WO2001095197A1 - System and method for bi-directional advertisement - Google Patents

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WO2001095197A1
WO2001095197A1 PCT/KR2000/000910 KR0000910W WO0195197A1 WO 2001095197 A1 WO2001095197 A1 WO 2001095197A1 KR 0000910 W KR0000910 W KR 0000910W WO 0195197 A1 WO0195197 A1 WO 0195197A1
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  • the present invention relates to a system and a method for bi-directional advertisement, and more particularly, to a system and a method for bi-directional advertisement, which allow a user to surely recognize advertisements provided from a bi-directional advertisement server through a data terminal device connected to a network, a telephone connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) or a bi-directional television.
  • PSTN public switched telephone network
  • the conventional advertisement methods make users receive the advertisement not in an active manner but in a passive manner.
  • banner advertisement has a low rate of click because the users are reluctant to have the desired screen be changed to another screen by the click of banner.
  • banner advertisement has a low rate of click because the users are reluctant to have the desired screen be changed to another screen by the click of banner.
  • free call using a free-internet phone there is a problem that it does not focus on advertisement but focuses on a speech line connection with the other party by dialing and cannot check whether or not the users recognize the advertisement surely.
  • an object of the present invention to provide a system and a method for bi-directional advertisement, which allow a user to recognize advertisements easily and actively by that the user pronounces, inputs as character or clicks using a mouse only ad keyword of contents of advertisement, which the user sees or hears through bi-directional ad service provided via a data terminal device connected to a communication network, a telephone connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) or a bi-directional television connected to a bi-directional network.
  • PSTN public switched telephone network
  • the present invention provides a system comprising: a data terminal device connected to a communication network; and a server for providing bi-directional advertisement to the data terminal device.
  • the present invention provides a system comprising: a telephone connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN); and a server for providing bi-directional advertisements to the telephone.
  • PSTN public switched telephone network
  • the present invention provides a system comprising: a bidirectional television connected to a bi-directional network; and a server for providing bi-directional advertisements through the bi-directional television.
  • the present invention provides a method comprising the steps of: connecting to a bi-directional advertisement server through an Internet connection; authorizing use of a bi-directional advertisement site from a server if a user inputs the user's personal information; providing bi-directional ads to the authorized user; receiving ad keyword, which consists of voice or character selected and transmitted by the user, into the server; recognizing the ad keyword as a voice type if the ad keyword provided to the server is in the form of voice; comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from a voice parameter database; comparatively operating the ad keyword with ad parameter of an ad database if the ad keyword provided to the server is in the form of character; notifying the comparatively operated result to the user through a data terminal device; and providing the user with various benefits according to the comparatively operated result.
  • the present invention provides a method comprising the steps of: connecting a telephone to a server through a public switched telephone network (PSTN); authorizing use of a bi-directional ad site from the server when a user inputs the user's personal information; temporarily providing bidirectional advertisements to the user, who directly connects to the server, if the user does not want to be authorized; extracting advertisement from an ad database and outputting to the user's telephone if authorized; transmitting ad keyword received from the user, who heard the output advertisement, to the server; recognizing the transmitted ad keyword as a voice type; comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from a voice parameter database; notifying the comparatively operated result to the user's telephone; and providing the user with benefits according to the comparatively operated result.
  • PSTN public switched telephone network
  • the present invention provides a method comprising the steps of: connecting the bi-directional television to a server through the bi-directional network; authorizing use of a bi-directional ad site from the server when a user inputs the user's personal information using web sites, a telephone or the bidirectional television; extracting advertisement from an ad database and outputting to the user's bi-directional television if authorized; outputting ad keyword of contents of the advertisement as a superimposed caption; transmitting ad keyword received from the user, who saw the output superimposed caption of advertisement, to the server; recognizing the transmitted ad keyword as a voice type; comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from a voice parameter database; notifying the comparatively operated result to the user's bi-directional television; and providing the user with benefits according to the comparatively operated result.
  • Fig. 1 is a view of a configuration of a system for bi-directional advertisement according to the present invention
  • Fig. 2 is a view of a database for the system for bi-directional advertisement according to the present invention.
