KR101418821B1 - System and method for providing contents - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system to provide content and a method thereof. The method to provide content of the present invention comprises: a step of enabling a user terminal which displays a document to search at least one first content among a lot of contents included in the document, and arranged to be displayed on a predetermined area when the document is displayed in accordance to a predetermined policy; a step of displaying the document; and a step of stopping the display of the first content, and displaying a second content on an area whereby the first content is arranged when a predetermined event for the document is generated while the document is displayed. According to the present invention, a lot of content is displayed in a limited display space.

Description

[0001] SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS [0002]

The present invention relates to a content providing system and method, and more particularly, to a content providing system and method, in which when an event occurs in advance, an image or a moving image included in a document such as a web page is replaced with another content to display a content And to a method and system for providing the same.

Recently, as the use of information processing devices increases, users' familiarity with digital documents is also increasing. As a result, newspapers are replaced by Internet news, and electronic books are replacing conventional paper books.

On the other hand, as the use time of the information processing apparatus increases, the need for portability of the information processing apparatuses is also increasing. In recent years, sales of information processing apparatuses having increased portability have been rapidly increasing in order to allow users to view digital documents anytime and anywhere.

However, since such portable devices must minimize size and weight, the display is also generally limited in size.

Accordingly, in order to display a digital document including a large amount of information on a small-sized display, one document is divided into a plurality of pages, or a page of one document is out of the area provided by the display, It is becoming common to browse while moving.

However, when one document is browsed, when pages are to be switched, or when a page is to be scrolled, the contents rearranged in the backward or downward direction are difficult to attract users. In addition, there was an inconvenience that the user had to manipulate the page to view more information.

For example, Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2009-0088483 discloses a " method and apparatus for displaying and controlling a large screen or a large screen content such as a general computer in a portable terminal having a small screen ".

However, even with this method, there is a limit to the space that can be displayed without moving or switching pages. Thereby limiting the amount of content that can be displayed in a limited space. Accordingly, there is a problem that contents requiring user's interest, for example, advertisement contents, are arranged in a space that is relatively unreliable.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a content providing system and method capable of displaying a large amount of content in a limited display space.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a content providing system and method that can induce users' interest in content.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a content providing system and method that can insert a large-sized content into an existing document without harming the display or arrangement state of the contents included in the existing document.

As a technical means for achieving the above technical object, a content providing method according to a first aspect of the present invention is a content providing method performed by a user terminal for displaying a document and included in the document, Retrieving at least one first content from among the one or more content arranged to be displayed according to a predetermined policy; Displaying the document; And stopping the display of the first content and displaying the second content in an area in which the first content is arranged, when it is detected that a preset event for the document occurs while the document is being displayed.

According to an embodiment of the present invention having the above configuration, a large amount of content can be displayed in a limited display space.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to induce users' interest in contents.

Furthermore, according to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to insert a large-sized content into an existing document without harming the display or arrangement state of the contents included in the existing document.

1 is a block diagram of a content providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a user terminal included in a content providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a content providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 to 6 are diagrams showing an example of a content providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another part in between . Also, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without departing from the other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, the configuration of a content providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a content providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a user terminal included in a content providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a content providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user terminal 10.

The user terminal 10 may be implemented as a computer, a portable terminal, or a television set, which can be connected to a remote server through the network N or connected to other terminals and servers. Here, the computer includes, for example, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, and the like, each of which is equipped with a web browser (WEB Browser), and the portable terminal may be a wireless communication device , Personal Communication System (PCS), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), Personal Handyphone System (PHS), Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) Handheld based wireless communication devices such as W-CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) -2000, W-CDMA (W-CDMA), Wibro (Wireless Broadband Internet) terminals, can do. In addition, the television may include an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), an Internet television (TV), a terrestrial TV, a cable TV, and the like.

The user terminal 10 is provided with an application program for displaying a document. Such applications can interoperate with other applications that insert content into a document and run a script that is displayed with the document, or that insert content into the document and display it with the document. The above-mentioned application program may be a web browser or a document editing program.

At this time, 'document' is a unit data group edited including data such as text, image, video, etc., for example, a web page browsed by a web browser, a file executed by a document editing program, or the like .

The content included in the document is hereinafter referred to as 'document content', and the content inserted in the document according to the embodiment of the present invention is referred to as 'embedded content'. Hereinafter, the document content and the embedded content may include only image or moving image data whose size is specified, but it is not necessarily the case that a data group including text data or other heterogeneous data has a size and position If it has a specified layout, it can be the above-described document content or embedded content.

The user terminal 10 may perform data communication with the document server 20 or the content server 30 through the network N. [

Here, the network N may be a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), a value added network (VAN), a personal area network (PAN) a mobile radio communication network or a satellite communication network.

