METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING NOTIFICATION

• US 20110022651A1
• Filed: 03/17/2009
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Rhim, Eun-Hee, Hwang, In-Chul, Kim, Mun-Jo
• Application Number:
  US12/933,347
• Publication Number:
  US 20110022651A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1895 for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2834 Switching of information between an external network and a home network access arrangements H04L12/2856
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2836 Protocol conversion between an external network and a home network controlling appliance services of a home automation network from a device located outside the home and the home network H04L12/2818; protocol conversion H04L69/08; adaptation of digital video signals for transport over a specific home network H04N7/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6402 Address allocation for clients address allocation in data networks H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for receiving a notification in a terminal entity that uses a service provided from an outside of a residential network through a gateway entity are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method of receiving a notification relating to a service, in a terminal entity, the method comprising:

driving an application relating to the service to be provided from an outside of a residential network through a gateway entity of the residential network, for initializing the service;

transmitting information regarding a session of the initialized service to the gateway entity; and

receiving the notification relating to the service from the gateway entity,

wherein the gateway entity relays a notification provided from the outside of the residential network to the terminal entity based on the information regarding the session of the service.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal entity is a terminal entity according to an open Internet protocol television (IPTV) functional architecture, and

the gateway entity is an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) gateway (IG) entity according to the open IPTV functional architecture.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising receiving, from the gateway entity, an Internet protocol (IP) address and a port number of the gateway entity that are to be accessed by the terminal entity to receive the notification.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the transmitting of the information comprises:

transmitting information regarding a call identifier of the session of the service used by the terminal entity, to the gateway entity.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the receiving of the notification comprises:

receiving the notification through a socket communication established by connecting a plug-in of the application to the gateway entity based on the IP address and the port number received from the gateway entity.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the receiving of the notification comprises:

receiving the notification according to an asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

20. A computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for executing the method according to claim 1.

7. A method of receiving a notification in a terminal entity, the method comprising:

receiving data regarding a type of a notification provided from an outside of a residential network through a gateway entity of the residential network; and

receiving data regarding content of the notification from the gateway entity by driving an application relating to the notification based on the data regarding the type of the notification,

wherein the gateway entity relays the data regarding the type of the notification and the data regarding content of the notification provided from the outside of the residential network, to the terminal entity.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the terminal entity is a terminal entity according to an open Internet protocol television (IPTV) functional architecture, and

the gateway entity is an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) gateway (IG) entity according to the open IPTV functional architecture.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the receiving of the data regarding content of the notification comprises:

receiving the data regarding content of the notification through a socket communication established by connecting a plug-in of the application to the gateway entity.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the receiving of the data regarding the content of the notification comprises:

receiving the notification according to an asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

21. A computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for executing the method according to claim 7.

11. A method of receiving a notification in a terminal entity, the method comprising:

receiving data regarding a type of a notification and data regarding content of the notification provided from an outside of a residential network, through a gateway entity of the residential network;

driving an application relating to the notification based on the data regarding the notification; and

extracting the content of the notification from the data regarding content of the notification by using an application programming interface (API) of the application,

wherein the gateway entity relays the data regarding the type of the notification and the data regarding the content of the notification provided from the outside of the residential network, to the terminal entity.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the terminal entity is a terminal entity according to an open Internet protocol television (IPTV) functional architecture, and

the gateway entity is an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) gateway (IG) entity according to the open IPTV functional architecture.

22. A computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for executing the method according to claim 11.

13. An apparatus for receiving a notification relating to a service, the apparatus comprising:

an application driving unit which drives an application relating to the service for initializing of the service provided from an outside of a residential network through a gateway entity of the residential network; and

a notification receiving unit which transmits information regarding a session of the initialized service to the gateway entity and receives the notification relating to the service from the gateway entity,

wherein the gateway entity relays a notification provided from the outside of the residential network to the terminal entity based on the information regarding the session of the service.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the notification receiving unit receives the notification through a socket communication established by connecting a plug-in of the application to the gateway entity based on an Internet protocol (IP) address and a port number received from the gateway entity.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the notification receiving unit receives the notification according to an asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

16. An apparatus for receiving a notification, the apparatus comprising:

an application selection unit which receives data regarding a type of the notification provided from an outside of a residential network through a gateway entity of the residential network and selects an application that is to be driven based on the data regarding the type of the notification;

an application driving unit which drives the selected application; and

a notification receiving unit which receives data regarding content of the notification from the gateway entity based on the application.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the notification receiving unit receives the notification through a socket communication established by connecting a plug-in of the application to the gateway entity.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the notification receiving unit receives the notification according to an asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

19. An apparatus for receiving a notification, the apparatus comprising:

an application selection unit which receives data regarding a type of the notification provided from an outside of a residential network through a gateway entity of the residential network and selects an application that is to be driven based on the data regarding the type of the notification;

an application driving unit which drives the selected application; and

a notification receiving unit which extracts the content of the notification from the data regarding content of the notification by using an application programming interface (API) of the application.