U.S. patent application number 11/771866 was filed with the patent office on 2008-05-29 for system, mobile terminal and method for storing data into web storage using wireless lan.
This patent application is currently assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.. Invention is credited to Jong Jin Choi, Jong Ryul KIM, Woo Soon Park.
Application Number | 20080126518 11/771866 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 38504212 |
Filed Date | 2008-05-29 |
United States Patent
Application |
20080126518 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
KIM; Jong Ryul ; et
al. |
May 29, 2008 |
SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR STORING DATA INTO WEB
STORAGE USING WIRELESS LAN
Abstract
Provided are a system, mobile terminal, and method for storing
data into a web storage using a wireless LAN service. The method
includes setting synchronization of the mobile terminal and a web
server providing a web storage service; setting data of the mobile
terminal to be stored into a web storage provided by the web
server; sensing whether the mobile terminal enters a wireless LAN
service area; connecting, if it is sensed that the mobile terminal
enters a wireless LAN service area, the mobile terminal to the web
server; and transmitting the set mobile terminal data to the web
server.
Inventors: |
KIM; Jong Ryul; (Seoul,
KR) ; Park; Woo Soon; (Seoul, KR) ; Choi; Jong
Jin; (Seoul, KR) |
Correspondence
Address: |
THE FARRELL LAW FIRM, P.C.
333 EARLE OVINGTON BOULEVARD, SUITE 701
UNIONDALE
NY
11553
US
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Assignee: |
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,
LTD.
Suwon-si
KR
|
Family ID: |
38504212 |
Appl. No.: |
11/771866 |
Filed: |
June 29, 2007 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
709/219 |
Current CPC
Class: |
H04L 63/083 20130101;
H04W 76/19 20180201; H04L 67/06 20130101; H04L 67/1095 20130101;
H04W 84/12 20130101; H04W 76/45 20180201; H04W 68/00 20130101; H04W
12/068 20210101; H04L 67/04 20130101; G06F 3/04847 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
709/219 |
International
Class: |
G06F 15/16 20060101
G06F015/16 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Jul 10, 2006 |
KR |
2006-0064631 |
Claims
1. A wireless LAN service system for storing data of a mobile
terminal into a web storage using a wireless LAN service, the
system comprising: a mobile terminal capable of using a wireless
LAN service; a wireless connection device for setting a wireless
LAN service area; and a web server providing a web storage service
for storing data of the mobile terminal.
2. The wireless LAN service system of claim 1, wherein the mobile
terminal comprises: a control unit for setting synchronization of
the web server with the mobile terminal and transmitting mobile
terminal data to the web server; a display unit for displaying a
storage completion message when the mobile terminal data is
completely stored into a web storage provided by the web server;
and a storage unit for storing an identifier of the web server
synchronized with the mobile terminal and mobile terminal data to
be transmitted to the web server.
3. The wireless LAN service system of claim 2, wherein the control
unit comprises: a setting unit for synchronizing the web server and
the mobile terminal, setting a mobile terminal user ID and password
to be used in the web server, and setting the mobile terminal data
to be stored into the web storage provided by the web server; a
sensing unit for sensing whether the mobile terminal enters or
exits the wireless LAN service area; and a transmitting unit for
transmitting the set data to the web server.
4. The wireless LAN service system of claim 3, wherein the web
server comprises: a control module for executing member
authentication by the user ID and password set in the mobile
terminal; a web storage for providing a storage space for storing
the transmitted mobile terminal data; and a file module for
executing a system file check on the transmitted data stored in the
web storage.
5. The wireless LAN service system of claim 2, wherein the mobile
terminal data contains at least one of directory data, moving image
data, still image data and MP3 music data.
6. The wireless LAN service system of claim 4, wherein, in the case
that transmitted data stored in the web storage is lost or damaged,
the system file check changes the name of the data and restores the
data into a stored version of the data.
7. A mobile terminal for storing data into a web storage using a
wireless LAN service, the mobile terminal comprising: a control
unit for setting synchronization with a web server and transmitting
data stored in the mobile terminal to the web server; a display
unit for displaying a storage completion message when the data is
completely stored into a web storage provided by the web server;
and a storage unit for storing setting data of the synchronization
of the web server and data to be transmitted to the web server.
8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the control unit
comprises: a setting unit for synchronizing the web server and the
mobile terminal, setting a mobile terminal user ID and password to
be used in the web server, and then setting mobile terminal data to
be stored into the web storage provided by the web server; a
sensing unit for sensing whether the mobile terminal enters or
exits a wireless LAN service area; and a transmitting unit
connected to the web server for transmitting the set data to the
web server.
