KR101875685B1 - System and method for providng rink information, and apparatus applied to the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a link information providing system and method, and an apparatus applied thereto. That is, when a user event related to the link information is generated on the service page, the user device displays the original content corresponding to the link information, or displays the replacement content generated in association with the original content without displaying the original content Or displays both the original content and the substitute contents, thereby preventing a user from making a navigation mistake, thereby reducing the burden on the user and improving convenience in use.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a system and method for providing link information,

The present invention provides a preview function for displaying alternative content generated by rendering linked original content on a service page when a user event related to link information is generated in a service page provided in a mobile environment ≪ / RTI >

The rapid spread of the Internet is being utilized in combination with mobile communication technology due to various needs of users.

Accordingly, modern people can enjoy various contents such as Web surfing, mail sending and receiving, Internet game, etc. by accessing the wireless Internet through the mobile communication terminal.

At this time, surfing the web site in the mobile environment of the currently-developed mobile communication terminal can only be performed by WEP surfing in a limited environment such as a small screen, a keypad, and a text input, Unable to navigate freely, users often make mistakes.

Furthermore, in the conventional PC (Personal Computer) environment, a function of previewing a selected file during file search is provided. However, since a preview function for link information at the time of surfing the web is not developed at all in a mobile environment, There is a problem that the time required for the link connection is long and the service quality of the user deteriorates accordingly.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for displaying an original content corresponding to the link information in a user device when a user event related to the link information is generated on a service page Or displaying the substitute contents generated in association with the original contents without displaying the original contents or displaying both the original contents and the substitute contents so as to prevent the user from making navigation mistakes, Thereby reducing the burden and improving the convenience of use.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a service apparatus including: a providing unit for providing a service page including link information to a user apparatus; And displaying the original content corresponding to the link information in the user device when the user event related to the link information is generated on the service page or displaying the replacement content generated in association with the original content without displaying the original content And displaying the original content and the substitute content on the display unit.

More specifically, the control unit determines user preferences for each of the plurality of link information when the number of the link information included in the service page is greater than the number of the link information included in the service page. When the user preference is low And determines at least one link information among the plurality of link information as link information capable of displaying the substitute contents according to the order in which the replacement content is displayed.

More specifically, the user preference is determined on the basis of the ratio of the number of times of display of the substitute content to the number of times of display of the original content at the time of the occurrence of the user event, It is determined that the user preference is higher than the remaining link information for the specific link information whose display frequency of the original content is larger than the display frequency.

More specifically, the control unit may further apply, to the user preference determined for each of the plurality of pieces of link information, a degree of popularity determined for each piece of link information, And at least one link information is determined.

More specifically, the popularity is determined on the basis of a difference between the number of times the original content is displayed for each of the plurality of pieces of link information for a predetermined time.

More specifically, the substitute content is generated so as to have a content capacity smaller than the content capacity of the original content according to the content type of the original content, and the content type corresponds to at least one of text, image, .

More specifically, if the original content is the text, the substitute content is generated so as to include only at least a part of the entire text, and when the original content is the image, And when the original content is the moving image, the image is generated as the image including at least one frame image of the plurality of frame images included in the moving image.

More specifically, when the user device displays both the original content and the substitute content, the control unit displays the original content and the substitute content at a predetermined time during a download time, which is a time from downloading the original content to displaying the original content, Only the replacement content is displayed.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a link information providing method including: a request step of a user device requesting a service page; Providing a service page to the user device, the service page including link information; A confirmation step of confirming occurrence of a user event related to the link information on the service page by the service device; And causing the service device to display the original content corresponding to the link information in the user device or to display the replacement content generated in association with the original content without displaying the original content, And a display control step of displaying all replacement contents.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of operating a service device, the method comprising: providing a service page including link information to a user device; A confirmation step of confirming occurrence of a user event related to the link information on the service page; And displaying the original content corresponding to the link information in the user device according to the occurrence of the user event or displaying the replacement content generated in association with the original content without displaying the original content, And a control step of displaying both the replacement content and the replacement content.

More specifically, the method may further include, before the control step, determining user preference for each of the plurality of link information when the number of the link information included on the service page is plural, And determining link information of at least one of the plurality of link information as link information capable of displaying the substitute content according to the order in which the user preference is lowered from the information.

