SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING CONTENTS

• US 20080113656A1
• Filed: 11/12/2007
• Published: 05/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Uplus Corporation (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Telecom Incorporated (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Seung Yop, Lee, Jong Min
• Application Number:
  US11/938,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20080113656A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests

Abstract

A method and system for updating contents is provided. According to the method and system for updating the contents, a content provision server determines scheduling of update time information, which is classified by each member, and transmits the update time information to each mobile terminal of each member, and the mobile terminal transmits an update request signal to the content provision server based on the update time information, and receives update information from the content provision server.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, the mobile terminal comprising:

a wireless transceiving module to transmit an update request signal to a predetermined server and receive content information from the server;

a storage module to store update time information for accessing the server and the content information received from the server; and

a control module to control the mobile terminal to access the server based on the update time information stored in the storage module, and to receive the content information.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the update time information includes an update standard time, and

the control module controls the mobile terminal to access the server based on the standard time, and to receive the content information.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the update time information further includes standard time setting information, and

the control module sets the standard time with reference to the standard time setting information.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the control module sets the standard time setting information with reference to information received from the server, the information being determined scheduling which is classified by a member.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the standard time setting information includes at least one of an update starting time, an update completion time, an update interval, and a delay time from the standard time.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the control module sets the standard time with reference to subsequent standard time information received from the server when the content information is received.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the update time information further includes a reservation variable for reattempting to access when an access to the server fails.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the content information includes update type information and update detail information.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the content information further includes template information being a basic structure configuring the content information, and being maintained for each update of the content information.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein the content information further includes inventory information corresponding to the content information.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the inventory information is a sequence corresponding to the update type information and the update detail information.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal further stores a terminal manager application in the storage module, drives the terminal manager application via the control module, and performs any one of controlling a session setting between the mobile terminal and the server, displaying a graphic of the content information received from the server, and processing a generated event, when displaying the content information received from the server.

13. A system for updating contents, the system comprising:

a mobile terminal to transmit an update request signal to a predetermined server based on update time information, and to receive, from the server, content information corresponding to the update request signal; and

a server to package the content information corresponding to the update request signal and transmit the content information to the mobile terminal.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the content information packaged by the server includes update type information and update detail information.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the packaged content information further includes inventory information corresponding to the content information.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the inventory information is a sequence corresponding to the update detail information.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the server further includes an inventory database to store the inventory information, and when the update request signal is received, the server reads and extracts the inventory information stored in the inventory database, and transmits the content information with reference to the read and extracted inventory information.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the update time information includes at least one of an update starting time, an update completion time, a standard time, a delay time from the standard time, and an update interval.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the server transmits, to the mobile terminal, the update time information being determined scheduling which is classified by a member of the mobile terminal.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the server receives, from the mobile terminal, a selection of the content information to be updated, and transmits, to the corresponding mobile terminal, the update time information related to the selected content information.

21. A server for providing content information to at least one member mobile terminal, the server comprising:

a content provision module to provide update detail information;

a packaging module to package the content information which includes update type information and the update detail information; and

a control unit to control the server to transmit the packaged content information to the mobile terminal,

wherein the mobile terminal transmits an update request signal to the server based on update time information, and the server transmits, to the mobile terminal, the content information corresponding to the update request signal.

22. A method of updating contents of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

setting a predetermined server and session based on update time information and transmitting an update request signal by the mobile terminal;

packaging, by the server, content information corresponding to the update request signal, and transmitting, from the server, the content information to the mobile terminal;

receiving and storing the content information corresponding to the update request signal by the mobile terminal; and

displaying the stored content information.