USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD USING THE SAME

• US 20130267174A1
• Filed: 04/08/2013
• Published: 10/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KO, Jae-woo, JUNG, Hee-won, MOON, Bo-seok
• Granted Patent: US 10,554,260 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/362 received from an external device or application, e.g. PDA, mobile phone or calendar application
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

A method of receiving data from an external data source is provided. The method includes receiving device information of the target device provided by the target device through near field communication (NFC), and transmitting a subset of the data selected based on the device information to the target device.

Claims

1. A method of providing information from a mobile terminal to a target device, the method comprising:

receiving data from an external data source;

receiving device information of the target device provided by the target device through near field communication (NFC); and

transmitting a subset of the data selected based on the device information to the target device.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the receiving the data comprises receiving the data from the external data source by NFC.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the receiving the data comprises reading the data from an NFC tag of the external object.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

selecting the subset of the data based on the device information.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the selecting the subset comprises:

parsing the data;

normalizing the parsed data; and

selecting the subset from among the normalized data based on the device information.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the data is raw data of the external data source.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the device information comprises at least one of a capability of the target device, a specification of the target device, and a uniform resource locator (URL) of a source providing the capability of the target device or the specification of the target device.

8. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the selecting comprises:

transmitting the data and the device information to a server; and

receiving the subset from the server.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the device information comprises at least one of a capability of the target device, a specification of the target device, and a uniform resource locator (URL) of a source of the capability of the target device or the specification of the target device.

10. The method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising:

displaying a message requesting confirmation of the subset; and

receiving an input indicating confirmation of the subset,

wherein the transmitting further comprises transmitting the subset to the target device in response to the receiving the input indicating confirmation of the subset.

11. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the selecting comprises selecting the subset based on the device information and at least one of time information of the data, a current time, and location information of the mobile terminal.

12. A user terminal device comprising:

a communication unit that receives data from an external data source, and receives device information of a target device from the target device through near field communication (NFC); and

a controller that controls the communication unit to transmit a subset of the data selected based on the device information to the target device.

13. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the communication unit comprises an NFC module,

wherein the NFC module receives the data from the external data source by NFC.

14. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the NFC module reads the data from an NFC tag of the external object.

15. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the controller selects the subset of the data based on the device information.

16. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 15, wherein the controller selects the subset by parsing the data, normalizing the parsed data, and selecting the subset from among the normalized data based on the device information.

17. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the data is raw data of the external data source.

18. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the device information comprises at least one of a capability of the target device, a specification of the target device, and a uniform resource locator (URL) of a source of the capability of the target device or the specification target device.

19. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 15, wherein the controller controls the communication unit to transmit the data and the device information to a server, and the communication unit receives the subset from the server.

20. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 19, wherein the device information comprises at least one of a capability of the target device, a specification of the target device, and a uniform resource locator (URL) of a source of the capability of the target device or the specification target device.

21. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 15, further comprising:

a display that displays a message requesting confirmation of the subset; and

an interface that receives an input indicating confirmation of the subset,

wherein the controller controls the communication unit to transmit the subset to the target device in response to the interface receiving the input indicating confirmation of the subset.

22. The user terminal device as claimed in claim 15, wherein the controller selects the subset based on the device information and at least one of time information of the data, a current time, and location information of the mobile terminal.

23. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program for executing a method of controlling a mobile terminal to provide information from the mobile terminal to a target device, the method comprising:

receiving data from an external data source;

receiving device information of the target device provided by the target device through near field communication (NFC); and

transmitting a subset of the data selected based on the device information to the target device.