Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080225983 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION METHOD IN A BROADCASTING SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for transmitting broadcasting signals in a broadcasting system having multi-antenna are provided. The apparatus comprises at least one antenna, a signal generator for generating two or more broadcasting signals to be transmitted, at least two of the two or more broadcasting signals being generated according to different user-required quality characteristics, a multi-antenna modulator for modulating each of the broadcasting signals according to one of a plurality of multi-antenna transmission methods selected for each of the broadcasting signals according to the user-required quality characteristics of the respective broadcasting signals, and a transmitter for transmitting the modulated signals via the at least one antenna. | 09-18-2008 |
20090003434 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSING SCENE USING LASeR CONTENTS - A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving LASeR contents are provided, in which content including at least one of a scene element and a scene element set that includes the scene element is received, for use in scene composition, and a scene is composed by selecting at least one of the at least one of the scene element and the scene element set included in the content according to at least one of a terminal type, a user preference, and a content-serviced party. | 01-01-2009 |
20090069003 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SERVICE IN A BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS (BWA) SYSTEM - An apparatus and a method for providing a MultiCast and BroadCast Service (MCBCS) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system are provided. The method includes receiving a message comprising information relating to a broadcast channel which carries a service guide, from a Base Station (BS), receiving service guides relating to one or more service providers over the broadcast channel using the information, when the received service guides are fragmented service guides having a certain size, generating a unified service guide by reassembling the fragmented service guides and when one service provider is selected, filtering only a service guide of the selected service provider in the unified service guide and displaying the filtered service guide in a display. Thus, the channel transition time can be reduced. | 03-12-2009 |
20090138403 | Right objects acquisition method and apparatus - A license acquisition method and apparatus for a DRM-enabled mobile terminal is provided for acquiring licenses for multiple right-protected content items in a batch processing manner. The rights objects acquisition method for a mobile terminal supporting digital rights management according to the present invention includes attempting download of at least one acquisition-requested rights object, classifying the at least one acquisition-requested rights object into download-succeeded rights objects and download-failed rights objects, and outputting information on the downloaded-succeeded rights objects and download-failed rights objects. | 05-28-2009 |
20090199100 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING MEDIA FILES - A computer readable medium having data stored thereon is provided. A structure of the data includes a media data box including two or more media data, and a movie data (‘moov’) box including information on view sequence data in the media data. The ‘moov’ box includes track reference information indicating that a track box for one view sequence references a track box of another view sequence. | 08-06-2009 |
20090204997 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING MOBILITY IN A MOBILE BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for supporting mobility in a mobile broadcasting system in which Electronic Service Guide (ESG) discovery is required. The mobility support is classified into three ways according to three different aspects. The first way is to provide roaming information for a local IPDC operator having a roaming partner among local IPDC operators. In the second way, a terminal transmits a query message for requesting transmission of information on a particular local IPDC operator, and receives information on the particular local IPDC operator in response thereto. The third way is to provide the terminal with type information of an ESG; an access type of which is classified according to provision of a roaming service. The roaming information, the information on the particular local IPDC operator and the type information of the ESG, which are provided to the terminal from the mobile broadcasting system, can be provided in an ESG bootstrap level. | 08-13-2009 |
20090210896 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING NOTIFICATION MESSAGE IN A DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a notification message in a Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) system are provided, in which a terminal detects an Access Point (AP) from an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) bootstrapping session, queries the AP to request a notification message list or all or part of a notification message over a communication channel, and receives the notification message list or all or part of the notification message from the AP. | 08-20-2009 |
20090252324 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST SERVICE USING ENCRYPTION KEY IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for providing a broadcast service in a communication system is provided. The method includes creating a seed key pair including a first key and a second key, transmitting the seed key pair to a terminal to which the broadcast service is to be provided, creating a certain number of encryption keys using the seed key pair, the certain number corresponding to a lifetime of the seed key pair, encrypting broadcast service data for the lifetime using the encryption keys, and broadcasting the encrypted broadcast service data. | 10-08-2009 |
20090253416 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING USER DEFINED BUNDLE IN A MOBILE BROADCAST SYSTEM - A method and mobile communication system for providing a user defined bundle in a terminal of a mobile broadcast system are provided. The method includes receiving a service guide from a BroadCAST (BCAST) Service Distribution/Adaptation (BSDA), creating a user defined bundle based on a content or a service desired by a user, including the user defined bundle in a user defined bundle subscription request message and transmitting the user defined bundle subscription request message to a BCAST Subscription Management (BSM), and receiving from the BSM a user defined bundle subscription response message in which a user defined bundle subscription and a purchase complete message is included. | 10-08-2009 |
