DEVICE AND METHOD OF COLLECTING CONTENT PLAYBACK INFORMATION

• US 20110052151A1
• Filed: 12/22/2009
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Inventors: Park, Hyojin, Choi, Jun Kyun, Yang, Jinhong
• Granted Patent: US 8,639,088 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/262
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/31 Arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• 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 21/6582 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 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

An end device that collects content playback information of a user may be provided. The end device including: a storage to store content and a table including playback information of the content in a predetermined local storage address; a control unit to retrieve content, selected by the user, from the storage, to load a storage address of the selected content, and to transmit the storage address to a decoder; and the decoder to store the storage address in the table, to change playback information of the selected content, and to decode the selected content based on the storage address.

Claims

1. An end device of collecting content playback information of a user, the end device comprising:

a storage to store content and a table including playback information of the content in a predetermined local storage address;

a control unit to retrieve content, selected by the user, from the storage, to load a storage address of the selected content, and to transmit the storage address to a decoder; and

the decoder to store the storage address in the table, to change playback information of the selected content, and to decode the selected content based on the storage address.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit is a firmware or a chipset.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the storage address is a local storage address.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the predetermined local storage address storing the table is set differently depending on a characteristic of the device.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the playback information includes the storage address, transmitted to the decoder, a number of times that the storage address is transmitted, and information about a point in time the storage address is transmitted.

6. A method of collecting content playback information of a user, the method comprising:

storing contents, and generating a table including playback information of the contents in a predetermined local storage address;

receiving information of content selected by a user;

retrieving the content, selected by the user, from the contents stored when the table is generated, based on the information of the selected content, and loading a storage address of the selected content;

transmitting the storage address of the selected content to a decoder;

storing the storage address in the table, and changing playback information of the selected content; and

decoding the selected content based on the storage address.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the storage address is a local storage address.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the predetermined local storage is set differently depending on a feature of a device.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the playback information includes the storage address, transmitted to the decoder, a number of times that the storage address is transmitted, and a point in time that the storage address is transmitted.

10. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for implementing a method of collecting content playback information of a user, the method comprising:

storing contents, and generating a table including playback information of the contents in a predetermined local storage address;

receiving information of content selected by a user;

retrieving the content, selected by the user, from the contents stored when the table is generated, based on the information of the selected content, and loading a storage address of the selected content;

transmitting the storage address of the selected content to a decoder;

storing the storage address in the table, and changing playback information of the selected content; and

decoding the selected content based on the storage address.

11. A system of collecting content playback information for each end device of a user, the system comprising:

an end device to play stored content, and when the content is played, to store playback information that the content is played; and

a communication terminal to be connected to the end device, to store the content, provided from a server, in the end device when connected to the end device, to receive playback information, stored in the end device, to sort and store the received playback information for each end device, and to transmit the playback information, sorted and stored for each end device, to the server.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the end device comprises:

a storage to store content and a table including playback information of the content;

a control unit to retrieve content, selected by the user, in the storage, to load a storage address of the selected content, and to transmit the storage address to a decoder; and

the decoder to store the storage address in the table, to change playback information of the selected content, and to decode the selected content based on the storage address.

13. A method of collecting content playback information for each end device of a user, the method comprising:

storing, by a communication terminal, content provided from a server in an end device, when the communication terminal is connected to the end device;

playing, by the end device, the stored content, and storing playback information that the content is played;

receiving, by the communication terminal, the playback information stored in the end device, when the communication terminal is connected to the end device again, and sorting and storing the received playback information for each end device; and

transmitting, by the communication terminal, the playback information, sorted and stored for each end device, to the server.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the storing of the received playback information comprises:

storing contents, and generating a table including playback information of the contents in a predetermined local storage address;

receiving information of content selected by a user;

retrieving the content, selected by the user, from the contents stored when the table is generated, based on the information of the selected content, and loading a storage address of the selected content;

transmitting the storage address of the selected content to a decoder;

storing the storage address in the table, and changing playback information of the selected content; and

decoding the selected content based on the storage address.