WO2010147391A2

WO2010147391A2 - Method and system for providing information using connection data and context data, and computer-readable recording medium

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Publication number: WO2010147391A2
Application number: PCT/KR2010/003887
Authority: WO
Inventors: 강찬구
Original assignee: 솔레노이드 인크
Priority date: 2009-06-16
Filing date: 2010-06-16
Publication date: 2010-12-23
Also published as: WO2010147391A3

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing information using connection data and context data, and a computer-readable recording medium for recording a computer program for executing the method. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for providing information using connection data, comprising: a step of collecting contents from a content source; a step of extracting connection data based on the collected contents, wherein said connection data enables access from one content to another content; and a step of providing user equipment with the content accessed by the connection data.

Description

Method, system and computer readable recording medium for providing information using connection data and context data

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing information using connection data and context data, and to a computer readable recording medium for recording a computer program for executing the method. In detail, by extracting connection data that enables access to other content from content of interest to the user, and providing the other content having a connection relationship with the content of interest of the user, the user experiences with the content. And a computer readable recording medium for recording a computer program for executing the method.

In recent years, as the use of the Internet becomes more active, the amount of content distributed by traditional content distributors such as Internet portal sites and Internet service providers, as well as the content distributed by content distributors such as general users, is increasing. to be. As the amount of content on the Internet is enormous, the demand for an internet-based content retrieval system is greatly increased. However, the conventional web document retrieval system searches a web document including a search keyword used in a search query. It is still far from giving. In addition, such a conventional web document retrieval system is limited to search and management of various electronic and physical contents because only the web document or similar contents are targeted for the retrieval.

Accordingly, the present inventors devised the present invention to construct a new information management system and to enable the information management system to practically assist in the management of contents for each user and the expansion of the content-related experience.

The present invention aims to solve all of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art.

Another object of the present invention is to implement an advanced information management system based on connection data and / or context data.

It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a new cyberspace where the user can expand the experience of the content broadly.

Still another object of the present invention is to enable a user to easily receive other content connected to his or her content of interest.

Representative configuration of the present invention for achieving the above object is as follows.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for providing information using connection data, the method comprising: collecting content from a content source, extracting connection data based on the collected content, wherein the connection data is one; Enabling access to other content from the content—and providing the user terminal device with content accessed by the connection data.

According to another aspect of the present invention, an information management system for providing information using connection data, comprising: a content collecting unit for collecting content from a content source, and a data managing unit for extracting connection data based on the collected content; -The connection data enables access from one content to another content;-and an information management system including an information providing unit for providing the content accessed by the connection data to the user terminal device.

In addition, there is further provided a computer readable recording medium for recording another method for implementing the present invention, another system, and a computer program for executing the method.

According to the present invention, an advanced information management system based on connection data and / or context data is implemented.

According to the present invention, a new cyber space is provided in which a user can expand the experience of content broadly.

According to the present invention, the user can easily be provided with other contents connected to the contents of interest of the user.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an entire system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration of the information management system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 and 4 exemplarily illustrate a connection relationship between contents according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram conceptually illustrating semantic indexing of connection data using context data according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a diagram showing in detail the configuration of the database 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram exemplarily illustrating a configuration of a user terminal device 300 for obtaining context data about a user, according to an exemplary embodiment.

8 is a diagram illustrating a screen of a user interface for allowing a user to receive content according to an embodiment of the present invention.

100: information management system

110: content collection unit

120: data management unit

122: connection data extraction unit

124: context data extractor

130: information provider

140: interface unit

150: communication unit

160: control unit

200: content server

210: content database

300: user terminal device

400: database

410: connection database

420: context database

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The following detailed description of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings that show, by way of illustration, specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. It should be understood that the various embodiments of the present invention are different but need not be mutually exclusive. For example, certain shapes, structures, and characteristics described herein may be implemented with changes from one embodiment to another without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. In addition, it is to be understood that the location or arrangement of individual components within each embodiment may be changed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the following detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention should be taken as encompassing the scope of the claims of the claims and all equivalents thereto. Like reference numerals in the drawings indicate the same or similar elements throughout the several aspects.

