KR20060070991A - Method and apparatus of setting personal setting information according to user's taste - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, a user's taste is automatically detected based on a user's Internet service usage history, and a broadcast receiver automatically sets personal setting information such as an output environment or a favorite channel of a broadcast signal based on the information detected by the user's taste. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for setting personal setting information according to user preference. According to the above-described method of setting personal information according to a user's preference, a mobile communication terminal generates internet service usage history information according to a user's taste and wirelessly transmits the data to a broadcast receiver, and the broadcast receiver transmits Internet service usage history information. Receiving and setting personal setting information according to the Internet service usage history information. The present invention as described above allows the user to automatically set the setting of the broadcast receiver to match the user's taste even without changing the setting state of the broadcast receiver, there is an advantage that the convenience of use can be improved.

Television broadcast receiver, preferred channel

Description

Personal setting information setting method and system according to user's preference {METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SETTING PERSONAL SETTING INFORMATION ACCORDING TO USER'S TASTE}

1 is a block diagram of a system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the television broadcast receiver and the mobile communication terminal of FIG.

3 to 6 are flowcharts of a method for setting personal setting information according to a user's preference according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

110: television broadcast receiver

120: mobile communication terminal

130: mobile communication system

131: BTS

132: BSC

133: mobile communication exchange

140: server

The present invention relates to a broadcast receiver, and more particularly, to a method for setting a preferred channel or an output environment in accordance with a user's taste in a broadcast receiver, and a broadcast receiver and a mobile communication terminal.

In general, a broadcast receiver such as a radio broadcast receiver or a television broadcast receiver provides a function of setting a channel corresponding to a user's taste as a preferred channel among valid channels.

For example, there is a patent application No. 10-1997-0053647 entitled "TV's preferred channel designation method" in the Republic of Korea Patent Office. The patented method stores only the channels preferred by the user among the valid channels as the preferred channels, and detects only the valid channels for which the synchronization signal is detected and stores them in the channel memory, and ups or downs the stored valid channels from the user. Disclosed is a technique of selecting a preferred channel and storing it in a separate preferred channel storage unit.

As such, the conventional broadcast receiver has a function of directly selecting and setting a preferred channel corresponding to the user's taste.

However, due to the rapid increase in the number of channels due to the commercialization of high definition television (HDTV) broadcasting service, it is very cumbersome for a user to directly select a number of channels while selecting and setting a preferred channel.

In addition, a television broadcast receiver generally uses a single television broadcast receiver due to its use characteristics. As such, as a plurality of users use a single television broadcast receiver, a method of providing an environment of a television broadcasting receiver has been proposed in accordance with the taste of a plurality of users.

For example, there is a patent application No. 10-1997-0053639 in the Republic of Korea Patent Office entitled "TV with a multi-user environmental storage function". The patent pending television broadcast receiver includes an environment setting and storage unit for setting and storing an environment of a user's preferred television broadcast receiver, and displays the stored environment on a screen to select an environment displayed on the screen by the user. If so, a technique of restoring and displaying a broadcast signal according to the selected environment is disclosed.

According to the patent-pending television broadcast receiver, each of a plurality of users can set a desired environment beforehand so that the user can output a broadcast signal according to his or her taste. However, since the environment setting process is very troublesome, the user does not set the output environment of the television broadcast receiver to suit his or her taste when the user does not use the television broadcast receiver. As described above, although the broadcasting signal may be output in accordance with the user's taste, there is a problem in that it is not used due to the inconvenience in use.

As described above, the conventional technologies have inherent inconvenience in use because the user has to set environment or preference channel setting information (hereinafter, referred to as personal setting information) according to the user's preference.

Accordingly, there is an urgent need to develop a technology capable of automatically detecting user preferences and automatically setting personal setting information of a broadcast receiver desired to be used by a user.

The present invention has been made to improve the prior art as described above, if the user's taste is automatically detected based on the user's Internet service usage history, if the information to detect the user's taste is provided to the broadcast receiver, the broadcast It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for setting personal setting information according to a user's taste in which a receiver automatically sets personal setting information such as an environment or a preference channel in accordance with the user's taste.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for setting personal setting information according to a user's taste by transmitting a user's Internet service usage history only at a user's request time, so that user's personal information is not unnecessarily exposed. have.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method and system for setting personal setting information according to a user's taste that can protect a user's personal information by configuring a history of Internet service using the category of the Internet service and the number of times of using the category. have.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for setting personal setting information according to user's preference, which makes it possible to easily detect a preferred channel corresponding to the user's taste only by the category of the Internet service through the electronic program guide.

