KR101127755B1 - Dcd system and method for providing contents by using broadcast scheme and push scheme, and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing DCD content, by a broadcast server, broadcasting content of a broadcast transmission method to a user terminal; Pushing, by the DCD server, the required content and / or the content request SMS or MMS requiring the update to the user terminal; Requesting the DCD server for the necessary content and / or content for update and receiving a list of the required content and / or content for update by the user terminal; And when there is a download request from the user terminal to the DCD server for the list of the necessary content and / or the content that needs to be updated, the user terminal downloading the contents of the list from the DCD server.

Description

DCD content providing system and method using broadcast method and push method, and recording medium {DCD SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS BY USING BROADCAST SCHEME AND PUSH SCHEME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM}

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing DCD content, and a recording medium, and more particularly, to a system and method for providing DCD content using a broadcast method and a push method, and a recording medium.

Recently, due to the expansion of the network infrastructure, there are an increasing number of content providers that produce and store desired contents, and users can receive desired contents from these contents providers.

In order to effectively deliver such contents, Web Syndication has been required as a method of delivering information that is produced and changed in real time. As a kind of Web Syndication, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and ATOM are used. It was proposed and became the standard.

Due to the RSS and ATOM, the contents can be distributed, and the contents can be collected through a program such as an RSS reader.

However, in a relatively resource-constrained mobile environment, access to content distributed using RSS / ATOM as in a PC environment is limited.

In order to solve this problem, there is a demand for a method of delivering the collected content in an optimized form for a user terminal, and a representative one is DCD (Dynamic Content Delivery).

The DCD seeks to deliver the contents desired by the user to the user terminal user in consideration of the user's taste.

However, in order for a content provider to provide content desired by a user through the DCD, the content provider needs to select user provided content only at the request of the user from among numerous contents.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a DCD system, a content providing method, and a recording medium recording the same, for providing contents to a user terminal more conveniently and efficiently.

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing DCD content, by a broadcast server, broadcasting content of a broadcast transmission method to a user terminal; Pushing, by the DCD server, the required content and / or the content request SMS or MMS requiring the update to the user terminal; Requesting the DCD server for the necessary content and / or content for update and receiving a list of the required content and / or content for update by the user terminal; And when there is a download request from the user terminal to the DCD server for the list of the necessary content and / or the content that needs to be updated, the user terminal may download the content of the list from the DCD server.

In addition, the list of the necessary content and / or content that needs to be updated may include a content list of the broadcast transmission method and a content list of the push transmission method.

In addition, the downloading may include the step of the user terminal confirms whether the contents of the list exists in the broadcast-received content, and downloads the contents of the list if there is no.

The DCD content providing method may further include storing the downloaded content for each subscriber who downloaded the DCD server and whether the download is completed when the download is completed to the user terminal.

In addition, the content list of the broadcast transmission method and the content list of the push transmission method may be determined according to the field or format of the content and / or the user's request.

DCD content providing system according to the present invention comprises a user terminal; Sends a content list of a broadcast transmission method to the broadcast server, pushes the required content and / or content request SMS or MMS to the user terminal to the required content and / or content that needs to be updated When the request is made from the terminal, the list of the necessary content and / or the content that needs updating is transmitted to the user terminal, and when there is a download request from the user terminal for the list of the necessary content and / or the content that needs updating, the contents of the list. A DCD server to download the data to the user terminal; And a broadcast server receiving the content list of the broadcast transmission method from the DCD server and broadcasting the content list of the content list to the user terminal.

In addition, the DCD content providing system includes a broadcast network for transmitting and receiving the content of the broadcast transmission method; And a push network for sending and receiving the required content and / or the content request SMS or MMS requiring the update and the content of a push transmission method.

In addition, the DCD server may be configured to download the contents of the list when there is no after confirming whether the contents of the list exists in the broadcast reception content list.