  • Fig. 3 is a flow chart for embodying a method for bi-directional advertisement according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 4 is a flow chart for embodying a method for bi-directional advertisement according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 5 is a flow chart for embodying a method for bi-directional advertisement according to a further preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • a system for bi-directional advertisement includes a data terminal device 10 connected to a communication network for providing bi-directional advertisements, a telephone 20 connected to public switched telephone network (PSTN) for providing bi-directional advertisements, a bi-directional television 90 connected to a bi-directional network, and a server 80 for providing bi-directional advertisements.
  • PSTN public switched telephone network
  • the server 80 includes a data line connecting unit 30, a telephone-processing unit 40, a voice recognition unit 50, an arithmetic unit 60, a database 70 and a bidirectional network connecting unit 95.
  • the data terminal device 10 allows a bi-directional advertisement site to exist on the basis of Window NT, Linux, Unix server and has a specific TCP/IP address.
  • the data line connecting unit 30 receives ad keyword of a bi-directional ad homepage, which is displayed on a monitor of the data terminal device 10 connected to the communication network, in the form of click of the mouse, character signal or voice signal.
  • voice signal it is transmitted to the voice recognition unit 50, and in case of click of the mouse or character signal, it is directly transmitted to the arithmetic unit 60 without going through the voice recognition unit 50.
  • the data line connecting unit 30 serves to show the operation result of the arithmetic unit 60 on the bi-directional advertisement homepage.
  • the telephone-processing unit 40 has a built-in program embodying a CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) board to be connected with a user's telephone.
  • the data line connecting unit 30 provides the user with ad information, which is stored in the database 70, as audio signal through the telephone 20 connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and transmits the ad keyword, which the user inputs through the telephone 20, to the voice recognition unit 50.
  • PSTN public switched telephone network
  • the data line connecting unit 30 directly transmits it to the arithmetic unit 60 through DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) of the telephone 20.
  • DTMF Double Tone Multi Frequency
  • the voice recognition unit 50 recognizes the ad keyword transmitted from the data line connecting unit 30, the telephone processing unit 40 or the bi-directional network connecting unit 95, directly connects to an voice parameter database 72 and transmits to the arithmetic unit 60 to comparatively operate the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter exercised in an off-line state.
  • the arithmetic unit 60 applies algorithm for voice end-point detection to the ad keyword input through the data line connecting unit 30 to collect only contents that the user pronounced, and compares the collected contents of advertisement with the exercised voice parameter being in the database 70. The comparison result is notified to the user by the data terminal device 10 through the data line connecting unit 30 or by the telephone 20 through the telephone-processing unit 40. Moreover, after recognizing the ad keyword input through the bi-directional network connecting unit 95 in the voice type, the arithmetic unit 60 comparatively operates the ad keyword with the exercised voice parameter being in the database 70.
  • the database 70 constructed in the server 80 is constituted by a user information database 71, a voice parameter database 72, a cyber money database 73 and an ad database 74.
  • the user information database 71 stores the user's personal information after authorizing the user to use the bi-directional advertisement service.
  • the voice parameter database 72 stores the ad keyword provided by an advertiser in the form of voice parameter exercised in the off-line state, and then sets data for extracting voice parameter to be comparatively operated when the ad keyword input by the user is recognized as voice in the voice recognition unit 50.
  • the cyber money database 73 sets data for providing various benefits such as free call by payment of cyber money, reduction of charge of information utilization, supply of electronic cash and provision of giveaway.
  • the ad database 74 stores audio files, in which various kinds of sentences including core words of advertisements provided by the advertiser, full-motion files and advertisement parameters exercised in the off-line state and sets data for extracting the corresponding ad data when the user uses the advertisement service through the data terminal device 10, the telephone 20 or the bi-directional television 90.
  • the bi-directional network connecting unit 95 After com ecting the television and the server, which are connected to the bidirectional network, the bi-directional network connecting unit 95 extracts advertisement from the ad database 74 of the server 80, provides it to the bi-directional television 90, receives the ad keyword input by the user and transmits it to the voice recognition unit 50.
  • Step S31 when the user connects to the bi-directional advertisement server through the data terminal device 10 connected to an Internet (Step S31), a bi-directional advertisement homepage is displayed on the data terminal device 10 (Step S32).
