KR101198943B1 - Method and apparatus for providing contents - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for providing content, the method of providing content in a terminal, the method of requesting the registration of a keyword related to the content to be provided to the content providing server, and from the content providing server, Receiving information about content corresponding to the requested keyword, and transmitting a request for providing the content to the content providing server, wherein the information about the content is provided by the content providing server. Information about the found content by periodically searching for the content corresponding to the.

Description

Apparatus and method for providing contents in a broadcasting system {METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing content in a broadcast system, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for providing content of interest.

Recently, as a terminal equipped with various applications is commercialized, it is possible to use a broadcast service such as a video on demand (VOD) service through the terminal. For example, in the broadcast service, a terminal accesses a content providing server through various networks, and the terminal can download and play various genres of contents provided from the content providing server.

Such a terminal has a recording function for recording various content data in a storage such as a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), and a flash memory, and then playing and watching the content at a desired time. It may be provided.

On the other hand, the terminal searches for and reserves the reservation recording information arbitrarily set by the user, and performs a series of operations such as automatically downloading and watching or reserved recording of content such as a movie provided by an arbitrary content providing server at a specific time. .

However, in order to set the related information for reservation recording, the user has to go through a series of processes of selecting and specifying a desired content after searching a lot of content information provided by the content providing server by using the terminal.

In addition, if the content desired by the user is not yet serviced by the content providing server, it is not inquired by the user's search. Therefore, the request for service provision or the scheduled recording of the content cannot be made. There is no solution yet.

In addition, generally, reservation recording is set in a limited space through a TV, a monitor, or the like.

Accordingly, an embodiment of the present invention provides a content receiving method and an apparatus therefor that can receive information on a desired content without a user searching.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, if the content desired by the user does not exist in the content providing server, but the corresponding content is generated later, the user can receive the information about the content through the terminal and a system for the same To provide.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention provides a content receiving method and a system for receiving and recording the content desired by the user anytime, anywhere through at least one of the terminal and the content receiving device.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention provides a content receiving method and system for allowing a user to reserve / record a desired content anytime, anywhere through at least one of a terminal and a content receiving device.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a method of providing a content in a terminal includes requesting a content providing server to register a keyword associated with a content to be provided, and providing information on content corresponding to the requested keyword from the content providing server. Receiving and transmitting the content providing request to the content providing server;
The information about the content is information about the content found by the content providing server periodically searches for the content corresponding to the requested keyword,
The transmitting may include identifying a device to which the content is to be received, and transmitting a request for providing the content including information about a result of the checking.

Contents providing method in a content providing server according to the present invention, the terminal receiving a request for registration of a keyword associated with the content to be provided from the terminal, registering the keyword, corresponding to the registered keyword When one of the generation and update of the content is confirmed, the process of transmitting the information about the identified content to the terminal, receiving the request for providing the content from the terminal, and in response to the providing request Process of providing content,
The information on the content is information on the searched content by the content providing server periodically searching for the content corresponding to the requested keyword, and the request for providing the content is to a target to which the content providing server should transmit the content. It is characterized by including information about.

The apparatus for providing content in a terminal according to the present invention comprises the steps of requesting registration of a keyword related to content to be provided, receiving information on content corresponding to the requested keyword from the content providing server, and providing the content. A control unit for transmitting a request for providing the content to a server,
The information on the content is information on the searched content by the content providing server periodically searching for the content corresponding to the requested keyword, and the control unit includes information on a result of confirming a device to receive the content. And transmitting a request message for providing the content.

The content providing apparatus in the content providing server according to the present invention receives a request for registration of a keyword related to content to be provided by a terminal from the terminal, registers the requested keyword, and registers the requested keyword. A control unit for transmitting the information about the identified content to the terminal when receiving the occurrence or update, and receiving the request for providing the content from the terminal, and then providing the content in response to the request for providing the content. Including;
The information on the content is information on the searched content by the content providing server periodically searching for the content corresponding to the requested keyword, and the request for providing the content is to a target to which the content providing server should transmit the content. It is characterized by including information about.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a user may receive information on desired content later without additional search by only inputting a single search word for desired content.

In addition, when the content desired by the user does not exist in the content providing server, but the corresponding content is generated later, the user may receive information about the corresponding content through the terminal.

In addition, the user may play / record desired content anytime, anywhere through at least one of the terminal and the content receiving device.

