Patent ID: 9277277
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a display unit; a network interface configured to receive a content from a content provider through a network; and a controller configured to: measure data transmission speed or data reception speed for each of a plurality of services, detect a network state for each one of the plurality of services using the measured data transmission speed or data reception speed, control the display unit to display, differently, on a screen, a plurality of service icons according to the detected network state for each service, wherein the plurality of service icons that respectively correspond to the plurality of services includes a first service and a second service, wherein the first service corresponds to a first service icon and the second service corresponds to a second service icon, the first service icon corresponds to a first content provided through the first service, and the second service icon corresponds to a second content provided through the second service, the first content and the second content being a same content, and the network state of the first service is better than the network state of the second service, and highlight the first content corresponding to the first service icon when a pointer is provided on the second service icon to indicate the network state of the first content corresponding to the first service icon highlighted is better than the network state of the second service icon.