KR20090003066A - Apparatus and method for providing real-time customized news - Google Patents

Abstract

A real-time customized news information providing apparatus and method are provided to immediately transmit important information in a message format to a user, store other news in the form of a web document and provide the web document to the user to rapidly provide real-time news information. A real-time customized news information providing apparatus includes a news handling unit(12) for acquiring information on news of interest based on user registration information and classifying the information into real-time news information and non-real-time new information, a news processing unit(13) for processing the real-time news information into a message and processing the non-real-time new information into a web document, and a user interface(14) for providing the processed news information to a user.

Description

Apparatus and method for providing customized news information in real time {APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME CUSTOMIZED NEWS}

The present invention relates to a device for providing real-time customized news information and a method thereof, and more particularly, to obtain interest news information based on user registration information through broadcast and communication networks, and to display information in which real time is important according to real time. Provided immediately to the user, and other news is stored in the form of a web document provided by the user, to provide only the news information desired by the user, in particular, real-time customized news information providing device and its It is about a method.

The present invention is derived from the research conducted as part of the IT new growth engine core technology development project of the Ministry of Information and Communication and the Ministry of Information and Telecommunication Research and Development. [Task Management Number: 2005-S-403-02, Title: Intelligent Integrated Information Broadcasting (Smart) TV) technology].

In the conventional news information technology, a broadcast server operated by a broadcaster collects news information for the public and transmits the news information to a user terminal through a broadcasting network at a predetermined time. The user receives news information from the broadcast server at predetermined times. In this case, with respect to the real-time providing news information, which is considered to be important in real time, a time difference occurs between an occurrence of an event regarding the news information and a time when the user is provided with the news information. In the conventional news information technology, news data is transmitted through a broadcasting network, but only the news information desired by the user is filtered and not provided to the user.

On the other hand, in the conventional news information technology, the web server publishes the news information collected from the Internet site, not the broadcasting network. At this time, in order to receive the posted news information, the user directly accesses the Internet site and searches or uses the news information. In particular, the user should take time to wait for news information transmitted through the broadcasting network, or periodically visit an Internet web site to obtain news information of interest in real time.

In the conventional news information technology as described above, the user does not receive the desired news information (for example, customized news information) in real time, and there is a problem in that a search cost for broadcasting network reception or Internet search increases. It is a problem of the present invention to solve the problem.

Therefore, the present invention obtains news of interest based on user registration information through broadcasting and communication networks, and provides important information in real time to the user in a message format according to real time, and stores other news in the form of web documents. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a real-time customized news information providing apparatus and method for providing only news information desired by a user, in particular, providing news information for real-time provision quickly.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects and advantages of the present invention which are not mentioned above can be understood by the following description, and will be more clearly understood by the embodiments of the present invention. Also, it will be readily appreciated that the objects and advantages of the present invention may be realized by the means and combinations thereof indicated in the claims.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, and obtains news of interest information based on user registration information through broadcast and communication networks, and provides important information in real time to the user in a message format immediately according to real time. The news is characterized in that stored in the form of a web document to provide.

More specifically, the present invention, in the real-time customized news information providing apparatus, to obtain the interest news information from the outside based on the user registration information to classify the real-time providing news information and the non-real time providing news information according to real-time News processing means; News processing means for processing the classified real-time providing news information into a message format and processing the classified non-real-time providing news information into a web document format; And a user interface means for providing the processed real-time providing news information and non-real-time providing news information to a user according to real-time. In addition, the present invention, a user registration information management for receiving at least one information of the interest news keywords and categories, whether real-time provision, the search period for the real-time providing news information received from the user to manage as the user registration information It further comprises means.

On the other hand, the present invention, in the real-time customized news information providing method, the news processing step of acquiring the interest news information from the outside based on the user registration information and classified into real-time providing news information and non-real-time providing news information according to real-time ; A news processing step of processing the classified real-time providing news information into a message format and processing the classified non-real-time providing news information into a web document format; And a user interface step of providing the processed real-time providing news information and non-real-time providing news information to a user according to real-time. In addition, the present invention, the user registration information input step of receiving at least one information of the interest news keywords and categories, whether real-time provision, the search period for the real-time providing news information as the user registration information further; Include.

