KR101397725B1 - Method and system for providing widget viewer service - Google Patents

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KR101397725B1
KR101397725B1 KR1020080040819A KR20080040819A KR101397725B1 KR 101397725 B1 KR101397725 B1 KR 101397725B1 KR 1020080040819 A KR1020080040819 A KR 1020080040819A KR 20080040819 A KR20080040819 A KR 20080040819A KR 101397725 B1 KR101397725 B1 KR 101397725B1
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A method of providing a widget viewer service according to the present invention includes the steps of receiving content information associated with a widget service request from a content server in response to a widget service request from a mobile terminal, Converting the widget contents into widget contents, and transmitting the converted widget contents to the mobile terminal in response to the widget service request.

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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING WIDGET VIEWER SERVICE

The present invention provides a widget viewer service that converts content information associated with the widget service request into widget content by driving a widget driving program and transmits the converted widget content to the mobile terminal when the widget service of the mobile terminal is requested ≪ / RTI >

Widget is a graphical interface that supports smooth interaction with users, applications / operating systems, etc., and allows users to directly access desired services on the idle screen of the terminal without visiting portal service or content providing site . For example, there may be various widgets that provide services such as MSN messenger, stock, keyword search window, weather, clock, game, notepad, and word of mouth. A user can access a widget that provides a service mainly used by the user and install the widget on the terminal. After the widget is installed, the user can easily use the service on the idle screen of the terminal through the widget without visiting the web site .

In recent years, interest in a mobile widget, which provides ease of access to a service desired by a user on the idle screen of a mobile communication terminal and convenience of use, is increasing.

However, the widget contents of the respective sites providing mobile widgets are not standardized services, and furthermore, the widget engines that are responsible for execution are provided by using their own technologies for each site. Accordingly, since the mobile communication terminal has to load each widget engine in order to execute the widget contents of each site, the conventional widget contents implementation method is disadvantageous in that it takes much time and cost.

Accordingly, according to the present invention, a widget service on a general PC is provided to a mobile communication terminal as it is, and a technology for providing a widget service of each site as it is to a mobile communication terminal without requiring reprocessing for spreading a widget content for mobile is proposed do.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is conceived to solve the problems as described above, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for providing a widget service by converting a widget content to be provided to the mobile terminal by providing a widget service program associated with the widget service, Which is required to convert a widget to a mobile terminal, and it is possible to save time and money because it is unnecessary to mount a widget driving program required to convert the widget in a mobile terminal.

The present invention also provides a widget viewer service for analyzing GUI (Graphical User Interface) information corresponding to each mobile terminal and providing widget contents optimized for a mobile terminal requesting a widget service based on the analyzed GUI information And to provide a method and a system for providing information.

The present invention also provides a widget viewer service providing method and system for analyzing meta data which is history information of a mobile terminal requesting a widget service and converting the widget contents to be provided to each mobile terminal based on the analyzed metadata And to provide the above objects.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a widget viewer service, the method comprising: receiving content information associated with a widget service request from a content server in response to a widget service request from a mobile terminal; Converting the received content information into widget content using a widget drive program and transmitting the converted widget content to the mobile terminal in response to the widget service request, .

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a widget viewer service providing system including an information communication unit for receiving content information associated with a widget service request from a content server in response to a widget service request from a mobile terminal, A widget conversion unit for converting the received content information into widget content, and a terminal interface unit for transmitting the converted widget content to the mobile terminal in response to the widget service request.

According to the present invention, when a widget service is requested from a mobile terminal, a widget driving program associated with the widget service is operated to convert and provide widget contents to be provided to the mobile terminal, thereby providing a widget driving program It is not necessary to mount it in the mobile terminal, and time and cost can be saved.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to analyze the GUI information corresponding to each mobile terminal and to provide the widget contents optimized for the mobile terminal requesting the widget service based on the analyzed GUI information.

In addition, according to the present invention, metadata that is history information of a mobile terminal requesting a widget service can be analyzed, and widget contents to be provided to each mobile terminal can be converted based on the analyzed metadata.

Hereinafter, a method and system for providing a widget viewer service according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram illustrating an overall connection relationship between a widget viewer service providing system, a mobile terminal, and servers according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The widget viewer service providing system 100 of the present invention receives content information related to the widget service request from the content server 120 in response to a widget service request from the mobile terminal 110, Converts the received content information into widget content, and transmits the converted widget content to the mobile terminal 110 in response to the widget service request. The widget viewer service providing system 100 downloads and maintains a widget driver program associated with the requested widget service from the widget content server 130, and uses the Widget content service when converting the widget content.

Therefore, the widget viewer service providing system 100 of the present invention can provide the widget service, which was provided on the PC, to the mobile terminal as it is without having to separately load the widget driver program required to convert the widget contents on the mobile terminal .

2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a widget viewer service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The widget viewer service providing system 200 may include an information communication unit 210, a terminal interface unit 220, a widget conversion unit 230, an information identification unit 240, and a memory unit 250.

