KR102211396B1 - Contents sharing service system, apparatus for contents sharing and contents sharing service providing method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is a content sharing service system that extracts and recommends a sharing medium used in connection with the content from a previous content sharing history when a user requests to share a content including one or more of video, audio, and image, and the content sharing Regarding a device for and a method of providing a content sharing service, when a request for sharing a specific content is requested, a specific content is analyzed, content information related to the content requested to be shared is extracted, and the user's content based on the extracted content information One or more shared media with high relevance are extracted from the sharing history and provided to the user, and the specific content is transmitted through the selected sharing media.

Description

Content sharing service system, a device for sharing its contents, and a method of providing contents sharing service {CONTENTS SHARING SERVICE SYSTEM, APPARATUS FOR CONTENTS SHARING AND CONTENTS SHARING SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF}

The present invention relates to a content sharing service that supports sharing of content including one or more of video, audio, and image among users. In particular, when a content sharing request is made, a sharing medium used in connection with the content is determined from a previous content sharing history. It relates to a content sharing service system that is extracted and recommended, an apparatus for sharing the content, and a method of providing a content sharing service.

The content described in this section merely provides background information on the present embodiment and does not constitute the prior art.

With the remarkable development of information and communication technology and semiconductor technology in recent years, the spread and use of portable terminals is rapidly increasing. In particular, recent portable terminals have reached the stage of mobile convergence, which is not limited to their respective traditional unique areas but encompasses the areas of other terminals through performance improvement.

Typically, mobile communication terminals have TV viewing functions (e.g., mobile broadcasting such as DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) or DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting)), music playback functions (e.g., MP3 ( Various functions such as MPEG Audio Layer-3), photo shooting function, and Internet access function are added.

In addition, recent mobile communication terminals have developed into a form of smart phone that allows users to install various user functions based on an open OS, providing various convenience and entertainment. It supports to obtain applications easily, and can handle many functions processed by PC with high performance.

As services commonly used in mobile communication terminals, there are various types of content sharing and community services for communication between users and content sharing. As content sharing services that can be used in such mobile communication terminals, there are basically short message service (SMS) and multimedia message services, and with the advent of smart phones with open OS, instant content sharing or mobile Content sharing services such as content sharing, e-mail services, social network services (SNS), blogs, and online community services have become available. These content sharing and community services are inexpensive compared to call services and are more convenient than direct calls because they can deliver their intentions or messages to other users, or share content including video, audio, and images. Is very high.

Among them, content sharing service and e-mail service are exchanged for information with a designated partner, but SNS, blog, and online community services are performed between a certain number of mutual friends or a number of unspecified members, and the information exchange method is somewhat different. There is.

Most users communicate their intentions or share content using one or more of these various content sharing and community services, but the media they mainly use are different for each user, and even the same user uses different media depending on the content of the content. I can.

However, the existing content sharing method is to simply list and provide shared media that have already been registered or have accounts set up when you select the content you want to share, and even share media that are unnecessary to users with limited sharing media. Because it provides all, it is inefficient.

Korean Patent Laid-Open Patent No. 10-2013-0033219, published on April 03, 2013 (Name: computer-readable recording medium recording a method for recommending a reference person using the frequency of mail transmission and a program recommending a reference person using the frequency of mail transmission)

Accordingly, the present invention has been proposed to solve the problem of content sharing, and when a user requests to share a content including one or more of video, audio, and image, sharing used in connection with the content from the previous content sharing history An object is to provide a content sharing service system that extracts and recommends a medium, a device for sharing the content, and a method for providing a content sharing service.

More specifically, the present invention analyzes the specific content, extracts content information related to the content requested to be shared, and is highly relevant from the content sharing history of the user based on the extracted content information. An object of the present invention is to provide a content sharing service system that extracts and provides the above shared media to a user and transmits the specific content through the selected sharing media, an apparatus for sharing the content, and a method of providing a content sharing service.

As a means of solving the above-described problems, the storage unit for storing content including one or more of an image, video, and audio, and a content sharing history of a user through one or more sharing media; A communication unit interworking with a content sharing service device through a communication network to transmit and receive data for content sharing; An output unit for outputting a user interface screen for content sharing; An input unit for receiving a user request related to content sharing; And, when a request to share a specific content, analyzes the specific content, extracts content information related to the content requested for sharing, extracts and outputs one or more sharing media from the content sharing history based on the extracted content information, and selects It provides a terminal device for content sharing including a control unit for transmitting content through a sharing medium.

Here, the one or more sharing media may include one or more of e-mail, instant messenger, social network service (SNS), online community site, and blog.

