MEDIA PLAYBACK METHOD AND SYSTEM, CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK DEVICE, AND ADVERTISING SERVER

• US 20120272266A1
• Filed: 06/29/2012
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yan, Jun, Fang, Xin, Ou, Xiongbing, Wu, Xiangyang, Feng, Jiangping
• Application Number:
  US13/538,417
• Publication Number:
  US 20120272266A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers

Abstract

The present invention discloses a media playback method and system, a CDN device, and an advertising server. The method includes: receiving, by a CDN device, a program playback request sent by a user terminal; if the program playback request carries a user identifier of a user in the CDN device, querying, by the CDN device, a corresponding relation between the user identifier and personalized information according to the user identifier to obtain the personalized information of the user; obtaining, by the CDN device, a link of advertisement content that corresponds to the user from an advertising server, wherein the link of the advertisement content is obtained by the advertising server according to the personalized information of the user and a preset advertisement configuration policy; and sending, by the CDN device or the advertising server, advertisement content corresponding to the link of the advertisement content to the user terminal.

Claims

1. A media playback method, comprising:

receiving, by a content delivery network device, a program playback request sent by a user terminal;

if the program playback request carries a user identifier of a user in the content delivery network device, querying, by the content delivery network device, a corresponding relation between the user identifier and personalized information according to the user identifier to obtain the personalized information of the user;

obtaining, by the content delivery network device, a link of advertisement content that corresponds to the user from an advertising server, wherein the link of the advertisement content is obtained by the advertising server according to the personalized information of the user and a preset advertisement configuration policy; and

sending, by the content delivery network device or the advertising server, advertisement content corresponding to the link of the advertisement content to the user terminal.

2. The media playback method according to claim 1, wherein after the receiving, by the content delivery network device, the program playback request of the user terminal, the method further comprises:

sending, by the content delivery network device, program content corresponding to the program playback request to the user terminal;

obtaining, by the content delivery network device, personalized operation information of playing the program content by the user terminal; and

updating, by the content delivery network device, the personalized information of the user according to the personalized operation information of the program content and a preset analysis policy.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein if the program playback request does not carry the user identifier of the user in the content delivery network device, before the obtaining, by the content delivery network device, the personalized information of the user according to the corresponding relation between the user identifier and the personalized information, the method further comprises:

querying, by the content delivery network device, physical access information or an international mobile subscriber identification of the user according to an IP address carried in the program playback request; and

querying, by the content delivery network device, a preset corresponding relation between the physical access information and the user identifier according to the physical access information, or querying a preset corresponding relation between the international mobile subscriber identification and the user identifier according to the international mobile subscriber identification, so as to obtain the user identifier.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein after the obtaining, by the content delivery network device, the physical access information or the international mobile subscriber identification of the user, the method further comprises:

querying, by the content delivery network device, a home location register or a home subscriber server or a user profile server function device according to the physical access information or the international mobile subscriber identification to obtain relevant subscription information of the user; and

adding, by the content delivery network device, the relevant subscription information of the user into the personalized information of the user.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining, by the content delivery network device, personalized operation information of playing the advertisement content by the user terminal; and

updating, by the content delivery network device, the personalized information of the user according to the personalized operation information of the advertisement content and a preset analysis policy.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the sending, by the content delivery network device, the advertisement content corresponding to the link of the advertisement content to the user terminal, the method comprises:

updating, by the content delivery network device according to the link of the advertisement content, a playlist file corresponding to the program playback request, and sending the playlist file to the user terminal, so that the user terminal requests the content delivery network device for media content according to the updated playlist file.

7. A content delivery network device, comprising:

a first obtaining unit, configured to obtain a user identifier of a user terminal; and

a personalized information obtaining unit, configured to query a corresponding relation between the user identifier and personalized information according to the user identifier of the user terminal to obtain the personalized information of a user, and send the personalized information of the user to an advertising server, so that the advertising server obtains a link of advertisement content according to the personalized information of the user and a preset advertisement policy.

8. The content delivery network device according to claim 7, wherein the first obtaining unit is configured to one of

receive a program playback request sent by the user terminal, and obtain the user identifier if the program playback request carries the user identifier of the user terminal;

or,

receive the program playback request sent by the user terminal, query, if the program playback request does not carry the user identifier of the user terminal, physical access information or an international mobile subscriber identification of the user according to an IP address of the user carried in the program playback request, and query a preset corresponding relation between the physical access information and the user identifier according to the physical access information or query a preset corresponding relation between the international mobile subscriber identification and the user identifier according to the international mobile subscriber identification to obtain the user identifier.

9. The content delivery network device according to claim 7, wherein the content delivery network device further comprises:

a first playlist updating unit, configured to receive the link of the advertisement content sent by the advertising server, update a playlist file according to the link of the advertisement content, and send the updated playlist file to the user terminal.

10. The content delivery network device according to claim 7, wherein the content delivery network device further comprises:

a first advertisement content sending unit, configured to receive the link of the advertisement content sent by the advertising server, and send advertisement content corresponding to the link to the user terminal.

11. The content delivery network device according to claim 7, wherein the first obtaining unit is further configured to obtain personalized operation information of playing program content by the user terminal;

and

the content delivery network device further comprises;

an updating unit, configured to update the personalized information of the user according to the personalized operation information obtained by the first obtaining unit and a preset analysis policy.

12. The content delivery network device according to claim 8, wherein

after the first obtaining unit obtains the physical access information or the international mobile subscriber identification of the user, the first obtaining unit is further configured to query a home location register or a home subscriber server or a user profile server function device according to the physical access information or the international mobile subscriber identification of the user to obtain relevant subscription information of the user;

and

the updating unit is further configured to add the relevant subscription information of the user into the personalized information of the user.