KR101994377B1 - Method and system for providing personalized notification within contents service - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and system for providing personalized notification in a content service are disclosed. The notification providing method may include selecting content to be notified of by analyzing a user usage record of the content with respect to a user who consumed the content; And sending a push notification for the notification target content as a personalized notification to the user.

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED NOTIFICATION WITHIN CONTENTS SERVICE}

The following description relates to a technology for providing content in digital form over the Internet.

The rapid increase in the number of users of high-speed communication network enables the development of new services and diversification of service items through the communication network. Recently, various services based on images have appeared, and cartoon services are widely used as one of typical services using a communication network.

In general, cartoons refer to pictures that are concise, humorous, or exaggerated. Figures of characters, animals, and objects are put together. They provide brief readings with humor, satire, or a certain plot.

Recently, online comics have been released, and many users have gained fun and information through reading comics. The online comics provision system restricts the members to be able to view them according to the approval result during the authentication process, and the authorized users can easily view comics by selecting the comics and selecting the automatic or manual flipping.

For example, Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2011-0123393 (published November 15, 2011) discloses a technology for providing a cartoon in the form of mobile digital content through online direct transaction.

It provides a method and system that can provide a personalized push notification by analyzing the user usage records for the content.

It provides a method and system that can provide reminders for content that a user forgets.

The present invention provides a method and system for providing notification of new content according to a user's taste or selected language.

A computer-implemented notification providing method, comprising: selecting content to be notified of by analyzing a user usage record of the content for a user who consumed the content; And sending a push notification for the content to be notified as a personalized notification to the user, wherein the selecting includes: recently selecting, by the user, at a predetermined time for each unit period in a unit period. Filtering the consumed content; Excluding at least one partial content from among contents filtered at the predetermined time, content registered by the user as an object of interest and an update period having a different filtering time; And excluding the partial content based on the number of rounds read by the user and the number of rounds left unread, and selecting a specific content as a reminder notification target for reminding from the remaining contents. .

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing the computer to execute the notification providing method is provided.

A notification system implemented by a computer, the system comprising: a selection unit configured to select a content to be notified of by analyzing a user usage record of the content for a user who consumed the content; And a notification sending unit for sending a push notification for the notification target content as a personalized notification to the user, wherein the selecting unit filters the content recently consumed by the user at a predetermined time every unit period in a unit period. And the content registered by the user as an object of interest and an update period of the content filtered at the predetermined time, excluding at least one content of at least one of a content different from a filtering time, and the number of cycles read by the user and the remaining cycles unread. It provides a notification providing system, characterized in that for removing the partial content on the basis of the number of and selects a specific content from the remaining content as a reminder notification that needs to be reminded.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, by analyzing the user's use history for the content to automatically provide the content desired by the user through a personalized push notification to improve the user accessibility to the content through which the necessary resources for content provision However, the processing cost can be reduced.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, by providing a reminder notification for a content that the user has forgotten for a while, the user can immediately enter the corresponding content, reminding the user of the interest in the content and inducing the user to consume the content. Can be activated.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, by providing an automatic push notification for the new content according to the user's taste or the selected language, it is possible to effectively provide a notification of the content to users with a high potential of consumption.

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a network environment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of an electronic device and a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram illustrating an example of components that may be included in a processor of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method that may be performed by a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method for selecting notification target content for a reminder notification according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 to 9 are diagrams for explaining a specific example for each notification case in an embodiment of the present invention.
10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method for selecting notification target content for new work notification according to an embodiment of the present invention.
11 to 12 are diagrams for explaining an example of a notification case according to the number of times of genres according to one embodiment of the present invention.
13 illustrates an example of a notification message type according to an embodiment of the present invention.
14 illustrates an example of a setting screen for notification in an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The present embodiments relate to a technology for providing content in a digital form through the Internet, and more particularly, to a technology for providing push notification for entering content.

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a network environment according to an embodiment of the present invention. The network environment of FIG. 1 illustrates an example including a plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140, a plurality of servers 150 and 160, and a network 170. 1 is an example for describing the present invention, and the number of electronic devices or the number of servers is not limited as shown in FIG. 1.

The plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 may be fixed terminals or mobile terminals implemented as computer devices. Examples of the plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 include a personal computer, a laptop computer, a smart phone, a tablet, and a wearable computer. , Navigation, digital broadcasting terminals, personal digital assistants (PDAs), portable multimedia players (PMPs), and the like. For example, the first electronic device 110 may communicate with other electronic devices 120, 130, 140 and / or the server 150, 160 through the network 170 using a wireless or wired communication scheme.

The communication method is not limited, and may include not only a communication method using a communication network (for example, a mobile communication network, a wired internet, a wireless internet, a broadcasting network) that the network 170 may include, but also a short range wireless communication between devices. For example, the network 170 may include a personal area network (PAN), a local area network (LAN), a campus area network (CAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), a wide area network (WAN), and a broadband network (BBN). And one or more of networks such as the Internet. The network 170 may also include any one or more of network topologies, including bus networks, star networks, ring networks, mesh networks, star-bus networks, trees, or hierarchical networks, but It is not limited.

Each of the servers 150 and 160 communicates with the plurality of electronic devices 110, 120, 130, and 140 through the network 170 to provide a command, code, file, content, service, or the like. It may be implemented in devices. Examples of server computers may include, but are not limited to, server computing devices, personal computers, server computers, series of server computers, mini computers, and / or mainframe computers. The server computer may be a distributed system, and the operations of the server computer may be executed simultaneously and / or sequentially on one or more processors.

In one example according to the present invention, the server 150 serves as a content service platform that provides digital content including webtoons to a first electronic device 110 that is a client. In particular, the server 150 may provide a personalized push notification for the content by analyzing the user usage record in the content service.

As another example, the server 160 may provide a file for installing an application to the first electronic device 110 connected through the network 170. In this case, the first electronic device 110 may install an application using a file provided from the server 160.

A service provided by the server 150 by accessing the server 150 under the control of an operating system (OS) included in the first electronic device 110 and at least one program (for example, a browser or the installed application). I can be provided with the content. For example, when the first electronic device 110 transmits a service request message to the server 150 through the network 170 under the control of the application, the server 150 sends a code corresponding to the service request message to the first. The electronic device 110 may transmit the content to the electronic device 110, and the first electronic device 110 may provide content to the user by configuring and displaying a screen according to a code according to the control of the application.

2 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of an electronic device and a server according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2 illustrates an internal configuration of the first electronic device 110 as an example of one electronic device and the server 150 as an example of one server. Other electronic devices 120, 130, 140 or server 160 may also have the same or similar internal configuration.

The first electronic device 110 and the server 150 may include memories 211 and 221, processors 212 and 222, communication modules 213 and 223, and input / output interfaces 214 and 224. The memories 211 and 221 are computer-readable recording media, and may include non-volatile permanent storage devices such as random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), and disk drives. In addition, the memory 211 and 221 may store an operating system and at least one program code (for example, a code installed for the browser or the above-described application or the like installed in the first electronic device 110). These software components may be loaded from a computer readable recording medium separate from the memories 211 and 221 using a drive mechanism. Such a separate computer-readable recording medium may include a computer-readable recording medium such as a floppy drive, a disk, a tape, a DVD / CD-ROM drive, a memory card, and the like. In other embodiments, software components may be loaded into the memory 211, 221 through the communication module 213, 223 rather than a computer readable recording medium. For example, the at least one program is a program installed by files provided by the file distribution system (for example, the server 160 described above) through the network 170 for distributing installation files of developers or applications (for example, It can be loaded into the memory (211, 221) based on the above-described application).

Processors 212 and 222 may be configured to process instructions of a computer program by performing basic arithmetic, logic, and input / output operations. Instructions may be provided to the processors 212, 222 by the memory 211, 221 or the communication modules 213, 223. For example, the processors 212 and 222 may be configured to execute a command received according to a program code stored in a recording device such as the memory 211 and 221.

The communication modules 213 and 223 may provide a function for the first electronic device 110 and the server 150 to communicate with each other through the network 170, and another electronic device (for example, the electronic device 2 120). ) Or other server (eg, server 160). For example, a request generated by the processor 212 of the first electronic device 110 according to a program code stored in a recording device such as the memory 211 may be controlled by the server through the network 170 under the control of the communication module 213. May be delivered to 150. Conversely, control signals, commands, contents, files, and the like provided according to the control of the processor 222 of the server 150 are transmitted to the communication module of the first electronic device 110 via the communication module 223 and the network 170. It may be received by the first electronic device 110 through 213. For example, a control signal or command of the server 150 received through the communication module 213 may be transmitted to the processor 212 or the memory 211, and the content or file may be transmitted to the first electronic device 110. May be stored as a storage medium that may further include.