In addition, when the download is completed, the DCD server may store the downloaded content and whether the download is completed for each subscriber who downloaded the download.

The DCD server may determine the content list of the broadcast transmission method and the content list of the push transmission method according to the field or format of the content and / or the user's request.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide content to a user terminal more conveniently and efficiently.

1 illustrates an example in which content is provided on a user terminal which is a mobile device in a DCD environment.
2 illustrates a DCD system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram showing the configuration of a DCD server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating a flow in which a user terminal receives a DCD service from a DCD server.
5 is a flowchart illustrating content delivery according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Specific structural to functional descriptions of the embodiments of the present invention disclosed in the specification or the application are only illustrated for the purpose of describing the embodiments according to the present invention, and the embodiments according to the present invention may be embodied in various forms. It should not be construed as limited to the embodiments described in this specification or the application.

Since the embodiments according to the present invention can be variously modified and have various forms, specific embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the present specification or application. However, this is not intended to limit the embodiments in accordance with the concept of the present invention to a particular disclosed form, it should be understood to include all changes, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Terms such as first and / or second may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another, for example, without departing from the scope of rights in accordance with the inventive concept, and the first component may be called a second component and similarly The second component may also be referred to as the first component.

When a component is said to be "connected" or "connected" to another component, it may be directly connected to or connected to that other component, but it may be understood that another component may exist in between. Should be. On the other hand, when a component is said to be "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another component, it should be understood that there is no other component in between. Other expressions describing the relationship between components, such as "between" and "immediately between," or "neighboring to," and "directly neighboring to" should be interpreted as well.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. As used herein, the terms "comprise" or "having" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, action, component, part, or combination thereof that is described, and that one or more other features or numbers are present. It should be understood that it does not exclude in advance the possibility of the presence or addition of steps, actions, components, parts or combinations thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. Terms such as those defined in the commonly used dictionaries should be construed as having meanings consistent with the meanings in the context of the related art, and are not construed in ideal or excessively formal meanings unless expressly defined herein. Do not.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements.

1 illustrates an example in which content is provided on a user terminal 100 which is a mobile device in a DCD environment.

Referring to FIG. 1, for example, the content is provided through a content channel classified according to the type of content such as a news channel, a movie channel, a sports channel, or a music channel, and a user subscribes to a desired content channel. Content can be provided.

2 illustrates a DCD system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2, the DCD system 10 includes a user terminal 100, a DCD server 200, and a broadcast server 300.

The user terminal 100 includes an application 110 and a DCD client 120.

The DCD client 120 may perform a function of transmitting and receiving a control message and receiving content with the DCD server 200 through a push network 400. In this case, the push network 400 may correspond to a network for pushing transmission of the content by the DCD server 200.

The application 110 provides channel-specific content to a user of the user terminal 100. For example, when the application 110 is a weather-only application, the application 110 provides content about weather information from a weather channel, and in the case of a news-only application, content about information about news is provided from a news channel.

The DCD client 120 may register at least one of the applications 110, and the at least one application 110 may be allocated for each application from the DCD server 100 via the DCD client 120. You are provided with information that matches your channel.

However, the application 110 does not necessarily correspond to one content channel. For example, a plurality of applications 110 may correspond to one content channel to share content corresponding to the one content channel, and the application 110 may be registered to the plurality of content channels to provide a plurality of contents. It may be.

The DCD server 200 performs a DCD service in cooperation with the DCD client 120 and the broadcast server 300, transmits the content to the DCD client 120 in the user terminal 100, and transmits a plurality of contents to the content channel. You can perform the functions provided separately. In this case, unlike FIG. 2, the DCD server 200 may be configured separately from a DCD content server (not shown) for performing a function of dividing and providing a plurality of contents for each content channel.

The broadcast server 300 may transmit and receive a control message and / or content with the DCD server 200 and the user terminal 100 through a broadcast network 500. In this case, the broadcast network 400 may correspond to a network for the DCD server 200 to broadcast content.

