Abstract:
Provided are a task switching method capable of rapidly and easily accessing a task of interest by using a button that may receive a touch-based input and a device for executing the task switching method. The device includes a button configured to receive an input; a display configured to display task switching screens; and a processor configured to set a task switching mode in response to the button receiving a first input, and control the display to display the task switching screens in response to the button receiving a second input.
Abstract:
A network server apparatus is provided. The network server includes a storage unit configured to store a purchase list of a pre-registered user, a communicator configured to receive a list of products of interest of a first user, a searcher configured to compare a purchase list stored in the storage unit with the list of products of interest and identify a second user who has purchased a product recorded in the list of products of interest, and a controller configured to, when the second user is identified, notify that the second user is identified to a user terminal device of one of the second user and the first user.
Abstract:
Provided are methods and apparatuses for providing contents via a network, in which original data of contents provided via a network can be traced, and contents that are modified according to performance of a contents receiving device is provided. Location information of original contents is added to metadata of contents provided via the network to thereby increase convenience of access to the original contents and modify attributes of contents that are provided, to be suitable for the performance of the contents receiving device.
Abstract:
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display configured to display an image, a command receiver configured to receive a user's command with regard to the image, and a controller configured to determine at least one correlated point included in the image by analyzing the image, to display an area corresponding to the at least one determined correlated point on the displayed image, and to control the display to display a search result corresponding to a correlated point of an area selected in accordance with the user's command among the areas corresponding to the at least one correlated point.
Abstract:
Provided are a portable apparatus and a method of connecting the portable apparatus to an external apparatus. The portable apparatus includes a communicator, a storage configured to store a connection unlock pattern and an external apparatus connection information, a touchscreen configured to display a lock screen; and a controller configured to control communicator, the storage, and the touchscreen. The controller is configured to unlock the lock screen by detecting the connection unlock pattern that is input to the lock screen, and connects the portable apparatus to the external apparatus via the communicator by using the connection unlock pattern and the external apparatus connection information.
Abstract:
A method and device for displaying service pages for executing applications, the method performed by the device and including operations of generating a plurality of page groups by grouping the service pages including objects for executing functions of the applications; in response to a page group being selected from the plurality of page groups, setting the service pages of the selected page group, as service pages to be displayed on a home screen of the device; and displaying the selected service pages included in the page group on the home screen, based on the setting.
Abstract:
A method and device for executing an application include operations of displaying an interest object on a screen of the device, in response to selection of the interest object, obtaining metadata matched with the interest object, determining an associated application associated with the interest object, executing the associated application by using the metadata as an input value to the associated application, and displaying, on the screen, a window indicating an execution result of the associated application executed by using the metadata.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses for requesting and obtaining data, in which time information is generated by use of a first device, and a data request command requesting data output by a second device is generated at a time point indicated by the time information. The generated data request command is transmitted, wherein the data request command includes the time information.
Abstract:
A method, devices, and a non-transitory recording medium for providing contents are provided. The method includes reproducing at least one content, at a first device; transmitting information corresponding to the at least one content from the first device to a second device to reproduce content corresponding to the at least one content in the second device; receiving a message from an external device while reproducing the at least one content at the first device; providing the received message while reproducing the at least one content at the first device; and transmitting information corresponding to the received message from the first device to the second device, the information corresponding to the received message being used to enable the second device to provide a message corresponding to the received message while reproducing the content corresponding to the at least one content.
Abstract:
An image display method, an image display apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The image display method includes displaying a first image in a screen of the image display apparatus, and displaying a second image including information related to the first image in one region of the screen in response to a first user command being input, wherein the information related to the first image is acquired using a user-based program stored in the image display apparatus in connection with metadata of the first image.