KR20090061702A - How to search and provide contents using home to home network - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for searching and providing contents using a home-to-home network, and more particularly, a content stored in a device included in each home network system can be conveniently shared using a home-to-home network connecting several home networks. , By registering advertisement of owned content and providing it easily to other home network users, and searching and providing contents using home to home network that can set various access rights and conditions in sharing and using each content. It is about.

Content search method using a home-to-home network of the present invention, in the method for searching for content using a home-to-home network configured by connecting at least two home network system comprising a home gateway and devices, content search Receiving a content search keyword at a first home gateway included in a home network system of a desired user; A second step of querying the content search keyword from the first home gateway to the home to home network; Receiving a query transmitted content search keyword at a home gateway of a home network system connected to the home to home network; A fourth step of searching for a content corresponding to the content search keyword with respect to a device connected to the home gateway that has received the content search keyword; Transmitting a search result from the second home gateway where the content corresponding to the content search keyword is searched to the first home gateway; And a sixth step of sharing or using the content corresponding to the content search result received from the first home gateway.

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Method for searching and offering contents using Home-to-home network}

The present invention relates to a method for searching and providing contents using a home-to-home network, and more particularly, a content stored in a device included in each home network system can be conveniently shared using a home-to-home network connecting several home networks. , By registering advertisement of owned content and providing it easily to other home network users, and searching and providing contents using home to home network that can set various access rights and conditions in sharing and using each content. It is about.

With the development of communication technology, the Internet connecting the whole world with one network has appeared. As a result, various services using the Internet have emerged. Recently, the Internet service has gone beyond the concept of simple data sharing and can enjoy games and conversations with anyone who is far away in real time, and can watch movies in real time. Reached.

In addition, various digital information devices including network functions such as refrigerators, TVs, PCs, and set-top boxes are being released in the homes, and home networks connected to one network in the home for easier use of such information devices. Appeared. The home network uses various network networks such as telephone line, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, USB, IEEE1394, power line communication, and the like.

In the home network, there is a home gateway that connects each connected device to an external network. However, since home networks are mixed with existing networks such as telephone lines and power lines, and new networks such as Bluetooth and WLAN, devices connected to different networks operate on different hardware and software platforms, making it difficult to communicate with each other. there was.

Therefore, a network integration technology has been required for smooth communication between devices belonging to different networks in an existing home network. Recently, a middleware designed to build a virtual computing environment and provide applications based on the virtual computing environment has been newly proposed. Examples of middleware include UPnP (Universal Plug amp; Play), HAVI, GINI, and the like.

The middleware as above is located between the operating system and the application, and connects the distributed application and the distributed data with each other in the client server environment. In addition, middleware supports a variety of communication protocols, system architectures, operating systems, databases, and applications.

However, the middleware as above supports intercommunication for devices in the home, but due to technical problems, it is no longer able to support communication with devices belonging to other external home networks and thus cannot satisfy various needs of users. There was a problem. In other words, as community services are activated and changes in residential environment are actively made, home network users are required to exchange information easily between their homes and other devices connected to other home networks.

For example, people want to be able to share files among people in an apartment complex, and a service such as controlling a specific device installed in their home from a neighboring house is desired. In addition, there is a desire for services such as multi-games and sharing specific data among specific groups of people. Of course, these services are currently being developed by Internet service providers, and some of them are currently being implemented.

However, if the user's desired service is used through an Internet service provider, a third-party Internet service provider is required as a medium, which may cause information disclosure, as well as direct access to other home networks to play multi games and files. There is a problem that does not meet the needs of users who want a variety of services, such as sharing, remote control, and media sharing. In addition, since various communication services are performed by an Internet service provider, users are required to subscribe to such Internet services, and there are problems such as charging due to usage and an increase in communication costs. .

The present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art as described above using a home to home network to facilitate the sharing and use of content between each home network system using a home to home network connecting a number of home networks It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for searching and providing content.

The above object of the present invention is a method for searching contents using a home-to-home network configured by connecting at least two home network systems including a home gateway and devices, the home network system of a user who wants to search contents. A first step of receiving a content search keyword at an included first home gateway; A second step of querying the content search keyword from the first home gateway to the home to home network; Receiving a query transmitted content search keyword at a home gateway of a home network system connected to the home to home network; A fourth step of searching for a content corresponding to the content search keyword with respect to a device connected to the home gateway that has received the content search keyword; Transmitting a search result from the second home gateway where the content corresponding to the content search keyword is searched to the first home gateway; And a sixth step of sharing or using the content corresponding to the content search result received from the first home gateway.

