KR100654545B1 - Method And Apparatus For Filtering Menu Provided To Mobile Terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for filtering a menu provided to a mobile terminal. The present invention includes the steps of: A) classifying terminal information of a mobile terminal according to a predetermined rule to generate terminal group information; B) generating content-terminal information by connecting corresponding terminal group information when storing the content to be provided to the mobile terminal; C) when generating a menu of the wireless Internet to be provided to the mobile terminal, storing the content-terminal information in association with a menu item and providing the menu according to the performance of the user's mobile terminal. have.

Mobile terminal, terminal specification, menu filtering

Description

Method and device for filtering menu provided to mobile terminal {Method And Apparatus For Filtering Menu Provided To Mobile Terminal}

1 illustrates a system including a filtering device for a menu provided to a mobile terminal to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

2 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus for filtering a menu provided to a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of filtering a menu provided to a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 to 6 illustrate web pages for performing a method of filtering a menu provided to a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings>

100: subscriber terminal

120: communication network

150: content providing device

200: integrated management device

300: central management unit

310: content provider access device

330: transmission device

330-A: Connection Detection Module

330-B: Basic Information Collection Module

330-C: Render Module

400: service management device

420: content management module

440: menu management module

600: terminal information management device

610: terminal group hair management module

The present invention relates to a method for providing information on content, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for filtering a menu for providing a menu containing information on content according to the performance of a mobile terminal.

With the development of technology, various types of mobile terminals have emerged while miniaturization and weight reduction of mobile terminals.

These days, mobile terminals are widely used for various purposes such as information acquisition, Internet search, and games. In addition, with the addition of wireless Internet access, a significant portion of the content provided by mobile operators or their content providers are now being made via wireless Internet based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

However, at this point in time, the performance of the terminal using the wireless Internet varies widely, so it is difficult to provide a service in accordance with the performance of any one terminal.

For example, in the case of providing all the users with the menus generated in the form of text based on the swap menus displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal in accordance with the performance of the old terminal, the menu is monotonous and it is difficult for the user to easily sense the menu contents. The disadvantage is that it is difficult.

In addition, when a menu is created using various layouts and view types of items in accordance with the performance of a terminal providing multimedia content, a menu generated by an old terminal that supports only a text browser cannot be provided. This has happened.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for filtering a menu provided to a mobile terminal for providing a menu containing information on content according to the performance of the mobile terminal. It is.

Method of filtering the menu provided to the mobile terminal according to the first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object,

A) generating terminal group information by classifying terminal information of a mobile terminal according to a predetermined rule;

B) generating content-terminal information by connecting corresponding terminal group information when storing the content to be provided to the mobile terminal; And

C) when generating a menu of the wireless Internet to be provided to the mobile terminal, storing the content-terminal information in connection with a menu item.

Method of filtering the menu provided to the mobile terminal according to the second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object,

Iii) the mobile terminal accessing an integrated management device for managing the wireless Internet;

Ii) detecting terminal information of a connected mobile terminal and searching for a type of service to be provided to the mobile terminal; And

I) reading a menu according to the service type, filtering a menu matching the terminal information of the mobile terminal among the menus, and transmitting the filtered menu to the mobile terminal.

An apparatus for filtering a menu provided to a mobile terminal according to a third aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object,
A connection detecting module for detecting and transmitting terminal information and subscriber information of the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal accesses an integrated management device for managing wireless Internet;
A basic information collection module for searching for a type of service to be provided to the mobile terminal and a menu according to the type of service, based on the subscriber information detected by the connection sensing module; And

And a rendering module for filtering a menu based on the terminal information provided by the connection sensing module among the menus searched by the basic information collecting module and transmitting the filtered information to the mobile terminal.

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Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 illustrates a system including a filtering device for a menu provided to a mobile terminal to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

Referring to FIG. 1, a system including a filtering device of a menu includes a subscriber station 100, a communication network 120, a content providing device 150, and an integrated management device 200.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the subscriber station 100 is a mobile terminal, and for the convenience of the following description, the subscriber station 100 is limited to the mobile terminal, and the reference number is also given to the same as the subscriber terminal 100. Although described, the subscriber station 100 is not limited to the mobile terminal.

The mobile terminal 100 includes a mobile phone, a PDA, and a notebook that can wirelessly communicate.

The content providers of the present invention are to provide a service including a content and an application composed of various data to the mobile terminal 100 through the integrated management apparatus 200 which is a portal platform. I am a carrier.

The integrated management device 200 is a portal platform with flexibility and modularity that has an open structure including a content provider connection device, a central management device, a transmission device, and an interface device so that it can be implemented together with other solutions. . Therefore, examples of the web server supported by the integrated management device 200 include HP-UX, Sun Solaris, WebLogic, Oracle9iAS, SunONE Web Server, and the like.

In addition, the integrated management device 200 supports global regulations related to wireless business such as WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).

In addition, the integrated management device 200 may start the service faster by integrating and managing the content provider, the service and content of the content provider, and the menu of the subscriber. In addition, the integrated management device 200 provides an authentication model based on service-based subscription and CP policy.

