JP2008072601A - Information presenting method and communication terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively utilize time during content downloading. <P>SOLUTION: In a portable telephone device 10, first of all, an attribute file acquisition unit 31 downloads from a content server 60 a content attribute description file that is a file describing the attribute of a content file to be acquired. Successively, an advertisement acquisition unit 32 acquires a presentation information file that is presentation information of the content, on the basis of information in the relevant content attribute description file. A content request unit 28 then issues a connection request to the content server 60 on the basis of information in the relevant content attribute description file. Sequentially, a reproduction unit 33 reproduces the presentation information of the relevant content from the start of downloading to the end in a process where the content request unit 28 acquires the relevant content file from the content server 60. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information presentation method and a communication terminal device, and more particularly to an information presentation method that can be used when content is acquired by the communication terminal device and a communication terminal device that uses the method.

  Conventionally, communication devices such as personal computers and mobile communication terminal devices have become widespread. Along with this, content providers that allow communication terminal devices to download content from servers, services provided by the providers, and the like have been enhanced. Furthermore, due to the improvement in processing capability of the communication terminal device and the increase in memory capacity, it is possible to download even a large amount of data without taking much time.

  However, it still takes a certain amount of time to perform the download. Therefore, many users wait while frequently checking whether or not the download has been completed, or continuing to watch the download screen until the download is completed. In any case, the time is wasted and inconvenient for the user.

  An object of this invention is to provide the information presentation method and communication terminal device which can utilize effectively the time at the time of content download.

  From the first viewpoint, the present invention provides an attribute file acquisition step of acquiring a content attribute description file including attribute information of a content file from a content server; and based on the presentation related information in the content attribute description file, the content A presentation information acquisition step of acquiring presentation information to be presented to a user during acquisition of a file; a content request step of issuing a request to acquire the content file based on content-related information in the content attribute description file; An information presentation step of presenting the presentation information during acquisition of the content file from a content server.

  In this information presentation method, first, in the attribute file acquisition step, a content attribute description file, which is a file describing the attributes of the content file, is downloaded from the content server. The content attribute description file is defined in association with a link existing on the screen, for example, and is downloaded by pressing the link.

  Subsequently, in the presentation information acquisition step, presentation information to be presented to the user during acquisition of the content file is acquired based on the information in the content attribute description file.

  In the content attribute description file, the network identifier of the content file is specified. Therefore, next, in the content request process, the identifier is designated and a connection request to the content server is issued.

  Thereafter, in the information presentation step, the presentation information is reproduced in accordance with the start of acquisition of the content file from the content server. The reproduction is performed from the start to the end of the download. Further, the reproduction may be performed by sound, or may be performed by a moving image, a still image, or text. Therefore, it is possible to effectively utilize the time from the start to the end of the download and present useful information to the user.

  In the information presentation method of the present invention, the presentation related information may be the presentation information itself.

  In this case, the presentation related information has a mechanism in which the data is embedded in the attribute description file. Therefore, the presentation information itself is acquired from the attribute description file in the presentation information acquisition step. Therefore, in this case, it is possible to easily obtain the presentation information without connecting to the network for obtaining the presentation information.

  In the information presentation method of the present invention, the presentation related information may be position information on a network where the presentation information exists.

  In this case, in the presentation related information, an identifier indicating the location on the network where the data is stored is embedded in the attribute description file. Therefore, the identifier is obtained from the attribute description file, the content server is requested to obtain the identifier, and the presentation information is obtained by a response from the server.

  In the information presentation method of the present invention, the presentation information may be advertisement information.

  In this case, the presentation related information is advertisement information, and the content may be an advertisement related to the content, an advertisement related to other content by the provider providing the content, or a promotion advertisement of the provider itself. The advertisement as the presentation information may be text, a still image, a moving image, or may be accompanied by sound.

  Therefore, in this case, by transmitting advertisement information related to the content while downloading the content, it is possible to provide useful information without getting bored of the user, and it can be promoted for the content provider. It is possible to effectively use time.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided attribute file acquisition means for acquiring a content attribute description file including attribute information of a content file from a content server; the content based on presentation related information in the content attribute description file Presentation information obtaining means for obtaining presentation information to be presented to the user during file acquisition; content request means for issuing an acquisition request for the content file based on content-related information in the content attribute description file; An information presenting means for presenting the presentation information during acquisition of the content file from a content server.