Hereinafter, various preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily implement the present invention.

[Preferred Embodiments of the Invention]

Configuration of the entire system

As shown in FIG. 1, the entire system of the present invention includes the Internet (or other communication network), an information management system 100, a plurality of content servers 200, a plurality of content databases 210, and a plurality of user terminals. It may be configured to include the device 300 and the database 400.

First, the Internet may be configured without regard to communication modes such as wired and wireless, and may include a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), a wide area network (WAN), and the like. It can be configured with various communication networks. Preferably, the Internet referred to in the present invention may be a known World Wide Web (WWW).

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the information management system 100 extracts the connection data that enables access to other content from the content of interest of the user, and extracts and uses the context data representing the context related to the connection data to use them. In addition, the system 100 enables the user to easily receive other contents connected to the content of interest of the user, and may be a server interoperating with the database 400 storing the connection data and the context data. The configuration of the information management system 100 and the database 400 will be described in more detail below.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the content server 200 may access the content database 210 and may refer to or transmit data of various contents stored in the content database 210. The data of the content may be transmitted from the content server 200 to the information management system 100 and / or the user terminal device 300. In particular, the content transmitted to the information management system 100 may include connection data and context data. Can serve as a source for extraction.

Here, the content may include commonly referred electronic content (digital content) including at least one of a text, an image, a video, a sound, a skin, an avatar, a hologram, and the like, a paper medium such as a newspaper, a leaflet, an advertisement, a product packaging, The concept broadly encompasses physical content that delivers information through at least one of product-related media such as product signage, and other tangible media. In addition, such content may include or be associated with a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). Examples of URIs include a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or a Uniform Resource Name (URN) for identifying the location or name of the electronic content in the case of electronic content, and in the case of physical content, identifying physical content. Barcodes, RFID tags, other electronically recognizable identifiers, and various codes that may be embedded in the above. Of course, URIs according to the present invention are not limited to those enumerated above by way of example.

The user terminal device 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention is a digital device including a function for enabling a user to communicate with the information management system 100 and / or the content server 200, and may be a personal computer (eg, For example, a user terminal device 300 according to the present invention may be used as long as it is a digital device having a computing capability by mounting a microprocessor such as a desktop computer, a notebook computer, a workstation, a PDA, a web pad, a mobile phone, or the like. May be adopted as In addition, the user terminal device 300, a browser that allows a user to transmit a predetermined command to the information management system 100 and / or to receive content from the information management system 100 or content server 200 The program may be further included.

In the above description, the information management system 100 and the content server 200 are described as components that are separated from each other, but they are not necessarily physically separated. Accordingly, it may also be assumed that the information management system 100 performs at least part of the function of the content server 200 or vice versa.

In addition, the content database 210 and / or the database 400 is a concept including a computer-readable recording medium. The content database 210 and / or the database 400 may be a negotiated database, but may be a database in a broad sense such as data recording based on a file system. It should be understood that even a simple set of logs may correspond to the

databases

210 and 400 in the present invention as long as it can search and extract data. In addition, in FIG. 1, the content database 210 and the database 400 are illustrated as interworking with the content server 200 and the information management system 100, respectively, but are not limited thereto. In other words, according to the needs of those skilled in the art, the arrangement or dependency of the content database 210 or the database 400 may be changed freely.

Information Management System

As shown in FIG. 2, the information management system 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a content collecting unit 110, a data managing unit 120, an information providing unit 130, an interface unit 140, and a communication unit. 150 and the controller 160 may be included. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the content collecting unit 110, the data management unit 120, the information providing unit 130, the interface unit 140, the communication unit 150 and the control unit 160 are at least some of them The program module may communicate with the content server 200 and / or the user terminal device 300. Such program modules may be included in the information management system 100 in the form of an operating system, an application program module, or other program modules, and may be physically stored in various known storage devices. In addition, such program modules may be stored in a remote storage device that can communicate with the information management system 100. On the other hand, such program modules include, but are not limited to, routines, subroutines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or execute particular abstract data types, described below, in accordance with the present invention.

