KR100968044B1 - e-Book Terminal and Control Method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an e-book terminal and a method of controlling the same, in an e-book terminal capable of short-range wireless communication, searching for a terminal capable of short-range wireless communication within a predetermined distance and generating a communication enabled list based on the searched terminal. And selecting at least one of the terminals in the communication list to establish a communication connection between the terminals, selecting contents to be transmitted from any one of the terminals connected to the communication connection, and connecting the terminal to the communication connection. An electronic book terminal, characterized in that for transmitting the content to at least one of the other terminal.

As a result, content transmission or event notification can be directly performed between terminals without a computer or a content providing server.

Near field communication, connection, event

Description

E-Book Terminal and Control Method

The present invention relates to an e-book terminal and a control method thereof, and more particularly, to an e-book terminal and a control method thereof capable of directly transmitting content between terminals without using a PC or a content providing server using short-range wireless communication. .

In accordance with the busy life patterns of modern people, the spread of electronic book terminals that can read books or documents anytime and anywhere is spreading. An electronic book is a general term for a digital book that can be used as a book by recording information such as text and images on an electronic medium. The e-book terminal can be implemented as any terminal that can carry and carry digitalized documents such as PDAs and mobile phones.

Existing tram terminals can transmit and receive contents by connecting USB cable to client PC or downloading contents downloaded from server to client PC as e-book. There was inconvenience in transmitting and receiving.

Meanwhile, with the development of mobile communication technology and increasing demand for wireless Internet, Wi-Max, Bluetooth, Zigbee and the like are widely used as one of short-range wireless communication technologies.

Wi-Max is IEEE 802.16d, a technology developed by Intel, aimed at the technology standard of portable Internet, and it is an existing wireless LAN (802.11a / b) that can greatly expand the radius of the Internet outside the building. / g) as a complement to the technology to ensure data transmission at a speed of 70MB / s in a radius of about 30 miles (48km), but there is a disadvantage that does not guarantee the handoff between the base station and the base station when moving.

Zigbee is a standard technology for home automation and data networks with low transmission speeds. With the touch of a button, Zigbee can turn on and off the lights and the home security system VCR on / off from anywhere in the house. It is a technology that started from the purpose of making home automation more convenient through dial-up, and standardization is progressing in IEEE 802.15.4.

On the other hand, Bluetooth (Bluetooth) refers to a standard or a product that meets the standard that enables real-time communication in both directions by wirelessly connecting a computer and a mobile terminal, home appliances, etc. that are located in the short distance. Bluetooth is primarily applied to mobile phones and notebook computers. Applications of mobile phones include wireless headsets, Internet access, intercom, wireless phones, and phones with multiple functions. In the case of notebook computers, Internet access through mobile phones Can be mentioned. In addition, the data exchange between the mobile phone and the notebook is also convenient, pioneering a variety of applications using Bluetooth.

Conventional tram terminals have been able to transmit content only by connecting the USB cable to the client PC to download the content or by transferring the content downloaded from the server to the client PC as an e-book. If you use it, you will be able to send content more conveniently.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an e-book terminal and a method of controlling the same, which are more convenient to download or transmit contents of an e-book terminal by applying a short range wireless communication technology to the e-book terminal.

That is, an object of the present invention is to generate a communication list by searching for and registering nearby terminals capable of short-range wireless communication, and selecting at least one of the terminals registered in the communication list to make a communication connection between the terminals. And selecting the content to be transmitted from any one of the at least one terminal connected to the communication and transmitting the content to at least one other terminal among the terminals connected to the Bluetooth communication. have.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to set a predetermined event notification group between a plurality of terminals connected to a short-range wireless communication, and when an event occurs from at least one of the terminals set as the event notification group, the event notification group It is to provide an e-book terminal, characterized in that for transmitting the event to the remaining terminal set.

According to the present invention, an electronic book terminal capable of short-range wireless communication, according to the present invention, searches for a terminal capable of short-range wireless communication within a predetermined distance and generates a communication enabled list based on the searched terminal. It is to provide an e-book terminal characterized in that at least one of the terminals of the possible list is selected to communicate between the terminals (Paring).

