Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kiran Bharadwaj Vedula

Jun-Hyung Kim

Jong-Hyo Lee

Karthik Srinivasa Gopalan

Dong-Shin Jung

In-Young Shin

Subramanian Krishnamoorthy

Sreekanth Siddapur Channakeshava

Se-Hee Han

Joo-Yeol Lee

Venkateswar Jeedigunta

Satish Nanjunda Swamy Jamadagni

Mayuresh Madhukar Patil

Deepraj Prabhakar Patkar

In-young Shin

A-Ram Cho

Arif Husen Mujawar

Venu Madhav Musham

Aram Cho

Methods and apparatuses are provided for sharing contents with a sink device in a wireless communication system. A first set of information is received from at least one sink device. A connection is established to the at least one sink device based on the first set of information. Capability information of the at least one sink device is received. A second set of information related to the capability information is sent to the at least one sink device.

Method and apparatus for controlling content shared between devices in wireless communication system

Provided is a method for displaying application data in a wireless communication system, the method including transmitting, by a first device, audio and video data out of application data executed by the first device to a second device in a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) Display (WFD) session, if the WFD session is established through discovery between the first device and the second device, transmitting, by the first device, text or Graphic User Interface (GUI) data related to the transmitted audio and video data, to the second device in a session that is different from the WFD session, and receiving, by the first device, a close command for the application data and sending a message comprising a set parameter for stopping display of the text or GUI data to the second device.

Method and apparatus for displaying application data in wireless communication system

Provided is a method for playing multimedia contents in a first device of a communication system, the method including receiving a buffer storage capability of a second device from the second device, upon receiving a User Backward Seek (UIBC) command from the second device, determining a play position from which multimedia contents are to be played according to the UIBC command in a buffer of the second device based on the buffer storage capability of the second device, and notifying the second device of information about the determined play position.

Method and apparatus for playing multimedia contents in a communication

A method for providing contents in a communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: discovering multiple synchronization devices which will communicate with a source device and identifying device types of the discovered multiple synchronization devices; generating multiple contents for the multiple synchronization devices on the basis of the identified device types; and providing each of the generated multiple contents to a corresponding synchronization device, wherein each of the device types is determined according to at least one among the capacity, type, and function of the device.

Method and device for providing contents in communication system

Methods and apparatuses are provided for supporting data transmission by a wireless docking center. A first single hop communication link is established with a peripheral device configured to receive content data. A second single hop communication link is established with a dockee device configured to transmit the content data. At least one of a message and the content data is transferred from the second communication link to the first communication link.

Proxy based communication scheme in docking structure

Disclosed is a method by a docking center of assisting communication between a dockee and a peripheral device to which the docking center is connected, including transmitting, as a group owner of a first group, to the dockee, information for a direct connection between the dockee and the peripheral device, receiving an assist request for setting the direct connection based on the information, transmitting a response indicating whether the assist request is accepted, receiving a release request for releasing a connections between the dockee and the docking center and between the docking center and the peripheral device, terminating control of the peripheral device, receiving a joining request for requesting to join a second group, transmitting a response for joining the second group as a client, the dockee being set as a second group owner, and operating as the group owner of the first group and the client of the second group.

Method and apparatus for directly connecting dockee device to peripheral device in a wireless docking network

The present invention relates to an automatic switching method. A device according to an embodiment of the present invention is an automatic switching device in a second device, which comprises a controller for enabling the second device, together with a first device, to perform a terminal discovery and a service discovery, transmit a connection request message including a continuous connection field and an automatic connection mode from the second device, and receive a particular service from the first device on the basis of the information included in the connection request message, wherein the continuous connection field includes a service identifier.

Method and apparatus for automatic switching between devices

A method and device to implement virtual docking host functionality in a wireless network is disclosed. The method manages at least one docking environment device within a wireless network. Further, the method discovers at least one docking environment and docks a dockee device to at least one docking environment device.

Method and device for enabling virtual docking in a wireless network

A method and system for streaming multimedia content in a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) Display (WFD) network environment are provided. The method includes establishing a Wi-Fi display session with at least one Wi-Fi sink device by a Wi-Fi source device prior to capability negotiation with the at least one Wi-Fi sink device; streaming multimedia content to the at least one Wi-Fi sink device using a basic codec format during the Wi-Fi display session; performing capability negotiation with the at least one Wi-Fi sink device substantially simultaneously with streaming the multimedia content using the basic codec format during the Wi-Fi display session; and seamlessly continuing to stream the multimedia content to the at least one Wi-Fi sink device using a codec format negotiated during the capability negotiation.

Method and system for streaming multimedia content in a wireless fidelity display network environment

A method and system for establishing a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) Direct (WFD) connection between Wi-Fi devices are provided. The method includes transmitting, by a source Wi-Fi device, a probe request frame indicating a first set of parameters through a pre-defined channel, wherein the first set of parameters comprises a persistence capability and persistence information; receiving a probe response frame indicating a second set of parameters from a destination Wi-Fi device, wherein the second set of parameters comprises discovery information associated with the destination Wi-Fi device; persistently storing the discovery information associated with the destination Wi-Fi device at the source Wi-Fi device; and establishing a WFD connection with the destination Wi-Fi device using the persistently stored discovery information.

Method and system for establishing wireless fidelity direct (WFD) connection in a WFD network environment

A method and system for transmitting data based on deterministic quality of service by at least one peripheral device in a communication network is disclosed. The method includes exchanging reservation information with peripheral devices in the communication network, negotiating traffic specification (TSPEC) with the at least one peripheral device for at least one traffic type, based on the reservation information, establishing a quality of service associated with the at least one traffic type, using the TSPEC, reserving a wireless medium based on the established quality of service associated with the at least one traffic type and transmitting data through the reserved wireless medium, based on the quality of service and reservation information.

Method and system for providing deterministic quality of service for communication devices

A selective event message receiving method is provided, in which an application is installed in a controlled device (CD) by using a network, a start message which includes a parameter specifying at least one service included in the application and requests a start of the application is transmitted to the CD, and an event message that represents a state change of the at least one service specified by the parameter is received from the CD. Accordingly, the application can be efficiently managed by selectively recognizing state changes of some services of interest from among the services included in the application.

Method of receiving/transmitting event message, controlled device, and control point

A method of setting by a docking center a direct connection between a dockee and a peripheral device in a wireless docking network is provided. The method includes grouping peripheral devices depending on each service in association with the peripheral devices and performing a setting of authorization for a corresponding group; and providing a docking service to the dockee which joins in the group while supporting a direct connection with at least one of the peripheral devices.

A method in which a control device controls at least one of a plurality of terminal devices is provided. The method includes transmitting a search request for requesting information on a location of each of a plurality of terminal devices, and information on a direction of each of the plurality of terminal devices based on a direction in which the control device is directed, receiving a response corresponding to the transmitted search request, determining at least one of the plurality of terminal devices that are controllable from among the plurality of terminal devices based on the received response, and controlling the determined at least one of the plurality of terminal devices that are controllable.

Method and apparatus for controlling device

A method for controlling a transparent tunnel mode operation in a Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system supporting a wireless docking protocol is provided. The method includes performing a group join process and a provisioning process for security keys with a Wireless Docking Center (WDC); accessing services of a Wireless Docking Environment (WDN); selecting an operating mode between the WD and the WDC as a transparent tunnel mode; performing a process of getting information related to a peripheral with the WDC; requesting the WDC to enable a monitor mode and a promiscuous mode; and transmitting/receiving a data packet using the information related to the peripheral with the peripheral if a Miracast connection and a docking session are established between the WD and the peripheral.

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Kiran Bharadwaj Vedula