9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the control unit obtains
member authentication from the web server by the set user ID and
password.
10. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein, if the sensing unit
senses that the mobile terminal exits the wireless LAN service area
during transmission of the set data to the web server, the
transmitting unit stops transmission of the data.
11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the transmitting unit
retransmits the mobile terminal data whose transmission was stopped
from a stopped portion of the data or from the start of the
data.
12. A method for storing mobile terminal data into a web storage
using a wireless LAN service, the method comprising: setting
synchronization of the mobile terminal and a web server providing a
web storage service; setting mobile terminal data to be stored into
a web storage provided by the web server; sensing whether the
mobile terminal enters a wireless LAN service area; connecting, if
it is sensed that the mobile terminal enters a wireless LAN service
area, the mobile terminal to the web server; and transmitting the
set mobile terminal data to the web server.
13. The method for storing the mobile terminal data of claim 12,
further comprising: setting a user ID and password subscribing to
the web server synchronized with the mobile terminal.
14. The method for storing the mobile terminal data of claim 13,
further comprising: obtaining member authentication from the web
server by the set user ID and password.
15. The method for storing the mobile terminal data of claim 12,
further comprising: stopping, if it is sensed that the mobile
terminal exits the wireless LAN service during transmission of the
set mobile terminal data to the web server, transmission of the
data.
16. The method for storing the mobile terminal data of claim 15,
further comprising: selecting, if it is sensed that the mobile
terminal, after exiting the wireless LAN service area, reenters the
wireless LAN area, retransmission of the data whose transmission
was stopped.
17. The method for storing the mobile terminal data of claim 16,
wherein retransmission of the data whose transmission was stopped
is one of retransmission from a stopped portion of the data and
retransmission from the start of the data.
18. The method for storing the mobile terminal data of claim 12,
further comprising: storing the data transmitted from the mobile
terminal into the web storage.
19. The method for storing the mobile terminal data of claim 18,
further comprising: displaying, when the mobile terminal data is
completely stored into the web storage, a storage completion
message on the mobile terminal.
Description
PRIORITY
[0001] This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C.
.sctn.119(a) to an application entitled "SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL
AND METHOD FOR STORING DATA INTO WEB STORAGE USING WIRELESS LAN"
filed in the Korean Intellectual Property Office on Jul. 10, 2006
and assigned Serial No. 2006-0064631, the contents of which are
incorporated herein by reference.
1. FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The present invention relates to a system, mobile terminal
and method for storing data in a web storage using a wireless Local
Area Network (LAN) service, and in particular, to a system and
method for storing data stored in a mobile terminal into a web
storage using a wireless LAN service when the mobile terminal
enters a wireless LAN service area, and to a mobile terminal using
the method.
2. DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART
[0003] Nowadays, using only mobile terminals, users can use various
additive functions, for example games, a digital camera, an MP3
player, a scheduler, a housekeeping book and directory functions.
Among the functions, users mainly use high-capacity services based
on multimedia data, for example, games, still image data, moving
image data and MP3 music data. However, mobile terminals have
relatively small storage spaces compared with the high-capacity
services, and thus the mobile terminals have a limitation in
storing multimedia data.
[0004] In order to improve a multimedia data storage rate of a
mobile terminal, various techniques have been introduced, for
example, to expand the capacity of an internal memory of a mobile
terminal, mounting a memory card externally on a mobile terminal,
transmitting data of a mobile terminal to a Personal Computer (PC)
using a Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable, and storing mobile
terminal data on the Internet through a wireless Internet
connection.
[0005] However, expanding the capacity of an internal memory has a
problem of increased size of a mobile terminal caused by expansion
of the size of the internal memory. Mounting a memory card
externally on a mobile terminal has a problem of carrying the
mobile terminal with a memory card so as to use multimedia data
stored in the memory card. Transmitting mobile terminal data to a
PC using a USB cable has a problem of carrying the mobile terminal
with a USB cable for connecting to a PC so as to store data stored
in the mobile terminal into the PC, otherwise it is impossible to
store data in a PC, and the PC also needs to be turned on and be
connected to the USB cable. Storing mobile terminal data on the
Internet has a relatively slower data transmission speed than
transmitting mobile terminal data to a PC, and requires connection
to a wireless Internet for data transmission, thereby increasing
costs.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0006] The present invention is made to solve the above-mentioned
problems, and therefore, the present invention provides a system,
mobile terminal and method for expanding a space for storing a
high-capacity service to a web storage, thereby reducing a storage
space limitation.