  • the system for bi-directional advertisement checks whether or not the user is one of members (Step S33), and if not, registers as a member (Step S34), and then, stores the user's personal information in the user information database 71 (Step S35).
  • the server provides the bi-directional advertisement service (Step S36) and the ad keyword of the bi-directional ad homepage, which is displayed on the monitor of the data terminal device 10, selected by the user is transmitted to the server 80 in the form of click of the mouse, character signal or audio signal (Step S37).
  • the ad keyword transmitted to the data line connecting unit 30 of the server 80 if it is input in the form of voice, is transmitted to the voice recognition unit 50 and recognized (Step S38). If the ad keyword is input in the form of the click of the mouse or character signal, it is directly transmitted to the arithmetic unit 60.
  • the recognized ad keyword and the voice parameter extracted from the voice parameter database 72 are comparatively operated with each other (Step S39) and the comparatively operated result is notified to the user's data terminal device 10 through the data line connecting unit 30 (Step S40).
  • the user is provided with various benefits such as free call using cyber money, supply of electronic cash, provision of giveaway or the likes.
  • the benefits such as cyber money is provided in proportion to an input speed and accuracy.
  • the user inputs a certain telephone number using the telephone 20 connected to the PSTN to connect to the bi-directional advertisement server (Step S41).
  • the system for bi-directional advertisement according to the present invention checks whether or not the user is one of members of the bi-directional advertisement site (Step S42). If the user is not the member, after taking the procedure for registering as a member (Step S43), the system stores the user's information into the user infonnation database 71 (Step S44). Also, non-registered users can temporarily utilize the bidirectional advertisement service by directly connecting to the server if the user does not want to register as a member. If the user is one of the members, after authorizing use of the ad service, the system outputs the advertisement extracted from the ad database 74 of the server 80 to the telephone (Step S45).
  • the user After hearing the advertisement, when the user inputs ad keyword verbally, the input ad keyword is transmitted to the server 80 (Step S46), and then, the voice recognition unit 50 recognizes the transmitted ad keyword in the form of voice (Step S 47).
  • the arithmetic unit 60 comparatively operates the recognized ad keyword with the voice parameter extracted from the voice parameter database 72 (Step S48), and notifies the comparatively operated result to the user's telephone 20 through the telephone-processing unit 40 (Step S49). According to the success number of the voice recognition recorded in the user's information, the user is provided with various benefits such as free call using cyber money and reduction of charge of information utilization.
  • non-authorized users can connect to the bi-directional advertisement server to utilize the advertisement service, and be benefited by cyber money or free call as much as they used the corresponding ad service.
  • the system for bi-directional advertisement provides bidirectional advertisement at the early stage of call to make the free call possible, and keeps the free call if the ad keyword input by the user during call and the voice parameter stored in the parameter database are identical.
  • the user connects to the bi-directional network to connect the bidirectional television 90 and the server 80 (Step S51).
  • the system for bi- directional advertisement checks whether or not the user is one of members (Step S52), and if not, the user registers personal information through the telephone or the web site (Step S53). The user's personal information is stored in the user information database 71 (Step S54). If the user is one of the members, the bi-directional advertisement server authorizes the user to use the bi-directional ad service, outputs the advertisement extracted from the ad database 74 of the server 80 to the bidirectional television 90 (Step S55).
  • Step S56 When the keyword of the corresponding advertisement is output as a superimposed caption (Step S56), the user inputs verbally the ad keyword that the user saw through the superimposed caption on the bidirectional television, and the advertisement system receives it as a voice type (Step S57).
  • the input ad keyword is transmitted to the server 80 (Step S58), the transmitted ad keyword is recognized in the voice recognition unit 50 as the voice type (Step S59).
  • the arithmetic unit 60 comparatively operates the recognized ad keyword with the voice parameter extracted from the voice parameter database 72 (Step S60).
  • the operation result is notified to the user's bidirectional television 90 through the bi-directional network connecting unit 95 (Step S61).
  • the user can recognize advertisements more easily and actively by inputting ad keyword of the contents of the bi-directional advertisements, which the user saw and heard through the data terminal device connected to the network, the telephone connected to the PSTN or the bidirectional television connected to the bi-directional network, in the form of click of the mouse, audio signal and character signal. Additionally, the advertiser can check whether or not the user recognizes surely, thereby obtaining large effectiveness of advertising.

