KR20120058015A - Web based broadcasting service system capable of multitasking and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A web based broadcasting service system for supporting multitasking and a method thereof are provided to activate a popup player by selecting a screen button or a popup button of a main player while a user watches one broadcasting content by the main player. CONSTITUTION: A web server provides a web page to a user terminal. A main player is inserted into the web page. The main player displays broadcasting content. The broadcasting content is provided from a plurality of broadcasting content providers. The main player activates a popup player(420) if a set user input action is detected through the user terminal.

Description

Web-based broadcasting service system supporting multitasking and method thereof {WEB BASED BROADCASTING SERVICE SYSTEM CAPABLE OF MULTITASKING AND METHOD THEREOF}

The present invention relates to a web-based broadcasting service system and method for supporting multitasking, and more particularly, by providing a pop-up player composed of a separate window on which a broadcast content is displayed in a user terminal, so that a user views the broadcast content. The present invention relates to a web-based broadcast service system and method for supporting multitasking, which enables a user terminal to perform a task using another application program.

Recently, broadcast contents have been provided to users in various broadcast forms such as terrestrial broadcasting, cable broadcasting, or internet broadcasting. In general, broadcast content is viewed through a television, but some viewers watch not only Internet broadcast but also broadcast content provided from terrestrial broadcast or cable broadcast through the Internet.

When viewing broadcast content through the Internet as described above, the user must find and access a web site operated by a broadcasting station that provides the content. In other words, in order to watch various broadcast contents produced by each broadcasting station, it is troublesome to access the website of each broadcasting station. Therefore, there is a need to build an integrated website that can watch broadcast contents from each broadcasting station without being individually connected to the website of each broadcasting station.

On the other hand, in the case of viewing broadcast content using the Internet, a web page is displayed on the user terminal through a web browser, and the broadcast content is displayed on a player in the web page. Accordingly, when the user wants to use other functions or application programs provided in the user terminal while watching the broadcast content, the size of the web browser should be reduced. However, if the size of the web browser is reduced in this way, the player in the web page is too small to properly view the broadcast content. Of course, there is a function of displaying the player on the full screen, but in this case, other application programs cannot be displayed at all. That is, it is currently difficult to implement a multitasking function using other functions of the user terminal or other application programs while watching broadcast content.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is a web-based broadcast service that supports multitasking so that a user can perform a task using another application program while watching a broadcast content provided by various broadcast content providers on one web site. It is to provide a system and a method thereof.

In order to solve the above technical problem, a web-based broadcast service system supporting multitasking according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a web page in which a main player in which broadcast contents provided from a plurality of broadcast content providers is displayed is inserted into a user terminal. And a web server provided, wherein the main player is formed as a separate window from the web page window into which the main player is inserted when the user input action is detected through the user terminal. Activate the player.

The popup player may be placed on top of another application program.

The pop-up player may be capable of adjusting the display position, size, and aspect ratio.

The main player may include a popup button for selecting activation of the popup player.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a web-based broadcast service method supporting multitasking, the method including providing a web page in which a main player is inserted to display a broadcast content to a user terminal, and provided by a plurality of broadcast content providers. When the broadcast content selected by the user among the plurality of broadcast contents is streamed in real time to the user terminal and displayed on the main player, when it is detected that a predetermined input action is performed through the main player in the user terminal, Activating a pop-up player composed of a separate window in which the broadcast content is displayed, and streaming and playing the broadcast content selected by the user to the pop-up player.

The execution of another application program may be selected in the user terminal, and the other application program may be further disposed below the pop-up player.

The predetermined input action may include one of selecting a pop-up button included in the main player and touching the screen of the main player.

A computer readable medium according to another embodiment of the present invention records a program for causing a computer to execute any one of the above methods.

According to the present invention, while watching one of the broadcast contents provided from various broadcast content providers on the web site through the main player, selecting a screen or pop-up button of the main player is composed of a separate window to display the broadcast content pop-up player Is activated. The pop-up player is disposed above all application programs, so that the user can operate other application programs while watching broadcast contents through the pop-up player. In other words, multitasking that can use both broadcast content and other application programs becomes possible, so that user convenience can be attained.