In addition, in the terminal device for content sharing according to the present invention, the control unit analyzes a tag or metadata of a specific content, extracts content information, or recognizes an image included in the content using image processing technology. After extracting the information of the converted video as content information, or after converting the voice included in the content to text using voice-to-text conversion technology, one or more keywords are extracted from the converted text, and the extracted keywords are provided as content information. I can.

In addition, in the terminal device for content sharing according to the present invention, when one or more content information is extracted in relation to a specific content, the controller assigns a weight to one or more content information based on the reliability of each extracted content information, and , In consideration of the assigned weight, valid content information may be extracted from one or more content information. Here, the reliability may be set based on the reliability of the analysis result of the analysis technology used to extract the corresponding content information.

In addition, in the terminal device for content sharing according to the present invention, the control unit may further extract and provide a partner to transmit content through the extracted sharing medium, and transmit the content to the selected partner through the selected sharing medium.

In addition, in the terminal device for content sharing according to the present invention, the controller may sort and output one or more extracted shared media based on a user's usage frequency and recent usage time.

In addition, the present invention is another solution to the above-described problem, by communicating with two or more terminal devices through a communication network, a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data for a content sharing service; A storage unit for storing a user's content sharing history using one or more shared media; In response to the request of the terminal device accessed through the communication unit, extracting one or more shared media to be recommended from the content sharing history based on the content information of the content requested to be shared from the terminal device, and providing the extracted one or more shared media to the terminal device. It provides a service device for content sharing, characterized in that it comprises a service provider.

In the service device for content sharing according to the present invention, the service provider may extract the content information by analyzing the content after receiving the content requested for sharing from the terminal device, and the terminal device among the extracted one or more shared media Content can be transmitted to a shared medium selected from.

In addition, the present invention is another solution to the above-described problem, by analyzing the content to be shared, extracting content information related to the content, and content sharing history using one or more shared media used by the user based on the extracted content information A service device that extracts one or more shared media to be recommended from and provides the extracted one or more shared media, and one or more shared media extracted for the content to be shared from the service device according to a user's content sharing request, and outputs , Provides a content sharing service system including a terminal device that transmits content through a selected shared medium among the output one or more shared media.

In addition, the present invention is another solution to the above-described problem, the terminal device, storing the content sharing history of the user through one or more shared media; When a request for sharing for specific content is input, analyzing the specific content and extracting content information related to the specific content; Extracting one or more shared media to be recommended from the content sharing history based on the extracted content information; It provides a content sharing service providing method comprising the step of providing the extracted one or more shared media to a user.

In the content sharing service providing method according to the present invention, the extracting of content information includes: analyzing a tag or metadata of a specific content, and extracting content information; Recognizing an image included in content using image processing technology, and extracting information of the recognized image as content information; And converting speech included in the content using the speech-to-text technology into text, extracting one or more keywords from the converted text, and extracting the extracted keywords as content information.

In addition, in the content sharing service providing method according to the present invention, the step of extracting content information includes, when one or more content information is extracted, in relation to the specific content, based on the reliability of each extracted content information. Assigning weight to content information; In consideration of the assigned weight, the step of extracting valid content information from among the extracted one or more pieces of content information may be further included.

In addition, in the method for providing a content sharing service according to the present invention, in the step of providing one or more shared media to a user, the extracted one or more shared media may be provided by sorting based on the user's usage frequency and recent usage time. .

In addition, the present invention is another means for solving the above-described problem, the service device, storing the content sharing history of the user using one or more shared media; Extracting one or more shared media to be recommended from the content sharing history based on content information related to the specific content requested for sharing according to the request of the terminal device; It provides a content sharing service providing method comprising the step of providing the extracted one or more shared media to the terminal device.

The method for providing a content sharing service according to the present invention may further include analyzing the specific content requested to be shared, and extracting content information related to the specific content.

In addition, it is possible to further provide a computer-readable recording medium in which a program for executing the method for providing a content sharing service is recorded.

The present invention provides a content sharing service for sharing content including one or more of image, video, and audio through e-mail, instant messenger, social network service (SNS), online community site, and blog. By extracting and recommending the shared media used in connection with the content from, the user can more easily use the content sharing.

In particular, the present invention analyzes a specific content requested to be shared, extracts content information related to the content requested to be shared, and extracts one or more highly relevant sharing media from the content sharing history of the user based on the extracted content information. By providing it to the user and transmitting the specific content through the selected sharing medium, it is possible to provide the user with a medium that is highly likely to be selected by the user among media for sharing various contents and community services. You can improve it further.

1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a content sharing service system according to embodiments of the present invention.
2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a terminal device in a content sharing service system according to embodiments of the present invention.
3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a service device in a content sharing service system according to embodiments of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a content sharing service according to embodiments of the present invention.
5 is a detailed flowchart illustrating a content information extraction process in a method for providing a content sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a diagram illustrating content sharing history used in a method for providing a content sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is an exemplary view of a user interface screen showing an execution process of a method for providing a content sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, in the following description and the accompanying drawings, detailed descriptions of known functions or configurations that may obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted. In addition, it should be noted that the same components are indicated by the same reference numerals as possible throughout the drawings.