More specifically, the user preference is determined on the basis of a ratio of the number of times of display of the substitute content to the number of times of display of the original content at the time of the occurrence of the user event, The user preference determining unit determines that the user preference is higher than the remaining link information.

More specifically, the determining step may further include applying a popularity degree determined for each piece of link information to the user preference determined for each of the plurality of pieces of link information, And determines the at least one link information.

More specifically, the popularity is determined on the basis of a difference between the number of times the original content is displayed for each of the plurality of pieces of link information for a predetermined time.

More specifically, in the case where the user device displays both the original content and the substitute content, the control step may include a download time period from a time when the user event is generated to a time point at which the original content is downloaded and displayed, The substitute content is displayed only during a predetermined period of time.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a link information providing system for requesting a service page including link information, and for providing an original content corresponding to the link information and a substitute content A user device for displaying at least one; And providing the service page to the user device, wherein when the user event related to the link information is generated on the service page, the user device displays the original content or displays the replacement content without displaying the original content And displaying the original content and the substitute content on the display unit.

According to the present invention, there is provided a system and method for providing link information, and a method thereof, in which when a user event related to link information is generated in a service page provided in a mobile environment, By providing a preview function for displaying the substitute contents on the service page, it is possible to prevent the user from making navigation mistakes, thereby reducing the burden on the user and improving convenience in use.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a link information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a configuration diagram of a service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic flowchart for explaining an operational flow in a link information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart for explaining operations of a service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

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

1 is a diagram illustrating a link information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, a link information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user apparatus 100 for requesting a service page related to a specific service, a service apparatus 100 for providing a service page to the user apparatus 100, (200), and a collection device (300) for collecting original contents of link information included in the service page and generating replacement contents.

In addition, the link information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a storage device 400 for storing the original contents collected in cooperation with the collection device 300, and an original content corresponding to the link information The content providing apparatus 500 may further include a content providing apparatus 500 for providing the content.

Here, the user device 100 refers to a user device for displaying a service page related to a specific service (e.g., SNS, Social Network Service) provided by the service device 200 by driving a browser in a mobile environment. For example, a smart phone, a tablet PC, and a PDA, but is not limited thereto, and a device that operates in a desktop environment that has a relatively high Internet connection speed and is multitasking-friendly than the mobile environment described above .

The service device 200 refers to a service server for providing a specific service (e.g., SNS, Social Network Service) to the user device 100, And various link information (e.g., URL) is registered and provided.

The collection device 300 refers to a server for generating and providing alternative content according to a request of the service device 200. When the link information is registered on a service page, To access the device 500 to acquire original content, to generate substitute content related to the original content, and to provide the substitute content to the service device 200.

The cache device 400 refers to a cache server for storing the original content collected by the collecting device 300 in cooperation with the collecting device 300.

The content providing apparatus 500 refers to a web server corresponding to the link information registered in the service page, and operates to provide various collection of original contents composed of text, images, moving images, etc. to the collecting apparatus 300.

Here, the original content may correspond to various contents such as news, blog, shopping, image, moving picture, and the like.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when a user event (e.g., click, drag, touch, point instruction) related to link information is generated in a service page, substitute contents And provides a preview function to display on the page.

In this regard, as smartphones have become popular in recent years, the proportion of users using various social network services (SNS) in mobile environments is increasing.

Accordingly, the users share or link information registered in the social network service, thereby consuming or recommending various contents.

Generally, in order for the user to display the original content corresponding to the link information on his / her user device 100, the user downloads the original content provided by the content providing device 300 by performing page conversion on the service page currently in use .

In this case, it is not easy to check the link information in a mobile environment where the Internet connection speed is fast and the multitasking-friendly desktop environment does not cause any problems, but the performance is lower than that of the desktop environment described above and the Internet connection speed is low .

As described above, in mobile environment, not only a considerable time is required for downloading original content corresponding to link information and performing page conversion, but also additional time for returning to the original service page and returning to the original service page There is a disadvantage that it is required.

Accordingly, in an embodiment of the present invention, when a user event related to link information is generated in a service page provided in a mobile environment, a preview that displays the alternative content generated by rendering the linked original content on a service page The present invention will be described in detail below.

The service apparatus 200 performs a function of registering link information on a service page.

More specifically, when a user (creator) registers link information (e.g., a URL) on a service page, the service device 200 transmits the link information to the collecting device 300, The substitute content is requested, and the substitute content generated by rendering the original content from the collecting device 300 receiving the request is received and stored.

