KR20060108029A - Method for recording multimedia data on mobile communication terminal and the mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for receiving and storing multimedia broadcast data in a portable terminal and a portable terminal thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to receiving and selecting reservation setting information of multimedia broadcasting data from a user, and in accordance with the reservation setting information. The present invention relates to a method for reserve-storing broadcast data and a portable terminal for performing the method. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a portable terminal for receiving and storing multimedia broadcasting data in a reservation storage setting interface providing unit configured to receive and receive reservation storage setting information of multimedia broadcasting data received from the user by the mobile terminal. The reserved storage setting information includes a storage start time, a storage end time, and storage channel information; A database for storing and maintaining reservation storage setting information input from the user; A data storage unit for storing multimedia broadcast data received from the storage channel; And reading the storage start time, the storage end time, and storage channel information from the database, and starting storing the multimedia broadcast data received from the storage channel at the storage start time in the data storage unit, and storing the storage end time. And a controller for terminating the storage of the multimedia broadcast data. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a portable terminal having a function to reserve and store multimedia broadcasting data transmitted to the portable terminal according to a multimedia broadcasting service at a time desired by the user for each channel desired by the user.

Mobile terminal, multimedia broadcasting data, radio station, broadcasting station, reservation recording, reservation recording

Description

METHOD FOR RECORDING MULTIMEDIA DATA ON MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND THE MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

1 is a diagram illustrating a network connection of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a mobile terminal for receiving and storing multimedia broadcasting data according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a reservation storage setting interface according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of receiving and reserved multimedia broadcasting data in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a database included in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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201: Reserved save setting interface provider

202: database

203: data storage

204: control unit

The present invention relates to a method for receiving and storing multimedia broadcast data in a portable terminal and a portable terminal thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to receiving and selecting reservation setting information of multimedia broadcasting data from a user, and in accordance with the reservation setting information. The present invention relates to a method for reserve-storing broadcast data and a portable terminal for performing the method.

With the development of information and communication technology, a variety of portable terminals having a function of receiving multimedia broadcasting data are increasing in variety. In particular, with the development of a mobile terminal equipped with the Digital Multimidia Broadcasting (DMB) function, which provides a mobile multimedia broadcasting service that combines broadcasting and communication, CD-like music, radio broadcasting, and multi-channel multimedia broadcasting can be used anywhere, anytime. Can be provided.

However, portable terminals for providing a multimedia broadcasting service and portable terminals for providing a radio broadcasting service have been developed. However, since a portable terminal for reservation recording or recording of a received multimedia broadcasting or radio broadcasting has not been developed, a user can use it. There is an uncomfortable problem.

For example, a digital multimedia broadcasting or a radio broadcasting is broadcast in a predetermined channel at a predetermined time, so if the user cannot watch or listen to the broadcasting for work, class, driving, etc., the broadcasting in the channel desired by the user is desired. There is a problem that you cannot see or hear.

In addition, according to the related art, even in a broadcast or radio broadcast where a user wants to record or record and repeatedly watch or listen to the portable terminal, there is no portable terminal that performs this function. There was discomfort that I could not see or hear repeatedly.

Accordingly, while providing a multimedia broadcasting service, the necessity of a portable terminal having a function of reserve and store multimedia broadcasting data received according to the multimedia broadcasting service for each channel desired by the user at a desired time is increasing.

The present invention has been made to improve the prior art as described above, and provides a portable terminal having a function of reserve and store the multimedia broadcasting data received in a desired channel according to the multimedia broadcasting service at a user desired time For the purpose of

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, a portable terminal for receiving and storing multimedia broadcasting data according to an embodiment of the present invention is a method of receiving multimedia broadcasting data received from the user by the portable terminal. A reserved storage setting interface providing unit for selecting and receiving the reserved storage setting information, wherein the reserved storage setting information includes a storage start time, a storage end time, and storage channel information; A database for storing and maintaining reservation storage setting information input from the user; A data storage unit for storing multimedia broadcast data received from the storage channel; And reading the storage start time, the storage end time, and storage channel information from the database, and starting storing the multimedia broadcast data received from the storage channel at the storage start time in the data storage unit, and storing the storage end time. And a controller for terminating the storage of the multimedia broadcast data.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for receiving and storing multimedia broadcast data in a mobile terminal and outputting the reserved storage setting interface for selecting and receiving reservation storage setting information of the multimedia broadcast data received by the mobile terminal step; Receiving a selection input for the reservation storage setting information from a user, wherein the reservation storage setting information includes a storage start time, a storage end time, and storage channel information; Storing and maintaining reservation storage setting information input from the user in a predetermined database; And reading the storage start time, the storage end time, and the storage channel information from the database, and starting storing the multimedia broadcasting data received from the storage channel at a predetermined data storage unit at the storage start time, and ending the storage. And terminating the storage of the multimedia broadcast data at time.

