KR101858247B1 - System and method for providing content using integrated identification - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing contents using an integrated ID, and more particularly, to a method and system for providing contents based on usage history information generated using an integrated ID.
A contents providing system using an integrated ID includes a use history information generating unit for generating usage history information of the integrated ID based on a content usage history of one or more user terminals corresponding to an integrated identification of a user, A content recommendation unit for selecting a recommended content corresponding to the integrated ID on the basis of information and a content transmission unit for transmitting data of a predetermined size among content data of the selected recommended content to the one or more user terminals corresponding to the integrated ID Section.

Description

[0001] SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT USING INTEGRATED ID [0002]

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing contents using an integrated ID, and more particularly, to a method and system for providing contents based on usage history information generated using an integrated ID.

2. Description of the Related Art [0002] Various types of terminals have been developed due to recent technological developments. In particular, as a variety of portable terminals have become various, it has become common for one user to use a plurality of terminals.

Accordingly, users are increasingly using content in different types of terminals according to time and place.

Korean Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2011-0022837 discloses a configuration for managing recommended content information that a user may prefer in accordance with a user's use history and providing the provided content content when the terminal is in a state in which communication can be established Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2009-0058402 discloses a system in which a plurality of device IDs, user configuration information, and user play history information are stored in a single user ID ), And integrates and manages them into a content list (Content List).

However, according to this conventional technique, since the history information of the user is collected only for one terminal, history information for one user using a plurality of terminals can not be generated.

In addition, when a user receives and reproduces content using his / her terminal, there may occur a problem that the content is not smoothly reproduced due to a slow download speed of the content depending on the high-quality content and the communication method of the terminal.

In one embodiment of the present invention, usage history information for a content used through a user's one or more terminals is generated using the integrated ID of one user, and a part of the recommended content selected based on the generated usage history information is used And to provide a system and method in which a user can use content smoothly.

As a technical means for achieving the above technical object, a first aspect of the present invention is a method of generating usage history information of an integrated ID based on a content usage history of one or more user terminals corresponding to an integrated identification of a user A content recommendation unit for selecting a recommended content corresponding to the integrated ID on the basis of the generated usage history information and a content recommendation unit for acquiring data of a predetermined size from the content data of the selected recommended content, And a content transmitting unit for transmitting the content ID to the one or more user terminals.

In the first aspect of the present invention, it is preferable that the terminal further includes a terminal connection state checking unit for checking a communication method of one or more user terminals corresponding to the integrated ID, and the sizes of data transmitted to the one or more user terminals are respectively the predetermined size May be determined based on the communication method of the user terminal to which the data of the user terminal is to be transmitted.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, the user history information generation unit may collect the content usage history of one or more user terminals that have requested content based on the integrated ID, and based on the collected content usage history, Lt; / RTI >

Further, in the first aspect of the present invention, when the provision of the recommended content is requested from at least one user terminal of the one or more user terminals, the content transmission unit transmits the remaining data other than the predetermined- To the at least one user terminal, and the at least one user terminal can reproduce all of the recommended content based on the data of the predetermined size and the remaining data among the received content data.

Further, in the first aspect of the present invention, the content recommendation unit may calculate a score according to a preset reference to a content that can be provided, and may select the recommended content based on the calculated score.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is further provided a representative terminal authentication unit for determining whether a user terminal requesting a content based on the integrated identity is a terminal that is preset in the representative terminal in correspondence with the integrated identity, The requested content may be provided only for the content request received from the terminal set in advance.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing content to a user terminal, the method comprising: receiving a request for providing a content from a user terminal and providing the requested content to the user terminal; Selecting a recommendable content for the integrated ID based on the content usage history information, and generating a content corresponding to the integrated ID by using a predetermined one of the data of the recommended content, Wherein the one or more terminals reproduce a predetermined portion of the recommended content on the basis of the received data of the predetermined portion, and the content providing server transmits the content using the integrated ID Can be provided.

According to the above-mentioned problem solving means of the present invention, it is possible to collect usage histories of contents used by one or more terminals of a user by using one integrated ID, to recommend contents based on the collected usage histories, A part of the content is previously stored in all one or more terminals of the user so that the user can smoothly receive the content without obstacle by using the previously stored part when the user is provided with the recommended content.

1 is a diagram illustrating a content providing system using an integrated ID according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a content providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a content providing method using an integrated ID according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart showing a flow of a method of downloading and reproducing contents from a user terminal in 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.