1 is a view showing the configuration of a content providing system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a flowchart illustrating a content receiving method in a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a view showing a content providing operation in a content providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a diagram illustrating a signaling operation for providing content in a content providing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
5 is a diagram illustrating a signaling operation for providing content in a content providing system according to a second embodiment of the present invention;
6 is a diagram illustrating a signaling operation for providing content in a content providing system according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, specific details appear in the following description, which is provided to help a more general understanding of the present invention, and it is obvious to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. Will do.

The term 'contents' used below is a production of all formats that can be provided to a user, and various formats such as sound source contents and video contents are possible. For example, video content such as movies, dramas, TV programs, User Contents Creation (UCC), TV commercials, VOD (Video on Demand), or audio content such as music, language education materials, AOD (Audio on Demand), and audio commercials. It is a term referring to all of them.

1 is a view showing the configuration of a content providing system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The content providing system basically includes a content providing server 110, a terminal 130, and a content receiving device 150.

The content providing server 110 may be in various forms, such as a broadcasting server for a broadcaster or a web server operated by an Internet service provider, and may refer to any type of device for providing content to a user terminal or a content receiving device.

The terminal 130 is a mobile terminal operated by a user, and may transmit information such as a content providing request to the content providing server 110, and may independently reproduce the content received from the content providing server 110. Means. That is, the terminal 13 is a mobile communication terminal having a display unit, and may be a device such as a cellular phone, a smart phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA) or a portable multimedia player (PMP) having a communication function.

Accordingly, the terminal 130 and the content providing server 110 may transmit / receive information using radio resources. For example, the terminal 130 transmits identification information including a keyword for extracting desired content through the reverse channel to the content providing server 110. The content providing server 110 extracts the content desired by the user based on identification information including the keyword and transmits the extracted content information to the terminal 130 through a forward channel.

For example, the reverse channel may be a dedicated, common or shared channel for transmitting control information to a base station for wireless communication, and may be a random access channel (RACH), a common packet channel (CPCH), or the like. The forward channel may be a dedicated, common or shared channel for receiving data from a base station for wireless communication, and may be a dedicated physical data channel (DPDCH) constituting a dedicated physical channel (DPCH) in the case of a dedicated channel. .

The content receiving device 150 refers to an additional content reproducing device that performs a similar function to the terminal 130 but is relatively less mobile than the terminal 130. That is, the content receiving device 150 has a communication function, and can independently receive and play content provided by the content providing server 100. For example, it means a device such as a home TV, a PC monitor, a PDA, or a PMP.

A user who is watching content using the terminal 130 may view the same content through a relatively large screen included in the content receiving device 150.

To this end, the terminal 130 and the content receiving device 150 should be able to communicate with each other. For example, various short range wireless communication technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, infrared communication, etc. may be used. In addition, the terminal 130 and the content receiving apparatus 150 may share information necessary to use desired content due to the adoption of the short range wireless communication technology.

First, an operation of the content providing server 100 will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

The content providing server 110 receives a keyword registration request (or request message) from the terminal 130 and registers a keyword included in the request. For example, the keyword may be a name (eg, a program name) of content to which the user of the terminal 130 is to receive a service, or may be a genre to which the content belongs. In addition, the keyword registration request may be made through the interconnection between the terminal 130 and the content providing server 110 is established, the interconnection. For example, the keyword registration request transmitted by the terminal 130 is transmitted to a corresponding base station through a wireless channel supported by a wireless network, and the base station is connected to the content providing server 110 via a wired network. Forward the keyword registration request received from.

When the content corresponding to the registered keyword is generated (that is, when the content providing server 110 registers new content) or is updated, the content providing server 110 sends information about the corresponding content to the terminal ( 130).

To this end, the content providing server 110 runs a timer to periodically perform a program search or, if it detects that a specific event has occurred, performs a program search to check whether the corresponding content is generated or updated.

The information about the content may include an identifier of the content, a time for providing the content, a use amount of the content, and a content provider (producer or distributor), and other information related to the content (for example, user preferences). , Ranking, discount rate information, etc.).

When the content providing server 110 receives a content providing request (or request message) from the terminal 130 in response to the information about the content transmitted to the terminal 130, the content providing server 110 receives the content corresponding to the request. Provided to at least one of the terminal 130 and the content receiving device 150.

On the other hand, in order to transmit the information about the content by the content providing server 110 to the terminal 130, the communication path between the content providing server 110 and the terminal 130 should be set first.