The input / output interfaces 214 and 224 may be means for interfacing with the input / output device 215. For example, the input device may include a device such as a keyboard or mouse, and the output device may include a device such as a display for displaying a communication session of an application. As another example, the input / output interface 214 may be a means for interfacing with a device in which functions for input and output are integrated into one, such as a touch screen. As a more specific example, the processor 212 of the first electronic device 110 uses data provided by the server 150 or the electronic device 2 120 in processing a command of a computer program loaded in the memory 211. The configured service screen or content may be displayed on the display through the input / output interface 214.

In addition, in other embodiments, the first electronic device 110 and the server 150 may include more components than those of FIG. 2. However, it is not necessary to clearly show most of the prior art components. For example, the first electronic device 110 may be implemented to include at least a part of the above-described input / output device 215 or may be other such as a transceiver, a Global Positioning System (GPS) module, a camera, various sensors, a database, or the like. It may further include components.

In the present specification, "content" includes a webtoon, a video, a photo, an image, a music, a document, and the like, and may mean a variety of information or its contents digitally produced and distributed.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of components that may be included in a processor of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is an example of a method that may be performed by a server according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart shown. As shown in FIG. 3, the processor 222 of the server 150 may include a manager 310, a selector 320, and a notification sender 330. The components of the processor 222 may control the server 150 to perform the steps S410 to S430 included in the method of FIG. 4, for which the operating system included in the memory 221 and at least It can be implemented to execute the code of one program.

In operation S410, the management unit 310 may manage a user usage record of content for a user who uses the content service. The content provided by the content service may mean a continuous project composed of a plurality of episodes such as a series. For example, the management unit 310 may store and maintain a database of user usages on the server 150 for each user. As another example, a user usage record for content may be stored in an application related to a content service installed on the first electronic device 110, and the manager 310 receives the user usage record from the first electronic device 110. It is also possible. The user usage record includes information on content that a user has consumed in a recent unit period (eg, one week), for example, a list of content recently consumed by a user, or recurring and genre information (or category information) by content recently consumed. ), Time information, and the like. In addition, the user usage record may include setting information related to the use of the content, for example, a selected language (or user region information), a preferred genre, a avoidance genre, and the like for using the content.

In operation S420, the selector 320 may select the content to be notified by analyzing the user usage record. The notification target content may be selected for each user based on a user usage record. For example, the selector 320 may analyze the user usage record and filter the content of which the user continually consumes and stops consumption. The selector 320 may select a part of the content consumed by the user as a reminder notification object based on the turn information for each content consumed by the user. In this case, the selector 320 may filter the notification target content based on the number of times the user reads, the number of times the user has not read, the time read by the user, and the like for each content. As another example, the selector 320 analyzes the user's usage history, and corresponds to content corresponding to the user's taste or the selected language, for example, a content of a genre that the user enjoys recently, a content of a genre popular in the user's language, and the like. You can filter In this case, the selector 320 may filter the notification target content based on a user's preferred genre or avoidance genre, a popular genre for each selected language, or a popular genre for each region. That is, the selector 320 may select some of the newly registered content as a new notification target based on at least one of genre information for each content consumed by the user and language information or region information of the user.

In operation S430, the notification sending unit 330 may send a push notification to the user to be notified of the content. The notification may be sent in the form of a message including a path to directly enter the content. For example, the notification sending unit 330 may provide a reminder notification about content that is continuously consumed by a user. In this case, when the content corresponding to the notification target content is updated, the notification sending unit 330 may provide a notification about the corresponding content to the user. As another example, the notification sending unit 330 may provide a new notification to the user when new content is registered, and may provide a notification about the corresponding content when the genre of the new content is the genre corresponding to the notification target content. In addition, the notification sending unit 330 may determine the message type according to the notification target content and send the determined type of notification. In other words, the notification sending unit 330 may send a push notification by dividing the message type according to the reminder notification and the new notification, for example, a new work of the genre which the user reads most, a new work of the genre that the user read more than a certain number of times. For example, new types of popular genres in the user's language can be provided as push notifications of different message types.

