KR20070040598A - Integrated portal service system and method, and user terminal device therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an integrated portal service system and method, and a user terminal device for the same, comprising: a profile database storing profile information of a user; A management server that registers user profile information in the profile database, analyzes user behavior information regarding content usage, searches for a content service optimized for the user, and then updates the profile database by the searched optimized content service. ; And a user terminal connected to the management server through a network, accessing the profile database through the network to retrieve user profile information, and constructing and displaying a menu optimized for the user using the profile. By configuring the integrated portal service system, it is possible to create and provide a menu optimized for the user at the time of user login based on the profile information, to support the content service regardless of the type of the terminal, and to display and select a consistent user interface. This has the effect of providing editing functions for the area.

Portal Service, Integration, Ubiquitous, Personalization Service

Description

Integrated portal service system and method, and user terminal device therefor {INTEGRATED PORTAL SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND USER TERMINAL DEVICE THEREFOR}

1 is a schematic block diagram of an integrated portal service system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a view for explaining user profile management between a management server and a user terminal in the integrated portal service system shown in FIG. 1;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a processing flow of an integrated portal service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a user interface screen used in an integrated portal service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5A to 5C are diagrams showing an example in which the user interface screen of FIG. 4 is actually implemented in a PDA (a), a PC (b), and a game phone (c).

6A and 6B are diagrams illustrating hybrid adaptation processing applied in the integrated portal service system of the present invention.

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

100: management server 110: server-side profile agent

120: profile DB 200: user terminal

210: client-side profile agent

220: Profile Analyzer 230: Menu Editor and Generator

240: client-side adaptation engine

300: content provider server 310: server-side adaptation engine

320: Content DB

The present invention relates to an integrated portal service (IPS) system and method, and a user terminal device for the same. More specifically, in a wired / wireless integrated network environment, that is, a ubiquitous environment, the user is optimized for a user. Description of the Related Art A technique for generating a menu, adapting content for supporting various types of user terminals, and providing a consistent user interface regardless of the type of user terminal.

In recent years, due to the development of the information and communication infrastructure, a variety of content services that can be accessed by users have been diversified. Internet-based services such as news, video and music, mobile communication services such as sound source services and mobile content services, global positioning system (GPS) services, and TV services such as satellite and terrestrial DMB services include PCs, PDAs, Mobile phones, smartphones, portable game consoles, digital home network devices, etc. are provided, or these services are being prepared. In addition, there are various paths through which such content services are transmitted, including not only wired communication networks based on FTTH and xDSL, but also wireless Internet (WIBRO), High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), and 4G mobile communication networks. do.

However, from the user's point of view, the method of consuming content on a PC and the method of consuming content on a portable terminal such as a PDA differ from each other in terms of display specifications of a web browser, content provider, and the like. The provided content service cannot be used in various types of terminals, and at present, content services and web browsers are specialized and used according to the type of terminal and transmission path. Accordingly, there is a technical need to enable convergence of a wired and wireless environment, for example, using a mobile communication content service in a wired terminal or using a content service provided for a wireline in a portable terminal.

In addition, when the content is consumed through the portable terminal, as in a conventional PC, the method of directly inputting a text-based URL is difficult to enter a key in the portable terminal, so this method is suitable for the wired / wireless integrated environment as described above. It is not appropriate to apply.

Meanwhile, Korean Patent Application No. 2002-19863 (filed April 12, 2002) is filed with "personalized portal service method and system." The prior patent has a function of editing a web page and delivering it to a user in order to provide a personalized portal service to the user. That is, according to the preceding patent, the structure of the portal page is analyzed at the HTML tag level, and each content is structured into Table, Tr, Td, etc. and edited to meet the needs of the user, so that in a single terminal and a single service environment, Optimized web page editing is provided. Therefore, the above-mentioned patent discloses news, games, the Internet, VoD, AoD, games, education, GPS for various terminals such as portable terminals such as PCs and PDAs, terminals for digital home devices such as DTVs, etc. in a wired / wireless integrated environment. It cannot be applied to the case where various services such as web hard disk and the like are provided.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above technical problem, and an object of the present invention is to register a user's profile information in a database and to use a user's content in an integrated environment of a terminal, a service, and a network. By analyzing the behavior from time to time to update, based on the profile information to provide an integrated portal service system and method that can create and provide a menu optimized for the user at the time of user login.

Meanwhile, another object of the present invention is to provide an adaptation engine on the client side and the server side, respectively, so that the menu configuration, layout, and original content can be adapted according to the screen size of the terminal, thereby regardless of the type of the terminal. An integrated portal service system and method capable of supporting a service are provided.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a consistent portal system and method for providing a consistent user interface by dividing a layout of a user interface into a required area and a selection area, and providing an editing function for the selection area.

