KR20100001923A - Method, system, and computer-readable recording medium for enabling users to share personalized contents - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method and a system for enabling users to share personalized contents and a computer readable recording medium are provided to enable other users to read personalized contents collected/edited by a user. CONSTITUTION: A content collecting unit(391) stores one or more contents collected/edited by a user in a personalized media space. An editing interface providing unit(392a) of a content editing unit(392) offers an interface for editing the collected contents. The edited layout storage unit stores a layout editing result. If the user edits part of the personalized contents, a edited contents storage unit stores the edited result. A content providing unit(393) opens at least one stored content so that at least one user can read it.

Description

METHOOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR ENABLING USERS TO SHARE PERSONALIZED CONTENTS}

The present invention relates to a method, a system, and a computer-readable recording medium for enabling the sharing of personalized content among users, and more particularly, to collecting and editing various contents in a personalized media space. A method, system, and computer readable recording medium are provided for enabling the creation, and for allowing other users to subscribe to it.

Recently, with the development of information and communication technology, the dependence on life on the web space accessible through the Internet is increasing. Modern people are exposed to various contents through various web sites existing in the web space, and thus various information is obtained.

Among such contents, there may be contents containing contents that match a user's taste, and others may not. In particular, news contents of various contents can be expressed in various ways depending on the perspective of the journalist or the tendency of the journalist, even when dealing with the same subject and the same article distance. There may be content.

However, according to the conventional content retrieval system, there is a difficult side to make the content search reflecting the user's taste. In other words, in the related art, the contents can only be searched by a general query word input directly by the user, and thus, a large number of contents that do not match the user's taste may be searched and presented to the user.

Techniques for solving this problem are described in Korean Patent Application No. 2007-120474 by the present applicant (the description of the detailed description of the present application should be considered to be incorporated herein in its entirety). According to the technology of the Korean patent application, when a user searches for news content, the user can be provided with a search result consisting only of news content from a user's preferred press.

However, even in accordance with the technique of the Korean patent application, it is only possible to expose or not to expose only content from a specific content provider (the press in the above application) when searching for the content, and the user can select the individual content as a unit. I could not collect my own content.

In this regard, in the related art, a technology for scrapping a specific content and posting it in a personal media space (for example, a blog), or receiving a content-related letter received from a specific content provider at regular intervals There was a technique. However, they are also merely for allowing a user to post content provided by a particular web server through another space or for a user to manually subscribe to the content, thereby providing personalized content in an active sense. There was a distance from the offer.

Thus, by actively collecting and editing content from various content providers, users can create truly personalized content, and the created personalized content can be shared with other users, thereby creating a kind of personal media. It is necessary to give the user the space and freedom to form.

The object of the present invention is to solve all the above-mentioned problems.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to enable a user to actively collect and edit at least one of a plurality of contents provided from a plurality of content providers to store and publish in a personal media space.

In addition, the present invention allows a user to subscribe to personalized content collected and edited by a user, and in some cases, the user can express his or her opinion, thereby providing a personalized content provider (CP) that provides personalized content. Another purpose is to make the activity of) active.

It is also an object of the present invention to enable activation of overall information sharing in accordance with activation of use of personalized content.

Representative configuration of the present invention for achieving the above object is as follows.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for sharing personalized content among users, the method comprising: storing at least one content collected / edited by a user in a personal media space corresponding to the user; A method is provided that includes publishing at least one stored content for at least one user to subscribe to.

According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for enabling a user to subscribe to personalized content, the method comprising: receiving a subscription request of a user for personalized content, based on the subscription request, personalizing the user Registering as a subscriber to the subscribed content, and providing the personalized content to the user.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for sharing personalized content among users, wherein the content collecting unit stores at least one content collected / edited by the user in a personal media space corresponding to the user. , And a content providing unit that publishes the at least one stored content to be subscribed to by at least one user.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for enabling a user to subscribe to personalized content, wherein the user is registered as a subscriber to the personalized content based on a user's subscription to the personalized content. , A system including a content providing unit for providing the personalized content to the user is provided.