20090254983 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING TOKENS FOR DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT - A method and apparatus for managing tokens for Digital Rights Management (DRM) in a terminal are provided. In the method, at least one token is acquired from a Rights Issuer (RI), and the token is moved to a Secure Removable Media (SRM) through a token move request message. The token can be shared by several terminals. | 10-08-2009 |
20090265603 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPOSING SCENES USING RICH MEDIA CONTENTS - A user interface method and apparatus for a Rich Media service in a terminal. A decoder decodes a received stream to check a header of the received stream. A renderer adaptively composes a scene using scene composition elements of the received stream, according to adaptation information in the header checked by the decoder, and a display displays the adaptively composed scene. | 10-22-2009 |
20090265700 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING FIRMWARE OF TERMINALS IN A BROADCAST SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for updating firmware of terminals in a mobile broadcast system including a Broadcast Service Distribution/Adaptation fragment (BSDA) and a Broadcast service Subscription Management (BSM). The method includes requesting creation of a content fragment, by the BSM, by transmitting a firmware package file for a firmware update of the terminals to the BSDA; creating a content fragment including the firmware package file and broadcasting the created content fragment to the terminals by the BSDA; detecting the firmware package file from the received content fragment; and performing the firmware update using the firmware package file. | 10-22-2009 |
20090284583 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATIHNG AND DISPLAYING MEDIA FILE - A method and apparatus for creating and displaying a media file. A computer-readable recording medium is disclosed for storing stereoscopic content having two or more tracks and stereoscopic video-related information of each track in the stereoscopic content. The medium includes a duplication indication field indicating duplication of stereoscopic video-related information of each track in the stereoscopic content, and a track reference field including information used to connect a current track to at least one other track to which the current rack refers. | 11-19-2009 |
20090300690 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING BROADCAST SERVICE IN A DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for sending a broadcast service in a digital broadcasting system. The method includes assigning a same Internet Protocol (IP) address for a common broadcast service when the common broadcast service is provided in at least two IP platforms, each of the at least two IP platforms providing a broadcast service to a terminal; delivering the common broadcast service using the same IP address; and delivering related information relevant to the common broadcast service. | 12-03-2009 |
20100017372 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE SERVICE IN A MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM - An apparatus and method are provided for providing a User Interface (UI) service in a multimedia system. The method includes receiving UI data from a UI server; abstracting UI data that is structuralized on an object-by-object basis, and corresponds to an input from a UI client; creating adaptive UI data by reflecting a UI environment of a device for displaying, in the abstracted UI data; and displaying the created adaptive UI data. | 01-21-2010 |
20100023530 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RICH MEDIA SERVICE - A method is provided for providing a received rich media service by a terminal. The method includes receiving and decoding service content, searching for reference information using representation information of the reference information in the received service content, and composing the received service content in a form that can be provided to a user, using the searched reference information. The composed service content is then output to the user through a user interface. | 01-28-2010 |
20100064138 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SECURITY SERVICE OF USER INTERFACE - An apparatus and method for providing a security service for UI applications in a network system. In a network supporting a user interface, encryption-unneeded data is distinguished from data in which security identifier is specified, that indicates a need for security between a server and a communication device, and the distinguished data is transmitted over a security channel and a general channel separately. | 03-11-2010 |
20100083336 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RICH MEDIA SERVICE - A method and apparatus for providing rich media service that is capable of serving rich media contents in adaptation to terminal capability and condition using the information on the complexity of the content and the operation level and memory space required to render the content is provided. The rich media service provision method includes defining scene component elements composing a rich media content and attributes of the scene component elements; calculating operation amount required to render the rich media content; generating the rich media content composed of the scene component elements and attributes, the operation amount being contained one of the scene component elements and attributes; and encoding and transmitting the rich media content. | 04-01-2010 |
20100095228 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE BASED ON STRUCTURED RICH MEDIA DATA - An apparatus and method are provided for providing a structured rich media-based User Interface (UI) for producing situation-adaptive UI with a structured UI format composed of the rich media data including diverse multimedia and interactions. AUI UI format is created that includes a header and scene data. The header contains basic information on the UI and the scene data is composed of the UI. The UI format is encoded. The encoded UI format is transmitted. The header further includes initial information, configuration information, and layout information. | 04-15-2010 |
20100115053 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING STATE INFORMATION OF REMOTE USER INTERFACE - A method for managing state information of a Remote User Interface (RUI) received from a server providing the RUI in a client. The method includes extracting the state information in response to a store request for the state information from a user; providing the state information to the server; receiving from the server location information indicating a route to a location where the state information is stored; and storing the location information in a bookmark module. | 05-06-2010 |
