User terminal device and content sharing method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsRay HONG, Sahng-hee Bahn, Chang-hwan Hwang
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Abstract
A user terminal device is provided. The user terminal device includes a network interface unit for connecting to a network; a storage unit for storing content; a control unit for operating in local mode to search for content from the storage unit or network mode to search for content from the network in response to a user's selection; and a display unit for displaying the local mode User Interface (UI) or the network mode UI in accordance with whether the control unit is operating in the local mode or the network mode, respectively.
Claims26
A user terminal device, the device comprising:
- a network interface unit for connecting to a network;
- a storage unit for storing content;
- a control unit for operating in local mode to search for content from the storage unit or network mode to search for content from the network in response to a user's selection;
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- a display unit for displaying a local mode User Interface (UI) or a network mode UI in accordance with whether the control unit is operating in the local mode or the network mode, respectively.
A content-sharing method of a user terminal device, the content-sharing method comprising:
- displaying one of a local mode UI and a network mode UI, each UI including a mode switching area to switch from one mode to another mode;
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- displaying an other UI not yet displayed, in response to the switch from the one mode to the another mode,
- wherein the local mode UI is a UI corresponding to a local mode for searching for content from the user terminal device and providing the content to a rendering device and the network mode UI is a UI corresponding to a network mode for searching for content from a network to which the user terminal device is connected and providing the content to the rendering device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.