First, the content collector 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention may perform a function of collecting content from the content server 200 and / or the user terminal device 300. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the content collector 110 may collect the content that can be obtained through the Internet as much as possible regardless of the type and source of the content in order to provide a variety of content to the user. As a method of collecting content by the content collecting unit 110, a pull method (eg, RSS (Real) that actively collects content in the user terminal device 300 or in accordance with the determination of the content collecting unit 110. Simple Syndication, crawling, etc.), a push method of manually receiving content regardless of the determination of the user terminal device 300 or the content collecting unit 110, and a random input of the user terminal device 300. The manner of collecting the content may be adopted.

Meanwhile, the content collector 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention may selectively collect only content from a content source designated by the user among a vast amount of content on / offline. Here, the content source mainly refers to any content source that provides dynamically updated content in a format such as a datastream. For example, a news portal site continuously updating and providing news content, and a new content source. This may include a blog in which a post is continuously generated. Such content sources may be identified by identifiers such as categories, tags, URIs, RSS addresses, blog accounts, and the like. Therefore, when a user designates an identifier of a content source that the user is interested in, the content collector 110 may continuously collect content from the corresponding content source based on the identifier. Accordingly, the user does not have to make a query for collecting content each time.

Although specifically illustrated above with respect to the content collection method, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the content collection method is not necessarily based on the content collection method.

Next, the data manager 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention first performs a function of extracting and storing connection data that enables access to other content from the content collected by the content collector 110. can do. The data manager 120 may include a connection data extractor 122 and a context data extractor 124.

The connection data extracting unit 122 may perform a function of extracting connection data such as a hyperlink from content of interest of the user (of course, the connection data need not be limited to the hyperlink at all). In addition, the connection data extracting unit 122 may perform a function of selectively extracting only connection data satisfying a predetermined condition among connection data included in the content of interest of the user. In addition, the connection data extractor 122 may perform a function of re-extracting connection data from other content that may be accessed based on the connection data extracted from the content of interest of the user. The relationship between the content and the connection data will be described in more detail in the relevant sections below.

The context data extractor 124 may perform a function of extracting context data regarding connection data. According to an embodiment of the present invention, by referring to context data, which is data representing a context regarding connection data, it is possible to appropriately provide at least some of a vast amount of content having a complex connection relationship to a user. More specifically, the context data may be any type of data that directly or indirectly represents a context about the content from which the connection data is extracted or another context for use of the connection data. The extraction and use of context data will be discussed in more detail in the relevant sections below.

Next, the information providing unit 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention using the connection data and / or context data managed by the data management unit 120 and other content (information) connected to the content of interest of the user To perform the function of providing the user terminal device 300. In addition, the information providing unit 130 may refer to the context data about the user together with the context data about the connection data in order to provide more useful content to the user. Furthermore, the information providing unit 130 provides another content connected with other content accessed based on the predetermined connection data, or a process and / or provided by another system accessed based on the predetermined connection data. You can also call an application program.

Next, the interface unit 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention designates the content (or content source) to be extracted from the connection data, and / or other content that is accessible based on the connection data. A user interface (eg, a graphical user interface) that enables an experience may be provided to the user terminal device 300. Such a user interface may be operated by an application program or a program module transmitted from the information management system 100 to the user terminal device 300.

Next, in the communication unit 150 according to an embodiment of the present invention, each component of the information management system 100 or the information management system 100 is the same as the content server 200 and / or the user terminal device 300. It is possible to support data transmission and reception with an external device.

Finally, the control unit 160 according to an embodiment of the present invention flows data between the content collecting unit 110, the data management unit 120, the information providing unit 130, the interface unit 140, and the communication unit 150. It can control the function. That is, the controller 160 controls the flow of data from / to the outside or between the components of the information management system 100, thereby providing the content collecting unit 110, the data managing unit 120, and the information providing unit ( 130, the interface unit 140, and the communication unit 150 may be controlled to perform unique functions.