1 is a block diagram of a web-based broadcast service system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the web / back end unit of FIG. 1 in more detail.
3 is a block diagram illustrating the user terminal of FIG. 1 in more detail;
4 is a screen diagram of a user terminal with a main player displayed;
5 is a screen diagram of a state in which a pop-up player is activated using a main player in the user terminal of FIG. 4;
6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of performing multitasking using a pop-up function of a main player in a web-based broadcast service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of a web-based broadcast service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The web-based broadcast service system 100 according to the present invention provides various broadcast contents provided from a plurality of broadcast content providers in real time, and as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a web browser of the user terminal 400 is provided. A main player 403 inserted into a web page displayed through the main page 403, and a popup player 420 popping up as a window separate from the web page window on which the main player 403 is displayed. The popup player 420 is activated and displayed by the popup function of the main player 403. Details of the pop-up function and the pop-up player 420 will be described later.

The web-based broadcast service system 100 includes a headend unit 110 for streaming broadcast content, and a web / backend unit 120 for interfacing and managing various users. In addition, the web-based broadcast service system 100 may be managed by the system administrator through the manager terminal 500.

The headend unit 110 receives the real-time broadcast content selected by the user from the plurality of broadcast content providers 200 and encodes the data into a form suitable for each transmission environment and user terminal model to perform streaming to the user terminal 400.

The web / back end unit 120 provides the user terminal 400 with a web page into which the main player 403 in which the broadcast programming information and the broadcast content are displayed is inserted. The main player 403 has a popup function for displaying the popup player 420 activated as a window separate from the web page window on which the main player 403 is displayed. In addition, the web / back end unit 120 receives broadcast content that the user wants to watch, and performs functions such as member management, billing management, and broadcast schedule management.

The broadcast content provider 200 provides various real time broadcast contents to a terrestrial broadcaster, a cable broadcaster, or another broadcast content provider 200. Here, the real-time broadcast content refers to a broadcast program that is serviced in real time in terrestrial broadcast or cable broadcast, that is, a live broadcast program.

The communication network may include various data communication networks such as local area network (LAN), metropolitan area network (MAN), wide area network (WAN), internet, 3G, WiFi, WiBro, etc. It doesn't matter which type of communication you use.

The user terminal 400 is a communication terminal device used by a user to use a web-based broadcasting service. The user terminal 400 connects to the headend unit 110 or the web / backend unit 120 through a communication network to exchange various information and data. .

The user terminal 400 is not only a desktop computer, but also a laptop computer, a workstation, a palmtop computer, an ultra mobile personal computer, a tablet PC, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a web pad, a portable computer. It may be made of a terminal having a computing capability by mounting a microprocessor such as a telephone or a smart phone. In particular, the user terminal 400 according to the present invention is a web browser for checking the organization information of the real-time broadcast content, a DRM agent for decrypting the encrypted real-time broadcast content, and a real-time broadcast with another user terminal 400 in a P2P streaming manner. It may include a P2P agent for sending and receiving content.

The manager terminal 500 is a communication terminal device used by a system administrator for managing a web-based broadcast service. The manager terminal 500 may be directly connected to the web-based broadcast service system 100 or connected through a communication network to exchange various information and data. .

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the web / back end unit of FIG. 1 in more detail.

Referring to FIG. 2, the web / back end unit 120 according to the present invention includes a web server 121, a database unit 127, and a management server 129.

The web server 121 provides a web-based broadcast service related web page through a web browser of the user terminal 400. The user may perform membership registration, user authentication, broadcasting program information checking, broadcasting content selection, and bill payment through a web page provided by the web server 121.

In addition, the web server 121 provides a main player 403 together with a web page, and the broadcast content provided through the headend unit 110 is displayed in real time on the main player 403.

The web server 121 may provide the main player 403 to the user terminal 400 in two ways. For example, whenever the user terminal 400 accesses the web-based broadcast service system 100 and selects viewing of broadcast content, the web server 121 inserts the main player 403 into a web page to provide the web page in real time. It is a way.

