US 8,789,131 B2Granted

Electronic device and method of sharing contents thereof with other devices

AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.

InventorsHaengkeol Choi, Woocheul Lee

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Abstract

An electronic device includes a wireless communication unit wirelessly communicating with any of a plurality of external devices which each comprise a display, a display displaying content including specific content, an input unit receiving an input for selecting the specific content, and a controller. The controller searches for an external device that is available for communication with the electronic device, establishes communication via the wireless communication unit with a selected first external device, which is one of the plurality of external devices identified as a result of the search for an external device, receives content specification information from the first external device to determine the first external device's capability to display the specific content, and causes displaying of the specific content on the display of the first external device upon determining that the first external device is capable of displaying the specific content based on the content specification information.

Claims30

Dependent claims

An electronic device comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with any of a plurality of external devices;
a display configured to display content including specific content;
an input unit configured to receive an input for selecting the specific content;
and
a controller configured to:
search the plurality of external devices for a group of available external devices comprising at least one external device that is available for communication with the electronic device,
receive content specification information from each external device of the group of available external devices to determine each external device's capability to display the specific content,
cause the wireless communication unit to establish communication with a selected first external device of the group of available external devices,
cause displaying of the specific content on a display of the selected first external device upon determining that the selected first external device is capable of displaying the specific content based on the received content specification information,
cause the wireless transmission unit to transmit the specific content to a selected second external device to display the specific content on a display of the selected second external device in response to a first input upon determining that the selected second external device is capable of displaying the specific content based on the received content specification information,
cause simultaneous displaying of a first portion of the specific content on the display of the selected first external device and a second portion of the specific content on the display of the selected second external device in response to the first input, and
cause simultaneously a display size of the first portion to be decreased and a display size of the second portion to be increased until an entire portion of the specific content is displayed on the display of the selected second external device only.

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A method of sharing content between an electronic device and an external device, the method comprising:

selecting specific content to be displayed on a display of the external device or displaying the specific content on a display of the electronic device;
searching for a group of available external devices comprising at least one external device that is capable of communicating with the electronic device;
receiving content specification information from each external device of the group of available external devices to determine each external device's capability to display the specific content;
determining a relative distance between the electronic device and each electronic device of the group of available external devices when the group of available external devices comprises at least two external devices;
selecting a first external device of the group of available external devices that is positioned closest to the electronic device based on the corresponding determined relative distance of the first external device;
causing displaying of the specific content on the selected first external device,
changing a display property of the displayed specific content according to a change in the determined relative distance between the electronic device and the selected first external device when the distance is greater than a preset value of a reference distance;
displaying a list of the external devices of the group of available external devices, each external device represented by an icon of a plurality of icons arranged in an order of a corresponding determined relative distance of each external device;
displaying the corresponding received content specification information of each external device, the corresponding determined relative distance of each external device, or a control icon for selecting the corresponding external device with each displayed icon;
selecting one external device of the group of available external devices in response to an input for selecting an icon corresponding to the selected external device
selecting a second external device of the group of available external devices to display the specific content, wherein the second external device is selected:
in response to an input comprising a user-oriented direction generated by pointing a specific portion of the electronic device substantially toward a direction of the location of the second external device;
or
in response to the electronic device being positioned in proximity to a specific location, wherein the second external device is registered in the electronic device to be associated with the specific location to cause displaying of the specific content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/090,178Filed 19 Apr 2011
Priority: KR 10-2010-004523814 May 2010
Published: US 2011/0283334 A117 Nov 2011
Granted: 22 Jul 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04L 67/51
Network services: discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
G06F 3/04883
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
G06F 3/1454
Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units: involving copying of the…
H04L 67/148
Session management: migration or transfer of sessions

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