WO2016043571A1 - Apparatus and method for providing content - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for providing a content by a content management apparatus, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: receiving, from a user equipment, a content request for a specific content; receiving the requested specific content from a content server; storing the received specific content in a predetermined storage medium; and performing licensing procedures for providing the specific content to the user equipment.

Description

Content providing device and method

The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for providing content to a user.

Representatively, the most common method of providing content such as a movie to a user is a "package media method" in which the user purchases corresponding content such as a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) or Blu-ray. In addition, there is an "online download method" in which a user purchases the corresponding contents online, downloads the corresponding contents, and stores the contents in a storage medium (eg, a flash memory) included in the user's device. Another is a "streaming method" in which the user is provided with streaming content when the user purchases the content online.

In recent years, as the high-speed Internet is generalized, "online download" or "streaming" is widely used rather than the traditional "package media". While the download speed of the Internet provided to general users has increased greatly, the way of providing high quality such as Ultra-High Dimension (UHD) has been standardized according to the situation where the user wants the content having higher image quality. . As a result, contents having a large size are increasing.

Among the aforementioned methods, the "package media method" has the following inconvenience.

For example, the release of packaged media may be delayed because the content may be published online, or it may be difficult for a user to search for a product to purchase the packaged media. The use of media that cannot be re-written increases production costs, or the source files of the contents may be illegally distributed during the production of the package media, which may cause security problems.

On the other hand, in the case of an online-based content providing method such as an "online download method" or a "streaming method," it is not easy for users to access large sized content. For example, in the case of content having a size of 100GB or more from UHD video content, the download time of the corresponding content is long, the time for recording the downloaded content to a storage medium in the user device is long, and for the storage and reproduction of the content, The capacity of storage medium required will be large.

For example, as of August 2014, the average download speed for broadband Internet in homes in the United States is 29.8 Mbps. Based on this speed, it takes 7 hours to download a content having a size of 100GB. In addition, a recording time for writing to the storage medium is required in order to store the content having a large size on the storage medium after download. For example, a typical USB flash memory has a write speed of about 20 MB / s, and in this case, about one hour or more is required to write 100 GB of content. When providing a large amount of content to a user through an online-based method, it takes a lot of time to download and write.

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for providing content to a user.

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for providing a storage medium storing content to a user.

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for storing and providing content pre-ordered by a user through a network in a storage medium.

The present disclosure provides a licensing method and apparatus for provisioning content to a storage medium.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for providing content by a content management device includes: receiving a content request for specific content from a user device; receiving the requested specific content from a content server; Storing specific content in a predetermined storage medium; and performing a licensing procedure for providing the specific content to a user device.

Content management apparatus for providing content according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a content receiving unit for receiving a content request for a specific content from a user device, and a receiving unit for receiving the requested specific content from a content server, and the received specific content And a content recording unit for storing the predetermined content in a predetermined storage medium, and a licensing unit for performing a licensing procedure for providing the specific content to the user device.

1 is a diagram illustrating a system for providing content according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

2 is a diagram illustrating a process of providing content according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

In the following description of the present disclosure, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present disclosure, the detailed description will be omitted. Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Embodiments of the present disclosure described below are separated for convenience of description, but at least two or more embodiments may be combined and performed within a range that does not conflict with each other.

Terms to be described below are terms defined in consideration of functions in the embodiments of the present disclosure, which may vary according to intentions or customs of users or operators. Therefore, the definition should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

Embodiments of the present disclosure may be variously modified and have various embodiments, and specific embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, this is not intended to limit the present disclosure to specific embodiments, it should be understood to include all changes, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.

In addition, terms including ordinal numbers such as first and second may be used to describe various components, but the components are not limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the present disclosure, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component. The term and / or includes a combination of a plurality of related items or any item of a plurality of related items.

