WO2013042809A1

WO2013042809A1 - System and method for providing current use state information of an application

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Publication number: WO2013042809A1
Application number: PCT/KR2011/006994
Authority: WO
Inventors: 고윤환
Original assignee: Ko Youn Hwan
Priority date: 2011-09-22
Filing date: 2011-09-22
Publication date: 2013-03-28
Also published as: KR20130031946A

Abstract

The present invention includes: a search engine unit for searching application information; and a main information processing server for requesting the application information of the search engine unit, processing the application information transmitted from the search engine unit, creating current use state information exhibiting a current use state of applications used in each country, and providing the current use state information to a user's device.

Description

System and method for providing usage information of application

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing usage information of an application provided through an application store, and more particularly, to a system and method for providing usage information of an application that provides ranking information and history information of an application by country. It is about.

Recently, an application store that sells applications used in mobile terminals online has become common. A good example is Apple's App Store.

Accordingly, the user can access the application store on the Internet using his mobile terminal and directly download the desired application after paying the cost.

However, the application store provided on the Internet sells a huge amount of applications, so users have to spend a long time searching for the desired application.

Accordingly, in recent years, in the application store, by providing the preference and popularity of the application, the user can easily recognize the application which is frequently used.

Such application stores are increasing the versatility of mobile terminals such as games, current affairs, news, weather, and maps, as well as applications that can be linked with various peripheral devices.

Background art of the present invention is disclosed in Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1039480 (2011.05.31).

In the related art, as described above, various applications are provided in an application store, and preferences and popularity of the provided applications may be provided so that a user may search for an application more easily.

However, in the conventional application store, the popularity of applications differs from country to country, and there is a problem in that application information of other countries can not be conveniently and quickly viewed without subscribing to a communication company of the corresponding country.

In addition, although the same applications have different preferences in different countries, they could not be provided as objectified and quantified data, and they could not bridge the gap in information accessibility because they could not provide services for native languages that are widely used around the world.

In addition, there is a problem in that the ranking information of the application is not provided in various ways, so the recyclability of the database is low, and the past ranking of the application cannot be recognized.

The present invention was devised to improve the above-described problem, and provides a system and method for providing usage information of an application, which provides ranking information and history information of the application in various ways by country by searching and classifying various information about the application. Its purpose is to.

System for providing usage information of an application according to an aspect of the present invention includes a search engine unit for searching for application information; And requesting the application information from the search engine unit, processing the application information transmitted from the search engine unit, and automatically generating application usage status information indicating a usage status of an application used in each country and providing the same to a user device. It characterized in that it comprises a main information processing server.

The application usage status information of the present invention is characterized in that it includes ranking information based on the popularity and preference of the application.

The ranking information of the present invention is characterized in that it is provided for each layer or category of the application.

The ranking information of the present invention is characterized in that it is provided for each country where the application is provided.

The application usage status information of the present invention is characterized by including review information of the application.

The application usage status information of the present invention may include history information indicating a change in rank of the application based on the popularity and preference of each country of the application.

The main information processing server of the present invention comprises: an application information processing unit for generating the application usage status information by indexing the application information and classifying and organizing by hierarchy or category; A database unit for storing the application information and the application usage status information transmitted from the search engine unit; An information conversion unit converting the application usage status information according to a platform of the user device or a type of information requested by a user; Extracts the application information and inputs the application information to the application information processing unit, and stores the application usage status information generated by the application information processing unit in the database unit, and the information conversion unit requests the platform of the user device or the user's request. And a control module for transmitting the application usage status information converted according to the information type to the user device.

The control module of the present invention is characterized by generating and providing the application status information based on a plurality of languages.

The user device of the present invention is characterized in that any one or more of the CMS (Contents Management System) platform, a mobile platform and a web platform.

The main information processing server of the present invention is characterized by generating the usage status information in the form of a file and providing the social network service (SNS) or email.

Application usage information of the present invention is characterized in that it comprises any one or more of a PDF (Portable Document Format) file, an Excel file, an image file and a text file.

Method of providing usage status information of an application according to an aspect of the present invention comprises the steps of requesting application information from the application information providing system; Processing the application information received from the application information providing system to generate application usage status information indicating usage status of an application used in each country; And providing the application usage status information to a user device.

The application usage status information of the present invention is characterized in that it includes ranking information based on the popularity and preference of each application.

The generating of the application usage status information of the present invention may include: storing the application usage status information generated by the application information processor; And indexing the application information to generate and classify the application usage status by classifying and organizing the information according to a hierarchy or a category.

The providing of the application usage status information of the present invention to the user device may further include converting the application usage status information according to the platform of the user device or the type of information requested by the user.

The providing of the application usage status information of the present invention to a user device may include generating and providing the application status information based on a plurality of languages.

The application usage status information of the present invention is characterized in that it is updated periodically.