  In this communication terminal device, an operation when a content file is downloaded from the content server is shown. First, the attribute file acquisition means downloads a content attribute description file, which is a file describing the attributes of the content file, from the content server. The content attribute description file is defined in association with a link existing on the screen, for example, and is downloaded by pressing the link.

  Subsequently, the presentation information acquisition unit acquires a related information file that is related information of the content based on the information in the content attribute description file.

  Next, the content requesting unit issues a content file acquisition request based on the information in the content attribute description file. At this time, an identifier indicating the position of the content file on the network specified in the content attribute description file is used. Therefore, the identifier is designated and a connection request is made to the content server.

  Subsequently, the information presentation unit reproduces the presentation information in the process of acquiring the content file from the content server. The reproduction is performed from the start to the end of the download. Further, the reproduction may be performed by sound, or may be performed by a moving image, a still image, or text. Therefore, it is possible to effectively utilize the time from the start to the end of the download and present useful information to the user.

  In the communication terminal device of the present invention, the presentation related information can be the presentation information itself.

  In this case, since the presentation related information is embedded in the attribute description file, the presentation information acquisition unit presents the presentation related information from the attribute description file. Get the information itself. Therefore, in this case, it is possible to easily obtain the presentation information without connecting to the network for obtaining the presentation information.

  In the communication terminal device according to the present invention, the presentation related information may be position information on a network where the presentation information exists.

  In this case, with regard to the presentation information, an identifier that is a network position of the data is embedded in the attribute description file. Therefore, the identifier is obtained from the attribute description file, the content server is requested to obtain the identifier, and the presentation information is obtained by a response from the server.

  In the communication terminal device of the present invention, the presentation information may be advertisement information.

  In this case, the presentation information is advertisement information, and the content may be an advertisement related to the content, an advertisement related to other content provided by the provider providing the content, or a promotion advertisement of the provider itself. The advertisement as the presentation information may be text, a still image, a moving image, or may be accompanied by sound.

  Therefore, in this case, by transmitting advertisement information related to the content while downloading the content, it is possible to provide useful information without getting bored of the user, and it can be promoted for the content provider. It is possible to effectively use time.

  The communication terminal apparatus according to the present invention may further include wireless communication means for performing wireless communication with a base station of a mobile communication network. That is, the communication terminal device of the present invention can be a mobile communication terminal device.

  As described above, according to the information presentation method of the present invention, it is possible to effectively use the time when content is downloaded.

  Moreover, according to the communication terminal device of the present invention, there is an effect that the time at the time of content download can be effectively used.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In these drawings, the same or equivalent elements are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

[Constitution]
FIG. 1 shows an outline of a system configuration 100 including a mobile phone device 10 which is a mobile communication terminal device. The mobile phone device 10 performs wireless communication with the base station 51 and is connected to the network 50 via the base station 51. A content server 60 is connected to the network 50. In FIG. 1, only one base station 51 is representatively connected to the network 50, but a plurality of base stations are actually connected.

  FIG. 2 schematically shows an external configuration of the mobile phone device 10. Here, FIG. 1A shows a front view of the appearance of the mobile phone device 10, and FIG. 1B shows a rear view of the appearance of the mobile phone device 10.

  2A and 2B, the cellular phone device 10 includes (a) a cellular phone main body 11, (b) a numeric keypad for inputting a telephone number, and an operation. An operation unit 12 having function keys for inputting various commands such as mode switching to a control unit 21 (see FIG. 3) to be described later, and (c) a liquid crystal display for displaying operation guidance, operation status, received message, and the like. And a display unit 13 as display means having the device. In addition, the cellular phone device 10 includes (d) a call speaker 14 that reproduces an audio signal transmitted from a communication partner during a call, and (e) a sound input during sound collection or a sound input during a call. And (f) a guidance speaker 16 for generating ringtones and guidance sounds, and (g) an antenna 17 for transmitting and receiving radio signals to and from the base station.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the mobile phone body 11 includes (i) a control unit 21 that controls the overall operation of the mobile phone device 10 and (ii) a base station via an antenna 17. And (iii) a storage unit 23 having a read-only memory (ROM) element and a random access memory (RAM) element for storing a program executed by the control unit 21 and various data. And.

