METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING OTHER DEVICES USING A REMOTE USER INTERFACE

• US 20100257455A1
• Filed: 04/02/2010
• Published: 10/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: PARK, Ho Yeon, Kim, Jun Hyung, Keum, Ji Eun, Jung, Bo Sun, Hwang, Sung Oh, Ryu, Young Sun
• Granted Patent: US 9,158,395 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0383 Remote input, i.e. interface arrangements in which the signals generated by a pointing device are transmitted to a PC at a remote location, e.g. to a PC in a LAN
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0227 Cooperation and interconnection of the input arrangement with other functional units of a computer G06F3/023 - G06F3/037 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A method and system wherein a device remotely controls a user interface being executed in a remote device, using a remote user interface. The device discovers a server that supports a remote control interface. The device receives a list of remote devices that the device can control from the server. A selection input is received to select a remote device from the list of remote devices. A device selection request corresponding to the selection input is transmitted to the server. A remote control interface corresponding to the device selection request is received from the server. The selected remote device is controlled via the received remote control interface.

Claims

1. A method for remotely controlling at least one remote device, by a device, via a remote control interface, the method comprising:

discovering, by the device, a server that supports the remote control interface;

receiving, by the device, from the server, a list of remote devices that the device can control;

receiving, by the device, a selection input that selects a remote device from the list of the remote devices;

transmitting, to the server, a device selection request corresponding to the selection input;

receiving, by the device, a remote control interface corresponding to the device selection request from the server; and

controlling, by the device, the selected remote device via the received remote control interface.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing, by the server, at least one remote control interface corresponding to each of the at least one remote device; and

transmitting the stored remote control interface corresponding to the request to the device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, by the device, a remote control information request to the server;

receiving, by the device, remote control information corresponding to the remote control information request from the server; and

requesting, by the device, the list of remote devices that the device can control using the received remote control information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the list of the remote devices that the device can control includes path information regarding the remote control interface corresponding to the remote device that can be controlled by the device, and

wherein transmitted the device selection request includes the path information regarding the remote control interface corresponding to the device corresponding to the selection input.

5. A system for remotely controlling devices, comprising:

a server for mapping and storing interfaces and remote control interfaces for controlling the interfaces;

remote devices for receiving and executing the interfaces from the server; and

a device for receiving the remote control interfaces from the server and controlling the interfaces of the remote devices via the received remote control interfaces.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the server stores the remote control interface corresponding to each of the remote devices, and transmits the stored remote control interfaces corresponding to a request from the device.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein:

the device requests a list of remote devices that the device can control, from the server, and

the server transmits the list of the remote devices to the device in response to the request of the device.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the device transmits a remote control information request to the sever, the server transmits remote control information corresponding to the received remote control information request to the device, and the device requests the list of the remote devices that the device can control, from the server, using the received remote control information.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the list of the remote devices that the device can control includes path information regarding the remote control interfaces corresponding to the remote devices that can be controlled by the device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the server stores remote control interfaces corresponding to the remote devices, and transmits the remote control interfaces corresponding to a request to the device.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein

the device transmits a device selection request including path information regarding a remote control interface corresponding to a device corresponding to a selection input, to the server.