Apparatus and method for receiving content in terminal
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHyuk KANG, Hyeong-Seok KIM, Hyun-Chul CHOI
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Abstract
An apparatus and a method for receiving content in a terminal, by which the terminal can receive, with low power consumption, content from an adjacent service provider by using a wireless communication technology. A low-power short-range communication unit; and a controller for controlling the low-power short-range communication unit to broadcast an advertising packet including information of the terminal at regular intervals, and control the low-power short-range communication unit so as to connect to a particular service provider which has scanned the advertising packet. A control operation is then performed so as to receive content from the particular service provider.
Claims30
An apparatus for receiving content in a terminal, the apparatus comprising:
- a low-power short-range communication unit having a transceiver;
- and
- a controller configured for controlling the low-power short-range communication unit to broadcast an advertising packet including information of the terminal at regular intervals, controlling the low-power short-range communication unit to provide a connection to a particular service provider which has scanned the advertising packet and requested connection with the terminal, and performing a control operation so as to receive content from the particular service provider.
A method for receiving content in a terminal, the method comprising:
- broadcasting an advertising packet at regular intervals including information of the terminal by a low-power short-range communication unit;
- and
- receiving content from a particular service provider when a connection to the particular service provider which has scanned the advertising packet broadcast from the terminal is made by the low-power short-range communication unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.