Another method is to install the main player 403 in the user terminal 400 when the user terminal 400 first accesses the web-based broadcast service system 100. When the user selects the download of the main player 403, the main player 403 may be downloaded and installed to the user terminal 400. Then, whenever the user terminal 400 accesses the web-based broadcast service system 100, the main player 403 may be automatically executed through the web browser of the user terminal 400 together with the web page.

The database unit 127 stores various kinds of information related to broadcast programming information, member information, payment information, broadcast schedule management information, and the like. The broadcast schedule information may be automatically generated and stored based on the electronic program guide information, and may be modified by the system administrator. For example, some of the contents broadcast in real time from the terrestrial broadcasting station may not be serviced on the Internet due to copyright problems. In this case, the system manager may delete the corresponding portion from the broadcast schedule information and may not be provided to the user in the headend unit 110.

The management server 129 may control and manage the overall operation of the web-based broadcast service system 100 according to the command and setting of the manager terminal 500.

3 is a block diagram illustrating the user terminal of FIG. 1 in more detail.

The user terminal 400 provided with the web-based broadcast service may include a web browser 401, a main player 403, a display unit 405, an input unit 407, and a communication unit 409.

The web browser 401 communicates with the web server 121 using HTTP (hyper text transfer protocol), and displays a web page in conjunction with an HTML document or file provided to the web server 121, or the web server 121. ) Is application software installed in the user terminal 400 to transmit information.

The main player 403 is provided from the web server 121 of the web / back end unit 120 and installed in the user terminal 400. When the web page provided by the web-based broadcasting service system 100 viewed through the web browser 401 is displayed, the main player 403 is activated on the web page in association with the web page. Broadcast content provided by the system 100 is displayed.

As shown in FIG. 4, the main player 403 has a play / pause button 411 for playing and pausing broadcast content at the lower end of the screen, a progress bar 413 for broadcasting content, and a screen size. An adjustment button 415, a screen magnification adjustment button 419, and a popup button 417 may be provided.

Each of these buttons may be hidden from view while broadcast content is provided on the main player 403, and may be displayed on the main player 403 while touching the main player 403 with a mouse, a stylus pen, or a finger. have.

The pop-up button 417 is a button for executing the pop-up function. When the user clicks the pop-up button 417, the main player 403 detects this and provides the pop-up player 420 as a separate window. The main player 403 may activate the popup player 420 even when the user touches the screen of the main player 403 displayed on the web browser of the user terminal 400 with a mouse, a stylus pen, or a finger.

As shown in FIG. 5, the pop-up player 420, like the main player 403, has a play / pause button 421, a playback progress bar 423 for broadcast content, a screen size control button 425, The screen magnification adjustment button 429 may be provided.

Unlike the main player 403, the pop-up player 420 is not inserted and displayed in the web page window, so that the window can be freely moved and its size can be easily adjusted. The pop-up player 420 is also designed to be placed on top of other application programs. That is, the pop-up player 420 is displayed in front of the other application program even while using another application program. Therefore, while the pop-up player 420 is popped up and the broadcast content is displayed, other application programs, for example, checking e-mail, writing a word document, and searching the Internet, can be performed in parallel. In addition, the pop-up player 420 may not be covered by other application programs while using other application programs.

5 illustrates a display unit of a user terminal in which a pop-up player and an Excel program are displayed together. As shown, a document may be created using an Excel program while watching broadcast content through the pop-up player 420.

The display unit 405 refers to a display device included in the user terminal 400 and displays broadcast contents provided through the web-based broadcast service system 100. The display unit 405 may be manufactured in various sizes and materials according to the type of the user terminal 400. For example, materials such as LCD, LED, TFT LCD (thin-film transistor liquid crystal display), AMOLED (active organic light emitting diode) and the like can be used.

