KR101034344B1 - IP system and method for simultaneous viewing through authentication of multiple users - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, when a plurality of users are simultaneously authenticated using an electronic money card such as an IC card, users authenticated through a set-top box-type IPTV set or a mobile IPTV terminal, etc. The present invention relates to a simultaneous viewing IPTV system, in which a program is provided and paid for in a mutually watching manner. The IPTV system according to the present invention relays an authentication with the content server according to an input of at least two user information between an IPTV terminal and a content server and the IPTV terminal, and according to the at least two user information for a content request. And an IPTV relaying device which, upon requesting the content server to authenticate, relays the content information received after the authentication from the content server to the IPTV terminal.

Multiple IC card certification, initial information, simultaneous view, IPTV

Description

System for Simultaneously Watching IPTV together through Identification and Authentication by Multi users and Method

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for providing an IPTV service. In particular, when a plurality of users simultaneously perform authentication using an electronic money card such as an IC card, a user authenticated through a set-top box type IPTV set or a mobile IPTV terminal. It is about the simultaneous viewing IPTV system so that they can provide educational programs, such as educational programs, discussions, and other programs, and provide and pay for them simultaneously.

Recently, a user having an IPTV terminal can use a video related and interactive service provided from an IPTV server through a network such as the Internet. Legitimate clients, i.e. viewers or users, who are authorized for the IPTV service can use various multimedia contents provided by the IPTV server at home.

The user can not only watch general TV broadcasts or radio broadcasts that are currently being broadcast through the IPTV terminal, but also request the corresponding content managed by the server even after the broadcast time has elapsed and download or stream any time at any time. You can enjoy even when. In addition, the user may request and enjoy a movie, music, game, cable TV broadcast, DMB broadcast, overseas broadcast, and the like, which are managed by the IPTV server.

In the conventional IPTV service providing method, a service is provided by relying on simple authentication through a set-top box which relays a service between an IPTV terminal and an IPTV server. For example, in the related art, when a simple password or a membership card is inserted into a set top box and authenticated, all IPTV related services provided by an IPTV server can be used through an IPTV terminal.

However, in the conventional method of providing an IPTV service, a program such as sample information or summary information cannot be described in advance before accessing the IPTV server. Therefore, the user must receive the content only after user authentication and payment have been made. There is a difficulty in getting detailed information. In such a case, a well-known program is not a big problem, but there is a problem in that the number of accesses of content to unknown information is reduced and the dissemination of content is slowed down.

In addition, in the conventional IPTV service providing method, contents can be provided from an IPTV server by authenticating with one password or one membership card. However, depending on a program, two or more authorized persons need to be authenticated simultaneously. It does not support. For example, an educational program may be provided in a form of mutual aid and simultaneous viewing. Such a program may be provided only if the other user, who is an educator, is authenticated in addition to the authentication of one of the trainees. I need to be able to.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a set-top box-type IPTV set or a mobile IPTV terminal when multiple users simultaneously perform authentication using electronic money cards such as IC cards. It is to provide a simultaneous viewing IPTV system so that authorized users can provide educational programs such as educational programs, discussions, and other programs, and provide and pay for the programs simultaneously.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a simple program sample information or the like in advance through initial information stored in a memory of an electronic money card such as an IC card before accessing a content server and receiving actual detailed IPTV service. The present invention provides a simultaneous viewing IPTV system in which content can be widely distributed by inducing a viewing desire because summary information and the like can be viewed.

First, to summarize the features of the present invention, an IPTV system according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object of the present invention, IPTV terminal; And relaying authentication with the content server according to input of at least two user information between the content server and the IPTV terminal and requesting the content server to authenticate the content request according to the at least two user information. IPTV relay device for relaying the content information received after the corresponding authentication from the IPTV terminal.

The IPTV relay device includes a set top box form or a form embedded in the IPTV terminal.

When the IPTV terminal is a mobile terminal, the IPTV relay device is embedded in the mobile terminal, and requested and received from the mobile terminal different from the information stored in the USIM card mounted on the mobile terminal as the at least two user information. SMS messages are available.