The terms or words used in the present specification and claims described below should not be construed as being limited to a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventor is appropriate as a concept of terms for describing his own invention in the best way. It should be interpreted as a meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention on the basis of the principle that it can be defined. Therefore, the embodiments described in the present specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, and do not represent all the technical ideas of the present invention, and thus various alternatives that can be substituted for them at the time of application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

In addition, when a component is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another component, it means that it is logically or physically connected or can be connected. In other words, it should be understood that a component may be directly connected or connected to another component, but another component may exist in the middle, or may be indirectly connected or connected.

In addition, terms used in the present specification are only used to describe specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the present invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In addition, terms such as "comprises" or "have" described herein are intended to designate the presence of features, numbers, steps, actions, components, parts, or a combination thereof described in the specification. It is to be understood that the above other features, or the possibility of the presence or addition of numbers, steps, actions, components, parts, or combinations thereof, are not preliminarily excluded.

In addition, the'content sharing service' described below refers to a service that supports mutual sharing by transmitting content including one or more of video, audio, and image between users on a server-based or P2P communication basis. For example, the concept includes e-mail, instant messenger, social network service (SNS), online community site, blog, etc.

The configuration and operation of the present invention for providing such a content sharing service will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a content sharing service system according to embodiments of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the content sharing service system according to the present invention may include one or more terminal devices 100 and service devices 200 connected through a communication network 10.

The terminal device 100 according to the embodiments of the present invention refers to a terminal capable of transmitting and receiving various data via the communication network 10 according to a user's key operation, and a tablet PC, a laptop, It may be any one of a personal computer (PC), a smart phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a smart TV, and a mobile communication terminal.

In addition, the terminal device 100 is a terminal that performs voice or data communication using the communication network 10, and a memory storing a browser, a program, and a protocol for communication with the service device 200 via the communication network 10 , It means a terminal equipped with a microprocessor, etc. for executing and controlling various programs. That is, the terminal device 100 can be any terminal as long as it can execute the content sharing service through the service device 200 and the server-client-based interworking, and a communication computing device such as a notebook computer, a mobile communication terminal, and a PDA. It's an all-inclusive concept. Meanwhile, the terminal device 100 is preferably manufactured in a form having a touch screen, but is not limited thereto.

In particular, the terminal device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention stores a content sharing history performed by a user through various methods, analyzes selected content when a content sharing service is requested, and extracts content information related to the content. , Based on the extracted content information, one or more sharing media are extracted from the content sharing history and provided to the user. More specifically, the terminal device 100 may recommend one or more sharing media having a history of sharing content similar to the content among sharing media used in the content sharing history.

Here, the terminal device 100 may collect and store the content sharing history performed by the terminal device 100 or may receive and store the content sharing history from the service device 200. Particularly, the content includes one or more multimedia elements among video, audio, and image, and may be various content such as a video, a photo, and a music file. The present invention can extract content information related to the corresponding content in various ways, and a detailed method of extracting content information can be easily understood by referring to a method for providing a content sharing service that will be performed later. In addition, when at least one of the one or more shared media provided to the user is selected, the terminal device 100 may transmit pre-input information of the selected content through the selected sharing medium. For example, when a community account such as a specific SNS account or a blog account is selected as the sharing medium, the terminal device 100 uploads the selected content to the selected account.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device 100 may transmit content to be shared or content information to the service device 100 to receive one or more recommended sharing media from the service device 100.

The service device 200 according to the embodiments of the present invention is a configuration for providing a content sharing service by interworking with one or more terminal devices 100 through a communication network 10, and A program or application related to a sharing service may be provided and installed, and through this, the content sharing service may be provided by interworking with the terminal device 100 or the content sharing service may be provided based on a web.

Basically, the service device 200 may relay transmission and reception of information designated by a recipient between the terminal devices 100. In addition, in an embodiment of the present invention, the service device 200 may store a content sharing history indicating a transmission/reception history of information for each user and provide it according to a request of the terminal device 100.

In addition, in another embodiment of the present invention, the service device 200 delivers content to be shared from the terminal device 100 while providing a content sharing service for transmitting and receiving information between two or more terminal devices 100 Receive, analyze the content using various analysis techniques, extract content information related to the content, or receive content information from the terminal device 100, and share similar content from the content sharing history by referring to the content information One or more formed shared media may be extracted and provided to the terminal device 100.