The application usage status information of the present invention may be any one of a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, an Excel file, an image file, and a text file.

The present invention enables to view the application usage status of other countries without having to subscribe to the telecommunications company of the corresponding country, and provides the current status for the same application by objectification and quantification by country.

In addition, the present invention provides a multi-language support service to improve information contactability with respect to a preferred language.

Furthermore, the present invention provides application ranking information by layer and category to increase the degree of recycling for the database, provide the preference and popularity of the application by day, and check the past ranking of the application to check the current status of the application. Make sure you recognize it correctly. This makes it easier for users to select and use the application.

1 is a service flowchart of a system for providing usage status information of an application according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram of a service server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is an exemplary diagram illustrating user information of FIG. 2.

4 is an exemplary diagram illustrating application information of FIG. 2.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing usage status information of an application according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 illustrates various platform environments in which application usage status information is provided according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an exemplary diagram illustrating application usage status information processed by the CMS (Contents Management System) platform of FIG. 6.

FIG. 8 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an implementation of SNS interworking with a data ranking table of application usage status information processed by the mobile platform of FIG. 6.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a data ranking graph of application usage status information processed by the mobile platform of FIG. 6.

Hereinafter, a system and method for providing usage information of an application according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In this process, the thickness of the lines or the size of the components shown in the drawings may be exaggerated for clarity and convenience of description. In addition, terms to be described later are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, which may vary according to the intention or convention of a user or an operator. Therefore, the definitions of these terms should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

As shown in FIG. 1, a system for providing usage status information of an application according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a service server 20 and a user device 30.

The application information providing system 10 provides application information. The application information providing system 10 is provided with a site and registers various information related to the application to the site to provide various application information.

The application information providing system 10 is provided to a management company that manages an application, a communication company, or an application vendor that sells the application and provides the information.

Sites provided through the application information providing system 10 may include Apple.com or an app store operated by Apple, and in particular, various sites that provide application usage, for example, ranking information, popularity, and preferences. All may be included.

On the other hand, the application information provided by the application information providing system 10 includes the ranking information of the application based on the popularity and preference of the application, the name of the application, the price of the application, a review input by the user or developer who used the application, and the like. The information may include information about a developer who developed the application, a popularity registered by a user who uses the application (use score), category information of the application, and ranking information for each category of the application.

Here, the category of the application may be classified in various ways, such as news, games, securities, weather.

The service server 20 accesses the application information providing system 10 and periodically retrieves the application information, for example, on a daily basis, and processes the application information to generate application usage status information. To the user device 30.

Here, the application usage status information indicates various status information on the application based on popularity and preference for each country. It can also be configured by providing different categories for each country.

The application usage information includes history information indicating the ranking change of the application based on the country's popularity and preference of the application. The application usage status information may be provided in various forms by layer, category, and combination thereof.

For example, application usage within a certain rank within an entire country or in a specific country, application usage within a certain rank by category in a whole country or within a specific country, application usage within a tiered schedule ranking within an entire country or in a particular country. Etc. may be included.

In particular, the application usage status information includes history information indicating the rank change based on the popularity and preference of each country of the application. This will allow you to identify trends in specific applications among all your applications, and even better identify trends in country-specific applications.

For reference, the application usage status information is not limited to the above embodiment, and may be variously generated as necessary.

On the other hand, the service server 20 generates the application usage status information as described above, and provides it to the user device 30. In this case, the service server 20 may be a platform (e.g., a Content Management System (CMS) platform, a mobile platform and a web platform) mounted on the user device 30, or a form of information requested by the user, for example, a PDF file, The application usage information may be converted and provided as one or more of an Excel file, an image file, and a text file. In this case, the information may be provided through an SNS (Social Network Service) or an e-mail through each user device 30.

The user device 30 may include a tablet PC such as a mobile phone, a personal computer, an iPAD, and the like, each of which may be equipped with one or more of the above-described CMS platform, mobile platform, and web platform.

The user device 30 is equipped with an application or a program for requesting and outputting application usage information so that the user can check the application usage status information through the application or program.

In addition, the user device 30 can update the application usage status information between the respective platforms.

Hereinafter, the service server 20 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

2 is a block diagram of a service server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is an exemplary diagram showing user information of FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is an exemplary diagram showing application information of FIG. 2.

The service server 20 includes a search engine unit 21 and a main information processing server 22, as shown in FIG.

The search engine unit 21 accesses the application information providing system 10 or various sites provided therein to search for application app ranking information.

For example, a crawl engine may be employed as the search engine unit 21. The crawl engine crawls the application information provided by each site while residing on the site, and transmits the collected application information to the control module 224 for indexing processing by the application main information processing server 22. .

The main information processing server 22 requests the application information from the search engine unit 21, and then processes the application information transmitted from the search engine unit 21 to generate application usage status information to the user device 30. send.

