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Method for providing personalized information and public information

  • US 10,275,783 B2
  • Filed: 02/14/2011
  • Issued: 04/30/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing information to a plurality of user apparatuses of a plurality of users watching content on a display apparatus, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by a set top box (STB), the content from a content providing server;

    transmitting, by the set top box, the content to the display apparatus;

    displaying, by the display apparatus, the content in response to receiving the content from the set top box;

    receiving, by the STB, from each of the plurality of user apparatuses, apparatus information of each user apparatus;

    performing, by the STB, authentication of each of the plurality of user apparatuses using the apparatus information received from each user apparatus;

    in response to the authentication being performed, transmitting, by the STB, to the content providing server, a user profile corresponding to each authenticated user apparatus among the plurality of user apparatuses;

    generating, by the content providing server, personalized information for a plurality of authenticated user apparatuses among the plurality of user apparatuses, based on the user profile corresponding to the each authenticated user apparatus;

    generating, by the content providing server, public information corresponding to the content received from the content providing server;

    transmitting, by the content providing server, the generated personalized information directly to the each authenticated user apparatus for which personalized information is generated;

    transmitting, by the content providing server, the generated public information to the display apparatus, through the STB; and

    displaying, by the display apparatus, the public information along with the content in response to receiving the public information from the STB while the content is displayed by the display apparatus,wherein the plurality of authenticated user apparatuses comprise a first authenticated user apparatus of a first user and a second authenticated user apparatus of a second user,wherein, if a user profile of the first authenticated user apparatus comprises nationality information and language information of the first user and a user profile of the second authenticated user apparatus comprises nationality information and language information of the second user, generating, by the content providing server, the personalized information comprises;

    generating a first personalized information in a first language based on the nationality information and the language information of the first user and generating a second personalized information in a second language based on the nationality information and the language information of the second user,wherein transmitting, by the content providing server, the generated personalized information comprises;

    transmitting the first personalized information to the first authenticated user apparatus and transmitting the second personalized information to the second authenticated user apparatus,wherein the first language is different from the second language, and wherein the public information and the content which are displayed by the display apparatus are watched by the first user and the second user through the display apparatus.

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