  Further, the control unit 21 includes a web browser 26, and the web browser 26 further includes an advertisement reproduction unit 27 and a content request unit 28 (content request unit). The storage unit 23 includes a temporary storage area 24 and a content storage area 25.

  The inside of the advertisement reproduction unit 27 existing inside the control unit 21 is shown in FIG. The advertisement reproduction unit 27 includes an attribute file acquisition unit 31 (attribute file acquisition unit), an advertisement acquisition unit 32 (presentation information acquisition unit), and a reproduction unit 33 (information presentation unit).

[Operation]
In the present embodiment, the content download process is started by pressing an anchor associated with an arbitrary content displayed on the display unit 13 of the mobile phone device 10. In the screen display of FIG. 5A, when the user presses the desired anchor, the user has instructed the mobile communication terminal device 10 to acquire the content defined for the anchor. become. When this command is detected, the advertisement reproducing unit 27 is activated.

  As shown in the sequence diagram of FIG. 6, first, the attribute file acquisition unit 31 in the mobile phone device 10 is an attribute description file (hereinafter referred to as “DD (Download)” which is an XML format text file associated with a content file. Discriptor) file (also called “file”). The DD file is defined for the anchor. The attribute file acquisition unit 31 acquires a DD file by an HTTP request to the content server 60 via the transmission / reception unit 22. The DD file acquired in response to the HTTP response from the content server 60 is stored in the temporary storage area 24 in step S11.

  Subsequently, in step S12, the advertisement acquisition unit 32 in the mobile phone device 10 acquires the advertisement information itself of the content embedded in a predetermined description in the acquired DD file. The acquired advertisement information is stored in the temporary storage area 24.

  Subsequently, the content request unit 28 in the mobile phone device 10 sends the content defined for the anchor to the content server 60 via the transmission / reception unit 22 using the identifier specified in the attribute description file. On the other hand, it is acquired by an HTTP request. Then, the download of the content file is started. At the time of the download, as shown in the upper part of the screen of FIG. 5B, the progress of the download is displayed by a progress bar, remaining time, and the like.

  At this time, in step S <b> 13, the reproduction unit 33 in the mobile phone device 10 reads advertisement information from the temporary storage area 24. Then, when the download of the content file is started, the reproduction of the advertisement information is instructed to each reproduction function. The advertisement information may be text, or may be audio, a still image or a moving image, or a combination thereof. The advertisement information is displayed as shown in the lower part of the screen in FIG.

  The reproduction of the advertisement information is continued until the download of the content file is completed. When the download is completed, a download completion report is sent to the content server 60.

  The content server 60 that has received the report returns a response thereto. Thus, a series of content download processing is completed. The acquired content file is stored in the content storage area 25 in step S14.

  Then, in order to notify the user of the download completion, a screen display as shown in FIG. 5C is made. The contents to be displayed are the name of the downloaded file, the name of the folder storing the file, the size of the file, and the like.

  As described above, in the communication terminal device of the present invention, the attribute file acquisition unit 31 first downloads the content attribute description file, which is a file describing the attributes of the content file, from the content server 60. The content attribute description file is defined in association with a link existing on the screen, for example, and is downloaded by pressing the link.

  Subsequently, the advertisement acquisition unit 32 acquires a presentation information file that is content presentation information based on the information in the content attribute description file. Next, the content request unit 28 issues a content file acquisition request based on the information in the content attribute description file. This is because an identifier on the network of the content file is specified in the content attribute description file. Therefore, the identifier is designated and a connection request is made to the content server 60.

  Subsequently, the reproducing unit 33 reproduces the presentation information of the content in the process in which the content requesting unit 28 acquires the content file from the content server 60. The reproduction is performed from the start to the end of the download. Further, the reproduction may be performed by sound, or may be performed by a moving image, a still image, or text. Therefore, it is possible to effectively utilize the time from the start to the end of the download and present useful information to the user.