1 is a diagram illustrating a content providing system using an integrated ID according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the user 10 can use a plurality of terminals 100-1 to 100-3, and can manage a plurality of terminals using one integrated identification (ID) . That is, the user 10 registers his / her one integrated ID in the content providing server 200 and registers his / her own multiple terminals 100-1 through 100-3 in the registered integrated ID.

Therefore, when the user uses one of the terminals 100-1 to 100-3, the user can log in and connect to the content providing server using his or her integrated ID, and can access the plurality of terminals 100-1 to 100-3 -3), the usage history of the content may be stored in a matching manner with the integrated ID.

Also, the user terminals 100-1 through 100-3 can log in to the content providing server using the integrated ID through the terminal registered as the representative terminal, and make a content provision request. Also, the user terminals 100-1 to 100-3 may receive the content through the representative terminal.

The content providing server 200 generates usage history information based on the integrated ID when the user terminals 100-1 to 100-2 log in using the integrated ID and receive the content.

That is, after the first user terminal 100-1 performs login using the integrated ID and then uses the content A, and after the second user terminal 100-2 performs the login using the integrated ID, B, the content providing server 200 generates use history information based on only the unified ID, and as a result, the user of the unified ID uses the content A and the content B, and usage history information can be generated.

The content providing server 200 can select a content to be recommended to the user of the integrated ID by using the usage history information generated for the integrated ID. For example, if the contents of the series are continuously provided through the integrated ID, the contents providing server 200 predicts that the user will continue to use the contents of the series, and recommends the contents not used by the user .

Also, the content providing server 200 may analyze the use history information, analyze the user's favorite genre, favorite actor, etc. to calculate a score for the content, and recommend the content based on the calculated score.

The content providing server 200 provides some of the recommended contents to the user terminals 100-1 to 100-3 in advance based on the user history information. That is, the content providing server 200 transmits the reproduction data suitable for the user terminals 100-1 to 100-3 of the recommended contents, that is, the content data, to the user terminals 100-1 to 100-3 To the user terminals 100-1 to 100-3 in advance.

In this case, the content providing server 200 does not provide all of the content data to the user terminals 100-1 to 100-3, but provides a predetermined portion of the content data to the user terminals 100-1 to 100-3 can do.

For example, when the content providing server 200 provides the high-quality content to the user terminal 100-1 from the beginning as a streaming service, the playback of the video may be stopped in the case of the portion that is not streamed during the video playback, The user may feel inconvenience in providing the contents.

Therefore, the content providing server 200 transmits some data of the content of the content likely to be requested by the user, for example, the data of the first about 10 minutes of reproduction time based on the reproduction time to the user terminals 100-1 to 100- 100-3, respectively.

Accordingly, when there is a request for the content from the user, the user terminals 100-1 to 100-3 start to provide the content using the data previously received from the content providing server 200, The remaining data can be received from the contents providing server 200 and the contents can be smoothly provided to the user without stopping reproduction.

The content providing server 200 can determine the amount of content data to be provided in advance according to the communication method in which the user terminals 100-1 to 100-3 are connected to the content providing server 200. [ For example, the amount of content data provided when the user terminals 100-1 to 100-3 access via a wired network or Wi-Fi is determined by the amount of content data provided when accessing through the 3G / 4G data communication Can be more than the amount.

2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a content providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The content providing server 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user ID management unit 210, a usage history information generation unit 220, a content recommendation unit 230, a terminal connection status confirmation unit 240, A representative terminal authentication unit 260, a content request receiving unit 270, a user ID database 282, a usage history database 284, and a terminal database 286.

The user ID management unit 210 registers an integrated ID for each user and registers one or more terminals of the user with respect to the integrated ID registered for each user. Accordingly, when the user requests content from the content providing server 200 using any one of the one or more terminals, the user does not log in using the ID set for each terminal, The user can log in using an integrated ID set in common with the terminal, and request the terminal to download the content to the desired terminal.

The use history information generating unit 220 collects information on contents used by users in each terminal based on the integrated ID of the users registered in the respective terminals, Lt; / RTI >

Therefore, the use history information generation unit 220 may not generate content usage history information for each user terminal, but may collect information on the content used by the terminal of the user who requested the content using the integrated ID, The content usage history information can be generated for the integrated ID of the user commonly registered in the content usage history information.

Therefore, regardless of which terminal the user uses, the content usage history information is collected on the basis of the user's integrated ID, and the content usage history information of the user can be generated using the collected content usage history information have.

The content recommendation unit 230 analyzes the content usage history information generated by the usage history information generation unit 220 to select a content likely to be requested by the user or a content determined to be preferred by the user.

