Method for transmitting contents in a smart home environment
AssigneeKorea Electronics Technology Institute
InventorsJae Won Moon, Kyung Won Kim, Tae Beom Lim, Kwang Sue Chung, Dong Chil Kim, Doo Yeol Yoon
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Abstract
When a user wants to move or share the contents, information on network status, a position of a terminal, and a property of the terminal is collected and displayed intuitively to the user. Then, quality of the contents is adjusted in accordance with selection of the user adaptively. The contents can be displayed through the selected terminal with adaptively adjusted quality based on the information on network status, the position of a terminal, and the property of the selected terminal.
Claims9
A method for transmitting contents in a smart home environment configured by a home network, the method comprising:
- measuring, by a server, a network status of a terminal device in relation to a mobile terminal, the terminal device being included in the home network and capable of reproducing the contents, the mobile terminal being currently reproducing the contents;
- recognizing, by the mobile terminal, terminal information including a location and a property of the terminal device;
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- displaying, on a screen of the mobile terminal, graphical elements that respectively correspond to the terminal device, the network status, and the location of the terminal device that is recognized based on a network protocol,
- wherein the displaying comprises displaying the terminal device as a circle on the screen,
- wherein a location of the circle indicates a location of the terminal device located at home, a size of the circle indicates a resolution of the terminal device, and a thickness of a connection line connected to the circle indicates a status of bandwidth available to the terminal device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.