KR101528484B1 - Broadcasting Terminal, Server and System for Providing Broadcast Connection Information - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a broadcast terminal, a server, and a system for providing recommended broadcast connection information.

The present invention provides a system for providing broadcast connection information, comprising: a first broadcasting terminal for generating and transmitting recommended broadcast connection information for a recommended program to be recommended among currently broadcasted programs; A second broadcasting terminal for receiving the recommended broadcasting connection information and displaying the recommended program using the recommended broadcasting connection information; And a wired / wireless communication network for relaying data transmission / reception between the first broadcasting terminal and the second broadcasting terminal, wherein the recommended broadcasting connection information includes a recommended program name, identification information of a recommended channel, and identification information of a recommended client To provide broadcast connection information.

According to the present invention, even if the user can not grasp the broadcast time and the channel of interest, the user can receive the recommended broadcast connection information from other users to connect broadcasts of interest, There is an effect that does not need to be done.

Broadcasting terminal, server, system, TV client, channel

Description

Technical Field [0001] The present invention relates to a broadcast terminal, a server, and a system for providing broadcast connection information,

The present invention relates to a broadcast terminal, a server, and a system for providing broadcast connection information. And more particularly, to a broadcast terminal, a server, and a system for providing broadcast connection information that can connect a broadcast corresponding to a field of interest of a terminal user and connecting a broadcast corresponding to a field of interest of the terminal user through the broadcast connection information.

As electronic and communication technologies are developed, the current broadcasting service is divided into digital broadcasting such as digital terrestrial TV broadcasting, digital wired cable broadcasting, digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB: Digital Multimedia Broadcast) in analog broadcasting such as terrestrial broadcasting and wired cable broadcasting, It is a tendency to develop into broadcasting.

Such digital broadcasting can provide a high-definition (HD) image or a CD (Compact Disk) level sound, and can be received through a terminal such as a PC, a mobile communication terminal, and a portable multimedia player There is an advantage to be able to do.

In a conventional digital broadcasting, a user of the terminal inputs a TV watching button of a digital TV receiver, a PC, a mobile communication terminal, and a PMP, so that a user can view a broadcast of a channel to watch in real time.

Conventionally, in order for a terminal user to view a broadcast of a field of interest (for example, a soccer broadcast, a baseball broadcast, a movie, etc.) in a timely manner, a user of the terminal must broadcast the broadcast time and channel of the interested field through a TV program table or the surrounding public media Then, when the broadcasting time of the interested field comes, the broadcasting terminal should be used to watch the broadcasting of the field of interest.

In this way, in order for the terminal user to view the broadcast in the field of interest, it is necessary to grasp the broadcast time and the channel of the field of interest as described above. Therefore, if the terminal user can not grasp the broadcast time and channel of the field of interest, There is a problem that can not be done.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for transmitting a recommendation broadcast connection information for recommending a broadcast of a specific channel in a first terminal and transmitting the recommendation broadcast connection information to a second broadcast terminal, And a system for displaying a corresponding channel in a second broadcasting terminal if the channel is a displayable channel in the terminal.

The present invention also provides a broadcast terminal for generating a recommendation broadcast connection information corresponding to a broadcast of a specific channel and transmitting the generated recommendation broadcast connection information to another broadcast terminal when a recommendation broadcast connection information generation key is input while displaying a broadcast of a specific channel It has its purpose.

In addition, when a TV client corresponding to the recommended broadcast connection information is not installed in the broadcasting terminal, the TV client corresponding to the recommended broadcasting connection information, the TV client compatible with the channel, The present invention provides a server for providing the service to a user.

In addition, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for receiving a recommended broadcast connection information for connecting a broadcast of a specific channel from a broadcast connection information providing server to a broadcasting terminal, if the channel corresponding to the recommended broadcast connection information is a displayable channel, And a system in which a broadcast terminal receives compatible broadcast connection information from a broadcast connection information providing server and displays a channel corresponding to a compatible broadcast if the channel is a channel that can not be displayed on the broadcast terminal, .

