WO2023038440A1

WO2023038440A1 - Method and system for providing content, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

Info

Publication number: WO2023038440A1
Application number: PCT/KR2022/013470
Authority: WO
Inventors: 이성업
Original assignee: 주식회사 노틸러스
Priority date: 2021-09-08
Filing date: 2022-09-07
Publication date: 2023-03-16
Also published as: KR20240085239A; KR20230036795A

Abstract

According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for providing content comprises the steps of: providing, to a user, a first episode from among a plurality of episodes; determining a point to be provided to the user in reference to the user's response to question-type content associated with the first episode; and determining whether the user can use a second episode from among the plurality of episodes in reference to points possessed by the user.

Description

Method, system and non-transitory computer readable recording medium for providing content

The present invention relates to a method, system and non-transitory computer readable recording medium for providing content.

In recent years, the content market through mobile devices and platforms is rapidly growing, and an environment in which users can enjoy various content anytime and anywhere is being created. In accordance with these changes, various technologies have been introduced in relation to methods of providing content to users.

As an example of the prior art related thereto, a technique disclosed in Korean Registered Patent Publication No. 10-1625973 may be exemplified. Methods and systems are provided that allow a determination of whether to be viewable.

In this prior art, since the user is given the right to use the content based on time, it is difficult to induce the user to actively use the content, and there is a limitation that the user's need to use the content decreases over time.

Accordingly, the present inventor(s) determined the content use point to be provided to the user by referring to the user's response to the question-type content related to the content (or the episode constituting the content), thereby increasing the user's participation and improving the user's We propose techniques to help acquire knowledge.

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

In addition, the present invention provides a first episode among a plurality of episodes to the user, determines points to be provided to the user by referring to the user's response to the question-type content associated with the first episode, and refers to the points possessed by the user. Another object is to determine whether a user can use a second episode among a plurality of episodes by doing so.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to dynamically determine conditions for using content applied to a user by referring to contextual information on the user's content use.

Representative configurations of the present invention for achieving the above object are as follows.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for providing content includes providing a first episode of a plurality of episodes to a user, referring to a response of the user to question-type content related to the first episode to the user. The method includes determining points to be provided to the user, and determining whether the user can use a second episode of the plurality of episodes by referring to the points possessed by the user.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a system for providing content includes a content management unit that provides a first episode of a plurality of episodes to a user, and the user's response to question-type content associated with the first episode is referred to Provided is a system including a point management unit that determines points to be provided to a user, and a use condition management unit that determines whether the user can use a second episode among the plurality of episodes by referring to points possessed by the user. .

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

According to the present invention, since the user's response to the question-type content related to the content is referred to, the content use point to be provided to the user is determined, so the user's participation and interest in the content can be increased, and furthermore, the user's An effect of helping to effectively acquire the knowledge contained in the content is achieved.

In addition, according to the present invention, the contents of the question-type content applied to the user, the provision point, the range of available episodes, the price of the paid subscription, etc. applied to the user can be dynamically determined based on the contextual information on the user's use of the content. Therefore, the effect of being able to diversify the conditions for using the contents or the conditions for billing according to the circumstances of individual users is achieved.

1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an entire system for providing knowledge-based content according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram showing in detail the internal configuration of a content providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 and 4 are diagrams illustratively illustrating how content is provided to a user according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram exemplarily illustrating conditions for using content that can be applied to a user according to an embodiment of the present invention.

100: communication network

200: content providing system

210: content management unit

220: point management unit

230: use condition management department

240: communication department

250: control unit

300: device

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The detailed description of the present invention which follows refers to the accompanying drawings which illustrate, by way of illustration, specific embodiments in which the present invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable any person skilled in the art to practice the present invention. It should be understood that the various embodiments of the present invention are different from each other but are not necessarily mutually exclusive. For example, specific shapes, structures, and characteristics described herein may be implemented from one embodiment to another without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. It should also 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 present invention. Therefore, the detailed description to be described later is not performed in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention should be taken as encompassing the scope claimed by the claims and all scopes equivalent thereto. Like reference numbers in the drawings indicate the same or similar elements throughout the various aspects.