The terminal interface unit 220 receives a request for a widget service from the mobile terminal 110. The widget is a graphical interface that allows a user to directly use a desired service on a idle screen of the terminal even if the user does not visit the portal service or the content providing site. For example, the widget may include MSN messenger, Weather, a clock, a game, a notepad, a saying, and so on.

To this end, a widget engine, that is, a widget driving program for executing each service on a PC must be mounted separately, but it is impossible to mount a plurality of widget driving programs on the mobile terminal due to the characteristics of the mobile terminal. Therefore, the present invention is intended to provide a mobile terminal with a widget service provided on a PC without having to download a separate program to the mobile terminal.

The information communication unit 210 requests the content server 120 to download the content information related to the widget service request according to the widget service request from the mobile terminal 110. That is, when the requested widget service is' weather ', the information communication unit 210 requests content information related to' weather 'to the content server 120, and when the requested widget service is' Quot; and " securities " Accordingly, the information communication unit 210 receives the requested content information from the content server 120.

The widget conversion unit 230 converts the received content information into widget content using a widget driving program.

To this end, the memory means 250 records and maintains the widget drive program in association with the widget service. The widget driving program is for providing a widget service, and can be driven differently for each service. Since the widget driving program responsible for executing the current widget contents is different for each site, the memory means 250 of the present invention must record and maintain a widget driving program for each widget service.

Accordingly, when requesting a widget service of each mobile terminal, the information communication unit 210 downloads a widget driving program associated with the widget service from the widget contents server 130. [ The downloaded widget driving program may be recorded in the memory means 250 in association with the widget service.

The information identifying unit 240 identifies a widget driving program associated with the requested widget service in the memory means 250. [ For example, when the widget service is classified and managed by category, the widget service 'weather' can be managed by the identification number '# 1', and the widget service 'securities' can be managed by the identification number '# 2'. In addition, the widget driving program is classified and managed according to the category, the widget driving program 'weather' is managed by the identification number '# 01', and the widget driving program security is managed by the identification number '# 02'. Accordingly, the memory unit 250 can keep the identification number of the widget service and the identification number of the widget drive program in correspondence with each other. The information identifying unit 240 may identify the widget driver program corresponding to the requested widget service using the identification numbers.

The widget conversion unit 230 processes the content information and converts the content information into the widget content by driving the identified widget driving program.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the widget conversion unit 230 may convert the widget content based on the widget viewer information according to the mobile terminal 110. [ The widget viewer information may be GUI information corresponding to each mobile terminal when the widget service is executed. For example, the widget viewer information may be GUI information that optimizes the size of the widget contents based on the resolution of the mobile terminal. This is due to the fact that a large number of mobile terminals are distributed, and the resolution and size of each mobile terminal are different from each other. Accordingly, the widget conversion unit 230 can convert the optimized widget content according to the resolution and size of the mobile terminal requesting the widget service, thereby allowing the user of the mobile terminal to use the widget service without inconvenience.

The terminal interface unit 220 transmits the converted widget contents to the mobile terminal 110 in response to the widget service request. Hereinafter, the transmission of widget contents to the mobile terminal will be described with reference to FIG.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a widget service provided to a mobile terminal in a widget viewer service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the mobile terminal 110 requests a widget service for 'weather' and displays widget contents associated with 'weather' at the top of the background screen. The mobile terminal 110 displays an icon associated with the widget service at the bottom of the background screen and the user of the mobile terminal 110 can request the widget service by selecting the icon.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a mobile terminal 110 receiving widget contents as shown in FIG. 3 can receive a widget event from a user. Hereinafter, a widget event request will be described with reference to FIG.

4 is a diagram illustrating a procedure of providing a widget service in a widget viewer service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The mobile terminal 110 (terminal) attempts a session initiation to a widget viewer (W / V) system and requests a widget service (D / L Request) when connected. The widget viewer providing system 200 requests and receives content information (D / L) for the requested widget service from the content server 120 (CP).

The widget viewer providing system 200 converts the received content information into widget contents by driving a widget driving program and transmits the widget content to the mobile terminal 110. [ The mobile terminal 110 providing the widget contents may receive a request for a widget event (Event Invoke) from the user. The widget event may be service information on widget contents being provided. For example, the service information may request another form of widget content for 'weather' or request new widget content such as 'securities', 'news', and the like.

Accordingly, the widget viewer providing system 200 requests and receives content information (Info service) associated with the widget event to the content server 120, converts the received content information into widget content, . ≪ / RTI > Such a widget event may be generated in real time when the widget service is provided in the mobile terminal 110. The widget viewer providing system 200 may transmit the corresponding content information in real time to the content server 120 according to the generated widget event, As shown in FIG. When terminating the widget service, the mobile terminal 110 may terminate the connection between the widget viewer providing system 200 and the content server 120 by generating a widget event (Terminate).