If there is already a connection established for the keyword request, only the allocation of a radio channel for transmitting information on the content in the wireless network will be required.

However, if a separate connection is not established, it is necessary to establish a new connection to transmit information about the content. In this case, the content providing server 110 calls the corresponding terminal 130 to connect to the wired network section to the base station where the corresponding terminal 130 is located, and from the base station to the corresponding terminal 130. Set the connection corresponding to the wireless network section. For example, when the wireless network section is a wireless backbone network such as 3G, it is necessary to allocate a data channel for transmitting information on content for connection corresponding to the non-distributed network section.

In addition, the content providing server 110 notifies the terminal 130 that information about new content to be provided has been extracted, and the terminal 130 accesses the content providing server 110 to provide information on desired content. It is of course also possible to implement to obtain.

Next, the operation of the terminal 130 will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

The terminal 130 transmits a keyword registration request (or request message) related to the content to be provided by the user to the content providing server 110, and thereafter, the terminal 130 transmits the keyword registration request from the content providing server 110. Receive information about the content.

In this case, the terminal 130 checks whether the corresponding content is directly received or received through the content receiving device 150 or through both the terminal 130 and the content receiving device 150. . The content providing server 110 requests content provision according to the check result. For example, the checking process may be performed by receiving an input of a user's selection, or may be performed by determining whether a predetermined rule (for example, receiving a corresponding content only through a terminal at a specific time) is satisfied. . The content providing request is information for identifying whether the device to be provided with the content is the terminal 130, the content receiving device 150, or both the terminal 130 and the content receiving device 150. May be included.

As a result of the checking, when the terminal 130 directly receives the corresponding content, the terminal 130 receives the content from the content providing server 110. The terminal 130 plays back or records the received content. In addition, the terminal 130 may deliver the received content to the content receiving device 150.

As a result of the checking, when the content receiving device 150 receives the corresponding content, the terminal 130 transmits information about the content to the content receiving device 150 separately from the content providing request.

As a result of the checking, when the corresponding content is received through both the terminal 130 and the content receiving device 150, the terminal 130 is sent to the content receiving device 150 separately from the request for providing the content. Send information on the content. In addition, the terminal 130 receives the corresponding content from the content providing server 110. Here, the operation of the terminal 130 to request content provision to the content providing server 110 and the operation of transmitting information about the content to the content receiving device 150 by the terminal 130 may be performed simultaneously. One of the two operations may be performed first.

Next, an operation of the content receiving device 150 will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

The content receiving device 150 receives and stores information about the content from the terminal 130, receives the content from the content providing server 110 according to the information on the stored content, and receives the received content. You can play or record.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a content receiving operation in a terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

In step 201, the terminal 130 requests registration of a keyword related to content to be provided to the content providing server 110, and in step 203 receives and stores information on content corresponding to the requested keyword.

In step 205, the terminal 130 identifies the device to receive the content, and in step 207, the terminal 130 transmits a request for providing the corresponding content (or a request message) to the content providing server 110. The request for providing the content may include the identified device information.

If it is determined in step 205 that the content is to be received through the terminal 130 (A), in step 209 the content is received from the content providing server 110 to play / record.

If it is determined in step 205 that the content is to be received through the content receiving device 150 (B), in step 211, the information on the stored content is transmitted to the content receiving device 150 to transmit the corresponding content. Play / record.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 205 that the content is to be received through both the terminal 130 and the content receiving device 150 (C), in step 213 the stored content to the content receiving device 150 By transmitting the information about the content receiving apparatus 150 to receive the corresponding content, in step 215 receives the content from the content providing server 110 to play / record.

3 is a diagram illustrating a content providing operation in a content providing server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

In step 301, the content providing server 110 receives a keyword registration request from the terminal 130, and registers the requested keyword in step 303.

In step 305, whether the content corresponding to the keyword is generated or updated is continuously checked. In this case, the content providing server 110 may include a timer to check whether a content corresponding to the keyword has been generated or updated, and perform a program search at predetermined intervals. Alternatively, when the content providing server 110 detects that a specific event has occurred, the content providing server 110 performs a program search to check whether the content related to the registered keyword is generated or updated.

If the corresponding content is generated or updated, the process proceeds to step 307 and transmits information on the corresponding content to the terminal 130.

Thereafter, when a content providing request is received from the terminal 130 in step 309, the corresponding content is transmitted to at least one of the terminal 130 and the content receiving device 150 according to the received request in step 311.

