COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION SERVER, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING COMMUNICATION TOOL

• US 20100115039A1
• Filed: 09/11/2009
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Ju-youn, RHEE, Young-ho, KIM, Yeo-jin, CHANG, Il-ku, KANG, Hyun-joo
• Application Number:
  US12/557,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20100115039A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

A communication system and a communication method of recommending a communication tool based on a state of a counter party are provided. In the communication system a server may be connected with at least one terminal over a network. The server may estimate a current state of a user of a first terminal from an expanding profile received from the first terminal and recommend a communication tool corresponding to the current state. A second terminal may receive the current state of the user of the first terminal and a recommended communication tool from the server. Accordingly, it is possible to perform communication according to the state of a counter party.

Claims

1. A communication system, comprising:

a server; and

at least one terminal interconnected with the server over a network,

wherein the server estimates a current state of a user of a first terminal from an expanding profile received from the first terminal and recommends a communication tool corresponding to the current state, and

wherein a second terminal receives the current state of the user of the first terminal and a recommended communication tool from the server and displays the current state of the user of the first terminal and the recommended communication tool.

2. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the expanding profile comprises at least one of a personal profile of the user and state data of the first terminal.

3. The communication system of claim 2, wherein the state data comprises at least one of type of a terminal, an on and/or off state of a power supply, an application in use, and a length of time and/or a location in use.

4. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the first terminal is one of a mobile phone, an Internet protocol television (IPTV), a portable multimedia player (PMP), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a camera, an MP3 player, a navigator, and a personal computer (PC).

5. The communication system of claim 1, wherein terminals of the same user share the expanding profile in a same format.

6. A server interconnected with at least one terminal over a network, comprising:

a database to store an expanding profile received from the terminal;

a context analyzer configured to estimate a current state of a user of the terminal from the expanding profile; and

a communication tool recommender configured to recommend a communication tool corresponding to the current state based on the estimated current state.

7. The server of claim 6, wherein the expanding profile comprises at least one of a personal profile of the user and state data of the terminal.

8. The server of claim 7, wherein the state data comprises at least one of a type of a terminal, an on and/or off state of a power supply, an application in use, and a length of time and/or a location in use.

9. The server of claim 6, wherein the expanding profile is registered with the database based on a user.

10. The server of claim 6, wherein the server provides the estimated current state and the recommended communication tool to another terminal.

11. The server of claim 6, wherein the server provides the estimated current state and the recommended communication tool only to users designated as buddies authorized to share data.

12. A terminal interconnected with a server over a network, comprising:

a profile manager configured to collect and send an expanding profile to the server;

a display to receive a current state of a user of another terminal and a recommended communication tool corresponding to the current state from the server and display a list of buddies authorized to share data together with a current state of a corresponding buddy or a recommended communication tool in association with the buddy list; and

a communicator configured to perform communication according to a communication tool selected by a user of the terminal among the recommended communication tools.

13. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the terminal is one of a mobile phone, an Internet protocol television (IPTV), a portable multimedia player (PMP), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a camera, an MP3 player, a navigator, and a personal computer (PC).

14. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the expanding profile comprises at least one of a personal profile of the user of the terminal and state data of the terminal.

15. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the state data comprises at least one of a type of a terminal, an on and/or off state of a power supply, an application in use, and a length of time and/or a location in use.

16. The terminal of claim 12, wherein in response to performing communication according to the selected communication tool, the communicator converts a voice signal into a text or vice versa where different types of terminals are communicated with each other.

17. A communication method of a communication system including a server and at least one terminal interconnected with each other over a network, the method comprising:

collecting an expanding profile of a first terminal from the first terminal;

estimating a current state of a user of the first terminal from the expanding profile and recommending a communication tool corresponding to the estimated current state; and

providing the current state of the first terminal and the recommended communication tool to a second terminal.

18. The communication method of claim 17, wherein the user of the first terminal and a user of the second terminal are registered as buddies authorized to share data.

19. The communication method of claim 17, wherein the first terminal and/or the second terminal is/are one of a mobile phone, an Internet protocol television (IPTV), a portable multimedia player (PMP), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a camera, an MP3 player, a navigator, and a personal computer (PC).

20. The communication method of claim 17, wherein the expanding profile comprises at least one of a personal profile of the user of the first terminal and state data of the first terminal.

21. The communication method of claim 20, wherein the state data comprises a type of a terminal, an on and/or off state of a power supply, an application in use, and a length of time and/or a location in use.

22. A communication method of a communication system including a server and at least one terminal interconnected with each other over a network, the method comprising:

sending by a first terminal an expanding profile of the first terminal to the server; and

receiving by the first terminal a current state of a user of a second terminal, which is generated based on an expanding profile of the second terminal, and a recommended communication tool from the server, and displaying the received current state of the user and the recommended communication tool.

23. The communication method of claim 22, wherein in the displaying of the current state of the user, the first terminal displays a buddy list and the current state of the user of the second terminal and the recommended communication tool in association with the buddy list.