Schedule information management method and system using digital living network alliance network

• US 7,996,412 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2007
• Issued: 08/09/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Joon Oo, Oh, Yun Je, Kim, Chul Seung, Bae, Young Kyu, Shin, Ho Chul
• Primary Examiner(s): PANNALA, SATHYANARAYA R
• Application Number:
  US11/695,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20070266008A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,589 Days
• Field of Search: 707/101, 379/88.13
• US Class Current: 707/754
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A method and system for managing schedule information using a digital living network alliance (DLNA) network are disclosed. The method includes receiving a schedule memo stored in a portable terminal via a DLNA network, analyzing the schedule memo and creating a query for searching for supplementary information related to the schedule memo, transmitting the created query to a Web server, receiving, in reply to the query, a Web search result from the Web server, generating detailed schedule information using the Web search result and transmitting the detailed schedule information to the portable terminal via the DLNA network.

Claims

1. A schedule information management method comprising:

receiving by a digital media server (DMS) a schedule memo stored in a portable terminal and transmitted to the DMS via a digital living network alliance (DLNA) network;

the DMS analyzing the schedule memo and automatically creating a query for searching for supplementary information related to the schedule memo based on information in the schedule memo;

the DMS transmitting the created query to a Web server via an IP network;

the DMS receiving, in reply to the query, a Web search result from the Web server including supplementary information related to the schedule memo;

said DMS generating detailed schedule information using the supplementary information from the Web search result; and

the DMS transmitting the detailed schedule information to the portable terminal via the DLNA network to supplement the information in the schedule memo with supplementary information in addition to the information in the schedule memo received by the DMS.

2. The schedule information management method of claim 1, wherein the step of analyzing the schedule comprises:

separating by the DMS the schedule memo into words and extracting effective nouns from the separated words; and

automatically creating by the DMS the query comprising at least one pre-stored search site address and at least one of the effective nouns.

3. The schedule information management method of claim 2, further comprising:

automatically generating by the DMS a query information table for storing nouns classified according to their attributes,

storing by the DMS a search word for each attribute, and

inserting into the query by the DMS, a search word associated with the attribute is selected from the query information table.

4. The schedule information management method of claim 1, wherein the Web search result is in the form of a Web page.

5. The schedule information management method of claim 4, wherein tags are removed from the received Web page by the DMS to extract text and image data and the detailed schedule information containing the extracted text and image data is generated in a form displayable by the portable terminal.

6. The schedule information management method of claim 1, further comprising:

outputting, by the portable terminal after reception of the detailed schedule information, the detailed schedule information.

7. The schedule information management method of claim 6, wherein the outputting step comprises:

checking a planned event time associated with the detailed schedule information; and

outputting the detailed schedule information at the commencement of a preset time before the planned event time.

8. A schedule information management system comprising:

a schedule information management apparatus connected to a digital living network alliance (DLNA) network, for schedule information management; and

a portable terminal for composing a schedule memo according to a request and outputting detailed schedule information generated using the schedule memo to a user;

wherein the generated detailed schedule information comprises supplementary information related to the schedule memo and which has been automatically obtained from a Web search result based on nouns extracted from words in the schedule memo that are classified according to their attributes; and

wherein the supplementary information comprises additional information based on information in the schedule memo that supplements the schedule memo.

9. A schedule information management apparatus comprising:

a digital living network alliance (DLNA) interface for storing DLNA protocols and means for sending and receiving data through a DLNA network;

a schedule memo analyzer means for analyzing a schedule memo received from an external, device transmitted through the DLNA interface to the schedule memo analyzer means;

a query generator means for automatically generating a query to search for supplementary information related to the analyzed schedule memo without a user request;

a Web interface means for transmitting the generated query to a Web server and receiving, in reply to the query, a Web search result from the Web server;

a schedule information generator means for generating detailed schedule information related to the schedule memo from the Web search result; and

a controller means for controlling the DLNA interface to transmit the detailed schedule information to the external device;

wherein the generated detailed schedule information comprises supplementary information related to the schedule memo and which has been obtained from the Web search result based on nouns extracted from words in the schedule memo that are classified according to their attributes; and

wherein the supplementary information comprises additional information that supplements the schedule memo.

10. The schedule information management apparatus of claim 9, wherein the schedule memo analyzer means separates the schedule memo into words and transmits effective nouns selected from the separated words to the query generator means.

11. The schedule information management apparatus of claim 10, wherein the query generator means generates a query comprising at least one pre-stored search site address and at least one of the effective nouns.

12. The schedule information management apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

a query information memory means for storing nouns that frequently occur in schedule memos, which are classified according to their attributes, and for storing a search word to be inserted into a query for each attribute, and wherein the query generator means finds an attribute of an effective noun, if available, from the query information memory means and inserts a selected search word associated with the found attribute into the generated query.

13. The schedule information management apparatus of claim 9, wherein the Web interface receives a Web page from the Web server as the Web search result.

14. The schedule information management apparatus of claim 13, wherein the schedule information generator means removes tags from the received Web page to extract text and image data, and generates the detailed schedule information containing the extracted text and image data in a form displayable by the external device.

15. A portable terminal comprising:

an input unit for inputting an input from a user;

a personal information management module for storing a schedule memo input through the input unit;

a digital living network alliance (DLNA) interface for storing DLNA protocols and for sending the schedule memo through a DLNA network; and

a controller for controlling, upon reception of automatically generated detailed schedule information related to the schedule memo through the DLNA interface, output of the detailed schedule information;

wherein the generated detailed schedule information comprises supplementary information related to the schedule memo and which has been obtained from a Web search result based on nouns extracted from words in the schedule memo that are classified according to their attributes;

wherein the supplementary information comprises additional information that supplements the schedule memo.

16. The portable terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller checks a planned event time associated with the detailed schedule information, and controls an output operation to output the detailed schedule information at the commencement of a preset time before the planned event time.