US 10,382,811 B2Granted

Broadcast receiver, mobile device, service providing method, and broadcast receiver controlling method

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsSang-kwon Lee, Hyok-sung Choi, Sung-joo Kim, Ho-joong Kim, Lyun-sik Hyun, Se-jun Han, Hee-seok Yu

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Abstract

A broadcast receiver includes a mode determination unit to determine a current operation mode among a plurality of operation modes, a communication interface to transmit the determined current operation mode to a mobile device through interactive communication, and to receive a control command from the mobile device, and a controller to provide a service of the determined current operation mode according to the control command received from the mobile device. Accordingly, a user controls the broadcast receiver through the mobile device according to the operation mode so that user's convenience is improved.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A mobile device comprising:

a communication interface unit configured to communicate with a broadcast receiving apparatus;
a user interface unit configured to receive a control command with respect to the broadcast receiving apparatus;
and
a controller configured
to control the communication interface unit to transmit, to the broadcast receiving apparatus, a first control command for controlling a motion of a pointer included in a screen provided in the broadcast receiving apparatus,
in response to information corresponding to a text input mode being received by the mobile device via the communication interface unit from the broadcast receiving apparatus, to provide a user interface (UI) window in the mobile device corresponding to the text input mode via the user interface unit, and
to control the communication interface unit to transmit, to the broadcast receiving apparatus, a second control command received through the UI window.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/910,355Filed 2 Mar 2018 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2009-007629118 Aug 2009
Published: US 2018/0192118 A15 Jul 2018
Granted: 13 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H04N 21/4314
Involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations: for fitting data in…
H04N 7/163
Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing: by receiver means only
H04N 21/41265
The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones: having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote…
H04N 21/4312
Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering: involving specific graphical features,…

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Application12/654,628Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Dec 2009
Application14/952,141Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Nov 2015
US 9,232,193 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Jan 2016
US 2018/0192118 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Jul 2018
US 9,912,981 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2011/0043326 A1Published application
US 2016/0080799 A1Published application
US 10,382,811 B2This patent

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