Wearable device and method for providing widget thereof

• US 11,341,529 B2
• Filed: 09/08/2017
• Issued: 05/24/2022
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Tae-jeoung, Kim, Hyun-hak, Woo, Hong-uk, Park, Ki-chul
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Dipen M
• Application Number:
  US16/335,943
• Publication Number:
  US 20190311401A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,719 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/163 Indexing scheme relating to constructional details of the computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/014 Hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history

Abstract

A wearable device and a method for providing a widget thereof are provided. A method for providing a widget in a wearable device of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: sensing status information of a user; transmitting the status information of the user to an external server; selecting an application type to be provided from the external server according to a user command; receiving, from the external server, information on at least one application corresponding to the status information of the user on the basis of the selected application type and the status information of the user; and providing, on a screen, a widget corresponding to an application selected by the user among the at least one application.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an external server; and

a wearable apparatus comprising;

a sensor;

a communicator;

a display;

a memory; and

a processor configured to;

select an application topic, via a widget viewer application stored in the memory of the wearable apparatus, to be requested from the external server,

transmit, via the communicator, information regarding the selected application topic to the external server and storing the information regarding the selected application topic in the external server,

obtain user status information based on data sensed by the sensor and transmit the user status information to the external server via the communicator, the user status information comprising information indicating an activity type of a user,

receive information on at least one application, as a widget page having a pre-stored layout, corresponding to the status information of the user and the selected application topic from the external server through the communicator,

based on the received information on the at least one application, provide the widget page corresponding to the at least one application across an entire screen of the display of the wearable apparatus in the widget viewer application without downloading a widget corresponding to the at least one application, and

update the widget page having the pre-stored layout based on the user status information by reflecting content data of the at least one application provided from the external server displayed on the display of the wearable apparatus.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein information on the at least one application includes user interface (UI) data including the content data corresponding to the at least one application.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the processor is further configured to, based on the at least one application including a plurality of applications, provide a widget corresponding to each of the plurality of applications on the screen in a scrolling order based on a user command for selecting and scrolling the widget.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to, based on the widget being selected by a user command, execute a web-application connected to the widget.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to, based on there being no web application connected to the widget, request a web-application to the external server, and provide a web application page provided from the external server on the screen.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to set a user command to provide a widget corresponding to an application designated in a specific context among the at least one application on the screen.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

control the communicator to transmit the status information of the user periodically, or

based on the status information the user satisfying a predetermined condition, control the communicator to transmit the status information of the user to the external server.

8. A method for providing a widget on a wearable apparatus, the method comprising:

selecting an application topic, via a widget viewer application stored in a memory of the wearable apparatus, to be requested from an external server;

transmit, via a communicator, information regarding the selected application topic to the external server, and storing the information regarding the selected application topic in the external server;

obtaining user status information based on data sensed by a sensor and transmit the user status information to the external server via the communicator, the user status information comprising information indicating an activity type of a user;

receiving information on at least one application, as a widget page having a pre-stored layout, corresponding to the status information of the user and the selected application topic from the external server through the communicator;

based on the received information on the at least one application, providing the widget page corresponding to the at least one application across an entire screen of a display of the wearable apparatus in the widget viewer application without downloading a widget corresponding to the at least one application; and

updating a user interface (UI) layout of the widget page based on the user status information by reflecting content data of the at least one application provided from the external server displayed on the display of the wearable apparatus.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein information on the at least one application is UI data including content data corresponding to the at least one application within a UI layout page stored in the external server.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the providing comprises, based on the at least one application including a plurality of applications, providing a widget corresponding to each of the plurality of applications on the screen in a scrolling order based on a user command for selecting and scrolling the widget.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the providing further comprises executing a web application connected to the widget based on selecting the widget by a user command.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the providing comprises, based on there being the web application not being connected to the widget, requesting the web application to the external server, and providing a web application UI provided from the external server on the screen.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the providing comprises setting a user command to provide a widget corresponding a designated application in a specific context among the at least one application to the screen preferentially.