3 is a diagram showing the configuration of a DCD server according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, the DCD server 200 includes an interface unit 210, a controller 220, a content manager 230, a user manager 240, and a database (DB) 250.

The interface unit 210 performs interface matching in accordance with the communication standard of the user terminal 100 and the charging server (not shown) that performs the charging, and control messages, contents and various billing through the interface unit 210. Information and the like are transmitted and received to the DCD server 200.

The DB 250 stores various contents (eg, a video, a text document, a photo, and / or a flash, etc.) by field / format.

The content manager 230 may manage content information to be transmitted to a user and may manage a transmission method in which various contents are transmitted. For example, the content manager 230 may manage whether the content is transmitted by a push method or a broadcast method.

The user manager 240 stores user information of the user terminal 100. In this case, the user information may include various terminal information capable of recognizing the user terminal 100 and personal information of the user.

The controller 220 controls the overall operation of the DCD server 200. For example, when receiving a channel subscription request from a user of the user terminal 100, the controller 220 may control the user manager 240 to perform an approval response of the corresponding channel subscription of the user, and the user requests The content manager 230 may be controlled to transmit content of a corresponding channel in a predetermined transmission method. In addition, the controller 220 may control the DB 250 to store various contents managed by the content manager 230 according to a reference (for example, by list, by field, and / or by format). The operation of the controller 220 described above is merely an example of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

4 is a diagram illustrating a flow in which a user terminal receives a DCD service from a DCD server.

Referring to FIG. 4, the user terminal 100 requests a channel subscription to the DCD server 200 (S100). In this case, the channel may accommodate at least one content.

When the DCD server 200 receives the channel subscription request from the user terminal 100, the DCD server 200 transmits metadata of the channel to the DCD client 120 in the user terminal 100 together with the channel subscription approval response (S200).

In this case, the channel subscription approval response transmitted by the DCD server 200 may include additional information such as a service transmission scheme. The service transmission scheme may include push transmission and broadcast transmission schemes, and the push transmission and broadcast transmission schemes may be determined according to service characteristics (eg, depending on content or at user request).

5 is a flowchart illustrating content delivery according to an embodiment of the present invention. The content delivery shown in FIG. 5 may be performed by the DCD system shown in FIG. 2.

Referring to FIG. 5, the DCD server 200 extracts a broadcast content list listing common content that is content of a broadcast transmission method (S10). In this case, the broadcast content list may correspond to content allocated to broadcast or may correspond to pre-selected content according to a user's request, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

When the extraction of the broadcast content list is completed, the DCD server 200 transmits the extracted content list to the broadcast server 300 through the broadcast network 500 (S20).

The broadcast server 300 receives the extracted content list and broadcasts the content of the content list to the DCD client 120 (S30).

Immediately or after a certain time, the DCD server 200 pushes the SMS or MMS to request the individual content additionally necessary to the DCD client 120 (S40). In this case, the DCD server 200 may push the SMS or MMS to request the individual content additionally required to the DCD client 120, SMS or MMS to request the content for the update of the received content from the DCD client 120 MMS can push. The content for update may include content previously received in a broadcast manner from the broadcast server 300 and / or content received in a push manner from the DCD server 200.

The DCD client 120 may additionally extract (eg, list) the individual content or content that needs to be updated and request the DCD server 200 (S50).

The DCD server 200 transmits the requested additional contents or a list of contents requiring updating to the DCD client 120 (S60).

The DCD client 120 downloads the received content list (S70). In this case, there may be a difference in content download depending on whether the contents of the list are contents of a push transmission method or contents of a broadcast transmission method. For example, when the content required / updated is content of a broadcast transmission method, the DCD client 120 checks a list of broadcast received content, and if there is no corresponding content, the DCD server 200 as needed. If the requested content can be downloaded and the required / updated content is a content of a push transmission method, the DCD client 120 may immediately request a download request from the DCD server 200 to download the corresponding content. have.

