System and method for operating electronic device supporting enhanced data processing, apparatus and terminal supporting the same

• US 9,756,382 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2012
• Issued: 09/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cho, Hyungrae, Lee, Kangmin, Kweon, Jihyeon, Oh, Seokmin
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Edward
• Application Number:
  US13/661,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20130110975A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,775 Days
• Field of Search: 709223, 709224, 709239, 709246, 709201-203, 709217, 709219, 709230, 709231, 709232, 709237
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2805 Home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/258 Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data arrangements for services using the result on the distributing side of broadcast systems H04H60/66; profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• 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 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4424 Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4516 involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available

Abstract

A system for operating an electronic device supporting enhanced data processing is provided. The system includes a plurality of electronic devices supporting playback of content; and a managing device delivering content whose data is processed by a certain electronic device among the plurality of electronic devices to a preset electronic device when playback of the content in the certain electronic device is requested.

Claims

1. A method for operating managing device supporting enhanced data processing, the method comprising:

detecting, by the managing device, a request for playback of content in a certain electronic device of a plurality of electronic devices; and

delivering, from the managing device, to a preset electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices, the content an instruction to process data of the content to generate data-processed content, and an instruction to transfer the data-processed content to the certain electronic device or another designated electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices to perform playback of the data-processed content, according to stored content delivery information and the detected request for the playback of the content,

wherein the content delivery information indicates, when playback of content by the certain electronic device is requested, the content is to be delivered to the preset electronic device to process the data of the content, and

wherein the managing device, the certain electronic device, preset electronic device, and the other designated electronic device are each different devices.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting the request for playback comprises:

monitoring the request for the playback of the content in the certain electronic device; and

receiving the content transferred to the certain electronic device from a cloud system by the managing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the preset electronic device includes hardware supporting data processing having a higher specification as compared with the certain electronic device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a content delivery information support interface that supports at least one of a configuration and upgrade of content delivery information such that data processing of the content is delivered to the preset electronic device when the playback of the content by the certain electronic device is requested.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

confirming a processing amount of data of the preset electronic device; and

transferring the content to be delivered to the preset electronic device to another electronic device or rejecting delivery of the content to the preset electronic device when the processing amount of data of the preset electronic device is at least equal to a preset value.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

transferring information regarding the rejection of the delivery when the delivery is rejected to at least one of a device display unit included in a managing device, a terminal establishing a communication channel with the managing device, and the certain electronic device having delivered the content.

7. A managing device supporting enhanced data processing, the device comprising:

a communication unit for establishing a communication channel with a plurality of electronic devices;

a device memory for storing content delivery information indicating that, when playback of content by a certain electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices is requested, the content is to be delivered to a preset electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices to process data of the content; and

a device controller for;

detecting a request for playback of the content in the certain electronic device,

controlling a content delivery function to deliver, to the preset electronic device, the content, an instruction to process the data of the content to generate data-processed content, and an instruction to transfer the data-processed content to the certain electronic device or another designated electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices to perform playback of the data-processed content based on the content delivery information and the detected request for playback of the content,

wherein the managing device, the certain electronic device, the preset electronic device, and the other designated electronic device are each different devices.

8. The device of claim 7, further comprising:

a device display unit for outputting a content delivery information support interface supporting a configuration and upgrade of the content delivery information.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the content delivery information support interface comprises:

an index region for classifying the plurality of electronic devices;

a compatibility information indicating compatibility between the plurality of electronic devices;

a region for storing the content delivery information; and

a region for storing a content output support information designating an electronic device outputting the delivery-processed content.

10. The device of claim 7, wherein the device controller confirms a processing amount of data in the preset electronic device, transfers the content to be delivered to the preset electronic device to another electronic device or rejects delivery of the content to be delivered, when the processing amount of the data is at least equal to a preset value.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the device controller transfers information regarding the rejection of the delivery when the delivery is rejected to at least one of a device display unit included in the managing device, a terminal establishing a communication channel with the managing device, and the certain electronic device having delivered the content.