In addition, the present invention provides the recommended broadcasting connection information corresponding to the recommended program corresponding to the interest field previously registered in the broadcasting terminal among the programs currently being broadcasted, to the broadcasting terminal, It is an object of the present invention to provide a server for selecting one or more TV clients and channels compatible with the recommended broadcasting connection information and providing them to the broadcasting terminal when the TV client is not installed in the broadcasting terminal.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for providing broadcast connection information, the system comprising: a first broadcasting terminal for generating and transmitting recommendation broadcast connection information for a recommended program to be recommended among currently broadcasted programs; A second broadcasting terminal for receiving the recommended broadcasting connection information and displaying the recommended program using the recommended broadcasting connection information; And a wired / wireless communication network for relaying data transmission / reception between the first broadcasting terminal and the second broadcasting terminal, wherein the recommended broadcasting connection information includes a recommended program name, identification information of a recommended channel, and identification information of a recommended client To provide broadcast connection information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a broadcast terminal comprising: an input unit for receiving a command; A display unit for displaying a screen of a program being broadcast on a previously selected channel; An audio unit for outputting sound of the broadcast program; A memory unit for storing a program name of the broadcast program and information on the previously selected channel; Setting the preset channel as a recommended channel, setting the preset channel as identification information of a recommended client which is identification information of a service client, setting the program name being broadcast as a recommended program name, A recommended broadcasting connection information including the recommended channel identification information, the recommended client identification information, and the recommended program name; And a communication unit for transmitting the recommended broadcast connection information to another broadcasting terminal.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a server for providing broadcast connection information, comprising: a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from a broadcasting terminal; And a real-time broadcast information list, which is a list of information about a currently broadcast program, and receives compatible broadcast request information including the identification information list of the compatible client, the identification information of the recommended client, and the identification information of the recommendation channel from the broadcast terminal And generating a compatible broadcast connection information including identification information of a compatible client compatible with the recommendation client and identification information of a compatible channel served by the compatible client, and transmitting the generated compatible broadcast connection information to the broadcast terminal And provides the server with broadcast connection information.

As described above, according to the present invention, even though the terminal user can not grasp the broadcasting time and channel of the interested field, the broadcasting terminal receives the recommended broadcasting connection information corresponding to the interested field of the terminal user from another broadcasting terminal or server, The user of the terminal does not need to know the broadcast time and the channel of interest.

According to the present invention, when a broadcast corresponding to recommended broadcast connection information received from another broadcast terminal or a server can not be displayed on the broadcast terminal, compatible broadcast connection information compatible with the recommended broadcast connection information is received, There is an effect that a broadcast corresponding to the connection information can be displayed.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to designate the same or similar components throughout the drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing a system for providing recommended broadcast connection information according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

The system according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes a first broadcasting terminal 110, a second broadcasting terminal 120, a wired / wireless communication network 130, and an alternative channel search server 140.

The first broadcasting terminal 110 and the second broadcasting terminal 120 are connected to a digital broadcasting receiving function, a short message service (SMS), a multimedia messaging service (MMS) A personal computer, an IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), and a DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) terminal having a messaging client including one of an instant messenger service (MMS) and an instant messenger service (IMS) .

In the first embodiment of the present invention, the first broadcasting terminal 110 generates and transmits recommended broadcasting connection information for a recommended program to be recommended among the programs currently being broadcasted. That is, the first broadcasting terminal 110 transmits a recommended program name of a recommended program to be recommended, identification information of a recommended channel in which a recommended program is being broadcast, and a recommendation client And transmits the generated recommendation broadcast connection information to the second broadcast terminal 120. The second broadcast terminal 120 generates the recommendation broadcast connection information including the identification information (e.g., ID) Here, the first broadcasting terminal 110 stores the channel currently being broadcasted, the identification information of the client running to service the channel, and the currently displayed program name, respectively, as a recommended channel, identification information of the recommended client, It is desirable to set the name.