The information communication unit 210 of the widget viewer providing system 200 according to another embodiment of the present invention may transmit the content information related to the widget service request of the mobile terminal 110 based on the metadata related to the user of the mobile terminal 110 And requests the content server 120 to receive the content. The metadata may be history information for each mobile terminal using the widget service. For example, the widget viewer providing system 200 analyzes the usage pattern of the mobile terminal 110 for a predetermined period of time, and stores the widget service type that the mobile terminal 110 mainly uses and the widget viewer information of the mobile terminal 110 as metadata Can be generated. Accordingly, the widget conversion unit 230 of the present invention can convert the widget contents to be provided to each mobile terminal based on the meta data.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a widget viewer service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The widget viewer service providing method may be implemented by the widget viewer service providing system of the present invention. 5 will be described with reference to FIG. 2, and the understanding of the invention will be described below.

The widget viewer service providing system 200 receives a widget service request from the mobile terminal 110 in step S510. The mobile terminal 110 may select a widget icon displayed on the background screen from the user and request the widget service desired by the user to the widget viewer service providing system. Accordingly, the information communication unit 210 may request the content server 120 for the content information associated with the widget service request.

In step S520, the widget viewer service providing system 200 receives content information associated with the widget service request from the content server 120. [ The content information may be one of MSN messenger, stock, keyword search window, weather, clock, game, notepad, and the like, as information on contents to be provided to the widget service.

In step S530, the widget viewer service providing system 200 identifies a widget driver program associated with the widget service request. The memory means 250 records and maintains a widget driving program downloaded from the widget contents server 130 in association with the widget service when the widget service of each mobile terminal is requested. The widget driving program is for providing a widget service, and can be driven differently for each service. The information identifying unit 240 identifies a widget driving program associated with the requested widget service in the memory means 250. [

In step S540, the widget viewer service providing system 200 converts the received content information into widget contents using the identified widget drive program. At this time, the widget conversion unit 230 may convert the widget content based on the widget viewer information according to the mobile terminal 110. [ The widget viewer information may be GUI information corresponding to each mobile terminal when the widget service is executed.

In step S550, the widget viewer service providing system 200 transmits the converted widget contents to the mobile terminal 110 in response to the widget service request. Accordingly, the mobile terminal 110 may display the widget contents on the background screen and request a widget event from the user. The widget event may be service information on widget contents being provided.

Further, embodiments of the present invention include a computer readable medium having program instructions for performing various computer implemented operations. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The media may be program instructions that are specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs; magnetic media such as floppy disks; Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the embodiments described, but should be determined by the scope of the appended claims, as well as the appended claims.

1 is a diagram illustrating an overall connection relationship between a widget viewer service providing system, a mobile terminal, and servers according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a widget viewer service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a widget service provided to a mobile terminal in a widget viewer service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating a procedure of providing a widget service in a widget viewer service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a widget viewer service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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220: terminal interface unit

230: memory means

240: widget converter

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Receiving content information associated with the widget service request from a content server according to a widget service request from the mobile terminal; Converting the received content information into widget content using a widget driving program; And Transmitting the converted widget contents to the mobile terminal in response to the widget service request The method of claim 1, The method according to claim 1, Further comprising maintaining memory means for associating and recording the widget activation program with the widget service, Wherein the converting the content information into widget content comprises: Identifying in the memory means a widget driven program associated with the requested widget service; And Converting the content information into the widget content by processing the content information by driving the identified widget drive program The method of claim 1, The method according to claim 1, Further comprising downloading a widget running program associated with the requested widget service from a widget content server, Wherein the converting the content information into widget content comprises: Converting the content information into the widget content by processing the content information by driving the downloaded widget drive program The method of claim 1, The method according to claim 1, The step of converting into widget content comprises: Converting the widget contents based on widget viewer information according to the mobile terminal The method of claim 1, 5. The method of claim 4, The widget viewer information includes: (GUI) information corresponding to each mobile terminal when the widget service is executed. The method according to claim 1, Wherein the step of receiving content information from a content server comprises: Receiving the content information based on the metadata related to the mobile terminal The method of claim 1, A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for performing the method of any one of claims 1 to 6. An information communication unit for receiving content information associated with the widget service request from a content server according to a widget service request from the mobile terminal; A widget conversion unit for converting the received content information into widget contents using a widget driving program; And A terminal interface unit for transmitting the converted widget contents to the mobile terminal in response to the widget service request, The widget viewer service providing system according to claim 1, 9. The method of claim 8, Memory means for associating and recording the widget activation program with a widget service; And Further comprising an information identifying unit for identifying, in the memory means, a widget operating program associated with the requested widget service, The widget conversion unit, And operating the identified widget drive program to convert the content information into the widget content by processing the content information. 9. The method of claim 8, The information communication unit includes: Downloading a widget running program associated with the requested widget service from a widget content server, The widget conversion unit, Wherein the widget application program is configured to process the content information and convert the widget content into the widget content by driving the downloaded widget application program. 9. The method of claim 8, The widget conversion unit, And converts the widget contents based on the widget viewer information according to the mobile terminal. 9. The method of claim 8, The information communication unit includes: And receives the content information based on the metadata related to the mobile terminal.
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