The document server 20 may be an information processing apparatus that provides the document described above to the user terminal 10 and the content server 30 may provide the above-described embedded content to the user terminal 10, It is possible to provide various data necessary for the process of displaying the document together with the document.

For example, the document server 20 can serve as a content provider that provides a web page to the user terminal 10, and the content server 30 can serve as an embedded content to be inserted into the document provided by the document server 20 And provide the inserted content according to the request of the user terminal 10. [

Of course, in the embodiment of the present invention, the document is not necessarily provided from the document server 20 to the user terminal 10 via the network N, and in an embodiment of the present invention, Or may be stored in a local storage means.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned 'script' may be included in the document from the document server 20 and transferred to the user terminal 10 when the application program displays the document. Or the document provided from the document server 20 to the user terminal 10 contains only the address information on the network of the script and the script body is stored in the content server 30 and the user terminal 10 ) May request the content server 30 to request the script body.

Furthermore, in an embodiment of the present invention, a bypass server (not shown) for bypassing a document request packet and a document response packet transmitted from the user terminal 10 to the document server 20 may be separately configured, The address information of the script or the script may be inserted into the document response packet received from the server 20.

In an embodiment of the present invention, an arbitrary network equipment (not shown) existing on a network N path to which a document response packet transmitted from the document server 20 to the user terminal 10 is transmitted, You can also insert the address information of a script or script.

Of course, as described above, when a separate program that is interlocked with an application program displaying a document is already installed in the user terminal 10, a script may not be included in each document.

Hereinafter, the overall configuration of the system and the roles of the respective components will be described with reference to the user terminal 10 included in the above-described content providing system.

As shown in FIG. 2, the user terminal 10 includes a positioning unit 11. The positioning unit 11 plays a role of determining a position at which the insertion content is to be inserted in the document to be newly displayed by the user terminal 10. [

To this end, the positioning unit 11 first searches the document contents included in the document. At this time, each of the document contents has a predetermined size and is arranged in advance so as to be displayed at a specific position in the document. At this time, the positioning unit 11 may search only the image content or the moving image content in which the position and size of the region to be arranged is specified as the document content.

At this time, the positioning unit 11 can select only the document content corresponding to the preset policy among the retrieved document contents. Then, the positioning unit 11 can determine the region where the selected document contents are arranged as the position at which the inserted content is to be inserted.

That is, the position determining unit 11 can determine, from among one or more document contents included in the document, an area in which document contents matching the predetermined policy are arranged as a position at which the inserted contents are to be inserted.

Of course, the positioning unit 11 may determine an area in which two or more document contents are respectively arranged as a position at which the inserted content is to be inserted.

At this time, among the plurality of document contents included in the document, the positioning unit 11 selects, as a criterion for selecting the document content for determining the position at which the inserted content is to be inserted, the predetermined policy is a condition Or a condition for a position of an area in which the document content is arranged, or a condition for identification information of the document content. It may, of course, include conditions for the type of document content.

For example, the positioning unit 11 can select document contents according to a policy for selecting only image contents, and can select only document contents occupying an area of a predetermined size or more. Alternatively, only document contents occupying an area of a predetermined size or less may be selected.

Also, for example, the positioning unit 11 may select only the document content located at the top of the page of the document to be arranged, or may select only the document content arranged at a predetermined specific position.

Furthermore, if the character string included in the identification information of the document content is a preset character string, or if the character string included in the identification information of the document content has a rule corresponding to a preset rule, Only content can be selected.

The positioning unit 11 determines an area in which a part of the document contents selected from the document contents included in the document is arranged as an area in which the inserted contents are to be arranged.

Meanwhile, the user terminal 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a content insertion unit 12. The content inserting unit 12 inserts the inserted content into the area of the position determined by the positioning unit 11 described above.

The content inserting section 12 can first determine the inserted content to be inserted into the area of the position determined by the positioning section 11. [ The content insertion unit 12 may insert a plurality of inserted contents (contents) provided by the contents server 30 or stored in advance in the user terminal 10, although the process of selecting the inserted contents may be omitted, It is possible to select the inserted content to be inserted into each region determined by the positioning unit 11 among the regions.

The content insertion unit 12 can select the inserted content having the same or similar size or ratio in consideration of the size, the width, and the length ratio of the area in which the document contents selected by the positioning unit 11 are arranged. This is to minimize the distortion of the contents even if the inserted contents are displayed in the area where the document contents are arranged.

Also, the content inserting unit 12 may analyze the text included in the document to be displayed with the inserted content, and may select the inserted content having high relevance to the content. For example, if the document contains text of content related to an 'outdoor' product, the content inserter 12 may context-analyze it to select embedded content that pertains to the category associated with the outdoor.