In addition, there is further provided a computer readable recording medium for recording another method, system for implementing the present invention, and a computer program for executing the method.

According to the present invention, it is possible to create and use personal media by a user.

In addition, according to the present invention, since personalized content collected and edited by the user is subscribed to by another user and opinions are also collected, the activity of the personal CP may be active.

In addition, according to the present invention, overall information sharing is also activated in accordance with the activation of the use of personalized content.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The following detailed description of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings that show, by way of illustration, specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. It should be understood that the various embodiments of the present invention are different but need not be mutually exclusive. For example, certain shapes, structures, and characteristics described herein may be embodied in other embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention with respect to one embodiment. In addition, it is to be understood that the location or arrangement of individual components within each disclosed embodiment may be changed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The following detailed description, therefore, is not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention, if properly described, is defined only by the appended claims, along with the full range of equivalents to which such claims are entitled. Like reference numerals in the drawings refer to the same or similar functions throughout the several aspects.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily implement the present invention.

As used herein, "content" is a general term for digital information accessible through a communication network or its contents, and is digital information produced by a specific person or a specific company and composed of text, code, sound, sound, image, and video. For example, the concept is generic to User Created Contents (UCC) and Company Created Contents (CCC). For example, images, videos, or news content produced or edited by a particular press may be included in the "content" referred to herein.

On the other hand, the "personalized content" referred to herein refers to a collection of the user has collected and edited at least one content. That is, according to the present invention, it should be understood that any content is included in the personalized content referred to herein as long as it is collected or edited through the user's predetermined behavior (even if it is a very small behavior). An example of personalized content is a collection of news content generated by a blogger journalist.

As used herein, the term "personal media space" refers to both a physical storage device that stores content collected / edited by a user, and a cyber space that publishes content managed by that user. That is, according to the present invention, a personal media space includes at least one storage device included in a specific computing device offline, and a web page, a website, etc. identified by a specific location identifier (eg, a URL) online. It includes at least one cyberspace.

Configuration of the entire system

1A is a diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of an entire system for sharing personalized content among users according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1A, the entire system of the present invention includes a personal CP terminal 100 for collecting / editing content by a specific user, a subscriber terminal 200 for subscribing to the collected / edited content, It is possible to collect / edit content by the user of the personal CP terminal 100, thereby allowing the personalized content to be shared between users, and responding to requests from the personal CP terminal 100. It may be configured to include a web server 400 operated by a content provider that provides various types of content.

First, the Internet described herein may be configured regardless of its communication mode such as wired and wireless, and may include a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), and a wide area network (WAN). Area network). Preferably, the Internet referred to herein may be a known World Wide Web (WWW).

The personal CP terminal 100 and the subscriber terminal 200 are both digital devices that allow a user to collect / edit contents or subscribe to desired contents after accessing the server 300 through the Internet. Examples include computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and the like. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the personal CP terminal 100 and the subscriber terminal 200 may be a terminal having the same configuration, for the convenience of description it will be described separately for both. The personal CP terminal 100 and the subscriber terminal 200 may replace each other's functions or overlap the functions of other terminals as necessary. In addition, although the term personal CP is used herein, it should be understood that this does not necessarily imply that the user of the personal CP terminal 100 has an achievement purpose.

A user who wants to provide personalized contents by collecting / editing various types of contents may execute a well-known program that enables a web browser or other content search such as Internet Explorer ^TM , Netscape ^TM, etc. using the personal CP terminal 100. After accessing the server 300, desired content may be provided according to a series of well-known processes for searching for content. That is, the user may be provided with content collected from a plurality of content providers by the server 300, or may be provided with content produced and processed by a company operating the server 300. Meanwhile, the personal CP terminal 100 may directly access the web server 400 and receive content provided by the content provider operating the web server 400.