Hereinafter, a description will be given of a signaling operation when the content is received through the terminal through each of FIGS. 4 to 6, when the content is received through the content receiving apparatus, and both the terminal and the content receiving apparatus are received.

4 illustrates signaling for receiving content through a terminal in a content providing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

First, in step 401, the terminal 130 requests the keyword registration to be provided to the content providing server 110.

In step 403, the content providing server 110 registers the requested keyword, and when the corresponding content is generated or updated, transmits the information about the corresponding content to the terminal 130 in step 405.

In this case, the content providing server 110 may include a timer to check whether the content is generated or updated, and perform a program search at predetermined intervals. Alternatively, when the content providing server 110 detects that a specific event has occurred, the content providing server 110 performs a program search to check whether the content corresponding to the registered keyword is generated or updated.

In step 407, the terminal 130 stores information on the received content, and in step 409, the terminal 130 transmits a request for providing content (or a request message) to the content providing server 110. In this case, the terminal 130 requests to transmit the content to the terminal 130 in order to receive the content directly.

In step 411, the content providing server 110 transmits content to the terminal 130 according to a request of the terminal 130.

In step 413, the terminal 130 plays / records the content from the content providing server 110 according to the information about the content stored in step 407.

5 illustrates a signaling operation for receiving content through a content receiving device in a content providing system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

In step 501, the terminal 130 requests a keyword registration to be provided to the content providing server 110.

In step 503, the content providing server 110 registers the requested keyword, and when the corresponding content is generated or updated, in step 505, the content providing server 110 sends information about the corresponding content to the terminal 130. Send.

In this case, the content providing server 110 may include a timer to check whether a content corresponding to the keyword has been generated or updated, and perform a program search at predetermined intervals. Alternatively, when the content providing server 110 detects that a specific event has occurred, the content providing server 110 performs a program search to check whether the content related to the registered keyword is generated or updated.

In step 507, the terminal 130 stores information on the received content, and in step 509, the terminal 130 transmits a content providing request (or request message) to the content providing server 110. In this case, in order to receive the content in the content receiving device 150, information indicating that the content to be transmitted to the content receiving device 150 may be included in the content providing request. In operation 511, the terminal 130 transmits information about the content stored in operation 507 to the content receiving device 150. In this case, step 509 and step 511 may be performed at the same time, either one may be performed first.

In operation 513, the content receiving device 150 stores information about content received from the terminal 130.

In step 515, the content providing server 110 transmits content to the content receiving device 150 according to the request of the terminal 130.

In step 517, the content receiving device 150 plays / records the content from the content providing server 110 according to the information about the content stored in step 513.

6 illustrates a signaling operation for receiving content through both a terminal and a content receiving device in a content providing system according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

In step 601, the terminal 130 requests a keyword registration to be provided to the content providing server 110.

In step 603, the content providing server 110 registers the requested keyword. When the content is generated or updated, the content providing server 110 transmits information about the content to the terminal 130 in step 605.

The content providing server 110 may include a timer to check whether a content corresponding to the keyword is generated or updated, and perform a program search at predetermined intervals. Alternatively, when the content providing server 110 detects that a specific event has occurred, the content providing server 110 performs a program search to check whether the content related to the registered keyword is generated or updated.

In step 607, the terminal 130 stores information on the received content, and transmits a content providing request (or request message) to the content providing server 110 in step 509. In this case, in order to receive the content through both the terminal 130 and the content receiving device 150, information indicating to transmit the content to the terminal 130 and the content receiving device 150 respectively. May be included in the content providing request. In operation 611, the terminal 130 transmits information on the content stored in operation 607 to the content receiving device 150. In this case, step 609 and step 611 may be performed at the same time, either one may be performed first.

In step 613, the content receiving device 150 stores information about content received from the terminal 130.

In step 615, the content providing server 110 transmits the content to the terminal 130 according to the request of the terminal 130, and transmits the content to the content receiving device 150 in step 617. In this case, step 615 and step 617 may be performed at the same time, either one may be performed first.

In steps 619 and 621, the terminal 130 and the content receiving apparatus 150 play / record the content from the content providing server 110 according to the stored information about the content.

It should be noted that the flowchart of the operation or signal illustrated in FIGS. 2 to 6 is not for the purpose of limiting the scope of the present invention. That is, the operations described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 6 only illustrate a configuration that operates in the control unit of the device, and it is necessary to limit the implementation to include all processes or to perform them individually by a specific operation or algorithm. It is not limited.