[0007] The present invention further provides a system, mobile
terminal, and method for reducing the quantity of portable
equipments required to use multimedia data stored in an external
storage device.
[0008] The present invention further provides a system and method
for simplifying a procedure for storing mobile terminal data into a
web storage, and a mobile terminal thereof.
[0009] The present invention further provides a system and method
for storing mobile terminal data into a web storage using a
wireless LAN service, thereby reducing costs, and a mobile terminal
thereof.
[0010] The present invention provides a system and method for
storing mobile terminal data into a web storage using a wireless
LAN service, and a mobile terminal thereof.
[0011] A system according to the present invention includes a
mobile terminal for sensing entry to a wireless LAN service area to
use a wireless LAN service, a wireless connection device for
setting the wireless LAN service area, a web server providing a web
storage for storing mobile terminal data, and a broadband network
for connecting the mobile terminal to the web server.
[0012] The mobile terminal may be synchronized with the web server
to transmit data stored in the mobile terminal to the web server
when of entering the wireless LAN service area.
[0013] The mobile terminal may set data to be stored into the web
storage, wherein the storable data may be, for example, a
directory, moving image data, still image data and MP3 music
data.
[0014] The web server may store data transmitted from the mobile
terminal into the web storage.
[0015] In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present
invention, there is provided a wireless LAN service system for
storing mobile terminal data into a web storage using a wireless
LAN service, which includes a mobile terminal capable of using a
wireless LAN service; a wireless connection device for setting a
wireless LAN service area; and a web server providing a web storage
service for storing mobile terminal data.
[0016] Preferably, the mobile terminal includes a control unit for
setting synchronization of the web server with the mobile terminal
and transmitting mobile terminal data to the web server; a display
unit for displaying a storage completion message when the mobile
terminal data is completely stored into a web storage provided by
the web server; and a storage unit for storing an identifier of the
web server synchronized with the mobile terminal and the mobile
terminal data to be transmitted to the web server.
[0017] Preferably, the control unit includes a setting unit for
synchronizing the web server and the mobile terminal, setting a
mobile terminal user ID and password to be used in the web server,
and setting the mobile terminal data to be stored into the web
storage provided by the web server; a sensing unit for sensing
whether the mobile terminal enters or exits the wireless LAN
service area; and a transmitting unit for transmitting the set data
to the web server.
[0018] Preferably, the web server includes a control module for
executing member authentication by the user ID and password set in
the mobile terminal; a web storage for providing a storage space
for storing the transmitted mobile terminal data; and a file module
for executing a system file check on the transmitted data stored in
the web storage.
[0019] In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present
invention, there is provided a method for storing mobile terminal
data into a web storage using a wireless LAN service, which
includes setting synchronization of a mobile terminal and a web
server providing a web storage service; setting mobile terminal
data to be stored into a web storage provided by the web server;
sensing whether the mobile terminal enters a wireless LAN service
area; if it is sensed that the mobile terminal enters a wireless
LAN service area, connecting the mobile terminal to the web server;
and transmitting the set mobile terminal data to the web
server.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0020] The objects, features, and advantages of the present
invention will become more apparent from the following detailed
description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in
which:
[0021] FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a system for storing data into
a web storage using a wireless LAN service according to an
exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
[0022] FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a main configuration
of a mobile terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the
present invention;
[0023] FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a main configuration
of a web server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present
invention;
[0024] FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a method for storing data into a
web storage using a wireless LAN service according to an exemplary
embodiment of the present invention; and
[0025] FIG. 5 is a detailed flowchart of a service-setting step for
using a wireless LAN service according to an exemplary embodiment
of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS
[0026] Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention
are described in detail with reference to the accompanying
drawings. The same reference symbols identify the same or
corresponding elements in the drawings. Detailed descriptions of
constructions or processes known in the art may be omitted to avoid
obscuring the invention in unnecessary detail.
[0027] Referring to FIG. 1, the system includes a mobile terminal
100, a wireless connection device 200, and a web server 300.
[0028] The mobile terminal 100 has a wireless LAN card therein to
use a wireless LAN service, and transmits data stored therein to
the web server 300 using the wireless LAN service. For this
purpose, as shown in FIG. 2, the mobile terminal 100 preferably
includes a wireless unit 110; an input unit 120; a control unit
130, which includes a setting unit 131, a sensing unit 132, and a
transmitting unit 133; a display unit 140; and a storage unit
150.