Integrated portal service system of the present invention for achieving the above object,

A profile database that stores profile information of the user;

A management server that registers user profile information in the profile database, analyzes user behavior information regarding content usage, searches for a content service optimized for the user, and then updates the profile database by the searched optimized content service. ; And

A user terminal connected to the management server through a network, accessing the profile database via the network to retrieve user profile information, and constructing and displaying a menu optimized for the user using the profile; It features.

On the other hand, the integrated portal service method of the present invention,

(a) determining whether there is a request for registration of user profile information;

(b) in step (a), if it is determined that there is a request for registration of profile information, the management server registering user profile information with a profile DB;

(c) the user terminal reading the profile information of the user from the profile DB and analyzing the same, and configuring a menu optimized for the user based on the analysis result;

(d) collecting, by the user terminal, user behavior information regarding the user's use of the content under the control of a client side profile agent therein, and transmitting the collected information to the management server; And

(e) a management server analyzing user behavior information collected and transmitted from the user terminal, and searching for a content service optimized for a user based on the analysis result.

In addition, the integrated portal service method of the present invention is characterized in that the management server further comprises the step of updating the profile database by the optimized content service retrieved in step (e).

In addition, the user terminal device for an integrated portal service of the present invention,

A client-side profile agent performing a function of requesting profile information from a management server, and collecting and transmitting an activity related to a user's use of content in a user terminal to the management server through a network;

A profile analyzer for receiving profile information requested by the client-side profile agent and analyzing the profile information;

A menu editor and generator for generating a menu of a content service optimized for a user based on the analysis result; And

And a client-side adaptation engine that receives the original content converted into a specific form from a content provider server through a network and converts the original content into a display standard of the user terminal.

Hereinafter, an integrated portal service system and method of the present invention and a user terminal device for this will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a schematic block diagram of an integrated portal service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the integrated portal service system of the present invention includes a management server 100 including a server side profile agent 110 and connected to a profile DB 120, and the management server through a network. A user terminal 200 connected to 100, including a client-side profile agent 210, a profile analyzer 220, a menu editor and generator 230, and a client-side adaptation engine 240; The content provider server 300 is connected to the user terminal 200 through a network and includes a server-side adaptation engine 310 and is connected to the content DB 320.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for describing user profile management between a management server and a user terminal in the integrated portal service system illustrated in FIG. 1. Hereinafter, the operation of the integrated portal service system of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

The management server 100 is a profile indicating user identity information provided through the network from the user terminal 200 and a user's preference for the user's content at the time of the user's initial login (login) or at the request of the user. The information is registered in the profile DB 120. In this case, the profile information includes basic user profile information, user menu information, and a preference background template. In addition, a user's preferred terminal type, a network type mainly used, and a type of content service may be defined.

The server-side profile agent 110 in the management server 100 receives the function of registering the profile information in the profile DB 120 and the user's behavior information regarding the use of the content collected by the user terminal 200 and analyzes it. Afterwards, the optimized content service is searched and updated in the profile DB 120. The operation of the management server 100 will be described in more detail later with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3.

In the present invention, the target user terminal 200 is infinite. For example, for all PCs based on Windows OS or Linux OS, all portable devices represented by PDAs, mobile phones, handheld game consoles and DMB terminals, and all digital home networks that can be equipped with displays such as DTVs and refrigerators. Devices can be the target. That is, the user terminal 200 of the present invention may be any one provided with a display function and a network function.

The user terminal 200 accesses the profile DB 120 of the management server 100 through a network at the time of login, and the user's preferred menu information, preferred background template, and preference stored as user's profile information. By loading information on the content service to configure the menu using the information, it is possible to provide a portal service having an optimized menu to the user.

The client-side profile agent 210 in the user terminal 200 collects the function of requesting profile information from the management server 100 and the user's use of content in the user terminal 100 and manages the user through the network. Performs a function of transmitting to the server 100.

The profile analyzer 220 receives the profile information requested by the client-side profile agent 210, analyzes the profile information, and transmits the profile information to the menu editor and generator 230. The menu editor and generator 230 generates a menu optimized for the user based on the analysis result. An example of the user interface screen of the menu thus generated is shown in FIG. 4.

Referring to FIG. 4, in order to display a consistent layout regardless of the type of the terminal, the layout of the UI screen is fixed, and the entire UI screen is divided into a required area and a selection area. An area displaying personalized service lists and content contents is an essential area, and a design area such as a site logo and an area displaying advertisements are optional areas.

The menu editor and generator 230 provides a function of editing a service list and content contents in the required area, and enables the user menu to be edited by drag and drop. The edited menu is stored in the profile DB 120 of the management server 100 under the control of the client side profile agent 210.