The user of the personal CP terminal 100 may generate / personalize the personalized content by collecting / editing at least one provided content. As such, the personalized content collected / edited by the user of the personal CP terminal 100 may be stored in the personal media space provided by the server 300.

Meanwhile, a user of the subscriber terminal 200 may access the server 300 through the Internet and select one or more of the personalized contents that he / she wants to subscribe to and subscribe to it. The user of the subscriber terminal 200 can subscribe to desired content by directly visiting a personal media space where personalized content is posted, or by using a link to personalized content provided by an Internet portal site operated by the server 300. Can be.

The server 300 may communicate with the terminals 100 and 200 through the Internet, and various contents provided by a plurality of web servers 400 as sources or contents produced by an operator of the server 300 itself. May be provided to the terminals 100 and 200.

As illustrated, the server 300 may include a content collector 391, a content editor 392, and a content provider 393. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the content collector 391, the content editor 392, and the content provider 393 may communicate at least some of them with the terminals 100 and 200 and the web server 400. Program modules. Such program modules may be included in the server 300 in the form of operating systems, application modules, and other program modules, and may be physically stored on various known storage devices. In addition, these program modules may be stored in a remote storage device that can communicate with the server 300. On the other hand, such program modules include, but are not limited to, routines, subroutines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or execute particular abstract data types, described below, in accordance with the present invention.

Hereinafter, the configuration of the server 300 will be described with reference to FIG. 1B, which shows an internal configuration of the server 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the content collector 391 will be described. As shown, the content collector 391 may include a collection interface provider 391a and a content recognition / storage 391b.

The collection interface provider 391a provides the user with an interface for allowing the user of the personal CP terminal 100 to collect contents through various paths. The type of interface provided may vary depending on the type of content to be collected or the subject of providing the same. For example, when a user of the personal CP terminal 100 collects contents produced or collected / edited by the operator of the server 300 through a web site operated by the server 300, The collection interface provider 391a may provide an interface including a collection function on a web page on which the corresponding content is provided. On the other hand, when the user of the personal CP terminal 100 directly accesses the web server 400 to collect the content provided by the web server 400, the collection interface provider 391a includes a collection function. A separate application may be provided to the personal CP terminal 100. The user of the personal CP terminal 100 can easily collect various contents through the collection interface provided as such.

Meanwhile, the content recognition / storage unit 391b performs a function of recognizing content requested by a user of the personal CP terminal 100 and storing it in a personal media space. In detail, when a user requests to collect specific content through the collection interface provided by the collection interface provider 391a, the content recognition / storage unit 391b recognizes the content requested to be collected and then the corresponding content. Content is classified by category (or subject) and stored in the personal media space. The classification of the content by category (or subject) may be automatically performed by the content recognition / storage unit 391b, or may be manually performed according to a user's input through a previously provided collection interface. Meanwhile, when a separate collection application is installed in the personal CP terminal 100, the personal CP terminal 100 may recognize and store the content according to the type of the content. The personal media space used at this time may be included in the server 300, but may be included in a remote storage device spaced apart from the server 300.

Next, the content editing unit 392 will be described. As shown, the content editing unit 392 may include an editing interface providing unit 392a, an edited layout storage unit 392b, and an edited content storage unit 392c.

The editing interface providing unit 392a provides an interface for allowing a user of the personal CP terminal 100 to request collection and to edit the content collected by the content collecting unit 391 in a desired form. The user can check the collected personalized content through his personal media space, and edit or collect the layout of his media space through the interface provided by the editing interface provider 392a through the space. Editing of content can be performed.

The edited layout storage 392b performs a function of storing the edited result when the user edits the layout of his or her personal media space through the editing interface. Here, the term "layout" is to be understood as a term that collectively refers to a visual configuration including content list arrangement, menu layout, and the like on the personal media space.

Meanwhile, the edited content storage unit 392c performs a function of storing the result when the user edits some of his personalized content through the editing interface. The editing of content may include editing about content, setting whether to share content, or setting about discussion of other users about the content.

