Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Dong-min Park

Jong-ho Lea

Young-jun Kim

Ho-dong Lee

Disclosed are a display apparatus, a server, a system and information providing methods thereof, in which the display apparatus can provide personalization or grouping information optimized to a changed individual or group without substantive authentication and login procedures for a user even though the individual or group using the corresponding apparatus is changed, The display apparatus includes: a display configured to display an image; a communicator configured to communicate with a server; a user recognizer configured to acquire recognition information about a user; a storage configured to store reference recognition information for determining whether the user is a server user having relation with the display apparatus; and a controller configured to determine the server user corresponding to the user by comparing the recognition information about the user acquired by the user recognizer with the reference recognition information stored in the storage, request and receive server information including personalization information of the determined server user from the server, and display requested information on the display based on the received server information when the user makes a request for the information.

Display apparatus, server, system and information-providing methods thereof

A method of generating popularity rankings of search terms includes generating a ranking value table including ranking values corresponding to rankings of search terms, determining first ranking values corresponding to previous rankings of a plurality of search terms and second ranking values corresponding to current rankings of the plurality of search terms by using the ranking value table, and obtaining difference values based on differences between the first ranking values and the second ranking values of the plurality of search terms, respectively, and determining popularity rankings of the plurality of search terms by using the difference values.

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Gwacheon-si, South Korea

Dong-min Park