KR101404184B1 - Apparatus and method for collecting user contents - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus and method for collecting user content are disclosed. The present invention collects user contents stored in a plurality of web service providers and removes duplicate content between the collected user contents and stores them. According to the present invention, it is possible to reduce the storage capacity required for storing user contents by removing and storing contents overlapping among user contents collected by a plurality of web service providing apparatuses.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING USER CONTENT [0002]

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for collecting user contents, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for collecting user contents stored in a plurality of web service providing apparatuses and removing and storing duplicated contents between collected user contents .

Recently, as the broadband Internet has been rapidly spreading, the Internet has become an indispensable necessity for modern life. Many users are using various services such as information retrieval, online game, e-commerce, internet banking, and e-mail through the Internet. Furthermore, there are various personal community services according to the increasing number of users who post articles on a bulletin board to actively share their opinions, experiences and the like with other users by moving away from accepting passive information through the Internet. Recently, a user generally subscribes to a plurality of personal community services to upload contents to a plurality of personal communities. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop a system in which the contents of the user are stored in a plurality of individual communities and can be integratedly managed.

Patent Document 1 discloses a content-targeted advertisement improvement using collected user behavior data. In Patent Document 1, content for collecting user behavior data such as click data is disclosed in JP-A-10-0832729 (google) . Patent Document 2 discloses a method and a server for collecting content usage information of a user, Patent Document 2 discloses a method of collecting content usage information of a user, To the user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for collecting user contents that collects user contents stored in a plurality of web service provision apparatuses and removes duplicated contents between the collected user contents.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program for causing a computer to execute a method of collecting user contents stored in a plurality of web service provision apparatuses and collecting and storing duplicate contents between the collected user contents, The present invention provides a computer-readable medium having recorded thereon a computer program.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for collecting user content, comprising: a user content storage unit; Duplicate content storage; A plurality of content collecting units connected to different web service providing apparatuses through unique connection information of a user who can access the web service providing apparatus and collecting the contents of the user; And a control unit that removes user content that is duplicated among a plurality of user contents collected through each of the plurality of content collecting units, stores the plurality of user contents in which the duplicated user content is removed in the user content storage unit, And a controller for storing the duplicated user contents in the duplicate contents storage unit.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of collecting user content, the method comprising the steps of: connecting to a plurality of different web service providing apparatuses through unique access information of a user accessible to the web service providing apparatus, Collecting contents of the content; Removing duplicate user content between the collected plurality of user contents; And storing the plurality of user contents and the overlapping user contents in which the overlapped user content is removed, in a manner distinct from each other.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute any one of the above methods.

According to the apparatus and method for collecting user contents according to the present invention, it is possible to reduce storage capacity required for storing user contents by eliminating and storing contents overlapping among user contents collected by a plurality of web service providing apparatuses.

In addition, since the module for collecting user contents is implemented as a component in the web service provision apparatus, even if a new web service provision apparatus is added, only a new module is additionally implemented and added, So that the system can be easily expanded.

In addition, since the information on the duplicated contents can be analyzed, it is possible to recommend a friend who has similar interests to the user or recommend a product suitable for the user's interest.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a user content collection apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a user content collecting apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention,
3 is a view for explaining an example of a process of collecting user contents according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention,
4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of collecting user contents according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a user content collection apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1, a user content collection apparatus 100 is connected to a plurality of web service provision apparatuses 200-1 through 200-n and a user terminal 300 through a communication network 400. [

The user content collecting apparatus 100 accesses a plurality of web service providing apparatuses 200-1 through 200-n through the user's unique access information provided from the user terminal 300 to collect user's contents. Here, the user contents are contents to be posted to the user's personal community provided by the web service providing apparatuses 200-1 to 200-n, and are formed in the form of letters, images, sounds, etc. such as photographs, texts, and videos. The user specific access information is different identification information for each user who can access the web service providing apparatuses 200-1 to 200-n. For example, the user unique access information includes an ID, an e-mail address, etc., a user identification name, and a password.

