ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION RELEATED TO BROADCASTING VIEWING

• Main Authors: KIM, JU YOUNG, HA, HYE SOOK, SUH, MYONG WON
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 24.05.2013
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PURPOSE: An electronic device and a watching information providing method are provided to automatically obtain information for recommendation object content and to share the information through social network environment, thereby enabling users of the social network environment to conveniently recommend and use the content. CONSTITUTION: A control unit senses a user action which requests a broadcast ranking(S430). The control unit requests the broadcast ranking to a relay server(S431). A network interface unit receives a display page from the relay server(S432). The display page is displayed(S433). A tuner unit tunes a channel which is indicated by extracted broadcast information corresponding to a feed selection action(S434,S435). A received real-time broadcast program is displayed(S436). [Reference numerals] (AA) Start; (BB) End; (S430) Detect user action for requesting a broadcast rank; (S431) Request the broadcast rank to a relay server; (S432) Receive a display page; (S433) Display the received display page; (S434) Detect the user action for selecting feeds; (S435) Extract broadcast information about a real time broadcast program related to the feed; (S436) Display the real time broadcast program; (S437) Detect the user action for selecting a user included in the feed; (S438) Connect to an SNS account of the selected user; (S439) Transmit the broadcast information about the displayed real time broadcast program