The terminal device 100 and the service device 200 are interlocked through the communication network 10, and the communication network 10 uses various wired and wireless communication technologies such as an Internet network, an intranet network, a mobile communication network, and a satellite communication network. It refers to a communication network that can transmit and receive data. The communication network 10 is not only a closed network such as a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), an open network such as the Internet, but also a code division multiple access (CDMA), wideband code division (WCDMA). Multiple Access), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), Long Term Evolution (LTE), Evolved Packet Core (EPC), and other networks and next-generation networks and computing networks to be implemented in the future.

In the content sharing service system configured as described above, a configuration of a terminal device according to embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of a terminal device 100 in a content sharing service system according to embodiments of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the terminal device 100 may include a control unit 110, an input unit 120, a communication unit 130, a storage unit 140, and an output unit 150. Of course, the terminal device 100 may further include other components, such as a sensor and a GPS receiver, in addition to the above-described configuration, but these are not directly related to the present invention, and thus illustration and description are omitted.

The function of each component provided in the terminal device 100 according to the present invention and interworking between the components will be described in detail.

First, the controller 110 is a component for performing overall control of the terminal device 100, and may be implemented including one or more processors. This processor may be a single-threaded processor, and in another implementation example, the processor may be a multithreaded processor. Furthermore, the controller 110 may operate by processing commands stored in a memory or a storage device through the one or more processors. In this case, the command may include interpreted commands such as script commands such as JavaScript or ECMAScript commands, executable code, or other commands stored in a computer-readable medium.

Specifically, when the power is turned on, the control unit 110 executes an operating system (OS) program stored in the storage unit 140 to establish an execution environment in which other application programs can be executed, and based on this, one or more other A predetermined function can be performed by executing an application program.

In particular, in the present invention, the control unit 110 may perform an operation related to content sharing, and for this purpose, the control unit 110 may include a content sharing module 111. Here, the module refers to a component that is implemented as software or a combination of hardware or software and hardware to perform a certain function, and the content sharing module 111 according to the present invention is a content sharing or community It is implemented by executing a service-related application program and performs the functions described below. The application program may be downloaded from the service device 200 or stored in the terminal device 100 by default.

Specifically, the controller 100 executes and activates the content sharing module 111 according to a user's request, and performs a process for sharing content through the activated content sharing module 111. In particular, the content sharing module 111 analyzes the selected content when a specific content stored in the terminal device 100 is selected and requested to be shared through another application program (eg, a web browser, an image viewer, etc.) , Content information related to the content may be extracted, and one or more sharing media may be extracted and output from a past content sharing history based on the extracted content information. In addition, the content sharing module 111 uploads or transmits the selected content to one or more shared media selected from among the output one or more shared media.

Particularly, in extracting the content information through the content sharing module 111, the controller 100 may analyze the tag or metadata of the specific content to extract the content information. For reference, metadata is information that is followed with the data to analyze and classify certain data, and to add additional information, and contains information related to the data. For example, metadata attached to a photo file can store information such as time when shooting, exposure, whether flash is used, resolution, photo size, shooting location, title, etc., as metadata, and what information is a tag. Keyword or classification information given as metadata to the content, providing and giving associations in various aspects to the relevant content. The information or data provided in this way makes it easy to access, so that the information is easily searched, exposed, classified, or other data It makes it easy to create a network by connecting it with.

Therefore, it is possible to extract content information by analyzing the metadata and tags attached to the content.

In addition, the content sharing module 111 may recognize an image included in the content using image processing technology, and may extract information of the recognized image as the content information. With the recent development of image processing technology, it is possible to track and recognize an object included in an image. The present invention utilizes this point, and analyzes a specific frame or image of a moving picture to recognize an object represented by the image, and extracts the recognition result as content information.

In addition, the content sharing module 111 converts the voice included in the content into text using a speech-to-text conversion technology, extracts one or more keywords from the converted text, and converts the extracted keywords into the content information. Can be extracted with This can be applied to content including audio. Audio (eg, voice) included in the content may be converted into text using a text to speech (TTS) technology, and valid keywords may be extracted from the converted text and provided as content information.

When one or more content information is extracted from the content, the content sharing module 111 assigns a weight to the one or more content information based on the reliability of each extracted content information, and one or more content information in consideration of the weight. Effective content information can be extracted from among them. In this case, the reliability may be set based on the reliability of the analysis result of the analysis technology used to extract the corresponding content information. For example, the weight of the content information extracted from the metadata and the tag may be the highest, and then, the weight of the content information derived through the voice recognition technology and the content information detected through the image analysis may be assigned in the order of the weight.

In addition, the content sharing module 111, when the extracted shared medium is a service capable of transmitting content to a specific number of people, such as a messenger service or MMS, further provides a recommended recipient to transmit the content through the extracted shared medium. It can be extracted and provided. This may be accomplished by extracting a person who has shared similar contents as a recommended recipient based on the contents sharing history in the corresponding shared medium.

