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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 09, 2012
Applicants:

Uniyoung Kim, Seoul, KR;

Saehun Jang, Seoul, KR;

Gangseub Lee, Seoul, KR;

Hyungnam Lee, Seoul, KR;

Mohan Krishna Ranganathan, Seoul, KR;

Samavarthy Challagali, Seoul, KR;

Raja Rathinavel, Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Uniyoung Kim, Seoul, KR;

Saehun Jang, Seoul, KR;

Gangseub Lee, Seoul, KR;

Hyungnam Lee, Seoul, KR;

Mohan Krishna Ranganathan, Seoul, KR;

Samavarthy Challagali, Seoul, KR;

Raja Rathinavel, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multi-functional display device having a channel map and a method for controlling the same are disclosed herein. The multi-functional display device may include a display, an input interface, a network interface for communicating with at least one second multi-functional display device, and a controller for controlling a display of the channel map and content associated with a channel selected in the channel map. The channel map may include a first channel number associated with a broadcast channel and a channel name for the first channel, and a second channel number associated with a social network service (SNS) account for an individual or entity and an SNS channel name for the second channel.


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