An apparatus and method proposed in the present disclosure are a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) mobile communication system, a Long-Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) mobile communication system, a high-speed downlink Of a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) mobile communication system, a high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) mobile communication system, and a third generation partnership project 2: 3GPP2. A high rate packet data (HRPD) mobile communication system, a 3GPP2 wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) mobile communication system, and a 3GPP2 code division multiple access (Code Division Multiple Access) CDMA) mobile communication system, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16m communication system, and evolved packet system System (EPS), Mobile Internet Protocol (Mobile IP) system and the like can be applied to various communication systems.

Prior to detailed embodiments of the present disclosure, the basic concepts of the present disclosure will be briefly described.

In the present disclosure, a user may acquire a storage medium in which content is recorded through a content management apparatus. In the present disclosure, the content management apparatus records and stores specific content in a storage medium in advance without a user's request (pre-storage method), or when the user requests specific content, the requested specific content is received from the content server and stored in the storage medium. Can be recorded and stored in the user's request. The storage medium may be, for example, a flash USB memory, a hard disk type memory, a micro-SD card, or the like, and the format of the storage medium is not limited as long as the content can be written and read. In addition, the speed at which the content management device downloads the content according to the present disclosure should be set to be much larger than the speed at which the user generally downloads the content at home.

The embodiments of the present disclosure described above will be described below as specific examples. In the example below, it is assumed that the user is located in his home, and the content storage device is assumed to be installed at a location near the user's company.

In the case of the "pre-storage method", the user acquires information of the contents previously stored in the content management device, and if the content of the contents includes the content desired by the user (for example, movie "A"), the user The mobile station may move to a location where the content management device is located and purchase or rent a storage medium including desired content from the content management device.

The "user request method" may include "user online request method" and "user direct request method".

In the "user online request method", if the user does not include the content desired by the user of the contents of the content, the user requests to purchase or rent the desired content (eg, movie "B") online, and the content B Upon receiving the request for the content management apparatus, the content management apparatus requests and downloads the content B from the content server, records the downloaded content B, and stores the downloaded content B in a storage medium. After the user makes a request for the content B, the user may go to his / her company and obtain a storage medium storing the content B from the content management device.

In the " direct user request method ", the user can directly perform the request for the content B through the content management device. In this case, when the user requests to store the corresponding content in a storage medium (eg, USB) owned by the user, the content management device may store the content B in the storage medium owned by the user.

According to the present disclosure as described above, in particular, without the user directly downloading and storing large-capacity content online, the content management device performs the download and storage of the content, the user obtains a storage medium storing the content requested by the user This allows users to save time downloading and storing large amounts of content online, and allows the user to directly purchase or rent a storage medium containing the content, for example, during commute. This will increase significantly.

Meanwhile, in the present disclosure, the security of the content may be enhanced by separating the licensing procedure for provisioning of the purchased content and provision of the purchased content by the user. In the present disclosure, as a method for provisioning, a "license code scheme" for issuing a license code to a user when a user purchases content and inputting the issued license code so that the purchased content can be provisioned This can be used. In another method, a secure session may be performed between a content providing device and a user device using a wireless technology such as Near Field Communication (NFC).

Hereinafter, a system for providing a content storage medium proposed in the present disclosure will be described in detail.

1 is a diagram illustrating a system for providing content according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

The system for providing a content storage medium proposed in the present disclosure includes a management server 120, a content management device 100, and a storage medium 110 in which a content file 111 may be stored.

The management server 120 communicates with the plurality of content management devices 100 installed in various regions to control the corresponding content management device 100 so that the specific content management device 100 provides the user with a content storage medium ( Appropriate control to provide 110). To this end, the management server 120 performs a function of a gateway between the Internet and the content management device 100. Through this, the management server 120 performs an operation necessary to provide the content storage medium 110 to the user.

For example, it receives the content library 101 information, which is information about the contents included in the content management apparatus 100, transmits the information to the user, receives an order request for the specific content from the user, The content may be requested to a content server (not shown), the content may be downloaded, and delivered to the content management device 100. For reference, the content request from the user may be received directly from the user, but may be received through a separate server (eg, a retailer server) managing the user's request.

