METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CLOUD SERVICE

• US 20130151980A1
• Filed: 12/12/2012
• Published: 06/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KT Corporation
• Original Assignee: KT Corporation
• Inventors: LEE, Ki-Hoon, KWON, Sun-Jong, BAEK, Gyu-Tae
• Granted Patent: US 9,721,028 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A method performed by a cloud service providing apparatus includes receiving a request for execution of an application from a user device, executing the application in response to the request, encoding application execution data generated by the execution of the application into image data and transmitting the encoded image data to the user device, wherein the encoded image data is configured to be displayed on a screen of the user device.

Claims

1. A method performed by a service providing apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving a request for execution of an application from a device;

executing the application in response to the request;

encoding application execution data generated by the execution of the application into image data; and

transmitting encoded image data to the device,

wherein the encoded image data is configured to be displayed on a screen of the device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the encoding the application execution data comprises:

determining whether or not video data is included in the application execution data to generate a determination result;

selecting target data based on the determination result; and

encoding the target data into the image data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the selecting the target data comprises:

if the determination result indicates that the video data is included in the application execution data, determining whether or not the video data is reproducible by the device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein if the video data is reproducible by the device, the target data is selected such that the video data is not included in the target data.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

transmitting the video data and position information of the video data that is to be reproduced on the screen of the user device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request for a user interface from the device;

generating user interface data that is available to the device;

encoding the generated user interface data into user interface image data; and

transmitting encoded user interface image data to the user device.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the encoded user interface image data is configured to be displayed on a screen of the device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the encoded user interface image data includes at least one icon showing at least one application that is available to the device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the image data is generated based on a hardware specification of the device.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the service providing apparatus provides a cloud service.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the executing the application is performed by the service providing apparatus, not the device.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving a request for execution of the application comprises receiving, by the device, an input of a user based on a point on the screen being selected by the user and receiving, by the service providing apparatus, a coordinate corresponding to the selected point.

18. The method of claim 9, wherein the hardware specification of the device comprises at least one from among processing speed, resolution, and screen size.

19. The method according to claim 1, wherein the executing the application comprises generating a virtual machine and the generated virtual machine performing the execution of the application.

10. A service providing apparatus comprising:

a request receiver configured to receive a request for execution of an application from a device;

an application executor configured to execute the application in response to the request for execution of the application to generate application execution data;

an encoding processor configured to encode the generated application execution data into image data; and

a data transmitter configured to transmit encoded image data to the device,

wherein the encoded image data is configured to be displayed on a screen of the device.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the image data comprises encoded target data excluding video data.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

a user interface processor configured to generate user interface data that is available to the device if the request receiver receives a request for a user interface from the device, and to encode the generated user interface data into user interface image data,

wherein the data transmitter is configured to transmit the encoded user interface image data to the device.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the service providing apparatus provides a cloud service.

17. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the receiving of the request for execution of the application comprises receiving, by the device, an input of a user based on a point on the screen being selected by the user and receiving, at the request receiver, a coordinate corresponding to the selected point.

20. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the executing the application comprises generating a virtual machine and the generated virtual machine performing the execution of the application.