In the first embodiment of the present invention, the first broadcasting terminal 110 generates the recommended broadcasting connection information in the form of a message including at least one of an SMS message type, an MMS message type, and an instant message type, The identification information of the recommended channel is preferably created in a markup language including at least one of XML (Extensible Markup Language) and XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language), but is not limited thereto. A detailed description thereof will be given in Fig.

In the first embodiment of the present invention, when the second broadcasting terminal 120 receives the recommended broadcasting connection information, the second broadcasting terminal 120 displays the recommended program using the recommended broadcasting connection information. Here, the recommended broadcast connection information may include a recommended program name, identification information of a recommended channel, and identification information of a recommended client. That is, the second broadcasting terminal 120 receives the recommended broadcasting connection information through the wired / wireless communication network 130 to be described later. If the recommended client corresponding to the identification information of the recommended client is installed, the second broadcasting terminal 120 executes the recommended client, Display. Here, it is preferable that the second broadcasting terminal 120 performs a process for executing a recommended client when the confirmation button of FIG. 2 is input after receiving the recommended broadcasting connection information.

On the other hand, if the recommendation client is not installed, the second broadcasting terminal 120 may transmit a compatible broadcast including the identification information list of the compatible client including the identification information of the one or more installed clients, the identification information of the recommendation client, And transmits the request information to the compatible broadcast search server 140 via the wire / wireless communication network 130.

The second broadcasting terminal 120 transmits a compatible broadcasting connection including the identification information of the compatible client which is compatible with the recommended client and the identification information of the compatible channel served by the compatible client from the compatible broadcasting search server 140, Information from the compatible broadcast search server 140. Here, the one or more compatible client IDs may be included in part or all of the identification information list of the compatible client. In other words, the identification information of one or more compatible clients may correspond to some or all of identification information of one or more clients installed in the second broadcasting terminal 130.

Upon receiving at least one compatible broadcast connection information, the second broadcasting terminal 120 sequentially attempts to relay one or more compatible channels and displays a relay screen of a specific compatible channel if there is a specific compatible channel that has succeeded in relaying. Here, the second broadcasting terminal 120 sequentially tries to relay one or more compatible channels through sequential execution of clients corresponding to identification information of one or more compatible clients.

In the present invention, when the relay of one or more compatible channels fails, the second broadcasting terminal 120 displays that one or more compatible channels are not supported. Here, the unsupported channel may be a non-subscription channel or a pay-per-view channel to which the second broadcasting terminal 120 does not subscribe.

The wired / wireless communication network 130 is a network capable of transmitting and receiving data using an Internet protocol using various wired / wireless communication technologies such as the Internet, a mobile communication network, a satellite communication network, and an IPTV network. Here, the description of the wired / wireless communication network 130 is a known technology, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In the first embodiment of the present invention, the wired / wireless communication network 130 transmits and receives data between the first broadcasting terminal 110 and the second broadcasting terminal 120 and data between the second broadcasting terminal 120 and the compatible broadcasting search server 140 Relay transmission and reception.

The compatible broadcast search server 140 stores and manages a real-time broadcast information list, which is an information list of broadcast programs currently being broadcast, in the real-time broadcast information database 142. Here, the real-time broadcast information list includes a program name currently being broadcasted, a client-specific channel broadcasting a program currently being broadcasted, and identification information of a client for each channel serving a client-specific channel, as shown in FIG.

When the compatible broadcast search server 140 receives the compatible broadcast request information from the second broadcast terminal 120, the compatible broadcast search server 140 generates compatible broadcast connection information and transmits the generated compatible broadcast connection information to the second broadcast terminal 120.

More specifically, the compatible broadcast search server 140 transmits a compatible channel broadcasting the same program as the recommended channel among the identification information of one or more clients included in the compatible client identification information list of compatible broadcast request information A compatible client including the identification information of the compatible client and the compatible channel including the identification information of the compatible client and the identification information of the compatible channel in the real time broadcasting information database 142 And transmits the generated connection information to the second broadcasting terminal 120.

