Content complex providing server for a group of terminals

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9930094-B2
Application number	US-201313851329-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 27, 2013
Priority date	Mar 27, 2012
Publication date	Mar 27, 2018
Grant date	Mar 27, 2018

Abstract

The present invention provides a content complex providing server capable of providing a content complex containing a plurality of different constituent content used to deliver one subject by using a plurality of terminals such that the content complex can be played efficiently only by a minimum operation when a receiver of the content can watch or listen to the plurality of terminals simultaneously.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of providing a content complex, comprising:
receiving a request for playback of the content complex from a user who has registered a terminal group including a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the content complex includes a first content that is played for all users, and further includes a second content that is played selectively for each user based upon at least one attribute included in membership information of each user, wherein an entire playback time of the content complex includes at least the first content and the second content:
designating the first terminal as a playback terminal of the first content and designating the second terminal as a playback terminal of the second content, whereby the first terminal plays the first content to the user, and the second terminal selectively plays the second content to the user based upon the at least one attribute of the user:
transmitting the first content to the first terminal and the second content to the second terminal;
receiving a request for one of pause, stop and play of a timeline that is a flow of time according to playback of the entire playback time of the content complex from one of the terminals included in the terminal group;
changing a state of the timeline, and transmitting the changed state of the timeline to at least one of the terminals included in the terminal group; and
receiving a request for changing a playback position on the timeline from one of the terminals included in the terminal group, changing a current playback position value on the timeline, and transmitting the changed current playback position value of the timeline to at least one of the terminals included in the terminal group,
wherein the user owns the terminal group,
wherein the first content is a video type content and the second content is a non-video type content,
wherein selectively playing back the second content to the user based upon the at least one attribute of the user further comprises automatically playing back the second content on the second terminal at a playback end time for the first content.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said transmitting comprises transmitting the content complex according to a playback start time of each of the first and second contents included in a playback schedule data of the content complex.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising converting the second content into a web-based content, wherein said transmitting comprises transmitting the first content in a video streaming manner; and transmitting the second content which has been converted into a web-based content by using a HTTP protocol.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising storing information about model characteristics of the first and second terminals, wherein the model characteristics are determined by a combination of at least one of a display size, resolution, and computing power, and input means.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein said designating comprises designating at least one of the first and second terminal having model characteristics corresponding to the type of each of the first content and second content as a playback terminal.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a check-in request from the first terminal or second terminal, wherein said designating comprises designating at least one of the first and second terminal which has transmitted the check-in request as a playback terminal.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising transmitting a check-in guidance signal to at least one of the first and second terminal which has not transmitted the check-in request among the first and second terminals constituting the terminal group.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising selecting one of the first and second content of the content complex as a portion of the content complex to play on at least one of the first and second terminal if a total number of contents of the content complex is larger than a total number of terminals included in the terminal group, wherein said designating comprises designating one of the first and second terminals of the terminal group as a playback terminal for each of the contents, and wherein said transmitting comprises transmitting each of the contents to the designated playback terminal.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein said designating comprises designating at least one of the first and second a terminal as having a priority corresponding to a priority of each of the first content and the second content as a playback terminal.

10. A method of providing a content complex, comprising:
receiving a request for playback of the content complex from a user who has registered a terminal group including a plurality of terminals, wherein the content complex includes a first content that is played for all users, and further includes a second content that is played selectively for each user based upon at least one attribute included in membership information of each user, wherein an entire playback time of the content complex includes at least the first content and the second content;
transmitting a list of each constituent content included in the content complex to one of the first and second terminal;
receiving a playback terminal designating signal to designate the first terminal as a playback terminal of the first content and the second terminal as a playback terminal of the second content in response to transmission of the list of each content from one of the first and second terminal;
transmitting the first content to the first terminal and the second content to the second terminal;
receiving a request for one of pause, stop and play of a timeline that is a flow of time according to playback of the entire playback time of the content complex from one of the terminals included in the terminal group; changing a state of the timeline, and transmitting the changed state of the timeline to at least one of the terminals included in the terminal group; and
receiving a request for changing a playback position on the timeline from one of the terminals included in the terminal group, changing a current playback position value on the timeline, and transmitting the changed current playback position value of the timeline to at least one of the terminals included in the terminal group,
wherein the user owns the terminal group,
wherein the first content is a video type content, and the second content is a non-video type content,
wherein selectively playing back the second content to the user based upon the at least one attribute of the user further comprises automatically playing back the second content on the second terminal at a playback end time for the first content.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein said transmitting the list of each content to one of the first and second terminals of the terminal group comprises:
setting at least one terminal having model identification information corresponding to a type of each of the first content and the second content among the terminal group as a recommendation terminal; and
transmitting the list of each content included in the content complex including information about the recommendation terminal to one of the first and second terminals of the terminal group.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising receiving a request for playback of the content complex from one of the first and second terminals of the terminal group, wherein said transmitting the list of each content to one of first and second terminals of the terminal group comprises transmitting the list of each content included in the content complex to the terminal which has transmitted the request for play

Assignees

• Univ Yonsei Iacf
• Industry Academic Cooperation Of Yonsei Univ

Inventors

• Ahn Chie Teuk
• Lee Seung Yup
• Yoo Ju Wan

Classifications

• H04L67/306

  User profiles · CPC title

• H04L67/02 Primary

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04L65/1094

  Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing · CPC title