Content management method and apparatus of mobile terminal
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJi Hwan Song, Ji Sun Kim
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Abstract
A contents management method and apparatus of a mobile terminal provides improved security of private contents. A contents management method of a mobile terminal includes establishing a connection to at least one external terminal. The method also includes segmenting a content stored in the mobile terminal into segments and sharing the content by distributing the segments to the terminals. The method further includes integrating the segments distributed to the terminals into the content when a content execution command is input. The method still further includes storing the integrated content and deleting the integrated content in the mobile terminal when at least one of the terminals is disconnected.
Claims20
A contents management method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- establishing a connection to at least one external terminal;
- segmenting a content stored in the mobile terminal into segments;
- sharing the content by distributing the segments to the terminals;
- integrating, when a content execution command is input, the segments distributed to the terminals into the content;
- storing the integrated content;
- and
- deleting, when at least one of the terminals is disconnected, the integrated content in the mobile terminal.
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a segmentation module configured to segment a content into a plurality of segments;
- a segments database configured to store some of the segments;
- a short range communication module configured to establish a connection with at least one external terminal and transmit the segments that remain after storing in the segments database to the at least one external terminal;
- an integration module configured to integrate, when a content execution command is input, the segments stored in the at least one external terminal and the mobile terminal into the content;
- a integrated content database configured to store the integrated content;
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- a deletion module configured to delete the integrated content from the mobile terminal when the connection is released.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.