In addition, the service apparatus 200 performs a function of determining whether or not to provide alternative content to the link information registered in the service page.

More specifically, when the service page is requested from the user device 100, the service device 200 checks the link information registered on the service page, and if there are a plurality of the confirmed link information, And determines whether to provide the contents.

At this time, the service device 200 determines user preference for each of a plurality of pieces of link information, and displays the substitute contents only for the top N pieces of link information according to the order in which the user preference is lowered from the link information having the highest user preference It is possible to determine the link information as possible link information or to finally determine the link information capable of displaying the substitute contents by further reflecting the popularity of each link information as well as the user preference.

In addition, the service apparatus 200 performs a function of providing a service page including link information to the user apparatus.

More specifically, if the service device 200 determines whether to provide alternative content to a plurality of pieces of link information included in the service page, the service device 200 displays a preview icon To the user device 100 so that the user device 100 can display the preview icon together with the link information.

Here, the preview icon may have a different form depending on the content type of the original content classified, for example, as text, image, and moving image, thereby allowing the user to guess the content type of the original content linked to the service page have.

Further, the service apparatus 200 performs a function of displaying the substitute contents in the user apparatus 100 according to the occurrence of the user event related to the link information.

More specifically, when the user event related to the link information is generated, the service device 200 transmits the substitute content corresponding to the link information to the user device 100 to display the substitute content, So that the device 100 can check the contents of the original contents through the alternative contents being displayed.

Here, the user event may be displayed when the user viewing the service page selects (clicks), drages, or touches the preview icon provided additionally with respect to the link information, or when the user device 100 previews the pointer provided as the UI Icon position, and may also be applied when the user directly selects (clicks), drags, or touches the link information.

In addition, the point at which the service page is displayed in the user device 100 may be recognized as the above-described user event, and the alternative content may be displayed in association with the link information on the service page.

The collecting device 300 performs a function of generating substitute contents according to a request of the service device 200.

More specifically, when an alternative content generation request is received from the service device 200 in the case where the link information is registered on the service page by the user, the collecting device 300 extracts the link information corresponding to the link information from the content providing device 500 (E.g., HTML, image, and video file) of the original content, generates substitute content based on the resource of the collected original content, and transmits the substitute content to the service device 200. [

Here, the collecting device 300 first confirms whether or not the resource of the original content corresponding to the link information transmitted from the service device 200 is stored in the cache device 400, and only when it is not stored, And the resource of the collected original content is stored in the cache apparatus 400 and then utilized.

In addition, the collecting device 300 generates replacement content having a content size smaller than the content size of the original content according to the content type of the original content.

In this regard, the type of original content may correspond to at least one of, for example, text, image, and video.

Thus, if the original content is the text, the collecting device 300 generates replacement content to include only at least some of the text (e.g. 200 characters in the first paragraph, the document title, summary) of the entire text, In the case of the image, the image may be adjusted to have a resolution suitable for the user device 100, thereby generating replacement content.

When the original content is a moving image, the collecting device 300 extracts at least one frame image from a plurality of frame images included in the moving image, and combines the extracted frame images into a thumbnail form to form one representative image The alternate content may then be generated by adjusting the constructed representative image to have a resolution suitable for the user device 100.

Hereinafter, the configuration of the service apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

That is, the service apparatus 200 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a providing unit 210 for providing a service page including link information, And a control unit 220 for displaying the control information.

In addition, the service apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include a registration unit 230 for registering link information on a service page, and a determination unit 240 for determining whether to provide alternative content, in addition to the above- And the like.

Here, each configuration of the service apparatus 200 including the providing unit 210, the control unit 220, the registration unit 230, and the determination unit 240 may be implemented by a software module executed by the processor, Or a combination of these.

The registering unit 230 registers the link information on the service page.

More specifically, the registration unit 230 registers link information (e.g., a URL) on the service page in response to a request from the user device 100. [

At this time, when the user (creator) registers the link information on the service page of the user, the registration unit 230 transmits the link information to the collecting apparatus 300 to request the substitute contents corresponding to the link information, Renders the original content corresponding to the link information from the collecting device 300, and receives and stores the generated replacement content.

In addition, the determining unit 240 determines whether to provide alternative content to the link information registered in the service page.

