Personalized interaction using codes

• US 8,671,440 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2008
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Damola, Ayodele, Fersman, Elena
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehedi, Morshed
• Application Number:
  US12/530,355
• Publication Number:
  US 20100154035A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,226 Days
• Field of Search: 726/4
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/222 Secondary servers, e.g. proxy server, cable television Head-end provisioning of proxy services in data packet switching networks H04L67/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23109 by placing content in organized collections, e.g. EPG data repository details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25816 involving client authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309

Abstract

A method and nodes adapted to provide personalized multimedia services for users having registered a media player (300, 400, 401, 501, 502, 606) to a multimedia network, on the basis of the content (301, 500) read by a code reader (302, 405, 503), connected to or integrated with the media player. Content decoded from a code is used for creating or updating a user preference data record (700, 701) linked to by the identity with which the respective media player is registered. An application server (305, 402, 506, 600) being responsible for personalizing a requested service is interconnected with one or more preference databases (306, 407, 603), and one or more content databases (308, 408, 605) and/or dedicated servers (507). Upon receiving a service request, the application server, access relevant data from the mentioned nodes and assembles personalization instructions, adapted to trigger the requested personalized service in the requesting media player.

Claims

1. A method, executed in an application server, of personalizing a multimedia service for a first user, wherein said first user has registered a first media player in a multimedia network, comprising the following steps:

receiving, from the first media player, a first user preference message, comprising a content of a code and at least one identity,

wherein said code has been displayed on a second media player, decoded, registered with a second identity and read by said first media player via a visual interface of the first media player, and

wherein said at least one identity is a first identity, with which said first media player is registered, and said second identity, wherein said first identity is an individual identity and said second identity is a group entity,

creating or updating at least one user preference data record, each linked to by one of said at least one identity, on a basis of said content of said code, and

personalizing said multimedia service, according to one of said at least one user preference data record linked to by one of said at least one identity.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

in said creating or updating step, a first user preference data record, linked to by said first identity, is stored in a preference database.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said personalizing step comprises the further steps:

receiving a service request from the second media player, registered with said first identity, wherein said service request comprises a request for a personalized service and said first identity,

requesting said first user preference data record from said preference database,

requesting service specific instructions from a content database,

creating, on a basis of a content of said service request, said content of said first user preference data record and said service specific instructions, a personalization message, and

forwarding said personalization message to said second media player for execution of said personalized service.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein prior to said receiving step the following steps are executed:

requesting from said second media player for a personalized service,

encoding service specific content, associated with said personalized service, and said second identity into a code, capable of providing said personalized service, and

forwarding said code to said second media player.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein prior to said receiving step, the following steps are executed:

requesting from said second media player for a personalized service, and,

forwarding service specific content, associated with said personalized service, from said application server, capable of providing said personalized service, to said second media player, where said service specific content is encoded into a code together with said second identity.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein:

in said receiving step, after receiving said first user preference message, said first user is interacting with said service specific content associated with said personalized service in said application server, via a user interface of said first media player.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein:

said creating or updating comprises creating or updating said at least one user preference data record associated with said first and said second identity.

8. The method according to claim 7, comprising the further steps:

creating a personalized feedback message according to said at least one user preference data record, and said service specific content associated with said personalized service, and,

forwarding said personalized feedback message to said first media player for invoking an application, triggered by said personalized service.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein said personalized feedback message triggers at least one interaction between said first user and said application server, and wherein said at least one interaction results in a creation and forwarding of another personalized feedback message to said first media player for a continuous, interactive service execution.

10. The method according to claim 9, comprising the further step:

creating an additional personalized feedback message in accordance with a result from said at least one interaction, and forwarding said additional personalized feedback message to said second media player for execution of said personalized service.

11. The method according to claim 1 wherein:

in said receiving step, said user preference message is a request for presence information associated with said second media player, and,

in said creating or updating step, said creating or updating comprises creating or updating a group-list in said at least one user preference data record, linked to by said first identity.

12. The method according to claim 11, comprising the following further steps:

requesting from said first user authorization to access said presence information associated with said second media player, and

upon receiving a successful authorization, initiating a subscription for said presence information and adding said second media player to said group-list.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein said first media player is any of a mobile device, a personal computer, a laptop, a set-top-box/television or a personal digital assistant.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein said second media player is any of a mobile device, a personal computer, a laptop, a set-top-box/television or a personal digital assistant.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein said visual interface is attached to a first user interface.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein said visual interface is integrated with a first user interface.

17. The method according to any claim 1, wherein said multimedia network is Internet protocol Multimedia Subsystem.

18. An application server in a multimedia network, for providing a personalized multimedia service to a user having registered at least one media player in said multimedia network, said server comprising:

communication means for communicating with;

a first media player, registered in said multimedia network via at least one identity, wherein said at least one identity is a first identity, with which said first media player is registered, and a second identity, wherein said first identity is an individual identity and said second identity is a group entity, and,

at least one preference database, comprising personalization content associated with said first media player, said personalization content being stored in a user preference data record, and wherein said user preference data record is linked to by one of said at least one identity, and,

preference data controlling means for performing either of the following steps upon receiving a first user preference message from and created by said first media player, comprising a content of a code and at least one identity, wherein said code has been displayed on a second media player, decoded registered with the second identity and read by said first media player;

create a user preference data record on a basis of said content of said code if no preference data record linked to by said at least one identity already exists, or,

update a user preference data record on said basis of said content of said code if said user preference data record linked to by said at least one identity already exists.

19. The application server according to claim 18, wherein said communication means further communicates with at least one content provider, comprising service specific data and wherein said application server further comprises:

service controlling means to;

create personalized instructions on a basis of a service request received from a registered media player, a content of said user preference data record, and data retrieved from said at least one content provider,

forward said personalized instructions to said first media player.

20. The application server according to claim 18, wherein said at least one preference database is distributed.

21. The application server according to claim 18, wherein said at least one preference database is integrated with said application server.

22. The application server according to claim 19, wherein said at least one content provider is a content database.

23. The application server according to claim 19, wherein said at least one content provider is a presence server.

24. The application server according to claim 19, wherein said personalized instructions invoke an application in said first media player.