USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120084773A1
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Young-seop, LEE, Nam-geol, CHO, In-sung
• Granted Patent: US 8,839,235 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/178
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation

Abstract

A method for providing a service in a user terminal device, in which the user terminal device downloads a service hub program, installs the service hub program, generates an icon container corresponding to the service hub program, displays the icon container, receives an input selecting the icon container, displays an application icon included in the icon container, and deletes a program and data installed in the user terminal device according to a change in status of the user terminal device

Claims

1. A service providing method in a user terminal device, the method comprising:

downloading, by the user terminal device, a service hub program;

installing the service hub program;

generating an icon container corresponding to the service hub program;

displaying the icon container;

receiving an input selecting the icon container;

displaying an application icon included in the icon container; and

deleting a program and data installed in the user terminal device according to a change in status of the user terminal device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein deleting the program and the data installed in the user terminal comprises:

receiving, from a server, a list of programs to be deleted; and

deleting application programs according to the list.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein deleting the program and the data installed in the user terminal comprises:

receiving, from a server, a deletion command to delete all application programs corresponding to the service hub program; and

deleting all of the application programs according to the deletion command.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a deletion command; and

deleting at least one of the icon container, all icons included in the icon container, and data stored when performing application programs according to the deletion command.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising authenticating the user terminal device, prior to downloading the service hub program, by transmitting, to a server, unique information of the user terminal device and user information.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, to a server, unique information of the user terminal device, the user information, and identification information of the service hub program; and

receiving, from the server, a list of application programs corresponding to the service hub program and the user terminal device, and a list icons for the application programs,

wherein the list of application programs corresponding to the service hub program and the user terminal device includes an application program to be provided for an organization and a group to which a user of the user terminal device belongs.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

downloading application programs included in the list of application programs corresponding to the service hub program and the user terminal device; and

installing the application programs.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

confirming a location of the user terminal device; and

deleting the programs and the data installed in the user terminal device, if the location of the user terminal device leaves an effective area.

9. A user terminal device comprising:

a memory that stores a service hub program and an application program corresponding to the service hub program;

a display that displays an icon container corresponding to the service hub program; and

a controller that controls the display to display an icon corresponding to the application program, when the icon container is selected, and deletes programs and data stored in the memory according to a change in status of the user terminal device.

10. The user terminal device of claim 9, further comprising:

a communication unit that downloads the service hub program and the application program from a server.

11. The user terminal device of claim 10, wherein, when a list of programs to be deleted is received from the server, the controller deletes application programs according to the list.

12. The user terminal device of claim 10, wherein, if a deletion command to delete all application programs corresponding to the service hub program from the server is received, the controller deletes all of the application programs corresponding to the service hub program according to the deletion command.

13. The user terminal device of claim 9, wherein the controller deletes at least one of the icon container, all icons included in the icon container, and all data stored when performing application programs according to a deletion command.

14. The user terminal device of claim 9, further comprising an input unit.

15. The user terminal device of claim 14, wherein the controller executes the service hub program, transmits user information, unique information of the user terminal device, and identification information of the service hub program to a server, receives a list regarding an application program corresponding to the service hub program and a list regarding an icon of the application program from the server, and generates the icon container including the icon regarding the application program and provides the icon container to the display,

wherein the list regarding the application program corresponding to the service hub program includes an application program for an organization and a group to which a user of the user terminal device belongs.

16. The user terminal device of claim 15, wherein the controller downloads application programs included in the list regarding the application program corresponding to the service hub program from the server and installs the downloaded programs in the memory.

17. The user terminal device of claim 9, further comprising:

a location calculation unit that calculates location information of the user terminal device,

wherein the controller, if the location of the user terminal device leaves an effective area, deletes at least one of the programs and the data installed in the user terminal device.

18. A user terminal device comprising:

an authentication manager that performs authentication by transmitting unique information and user information of the user terminal device to a server;

a download manager that downloads a service hub program, a list regarding an application program corresponding to the service hub program, and a list regarding an icon of the application program from the server, when authentication is successful;

an icon generation manager that generates an icon container including an icon regarding the application program in the list regarding the application program corresponding to the service hub program;

a display controller that displays the icon container on a display screen; and

a deletion manager that deletes at least one of programs and data installed in the user terminal device according to a change in status of the user terminal device.

19. The user terminal device of claim 18, wherein the deletion manager receives a list of programs to be deleted from the server and deletes the application programs according to the list.

20. The user terminal device of claim 19, wherein the deletion manager deletes all application programs corresponding to the service hub program, when a command to delete all of the application programs corresponding to the service hub program is received from the server.