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the problems of the prior art, a method for setting personal setting information according to a user's preference according to the present invention comprises the steps of generating a wireless service terminal history information according to a user's preference and wirelessly transmitting it to a broadcast receiver. And receiving, by the broadcast receiver, internet service usage history information, and setting personal setting information according to the internet service usage history information.

In addition, the personal preference information setting system according to the user's preference according to the present invention is a mobile communication terminal for generating and wirelessly transmitting Internet service usage history information according to the user's taste and wirelessly receiving the Internet service usage history information from the mobile communication terminal. And a broadcast receiver for setting personal setting information according to the Internet service usage history information.

And a mobile communication terminal for transmitting information according to the user's taste according to the present invention, a user interface for providing an interface with the user; A memory unit for storing Internet service usage history information; A mobile communication unit interworking with a mobile communication exchange; In response to a request of a wireless transmitter and a user for wirelessly transmitting the Internet service usage history information, the mobile terminal is connected to a wireless Internet network through the mobile communication unit and the mobile communication exchange to provide an Internet service, and generates the provided Internet service usage history information. And a control unit which is stored in the memory unit and wirelessly transmits the stored Internet service usage history information to a broadcast receiver.

The broadcast receiver for automatically setting personal setting information according to a user's preference according to the present invention comprises: a tuner for tuning a predetermined channel and outputting a broadcast signal received through the channel; A broadcast signal processing and output unit for processing and outputting a broadcast signal received through the tuner; A user interface providing an interface with a user; A wireless receiver for wirelessly receiving internet service usage history information according to a user's preference; A memory unit for storing the wirelessly received Internet service usage history information and personal setting information; And a controller configured to receive Internet service usage history information through the wireless receiver and to set personal setting information according to the received Internet service usage history information.

The present invention automatically detects a user's taste based on a user's Internet service usage history, and provides information to the broadcast receiver that detects the user's taste, so that the broadcast receiver can match an environment or a preference channel according to the user's taste. Automatically set personal setting information such as

The present invention is applicable to all portable terminals for providing an Internet service, but will be described below with an example in which a mobile communication terminal is employed as the portable terminal. In addition, the present invention can be applied to various broadcast receivers such as a radio broadcast receiver or a television broadcast receiver, but the following description will be given with an example of employing a television broadcast receiver as the broadcast receiver.

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

First, a configuration of a system for automatically setting personalized information according to a user's taste according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

The system is largely comprised of a television broadcast receiver 110 and a mobile communication terminal 120.

The mobile communication terminal 120 connects to the wireless Internet network through the mobile communication system 130 at the request of the user, and provides various Internet services from the server 140 of the Internet service provider. In addition, the mobile terminal 120 generates the Internet service usage history information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention while providing the Internet service.

As shown in Table 1, the Internet service usage history information includes a category of an Internet service used by a user and a count value corresponding thereto.

Categories of Internet Services Count value First category First count value Second category Second count value ... ...

The mobile communication terminal 120 detects the category of the Internet service to be used whenever the user uses the Internet service, and if the category of the Internet service is detected, the mobile communication terminal 120 increases the count value corresponding to the category. As such, configuring the user's Internet service usage history only by count values for each category is to prevent the detailed Internet service usage history from being exposed to others.

Through this process, the mobile communication terminal 120 obtains Internet service usage history information indicating which category of Internet service the user has used, and transmits the obtained Internet service usage history information to the television broadcast receiver 110.

In more detail, the Internet service may be classified into categories such as movies, shopping, sports, etc. according to a propensity of a web site or a propensity of web content, and the mobile communication terminal 120 may use a web site or web content used by a user. The category of the corresponding web site or web content is detected based on the identification information of, and the count value corresponding to the detected category is increased. The identification information of the web site may be a web site address, and the identification information of the web content may be a name of the web content.

