WO2017073805A1

WO2017073805A1 - Method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for managing content provided on digital signage

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Publication number: WO2017073805A1
Application number: PCT/KR2015/011451
Authority: WO
Inventors: 김정호; 안종철
Original assignee: 주식회사 노크
Priority date: 2015-10-28
Filing date: 2015-10-28
Publication date: 2017-05-04

Abstract

According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for managing content provided on a digital signage is provided, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining configuration information for a content provision status, the configuration information being defined by at least one library; and providing the obtained configuration information to a digital signage on which a first application and a second application controlling the content provision status are executed, wherein the first application and the second application support the at least one library, and the content provision status by means of the first application and the content provision status by means of the second application are all controlled according to the provided configuration information.

Description

Method, system and non-transitory computer readable recording medium for managing content provided by digital signage

The present invention relates to a method, system and non-transitory computer readable recording medium for managing content provided in a digital signage.

In recent years, forms of content providing media have been diversified and content providing methods have been automated. For example, in the case of outdoor advertising, a modern method of providing advertising content through flexible media such as LED display boards or LCD TVs is different from the traditional method of providing advertising content through fixed printing media such as paper or film. It is introduced.

So-called digital signage or smart signage is a communication tool that advertisers can use in marketing, advertising, training, etc. and drive the customer experience.It is common in public places such as airports, hotels, hospitals, etc. It refers to a digital video device that provides not only in-broadcast content but also advertisement content intended by an advertiser. Also referred to as a digital signage and a digital information display (DID). Not only is it equipped with a processor and memory, it is free to move and express various contents clearly, and it is used for various purposes such as promotion, customer service, and guide media in department stores, subways, and bus stops. In addition, not only advertisement content is provided through digital signage, but various kinds of contents having a different purpose than advertisement are provided.

Recently, various kinds of applications (ie, applications) have been executed in digital signage, and many of these applications have a function of controlling the provisioning state of contents provided together. However, according to the related art introduced so far, since the function of controlling the content providing state (playback period, playback time, upload or download, etc.) is performed separately for each application, a digital signage in which a plurality of applications is executed is executed. In order to control the provisioning state of content in a usage environment, a digital signage manager or an application provider had to manage the setting regarding the provisioning state of each content for each of a plurality of applications. There has been a problem of increasing or decreasing usage of digital signage.

Accordingly, there is a need for a technology that can collectively manage the provisioning state of contents in a digital signage using environment in which various applications can be executed.

The object of the present invention is to solve all the problems of the prior art described above.

The present invention obtains setting information regarding a provision state of a content defined by at least one library, and the digital signage on which the first application and the second application to control the provision state of the content are executed. Providing the setting information, allowing the first application and the second application to support the at least one library, and the providing state of the content by the first application and the providing state of the content by the second application are both the above setting information. To ensure that the presentation status of the content in the digital signage can be synchronized between the various applications running in the digital signage, and that the delivery status of the content in the digital signage can be managed collectively. The purpose.

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 managing content provided in a digital signage, the method comprising: obtaining setting information defined by at least one library with respect to a content providing state; And providing the obtained setting information to a digital signage on which a first application and a second application executing the content of the content are executed, wherein the first application and the second application are the at least one. A method of supporting a library, and wherein the provisioning state of the content by the first application and the provisioning state of the content by the second application are both controlled according to the provided setting information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for managing content provided by digital signage, comprising: a library management unit for providing at least one library defining setting information regarding a content providing state, and Obtaining setting information regarding a provision state of the content defined by the at least one library, and obtaining the information to a digital signage in which a first application and a second application that control the provision state of the content are executed. And a content provision state management unit configured to provide setting information, wherein the first application and the second application support the at least one library, and provide a provision state of the content by the first application and the second application. The provision state of the content is all The system is controlled in accordance with the setting information in which the service is provided.

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

According to the present invention, since the provisioning state of the content in the digital signage can be synchronized between various applications executing in the digital signage, the effect of maintaining the continuity of the provisioning state of the content in the digital signage is achieved.

Further, according to the present invention, since the provision state of the content in the digital signage can be managed integrally without being bound to the application in an environment in which various applications can be executed in the digital signage, a setting for controlling the provision state of the content is provided. This does not need to be performed for each application, thereby reducing the management burden of digital signage and increasing the utilization of digital signage.

1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an entire system for managing content provided in a digital signage according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating in detail the internal configuration of the content management system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram conceptually illustrating a structure of a software development kit that supports a library that defines setting information about a content providing state according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration in which a content providing state is controlled by a plurality of applications executed in a digital signage according to an embodiment of the present invention.

100: network

200: content management system

210: library management unit

220: content provision state management unit

230: communication unit

240: control unit

300: application serving server

400: manager terminal device

500: digital signage

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.

Configuration of the entire system

In the present specification, content or content is a concept that collectively refers to digital information or individual information elements composed of letters, codes, voices, sounds, images, moving pictures, and the like, accessible through a communication network. Such content may include, for example, data such as text, images, video, audio, links (eg, web links), or a combination of at least two of these data.