Hereinafter, various preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in order to enable those skilled in the art to easily practice the present invention.

In this specification, content is a concept that collectively refers to digital information or individual information elements composed of text, code, voice, sound, image, video, etc. accessible through a communication network. Such content may include, for example, data such as text, image, video, audio, link (eg, web link), or a combination of at least two of these data.

On the other hand, in this specification, the embodiment of the content providing service is mainly focused on providing webtoon content, but the content provided in the present invention is not limited to webtoon content, and web novels and e-books , it should be understood as the broadest concept that includes various types of contents such as movies, music, and games.

Meanwhile, in this specification, question-type content is a concept that collectively refers to all types of content that can be used as a means for determining points to be provided to users. For example, question-type content may include a quiz requesting a user's response, a puzzle requesting a user's input, and the like.

Composition of the entire system

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

As shown in FIG. 1 , the entire system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a communication network 100 , a content providing system 200 and a device 300 .

First, the communication network 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may be configured regardless of communication aspects such as wired communication or wireless communication, and may include a local area network (LAN) and a metropolitan area network (MAN). ), a wide area network (WAN), and the like. Preferably, the communication network 100 referred to in this specification may be the well-known Internet or the 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 wire/wireless television communication network without being limited thereto.

For example, the communication network 100 is a wireless data communication network, WiFi communication, WiFi-Direct communication, Long Term Evolution (LTE) communication, 5G communication, Bluetooth communication (low power Bluetooth (BLE) ; Bluetooth Low Energy) communication), infrared communication, ultrasonic communication, and the like may be implemented in at least a part thereof.

Next, the content providing system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention provides a first episode among a plurality of episodes to the user, and provides the information to the user with reference to the user's response to the question-type content associated with the first episode. It is possible to perform a function of determining a point to be used and determining whether the user can use a second episode among a plurality of episodes by referring to the points possessed by the user.

The configuration and functions of the content providing system 200 according to the present invention will be described in detail through the following detailed description.

Next, the device 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention is a digital device having a function to communicate after accessing the content providing system 200, such as a smartphone, tablet, smart watch, smart band, smart Any digital device equipped with memory means and equipped with a microprocessor, such as glass, desktop computer, notebook computer, workstation, PDA, web pad, mobile phone, etc. can

In particular, the device 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include an application (not shown) that supports a user to receive a service from the content providing system 200 . Such an application may be downloaded from the content providing system 200 or an external application distribution server (not shown). Meanwhile, the nature of these applications is generally similar to the content management unit 210, the point management unit 220, the use condition management unit 230, the communication unit 240, and the control unit 250 of the content providing system 200, which will be described later. can do. Here, at least a part of the application may be replaced with a hardware device or a firmware device capable of performing substantially the same or equivalent functions as necessary.

Composition of content provision system

Hereinafter, the internal configuration of the content providing system 200 that performs important functions for the implementation of the present invention and the functions of each component will be reviewed.

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

As shown in FIG. 2, the content providing system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a content management unit 210, a point management unit 220, a use condition management unit 230, a communication unit 240, and a control unit ( 250) may be configured. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the content management unit 210, the point management unit 220, the use condition management unit 230, the communication unit 240, and the control unit 250 are at least part of an external system (not shown). ) may be a program module that communicates with These program modules may be included in the content providing system 200 in the form of an operating system, application program module, or other program module, and may be physically stored in various well-known storage devices. Also, these program modules may be stored in a remote storage device capable of communicating with the content providing system 200 . Meanwhile, these program modules include routines, subroutines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform specific tasks or execute specific abstract data types according to the present invention, but are not limited thereto.

On the other hand, although the content providing system 200 has been described as above, this description is exemplary, and at least some of the components or functions of the content providing system 200 are required by the device 300 or a server (not shown). ) or included in an external system (not shown) is obvious to those skilled in the art.