For example, the content recommendation unit 230 may analyze the usage history information to calculate a score according to a preset reference for each content expected to be used by the user, and may select the recommended content based on the calculated score.

The calculation of the score may be performed based on whether or not the content is viewed, whether the content is a series, whether or not the series is continuously viewed, and the like. For example, the higher the number of consecutive viewing of series, the higher the score can be calculated.

The terminal connection state checking unit 240 checks the network connection state of one or more terminals registered for the integrated ID of the user. The user terminal can be connected to the content providing server 200 through wired communication, Wi-Fi, 3G / 4G mobile communication network and the like. 200 connected to the network.

The content transmitting unit 250 transmits a part of the content data of the content recommended by the content recommending unit 230 to one or more terminals registered for the integrated ID. The content transmission unit 250 may select the size of the content data to be transmitted to the user terminal according to the connection method of the user terminal to the content providing server 200. [

For example, when the user terminal is connected to the content providing server 200 through the wired network, the size of the content data transmitted by the content transmitting unit 250 is determined by the user terminal via the 3G / 4G mobile communication network, The size of the content data transmitted by the content transmitting unit 250 may be larger than the size of the content data transmitted when the content transmitting unit 200 is connected.

As described above, when the user terminal is connected to the content providing server 200 through a more stable or speedy communication method, the content transmitting unit 250 can transmit a larger amount of content data to the content providing server 200. [

In addition, the content transmission unit 250 may determine the size of the content data to be transmitted to the user terminal based on the performance of the terminal. For example, in the case of a desktop or notebook having a large storage size, the content transmitting unit 250 can transmit a larger amount of content data to the user terminal. In the case of a smart phone having a relatively small storage size, The unit 250 can transmit a smaller amount of content data to the user terminal.

When the user performs user authentication using the integrated ID using the terminal set as the representative terminal, the representative terminal authentication unit 260 determines whether the terminal requesting login or content provision corresponds to the representative terminal.

A user can register a portable terminal or the like mainly used by the user in the representative terminal in advance. In this case, login to the contents providing server 200 using the integrated ID can be performed only through the representative terminal.

Accordingly, when the log-in using the integrated ID is requested, the representative terminal authentication unit 260 can determine whether the terminal requesting log-in is a terminal set as a representative terminal for the integrated ID.

Also, when requesting content provision to another terminal using a terminal set as a representative terminal, the representative terminal authentication unit 260 can determine whether the terminal requesting content provision is a terminal set as a representative terminal.

The content request receiving unit 270 receives the content request from the terminal that has performed the login using the integrated ID. The content request receiving unit 270 transmits the received content request to the content transmitting unit 230 so that the requested content is provided to the user terminal.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a content providing method using an integrated ID according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step S110, the content providing server receives a content provision request from the user terminal. The content providing server can receive the user's integrated ID together with the content providing request and can determine whether the user who requested the content providing using the received integrated ID is entitled to receive the content.

Also, in the case where the log-in and the content providing request are set to be permitted only when the log-in and the content providing request using the integrated ID are received from the terminal registered as the representative terminal with respect to the integrated ID, It is possible to determine whether or not it is a representative terminal of the received integrated ID.

In step S120, the content providing server provides the content requested in step S110 to the user terminal, and collects the usage history in the usage history information of the integrated ID of the user terminal using the information of the content provided to the user terminal .

In step S130, the content providing server selects the recommended content for the user of the integrated ID using the usage history information generated for the integrated ID. As described above, the content providing server can select a content likely to be used by the user as the recommended content.

In step S140, the content providing server confirms the connection state and the connection mode of the at least one terminal registered with the integrated ID to the content providing server. As described above, the user terminal can access the content providing server via the wired network or the wireless network, and can access the content providing server through the Wi-Fi or 3G / 4G mobile communication network among the wireless networks.

Accordingly, the content providing server can confirm which of the connection methods of the wired network, the Wi-Fi or the 3G / 4G mobile communication network, etc., connected to the content providing server has been connected to one or more terminals registered for the integrated ID.

In step S150, the content providing server transmits a part of the recommended content selected in step S130 to one or more terminals registered for the integrated ID. That is, the content providing server may transmit a part of the data of the recommendation contents to one or more terminals of the user registered in the integrated ID and store the data in advance in the terminal, and the user terminal may use a part of the content Can be reproduced.

The content providing server can determine the size of the data of the content to be transmitted to the user terminal based on the connection method confirmed in step S140.

In step S160, the content providing server receives a provision request of a content previously provided to the user terminal in step S150.

In step S170, the content providing server transmits data of the remaining content excluding the data provided in step S150 to one or more terminals of the user registered in the integrated ID.