In addition, another object of the present invention is a method for providing content using a home-to-home network configured by connecting at least two or more home network systems comprising a home gateway and devices, connected to the first home network system A first step of registering an advertisement of content stored in a device in an advertisement service server connected to the home-to-home network; Transmitting a content search request from the second home network system to the advertisement service server; A third step of searching for an advertisement of content corresponding to the content search request received from the advertisement service server and transmitting the retrieved advertisement to a second home network system; A fourth step of requesting a purchase of content corresponding to an advertisement received from the advertisement service server in a second home network system; And after the purchase condition of the content requested to be purchased from the second home network system is completed in the advertisement service server, the first home network system and the second home network system are connected to each other and stored in a device connected to the first home network system. A content providing method using a home-to-home network comprising a fifth step of allowing content to be used in the second home network.

Accordingly, the method for searching and providing contents using the home-to-home network of the present invention connects several home network systems to the home-to-home network, so that the contents stored in the devices included in each home network system can be conveniently shared and the advertisements of the contents are retained. It can be easily provided to other home network users by registering it, and there is an effect that various access rights and conditions can be set in sharing and using each content.

The terms or words used in this specification and claims are not to be construed as being limited to their ordinary or dictionary meanings, and the inventors may appropriately define the concept of terms in order to best describe their invention. It should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a content retrieval method using a home-to-home network according to the present invention.

The home-to-home network of the present invention is a kind of virtual network configured by connecting a home gateway (or home server) included in each home network system with a home gateway (or home server) included in another home network system. A network for sharing contents stored in a device connected to a home network system with another home network system connected through a home to home network. The home-to-home network of the present invention connects each home network system in a peer to peer (P2P) manner, and is designed based on JXTA, an open standard protocol of a P2P network that can be accessed regardless of a specific language or platform. desirable.

Each user of the home-to-home network of the present invention is identified by a unique user ID, an individual home gateway is assigned a unique peer ID, and each device operates a single instance of a JXTA peer. do.

Referring to the embodiment of the present invention of FIG. 1, when a user who wants to search for a specific content inputs a keyword for content search in a terminal such as a PC or a laptop, the keyword is received at a first home gateway connected to a home network. (S110).

The first home gateway that receives the search keyword transmits a query to the home-to-home network (S120).

When a query is received from a home gateway of another home network system connected to the home-to-home network, the home gateway that receives the query searches for content corresponding to the keyword with data stored in devices included in the connected home network system ( S130).

Among the home gateways that receive the query and search for the content, the second home gateway in which the corresponding content is searched transmits the search result to the home-to-home network, and receives the search result in the query-first home gateway (S140).

The search result includes the accessibility of the first home gateway user to the searched content, and if the owner of the content does not allow sharing (S150), the owner asks for access to the content and is approved (S151). ), In case of content that is allowed to be shared, the content is accessed without a request for access.

In addition, if there is no condition for providing the corresponding content (S160), the content can be shared and used immediately (S170), and if there is a condition (S160), the content can be shared after satisfying the condition (S161). There is (S170).

In the content search method using the home-to-home network according to the present invention, a user of each home network can freely set access rights of some or all of the contents owned by the user, and other users who want to share the contents by specifying conditions May provide and exchange other content or perform a paid payment to share the content.

In addition, the content retrieval method using the home-to-home network of the present invention, by registering a search keyword in the home gateway to automatically retrieve the content from the home-to-home network when the user is absent or going to bed, the user receives the content You can efficiently manage the time you spend searching.

According to another embodiment of the content retrieval method using the home-to-home network according to the present invention, a home network is classified into a plurality of user groups, and a home network joined to a specific user group having a common interest or similar home environment. By allowing the content to be shared between the systems, the searching and sharing of the content may be made easier.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a content providing method using a home-to-home network according to the present invention.

A user of a home network system connected to a home-to-home network according to the present invention stores a content produced by himself, such as User Created Contents (UCC), on a device connected to a home network such as a PC (S210).

When the user selects the advertisement registration for advertising the content, the home gateway registers the advertisement with the advertisement service server connected to the home-to-home network (S220). The advertisement is a separate sample of content produced to advertise the corresponding content, and is preferably made of text, a picture, or a video including information of the corresponding content.