In the following specific embodiments, the webtoon will be described as a representative example of the content, but this is only an example and the present invention is not limited thereto.

5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method for selecting notification target content for a reminder notification according to an embodiment of the present invention. The content selection method of FIG. 5 corresponds to step S420 of the method described above with reference to FIG. 4, and each step may be performed by the selecting unit 320 in relation to FIG. 3. The content selection method may not occur in the order shown, and some of the steps may be omitted or an additional process may be further included.

In operation S51, the selector 320 may filter a set number of webtoons read by a user recently by a unit period. For example, the selector 320 may filter the webtoon recently read by the user at a specific time for each unit period by a set number. For example, the selector 320 may filter 40 webtoons in the latest order among webtoons read by a user at a predetermined time before a general webtoon update time for each day.

In operation S52, the selector 320 may exclude the webtoon set as the webtoon of interest of the user and the webtoon updated on a different day of the week from the filtering target in operation S51. In other words, the selector 320 reads webtoons that have not been registered by the user for a while, and targets webtoons that have been recently forgotten in the filtering target, and webtoons that are not updated by the user and are updated in the corresponding unit period. You can filter by primary notification target content.

In operation S53, the selector 320 may filter out a specific webtoon in which a webtoon is read out of the remaining webtoons by removing some webtoons from the filtering target, and checking the number of remaining episodes unread by the user for a particular webtoon. have. In this case, the user is described as filtering the webtoon that reads the most times, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and other filtering criteria may be applied, for example, when the user reads a certain number of times (eg, five times). It is also possible to filter certain webtoons.

In operation S54, the selector 320 may determine whether the remaining cycles of the specific webtoon identified in operation S53 are equal to or greater than a predetermined number (eg, one).

In operation S55, the selector 320 may select the specific webtoon as the content to be notified of when the remaining number of the specific webtoon remains more than the set number as a result of the determination of the operation S54. For example, the selector 320 may select the webtoon having the least remaining turn or less than a predetermined number as the content to be notified when there are a plurality of specific webtoons, that is, when the user has the same priority. As another example, the selector 320 may select the webtoon most recently read by the user as the notification target content when there are a plurality of specific webtoons and the remaining times of the plurality of specific webtoons are the same.

The selection unit 320 determines that a reminder is necessary when the remaining number of the specific webtoons is greater than or equal to the set number as a result of the determination in step S54. If the remaining number is less than the set number, the user still reads well and requires a separate reminder. You can judge that you do not.

Therefore, the selecting unit 320 may select the notification target content by filtering in the order of the number of times the user reads each of the recently read webtoons, the number of times remaining after the last time of reading, and the time of the last reading. The selecting unit 320 may transmit information on the webtoon selected as the target content of the notification in step S55 to the notification sending unit 330, and the notification sending unit 330 notifies the user of a reminder notification about the webtoon. Can ship.

In addition, the selector 320 may determine whether to notify the reminder later according to whether the user responds to the webtoon selected as the notification target content.

In operation S56, the selector 320 may check the user response through the reminder notification about the webtoon selected as the notification target content. The notification sending unit 330 may store a launch according to a user response after sending the reminder notification. In other words, when the user accesses the webtoon through the reminder notification, the user response may be recorded, and by using the selection, the selector 320 may check whether the user response to the webtoon selected as the target content of the notification.

In operation S57, the selector 320 may determine whether there is a user response after the reminder notification is sent to the webtoon selected as the notification target content.

In operation S58, the selecting unit 320 determines that the user is not interested in the webtoon selected as the notification target content as a result of the determination in step S57, in spite of the reminder notification, and thus the reminder is not repeated. You can exclude the webtoon from the filtering target of the next unit period. Meanwhile, when the user accesses the webtoon through the reminder notification, the user may include the filtering target for the reminder notification in a later unit period.

In the filtering process, when a new webtoon enters a user's recently read webtoon queue, the response check value for the user response may be initialized.

6 to 9 are diagrams for explaining a specific example for each notification case in an embodiment of the present invention.