More specifically, when a service page is requested from the user device 100, the determining unit 240 checks the link information registered on the service page, and if there are a plurality of the confirmed link information, And determines whether to provide the contents.

This is to prevent data traffic from being wasted when providing alternative content to all link information registered in the service page.

At this time, the determining unit 240 determines user preference for each of a plurality of pieces of link information, and displays the substitute contents only for the top N pieces of link information according to the order in which the user preference decreases from the link information having the highest user preference It is determined as possible link information.

Here, the user preference may be determined on the basis of the ratio of the display count of the replacement content to the display count of the original content when the user event related to the history information collected from the user device 100, that is, the link information, is generated.

For example, there are link information A to D on the service page, and the number of times of display of original content and the number of times of display of the substitute contents with respect to each link information can be expressed as shown in Table 1 below.

In this regard, the user preference of each link information can be determined through the following equation (1). As a result, the link information A is 0.30, the link information B is 0.20, the link information C is 0.37, and the link information D is 0.67 The user preference of the user can be determined.

[Equation 1]

User preference = the number of times the original content is displayed / the number of times the replacement content is displayed

Accordingly, at least one link information is determined as link information capable of displaying substitute contents according to the order of link information D, link information C, link information A, and link information B having the highest user preference.

In addition, the decision unit 240 may finally determine link information capable of displaying substitute contents by further reflecting the popularity of each link information as well as the above-described user preference.

Here, the popularity may be determined on the basis of history information collected from the content providing apparatus 500, that is, the difference between the number of times the original content is displayed for each of the plurality of pieces of link information for a predetermined time.

At this time, the determining unit 240 determines the number of connected users who have accessed the original content corresponding to each of the plurality of pieces of link information for a predetermined time (e.g., one hour) It is possible to determine the normalized score (1.0 point to 0.1 point) as the popularity for each link information.

In this regard, the service apparatus 200 determines the fitness for each link information by further applying the popularity to the determined user preference for each of a plurality of pieces of link information, and determines whether or not the link information having the highest fitness Only the upper N pieces of link information are determined as link information capable of displaying substitute contents according to the decreasing order.

For example, there are link information A to D on the service page, and user preference and popularity for each link information can be schematized as shown in Table 2 below.

In this regard, the fitness of each link information can be determined through the following equation (2). As a result, the link information A is 0.9, the link information B is 0.8, the link information C is 0.97, and the link information D is 0.67 The fitness can be judged.

[Equation 2]

Fit = user preference * popularity

Accordingly, at least one piece of link information is determined as the link information capable of displaying the substitute contents, in accordance with the order of the link information C, the link information A, the link information B, and the link information D having the highest fitness.

The providing unit 210 performs a function of providing a service page including link information to a user apparatus.

More specifically, when it is determined whether or not to provide alternative content to a plurality of pieces of link information included in the service page, the providing unit 210 displays a preview icon To the user device 100 so that the user device 100 can display the preview icon together with the link information.

The control unit 220 performs a function of displaying the substitute contents in the user device 100 according to the occurrence of the user event related to the link information.

More specifically, when a user event related to the link information is generated, the control unit 220 transmits the substitute content corresponding to the link information to the user device 100 to display the substitute content, So that the contents of the original contents can be confirmed through the alternative contents displayed on the display unit 100.

At this time, the control unit 220 may display both the original content and the substitute content in the user device 100. When displaying both the original content and the substitute content, The user can display the alternative content on the service page only during the download time, which is the time until downloading and displaying the downloaded content.

As described above, according to the link information providing system according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to display the original content corresponding to the link information registered on the service page or to display the original content It is possible to grasp the contents of the original contents even if the original contents are not connected to the actual link information by displaying the original contents and the substitute contents by displaying both the original contents and the substitute contents, It is possible to prevent unnecessary waste of traffic.

Hereinafter, a link information providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3 and FIG. Here, for convenience of explanation, the configurations shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 will be described with reference to corresponding reference numerals.

First, the operation flow in the link information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

First, when a user (creator) registers link information (e.g., a URL) on its service page, the service device 200 transmits the link information to the collecting device 300 to generate alternative content corresponding to the link information (S110 - S120)

When the link information is registered on the service page by the user, the collecting apparatus 300 receives from the content providing apparatus 500 an alternative content generation request from the service apparatus 200, (E.g., HTML, image, video file) of the original content, and generates substitute content based on the collected original content resource and transmits the substitute content to the service apparatus 200 (S130-S160).