The integrated management apparatus 200 includes a menu filtering apparatus 900, and selects terminal information of the mobile terminal 100 connected to the wireless Internet, that is, a menu according to a terminal specification, and provides the selected menu to the mobile terminal 100. .

The content providing device 150 provides the integrated management device 200 with its own account and location information of content to be provided to the mobile terminal 100. When the content provider provides location information of the content to the integrated management apparatus 200, the content provider provides the specification of the mobile terminal in which the content may be implemented.

2 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus for filtering a menu provided to a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In one embodiment, the menu filtering device 900 is present inside the integrated management device 200, and in another application, the menu filtering device 900 may be external to the integrated management device 200.

The menu filtering device 900 includes a transmission device 330 and a central management device 300. In addition, the transmission device 330 includes a connection detection module 330 -A, a basic information collection module 330 -B, and a rendering module 330 -C. The central management apparatus 300 includes a service management apparatus 400 and a terminal information management apparatus 600, and the service management apparatus 400 includes a content management module 420 and a menu management module 440. The terminal information management device 600 includes a terminal group information management module 610.

The terminal information management apparatus 600 manages terminal information for all kinds of mobile terminals, and in particular, the terminal group information management module 610 classifies and stores terminals having similar functions. In this case, the similar function of the terminal refers to the grade of the screen quality of the mobile terminal, that is, whether the image quality is high quality, the number of chords supported by the sound of the mobile terminal, and the memory capacity of the mobile terminal. Examples of the terminal classification include a mobile terminal equipped with a camera having a high picture quality and a camera, a mobile terminal having 64 chords in high definition, and a black and white 16 chord terminal.

The content providing device 150 accesses the content provider access device 310 of the integrated management device 200, registers an account, and provides information on a location where the content to be provided to the mobile terminal 100 is stored, that is, the content access point. The content entry point is registered through the content management module 420. At this time, the content provider stores the information together with what specifications the content can be implemented in the mobile terminal. That is, [Content & Handset URI Combination] is generated by connecting the content information to the classified terminal information generated by the terminal group information management module 610.

The content provided to the mobile terminal 100 is stored in the content providing device 150 or a predetermined database, and is not stored in the integrated management device 200. Therefore, when a content request is transmitted from the mobile terminal 100 to the content providing device 150 through the integrated management device 200, the content providing device 150 directly provides the content to the mobile terminal 100.

Based on the content access point registered by the content providing device 150 generates a menu of the wireless Internet to be provided to the mobile terminal by the menu management module 440 by a mobile network operator (hereinafter referred to as an operator). .

In other words, the terminal information is added to the menu by registering [Content & Handset URI Combination] generated by the content management module 420 at the time of menu generation (reference numeral 601 of FIG. 6).

The connection detection module 330 -A of the transmission device 330 is a module that detects terminal information and subscriber information of the mobile terminal 100 connected to the integrated management device 200 to use the wireless Internet.

The basic information collection module 330-B is subscribed to a service type subscribed to by a user of the mobile terminal 100, that is, a segment, based on the subscriber information detected from the connection detection module 330-A. Search for existence. Also, the menu supported by the segment is read.

The rendering module 330-C filters the menu according to the terminal information among the menus read out based on the information collected by the basic information collecting module 330-B and transmits the filtered menu to the mobile terminal 100.

The operating state of the present invention configured as described above will be described.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of filtering a menu provided to a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. 4 to 6 illustrate web pages for performing a method of filtering a menu provided to a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the terminal information of the mobile terminal 100 is classified according to a predetermined rule to generate terminal group information (S300).

At this time, the classification of the mobile terminal according to the predetermined rule includes the screen size of the mobile terminal, how many colors the mobile terminal supports, whether the mobile terminal is equipped with a camera, and how many chords are supported, the capacity of the built-in memory. Can be classified according to the classification criteria.

When the content provider wants to provide a service to the mobile terminal 100 through the integrated management device 200, information about the content is registered through the content management module 420 of the integrated management device 200. That is, the content provider registers the URL where the content is located together with the name or ID of the content. At this time, the content provider registers the specification of the mobile terminal that can implement the content. In other words, when the content is registered, [content-terminal information] is generated by selecting among the terminal group information generated in the step S300 (S310).

The web page of FIG. 4 is an embodiment for generating [content-terminal information]. The web page of FIG. 4 includes one handset URI 450 in which the characteristics of the mobile terminal are stored in a CP class 430 classifying contents according to personality. The above-described selection is made, and the [content-terminal information] is generated by writing the name 410 of the [content-terminal information]. The terminal information is registered as an RDF file by the terminal manufacturer in the terminal information management apparatus 600 of the integrated management apparatus 200. The generated [content-terminal information] list is shown in the web page of FIG.

The operator generates a menu of the wireless Internet to be provided to the mobile terminal 100 connected to the wireless internet. The menu includes a directory menu to which a content access point, which is location information of content, cannot be connected, and a CP entry menu implemented to connect the content access point.

