting content, a broadcasting channel, and a name of the broadcasting.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of recording, by the server, the broadcasting content from an interrupted point in time of the broadcasting content comprises:

extracting the interrupted broadcasting content from among received broadcasting content based on the recording request information; and

recording the extracted broadcasting content from the interrupted point in time.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of requesting the server to record the interrupted broadcasting content comprises if the wireless mobile terminal receives a request for recording the interrupted broadcasting content by a user, requesting the server to record the interrupted broadcasting content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of requesting the server to record the interrupted broadcasting content comprises if the displaying of the broadcasting content is interrupted, automatically requesting by the wireless mobile terminal, the server to record the interrupted broadcasting content.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting the server to record the interrupted broadcasting content further comprises:

when the interrupted broadcasting content is not the specific broadcasting content, sending the recoding request information to the server when the wireless mobile terminal receives a request for recording the interrupted broadcasting content by a user.

8. A method of recording broadcasting content in a home network system including a wireless mobile terminal connected to a server through a wireless communication network, comprising:

receiving, by the wireless mobile terminal, broadcasting content from a broadcasting station through the wireless communication network and displaying the received broadcasting content;

if the displaying of the broadcasting content is interrupted, sending to the server, by the wireless mobile terminal, recording request information of the interrupted broadcasting content comprising an interrupted point in time of the interrupted broadcasting content, through the wireless communication network;

recording, by the server, the interrupted broadcasting content from the interrupted point in time according to the recording request information of the interrupted broadcasting content;

requesting, by the wireless mobile terminal or a home terminal, the server to reproduce the recorded broadcasting content; and

receiving and displaying the recorded broadcasting content from the server,

wherein sending the recording request information of the interrupted broadcasting content comprises;

determining whether the interrupted broadcasting content is a specific broadcasting content specified by the user; and

when the interrupted broadcasting content is the specific broadcasting content, sending the recording request information to the server without input from the user.

9. A home network system comprising:

a server for receiving broadcasting content from a broadcasting station, for sending the received broadcasting content and for recording broadcasting content; and

a wireless mobile terminal for receiving and displaying the broadcasting content from a broadcasting station or the server, for sending to the server through a wireless communication network recording request information of the interrupted broadcasting content comprising an interrupted point in time of the interrupted broadcasting content if the displaying of the received broadcasting content is interrupted, requesting the server to reproduce the recorded broadcasting content; and

for receiving and displaying the recorded broadcasting content from the server,

wherein the server records the interrupted broadcasting content from the interrupted point in time based on the recording request information when receiving a request for recording the interrupted broadcasting content from the wireless mobile terminal, wherein the wireless mobile terminal requests the server to reproduce the recorded broadcasting content, and receives and displays the recorded broadcasting content from the server,

wherein the wireless mobile terminal determines, when displaying the received broadcasting content is interrupted, whether the interrupted broadcasting content is a specific broadcasting content specified by the user, and

wherein the wireless mobile terminal automatically sends, when the interrupted broadcasting content is the specific broadcasting content, the recording request information to the server without input from the user.

10. The home network system of claim 9, wherein the recording request information further comprises at least one of a type of broadcasting of the broadcasting content, a broadcasting channel, and a name of the broadcasting content.

11. The home network system of claim 10, wherein the server extracts the interrupted broadcasting content from among received broadcasting contents based on the recording request information, and records the extracted broadcasting content from the interrupted point in time.

12. The home network system of claim 9, wherein if the wireless mobile terminal receives a request for recording the interrupted broadcasting content by a user the wireless mobile terminal requests the server to record the interrupted broadcasting content.

13. The home network system of claim 9, wherein the wireless mobile terminal sends, when the interrupted broadcasting content is not the specific broadcasting content, the recording request information to the server when the wireless mobile terminal receives a request for recording the interrupted broadcasting content from a user.

14. The home network system of claim 9, further comprising a home terminal for requesting the server to reproduce the recorded broadcasting content and for receiving and displaying the recorded broadcasting content from the server.