MULTIPLE USER TERMINAL DEVICE WHICH MULTIPLE USERS WATCH SIMULTANEOUSLY, SERVER FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE USERS' USAGE OF CONENTS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE USERS AND COTNENTS WHICH MULTIPLE USERS WATCH SIMULTANEOUSLY

• US 20110154210A1
• Filed: 12/17/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: SUNG, Jung-Sik
• Application Number:
  US12/971,152
• Publication Number:
  US 20110154210A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/736
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• 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 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

Provided is a technology that efficiently manages a session and ensures the continuity of providing a service in a multiple user terminal device which multiple users watch simultaneously. An embodiment of the present invention provides a multiple user terminal device which multiple user watch simultaneously that comprises: user authenticator receiving user information of users in response to accesses of multiple users from a management server; a session controller generating a command of at least one of addition and removal of multiple users to and from a session corresponding to contents for usage of the contents on the basis of the user information; and a usage information manager acquiring contents usage information for each user when one of the multiple users terminates the access.

Claims

1. A multiple user terminal device which multiple users watch simultaneously, comprising:

a user authenticator receiving user information of users in response to accesses of multiple users from a management server;

a session controller generating a command of at least one of addition and removal of the multiple users to and from a session corresponding to contents for usage of the contents on the basis of the user information; and

a usage information manager acquiring contents usage information for each user when one of the multiple users terminates the access.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the contents usage information includes at least one of contents identification information and information of a usage stopping location of the contents of the user.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the user information includes at least one of identification information of the user, information of an access time of the user, information whether the user accesses or not, information of a terminal used by the user, and contents usage information corresponding to contents played by the user.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the session controller generates a command to add the user to the session when the contents are already played.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the session controller generates a command to open a new session which sets the user as a representative user when the session corresponding to the contents does not exist.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the session controller generates a command to set a first participation user of the session as a new representative user of the session when a representative user terminates the access.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the session controller generates a command to eliminate the session if a participation user of the session does not exist when a representative user terminates the access.

8. The device of claim 2, wherein the contents usage information is information for providing the contents from the usage stopping location when a user corresponding to the contents usage information wants to use the contents again.

9. A server for managing multiple users'"'"' usage of contents, comprising:

a user information provider providing user information of a user who accesses to the multiple user terminal device in accordance with a request from the multiple user terminal device playing contents for multiple users;

a session manager managing a session corresponding to the contents on the basis of the fact whether the multiple users accessor not; and

a user information manager updating the user information including contents usage information for each user when one of the multiple users terminates the access.

10. The server of claim 9, wherein the user information includes at least one of identification information of the user, information of an access time of the user, information whether the user accesses or not, information of a terminal used by the user, and contents usage information of the user.

11. The server of claim 9, wherein the contents usage information is information to provide the contents from the usage stopping location when a user corresponding to the contents usage information wants to use the contents again.

12. A method for managing multiple users and contents which the multiple users watch simultaneously, comprising:

receiving user information of users in response to the accesses of the multiple users from a management server by a user authenticator;

generating a command of at least one of addition or removal of the multiple users to and from a session corresponding to contents for usage of the contents on the basis of the user information by a session controller; and

acquiring contents usage information for each user when one of the multiple users terminates the access by a usage information manager.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising updating the user information on the basis of the contents usage information for each user by a user information manager.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the content usage information includes at least one of contents identification information and information of a usage stopping location of the contents.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the contents usage information is information for providing the contents from the usage stopping location when a user corresponding to the contents usage information wants to use the contents again.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the user information includes at least one of identification information of the user, information of an access time of the user, information whether the user accesses or not, information of a terminal used by the user, and contents usage information corresponding to contents played by the user.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating of the command generates a command to add the user to the session when the contents are already played.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating of the command generates a command to open a new session which sets the user as a representative user when the session corresponding to the contents does not exist.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating of the command generates a command to set a first participation user of the session as a new representative user of the session when a representative user terminates the access.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating of the command generates a command to eliminate the session if a participation user of the session does not exist when a representative user terminates the access.