METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREOF

• US 20160373316A1
• Filed: 08/22/2016
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: CHA, Young In, KIM, Yon-Hee, OH, Tae-Ho, NAM, Gi-Seon, KWON, O-Hyon
• Granted Patent: US 10,212,052 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5045 Making service definitions prior to deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/844 Message, e.g. SMS
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/72 Subscriber identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/00 Wireless channel access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for providing contents in a mobile communication system and apparatus thereof. The apparatus comprises a contents provider access unit for responding to an inquiry request related to a service provision using contents providing terminal connected through a communication network and managing a rule related to the contents providing terminal and a connection and an inquiry request of the contents providing terminal; a central management unit for managing a predetermined service, a subscriber affiliated with the service, apparatus information of a subscriber terminal and an operation and an authentication of the service based on a data inputted from a contents providing terminal connected through the contents provider access unit; a transmission unit for receiving terminal information of a subscriber affiliated with the service and transmitting a menu of the service and contents in accordance with an apparatus of many piece of the terminal information of a subscriber affiliated with the service; and an interface unit for performing an interface with an external server interlocked with the service, providing the service and the contents and managing a rule to the external server.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing contents in a mobile communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a contents provider access unit for responding to an inquiry request related to a service provision using contents providing terminal connected through a communication network and managing a rule related to the contents providing terminal and a connection and an inquiry request of the contents providing terminal;

a central management unit for managing a predetermined service, a subscriber affiliated with the service, apparatus information of a subscriber terminal and an operation and an authentication of the service based on a data inputted from a contents providing terminal connected through the contents provider access unit;

a transmission unit for receiving terminal information of a subscriber affiliated with the service and transmitting a menu of the service and contents in accordance with an apparatus of many piece of the terminal information of a subscriber affiliated with the service; and

an interface unit for performing an interface with an external server interlocked with the service, providing the service and the contents and managing a rule to the external server.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission unit comprises:

a transmission management unit for obtaining client information of the subscriber terminal and authenticating the same, and extracting apparatus information of many piece of the client information and providing the central management unit with the same; and

a transmission channel unit for providing the authenticated subscriber terminal with the service menu generated in accordance with the apparatus information and contents.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the transmission management unit comprises:

a connection detection module for detecting apparatus information and subscriber information of the mobile terminal connected with a wireless internet;

a basic information collection module for checking a kind of the service and a menu in accordance with the kind of the service; and

a rendering module for filtering a menu in accordance with the apparatus information of the menus and then transmitting the filtered menu to the mobile terminal.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the transmission management unit provides a history menu of the subscriber terminal by storing a menu selected by the subscriber terminal.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the central management unit further comprises a subscriber management unit for automatically getting a subscriber terminal registered to a wireless internet by enabling a subscriber terminal to receive a wireless internet registration request in the case that a subscriber is affiliated with a wire communication network or a wireless communication network by searching registered subscriber service in accordance with a inquiry message transmitted from the authentication module.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein in the subscriber management unit, a predetermined provisional data fills a data for affiliating except for the subscriber information and an apparatus information of the subscriber terminal of data requested in case of being affiliated with the wireless internet.

7. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the central management unit further comprises:

an apparatus information management unit for generating terminal group information by classifying an apparatus information of the mobile terminal in accordance with a predetermined rule; and

a service management unit for connecting contents-apparatus information with a menu item and storing the same in case of generating a menu of a wireless internet to be provided with the mobile terminal by connecting contents with corresponding terminal group information and generating the contents-apparatus information when contents to be provided with the mobile terminal is stored.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the service management unit further comprises:

a segment management module for managing a segment for providing contents with the mobile terminal in accordance with a predetermined rule by an operator and adjusting a layout of a menu in the segment;

a menu management module for adjusting a browser type of the mobile terminal and a view type of the menu item; and

a rendering module, wherein the rendering module transmits a menu in accordance with the apparatus information to the mobile terminal by enabling the mobile terminal to receive a menu corresponding to the segment and to receive apparatus information from the apparatus information management unit.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the rendering unit stores a predetermined program for displaying respective items of the menu as any one of a text type, an index type, an index under bar type and a pictogram type in accordance with the apparatus information.

10. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the central management unit does a grouping a service in accordance with a kind of service by a request of the contents provider and manages the same.

11. The apparatus according to claims 6, wherein the central management unit further comprises at least one of contents providing terminal for doing a grouping the service and registering the same in accordance with a kind of the service, storing and managing contents in accordance with the service and providing the contents in accordance with a request of a subscriber terminal affiliated with the service.

12. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the interface unit comprises:

an interface connection unit for directly being connected with an external server by having a protocol in accordance with the external server and transmitting and receiving a predetermined data; and

an interface management for managing a configuration of the external server.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the interface unit for periodically providing a billing server which is the external server with a billing data by storing and managing the billing data according to providing a short message in accordance with the service rule in the case that the interface unit services the short message by being connected with a short message service server.

14. An apparatus for providing contents in a mobile communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a connection detection module for extracting subscriber information and apparatus information of many pieces of information received from a mobile terminal connected through a wireless communication network and transmitting the same; and

an authentication module for receiving client information and deciding an authentication thereof, and storing the client during a predetermined time in the case that the authentication is completed.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the transmission management unit further comprises an encryption module for converting the subscriber information and the apparatus information into a predetermined in the case that the subscriber information and the apparatus information is not a formation defined in an OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) standard.

16. The apparatus according to claims 14, the apparatus further comprising:

a subscriber management module for automatically getting a subscriber terminal registered to a wireless internet by enabling a subscriber terminal to receive a wireless internet registration request in the case that a subscriber is affiliated with a wire communication network or a wireless communication network by searching registered subscriber service in accordance with a inquiry message transmitted from the authentication module.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein in the subscriber management module, a predetermined provisional data fills a data for affiliating except for the subscriber information and an apparatus information of the subscriber terminal of data requested in case of being affiliated with the wireless internet.

18. A method for providing contents in a mobile communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

W-1) searching subscriber information of client information of the mobile terminal connected with a wireless internet;

W-2) performing an authentication of the subscriber information;

W-2) transmitting an inquiry message as to whether to be affiliated with a wireless internet to the mobile terminal in the case that a subscriber has a due right but didn'"'"'t register to a wireless internet in the authenticating result; and

W-4) automatically affiliating with a wireless internet in the case that a terminal of the subscriber receives an agreement message of an affiliation with a wireless internet.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the due right is affiliated with at least one of a wireless communication network service and wire internet service designated by an operator of the wireless communication network.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein in the step (W-4), a predetermined provisional data fills a data for affiliating except for the subscriber information and an apparatus information of the subscriber terminal of data requested in case of being affiliated with the wireless internet.