Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Je-Young Maeng

Se-Hee Han

Joo-Yeol Lee

Dong-Shin Jung

Mayuresh Madhukar Patil

Fei Fei Feng

Ho-Yeon Park

Arun Prasath Ramamoorthy

Jun-Hyung Kim

Seong-Ho Cho

Young-Sun Ryu

Jun-hyung Kim

Sung-Jin Park

Jong-Hyo Lee

Tae-Sung Park

Tae-sung Park

Ki-Chul Park

Mahfuzur Rahman

Venkateswar Jeedigunta

Ki-chul Park

Bae-eun Jung

Russell A Berkoff

Hae-taek Jung

Hae-Taek Jung

Mahfuxur Rahman

See-Hee Han

Fei-Fei Feng

Bae-Eun Jung

A method and system for providing calendar services in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) home network environment is provided. The method includes creating a calendar event in a UPnP calendar when a request for creating the calendar event is received by the TS from one of Telephony Control Points (TelCPs) in the UPnP home network environment; determining whether the created calendar event meets predetermined conditions; and triggering a notification, indicating that the calendar event meets the predetermined conditions, to the TelCPs in the UPnP home network environment when the calendar event meets the predetermined conditions.

Method and system for providing calendar services in a universal plug and play home network environment

A method of giving a monopoly of a call in a call transmission/reception system using UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) includes a telephony server setting a user's authority to manage a session when the telephony server generates the session; the telephony server performing a user authentication when the telephony server receives a call for an action for managing the session from a control point; and the control point performing the action for managing the session if a user of the control point has an authority to manage the session as the result of authentication.

Method and apparatus for giving monopoly of call in call transmission/reception system using UPnP

A system and method of conference messaging between Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) telephony devices and Wide Area Network (WAN) devices is where a conference messaging session with WAN devices is initiated by at least one Telephony Control Point (TCP) via a session request which includes session information, media capabilities of at least one TCP, a list of WAN devices, and a subject of the conference messaging session. The conference messaging session is then established between the at least one TCP and the WAN devices by a Telephony Server (TS) in an UPnP telephony based home network based on the session request.

System and method for conference messaging between telephony devices in a first network and devices connected to a second network

A method and apparatus for playing back a scene using Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). A control point sends a request for a scene to be played back to a media server that stores Audio/Video (AV) content and receives the scene to be played back from the media server in response to the request. The control point receives information about supportable protocol and file format from a media renderer that will play back content, and determines a content resource, a protocol and a file format to be used for playback based on the information. The control point composes a scene to be played back based on the received scenes. The media renderer plays back the composed scene.

Method and apparatus for playing back scene using UPnP

A method is provided for resolving a collision of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses between devices connected to a first server and a second server remotely accessed in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) remote access service. The second server receives address information of a network of the first server from the first server. The second server compares address information of a network of the second server with the received address information of the network of the first server, and determines whether a collision has occurred between addresses of the first server and the second server. A collided address is changed when the collision has occurred.

Method and apparatus for resolving IP address collision in remote access service

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for sharing contacts entries at a Telephony Server (TS), the method including receiving a request from a Telephony Control Point coupled to the TS in a Universal Plug and Play home network to share at least one contact element associated with a contact entry with at least one recipient, retrieving the at least one contact element from a network address book in a Wide Area Network server connected to the TS or from a local address book in the TS, and sharing the at least one contact element with the at least one recipient.

Method and system for providing advanced address book functionality in a universal plug and play home network environment

A method for controlling functions of a Management Device (MD) included in a home network is provided. The method for controlling the functions of the MD by a Control Device (CD) in a home network system including the CD for controlling functions of an Electronic Device (ED) connected to a home network and the MD, the functions of which are managed by the CD, includes diagnosing at least one function performed by the MD; identifying information necessary to control the at least one function; and transmitting, to the MD, control information for controlling the at least one function, in consideration of the information necessary to control the at least one function.

Method for controlling functions of device included in home network

A method for connection between a server and a client includes discovering, by the server, a client through a device discovery procedure, transmitting device-related information of the server to the client, or receiving the device-related information from the client, connecting with the client, and performing a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) operation through the connection.

Method and apparatus for connection between client and server

Methods and apparatus are provided for establishing a parallel call session based on a 3-Box architecture. Connection information of a first electronic device is received from a first control point. A video call request message is generated for requesting setup for a video call. The video call request message includes the connection information of the first electronic device. The video call request message is sent to a second mobile device. The connection information of the first electronic device is transmitted to a second control point, to request video call setup.

Apparatus and method for setting up parallel call session based on 3-Box architecture

A method of controlling a receiving input device is provided. The method includes receiving input data corresponding to a first input type from a transmitting input device; changing an input type from the first input type to a second input type; informing the transmitting input device of the change of input type; receiving a report descriptor indicating whether the transmitting input device can transmit input data corresponding to the second input type or not from the transmitting input device; and receiving input data corresponding to the second input type from the transmitting input device or another transmitting input device according to the report descriptor.

Method and apparatus for changing input type in input system using universal plug and play

A method and system for transferring a file from a home network to Wide Area Network (WAN) user device using the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) telephony service are provided. A request is received from a Telephony Control Point (TCP) to start a file transfer session. The request can include information associated with the file. The file transfer session is established using a messaging service based on the request and file information received in the request from the TCP. The file is fetched from the TCP and stored in the TS. An invite is sent to the WAN user device for initiating the file transfer session from the home network to the WAN user device. The file is transferred to the WAN user device when an acknowledgment of the invite is received from the WAN user device.

System and method for file transfer in universal plug and play telephony service

The present invention provides a method and system for managing contact information in a universal plug and play (UPnP) home network environment. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of a telephony server (TS) for providing contact information to a telephony control point (TelCP) in a universal plug and play home network environment. The method includes receiving a request for providing contact information updates associated with at least one contact entry from the TelCP connected to the TS in an UPnP home network environment. The method further includes obtaining the requested contact information updates from an address book associated with the at least one contact entry. The method also includes providing the obtained contact information updates associated with the at least one contact entry to the TelCP.

Method and system for managing contact information in a universal plug and play home network environment

A method of providing a home network telephony service, in which a first mobile communication terminal having a phone call connection with a second mobile communication terminal provides a phone communication service by using a first electronic device connected to a home network of the first mobile communication terminal is provided. The method includes transmitting a call initiation request message, including an address of the first electronic device, and making a request for a phone call connection using the first electronic device in response to the phone call to the second mobile communication terminal; receiving a response message in response to the call initiation request message from the second mobile communication terminal; and transmitting a call initiation request message including the address of the second electronic device and making a request to the first electronic device to originate a call to the second electronic device.

Method and apparatus for phone communication using home network

A method for protecting personal information in a home network is provided, in which a controlled device receives a subscribe request for a service of the controlled device, from a control point, and accepts the subscribe request. The controlled device receives information about the control point from the control point, and performs event delivery to the control point according to a policy that is set based on the information about the control point, when an event occurs in the controlled device.

Method and apparatus for protecting personal information in a home network

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for processing multiple inputs from a plurality of users in a home network. A control point requests electronic devices in the home network to transmit input capability information, receives the input capability information as a response to the request from the electronic devices, and performs session setup using the input capability information by determining a receiver for receiving input signals and at least two senders for sending input signals. The control point transmits input signals transmitted by the at least two senders to the receiver.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Je-Young Maeng