Internet telematics service providing system and internet telematics service providing method for providing personalized web contents

• US 10,269,039 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2011
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Original Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Inventors: Nam, Kyung Bo, Lee, Choong Hee
• Primary Examiner(s): Bilal Ahmed, Afaf Osman
• Application Number:
  US13/216,786
• Publication Number:
  US 20120054030A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,799 Days
• Field of Search: 705 14, 340457, 455456
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems

Abstract

An Internet telematics service providing system and method that may provide various Web contents and information is disclosed. The Internet telematics service providing system may include a request information receiver to receive request information about the Internet telematics service from a telematics system of a vehicle, a content selector to select Internet content associated with the request information via an Internet content providing server, and a content providing unit to provide the selected content to the telematics system. The telematics system may output the content to a user in an auditory form.

Claims

1. A system to provide a telematics service, the system comprising:

a telematics system comprising a navigation terminal;

a telematics server including a processor, the processor including,

a request information receiver configured to receive request information from the telematics system, the request information including webpage information associated with a user and identification information of the navigation terminal,

a content selector configured to select content associated with the request information from a content server,

a content providing unit configured to provide the selected content to the telematics system,

an update monitoring unit configured to monitor whether information on a webpage is updated by communicating with a server providing the webpage, the monitoring being in response to receiving the request information when the request information corresponds to the webpage information associated with the user,

an advertising information generator configured to generate advertising information associated with the request information by sending the advertising information to an advertisement server and receiving an advertisement from the advertisement server,

an advertising information providing unit configured to provide the advertisement based on the advertising information to the telematics system during a portion of the provided content when a sound output is absent such that the advertisement is provided without disrupting the sound output of the provided content,

wherein the telematics system is configured to output the content in an auditory form.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the content comprises text content, and wherein the telematics system is configured to output the text content as a sound using a text to speech (TTS) function.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein

the content comprises media content comprising audio data, and

the telematics system is configured to output the media content using an audio playback function.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the content selector comprises:

a list providing unit configured to provide, to the telematics system, a category list; and

a selector configured to receive a selection of at least one category of the category list, and

wherein the content providing unit is configured to provide the selected content to the telematics system based at least on a driving speed.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the content selector is configured to automatically select at least one content from the content associated with the request information, or to provide a list of the content to the telematics system and receive a selection of at least one content.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the request information comprises at least one of driving information associated with a vehicle, category information to categorize the content, webpage information, and identification (ID) information of a communication terminal.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising:

an update information providing unit configured to provide update information to the telematics system in response to information on the webpage being updated,

wherein the telematics system is configured to output the update information in an auditory form.

8. The system of claim 6, further comprising:

a receive monitoring unit configured to monitor whether a message is received at the communication terminal via a server using an Internet service in response to the request information comprising the ID information of the communication terminal; and

a message providing unit configured to provide the message to the telematics system in response to the message being received at the communication terminal,

wherein the telematics system is configured to output the message in an auditory form.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the advertising information comprises a keyword from at least one of a destination location corresponding to the request information, a current traffic state of a vehicle that includes the telematics system, and the webpage.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein

the advertising information is displayed through the telematics system based on an advertisement display criterion set in the advertisement information, and

the advertising information providing unit configured to provide the advertising information by inserting the advertising information into the content during an interval within the content where a sound output is absent.

11. A method of providing a telematics service via a telematics system comprising a navigation terminal, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, request information from the telematics system, the request information including webpage information associated with a user and identification information of the navigation terminal;

selecting, by the processor, content associated with the request information from a content server;

providing, by the processor, the selected content to the telematics system;

monitoring, by the processor, whether information on a webpage is updated by communicating with a server providing the webpage, the monitoring being in response to the receiving the request information when the request information corresponds to the webpage information associated with the user;

generating, by the processor, advertising information associated with the request information;

obtaining, by the processor, an advertisement from an advertisement server based on the advertising information; and

providing, by the processor, the advertisement to the telematics system during a portion of the provided content when a sound output is absent such that the advertising advertisement is provided without disrupting the sound output of the provided content,

wherein the telematics system is configured to output the content in an auditory form.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein

the content comprises text content;

and

the telematics system outputs the text content as a sound using a text to speech (TTS) function.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein

the content comprises media content comprising audio data;

and

the telematics system plays the media content using an audio playback function.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the selecting comprises:

receiving a selection of at least one category of a category list, and

wherein the selected content is provided to the telematics system based at least on a driving speed.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the selecting comprises:

automatically selecting at least one content from the content associated with the request information, or providing a list of the content to the telematics system to receive a selection of at least one content.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the request information comprises at least one of driving information associated with a vehicle, category information to categorize the content, webpage information, and identification (ID) information of a communication terminal.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

providing update information to the telematics system in response to information on the webpage being updated,

wherein the telematics system outputs the update information in an auditory form.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

monitoring whether a message is received at the communication terminal via a server using an Internet service of the communication terminal; and

providing the message to the telematics system in response to the message being received at the communication terminal,

wherein the telematics system outputs the message in an auditory form.

19. The method of claim 11,

wherein the advertising information comprises a keyword from a destination location corresponding to the request information.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein

the advertising information is displayed through the telematics system based on an advertisement display criterion set in the advertisement information, and

the providing includes providing the advertising information by inserting the advertising information into the content during an interval within the content where a sound output is absent.