KR20080104228A - Method for playing contents according to the schedule created by user - Google Patents

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KR20080104228A
KR20080104228A KR1020080088023A KR20080088023A KR20080104228A KR 20080104228 A KR20080104228 A KR 20080104228A KR 1020080088023 A KR1020080088023 A KR 1020080088023A KR 20080088023 A KR20080088023 A KR 20080088023A KR 20080104228 A KR20080104228 A KR 20080104228A
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According to a method for regenerating contents according to schedule is presented to receive contents provided by a server according to the schedule set by a user. According to a method for regenerating contents according to schedule, a server stores a plurality of contents, and the contents are mapped to the schedule set by a user. The server provides contents to be regenerated according to the schedule to a terminal of the user. The user terminal stores the contents in a personal schedule folder and then regenerates the contents.

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Method for Playing Contents According to the Schedule Created by User}

The present invention relates to a method for reproducing content according to a schedule, wherein a digital terminal capable of connecting to a server via the Internet can receive and play content according to a schedule set by a user.

Advances in networks and information technologies have led to the emergence of various types of digital devices, enabling the provision of various types of content and services. For example, a digital picture frame may be an example of such a digital device.

A digital picture frame digitizes a conventional picture frame and provides a digital image or video like a picture frame. Today's digital photo frames offer a variety of other functions beyond that of playing back images or moving images as a frame.

The reproduction of an image or video of a digital frame is performed by a user's control command generated at the present time, or simply by a user command to repeatedly play a few images or videos.

Beyond the conventional simple content reproducing method, a new type of content reproducing method is required in which digital terminals such as digital picture frames reproduce content based on recent network technology and communication technology.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a method for reproducing a content according to a schedule, by using a digital terminal capable of connecting to a server via the Internet, and receiving and playing content provided by a server according to a schedule set by a user.

Still another object of the present invention is to share a schedule or content by receiving and playing content according to a shared schedule set by another terminal user as well as a user set schedule. The present invention provides a method of playing content according to a schedule.

In order to achieve the above object, a content reproduction method according to a schedule of the present invention comprises the steps of: a server storing a plurality of contents and mapping the plurality of contents to a schedule set by a user; Providing, by the server, content to be played according to the schedule to the user's terminal; And storing and playing the contents in the personal schedule folder by the user terminal.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of reproducing a content may include adding a schedule by a user adding and storing predetermined content in a personal schedule folder of the user terminal; And the user terminal may further comprise the step of completing the process of adding to the ongoing schedule by providing the added content to the server.

Content playback method according to another embodiment of the present invention, the server providing the server content that is not based on the user-defined schedule; Storing, by the user terminal, the server contents in a business folder; The user terminal may further include alternately playing the content according to the user setting schedule and the server content.

Here, the content reproduction method of the present invention includes the steps of creating a shared folder in the personal schedule folder for storing the content for the shared schedule that the user terminal is to share with other terminal users; The user terminal transmitting the shared folder to the server, the server providing the shared folder as server content to the other terminal; And storing, by the other terminal, the provided shared folder in its own business folder. The schedule can be shared with other terminals.

The server content may correspond to the above-described shared folder or advertisement content provided from an external advertisement server connected to the server.

The digital terminal according to the method of the present invention can receive and play an image or a video according to a schedule of user setting from a server. Through this, desired content may be automatically played on a preset day or time.

By retaining all user content related to the schedule, the server solves the existing problem of having the terminal retain all content according to the schedule and overcomes the limitations of resources of the terminal.

Furthermore, the digital terminal according to the method of the present invention provides a shared schedule function by receiving and playing contents according to a schedule shared by other terminals registered in the server. Such a shared schedule function may provide a so-called 'one village connection' service or business method by providing only a selected terminal among a plurality of terminals.

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

1 is a block diagram of a system including a digital device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the server 110 and a plurality of terminals are connected to each other through the Internet 170. The first terminal 130 and the second terminal 150 are examples of a plurality of terminals.

The server 110 provides and manages a content according to a schedule set forth by each user (hereinafter, referred to as a user setting schedule) to the terminal. To this end, the server 110 includes a file folder (Folder) (hereinafter referred to as a server folder) for the terminal to store and manage content files for the terminal.

Here, the content file corresponds to image and video files, and is played by the terminal, and the user setting schedule sets a user setting for playing the content set on the day (additionally, date and time) set by the user. Say. According to an embodiment, one schedule may correspond to one folder under the server folder.

A plurality of server folders may be provided corresponding to a plurality of terminals, each mapped to a registered user, that is, a registered terminal. In response, the terminal also has a folder (hereinafter referred to as a management folder) corresponding to the server folder for itself on the server 110.

The server 110 stores and manages the content file mapped to the user setting schedule in the server folder, and transmits the content file to the terminal according to the schedule and stores the content file in the management folder, thereby reproducing the content file according to the user setting schedule. By the terminal. When one schedule corresponds to one folder below the server folder, the content transmission according to the schedule by the server 110 may be performed in the form of transmitting a folder including the content. The schedule function is described again below.