When the download of the contents is completed, the DCD client 120 transmits the downloaded and downloaded contents list to the DCD server 200 (S80), and the DCD server 200 downloads the downloaded contents and downloads for each subscriber. Store whether or not (S90).

As a result, individual content and common content can be efficiently and reliably transmitted and received to the user terminal 100.

The present invention can also be embodied as computer-readable codes on a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored.

Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disks, optical data storage devices, and the like.

The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion. And functional programs, codes and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily inferred by programmers in the art to which the present invention belongs.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

100: user terminal, 110: application,
120: DCD client, 200: DCD server,
210: interface unit 220: control unit;
230: content management unit, 240: user management unit,
250: DB, 300: broadcast server

Claims (12)

Determining, by the content manager included in the DCD server, content of a broadcast transmission method and content of a push transmission method, and extracting, by the DCD server, a content list of a broadcast transmission method in which the content of the broadcast transmission method is listed; ;
Broadcasting, by a broadcast server, the content of the broadcast transmission method to a user terminal according to the content list of the broadcast transmission method;
Pushing, by the DCD server, a content request SMS or MMS that requires content and an update to a user terminal;
Requesting the DCD server for the required content and the content that needs to be updated, and receiving a list of the required content and the content for which the user terminal needs to be updated; And
When there is a download request from the user terminal to the DCD server for the list of the necessary content and the content that needs to be updated, the user terminal checks a list of broadcast-received contents and downloads additional contents of the list from the DCD server. Steps,
The downloading step
And checking, by the user terminal, whether the contents of the list exist among the broadcast-received contents, and downloading the contents of the list by a push transmission method if there is no content. The method of claim 1,
The list of the required content and the content that needs to be updated includes a content list of the broadcast transmission method and a content list of the push transmission method. delete The method of claim 2, wherein the DCD content providing method is
If the download is completed to the user terminal, the DCD server, the DCD content providing method further comprising the step of storing the downloaded content for each subscriber who downloaded and whether or not the download is completed. The method of claim 1,
The content management unit included in the DCD server to determine the content of the broadcast transmission method and the content of the push transmission method
And determining, by the content manager, the content list of the broadcast transmission method and the content list of the push transmission method according to the field or format of the content and the user's request. A recording medium on which a computer program for executing the method according to any one of claims 1, 2, 4 or 5 is recorded. A user terminal;
When a list of contents of a broadcast transmission method is transmitted to a broadcast server, and a required content and a content request requiring update are pushed to the user terminal, the necessary content and the content requiring update are requested from the user terminal. Sending the list of the necessary content and the content that needs to be updated to the user terminal, and if the download request from the user terminal for the list of the necessary content and the content that needs to be updated to the user terminal to download the content of the list DCD server; And
A broadcast server receiving the content list of the broadcast transmission method from the DCD server and broadcasting the content of the content list to the user terminal,
The DCD server includes a content manager to determine the content of the broadcast transmission method and the content of the push transmission method,
The DCD server
DCD content providing system to download the contents of the list, if there is no after checking whether the contents of the list exists in the broadcast reception content list. The method of claim 7, wherein
The list of the required content and the content that needs to be updated includes a content list of the broadcast transmission method and a content list of the push transmission method. The system of claim 8, wherein the DCD content providing system is
A broadcast network for transmitting and receiving content of the broadcast transmission method; And
And a push network for transmitting and receiving the required content and content request SMS or MMS requiring update and content of a push transmission method. delete 8. The system of claim 7, wherein the DCD server is
DCD content providing system for storing the downloaded content and whether or not the download is completed, for each subscriber who downloaded the download when the download is completed. The method of claim 8, wherein the DCD server
And a content list of the broadcast transmission method and a content list of the push transmission method, wherein the content manager determines the content list according to the field or format of the content and the user's request.

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