Finally, the content provider 393 performs a function of providing other users to subscribe to personalized content collected / edited by a specific user. To this end, the content provider 393 accesses personalized content and transmits it to the subscriber terminal 200.

Regarding the detailed functions of the content collecting unit 391, the content editing unit 392, and the content providing unit 393 mentioned above, the user of the personal CP terminal 100 may use the server 300 or the web server 400. See the description below for the process of collecting and editing content provided by and sharing personalized content.

In the drawings referred to in the following description, the process of collecting, editing, subscribing, and discussing news content among various kinds of contents will be illustrated.

Of content  collection

As described above, a user of the personal CP terminal 100 may access various contents by accessing the server 300 or the plurality of web servers 400 through the Internet.

First, a case in which a user of the personal CP terminal 100 accesses the server 300 to receive content and collects the content will be described.

FIG. 2A illustrates an example in which a user of the personal CP terminal 100 collects content collected by the server 300 from a plurality of web servers 400 or content generated by an operator of the server 300.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the collection interface providing unit 391a included in the content collecting unit 391 of the server 300 has a collection function for collecting the corresponding content for each content displayed in the form of a list. Can provide. That is, when the user clicks the collection function button 301 as shown in FIG. 2A, an interface for easily collecting the corresponding content may be provided. The collected content may be stored in a personal media space that is identified using identification information (eg, login ID, social security number, name, address, etc.) of the user.

2B illustrates an example of the menu window 310 provided by the collection interface providing unit 391a when the user performs a mouseover and right click on a title of predetermined content. In this case, the user may collect the corresponding content by clicking the content collection menu 311. In order to be able to collect content in the same manner as in the case of FIG. 2B, the collection interface provider 391a of the server 300 may transmit an application executable to collect the content to the personal CP terminal 100. Preferably, such an application may be implemented in the form of a toolbar or a widget. Meanwhile, the content collector 391 of the server 300 may support a user to collect content in various ways in addition to the methods illustrated in FIGS. 2A and 2B.

Meanwhile, when the user performs content collection, a popup window 320 may be provided for inputting and editing basic information about the content, as illustrated in FIG. 2C. In addition, it may be provided by the collection interface provider 391a, the user of the personal CP terminal 100 to enter or change a new category, tag, or a separate memo of the corresponding content in the pop-up window 320 1 After the editing process, the user can click the save button 321 to complete the collection of the corresponding content. Here, the category of the content may be a classification criterion for classifying the contents in the personal media space in which the personalized content is stored. In addition, the tag may be an important keyword that may represent the content of the content, and the memo may be a user's opinion about the content. The content collected and primary edited in this manner may be stored in the personal media space by the content recognition / storage 391b of the server 300.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the location identifier, title, category and / or tag of the corresponding contents are automatically extracted by the server 300 by the content recognition / storage 391b for the user's convenience. Can be. To this end, the content recognition / storage 391b may use a known text-based and / or image-based automatic tagging technique. On the other hand, when the content is collected as described above, thumbnails for the representative image of the image or video included in the content may be extracted and stored in association with the content (these thumbnails may be stored in the future when the content is subscribed to) May be provided).

On the other hand, when the user clicks on the title of the content provided in the form of a list, as shown in Figure 2a, the server 300 may provide the entire contents of the content in a separate web page. 2D shows an example of content provided in this manner. In the case of FIG. 2D, the user may collect the corresponding content by using the collection function button 302 for the content using the interface provided by the collection interface provider 391a. In this case, a menu window 310 as shown in FIG. 2B or a popup window 320 as shown in FIG. 2C may be used.

Meanwhile, according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the collection interface provider 391a of the server 300 may provide another type of application in order to enable a user to collect content. For example, collection of content may be performed through an application that provides a bookmark function, as shown in FIG. 2E. The application may be formed as a separate widget, but may be included in a toolbar of a web browser, as shown in FIG. 2E. That is, a user of the personal CP terminal 100 may be provided with a web page including specific content through a web browser. In this case, the user may collect the corresponding content by clicking the bookmark button 303. Even in this case, the popup window 320 as shown in FIG. 2C may be used.

