MULTIMEDIA SERVICE SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF BASED ON USER CHARACTERISTIC AND ENVIRONMENT USING MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS ADAPTATION/PROCESS

摘要

PURPOSE: A multimedia service system, a method, and a recording medium thereof based on a user characteristic and environment are provided to supply contents including an intention of an author by considering characteristics of a user, terminal, network resources, environment and so on in a general multimedia access and consumption environment. CONSTITUTION: A contents consumption monitoring block(202) extracts a contents consumption history by monitoring transformation(adaptation) contents consumption form received from a user interface and presentation block. The extracted contents consumption history is accumulated and stored in a contents consumption history storing block(204) with a previous contents history. A user characteristic information calculation block(206) calculates a predetermined user characteristic information such as a genre, a player, a channel, a contents consumption price, a subject, a principal contents consumption time, a contents consumption method, a band width of a network connected to a user terminal, the number of network users, etc. based on an accumulated statistics value with respect to the contents consumption of a user. The calculated user characteristic information is stored in a memory as meta data. Thus, the user receives transformation(adaptation) contents using automatically calculated user characteristic information or user characteristic information selected and inputted by the user.