5 illustrates an application example of a user interface having a consistent layout regardless of the type of the user terminal 100. In FIG. 5, (a) shows a PDA, (b) shows a PC, and (c) shows a user interface screen in a game phone, and menus are displayed in a consistent layout regardless of the type of each terminal.

Referring back to FIG. 1, the user terminal 200 and the content provider server 300 are provided with a client side adaptation engine 240 and a server side adaptation engine 310, respectively. In general, content displayed on a PC differs from each other in the display standard and the standard of the content itself in a small terminal such as a PDA, so that there is no compatibility between the contents. Therefore, the content provider server 300 and the user terminal 200 need an adaptation engine for adapting such content compatibility. In the present invention, the concept of a hybrid adaptation engine employing two adaptation engines on the server side and the client side is properly adopted.

The server-side adaptation engine 310 is an adaptation engine installed in a server that provides a content service. The server-side adaptation engine 310 converts original content into a specific format, for example, an extensible markup language (XML). In this manner, server-side adaptation engine 310 converts the original content into a predetermined format.

The client-side adaptation engine 240 is an adaptation engine embedded in the user terminal 200 that consumes a content service. The client-side adaptation engine 240 converts the server-side adaptation engine 310 and transmits a specific format (for example, XML). ) Is an engine that converts the content of the terminal to the display standard of the terminal.

The concept of the hybrid type adaptation engine adopted in the present invention is to perform the adaptation process by using the server side adaptation engine 310 and the client side adaptation engine 240 together.

FIG. 6A illustrates a hardware configuration when the adaptation process is performed after content creation, and FIG. 6B illustrates a hardware configuration when the content is processed in consideration of the adaptation process at the time of content creation.

In the configuration shown in FIG. 6A, the server-side adaptation engine 310 analyzes the content of the original content available from the content DB 320 connected to the content provider server 300 so that the client-side adaptation engine 240 may recognize it. Convert to a specific form that can be used. This particular form is a predefined form and can be implemented in the form of a schema of XML. For example, in the case of a news service, the server-side adaptation engine 310 converts the contents of a famous news site into a predefined XML form. Subsequently, the client-side adaptation engine 240 displays the XML file transmitted from the server-side adaptation engine 310 through the network in accordance with the display standard of the user terminal 200. Here, the object of adaptation corresponds to "content content" defined in FIG.

The configuration shown in Fig. 6B is based on the premise that the content in the form of an XML file produced by the server-side adaptation engine 310 is prepared in advance in consideration of the adaptation process when the content is produced. In this case, the server-side adaptation engine 310 plays a role of extensible style language transformation (XSLT), generates content for the PC, and provides it to the user terminal 200 through a network.

Meanwhile, the one-click service may be implemented in the integrated portal service system of the present invention. A user can log in once or register a user to use all services provided by the integrated portal service system with the same ID. For example, the number of services provided by the integrated portal service system is five (S1, S2, ..., S5), and the user subscribes to two services (S4, S5) in advance before subscribing to the integrated portal service. Suppose it is. When a user subscribes to the integrated portal service, the information registered at the time of subscription is recorded in the database of the integrated portal service system and transmitted to the server of the corresponding content provider. At this time, the management server 100 of the integrated portal service system is registered by the user at the time of registration, for example, other services (S1, S2, S3) that the user does not subscribe to the primary key (primitive key) In addition, it is automatically subscribed. Of course, if the user does not want to do this, it is not automatically subscribed to other services, and the previously subscribed services (S4, S5) are previously subscribed by the raw key, so that re-joining is prohibited. For this purpose, the management server 100 preferably uses a formal format for user registration. In addition, it is preferable to use a single currency (cyber money) for the user's convenience.

Next, an integrated portal service method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3. The processing shown in the flowchart of FIG. 3 relates to the operation performed in the management server 100 of FIG. 1.

When the operation of the management server 100 starts, it is determined whether there is a request for registration of profile information (S10). Registration of the profile information is performed when the user first logs in to the integrated portal service of the present invention through the user terminal 100 or when the user specifically requests a registration of the profile information.

In step S10, if it is determined that there is a request for registration of profile information, the management server 100 may determine the contents of the user profile, that is, user profile information, a user's preferred menu information and a preferred background template, and a preferred content service. Information such as the registration in the profile DB (120) (S20).

Next, the user terminal 200 retrieves the profile information from the profile DB 120 under the control of the client side profile agent 210 therein, and analyzes the profile information by the profile analyzer 220. Based on the analysis result, the menu editor and generator 230 configures a menu optimized for the user (S30).

On the other hand, the user terminal 200 collects user behavior information on the use of the content of the user under the control of the client side profile agent 210 therein and transmits to the management server 100 (S40).