On the other hand, the user may be provided with the content directly through the web server 400, rather than through the server 300. That is, the user receives a list of the contents of the web server 400 searched through the server 300, and then directly accesses the links of the respective contents to access the contents provided by the media, and collect at least some of them. Can be.

In this case, content may be collected by a toolbar or other application of the web browser of the personal CP terminal 100. Such a toolbar or other application may be provided by the collection interface provider 391a. For example, a user opens a pop-up window using a function of a toolbar of a web browser of the personal CP terminal 100 and inputs a location identifier, category, tag, etc. of the content in the pop-up window to collect the content and store it in the personal media space. Can be. In addition, more actively, a user recognizes and collects text, an image, etc. of content provided by the web server 400 by a separate application or script program that can be distributed and downloaded by the server 300 and then executed. It may be organized in a predetermined standardized form and stored in a personal media space.

Collected Of content  edit

As described above, the server 300 may provide a personal media space for storing and posting content collected by the user of the personal CP terminal 100. This personal media space may be a web page or web site with a predetermined location identifier.

The user of the personal CP terminal 100 can check the contents stored by the content recognition / storage unit 391b by accessing his / her personal media space and requesting the collection so far, and secondary to the collected contents. Editing and / or editing of the layout of the personal media space including the same can be performed.

3A illustrates an example of a main page of a personal media space according to an embodiment of the present invention.

On the main page of the personal media space of FIG. 3A, a personalized content list display window 411 representing a list of collected and edited contents, a content display window 412 displaying content of one of the personalized contents, and a content display window 412 Debater list display window 413 showing a list of users who are discussing the content displayed in the subscribing list, Subscription content list display window 414 that displays a list of other personalized content subscribed to by user A in the personal media space. A subscriber list display window 415 that displays a list of users who subscribe to content provided in the personal media space, and an editing function button that provides a function for allowing user A to edit the collected content or the layout of the personal media space. 416 may be included.

Here, the edit function button 416 may be displayed only to user A who is an operator of the corresponding personal media space. When the user A clicks the edit function button 416, the editing or setting page as shown in Fig. 3B may be provided by the editing interface providing unit 392a included in the content editing unit 392 of the server 300. have.

As shown in FIG. 3B, the setting page of the personal media space includes a layout setting window 421 for setting the layout of the personal media space, and the user A to perform various edits on the content collected by the user. A content editing window 422 to allow user A to set whether or not to share his or her content, and a sharing setting window 423 to allow user A to share the content posted in his or her personal media space. It may include a discussion room setting window 424 for setting up a discussion room so that they can discuss each other.

First, user A may change an exemplary layout of the personal media space as shown in FIG. 3A through the layout setting window 421. For this purpose, reference may be made to the technology of the smart editor developed by the present applicant. On the other hand, the operator of the server 300 may allow the user A to insert a display advertisement of the appropriate size, etc. at the time of the layout change to inspire the motivation of the user A. The information about the layout edited through the layout setting window 421 is stored by the edited layout storage 392b and then reflected in the personal media space.

In addition, the user A may edit the content itself collected through the content editing window 422. For example, it is possible to determine a posting order of a plurality of collected contents, modify categories (topics), tags, etc. of the plurality of collected contents, and the edited result is stored by the edited content storage unit 392c. Reflected in the personal media space.

In addition, the user A may set whether or not to share the content collected by the user through the sharing setting window 423. That is, the user A may set the content collected by the user to be private so that other users cannot subscribe to the content, or may always set the content to be public. In addition, if user A wants to share the content collected by the user with another user, the user A may set the degree of sharing.

For example, user A can enable other users to subscribe to their content only by actively entering the location identifier of their personal media space, and only a few users can subscribe to their personalized content. It can be set to make it possible, and can also set whether to allow other users' scraps, etc. for their content. In addition, the user A may set only those belonging to some categories among the contents of his personal media space as shareable.