Abstract

This invention relates to a system and a method for bi-directional advertisement, which allow a user to surely recognize advertisements provided from a server using a data terminal device connected to a communication network, a telephone connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) or a bi-directional television connected to a bi-directional network. Also, this invention provides a method comprising the steps of: connecting to a bi-directional advertisement server through an Internet connection; authorizing use of a bi-directional advertisement site from a server if a user inputs the user's personal information; providing bi-directional ads to the authorized user; receiving ad keyword, which consists of voice or character selected and transmitted by the user, into the server; recognizing the ad keyword as a voice type if the ad keyword provided to the server is in the form of voice; comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from a voice parameter database; comparatively operating the ad keyword with ad parameter of an ad database if the ad keyword provided to the server is in the form of character; notifying the comparatively operated result to the user through a data terminal device; and providing the user with various benefits according to the comparatively operated result.

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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BI-DIRECTIONAL ADVERTISEMENT
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a system and a method for bi-directional advertisement, and more particularly, to a system and a method for bi-directional advertisement, which allow a user to surely recognize advertisements provided from a bi-directional advertisement server through a data terminal device connected to a network, a telephone connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) or a bi-directional television.
BACKGROUND ART
In general, there are lots of advertisement methods using a television, an Internet, a wire or wireless telephone and a portable telephone. Through one of the methods, advertisements are shown by a click of the mouse, shown in full-motion picture, or is heard in a voice before connection of a telephone line.
However, the conventional advertisement methods make users receive the advertisement not in an active manner but in a passive manner.
In particular, banner advertisement has a low rate of click because the users are reluctant to have the desired screen be changed to another screen by the click of banner. Furthermore, in case of free call using a free-internet phone, there is a problem that it does not focus on advertisement but focuses on a speech line connection with the other party by dialing and cannot check whether or not the users recognize the advertisement surely. DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide a system and a method for bi-directional advertisement, which allow a user to recognize advertisements easily and actively by that the user pronounces, inputs as character or clicks using a mouse only ad keyword of contents of advertisement, which the user sees or hears through bi-directional ad service provided via a data terminal device connected to a communication network, a telephone connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) or a bi-directional television connected to a bi-directional network. To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a system comprising: a data terminal device connected to a communication network; and a server for providing bi-directional advertisement to the data terminal device.
Alternatively, the present invention provides a system comprising: a telephone connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN); and a server for providing bi-directional advertisements to the telephone.
Alternatively, the present invention provides a system comprising: a bidirectional television connected to a bi-directional network; and a server for providing bi-directional advertisements through the bi-directional television.
According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method comprising the steps of: connecting to a bi-directional advertisement server through an Internet connection; authorizing use of a bi-directional advertisement site from a server if a user inputs the user's personal information; providing bi-directional ads to the authorized user; receiving ad keyword, which consists of voice or character selected and transmitted by the user, into the server; recognizing the ad keyword as a voice type if the ad keyword provided to the server is in the form of voice; comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from a voice parameter database; comparatively operating the ad keyword with ad parameter of an ad database if the ad keyword provided to the server is in the form of character; notifying the comparatively operated result to the user through a data terminal device; and providing the user with various benefits according to the comparatively operated result.
According to another embodiment, the present invention provides a method comprising the steps of: connecting a telephone to a server through a public switched telephone network (PSTN); authorizing use of a bi-directional ad site from the server when a user inputs the user's personal information; temporarily providing bidirectional advertisements to the user, who directly connects to the server, if the user does not want to be authorized; extracting advertisement from an ad database and outputting to the user's telephone if authorized; transmitting ad keyword received from the user, who heard the output advertisement, to the server; recognizing the transmitted ad keyword as a voice type; comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from a voice parameter database; notifying the comparatively operated result to the user's telephone; and providing the user with benefits according to the comparatively operated result. According to a further embodiment, the present invention provides a method comprising the steps of: connecting the bi-directional television to a server through the bi-directional network; authorizing use of a bi-directional ad site from the server when a user inputs the user's personal information using web sites, a telephone or the bidirectional television; extracting advertisement from an ad database and outputting to the user's bi-directional television if authorized; outputting ad keyword of contents of the advertisement as a superimposed caption; transmitting ad keyword received from the user, who saw the output superimposed caption of advertisement, to the server; recognizing the transmitted ad keyword as a voice type; comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from a voice parameter database; notifying the comparatively operated result to the user's bi-directional television; and providing the user with benefits according to the comparatively operated result.