[0029] The wireless connection device 200 is installed to set a
wireless LAN service area. The wireless LAN service area is an area
where a wireless LAN service is available, and covers a
predetermined distance from a location where the wireless
connection device 200 is installed.
[0030] The web server 300 provides a web storage service for
storing data of the mobile terminal 100. For this purpose, as shown
in FIG. 3, the web server 300 preferably includes a control module
310, a web storage 320 and a file module 330.
[0031] A main configuration of the mobile terminal 100 is described
in detail with reference to FIG. 2. The wireless unit 110 executes
wireless communications between the mobile terminal 100 and a
mobile network. For example, the wireless unit 110 transmits and
receives voice data, text messages and multimedia messages through
a wireless network.
[0032] The input unit 120 may include keypads, touch screens, touch
pads or scroll wheels, and receives operating signals input by a
user for controlling an operation of the mobile terminal 100 and
provides the operating signals to the control unit 130.
[0033] The control unit 130 controls the whole operation to be
executed through units of the mobile terminal 100. In particular,
the control unit 130 sets synchronization of the web server 300 and
the mobile terminal 100, obtains member authentication from the web
server 300, and transmits data of the mobile terminal 100 to the
web server 300. For this purpose, the control unit 130 preferably
includes the setting unit 131, the sensing unit 132 and the
transmitting unit 133.
[0034] The setting unit 131 sets synchronization of the web server
300 and the mobile terminal 100 by a hotkey, or by a callback
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or URL address of the web server
300. The setting unit 131 also sets a specific data stored in the
mobile terminal 100 to be stored into the web storage 320. For
example, the specific data may be directory data, moving image
data, still image data, or MP3 music data. The setting unit 131
also sets a user ID and password by subscribing to the web server
300 to store the specific data into the web storage 320.
[0035] The sensing unit 132 senses whether the mobile terminal 100
enters or exits a wireless LAN service area by sensing signals of
the wireless connection device 200.
[0036] When the sensing unit 132 senses that the mobile terminal
100 enters a wireless LAN service area, the transmitting unit 133
transmits data of the mobile terminal 100 set by the setting unit
131 to the web server 300 through a broadband network. When the
sensing unit 132 senses that the mobile terminal 100 exits the
wireless LAN service area during data transmission to the web
server 300, the transmitting unit 133 stops transmission of the
data of the mobile terminal 100. Thereafter, if the sensing unit
132 senses that the mobile terminal 100 reenters the wireless LAN
service area, the transmitting unit 133 retransmits the data,
transmission of which to the web server 300 was stopped due to the
mobile terminal 100 exiting the wireless LAN service area, from a
stopped portion of transmitted data or from a start of the data
transmission.
[0037] The display unit 140 displays the state and result of
various operations executed in units of the mobile terminal 100,
and a plurality of information, by control of the control unit 130.
Particularly, when data of the mobile terminal 100 set by the
setting unit 131 is completely stored into the web storage 320, the
display unit 140 displays a storage completion message. When the
mobile terminal 100 exits the wireless LAN service area, the
display unit 140 displays a warning message informing that data
transmission has stopped. If the mobile terminal 100 reenters the
wireless LAN service area, the display unit 140 displays a message
to select whether the transmitting unit 133 should retransmit the
data whose transmission was stopped from a stopped portion of the
data or from the start of the data.
[0038] The storage unit 150 stores data (for example, a setting
state or data about a menu) related to operation of the mobile
terminal 100 by control of the control unit 130. The storage unit
150 also stores a hotkey, or a callback URL or URL address of the
web server 300 for setting synchronization of the web server 300
with the mobile terminal 100 by the setting unit 131, and stores
specific data of the mobile terminal 100 to be stored into the web
storage 320 provided by the web server 300. The storage unit 150
also stores the user ID and password required for connection to the
web server 300 set by the setting unit 131.
[0039] Referring to FIG. 3, the control module 310 controls the
whole operation to be executed in the units of the web server 300.
Particularly, the control module 310 executes member authentication
through the user ID and password set in the mobile terminal
100.
[0040] The web storage 320 stores data of the mobile terminal 100
transmitted to the web server 300 through a broadband network by
control of the control module 310.