In addition, the content to be transmitted from any one terminal of the communication connection terminal may be selected, and the content may be transmitted to at least one other terminal of the communication connection terminal.

In addition, a predetermined event notification group is established between terminals connected to the communication, and when the event occurs from at least one terminal among the set event notification groups, the event is transmitted to the remaining terminals of the event notification group. It may be characterized in that the transmission.

Here, the event may include real time information transmitted from a predetermined server and content provided from any one terminal of the event notification group.

Here, the short-range wireless communication may be characterized in that the Bluetooth (Bluetooth) communication.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a control method of an e-book terminal capable of short-range wireless communication, the method comprising: searching for a terminal within a predetermined distance from which the short-range wireless communication is possible; Generating a communicable list based on the retrieved terminal; And selecting at least one of the terminals in the communicable list to establish a communication connection between the terminals.

In addition, selecting the content to be transmitted from any one of the terminals of the communication connection; And

The method may further include selecting at least one other terminal among the terminals connected to the communication to transmit the content.

Another object of the present invention is a control method of an e-book terminal capable of short-range wireless communication, the method comprising: searching for a terminal within a predetermined distance of the short-range wireless communication; Generating a communicable list based on the retrieved terminal; Selecting at least one of the terminals in the communicable list to establish a communication connection between the terminals; And setting a predetermined event notification group between the terminals connected to the communication.

The method may further include transmitting the event to the remaining terminals of the event notification group when the event occurs from at least one terminal of the set event notification group.

Here, the event may include real time information transmitted from a predetermined server and content provided from any one terminal of the event notification group.

In addition, the short-range wireless communication may be characterized in that the Bluetooth (Bluetooth) communication.

According to the present invention by the above-described problem solving means, it is possible to facilitate the download or transmission of content that can be used in the e-book terminal by applying short-range wireless communication to the e-book terminal.

In addition, by connecting the communication between the terminals capable of short-range wireless communication (Paring), it is possible to implement a direct content transmission between the terminals connected to the communication.

In addition, when an event occurs from any one of the terminals connected to the event notification, a real-time event may be transmitted to another terminal connected to the event notification by making an event notification connection among the terminals connected to the communication.

As a result, content transmission or event notification can be directly performed between terminals without a computer or a content providing server.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is an explanatory diagram for short-range wireless communication between e-book terminals according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, short-range wireless communication between the e-book terminals may be implemented using a plurality of e-book terminals 100, other terminals 200 capable of short-range wireless communication, and a short-range wireless communication network.

The e-book device 100 is a terminal that can be stored and carried and used as an e-book separately. A portable terminal (Personal Digital Assistants) and a memory for storing digital data are provided (for example, Cell phones, PDAs, etc.). In particular, the e-book device 100 of the present invention includes a short range wireless communication module to enable short range wireless communication.

As described above, since near field communication is a general term including all of Wi-Max, Zigbee, Bluetooth, and the like, the following description will be given of general near field communication, unless otherwise mentioned. Shall be.

The e-book terminal 100 searches for another terminal 200 capable of short-range wireless communication within a predetermined distance by using the short-range wireless communication module. Thereafter, a communicable list is generated based on the retrieved terminal. Here, the searched terminals may be listed by predetermined IDs (eg, IDs used in portal sites such as next or Naver) assigned to each terminal, or random IDs (eg, first terminals, first, and the like) in the searched order first. 2 terminals, etc.) may be listed (the searched terminal list method may be determined in the production process of the e-book terminal 100, and preferably, a selection key and an interface that can be selected according to the user's convenience). Can be provided).

Here, the communicable list means a list of other terminals 200 capable of short-range wireless communication with the e-book terminal 100. Here, the other terminal device 200 may include an e-book terminal 100, a PDA, a mobile phone and all terminals capable of short-range wireless communication as shown. In addition, such a communicable list may be generated automatically or according to a user's selection, and a method of notifying that the communicable list is generated may be available through various methods such as a pop-up window on the Internet or a text message icon of a mobile phone.