The present invention as described above, while filtering the news information transmitted through the communication network based on the user-customized keyword, by changing the format of the news information of the real-time important to the corresponding data format to provide the user in real time, the news information desired by the user While providing only, in particular, there is an effect that can quickly provide real-time news information.

Furthermore, the present invention, while receiving the news data transmitted through an inexpensive broadcasting network, while filtering only the news information desired by the user to process in the form of MMS / SMS or HTML to meet the characteristics of the news information for real-time provision and news information for non-real-time provision By doing so, it is easy to be compatible with a general user interface, and there is an effect of reducing the cost and time required to search for news information desired by a user.

In addition, the present invention, when applied to a mobile terminal, in order to overcome the capacity limitation of the battery of the terminal, by performing a real-time news article selection, real-time news collection function according to the time set by the user, efficient consumption of battery resources It is effective to reduce it.

The above objects, features, and advantages will become more apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, and accordingly, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may share the technical idea of the present invention. It will be easy to implement. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that the detailed description of the known technology related to the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a configuration of an embodiment of a device for providing real-time customized news information according to the present invention.

As illustrated in FIG. 1, the apparatus for providing real-time customized news information according to the present invention includes a user registration information managing unit 11, a news processing unit 12, a news processing unit 13, and a user interface unit 14. . Here, the news processor 12 includes a broadcast news reception processor 121 and a real time news search processor 122. In addition, the news processing unit 13 includes a real time news processing unit 131 and a non-real time news processing unit 132.

First, referring to the news data broadcasting server 10 and the news data web server 20, the news data broadcasting server 10 transmits news information to a user terminal through a broadcasting network at a predetermined time by a broadcaster. The news data broadcasting server 10 transmits the news information in a file format (for example, NewsML file) according to a carousel transmission method (for example, multimedia object transfer (MOT) protocol of DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting)). . Such news information may be stored in a file format in the DMB terminal.

In addition, the news data web server 20 may be a web server operated in a general news providing Internet site. The news providing Internet site desired by the user may be designated in advance.

Hereinafter, each component of the apparatus for providing real-time customized news information according to the present invention will be described.

The user registration information management unit 11 receives an interest news keyword and category from the user, whether or not it is provided in real time, and a search period for the real-time providing news information and manages the user registration information. That is, the user receives the user registration information (eg, interest information, personal information) about the news information desired by the user, and generates and manages an interest news keyword, an interest news category, etc. based on the input user registration information. . In particular, the user registration information management unit 11 importantly manages interest news keywords and categories for real-time news service.

For example, the news category of interest may be 'economy', 'life', 'culture and art'. The news of interest may be a stock of interest, a real estate or region of interest, a novel of interest or a writer. The interest news category and the interest news keyword may be classified according to whether or not the news information for real-time provision is desired and input to the user registration information management unit 11. That is, when the user registers the stock of 'A' as the stock of interest stock, the user can use the 'A' company regardless of whether the user is receiving another TV channel or playing a game using the interest keyword and interest category. Information such as related news or stock price trends can be provided to users immediately at the same time as Internet news or broadcast news.

In addition, unlike the other keywords of interest news, the interest news keywords and categories related to news information of which real-time importance is important may be specially managed by displaying the importance on the real-time. That is, the user registration information management unit 11 may manage the news of interest related to the news information for real-time providing separately from the news of interest related to the news information for non-real time providing. The user registration information managing unit 11 transmits a news keyword and a category of interest news to the news processing unit 12.

In addition, the user registration information management unit 11 is not only the basic interest news keywords and categories from the personal information directly input by the user, but also additional user-customized keywords (for example, 'mid 30', 'double income' or 'kindergarten' Etc.) is automatically generated. In addition, the user registration information management unit 11 transmits a user-customized keyword that is automatically generated when the news information is filtered.

