KR100730488B1 - Method and System for Telephone Connection Related to Contents in Digital Multimedia Broadcasting - Google Patents

Abstract

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a method and system for dialing a content related content in Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (hereinafter referred to as "DMB"). In the telephone access method according to the present invention, an electronic program guide (hereinafter referred to as "EPG") is received by receiving content information and telephone number information corresponding to the content information from each content provider (CP). And the viewer receiving the contents information through the DMB terminal by sending the contents information and the telephone number information corresponding to the contents information through the DMB channel according to the EPG. It provides the function to request call connection. According to the present invention, during the reception of DMB content, the viewer can easily access the telephone contact provided with the broadcast content.

Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, DMB, Program Guide, EPG

Description

Method and system for telephone connection related to content in digital multimedia broadcasting {Method and System for Telephone Connection Related to Contents in Digital Multimedia Broadcasting}

1 is a block diagram of a content-related dialing system in DMB according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a schematic flowchart of a content-related dialing method in DMB according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 shows an example of the EPG organization table according to the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a call connection attempt process in detail in the telephone access method of FIG.

5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a DMB terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a content-related dialing method in DMB according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 illustrates a configuration of a system for implementing the dial-up method according to FIG. 6.

The present invention relates to a method and system for dialing a content related content in digital multimedia broadcasting. More particularly, the present invention relates to a telephone connection in which a viewer can easily make a telephone call to a telephone contact provided with broadcast content while receiving DMB content. It relates to a method and a system.

Digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) is a broadcasting technology capable of viewing high-definition digital broadcasting through a DMB dedicated terminal, and may be divided into terrestrial DMB and satellite DMB according to a transmission method and a network configuration method. Compared to conventional terrestrial TV, cable TV, satellite broadcasting, and so-called 'fixed viewing type' broadcasting where you can watch desired broadcasting programs by sitting in front of the TV receiver at a fixed time, DMB can watch desired contents anytime, anywhere. In other words, it can be called a 'mobile personal viewing form'.

As the DMB terminal, for example, a DMB dedicated receiver, a vehicle DMB terminal, or a DMB terminal having a mobile communication function may be used. Among these, the portable DMB terminal having a mobile communication function is expected to be widely used in consideration of the simplicity of the portable.

On the other hand, in the DMB service, in addition to content information, various additional information and two-way conversational communication related to the content are possible. For example, while watching a DMB broadcast, various additional information related to the content being broadcast (for example, profile information of each actor in a drama) may be selected and provided. Or, for example, when a broadcaster provides broadcast content and transmits the address of an Internet website related to the broadcast content to the user, the user uses the Internet access function provided in the DMB terminal while watching the broadcast content. You can then try to access the relevant Internet website.

This internet access function of the DMB terminal contributes a lot of convenience to interconnecting the content provider and the viewer of the content. That is, in order to access the URL address of the relevant web site transmitted along with the content being broadcast during the broadcast of the content, the viewer does not need to input the URL address one by one, but the viewer can only access the Internet during the broadcast of the content. Just press.

However, the content provider and the viewer of the content may require mutual telephone connection in addition to the above internet connection function. For example, in a home shopping broadcast, a viewer who wants to consult or place an order for a product being advertised may call a counselor by dialing a telephone number contact number displayed on a broadcast screen. In such a case, a viewer who wants to make a telephone call with a counselor has to check the telephone number displayed on the broadcast screen, and then enter a telephone number after switching to the call mode. Moreover, in case of a DMB terminal having a mobile communication function, it is necessary to configure a small screen size for easy portability, but it may not be easy to check the phone number displayed on such a small screen for a person with low vision. .

Accordingly, there is a demand for a technology that allows the DMB receiver to more easily attempt to connect to a telephone contact corresponding to the broadcast content being received.

In the present invention, it is intended to provide a method and system for connecting a telephone that allows a viewer to more easily attempt to make a telephone call to a telephone contact provided with broadcast content during DMB broadcasting.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a DMB terminal having a configuration in which a telephone call can be more easily attempted with a telephone contact provided with broadcast content in association with the telephone access method and the telephone access system.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for accessing a phone, comprising the steps of: organizing an EPG by receiving content information and phone number information corresponding to the content information from each content provider; And a DMB channel with content information and telephone number information corresponding to the content information according to the EPG, so that a user of the DMB terminal receiving the content information can request a call connection to the telephone number contact corresponding to the content. It is configured to include the step of sending through.

