KR20080079708A - Personalized information providing system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for providing personalized information and a method thereof, and more specifically, to a personal device through a heterogeneous terminal supporting various screen sizes, various specifications, and network environments such as a PDA, a PC, an IP TV, a mobile phone, and a telematics terminal. The present invention relates to a personalization information providing system and a method in which a requested personalization information service can be provided in the same manner regardless of a terminal, and setting information changed in one client can be applied to other terminals in the same way.

Description

Personalization information providing system and method {Imformation Offering System For Individual And Method}

1 is a system configuration diagram schematically showing a personalized information providing system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart schematically showing a method for providing personalized information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

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10: information providing server 110: terminal client interworking module

120: user authentication module 130: client profile management module

140: session management module 150: service configuration module

160: personalized information providing module 170: multimedia data conversion module

180: push processing module 20: heterogeneous terminal

The present invention relates to a system for providing personalized information and a method thereof, and more specifically, to a personal device through a heterogeneous terminal supporting various screen sizes, various specifications, and network environments such as a PDA, a PC, an IP TV, a mobile phone, and a telematics terminal. The present invention relates to a personalization information providing system and a method in which a requested personalization information service can be provided in the same manner regardless of a terminal, and setting information changed in one client can be applied to other terminals in the same way.

In the conventional personalization information providing system, interest information such as news and content that each client is interested in advance may be collected, content related to the interest information is periodically transmitted to the client terminal, and personalized information which is personalized information may be transmitted.

However, the conventional personalization information providing system can receive personalization information only through a specific terminal that can be accessed through a specific network, and there is a problem that the same personalization information providing system cannot be provided through heterogeneous terminals.

In other words, since the terminal user mainly uses a PC terminal or an IP TV terminal at home, and a mobile terminal or a PDA terminal is used on the move, the use of the heterogeneous terminal is becoming common, and thus the same personalization information providing service is provided through the heterogeneous terminal. Despite the need to provide, the conventional personalized information providing system has a limitation in that it cannot provide integrated personalized information to heterogeneous terminals through heterogeneous network interworking such as internet networks, communication networks, and broadcasting networks having different specifications or network environments.

In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to register and manage information about heterogeneous terminals with different specifications or network environment available to the user, and to format the personalization information to be processed by heterogeneous terminals. The present invention provides a system and method for providing personalized information that can provide personalized information integrated through heterogeneous terminals.

In order to achieve the above object, the system for providing personalized information according to the present invention stores and manages profile information of heterogeneous terminals available to a user, and converts multimedia data for personalized information into a format that heterogeneous terminals can process. It provides a personalized information providing system comprising a heterogeneous terminal for executing the information providing server to provide and the personalized information transmitted from the information providing server.

The information providing server may include a terminal client interworking module that allows access through a heterogeneous terminal and controls response processing for a user request, a user authentication module for authenticating a user connected to the authentication request, and the service. A service configuration information management module for processing configuration information changes and storing and managing the changed information, a client profile management module for storing and managing profile information of various heterogeneous terminals, a session management module for managing connection status of terminals, and providing external content The heterogeneous terminal may process a personalization information providing module for collecting, classifying and storing personalization information from various content information provided by a server, and various multimedia data included in personalization information to be provided to heterogeneous terminals through the personalization information providing module. Change the size and format Includes a multimedia data conversion module and a push processing module that manages and detects a push cycle set by a user, and pushes the push cycle to a corresponding terminal client using a push mechanism that can be accommodated by the terminal client using a client profile for each push cycle. It is done.

The push processing module is characterized in that the push to the heterogeneous terminal by using any one of the push mechanism that can be accommodated among the SMS, SIP and WAP push.

The heterogeneous terminal is characterized in that it comprises a client program for accessing the information providing server to request and receive personalized information to be executed.

Another feature of the present invention is a connection and authentication step of performing authentication by accessing an information providing server through a heterogeneous terminal available to a user, and a personalization information collection step of collecting and classifying personalization information related to preset interest information; Personalization information processing step of processing the personalization information according to the profile of the heterogeneous terminal, and personalization information push step for pushing the personalization information by using the push mechanism that can be accommodated by the terminal by analyzing the profile of the user terminal; The present invention provides a method of providing personalized information.