FIG. 2 is a diagram exemplifying the recommended broadcast connection information according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

Preferably, the recommended broadcast connection information according to the first embodiment of the present invention is one of an SMS message type, an MMS message type, and an instant message type, and the recommended program information includes at least one of an SMS message, an MMS message, Message is displayed in the second broadcasting terminal 120 like the "World Cup Qualification (Korea: North Korea)" in FIG. 2, while the identification information and recommended channel of the recommended client are displayed as & Is created in a markup language including at least one of Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) as shown in [01, 05] The second broadcasting terminal 120 can reproduce the channel 05 by executing a client having identification information (ID) 01 among one or more installed clients. Here, it is for convenience of explanation that the identification information of the recommended client and the digits of the identification information of the recommended channel are limited to two digits. Therefore, when the present invention is actually applied, the identification information of the client and the identification information of the recommended channel Of the present invention.

In the present invention, there are a T-DMB client, an S-DMB client, a mobile real-time TV, and an Internet real-time TV. Mobile real-time TV and 04 can be classified as Internet real-time TV.

As described above, if the identification information of the recommended client and the identification information of the recommended channel are "[01,05] ", the second broadcasting terminal 120 executes the T-DMB client, (Korea: North Korea), which is broadcasted by the Korean government.

FIG. 3 is a diagram exemplarily showing real-time broadcast information according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the real-time broadcast information list according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes a program name currently being broadcasted, a client-specific channel relaying a program currently being broadcast, and a client- .

DMB, S-DMB, and mobile real-time TV IDs 01, 02 and 03 are included in the identification information list of the compatible client transmitted from the second broadcasting terminal 120, and the identification information of the recommended client is 05 ( IPTV) and the identification information of the recommended channel is 113, the proximal broadcasting search server 140 transmits a compatible channel broadcasting the same program as the recommended channel among the identification information of one or more clients included in the compatible client's identification information list (01, 02, 03) of the compatible client in service and identification information (05, 16, 16) of the compatible channel from the real-time broadcast information list after the identification of the compatible client and the compatible channel And transmits the generated compatible broadcast connection information to the second broadcast terminal 120. [ Here, the compatible broadcast search server 140 preferably generates compatible broadcast connection information in a markup language including at least one of XML and XHTML, such as [01 (compatible client ID), 05 (compatible channel) But the present invention is not limited thereto. In other words, the compatible broadcast search server 140 generates compatible broadcast connection information in a markup language such as [01, 05], [02, 16], [03, 16] and transmits it to the second broadcast terminal 120 do.

4 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an internal structure of a first broadcast terminal according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

The first broadcasting terminal 110 according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes an input unit 410, a display unit 420, an audio unit 430, a memory unit 440, a communication unit 450, and a control unit 460 .

The input unit 410 includes a keyboard, a keypad, and a mouse as input means for receiving a command of the terminal user and transmitting the command to the controller 460. In the first embodiment of the present invention, the input unit 410 includes a recommendation broadcast connection information generation key for generating recommendation broadcast connection information. When the recommendation broadcast connection information generation key is inputted by the terminal user, To the control unit (460). Here, the recommended broadcast connection information includes a recommended program name of a recommended program to be recommended, identification information of a recommended channel in which a recommended program is being broadcast, and identification information of a recommended client that provides a recommended channel.

The display unit 420 displays a screen of a program broadcast on the channel selected by the terminal user.

The audio unit 430 outputs the sound of the program displayed on the display unit 420.

The memory unit 440 stores the program name being displayed on the display unit 420 and the identification information of the channel selected by the terminal user.

The communication unit 450 performs a data transmission / reception function with respect to the second broadcasting terminal 110 via the wired / wireless communication network 130, that is, performs a data transmission / reception function with other broadcasting terminals. In the first embodiment of the present invention, the communication unit 450 transmits the recommended broadcast connection information generated by the control unit 460, which will be described later, to the second broadcast terminal 120, which is another terminal.