In addition, the DMB terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, the receiver for receiving the content information transmitted from the DMB broadcasting station and the telephone number information corresponding to the content information via the DMB channel; A detector for detecting telephone number information corresponding to the broadcasting content information from the received information according to a user's command; A converter for converting the detected telephone number information into a dial type signal capable of making a call connection; And a transmitter for transmitting a call connection request signal as the converted dial type signal.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing content-related phone number information in a DMB includes: receiving content information and phone number information corresponding to the content information from each content provider; Setting a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) corresponding to the telephone number information, and mapping the set URL to content information corresponding to the telephone number information on which the URL is set; Organizing an EPG based on the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information; Transmitting the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information through a DMB channel according to the EPG; Detecting telephone number information corresponding to the URL when the user who has received the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information accesses the Internet through the DMB terminal through the URL; And requesting a call connection from the DMB terminal to a contact having the detected telephone number.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a content related telephone access system in DMB receives content information and phone number information corresponding to the content information from each content provider, and obtains a URL corresponding to the received phone number information. A gateway to set up; An authoring tool for organizing an EPG by receiving the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information from a gateway; And a broadcast transmitter for transmitting the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information according to the EPG.

With reference to the accompanying drawings, it will be described in detail a telephone connection method related to content in a digital multimedia broadcasting according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of a content-related dial-up system in a DMB according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a dial-up method that may be executed by the system of FIG. It is assumed that the DMB terminal 60 in the embodiment of FIG. 1 is a DMB terminal having a mobile telephone function. Referring to Figures 1 and 2 look at the dial-up method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, each content provider 10 transmits to the gateway 20 broadcast content to be provided to viewers. In this case, each content provider 10 transmits additional information including content information and phone number information related to the content (S10). As the additional information, metadata, such as a name, a broadcast genre, a running time, a key keyword, and the like of the corresponding content, in addition to the telephone number information related to the content, may correspond thereto. The telephone number information may be set to, for example, a telephone contact who may be in charge of ordering or consulting a product when the content provider 10 provides a home shopping broadcast for a product as content.

The gateway 20 stores the content information and related additional information received from each content provider 10 in a database and transmits it to the authoring tool 30.

The authoring tool 30 organizes the EPG so that each content can be broadcasted according to a predetermined schedule based on the content information and the related additional information received from the gateway 20 (S20). An EPG organization table according to one embodiment of the invention is shown in FIG. 3. Referring to FIG. 3, the content information and related additional information included in the EPG will be described in detail. As shown, the EPG schedule includes the name, genre (e.g., drama, movie, music video, home shopping, etc.) of each content, as well as phone number information corresponding to each content, and a website address that can provide related services ( URL) and the like can be included.

For example, in the case of home shopping broadcasting content for a certain product, the genre of the content may be set as 'home shopping', and the name of the product may be set as the name of the content. In addition, URL information of an internet shopping mall selling the corresponding product or telephone contact information for consulting or ordering the corresponding product may be provided together.

In this case, the telephone contact information may be expressed as "021234567 # 111". Here, the number '111' described after the identification key "#" is an identification number set by the content provider 10 to distinguish each content. For example, in the case of home shopping contents, by setting the identification number as the unique number of the product, it is easy to know which product the caller has connected to consult or order.

According to the EPG organized as above, each broadcast content is transmitted from the DMB transmitter 40 and transmitted to the DMB terminal through the first network (S30). At this time, the phone number information corresponding to the transmitted content is also transmitted. As the first network 50, a satellite communication system may correspond to the satellite DMB, and a terrestrial communication system may correspond to the terrestrial DMB.

The DMB terminal 60 receives content information and related additional information transmitted through the first network 50 (S40). While receiving the broadcast, if the receiver wants to make a call connection to the telephone contact corresponding to the broadcast content, the receiver may attempt to connect by operating a specific key of the DMB terminal which is set to attempt the call connection (S50). The steps after the connection attempt are the same as those in the general mobile communication.

In the DMB terminal 60, a step (S50) of attempting to connect to the telephone contact corresponding to the content being broadcasted will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 4 as follows.

First, a specific key is set in advance in the DMB terminal 60 according to the present invention so that a user can easily request a call connection to a telephone contact corresponding to the broadcast content being received. For example, during reception of broadcast content, the user can set the call connection request signal to the telephone contact corresponding to the broadcast content by single operation of the specific key of the DMB terminal 60, that is, by pressing the specific key once. Release.

As described above, when the user presses the specific key once while watching the DMB broadcast while the specific key for the call connection request is set in the DMB terminal 60, the control unit in the DMB terminal receives the telephone number information from the received information. It is detected (S52).

Since the detected phone number information is converted to broadcast transmission / reception, the phone number information is converted into dial information that can be connected to a call through a converter (S54) and then applied to the caller in the DMB terminal. The calling unit requests a call connection according to the dial information (S56), and subsequent steps may be made in the same manner as a general mobile communication terminal.

As such, attempting to access a call to the telephone number contact transmitted with the content by single operation of the specific key provided in the DMB terminal 60 during the broadcast can be set to be possible only during the broadcast time of the corresponding content.