In order to analyze the text of the document, the content inserting unit 12 transmits the text information included in the displayed document to the content server 30 described above, or transmits the address information on the network N of the document to the content server 30 , So that the content server 30 analyzes the text included in the document and provides the corresponding inserted content to the content inserting unit 12. [

Meanwhile, the content inserting unit 12 can adjust the size of the inserted content before the inserted content is displayed. The content inserting unit 12 can appropriately adjust the size of the inserted content to correspond to the size of the area corresponding to the position determined by the positioning unit 11. [

Then, the content inserting unit 12 can determine the inserted content to be inserted in advance and selectively adjust the size thereof, so that the content display unit 13, which will be described later, can display the inserted content. At this time, the content inserting unit 12 arranges the inserted content in an area where the document contents selected by the positioning unit 11 are arranged, so that the inserted content is arranged in the lower layer and the document contents are arranged in the upper layer can do.

Here, the content inserting unit 12 selects only the identifier of the inserted content to be inserted or the address information on the network N, and then, when the content display unit 13 to be described later intends to display the inserted content, And may receive the embedded content corresponding to the identifier or the address information.

Meanwhile, the user terminal 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes the content display unit 13. The content display unit 13 first displays a document. The content display unit 13 analyzes the document data and arranges the document contents included in the document according to the arrangement determined in the document data.

At this time, the content display unit 13 preferentially displays the document contents included in the document. In response to the detection of the event detection unit 14 to be described later, some of the document contents are selectively displayed as the embedded contents.

That is, the content display unit 13 outputs the original document as it is, and when a predetermined event is detected, the positioning unit 11 stops outputting the selected document content, and substitutes the inserted document content for the displayed document content .

At this time, as described above, the content inserting unit 12 may arrange the inserted content into a lower layer of the selected document content. Accordingly, the content display unit 13 displays the document content of the upper layer first, The insertion content of the lower layer can be displayed according to the occurrence.

In addition, the content display unit 13 may stop the display of the document content and display the inserted content, so that the animation effect in which the document content disappears for a predetermined period of time may be applied. For example, the content display unit 13 may cause the insertion content of the lower layer to be displayed while gradually increasing the transparency of the document content, or may cause the insertion content of the lower layer to appear as the document content slides in a specific direction It is possible.

In addition, the content display unit 13 divides the area where the document contents are arranged into two or more, divides the document contents into a plurality of sub-contents according to the two or more divided areas, and separates each sub- So that the inserted content of the lower layer is displayed.

At this time, the content display unit 13 may divide the document content into a plurality of sub-contents directly at the user terminal 10, provide the selected document content itself or the address information of the document content to the content server 30, The content server 30 may divide the document content into a plurality of sub-contents and provide the same to the user terminal 10 again.

Of course, when the document content is divided into a plurality of sub-contents, the content display unit 13 may arrange a plurality of sub-contents instead of the document contents in a document in the same overall shape as the document contents, and then move them.

On the other hand, when the document is displayed, the content display unit 13 may selectively display the document contents in the lower layer of the positioning unit 11 to recognize the presence of other contents, that is, To apply the animation effect to the selected document content. For example, it is possible to apply an animation effect such as causing the selected document contents to vibrate within a predetermined range, or selectively moving the contents of the lower layer so that the contents of the lower layer are exposed to one upper layer. However, such an effect may be provided only when the document is first displayed, or until the first event occurs.

Also, the content display unit 13 may stop the display of the document content due to the occurrence of the event, display the inserted content, stop the display of the inserted content, and display the document content again when the release of the event is detected.

Meanwhile, the user terminal 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include an event detection unit 14 for detecting occurrence and release of an event. At this time, the event may be a behavior of the user's action or omission on the document, for example, mouse over, click, multi-click, etc. on the document content having the inserted content as a lower layer. Or if no input operation of the user is detected for a predetermined period of time while the selected document content is displayed, the event detection unit 14 can recognize the occurrence of the event. That is, the event detected by the event detection unit 14 can be variously set, and is not limited to the above example.

The event detection unit 14 may separately detect the release of the event occurrence. If the event is a mouseover for the selected document content, for example, the mouse can recognize the event as an event release if the document content is out of the arranged area.

Hereinafter, a content providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3 to FIG. FIG. 3 is a flow chart for explaining a content providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 4 to 6 are views showing an example of a content providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. For convenience of description, a content providing method is described as a process of receiving and displaying a web page in the document server 20.

As shown in FIG. 3, the user terminal 10 receives a web page (S11). The user terminal 10 may analyze the data of the received web page to display the document content included in the web page, and execute the script included in the web page.

