Multimedia service system based on user history

• US 20020059313A1
• Filed: 07/13/2001
• Published: 05/16/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Jin Soo, Yoon, Kyoung Ro, Jun, Sung Bae
• Granted Patent: US 7,712,113 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/200
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/33 Arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/40 for identifying broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/46 for recognising users' preferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/418 External card to be used in combination with the client device, e.g. for conditional access
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4333 Processing operations in response to a pause request
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• 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 21/44222 Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programs or purchase activity monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4627 Rights management associated to the content security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 : Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 : involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 : by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17327 : with deferred transmission or handling of upstream communications

Abstract

Disclosed is a user history based multimedia service system, wherein user history data include a multimedia consumption type and/or consumption behavior of the user. The consumption type data includes a start time or end time of the multimedia content consumption (i.e., simple view data), content recording time and format, content backup time and format, and content transfer time and format. The consumption behavior data includes a content access/play data such as a normal finish, skimmed, skipped, slowed, or replay, and a stopped data of the content access/play. The consumption type or consumption behavior data include information on program identification and information on access to the consumption type/consumption behavior data. The respective data is provided for each user and program.

Claims

1. A user history based multimedia service system comprising a user history storage device for storing consumption type data representing how the user consumed a multimedia content and a control unit for controlling consumption of the corresponding multimedia content using the stored user history data.

2. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control unit permits or restricts the consumption of the corresponding multimedia content.

3. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the consumption type is at least one of a simple view for one time consumption of the content, recording of the content, backup of the content, and transfer of the content through a network.

4. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the control unit restricts the consumption of the multimedia content or requests payment of an additional charge by comparing the consumption type data stored in the user history storage device with a predetermined condition of the consumption.

5. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the simple view data is a start time or end time for the consumption of the corresponding multimedia content, the recording data are recording time and format of the content, the backup data are backup time and format of the content, and the transfer data are user'"'"'s transfer time and format of the content.

6. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the predetermined condition of the consumption is differently set based upon a quality of the content served for the same content.

12. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 1 or 7, wherein the user history storage device is a portable recording medium.

13. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 1 or 7, wherein the user history further includes access data for permitting, prohibiting, or restricting an access to the user history information.

14. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 1 or 7, wherein the user history further includes automatic update data for representing whether to automatically update the previous consumption data into new consumption data corresponding to the user'"'"'s consumption of the multimedia content.

7. A user history based multimedia service system comprising a user history storage device for storing consumption behavior data representing what behavior the user consumed the multimedia content and a preference extraction unit for extracting user preference data with respect to the corresponding multimedia content using the stored user history data.

8. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the consumption behavior is at least one operation of a normal finish, skimming, skipping, replay, slow play, and stop for the consumption of the content.

9. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the normal finish is a data occurring when the content is viewed through its end, wherein the data of skimming, skipping, replay, and slow play are start and end positions of the consumption, or the start position and a length of a section from the start position, and wherein the stopped data is a designator indicating stop position of the content viewing.

10. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the stopp data is deleted if the viewing of the content is restarted after the stop of the viewing, is recorded as a final stop position if the viewing of the content is stopped before reaching an end of the content, and is recorded as the normal finish if the viewing of the content is stopped at the end of the content.

11. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 8, wherein in extracting the user preference data using the consumption behavior, a section described as the skimmed or skipped is determined to be a section having a low preference, and a section described as the replay or slow play is determined to be a section having a high preference.

16. The method for incorporating user history data as claimed in claim 15, wherein the content reference uses an independent ID regardless of a storage position of the content, so that it enables an unlimited access to the content or related metadata of the content.

17. The method for incorporating user history data as claimed in claim 16, wherein the content reference is a digital object ID (DOI), a content reference ID (CRID) of Content ID Forum (CIDF), or an UMID of SMPTE.

18. The method for incorporating user history data as claimed in claim 15, wherein the user consumption pattern of the multimedia content includes a consumption type data representing how the user consumed the multimedia content.

19. The method for incorporating user history data as claimed in claim 18, wherein the consumption type is at least one of a simple view for one time consumption of the content, recording of the content, backup of the content, and transfer of the content through a network.

20. The method for incorporating user history data as claimed in claim 15, wherein the user consumption pattern of the multimedia content includes a consumption behavior data representing what behavior the user consumed the multimedia content.

21. The method for incorporating user history data as claimed in claim 20, wherein the consumption behavior is at least one operation of a normal finish, skimming, skipping, replay, slow play, and stop.

15. A method for incorporating user history data comprising:

assigning a content reference for accessing a multimedia content or metadata of the content; and

recording a user consumption pattern of a corresponding multimedia content.

22. A method for incorporating user history data comprising:

recording consumption type data representing how a user consumed a multimedia content;

recording consumption behavior data representing what behavior the user consumed the multimedia content; and

assigning an automatic update information with respect to the recorded consumption type data and consumption behavior data.

23. The method for incorporating user history data according to claim 22, wherein the consumption type data include a simple view data, recording data, backup data, transfer data, program identifier for representing the corresponding content, and control data for an access to the recorded data.

24. The method for incorporating user history data according to claim 22, wherein the consumption behavior data include a normal finish data, skimmed data, skipped data, replay data, slow play data, stopped data, program identifier for representing the corresponding content, and control data for an access to the recorded data.

26. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 25, wherein the user'"'"'s consumption pattern is a consumption type representing how the user consumed the provided multimedia content.

27. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 26, wherein the consumption type is at least one of a simple view, recording, backup, and transfer.

28. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 25, wherein the user'"'"'s consumption pattern is a consumption behavior representing when and how much a display of the corresponding multimedia content or movement of viewing section was performed.

29. The user history based multimedia service system as claimed in claim 28, wherein the consumption behavior is at least one operation of a normal finish, skimming, skipping, replay, slow play, and stop.

25. A user history based multimedia service system for providing a multimedia content by a multimedia content service means and a multimedia content viewing means provided therein, the system comprising the steps of:

providing the multimedia content from a multimedia content server to a client;

recording a user'"'"'s consumption pattern of the content corresponding to the provided multimedia content when the provided multimedia service is consumed, and

controlling a multimedia content service based on the recorded user'"'"'s consumption pattern of the content.