When authentication is performed at the content server according to the at least two or more user informations, the content server may charge the corresponding user based on any one of the at least two or more user informations.

The reader further includes a reader for reading the at least two user information and transmits to the IPTV relay device. The reader can read the user information from the user information input means in the form of a card.

The card is an electronic payment card, and when the content server is authenticated, the content server may charge for any one of the corresponding cards from which the at least two user information is read.

The IPTV relay apparatus includes a first user identification unit for receiving and identifying first user information including first unique information and common information; A second user identification unit for receiving and identifying second user information including the common information indicating a dependency relationship between second unique information and the first user information; And an execution unit configured to generate execution information for synthesizing information on the requested content and the identified first user information and the second user information to the content server.

When the first user information and the common information of the second user information coincide with each other, the second user identifier receives the second user information and delivers the second user information to the execution unit, and the execution unit receives information on the requested content. The execution information may be generated by combining the common information, the first unique information, and the second unique information.

When the first user identifier identifies the first user information from the user information input means in the form of a card, the first user identifier displays the initial information stored in the means to the terminal, and the second user identifier is another user information in the form of a card. In the case where the second user information is identified from the input means, the initial information stored in the means is displayed to the terminal, and when instructing the request for the selected content among the initial information, the execution unit displays the execution information in the content. Transmission to the server may receive the entire information of the content from the content server and output to the terminal.

The execution unit displays the list of initial information by the first user identification unit and the second user identification unit on a screen divided by the terminal, or selectively on a screen through a full screen, and any one of the lists In the case of selecting, the brief information can be viewed.

While outputting the entire information of the corresponding content to the terminal, the first user identification unit and the second user identification unit each receive initial information of the user information input means and the other user information input means from the content server. Can be updated with new initials.

In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an IPTV service method comprising: inputting at least two user information through a user information input means; Requesting an authentication of a content request between a content server and the IPTV terminal to a content server based on the at least two user information; And outputting to the IPTV terminal to watch the content information received after the corresponding authentication from the content server.

According to the simultaneous viewing IPTV system according to the present invention, a user's desire to view can be induced through initial information stored in an electronic money card such as an IC card of the user.

In addition, according to the simultaneous viewing IPTV system according to the present invention, by allowing the user to simultaneously watch the entire content, such as the educational program through the authentication and payment of multiple users, to a program that one user is teaching other users or viewing each other in a debating manner It can be usefully applied.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the contents described in the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited or limited to the embodiments. Like reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements.

1 is a view for explaining the usage environment of the IPTV system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the present invention, two or more electronic payment card, for example, IC card, smart card, RFID card, USIM, etc., through a relay device such as a set top box (STB) of an IPTV terminal such as a set-top box type IPTV set or a mobile IPTV terminal. When user information is read from a user information input means such as a card, and authenticated by a content server connected to a network such as the Internet or a mobile service provider network, multimedia data such as a video, an e-book, music, a broadcast program, and particularly an educational program We propose a simultaneous viewing IPTV system that can be provided as an educational, debate or other method, and provided for simultaneous viewing.

2 is a view for explaining the IPTV system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, the IPTV system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is a card reader has two or more users of each electronic payment card (for example, IC card, smart card, RFID card, USIM card, etc.) When at least two or more user information is read from the user information input means and transmitted to the STB (Set Top Box) which is an IPTV relay device, the STB is connected to the content server 120 through the Internet according to the at least two or more user information input as described above. The authentication may be relayed, and the content information received after the authentication from the content server 120 may be relayed to the IPTV terminal 110 in response to a content request of a user. The content server 120 may charge for any one of the corresponding cards from which at least two or more user information is read. In the environment of FIG. 2, the IPTV terminal 110 may be a wired terminal having an STB and connected to a wired internet. However, in some cases, the IPTV terminal 110 may be a wireless terminal that may use a wireless Internet such as WiBro.

Here, instead of the card reader, a method of inputting a user ID and password into the STB may be used, and when a card reader is used, there may be at least two holes for inserting a card, and an electronic payment charging inserted into each hole. When all the user information input means such as a card is inserted, the STB can receive the content managed by the content server 120 through authentication with the content server 120. Here, charging for the content use may be made for any one of the cards inserted in the card reader, for example, the card inserted in the corresponding hole indicated to be charged around the card insertion hole of the card reader.

