USER TERMINAL DEVICE, SNS PROVIDING SERVER, AND CONTENTS PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20150304413A1
• Filed: 10/10/2013
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sung-jin
• Granted Patent: US 9,936,012 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

A user terminal is provided. The user terminal includes a communicator configured to perform communication with a Social Network Service (SNS) providing server, an application driver configured to drive an SNS providing application to perform communication with another user, and a controller configured to, when a predetermined event occurs while the SNS providing application is operated, control to transmit information regarding reproduction of contents which are reproduced through a content play application so as to share information regarding reproduction of the contents with the other user.

Claims

1. A user terminal device comprising:

a communicator configured to perform communication with a Social Network Service (SNS) providing server;

an application driver configured to drive an SNS providing application to perform communication with another user; and

a controller configured to, when a predetermined event occurs while the SNS providing application is operated, control to transmit information regarding reproduction of contents which are reproduced through a content play application so as to share information regarding reproduction of the contents with the other user.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined event includes at least one of a point of time when a content play command is input and a point of time when a menu button to share reproduction of the contents is selected.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the contents are a real-time broadcast, the information regarding reproduction of contents includes information regarding a broadcast channel which is reproduced in the user terminal device, and when the contents are streaming contents, the information regarding reproduction of contents includes a network address capable of receiving streaming of the contents and information on a time when the predetermined event occurs.

4. A user terminal device comprising:

a communicator configured to perform communication with a Social Network Service (SNS) providing server;

an application driver configured to drive an SNS providing application to perform communication with another user; and

a controller configured to, when a predetermined event occurs while the SNS providing application is operated, control to receive information regarding reproduction of contents which the other user is watching from the SNS providing server and reproduce the corresponding contents according to the received information.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4, further comprising:

a user interface configured to receive a user command, wherein the predetermined event is a point of time when a user command to receive information regarding reproduction of contents that the other user is watching from the SNS providing server is input.

6. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein when the contents are a real-time broadcast, the information regarding reproduction of contents includes information regarding a broadcast channel which is reproduced in the user terminal device, and when the contents are streaming contents, the information regarding reproduction of contents includes a network address capable of receiving streaming of the contents and information on a time when the contents are reproduced.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the controller drives a content play application according to a control command received from the SNS providing server and provides a same broadcast as a real-time broadcast which the other user is watching based on the information regarding the broadcast channel.

8. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the controller drives a content play application according to a control command received from the SNS providing server and provides streaming contents at a same reproduction time as streaming contents which the other user is watching based on the network address and the time information.

9. A Social Network Service (SNS) providing server comprising:

a communicator configured to perform communication with a first and a second user terminal devices; and

a controller configured to, while the first and the second user terminal devices perform communication, receive information regarding reproduction of contents which a first user is watching from the first user terminal and transmit the information to the second user terminal so that the second user shares information regarding reproduction of the contents.

10. The server as claimed in claim 9, wherein the controller controls to transmit a control command to drive a content play application corresponding to information regarding reproduction of the contents to the second user terminal device.

11. A method for providing contents in a user terminal device, the method comprising:

driving a Social Network Service (SNS) providing application to perform communication with another user; and

when a predetermined event occurs while the SNS providing application is operated, transmitting information regarding reproduction of contents which are reproduced through a content play application to the SNS providing server.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the predetermined event includes at least one of a point of time when a content play command is input and a point of time when a menu button to share reproduction of the contents is selected.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11, when the contents are a real-time broadcast, the information regarding reproduction of contents includes information regarding a broadcast channel which is reproduced in the user terminal device, and when the contents are streaming contents, the information regarding reproduction of contents includes a network address capable of receiving streaming of the contents and information on a time when the predetermined event occurs.

14. A method for providing contents in a user terminal device, the method comprising:

driving a Social Network Service (SNS) providing application to perform communication with another user; and

when a predetermined event occurs while the SNS providing application is operated, receiving information regarding reproduction of contents which the other user is watching from the SNS providing server, and reproducing the corresponding contents according to the received information.

15. A method for providing contents in a Social Network Service (SNS) providing server which performs communication with a first and a second user terminal devices, the method comprising:

while the first and the second user terminal devices perform communication, receiving information regarding reproduction of contents that a first user is watching from the first user terminal device; and

transmitting information regarding reproduction of the contents to the second user terminal device.