In addition, the user content collection apparatus 100 removes user contents overlapping among a plurality of collected user contents, and stores a plurality of user contents in which duplicated user contents are removed and user contents that are redundantly distinguished from each other . In addition, the user content collection apparatus 100 may provide the corresponding user contents or the duplicated user contents to the user terminal 300 at the request of the user terminal 300. [

Each of the plurality of web service provision apparatuses 200-1 to 200-n includes a blog, a cafe, a facebook, a tweet a variety of web services such as a community service such as twitter, google +, myspace, and youtube, a storage service such as a webhard for providing a dedicated storage space for users, Lt; / RTI > Each web service providing apparatus stores user contents provided through the user terminal 300 and provides the corresponding user contents to the user terminal 300 at the request of the user terminal 300.

The user terminal 300 transmits the unique access information of the user for each of the web service providing apparatuses 200-1 to 200-n to the user content collecting apparatus 100 ). In addition, the user terminal 300 may request the user content stored in the user content collection apparatus 100 and receive the corresponding user content from the user content collection apparatus 100.

The user terminal 300 may be a desktop computer, a notebook computer, a workstation, a palmtop computer, a tablet PC, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a portable multimedia player (PMP) , A mobile phone, a smart phone, a navigation device, and the like, and may include a terminal equipped with a microprocessor and having computing capability.

The communication network 400 includes a data network as well as a telephone network including a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), a wide area network (WAN) It does not matter whether it is wired or wireless, and it does not matter what communication method you use.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a user content collection apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention in more detail.

2, the user content collection apparatus 100 includes a control unit 110, a plurality of content collection units 120-1 to 120-n, a user content storage unit 130, and a duplicated content storage unit 140 .

Each of the plurality of content collecting units 120-1 to 120-n accesses different web service providing apparatuses through the unique access information of the user and collects the contents of the user. That is, each content collecting unit can collect user contents through an open API (Open API) provided by the web service providing apparatus. At this time, the number of content collecting units is the same as the number of web service providing apparatuses. That is, one content collecting unit accesses one web service providing apparatus and collects user contents. For example, the first content collection unit 120-1 accesses the first web service provision apparatus 200-1 to collect first user contents, and the second content collection unit 120-2 collects first user contents To the providing apparatus 200-2 to collect the second user contents.

In addition, the content collecting units 120-1 to 120-n are implemented as a component, and when a user accesses a new web service providing apparatus and collects user contents, only the corresponding content collecting unit is additionally implemented and added . Thus, the system can be easily expanded.

The control unit 110 removes user content that is duplicated among a plurality of user contents collected through each of the plurality of content collecting units 120-1 to 120-n. User contents posted on different web service provision devices are published by the same user, so that the same user can publish the contents in various places. Thus, by removing redundant user contents, the storage capacity required for storing user contents can be reduced.

Here, when the collection of the first user contents from the first web service provision apparatus 200-1 is completed by the first content collection unit 120-1, the control unit 110 controls the second content collection unit 120-2 May control the second content collecting unit 120-2 to collect second user contents other than the user contents overlapping with the first user contents from the second web service providing apparatus 200-2.

In other words, the control unit 110 may remove overlapping user contents among a plurality of user contents after all of the plurality of content collecting units 120-1 to 120-n have completed the collection of user contents, After at least one content acquiring unit 120-1 to 120-n of the content collecting unit has completed the collection of the user contents, the other content collecting unit may acquire the other contents It is possible to control the collecting section.

In addition, the controller 110 stores a plurality of user contents in which the duplicated user contents are removed in the user content storage unit 130, and stores the duplicated user contents in the duplicate content storage unit 140. [ At this time, the controller 110 may store a plurality of user contents or duplicated user contents in which the duplicated user contents are removed separately for each web service providing apparatus.

In addition, the control unit 110 may analyze a user's interest pattern through information on user contents overlapping among a plurality of user contents. This allows you to recommend a friend with a similar interest to the user, or recommend a product to the user that suits your interests.

The user content storage unit 130 stores a plurality of user contents from which duplicated user contents have been removed. The redundant contents storage unit 140 stores redundant user contents.

3 is a diagram for explaining an example of a process of collecting user contents according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

3, the first content collecting unit 120-1 receives the first web service providing apparatus 200-1 through the unique access information of the user that can access the first web service providing apparatus 200-1, 1) to collect user contents UC_1. The second content acquisition unit 120-2 accesses the second web service provision apparatus 200-2 through the unique access information of the user that can access the second web service provision apparatus 200-2, (UC_2).