6 illustrates an example of determining whether to send a reminder notification based on the check time 'Monday 00:00:00'. Assume that the work included in the 40th reading was A ~ G. In the works A ~ G to be filtered, the work D registered as the webtoon of interest and the work B of the other day of the week other than 'Monday' are excluded. And, if the user has read the number of remaining episodes of the remaining works A, C, E, F, and G, which is the most read by the user, and checks the number of remaining remnants, the work A is the content to be notified. Can be selected.

7 illustrates another example of determining whether to send a reminder notification based on the check time 'Monday 00:00:00'. Assume that the work included in the 40th reading was A ~ G. In the works A to G to be filtered, first, the work B of the other day other than the "Monday" is excluded. And, if the user has the most reads among the remaining works A, C, D, E, F, and G, the user checks the number of the remaining rounds without reading them, and excludes the corresponding work A if there are no remaining rounds. . Again, for each of the works C and D that have the most reads among the remaining works C, D, E, F, and G, the number of remaining repetitions of the works C and D is checked. The smallest work D can be selected as the content to be notified. Therefore, when the user has the same priority according to the times of the readings, it is possible to select as the content to be notified the works with less readings per work.

8 illustrates another example of determining whether to send a reminder notification based on the check time 'Monday 00:00:00'. Assume that the work included in the 40th reading was A ~ G. In the works A to G to be filtered, first, the work B of the other day other than the "Monday" is excluded. And, if the user has the most reads among the remaining works A, C, D, E, F, and G, the user checks the number of the remaining rounds without reading them, and excludes the corresponding work A if there are no remaining rounds. . Again, for each of the works C, D having the most reads among the remaining works C, D, E, F, and G, the number of times remaining without being read by the user is checked. In this case, when the number of remaining episodes per work is the same, the work C having the most recently read time among the works C and D may be selected as the content to be notified. Therefore, when the user has the same priority according to the time of reading and the unread time per work is the same, the most recently read work may be selected as the content to be notified by comparing the last time read by the user.

9 illustrates an example of a case of determining whether to send a reminder notification based on a check time '+1 weekday 00:00:00' as a notification case that has passed one week. Assume that the work included in the 40th reading was A ~ G. In the works A to G to be filtered, first, the work B of the other day other than the "Monday" is excluded. And, if the user has the most reads among the remaining works A, C, D, E, F, and G, the user checks the number of the remaining rounds without reading them, and excludes the corresponding work A if there are no remaining rounds. . Next, if the user C does not respond to the work C which sent the reminder notification among the remaining works C, D, E, F, and G, reflecting the notification feedback last week, the work C is excluded. Again, the user checks the number of remaining episodes that the user reads the most among the remaining works D, E, F, and G, and selects the work D as the content to be notified if there are remaining turns. Can be.

On the other hand, if there was a user response to the work C which sent the reminder notification last week, the work C may be included in the filtering target of the next cycle to check whether the reminder notification is sent. At this time, the number of readings of the work C is 6 times according to the user's response, and the work F, which is the oldest reading time of the works A to G included in the 40 readings last week, is excluded from the user's recently read webtoon queue.

Therefore, in order to provide a reminder notification for a work for which the user does not separately register the interest, the selecting unit 320 may analyze the user usage record and filter the work that the user has forgotten while reading.

10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method for selecting notification target content for new work notification according to an embodiment of the present invention. The content selection method of FIG. 10 corresponds to step S420 of the method described above with reference to FIG. 4, and each step may be performed by the selecting unit 320 in relation to FIG. 3. The content selection method may not occur in the order shown, and some of the steps may be omitted or an additional process may be further included.

In the past, the push notification for the new work was provided to all users or the user who allowed the new work notification, but the present invention may determine whether to push the new work by analyzing the user usage record.

In operation S101, the selector 320 may determine whether a new work is registered to send a push notification about the new work. In the registration process of a new work, registration for taste classification information including genre information (or category information) is required for each new work.

In operation S102, the selector 320 may determine whether a webtoon that has been recently read by a user is triggered by a notification of a new work when a new work is registered at a predetermined unit cycle or as a result of the determination of step S101. Can be. Alternatively, the selector 320 may determine whether the user has read more than a predetermined number of webtoons. In this case, the selector 320 may filter the upper predetermined number of webtoons based on the time of the last reading by the user in the recently read webtoon queue.