The user registration information manager 11 transmits the managed news keyword and category and additionally generated user-customized keywords to the news processor 12 so that the news information is filtered by the news processor 12. The user-customized keyword is also used when the user-customized news information is generated by the real-time news processing unit 131 and the non-real-time news processing unit 132.

The news processing unit 12 obtains the interest news information based on the user registration information through the broadcasting network and the communication network, and classifies the news information into real-time providing news information and non-real-time providing news information according to real time. That is, the news processing unit 12 receives news information through a broadcasting network and collects interest news information for real-time providing through a communication network. Based on the user registration information managed by the user registration information manager 11, the filtered and filtered news information is classified into real-time news information and non-real-time news information according to real time. Here, the news information for real-time provision refers to interest news information that the user wants to receive in real time. In addition, the non-real time providing news information refers to news information of interest regardless of real-time.

Looking at the components of the news processing unit 12, the broadcast news receiving processing unit 121 filters the news information transmitted through the broadcasting network based on the user registration information managed by the user registration information management unit (11). That is, the broadcast news reception processing unit 121 receives and parses news information such as NewsML format from the news data broadcasting server 10, and then parses the user registration information generated by the user registration information management unit 11 (for example, interest). The parsed news information is filtered based on news keywords and categories. The broadcast news reception processor 121 classifies the filtered news information into real-time news information and non-real-time news information according to real time. At this time, the broadcast news reception processor 121 immediately delivers the real-time news processing unit 131 if there is real-time news information requested to be provided by the user in real time, and other non-real-time news information for non-real-time news. It is transmitted to the processing unit 132.

The real-time news search processing unit 122 searches for news information through a communication network (for example, the Internet, the wireless Internet, a mobile communication network, etc.) and collects news information of interest desired by the user. The real-time news search processing unit 122 accesses the news providing website through the Internet, wireless Internet, mobile communication network, etc. according to a time set by the user. The real-time news search processing unit 122 searches whether there is news information for real-time provision requested by the user among the latest news, and downloads the news information and transmits the news information to the real-time news processing unit 131.

Thereafter, the news processing unit 13 processes the format of the news information filtered by the broadcast news reception processing unit 121 into a message format or a web document format according to whether or not it is real time.

Looking at the components of the news processing unit 13, the real-time news processing unit 131 changes the data format of the news information for real-time providing to the message format according to the classification result in the news processing unit 12 to the news information for real-time provision Process. For example, the real-time news processing unit 131 may receive news information for real-time providing received from the broadcast news reception processing unit 121 and the real-time news search processing unit 122 in a multimedia message service (MMS) or short message service (SMS) format. In the form of messages. For example, a message for providing real-time news includes headline or important news information of interest news information. The real-time news processing unit 131 processes the news information for real-time providing according to the message type previously selected by the user and delivers the news information to the user interface unit 14. If there is no message format previously selected by the user, the real-time news processing unit 131 basically processes the news information for real-time providing in a predetermined message format and delivers it to the user interface unit 14.

The non-real-time news processing unit 132 processes the non-real-time providing news information by changing the data format of the non-real time providing news information according to the classification result in the news processing unit 12 into a web document format. For example, the non-real time news processing unit 132 collects non-real time providing news information received from the broadcast news reception processor 121 and the real time news search processor 122 into a file in the form of HTML (hypertext markup language). Processing. Since the original form of the news information data is provided in an extensible markup language (XML) type such as NewsML, such a format conversion is easily possible with a relatively simple process using XSLT (Extensible Style Language Transformation) technology.

The user interface unit 14 provides the user with news information for real-time provision and news information for non-real-time provision processed by the news processing unit 13 according to real-time. For example, the user interface 14 may generate a beep sound such as 'ding dong' upon receiving the real-time news message received from the real-time news processing unit 131 to inform the user that the real-time news message has arrived. The user can receive a real-time news service corresponding to the main interests with the interface almost identical to the message inquiry function of the mobile phone.