Connection relationships and connection data between content

Multiple contents that can be accessed on the Internet may exist in a predetermined connection relationship. A typical example is where separate web pages are linked to each other by hyperlinks.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of contents may have at least one connection relationship through connection data. For example, a pair of content may be connected to each other by connection data such as hyperlink, linkback / trackback / pingback, and user comment in the content.

Further, according to an embodiment of the present invention, it is also possible to capture that a plurality of contents form a group using common attributes as connection data. In detail, the plurality of content includes at least one of a category (ie, taxonomy) to which the content belongs, a tag (ie, folksonomy) assigned to the content, and a service or additional content (eg, widget, advertisement, etc.) embedded in the content. In one case, the plurality of contents may be regarded as having a connection relationship using the data regarding the common point as connection data (ie, it may be regarded as having a grouped connection relationship). ).

Regarding the connection relationship between the contents as described above, the international application PCT / KR2009 / 001157 (filed March 9, 2009, the title of the invention: "METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING RECORD ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URIs, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM) FOR RECORDING COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT ENABLES IMPLEMENTATION OF SAME METHOD "). The contents of this patent document should be considered to be incorporated herein in its entirety.

As shown in FIG. 3, the content 1 (C ₁ ) may form a connection relationship with the content 2 (C ₂ ) and the content 3 (C ₃ ) by the connection data of the link A and the link B, and the rest of the content. A connection relationship can be formed by connection data such as trackback and widgets. In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, the contents 1 (C ₁ ), the contents 2 (C ₂ ), the contents 3 (C ₃ ), and the contents 6 (C ₆ ) have a connection relationship grouped by a connection data called tag A. Content 4 (C ₄ ) and content 5 (C ₅ ) may form a grouped connection relationship using category A as connection data.

Meanwhile, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a connection relationship based only on a hierarchical relationship between contents may be formed without connection data such as a link or a tag. For example, in the case where comment B is generated as a reply to comment A, connection data based on the hierarchical relationship between comments A and comments B may be generated, and content A and content B form another vertical relationship. Even if there is, connection data based on the vertical relationship can be generated (in the nature of such a connection data may be link-type connection data).

The connection relationship between the content in the present invention is not necessarily limited to the above-mentioned type, and any connection relationship that can be specified by predetermined connection data may be any connection relationship in the present invention.

Extraction of Connection Data

Hereinafter, the extraction of connection data according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail.

As described above, since a connection relationship may be formed between contents, it is possible to easily access other contents connected to specific contents by referring to connection data indicating a connection relation between contents. Hereinafter, the extraction of connection data for this will be described in detail.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, connection data such as hyperlink, linkback / trackback / pingback, etc. may be extracted from the content.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in extracting connection data from content, only connection data satisfying a predetermined condition may be selectively extracted. For example, in extracting a tag from content including information about music, only a tag relating to the composer can be extracted as connection data. In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, only connection data associated with a corresponding field may be extracted with reference to a database (not shown) that stores information about a specific field. For example, it is possible to extract only the connection data representing or associated with a place name from the contents by referring to a database storing information about the place name or address.

Meanwhile, according to an embodiment of the present invention, primary connection data may be extracted from specific content, and secondary connection data may be additionally extracted from other content connected to the content by the primary connection data. For example, extract a hyperlink (i.e., primary connection data) pointing to another blog post from a particular blog post, and extract a tag (i.e., secondary connection data) from another blog post that is accessed based on the hyperlink. can do. Such extensive extraction of the connection data may be performed repeatedly, and as a result, even the nth order connection data may be extracted.

Furthermore, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned extraction of the connection data may be performed in combination. For example, a user may extract only a tag indicating a place name from a blog post as primary connection data, and extract only a tag indicating a restaurant as secondary connection data from another blog post accessed based on the extracted place name tag. This process may be performed repeatedly.