The management server 100 analyzes user behavior information collected and transmitted from the user terminal 200, and searches for a content service optimized for a user based on the analysis result (S50). Next, the content service optimized for the user thus obtained is updated in the profile DB 120 (S60). Therefore, when the user later logs in, the content service optimized for the user stored in the profile DB 120 may be used.

Although the present invention has been described in more detail with reference to some embodiments, the present invention is not necessarily limited to these embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

As described above, in the integrated portal service system and method according to the present invention, in an environment in which the terminal, the service, and the network are integrated, the profile information of the user is registered in the database and the content usage behavior of the user is analyzed and updated from time to time. Based on this profile information, the user can create and provide a menu optimized for the user at the time of user login, and have an adaptation engine on the client side and the server side, so that the menu configuration, layout, and original content are adjusted to the screen size of the terminal. By controlling to be adaptable according to the present invention, it is possible to support a content service regardless of the type of a terminal, to provide a consistent user interface by dividing a layout of a user interface into a required area and a selection area, and to provide an editing function for the selection area. It is effective.

In addition, in the integrated portal service system and method of the present invention, all contents services provided in the integrated portal service can be used by one-time registration or login through one-click service, and by using a single billing system (cyber money) In addition, ease of use can be maximized. On the other hand, in the past, the content service can be used only when the user accesses the content provider's site, but if the user only registers with the integrated portal service of the present invention, the content service can be used through the integrated portal service. Can recruit new customers through all-in-one portal service even if it does not promote it separately. Thus, the integrated portal service system and method of the present invention can benefit both users and content providers.

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A profile database that stores profile information of the user; A management server that registers user profile information in the profile database, analyzes user behavior information regarding content usage, searches for a content service optimized for the user, and then updates the profile database by the searched optimized content service. ; And A user terminal connected to the management server through a network, accessing the profile database via the network to retrieve user profile information, and constructing and displaying a menu optimized for the user using the profile; Integrated portal service system characterized by. The method of claim 1, The management server registers profile information of a user transmitted from the user terminal through the network to the profile database, receives and analyzes user behavior information regarding content usage, and searches for a content service optimized for the user. An integrated portal service system comprising a server-side profile agent for updating the profile database. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The user profile information is an integrated portal service system comprising user profile information, user favorite menu information, and preference background template. The method of claim 1, The user terminal, A client-side profile agent performing a function of requesting profile information from the management server, and collecting and transmitting an activity related to a user's use of content in the user terminal to the management server through the network; A profile analyzer for receiving profile information requested by the client-side profile agent and analyzing the profile information; And And a menu editor and a generator for generating a menu of a content service optimized for a user based on the analysis result. The method of claim 4, wherein The user terminal, the integrated portal service system further comprises a client-side adaptation engine for receiving the original content converted into a specific form from the content provider server via the network, and converts to meet the display standard of the user terminal. The method of claim 4, wherein And the menu editor and generator generate a UI screen having a consistent layout regardless of the type of the user terminal at the time of menu creation. The method of claim 6, The user interface screen is an integrated portal service system, characterized in that divided into a mandatory area for displaying a personalized service list and content content, and a selection area for displaying a design and advertisement, such as a site logo. The method of claim 7, wherein The menu editor and generator is an integrated portal service system, characterized in that to provide a function for editing the content content of the essential area by drag and drop. The method of claim 1, The management server, when requested by the user, an integrated portal service system, characterized in that for supporting one-click service to automatically subscribe to other services provided by the integrated portal service using the user information at the time of registration. The method of claim 1, The management server is an integrated portal service system, characterized in that using a single call charging method. (a) determining whether there is a request for registration of user profile information; (b) in step (a), if it is determined that there is a request for registration of profile information, the management server registering user profile information with a profile DB; (c) the user terminal reading the profile information of the user from the profile DB and analyzing the same, and configuring a menu optimized for the user based on the analysis result; (d) collecting, by the user terminal, user behavior information regarding the user's use of the content under the control of a client side profile agent therein, and transmitting the collected information to the management server; And (e) a management server analyzing user behavior information collected and transmitted from the user terminal, and searching for a content service optimized for a user based on the analysis result. The method of claim 11, The management server further comprises the step of updating the profile database by the optimized content service retrieved in the step (e). A client-side profile agent performing a function of requesting profile information from a management server, and collecting and transmitting an activity related to a user's use of content in a user terminal to the management server through a network; A profile analyzer for receiving profile information requested by the client-side profile agent and analyzing the profile information; A menu editor and generator for generating a menu of a content service optimized for a user based on the analysis result; And And a client-side adaptation engine for receiving original content converted into a specific form from a content provider server through a network and converting the original content into a display standard of the user terminal.

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