The content management apparatus 100 records and stores the content in the storage medium 110 and directly provides the content storage medium 110 to the user according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. The new content management device 100 for a specific content may be installed in a booth form, a kiosk form, or in a form similar to a vending machine, so that a user may easily access it at a specific place.

As an example of implementation of the content management device 100, the content management device 100 may include a content library 101, a transceiver 103, a content recorder 105, and a content analyzer 107.

The content analyzer 107 analyzes the characteristics of the content stored in or to be stored in the storage medium 110 and the characteristics of the author's medium. Characteristic of the content, file size of the content, quality of the content, and the like. The characteristics related to the storage medium 110 include a type of the storage medium 110, a capacity of the storage medium 110, and a digital rights management (DRM) scheme supported by the storage medium 110. The type of the storage medium 110 may be a flash USB memory type, a hard disk type, a micro-SD card type, or the like, but is not limited thereto. The DRM scheme supported by the storage medium 110 is a "media bound DRM" scheme in which the storage medium 110 supports a specific playback device or the DRM scheme supported by the storage medium 110 is limited to a specific media. Whether or not.

The transceiver may communicate with the management server 120 to transmit and receive messages necessary for content recording and storage. As an example, the transceiver may receive a write request for a specific content from the management server 120 in response to a user's request. The user's request may be received directly from the user via the user's online through the management server 120 (in the case of the "user online request method" described above), or not via the online (described above "user direct"). Request method "). As another example, the transceiver unit receives the library information from the content library 101 and delivers it to the user through the management server 120 (in the case of the "user online request method" described above), or not by the management server 120 Can be provided directly to the user (in the case of the "Direct User Request Method" described above).

In addition, the transceiver may download the content from the content server (not shown) via the management server 120, receive additional information about the content such as price information of the content, or receive commercial / non-commercial advertisement information. Can be.

The content library 101 stores library information which is information related to the corresponding content necessary for maintaining and storing the received content. The library information may include additional information about the content.

The content recorder 105 performs a write operation for recording and storing content files in the storage medium 110. To this end, the content recorder 105 should be able to support write and read operations for various types of storage media 110. Meanwhile, the content recording unit 105 may include a licensing capability necessary for providing the content to the storage medium 110 in order to write the content to the storage medium 110. To this end, the content recorder 105 must support a plurality of DRM technologies.

The storage medium 110 may have various types, such as a flash USB memory, a hard disk type memory, or a micro-SD card. The storage medium 110 may correspond to the storage medium 110 under the control of the content recording unit 105. Specific content is recorded and stored.

In the present disclosure, the content management apparatus 100 may reduce the time required for downloading and storing large contents, in particular, so that a user may conveniently obtain large contents.

Hereinafter, methods of providing content to a user using the content management apparatus 100 will be described.

A user who obtains a right to use a content, such as a purchase or a rental, may be provided with content in two ways.

The first method is a "pre-storage method" of acquiring a storage medium 110 in which content is stored in advance before a user's request from the content management apparatus 100. In general, since well-known contents are in high demand by users, the content management apparatus 100 may download the contents from the content server via the management server 120 and store the contents in the storage medium 110 in advance. Accordingly, a user who has been granted the right to the content may directly receive the storage medium 110 including the content from the content management device 100.

In the second method, a content management device 100 requests a content desired by a user, and when the content requested by the request is recorded and stored in the storage medium 110, the user may select the storage medium 110 in which the corresponding content is stored. The "user request method" provided. The "user request method" may be a "user online request method" and a "user direct request method". In the "user online request method", if the user does not include the content desired by the user of the contents of the content, the user requests to purchase or rent the desired content (eg, movie "B") online, and the content B The content management apparatus 100 receiving the request for the request requests the content B to the content server to download the content B, records the downloaded content B in the storage medium 110, and stores it. The user may obtain a storage medium 110 storing the content B from the content management device 100 while going to his / her company after requesting the content B.