The mobile communication system 130 performs baseband signal processing, wired / wireless conversion, and wireless signal transmission and reception, such as a base transceiver system (BTS) 131 which is a network termination device directly connected to the mobile communication terminal 120 which is a subscriber station. And a base station controller (BSC) 132, which is a base station controller, which is located between the BTS 131 and the mobile communication switch 133 and is responsible for base station management and control, and a wired communication function (PSTN / ISDN: Public Switched Telephone). Network / Integrated Service Digital Network) and a mobile communication switch 133 which is a wired / wireless hybrid digital switch that provides a mobile communication function. In particular, the mobile communication switch 133 includes a Packet Data Service Node (PDSN) for interworking with a wireless Internet network.

The mobile communication system 130 connects the server 140 of the Internet service provider through a wireless Internet network at the request of the mobile communication terminal 120 to provide various Internet services from the server 140 of the Internet service provider. Provided to the mobile communication terminal 120.

The television broadcast receiver 110 receives internet service usage history information provided by the mobile communication terminal 120 and sets an output environment or a preferred channel of a broadcast signal corresponding to the internet service usage history information.

A detailed configuration of the television broadcast receiver 110 and the mobile communication terminal 120 of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

First, the configuration of the television broadcast receiver 110 will be described.

The tuner 202 of the television broadcast receiver 110 tunes a channel under the control of the control unit 218 of the broadcast signals received through the antenna 201 and broadcasts the broadcast signal output through the tuned channel. Provided at 204. The broadcast signal processor 204 restores an audio signal and a video signal from the broadcast signal provided from the tuner 202, and provides the restored audio signal and the video signal to the video and audio signal processors 206 and 212, respectively. The video signal processor 206 processes a video signal provided by the broadcast signal processor 204 and provides the video signal to the video signal output unit 208, and the video signal output unit 208 provides a video provided by the video signal processor 206. The signal is output through the display unit 210. The audio signal processor 212 processes the audio signal provided by the broadcast signal processor 204 and provides the audio signal to the audio signal output unit 214, and the audio signal output unit 214 is provided by the audio signal processor 212. The signal is output through the speaker 216. The controller 218 not only controls the television broadcast receiver 110 as a whole, but also receives a plurality of valid channels by receiving Internet service usage history information provided by the mobile communication terminal 120 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. The channel corresponding to the Internet service usage history information is set as the preferred channel. In more detail, the television broadcast receiver 110 sets a channel of a category corresponding to a category whose count value is greater than or equal to a predetermined value in the Internet service usage history information as a preferred channel. The category information on the valid channels may be obtained from electronic program guide (EPG) information. In addition, the controller 218 sets the output environment of the broadcast signal in accordance with the Internet service usage history information. In more detail, the television broadcast receiver 110 sets an output environment of a broadcast signal so as to correspond to a category having a maximum count value among Internet service usage history information. For example, if the user mainly uses the Internet service for the movie, the video and audio output mode can be set as the output mode for the movie. Here, the television broadcast receiver 100 is provided with an output mode suitable for broadcasting of various categories such as news, movie, sports, etc. It is already widely commercialized to have an output mode suitable for broadcasting of various categories. The memory unit 220 stores various information including a processing program of the control unit 218, and in particular, Internet usage history information, electronic program guide information, and the like provided by the mobile communication terminal 120 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Preferred channel information for each category and information on the output environment of the broadcast signal for each category are stored. The wireless transceiver 224 is responsible for wireless communication between the mobile communication terminal 120 and the controller 218, and may be an infrared transceiver, an RF transceiver, or a Bluetooth transceiver. The user interface unit 222 provides the controller 218 with various commands or information input by a user through a keypad or a remote controller.

The configuration of the mobile communication terminal 120 will now be described.

The controller 230 of the mobile communication terminal 120 not only controls the mobile communication terminal 120 as a whole, but also detects a category of the Internet service according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and counts the detected category. Generates Internet service usage history information with an increased value, and transmits the Internet service usage history information to the television broadcast receiver 110 according to a user's request. Here, the controller 230 detects a category of a corresponding Internet service as identification information of a website or web content used by a user, and identifies information and a category of the website or web content for ease of category detection for the Internet service. You can save the table that matches. The category table in which the identification information of the web site or the web content and the category correspond to each other may be configured according to a user's request or provided from a service provider. In addition, the memory unit 232 of the mobile communication terminal 120 stores a variety of information including the processing program of the control unit 230, in particular the Internet service usage history information and category table according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention do. The user interface unit 234 includes a keypad and the like, and provides various commands or information input by the user to the controller 230. The wireless transceiver 236 is responsible for wireless communication between the television broadcast receiver 110 and the controller 230, and an infrared transceiver, an RF transceiver, or a Bluetooth transceiver may be employed. The user interface unit 222 provides the controller 218 with various commands or information input by a user through a keypad or a remote controller. The mobile communication unit 238 is responsible for the operation of the mobile communication function of the mobile communication terminal 120 under the control of the control unit 218. The display unit 240 displays a variety of information under the control of the controller 230 to guide the user. The speaker 242 outputs various types of audio under the control of the controller 230 to guide the user.