The above-described operations can be realized by providing a memory device storing the corresponding program code to any component in the content providing server, the terminal, or the content receiving device. That is, the component of the content providing server, the terminal, or the content receiving device may execute the above-described operation by reading and executing the program code stored in the memory device by a processor or a central processing unit (CPU).

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but is capable of various modifications within the scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

Claims (20)

In the content providing method in the terminal,
Requesting to register a keyword related to the content to be provided to the content providing server;
Receiving information on content corresponding to the requested keyword from the content providing server;
Transmitting the request for providing the content to the content providing server;
The information about the content is information about the content found by the content providing server periodically searches for the content corresponding to the requested keyword,
The transmitting process,
Identifying a device to receive the content;
And transmitting a request message for providing the content including information about a result of the checking process. delete The method of claim 1,
As a result of the checking, when the content is to be received through the terminal, the method of providing content further comprising the step of performing at least one of playing and recording the content based on the information on the received content. . The method of claim 1,
And as a result of the checking, when the content is to be received through the content receiving apparatus, transmitting the information about the received content to the content receiving apparatus. The method of claim 1,
As a result of the checking, when the content is to be received through the terminal and the content receiving device, transmitting the information about the received content to the content receiving device;
And at least one of playing and recording the content based on the received information about the content. The method of claim 1,
The information on the content, the content providing method, characterized in that it comprises at least one of the content identifier, the content providing time, the content usage amount, the content providing destination, user preferences, ranking, discount rate information. In the content providing method in the content providing server,
Receiving a request for registration of a keyword related to content to be provided by the terminal from the terminal;
Registering the keyword;
If one of the generation and update of the content corresponding to the registered keyword is confirmed, transmitting information on the checked content to the terminal;
Receiving a request for providing the content from the terminal;
Providing the content in response to the provision request;
The information about the content is information about the content found by the content providing server periodically searches for the content corresponding to the requested keyword,
And the content providing request includes information on a target to which the content providing server should transmit the content. delete The method of claim 7, wherein
And a target to which the content providing server transmits the content is at least one of the terminal and the content receiving device. The method of claim 7, wherein
The information on the content, the content providing method, characterized in that it comprises at least one of the content identifier, the content providing time, the content usage amount, the content providing destination, user preferences, ranking, discount rate information. In the content providing apparatus in the terminal,
Requesting registration of a keyword related to content to be provided, receiving information on content corresponding to the requested keyword from the content providing server, and a control unit for transmitting the content providing request to the content providing server; Include,
The information about the content is information about the content found by the content providing server periodically searches for the content corresponding to the requested keyword,
The control unit is a content providing device, characterized in that for transmitting the content providing request message including information on the result of identifying the device to receive the content. delete 12. The apparatus according to claim 11,
And as a result of the checking, when the content is to be received through the terminal, at least one of playing and recording the content on the basis of the information on the received content. 12. The apparatus according to claim 11,
And as a result of the checking, when the content is to be received through the content receiving device, transmitting the information about the received content to the content receiving device. 12. The apparatus according to claim 11,
As a result of the checking, when the content is to be received through the terminal and the content receiving device, the information about the received content is transmitted to the content receiving device, and the content is reproduced based on the information about the received content. And recording at least one of recording. The method of claim 11,
The information on the content, the content providing apparatus, characterized in that at least one of the content identifier, the content providing time, the content usage amount, the content providing destination, user preferences, ranking, the discount fee information. In the content providing apparatus in the content providing server,
When the terminal receives a request for registration of a keyword related to the content to be provided from the terminal to register the requested keyword, and when any one of generation and update of the content corresponding to the registered keyword is confirmed, the confirmed A control unit which transmits information on content to the terminal, receives the request for providing the content from the terminal, and then provides the content in response to the provision request.
The information about the content is information about the content found by the content providing server periodically searches for the content corresponding to the requested keyword,
The content providing apparatus is characterized in that the content providing server comprises information on a target to which the content should be transmitted. delete The method of claim 17,
And a target, to which the content providing server should transmit the content, is at least one of the terminal and the content receiving device. According to claim 17,
The information on the content, the content providing apparatus, characterized in that at least one of the content identifier, the content providing time, the content usage amount, the content providing destination, user preferences, ranking, the discount fee information.

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