In addition, in providing the user with one or more shared media extracted through the content sharing module 111, the control unit 110 may sort and output based on the user's use frequency and the most recent use time. That is, among the extracted shared media, the recently used shared media can be arranged to be displayed first.

Next, during the configuration of the terminal device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, the communication unit 120 may communicate with the service device 200 through the communication network 10 to transmit and receive data for content sharing. . In more detail, the communication unit 120 may transmit the selected content or content information extracted from the selected content to the service device 200 and receive a list of one or more shared media extracted from the service device 200. In addition, the communication unit 120 may transmit the selected content through the shared medium selected by the recipient.

The communication unit 120 may transmit and receive data through various communication methods as well as wired and wireless methods. In addition, the communication unit 120 may transmit and receive data using one or more communication methods, and to this end, the communication unit 120 may include a plurality of communication modules each transmitting and receiving data according to different communication methods.

And, the input unit 130 is a configuration for the manipulation of the terminal device 100, specifically, according to the user's manipulation, a user input corresponding to a user request or information for controlling the function or operation of the terminal device 100 A signal is generated and transmitted to the control unit 110. The input unit 130 can be implemented as various input means that are commercially available now or can be commercialized in the future. For example, it senses not only general input devices such as a keyboard, mouse, joystick, touch screen, touch pad, etc., but also a user's motion. Thus, a gesture input means for generating a specific input signal and a voice recognition means for recognizing a user's voice may be included. In particular, the input unit 130 may be used to request content sharing and to select a sharing medium.

Subsequently, the storage unit 140 is a component for storing data or programs executed or processed by the control unit 110. Basically, the storage unit 140 supports an operating system (OS, Operating System) for booting the terminal device 100 and operating each of the above-described components, various user functions, for example, a call function of the terminal device 100 It is possible to store a user function for playing music, an MP3 user function for playing other sound sources, an image output function for playing images such as photos, and an application program for supporting each video playback function. In particular, the storage unit 140 may store an application program for sharing content. In addition, the storage unit 140 may store a content sharing history executed by the terminal device 100. Here, the content sharing history, as shown in FIG. 6, may include content identification information, information on a shared medium in which sharing is made, and information on a sharing time. The sharing medium information may include at least one of SNS account information, blog account information, e-mail account information, instant messenger account information, and counterpart information. In addition, by mapping with the content identification information, content information related to the corresponding content may be further included.

The storage unit 140 includes a magnetic medium such as a hard disk, a floppy disk, and a magnetic tape, an optical media such as a compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM), and a digital video disk (DVD). , Magnetic-Optical Media, such as a floptical disk, and ROM, RAM (Random Access Memory), and flash memory. In addition, when the output unit 150 is configured as a touch screen, the storage unit 140 may store a key map or a menu map for operating the touch screen. Here, the key map and the menu map may have various forms, respectively. That is, the key map may be a keyboard map, a 3*4 key map, a QWERTY key map, or the like, or a control key map for controlling the operation of an application program currently active. In addition, the menu map may be a menu map for controlling the operation of the currently active application program.

Finally, the output unit 150 is a configuration that provides the user to recognize the operation result or state of the terminal device 100, for example, a display means for visually outputting through a screen, audio output such as a speaker It may include means. In particular, in the present invention, the output unit 150 may output a user interface screen for content sharing driven by the terminal device 100, and through the user interface screen, the extracted one or more shared media are You can give it to and choose one of them.

Next, the configuration of the service device 200 according to the present invention in the content sharing service system will be described in detail.

3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a service device in a content sharing service system according to embodiments of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the service device 200 may include a communication unit 210, a service providing unit 220, and a storage unit 230.

The communication unit 210 may transmit and receive data for a content sharing service with one or more terminal devices 100 through the communication network 10. The communication unit 210 may transmit and receive data through various communication methods as well as a wired method and a wireless method. In addition, the communication unit 210 may transmit and receive data using one or more communication methods, and to this end, the communication unit 210 may include a plurality of communication modules that transmit and receive data according to different communication methods.

The service providing unit 220 according to embodiments of the present invention controls an operation for a content sharing service by interworking with two or more terminal devices 100 through the communication network 10, and is functionally connected to the communication unit 210, Information comprising one or more of a text and a file may be transmitted and received between the terminal devices 100.

In addition, the service providing unit 220 may further provide a recommendation function according to the present invention while providing a content sharing service. Specifically, the service providing unit 220 extracts content information related to the content from the content selected by the terminal device 100 according to the request of the terminal device 100 accessed through the communication unit 210, or After receiving content information related to the content to be shared from the terminal device 100, one or more shared media are extracted from the user's past content sharing history by referring to the content information, and the extracted one or more shared media are used in the terminal device. Provided as (100). The extracted one or more sharing media may be a sharing medium in which content similar to the content to be shared is mainly shared.