Since the first terminal 130 and the second terminal 150 have the same internal configuration or operation with the server 110, the first terminal 130 and the server 110 may be replaced with each other unless necessary. The explanation is centered.

The first terminal 130 is a digital device that has a wired or wireless interface and can connect to the server 110 through the Internet 170 by wireless or wired. The first terminal 130 may be a digital picture frame, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA) or a portable multimedia player (PMP) by adding other additional or main functions.

The first terminal 130 may be provided with various services in association with the server 110, and for this purpose, the user terminal is registered with the server 110. Preferably, the information related to user registration includes a MAC address (Media Access Control Address) of the corresponding terminal. The MAC address enables communication between terminals, that is, between the first terminal 130 and the second terminal 150.

As described above, the first terminal 130 includes a management folder. The management folder is basically in the control area of the system (the first terminal or server). Therefore, the management folder cannot be created, deleted, or changed by a user like a general folder on a file system, and management of storage, change, deletion, etc. of content files is limited except in exceptional cases. Of course, the user can create and manage additional general folders other than the administration folder.

According to an embodiment, the server folder and the management folder may be divided into two areas. When divided into two, one is a 'personal schedule folder' (hereinafter, simply referred to as 'P folder') for the user setting schedule described above, and the user is allowed to save, change, and delete content files.

The other is a 'business folder' that stores and manages contents provided by the server 110 to the first terminal 130, such as advertisements or sharing schedules, without being based on a user set schedule (hereinafter simply referred to as 'B'). Folder ”, which belongs to the dominant realm of the complete system.

In this embodiment, the content according to the user setting schedule is stored and managed in the P folder. The folder B may be provided with advertisement content provided by the server 110, or may be stored and managed according to a sharing schedule provided by the second terminal 150.

The first terminal 130 plays back the content file on the management folder according to a predetermined algorithm. This playback algorithm is also associated with the schedule function described below.

2 and 3 are diagrams provided to explain the schedule function of the present invention. 2 and 3, the schedule function of the present invention will be described in more detail.

The example of FIG. 2 corresponds to a case where a management folder is divided into a B folder and a P folder. The first management folder 131, which is a management folder of the first terminal 130, corresponds to the first server folder 111 of the server 110. The first management folder 131 includes a 1B folder 133 and a 1P folder 135, and the first server folder 111 includes a server 1B folder 113 and a server 1P folder 115.

In the first server folder 111, all contents related to all schedules set by a user are stored. The schedule setting of the user may be made through a web page provided by the server 110 or may be made through the first terminal 130.

Various methods of setting a schedule may also be provided. For example, a folder mapped to a specific date (or having a specific date as a name) may be created in the server 1P folder 115, and played on the date in the generated folder. Scheduling may be performed by storing content to be stored.

As mentioned above, the provision of the schedule between the server 110 and the terminal may be provided in the form of a folder unit including the content as well as the related content state. In this case, the folder name may be set to the schedule date. For example, a plurality of schedules (folders aa, bb, cc, dd) are generated in the first server folder 111 of FIG. 2.

If there is a change in the schedule over time, the server 110 provides the first terminal 130 with a folder or at least one content file according to the changed schedule stored in the server 1P folder 115 (S201).

When the first terminal 130 receives the contents according to the changed schedule from the server 110, the first terminal 130 deletes the existing contents stored in the 1P folder 135 and stores newly received content files in the 1P folder 135. Therefore, the 1P folder 135 is always managed in the same manner as the server 1P folder 115. Of course, unlike the 1P folder 135, the server 1P folder 115 also stores contents according to schedules other than the schedule in progress.

Thereafter, the first terminal 130 plays back at least one content stored in the 1P folder 135 according to a predetermined algorithm. In this way, for example, when the user is 2 years old, the user may play the 2 years old image or the video recorded by the 2 years old to play the stored video (S203).

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, if a user stores another content file directly into the 1P folder 135 of the first terminal 130 without using the server 110, the corresponding content may be inserted into a schedule of the day (save date). Can be. However, the first terminal 130 transmits the newly stored content file to the server 110 and the server 110 stores the content file transmitted from the first terminal 130 in the server 1P folder 115, thereby providing 1P. The folder 135 and the server 1P folder 115 are managed in the same manner. This method may be another example of the method for generating a user setting schedule described above (S205).

According to an embodiment, the server 110 may be connected to an external advertisement server 110, and may receive advertisement contents provided by the advertisement server 110. The advertisement content provided by the advertisement server is stored in the server 1B folder 113 and provided to the first terminal 130 as 'server content'. When the first terminal 130 receives the advertisement content from the server 110, the first terminal 130 stores the advertisement content in the 1B folder 133 (S207). Thereafter, the first terminal 130 plays at least one advertisement content stored in the 1B folder 133 according to a predetermined algorithm (S209).