Type of connection data

According to an embodiment of the present invention, whether the connection data extracted from the content is connection data (ie, link-type connection data) indicating a connection relationship between a pair of content or connection data (ie, grouping a plurality of contents into groups). , Group type connection data). In practice, connection data (generally grouped) such as categories and tags are often included in the content in the form of hyperlinks. Therefore, if not properly distinguished, group-type connection data may be treated as link-type connection data. Can be.

Unlike link-type connection data that represents only a single connection relationship between a pair of content, group-type connection data such as categories and tags represent a complex connection relationship between a plurality of contents, and a plurality of contents according to a synonym or antonym. Since it may be used to form an ontology of the liver, it is necessary to distinguish the link-type connection data and the group-type connection data in order to more reasonably grasp various connection relationships between contents.

To do this, for example, by analyzing a markup language (eg, HTML, XML, etc.) describing the content that is the object of connection data extraction, whether the connection data is a simple link included in the corresponding content or not. It may be determined whether a category of the content or a tag assigned to the content.

Connection data management

According to an embodiment of the present invention, connection data may be managed by a user. That is, the user can create, change, or delete connection data about the content as necessary. For example, a user may exclude some of the connection data stored associated with him (e.g., associated with his or her account or identifier), extracted from his or her content of interest as a starting point. In addition, the user may arbitrarily generate or change predetermined connection data with respect to the predetermined content. For example, a user can randomly tag a particular blog post and register it as connection data for his account.

Extract and Use Context Data

(1) extraction of context data

According to one embodiment of the present invention, in order to appropriately provide at least a part of a vast amount of content having a complex connection relationship to a user, context data which is data representing a context regarding connection data may be extracted and used.

First, the context data may be visual information or position information about content to be extracted from the connection data. For example, when a tag "sunrise" is extracted as connection data among the tags assigned to the photo content, information about the time and location at which the photo content is captured may be extracted as context data.

In addition, the context data may be information about a source of content to be extracted from the connection data. For example, if the tag "TV" is extracted as connection data from both a website called "Gizmodo" (website related to electronics) and a website called "Perezhilton" (website related to entertainment information), both contents are Information about the content source, respectively, "electronic product related website" and "entertainment information related website" may be extracted as context data.

In addition, the context data may be a keyword, a subject, or the like of the content to be extracted from the connection data. In order to extract a keyword, a subject, and the like of the content as context data, reference may be made to a known context extraction technique. For example, U.S. Patent No. 6,185,531, which discloses a method of recognizing the subject of a document, has been disclosed. The publication of the title of the invention: "Topic Indexing Method", January 9, may be referred to. The contents of this patent document should be considered to be incorporated herein in its entirety.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the context data may be information about the simultaneous appearance (or the simultaneous appearance frequency) of the connection data. For example, when a frequency of "iPhone" and a tag of "Android" are extracted together as connection data with respect to one piece of content, the tag connection data of "iPhone" and the tag connection data of "Android" are mutually different. Context data that is associated with the association can be extracted. As another example, when a tag "House" and a tag "Music" are often extracted together as connection data with respect to one piece of content, the tag connection data "House" and the tag connection data "Music" are associated with each other. Context data may be extracted. In this case, the tag connection data "Music" may serve as context data about the tag connection data "House", so that the connection data "House" does not mean a living space, but rather a genre of music. It may be understood to mean.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the context data may be information about a behavior pattern of the user. For example, after the user inquires the content with the connection data of "cell phone", immediately after the user inquires the content with the connection data of "iPhone" or "iPhone" as the connection data for acquiring the content of interest. In the case of registering in the account, context data indicating that connection data of "cell phone" and connection data of "iPhone" are related to each other may be extracted.

Meanwhile, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the context data may be directly generated, changed, or deleted by the user, thereby allowing the user to make the context data match his or her intention.

Finally, it is to be understood that the context data of the present invention is not necessarily limited to those listed above, and any data representing a context relating to content or connection data can be any context data according to the present invention.

