Method and apparatus for managing bookmark information for content stored in a networked media server

• US 8,949,314 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2010
• Issued: 02/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Ahn, Sung Joon, Kim, Chang Hyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Benoit, Esther
• Application Number:
  US12/792,446
• Publication Number:
  US 20100241706A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,707 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/32 on separate auxiliary tracks of the same or an auxiliary record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2812 describing content present in a home automation network, e.g. audio video content retrieval from the Internet G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by adding the ID of the created bookmark item to the property information of the content item and recording the ID of the content item to be bookmarked in the created bookmark item.

Claims

1. A method for creating a bookmark item in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network including a server, a player and a controller configured to control the server and the player, the method performed by the server and comprising:

receiving a creating request from the controller including rendering state information and transporting state information, the rendering state information and the transporting state information associated with playback of a content item;

creating the bookmark item according to the creating request, wherein the created bookmark item includes the rendering state information, the transporting state information, a bookmark identifier (ID) of the created bookmark item for uniquely identifying the created bookmark item, and a content ID of the content item to associate the bookmark item with the content

updating the content item, when the bookmark item is created, to include the bookmark ID of the associated bookmark item to associate the content item with the bookmark item,

wherein the bookmark item is used for recovering the rendering state information and the transporting state information; and

receiving a deleting request from the controller to delete the bookmark item wherein deleting the bookmark item comprises;

searching the content item associated with the bookmark item according to the deleting request, the content item searched using the bookmark ID included in the bookmark item;

deleting the bookmark item; and

updating the searched content item by removing the bookmark ID associated with the deleted bookmark item from the content item.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the bookmark ID is generated by the server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the bookmark item is created under a container assigned by the controller.

4. A server for creating a bookmark item in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network including a server, a player and a controller configured to control the server and the player, the server comprising:

an interfacing device configured to at least transmit or receive data; and

a microprocessor configured to;

receive a creating request from the controller via the interfacing device, the creating request including rendering state information and transporting state information, the rendering state information and the transporting state information associated with playback of a content item,

create the bookmark item according to the creating request, wherein the created bookmark item includes the rendering state information, the transporting state information, a bookmark identifier (ID) of the created bookmark item for uniquely identifying the created bookmark item, and a content ID of the content item to associate the bookmark item with the content item,

update the content item, when the bookmark item is created, to include the bookmark ID of the associated bookmark item to associate the content item with the bookmark item,

wherein the bookmark item is used for recovering the rendering state information and the transporting state information; and

receive a deleting request from a controller to delete the bookmark item,

wherein deleting the bookmark item comprises;

searching the content item associated with the bookmark item according to the deleting request, the content item searched using the bookmark ID included in the bookmark item;

deleting the bookmark item; and

updating the searched content item by removing the bookmark ID associated with the deleting bookmark item from the content item.

5. The server of claim 4, wherein the bookmark ID is generated by the server.

6. The server of claim 4, wherein the bookmark item is created under a container assigned by the controller.