The user terminal can reproduce all the content requested in step S160 using the content data transmitted in step S150 and the content data transmitted in step S170.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, since a part of the recommended content with high availability of the user is stored in advance in the user terminal, when the user requests the content, the delay time required for the content to be reproduced by the user terminal is maximized .

4 is a flowchart showing a flow of a method of downloading and reproducing contents from a user terminal in an embodiment of the present invention.

In step S210, the user terminal receives the user's content request. The user terminal can receive the information of the contents requested by the user and the information of the integrated ID.

In step S220, the user terminal determines whether the data of the content requested in step S210 has been stored in advance in the user terminal. That is, the user terminal can previously store some data of the content selected as the recommended content by the content providing server, and the user terminal determines whether the data of the content requested in the step S210 has been stored in the user terminal in advance .

If it is determined in step S230 that the content data requested in step S220 is stored in advance in the user terminal, the user terminal searches for data that is required to be downloaded among the content data.

In step S240, the user terminal downloads data required to download the content retrieved in step S230.

In step S250, the user terminal reproduces the content requested by the user in step S210 using previously downloaded data of the content and data downloaded in step S240.

In the above description, it has been described that the content is played back after the data of the content that has not been stored in advance in step S240. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a part of the content may be played back first, The remaining portion of the content can be reproduced based on the data downloaded in step S240.

In step S260, if it is determined in step S220 that the requested content data is not stored in the user terminal in advance, the user terminal downloads the requested content data from the content providing server and plays the content.

One embodiment of the present invention may also be embodied in the form of a recording medium including instructions executable by a computer, such as program modules, being 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.

While the methods and systems of the present invention have been described in connection with specific embodiments, some or all of those elements or operations may be implemented using a computer system having a general purpose hardware architecture.

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 (10)

In a content providing system using an integrated ID,
A usage history information generating unit for generating usage history information of the integrated ID based on a content usage history of one or more user terminals corresponding to an integrated identification of a user,
A content recommendation unit for selecting a recommended content corresponding to the integrated ID based on the generated usage history information,
A content transmission unit for transmitting data of a predetermined size among content data of the selected recommended content to the one or more user terminals corresponding to the integrated ID;
And a representative terminal authentication unit for determining whether the user terminal requesting the content based on the integrated identity is a terminal that is preset in the representative terminal in response to the integrated identity,
Wherein the requested content is provided only for a content request received from a terminal preset in the representative terminal.
The method according to claim 1,
And a terminal connection state checking unit (110) for checking a communication method of one or more user terminals corresponding to the integrated ID
Further comprising:
Wherein the size of the data transmitted to the one or more user terminals is determined based on a communication method of the user terminal to which the predetermined size of data is to be transmitted.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the usage history information generation unit collects a content usage history of one or more user terminals requesting a content based on the integrated ID and generates the usage history information based on the collected content usage history.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein when a request for providing the recommended content is requested from at least one user terminal of the one or more user terminals, the content transmission unit transmits to the at least one user terminal, data other than the predetermined size of the content data ,
Wherein the at least one user terminal is capable of playing back all of the recommended content based on the data of the predetermined size and the remaining data among the received content data.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the content recommendation unit calculates a score according to a preset reference for the content that can be provided, and selects the recommended content based on the calculated score.
delete A method for a content providing server to provide a content using an integrated ID,
Receiving a request for content provision from a user terminal and providing the requested content to the user terminal,
Generating content usage history information corresponding to the integrated ID of the user terminal based on the information of the content provided to the user terminal,
Selecting the recommended content for the integrated ID based on the content usage history information;
Transmitting data of a predetermined part of the data of the recommended content to one or more terminals corresponding to the integrated ID
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Wherein the one or more terminals reproduce a predetermined portion of the recommended content based on the received data of the predetermined portion,
Wherein providing the requested content to the user terminal comprises:
Determining whether the user terminal requesting the content is a terminal configured as a representative terminal of an integrated ID corresponding to the user terminal, and
If the user terminal requesting the content is the representative terminal, providing the requested content to the user terminal
The content providing method comprising the steps of:
8. The method of claim 7,
Wherein the size of data transmitted to the one or more user terminals is determined based on a communication scheme of each of the one or more user terminals.
8. The method of claim 7,
Receiving a request for providing the recommended content from at least one of the one or more terminals corresponding to the integrated ID;
Transmitting to the at least one terminal data other than the transmitted predetermined portion of data of the recommended content;
Further comprising:
And all of the recommended content is reproduced based on the predetermined portion of data and the remaining data.
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