Server and method for controlling server

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9380330-B2
Application number	US-201414149083-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 7, 2014
Priority date	Jan 7, 2013
Publication date	Jun 28, 2016
Grant date	Jun 28, 2016

Abstract

A display apparatus and a server which implements an interactive system are disclosed. The server includes a communicator which receives text information corresponding to a user voice collected at the display apparatus from the display apparatus, and a controller which extracts an utterance component from the text information and controls so that a query to search contents is generated using the extracted utterance component and transmitted to an external server which categorizes metadata of the content under each item and stores the same, in which the controller generates the query by adding a preset item to a criteria to search a content, when a number of criteria to categorize the content under an item corresponding to the extracted utterance component is less than a preset number.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A server which implements an interactive system with a display apparatus for searching for content to view on the display apparatus, the server comprising:
a communicator configured to receive text information corresponding to a user's voice collected at the display apparatus, from the display apparatus; and
a controller configured to extract an utterance component from the text information, generate a query to search content based on criteria categories under at least one criteria item categorizing a metadata of the content corresponding to the extracted utterance component, and transmit the query to an external server,
wherein the controller is further configured to add, to the query, a criteria category under a preset criteria item including information about a channel that a user is currently viewing, the preset criteria item categorizing the metadata of the content based on a number of the criteria categories under the at least one criteria item categorizing the metadata of the content corresponding to the extracted utterance component,
wherein the server further comprises a storage configured to store information regarding the criteria categories of the at least one criteria item, and
wherein the controller is further configured to:
when a number of the criteria categories of the at least one criteria item corresponding is less than a preset number, add, to the query, the criteria categories under the preset criteria item, and
determine the preset number based on the information regarding the criteria categories of the at least one criteria item.

2. The server of claim 1 , wherein the external server categorizes metadata of the content based on the criteria categories of the at least one criteria item and stores the metadata.

3. The server of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to determine the preset criteria item based on user preference information.

4. The server of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to, when no response results are generated based on the query generated by adding the criteria categories under the preset criteria item categorizing the metadata of the content to the query, regenerate the query to search the content based on criteria categories under at least one criteria item categorizing the metadata of the content corresponding to the extracted utterance components without adding the criteria categories under the preset criteria item.

5. The server of claim 1 , wherein the at least one criteria item comprises at least one of a broadcasting type item and a screen quality item.

6. The server of claim 1 , wherein the preset criteria item comprises at least one of a broadcasting time item and a broadcasting channel item.

7. A method for controlling a server which implements an interactive system with a display apparatus for searching for content to view on the display apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving text information corresponding to a user's voice collected at the display apparatus;
extracting an utterance component from the text information;
generating a query to search a content based on criteria categories under at least one criteria item categorizing a metadata of the content corresponding to the extracted utterance component; and
transmitting the generated query to an external server,
wherein the generating comprises adding, to the query, criteria categories under a preset criteria item including information about a channel that a user is currently viewing, the preset criteria item categorizing the metadata of the content based on a number of the criteria categories under the at least one criteria item categorizing the metadata of the content corresponding to the extracted utterance component,
wherein the generating further comprises adding, when the number of the criteria categories of the at least one criteria item corresponding to the extracted utterance component is less than a preset number, the criteria categories under the preset criteria item categorizing the metadata of the content to the query, and
wherein the method further comprises determining the preset number based on information regarding the criteria categories of the at least one criteria item.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the external server categorizes metadata of the content based on criteria categories under the at least one criteria item and stores the metadata.

9. The server controlling method of claim 7 , wherein the generating further comprises determining the preset criteria item based on user preference information.

10. The server controlling method of claim 7 , further comprising generating, when no response results are generated based on the query generated by adding the criteria categories under the preset criteria item categorizing the metadata of the content to the query, a query to search the content based on the criteria categories under the at least one criteria item categorizing the metadata of the content the at least one criteria item corresponding to the extracted utterance components without adding the criteria categories under the preset criteria item.

11. The server controlling method of claim 7 , wherein the at least one criteria item comprises at least one of a broadcasting type item and a screen quality item.

12. The server controlling method of claim 7 , wherein the preset criteria item comprises at least one of a broadcasting time item and a broadcasting channel item.

13. A method of controlling a display apparatus based on user voices for searching for content to view on the display apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving a user's voice at the display apparatus;
transmitting the received user's voice to a first server from the display apparatus;
receiving, at the display apparatus, text information corresponding to the user's voice from the first server, the user's voice being converted to the text information by the first server; and
transmitting, by the display device, the text information to a second server,
wherein the second server extracts utterance components from the text information and generates a query to search content based on at least one criteria item corresponding to the extracted utterance components,
wherein the second server adds, to the query, when a number of criteria categories under the at least one criteria item categorizing a metadata of the content corresponding to the extracted utterance component is less than a preset number, criteria categories under a preset criteria item including information about a channel that a user is currently viewing that categorizes, the preset criteria item categorizing the metadata of the content,
wherein the second server adds, to the query, when the number of the criteria categories of the at least one criteria item corresponding to the extracted utterance component is less than a preset number, the criteria categories under the preset criteria item categorizing the metadata of the content to the query, and
wherein the second server determines the preset number based on information regarding the criteria categories of the at least one criteria item.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein
the second server transmits the generated query to a third server, and
the third server obtains search results corresponding to the query and transmits the search results to the second server.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the at least one criteria item comprises at least one of a broadcasting type item and a screen quality item.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the preset number is 2.

17. A server config

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shin Yong-Wook
• Shin Seung-Min
• Choi Sung-Wook
• Lee Hye-Jeong
• Chung Ji-Hye

Classifications

• B65B7/16

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• B65B51/08 Primary

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• G10L15/26 Primary

  Speech to text systems (G10L15/08 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G10L19/265

  Pre-filtering, e.g. high frequency emphasis prior to encoding · CPC title

• G10L15/22

  Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue · CPC title