In response to the call connection attempt, when the DMB terminal 60 is connected with a contact corresponding to the content being broadcast through the second network 70 (S60), the caller speaks and ends the call. do. 1 and 2, the second network 70 corresponds to a network for call connection in a general mobile communication system. After the call ends, the DMB terminal 60 may be set to automatically continue to broadcast the original content.

On the other hand, the configuration of the DMB terminal 60 according to an embodiment of the present invention for implementing the telephone access method according to the embodiment of Figures 2 and 4 shown in FIG. As shown, the DMB terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a receiver 62, a detector 64, a converter 66 and a transmitter 68.

The receiver 62 receives the content information transmitted from the DMB transmitter 40 and the telephone number information corresponding to the content information through the DMB channel. The detector 64 corresponds to the content information being broadcasted among the received information when there is a user's call connection request command, for example, when the user presses a specific key provided in the DMB terminal 60 for call connection. Detect phone number information. The converter 66 receives the detected telephone number information from the detector 64 and converts the detected telephone number information into a dial type signal capable of making a call connection. The transmitter 68 transmits a call connection request signal for a call connection to a telephone contact associated with the broadcast content according to the converted dial type signal.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a telephone access method according to another embodiment of the present invention. It is assumed that the DMB terminal 160 according to the embodiment of FIG. 6 has a mobile communication function and a wireless Internet access function.

In the embodiment of FIG. 4, in the embodiment of FIG. 6, this connection process is performed in the DMB terminal, whereas the phone number information received together with the content in the DMB terminal is converted into dial information to transmit a call connection request signal. It is not made in the through, but through the dial-up menu provided by the gateway 120 that stores the content and related additional information received from the content provider 10.

Looking at the dial-up process according to the embodiment of Figure 6 in detail as follows. First, the gateway 120 receives content information and additional information related to the content information from each content provider 10 (S110). As described above, the additional information may include data such as name, genre, etc. of the corresponding content in addition to the telephone number information related to the content.

When the phone 120 includes telephone number information corresponding to the corresponding content among the related additional information, the gateway 120 sets a URL corresponding to each telephone number information, and content information corresponding to the telephone number information for which the URL is set. The set URL is mapped (mapped) at (S120). In this way, the URL is mapped to the content information so that the corresponding URL information is sent together when the content information is sent out through the DMB channel.

After the URL is set, the gateway 120 transmits the content information, related additional information, and the newly set URL information to the authoring tool 130. The authoring tool 130 organizes the EPG based on the received information so that each content can be broadcasted according to a predetermined schedule (S130). Similar to the embodiment of FIG. 3 described above, the EPG program table includes names of contents, genres (eg, dramas, movies, music videos, home shopping, etc.), and website addresses (URLs) for providing related services. You can include information. However, there is a difference in that URL information corresponding to the telephone number information is included instead of directly including telephone number information of each content.

According to the EPG organized as above, each broadcast content is transmitted from the DMB transmitter and transmitted to the DMB terminal 160 through the first network (S140). At this time, URL information corresponding to the telephone number of the transmitted content is also transmitted. As the first network, in the case of satellite DMB, a satellite communication system may correspond to this, and in the case of terrestrial DMB, a terrestrial communication system may correspond to the first network.

The DMB terminal 160 receives content information and related additional information transmitted through the first network (S150). While receiving a broadcast, when a receiver wants to make a call connection to a telephone contact corresponding to the broadcast content, first, a wireless Internet connection is attempted to a server providing a call connection service according to the URL information. In this case, the receiver may attempt to connect by single operation of the wireless Internet access key of the DMB terminal 160 during the broadcasting of the content, that is, by pressing the access key once (S160). The Internet connection to the URL by the single operation of the access key can be set to be possible only during the broadcast of the content.

Looking at the access attempt process (S160) in detail as follows. When the user presses the Internet access key provided in the DMB terminal 160 once while watching the DMB broadcast, a controller (not shown) in the DMB terminal 160 detects URL information among information received together with the content being broadcast. . Then, the controller connects to the server providing the call connection service through the wireless Internet network according to the detected URL.

According to the access attempt (S160), the DMB terminal 160 accesses the URL address through the second network 170. In the embodiment of FIG. 5, the second network 170 corresponds to a wireless internet network. When the Internet connection is requested from the DMB terminal 160, the gateway 120 detects telephone number information corresponding to the URL from a database (see FIG. 7) and provides the information to the DMB terminal 160 as a menu. At this time, according to the user's request, the DMB terminal 160 switches to the telephone communication mode and requests a call connection to the terminal corresponding to the detected telephone number (S170). When a call connection is made between the DMB terminal 160 and the terminal corresponding to the detected telephone number by the call connection request (S180), the user may terminate the connection after making a phone call.