First, the content management unit 210 according to an embodiment of the present invention may perform a function of providing content to a user according to a user's request. Specifically, the content management unit 210 according to an embodiment of the present invention may provide a first episode of a plurality of episodes constituting content to the user. Here, it should be noted that the first episode does not mean an episode included in the first order in a certain content, but means any one of at least one episode included in a certain content. In addition, the content management unit 210 according to an embodiment of the present invention may provide at least one first episode to the user, and the provided at least one first episode corresponds to a free section applied to the corresponding user. It could be an episode.

In addition, the content management unit 210 according to an embodiment of the present invention may provide question-type content related to the first episode to a user who has used (ie, read) the first episode, and responds to the question-type content. You can ask the user to input .

Specifically, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the timing at which the question-type content associated with the first episode is provided to the user and the content or number of the question-type content are based on information about the user's use of the first episode. can be determined by For example, at least one question-type content may be provided when the user reads all the first episodes of a certain webtoon, and for another example, at least one question type content is provided when the user reads the first episode of a certain webtoon at a predetermined rate or more. One question type content may be provided. For another example, when the user reads the first episode of a certain webtoon up to a certain point, question-type content corresponding to that point may be provided to the user.

Specifically, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the content of the question-type content provided to the user may include information about knowledge included in the first episode associated with the question-type content. More specifically, according to an embodiment of the present invention, question-type content may be authored in advance or authored by an artificial intelligence-based authoring model.

Next, the point management unit 220 according to an embodiment of the present invention refers to the user's response to the question-type content associated with the first episode provided to the user, and determines the points to be provided to the user. can be done

Specifically, according to an embodiment of the present invention, if a response input by a user corresponds to a correct answer in response to question-type content (eg, when a user answers a quiz), a predetermined point may be provided to the corresponding user. there is. For example, the amount of points provided to the user may be determined based on the number or level of difficulty of question-type content customized by the user.

First, referring to FIG. 3 , a quiz (“Which of the following is not proof that Tyrannosaurus is a hunter?”) is provided to the user who has used (ie read) Episode A about dinosaurs about the knowledge that can be obtained from the corresponding episode. and the user can input a response corresponding to the quiz.

Next, referring to FIG. 4 , predetermined points may be provided to the corresponding user as a reward for correcting the quiz. As will be described later, the user can use the above points as a payment method when using an episode other than Episode A that he has already read.

Meanwhile, the use condition management unit 230 according to an embodiment of the present invention may perform a function of determining whether a corresponding user can use a second episode among a plurality of episodes by referring to points owned by the user. Here, the second episode does not mean an episode included in the second order in a certain content, and means an episode other than the first episode previously used by the user among at least one episode included in a certain content. make it clear

Specifically, the use condition management unit 230 according to an embodiment of the present invention refers to the points owned by the user and the use conditions set for the content the user wants to use, so that the user can use the points to determine which You can decide whether an episode is available or not. In addition, the use condition management unit 230 according to an embodiment of the present invention may provide the user with information on whether or not the episode determined as above is available.

Referring to FIG. 5 , it may be assumed that a user wants to use content consisting of a plurality of episodes. In this case, the content may include episodes corresponding to a free section that can be used for free without using points or paying a fee, and using points that can be used using points provided as a reward for matching question-type content An episode corresponding to a section (aka, Matumu section) may be included, and an episode corresponding to a paid subscription section that cannot be used with points owned by the user and is available only through a separate payment may be included.

However, it should be noted that the conditions of use according to the present invention are not necessarily limited to those listed in the above embodiments, and may be changed as much as possible within the scope of achieving the object of the present invention.

As another example, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a user with an excellent score in a quiz may be able to use at least some of the episodes corresponding to the paid subscription section by using his or her points.

As another example, according to an embodiment of the present invention, when the user has only enough points to use an episode corresponding to the Machumu section, a predetermined condition (eg, a predetermined time elapsed, a predetermined number of points) An opportunity to re-challenge to solve additional question-type content may be provided to the user on the premise that the above episode usage records, etc.) are satisfied. And, according to an embodiment of the present invention, when the user solves additional question-type content in this re-challenge opportunity, additional points (aka, 'experience points', may be a differentiated point) may be provided, and furthermore, the corresponding user may use an episode corresponding to the Machumu section by using the existing points together with the additionally provided 'experience points'.