In addition, the user interface 14 stores the non-real time providing news information and provides it according to a user's request. For example, the user interface 14 stores the news in the form of HTML received from the non-real-time news processing unit 132, and services the web browser when the user selects a news inquiry service. When the user inquires the non-real-time news, the user interface 14 may provide a scrap function that asks whether to store each news article and stores it in a local storage device. At this time, the user interface 14 deletes the read article that the user does not want to scrap from the storage device.

Meanwhile, the broadcast news reception processor 121 and the real-time news search processor 122 collect news information when connected to a power adapter or when the power of the customized news information providing device is turned on for any purpose. This is to overcome the problem that the battery is limited due to the characteristics of the mobile terminal. In addition, the broadcast news reception processor 121 and the real-time news search processor 122 may collect news even when the user desires or when the terminal is in the sleep mode according to a period previously designated by the user.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing real-time customized news information according to the present invention.

The user registration information manager 11 receives user registration information related to interest news information desired by the user (202). For example, the user registration information includes personal information, news of interest news, news of interest news category, real-time service request, and real-time news collection cycle.

The user registration information manager 11 generates and manages an interest news keyword and a category based on the input interest information and personal image information (204).

The broadcast news reception processor 121 checks whether news information is received through the broadcast network (206).

As a result of the check 206, when the news data broadcast is received, the broadcast news reception processor 121 parses the transmitted news information and based on the news of interest and the category managed by the user registration information manager 11, the news information. Filter 208.

The broadcast news receiving processor 121 checks whether the filtered news information corresponds to the real-time providing news information (210). This is to classify into news information for real-time provision and news information for non-real-time provision.

As a result of the check 210, if the filtered news information corresponds to the real-time providing news information, the news processing unit 131 may change the form of the news information filtered by the broadcast news reception processing unit 121 in real time or non-real time form. Processing into a message form suitable for the classification result is processed into user-customized news information (212). That is, the real-time news processing unit 131 transmits the news information for real-time providing received from the broadcast news reception processor 121 and the real-time news search processor 122 to a message in MMS or multimedia message format. To form. The real-time news processing unit 131 processes the news information for real-time providing according to the message type previously selected by the user and transmits the news information to the user interface unit 14.

The user interface 14 notifies the user of the arrival of the news message of interest in real time when receiving news information for real-time provision of the processed user-customized news information (214). And the user receives the received news (real-time news information) delivered real-time news information corresponding to the main interest in the interface, such as message inquiry function of the mobile phone.

On the other hand, if the check result 210, the filtered news information does not correspond to the real-time providing news information, the non-real-time news processing unit 132 is delivered from the broadcast news receiving processing unit 121 and the real-time news search processing unit 122 The received non-real time providing news information is collected and processed into an HTML file (216).

In addition, the user interface unit 14 stores the non-real-time news information provided in the form of HTML received from the non-real-time news processing unit 132, and when the user selects a news inquiry service, the user uses a web browser to inform the user. to provide. When the user inquires the non-real-time news, the user interface 14 may provide a scrap function that asks whether to store each news article and stores it in a local storage device. Read articles that you do not want to scrap are deleted from your local storage.

On the other hand, the confirmation result 206, it is checked whether the user-customized keyword corresponds to the web server search without receiving the news data broadcast (218).

As a result of the check 218, when the user-customized keyword corresponds to a web server search, the real-time news search processor 122 accesses a news providing website designated by the user through a communication network according to a time policy set by the user. In step 220, the news information for the real-time provision requested by the user is searched for and collects the news information.

On the other hand, if the check result 218, the user-customized keyword does not correspond to a web server search, the process of providing customized news information is terminated.

The real-time news search processor 122 checks whether the filtered news information corresponds to the real-time providing news information (222).

As a result of the check 222, when the filtered news information corresponds to the real-time providing news information, the process starts from "212".

On the other hand, when the check result 222, the filtered news information does not correspond to the real-time news item, the real-time news search processing unit 122 deletes the non-real time providing news information and terminates the process.

