System for providing authoring service and user terminal for providing authoring service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9996887-B2
Application number	US-201114126633-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2011
Priority date	Jun 16, 2011
Publication date	Jun 12, 2018
Grant date	Jun 12, 2018

Abstract

An authoring service system which includes an authoring service controller providing an authoring tool to a user terminal and receiving self-made digital content generated using the authoring tool from the user terminal, a license manager managing license information for each digital content and registering the license information related to the self-made digital content based on information received from the user terminal, and a content provisioner providing the self-made digital content based the license information. In this case, the authoring service system may provide an authoring service by linking to an in-app module installed in the user terminal. In addition, the authoring service system may provide a resale service for the self-made digital content by managing a license.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An authoring service system, comprising:
at least one memory configured to store program instructions; and
at least one processor configured to read the program instructions and execute the program instructions to implement:
an authoring service controller configured to provide an authoring tool to a user terminal and configured to receive self-made digital content generated using the authoring tool;
a license manager configured to generate integrated license information of the self-made digital content by combining license information of original digital content with license information of a portion generated using the authoring tool, and configured to register the integrated license information of the self-made digital content; and
a content provisioner configured to provision the self-made digital content based on the integrated license information acquired from the license manager,
wherein the integrated license information of the self-made digital content comprises ratio information indicating a ratio of a portion of the original digital content, based upon which the self-made digital content is generated, to the portion generated using the authoring tool, which makes up the self-made digital content,
wherein the content provisioner manages author information of the original digital content and author information of the self-made digital content, and distributes trading profit for the self-made digital content to an author of the original digital content and to an author of the self-made digital content according to the ratio information,
wherein the content provisioner provides a user interface for trading the self-made digital content, when a trade for the self-made digital content is required, and wherein the content provisioner performs the trade of the self-made digital content according to the integrated license information for the self-made digital content received from the license manager.

2. The authoring service system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to implement:
an in-app module linker configured to access an in-app module,
wherein the in-app module is an application that provides common services in a form in which a component is inserted in an unspecified number of applications which are installed in the user terminal to allow an authoring service to be provided to the user terminal by connecting with the in-app module, the authoring service controller, the license manager, and the content provisioner.

3. The authoring service system of claim 2 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to implement:
a portal server configured to connect with the in-app module via the in-app module linker to select, by searching, target digital content for authoring, and to register the selected authoring target digital content as the self-made digital content using the authoring tool, and to provide to the user terminal, the user interface for trading the self-made digital content,
wherein the selected authoring target digital content is converted into the self-made digital content by using the authoring tool.

4. The authoring service system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a database configured to store target digital content for authoring, and
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to implement a registrator configured to receive digital content to be resold and configured to confirm the license information with respect to the digital content to be resold from the license manager to store the digital content to be resold in the database.

5. The authoring service system of claim 4 , wherein the registrator determines whether the digital content to be resold is registered in advance, and wherein, when the digital content is not registered, the registrator acquires the license information for the digital content to be resold to register the acquired license information at the license manager, and determines whether the digital content is to be resold.

6. The authoring service system of claim 4 , wherein the registrator registers the integrated license information of the self-made digital content.

7. The authoring service system of claim 1 , wherein the content provisioner distributes to the author of the original digital content and to the author of the self-made digital content the trading profit in an online cash type based on purchases of the self-made digital content.

8. The authoring service system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to implement:
a content manager configured to receive user policy information from the user terminal and configured to manage the self-made digital content by mapping the self-made digital content to the received user policy information, to provide the self-made digital content and the received user policy information to the content provisioner,
wherein the user policy information comprises content information, sales policy information and marketing policy information for the self-made digital content.

9. The authoring service system of claim 8 , wherein the content provisioner performs the trade of the self-made digital content according to the integrated license information and the user policy information received from the content manager.

10. The authoring service system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to implement:
a digital rights management (DRM) converter configured to convert the self-made digital content received from the authoring service system into digital rights management (DRM) content to transfer the converted digital content to a content manager.

11. The authoring service system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to implement:
a media converter configured to covert the self-made digital content into a media suitable for a conversion format requested by the user terminal from the authoring service controller, and configured to transfer the converted self-made digital content to a content manager.

12. An authoring service method comprising:
providing an authoring tool to a user terminal;
generating self-made digital content by the user terminal using the provided authoring tool; and
generating integrated license information of the self-made digital content by combining license information of original digital content with license information of a portion generated using the authoring tool and providing the integrated license information for the generated self-made digital content to an authoring service system to register the integrated license information with the generated self-made digital content,
wherein the authoring service system distributes the generated self-made digital content to at least one other user terminal based on the integrated license information,
wherein the integrated license information of the self-made digital content comprises ratio information indicating a ratio of a portion of original digital content, based upon which the self-made digital content is generated, to a portion generated using the authoring tool, which makes up the self-made digital content,
wherein a content provisioner of the authoring service system manages author information of the original digital content and author information of the self-made digital content, and distributes trading profit for the self-made digital content to an author of the original digital content and to an author of the self-made digital content according to the ratio information, and provides a user interface for trading the self-made digital content, when a trade for the self-made digital content is required, and wherein the content

Assignees

• Ahn Heejung
• Roh Suerynn
• Lee Jihong
• Im Hyuckjin
• Jang Jaeseok
• Kt Corp

Inventors

• Ahn Heejung
• Roh Suerynn
• Lee Jihong
• Im Hyuckjin
• Jang Jaeseok

Classifications

• G06Q50/184 Primary

  Intellectual property management · CPC title

• G06F21/105

  Arrangements for software license management or administration, e.g. for managing licenses at corporate level · CPC title

• G06Q10/00

  Administration; Management · CPC title

• G06Q50/10 Primary

  Services · CPC title