The control unit 110 determines whether the user contents DC_1 and DC_2 overlap between the first and second user contents UC_1 and UC_2 collected by the first and second contents collection units 120-1 and 120-2, . The control unit 110 stores the first and second user contents UC_1 and UC_2 in which the duplicated user contents DC_1 and DC_2 are removed in the user content storage unit 130 and stores the duplicated user contents DC In the duplicate content storage unit 140. [

However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the user content storage unit 130 and the redundant content storage unit 140 may be divided into the user content storage unit 130 and the redundant content storage unit 140, (140) may be implemented in one form. Of course, the user content storage unit 130 and the duplicate content storage unit 140 may be implemented as separate devices independent of the user content collection apparatus 100. [

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of collecting user contents according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The user content collection apparatus 100 collects a plurality of user contents from each of the plurality of web service provision apparatuses 200-1 to 200-n (S410). That is, the user content collection apparatus 100 accesses a plurality of different web service provision apparatuses 200-1 through 200-n through the unique access information of the user, and collects the contents of the user.

Thereafter, the user content collection device 100 removes user content that is duplicated among a plurality of collected user contents (S420). Then, the user content collection apparatus 100 stores a plurality of user contents in which duplicated user contents are removed and user contents that are overlapped with each other differently (S430). At this time, the user content collection apparatus 100 may store a plurality of user contents or duplicated user contents in which the duplicated user contents are removed separately for each web service provision apparatus.

The present invention can also be embodied as computer-readable codes on a computer-readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer apparatus is stored. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like in the form of a carrier wave . In addition, the computer-readable recording medium may be distributed to computer devices connected to a wired / wireless communication network, and a computer-readable code may be stored and executed in a distributed manner.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but, on the contrary, It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes may be made and equivalents may be substituted without departing from the scope of the appended claims.

100: User content collection device,
200-1 to 200-n: a web service providing apparatus,
300: user terminal, 400: communication network

Claims (7)

A user content storage unit;
Duplicate content storage;
A plurality of content collecting units connected to different web service providing apparatuses through unique connection information of a user who can access the web service providing apparatus and collecting user contents registered by the user; And
Storing a plurality of user contents collected through each of the plurality of content collecting units in the user content storage unit, if a plurality of identical user contents are present among a plurality of user contents collected through each of the plurality of content collecting units The duplicated user content is deleted from the same user content and the remaining user content is removed and stored in the user content storage unit, and the duplicated user content is deleted in the duplicate content storage unit And a control unit for controlling the user apparatus. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the controller divides the user contents by the web service provision apparatuses and stores the separated contents. The method according to claim 1,
When the collection of the first user contents from the first web service provision apparatus which is one of the plurality of web service provision apparatuses is completed by the first content collection unit which is one of the plurality of content collection units, And the second content collection unit, which is one of the collection units, controls to collect second user contents excluding the same user content as the first user content from the second web service provision apparatus, which is one of the plurality of web service provision apparatuses Lt; / RTI > The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the control unit is operable, by the first content collecting unit that is one of the plurality of content collecting units, among the first user contents collected from the first web service providing apparatus, which is one of the plurality of web service providing apparatuses, The first user content being the same as the second user content collected from the second web service provision apparatus, which is one of the plurality of web service provision apparatuses, by the second content collection unit, And stores the same second user content in the duplicate content storage unit. Collecting a plurality of contents of the user by accessing each of a plurality of different web service providing apparatuses through unique access information of the user who can access the web service providing apparatus;
A content removing step of removing only one user content from the same user content and removing the remaining duplicated user content if a plurality of identical user contents are present among a plurality of user contents collected through each of the plurality of content collecting units;
And a content storing step of storing a plurality of user contents collected through each of the plurality of content collecting units, which have been removed from the duplicated user content, and the duplicated user content so as to be distinguished from each other. Way. 6. The method of claim 5,
And storing the user contents by the web service provision apparatus in the content storage step. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a computer to execute the method for collecting user contents according to any one of claims 5 to 6.

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