3 is a view for explaining the IPTV system 200 according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the IPTV system 200 according to another embodiment of the present invention may be connected to the Internet in a mobile communication environment using a mobile terminal such as a cellular phone, a WCDMA phone, a WiBro phone, and the like. Shows the environment in which services are available.

In the environment as shown in FIG. 3, the IPTV relay device corresponding to the STB of FIG. 2 may be provided in the mobile terminal 210. The IPTV relay device built in the mobile terminal 210 may read information of one user from a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) installed in the mobile terminal 210 and responsible for user recognition, and other user information may be SMS (Short). It is obtained from another terminal through a text message according to the message service. This may request the SMS message required for authentication in the form of SMS to another user terminal that requires authentication by the IPTV relay device built in the mobile terminal 210, so that the SMS message reply from the other user terminal (multiple terminals possible) In the case of coming, it can be done by using the returned SMS message together with the above USIM information for authentication. The IPTV relay device embedded in the mobile terminal 210 operating as described above may relay authentication with the content server 220 through the Internet according to the at least two user information obtained as described above, and the content request for the content of the user. The content information received after the authentication from the server 220 is relayed to the mobile terminal 210 to watch. In this case, it is preferable to charge the user of the mobile terminal 210.

In the environment as shown in FIG. 2 or 3, the IPTV content that can be viewed at the terminal may be a family simultaneous viewing program as shown in FIG. 4. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 4, when two or more users are authenticated, one of the simultaneous viewers requests a program for educational purposes such as reading or explaining a program content, for example, a storybook content, to another user. You can watch. In addition, the IPTV content may be a program that is provided and paid in the form of simultaneous viewing and assisting in discussions, meetings, and other documents.

In particular, in the case of reading the user information by the card reader, as shown in Figure 5 using a small memory, for example, a few gigabytes of capacity provided in the IC card, smart card, RFID card, USIM card, etc. In addition to user information, which is user identification information, a list of initial information, for example, an e-Book short information list, a movie trailer short information list, a short list of other samples or menus, etc. Can be stored. Such a list of initial information may be displayed through the IPTV terminal 110 when the corresponding card is inserted into the card reader. For selections from this list, the relevant short information, e.g., the e-Book short information, the plot and a few images, movie trailers for opening / ending frames, games or other simultaneous viewing programs Brief information can be viewed.

In the same manner as in FIG. 2, when cards of multiple users are used, corresponding cards may include common information commonly included in each card together with unique information, which is each user information, to indicate that the cards are dependent on each other. Can be. Accordingly, an IPTV relay device such as an STB may primarily recognize whether all common information is included and facilitate authentication of a plurality of cards. For example, an IPTV relay device such as an STB may allow subsequent authentication and content providing processes to be performed only when the corresponding common information is matched with the user information of the above multiple cards. Otherwise, the IPTV relay device may use an IPTV service as an error message. None can be displayed on the terminal.

In the environment as shown in FIG. 2, the IPTV relay device 500 such as an STB may be configured as shown in FIG. 6. Referring to FIG. 6, the IPTV relay device 500 includes a control unit 510, a reader port 511, a TV port 512, an Ethernet port 513, a first user identification unit 520, and a second user identification unit. 530, and the execution unit 540. The controller 510 is responsible for the overall control of the above components of the IPTV relay device 500. Except for the reader port 511 for connection with the card reader, the TV port 512 for connection with the IPTV terminal 110, and the Ethernet port 513 for connection with the Internet communication line, the control unit 510, The first user identifier 520, the second user identifier 530, and the execution unit 540 may be embedded in the mobile IPTV terminal 210 as shown in FIG. 3 to perform a corresponding function.

7 is a view for explaining a content server 600 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 7, the content server 600 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a control unit 610, a member information DB 611, a content DB 612, an authentication unit 620, and a content providing unit 630. , And the initial information providing unit 640. The controller 610 is responsible for the overall control of the above components of the content server 600.

