Package metadata and targeting/synchronization service providing system using the same

• US 20070067797A1
• Filed: 09/25/2004
• Published: 03/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kang, Kyeong-Ok, Kim, Jin-Woong, Kim, Jae-Gon, Lee, Hee-Kyung, Choi, Jin-Soo
• Application Number:
  US10/573,536
• Publication Number:
  US 20070067797A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/35
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234318 by decomposing into objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25833 involving client hardware characteristics, e.g. manufacturer, processing or storage capabilities allocation of resources considering hardware capabilities in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/5044; allocation of resources considering software capabilities in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/5055
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; 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 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• 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 21/43074 of additional data with content streams on the same device, e.g. of EPG data or interactive icon with a TV program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4516 involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available
• 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 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/85403 by describing the content as an MPEG-21 Digital Item
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8547 involving timestamps for synchronizing content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

Provided are package metadata and a targeting and synchronization service providing system using the same. The package metadata for a targeting and synchronization service that can provide a variety of contents formed of components to diverse terminals in the form of a package in a targeting and synchronization service providing system, the package metadata which include: package description information for selecting a package desired by a user and describing general information on an individual pack-age to check whether the selected package can be acquired; and container metadata for describing information on a container which is a combination of diverse packages and formed of a set of items, each of which is a combination of components.

Claims

1. A targeting and synchronization service providing system using package metadata for providing a variety of contents, each formed of components, in the form of a package by targeting and synchronizing the contents to diverse types of terminals, the system comprising:

a content service providing means for providing the contents and package metadata;

a targeting and synchronization service providing means for receiving and storing the contents and the package metadata, obtaining a component and a content matched with service request conditions requested by each terminal through analysis, and providing the matched component and content; and

a terminal controlling/reproducing means for transmitting the service request conditions which are requested by the terminal to the targeting and synchronization service providing means, and receiving the content and the component matched with the service request conditions from the targeting and synchronization service providing means.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the targeting and synchronization service providing means includes:

a storing means for storing the package metadata and the content which are inputted from the content service providing means;

a service analyzing means for analyzing the service request conditions inputted from the terminal controlling/reproducing means and determining a content and a component which are matched with the service request conditions; and

a service controlling means for providing the content and component determined in the service analyzing means to the terminal controlling/reproducing means.

3. The system as recited in claim 2, wherein the package metadata include:

package description information for selecting a package desired by a user and describing general information on an individual package to check whether the selected package can be acquired; and

container metadata for describing information on a container which is a combination of diverse packages and formed of a set of items, each of which is a combination of components.

4. The system as recited in claim 3, wherein the container metadata include:

descriptor information for describing information on a container;

reference information including identification information for describing locations of packages and components included in the container; and

item description information for describing information on the items included in the container.

5. The system as recited in claim 4, wherein the descriptor information includes:

component metadata for describing general information on the components and information for each type of components;

relation metadata for describing relation between items and components for forming and synchronizing components; and

targeting condition metadata for describing conditions for a usage environment of the terminal to provide a targeting service for selecting an item and a component based on the diverse conditions of the terminal.

11. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the relation metadata include:

interaction relation information for describing relative importance between the components;

temporal relation information for describing a temporal sequence of component consumption; and

spatial relation information for describing relative locations of the components on presentation based on a user interface.

12. The system as recited in claim 5, wherein the targeting condition metadata include:

user condition information for describing user environment characteristics;

terminal condition information for describing terminal environment characteristics;

network condition information for describing network environment characteristics connected with the terminal; and

natural environment information for describing natural environment characteristics such as the location of a terminal.

13. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the user environment characteristics include a user preference, user history, surge information and visual/auditory difficulty information.

14. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the terminal environment characteristics include codec capability, device attributes, and input/output characteristic information.

15. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the network environment characteristics include a bandwidth of a network connected with the terminal, a delay characteristic and an error characteristic.

16. The system as recited in claim 12, wherein the natural environment characteristics include characteristics of audio/visual aspects, location information, and usage time of a digital item.

17. The system as recited in claim 4, wherein the identification information includes an arbitrary identifier, CRID, and a tree structure of a locator.

6. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein the component metadata include:

component description metadata for describing general particulars of a component;

image component metadata for describing image attributes of an image component;

video component metadata for describing video attributes of a video component;

audio component metadata for describing audio attributes of an audio component; and

application program component metadata for describing application program attributes of an application program component.

7. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein the image attributes include a file size, a coding format, and a vertical/horizontal screen size.

8. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein the video attributes include media attributes of video, audio attributes of video, image attributes of video, and motion video attributes of video.

9. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein the audio attributes include a file size, a coding format, and channel information.

10. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein the application program attributes include application program classification information and media attribute information of the application program.

18. Package metadata for a targeting and synchronization service that can provide a variety of contents formed of components to diverse terminals in the form of a package in a targeting and synchronization service providing system, the package metadata comprising:

package description information for selecting a package desired by a user and describing general information on an individual package to check whether the selected package can be acquired; and

container metadata for describing information on a container which is a combination of diverse packages and formed of a set of items, each of- which is a combination of components.

19. The package metadata as recited in claim 18, wherein the container metadata include:

descriptor information for describing information on a container;

reference information including identification information for describing locations of packages and components included in the container; and

item description information for describing information on the items included in the container.

20. The package metadata as recited in claim 19, wherein the descriptor information includes:

component metadata for describing general information on the components and information for each type of components;

relation metadata for describing relation between items and components for forming and synchronizing the components; and

targeting condition metadata for describing conditions for a usage environment of the terminal to provide a targeting service for selecting an item and a component based on the diverse conditions of the terminal.

21. The package metadata as recited in claim 20, wherein the component metadata include:

component description metadata for describing general particulars of a component;

image component metadata for describing image attributes of an image component;

video component metadata for describing video attributes of a video component;

audio component metadata for describing audio attributes of an audio component; and

application program component metadata for describing application program attributes of an application program component.

22. The package metadata as recited in claim 21, wherein the image characteristics include a file size, a coding format, and a vertical/horizontal screen size.

23. The package metadata as recited in claim 21, wherein the video attributes include media attributes of video, audio attributes of video, image attributes of video, and motion video attributes of video.

24. The package metadata as recited in claim 21, wherein the audio attribute includes a file size, a coding format, and channel information.

25. The package metadata as recited in claim 21, wherein the application program attributes include a classification information of an application program and media attribute information of an application program.

26. The package metadata as recited in claim 20, wherein the relation metadata include:

interaction relation information for describing relative importance between the components;

temporal relation information for describing a temporal sequence of component consumption; and

spatial relation information for describing relative location of the components on presentation based on a user interface.

27. The package metadata as recited in claim 20, wherein the targeting condition metadata include:

user condition information for describing a user environment attribute;

terminal condition information for describing a terminal environment attribute;

network condition information for describing a network environment attribute connected with the terminal; and

natural environment information for describing a natural environment attribute such as the location of the terminal.

28. The package metadata as recited in claim 27, wherein the user environment characteristics include a user preference, user history, surge information and visual/auditory difficulty information.

29. The package metadata as recited in claim 27, wherein the terminal environment characteristics include a codec capability, device attributes, and input/output characteristic information.

30. The package metadata as recited in claim 27, wherein the network environment characteristic includes a bandwidth of a network connected with the terminal, a delay characteristic and an error characteristic.

31. The package metadata as recited in claim 27, wherein the natural environment characteristics include characteristic of audio/visual aspects, location information, and usage time of a digital item.