System and method for servicing customized mobile content

• US 9,773,226 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2011
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG CNS Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG CNS Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kang, Soon Taek
• Primary Examiner(s): Obeid, Mamon
• Assistant Examiner(s): Choo, Johann
• Application Number:
  US13/306,371
• Publication Number:
  US 20120303517A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,128 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/08 Payment architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/306 using TV related infrastructures external card used for payment with client device H04N21/4185
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2220/10 Usage protection of distributed data files
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2220/145 Specific computer ID, e.g. serial number, configuration

Abstract

Disclosed are a system and a method for servicing a customized mobile content that can allow a user to easily download and use various mobile contents regardless of a type of his/her own terminal by: verifying user information by using metadata and a template that are stored in advance from information published by a content publishing institution, generating a mobile content suitable for types of the content publishing institution and a user terminal and transmitting the generated mobile content to the user terminal, downloading the mobile content through a program for the mobile content installed in the user terminal, and displaying the downloaded mobile content to the user.

Claims

1. An apparatus for servicing a customized mobile content, comprising:

at least one processor and memory; and

a set of instructions that cause the at least one processor to perform the following;

receive data from a content publishing server, wherein the data is previously transmitted to the content publishing server by a user terminal, wherein the received data comprises metadata and at least one template, and wherein the metadata and the at least one template comprise a content design for a resolution and a file layout;

store the received data in at least one database of the apparatus;

decrypt encrypted data of the received data;

parse the set of decrypted data of the received data using the stored metadata;

verify a terminal type of the user terminal and whether mobile content can be serviced based on the terminal type and the stored metadata from the received data using an application program interface of a communication network operating company to determine whether the type of user terminal matches a user terminal on a list of types of terminals capable of servicing the mobile content;

select a template of the at least one stored templates according to the verified terminal type of the user terminal;

generate a mobile content based on the received data using the selected template of the at least one stored templates, wherein the selected template is a design tool that matches a resolution of the verified terminal type and includes at least one design element selected from the group consisting of;

a table, a label, and an image;

transmit an authorization request for the mobile content to the content publishing server;

receive an authorization response through a web portal from the content publishing server, the authorization response comprising a sending time of the mobile content from the content publishing server;

modify the mobile content in response to a denied request from the content publishing server to authorize the template, wherein the template comprises information materials published by a content publishing institution;

transmit a generated notification message of the mobile content to the user terminal;

receive and process a request, in response to the transmitted generated notification, to download the mobile content from the user terminal; and

transmit the mobile content to the user terminal in response to the request to download the mobile content from the user terminal, the request to download being in reply to the notification.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to:

store the received data;

store user information including the terminal type of the user terminal;

store the template;

store the metadata;

store content history data including at least one of a sending record of the notification message and a downloading record of the mobile content;

store statistical data for a history of the mobile content; and

store accounting data for the history of the mobile content.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data is information data which a content publishing institution sends associated with at least one of:

advertising, marketing, promotion, informing/notification, or identification of member.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the template is settable, for each terminal type depending on a resolution, as a design tool including at least one of a table, a label, and an image in order to generate a Software as a Service (SaaS) based content and configure a design and data.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to receive the data by using a TCP/IP socket based module, a web service based module, or a RESTFul based module among server/client modules.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to decode the data encrypted in the content sending server by using a prestored key or an advanced encryption standard (AES), ARIA, or SEED algorithm after exchanging a key.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to encrypt the mobile content using at least one of:

an AES, an ARIA, and an SEED algorithm, wherein the encryption uses an identification number of a user as an encryption key.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to generate the mobile content by using templates and metadata for each of a plurality of content publishing institutions, which are prestored in order to manage a SaaS based mobile content.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to generate the mobile content as an HTML file in the case that the verified terminal type is a smart phone, and to generate the mobile content as an XML file in the case that the verified terminal type is a feature phone, and to encrypt the generated mobile content by using an identification number of the user as a key.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to transmit the mobile content notification message to the user terminal as a push message or a short message service in the case that the user terminal is the smart phone, and in the case that the user terminal is the feature phone, the set of instructions causing the at least one processor to transmit the mobile content notification message to the user terminal as a short message service comprising a call-back uniform resource locator (URL).

11. The apparatus of claim 10, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to transmit a short message service including an application installation guide to the user terminal or to transmit the short message service comprising the call-back URL to the user terminal in the case that a virtual machine or an application is not installed in the user terminal or is not the latest version.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to store the generated mobile content in an authorized electronic document storage server in association with an authorized electronic document storage institution according to importance of the generated mobile content or a request from the content publishing institution.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to provide content history data regarding whether the user terminal receives, reads, and verifies the content for the mobile content, and statistics and accounting data for the mobile content to a content publishing institution through a web portal, and to provide the content history data, and the statistics and accounting data to the content publishing institution according to user authority of the web portal.

14. A method for servicing a customized mobile content in a customized mobile content servicing apparatus, comprising:

receiving data from a content publishing server, wherein the data is previously transmitted to the content publishing server by a user terminal, wherein the received data comprises metadata and at least one template, and wherein the metadata and the at least one template comprises a content design for a resolution and a file layout;

storing the received data in at least one database of the apparatus;

decrypting encrypted data of the received data;

parsing the set of decrypted data of the received data using the stored metadata;

verifying a terminal type of the user terminal and whether mobile content can be serviced based on the terminal type and the stored metadata from the received data using an application program interface of a communication network operating company to determine whether the type of user terminal matches a user terminal on a list of types of terminals capable of servicing the mobile content;

selecting a template of the at least one stored templates according to the verified terminal type of the user terminal;

generating a mobile content based on the received data using the selected template of the at least one stored templates, wherein the selected template is a design tool that matches a resolution of the verified terminal type and includes at least one design element selected from the group consisting of;

a table, a label, and an image;

transmit an authorization request for the mobile content to the content publishing server;

receive an authorization response through a web portal from the content publishing server, the authorization response comprising a sending time of the mobile content from the content publishing server;

modifying the mobile content in response to a denied request from the content publishing server to authorize the template, wherein the template comprises information materials published by a content publishing institution;

transmitting a notification message of the generated mobile content to the user terminal;

receiving and processing a request, in response to the transmitted generated notification, to download the mobile content from the user terminal; and

transmitting the mobile content to the user terminal in response to the request to download the mobile content from the user terminal, the request to download being in reply to the notification.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the data is received by using a TCP/IP socket based module, a web service based module, or a RESTFul based module among server/client modules.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the data is encrypted in content sending server and is decoded by using a prestored key or an advanced encryption standard (AES), ARIA, or SEED algorithm after exchanging a key.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile content is encrypted by using an AES, ARIA, or SEED algorithm using an identification number of the user as an encryption key.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile content is generated by using templates and metadata for each of a plurality of content publishing institutions which are prestored in order to manage a SaaS based mobile content.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile content is generated as an HTML file in the case that the verified terminal type is a smart phone, and the mobile content is generated as an XML file in the case that the verified terminal type is a feature phone, and the generated mobile content is encrypted by using an identification number of the user as a key.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the mobile content notification message is transmitted to the user terminal as a push message or a short message service in the case that the user terminal is a smart phone, and in the case that the user terminal is a feature phone, the mobile content notification message is transmitted to the user terminal as a short message service comprising a call-back uniform resource locator (URL).

21. The method of claim 20, wherein a short message service including an application installation guide is transmitted to the user terminal or the short message service comprising the call-back URL is transmitted to the user terminal, in the case that a virtual machine or an application is not installed in the user terminal or is not the latest version.