The flowchart of FIG. 8 is referred to for describing an operation of the IPTV relay apparatus 500 of FIG. 6 and the content server 600 of FIG. 7.

First, when the first user information read from the first user card is received through the reader port 511 using the card reader, the first user identification unit 520 may be configured with the first unique information included in the first user information. Each common information is identified (S710). When the first user identification unit 520 identifies the first user information, the first user identification unit 520 may display the initial information stored in the corresponding means to the terminal (a wired IPTV terminal / mobile IPTV terminal). For example, first, a list of initial information by the first user identification unit 520 may be displayed on the terminal screen, and when selecting one of the lists, the brief information may be viewed (S711). .

Next, when the second user information read from the second user card is received through the reader port 511 using the card reader in the same manner, the second user identification unit 520 receives the second user information included in the second user information. Common information indicating a dependency relationship between the second unique information and the first user information is identified (S712). When the second user identification unit 520 identifies the second user information, the second user identification unit 520 may display the initial information stored in the corresponding means to the terminal (a wired IPTV terminal / mobile IPTV terminal). For example, first, a list of initial information by the second user identification unit 530 may be displayed on a terminal screen, and when one of the lists is selected, the brief information can be viewed. In particular, the list of initial information by the first user identifier 520 and the second user identifier 530 is divided in the terminal (wired IPTV terminal / mobile IPTV terminal) under the control of the execution unit 540. Each screen may be displayed on the screen or selectively displayed on the screen through the entire screen, or in the case of selecting any one of the respective lists by the first user identification unit 520 and the second user identification unit 530. You can also watch brief information.

As illustrated in FIG. 3, in a mobile environment, the first user identifier 520 may read first user information from a USIM embedded in a mobile IPTV terminal, and the second user identifier 530 may be configured to read first user information. 2 The second user information may be obtained from the received SMS message by requesting the user terminal.

On the other hand, when the user who wishes to simultaneously view the first user information and the second user information by the first user identification unit 520 and the second user identification unit 530 as input the corresponding user information as described above If any of the users who wish to watch simultaneously finds a list in which they want to watch a specific whole content while searching for various pieces of brief information through the initial information, the corresponding content may be requested by pressing a predetermined hot key on the terminal (S713).

In such a case, when the request for the selected content among the initial information is instructed, the execution unit 540 generates the execution information generated as described above (for example, the selected content information, common information, first unique information, and second unique information). May be generated (S714). The execution unit 540 may generate execution information for synthesizing the first user information and the second user information to the content server 120/220. For example, the second user identifier 530 receives the second user information when the first user information and the corresponding common information (the predetermined common information for indicating a dependency relationship) of the second user information match. The execution unit 540 may generate execution information by synthesizing the common information, the first unique information, and the second unique information. The execution information includes information on the selected content selected by the user from the initial list.

The execution unit 540 may transmit the execution information generated as described above to the content server through the Ethernet port 513 to receive the entire information of the corresponding content from the content server 120/220 and output it to the terminal (S720). ~ S750).

When the execution unit 540 transmits execution information to the content server based on the at least two or more user information as described above, and there is a request for transmission of the corresponding content, the authentication unit 620 of the content server first executes the execution information. The included common information, the first unique information, and the second unique information are compared with corresponding information of the member subscribers stored and managed in the member information DB 611 to process an authentication process for checking whether they match (S730).

If it is authenticated as a member subscriber through the above authentication process, before providing the corresponding content, the content providing unit 630 of the content server selects a payment card among two or more user cards inserted in the card reader (S731) to process the payment. The process may be performed (S732). The first user card (the card inserted first in the card reader) or the second user card may be the payment card, or the card inserted at the position displayed on the reader may be selected as the payment card.

When the payment is made, the content providing unit 630 searches for corresponding content information among many contents stored and managed in the content DB 612 based on the selected content information included in the execution information (S733), and matches the corresponding content information. The IPTV relay apparatus 500 may transmit the data to the IPTV relay apparatus 500 (S740). Accordingly, the execution unit 540 of the IPTV relay apparatus 500 may output to the terminal through the TV port 512 to view the corresponding content information received from the content server through the Ethernet port 513 (S750). .