The access and authentication step may include executing a client program of a heterogeneous terminal to access and log in to an information providing server, performing a user authentication by a user authentication module of the information providing server, and newly registering session information through the user authentication module; And receiving detailed environment information of the terminal stored in the client profile management module by receiving the connected heterogeneous terminal type and model information.

The collecting personalization information may include collecting personalization information mapped to interest information set by a user by a personalization information providing module of an information providing server from content data provided from an external content providing server, and collecting the collected personalized information for each user. And classifying and storing the same.

In the personalization information processing step, the multimedia data conversion module analyzes the detailed environment information of the heterogeneous terminal accessed by the user and processes the collected and classified personalization information to be optimized according to the format of the heterogeneous terminal.

The push of personalization information may include checking whether there is newly updated personalization information when the push processing module of the information providing server reaches a push cycle set by the user, and through the session management module when there is newly updated personalization information. Analyzing the profile of the heterogeneous terminal that the user is currently using, and pushing the personalization information to the terminal using a push mechanism that the heterogeneous terminal can accommodate.

In addition, in the present invention, if there is a request for transmitting personalized information from a user connected to the information providing server, the personalization information providing module collects and classifies personalized information related to the interest information set by the user, and the multimedia data conversion module is accessed by the user. Analyzing the detailed environment information of the heterogeneous terminal belonging to process the collected and classified personalization information to be optimized according to the format of the heterogeneous terminal, and transmitting the processed personalization information to the heterogeneous terminal by the terminal client interworking module; Characterized in that.

In addition, when the user changes the service-related setting information, the service setting information management module changes the setting information, stores the changed setting information, and provides personalization information to the heterogeneous terminal according to the changed setting information. It further comprises.

Hereinafter, the specific configuration and operation of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings and the embodiments.

1 is a system configuration diagram schematically showing a personalized information providing system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the personalization information system according to the present invention stores and manages profile information of heterogeneous terminals available to a user, converts multimedia data for personalization information into a format that heterogeneous terminals can process, and provides them to heterogeneous terminals. It is configured to include a heterogeneous terminal 20 for executing the information providing server 10 and the personalized information transmitted from the information providing server.

The information providing server 10 permits access through the heterogeneous terminal 20, and performs a terminal client interworking module 110 to perform response processing for a personalized information request, an authentication request, a service setting information change request, and a service list request. And a user authentication module 120 that performs authentication for a user who is connected by using user identification information or authentication information of a heterogeneous terminal with respect to the authentication request, and changes setting information when the service setting information is changed and stores the changed information. The service profile management module 150 to manage and the client profile management module 130 to store and manage profile information of various heterogeneous terminals, the session management module 140 to manage the connection status of the terminal and various information provided by an external server. Personalization information providing module 160 for collecting, classifying and storing personalization information from the personalization information. Manage and detect the multimedia data conversion module 170 and user-defined push cycles that change various multimedia data included in personalization information to be provided to heterogeneous terminals through a beam providing module to a size and format that can be processed by heterogeneous terminals. And a push processing module 180 that pushes to the corresponding terminal client using a push mechanism that the terminal client can accommodate using the client profile every push cycle.

More specifically, the terminal client interworking module 110 serves as a gateway to a heterogeneous terminal connected through a heterogeneous network, receives various requests for user services, and controls response processing thereto. Play a role.

The user authentication module 120 is responsible for performing authentication by comparing user information and terminal information connected to the information providing server 10 with information stored in the client profile management module 130.

The client profile management module 130 stores and manages all profile information required for a service, such as a network environment and a specification for a user-accessible heterogeneous terminal, a screen size, and a maximum data storage capacity.

The personalization information providing module 160 stores and manages interest information set by a user, receives various content data collected and provided from an external content providing server, and classifies and stores the interest information.

The content providing server may include a search engine for searching and collecting a web page of content related to the information of interest and an index module for indexing, classifying and collecting the collected content to an information providing server.

Here, the interest information is keyword information preset by the user and may be a category for various genres. For example, if sports is set as the interest information of the news, only sports-related news contents are collected from the news content provided from the content providing server, mapped to user information, and stored and managed.