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Further objects and advantages of the invention can be more fully understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
Fig. 1 is a view of a configuration of a system for bi-directional advertisement according to the present invention;
Fig. 2 is a view of a database for the system for bi-directional advertisement according to the present invention;
Fig. 3 is a flow chart for embodying a method for bi-directional advertisement according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 4 is a flow chart for embodying a method for bi-directional advertisement according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention; and
Fig. 5 is a flow chart for embodying a method for bi-directional advertisement according to a further preferred embodiment of the present invention. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
The present invention will now be described in connection with preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings. As shown in Fig. 1, a system for bi-directional advertisement according to the present invention includes a data terminal device 10 connected to a communication network for providing bi-directional advertisements, a telephone 20 connected to public switched telephone network (PSTN) for providing bi-directional advertisements, a bi-directional television 90 connected to a bi-directional network, and a server 80 for providing bi-directional advertisements.
The server 80 includes a data line connecting unit 30, a telephone-processing unit 40, a voice recognition unit 50, an arithmetic unit 60, a database 70 and a bidirectional network connecting unit 95.
The data terminal device 10 allows a bi-directional advertisement site to exist on the basis of Window NT, Linux, Unix server and has a specific TCP/IP address. The data line connecting unit 30 receives ad keyword of a bi-directional ad homepage, which is displayed on a monitor of the data terminal device 10 connected to the communication network, in the form of click of the mouse, character signal or voice signal. In case of voice signal, it is transmitted to the voice recognition unit 50, and in case of click of the mouse or character signal, it is directly transmitted to the arithmetic unit 60 without going through the voice recognition unit 50.
Further, the data line connecting unit 30 serves to show the operation result of the arithmetic unit 60 on the bi-directional advertisement homepage.
The telephone-processing unit 40 has a built-in program embodying a CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) board to be connected with a user's telephone. The data line connecting unit 30 provides the user with ad information, which is stored in the database 70, as audio signal through the telephone 20 connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and transmits the ad keyword, which the user inputs through the telephone 20, to the voice recognition unit 50.
Furthermore, when the user inputs button of the telephone 20, the data line connecting unit 30 directly transmits it to the arithmetic unit 60 through DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) of the telephone 20.
The voice recognition unit 50 recognizes the ad keyword transmitted from the data line connecting unit 30, the telephone processing unit 40 or the bi-directional network connecting unit 95, directly connects to an voice parameter database 72 and transmits to the arithmetic unit 60 to comparatively operate the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter exercised in an off-line state.
The arithmetic unit 60 applies algorithm for voice end-point detection to the ad keyword input through the data line connecting unit 30 to collect only contents that the user pronounced, and compares the collected contents of advertisement with the exercised voice parameter being in the database 70. The comparison result is notified to the user by the data terminal device 10 through the data line connecting unit 30 or by the telephone 20 through the telephone-processing unit 40. Moreover, after recognizing the ad keyword input through the bi-directional network connecting unit 95 in the voice type, the arithmetic unit 60 comparatively operates the ad keyword with the exercised voice parameter being in the database 70.
As shown in Fig. 2, the database 70 constructed in the server 80 is constituted by a user information database 71, a voice parameter database 72, a cyber money database 73 and an ad database 74.
The user information database 71 stores the user's personal information after authorizing the user to use the bi-directional advertisement service.
The voice parameter database 72 stores the ad keyword provided by an advertiser in the form of voice parameter exercised in the off-line state, and then sets data for extracting voice parameter to be comparatively operated when the ad keyword input by the user is recognized as voice in the voice recognition unit 50.
If the ad keyword recognized in the voice recognition unit 50 and the voice parameter extracted in the voice parameter database 72 are comparatively operated and are identical with each other, the cyber money database 73 sets data for providing various benefits such as free call by payment of cyber money, reduction of charge of information utilization, supply of electronic cash and provision of giveaway.
