System and method for providing contents on a network
First Claim
1. In a system for receiving contents from a plurality of web servers and providing the contents to a portable terminal connected via a network, the portable terminal including a plurality of channel icons that respectively have channel URL information of a predetermined subject, and wherein a user selection of a channel icon of the portable terminal causes the respective channel URL to be transmitted from the portable terminal to the system, a contents-providing system comprising:
- a user information database for storing user identification (ID) information;
an authentication server for;
performing authentication based upon the user ID information by using the user information database when two or more uniform resource locators (URLs), which are channel URLs associated with a set of URLS, each URL of the set corresponding to a web server that provides contents of a predetermined subject, and the user ID information are sent from the portable terminal, andoutputting the two or more URLS after performing the authentication;
a data server for;
requesting contents from a plurality of web servers associated with the two or more URLs,processing the received contents into a predetermined format,gathering the contents of the predetermined subject, binding the gathered contents into a single channel, andtransmitting the single channel of contents to the portable terminal,wherein the data server further comprises an image compressor for;
receiving the contents from the web server, andreducing image sizes or a number of colors according to a specification of the portable terminal; and
a proxy unit for monitoring data transmitted by the web server, and when the contents transmitted by the web server include image information, calling the image compressor.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a contents-providing system for receiving contents from a web server and providing the contents to a portable terminal connected via a network that comprises: a user information database for storing user ID information; an authentication server for performing authentication based upon the user ID information by using the user information database when the user ID information and a URL of a web server are input by the portable terminal, and outputting the URL after performing the authentication; and a data server for requesting that the web server corresponding to the URL provided by the authentication server provides the contents, processing the contents provided by the web server into a predetermined format, and transmitting the processed contents to the portable terminal.
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1. In a system for receiving contents from a plurality of web servers and providing the contents to a portable terminal connected via a network, the portable terminal including a plurality of channel icons that respectively have channel URL information of a predetermined subject, and wherein a user selection of a channel icon of the portable terminal causes the respective channel URL to be transmitted from the portable terminal to the system, a contents-providing system comprising:
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a user information database for storing user identification (ID) information; an authentication server for; performing authentication based upon the user ID information by using the user information database when two or more uniform resource locators (URLs), which are channel URLs associated with a set of URLS, each URL of the set corresponding to a web server that provides contents of a predetermined subject, and the user ID information are sent from the portable terminal, and outputting the two or more URLS after performing the authentication; a data server for; requesting contents from a plurality of web servers associated with the two or more URLs, processing the received contents into a predetermined format, gathering the contents of the predetermined subject, binding the gathered contents into a single channel, and transmitting the single channel of contents to the portable terminal, wherein the data server further comprises an image compressor for; receiving the contents from the web server, and reducing image sizes or a number of colors according to a specification of the portable terminal; and a proxy unit for monitoring data transmitted by the web server, and when the contents transmitted by the web server include image information, calling the image compressor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11)
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6. In a system for receiving contents from web servers and providing the contents to a portable terminal connected via a network, the portable terminal including a plurality of channel icons that respectively have channel URL information of a predetermined subject, and wherein a user selection of a channel icon of the portable terminal causes the respective channel URL to be transmitted from the portable terminal to the system, a contents-providing system comprising:
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a user information database for storing user information (ID) information; a data server for; performing authentication based upon user ID information by using the user information database two or more uniform resource locators (URLs), which are channel URLs associated with a set of URLS, each URL of the set corresponding to a web server that provides contents of a predetermined subject, and the user ID information are sent from the portable terminal, requesting contents from a plurality of web servers associated with the two or more URLs, processing the received contents into a predetermined format, gathering the contents of the predetermined subject, binding the gathered contents into a single channel, and transmitting the single channel of contents to the portable terminal, wherein the data server further comprises an image compressor for; receiving the contents from the web server, and reducing image sizes or a number of colors according to the specification of the portable terminal; and a proxy unit for; monitoring data transmitted by the web server, and when the contents transmitted by the web server include image information, calling the image compressor. - View Dependent Claims (8)
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12. In a contents-providing method of a system for receiving contents from a plurality of web servers and providing the contents to a portable terminal connected via a network, the portable terminal including a plurality of channel icons that respectively have channel URL information of a predetermined subject, and wherein a user selection of a channel icon of the portable terminal causes the respective channel URL to be transmitted from the portable terminal to the system, a contents providing method comprising:
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(a) extracting user information corresponding to user identification (ID) information and authenticating the user when two or more uniform resource locators (URLs), which are channel URLs associated with a set of URLS, each URL of the set corresponding to a web server that provides contents of a predetermined subject, and the user ID information are sent from the portable terminal; (b) requesting the contents from a plurality of web servers associated with the two or more URLs; (c) monitoring the contents received from the plurality of web servers in response to the requesting to determine whether any of the received contents include image information, and if any of the received contents include image information, converting the image information by reducing sizes or number of color of images according to standard of the portable terminal; (d) gathering the contents of the predetermined subject and binding the gathered contents into a single channel of contents; and (e) transmitting the single channel of contents to the portable terminal via the network. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method comprising:
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at a data server, receiving two or more URLs that are transmitted from a portable terminal, the portable terminal including a plurality of channel icons that respectively have channel URL information of a predetermined subject and wherein a user selection of a channel icon of the portable terminal causes the two or more URLS to be transmitted from the portable terminal to the data server, wherein the two or more uniform resource locators (URLs) are associated with a set of URLs, each URL of the set corresponding to a web server that provides contents of a predetermined subject; at the data server, requesting contents from a plurality of web servers associated with the two or more URLs associated with the selected channel, and binding the contents into a single channel; and at the data server, transmitting the single channel of contents to the portable terminal. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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19. An apparatus comprising:
a data server to receive two or more URLs that are transmitted from a portable terminal, the portable terminal including a plurality of channel icons that respectively have channel URL information of a predetermined subject and wherein a user selection of a channel icon of the portable terminal causes the two or more URLs to be transmitted from the portable terminal to the data server, wherein the two or more uniform resource locators (URLs) are associated with a set of URLS, each URL of the set corresponding to a web server that provides contents of a predetermined subject; request contents from a plurality of web servers associated with the two or more URLs associated with the selected channel, bind the contents into a single channel, and transmit the single channel of contents to the portable terminal. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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