The multimedia data conversion module 170 plays a role of changing personalization information collected and classified by the personalization information providing module 160 into a size and a format that can be processed by the heterogeneous terminal 20.

The push processing module 180 checks the profile of the heterogeneous terminal currently being used by the session management module 140 by the session management module 140 at each push cycle set by the user and converts the data converted by the multimedia data conversion module. It is responsible for transmitting to the heterogeneous terminal 20 in use using the push mechanism.

On the other hand, the heterogeneous terminal available to the user may be a terminal in any network environment, such as PDA, PC, IP TV, mobile phone, telematics, portable Internet terminal, and the heterogeneous terminal transmits personalized information transmitted from the information providing server. It should have a client program that can be received and executed.

2 is a flowchart schematically showing a method for providing personalized information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the user accesses the information providing server 10 through the available heterogeneous terminal 20 and performs authentication.

For example, a user executes a client program for a PC in his home through a PC terminal connected to the Internet, accesses an information providing server, and performs a login procedure. At this time, information about the type (PC) and model of the terminal together with the user authentication information is transmitted to the information providing server. Here, the terminal client interworking module 110 of the information providing server serving as a gateway may allow access of the heterogeneous terminal 20 through the heterogeneous network.

The user authentication module 120 of the information providing server performs user authentication and newly registers session information through the user authentication. The detailed environment information of the terminal previously stored in the client profile management module 130 is received by receiving the terminal type and model information. To get

If the heterogeneous terminal accessed by the user is not a registered heterogeneous terminal, the user registers detailed information (network environment and specification, screen size, type of maximum data storage capacity terminal, network environment, etc.) of the connected heterogeneous terminal. The registered heterogeneous terminal information is stored and managed by the terminal client profile server.

Personalization information related to the interest information is collected and classified from various content data provided from an external content providing server. (S120)

More specifically, the personalization information providing module 160 collects and stores various content data mapped to a list of interest information set by a user among various content data transmitted from an external content providing server.

Subsequently, the personalized information is processed according to the profile of the heterogeneous terminal 20. (S130)

More specifically, the multimedia data conversion module 170 processes the personalization information to be optimized for the terminal using detailed environment information (screen size, supported multimedia format, supported network, maximum acceptable data size, etc.) of the terminal. In the case of a PC terminal, since most multimedia data is accommodated, MPEG4 video clips, MP3 audio, and flash images can be transmitted to the PC terminal without processing. However, in the case of a mobile phone terminal, since the supported format is limited, it must be changed to 3GPP video, Midi audio, animated GIF format, and the like. Therefore, it is necessary to convert the multimedia data according to the platform of the heterogeneous terminal. The multimedia data changed into a format that the heterogeneous terminal can process is stored for each heterogeneous terminal.

The push processing module 180 of the information providing server analyzes the profile of the user terminal managed by the session management module 140 when the push cycle set by the user is used to obtain personalization information using a push mechanism that the terminal can accommodate. Push. (S140)

More specifically, the user can freely set the period in which the personalized information is pushed, and the push processing module 180 stores and manages the user push period and checks whether there is newly updated personalized information when the push period is reached. . If there is newly updated personalization information, the session management module 140 analyzes the profile of the terminal currently being used by the user, and pushes the personalization information to the terminal using a push mechanism that the terminal can accommodate. Here, the push mechanism may be any mechanism applicable to heterogeneous terminals such as SMS / SIP / WAP push.

In addition, when there is a request for providing personalization information, the terminal client interworking module 110 processes personalization information collected through the personalization information providing module to be optimized for the terminal through the multimedia data conversion module 170, and stores the personalized information for each heterogeneous terminal. The personalization information corresponding to the profile of the terminal being accessed through the session management module 140 may be extracted and transmitted to the heterogeneous terminal 20.

Meanwhile, when the user changes the personalization information set by the user, for example, when the category of the interest information is changed from sports to stocks, the personalization information of the user is changed from sports-related contents to stock contents, and service setting information management. The module 150 stores the changed setting information, the personalization information providing module 160 collects / classifies the content information related to the stock according to the changed setting information, and the multimedia data conversion module 170 stores the collected personalization information. To a format that can be handled by a heterogeneous terminal and transmits the same to a currently connected terminal.

