Method and system for globally sharing and transacting digital contents

• US 9,384,483 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2005
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kwon, Kwang-mog
• Primary Examiner(s): Ravetti, Dante
• Application Number:
  US11/315,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20060143435A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,847 Days
• Field of Search: 705/51, 705/16, 705/21, 705/59, 380/44, 380/262, 380/278, 380/279
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3829 involving key management

Abstract

A method and system for globally sharing and transacting service including a digital content is provided. The method includes registering a digital content with a global multi-service platform (MSP), storing metadata or an electronic catalog for the digital content generated in a universal language or a local language, sharing the registered digital content and global metadata between a local MSP and the global MSP, implementing, if necessary, a distribution agreement or a supply agreement on a selected portion of the digital content between a local MSP and the global MSP, and sending the selected portion of the digital content from the global MSP and/or the local MSP storing the digital content to a customer terminal.

Claims

1. A method for sharing and transacting content between a plurality of local multi-service platforms (MSPs) and a global MSP, connected to each other and implemented on at least one hardware platform, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor of a first local MSP among the plurality of local MSPs, content from a content provider;

registering, by the processor of the first local MSP, the received content from the content provider with the global MSP;

segmenting, by the processor of the first local MSP, the received content into a plurality of sub-contents;

storing, by the processor of the first local MSP, the received content;

transmitting, by the processor of the first local MSP, a portion of the segmented sub contents to the global MSP;

storing, by a processor of the global MSP, the transmitted portion of the sub-contents at the global MSP temporarily;

sharing the registered content between the first local MSP and the global MSP;

storing, by the processor of the global MSP, metadata for the registered content at the first local MSP and the global MSP;

determining, by the processor of the global MSP, whether a purchase request for the content from a customer terminal at a second local MSP is received;

based on a determination by the processor of the global MSP that the purchase request for the content from the customer terminal at the second local MSP is received, generating a supply agreement between the global MSP and the second local MSP for the content including at least a part of a remaining portion of the sub-contents stored in the first local MSP;

receiving, by a processor of the second local MSP, all or a part of the portion of the sub-contents and all or a part of the remaining portion of the sub-contents from the global MSP and the first local MSP, respectively, according to the generated supply agreement for the content;

combining, by the processor of the second local MSP, the all or part of the portion of the sub-contents and the all or part of the remaining portion of the sub-contents into desired content; and

transmitting, by the processor of the second local MSP, the desired content to the customer terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing the transmitted portion of the sub-contents at the global MSP comprises:

determining a portion of the sub-contents which satisfies a predetermined condition; and

storing the portion of the sub-contents determined to satisfy the predetermined condition at the global MSP.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the predetermined condition comprises at least one of size, quality and format of the portion of the sub-contents.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing metadata comprises storing metadata for each of the sub-contents.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the storing metadata for each of the sub-contents comprises:

storing global metadata represented by a global spoken language, the global spoken language being universally used in the first local MSP, the second local MSP, and the global MSP; and

storing local metadata represented by a local spoken language, the local spoken language being used in a specific local MSP.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing metadata for the content at the global MSP for an access from the second local MSP.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating an electronic catalog for the content based on the metadata; and

transmitting the electronic catalog to the second local MSP, for an access from the customer terminal.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the generating the electronic catalog comprises generating at least one of a global electronic catalog represented in a global spoken language, a first local electronic catalog represented in a first local spoken language and a second local electronic catalog represented in a second local spoken language, wherein the global spoken language is universally used in the first local MSP, the second local MSP, and the global MSP, and the first and second local spoken languages are used in the first and second local MSPs, respectively.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

sending the electronic catalog to the customer terminal.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing the received content comprises storing the segmented content represented in a local spoken language at the first local MSP, wherein the local spoken languages is used in the first local MSP, and

wherein the storing the portion of the sub-contents comprises storing the transmitted portion of the sub-contents represented in a global spoken language at the global MSP, wherein the global spoken language is universally used in the first local MSP, the second local MSP, and the global MSP.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising implementing a distribution agreement between the global MSP and the first local MSP through which the portion of the sub-contents is stored at the global MSP.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the implementing the distribution agreement comprises:

accessing the global MSP for logging;

sending an on-line request for the storing the portion of the sub-contents at the global MSP;

examining the portion of the sub-contents; and

based on a determination that the portion of the sub-contents satisfies a predetermined condition, concluding the distribution agreement.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the sub-contents stored in the global MSP is determined by a size of the portion of the sub-contents.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the content comprises multimedia content;

receiving the all or part of the portion of the sub-contents from the global MSP comprises receiving at least one of audio data and a script of the multimedia content from the global MSP; and

receiving the all or part of the remaining portion of the sub-contents comprises receiving video data of the multimedia content from the first local MSP.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a number of transmission of the portion of the sub-contents to the customer terminal through the second local MSP reaches a predetermined number; and