[0041] In the case that specific data stored in the web storage 320
is lost or damaged, the file module 330 executes a system file
check by changing the name of the data and restoring the data into
a stored version of the data by control of the control module
310.
[0042] Referring to FIG. 4, the control unit performs setting of
the mobile terminal 100 and the web server 300 so as to transmit
data of the mobile terminal 100 to the web server 300 (S10). Step
S10 of performing setting is described in detail with reference to
FIG. 5 as follows.
[0043] Referring to FIG. 5, the control unit 130 sets
synchronization of the web server 300 and the mobile terminal 100
by a hotkey, a callback URL or a URL address so as to store
specific data stored in the storage unit 150 of the mobile terminal
100 into the web storage 320 provided by the web server 300, in
step S11. The control unit 130 sets the user ID and password for
connection to the web server 300 set at step S11, in step S12, then
sets the specific data stored in the storage unit 150 of the mobile
terminal 100 to be stored into the web storage 150, in step S13.
The specific data may be directory data, moving image data, still
image data or MP3 music data. The specific data may be set by the
user whenever the mobile terminal 100 enters the wireless LAN
service area, or may be set previously by the user to be
automatically executed when the mobile terminal 100 enters the
wireless LAN service area. Preferably, performing setting at step
S10 is executed by the setting unit 131 of the control unit
130.
[0044] The control unit 130 senses whether the mobile terminal 100
enters the wireless LAN service area having the wireless connection
device 200, in step S20. Preferably, the sensing is executed by the
sensing unit 132 of the control unit 130.
[0045] If the control unit 130 senses that the mobile terminal 100
enters the wireless LAN service area, the control unit 130
transmits the user ID and password set for connection to the web
server 300 to determine whether the user of the mobile terminal 100
is authenticated by the web server 300 as a member of the web
server 300 in step S30. Member authentication may be obtained by
inputting the ID and password whenever the mobile terminal 100 is
connected to the web server 300, or may be obtained when
synchronization of the mobile terminal 100 with the web server 300
is executed, and thus in the case of reconnection, the
authentication step may be omitted.
[0046] If the user is authenticated as a member of the web server
300, the control unit 130 is connected to the web server 300 in
step S40.
[0047] The control unit 130 then transmits the set specific data of
the mobile terminal 100 to the web server 300 through a broadband
network in step S50. Preferably, the transmission of the data is
executed by the transmitting unit 133 of the control unit 130.
[0048] The sensing unit 132 of the control unit 130 senses whether
the mobile terminal exits the wireless LAN service area during data
transmission in step S60. If the mobile terminal 100 exits the
wireless LAN service area during data transmission, the control
unit 130 controls the display unit 140 to display a warning message
notifying that data transmission is stopped and controls the
transmission unit 133 to stop data transmission to the web server
300 in step S70.
[0049] The sensing unit 132 of the control unit 130 senses whether
the mobile terminal 100 reenters the wireless LAN service area in
step S80. If the mobile terminal 100 reenters the wireless LAN
service area, the control unit 130 determines whether to retransmit
the data whose transmission was stopped in step S90. If the data is
to be retransmitted, the transmission unit 133 retransmits the data
from a stopped portion of the data or from the start of the data in
step S100.
[0050] If the mobile terminal 100 does not exit the wireless LAN
service area at step S60, the control unit 100 continues
transmission of the set specific data to the web server 300 through
a broadband network, and the process continues at step S110.
[0051] The web storage 320 of the web server 300 stores the data
transmitted from the transmitting unit 133 of the mobile terminal
100 by control of the control module 310 in step S110.
[0052] When the data transmitted from the transmitting unit 133 of
the mobile terminal 100 to the web server 300 is completely stored
into the web storage 320, the control unit 130 controls the display
unit 140 to display a storage completion message in step S120.
[0053] As described above, the present invention has an effect of
expanding a storage space for storing mobile terminal data to a web
storage, thereby reducing a limitation of the storage space.
[0054] The present invention also has an effect of storing data of
a mobile terminal into a web storage without requiring a connecting
cable between the mobile terminal and a PC, thereby overcoming a
problem of limited space and equipment.
[0055] Further, the present invention has an effect of storing data
of a mobile terminal into a web storage in a wireless LAN service
area, thereby reducing costs rendered in connection to a wireless
Internet.
[0056] While exemplary embodiments of the present invention have
been shown and described in this specification, it will be
understood by those skilled in the art that various changes or
modifications of the embodiments are possible without departing
from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the
appended claims.
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