In operation S103, the selector 320 determines the number of webtoons read by the user by genre when the webtoon recently read by the user is present (or when the user has read a predetermined number or more). After counting the genre that the user reads the most, it can be compared with the new genre to determine whether the two genres are the same.

In operation S104, the selector 320 may select the new work as the first notification target content when the genre of the new work and the genre most read by the user are the same. In other words, when the newly registered webtoon corresponds to a genre frequently read by the user, the selector 320 may select the first genre target content as the target genre notification target. The selecting unit 320 may also select a new genre of the same genre as the user's favorite genre as a target target of the genre notification based on the user's pre-registered favorite genre.

If the genre of the new work and the genre read most by the user are not the same as the determination result of the step S103 in step S105, the selector 320 checks the genre read more than the set number of times (for example, two times) and then, Compared to the new genre, it is possible to judge whether two genres are the same.

In operation S106, the selector 320 may select the new work as the second notification target content when the genre of the new work and the genre read more than a predetermined number of times by the determination result of step S105 are the same. In other words, if the newly registered webtoon is not the genre read most by the user but is a genre of interest that is read more than a set number of times, the selector 320 may select the second genre target content as the target genre notification target.

In operation S107, the selector 320 determines that the webtoon recently read by the user does not exist (or the number of webtoons recently read by the user is less than a predetermined number), and the determination in step S105. As a result, when the genre of the new work and the genre read more than the set number of times by the user are not the same, the genre that is popular in the selected language range set by the user can be checked and compared with the new genre to determine whether the two genres are the same. .

In operation S108, when the selection genre of the new genre and the popular genre of the user's selected language are the same as the determination result of operation S107, the selector 320 may select the new work as the third notification target content. In other words, when the newly registered webtoon is not the genre which the user reads the most or the genre that the user read more than a set number of times, but the genre is the most popular genre for each language, the selector 320 is the third genre target content that is the target content for notification. Can be selected.

The selector 320 may transmit information about the new work selected as the first to third notification target content to the notification sender 330, and the notification sender 330 may send a notification about the new work to the user. Can be. In this case, the notification sending unit 330 may provide push notifications of different message types according to types of notification target content (preferred genre notification target, interest genre notification target, and popular genre notification target).

In addition, the selector 320 may be used to determine whether to notify the new work after collecting the user response for each genre through the new work notification. For example, if there is no user response despite the new notification or the user response is lower than the set level, the user can be managed by the genre that the user avoids and excluded from the new notification.

11 to 12 illustrate examples of a notification case according to the number of episodes by genre according to one embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 11, when the genre of the 20th webtoon recently read by the user is 'Fantasy' and 'Comedy', and the number of times of the 10th each of 'Fantasy' and 'Comedy' is equal, 'Fantasy' You can send a notification of the new favorite genre for the new work corresponding to and 'Comedy'. At this time, when a Thai language is set as a user's selected language and the most popular genre in the language region is 'Thriller', a new popular genre notification may be sent for a new work corresponding to 'Thriller'.

Assuming that the user judges the genre that has been read more than once as the genre of interest, as shown in FIG. 12, in case of the new works corresponding to 'Fantasy' and 'Comedy' which the user reads most frequently, the new genre notification of the new genre is sent. In addition, it is not applicable to 'Fantasy' and 'Comedy', but a new work that corresponds to the interest genre 'Action' and 'Drama' that has been read more than once can be sent a notification of the new work genre. Similarly, for a new work corresponding to the most popular genre "Thriller" in a language using the user's selected language "Tire," a popular genre new notification may be sent.

13 illustrates an example of a notification message type according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The reminder notification 1301 is a notification about a work that the user keeps reading and forgot about a while. For example, 'Affect {item name} update! {N} new stories await! ' It can be written in the form of a message template.

The new favorite genre notification 1302 is a notification about a new genre that the user has read most recently. For example, 'New genre for enthusiasts of {Genre name}! It can be created as a message template in the form of {work name} '.

The genre of interest new work notification 1303 is a notification of a new work of a genre that the user is interested in (for example, a genre read two or more times). For example, 'new genre to check if you are interested in {genre name}! It can be created as a message template in the form of {work name} '.