The input unit 407 is used to receive a user's command, and may be variously selected and used according to the type of the user terminal 400. For example, a large user terminal 400 such as a desktop computer, a notebook computer, a workstation, or the like may use an input means such as a keyboard or a mouse. On the other hand, in the case of a small terminal such as a tablet PC, a PDA, a web pad, a mobile phone, or a smartphone, the terminal may be configured as a button or a touch panel.

The communication unit 409 supports communication with the web-based broadcast service system 100 through a communication network, and supports a communication method corresponding to the communication network.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of performing multitasking using a pop-up function of a main player in a web-based broadcast service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When the user terminal 400 accesses the web server 121, the user terminal 400 may receive broadcast programming information (S600). When the user selects a broadcast view for a specific broadcast content in the broadcast schedule information (S610), the headend unit 110 streams the corresponding broadcast content from the broadcast content provider 200 in real time (S620). At the same time, in the user terminal 400, the main player 403 is driven on the web page through the web browser 401, and the broadcast content provided from the headend unit 110 is displayed through the main player 403.

While the user watches the broadcast content through the main player 403, the user touches the screen of the main player 403 using a mouse, a stylus pen, a finger, or the like, or selects the pop-up button 417 (S630). ). Then, the main player 403 detects this and activates the pop-up player 420 as a separate window (S640). At the same time, the main player 403 delivers the broadcast content streamed from the headend unit 110 to the popup player 420 to be displayed (S650). In this case, the main player 403 may no longer display the broadcast content.

While the pop-up player 420 is activated and the broadcast content is displayed, the user drives another application program (S660). Then, as shown in FIG. 5, a window of another application program is displayed below the pop-up player 420 (S670), and other application programs may be used while watching broadcast content through the pop-up player 420.

Since the pop-up player 420 can be dragged, the pop-up player 420 may be placed at a desired position of the user, and then another application program may be used. If the user wants to exit the pop-up player 420, the pop-up player 420 disappears when the user clicks the delete icon marked with 'x' at the top of the pop-up play.

Embodiments of the present invention include a computer-readable medium having program instructions for performing various computer-implemented operations. This medium records a program for executing the web-based broadcast service method supporting multitasking described above. The medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc., alone or in combination. Examples of such media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CDs and DVDs, floppy disks and program commands such as magnetic-optical media, ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Hardware devices configured to store and perform such operations. Alternatively, the medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal for storing a program command, a data structure, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code, such as produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed on a computer using an interpreter or the like.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the right of rank.

100: web based broadcasting service system 110: headend
120: web / back end section 121: web server
400: user terminal 403: main player
420: Popup Player

Claims (8)

A web server providing a web page into which a main player displaying broadcast content provided from a plurality of broadcast content providers is inserted, to a user terminal;
When the main player detects a predetermined user input behavior through the user terminal, the main player is formed as a window separate from the web page window into which the main player is inserted, and activates a pop-up player displaying the broadcast content. Web-based broadcasting service system that supports multitasking. The method of claim 1,
The pop-up player is a web-based broadcast service system that supports multitasking, characterized in that disposed on top of other application program. The method of claim 1,
The pop-up player is a web-based broadcast service system that supports multitasking, characterized in that the display position, size, and aspect ratio can be adjusted. The method of claim 1,
The main player has a pop-up button for selecting the activation of the pop-up player, the web-based broadcast service system supporting multitasking. Providing a web page in which a main player for displaying broadcast content is inserted to a user terminal;
Displaying broadcast content selected by a user from among a plurality of broadcast contents provided by a plurality of broadcast content providers in real time on the user terminal and displayed on the main player;
Activating a pop-up player composed of a separate window displaying the broadcast content when the user terminal detects that a predetermined input action is performed through the main player; And,
And streaming the broadcast content selected by the user to the pop-up player and playing the same. The method of claim 5, wherein
Selecting execution of another application program in the user terminal; And,
And disposing the other application program under the pop-up player to activate the web-based broadcast service method. The method of claim 5, wherein
The predetermined input act is
And selecting one of the pop-up buttons included in the main player and touching the screen of the main player. A computer-readable medium having recorded thereon a program for causing the computer to execute the method of any one of claims 5 to 7.

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