(2) Use of context data

According to an embodiment of the present invention, with reference to the extracted context data as described above, it is possible to provide the user with contents suitable for the context. Such context data may be referred to together with connection data about content of interest of the user.

For example, suppose a user takes a picture at Yankee Stadium in New York at 7:00 pm. In this case, among the various photographic contents connected to the photographic content, photographed at or near Yankee Stadium of New York at about 7 pm may be selected and provided to the user with reference to the context data as described above.

Of course, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various applications other than those described above may be derived according to the technical idea of the present invention to be understood through the above or the following description.

Semantic indexing and ontology

According to an embodiment of the present invention, semantic indexing of the connection data extracted from the content may be performed. In this case, context data regarding the connection data may be used.

Referring to FIG. 5, an example of using context data regarding a content source in indexing a tag “girl” extracted from various contents provided from various sources may be described. Specifically, in connection with "girl", the connection data of the posts provided by Web Site 1, Web Site 2, and Web Site 3 associated with parenting is "parenting site1 / tag / girl", "parenting site2 / tag". / girl "and" parenting site3 / tag / girl ", which are commonly indexed using the context of parenting related web sites as their content source. On the other hand, such indexing may be similarly performed on connection data of posts provided by Web site 1 and Web site 2 associated with dating. That is, "dating site1 / tag / girl" and "dating site2 / tag / girl" may be indexed connection data. The above indexed connection data all include a tag called "girl", but may be classified into two groups according to the source of the content (ie, the context data regarding the content source). In addition, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that all types of context data described above can be used for indexing connection data.

The ontology generated as a result of performing semantic indexing on the connection data may be used for context matching to provide content corresponding to the user's context. This is discussed in more detail in the relevant sections below.

Database configuration

As shown in FIG. 6, the database 400 according to the present invention may include a connection database 410 and a context database 420.

First, the connection database 410 is a database that stores connection data extracted from content. As described above, the connection data may connect two contents to each other, or may group and connect two or more contents. According to one embodiment of the invention, in the connection database 410, connection data may be stored in association with the user (e.g., associated with the user's account or identifier).

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the connection database 410 may also store information about the direction of the connection data. For example, if hyperlink C and hyperlink D exist in the connection database 410, the hyperlink C may be primary connection data first extracted from the content A, and the hyperlink D may be assigned to the hyperlink C. It may be the second connection data extracted from the content B accessed by the second. In this case, the connection history of the hyperlinks may be stored in the connection database 410.

In addition, the context database 420 is a database that stores context data representing a context relating to connection data. As described above, since the context data is extracted in association with the connection data, the context database 420 may need to be associated with the connection database 410.

In FIG. 6, the connection database 410 and the context database 420 are illustrated as being separated from each other. However, this means that the connection database 410 and the context database 420 must be physically or logically separated from each other. It does not mean that it does.

Provide information

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when a predetermined triggering event occurs, reference is made to connection data about content of interest of a specific user or other content useful for the user by referring to connection data associated with a specific user. Can provide.

(1) Processing according to triggering event

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the content may be provided periodically or periodically according to a content providing request from the user terminal device 300. Meanwhile, content may be provided according to a request from another process that may exist outside the user terminal device 300.

In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the context (eg, visual information, location information, motion information (eg, acceleration sensor in the user terminal device 300) regarding the user obtained from the user terminal device 300, etc. Content) may be provided automatically. More specifically, the context data about the user and the context data about the connection data may be compared, so that the content including the connection data associated with the user context may be provided to the user.

For example, when there is a hyperlink to an electronic map page containing information about a predetermined location, the content of the electronic map may be provided to the user in response to an event in which the user reaches the location. have.

In another example, when there is a hyperlink having a context associated with a predetermined word, in response to an event in which the word is input to the user terminal device 300, content linked by the hyperlink is provided to the user. Can be provided.

(2) general search

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in response to the above-described triggering event, the connected content may be provided to the user by the connection data. That is, the user provides content by searching for other content connected to the content of interest of the user or by searching for other content by using connection data (in many cases, connection data stored in association with the user) extracted from the content of interest of the user. I can receive it.