In addition, the service providing unit 220 may recommend one or more shared media to the terminal device 100 and then process the content to be shared through the shared media selected by the terminal device 100. For example, the content may be uploaded to the selected SNS account, and the content may be transmitted to other registered users through a function of establishing a relationship with the SNS account. In addition, the content may be transmitted to a plurality of designated counterparts through the selected instant messenger account.

In addition, the storage unit 230 of the service device 200 is a component for storing data and programs necessary to provide a content sharing service. Specifically, the storage unit 230 stores the content sharing history transmitted and received between the terminal devices 100 for each user. As shown in FIG. 6, the content sharing history 20 may include content identification information, information on a shared medium in which sharing is made, and information on a sharing time. The sharing medium information may include at least one of SNS account information, blog account information, e-mail account information, instant messenger account information, and counterpart information. In addition to this, content information related to the content identification information may be further included. Accordingly, it is possible to extract the similar content sharing history related to predetermined content information from the content sharing history 20, and select one or more sharing media to be recommended from among them.

The storage unit 230 includes a magnetic medium such as a hard disk, a floppy disk, and a magnetic tape, an optical media such as a compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM), and a digital video disk (DVD). , Magnetic-Optical Media, such as a floptical disk, and ROM, RAM (Random Access Memory), and flash memory.

Next, a method for providing a content sharing service based on the communication service system configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 7. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing a content sharing service according to embodiments of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a detailed process of extracting content information in a method for providing a content sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention, 6 is a diagram illustrating a history of content sharing used in a method for providing a content sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a process of executing a method for providing a content sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention This is an example of an interface screen.

For reference, each step of the method for providing a communication service described below may be performed through any one of the terminal device 100 and the service device 200. Hereinafter, the terminal device 100 is referenced. It will be described as.

Before performing the following process, the terminal device 100 collects and stores data on the content sharing history 20 as shown in FIG. 6. In this case, the content sharing history 20 may be collected and stored whenever content sharing is executed in the terminal device 100, or may be collected by the service device 200 and then provided to the terminal device 100. The content sharing history 20 may include content identification information, information on a shared medium, and sharing time information, as shown in FIG. 6, and is mapped with the content identification information to provide content related to the corresponding content. More information can be stored.

First, referring to FIG. 4, at least one content may be selected in the terminal device 100 according to the present invention (S105 ). Here, the content selection may be performed while another application program is running, for example, while surfing the web using a web browser or while viewing a video or photo using a viewer program.

In this case, the terminal device 100 checks whether there is a request to share the selected content (S110). The sharing request may be made by selecting a GUI element for requesting sharing through the input unit 130.

Then, when a request for sharing the selected content occurs, the terminal device 100 analyzes the selected content and extracts content information related to the specific content (S120). Here, the content information includes content identification information (file name, URL address, etc.), keywords related to content, and the like, and may be extracted in various ways. Specifically, referring to FIG. 5, the terminal device 100 , Analyzing the tag or metadata of the selected content, extracting the content information (S205), or recognizing an image included in the content using image processing technology, and extracting the recognized image information as the content information (S210), after converting the voice included in the content to text using the voice-to-text conversion technology, one or more keywords may be extracted from the converted text, and the extracted keywords may be extracted as the content information (S215) ). The terminal device 100 may extract content information by performing one or more of the steps S205, S210, and S215. In addition, for this purpose, it can be interlocked with other analysis algorithms such as an image processing program and a speech recognition program.

When the content information is extracted through the steps S205 to S215, one or more content information may be extracted.

When one or more content information is extracted in this way, in particular, when different content information is extracted through steps S205 to S215, the terminal device 100 provides the one or more contents based on the reliability of each extracted content information. A weight may be given to the information (S220). In addition, the terminal device 100 may extract valid content information from among the extracted one or more pieces of content information in consideration of the assigned weight (S225). In this case, the reliability may be set based on the reliability of the analysis result of the analysis technology used to extract the corresponding content information. For example, the weight of the content information extracted from the metadata and the tag may be the highest, and then, the weight of the content information derived through the voice recognition technology and the content information detected through the image analysis may be assigned in the order of the weight. In addition, when the extracted shared medium is a service that transmits content to a designated recipient, such as an instant messenger, the terminal device 100 may provide the plurality of contents based on the content sharing history in the corresponding shared medium. You can extract more recommended recipients of.

Subsequently, the terminal device 100 provides a shared media list including one or more shared media extracted as described above to the user (S130). This may be done in the form of displaying the shared media list through the output unit 150.

