Apparatus and method of providing web based personalized service

• US 7,908,561 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2007
• Issued: 03/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Shin, Young Mee, Kim, Sang Ki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Cao “Kevin”
• Application Number:
  US11/974,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20080140677A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,250 Days
• Field of Search: 715763-765, 715740-743, 715/840, 715/848, 715851-853, 715/205, 717/121, 707/1, 707/10
• US Class Current: 715/763
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for providing a web based personalized service are provided. A user accesses and subscribes to a service portal by using a web browser of a personal device. The user directly generates the user'"'"'s own service, previously simulates the generated service, and registers the service to the service portal. The user activates a service included in a My Service list, when the service is required. The activated service is directly provided to the user by using the personal data included in the service portal during runtime or personal data distributed over the personal device. Thus, the user participates in generation of a service and generates service logic for the user. Later, the user directly uses the service. Accordingly, a personalized service is provided.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing a web based personalized service, the apparatus comprising:

a service information storage unit in which information on a service including a service name and a URL for dynamically providing personal data is stored;

a service generation unit which provides software used to generate a service so that a user generates the service by using the software suitable for an operating system of a personal device of the user;

a service registration unit which stores the generated service, receives the information on the generated service from the user, and stores the information in the service information storage unit; and

a service execution unit which provides the information on services generated by the user to the user and executes a service which is requested by the user to be executed on the basis of the information on the generated services;

a service customizing unit which provides a service template to the user,

wherein the service template includes a service logic program which customizes a service by using service template construction information including graphic information on components that constitutes the service template and service customizing information that are property values of the components modified by the user,

wherein the service customizing unit searches for personal data of the user, when the user modifies the property values of the components.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the service generation unit provides software which is a graphic editor including a palette for providing building blocks that are components which constitute the service.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the service generation unit further provides software for testing the service.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a service template storage unit in which the service template that is a template for the service to be generated is stored.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the service template further comprises a service web page which provides a GUI (graphical user interface) for receiving an input needed for executing the service logic program and an input for executing the customized service or stopping the executed customized service from the user to the user.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the service registration unit builds the service logic program on the basis of the service customizing information.

7. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the service registration unit receives information on a service to be customized including the service name and the URL for dynamically providing personal data from the user and builds the service logic program on the basis of the received information.

8. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein when the service is customized, the service registration unit stores the customized service, and the service information storage unit stores information on the customized service.

9. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:

a simulation animation storage unit in which an animation that can simulate the customized service; and

a service simulation unit which applies the service customizing information to the animation and transmits the animation to a web browser of the user.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a service information management unit which provides the information on a service stored in the service information storage unit to the user and stores information on a modified service in the service information storage unit when the user modifies the information on the service.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a service deletion unit which deletes information on a service requested to be deleted from the service information storage unit, when the user requests the service to be deleted.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the service execution unit stops executing a service requested to be stopped, when the user requests the executed service to be stopped.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein when the user selects a service, the service execution unit transmits a web page corresponding to a URL of a service web page of the selected service stored in the service information storage unit to a web browser of the user.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein when the user selects a service, the service execution unit executes the selected service by using a location of the selected service stored in the service information storage unit.

15. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a service application server which modifies status information on a executed service stored in the service information storage unit into an active status, and when execution of the executed service is requested to be stopped, modifies the status information on the requested service stored in the service information storage unit into an idle status.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein when the executed service is terminated, by periodically checking whether the executed service is terminated, the service application server modifies the status information on the terminated service stored in the service information storage unit from an active status to an idle status.

17. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a service searching unit which searches for a service related to a key word by receiving the key word from the user.

18. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an experience animation storage unit in which an experience animation that displays execution processes while executing the service is stored; and

a service experience unit which provides the experience animation for a service selected by the user.

19. A method of providing a web based personalized service, the method comprising:

(a) providing software used to generate a service so that a user generates the service by using the software suitable for an operating system of a personal device of the user;

(b) storing the generated service, receiving information on the generated service including a service name and a URL for dynamically providing personal data, and storing the information;

(c) providing the information on services generated by the user to the user and executing a service which is requested by the user to be executed on the basis of the information on the services; and

(d) providing, to a computer of the user, a service template which is a template for a service to be generated, wherein the service template includes a service logic program which customizes the service by using service template construction information including graphic information on components that constitutes the service template and service customizing information that are property values of the components modified by the user wherein in (d), searching for personal data of the user, when the user modifies the property values of the components.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein in (a), there is provided software which is a graphic editor including a palette for providing building blocks that are components which constitute a service.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein in (a), software for testing the service is further provided.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the service template further comprises a service web page which provides a GUI (graphical user interface) for receiving an input needed for executing the service logic program and an input for executing the customized service or stopping the executed customized service from the user to the user.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein in (b), the service logic program is built on the basis of the service customizing information.

24. The method of claim 19, wherein in (b), information on a service to be customized including the service name and the URL for dynamically providing personal data is received, and the service logic program is built on the basis of the received information.

25. The method of claim 19, wherein in (b), when the service is customized, the customized service is stored, and information on the customized service is received from the user and stored.

26. The method of claim 19, further comprising applying the service customizing information to an animation that can simulate the customized service and transmitting the animation to a web browser of the user.

27. The method of claim 19, further comprising providing the stored information on a service to the user and storing information on a modified service when the user modifies the information on the service.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein in (c), when the user selects a service, a web page corresponding to a URL of a service web page of the predetermined service included in information on the selected service is transmitted to a web browser of the user.

29. The method of claim 19, further comprising deleting information on a service requested to be deleted, when the user requests a service requested to be deleted.

30. The method of claim 19, wherein in (c), when the user requests the executed service to be stopped, execution of the service requested to be stopped is stopped.

31. The method of claim 19, wherein in (c), when the user selects a predetermined service, the selected service is executed by using a location of the selected service included in the information on the predetermined service.

32. The method of claim 19, further comprising (e) modifying status information on a executed service into an active status, and when execution of the service is requested to be stopped, modifying the status information on the requested service into an idle status.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein in (e), when the executed service is terminated by periodically checking whether the executed service is terminated, modifying the status information on the terminated service from an active status to an idle status.

34. The method of claim 19, further comprising searching for a service related to a key word by receiving the key word from the user.

35. The method of claim 19, further comprising providing the experience animation that displays execution processes while executing the service for a service selected by the user.