Channel-based method and system for relaying contents

• US 10,212,488 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2014
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kakao Corp.
• Original Assignee: Kakao Corp.
• Inventors: Van, Seung Hwan, Chung, Doo Shik, Lim, Bo Ra
• Primary Examiner(s): Chowdhury, Sumaiya A
• Application Number:
  US15/032,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20160360287A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,581 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

A channel-based method and system for relaying contents are disclosed. The content relaying method generates a channel on the basis of a user terminal or a specific group adjacent to a display device and can relay, to the display device, a screen for executing the contents displayed on the user terminal when the user terminal accesses the generated channel.

Claims

1. A content relay method performed at a channel server,

wherein the channel server includes at least one processor:

wherein the processor configured to;

select a channel among a plurality of channels generated at a channel operator terminal in response to a channel search request from a user terminal or a display device and provide the channel; and

request the display device to display a content execution screen of a user terminal connected to the channel,

wherein the channel is selected based on an option associated with the display device,

wherein the channel is provided to share the content execution screen of the user terminal which connects the channel through the display device,

wherein the channel is generated based on an installation area of a display device or a group that is present within a predetermined distance to the installation area of a display device,

wherein the channel operator terminal selects a user terminal for relaying the content execution screen from among a plurality of user terminals based on channel connection priority of each user terminal, random priority, or arbitrary designation, if the plurality of user terminals is connected to the channel.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

update execution results of content processed at the user terminal for each channel or each group.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user terminal is a service subscriber provided from an application that associates an account with the content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user terminal logs in another user terminal that associated with the display device through the channel.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the channel is connected with a user terminal present around the display device or connectible by a user terminal included in a specific group.

6. A content relay method performed at a user terminal,

wherein the user terminal includes at least one processor:

wherein the processor configured to;

search for a plurality of channels generated at a channel operator terminal;

select a channel among the plurality of channels in order to connect to the searched channel; and

execute content set to the channel through connection to the selected channel,

wherein the channel is selected based on an option associated with the display device,

wherein the channel is provided to share the content execution screen of the user terminal which connects the channel through a display device,

wherein the channel is generated based on an installation area of a display device or a group that is present within a predetermined distance to the installation area of a display device,

wherein the channel operator terminal selects a user terminal for relaying the content execution screen from among a plurality of user terminals based on channel connection priority of each user terminal, random priority, or arbitrary designation, if the plurality of user terminals is connected to the channel.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the processor searches for a channel used for relaying the content through the display device if the user terminal is connected to a network specified at the channel and is present within a distance adjacent to an installation area of the display device that associated with the channel.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the display device relays content of a user terminal selected from a plurality of user terminals connected to the channel.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the channel is set to the same network as a network connected with the display device.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to:

log in another user terminal that associated with the display device through the channel.

11. A user terminal comprising:

at least one processor,

wherein the processor further configured to;

search for a plurality of channels generated at a channel operator terminal;

select a channel among the plurality of channels in order to connect to searched channel; and

execute content set to the channel through connection to the selected channel,

wherein the channel is selected based on an option associated with the display device,

wherein the channel is provided to share the content execution screen of the user terminal which connects the channel through a display device,

wherein the channel is generated based on an installation area of a display device or a group that is present within a predetermined distance to the installation area of a display device,

wherein the channel operator terminal selects a user terminal for relaying the content execution screen from among a plurality of user terminals based on channel connection priority of each user terminal, random priority, or arbitrary designation, if the plurality of user terminals is connected to the channel.

12. The user terminal of claim 11, wherein the processor searches for a channel used for relaying the content through the display device if the user terminal is connected to a network specified at the channel and is present within a distance adjacent to an installation area of the display device that associated with the channel.

13. The user terminal of claim 12, wherein the display device relays content of a user terminal selected from a plurality of user terminals connected to the channel.

14. The user terminal of claim 11, wherein the channel is set to the same network as a network connected with the display device.

15. The user terminal of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to log in another user terminal that is associated with the display device through the channel.