Method and apparatus for reproducing content

• US 9,036,976 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2014
• Issued: 05/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Young-min, Oh, Keum-yong, Ahn, Jun-eok, Jung, Da-na
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughn, Jr., William C
• Assistant Examiner(s): ADAMS, EILEEN M
• Application Number:
  US14/294,830
• Publication Number:
  US 20140289763A1
• Time in Patent Office: 350 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 386/229
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4516 involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/814 comprising emergency warnings arrangements specially adapted for emergency or urgency in broadcast systems H04H20/59; arrangements for providing alarms, notifications, alerts to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8146 involving graphical data, e.g. 3D object, 2D graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

A method of displaying a message received from a server during reproducing content includes: receiving the message provided to a user terminal, from the server, during the reproducing the content stored in a storage medium; determining an operation mode of the user terminal related to a priority order of the message; and providing the message according to the determined operation mode of the user terminal.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a message received from a server during reproducing content, the method comprising:

receiving the message provided to a user terminal from the server during the reproducing the content stored in a storage medium;

determining an operation mode of the user terminal related to a priority order of the message; and

providing the message according to the determined operation mode of the user terminal,

wherein the operation mode is at least one of continuously reproducing the content stored in the storage medium and displaying the message;

stopping the reproducing of the content stored in the storage medium and displaying the message in full-screen view;

continuously reproducing the content stored in the storage medium and displaying the message after completely reproducing the content;

displaying the message and icons relating to the message on a part of a screen; and

continuously reproducing the content stored in the storage medium and displaying the message on a part of a screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein content of the message is related to a service provided from the server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the message on the part of the screen comprises displaying the message and a channel relating to the message in a Picture-in-Picture (PiP).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the message on the part of the screen comprises displaying information relating to the priority order of the message.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the message is an emergency message, a message informing of an upgrading of software relating to a service, or a message informing of an upgrading of firmware.

6. A non-transitory storage medium having embodied thereon a program which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform the method of claim 1.

7. An apparatus for displaying a message from a server during reproducing content stored in a storage medium, the apparatus comprising:

a service processor which receives a message from a server, during reproducing the content stored in the storage medium;

an operating mode determiner which determines operation mode related to a priority order of message; and

a content reproducer which displays the message, according to a determination of the operation mode,

wherein the content reproducer performs at least one of continuously reproducing the content stored in the storage medium and displaying the message;

stopping the reproducing of the content stored in the storage medium and displaying the message in full-screen view;

continuously reproducing the content stored in the storage medium and displaying the message after completely reproducing the content; and

continuously reproducing the content stored in the storage medium;

displaying the message and icons relating to the message on a part of a screen; and

displaying the message on a part of a screen based on the determined operation mode.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the content of the message is related to a service provided from the server.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the content reproducer displays the message and a channel relating to the message in a Picture-in-Picture (PiP) on a part of the screen.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the displaying of the message on a part of a screen comprises displaying information relating to the priority order of the message on the part of the screen.

11. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the message is an emergency message, a message informing of an upgrading of software relating to the service, or a message informing of an upgrading of firmware.