Service system and method of providing service in digital receiver thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorChuhyun SEO
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Abstract
Disclosed are a service system and a method of providing a service in a digital receiver. The service providing method includes selecting content including an identifier with respect to an SNS or a data exchange space that is opened in linkage with content from a service guide, and outputting the selected content and the SNS or the data exchange space linked to the content in respective areas of a screen. The SNS linked to the content includes a data exchange space configured to allow one or more SNS users to simultaneously access the data exchange space using an open API from the server, and also includes a SNS identifier having a format as access information for the corresponding data exchange space.
Claims13
A method of providing a service in a digital receiver, the method comprising:
- selecting content including an identifier with respect to a Social Networking Service, SNS, or a data exchange space that is opened in linkage with content from a service guide;
- and
- outputting the selected content and the SNS or the data exchange space linked to the content in respective areas of a screen,
- wherein the SNS linked to the content includes a data exchange space configured to allow one or more SNS users to simultaneously access the data exchange space using an open Application Programming Interface, API, from a server, and also includes a SNS identifier having a format as access information for the corresponding data exchange space.
A method of providing a service in a digital receiver, the method comprising:
- executing an SNS;
- outputting, based on a reference, a list of at least one service item linked to at least one content of the executed SNS;
- and
- outputting a service window for the service item selected from the output list and content linked to the service item in respective areas of a screen.
A digital receiver in a service system, the digital receiver comprising:
- a first receiving unit configured to receive a service guide, including an identifier with respect to an Social Networking Service, SNS, or a data exchange space that is opened in linkage with content, from a server;
- a second receiving unit configured to select content from the service guide;
- a control unit configured to control output of the selected content and the SNS or the data exchange space linked to the content in respective areas of a screen;
- a decoder configured to configure the content and the SNS or the data exchange space under the control of the control unit;
- and
- a display unit configured to output the configured content and the configured SNS or data exchange space in the respective areas of the screen,
- wherein the SNS linked to the content includes a data exchange space configured to allow one or more SNS users to simultaneously access the data exchange space using an open Application Programming Interface, API, from the server, and also includes a SNS identifier having a format as access information for the corresponding data exchange space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.