Apparatus and method for providing content

• US 9,509,750 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2014
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Jong-ho, Skvortsov, Vladimir, Kim, Yeun-bae
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, CHAU D
• Application Number:
  US14/282,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20140258361A1
• Time in Patent Office: 924 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/485 Task life-cycle, e.g. stopping, restarting, resuming execution G06F9/4881 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2350/00 Solving problems of bandwidth in display systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82

Abstract

An apparatus and method for providing content is provided, which performs a web service initialization through a provided local offline web server and manages a plurality of content provided through a multithreaded web service. The apparatus for providing content includes a communication unit receiving one or more sets of content; a thread creation unit creating one or more threads that are given to the content to process a work; and a page creation unit having a frame per thread and creating an image page for playing the content on a web browser.

Claims

1. A display apparatus for providing content, the apparatus comprising:

a communication unit to receive a plurality of contents;

a page creation unit to create a plurality of frames for a plurality of threads, respectively, and to create an image page for playing the plurality of contents in the plurality of frames;

a content creation unit to create contents based on the plurality of contents;

a display unit to display a plurality of images corresponding to the created contents; and

a processing unit to determine an amount of resources for each of a plurality of threads based on information of the plurality of contents, and to allocate resources to each of the plurality of threads according to the determined amount of resources for each of the plurality of threads, respectively,

wherein a size and resolution of each of the created contents are changed to suit each of the frames.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of contents have a same subject.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a thread creation unit to create the plurality of threads.

4. The apparatus of claim 3,

wherein the thread creation unit creates a main thread for a work of a user interface, and

wherein the main thread performs a network search directed by a user using the user interface.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing unit manages a mutual work among the plurality of threads.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a web server to initialize at least one web service that provides the plurality of contents, wherein the web server is a local offline web server.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the web server performs a user authentication and a user classification.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the page creation unit creates the image pages on a web browser.

9. A method for providing content, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of contents;

creating a plurality of frames for a plurality of threads, respectively;

creating an image page for playing the plurality of contents in the plurality of frames;

creating contents based on the plurality of contents;

displaying a plurality of images corresponding to the created contents;

determining an amount of resources for each of a plurality of threads based on information of the plurality of contents; and

allocating resources to each of the plurality of threads according to the determined amount of resources for each of the plurality of threads, respectively,

wherein a size and resolution of each of the created contents are changed to suit each of the frames.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the plurality of contents have a same subject.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising creating the plurality of threads.

12. The method of claim 11,

wherein the creating of the plurality of threads comprises creating a main thread for a work of a user interface, and

wherein the main thread performs a network search directed by a user using the user interface.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein further comprising managing a mutual work among the plurality of threads.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising initializing at least one web service that provides the plurality of content using a local offline web server.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the web server performs a user authentication and a user classification.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the creating the plurality of image pages comprises creating the plurality of image pages on a web browser.