Meanwhile, the user A may determine whether to allow other users to discuss his or her content through the discussion room setting window 424. In addition, when a discussion is allowed, the setting of the discussion method can also be made. For example, the user A may limit the discussion method to commenting on the content, or set the form in which a real-time chat window or a message is available. In addition, user A may define a qualification condition for participating in a discussion based on his or her content. The setting related to whether or not to be shared and the degree set in this manner, and the setting related to whether or not to be discussed can also be stored by the edited content storage unit 392c together with the information about the corresponding content.

Meanwhile, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the sharing setting and / or discussion room setting as described above may be omitted at all. That is, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the personalized content may be initially set so that the discussion room is always open or always open.

Meanwhile, in order to enable user A to be motivated to attract more subscribers to his personal media space, the operator of server 300 may take the following method.

First, when the number of subscriptions to the user A's personalized content, the number of subscribers or the number of views on at least a portion of the user A's personalized content and the number of recommendations increase, the server 300 identifies the user A's identification information according to a predetermined criterion. It can increase the electronic parameters associated with the point, cyber money, and the like. In addition, the operator of the server 300 may provide the above compensation even offline.

In addition, the server 300 may allow a link to User A's personal media space to be exposed to other users at a more advantageous location in such cases.

In addition, when the user A actively performs a predetermined activity (that is, collecting and editing personalized content), the server 300 includes an Internet portal site where the user A's personal media space is operated by the server 300. You can also set it to be accessible directly from the main page. For example, the server 300 may display the user's personal media space on the main page of the Internet portal site as if it were a media medium (eg, a press). In this regard, it can be referred to with respect to the setting for the press that is exposed on the main page of Korean Patent Application No. 2007-120474.

As described above, personalized content that is collected / edited and posted to the personal media space may be subscribed to by other users.

Hereinafter, a method of subscribing personalized content provided by the server 300 to a user of the subscriber terminal 200 will be described.

Personalized Of content  subscribe

As described above, a user of the personal CP terminal 100 may set whether to share personalized content through his personal media space. Therefore, personalized content allowed to be shared by the user of the personal CP terminal 100 may be subscribed to by other users.

Basically, the user of the subscriber terminal 200 may visit the personal media space of the user of the personal CP terminal 100 to subscribe to the personalized content of the corresponding user without having to go through a procedure for user authentication such as login. have. Referring to the technique of Korean Patent Application No. 2007-120474, the user of the subscriber terminal 200 subscribes from the main page of the Internet portal site through a personal setting similar to that described in the Korean Patent Application even with only a user cookie. It can be seen that the personalized content can be accessed. Of course, the user of the subscriber terminal 200 may be a subscriber of personalized content through a user authentication procedure.

4A exemplarily illustrates a content subscription window 510 provided on a main page of an Internet portal site operated by the server 300, specifically, a content subscription window 510 when the content is news content. do. As an example, it is assumed that the content subscription window 510 is displayed on the main page of Naver ^TM (www.naver.com), which is the applicant's famous portal site.

The content subscription window 510 may include a subscription list display window 511 for displaying a list of personalized content that a specific user is currently subscribed to and a setting button 512 for setting personalized content for subscription.

When the user of the subscriber terminal 200 clicks the setting button 512, a subscription information setting page as shown in FIG. 4B may be provided. In the subscription information setting page, information about a personal media space or personalized content of another user registered by the user of the subscriber terminal 200 to date may be provided.

In addition, a user of the subscriber terminal 200 may include the corresponding personalized content in his or her own subscription list by clicking the subscribe button 521 for subscribing to other user's personalized content through the subscription information setting page. . As such, when the user of the subscriber terminal 200 includes personalized content of another user in his or her subscription list, a link to the corresponding personal media space may be immediately displayed on the subscription list display window 511 of FIG. 4A. have. For this processing, the subscription information setting page of FIG. 4B may further include a search function and a sorting function for personalized content of other users.

