METHOD, SERVER, AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING VIDEO-BASED VALUE-ADDED SERVICE

• US 20130198772A1
• Filed: 08/01/2012
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Huan, Hu, Xun, Zhong, Jieping
• Application Number:
  US13/564,473
• Publication Number:
  US 20130198772A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/18 Arrangements for synchronising broadcast or distribution via plural systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 2201/40 characterised in that additional data relating to the broadcast data are available via a different channel than the broadcast channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/31 Arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/33 Arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/48 for recognising items expressed in broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/63 for services of sales data processing systems or methods specially adapted for electronic commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/87 accessed over computer networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43 Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a server, and a system for implementing a video-based value-added service. The method includes: acquiring, by an event server, association event data which corresponds to a video currently played by a first client; when detecting an event trigger condition, generating, by the event server, an event notification according to the association event data, and sending the event notification to an application server; forming, by the application server, value-added service content according to preset value-added service data and event data in the event notification, and providing the value-added service content for a second client.

Claims

1. A method for implementing a video-based value-added service, comprising:

acquiring, by an event server, association event data which corresponds to a video currently played by a first client;

generating, by the event server, an event notification according to the association event data when detecting an event trigger condition, and sending the event notification to an application server; and

forming, by the application server, value-added service content according to preset value-added service data and event data in the event notification, and providing the value-added service content for a second client.

2. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 1, wherein the detecting, by the event server, the event trigger condition comprises at least one of:

when the event server detects that the current time is consistent with a time trigger condition in the association event data, the event trigger condition is detected;

when the event server judges that attribute information in a received event acquisition request is consistent with an attribute trigger condition in the association event data, the event trigger condition is detected; and

when the event server judges that a control operation in a received video control notification is consistent with a control trigger condition in the association event data, the event trigger condition is detected.

3. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 1, wherein before the forming, by the application server, the value-added service content according to the preset value-added service data and the event data in the event notification, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the application server, a value-added service registration request sent by the second client; and

establishing, by the application server, an association between the first client and the second client according to the value-added service registration request.

4. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 3, wherein the establishing, by the application server, the association between the first client and the second client according to the value-added service registration request comprises:

establishing, by the application server, an association between one or multiple first clients and one second client according to the value-added service registration request, so that the event server simultaneously acquires association event data of videos currently played by multiple first clients to generate the event notification which is used to be sent to the application server.

5. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring, by the event server, the association event data which corresponds to the video currently played by the first client comprises:

determining, when receiving a service acquisition request, by the application server and according to the service acquisition request, a video identifier of a video to be associated; and

acquiring, by the event server and according to a determined video identifier, corresponding association event data as the association event data which corresponds to the video currently played by the first client.

6. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 5, wherein when receiving the service acquisition request, the determining, by the application server and according to the service acquisition request, the video identifier of the video to be associated;

and acquiring, by the event server and according to the determined video identifier, the corresponding association event data as the association event data which corresponds to the video currently played by the first client comprise;

determining, when receiving the service acquisition request, by the application server according to the service acquisition request, the video identifier of the video to be associated and sending an event acquisition request comprising the video identifier to the event server; and

acquiring, by the event server and according to the video identifier in a received event acquisition request, corresponding association event data as the association event data which corresponds to the video currently played by the first client.

7. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 6, wherein before the sending, by the application server, the event acquisition request comprising the video identifier to the event server, the method further comprises:

judging, by the application server according to the video identifier, whether association event data of the video to be associated is monitored from the event server, if no, continuing to perform an operation of sending the event acquisition request comprising the video identifier to the event server.

8. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 6, wherein the determining, by the application server according to the service acquisition request, the video identifier of the video to be associated comprises at least one of:

parsing to acquire, by the application server, the video identifier of the video to be associated from the event acquisition request;

parsing to acquire, by the application server, an identifier of the first client from the event acquisition request, sending a video identifier query request comprising the identifier of the first client to a video server, and receiving the video identifier of the video currently played by the first client; and

parsing to acquire, by the application server, a user identifier from the event acquisition request, and querying the associated video identifier locally according to the user identifier.

9. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 6, wherein the acquiring, by the event server, the corresponding association event data according to the video identifier in the received event acquisition request comprises:

searching, by the event server locally, whether the association event data which corresponds to the video identifier is monitored, if yes, acquiring monitored association event data, if no, sending an event registration request to a video server to request to acquire the association event data of a video which corresponds to the video identifier.

10. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 9, wherein after the acquiring, by the event server, the corresponding association event data according to the video identifier in the received event acquisition request, the method further comprises:

searching, by the event server locally, whether a video control notification which corresponds to the video identifier is monitored, if no, sending a notification registration request to the video server to request to acquire the video control notification of the video which corresponds to the video identifier.

11. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 6, further comprising:

when receiving a video switching notification sent by a video server, updating, by the application server, the video identifier associated with a user identifier to be a video identifier of a switched video in the video switching notification.

12. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 1, wherein the forming, by the application server, the value-added service content according to the preset value-added service data and the event data in the event notification comprises:

searching for, by the application server, a corresponding value-added service item in preset value-added service data, according to a content information item which corresponds to the video currently played in the event notification, and extracting value-added service content in a value-added service item which is searched.

13. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 1, further comprising:

when receiving a video control instruction sent by the second client, forwarding, by the application server, the video control instruction to a video server to control video playing; and

receiving, by the event server, a video control notification returned by the video server after video playing control is performed.

14. A method for implementing a video-based value-added service, comprising:

sending, by a second client, a service acquisition request, and receiving returned value-added service content, wherein the value-added service content is formed according to association event data which corresponds to a video currently played by a first client.

15. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 14, further comprising:

sending, by the second client, a value-added service registration request, wherein the value-added service registration request comprises an identifier of the second client and an identifier of a first client to be associated, so as to establish an association between the first client and the second client.

16. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 14, wherein before the sending, by the second client, the service acquisition request, the method further comprises:

sending, by the second client and to a video server, a video query request for querying the video currently played by the first client, and receiving a returned video identifier; and

setting, by the second client, the video identifier in the service acquisition request.

17. The method for implementing the video-based value-added service according to claim 14, further comprising:

sending, by the second client, a video control instruction which controls the video currently played by the first client to control a video server so as to control the video playing of the video currently played by the first client.

18. A service subsystem, comprising:

an event acquiring module, configured to acquire association event data which corresponds to a video currently played by a first client;

an event processing module, configured to, when detecting an event trigger condition, generate an event notification according to the association event data, and send the event notification to a content forming module; and

a content forming module, configured to form value-added service content according to preset value-added service data and event data in the event notification, and provide the value-added service content for a second client.

19. The service subsystem according to claim 18, wherein the event acquiring module comprises:

an identifier identifying unit, configured to, when receiving a service acquisition request and according to the service acquisition request, determine a video identifier of a video to be associated; and

a data acquiring unit, configured to, according to a determined video identifier, locally search to acquire association event data which corresponds to the video identifier in the service subsystem, or request to acquire association event data which corresponds to the video identifier from a video server.

20. The service subsystem according to claim 18, further comprising:

a service registering module, configured to receive a value-added service registration request sent by the second client, and according to the value-added service registration request, establish an association between the first client and the second client.