A method of setting personal setting information according to a user's preference according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention applicable to the above system will now be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 3 to 6.

First, a process of generating Internet service usage history information for detecting user taste will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3.

The control unit 230 of the mobile communication terminal 120 checks whether the Internet service is provided at the user's request (step 300). Simultaneously with the provision of the Internet service, the controller 230 checks whether the user visits a web site or uses web content (step 302). When the user visits the web site or uses the web content, the controller 230 detects the web site or the category of the web content according to the identification information of the web site or the web content. When the category of the web site or web content is detected, the controller 230 increments the count of the detected category in the Internet service usage history information and stores the count in the memory unit 232 (step 304). As described above, the present invention increases the count value of the category of the Internet service used by the user each time the Internet service is used through the mobile communication terminal 120, which is used as information indicating the user's taste.

The process of transmitting the Internet service usage history information generated as described above to the television broadcast receiver 110 according to a user's request will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 4.

The control unit 230 of the mobile communication terminal 120 checks whether the user requests to transmit Internet service usage history information through the user interface unit 234 (step 400). When the user requests the transmission of the Internet service usage history information, the controller 230 reads the Internet service usage history information stored in the memory unit 232 and transmits it to the television broadcast receiver 110 through the wireless transceiver 236. (Step 402). In this case, the request for transmitting the Internet service usage history information to the user is to enable the user to transmit the Internet service usage history information only when the user intends to use the broadcast receiver. In addition, even if the user does not intend to use the broadcast receiver to prevent the user's personal information is exposed as the Internet service usage history information is transmitted indefinitely.

Now, a process of setting an output environment of a preferred channel and a broadcast signal according to internet service usage history information transmitted by the mobile communication terminal 120 will be described with reference to FIG. 5.

The control unit 218 of the television broadcast receiver 110 checks whether Internet service usage history information is received from the mobile communication terminal 120 (step 500). When the Internet service usage history information is received, the controller 218 sets a channel corresponding to a category equal to or greater than a predetermined value among the count values of the category included in the Internet service usage history information (step 502). In addition, the controller 218 sets the output environment of the broadcast signal to the output mode corresponding to the category which is the maximum value among the count values of the category included in the Internet service use history information (step 504).

As described above, the television broadcast receiver 110 according to the present invention automatically sets the preferred channel and the output environment based on the Internet service usage history information corresponding to the user's taste.

In addition, a process of tuning a broadcast signal using the preferred channel set in the above-described manner will be described with reference to FIG. 6.

The control unit 218 of the television broadcast receiver 110 checks whether the user commands power on through the user interface unit 222 (step 600). When the user commands the power-on, the controller 218 performs the initialization and controls the tuner 202 to tune any one of the preset preferred channels (step 602). Accordingly, a broadcast signal received through one of the preferred channels is output. As described above, the controller 218 checks whether the user requests channel switching through the user interface 222 in a state in which a preferred channel is tuned to output a broadcast signal through the preferred channel (step 604). . When the user requests channel switching, the controller 218 performs channel switching between channels set as the preferred channel (step 606).

Embodiments of the present invention described above include a computer readable medium including program instructions for performing various computer-implemented operations. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The program instructions on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. The program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code executable by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

According to the present invention, if the user's taste is automatically detected based on the user's history of using the Internet service, and the information of detecting the user's taste is provided to the broadcast receiver, the broadcast receiver can be configured to meet the user's taste. The present invention also provides a method and system for setting personal setting information according to a user's preference for automatically setting personal setting information such as a preference channel.

The present invention as described above allows the user to automatically set the setting of the broadcast receiver according to the user's taste even without changing the setting state of the broadcast receiver one by one, there is an advantage that the convenience of use is doubled.