storing the portion of the sub-contents in a cache memory of the second local MSP when it is determined that the predetermined number is reached.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing at least one of payment for the storing between the global MSP and the first local MSP and payment for the transmitting between the global MSP and the second local MSP,

wherein the performing at least one of the payment for the storing and the payment for the transmitting comprises:

accumulating results of at least one of the storing and the transmitting when a payment time for at least one of the storing and the transmitting arrives and calculating a payment amount for at least one of the storing and the transmitting; and

implementing electronic payment for the calculated payment amount through an external payment gateway server.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the performing at least one of the payment comprises performing at least one of payment for the storing between the global MSP and the first local MSP and payment for the transmitting between the global MSP and the second local MSP when a predetermined payment period arrives or a predetermined number of times of at least one of the storing and the transmitting is reached.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the metadata to the second local MSP.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing the metadata comprises storing global metadata represented by a global spoken language at the global MSP and first local metadata represented by a first local spoken language at the first local MSP, and

wherein the global spoken language is universally used in the first local MSP, the second local MSP, and the global MSP, and the first local spoken language is used in the first local MSP.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

generating a second local metadata represented by a second local spoken language based on the metadata, wherein the second local spoken language is used in the second local MSP; and

transmitting at least one of the global metadata and the second local metadata to the second local MSP.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing the transmitted portion of the sub-content comprises storing at least one of audio data and a script of the content which are represented in at least one of a first local spoken language, a second local spoken language and a global spoken language, and

wherein the metadata is represented in at least one of the first local spoken language, the second local spoken language and the global spoken language, and

wherein the global spoken language is universally used in the first local MSP, the second local MSP, and the global MSP, and the first and second local spoken languages are used in the first and second local MSPs, respectively.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

generating an electronic catalog for the content based on the metadata; and

transmitting the electronic catalog to the second local MSP for an access by the customer terminal.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the generating the electronic catalog comprises generating at least one of a global electronic catalog represented in the global spoken language, a first local electronic catalog represented in the first local spoken language and a second local electronic catalog represented in the second local spoken language.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising transmitting at least one of the global electronic catalog and the second local electronic catalog to the second local MSP.

25. The method of claim 14, wherein transmitting the at least one of the audio data and the script of the multimedia content comprises transmitting at least one of the audio data and the script represented in at least one of a first local spoken language, a second local spoken language and a global spoken language, and

wherein the storing the metadata for the content comprises storing the metadata represented in at least one of the first local spoken language, the second local spoken language and the global spoken language, and

wherein the global spoken language is universally used in the first local MSP, the second local MSP, and the global MSP, and the first and second local spoken languages are used in the first and second local MSPs, respectively.

26. The method of claim 25, further comprising:

generating an electronic catalog for the content based on the metadata; and

transmitting the electronic catalog to the second local MSP for an access by the customer terminal.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the generating the electronic catalog comprises generating at least one of a global electronic catalog represented in the global spoken language, a first local electronic catalog represented in the first local spoken language and a second local electronic catalog represented in the second local spoken language, wherein the global spoken language is universally used in the first local MSP, the second local MSP, and the global MSP, and the first and second local spoken languages are used in the first and second local MSPs, respectively.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising transmitting at least one of the global electronic catalog and the second local electronic catalog to the second local MSP.

29. A system for sharing and transacting content, the system comprising:

a first local multi-service platform (MSP) comprising;

at least one first processor; and

at least one first memory that stores computer program, which, when executed by the at least one first processor, causes the at least one first processor to perform;

receiving content from a content provider;

segmenting the received content into a plurality of sub-contents;

storing the received content; and

transmitting a portion of the segmented sub-contents;

a global MSP comprising;

at least one second processor; and

at least one second memory that stores computer program, which, when executed by the at least one second processor, causes the at least one second processor to perform;

receiving the transmitted portion of the sub-contents;

storing the received portion of the sub-contents temporarily, wherein the first MSP registers the received content from the content provider with the global MSP, the registered content are shared between the first local MSP and the global MSP, and metadata for the registered content are stored at the first local MSP and the global MSP;

determining whether a purchase request for the content from a customer terminal at a second local MSP is received; and

based on a determination by the global MSP that the purchase request for the content from the customer terminal at the second local MSP is received, generating a supply agreement between the global MSP and the second local MSP for the content including at least a part of a remaining portion of the sub-contents stored in the first local MSP; and

the second local MSP comprising;

at least one third processor; and

at least one third memory that stores computer program, which, when executed by the at least one third processor, causes the at least one third processor to perform;

receiving all or a part of the portion of the sub-contents and all or a part of the remaining portion of the sub-contents from the global MSP and the first local MSP, respectively, according to the generated supply agreement for the content;

combining the all or part of the portion of the sub-contents and the all or part of the remaining portion of the sub-contents into desired content; and

transmitting the desired content to the customer terminal.