Hand-held mobile apparatus and method of quckly displaying online community friends' images applicable thereto

• US 8,385,661 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2011
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MiTAC International Corporation (MiTAC Holdings Corp.), MiTAC Research (Shanghai) Ltd. (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: MiTAC International Corporation (MiTAC Holdings Corp.), MiTAC Research (Shanghai) Ltd. (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Chen, Zhu, Chen, Gang, Guo, Qi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Tom Y
• Assistant Examiner(s): CONWAY, THOMAS A
• Application Number:
  US13/043,896
• Publication Number:
  US 20120020572A1
• Time in Patent Office: 720 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 382/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching

Abstract

A hand-held mobile apparatus and method of quickly displaying online community friends'"'"' images applicable thereto are disclosed. The hand-held mobile apparatus includes a network communication module for linking to an online community server; a comparison module for comparing and determining whether data of a web image in the online community server matches data of a local image in a storage unit of the apparatus; a recognition module for determining an image type of the web image when the web image data is different from the local image data; a processing unit for downloading the web image of a first type in a smallest image size or the web image of a second type in an image size matching a screen resolution of the apparatus, and storing the web image in the storage unit as the local image; and a display unit for displaying the local image.

Claims

1. A hand-held mobile apparatus, comprising:

a network communication module for linking to an online community server via a network system; and

the online community server having a web image stored therein;

a storage unit for storing a local image therein;

a comparison module for comparing data of the web image with data of the local image and determining whether the web image data matches the local image data;

a recognition module being connected to the comparison module for receiving the web image when the comparison module determines the web image data is different from the local image data, and for determining whether the web image is of a first image type or a second image type;

a processing unit being connected to the network communication module, the storage unit, the comparison module and the recognition module;

in the case the recognition module determining that the web image is of the first image type, the processing unit downloading from the online community server via the network communication module the web image in a smallest possible image size thereof;

or in the case the recognition module determining that the web image is of the second image type, the processing unit downloading from the online community server via the network communication module the web image in an image size matching a screen resolution of the hand-held mobile apparatus;

wherein the downloaded web image is used as the local image and stored in the storage unit; and

a display unit being connected to the processing unit for displaying the local image transmitted thereto by the processing unit.

2. The hand-held mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the online community server includes a social networking service (SNS) website, and the SNS website is selected from the group consisting of Facebook, Twitter, Plurk and Myspace.

3. The hand-held mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the network system is selected from the group consisting of a telecommunication network and a wireless network.

4. The hand-held mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the web image data and the local image data respectively include a time tag, a title, a path, and a format of the image.

5. The hand-held mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the recognition module determines whether the web image is of the first or the second image type by recognizing a path directed to the web image in the online community server.

6. A method of quickly displaying online community friends'"'"' images being applicable to a hand-held mobile apparatus having a network communication module, a storage unit, a comparison module, a recognition module, a processing unit and a display unit, comprising the following steps:

linking the network communication module to an online community server via a network system;

using the comparison module to compare data of a web image stored in the online community server with data of a local image stored in the storage unit, and to determine whether the web image data matches the local image data;

in the case the comparison module determining that the web image data is different from the local image data, then, using the recognition module to determine whether the web image is of a first image type or a second image type;

in the case the recognition module determining that the web image is of the first image type, then, using the processing unit to download the web image in a smallest possible image size thereof;

or, in the case the recognition module determining that the web image is of the second image type, then, using the processing unit to download the web image in an image size matching a screen resolution of the hand-held mobile apparatus;

using the web image as the local image;

storing the web image in the storage unit; and

displaying the local image in the display unit.

7. The method of quickly displaying online community friends'"'"' images as claimed in claim 6, wherein the online community server includes a social networking service (SNS) website, and the SNS website is selected from the group consisting of Facebook, Twitter, Plurk and Myspace.

8. The method of quickly displaying online community friends'"'"' images as claimed in claim 6, wherein the network system is selected from the group consisting of a telecommunication network and a wireless network.

9. The method of quickly displaying online community friends'"'"' images as claimed in claim 6, wherein the web image data and the local image data respectively include a time tag, a title, a path, and a format of the image.

10. The method of quickly displaying online community friends'"'"' images as claimed in claim 6, wherein the recognition module determines whether the web image is of the first or the second image type by recognizing a path directed to the web image in the online community server.