On the other hand, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the content or difficulty of the question-type content provided to the user, the points provided to the user who matched the question-type content, the range of episodes that the user can use using the points, and application to the user At least one of the prices of paid tickets may be dynamically determined based on contextual information about the user's use of content. Further, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the above dynamic determination may be performed according to a predetermined rule or may be performed according to an artificial intelligence-based decision model.

For example, the content or level of difficulty of the question-type content provided to the user may be determined differently according to the age of the corresponding user. For another example, the points provided to the user may be determined differently according to the user's point use history. As another example, the range of episodes available to the user using points may be determined differently according to the user's score in question-type content pool. As another example, the price of a paid voucher applied to a user may be determined differently according to the paid payment history of the corresponding user.

However, it should be noted that the method for determining conditions for using content according to the present invention is not necessarily limited to the contents enumerated in the above embodiments, and may be changed as much as possible within the scope of achieving the object of the present invention.

Next, the communication unit 240 according to an embodiment of the present invention may perform a function of enabling data transmission/reception from/to the content management unit 210, the point management unit 220, and the use condition management unit 230. .

Finally, the controller 250 according to an embodiment of the present invention performs a function of controlling the flow of data between the content management unit 210, the point management unit 220, the use condition management unit 230, and the communication unit 240. can That is, the control unit 250 according to an embodiment of the present invention controls the data flow from/to the outside of the content providing system 200 or the data flow between each component of the content providing system 200, so that the content management unit ( 210), the point management unit 220, the use condition management unit 230, and the communication unit 240 may be controlled to perform unique functions.

Embodiments according to the present invention described above may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer components and recorded on 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 usable to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tapes, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, and magneto-optical media such as floptical disks. medium), and hardware devices specially configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include high-level language codes that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like as well as machine language codes generated by a compiler. A hardware device may be modified with one or more software modules to perform processing according to the present invention and vice versa.

Although the present invention has been described above with specific details such as specific components and limited embodiments and drawings, these are only provided to help a more general understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and the present invention Those with ordinary knowledge in the technical field to which the invention belongs may seek various modifications and changes from these descriptions.

Therefore, the spirit of the present invention should not be limited to the above-described embodiments and should not be determined, and all scopes equivalent to or equivalently changed from the claims as well as the claims described below are within the scope of the spirit of the present invention. will be said to belong to

Claims

As a method for providing content,

Providing a first episode of a plurality of episodes to a user;

determining a point to be provided to the user by referring to the user's response to the question-type content related to the first episode; and

Determining whether the user can use a second episode of the plurality of episodes by referring to points possessed by the user

method.
According to claim 1,

At least one of the provision time, content, and number of question-type content associated with the first episode is determined based on information about the user's use of the first episode

method.
According to claim 1,

The plurality of episodes include at least one paid episode that cannot be used only by using points possessed by the user.

method.
According to claim 1,

At least one of the content or difficulty of the question-type content provided to the user, the points provided to the user who matched the question-type content, the range of episodes that the user can use using points, and the price of the paid subscription applied to the user. One is dynamically determined based on contextual information about the user's content use.

method.
A non-temporary computer readable recording medium storing a computer program for executing the method according to claim 1.
As a system for providing content,

A content management unit providing a first episode of a plurality of episodes to a user;

a point management unit that determines points to be provided to the user by referring to the user's response to the question-type content associated with the first episode; and

And a use condition management unit for determining whether the user can use a second episode of the plurality of episodes by referring to points owned by the user.

system.
According to claim 6,

At least one of the provision time, content, and number of question-type content associated with the first episode is determined based on information about a state in which the user uses the first episode

system.
According to claim 6,

The plurality of episodes include at least one paid episode that cannot be used only by using points possessed by the user.

system.
According to claim 6,

At least one of the content or difficulty of the question-type content provided to the user, the points provided to the user who matched the question-type content, the range of episodes that the user can use using points, and the price of the paid subscription applied to the user. One is dynamically determined based on contextual information about the user's content use.

system.