In order to allow users to use the content management device 100 more, the content management devices 100 may record and store the content after the user requests the content management device 100 (of purchase or rental). It is desirable to be installed in a place where other activities can be performed during the time period. For example, when the content management device 100 is installed in a movie theater, a user requests content directly from the content management device 100, and the requested content is recorded in the storage medium 110 while the user watches a movie. Will be saved. As another example, it may be installed in a shopping mall, an apartment complex, an apartment complex, an ATM device, or the like.

On the other hand, in order for the content purchased by the user to be played on the user device, the content must be provisioned first. For example, the user device may receive a license code or license file and bind the content to the storage medium 110 using media bound DRM technology.

Meanwhile, in the present disclosure, content purchase and content provisioning may be separately performed by time events occurring at different times.

First, content can be purchased through the following methods.

First, when the content desired by the user is in the content management device 100 according to the "pre-storage method", the user may purchase directly from the content management device 100 without being online.

Second, when the content desired by the user is not in the content storage device, the user may purchase the desired content based on the online according to the "user online request method" based on the online.

Third, when the content desired by the user does not exist in the content storage device, the user may request and purchase the desired content directly from the content management device 100 according to the "user direct request method" not based on the online. .

In addition, the content purchased by the user may be provisioned through the following licensing procedure. For reference, in the licensing procedure, message transmission and reception with the user device is required, and a content management device 100 may include a licensing unit (not shown) for performing the licensing procedure.

First, when content is purchased through the user device (shown at 210 in FIG. 2) by the above-described method, the management server 120 plays the content to the user device 210 through the content management device 100. If the license code for the user is provided and the obtained license code is input through the user account 210 through the online account, the purchased content may be provisioned. Here, the user device 210 may not be a storage medium owned by a user. For example, the user device 210 may be a device such as a user's personal computer. Provisioning is thus performed on the storage medium 110 by the user device 210. On the other hand, storage medium 110 does not necessarily have the ability to provision the content. In addition, provisioning need not be performed immediately after the user device 210 receives the license code. That is, the user device 210 may perform provisioning not immediately after receiving the license code but after a time elapses. Second, between the content management device 100 and the user device 210 such as a mobile phone, the user device 210 may perform provisioning. Licensing (or provisioning) may be performed using a secure session. The secure session may be performed by near field technologies such as NFC, or 60 GHz wireless transfer technologies. Through this secure session, the user's personal account for content license management may be accessed. Accordingly, the content management device 100 may check the user's identification information through the secure session. After the content management apparatus 100 confirms the identification information of the user, the content management apparatus 100 may provision the content on a storage medium using a supported DRM after recording the content on the storage medium 110.

Hereinafter, a process of receiving content through the content management device 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described.

In the present disclosure, a method of acquiring content through the content management device 100 may be classified into two types. That is, the first method is to obtain the storage medium 110 recorded and stored by the "pre-storage method", and the second method is to request the content desired by the user by the "user request method" and corresponding content corresponding thereto. Is a method of acquiring the stored storage medium 110.

2 is a diagram illustrating a process of providing content according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

In step 211 and step 213, the content management device 100 transmits the library information about the content that is stored to the user device 210 via the management server 120. The user device 210 determines whether the storage medium 110 storing the content desired by the user is present in the content management device 100 based on the library information, and if so, proceeds to step 217. The content management apparatus 100 may go directly to the place where the content management apparatus 100 is installed and directly purchase the storage medium 110 in which the corresponding content is stored in the content management apparatus 100. If no, in step 219, the user requests content. The content request may include information on desired content and / or identification information on a user device. In operation 221, the content request is transmitted to the management server 120.

The management server 120 transmits the content request to the content management device 100 in step 221. In operation 223, the management server 120 may transmit a license code to the user device 210. The reason shown in dashed lines is that this step is for the embodiment where the license code is used in the provisioning procedure. In addition, step 221 may be performed before step 223.