Popular genre notifications (1304) is a notification for a new work that is popular in the user's language, for example, "Hot {genre name} new! It can be created as a message template in the form of {work name} '.

If you have more than one new work to be notified, "Don't miss out on {Genre Name}, {Work Name}, and {N}!" It can be written in the form of a message template.

The notification message may be written in a text form that exposes at least a portion of the title and text, or an image type that exposes an image (thumbnail, representative image, etc.) related to the work.

The notification message described with reference to FIG. 13 may be displayed on the screen of the first electronic device 110 under the control of an application installed in the first electronic device 110. You can go to the detail page of the work according to the path included.

The server 150 may provide a user setting environment for personalized notification, and may send a push notification for the content to be notified according to the user setting through this. For example, as shown in FIG. 14, the setting screen related to the content service may include a 'NOTIFICATIONS' menu 1400 for setting a user for push notification, and the 'NOTIFICATIONS' menu 1400 may be used for a reminder notification. It may include a 'Recent Remind' menu 1401 for setting a user for the user and a 'New Releases' menu 1402 for setting a user for a new notification. The user may set whether to receive a reminder notification and a new notification as a personalized notification through the 'Recent Remind' menu 1401 and the 'New Releases' menu 1402.

Therefore, the present invention provides a personalized notification to a user by analyzing a personal history of a user consuming content in a content service, and provides a reminder notification about a webtoon which the user continuously read and recently forgotten. In addition, it is possible to provide a new work notification for a new work of the genre which the user reads most recently, a new work of the genre which the user prefers recently, and a new work of the genre popular in the user's language.

In the present specification, the server 150 implemented as a client-server environment provides a personalized notification by analyzing a user usage record according to a user setting in a content service, but is not limited thereto. It is also possible to provide a personalized notification by implementing the application form installed on the first electronic device 110 and directly analyzing the user use record in the first electronic device 110.

As described above, according to embodiments of the present invention, by analyzing a user's usage history of the content and automatically providing the desired content through a personalized push notification, the user's accessibility to the content may be improved, thereby providing content for It can reduce the required resources and processing costs. In particular, according to an embodiment of the present invention, by reminding the user about the content by providing a reminder notification about the content that the user has forgotten for a while, the user can easily enter the corresponding content to remind the user of the content inflow and You can activate content consumption. In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, by providing an automatic push notification for the new content according to the user's taste or the selected language, it is possible to effectively provide a notification of the content to users with a high potential of consumption.

The apparatus described above may be implemented as a hardware component, a software component, and / or a combination of hardware components and software components. For example, the devices and components described in the embodiments may include a processor, a controller, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a digital signal processor, a microcomputer, a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a programmable PLU (programmable). It can be implemented using one or more general purpose or special purpose computers, such as logic units, microprocessors, or any other device capable of executing and responding to instructions. The processing device may execute an operating system (OS) and one or more software applications running on the operating system. The processing device may also access, store, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to the execution of the software. For convenience of explanation, one processing device may be described as being used, but one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the processing device includes a plurality of processing elements and / or a plurality of types of processing elements. It can be seen that it may include. For example, the processing device may include a plurality of processors or one processor and one controller. In addition, other processing configurations are possible, such as parallel processors.

The software may include a computer program, code, instructions, or a combination of one or more of the above, and configure the processing device to operate as desired, or process it independently or collectively. You can command the device. The software and / or data may be embodied in any type of machine, component, physical device, computer storage medium or device in order to be interpreted by or provided to the processing device or to provide instructions or data. have. The software may be distributed over networked computer systems so that they may be stored or executed in a distributed manner. Software and data may be stored on one or more computer readable recording media.

The method according to the embodiment may be embodied in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. In this case, the medium may be to continuously store a program executable by the computer, or to temporarily store for execution or download. In addition, the medium may be a variety of recording means or storage means in the form of a single or several hardware combined, not limited to a medium directly connected to any computer system, it may be distributed on the network. Examples of the medium include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, magneto-optical media such as floptical disks, And ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like, configured to store program instructions. In addition, examples of another medium may include a recording medium or a storage medium managed by an app store that distributes an application, a site that supplies or distributes various software, a server, or the like.