In this case, the terminal device 100 may sort and output the extracted one or more shared media based on a user's usage frequency and a recent usage time. Through this, the terminal device 100 may further increase user accessibility to a shared medium that is highly likely to be selected by the user.

Thereafter, the terminal device 100 checks whether at least one of one or more shared media is selected (S135).

As a result of the confirmation, when one or more shared media are selected, the terminal device 100 transmits the selected content through the selected shared media (S140). Here, the content transmission may be performed in a designated manner in the selected sharing medium. For example, when the sharing medium is an SNS account, after uploading the content, it may be transmitted to a plurality of registered users through a function of establishing a relationship between the SNS account. In addition, when the sharing medium is a blog account, content is uploaded to the blog account, so that an unspecified number of other users accessing the blog account can view the content. In addition, when the sharing medium designates a specific number of contents such as an instant messenger, and the content is shared, one or more recommended recipients extracted together with the corresponding shared medium in step S125 are provided together, and the selected recommended recipient is provided with the selected content. Is transmitted.

The method for providing a content sharing service according to the present invention may be implemented in a form of software that can be read through various computer means and recorded on a computer-readable recording medium. Here, the recording medium may include a program command, a data file, a data structure, or the like alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the recording medium may be specially designed and configured for the present invention, or may be known and usable to those skilled in computer software. For example, the recording medium is a magnetic medium such as a hard disk, a floppy disk, and a magnetic tape, an optical medium such as a compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM), a digital video disk (DVD), and a floppy disk. Magnetic-Optical Media, such as a floptical disk, and hardware devices specially configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM, Random Access Memory (RAM), Flash memory, etc. do. Examples of the program instructions may include not only machine language codes such as those produced by a compiler but also high-level language codes that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. These hardware devices may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operation of the present invention, and vice versa.

Next, FIG. 7 is an exemplary diagram of a user interface screen showing an execution process of a method for providing a content sharing service according to an embodiment of the present invention. This can be more easily understood the content sharing service process according to the present invention.

7A is a diagram illustrating a screen for selecting a content to be shared in a process of providing a content sharing service according to the present invention.

That is, as illustrated in FIG. 7A, while displaying a plurality of photo files 71 stored in the terminal device 100 through an image viewer or the like, a specific photo may be selected as shown.

When a specific content is selected in this way, as shown in (b) of FIG. 7, the selected photo 72 is enlarged and displayed, along with function buttons that can process the photo 72, requesting sharing. A capable button 73 may be provided together.

At this time, when the button 73 is selected, the terminal device 100 analyzes the tag or metadata of the photo 72 or analyzes the photo 72 through image processing technology, and the photo 72 The content information for can be extracted, and one or more sharing media to which similar content is shared among the previous content sharing history are extracted based on the extracted content information and displayed as shown in (c) of FIG. 7. At this time, the shared media list 74 consisting of one or more shared media to be displayed was selected based on the relationship with the photo 72, and the same shared media was previously displayed for all users and all contents. In the invention, when the selected content changes or the user changes, it is changed together.

Thereafter, by selecting one of the shared media list 74, the user can share the selected photo 72 with other users through the corresponding shared media.

As described above, although preferred embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed in the present specification and drawings, it is understood that other modifications based on the technical idea of the present invention can be implemented even with the exceptions disclosed herein. It is self-evident to those of ordinary knowledge. In addition, specific terms have been used in the specification and drawings, but these are merely used in a general meaning to easily describe the technical content of the present invention and to aid understanding of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.

Although the present specification and drawings describe exemplary device configurations, the functional operations and implementations of the subject described in this specification may be implemented with other types of digital electronic circuits, or the structures disclosed herein and structural equivalents thereof. It may be implemented with computer software, firmware, or hardware, or may be implemented by a combination of one or more of them. Implementations of the subject matter described in this specification are one or more computer program products, that is, one relating to computer program instructions encoded on a tangible program storage medium for execution by or for controlling the operation of a device according to the invention It can be implemented as the above module. The computer-readable medium may be a machine-readable storage device, a machine-readable storage substrate, a memory device, a composition of materials that affect a machine-readable radio wave signal, or a combination of one or more of them.

In the present invention, the term "system" encompasses all devices, devices and machines for processing data, including, for example, programmable processors, computers, or multiple processors or computers. In addition to hardware, the processing system may include, for example, a code constituting a processor firmware, a protocol stack, a database management system, an operating system, or a combination of one or more of them, and the like, to form an execution environment for a computer program upon request. .