Here, the first terminal 130 plays the advertisement content of the 1B folder 133 and the content of the 1P folder 135 according to a preset algorithm. For example, 1B folder 133 → 1P folder 135 → 1P folder 135 → 1B folder 133 is reproduced in the same order.

The first terminal 130 may separately manage the 1B folder 133 and the 1P folder 135 by separate programs or processors for the management of the management folder and the schedule function based on the management folder as described above. have. For example, the first terminal 130 may simultaneously download the content file directed to 1P or upload the content file in step S205 while playing the contents of the folder 1B 133.

Hereinafter, a schedule sharing function by another terminal will be described with reference to FIG. 3. In the example of FIG. 3, the user setting schedule of the second terminal 130 is provided to the first terminal 130 as a sharing schedule.

3 illustrates a second management folder 151 which is a management folder of the second terminal 150 and a second server folder 117 corresponding thereto. Of course, the schedule function described based on FIG. 2 is applied between the second terminal 150 and the server 110 as it is.

The 1P folder 135 and the 2P folder 153 may have a multi-level folder structure below, and the user may set or create some of the subfolders as a shared folder for a schedule to be shared with other terminal users. In the example of FIG. 3, in order for a user of the second terminal 150 to share a schedule with the user of the first terminal 130, the shared folder 155 is located in the 2P folder 153 of the second terminal 150 of the second terminal 150. An example of generating is shown.

When the shared folder 155 is created, the second terminal 150 transmits the shared folder 155 to the server 110, and the server 110 stores the shared folder cc in the server 2P folder 119. (S301).

The server 110 copies the shared folder cc to the server 1B folder 113 for the first terminal 130 (S303), and then transmits the shared folder cc to the first terminal 130, and the first terminal 130 The shared folder cc which is the server content is stored in the 1B folder 133 (S305).

Thereafter, according to the algorithm as described in FIG. 2, the shared schedule or shared content stored in the 1B folder 133 is played. Accordingly, the first terminal 130 plays the content according to the setting schedule of the first terminal user, the advertisement content provided by the server 110 and the shared content delivered from the second terminal 150 according to a predetermined algorithm. (S307).

According to an embodiment, the schedule sharing function by such a shared folder may be provided only to a selected terminal among a plurality of terminals registered in the server 110, and this may be a so-called 'one village formation' service or business method (Business Model). Enable).

With the above method and configuration, the schedule and share schedule function of the present invention is performed.

According to an exemplary embodiment, attribute information of a corresponding schedule (or shared schedule) may be added to a content or folder provided to the first terminal 130 by a shared schedule in the form of a text file. Such a text file may be overlapped and displayed on an image or a moving image in the form of an OSD (On Screen Display).

According to an embodiment, the shared schedule may be set to a schedule that takes precedence over the schedule in each shared terminal. This can be the basis for new and diverse applications by allowing multiple users to play the same content at the same time.

The invention can be implemented in methods, devices and systems. In addition, when the present invention is implemented in computer software, the components of the present invention may be replaced with code segments necessary for performing necessary operations. The program or code segment may be stored in a medium that can be processed by a microprocessor and transmitted as computer data coupled with carrier waves via a transmission medium or communication network.

The media that can be processed by the microprocessor include electronic circuits, semiconductor memory devices, ROMs, flash memory, electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), floppy disks, optical disks, and hard disks. (Hard) Includes the ability to transmit and store information such as disks, fiber optics, wireless networks, and the like. Computer data also includes data that can be transmitted over electrical network channels, optical fibers, electromagnetic fields, wireless networks, and the like.

In addition, although the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been shown and described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described specific embodiment, the technical field to which the invention belongs without departing from the spirit of the invention claimed in the claims. Of course, various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art, and these modifications should not be individually understood from the technical spirit or the prospect of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of a system including a digital device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and

2 and 3 are diagrams provided to explain the schedule function of the present invention.

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A server storing a plurality of contents and mapping the plurality of contents to a schedule set by a user; Providing, by the server, content to be played according to the schedule to the user's terminal; And And storing, by the user terminal, the content in a personal schedule folder, and playing the content according to the schedule. The method of claim 1, Adding, by the user, a predetermined schedule in the personal schedule folder of the user terminal to the ongoing schedule; And The step of the user terminal further comprises the step of completing the step of adding to the ongoing schedule by providing the added content to the server. The method according to claim 1 or 2, Providing, by the server, server content that is not based on the user set schedule; Storing, by the user terminal, the server contents in a business folder; And And the user terminal alternately playing the content according to the user setting schedule and the server content alternately. The method of claim 3, Creating a shared folder in the personal schedule folder in which the user terminal stores contents for a shared schedule that the user terminal wants to share with other terminal users; The user terminal transmitting the shared folder to the server, the server providing the shared folder as server content to the other terminal; And And sharing the schedule by the other terminal storing the provided shared folder in its own business folder. The method of claim 3, And the server content is advertisement content provided from an external advertisement server connected to the server. The method of claim 3, And the server has a folder structure corresponding to a personal schedule folder and a business folder of the user terminal.
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