20100115129 | CONDITIONAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A conditional processing method and apparatus for efficient memory management are provided. A conditional processing method includes generating a parse tree by loading a plurality of nodes of data structured based on a declarative description language in a memory in series; evaluating, when a parsing switch node having an attribute describing a condition for conditional processing exists among the nodes, child nodes of the parsing switch node according to the attribute; loading only the child nodes fulfilling the attribute in the memory; and outputting the child nodes retained on the memory. | 05-06-2010 |
20100138872 | SERVICE GUIDE TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROADCAST SERVICE - Service guide transmission/reception methods and apparatuses for providing users with a service guide supporting multiplay service are provided. Service guide delivery information is received at a terminal. Device class grouping information is extracted from the Service guide delivery information. A Service Guide Data Unit (SGDU) having service guide information required for composing a service guide matched to the terminal is received. The service guide composed using the service guide information received by means of the SGDU is displayed. | 06-03-2010 |
20100192078 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING USER INTERFACE COMPOSED OF COMPONENT OBJECTS - A method and apparatus for processing a rich media user interface composed of a plurality of component objects that is capable of transferring information from a group of component objects having a specific function but not supporting the export of information to a group of component objects importing information only through predetermined paths through unpredictable path are provided. The method for processing content composed of user interface component objects includes receiving content including a plurality of user interface component objects, extracting exportable information which is defined to be exportable outside the content, and transferring the extracted exportable information to a target object. | 07-29-2010 |
20100242071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING USER INFORMATION BETWEEN TERMINALS IN BROADCAST STREAMING SERVICE - A method and apparatus for transferring user information between different terminals are disclosed. The method includes saving by a first terminal, when a change is made to user information during playback of content, the changed user information in a scene history, performing a terminal change from the first terminal to a second terminal, and resuming, by the second terminal, playback of the content from a continued scene after the last scene played back by the first terminal. Consequently, in a terminal change, the user may use the second terminal to play back the same content from the continued scene using the same content usage environment as the first terminal. | 09-23-2010 |
20100306312 | EVENT-PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A HOME NETWORK SUPPORTING A REMOTE USER INTERFACE - An event-processing method and system are provided for efficiently re-delivering notification events stored by a Remote User Interface Server (RUIS), from the RUIS to remote user interface clients (RUICs), in a home network supporting an RUI. An RUIC transmits an information request to the remote user interface server, receives, from the RUIS, notification event information corresponding to the information request, transmits a notification event request based on the received notification event information to the RUIS, and receives, from the RUIS, at least one notification event corresponding to the notification event request. | 12-02-2010 |
20100318601 | WIDGET ACTIVATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A method and apparatus for activating a group widget by a widget client are provided. The method includes receiving widgets from at least one surrounding widget server, analyzing the received widgets and grouping the widgets according to the result of the analysis, generating grouped widgets as a group widget, if an event is received from a user, converting a received event into an event related to a configuration widget of a group widget, transmitting the converted event to a corresponding widget server, and receiving a processing result from the widget server which received the transmitted event. | 12-16-2010 |
20100325203 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A USER INTERFACE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for transmitting a User Interface (UI) to a client in a communication system supporting a Remote User Interface (RUI), in which a representation level of a UI requested by the client is determined, whether the representation level is available in a service provided to the client is determined, and a UI having an available representation level is provided to the client, according to the determination results. | 12-23-2010 |
20130101118 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST SERVICE USING ENCRYPTION KEY IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for providing a broadcast service in a communication system is provided. The method includes generating a key pair comprising a first key and a second key, generating at least one of forward encryption keys by applying a forward hash chain to the first key, generating at least one of reverse encryption keys by applying a reverse hash chain to the second key, generating at least one of encryption keys using the at least one of forward encryption keys and the at least one of reverse encryption keys, encrypting broadcast service data using the at least one of encryption keys, and broadcasting the encrypted broadcast service data. | 04-25-2013 |
20130108043 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST SERVICE USING ENCRYPTION KEY IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
20140157330 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING BROADCAST SERVICE IN A DIGITAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for receiving a broadcast service in a digital broadcasting system. The method includes receiving, by a reception unit, related information relevant to a common broadcast service being provided in common in at least two Internet Protocol (IP) platforms, from one of the at least two IP platforms; determining, by a mobility management block, whether a currently received broadcast service is the common broadcast service, based on the related information; and continuously receiving the common broadcast service from a remaining IP platform, except for the one of the at least two IP platforms, when the currently received broadcast service is the common broadcast service. | 06-05-2014 |