Meanwhile, the phone number information provided by the gateway 120 to the DMB terminal 160 may be expressed in the form of a language used in a wireless Internet transmission protocol such as WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) or ME (Mobile Explorer). .

WAP service accesses the mobile internet company's wireless Internet server and finds the desired content through the menu access method, and the user pays the network fee for using the service and the information fee for the paid content while the service is provided. ME is a wireless transmission protocol that adopts the technical method of the existing Internet as it is, and uses a language such as m-html with a slight modification of html.

The telephone contact information may be expressed as the language used in the WAP service or the ME as follows.

For WAP: "wati: // wp / mc; 021234567 # 111"

For ME: "tel: 021234567 # 111"

Here, the number '111' described after the identification key "#" is an identification number set by the content provider 10 to distinguish each content. For example, in the case of home shopping contents, by setting the identification number as the unique number of the product, it is easy to know which product the caller has connected to consult or order.

As described above, in the embodiment of FIG. 6, when the URL information corresponding to the telephone number information of the content is transmitted together with the corresponding content broadcast, and the user of the DMB terminal 160 accesses the URL address during the broadcasting of the content, the corresponding URL Make a call connection to the telephone contact corresponding to.

The configuration of a system for implementing the dial-up method according to FIG. 6 is shown in FIG. 7. As shown, it includes a gateway 120, an authoring tool 130, and a DMB emitter 140, which is configured to include a database 122 and a detector 124. Briefly, the functions of each component are as follows.

The gateway 120 receives content information and phone number information corresponding to the content information from each content provider and sets a URL corresponding to the received phone number information. On the other hand, a database 122 for storing the content information received from each content provider, telephone number information corresponding to the content information, and URL information newly set corresponding to the received telephone number information is provided.

The authoring tool 130 receives the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information from the gateway 120 to form an EPG so that each content can be broadcast according to a predetermined schedule.

The DMB transmitter 140 transmits the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information through a DMB channel according to the EPG.

When the user of the DMB terminal 160 that has received the transmitted information requests the Internet connection to the URL to call a telephone contact associated with the content being received, the detector in the gateway 124, from the database 122 A function of detecting telephone number information corresponding to the URL is performed.

The DMB terminal 160 requests a call connection to the contact having the detected phone number. That is, when the detector 124 detects the telephone number information corresponding to the URL, the DMB terminal 160 switches to the telephone communication mode and requests a call connection to the contact having the detected telephone number.

While specific embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated and described, the technical spirit of the present invention is not limited to the accompanying drawings and the above description, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. It is self-evident to those who have the common knowledge of.

As described above, by the method and system related to the content-related dialing in the DMB according to the present invention, the viewer can easily access the telephone contact provided with the broadcast content during the reception of the DMB content.

The present invention also provides a DMB terminal configured to interoperate with the telephone connection method and system, so that a viewer can easily connect to a telephone contact provided with broadcast content.

Claims (9)

Organizing an EPG by receiving content information and telephone number information corresponding to the content information from each content provider; And According to the EPG, content information and telephone number information corresponding to the content information are transmitted through the DMB channel so that a user of the DMB terminal receiving the content information can request a call connection to the telephone number contact corresponding to the content. Sending out, And converting the telephone number information into a language used in a wireless Internet transmission protocol before being transmitted through the DMB channel. The method of claim 1, And the call connection request of the user is made by a single operation of a specific key provided in the DMB terminal. The method of claim 2, The call connection request by the single operation of the specific key is possible only during the broadcast of the content corresponding to the telephone number for which the call connection is requested. delete delete Receiving content information and telephone number information corresponding to the content information from each content provider; Setting a URL corresponding to the telephone number information, and mapping the set URL to content information corresponding to the telephone number information in which the URL is set; Organizing an EPG based on the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information; Transmitting the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information through a DMB channel according to the EPG; Detecting telephone number information corresponding to the URL when the user who has received the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information accesses the Internet through the DMB terminal through the URL; And Requesting a call connection from the DMB terminal to a contact having the detected telephone number, And converting the telephone number information into a language used in a wireless Internet transmission protocol before being transmitted through the DMB channel. The method of claim 6, The Internet connection to the URL can be made by a single operation of a specific key provided in the DMB terminal during broadcasting of the content corresponding to the URL for which the Internet connection is requested. A gateway for receiving content information and phone number information corresponding to the content information from each content provider and setting a URL corresponding to the received phone number information; An authoring tool for organizing an EPG by receiving the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information from a gateway; And And a broadcast transmitter for transmitting the content information and the URL information corresponding to the content information according to the EPG. The method of claim 8, The gateway, A database for storing the content information received from each content provider, telephone number information corresponding to the content information, and URL information set corresponding to the received telephone number information; And And a detection unit for detecting telephone number information corresponding to the URL when the receiver of the DMB terminal receiving the transmitted URL information requests the Internet connection to the URL.

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