Patent ID: 8086715
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for providing digital contents that is included in a group consisting of a plurality of apparatuses for providing digital contents and interconnected with adjacent apparatuses for providing digital contents, comprising: a content manager that receives content tables of adjacent apparatuses for providing digital contents to update a content table of the apparatus for providing digital contents; a content search unit that refers to the updated content table to determine whether the contents requested by the user are providable contents and when the contents are the providable contents, grasps a storage location of the corresponding contents; a content transceiver that when the corresponding contents are stored in the adjacent apparatuses for providing digital contents, requests the corresponding contents to the corresponding adjacent apparatuses for providing digital contents and receives the corresponding contents from the adjacent apparatuses for providing digital contents; and a terminal information grasping unit that extracts profile information on a user terminal from the user terminal, wherein the content table includes an identifier of the apparatus for providing digital contents in which the corresponding contents are stored, wherein the content manager periodically receives the content tables of the adjacent apparatuses for providing digital contents, and wherein the profile information includes at least one information of an image compression format supported by the terminal, a spare storage space size of the terminal, screen information on the terminal, a kind of a document supported by the terminal, a moving picture compression format supported by the terminal, a main memory size of the terminal, CPU information on the terminal, platform and library version information mounted in the terminal, and a kind of libraries included in the terminal.