1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an entire system for providing content using digital signage according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the entire system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication network 100, a content management system 200, an application providing server 300, an administrator terminal device 400, and a digital signage 500. ) May be included.

First, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the communication network 100 may be configured regardless of a communication mode such as wired communication or wireless communication, and may include a local area network (LAN) and a metropolitan area network (MAN). Network, a wide area network (WAN), and the like. Preferably, the communication network 100 as used herein may be a known Internet or World Wide Web (WWW). However, the communication network 100 may include, at least in part, a known wired / wireless data communication network, a known telephone network, or a known wired / wireless television communication network without being limited thereto.

Next, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the content management system 200 obtains setting information regarding the provision state of the content defined by at least one library, and controls the provision state of the content. Provide the above setting information to the digital signage 500 on which the first application and the second application are executed, and allow the first application and the second application to support the at least one library above, and By allowing both the provisioning state and the provisioning state of the content by the second application to be controlled according to the above setting information, the provisioning state of the content in the digital signage 500 can be synchronized between various applications running in the digital signage. The presentation state of the content in the digital signage 500 It can perform functions that can be managed.

The configuration and function of the content management system 200 according to the present invention will be described in detail through the following detailed description. Meanwhile, the content management system 200 has been described as described above, but this description is exemplary, and at least some of the functions or components required for the content management system 200 are required, the application providing server 300 and the administrator. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be implemented in the terminal device 400 or the digital signage 500 or may be included in the application providing server 300, the manager terminal device 400, or the digital signage 500.

Meanwhile, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the content management system 200 may perform a function of providing source data of content provided by the digital signage 500, but provides a function of providing source data of content. The performing content providing server (not shown) may exist as a separate component from the content management system 200.

Next, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the application providing server 300 performs a function of providing an application that can be executed in the digital signage 500. Here, according to an embodiment of the present invention, an application provided from the application providing server 300 may support at least one library that defines setting information regarding a content providing state.

Next, the manager terminal device 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention allows a manager to communicate after accessing the content management system 200, the application providing server 300, or the digital signage 500. As a digital device including a smart phone, a tablet, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a workstation, a PDA, a web pad, a mobile phone, etc., any memory device equipped with a computing device with a memory means and equipped with a computing power It can be adopted as the manager terminal device 400 according to the invention.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the manager terminal device 400 is an application (or program module) (not shown) that allows an administrator to input various setting information necessary for the integrated control of the content providing state. May be included). Such an application is distinguished from an application executed in the digital signage 500 and may be downloaded from the content management system 200 or a known web server (not shown) to the manager terminal device 400. . On the other hand, the characteristics of the application included in the manager terminal device 400 and the library management unit 210, the content providing state management unit 220, the communication unit 230 and the control unit 240 of the content management system 200 to be described later May be similar throughout. Here, the application included in the manager terminal device 400 may be replaced with a hardware device or a firmware device that at least a part thereof may perform substantially the same or equivalent functions thereof.

Next, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the digital signage 500, the content management system 200 provides content that is integrated control of the providing state, the application provided from the application providing server 300 To execute the function.

Specifically, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the digital signage 500 performs a function of communicating with the management system 200 or the user terminal device 400 and controlling an application or content to be provided to people. A component may include a set top box (not shown). In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the digital signage 500 may further include display means such as an LCD panel, an OLED panel, and a speaker for sound output.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the digital signage 500 may be installed in a public place such as a department store, a subway, a bus station, an airport, a hotel, a hospital, etc., but this is merely an example of the enumeration. Therefore, it should be noted that the place where the digital signage 500 is installed is not necessarily limited to those listed above.

Organization of Content Management System

Hereinafter, the internal configuration of the content management system 200 according to the present invention and the function of each component will be described.

As shown in FIG. 2, the content management system 200 according to the exemplary embodiment includes a library manager 210, a content providing state manager 220, a communicator 230, and a controller 240. Can be. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the library manager 210, the content providing state manager 220, the communicator 230, and the controller 240 are at least a part of the application providing server 300 and the manager terminal device 400. Or a program module in communication with the digital signage 500. Such program modules may be included in the content management system 200 in the form of an operating system, an application module, or other program modules, and may be physically stored in various known storage devices. In addition, such a program module may be stored in a remote storage device that can communicate with the content management system 200. 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, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the library manager 210 may perform a function of managing at least one library that may define setting information regarding a provision state of content provided from the digital signage 500. Can be.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the library manager 210 may allow an application developer to develop an application that supports at least one library (eg, class, subroutine, function, etc.). Manage and distribute a software development kit (SDK) or application programming interface (API) that provides at least one library. Specifically, the library manager 210 according to an embodiment of the present invention may distribute a software development kit or an application programming interface as described above to a terminal device (not shown) of an application developer, and in some cases, an application The software development kit or the application programming interface may be distributed to the application providing server 300 that performs the function of supporting the development.