Although the embodiments have been described by the limited embodiments and the drawings as described above, various modifications and variations are possible to those skilled in the art from the above description. For example, the described techniques may be performed in a different order than the described method, and / or components of the described systems, structures, devices, circuits, etc. may be combined or combined in a different form than the described method, or other components Or even if replaced or substituted by equivalents, an appropriate result can be achieved.

Therefore, other implementations, other embodiments, and equivalents to the claims are within the scope of the claims that follow.

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In the computer-implemented notification providing method,
Selecting content to be notified of by analyzing a user usage record of the content for a user who consumed the content; And
Sending a push notification for the notification target content as a personalized notification to the user;
Including,
The step of selecting,
Filtering content recently consumed by the user at a predetermined time for each unit period in a unit period;
Among the contents filtered at the predetermined time, among the first content-the first content is content registered by the user as an object of interest-and the second content-the second content is content different from the filtering time. Excluding at least one partial content; And
Excluding the partial content based on the number of rounds read by the user and the number of rounds left unread, and selecting a specific content as a reminder to be reminded from the remaining contents
Including,
Selecting the reminder notification target,
Filtering out specific content in which the user reads the largest number of times or more than a first set number of times among the remaining contents after excluding the partial contents;
Checking the number of rounds left without being read by the user for the specific content; And
Determining whether to select a reminder for the specific content according to the remaining number of rounds;
Notification providing method comprising a. The method of claim 1,
The determining step,
Selecting the specific content as a reminder to be reminded when the number of remaining rounds is equal to or greater than a second set number; And
Determining that the reminder is not necessary for the specific content when the remaining number of times is less than the second set number.
Notification providing method comprising a. The method of claim 1,
The sending step,
Send a reminder notification for the specific content selected for the reminder notification,
The step of selecting,
Confirming a user response to the specific content after the reminder notification is sent; And
Excluding the specific content from the filtering target of the next unit period when the user response is not present
Notification providing method further comprising. The method of claim 1,
The step of selecting,
Selecting a part of newly registered content as a new work notification target based on at least one of genre information for each content consumed by the user and language information or region information of the user;
Notification providing method further comprising. The method of claim 4, wherein
Selecting the new work notification target,
Identifying the preferred genre consumed most by the user by using contents recently consumed by the user;
If the genre of the newly registered content is the same as the preferred genre, selecting the newly registered content as a preferred genre notification target;
If the genre of the newly registered content is not the same as the preferred genre, identifying a genre of interest consumed by the user more than a predetermined number of contents recently consumed by the user;
Selecting the newly registered content as an interest genre notification target when the genre of the newly registered content is the same as the genre of interest;
Identifying a popular genre in a language zone corresponding to the user's language information or local information if the content recently consumed by the user does not exist or the genre of the newly registered content is not the same as the genre of interest; And
Selecting the newly registered content as a popular genre notification target when the genre of the newly registered content is the same as the popular genre;
Notification providing method comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein
The notification providing method,
Providing a user-set environment for the personalized notification; And
Setting whether or not to receive a reminder notification and a new work notification by user setting through the user setting environment;
More,
The sending step,
Sending a push notification for the notification target content according to the user setting, and sending push notifications written in different types of message templates to the reminder notification target and the new notification target;
Notification providing method characterized in that. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a computer to execute the method of providing a notification according to any one of claims 1 to 6. In the computer-implemented notification providing system,
A selection unit for analyzing the user's use record of the content and selecting the target content for the user who consumed the content; And
Notification sending unit for sending a push notification for the notification target content as a personalized notification to the user
Including,
The selection unit,
Filtering the content recently consumed by the user at a predetermined time for each unit period in a unit period;
At least one of a first content among the contents filtered at the predetermined time, the first content is content registered by the user as an object of interest, and a second content, wherein the second content is content different from a filtering time. Exclude some of your content,
Based on the number of rounds read by the user and the number of rounds left unread, the partial content is excluded and a specific content is selected from the remaining contents as a reminder to be reminded.
The selection unit,
Filtering out specific content in which the user reads the most number of times or more than a first set number of times among the remaining contents after excluding the partial content,
Checking the number of rounds left without reading by the user for the specific content,
Determining whether to select a reminder for the specific content according to the remaining number of rounds;
Notification providing system, characterized in that.

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