In addition, in addition to the above case, the user of the subscriber terminal 200 may directly visit the corresponding personal media space through the location identifier of another user's personal media space and include it in his or her subscription list.

Meanwhile, the range of including personalized content of another user in the subscription list may be determined in various ways. For example, the user of the subscriber terminal 200 may include in the subscription list only those belonging to a specific category among other users' personalized content, may include only those belonging to a specific topic in the subscription list, Only contents may be included in the subscription list. In this case, for the convenience of the user of the subscriber terminal 200, as well as personalized content based on a specific personal media space as shown in FIG. 4A, personalized content on a specific subject (for example, the Euro 2008 football game) It may be exposed through the subscription list display window 511.

In addition, as described above, the user of the subscriber terminal 200 may directly access some personal media spaces as shown in FIG. 4A using settings specific to them.

Hereinafter, a description will be given of a case in which a plurality of users who subscribe to predetermined personalized content have a discussion about specific news content.

Personalized On content  Discussion

As described above, the user of the personal CP terminal 100 may set whether or not to allow the discussion about the content provided through the personal media space.

A user of the subscriber terminal 200 may access a personal media space where he posts personalized content he subscribes to and participate in discussions about content of interest.

FIG. 5A shows an example of a main page of a personal media space of the same type as shown in FIG. 3A. The user of the subscriber terminal 200 can enter the discussion room as shown in FIG. 5B by clicking on the discussion room button 611 included in the main page of the personal media space.

The discussion room may be configured in various forms. For example, a discussion list display window 621 indicating a discussion list currently in progress, a best discussion list display window 623 indicating a discussion list currently active, and content of a discussion about a specific content. It may include a discussion preview window 625 that simply displays.

The user of the subscriber terminal 200 selects a specific discussion in the discussion list display window 621, the best discussion list display window 623, or joins the button provided in the discussion preview window 625 or the best discussion list display window 623. By clicking 627, the discussion progress about the specific content can be checked in detail.

5C is an example of a web page detailing the progress of a discussion about specific content.

The user of the subscriber terminal 200 may express his / her opinion on the corresponding content through a web page as shown in FIG. 5C, and may communicate a disagreement or disagree with the opinion of another panelist.

In addition, the user of the subscriber terminal 200 may scrap the discussion content that is ongoing in another user's personal media space into his or her media space.

Meanwhile, the discussion described with reference to FIGS. 5A to 5C may be of the same nature as a general comment. Therefore, the discussion preview window 625 may include and display at least a part of comments on the same content.

Embodiments according to the present invention described above may be implemented in the form of program instructions that may be executed by various computer components, and may be recorded in a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the computer readable recording medium may be those specially designed and configured for the present invention, or may be known and available to those skilled in the computer software arts. Examples of computer readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magneto-optical media such as floptical disks. 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 not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the process according to the invention, and vice versa.

Although the present invention has been described by specific embodiments such as specific components and the like, but the embodiments and the drawings are provided to assist in a more general understanding of the present invention, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. For those skilled in the art, various modifications and variations can be made from these descriptions.

Therefore, the spirit of the present invention should not be limited to the embodiments described above, and all of the equivalents or equivalents of the claims, as well as the claims below, are included in the scope of the spirit of the present invention. I will say.

1A is a diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of an entire system for sharing personalized content among users according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1B is a diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention in detail.