(3) broad search

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in addition to the contents directly connected by the connection data, other contents adjacent to or associated with the above contents may be provided to the user. For example, content belonging to a certain entertainment can be provided, which can be set by a user or a system operator, where an entourage is a collection of various contents that are directly or indirectly connected, or a specific content. It may mean a collection of several contents that are separated by a distance of N or less.

Meanwhile, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the content connected by the connection data may include a process performed by another system or an application program provided in another system. Thus, for example, a process for booking a movie ticket or an application program for a bank transaction can be called using the connection data.

Suppose a user provides content by referring to a user context that a user is currently located in "Union Square, San Francisco" and connection data that includes a tag "movie". In this case, by calling the electronic map application to search for a movie theater located in the vicinity of "Union Square, San Francisco" where the user is located, by calling the movie ticket booking process hosted by the server of the movie theater, It is possible to conveniently reserve a movie ticket.

On the other hand, with respect to the data structure for the general search or extended search as described above can refer to the specification of the international application PCT / KR2009 / 001157.

(4) filtering

According to an embodiment of the present invention, by filtering the content to be provided to a specific user by referring to the context data regarding the connection data, the user may be provided with more targeted content.

In this regard, the case of FIG. 5 will be described as follows. In the case of Fig. 5, since connection data including "girl" is classified and indexed into two completely different groups according to the context data of the source of content, even if the tag "girl" is common, "dating post 1A" Filtering may be performed such that "parenting post 2A" is not provided to the user who designates the content as the content of interest.

(5) Acquisition and Use of Context Data Regarding Users

According to an embodiment of the present invention, context data regarding a user may be obtained and used by the user terminal device 300. The context data about the user may be used together with the connection data about the content of interest of the user or the context data about the connection data associated with the user to provide more useful content to the user. .

Referring to FIG. 7, the user terminal device 300 obtains user context data that matches connection data about content of interest of a specific user or context data about connection data associated with the user. It is possible to cause the triggering event as described above for the content experience. To this end, as shown in FIG. 7, the user terminal device 300 may include a user interface for receiving a user's request, a timer, a GPS module for detecting a user's location, a sensor for detecting a user's movement, And other applications.

As the context data is matched, the user terminal device 300 may be provided with more appropriate content from the information management system 100.

8 is a diagram illustrating a screen of a user interface for allowing a user to receive content according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown, when the information management system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention registers connection data (tags, URIs, RSS addresses, etc.) in the account of a specific user (810), the user connects thereby Can be provided content. When a hyperlink corresponding to the tag (or URI) illustrated in 810 is clicked by the user, the corresponding content may be displayed to the user. In addition, the information management system 100 may provide more suitable content to the user when context matching as described above occurs with respect to a specific URI (820).

Handling of browsing activity outside of the system

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a user who browses instead of relying on the information management system 100 may be attracted to depend on the information management system 100.

According to a specific embodiment of the present invention, when a user inputs a URI pointing to a desired content while browsing without using the information management system 100 (for example, clicking a hyperlink), the URI Instead of the content directly accessed by the content management system 100, the content corresponding to the URI may be provided.

For example, if a user enters a URI "http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/538" in order to experience the desired content, the actual URL indicated by the URI in the user's browser Instead of forwarding the page, the page corresponding to the URI among the pages collected by the information management system 100 may be forwarded. Such processing may be performed by a URI redirection technique. Specifically, for example, if the URI of the web site operated by the information management system 100 is "abcd.com", the URI of the actual page (that is, "http://www.ted.com/talks/view"). / id / 538 ") to redirect the user to use the information management system 100 by redirecting to a URI such as http: // abcd.com/ www.ted.com/talks/view/id/538. Accordingly, the user terminal device 300 may further provide the user terminal device 300 with content (eg, a comment on the page) related to the page among the content collected by the information management system 100.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the above function may be performed by a browser installed independently, or may be performed by a plug-in installed in addition to a commercial browser.

