Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090193455 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL CONTENTS BASED ON TRIGGER, AND DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEPTION APPARATUS - Disclosed are an information storage medium having recorded thereon service information regarding a broadcast service to provide additional content, the information storage medium having recorded thereon information for receiving a trigger while the broadcast service is received, information for selecting additional content to be inserted to the broadcast service in correspondence to the received trigger, and a locator for receiving the additional content, a method of providing additional content by using the same, and a digital broadcast reception apparatus. | 07-30-2009 |
20090193456 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM STORING METADATA AND METHOD OF PROVIDING ADDITIONAL CONTENTS, AND DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEPTION APPARATUS - Disclosed are an information storage medium storing metadata for providing additional content during a broadcast program, the metadata including information indicating whether to insert second additional content instead of first additional content, which is underlying additional content of the broadcast program, and a locator of the second additional content, a method of providing additional content by using the same, and a digital broadcast reception apparatus. | 07-30-2009 |
20090193483 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING METADATA OF CONTENT, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LIMITING CONTENT USAGE AUTHORITY - Provided are a method and apparatus for limiting a content usage authority scope of a client by using metadata in an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service. The method performed by a metadata server adds control information to the metadata and transmits the metadata, wherein the content usage authority scope of the client is defined in the control information. The client of a user limits a content control operation according to a user input by using the control information extracted from the metadata. | 07-30-2009 |
20090205005 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING ADDITIONAL CONTENT - Disclosed is a method of providing additional content in a digital broadcast reception apparatus, the method including receiving a locator of additional content from a broadcast server while a user watches a broadcast program, receiving an instruction to insert the additional content from the broadcast server, receiving and reproducing the additional content from a content providing server designated by the locator, and switching back to the broadcast program. Thus, it is not necessary to allocate a separate channel and/or to switch channels for providing additional content. | 08-13-2009 |
20090260048 | METHOD OF PROVIDING CONTENT AND CONTENT PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF REPRODUCING CONTENT AND CONTENT REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A method of providing content and a content providing apparatus, and a method of reproducing content and a content reproducing apparatus by which content reconstruction information for adjusting a content reproduction time according to a content reproduction environment is generated, and the generated content reconstruction information and the content are then transmitted. | 10-15-2009 |
20090288111 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AND USING CONTENT ADVISORY INFORMATION ON INTERNET CONTENTS - Provided are a method and apparatus for providing and using content advisory (CA) information on Internet contents. A method of providing CA information by using a CA information server, includes receiving a request for the CA information on a content, from an Internet Protocol television (IPTV); searching for CA information on the content; and transmitting the found CA information to the IPTV. A method of using CA information when an IPTV reproduces a content not having the CA information, according to the present invention, includes transmitting a request for CA information, to a CA information server; receiving the CA information from the CA information server; analyzing the CA information; and applying the CA information. | 11-19-2009 |
20090304363 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DIGITAL CONTENTS AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING DIGITAL CONTENTS ACCORDING TO PLAYBACK POSITIONS - Provided are a method and an apparatus for managing digital contents and a method and an apparatus for executing digital contents according to playback positions. The method for managing digital contents includes inputting digital contents from a digital contents provider, inputting playback positions of the digital contents at which at least one application will perform an operation, and generating a list of playback positions in which the playback positions are recorded, based on attribute information on the application. | 12-10-2009 |
20100162298 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST DATA - Disclosed is a method of outputting broadcasting data, the method including outputting advertisement data to be provided in a first channel, when a request to change from the first channel to a second channel is received while the advertisement data is being provided, determining whether or not to change the channel according to information regarding the second channel, and selectively changing channels from the first channel to the second channel according to the decision. | 06-24-2010 |
20100251286 | METHOD FOR INSERTING CONTENTS SEARCHED FROM STORAGE OF A HOST AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Provided are a method and apparatus for inserting second contents stored in a storage medium of a host while first contents input from an external provider are played includes: searching, by a searching unit, for the second contents using location information which indicates a location of the second contents stored in the storage medium; detecting, by a signal information detecting unit, signaling information from the first contents, the signaling information indicating a section in the first contents in which insertion of the second contents is allowed; and playing, by a playing unit, the searched, second contents in the allowed section of the first contents which are being played, based on the signaling information. | 09-30-2010 |
20120259932 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGE - A message to be transmitted is converted into an image file. The image file is stored and location information about a location where the image file is stored, is generated. The image file is transmitted to at least one device based on the location information. | 10-11-2012 |
20130225153 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING REMOTE DEVICE THROUGH A SHORT MESSAGING SERVICE (SMS) AND DEVICE THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a method for remotely controlling a device through a mobile network, and a device which converts a command into a text which is recorded in a short message field of an SMS message when a user inputs the command for remote control, transmits the text by dividing the text into a plurality of SMS messages in case the length of the text is longer than the size of the short message field, and delivers various SMS commands to a remote device through the SMS message regardless of the length of the text by determining the command by using information included in the text. | 08-29-2013 |