Mobile terminal, home appliance and method for operating the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9407330-B2
Application number	US-201314043537-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 1, 2013
Priority date	Oct 4, 2012
Publication date	Aug 2, 2016
Grant date	Aug 2, 2016

Abstract

A mobile terminal, a home appliance and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating the mobile terminal includes displaying a product registration screen, performing tagging to a home appliance, receiving product information of the home appliance from the home appliance based on the tagging, and transmitting the product information to a server. Accordingly, it is possible to conveniently perform product registration of the home appliance.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for operating a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
accessing a server;
downloading a home appliance related application from the server;
installing the home appliance related application in the mobile terminal;
in response to an execution input for the home appliance related application, executing the home appliance application;
performing login to the server during the executing of the home appliance related application;
displaying a product registration screen according to selection of a product registration item of the home appliance related application;
performing tagging to a home appliance;
receiving product information of the home appliance from the home appliance based on the tagging;
in response to the receiving of the product information of the home appliance, changing a reception flag for notifying that the home appliance product information has been received;
transmitting the product information to the server;
receiving a request for transmission of user information from the server; and
transmitting the user information from the mobile terminal to the server;
receiving product registration result information from the server;
displaying the product registration result information; and
receiving state information of the home appliance if the tagging to the home appliance is performed when the home appliance is out of order,
wherein the state information includes information about a part which does not operate upon failure, failure time information, and/or operation information upon failure.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising displaying an object indicating whether product registration is performed according to the receiving of the product information if the product information of the home appliance is received.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying a list of adjacent access point devices, in order to transmit the product information to the server; and
selecting any one access point device from the list,
wherein transmission of the product information to the server is performed using the selected access point device.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
if the user information is not stored in the mobile terminal, displaying a screen for user information input.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitting the user information includes transmitting the user information pre-stored in the mobile terminal if user information transmission is accepted.

6. A mobile terminal comprising:
a display;
a near field communication (NFC) module configured to receive product information of a home appliance by tagging to the home appliance;
a communication module configured to perform data communication with a server; and
a controller configured;
access a server;
download a home appliance related application from the server;
install the home appliance related application in the mobile terminal;
in response to an execution input of the home appliance related application, execute the home appliance related application;
perform login to the server during the execution of the home appliance related application;
display a product registration screen according to selection of a product registration item of the executed home appliance related application;
receive the product information of the home a through the NEC module;
transmit the product information to the server;
receive product registration result information from the server;
display the product registration result information; and
receive state information of the home appliance if a tagging of the home appliance is performed when the home appliance is out of order,
wherein the state information includes information about a part which does not operate upon failure, failure time information, and/or operation information upon failure.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 6 , wherein the controller executes a home appliance related application and, if a product registration item of the application is selected, controls display of a product registration screen corresponding to the selected product registration item.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 6 , wherein, if the product information of the home appliance is received, the controller controls display of an object indicating whether product registration is performed according to product information reception.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 6 , wherein:
the display displays a list of adjacent access point devices in order to transmit the product information to the server, and
if any one access point device is selected from the list, the controller controls transmission of the product information to the server using the selected access point device.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 6 , wherein if the user information is not stored in the mobile terminal, the controller of the mobile terminal controls the display to display a screen for user information input.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 6 ,
wherein the NFC module includes:
a memory to store the product information received from the home appliance;
an NFC controller to, in response to the receiving of the product information of the home appliance, change a reception notifying to the controller that the home appliance product information has been received,
wherein the communication module:
receives a request for transmission of user information from the server; and
transmits the user information from the server.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Jeon Chansung
• Park Sangbae

Classifications

• H04B5/24 Primary

  Inductive coupling · CPC title

• H04B5/0031 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W48/20

  Selecting an access point · CPC title

• H04W4/00

  Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor · CPC title

• H04B1/40 Primary

  Circuits · CPC title