2A to 2E are diagrams illustrating an example of a web page provided to a user of a personal CP terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A and 3B illustrate an example of a personal media space that provides an editing function for personalized content according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4A and 4B illustrate an example of a web page provided to a user of a subscriber terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5A through 5C illustrate an example of a personal media space that provides a discussion function for personalized content according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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100: personal CP terminal

200: subscriber terminal

300: server

400: web server

391: content collection unit

392: content editing unit

393: content provider

Claims (33)

A way to share personalized content among users, (a) storing at least one content collected / edited by a user in a personal media space corresponding to the user, and (b) publishing the at least one stored content for subscription by at least one user. The method of claim 1, In step (a), Receiving a collection request of the user for the at least one content, and receiving basic information about the at least one content, and storing the at least one content together with the location identifier of the at least one content Method comprising the steps. The method of claim 2, The collection request is performed by selection of a collection request button provided with the at least one content or execution of an application on the user's terminal. The method of claim 3, The application of the user terminal is a toolbar or a widget. The method of claim 2, The basic information includes at least one of a title, a category, a tag, and a memo of the at least one content. The method of claim 5, The basic information is automatically obtained. The method of claim 1, Wherein the personal media space is associated with a given web page. The method of claim 1, The step (b) includes the step of referencing a publication condition for the at least one stored content. The method of claim 8, The disclosure condition includes at least one of a category of publishable content, a topic of publishable content, and identification information of at least one user to be published. The method of claim 1, In step (b), Calculating a popularity based on at least one of the number of subscribers and the number of subscriptions to the at least one stored content and the number of views and the number of recommendations for at least a portion of the at least one stored content, and Rewarding the user according to the popularity How to include. The method of claim 10, The compensation includes adjusting an exposure position of the personal media space corresponding to the user or changing an electronic parameter associated with the user's identification information. A method for enabling a user to subscribe to personalized content. Receiving a user's subscription to personalized content, Based on the subscription, registering the user as a subscriber to the personalized content, and Providing the personalized content to the user How to include. The method of claim 12, The user's subscription is made on a list consisting of a plurality of personalized content. The method of claim 12, The user's subscription is made according to the user's input of a location identifier for the personalized content. The method of claim 12, The registration step is performed by referring to the login ID or cookie information of the user. The method of claim 12, Wherein the personalized content is provided with a discussion menu for at least a portion of the personalized content. A computer-readable recording medium for recording a computer program for executing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 16. A system that enables sharing of personalized content among users. A content collecting unit storing at least one content collected / edited by a user in a personal media space corresponding to the user, and And a content providing unit that publishes the at least one stored content to be subscribed to by at least one user. The method of claim 18, The content collection unit, A collection interface providing unit providing an interface for allowing a user to request a collection of the at least one content; and A content recognition / storage unit for receiving basic information on at least one content requested to be collected through the interface, and storing the basic information with the at least one content or the location identifier of the at least one content. System comprising a. The method of claim 19, The collection interface providing unit provides an application that provides a collection request button with the at least one content or enables a collection request. The method of claim 20, The application is a toolbar or widget. The method of claim 19, The basic information includes at least one of a title, a category, a tag, and a memo of the at least one content. The method of claim 22, And the content recognition / storage unit automatically obtains the basic information. The method of claim 18, The personal media space is associated with a predetermined web page. The method of claim 18, The content providing unit publishes the at least one stored content with reference to the disclosure conditions for the at least one stored content. The method of claim 25, The disclosure condition includes at least one of a category of publishable content, a topic of publishable content, and identification information of at least one user to be published. The method of claim 18, The content providing unit calculates a popularity based on at least one of the number of subscribers and the number of subscriptions of the at least one stored content, the number of views and the number of recommendation of at least a portion of the at least one stored content, and the user according to the popularity. System for rewarding people. The method of claim 27, The compensation includes adjusting an exposure position of the personal media space corresponding to the user or changing an electronic parameter associated with the user's identification information. A system for enabling a user to subscribe to personalized content, And a content providing unit that registers the user as a subscriber to the personalized content and provides the personalized content to the user based on a user's subscription to the personalized content. The method of claim 29, The subscription of the user is made on a list consisting of a plurality of personalized content. The method of claim 29, The subscription of the user is made according to the user's input of a location identifier for the personalized content. The method of claim 29, The registration is performed by referring to the login ID or cookie information of the user. The method of claim 29, The content providing unit provides a discussion menu for at least a portion of the personalized content together with the personalized content.

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