Patent ID: 7783775
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system configured for providing multimedia content continuously for allowing a plurality of multiple co-located users to move to a different place, during presentation of the multimedia content, so that both the moving and non-moving users continuously remain as audience of said presentation, said system comprising: a network for transmitting data; a stationary display device for outputting first multimedia content to the plurality of co-located users; a first multimedia user terminal of a first user of a plurality of co-located users for controlling the stationary display device and for optionally receiving the first multimedia content received through said network in a separate transmission than from said stationary display device; a second multimedia user terminal of a second user of the plurality of co-located users for controlling the stationary display device and for requesting continuous provision of said first multimedia content through said network that is received in separate transmissions than from said stationary display device, and outputting second multimedia content corresponding to the request; and a contents server for delivering said second multimedia content to at least said second multimedia user terminal separately while said stationary display device is continuously delivered content controlled by said first multimedia user terminal, wherein said contents server forms said second multimedia content out of a part of said first multimedia content remaining, the remaining part being a portion remaining at a particular point of time at which the continuous provision of said first multimedia content has requested; wherein said plurality of co-located users comprises at least two or more users continuously receiving the same multimedia content independent of each other seamlessly after at least one co-located user of the stationary display device moves to a different location and receives the multimedia content via one of the first multimedia user terminal or the second multimedia user terminal; a transceiver for delivering said first multimedia content and second multimedia content respectively to said first and second multimedia user terminals according to the context information of said first and second multimedia user terminals received; a context retrieval device for retrieving the received context information from said transceiver; a context analyzer for analyzing the context information retrieved by said context retrieval device; a server controller for generating a control signal; a contents database (DB) for storing multimedia content and for selectively supplying multimedia content the DB has stored; a contents generator configured for the forming of said second multimedia content delivered through said transceiver, said forming being performed, according to the analyzed context information, by use of the multimedia content selectively supplied from said contents DB; and a contents controller for controlling said contents DB to supply selected multimedia content to said contents generator, according to said control signal received from said server controller, so as to make said contents generator perform said forming.