In operation 225 and step 227, the content management device 100 requests and receives the requested content from the content server 220. In FIG. 2, the content server 220 transmits the corresponding content directly to the content management device 100. However, this is not necessarily the case, and the content server 220 may deliver the corresponding content to the content management device 100 via the management server 120. Meanwhile, the content management device 100 records and stores the received content in the storage medium 110. In this case, when recording the content, the characteristics of the corresponding content and the characteristics of the storage medium 110 may be considered together.

Thereafter, a licensing procedure for content provisioning is performed with the user device 210 and the content management device 100. That is, the licensing procedure may be performed by setting up a secure session using a wireless technology such as NFC, as described above, or by using a license code received by the user device 210 in step 223. As described above, since the content purchase (or rental) and licensing procedure is completed between the user device 210 and the content management device 100, the user directly purchases the storage medium 110 in which the content is stored in the content management device 100. Alternatively, the content may be stored in its own storage medium to obtain the corresponding content.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure may also be embodied as computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. A computer readable recording medium is any data storage device capable of storing data that can be read by a computer system. Examples of the computer readable recording medium include read-only memory (ROM), random-access memory (RAM), CD-ROMs, magnetic tapes, Floppy disks, optical data storage devices, and carrier waves (such as data transmission over the Internet). The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion. In addition, functional programs, code, and code segments for achieving the present disclosure may be readily interpreted by those skilled in the art to which the present disclosure applies.

It will also be appreciated that the apparatus and method according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may be realized in the form of hardware, software or a combination of hardware and software. Any such software may be, for example, volatile or nonvolatile storage, such as a storage device such as a ROM, whether or not removable or rewritable, or a memory such as, for example, a RAM, a memory chip, a device or an integrated circuit. Or, for example, CD or DVD, magnetic disk or magnetic tape and the like can be stored in a storage medium that is optically or magnetically recordable and simultaneously readable by a machine (eg computer). The method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may be implemented by a computer or a portable terminal including a control unit and a memory, the memory suitable for storing a program or programs including instructions for implementing the embodiments of the present disclosure. It will be appreciated that this is an example of a machine-readable storage medium.

Claims (14)

In the method for providing content in the content management device, Receiving a content request for specific content from a user device; Receiving the requested specific content from a content server; Storing the received specific content in a predetermined storage medium; Performing a licensing procedure for providing the specific content to a user device. The method of claim 1, Before receiving the content request, transmitting the library information on the content included in the content management device to the user device. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing is performed. And the characteristics of the specific content and the specification of the predetermined storage medium. The method of claim 1, wherein the content request comprises: And providing information on the content desired by the user device and identification information of the user device. The method of claim 4, wherein the performing of the licensing procedure comprises: Establishing a secure session between the content providing device and the user device based on a predetermined wireless transfer technology; And identifying a user device through the established secure session. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing of the licensing procedure comprises: And performing the operation based on the license code acquired by the user device. The method of claim 6, wherein the license code, And by the management server receiving the content request from the user device, is issued to the user device through the content management device. In the content management device for providing content, A transceiver for receiving a content request for specific content from a user device and receiving the requested specific content from a content server; A content recording unit which stores the received specific content in a predetermined storage medium; And a licensing unit which performs a licensing procedure for providing the specific content to a user device. The method of claim 8, And a content library unit which transmits library information on content included in the content management device to the user device through the transceiver unit before receiving the content request. The method of claim 8, wherein the content recording unit, And store the content in consideration of the characteristic of the specific content and the specification of the predetermined storage medium. The method of claim 8, wherein the content request, Content management device comprising information about the content desired by the user device, and identification information of the user device. The method of claim 11, wherein the licensing procedure is as follows: And establishing a secure session between the content providing device and the user device based on a predetermined wireless transfer technology, and identifying the user device through the established secure session. The method of claim 8, wherein the licensing procedure is Content management device, characterized in that performed based on the license code obtained by the user device. The method of claim 13, wherein the license code, Content management device, characterized in that issued by the management server receives the content request from the user device to the user device through the content management device.

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