When the communication list is generated for the e-book device 100 and the other terminal 200 capable of short-range wireless communication by any of the above-described methods, the terminal desired by the user among the terminals registered in the communication list is generated. By selecting at least one, it is possible to establish a communication connection between the selected terminals. Here, the communication connection (Paring) means a continuous connection state capable of real-time short-range wireless communication between the terminals.

When the content is to be transmitted from one of the terminals connected to the at least one other terminal, the content to be transmitted is selected from the contents of the terminal in the communication connection. Here, the method of selecting content includes a method through a separately provided OSD window and a method of searching for a content to be transmitted (directly searching for a folder in which the content is stored, etc., and searching by inputting key words in the search box). It may be implemented in any of the content selection method considering the user convenience, including). Meanwhile, the content may include music, a game, a video, etc. available through the terminal.

Meanwhile, a predetermined event notification group may be set between a plurality of terminals that are connected through communication. Here, the event notification group refers to a group of terminals that can be shared by transmitting an event generated from one of the terminals connected to the communication. For example, when "terminal B" is set to "terminal A" as an event notification group, whenever an event occurs in "terminal A", an event generated in "terminal B" set as an event notification group may be transmitted. In this case, it is preferable that the event notification group can be set separately as a sending and receiving group, so that the terminal " terminal B " is also generated only when " terminal A " It can also be implemented to allow events to be delivered.

In addition, an event means a content provided from any one of real-time information transmitted from a predetermined server and a terminal connected to the event notification. In addition, the predetermined server may provide real-time information to the terminal, where the real-time information may include news, weather, main articles, new e-book information, and e-commerce information mainly used through the e-book terminal. . In other words, the predetermined server may be any server capable of transmitting the above-described information to the terminal in real time.

Event notification groups and event notifications will be described in more detail.

Terminal users specify event notification groups. As described above, the event notification transmission or reception group may be separately designated. In some cases, an event notification group may be designated for each event or for each type of event. This is because, depending on the user, the types of events that can be shared by sending or receiving may be different.

For example, "terminal G ~ ma" is set as an event notification (transmission or reception) group for new e-book information in "terminal A", and event notification (reception or transmission for new e-book information in "terminal I") is set. ) If the "terminal A-E" is set as a group, when the new e-book information is uploaded to the "terminal A" from a predetermined server, the new e-book information will be automatically sent to the "terminal I". This principle may be the same for the above-mentioned contents of music, games, etc., in addition to real-time information from a predetermined server including new e-book information. However, in the case of content, an event may be limited in the form of upgrading of content, switching to the latest version, and the like.

As described above, the short range wireless communication may include all of Wi-Max, Zigbee, Bluetooth, and the like. For example, in the case of applying Bluetooth, if the short range wireless communication network is replaced with the Bluetooth communication module and the short range wireless communication module is replaced with the Bluetooth module, the following descriptions may be common. Wi-Max and Zigbee A description of the invention to which (Zigbee) is applied will be omitted to avoid unnecessary duplication.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a control method of an e-book device capable of short-range wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, an operation procedure of a control method of an e-book terminal capable of short-range wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2.

First, neighboring terminals capable of short-range wireless communication are searched by the e-book terminal 100 (S101).

The e-book device 100 registers the searched devices to generate a communication list (S102). The generation of the communicable list and the communicable list is the same as described above with reference to FIG.

At least one of the terminals registered in the communication list is selected to attempt a communication connection between the terminals (S103).

In more detail with respect to the communication connection (Paring), when there is a signal of a communication connection request from one terminal, the other terminal receiving the request allows the communication connection and the connection between the terminals. After that, when the communication connection completion signal is sent from the other terminal, the communication connection between the two terminals is in a state (not shown). In this state, as described later, content transmission or event notification (requires event notification connection) can be performed.

The content to be transmitted is selected from one of the terminals that are connected to the communication (Paring) (S104).

At least one other terminal among the terminals connected to the communication is selected, and the predetermined content is transmitted (S105).

Thereafter, when the "content reception completion" signal is transmitted from the terminal receiving the content and transmitted to the terminal that transmitted the content, the content transmission is completed (not shown). Preferably, the communication connection may be changed to a low power mode according to "content reception completion".

