Method and apparatus for reproducing content

• US 9,807,360 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2015
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Young-min, Oh, Keum-yong, Ahn, Jun-eok, Jung, Da-na
• Primary Examiner(s): ADAMS, EILEEN M
• Application Number:
  US14/690,975
• Publication Number:
  US 20150229899A1
• Time in Patent Office: 925 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4516 involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/814 comprising emergency warnings arrangements specially adapted for emergency or urgency in broadcast systems H04H20/59; arrangements for providing alarms, notifications, alerts to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8146 involving graphical data, e.g. 3D object, 2D graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

A method of displaying information on a terminal, the method including: receiving a message from another terminal during reproduction of content; assigning a part of a screen of the terminal for displaying information related to the message based on a priority order of the message; and displaying the information related to the message on the assigned part of the screen during the reproduction of the content which is being displayed on the rest of the screen.

Claims

1. A method of displaying information on a first terminal, the method comprising:

receiving a message from a second terminal while reproducing content on a screen of the first terminal; and

displaying, on a predetermined portion of the screen of the first terminal, information related to the message based on a priority order associated with the message among a plurality of priorities, instead of displaying the message on the screen of the first terminal, while reproducing the content on the screen of the first terminal,

wherein the information related to the message is a visual element, and a shape of the visual element is determined according to the priority order associated with the message among the plurality of priorities, and

wherein the information related to the message displays the priority order associated with the message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the visual element provides information of whether to receive the message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the information related to the message further includes a content of the message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the information related to the message comprises displaying the message for a predetermined time.

5. An apparatus for displaying information on a first terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a service processor which receives a message from a second terminal while reproducing content on a screen of the first terminal; and

a content reproducer which displays, on a predetermined portion of the screen of the first terminal, information related to the message based on a priority order associated with the message among a plurality of priorities, instead of displaying the message on the screen of the first terminal, while reproducing the content on the screen of the first terminal,

wherein the information related to the message is a visual element, and a shape of the visual element is determined according to the priority order associated with the message among the plurality of priorities, and

wherein the information related to the message displays the priority order associated with the message.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the visual element provides information of whether to receive the message.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the information related to the message further includes a content of the message.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the content reproducer displays the message for a predetermined time.