The control unit 460 controls the execution of the overall function of the first broadcasting terminal 110 by executing the driving program stored in the memory unit 440 according to an instruction of the terminal user input through the input unit 410. [

In the first embodiment of the present invention, when a command, that is, a recommendation broadcast connection information generation key, is input, the controller 460 sets a preset channel as a recommended channel, identifies a preset client Information, sets the name of the program being broadcast as the recommended program name, and generates the recommended broadcast connection information including the recommended channel identification information, the recommended client identification information, and the recommended program name.

Then, the control unit 460 performs control to transmit the recommended broadcast connection information to the second broadcast terminal 120 through the communication unit 450. [ Here, the control unit 460 generates the recommended broadcast connection information in the form of a message including at least one of an SMS message type, an MMS message type, and an instant message type. The identification information of the recommended client and the identification information of the recommended channel are XML and XHTML In the markup language.

5 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an internal structure of a compatible broadcast search server according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

The compatible broadcast search server 140 according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes a first server memory unit 510, a first server communication unit 520, and a first server control unit 530.

The first server memory unit 510 stores a drive program of the compatible broadcast search server 140 and the like.

The first server communication unit 520 performs a data transmission / reception function with the second broadcasting terminal 120 via the wired / wireless communication network 130. In other words, the first server communication unit 520 receives the compatible broadcasting request information from the second broadcasting terminal 120 and transmits the compatible broadcasting connection information to the second broadcasting terminal 120.

The first server control unit 530 executes and controls a driving program stored in the first server memory unit 510 according to a signal input through a server input unit (not shown).

In the first embodiment of the present invention, the first server control unit 530 manages a real-time broadcast information list, which is an information list of programs currently being broadcast, and receives from the second broadcast terminal 120 a list of compatible clients, A compatible client including identification information of a compatible client that can be compatible with the recommendation client and identification information of a compatible channel served by the compatible client when receiving compatible broadcast request information including identification information of a client and identification information of a broadcast channel, And controls the first server communication unit 520 to transmit the broadcast connection information to the second broadcast terminal 120. [ Here, the first server control unit 530 may generate compatible broadcast connection information in a markup language including at least one of XML and XHTML.

6 is a block diagram schematically showing a system for providing recommended broadcast connection information according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

The system according to the second embodiment of the present invention includes a broadcasting terminal 610, a wired / wireless communication network 620, and a broadcasting connection information providing server 630.

In the second embodiment of the present invention, the broadcasting terminal 610 registers a recommended broadcasting field to be recommended in the broadcasting connection information providing server 630, and receives a recommendation from the broadcasting connection information providing server 630 Recommended broadcast connection information including program name, identification information of a recommended channel that is broadcasting a recommended program, and identification information of a recommended client that provides a recommended channel.

If the recommended client corresponding to the identification information of the recommended client is installed in the broadcasting terminal 610 such as the second broadcasting terminal 120 according to the first embodiment of the present invention, If the recommended client is not installed, it displays a list of compatible client identification information including the identification information of one or more clients installed, identification information of the recommended client, and identification information of the recommended channel through the wired / wireless communication network 620 To the connection information providing server (630).

The broadcast terminal 610 transmits compatible broadcast connection information including the identification information of the compatible client compatible with the recommended client and the identification information of the compatible channel served by the compatible client to the broadcast connection information providing server 630, Lt; RTI ID = 0.0 > 630 < / RTI > Here, the identification information of the one or more compatible clients may be included in part or all of the identification information list of the compatible client.

Upon receipt of one or more compatible broadcast connection information, the broadcast terminal 610 sequentially attempts relay of one or more compatible channels to display a relay window of a specific compatible channel if there is a specific compatible channel that has successfully relayed.

In the second embodiment of the present invention, the wired / wireless communication network 620 relays data transmission / reception between the broadcasting terminal 610 and the broadcasting connection information providing server 630.

The broadcast connection information providing server 630 stores and manages a real time broadcast information list, which is an information list of currently broadcasted broadcasts, in the real time broadcast information database 632, and stores the recommended broadcast fields registered in the broadcast terminal 610 .