Then, when the service page is requested from the user device 100, the service device 200 confirms the link information registered on the service page, and if there are a plurality of the confirmed link information, (S170 - S180).

At this time, the service device 200 determines user preference for each of a plurality of pieces of link information, and displays the substitute contents only for the top N pieces of link information according to the order in which the user preference is lowered from the link information having the highest user preference It is possible to determine the link information as possible link information or to finally determine the link information capable of displaying the substitute contents by further reflecting the popularity of each link information as well as the user preference.

Next, when the service device 200 determines whether to provide alternative content for a plurality of pieces of link information included in the service page, the service device 200 displays a preview icon for confirming the replacement content only for the link information determined to be capable of displaying the alternative content Service page to provide the user device 100 with a preview icon together with the link information (S190).

Thereafter, when the user event related to the link information is generated, the service device 200 transmits the substitute content corresponding to the link information to the user device 100 to display the substitute content, thereby allowing the user viewing the service page to access the user device 100 to allow the user to confirm the outline contents of the original contents through the displayed alternative contents (S200 - S230).

Hereinafter, the operation of the service device 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

First, the registration unit 230 registers link information (e.g., URL) on the service page of the user at the request of the user device 100 (S310).

At this time, when the user registers the link information on the service page of the user, the registration unit 230 transmits the link information to the collecting device 300, requests the substitute contents for the original content corresponding to the link information, The original content is rendered from the received collection device 300, and the generated replacement content is received and stored (S320 - S330).

Then, when the service page is requested from the user device 100, the determining unit 240 checks the link information registered on the service page, and if there are a plurality of confirmed link information, (S340 - S370).

At this time, the determining unit 240 determines user preference for each of a plurality of pieces of link information, and displays the substitute contents only for the top N pieces of link information according to the order in which the user preference decreases from the link information having the highest user preference It is determined as possible link information.

In addition, the decision unit 240 may finally determine link information capable of displaying substitute contents by further reflecting the popularity of each link information as well as the above-described user preference.

However, if it is determined that alternative content is to be provided for a plurality of pieces of link information included in the service page, the provider 210 may select a preview icon for confirming the replacement content only for the link information determined to be capable of displaying the replacement content Service page and provides the user device 100 with a preview icon together with the link information by providing the user device 100 with the link information (S380).

When the user event related to the link information is generated, the control unit 220 transmits the substitute contents corresponding to the link information to the user device 100 and displays the substitute contents, thereby allowing the user viewing the service page to access the user device 100 (S390-S400) so that the contents of the original contents can be confirmed through the displayed alternative contents.

At this time, the control unit 220 may display both the original content and the substitute content in the user device 100. When displaying both the original content and the substitute content, The user can display the alternative content on the service page only during the download time, which is the time until downloading and displaying the downloaded content.

As described above, according to the link information providing method according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to display the original content corresponding to the link information registered on the service page, or to display the original content without displaying the original content It is possible to grasp the contents of the original contents even if the original contents are not connected to the actual link information by displaying the original contents and the substitute contents by displaying both the original contents and the substitute contents, It is possible to prevent unnecessary waste of traffic.

Meanwhile, the steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, or may be embodied in a computer readable medium, in the form of a program instruction, which may be carried out through various computer means. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs; magnetic media such as floppy disks; Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

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

According to the link information providing system and method of the present invention, and a device applied thereto, when a user event related to link information is generated in a service page provided in a mobile environment, The present invention is not limited not only to the use of the related art but also to the extent that it is possible to carry out the application or the operation of the apparatus to be applied, This is an invention that is industrially applicable.

100: User device
200: Service device
210: Provided 220:
230: registration unit 240: determination unit
300: Collecting device
400: cache device
500: Content providing device

Claims (1)

When a service page is generated by displaying a preview icon for confirming corresponding substitute contents related to only some link information determined to provide substitute contents among a plurality of link information, ; And
A control unit for controlling the display unit to display the alternative content while downloading the original content corresponding to the partial link information when a user event related to the partial link information is generated on the service page,
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Wherein,
Wherein when the user device displays both the original content and the corresponding substitute content, the substitute content is displayed only during the download time, which is the time from when the user event is generated to when the corresponding original content is downloaded and displayed, And displays the service information.

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