The ad database 74 stores audio files, in which various kinds of sentences including core words of advertisements provided by the advertiser, full-motion files and advertisement parameters exercised in the off-line state and sets data for extracting the corresponding ad data when the user uses the advertisement service through the data terminal device 10, the telephone 20 or the bi-directional television 90.
After com ecting the television and the server, which are connected to the bidirectional network, the bi-directional network connecting unit 95 extracts advertisement from the ad database 74 of the server 80, provides it to the bi-directional television 90, receives the ad keyword input by the user and transmits it to the voice recognition unit 50.
A preferred embodiment of the system for bi-directional advertisement according to the present invention will be described hereinafter referring to Fig. 3. First, when the user connects to the bi-directional advertisement server through the data terminal device 10 connected to an Internet (Step S31), a bi-directional advertisement homepage is displayed on the data terminal device 10 (Step S32). The system for bi-directional advertisement checks whether or not the user is one of members (Step S33), and if not, registers as a member (Step S34), and then, stores the user's personal information in the user information database 71 (Step S35).
If the user is one of the members, the server provides the bi-directional advertisement service (Step S36) and the ad keyword of the bi-directional ad homepage, which is displayed on the monitor of the data terminal device 10, selected by the user is transmitted to the server 80 in the form of click of the mouse, character signal or audio signal (Step S37).
The ad keyword transmitted to the data line connecting unit 30 of the server 80, if it is input in the form of voice, is transmitted to the voice recognition unit 50 and recognized (Step S38). If the ad keyword is input in the form of the click of the mouse or character signal, it is directly transmitted to the arithmetic unit 60.
The recognized ad keyword and the voice parameter extracted from the voice parameter database 72 are comparatively operated with each other (Step S39) and the comparatively operated result is notified to the user's data terminal device 10 through the data line connecting unit 30 (Step S40). According to the success number of the voice recognition recorded in the user's information, the user is provided with various benefits such as free call using cyber money, supply of electronic cash, provision of giveaway or the likes.
After recognizing the ad keyword and the relative contents of the advertisement received through the data terminal device as they are, when the user inputs it using the keyboard, the benefits such as cyber money is provided in proportion to an input speed and accuracy.
Meanwhile, another preferred embodiment according to the present invention will be described hereinafter referring to Fig. 4. First, the user inputs a certain telephone number using the telephone 20 connected to the PSTN to connect to the bi-directional advertisement server (Step S41). The system for bi-directional advertisement according to the present invention checks whether or not the user is one of members of the bi-directional advertisement site (Step S42). If the user is not the member, after taking the procedure for registering as a member (Step S43), the system stores the user's information into the user infonnation database 71 (Step S44). Also, non-registered users can temporarily utilize the bidirectional advertisement service by directly connecting to the server if the user does not want to register as a member. If the user is one of the members, after authorizing use of the ad service, the system outputs the advertisement extracted from the ad database 74 of the server 80 to the telephone (Step S45).
After hearing the advertisement, when the user inputs ad keyword verbally, the input ad keyword is transmitted to the server 80 (Step S46), and then, the voice recognition unit 50 recognizes the transmitted ad keyword in the form of voice (Step S 47). The arithmetic unit 60 comparatively operates the recognized ad keyword with the voice parameter extracted from the voice parameter database 72 (Step S48), and notifies the comparatively operated result to the user's telephone 20 through the telephone-processing unit 40 (Step S49). According to the success number of the voice recognition recorded in the user's information, the user is provided with various benefits such as free call using cyber money and reduction of charge of information utilization.
If the user uses the telephone to use the free call service, also non-authorized users can connect to the bi-directional advertisement server to utilize the advertisement service, and be benefited by cyber money or free call as much as they used the corresponding ad service.
Furthermore, if the user uses the data terminal device or a free internet phone through the telephone, the system for bi-directional advertisement provides bidirectional advertisement at the early stage of call to make the free call possible, and keeps the free call if the ad keyword input by the user during call and the voice parameter stored in the parameter database are identical.
Meanwhile, a further preferred embodiment according to the present invention will be described hereinafter referring to Fig. 5.