If the broadcasting connection information providing server 630 includes a recommended program corresponding to the recommended broadcasting field previously registered in the broadcasting terminal 610 in the real time broadcasting information list, the recommended program name, identification information of the recommended channel being broadcasted, And transmits the recommendation broadcast connection information including the identification information of the recommended client serving the channel to the broadcasting terminal 610. [ For example, if the recommended broadcasting field is a soccer broadcast and the real-time broadcasting information includes a soccer relay such as "World Cup Qualification (Korea: North Korea) ", the broadcasting connection information providing server 630 transmits a recommended program name" : North Korea) ", a recommended channel for broadcasting the World Cup qualification (Korea: North Korea), and a recommendation client for providing a recommended channel, and transmits the generated recommendation broadcast connection information to the broadcasting terminal 610. [ Here, the broadcast connection information providing server 630 generates the recommendation broadcast connection information in the form of a message including at least one of an SMS message type, an MMS message type, and an instant message type, and the recommended client ID and the recommended channel are XML and XHTML In a markup language that includes at least one.

On the other hand, when the broadcast connection information providing server 630 receives the compatible broadcast request information including the identification information list of the compatible client, the identification information of the recommended client, and the identification information of the recommended channel from the broadcast terminal 610, And transmits it to the broadcasting terminal 610.

In more detail, the broadcast connection information providing server 630 transmits a compatible channel broadcasting the same program as the recommended channel among the identification information of one or more clients included in the compatible client identification information list of compatible broadcast request information After searching the real-time broadcasting information database 632, that is, the real-time broadcasting information list, the identification information of the compatible client and the identification information of the compatible channel, which are identification information of the client in service, And transmits the generated compatible broadcast connection information to the broadcasting terminal 610. [

7 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an internal structure of a broadcast connection information providing server according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

The broadcast connection information providing server 630 according to the second embodiment of the present invention includes a second server memory 710, a second server communication unit 720, and a second server control unit 730.

The second server memory unit 710 stores a driving program of the broadcasting connection information providing server 630 and stores a recommended broadcasting field of the broadcasting terminal 610.

The second server communication unit 720 performs a data transmission / reception function with the broadcasting terminal 610 via the wired / wireless communication network 620.

In other words, the second server communication unit 720 transmits the recommended broadcasting connection information to the broadcasting terminal 610, and obtains the identification information list of the compatible client, the identification information of the recommended client, and the identification information of the recommended channel from the broadcasting terminal 610 And transmits compatible broadcast connection information including at least one of the compatible client identification information and the compatible channel identification information to the broadcasting terminal 610. [

The second server control unit 730 executes and controls a driving program stored in the second server memory unit 710 according to a signal input through a server input unit (not shown).

The second server control unit 730 manages and stores a real-time broadcast information list, which is a list of currently broadcasted broadcasts, in the real-time broadcast information database 632, and a recommended program corresponding to the recommended broadcast field is included in the real- The recommended program connection information including the recommended program name, the identification information of the recommended channel broadcasting the recommended program, and the identification information of the recommended client capable of relaying the recommended channel, and transmits the generated recommended broadcast connection information to the second server communication unit To the broadcasting terminal 610 through the Internet 720.

When the second server control unit 730 receives the compatible broadcast request information including the identification information list of the compatible client, the identification information of the recommended client, and the identification information of the recommended channel through the second server communication unit 720, The identification information of the compatible client which is the identification information of the client that is serving the same program as the recommended channel, that is, the compatible channel broadcasting the recommended program from among the identification information of one or more clients included in the client's identification information list, After generating one or more pieces of compatible broadcast connection information including the identification information of the compatible client and the identification information of the compatible channel, the controller 632 transmits the generated compatible broadcast connection information to the broadcasting terminal 632.

