System and method for sharing data

• US 9,661,102 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2012
• Issued: 05/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Kang-Chun, Bang, Chang-Dae, Yang, Woo-Sok, Park, Il-Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): KIM, EDWARD J
• Application Number:
  US13/401,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20120215885A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,918 Days
• Field of Search: 709201, 709203, 709217-219, 709220, 709223, 709227, 709228, 709230, 709231, 709236, 709237, 709246
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/631 Multimode Transmission, e.g. transmitting basic layers and enhancement layers of the content over different transmission paths or transmitting with different error corrections, different keys or with different transmission protocols

Abstract

A data sharing system includes at least one first client device, at least one second client device, and a hub equipment. The at least one first client device provides data. The at least one second client device receives data. The hub equipment receives data from the first client device using a first transmission protocol, and transmits the received data to the second client device using a second transmission protocol.

Claims

1. A hub device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store a plurality of transmission protocols and instructions for data sharing; and

a controller configured to;

register a user permitted to define the instructions for data sharing;

enter a setting mode for allowing the user to define the instructions for data sharing when a user authentication is successful via a log-in process;

define, based on user inputs, the instructions in the setting mode, and storing the user-defined instructions in the storage unit; and

wherein defining the instructions in the setting mode based on the user inputs comprises;

selecting a first client device to transmit data and a second client device to receive the data among a plurality of client devices,

designating a data path between the first client device and the second client device, wherein the data path comprises a data upload location in a storage area of the first client device where the data is stored, and a data download location in a storage area of the second client device where the data is to be stored,

registering trigger for initiating the data sharing, and

registering an ID and a password used to access the first client device in order to obtain the data from the first client device,

detect the trigger, and

process the instructions in response to detecting the trigger, wherein processing the instructions comprises;

identifying the first client device to transmit data and the second client device to receive the data,

identifying the data path between the first client device and the second client device,

requesting the first client device to transmit the data stored in the data upload location to the hub device,

receiving the data in the data upload location from the first client device using a first transmission protocol thereby the data is uploaded in the hub device,

requesting the second client device to receive the data and to store the data in the designated data download location, and

transmitting the received data to the second client device using a second transmission protocol thereby the data is downloaded in the data download location to the second client device, wherein the second transmission protocol is different from the first transmission protocol.

2. The hub device of claim 1, wherein the trigger is configured to denote that one of:

a period arrives or a specific time arrives.

3. The hub device of claim 1, wherein the trigger is configured to denote a determination that the first client device updates data.

4. The hub device of claim 1, wherein one of the first client device or the second client device is communicatively linked with the controller using one of:

a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), Bluetooth, Near Field Communication (NFC), or a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) connection.

5. The hub device of claim 1, wherein one of the first client device or the second client device comprises a web server.

6. The hub device of claim 1, wherein the controller is accessible to one or more different kinds of networks.

7. The hub device of claim 1, further comprising a communication unit configured to build a communication network among the plurality of client devices.

8. The hub device of claim 1, wherein the trigger is configured to denote that both the first and second client devices are discovered to communicate with the hub device.

9. A data sharing method implemented using a hub device, the method comprising:

registering a user permitted to define instructions for data sharing;

entering a setting mode for allowing the user to define the instructions for data sharing when user authentication is successful via a log-in process;

defining, based on user inputs, the instructions in the setting mode, and storing the user-defined instructions in a storage unit of the hub device, wherein defining the instructions in the setting mode based on the user inputs comprises;

selecting a first client device to transmit data and a second client device to receive the data among a plurality of client devices,

designating a data path between the first client device and the second client device, wherein the data path comprises a data upload location in a storage area of the first client device where the data is stored, and a data download location in a storage area of the second client device where the data is to be stored,

registering trigger for initiating the data sharing, and

registering an ID and a password used to access the first client device in order to obtain the data from the first client device,

detecting the trigger and processing the instructions in response to detecting the trigger, wherein processing the instructions comprises;

identifying the first client device to transmit the data and the second client device to receive the data,

identifying the data path between the first client device and the second client device,

requesting the first client device to transmit the data stored in the data upload location to the hub device,

receiving the data in the data upload location from the first client device using a first transmission protocol thereby the data is uploaded in the hub device; and

requesting the second client device to receive the data and to store the data in the data download location, and

transmitting the received data to the second client device using a second transmission protocol thereby the data is downloaded in the data download location of the second client device, wherein the second transmission protocol is different from the first transmission protocol.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the trigger is configured to denote that both the first and second client devices are discovered to communicate with the hub device.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the trigger is configured to denote that one of:

a period arrives or a specific time arrives.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the trigger is configured to denote a determination that the first client device updates the data.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the hub device is communicatively linked with one of the first client device or the second client device using one of:

a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), Bluetooth, Near Field Communication (NFC), or a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) connection.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein one of the first client device or the second client device comprises a web server.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the hub device is accessible to one or more different kinds of networks.