METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING BOOKMARK INFORMATION FOR CONTENT STORED IN A NETWORKED MEDIA SERVER

• US 20070094376A1
• Filed: 11/16/2006
• Published: 04/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Chang, Ahn, Sung
• Granted Patent: US 8,381,109 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/32 on separate auxiliary tracks of the same or an auxiliary record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2812 describing content present in a home automation network, e.g. audio video content retrieval from the Internet G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by adding the ID of the created bookmark item to the property information of the content item and recording the ID of the content item to be bookmarked in the created bookmark item.

Claims

1-18. -18. (canceled)

19. A method for creating a bookmark on a device connected to a network, the method comprising:

involving an object creating action, wherein an input argument of the object creating action comprises an identification of a bookmarked object, state information obtained from a service related to playing the bookmarked object, and device identification of the service; and

creating a bookmark item on the device according to the object creating action.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the input argument further comprises a title and class of the bookmark item to be created.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the class is defined as object.item.bookmarkitem.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the service related to playing the bookmarked object is at least one of a Rendering Control service (RCS) and an AVTransport service (AVTS).

23. The method of claim 19, wherein an additional service on the device receives the object creating action, creates the bookmark item based on information carried in the input argument, and transmits an object identification assigned to the created bookmark item in response to the object creating action.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the additional service is a content directory service.

25. A system for providing content through a network, the system comprising:

a server for storing objects including media data; and

a control application for invoking an action that requests the server to create a bookmark item for an object being played, wherein the control application incorporates into the action as an input argument an identification of the object, state information of a service related to playing the object, and device identification of the service.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the control application further incorporates into the action a title and class of the bookmark item to be created.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein the class is defined as object.item.bookmarkitem.

28. The system of claim 25, wherein the service related to playing the object is at least one of a Rendering Control service (RCS) and an AVTransport service (AVTS).

29. The system or claim 25, wherein an additional service on the server creates a bookmark item based on information carried by the input argument, assigns an object identification to the created bookmark item, and transmits the assigned object identification to the control application in response to the action.

30. The system of claim 29, wherein the additional service is a content directory service and creates the bookmark item under an arbitrary container.

31. An apparatus for providing content through a network, the apparatus comprising:

a server for storing objects including media data and at least one bookmark item associated with at least one of the objects, wherein a structure of the bookmark item comprises identification of an associated bookmarked object, state information of a service having played the associated bookmarked object, and device identification of the service.

32. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the structure further comprises an identification of the bookmark item, and a title and class of the bookmark item.

33. The apparatus of claim 32, wherein the identification of the bookmark item is created by the server.

34. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the service having played the associated bookmarked object is at least one of a Rendering Control service (RCS0 and an AVTransport service (AVTS).

35. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the identification of an associated bookmarked object, the state information of a service having played the associated bookmarked object, and the device identification of the service are information created based on information carried by an input argument of a received bookmark creating action.

36. A method for creating a bookmark item, the method comprising:

receiving a bookmark creating action; and

creating a bookmark item based on information carried by an input argument of the received bookmark creating action such that the bookmark item comprises identification of an associated bookmarked object, state information of a service related to playing the bookmarked object, and device identification of the service.

37. The method of claim 36, further comprising creating an identifier to identify the created bookmark item and incorporating the identifier into the created bookmark item.

38. A method for creating a bookmark on a device connected to a network, the method comprising:

creating a bookmark item on the device by invoking an object creating action to the device, the object creating action having an input argument that includes identification of a bookmarked object, state information obtained from a service related to playing the bookmarked object, and device identification of the service.

39. An apparatus for conducting bookmark-related operations, the apparatus comprising:

a control application for invoking an action that requests a device to create a bookmark item for an object being played, wherein the control application incorporates into the action as an input argument an identification of the object, state information of a service related to playing the object, and device identification of the service.

40. The apparatus of claim 39, wherein the device is a media server storing content items including media data.

41. An apparatus for conducting bookmark-related operations, the apparatus comprising:

a server for storing objects including media data and creating a bookmark item for an object being played based on an input argument of a received action, the input argument carrying identification of the object, state information of a service related to playing the object, and device identification of the service.