On the other hand, the method of the present invention as described above can be written in a computer program. And the code and code segments constituting the program can be easily inferred by a computer programmer in the art. In addition, the written program is stored in a computer-readable recording medium (information storage medium), and read and executed by a computer to implement the method of the present invention. The recording medium may include any type of computer readable recording medium.

The present invention described above is capable of various substitutions, modifications, and changes without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention for those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. It is not limited by the drawings.

1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a device for providing customized news information according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing real-time customized news information according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawing

10: news data broadcasting server 20: news data web server

11: user registration information management section 12: news processing section

121: broadcast news receiving processor 122: real-time news search processing unit

13: News Processing Unit 131: Real Time News Processing Unit

132: non-real-time news processing unit 14: the user interface unit

Claims (13)

In the real-time customized news information providing device, News processing means for acquiring interest news information based on user registration information from the outside and classifying it into real-time provision news information and non-real-time provision news information according to real time; News processing means for processing the classified real-time providing news information into a message format and processing the classified non-real-time providing news information into a web document format; And User interface means for providing the processed real-time news information and non-real-time news information to a user according to real-time Real-time customized news information providing device comprising a. The method of claim 1, User registration information management means for receiving at least one piece of information of interest news keywords and categories, whether or not to provide real-time information, and a search period for the news information for real-time providing, and managing the information as user registration information. Real-time customized news information providing device further comprising a. The method of claim 2, The user registration information management means, Apparatus for providing real-time customized news information, characterized in that for automatically generating additional extended keywords and categories from the input interest news keywords and categories. The method according to claim 1 or 3, The news processing means, Broadcasting news receiving processing means for filtering interest news information based on the user registration information among news information received through a broadcasting network, and classifying the news information into real-time providing news information and non-real-time providing news information according to real time; And Real-time news search processing means for collecting news information for real-time provision based on the user registration information through a communication network Real-time customized news information providing device comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein The news processing means, A real time news processing means for processing the classified and collected real-time providing news information into a message format of any one of a multimedia message service (MMS) and a short message service (SMS) capable of providing in real time; And Non-real-time news processing means for processing the classified non-real-time providing news information in the HTML document format Real-time customized news information providing device comprising a. The method of claim 5, wherein The user interface means, Real-time customized news information providing device, characterized in that to provide the user with real-time news information processed in the message format through a real-time arrival notification in real time. The method of claim 6, The news processing means, Apparatus for providing real-time customized news information, characterized in that to obtain the interest news information based on the user registration information when connected to a power source. In providing real-time customized news information, A news processing step of acquiring interest news information based on user registration information from the outside and classifying the news information into real-time news information and non-real-time news information according to real time; A news processing step of processing the classified real-time providing news information into a message format and processing the classified non-real-time providing news information into a web document format; And A user interface step of providing the processed real-time news information and non-real-time news information to a user according to real-time Real-time customized news information providing method comprising a. The method of claim 8, A user registration information input step of receiving at least one of a keyword of interest news, a category, a real-time provision status, and a search period for the news information for real-time provision as the user registration information; Real-time customized news information providing method comprising a further. The method of claim 9, The user registration information input step, Method for providing real-time customized news information, characterized in that for automatically generating additional extended keywords and categories from the entered interest news keywords and categories. The method according to claim 8 or 10, The news processing step, A broadcast news reception processing step of filtering interest news information based on the user registration information among news information received through a broadcasting network and classifying the news information into real-time providing news information and non-real-time providing news information according to real-time characteristics; And Real-time news search processing step of collecting news information for real-time provision based on the user registration information through a communication network Real-time customized news information providing method comprising a. The method of claim 11, The news processing step, A real-time news processing step of processing the classified and collected real-time providing news information into a message format of any one of a multimedia message service (MMS) or a short message service (SMS) capable of providing in real time; And Non-real-time news processing step of processing the classified non-real-time providing news information in the HTML document format Real-time customized news information providing method comprising a. The method of claim 12, The user interface step, Real-time customized news information providing method characterized in that to provide the user with real-time news information processed in the message format through a real-time arrival notification in real time.

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