First, the user connects to the bi-directional network to connect the bidirectional television 90 and the server 80 (Step S51). After that, the system for bi- directional advertisement checks whether or not the user is one of members (Step S52), and if not, the user registers personal information through the telephone or the web site (Step S53). The user's personal information is stored in the user information database 71 (Step S54). If the user is one of the members, the bi-directional advertisement server authorizes the user to use the bi-directional ad service, outputs the advertisement extracted from the ad database 74 of the server 80 to the bidirectional television 90 (Step S55). When the keyword of the corresponding advertisement is output as a superimposed caption (Step S56), the user inputs verbally the ad keyword that the user saw through the superimposed caption on the bidirectional television, and the advertisement system receives it as a voice type (Step S57). The input ad keyword is transmitted to the server 80 (Step S58), the transmitted ad keyword is recognized in the voice recognition unit 50 as the voice type (Step S59). After the voice recognition, the arithmetic unit 60 comparatively operates the recognized ad keyword with the voice parameter extracted from the voice parameter database 72 (Step S60). The operation result is notified to the user's bidirectional television 90 through the bi-directional network connecting unit 95 (Step S61). According to the success number of the voice recognition recorded in the user's TCP/IP address or the user's membership information, various benefits such as provision of cyber money is provided. While the present invention has been described with reference to the particular illustrative embodiments, it is not to be restricted by the embodiments but only by the appended claims. It is to be appreciated that those skilled in the art can change or modify the embodiments without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention. As described above, according to the present invention, the user can recognize advertisements more easily and actively by inputting ad keyword of the contents of the bi-directional advertisements, which the user saw and heard through the data terminal device connected to the network, the telephone connected to the PSTN or the bidirectional television connected to the bi-directional network, in the form of click of the mouse, audio signal and character signal. Additionally, the advertiser can check whether or not the user recognizes surely, thereby obtaining large effectiveness of advertising.

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What is claimed is:
1. A system for bi-directional advertisement comprising: a data terminal device connected to a communication network; and a server for providing bi-directional advertisement to the data terminal device.
2. The system for bi-directional advertisement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server includes: a data line connecting unit for comiecting the data terminal device for providing predetermined bi-directional advertisement to the server; a voice recognition unit for recognizing ad keyword transmitted from the data line connecting unit; an arithmetic unit for comparatively operating the ad keyword recognized as voice with voice parameter stored in the database; and a database storing information for providing the bi-directional advertisement using the data terminal device.
3. The system for bi-directional advertisement as claimed in claim 2, wherein the database includes: a user information database storing users' personal information; a voice parameter database having voice parameter inside exercised in an offline state to recognize the ad keyword input by the user; a cyber money database setting data for providing various benefits of free call by cyber money, reduction of charge of information utilization, supply of electronic cash and provision of giveaway; and an ad database storing advertisements provided by an advertiser, the ad database setting data for extracting advertisement when the user's data terminal device is connected to an Internet.
4. The system for bi-directional advertisement as claimed in claim 2, wherein the data line comiecting unit directly transmits the ad keyword to the arithmetic unit without transmitting it to the voice recognition unit if the ad keyword input by the user is input in the form of character signal or click of the mouse.
5. A system for bi-directional advertisement comprising: a telephone connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN); and a server for providing bi-directional advertisements to the telephone.
6. The system for bi-directional advertisement as claimed in claim 5, wherein the server includes: a telephone processing unit extracting advertisement stored in the database and transmitting it to a user through the telephone connected to the PSTN, the telephone processing unit transmitting ad keyword input by the user for voice recognition; a voice recognition unit recognizing the ad keyword transmitted from the telephone processing unit, the voice recognition unit transmitting it for comparatively operating; an arithmetic unit for comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from the database; and a database storing information for providing bi-directional advertisements using the telephone.
7. The system for bi-directional advertisement as claimed in claim 6, wherein the database includes: a user information database storing the users' personal information; a voice parameter database having voice parameter inside exercised in an offline state to recognize the ad keyword input by the user; a cyber money database setting data for providing various benefits of free call by cyber money, reduction of charge of infonnation utilization, supply of electronic cash and provision of giveaway; and an ad database storing advertisements provided by an advertiser, the ad database setting data for extracting advertisement when the user's telephone is connected to the server.
8. A system for bi-directional advertisement comprising: a bi-directional television connected to a bi-directional network; and a server for providing bi-directional advertisements through the bi-directional television.