  In the communication terminal device of the present invention, the advertisement acquisition unit 32 can acquire the presentation information of the content from the acquired attribute description file.

  In this case, since the content related information has a mechanism in which the data is embedded in the attribute description file, the advertisement acquisition unit 32 acquires the content related information from the attribute description file. Therefore, data acquisition with reduced network load can be performed.

[Modification of Embodiment]
In the above-described embodiment, the advertisement acquisition unit 32 acquires the content advertisement information from the acquired DD file. However, the advertisement acquisition unit 32 determines the location of the data on the network from the acquired DD file. A certain identifier may be acquired, and acquisition may be requested and acquired from the content server 60.

  In this case, in the sequence diagram of FIG. 6, the sequence in which the advertisement acquisition unit 32 acquires the identifier acquired from the DD file in step S12 and then acquires the advertisement information from the content server 60 using the identifier is as follows. Will be inserted. The subsequent processing is the same as in the above embodiment.

  In the above embodiment, the function of the present invention is represented as the advertisement playback unit 27, and the advertisement acquisition unit 32 acquires the advertisement information of the content, but is defined as “content related information”. The information does not necessarily have to be an advertisement, and may be other information that is significant in outputting using the time when the content is downloaded.

  In the above embodiment, the communication terminal device of the present invention is a mobile phone device, but may be another mobile communication terminal device or a normal communication terminal device.

  As described above, the information presentation method of the present invention can be applied to information presentation at the time of content download by a communication terminal device. The communication terminal device of the present invention can be applied to a communication terminal device that performs content download.

It is a figure which shows the outline of the system containing the communication terminal device of this invention. It is a figure which shows roughly the external appearance structure of the mobile communication terminal device of this invention. It is a block diagram for demonstrating the internal structure of the apparatus of FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the advertisement reproduction | regeneration part in the control part of FIG. It is a figure explaining the screen displayed accompanying operation | movement of the advertisement reproduction | regeneration part of FIG. It is a sequence diagram explaining operation | movement of the advertisement reproduction part of FIG.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Mobile phone apparatus (communication terminal device) 11 ... Mobile phone main body, 12 ... Operation part, 13 ... Display part, 14 ... Speaker for call, 15 ... Microphone, 16 ... Speaker for guidance, 17 ... Antenna, 21 ... Control , 22 ... transmission / reception part, 23 ... storage part, 24 ... temporary storage area, 25 ... content storage area, 26 ... web browser, 27 ... advertisement reproduction part, 28 ... content request part, 31 ... attribute file acquisition part, 32 ... Advertisement acquisition unit, 33 ... reproduction unit, 50 ... network, 51 ... base station, 60 ... content server, 100 ... system.

Claims (9)

An attribute file acquisition step of acquiring a content attribute description file including attribute information of the content file from the content server;
A presentation information acquisition step of acquiring presentation information to be presented to a user during acquisition of the content file based on the presentation related information in the content attribute description file;
A content requesting step for issuing an acquisition request for the content file based on content-related information in the content attribute description file;
An information presentation step of presenting the presentation information during acquisition of the content file from the content server.   The information presentation method according to claim 1, wherein the presentation related information is the presentation information itself.   The information presentation method according to claim 1, wherein the presentation related information is position information on a network where the presentation information exists.   The information presentation method according to claim 1, wherein the presentation information is advertisement information. Attribute file acquisition means for acquiring a content attribute description file including attribute information of the content file from the content server;
Presentation information acquisition means for acquiring presentation information to be presented to a user during acquisition of the content file based on the presentation related information in the content attribute description file;
Content request means for issuing an acquisition request for the content file based on content-related information in the content attribute description file;
An information presenting means for presenting the presentation information during acquisition of the content file from the content server.   The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the presentation related information is the presentation information itself.   The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the presentation related information is position information on a network where the presentation information exists.   8. The content utilization media utilization method according to any one of claims 5 to 7, wherein the presentation information is advertisement information.   The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising wireless communication means for performing wireless communication with a base station of a mobile communication network.

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