Patent ID: 8667112

Claim:
A smart device for interacting with at least one associated smart terminal connected via a network, the smart device comprising: a memory; a display unit; and a processor coupled to the memory and the display unit and the processor configured to: identify the at least one associated smart terminal upon activation in the network, the at least one associated smart terminal includes at least one of an associated smart device and an associated smart appliance; determine a mode of the smart device based on an application currently executed on a user experience environment of the smart device upon receiving data from one of the at least one associated smart terminal, wherein each application accessed by the smart device is preconfigured with either a mode to process data from any of the at least one associated smart terminal or a mode to block the data from said any of the at least one associated smart terminal; and display a message which notifies a receipt of the data from the one of the at least one associated smart terminal on the display unit if the mode of the smart device is determined as the mode to process the data from the one of the at least one associated smart terminal and mask the receipt of the data from the one of the at least one associated smart terminal if the mode of the smart device is determined as the mode to block the data from the one of the at least one associated smart terminal, wherein the mode of the smart device is automatically changed based on a temporal basis or a regional basis.