3 is a flowchart illustrating another control method of an e-book device capable of short-range wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an event notification group of an e-book device according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is explanatory drawing.

Hereinafter, an operation procedure for a control method of an e-book terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

First, peripheral terminals capable of short-range wireless communication are searched by the e-book terminal 100 (S201).

The e-book terminal 100 generates a communication enabled list by registering the searched terminals (S202).

At least one of the terminals registered in the communicable list is selected to attempt a communication connection between the terminals (S203).

A predetermined event notification group is established between a plurality of terminals which are connected by communication (S204).

When an event occurs from at least one terminal of the event notification group, the event is transmitted to the remaining terminals of the event notification group (S205).

Referring to FIG. 4, the setting of the event notification group and the event transmission will be described in more detail. Since the communication connection has been described in detail with reference to FIG. 2, assuming that the communication connection has already been made, an event notification group is first designated by the terminal users. As described above with reference to FIG. 1, an event notification transmission or reception group may be designated, and a group may be designated differently for each event.

As shown in Fig. 4, "terminal A" is included in the "terminal A" in the stock information event group (transmission), and "terminal A" is included in the securities information event group (incoming) in the "terminal I". Assume that there is. When the event notification group is set up as described above, when a securities information-related event such as a new securities-related news occurs in the "terminal A", the event will be automatically transmitted to the real-time "terminal i" (in some cases, the event transmission and reception). May be implemented more simply as a group).

Thereafter, when the event reception completion signal is transmitted from the terminal receiving the event and transmitted to the terminal transmitting the event, content transmission corresponding to the event is completed (not shown). Preferably, the communication connection may be changed to a low power mode according to "event reception completion".

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims It can be understood that

The present invention relates to an e-book terminal and a control method thereof, and more particularly, to an e-book terminal and a control method thereof capable of content transmission between terminals using wireless short-range communication.

Accordingly, contents can be directly transmitted without a computer or a content providing server between terminals connected to the wireless local area communication, and when an event occurs from any one of the terminals set as the event notification group, the event notification group is set. The real time event may be transmitted to the remaining terminals.

1 is an explanatory diagram for short-range wireless communication between e-book terminals according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a control method of an e-book device capable of short-range wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating another control method of an e-book device capable of short-range wireless communication according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is an explanatory diagram for setting an event notification group of an e-book device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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100: e-book reader

200: another terminal capable of short-range wireless communication

Claims (11)

An e-book device capable of short-range wireless communication, A communicable list generation unit searching for a terminal capable of short-range wireless communication within a predetermined distance and generating a communicable list based on the found terminal; A communication connection unit for selecting at least one of the terminals in the communication list to communicate with each other; A content transmission unit which selects content to be transmitted from any one terminal of the communication connection terminal and transmits the content to at least one other terminal of the communication connection terminal; And Setting a predetermined event notification group between the terminals connected to the communication, and when the event occurs from at least one terminal among the set event notification groups, transmitting the event to the remaining terminals of the event notification group. E-book terminal comprising an event transmission unit. delete delete The method of claim 1, The event (event), E-book terminal comprising a real-time information transmitted from a predetermined server and the content provided from any one terminal of the event notification group. The method according to claim 1 or 4, The short range wireless communication is an e-book terminal, characterized in that the Bluetooth (Bluetooth) communication. delete delete In the control method of the e-book terminal capable of short-range wireless communication, Searching for a terminal within a predetermined distance from which the short range wireless communication is possible; Generating a communicable list based on the retrieved terminal; Selecting at least one of the terminals in the communicable list to establish a communication connection between the terminals; Setting a predetermined event notification group between the terminals connected to the communication; And And when the event occurs in at least one terminal in the set event notification group, transmitting the event to the remaining terminals in the event notification group. delete The method of claim 8, The event (event), And a content provided from any one terminal of the event notification group and real time information transmitted from a predetermined server. The method according to claim 8 or 10, The short range wireless communication is a control method of an e-book terminal, characterized in that Bluetooth (Bluetooth) communication.

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