9. The system for bi-directional advertisement as claimed in claim 8, wherein the server includes: a bi-directional network connecting unit extracting advertisement stored in the database and transmitting it to a user through the bi-directional television connected to the bi-directional network, the bi-directional network connecting unit transmitting ad keyword input by the user for voice recognition; a voice recognition unit recognizing the ad keyword transmitted from the bidirectional network connecting unit, the voice recognition unit transmitting it for comparatively operating; an arithmetic unit for comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from the database; and a database storing infonnation for providing bi-directional advertisements using the bi-directional television.
10. The system for bi-directional advertisement as claimed in claim 9, wherein the database includes: a user information database storing the users' personal information; a voice parameter database having voice parameter inside exercised in an off- line state to recognize the ad keyword input by the user; a cyber money database setting data for providing various benefits of free call by cyber money, reduction of charge of information utilization, supply of electronic cash and provision of giveaway; and an ad database storing advertisements provided by an advertiser, the ad database setting data for extracting advertisement when the user's bi-directional television is connected to the server.
11. A method for bi-directional advertisement using a data terminal device connected to a communication network, the method comprising the steps of: connecting to a bi-directional advertisement server through Internet connection; authorizing use of a bi-directional advertisement site from a server if a user inputs the user's personal information; providing bi-directional ads to the authorized user; receiving ad keyword, which consists of voice or character selected and transmitted by the user, into the server; recognizing the ad keyword as a voice type if the ad keyword provided to the server is in the form of voice; comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from a voice parameter database; comparatively operating the ad keyword with ad parameter of an ad database if the ad keyword provided to the server is in the form of character; notifying the comparatively operated result to the user through a data terminal device; and providing the user with various benefits according to the comparatively operated result.
12. A method for bi-directional advertisement using a telephone connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN), the method comprising the steps of: connecting a telephone to a server through a public switched telephone network (PSTN); authorizing use of a bi-directional ad site from the server when a user inputs the user's personal information; temporarily providing bi-directional advertisements to the user, who directly connects to the server, if the user does not want to be authorized; extracting advertisement from an ad database and outputting to the user's telephone if authorized; transmitting ad keyword received from the user, who heard the output advertisement, to the server; recognizing the transmitted ad keyword as a voice type; comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from a voice parameter database; notifying the comparatively operated result to the user's telephone; and providing the user with benefits according to the comparatively operated result.
13. A method for bi-directional advertisement using a bi-directional television connected to a bi-directional network, the method comprising the steps of: connecting the bi-directional television to a server through the bi-directional network; authorizing use of a bi-directional ad site from the server when a user inputs the user's personal information using web sites, a telephone or the bi-directional television; extracting advertisement from an ad database and outputting to the user's bidirectional television if authorized; outputting ad keyword of contents of the advertisement as a superimposed caption; transmitting ad keyword received from the user, who saw the output superimposed caption of advertisement, to the server; recognizing the transmitted ad keyword as a voice type; comparatively operating the recognized ad keyword with voice parameter extracted from a voice parameter database; notifying the comparatively operated result to the user's bi-directional television; and providing the user with benefits according to the comparatively operated result.
14. The method for bi-directional advertisement as claimed in one of claims 11 to 13, wherein in the comparatively operating step, the user is provided with benefits of free call by cyber money, reduction of charge of information utilization according to the success number of the voice recognition that the ad keyword input by the user and the voice parameter being in the voice parameter database are identical.
15. The method for bi-directional advertisement as claimed in claim 11, wherein when the user inputs ad keyword using a keyboard after recognizing ad keyword and contents related with advertisement transmitted through a data terminal device, the user is provided with cyber money according to input speed and accuracy.
16. The method for bi-directional advertisement as claimed in claim 12, wherein in the authorizing step, also non-authorized users can connect to the bidirectional ad server for using the bi-directional ad service and be provided with benefits of free call and reduction of charge of information utilization.
17. The method for bi-directional advertisement as claimed in claims 11 or 12, wherein in case that the user uses a free call service through the data terminal device or the telephone, the system for bi-directional advertisement provides bidirectional advertisements at the early stage of call to make the free call possible, and extends the time of free call if the ad keyword input by the user during call and the voice parameter stored in the parameter database are comparatively operated and identical.
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