US 10,433,285 B2Granted

Method and apparatus for controlling a electronic device in a communication system

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsSoenghun Kim, Hanil Yu

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Abstract

A method and apparatus is provided that controls other electronic devices through one electronic device in a communication system. The electronic device for executing control commands includes a communication unit configured to communicate with at least one of other electronic devices, a memory configured to store identification information about other electronic devices to execute a group control command, and a controller configured to execute, when receiving the control command, the received control command, determine whether the received control command is a group control command that other electronic devices need to execute in the same way as the electronic device, read, when the received control command is a group control command, identification information about at least one of other electronic devices as group control objects from the memory, and transmit the identification information to other electronic devices.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A first electronic device for executing a control command, the first electronic device comprising:

a communication interface configured to communicate with a second electronic device or a server;
a memory configured to store a grouping table, wherein the grouping table is configured by mapping each control command with at least one second electronic device, and each of the control commands is to be executed by a mapped second device;
and
a controller configured to:
receive a control command from the server, wherein the control command is one of a silent mode transition command, a vibration mode transition command, airplane mode transition command, or a display brightness adjustment command;
identify whether the received control command is in the grouping table;
identify whether the first electronic device is a master electronic device, in case of the received control command being in the grouping table;
transmit the control command to the at least one second electronic device mapped to the control command, in case of the first electronic device being the master electronic device;
and
execute the received control command, in case of the first electronic device being the master electronic device.

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A method for executing a control command in a first electronic device, the method comprising:

storing a grouping table in a memory, wherein the grouping table is configured by mapping each control command with at least one second electronic device, and each of the control commands is to be executed by a mapped second device;
receiving a control command from a server, wherein the control command is one of a silent mode transition command, a vibration mode transition command, airplane mode transition command, or a display brightness adjustment command;
identifying whether the received control command is in the grouping table;
identifying whether the first electronic device is a master electronic device, in case of the received control command being in the grouping table;
transmitting the control command to the at least one second electronic device mapped to the control command, in case of the first electronic device being the master electronic device;
and
executing the received control command, in case of the first electronic device being the master electronic device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/065,731Filed 9 Mar 2016
Priority: KR 10-2015-00327059 Mar 2015
Published: US 2016/0270048 A115 Sep 2016
Granted: 1 Oct 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04W 72/20
Local resource management: control channels or signalling for resource management
G08C 17/02
Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link: using a radio link
H04W 4/08
Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective…:…
H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…