Accordingly, the user terminal 10 can retrieve a plurality of document contents included in the received web page, and search only document contents meeting a predetermined policy (S12). For example, if the web page is configured as shown in FIG. 4, the user terminal 10 can select only the image content having a size larger than a predetermined size among the plurality of document contents retrieved, according to a predetermined policy. Accordingly, only the content 1 (C1) having a size equal to or larger than the size specified in the policy can be selected and the remaining content 2 (C2) can not be selected.

 Then, the user terminal 10 arranges the inserted content in the area where the document contents selected by the search result in step S12 are arranged (S13). At this time, the user terminal 10 can arrange the inserted contents as a lower layer and the document contents as an upper layer.

Then, the user terminal 10 displays the entire document together with the document contents arranged in the upper layer (S14). At this time, the lower layer, the inserted content, is not displayed. 4, the user terminal 10 generally displays the received web page D in the window W of the web browser, and displays the content 1 (C1) originally contained in the document.

In this state, the user terminal 10 monitors occurrence of an event (S15). That is, the user terminal 10 can monitor, for example, whether or not the position of the mouse cursor M moves into the area in which the content 1 (C1) is arranged, as shown in Fig.

If the event occurrence is detected in step S15, the user terminal 10 stops displaying the document content, and displays the inserted content in the area where the document content was displayed (S16).

At this time, in step S16, the user terminal 10 may perform a process of applying an animation effect in which the document content gradually disappears for a predetermined time.

For example, as shown in FIG. 5, in step S16, the user terminal 10 divides the content 1 (C1) into a plurality of sub-contents and moves outwardly so that the inserted content A, which is a lower layer, .

Accordingly, the display state of the insertion content A can be maintained while the mouse cursor M remains in the area in which the content 1 is arranged, as shown in Fig.

However, in FIG. 6, contents 2 (C2) can be displayed without change. That is, since the inserted content is not separately inserted into the area in which the content 2 (C2) that does not correspond to the predetermined policy is arranged, the content 2 (C2) can be output as it is in the original document structure regardless of whether the event is generated or not.

On the other hand, when the generation of the predetermined event is terminated, that is, for example, when the mouse cursor M moves to another area, the user terminal 10 stops displaying the inserted content A again, ) (S17).

The content providing method according to the embodiment described with reference to FIG. 3 may also be implemented in the form of a recording medium including instructions executable by a computer such as a program module executed by a computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. In addition, the computer-readable medium may include both computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Communication media typically includes any information delivery media, including computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave, or other transport mechanism.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes only and that those of ordinary skill in the art can readily understand that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the detailed description and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents are to be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention do.

Claims (12)

Is performed by a user terminal displaying a document,
Retrieving at least one first content according to a predetermined policy from among at least one content included in the document and arranged to be displayed in a predetermined area when the document is displayed;
Displaying the document;
And stopping the display of the retrieved first content and displaying the second content in an area in which the first content is arranged, when it is detected that a preset event for the document occurs while the document is being displayed Delivery method. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the first content comprises:
Wherein the content is image content or video content arranged to occupy a predetermined area. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the predetermined policy in the searching step comprises:
Wherein the content includes at least one of a condition for a range including a size of an area where the content is arranged, a condition for a position of an area where the content is arranged, and a condition for identification information of the content. The method according to claim 1,
The content providing method includes:
Further comprising determining the second content to be displayed in an area in which the first content is arranged,
Wherein the determining comprises:
Selecting the second content based on a result of context analysis of a size or text data included in the document in a region in which the first content is arranged among a plurality of predetermined contents. The method according to claim 1,
The content providing method includes:
Further comprising adjusting the size of the second content to correspond to the size of the region in which the first content is arranged. The method according to claim 1,
The content providing method includes:
Further comprising arranging the first content as an upper layer and the second content as a lower layer in an area in which the first content is arranged, before the step of displaying the document is performed. The method according to claim 1,
In the event,
Wherein the first content is a mouse over to an area in which the first content is arranged. The method according to claim 1,
The content providing method includes:
And providing an animation effect for inducing an event occurrence for the first content to the first content while displaying the first content before the event occurs in the step of displaying the document. Content providing method. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the displaying the second content comprises:
And providing an animation effect in which the first content disappears for a predetermined period of time. 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein providing the animation effect wherein the first content disappears comprises:
Separating the first content into a plurality of sub-content;
Arranging the plurality of sub-contents in an area where the first contents are arranged;
And moving the arranged plurality of sub-contents in different directions. 11. The method of claim 10,
The step of separating the first content into a plurality of sub-
Transmitting the first content or one of location information on a network of the first content to a remote content server; And
And receiving, from the content server, a plurality of separate sub-contents. The method according to claim 1,
The content providing method includes:
And stopping the display of the second content and displaying the first content again when the occurrence of the event is canceled.

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