Converting content for display on external device according to browsing context and based on characteristic of external device

• US 8,769,150 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2011
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Seo, Hyung-jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Barry, Lance L
• Application Number:
  US13/172,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20110320563A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,098 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/246, 707/749, 707/751
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4621 Controlling the complexity of the content stream or additional data, e.g. lowering the resolution or bit-rate of the video stream for a mobile client with a small screen arrangements for using the results of monitoring on user's side in broadcast systems H04H60/65; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for converting content are provided. A predetermined request signal from an external device. All or a portion of currently browsed content is converted into data that can be browsed on the external device, based on information about the external device contained in the predetermined request signal. The data is transmitted to the external device.

Claims

1. A method for converting a content at a device, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a predetermined request signal from an external device;

detecting a browsing context from a content currently browsed at the device, based on information about the external device contained in the predetermined request signal;

converting the currently browsed content into captured data that can be browsed on the external device according to the detected browsing context, based on a characteristic of the external device; and

transmitting the captured data to the external device,

wherein the browsing context is a collection of at least one document object related to the content.

2. A method for converting a content, comprising the steps of:

receiving a predetermined request signal from an external device via a plurality of ports to each of which information about the external device is assigned;

detecting a browsing context from currently browsed content based on the information about the external device;

converting the currently browsed content into data that can be browsed on the external device according to the detected browsing context and according to a respective content type assigned to each of the plurality of ports; and

transmitting the data to the external device via the plurality of ports,

wherein the browsing context is a collection of at least one document object related to the content.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of ports are Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) ports.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

requesting data associated with the data obtained by the conversion from an external server via a predetermined communication network;

receiving the associated data; and

transmitting at least one of the data obtained by the conversion and the associated data to the external device.

5. An apparatus for converting a content at a device, the apparatus comprising:

a receiver that receives a predetermined request signal from an external device;

a controller that detects a browsing context from a content currently browsed at the device based on information about the external device contained in the predetermined request signal and converts of the currently browsed content into captured data that can be browsed on the external device according to the detected browsing context, based on a characteristic of the external device; and

a transmitter that sends the captured data to the external device,

wherein the browsing context is a collection of at least one document object related to the content.

6. An apparatus for converting a content, the apparatus comprising:

a plurality of ports to each of which information about an external device is assigned;

a receiver that receives a predetermined request signal from an external device via the port;

a controller that detects a browsing context from currently browsed content based on information about the external device and converts the currently browsed content into data that can be browsed on the external device according to the detected browsing context and according to a respective content type assigned to each of the plurality of ports; and

a transmitter that sends the resulting data to the external device via the plurality of ports,

wherein the browsing context is a collection of at least one document object related to the content.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the port is a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the controller controls the transmitter to request data associated with the data obtained by the conversion from an external server and upon receipt of the associated data through the receiver, selects at least one of the data obtained by the conversion and the associated data, and

wherein the transmitter sends the selected data to the external device.

9. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium on which a program for implementing a method for converting a content at a device is recorded, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a predetermined request signal from an external device;

detecting a browsing context from a content currently browsed at the device, based on information about the external device contained in the predetermined request signal;

converting the currently browsed content into captured data that can be browsed on the external device according to the detected browsing context, based on a characteristic of the external device; and

transmitting the captured data to the external device,

wherein the browsing context is a collection of at least one document object related to the content.

10. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium on which a program for implementing a method for converting a content is recorded, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a predetermined request signal from an external device via a plurality of ports to each of which information about the external device is assigned;

detecting a browsing context from currently browsed content based on the information about the external device;

converting the currently browsed content into data that can be browsed on the external device according to the detected browsing context and according to a respective content type assigned to each of the plurality of ports; and

transmitting the data to the external device via the plurality of ports,

wherein the browsing context is a collection of at least one document object related to the content.