Method and apparatus for providing user expression service in communication system

• US 10,432,564 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2014
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Oh, Gyu-Bong, Lee, Kyung-Tak, Choi, Jongsoo
• Primary Examiner(s): Madamba, Glenford J
• Application Number:
  US15/038,725
• Publication Number:
  US 20160330157A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,777 Days
• Field of Search: 709206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for proving a user expression service in a communication system. The method in a server may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a gateway connected to a contents server, a message requesting a user expression from a terminal of a user viewing contents; determining whether the user terminal prefers to receive the message requesting the user expression; if the user terminal prefers to receive the message requesting the user expression, delivering, to the user terminal, the message requesting the user expression; and receiving, from the user terminal, the message including user expression information and delivering the message to the gateway.

Claims

1. A method for providing a user interaction service in a communication system using a server, the method comprising:

receiving, from a gateway, a request message for a user expression of a terminal;

identifying a preference of the terminal based on a user preference document associated with the terminal, wherein the preference of the terminal indicates whether the terminal prefers to receive the request message for the user expression, and wherein the user preference document is obtained from an XML document management server (XDMS);

transmitting, to the terminal, the request message for the user expression in response to identifying that the terminal prefers to receive the request message for the user expression;

receiving, from the terminal, a first response message including information about the user expression; and

transmitting the first response message to the gateway,

wherein the request message for the user expression includes at least one of a description about the user expression, a way for a participation of the user expression, or an expiration time of the user expression.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second response message including a status of at least one user expression from the gateway; and

transmitting the second response message to the terminal,

wherein the status of at least one user expression is generated by the gateway which aggregates the at least one user expression received from at least one terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the request message for the user expression further includes at least one of:

a name of a user interaction, an identifier of the user interaction, at least one item for the user interaction, identifier of at least one item, an uniform resource locator (URL) of at least one item, or a communication address of the user expression.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the second response message includes at least one of:

a name for a report of the user expression, an identifier for a report of the user expression, a description for a report of the user expression, a status for a report for the user expression, a number of participation of the user expression, at least one item for a report of the user expression, an identifier of the at least on item, an uniform resource locator (URL) of at least one item, a number of a user expression count, or a time of the user expression count.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the information associated with the preference of the terminal includes an element regarding reception of the user expression.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the transmitting, to the terminal, the request message for the user expression according to the preference of the terminal comprises:

when the element regarding reception of the user expression is set to ‘

true’

, forwarding the request message to the terminal; and

when the element regarding reception of the user expression is set to ‘

false’

, rejecting the request message.

7. A server for providing a user interaction service in a communication system, the server comprising:

at least one transceiver configured to receive, from a gateway, a request message for a user expression of a terminal;

at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one transceiver, and configured to identify preference of the terminal based on a user preference document associated with the terminal,

wherein the preference of the terminal indicates whether the terminal prefers to receive the request message for the user expression and wherein the user preference document is obtained from a XML document management server (XDMS),

wherein the at least one transceiver is further configured to;

transmit, to the terminal, the request message for the user expression according to the preference of the terminal, in response to identifying that the terminal prefers to receive the request message for the user expression,

receive, from the terminal, a first response message including information about the user expression; and

transmit the first response message to the gateway,

wherein the request message for the user expression includes at least one of a description about the user expression, a way for a participation of the user expression, or an expiration time of the user expression.

8. The server of claim 7, wherein the at least one transceiver is further configured to:

receive a second response message including a status of at least one user expression from the gateway; and

transmit the second response message to the terminal,

wherein the status of at least one user expression is generated by the gateway which aggregates the at least one user expression received from at least one terminal.

9. The server of claim 7, wherein the request message for the user expression further includes at least one of:

a name of a user interaction, an identifier of the user interaction, at least one item for the user interaction, identifier of at least one item, an uniform resource locator (URL) of at least one item, or a communication address of the user expression.

10. The server of claim 8, wherein the second response message includes at least one of:

a name for a report of the user expression, an identifier for a report of the user expression, a description for a report of the user expression, a status for a report for the user expression, a number of participation of the user expression, at least one item for a report of the user expression, an identifier of the at least one item, an uniform resource locator (URL) of at least one item, a number of a user expression count, or a time of the user expression count.

11. The server of claim 7, wherein the information associated with the preference of the terminal includes an element regarding reception of the user expression.

12. The server of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:

when the element regarding reception of the user expression is set to ‘

true’

, control the at least one transceiver to forward the request message to the terminal; and

when the element regarding reception of the user expression is set to ‘

false’

, reject the request message.

13. A method for providing a user expression service in a communication system using a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving, from a server, a request message for a user expression of the terminal, in response to identifying that the terminal prefers to receive the request message for the user expression by the server;

identifying an input of the user expression; and

transmitting, to the server, a response message including information about the user expression,

wherein the request message for a user expression of the terminal is received according to a user preference document associated with the terminal stored in an XML document management server (XMDS),

wherein the request message for the user expression includes at least one of a description about the user expression, a way for a participation of the user expression, or an expiration time of the user expression.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

generating an interface for receiving the input of the user expression based on the request message; and

displaying the interface on a screen,

wherein the interface is generated based on a way for participation of the user expression included in the request message, and

wherein the way for participation of the user expression includes at least one of;

selecting an item, selecting a grade for an item, or inputting text.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the information about the user expression includes at least one of:

selectable items according to a way for participation of the user expression, selectable grades for each item, text data information, or preference information indicating whether a reception of a collection result for the user expression is preferred, and

wherein the method further comprising receiving a collection result message from the server if the response message is configured such that the reception of the collection result for the user expression is preferred.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the request message for a user expression of the terminal further includes at least one of:

a name of a user interaction, an identifier of the user interaction, at least one item for the user interaction, identifier of at least one item, an uniform resource locator (URL) of at least one item, or a communication address of the user expression.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the information about the user expression includes an element regarding reception of the user expression,

wherein the request message is transmitted to the terminal from the server when the element regarding reception of the user expression is set to ‘

true’

, and

wherein the request message is rejected by the server when the element regarding reception of the user expression is set to ‘

false’

.