Method and apparatus for activating scan function

• US 9,537,541 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2015
• Issued: 01/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Chung, Jin-Yong, Kim, Su-Hwan, Kim, Tae-Sung, Kim, Soo-Yong, Na, Ji-Myung
• Primary Examiner(s): Blouin, Mark
• Application Number:
  US14/806,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20160065270A1
• Time in Patent Office: 531 Days
• Field of Search: 340/10.3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

A method and electronic device for receiving information is provided. The method includes transmitting, by the electronic device, a scan time and an identification of the information to cause the identified information to be broadcast at the scan time; and scanning, by the electronic device, during the scan time to receive the information. The electronic device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a scan time and an identification of the information to cause the identified information to be broadcast at the scan time; and a scanner configured to scan during the scan time to receive the information.

Claims

1. A method of a first electronic device for receiving information, the method comprising:

transmitting a scan time and an identification of the information to cause the identified information to be broadcast at the scan time to a server; and

scanning during the scan time to receive the information from a second electronic device which receives the scan time and the identification of the information from the server and broadcasts the information at the scan time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the scan time includes a start time and a duration.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the identification of information includes at least one of a type, a kind, an item, and information associated with the identified information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the identification of information includes information to identify a device to broadcast the information.

5. A method of a server for conveying a scan time and an identification of information, the method comprising:

receiving, from a first electronic device, a scan time and an identification of information to cause the identified information to be broadcast at the scan time; and

transmitting, to a second electronic device, the scan time and the identification of information to the second electronic device which broadcasts the information at the scan time.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the scan time includes at least one of a start time and a duration.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the identification of information includes at least one of a type, a kind, an item, and information associated with the identified information.

8. A method of a first electronic device for broadcasting information, the method comprising:

receiving, from a server, a scan time and an identification of the information which are transmitted from a second electronic device to the server; and

broadcasting the identified information at the scan time.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the scan time includes a start time and a duration.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the identification of information includes at least one of a type, a kind, an item, and information associated with the identified information.