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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10057632 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 01, 2016

Operating method of portable device, operating method of content reproducing device, portable device, and content reproducing device

Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventor:

Je-Hwan Seo, Daegu, KR;

Assignee:

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;

Attorney:

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Dominic D Saltarelli

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/63 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/4363 (2011.01); H04N 21/647 (2011.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01); H04N 21/443 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/485 (2011.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/43615 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/1423 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/4092 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/41407 (2013.01); H04N 21/43637 (2013.01); H04N 21/4432 (2013.01); H04N 21/47217 (2013.01); H04N 21/485 (2013.01); H04N 21/647 (2013.01);
Abstract

An operation method of a portable device, an operation method of a content reproducing device, the portable device, and the content reproducing device are provided. The portable device includes a display, a communication interface configured to receive, from a content reproducing device, a signal comprising information about content being reproduced by the content reproducing device and signal intensity information of the signal; and a controller configured to determine a degree of proximity between the portable device and the content reproducing device based on the signal intensity information, and control the display to display a user interface (UI) for inquiring about whether to start continuously reproducing the content by the portable device in response to the degree of proximity satisfying a predefined condition.

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