If the personalization information set by the user through the PC terminal is changed and the connection is interrupted after access through a heterogeneous terminal, for example, a mobile phone terminal, the contents previously set by the service configuration information management module are not changed. Since it is stored and managed and applied to all heterogeneous terminals registered by the user, it is possible to receive the stock information, which is changed personalization information, by SMS push, which is a push mechanism suitable for a mobile phone, without having to change setting information separately.

As described above, the system and method for providing personalized information according to the present invention can receive personalized information service through a heterogeneous terminal available to a user regardless of the environment of the heterogeneous terminal, and the changed information is integrated into the heterogeneous terminal. It is updated to produce an excellent effect to increase user convenience.

Although the detailed description of the present invention described above has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the protection scope of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and those skilled in the art will appreciate It will be understood that various modifications and changes can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims (11)

An information providing server for storing and managing profile information of heterogeneous terminals available to a user and converting multimedia data for personalized personal information into a format that heterogeneous terminals can process; Personalization information providing system comprising a heterogeneous terminal for executing personalization information transmitted from the information providing server. The method of claim 1, The information providing server A terminal client interworking module that allows access through a heterogeneous terminal and controls response processing in response to a user request; A user authentication module for performing authentication on a user who accesses the authentication request; A service setting information management module which processes the service setting information change and stores and manages the changed information; A client profile management module configured to store and manage profile information of various heterogeneous terminals; A session management module managing a connection status of a terminal; A personalization information providing module for collecting, classifying and storing personalization information from various content information provided by an external content providing server; A multimedia data conversion module for changing various multimedia data included in personalization information to be provided to heterogeneous terminals through the personalization information providing module to a size and a format that the heterogeneous terminal can process; And a push processing module that manages and detects a push cycle set by a user and pushes the push cycle to a corresponding terminal client using a push mechanism that can be accommodated by the terminal client using a client profile for each push cycle. The method of claim 2, The push processing module Personalization information providing system, characterized in that the push to the heterogeneous terminal using any one of the push mechanism that can be accommodated among the SMS, SIP and WAP push. The method of claim 1, The heterogeneous terminal And a client program for accessing the information providing server and requesting, transmitting, and executing the personalized information. An access and authentication step of performing authentication by accessing an information providing server through a heterogeneous terminal available to a user; A personalization information collection step of collecting and classifying personalization information related to preset interest information; A personalization information processing step of processing the personalization information according to a profile of a heterogeneous terminal; And a personalization information pushing step of analyzing the profile of the user terminal and pushing the personalization information using a push mechanism that the terminal can accommodate. The method of claim 5, The access and authentication step Accessing and logging into an information providing server by executing a client program of a heterogeneous terminal; Performing user authentication by a user authentication module of the information providing server and newly registering session information through the user authentication module; And receiving detailed connected terminal type and model information and receiving detailed environment information of a terminal stored in a client profile management module. The method of claim 5, The personalized information collection step Collecting, by the personalization information providing module of the information providing server, the personalization information mapped to the interest information set by the user from the content data provided from the external content providing server; And classifying and storing the collected personalized information for each user. The method of claim 5, The personalized information processing step The multimedia data conversion module analyzes detailed environment information of a heterogeneous terminal accessed by a user and processes the collected and classified personalization information to be optimized according to the format of the heterogeneous terminal. The method of claim 5, The personalized information push step Checking, by the push processing module of the information providing server, whether there is newly updated personalization information when the push cycle set by the user is reached; Analyzing the profile of the heterogeneous terminal currently being used by the user through the session management module when there is newly updated personalization information; And pushing the personalization information to the terminal using a push mechanism that can be accommodated by the heterogeneous terminal. The method of claim 5, Collecting, by the personalization information providing module, the personalization information related to the interest information set by the user when there is a request for transmitting personalization information from a user accessing the information providing server; Processing, by the multimedia data conversion module, the collected and classified personalized information to analyze detailed environment information of the heterogeneous terminal accessed by the user so as to be optimized for the format of the heterogeneous terminal; The terminal client interworking module further comprises the step of transmitting the processed personalized information to a heterogeneous terminal. The method of claim 5, When the user changes the service related setting information, changing the setting information by the service setting information management module and storing the changed setting information; And providing personalization information to heterogeneous terminals according to the changed setting information.

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