The description above is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention is applied to a digital broadcasting terminal and a broadcasting system field, so that even if a terminal user can not grasp a broadcasting time and a channel in a field of interest, It is an extremely useful invention that the terminal user does not have to know the broadcasting time and channel of the interested field because the broadcasting of the area of interest is connected.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing a system for providing recommended broadcast connection information according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a diagram exemplarily showing recommended broadcast connection information according to the first embodiment of the present invention,

3 is a diagram exemplarily showing real-time broadcast information according to the first embodiment of the present invention,

4 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an internal structure of a first broadcast terminal according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an internal structure of a compatible broadcast search server according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a block diagram schematically showing a system for providing recommended broadcast connection information according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an internal structure of a broadcast connection information providing server according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Description of the Related Art

110: first broadcasting terminal 120: second broadcasting terminal

130, 620: wired / wireless communication network 140: compatible broadcast search server

410: input unit 420: display unit

430 Audio part 440 Memory part

450: communication unit 460:

510: first server memory unit 520: first server communication unit

530: first server control unit 610: broadcasting terminal

630: Broadcast connection information providing server 710: Second server memory part

720: second server communication unit 730: second server control unit

Claims (9)

A system for providing broadcast connection information, A first broadcasting terminal for generating and transmitting recommended broadcasting connection information for a recommended program to be recommended among the programs currently being broadcasted; A second broadcasting terminal for receiving the recommended broadcasting connection information and displaying the recommended program using the recommended broadcasting connection information; And A wired / wireless communication network for relaying data transmission / reception between the first broadcasting terminal and the second broadcasting terminal; Wherein the recommended broadcast connection information includes a recommended program name, a recommended channel identification information, and a recommended client identification information, The second broadcasting terminal, When the recommendation broadcast connection information is received, an OK button is displayed, Wherein when the confirmation button is input, it is determined whether the recommendation client is installed according to the recommendation client identification information, and when the recommendation client is installed, the recommendation client is executed to display a recommendation program, The compatible broadcast connection information is transmitted to the compatible broadcast search server to receive the compatible broadcast connection information. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the compatible broadcast search server comprises: Wherein the control unit manages a real-time broadcasting information list, which is a list of information about the program currently being broadcasted, and transmits the compatible broadcasting connection information to the second terminal upon receiving the compatible broadcasting request information from the second broadcasting terminal. The system comprising: 3. The method of claim 2, A list of compatible client identification information, identification information of the recommended client, and identification information of the recommended channel. 4. The method of claim 3, Wherein the recommendation client includes identification information of a compatible client compatible with the recommendation client and identification information of a compatible channel served by the compatible client. 5. The method of claim 4, And if the relaying of one or more compatible channels is attempted in sequence, if there is a specific compatible channel successfully relayed, displaying a relaying screen of the specific compatible channel, and if the relaying of the one or more compatible channels fails, And displaying the channel is a non-supported channel. The method according to claim 1, Wherein the first broadcasting terminal comprises: An input unit for receiving a command; A display unit for displaying a screen of a program being broadcast on a previously selected channel; An audio unit for outputting sound of the broadcast program; A memory unit for storing a program name of the broadcast program and information on the previously selected channel; Setting the preset channel as a recommended channel, setting the preset channel as identification information of a recommended client which is identification information of a service client, setting the program name being broadcast as a recommended program name, A recommended broadcasting connection information including the recommended channel identification information, the recommended client identification information, and the recommended program name; And A communication unit for transmitting the recommended broadcast connection information to another broadcasting terminal; And providing the broadcast connection information. The method according to claim 6, Wherein the controller generates the recommended broadcast connection information in the form of a message including at least one of a short message, a multimedia message, and an instant message, wherein the recommended client identification information and the recommended channel are stored in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) A markup language, and a Markup Language (Markup Language). 3. The method of claim 2, The compatible broadcast search server includes: A communication unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from the second broadcasting terminal; And The second broadcasting terminal manages the real-time broadcasting information list, which is a list of information about the program currently being broadcast, and receives compatible broadcasting request information including the identification information list of the compatible client, the identification information of the recommended client, A controller for generating compatible broadcast connection information including identification information of a compatible client compatible with the recommendation client and identification information of a compatible channel served by the compatible client and transmitting the compatible broadcast connection information to the second broadcasting terminal; And providing the broadcast connection information. 9. The method of claim 8, Wherein the control unit generates the compatible broadcast connection information in a markup language including at least one of Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML).

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