The main information processing server 22 includes an application information processing unit 221, a database unit 222, an information conversion unit 223, and a control module 224.

The application information processing unit 221 indexes the application information received from the search engine unit 21 and classifies and organizes the information by hierarchy or category to generate application usage status information.

The database unit 222 includes application information transmitted from the search engine unit 21, application usage status information and user information generated by the application information processing unit 221.

The user information includes personal information of the user who requested the application usage status information. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the user information includes a user serial number, a user ID, a user name, a password, a user type, a postal code, an address, a conversion number, a mobile phone number, an e-mail, an e-mail use, a user. Various information may be included, such as status, whether Internet Protocol (IP) restriction, modification date, and the like. For reference, the user information is an example of user information stored in the database unit 222 and is not limited to the above-described embodiment. It will be understood that more user information may be additionally included.

The application information, as described above, the ranking information of the application based on the popularity and preference of the application, the name of the application, the price of the application, review information input by the user or developer who used the application, and the developer who developed the application. Information, a popularity registered by the user using the application (use score), category information of the application, ranking information for each category of the application, and the like.

For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the application information may include a mobile web ID, a mobile web title, a mobile web uniform resource locator, a manufacturer, a manufacturer link, a mobile web introduction, a review state, a basic review state, and a premium. Review status, classification, registration date, modification date, and user serial number may be included.

For reference, the application information is an example of the application information stored in the database unit 222 is not limited to the above embodiment, it will be obvious that more application information may be included. For example, the number of downloads, categories, and file sizes may be included.

Application usage information is based on the popularity and preferences of the application, which shows the usage of the application within a certain rank within the whole country or within a specific country, the usage of the application within a certain rank by category in the whole country or within a specific country, or the entire country or a specific country. Within the hierarchy, the application usage status within a certain rank is included.

The information converting unit 223 converts the application usage status information generated by the application information processing unit 221 according to the platform of the user device 30 or the information type requested by the user.

For example, if the user device 30 is equipped with a CMS platform, the application usage information is converted into a form suitable for the CMS platform, and if the user device 30 is equipped with a mobile platform, the application usage information is transferred to the mobile device. It converts it into a form suitable for the platform and, if equipped with a web platform, converts application usage information into a form suitable for the web platform.

In addition, according to the user's request, the usage information by country can be automatically generated as one of the PDF file, the Excel file, the image file, the text file, and the e-mail or SNS, for example, the face book or twitter. Can be provided as

The control module 224 generally controls the main information processing server 22. When the control module 224 receives the application usage status information from the user device 30, the control module 224 requests the application information from the search engine unit 21.

Subsequently, when application information is received from the search engine unit 21, the received application information is provided to the application information processing unit 221, and application usage status information generated by the application information processing unit 221 is transmitted to the database unit 222. Save it.

In addition, as described above in the information conversion unit 223, when the application usage status information is converted according to the platform of the user device 30 or the information type requested by the user, the information conversion unit 223 transmits the information to the user device 30.

In addition, the control module 224 may generate the application usage status information according to the language of the search word in the process of providing the application usage status information, thereby improving access to the application usage status information.

In addition, when a specific language is input at the user device 30, an automatic completion function for the language is input.

Meanwhile, the main information processing server 22 may be a cloud server that provides a cloud computing service.

In general, cloud computing is a computing style in which functions related to information technology (IT) are provided in the form of a service, and cloud computing enables a user to receive computing resources anytime and anywhere through the Internet. Computing resources are typically managed by separate resource providers, such as large data centers, and their targets may be hardware resources such as central processing unit (CPU) capabilities, memory, storage, or development platforms, applications, and the like. A service provided by a resource provider to use a computing capability using a computing resource in a terminal is called a cloud computing service.

As such, the main information processing server 22 may store a large amount of application information periodically by employing a cloud server provided by a cloud computing service, and furthermore, it is economical and efficient because there is no need for a separate staff for server management. Excellent at

Hereinafter, a method of providing usage status information of an application server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 5 to 8.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing usage status information of an application according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 illustrates various platform environments in which application usage status information is provided according to an embodiment of the present invention. 6 is an exemplary diagram illustrating application usage status information processed by the CMS (Contents Management System) platform of FIG. 6, and FIG. 8 is an SNS interworking implementation with a data ranking table of application usage status information processed by the mobile platform of FIG. 6. 9 is a diagram illustrating a data ranking graph of application usage status information processed by the mobile platform of FIG. 6.

First, the control module 224 periodically requests application information from the search engine unit 21.

When the search engine unit 21 receives application information from the control module 224, the search engine unit 21 accesses the application information providing system 10 and searches for application information (S10).

The search engine unit 21 transmits the retrieved application information to the control module 224, and the control module 224 stores the application information in the database unit 222 and inputs it to the application information processing unit 221.

