Content recording control method for peers, and a device therefor

• US 9,204,084 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2009
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Mun-Jo, Rhim, Eun-Hee, Lee, Kwang-Kee, Hwang, In-chul
• Primary Examiner(s): MIRZA, ADNAN M
• Application Number:
  US12/865,035
• Publication Number:
  US 20100332655A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,503 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/224
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4135 external recorder interface circuits between an apparatus for recording television signals and a television receiver H04N5/775
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method and apparatus for controlling content recording for a buddy of a management server are provided. The method includes: receiving a recording request message for the buddy according to an external input; determining whether a local recording apparatus of the buddy is in a recording state; and selectively sending a recording start message to a recording apparatus on a network, different from the local recording apparatus of the buddy, according to a result of the determining.

Claims

1. A method of controlling by a management server, for recording of contents, the method comprising:

receiving, by the management server, a recording request message for a second user from a user device of a first user;

determining whether a local recording apparatus of the second user, different from the user device of the first user, is in a recording available state in which the local recording apparatus of the second user is able to record the contents;

sending, to the local recording apparatus, a recording start message when the local recording apparatus is determined to be in the recording available state, and

sending, to a network recording apparatus, a recording start message when the local recording apparatus is determined to not be in the recording available state;

wherein the local recording apparatus is different from the network recording apparatus.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording request message comprises an identifier of the second user, and

the local recording apparatus of the second user is a local recording apparatus corresponding to the identifier of the second user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording request message and the recording start message comprise at least one of content information, information on the second user, and content password information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein at least one of the recording request message and the recording start message is in an extensible markup language (XML) format.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining whether the local recording apparatus of the second user is in the recording available state comprises receiving, from the local recording apparatus of the second user, a state result message indicating whether the local recording apparatus of the second user can record the contents in response to a request of the management server.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the request of the management server is a state check message, transmitted from the management server to the local recording apparatus of the second user, for checking whether the local recording apparatus of the second user can record the contents.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising updating the recording start message by using information for providing at least one of a personalized service and an advertisement service for the second user.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing the method of claim 1.

8. A management server for controlling of recording of contents, the management server comprising:

a receiving unit which receives a recording request message for a second user from a user device of a first user;

a determining unit which determines whether a local recording apparatus of the second user, different from the user device of the first user, is in a recording available state in which the local recording apparatus of the second user is able to record the contents; and

a recording start unit which

sends, to the local recording apparatus, a recording start message when the local recording apparatus is determined to be in the recording available state, and

sends, to a network recording apparatus, the recording start message when the local recording apparatus is determined to not be in the recording available state,

wherein the local recording apparatus is different from the network recording apparatus.

9. The management server of claim 8, wherein the recording request message comprises an identifier of the second user, and

the local recording apparatus of the second user is a local recording apparatus corresponding to the identifier of the second user.

10. The management server of claim 8, wherein the recording request message and the recording start message comprise at least one of content information, information on the second user, and content password information.

11. The management server of claim 10, wherein at least one of the recording request message and the recording start message are in an extensible markup language (XML) format.

12. The management server of claim 8, wherein the determining unit receives, from the local recording apparatus of the second user, a state result message indicating whether the local recording apparatus of the second user can record the contents in response to a request of the management server.

13. The management server of claim 12, wherein the request of the management server is a state check message for checking whether the local recording apparatus of the second user can record the contents.

14. The management server of claim 8, further comprising an updating unit which updates the recording start message by using information for providing at least one of a personalized service and an advertisement service for the second user.