Terminal device and method for transceiving data thereof

• US 9,357,337 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2013
• Issued: 05/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cheon, Ka-won, Han, Jae-uk, Jung, Ji-su, Kwak, Hyun-koo, Park, Sung-joon, Jo, Soo-hyun
• Primary Examiner(s): AYOTUNDE, AYODEJI O
• Application Number:
  US14/104,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20140099898A1
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• Field of Search: 455/39, 455/41.1, 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 455/73
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals download of applications H04M1/72406; transfer of messages, e.g. SMS, e-mail or MMS H04M1/7243
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A terminal device and a data transceiving method are provided. The terminal device includes a sensing unit which senses a momentum of the terminal device, an interface unit which receives a momentum from at least one external device, and a control unit which performs one of a data receiving operation, a data transmitting operation, and a data transceiving operation with the at least one external device depending on a comparison value obtained from a comparison of the sensed momentum with the received momentum to allow two devices to exchange data more easily.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a sensor configured to sense a movement of the device;

an interface configured to receive information related to a movement of an external device located within a communicable range of the device; and

a controller configured to determine a similarity between the movement and the movement of the external device based on the received information, and control the interface to transmit a data, which is stored in the device and does not exist in the external device, to the external device in response to the determined similarity being within a pre-defined error range.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to transmit the sensed movement of the device to the external device, and in response to receiving data from the external device, activate operation of the device based on the received data.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensor is configured to sense the movement of the device in real time and to output the movement of the device.

4. The device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to receiving a variation in the movement of the external device measured in real time from the external device, determine a similarity between the movement of the device and the movement of the external device based on a variation calculated from the movement of the device sensed in real time and the received variation in the movement of the external device.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to compare the calculated variation and the received variation, and in response to the calculated comparison value falling within a pre-set error range, control the interface to transmit the data for activating the external device to the external device.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data controls at least one of activating an application program and activating an execution program.

7. A data communication method of a device, the method comprising:

sensing a movement of the device;

in response to receiving information related to a movement of an external device located within a range communicable with the device from the external device, determining a similarity between the movement of the device and the movement of the external device based on the received information; and

transmitting a data, which is stored in the device and does not exist in the external device, to the external device in response to the determined similarity being within a pre-defined error range.

8. The data communication method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising:

transmitting the sensed movement of the device to the external device; and

in response to receiving data from the external device, activating operation of the device based on the received data.

9. The data communication method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the sensing comprises detecting a movement of the device in real time.

10. The data communication method as claimed in claim 9, further comprising, in response to receiving a variation in the movement of the external device measured in real time from the external device, determining a similarity between the movement of the device and the movement of the external device based on a variation calculated from the movement of the device sensed in real time and the received variation in the movement of the external device.

11. The data communication method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising comparing the calculated variation and the received variation, and in response to the calculated comparison value falling within a pre-set error range, transmitting the data for activating the external device to the external device.

12. The data communication method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the data controls at least one of activating an application program and activating an execution program.