Server, image providing apparatus, and image providing system comprising same

An image providing apparatus comprising:

• a broadcast receiver to receive a broadcast signal;
• an interface to exchange data with a server or a terminal;
• a memory to store a content containing a broadcast image;
• a processor electrically coupled to the broadcast receiver, the memory, and the interface, and configured to:
• perform a control operation to transmit network information and device information to perform product registration in the server, the network information comprising public IP information and private IP information;
• perform a control operation to transmit shared content list, recommended content list, and thumbnails associated with each list stored in the memory according to a request from the terminal when a Web address for the server is input to the terminal and when the terminal remotely connects to the image providing apparatus;
• perform a control operation, when a predetermined broadcast content is selected from a thumbnail for the shared content list or recommended content list, to transmit the selected broadcast content to the terminal, wherein the private IP information changes whenever the image providing apparatus is turned on;
• and transmit new network information of the image providing apparatus to the server whenever the image providing apparatus is turned on.

An image providing system comprising:

• a terminal;
• a server comprising a memory to store a personal server list and network information of an image providing apparatus corresponding to the personal server list, and configured to;
• transmit, when a Web address for the server is input to the terminal, information for connection to a personal server to the terminal according to a connection request from the terminal;
• transmit, when login information is received from the terminal, personal server list information corresponding to the login information to the terminal;
• and transmit, when the terminal makes a request for information corresponding to a specific personal server list of the personal server list, network information of an image providing apparatus corresponding to a corresponding personal server;
• and the image providing apparatus comprising a memory and configured to:
• transmit a shared content list, a recommended content list, and thumbnails associated with each list stored in the memory of the image providing apparatus according to a request from the terminal when the terminal remotely connects to the image providing apparatus;
• transmit, when a predetermined broadcast content is selected from the shared content list, the selected broadcast content to the terminal, wherein the network information comprises public IP information and private IP information of the image providing apparatus, and the private IP information changes whenever the image providing apparatus is turned on;
• and transmit new network information of the image providing apparatus to the server whenever the image providing apparatus is turned on, wherein the server is further configured to:
• receive the new network information of the image providing apparatus whenever the image providing apparatus is turned on, and update the memory of the server with the new network information.