Subsequently, when a search request for the content registered in the advertisement service server is received from another home-to-home network user (S230), the advertisement service server searches for an advertisement corresponding to the requested content among the registered advertisements and returns the search result to the corresponding user. Transmit (S240).

The user requesting the search receives the advertisement, checks the content of the corresponding content, and then determines whether to purchase the content (S250).

When the user wants to purchase the content, the corresponding content is used after completing the set content purchase condition such as paid payment or content exchange (S260). At this time, the content file is stored in the device of the user who produced the content, and the advertisement service server connects the user who has the content in the home-to-home network with the purchased user to share the content in a P2P manner.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the purchase condition of the content can be set in various ways, and the service can be selected and selected by streaming or downloading.

In addition, the advertisement service server of the present invention stores the advertisement of the content and provides it, and by connecting the user to buy the content and the user to sell the content to provide the content can efficiently use its own resources of the advertising service server.

3 is a block diagram of a home-to-home network according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the home-to-home network of the present invention includes at least one home network system 100 including a home gateway (or a home server 110), a home appliance, and a terminal device 101 for connecting to an external network. ).

The home-to-home network 210 according to the present invention is designed based on the JXTA open standard protocol, and each home network system in the home-to-home network is connected in a P2P manner using a home-to-home network dedicated application to share content.

The home gateway of each home network system included in the home-to-home network of the present invention is given a unique peer ID, and each user is identified by a unique user ID.

In addition, each user may set authentication, access rights, content use conditions, etc. for sharing his owned content, and provide the same to other users in the home-to-home network who wants to share the content.

In addition, the home-to-home network of the present invention further includes an advertisement service server, which performs advertisement of content such as UCC produced by the user by using an advertisement registered in the advertisement service server, and connects the buyer and seller of the corresponding content. To provide content.

Although the present invention has been shown and described with reference to the preferred embodiments as described above, it is not limited to the above embodiments and those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Various changes and modifications will be possible.

1 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a content retrieval method using a home-to-home network according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a content providing method using a home-to-home network according to the present invention;

3 is a block diagram of a home-to-home network according to the present invention;

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100: home network system 101: device

110: home gateway 200: internet

210: home to home network

Claims (7)

A method for searching for content using a home-to-home network configured by connecting at least two home network systems including a home gateway and devices, the method comprising: Receiving a content search keyword at a first home gateway included in a home network system of a user who wants to search for content; A second step of querying the content search keyword from the first home gateway to the home to home network; Receiving a query transmitted content search keyword at a home gateway of a home network system connected to the home to home network; A fourth step of searching for a content corresponding to the content search keyword with respect to a device connected to the home gateway that has received the content search keyword; Transmitting a search result from the second home gateway where the content corresponding to the content search keyword is searched to the first home gateway; And A sixth step of sharing or using the content corresponding to the content search result received from the first home gateway; Content search method using a home-to-home network comprising a. The method of claim 1, The content is a content retrieval method using a home-to-home network in which the access rights and usage conditions of each home network system connected to the home-to-home network are preset. The method of claim 2, wherein the sixth step is Determine whether the content included in the received content search result is accessible and share or use the content when the content is accessible from the first home gateway, and if the content is not accessible, the content to the second home gateway. Method for retrieving content using a home-to-home network that shares or uses the content after access is requested by requesting access. The method of claim 2, In the sixth step, the sharing or use of the content, Content search method using a home-to-home network performed after completing the conditions of providing, exchanging or paying other content. A method for providing content using a home-to-home network configured by connecting at least two home network systems including a home gateway and devices, A first step of registering an advertisement of content stored in a device connected to a first home network system to an advertisement service server connected to the home to home network; Transmitting a content search request from the second home network system to the advertisement service server; A third step of searching for an advertisement of content corresponding to the content search request received from the advertisement service server and transmitting the retrieved advertisement to a second home network system; A fourth step of requesting a purchase of content corresponding to an advertisement received from the advertisement service server in a second home network system; And Contents stored in a device connected to the first home network system by connecting the first home network system and the second home network system after the purchase condition of the content requested to be purchased from the second home network system is completed in the advertisement service server. A fifth step of using a service in the second home network Content providing method using a home-to-home network comprising a. The method of claim 5, wherein In the fifth step, the first home network system and the second home network system, A method of providing content using a home-to-home network connecting with a peer to peer (P2P) method. The method of claim 5, wherein The advertisement is a separate sample of content produced to advertise the content, the content providing method using a home-to-home network that is produced by any one of the text, picture or video including the information of the content.

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