The menu is provided in accordance with the terminal information by connecting [content-terminal information] to the directory menu of the menu (S320).

When the mobile terminal 100 accesses the integrated management apparatus 200 for managing the wireless Internet, the connection detection module 330 -A of the integrated management apparatus 200 detects terminal information and subscriber information of the mobile terminal. (S330, S340).

The subscriber information includes a mobile identification number (MIN), a mobile directory number (MDN), a client ID, and the like of the mobile terminal.

Based on the subscriber information detected by the access detection module 330-A, the basic information collection module 330-B determines whether or not the service is registered. That is, it is searched whether the subscriber belongs to which segment group or which segment. In operation S350, the subscriber may read a menu supported by the subscribed segment or the segment group.

The rendering module 330-C filters the menu matching the terminal information detected by the connection detection module 330-A among the menus read in step S350 and transmits the filtered menu to the mobile terminal 100 (S360).

As described in detail above, according to the method and the apparatus for filtering the menu provided to the mobile terminal of the present invention, by providing a menu displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal according to the performance of each of the old and the latest mobile terminal, After the user of the mobile terminal accesses the wireless Internet and selects the desired content, the inconvenience of obtaining the information that the mobile terminal cannot receive the selected content can be eliminated.

That is, since the content connected to the menu provided to the mobile terminal is a content that can be driven or executed in the mobile terminal, by reducing the unnecessary web surfing by blocking the path to access the content that can not be implemented in the mobile terminal It is effective to make pleasant wireless internet use.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and the technical field to which the present invention belongs without departing from the gist of the present invention as claimed in the following claims. Anyone skilled in the art will have the technical idea of the present invention to the extent that various modifications or changes are possible.

Claims (13)

A) generating terminal group information by classifying terminal information of a mobile terminal according to a predetermined rule; B) generating content-terminal information by connecting corresponding terminal group information when storing the content to be provided to the mobile terminal; And C) when generating a menu of the wireless Internet to be provided to the mobile terminal, storing the content-terminal information in association with a menu item and storing the menu item. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined rule is And at least one of a grade of a screen quality of the mobile terminal, a number of chords supported by the sound of the mobile terminal, and a memory capacity of the mobile terminal. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the terminal group information, A method of filtering a menu provided to a mobile terminal, characterized in that the RDF file registered by the terminal manufacturer is classified according to terminal capabilities. The method of claim 3, wherein the method is D) the mobile terminal accessing an integrated management device for managing the wireless Internet; E) detecting the terminal information of the connected mobile terminal, and searching for the type of service to be provided to the mobile terminal; And F) reading a menu according to the service type, filtering the menu to be provided as terminal information of the mobile terminal among the menus, and transmitting the filtered information to the mobile terminal; . The method of claim 4, wherein the menu is, And a directory menu created by the operator in the integrated management device. The method of claim 5, wherein the service type, And searching based on subscriber information of the mobile terminal, wherein the segment is a segment subscribed by a user of the mobile terminal. Iii) the mobile terminal accessing an integrated management device for managing the wireless Internet; Ii) detecting terminal information of a connected mobile terminal and searching for a type of service to be provided to the mobile terminal; And Iii) reading a menu according to the service type, filtering a menu matching the terminal information of the mobile terminal among the menus, and transmitting the filtered menu to the mobile terminal; . The terminal information of claim 7, wherein And classifying the screen quality of the mobile terminal, the number of chords supported by the sound of the mobile terminal, and the memory capacity of the mobile terminal. The method of claim 8, wherein the type of service, And a segment subscribed to by the user of the mobile terminal. The method of claim 9, wherein the terminal information is matched with the menu. Iii-a) generating content-terminal information by connecting the classified terminal information when storing the content to be provided to the mobile terminal; And Vi-b) a method of filtering a menu provided to a mobile terminal, comprising: storing the content-terminal information in association with a menu item when generating a menu of the wireless Internet. The method of claim 10, wherein the menu, And a directory menu created by the operator in the integrated management device. A connection detecting module for detecting and transmitting terminal information and subscriber information of the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal accesses an integrated management device for managing wireless Internet; A basic information collection module for searching for a type of service to be provided to the mobile terminal and a menu according to the type of service, based on the subscriber information detected by the connection sensing module; And And a rendering module for filtering the menu according to the terminal information provided by the connection sensing module among the menus searched by the basic information collecting module and transmitting the filtered menu to the mobile terminal. Filtering device. The method of claim 12, wherein the device, A terminal group information management module for classifying the terminal information provided from the connection sensing module according to a predetermined rule to generate terminal group information and providing the terminal group information to a content management module; A content management module for generating content-terminal information by connecting the terminal group information provided from the terminal group information management module to the content and storing the contents to be provided to the mobile terminal and providing them to a menu management module; And When generating a menu of the wireless Internet to be provided to the mobile terminal, the content-terminal information provided from the content management module is connected with a menu item to provide the content-terminal information to the basic information collection module and the rendering module. The apparatus for filtering menus provided to a mobile terminal, characterized by further comprising a menu management module.

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