MATRIX BLOGGING SYSTEM AND SERVICE SUPPORTING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090327889A1
• Filed: 06/26/2009
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Yeong-geol, JEONG, Eui-heon
• Application Number:
  US12/492,317
• Publication Number:
  US 20090327889A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

A matrix blogging system and a service supporting method thereof are provided. In a virtual world generated by mapping a real world in a predetermined form, a virtual avatar corresponding to a fixed terminal and a real avatar corresponding to a mobile terminal are operated, and a facial expression, a status, a movement, and a direction of the real avatar are changed in real time based on tag information collected by the mobile terminal, and a blog or contents that is searched for with high reliability and accuracy based on the collected tag information is provided to a user of the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A matrix blogging service supporting method comprising:

accessing, by a user terminal, a blogging server;

creating, at the blogging server, an avatar corresponding to the user terminal;

operating, at the blogging server, a virtual matrix space including applying the avatar to a mirror world corresponding to a real world where the user terminal is located;

receiving, at the blogging server, tag information from the user terminal;

extracting, at the blogging server, tags including a status, mobility and a direction of the avatar based on the tag information; and

transmitting, at the blogging server, image information corresponding to the virtual matrix space including the avatar to which the tags are applied to the user terminal.

2. The matrix blogging service supporting method of claim 1, wherein the user terminal is at least one of a mobile terminal and a fixed terminal.

3. The matrix blogging service supporting method of claim 2, wherein creating the avatar includes at least one of creating a virtual avatar corresponding to the fixed terminal and creating a real avatar corresponding to the mobile terminal.

4. The matrix blogging service supporting method of claim 3, wherein operating the virtual matrix space comprises:

allowing at least one of the real avatar and the virtual avatar to enter the mirror world; and

operating the entered real avatar or the entered virtual avatar.

5. The matrix blogging service supporting method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the image information to the user terminal comprises:

verifying a device profile of the user terminal;

converting the image information based on conditions of a user interface outputting the image information and the amount and speed of data receivable by the user terminal according to the device profile; and

transmitting the converted image information to the user terminal.

6. The matrix blogging service supporting method of claim 5, wherein transmitting the image information to the user terminal comprises:

checking data processing capability of a communication network between the blogging server and the user terminal; and

converting the image information according to the data processing capability.

7. The matrix blogging service supporting method of claim 1, wherein receiving the tag information comprises at least one of:

receiving profile tag information including at least one of the age, gender, date of birth, and nationality of the user;

receiving situation tag information including at least one of a location and emotion of the user and temperature and humidity around the user terminal; and

receiving preference tag information including at least one of music, a trip, a pet, food, dramas, sports, fashion, politics, and a school.

8. The matrix blogging service supporting method of claim 7, further comprising:

searching for information regarding at least one of a blog or contents to be recommended to the avatar based on at least one of the profile tag information, the situation tag information, and the preference tag information; and

providing the avatar with at least one of the searched information and tags extracted from at least one of the profile tag information, the situation tag information and the preference tag information.

9. The matrix blogging service supporting method of claim 8, wherein searching for the information comprises:

extracting, at the blogging server, an index term from at least one of the profile tag information, the situation tag information, and the preference tag information; and

searching for at least one of a blog information and the contents information that matches the extracted index term from a database in which at least one blog and at least one contents are classified based on index terms.

10. The matrix blogging service supporting method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a voice or text query from the user terminal;

extracting an index term from the voice or text query; and

searching for at least one of the blog and the contents using the index term extracted from the audio or text query.

11. A matrix blogging system comprising:

a user terminal configured to access a blogging server through a communication network, collect tag information, and transmit the tag information to a blogging server; and

the blogging server configured to create an avatar corresponding to the user terminal, operate a virtual matrix space by applying the avatar to a mirror world corresponding to a real world where the user terminal is located, extract tags including at least one of a status, mobility and a direction of the avatar from tag information received from the user terminal to apply the tags to the avatar, and transmit image information corresponding to the virtual matrix space including the avatar, to which the tags are applied, to the user terminal.

12. The matrix blogging system of claim 11, wherein the user terminal is at least one of a fixed terminal and a mobile terminal and the blogging server is configured to create at least one of a virtual avatar corresponding to the fixed terminal and a real avatar corresponding to the mobile terminal.

13. The matrix blogging system of claim 11, wherein the blogging server comprises:

a device profile unit configured to verify a device profile of the user terminal;

a contents converting unit configured to convert the image information based on conditions of a user interface outputting the image information and the amount and speed of data receivable by the user terminal according to the device profile; and

a data synchronizing unit configured to transmit the converted image information to the user terminal.

14. The matrix blogging system of claim 11, wherein the user terminal collects at least one of profile tag information, situation tag information and preference tag information, the profile tag information indicates a unique background factor of the user terminal and includes at least one of the age, the gender, the date of birth, and the nationality of the user, the situation tag information can be changed according to a situation which the user faces and includes at least one of a location and emotion of the user and temperature and humidity around the user terminal, and the preference tag information is independent of the time and location of the user terminal and includes at least one of music, a trip, a pet, food, dramas, sports, fashion, politics, and a school.

15. The matrix blogging system of claim 14, wherein the blogging server comprises a virtual matrix space managing server configured to:

search for information regarding at least one of a blog or contents to be recommended to the avatar based on at least one of the profile tag information, the situation tag information, and the preference tag information; and

provide the avatar with at least one of the searched information and tags extracted from at least one of the profile tag information, the situation tag information, and the preference tag information.

16. The matrix blogging system of claim 15, wherein the virtual matrix space managing server comprises:

a real object tracker configured to extract an index term from at least one of the profile tag information, the situation tag information, and the preference tag information; and

a blog connector configured to search for at least one of the blog information and the contents information that corresponds to the extracted index term from a database classifying at least one blog and at least one contents by an index term.

17. The matrix blogging system of claim 16, wherein the virtual matrix space managing server further comprises an audio collector configured to receive an audio or text query from the user terminal and extract an index term from the audio or text query and the blog connector searches for at least one of the blog and the contents using the index term extracted from the audio or text query.