Hereinafter, a method for receiving and storing multimedia broadcasting data in a portable terminal according to the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings and a portable terminal for performing the method will be described in detail.

1 is a diagram illustrating a network connection of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The portable terminal 101 of the present invention is a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), cellular phone, PCS (Personal Communication Service) phone, hand-held PC (Hand-Held PC), CDMA-2000 (1X, 3X) phone, WCDMA (Wideband) CDMA) phones, Dual Band / Dual Mode phones, Global Standard for Mobile (GSM) phones, Mobile Broadband System (MBS) phones, notebook computers and the like.

The portable terminal 101 receives multimedia broadcasting data transmitted from a multimedia broadcasting station or a radio broadcasting station through a wired or wireless network communication network. In this case, when the mobile terminal 101 implements the DMB function, the wired / wireless network communication network may be a communication network for implementing a terrestrial DMB service using radio waves or a satellite DMB service using satellites.

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a mobile terminal for receiving and storing multimedia broadcasting data according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2, the portable terminal for receiving and storing multimedia broadcasting data according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a reservation storage setting interface providing unit 201, a database 202, a data storage unit 203, and a controller ( 204).

The reservation storage setting interface providing unit 201 provides a reservation storage setting interface that can receive reservation storage setting information of the multimedia broadcasting data received from the user from the mobile terminal.

The reservation storage setting interface may be output to the display means of the portable terminal to receive a selection input for reservation storage setting information from the user. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a reservation storage setting interface according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The reservation storage setting interface will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

The reserved storage setting information may include a storage start time 301, a storage end time 302, storage channel information 303, and output selection information 304 when stored.

The storage start time information 301 is information about a time at which the user starts storing the multimedia broadcasting data transmitted from a radio station or a digital multimedia broadcasting station which the user wants to reserve.

After confirming a broadcast time of a radio broadcast or multimedia broadcast program that the user wants to save, the user may select and input a start time of the broadcast program as the storage start time. For example, the user may optionally enter "8:10 AM" as the start time for storage.

The storage end time information 302 is information about a time for terminating the storage of multimedia broadcasting data transmitted from a radio station or a digital multimedia broadcasting station which the user wants to reserve.

After confirming the broadcast time of a radio broadcast or multimedia broadcast program that the user wants to store, the user may select and input an end time of the broadcast program as the storage end time. For example, the user may selectively enter a storage end time as "8:30 AM".

The storage channel information 303 may be broadcast channel information of a radio broadcast or a multimedia broadcast program through which multimedia broadcast data that a user wants to store is transmitted. For example, when a broadcast channel of a radio broadcast or multimedia broadcast program that the user wants to store is channel 1, the user may selectively input “1” as storage channel information.

In addition, the reserved storage setting information may include output selection information 404 at the time of storing according to an exemplary embodiment. The output selection information 304 when storing may be information indicating whether the multimedia broadcasting data that the user wants to store is output to the display means of the portable terminal while the portable terminal is stored in the portable terminal.

When the user selects the output at the time of storing, the multimedia broadcasting data is also output to the display means while being stored in the data storage, and when the output is not selected, the multimedia broadcasting data is not output while the multimedia broadcasting data is stored. It is possible to minimize the power consumption of the.

The database 202 of FIG. 2 stores and maintains the reservation storage setting information input from the user. As described above, the reserved storage setting information may include a storage start time, a storage end time, storage channel information, and output selection information when storing.

The data storage unit 203 may store multimedia broadcast data received from the storage channel. The data store may be a database means typically used to store and maintain data.

The controller 204 reads the storage start time, the storage end time, and the storage channel information from the database, and starts storing the multimedia broadcasting data received from the storage channel in the data storage unit at the storage start time, Control to end the storage of the multimedia broadcast data at the storage end time.

Also, according to an exemplary embodiment, the controller 204 may control whether to output the multimedia broadcasting data to the display means of the portable terminal according to the output selection information upon storage.

Therefore, according to the present invention, a mobile terminal for receiving and storing multimedia broadcast data in a reserved manner can reserve and store multimedia broadcast data by selecting a storage channel, a storage start time, a storage end time, and whether to output the data as desired. Anytime, anywhere using a mobile terminal has an effect that can receive and reserve the multimedia broadcast data.