In addition, the present invention has the advantage that the user's personal information is not unnecessarily exposed by transmitting only the user's Internet service usage history information when necessary.

In addition, the present invention has the advantage of protecting the user's personal information by configuring the history of the Internet service using the category of the Internet service and the number of times using the category.

In addition, the present invention has the advantage that it is possible to detect a preferred channel according to the user's taste only by the category of the Internet service through the electronic program guide.                     

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which can be variously modified and modified by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Modifications are possible.

Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should be understood only by the claims set forth below, and all equivalent or equivalent modifications thereof will belong to the scope of the present invention.

Claims (12)

In the personal setting information setting system according to the user's taste, A mobile communication terminal generating and wirelessly transmitting Internet service usage history information according to a user's preference; And A broadcast receiver for wirelessly receiving internet service usage history information from the mobile communication terminal and setting personal setting information according to the internet service usage history information. Personal setting information setting system according to the user's taste, characterized in that it comprises a. The method of claim 1, The Internet service usage history information is composed of a category and a count value corresponding thereto. The mobile communication terminal detects a category of the Internet service when the Internet service is used according to a user's request, and increases a count value corresponding to the detected category in the Internet service use history information. Personal setting information setting system according to user's preference. The method of claim 2, The broadcast receiver, And detecting a category having a count value greater than or equal to a predetermined value from the Internet service usage history information, and setting a channel corresponding to the detected category as a preference channel. The method of claim 3, The broadcast receiver, Detecting a category having a maximum count value from the Internet service usage history information, and setting an output environment of a broadcast signal in an output mode corresponding to the detected category; Information setting system. In the mobile communication terminal for transmitting information according to the user's taste, A user interface providing an interface with a user; A memory unit for storing Internet service usage history information; A mobile communication unit interworking with a mobile communication exchange; A wireless transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the Internet service usage history information; Connect to a wireless Internet network through the mobile communication unit and a mobile communication exchange to provide an Internet service according to a user's request, generate and store the provided Internet service usage history information in the memory unit, and use the stored Internet service. Control unit for wirelessly transmitting the history information to the broadcast receiver Mobile communication terminal for transmitting the information according to the user's taste, characterized in that it comprises a. The method of claim 5, The Internet service usage history information is composed of a category and a count value corresponding thereto. And the control unit detects a category of an Internet service according to a user's request, and increases the count value corresponding to the detected category in the Internet service use history information. The method of claim 6, When the controller visits a web site or uses web content, the controller extracts identification information of the web site or web content and stores a category corresponding to the extracted identification information of the web site or web content. And a category corresponding to the extracted identification information. The mobile communication terminal transmitting information according to a user's taste. The method of claim 5, The control unit transmits the information according to the user's taste, characterized in that for transmitting the Internet service usage history information at the request of the user. A broadcast receiver for automatically setting personal setting information according to a user's taste, A tuner for tuning a predetermined channel and outputting a broadcast signal received through the channel; A broadcast signal processing and output unit for processing and outputting a broadcast signal received through the tuner; A user interface providing an interface with a user; A wireless receiver for wirelessly receiving internet service usage history information according to a user's preference; A memory unit for storing the wirelessly received Internet service usage history information and personal setting information; And A control unit for receiving Internet service usage history information through the wireless receiver and setting personal setting information according to the received Internet service usage history information. Broadcast receiver comprising a. The method of claim 9, The Internet service usage history information is composed of a category of the Internet service provided to the user and a count value representing the number of times the Internet service is used. The controller may detect a category having a count value greater than or equal to a predetermined value from the Internet service usage history information, and set a channel corresponding to the detected category as a preference channel according to user preference. Broadcast receiver to automatically set the. The method of claim 10, The control unit obtains category information on each of the effective channels through the electronic program guide, and automatically detects the personal setting information according to the user's taste, wherein the channel corresponding to the category detected from the Internet service usage history information is detected. Broadcast receiver set to. The method of claim 9, The Internet service usage history information is composed of a category of the Internet service provided to the user and a count value representing the number of times the Internet service is used. And detecting, by the controller, a category having a maximum count value from the Internet service usage history information, and setting an output environment of a broadcast signal in an output mode corresponding to the detected category. Broadcast receiver for automatically setting the personal information according to.

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