METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING STATUS INFORMATION BY UTILIZING PRESENCE SERVICE AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING CONTENT STATUS INFORMATION BY UTILIZING PRESENCE SERVICE

• US 20090063676A1
• Filed: 05/16/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: YANG, Do-jun, NAMGUNG, Eun, OH, Zhang-hoon
• Application Number:
  US12/122,219
• Publication Number:
  US 20090063676A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/658 Transmission by the client directed to the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method of and apparatus for providing status information by using presence information data, and a method of and apparatus for generating content status information are provided. The method of providing status information on a second user to a first user terminal which is used by a first user includes: inserting additional data into the status information on the second user requested by the first user terminal; and transmitting the status information on the second user into which the additional data is inserted to the first user terminal.

Claims

1. A method providing status information on a second user to a first user terminal which is used by a first user, the method comprising:

inserting additional data into the status information on the second user requested by the first user terminal; and

transmitting the status information on the second user into which the additional data has been inserted, to the first user terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the status information on the second user requested by the first user terminal from a second user terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional data comprises address information on an address at which audio or visual data additionally indicating a status of the second user is stored.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional data is address information on an address at which advertisement data to be transmitted to the first user terminal is stored.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein in the inserting the additional data, information on an order in which the inserted additional data is to be reproduced in the first user terminal is further inserted.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user terminal is an Internet protocol television.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the status information on the second user comprises data in a presence information data format complying with the Request for Comments (RFC) 2778 standard, and the first user is a watcher of a presence model complying with the RFC 2778 standard, and the second user is a presentity of a presence model complying with the RFC 2778 standard.

8. A method of generating in a server status information on content which is used by a user terminal, the method comprising:

transmitting to the user terminal at least one of content and information on the content;

receiving from the user terminal consumption detail information on consumption of the content in the user terminal; and

generating the status information on the content based on the received consumption detail information.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the transmitting the information on the content comprises:

inserting address information on an address at which the content is stored into the status information of another user; and

transmitting to the user terminal the status information of the other user into which the address information on the address at which the content is stored is inserted.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the status information on the other user comprises data in presence information data format complying with the Request for Comments (RFC) 2778 standard, and the user terminal is a watcher of a presence model complying with the RFC 2778 standard, and the other user whose status information is requested by the user terminal is a presentity of a presence model complying with the RFC 2778 standard.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the generating the status information on the content comprises:

generating a virtual presentity corresponding to the content; and

generating the presence information on the virtual presentity corresponding to the content based on the consumption details.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the consumption detail information comprises at least one of information on whether the content has been downloaded to the user terminal, information on a number of times that the content has been reproduced by the user terminal, and information on the times when content has been reproduced in the user terminal.

13. A method of generating in a user terminal status information on content which is used by the user terminal, the method comprising:

receiving from a server at least one of content and information on the content;

extracting consumption detail information in the user terminal on the received content or the content obtained based on the information on the content; and

generating the status information on the content based on the consumption detail information.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the information on the content comprises address information on an address at which the content inserted into the status information of another user requested by the user terminal is stored.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the status information on the other user is data in presence information data format complying with the Request for Comments (RFC)2778 standard, and the user terminal is a watcher of a presence model complying with the RFC 2778 standard, and the other user whose status information is requested by the user terminal is a presentity of a presence model complying with the RFC 2778 standard.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the generating the status information on the content comprises:

generating a virtual presentity corresponding to the content; and

generating the presence information of the virtual presentity corresponding to the content based on the consumption details.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the consumption detail information comprises at least one of information on whether the content has been downloaded to the user terminal, information on whether the content has been deleted by the user terminal, information on a number of times that the content has been reproduced by the user terminal, and information on the times when content has been reproduced in the user terminal.

18. An apparatus for providing status information on a second user to a first user terminal which is used by a first user, the apparatus comprising:

an additional data insertion unit which inserts additional data into the status information on the second user requested by the first user terminal; and

a transmission unit which transmits the status information on the second user into which the additional data has been inserted to the first user terminal.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, further comprising a status information reception unit which receives the status information on the second user requested by the first user terminal from a second user terminal.

20. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the additional data is address information on an address at which advertisement data to be transmitted to the first user terminal is stored.

21. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the status information on the second user is data in a presence information data format complying with the Request for Comments (RFC) 2778 standard, and the first user terminal is a watcher of a presence model complying with the RFC 2778 standard, and the second user is a presentity of a presence model complying with the RFC 2778 standard.

22. An apparatus for generating in a user terminal status information of content which is used by the user terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a reception unit which receives at least one of content and information on the content from a server;

a consumption detail information extraction unit which extracts consumption detail information in the user terminal on the received content or the content obtained based on the information on the content; and

a content status information generation unit which generates the status information on the content based on the consumption detail information.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the information on the content is address information on an address at which the content inserted into the status information of another user requested by the user terminal is stored.

24. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the status information on the other user is data in presence information data format complying with the Request for Comments (RFC) 2778 standard, and the user terminal is a watcher of a presence model complying with the RFC 2778 standard, and the other user whose status information is requested by the user terminal is a presentity of a presence model complying with the RFC 2778 standard.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the content status generation unit comprises:

a virtual presentity generation unit which generates a virtual presentity corresponding to the content; and

a presence information generation unit which generates the presence information of the virtual presentity corresponding to the content based on the consumption details.