According to the present invention, there is an effect that a user can reserve a multimedia broadcast data to provide a portable terminal to repeatedly view and listen to the multimedia broadcast data.

In addition, according to the present invention, when the user stores the multimedia broadcasting data in the portable terminal, the user can select whether or not to output, thereby minimizing unnecessary power waste of the portable terminal.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of receiving and reserved multimedia broadcasting data in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step S401, the mobile terminal according to the present invention provides a user with a reservation storage setting interface for selecting and receiving reservation storage setting information of the multimedia broadcasting data received by the mobile terminal. The reserved storage setting information may include a storage start time, a storage end time, storage channel information, and output selection information upon storage according to an embodiment. The reservation storage setting interface has been described above with reference to FIG. 4.

In step S402, the portable terminal according to the present invention receives a selection input for reservation storage setting information from a user, and stores and maintains the input reservation storage setting information in a database.

In step S403, the mobile terminal according to the present invention reads the storage start time and the storage channel information from the database and starts storing the multimedia broadcasting data received from the storage channel in the data storage unit at the storage start time. .

In step S404, the portable terminal according to the present invention reads output selection information upon storage from the database.

The portable terminal according to the present invention outputs the multimedia broadcast data to the display means while storing the multimedia broadcast data in step S405, when an output is selected when storing the reading result in step S404.

If an output is not selected when storing the reading result of step S404, the multimedia broadcasting data is not output to the display means while the multimedia broadcasting data is stored, thereby minimizing power consumption.

In step S406, the portable terminal according to the present invention reads the storage end time information from the database and ends the storing of the multimedia broadcast data. Therefore, according to the present invention, the user can output the multimedia broadcasting data reserved and stored in the data storage unit anytime and anywhere on the display means of the portable terminal to see and hear.

Up to now, a method of receiving and storing multimedia broadcast data in a mobile terminal according to the present invention has been described. Since the technical contents described in the above embodiments may be applied to the method of FIG. 4, the detailed description thereof will be omitted below. do.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a database included in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, a database according to an embodiment of the present invention may store reserved storage setting information. The reserved storage setting information may include a storage start time 501, a storage end time 502, and storage channel information 503. , And output selection information 504 upon storage. The reserved storage setting information has been described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

The method for receiving and storing multimedia broadcast data in a portable terminal according to the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal specifying a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which can be variously modified and modified by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Modifications are possible. Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should be understood only by the claims set forth below, and all equivalent or equivalent modifications thereof will belong to the scope of the present invention.

According to the present invention, since the user can reserve and store the multimedia broadcasting data by selecting a storage channel, a storage start time, a storage end time, and whether to output the data as desired, the user can use the mobile terminal anytime, anywhere. It has the effect of being able to receive and reserve reservations.

According to the present invention, there is an effect that a user can reserve a multimedia broadcast data to provide a portable terminal to repeatedly view and listen to the multimedia broadcast data.

In addition, according to the present invention, when the user stores the multimedia broadcasting data in the portable terminal, the user can select whether or not to output, thereby minimizing unnecessary power waste of the portable terminal.

Claims (4)

A portable terminal for receiving and storing multimedia broadcasting data, Reserved storage setting interface providing unit for receiving input of the reserved storage setting information of the multimedia broadcasting data received from the user to the mobile terminal-The reserved storage setting information includes the storage start time, the storage end time, and the storage channel information -; A database for storing and maintaining reservation storage setting information input from the user; A data storage unit for storing multimedia broadcast data received from the storage channel; And Reading the storage start time, the storage end time and storage channel information from the database, and starting storing the multimedia broadcast data received from the storage channel at the storage start time in the data storage; Control unit for terminating the storage of the multimedia broadcast data A portable terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The reserved storage setting information further includes output selection information when storing, And the control unit controls whether to output to a predetermined display means when storing the multimedia broadcasting data according to the output selection information. In the method for receiving and storing multimedia broadcasting data in a mobile terminal, Outputting a reservation storage setting interface for selecting and receiving reservation storage setting information of the multimedia broadcasting data received by the mobile terminal; Receiving a selection input for the reservation storage setting information from a user, wherein the reservation storage setting information includes a storage start time, a storage end time, and storage channel information; Storing and maintaining reservation storage setting information input from the user in a predetermined database; And Reading the storage start time, the storage end time, and storage channel information from the database, and starting storing the multimedia broadcasting data received from the storage channel at a predetermined data storage unit at the storage start time; Terminating storage of the multimedia broadcast data at Receiving and storing multimedia broadcast data in a portable terminal comprising a reservation. A computer-readable recording medium in which a program for executing the method of claim 3 is recorded.

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