US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 4 for "Apparatus and method for informing of available devices in contents sharing network" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,991, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for informing of available devices in contents sharing network" was invented by Sang-Tae Na (Naju-si, South Korea), Jin-Wook Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Young-Ki Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Chul-Seung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contents sharing network is provided. An operating method of a control device includes determining a current state of possible states in a contents sharing process over a network; and displaying an icon indicating the current state among a plurality of predefined ic...