A computer program (also known as a program, software, software application, script or code) mounted on the device according to the present invention and executing the method according to the present invention is a compiled or interpreted language or programming including a priori or procedural language. It can be written in any form of language, and can be deployed in any form, including standalone programs, modules, components, subroutines, or other units suitable for use in a computer environment. Computer programs do not necessarily correspond to files in the file system. A program may be in a single file provided to the requested program, or in multiple interactive files (e.g., files that store one or more modules, subprograms, or portions of code), or part of a file that holds other programs or data. (Eg, one or more scripts stored within a markup language document). A computer program may be deployed to run on a single computer or multiple computers located at one site or distributed across a plurality of sites and interconnected by a communication network.

Computer-readable media suitable for storing computer program instructions and data include, for example, semiconductor memory devices such as EPROM, EEPROM and flash memory devices, such as magnetic disks such as internal hard disks or external disks, magneto-optical disks and CD-ROMs. And all forms of nonvolatile memory, media and memory devices, including DVD-ROM disks. The processor and memory can be supplemented by special purpose logic circuits or incorporated into it.

Implementations of the subject matter described herein include a backend component, such as a data server, or a middleware component such as an application server, or, for example, a web browser or graphic user that allows a user to interact with an implementation of the subject matter described herein. It can be implemented in a front-end component, such as a client computer with an interface, or a computational system that includes any combination of one or more of such backends, middleware, or frontend components. The components of the system can be interconnected by any form or medium of digital data communication, for example a communication network.

While this specification includes details of one or more specific implementations, these should not be construed as limiting to the scope of any invention or claim, but rather as a description of features that may be peculiar to a particular embodiment of a particular invention. It must be understood. Certain features described herein in the context of separate embodiments may be implemented in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely, various features described in the context of a single embodiment can also be implemented in multiple embodiments individually or in any suitable sub-combination. Furthermore, although features operate in a particular combination and may initially be described as so claimed, one or more features from a claimed combination may in some cases be excluded from the combination, and the claimed combination may be a subcombination. Or sub-combination variations.

Likewise, although operations are depicted in the drawings in a specific order, it should not be understood that such operations must be performed in that particular order or sequential order shown, or that all illustrated operations must be performed in order to obtain a desired result. In certain cases, multitasking and parallel processing can be advantageous. In addition, separation of the various system components of the above-described embodiments should not be understood as requiring such separation in all embodiments, and the program components and systems described are generally integrated together into a single software product or packaged in multiple software products. You should understand that you can.

The present description presents the best mode of the invention, and provides examples to illustrate the invention and to enable those skilled in the art to make and use the invention. The thus written specification does not limit the present invention to the specific terms presented. Accordingly, although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above-described examples, those skilled in the art can make modifications, changes, and modifications to these examples without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be determined by the described embodiments, but should be determined by the claims.

The present invention provides a content sharing service for sharing content including one or more of image, video, and audio through e-mail, instant messenger, social network service (SNS), online community site, and blog. By extracting and recommending the shared media used in connection with the content from, the user can more easily use the content sharing.

In particular, the present invention analyzes a specific content requested to be shared, extracts content information related to the content requested to be shared, and extracts one or more highly relevant sharing media from the content sharing history of the user based on the extracted content information. By providing it to the user and transmitting the specific content through the selected sharing medium, it is possible to provide the user with a medium that is highly likely to be selected by the user among media for sharing various contents and community services. You can improve it further.

10: communication network 100: terminal device 110: control unit
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140: storage unit 150: output unit 200: service device
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A storage that stores the history of sharing content that includes one or more of images, videos, and audio through shared media including one or more of e-mail, instant messenger, social network service (SNS), online community site, and blog part; And
When a request to share a specific content is input, the specific content is analyzed to extract content information related to the specific content, and a sharing medium used in connection with the content from the stored content sharing history based on the extracted content information A control unit for extracting, selecting one or more shared media, and outputting information on the selected shared media;
Terminal device comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein the control unit
Extracting the content information by analyzing the tag or metadata of the specific content, or
Recognizing an image included in the specific content to extract the content information, or
Converting the voice included in the specific content into text and extracting one or more keywords from the converted text as the content information
A terminal device, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, wherein the control unit
When two or more content information related to the specific content is extracted, weighting the extracted two or more pieces of information, and extracting valid content information from among the two or more content information in consideration of the weight
A terminal device, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, wherein the control unit
Further extracting and providing information on a sharer that will transmit the specific content through the selected sharing medium
A terminal device, characterized in that. In the content sharing service method performed on a terminal device,
Saving a content sharing history of sharing content including one or more of images, video, and audio through a sharing medium including one or more of e-mail, instant messenger, social network service (SNS), online community site, and blog ;
When a request for sharing for specific content is input, analyzing the specific content and extracting content information related to the specific content;
Extracting a sharing medium used in connection with the content from the stored content sharing history based on the extracted content information, and selecting one or more sharing media; And
Outputting information on the selected shared medium;
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