On the other hand, by performing the above function, the user can check the information about the content in advance (for example, the comment on the content, etc.) before accessing the web site where the content exists, the efficiency of browsing It can be increased.

Embodiments according to the present invention described above can be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer components and recorded in a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the computer-readable recording medium may be specially designed and configured for the present invention, or may be known and available to those skilled in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, and magneto-optical media such as floptical disks. medium) and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device may be modified with one or more software modules to perform the processing according to the present invention, and vice versa.

Although the present invention has been described by specific matters such as specific components and limited embodiments and drawings, it is provided only to help a more general understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. Those skilled in the art can make various modifications and changes from this description.

Therefore, the spirit of the present invention should not be limited to the above-described embodiments, and the scope of the spirit of the present invention is defined not only in the claims below, but also in the ranges equivalent to or equivalent to those of the claims. Will belong to.

Claims

As a method for providing information using connection data,

Collecting content from a content source,

Extracting connection data based on the collected content, wherein the connection data enables access from one content to another content; and

Providing content accessed by the connection data to a user terminal device;

How to include.
The method of claim 1,

The content source is a content source specified by the user.
The method of claim 1,

The connection data may be link type connection data connecting a pair of contents or group type connection data grouping a plurality of contents.
The method of claim 3,

And wherein the linked connection data comprises at least one of hyperlink, linkback, trackback, and pingback.
The method of claim 3,

The link type connection data is generated based on a hierarchical relationship between the pair of contents.
The method of claim 3,

The group type connection data includes at least one of a category of content, a tag attached to the content, a service associated with the content, and additional content embedded in the content.
The method of claim 1,

And the connection data is connection data satisfying a predetermined condition.
The method of claim 1,

And additionally providing another content accessible by connection data about the accessed content.
The method of claim 1,

Extracting context data relating to the connection data.
The method of claim 9,

The context data may include at least one of visual information, location information, source information, keyword information, subject information and simultaneous appearance information of connection data, and behavior pattern information of a user regarding content that is the object of the connection data extraction. Way.
The method of claim 9,

Indexing the connection data with reference to the context data.
The method of claim 9,

The providing of the content includes referencing context data regarding the user together with the connection data and the context data.
The method of claim 12,

The content providing step is performed according to a predetermined triggering event.
The method of claim 13,

The triggering event is at least one of a request by the user, a request from an external process, elapse of a predetermined period, and context matching.
A computer-readable recording medium for recording a computer program for executing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 14.
An information management system for providing information using connection data,

A content collector for collecting content from a content source,

A data manager for extracting connection data based on the collected content, wherein the connection data enables access from one content to another content; and

Information providing unit for providing the content accessed by the connection data to the user terminal device

Information management system comprising a.
The method of claim 16,

And the content source is a content source specified by the user.
The method of claim 16,

And the connection data is link-type connection data connecting a pair of contents or group-type connection data grouping a plurality of contents.
The method of claim 18,

And the link-type connection data includes at least one of hyperlink, linkback, trackback, and pingback.
The method of claim 18,

And the link-type connection data is generated based on a hierarchical relationship between the pair of contents.
The method of claim 18,

The group type connection data includes at least one of a category of content, a tag attached to the content, a service associated with the content, and additional content embedded in the content.
The method of claim 16,

And the connection data is connection data satisfying a predetermined condition.
The method of claim 16,

And the information providing unit further provides another content accessible by connection data about the accessed content.
The method of claim 16,

And the data management unit extracts context data related to the connection data.
The method of claim 24,

The context data may include at least one of visual information, location information, source information, keyword information, subject information and simultaneous appearance information of connection data, and behavior pattern information of a user regarding content that is the object of the connection data extraction. Information management system.
The method of claim 24,

And the connection data is indexed with reference to the context data.
The method of claim 24,

And the information providing unit refers to the context data about the user together with the connection data and the context data.
The method of claim 27,

And an information management unit providing contents in accordance with a predetermined triggering event.
The method of claim 28,

And the triggering event is at least one of a request by the user, a request from an external process, elapse of a predetermined period, and context matching.