Method for performing cooperative function automatically and device using the same

• US 9,706,039 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2016
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yu, Seung-dong, Chang, Woo-yong, Park, Se-jun, Moon, Min-jeong
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG
• Application Number:
  US15/130,338
• Publication Number:
  US 20160234372A1
• Time in Patent Office: 452 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0619 in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/065 Replication mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1236 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/128 Direct printing, e.g. sending document file, using memory stick, printing from a camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/007 only remotely, e.g. at a host computer dedicated computer interfaces to print systems G06F3/1201
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes
• 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 device for performing a cooperative function with another device is provided. The device includes a communication unit; and a controller that determines whether the other device is in a surrounding area of the device based a signal received through the communication unit, selects one cooperative function from among a plurality of cooperative functions according to a relative position of the device with respect to the other device and performs the selected cooperative function with the other device.

Claims

1. A device for sharing a content with an external device, the device comprising:

a display;

a communication unit configured to communicate with the external device in a surrounding area of the device; and

a controller that is configured to;

control to display the content on the display,

determine whether there is the external device capable of communicating with the communication unit,

determine whether the external device is preset to automatically display the content received from the device, and

control the communication unit to transmit the content to the external device based on determining that the external device is preset to automatically display the content received from the device.

2. The device of claim 1,

wherein the external device is preset to automatically display the content received from the device, and

wherein the external device is in a standby mode before receiving the content from the device.

3. The device of claim 1,

wherein the external device is preset to automatically stop reproducing a video content and to automatically display the content received from the device, and

wherein the video content is being reproduced by the external device before displaying the content received by the first device.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the received content is superimposed on the video content.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the content comprises at least one of a photo content and a video content.

6. A method for sharing a content between a first device and a second device, the method comprising:

displaying the content on a display of the first device;

determining, by the first device, whether there is the second device capable of communicating with the first device;

determining, by the first device, whether the second device is preset to automatically display the content received from the first device; and

transmitting, by the first device, the content to the second device based on determining that the second device is preset to automatically display the content received from the first device.

7. The method of claim 6,

wherein the second device is preset to automatically display the content received from the first device, and

wherein the second device is in a standby mode before receiving the content from the first device.

8. The method of claim 6,

wherein the second device is preset to automatically stop reproducing a video content and to automatically display the content received from the first device, and

wherein the video content is reproduced by the second device before displaying the content received by the first device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the received content is superimposed on the video content.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the content comprises at least one of a photo content and a video content.

11. A machine-readable, non-transitory, tangible storage medium, storing executable instructions thereon, which are configured to cause a processor, in a device with a display, to execute a method for sharing a content with an external device, the method comprising:

displaying the content on the display of the device;

determining, by the device, whether there is the external device capable of communicating with the device;

determining, by the device, whether the external device is preset to automatically display the content received from the device; and

transmitting, by the device, the content to the external device based on determining that the external device is preset to automatically display the content received from the device.