The application information processing unit 221 indexes the application information and classifies and organizes the information into hierarchies and / or categories based on country recognition and preference and stores the information in the database unit 22.

Subsequently, when a search word is input to the user device 30 and the application usage status information is requested, the application usage status information is generated (S20, S30, and S40).

The control module 224 stores the application usage status information generated by the application information processing unit 221 in the database unit 222.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 6, the application usage status information is converted and transmitted according to the platform of the user device 30, or converted into the information requested by the user and transmitted to the user (S50). In this case, by translating and providing various words, sentences, etc. according to the user's language, users of various languages can use it more easily.

Here, the translation can be any general translator, which can be easily carried out by those skilled in the art, so the detailed description thereof is omitted here.

FIG. 7 illustrates an example of history information indicating a rank change of a specific application among application status information converted for a CMS platform.

Referring to FIG. 7, a date, a rank, a country, a genre, and a price at the corresponding date are shown, and a change in the rank for each date is shown.

That is, the ranking change of the application of the ID 359109415 used in South Korea from August 27, 2010 to October 01, 2010.

In addition, FIG. 8 shows a ranking of a specific country among application usage status information converted for a mobile platform.

Referring to FIG. 8, on July 03, 2011 and July 04, 2011, a ranking change of a specific application in China can be seen.

As such, the ranking information is provided based on the popularity and preference of each country of the application, and the ranking information of the application and history information thereof may be provided for each country.

Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 9, the application usage status information may be variously provided as a graph.

On the other hand, in the state of providing the application usage status information as described above, when the application is touched, it provides a review information about the application to obtain the vivid information about the application.

Meanwhile, the above example shows an example of application usage status information based on popularity and preference, and is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and may be provided in various ways according to need.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, it is merely exemplary and various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible for those skilled in the art to which the art pertains. Will understand. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the claims below.

Claims

A search engine unit for searching for application information; And

The main information requesting the application information to the search engine, the application information transmitted from the search engine unit to automatically generate application usage status information indicating the usage status of the application used in each country to provide to the user device Usage information providing system of the application including the information processing server.
The method of claim 1, wherein the application usage status information is

Usage information providing system of the application, characterized in that it includes ranking information based on the popularity and preference of the application.
The method of claim 1, wherein the ranking information

System for providing usage status information of the application, characterized in that provided by the country, hierarchy or category of the application.
The method of claim 1, wherein the application usage status information is

Usage information providing system of the application, characterized in that it comprises review information of the application.
The method of claim 1, wherein the application usage status information is

System usage information providing system of the application, characterized in that it includes history information indicating a change in the ranking of the application based on the popularity and preferences of the country.
The method of claim 1, wherein the main information processing server

An application information processing unit configured to generate the application usage status information by indexing the application information and classifying and organizing the information into layers or categories;

A database unit for storing the application information and the application usage status information transmitted from the search engine unit;

An information conversion unit converting the application usage status information according to a platform of the user device or a type of information requested by a user; And

Extracts the application information and inputs it to the application information processing unit, and stores the application usage status information generated by the application information processing unit in the database unit, and information requested by the platform or the user of the user device in the information conversion unit; And a control module for transmitting the converted application usage status information according to a form to the user device.
The method of claim 1, wherein the control module

System for providing usage status information of an application, wherein the application status information is generated and provided based on a plurality of languages.
The method of claim 1, wherein the user device is

System for providing usage information of an application, characterized in that one or more of a Contents Management System (CMS) platform, a mobile platform, and a web platform.
The method of claim 1, wherein the main information processing server

System for providing usage information of the application, characterized in that to generate the usage information in the form of a file to provide by SNS (Social Network Service) or email.
The method of claim 1, wherein the application usage status information is

A system for providing usage information of an application, wherein the application is automatically generated as one or more of a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, an Excel file, an image file, and a text file.
Requesting application information from an application information providing system;

Processing the application information received from the application information providing system to generate application usage status information indicating usage status of an application used in each country; And

And providing the application usage status information to a user device.
The method of claim 11, wherein the application usage status information is

Method for providing usage information of an application, characterized by including ranking information based on the popularity and preference of each application.
The method of claim 11, wherein generating the application usage status information comprises:

Storing the application usage status information generated by the application information processing unit;

And indexing the application information and classifying and organizing the information into layers or categories to generate the application usage information.
The method of claim 11, wherein providing the application usage status information to a user device comprises:

And converting the application usage status information according to the platform of the user device or the type of information requested by the user.
The method of claim 11, wherein the application usage status information is

Method for providing usage information of an application, characterized in that it is updated periodically.
The method of claim 11, wherein the application usage status information is

A method of providing usage information of an application, which is automatically generated from at least one of a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, an Excel file, an image file, and a text file.