On the other hand, the initial information providing unit 640 of the content server is stored in the first user card and the second user card while the content providing unit 630 outputs the entire information of the content to the IPTV relay 500 or the terminal. In the case where the managed initial information is different from the initial information managed in the content DB 612 or the like of the content server, it may be determined to update with the latest information (S760). For example, the first user identification unit 520 and the second user identification unit 530 of the IPTV relay apparatus 500 may receive the latest initial information managed by the initial information provider 640 from the content DB 612 or the like. In operation S770, the first user identification unit 520 and the second user identification unit 530 receive the initial information stored in the first user card and the second user card from the content server. The new initial information can be updated (S780).

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains various modifications and variations from such descriptions. This is possible. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the claims below but also by the equivalents of the claims.

1 is a view for explaining the usage environment of the IPTV system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a view for explaining an IPTV system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a view for explaining an IPTV system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an IPTV viewing screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram for describing card information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a view for explaining an IPTV relay apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a view for explaining a content server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an IPTV service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (13)

IPTV terminal; And When the content server requests the content server to relay authentication with the content server according to the input of at least two user information between the content server and the IPTV terminal, and to authenticate the content request according to the at least two user information from the content server. IPTV relay device for relaying the content information received after the authentication to the IPTV terminal, IPTV system for viewing the content to one of the IPTV terminal through the authentication of at least two or more users. According to claim 1, wherein the IPTV relay device, IPTV system comprising a set-top box form or a form embedded in the IPTV terminal. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein when the IPTV terminal is a mobile terminal, the IPTV relay device is embedded in the mobile terminal, and the mobile device is different from information stored in a USIM card mounted on the mobile terminal as the at least two user information. IPTV system, characterized in that to use the received SMS message requested to the terminal. The IPTV system according to claim 1, wherein when the content server is authenticated according to the at least two user information, the content server charges the corresponding user based on any one of the at least two user information. . The method of claim 1, And a reader for reading the at least two user information and transmitting the read information to the IPTV relay device. The method of claim 5, wherein the leader, IPTV system, characterized in that to read the user information from the user information input means in the form of a card. The card of claim 6, wherein the card is an electronic payment card. When the content server is authenticated, the content server charges for any one of the corresponding cards from which the at least two or more user information is read. According to claim 1, wherein the IPTV relay device, A first user identification unit for receiving and identifying first user information including first unique information and common information; A second user identification unit for receiving and identifying second user information including the common information indicating a dependency relationship between second unique information and the first user information; And And an execution unit for synthesizing the requested information, the identified first user information and the second user information, and generating execution information for transmission to the content server. The method of claim 8, The second user identification unit receives the second user information and delivers the second user information to the execution unit when the common information of the first user information and the second user information match. And the execution unit generates the execution information by synthesizing the requested information about the content, the common information, the first unique information, and the second unique information. The method of claim 8, When the first user identification unit identifies the first user information from a card type user information input unit, the first user identification unit displays initial information stored in the corresponding unit to the terminal, When the second user identification unit identifies the second user information from another user information input unit in the form of a card, the second user identification unit displays initial information stored in the corresponding unit to the terminal, In the case of instructing the request of the selected content among the initial information, the execution unit transmits the execution information to the content server to receive the entire information of the corresponding content from the content server and output to the terminal. . The method of claim 10, wherein the execution unit, A list of the initial information by the first user identification unit and the second user identification unit is displayed on the screen divided by the terminal or selectively on the screen through the entire screen, When selecting any one of the list, IPTV system, characterized in that for viewing the brief information. The method of claim 10, While outputting the entire information of the corresponding content to the terminal, the first user identifier and the second user identifier receive each of the initial information of the user information input means and the other user information input means from the content server. IPTV system characterized by updating with new initial information. Inputting at least two user information through user information input means; Requesting an authentication of a content request between a content server and the IPTV terminal to a content server based on the at least two user information; And Outputting to the IPTV terminal to watch the content information received after the corresponding authentication from the content server; IPTV service method for viewing the content to one of the IPTV terminal through the authentication of at least two or more users.

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