Method and program for providing content streaming service and managing data statistics of user using QR code

• US 10,587,661 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2018
• Issued: 03/10/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PLAYCOMPANY Corp.
• Original Assignee: PLAYCOMPANY Corp.
• Inventors: Cho, Hyung Seok
• Primary Examiner(s): Joshi, Suraj M
• Application Number:
  US15/959,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20190327280A1
• Time in Patent Office: 687 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1015 to users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/105 Arrangements for software license management or administration, e.g. for managing licenses at corporate level
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1417 2D bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A method for providing a content streaming service and managing data statistics of a user using a quick response (QR) code is provided. The method includes receiving, by a server, scan data of the QR code printed on a real content product of the user from a user terminal, authenticating, by the server, the purchase of the real content product of the user based on the scan data and registering unique information of the user terminal which transmits the scan data, registering, by the server, content corresponding to the scan data with a list of content of the user terminal, receiving, by the server, a request to stream the content registered with the list of the content of the user terminal from the user terminal, and transmitting, by the server, streaming data of the requested content to the user terminal.

Claims

1. A method for providing a content streaming service and managing data statistics of a user using a quick response (QR) code, the method comprising:

receiving, by a server, scan data of the QR code printed on a real content product of the user from a user terminal;

authenticating, by the server, the purchase of the real content product of the user based on the scan data and registering unique information of the user terminal which transmits the scan data;

registering, by the server, content corresponding to the scan data with a content list of the user terminal;

receiving, by the server, a request to stream the content registered with the content list the user terminal from the user terminal;

transmitting, by the server, streaming data of the requested content to the user terminal, wherein the content streamed to the user terminal is provided with higher definition than content stored in a storage medium of the real content product;

collecting, by the server, information about a profile of a user account of the user whose purchase of the real content product is authenticated, information about the real content product, information about a profile of a user account of the user who requests to stream the content, and information about the content requested to be streamed;

storing, by the server, the collected information in a big data storage of the server;

generating, by the server, statistics information about a propensity to consume content by analyzing the information stored in the big data storage;

when the server receives a request to change a registered user terminal from the user terminal to a new user terminal, performing, by the server;

authenticating a user of the new user terminal; and

transferring the content list to the new user terminal when the user of the new user terminal is authenticated; and

when the server detects, while monitoring transmission of the streaming data to the user terminal, that the user terminal attempts to record or download the streaming data, stopping, by the server, the transmission of the streaming data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the server, whether a user account logged into the user terminal is an paid account or a free-of-charge account; and

performing, by the server, after a predetermined time elapses from a moment that the server authenticates the purchase of the real content product of the user;

maintaining, when the user account is the paid account, the content list of the user terminal in a state where the content is able to be streamed;

or

converting, when the user account is the free-of-charge account, the content list of the user terminal into a state where the content is unable to be streamed.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining further comprising:

when the user account is the paid account, additionally registering, by the server, one or more contents that is exclusive to paid members, to the content list of the user terminal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the QR code is printed on the inside of a package of the real content product or on at least one surface of the storage medium of the real content product.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content comprises one or more of a text, an audio, an image, or a video.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program, and configured to be combined with a computer, which is a hardware, the program includes instructions to execute the method of claim 1.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining further comprising:

when the user account is the free-of-charge account, transmitting, by the server, information on a remaining number of playback and a remaining playback time for a respective content included in the content list of the user terminal.