Referring to FIG. 3, the software development kit may provide various libraries such as a network library, a file input / output library, a scheduling library, an image library, an audio player library, a sound library, a video player library, a video library, and the like, in addition to the standard library. Can be.

However, the library that can be provided in the present invention is not necessarily limited to those listed above, and any library that can define setting information regarding a content providing state within a range capable of achieving the object of the present invention. Note that more may be provided.

Next, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the content providing state manager 220 may perform a function of acquiring setting information defined by at least one library regarding the content providing state. .

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the content providing state management unit 220 provides the digital signage 500 with the obtained setting information, thereby supporting the at least one library, The first application and the second application executed at 500 may control the provision state of the content according to the provided setting information.

Here, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the setting information regarding the provision state of the content, the portion of the content provided in the digital signage 500, the time when the content is provided in the digital signage 500 (that is, the schedule ), Information about an area where content is provided on the display screen of the digital signage 500, whether to upload or download the content, whether to distribute the content, whether to monitor the situation where the content is provided, and the like. May be included.

Specifically, according to an embodiment of the present invention, when the first application and the second application are executed sequentially in the digital signage 500, the provision state of the content by the first application and the content by the second application The continuity between the provision states of can be maintained.

Referring to FIG. 4, it may be assumed that a first application (ie, App 1) and a second application (ie, App 2) are sequentially executed in the digital signage while content A is played in the digital signage. have. In this case, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the content A is reproduced according to the setting information provided by the content management system 200 while the first application plays the section from the start time of the content A to the predetermined time point. The second application may control the playback state of the content A according to the setting information provided by the content management system 200 while playing the section from the predetermined time point above the content A to the end time point. Accordingly, even if the application executed in the digital signage 500 is changed, the content A can be continuously played without interruption (see FIG. 4A).

Subsequently, according to an embodiment of the present invention, both the content A played by the first application and the content A played by the second application are displayed only in the specific area 502 of the display screen 501 of the digital signage. (See (b) of FIG. 4), the content A provided by the digital signage 500 may be changed even if the application executed in the digital signage 500 is changed. Can be maintained.

Next, the communication unit 230 according to an embodiment of the present invention may perform a function to enable data transmission / reception from / to the content management system 200.

Lastly, the controller 240 according to an embodiment of the present invention may perform a function of controlling the flow of data between the library manager 210, the content providing state manager 220, and the communicator 230. That is, the controller 240 according to the present invention controls the data flow from / to the outside of the content management system 200 or the data flow between each component of the content management system 200, thereby controlling the library manager 210 and the content. The provision state manager 220 and the communicator 230 may control to perform unique functions.

In the above, the description will be mainly given of the embodiment in which the object of content management is a digital signage, but the configuration of the present invention is not necessarily limited to the above-mentioned embodiment. For example, according to another embodiment of the present invention, a smartphone, a tablet, a desktop computer, a notebook computer, a workstation, a wearable device, and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices (clocks, cars, refrigerators, washing machines, boilers, air conditioners) A device having a memory means and a microprocessor mounted therein can be any device subject to control according to the present invention. The management system 200 according to an example may perform a function of managing a provision state of contents provided from various devices as described above.

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 may 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 the claims. Will belong to.

Claims

As a method for managing content provided by digital signage,

Obtaining setting information defined by at least one library with respect to the provisioning state of the content, and

Providing the obtained setting information to a digital signage on which a first application and a second application that control the provision state of the content are executed;

Including,

The first application and the second application support the at least one library,

And both the provision state of the content by the first application and the provision state of the content by the second application are controlled according to the provided setting information.
The method of claim 1,

When the first application and the second application are executed sequentially in the digital signage, the continuity between the provision state of the content by the first application and the provision state of the content by the second application is maintained. How to be.
The method of claim 1,

The setting information may include a portion of the content provided in the digital signage, a time at which the content is provided in the digital signage, an area in which the content is provided on a display screen of the digital signage, uploading the content, or And information on at least one of whether to perform a download, whether to distribute the content, and whether to monitor a situation in which the content is provided.
The method of claim 1,

The at least one library includes at least one of a standard library, a network library, a file input / output library, a scheduling library, an image library, an audio player library, a sound library, a video player library, and a video library.
The method of claim 1,

Distributing a software development kit (SDK) or application programming interface (API) providing the at least one library

How to include more.
A non-transitory computer readable recording medium for recording a computer program for executing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 5.
As a system for managing content provided by digital signage,

A library management unit that provides at least one library that defines setting information regarding a provision state of content, and

Obtaining setting information regarding a provision state of the content defined by the at least one library, and obtaining the information to a digital signage in which a first application and a second application that control the provision state of the content are executed. Content provision state management unit that provides setting information

Including,

The first application and the second application support the at least one library,

And a provision state of the content by the first application and a provision state of the content by the second application are all controlled according to the provided setting information.