KR0147025B1 - Information provider service data control method for accomodating information provider service - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an information provider service data control method for controlling service data of an information provider (IP) to provide information to an information user. An information provider (IP) supporting an information provider protocol, which is a communication protocol between a user and an information provider, is supported. In order to provide a user with information provided by the information provider according to the information provider protocol, and to provide a method for controlling the information provider service data that can process and service various user inputs, the service control table when the service is started. A first step of distinguishing whether a request for a subscriber access device is a product code connection or an information provider connection after initializing the terminal, outputting an initial screen for the information provider, and waiting for user input; A second step of configuring the information provider protocol after analyzing the information provider protocol and the command to process the information; And a third step of transitioning to the user input dashed state after outputting the data screen, wherein the information processing process of the second step is performed after initializing the parameters and analyzing the input parameters. A fourth step of selecting the information provider service data control table according to the code or menu identifier and extracting the data control record of the corresponding screen; A fifth step of updating data on the screen after performing information input, information change, and information deletion process according to a service primitive delivered from the user by the information list provided by the information provider; And a sixth step of recording the information processing contents in the information provider service data control table, thereby improving the quality of service and satisfying the needs of creating various values of the information provider.

Description

Information provider service data control method to accommodate the information provider service

1 is a block diagram of a communication processing system to which the present invention is applied.

2 is an operation procedure diagram of a communication processing system and an information provider (IP) protocol.

3 is a structural diagram of an information provider (IP) service to which the present invention is applied.

4 is a flowchart of processing of an information provider service to which the present invention is applied.

5 is a structural diagram of an information provider (IP) service control table.

6 is a flow chart of the information provider service data control according to the present invention.

7 is a structural diagram of an information provider service data control table according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

4: public telephone network 5: communication processing system

9: public data network 10: information provider

The present invention relates to an information provider service data and a control method for controlling service data of an information provider (IP) to provide information to an information user in a domestic communication processing system service network (01410 Hitel service network, etc.) to be provided in the future. .

Recently, as the rate of use of information service has increased rapidly and the user's desire for information has increased, the number of information providers who want to provide information services has increased. Also, the desire to create value for information has diversified information providers. have.

However, until now, the information service providing method has been independently performed by each information provider without any standard or framework. This method took an independent method in the information service data control method, and was not considered at all about the acceptance of the information provider protocol.

Such a phenomenon is not only disadvantageous in creating a unified phenomenon of the information retrieval device provided to the information users, but also bears the disadvantage that the information providers who provide the information must individually make various efforts for the management of the information service. shall. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare a new standard for information service method control method for accommodating the newly proposed information provider protocol.

Accordingly, the present invention is suitable for systemizing and storing information provided to shrink a service that can provide various personal computer communication functions provided by a conventional service system without disrupting the information provider protocol provided by the communication processing system. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of controlling an information provider service data for inputting and outputting data.

That is, the present invention provides an information provider (IP) that supports an information provider protocol, which is a communication protocol between the user and the information provider, to provide the user with information provided by the information provider according to the information provider protocol, and process various inputs of the user. Its purpose is to provide an information provider service data control method that can be serviced by a service provider.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an information provider service data control method applied to an information providing apparatus, wherein when a service is started, the request information of the subscriber access device is initialized after the service control table is initialized. A first step of distinguishing the recognition and outputting the initial screen for the information provider and waiting for the user input; A second step of configuring the information provider protocol after analyzing the information provider protocol and the command to process the information; And a third step of transitioning to the user input standby state after outputting a data screen, wherein the third step includes the step of constantly processing information in the second step by initializing parameters and analyzing the input parameters. A fourth step of selecting an information provider service data control table according to a product code or menu identifier classified by the information provider and extracting a data control record of a corresponding screen; A fifth step of updating data on the screen after performing information input, information change, and information deletion process according to a service primitive delivered from the user by the information list provided by the information provider; And a sixth step of recording information processing contents in the information provider service data control table.

The present invention provides an information provider service data control table in a service program and assigns a unique role to the information provider service data control table, thereby supporting the information provider protocol as well as providing screens and information for service users, and a communication processing system. It allows for the processing of various information provider protocol primitives provided by.

Hereinafter, as a configuration diagram of a communication processing system to which the accompanying drawings are applied, it shows how the communication processing system 5 is located between the information provider 10 and the user 1 in the public data communication network 9.

From the perspective of the user 1 using the service, the communication processing system 5 connects the information provider 10 through the user terminals 2, 3 of the subscriber network 4 and the public data communication network 9, thereby providing information. It acts as a gateway system to provide communication services.

Here, the subscriber network is based on the general public telephone network (4), the user terminal (2, 3) is for a variety of terminals capable of transmitting and receiving information, the connection function for the various terminals is the communication processing system (5) Providing.

In order for the information user 1 to freely use the service of the information provider 10 provided in the communication network using the communication processing system 5, an information provider (IP) 10 providing information is provided. It is connected to the communication processing system 5 through a faster public data communication network 9, and a system for service guidance (GDS: Guidance system) 6 is mounted in the communication processing system 5. The information provider 10 using the information provider protocol of the communication processing system 5 has a protocol for providing an application that satisfies the information provider protocol between the protocol type information provider 10 and the subscriber access device (ISAP) 8. ) Should be implemented in the information provider (10).

At this time, information about the information provider such as product code for supporting the information provider protocol is registered in the information system (GDS) (6), the information service use request for the information provider 10 registered in the information system (6) If the information is generated by the user 1, the information provider 10 requests authentication for service use through the subscriber access device 8.

2 is an operation procedure diagram of a communication processing system and an information provider protocol, in which a network operator operating a communication processing system manages a user on behalf of an information provider and provides a user with a fee for using the information service of the user. It shows the operation procedure relationship of the information provider protocol.

Currently, domestic communication services do not accommodate protocols for collecting information fees, but in the communication processing system 5 for accommodating this function, P1 to P4 (28,29) for protocol interconnection between each system component. It defines four types of protocols, ⓑ, ⓒ), and implements subscriber management function, detailed billing information generation function, and information charge processing function.

The four types of protocols are the P1 protocol 28 between the subscriber access unit 21 and the information provider 22, the P2 protocol 29 between the subscriber access unit 21 and the guidance system 23, and the subscriber access unit 21. And P3 protocol ⓒ between the OA / AM 27 and the subscriber access device 21 and the P4 protocol ⓑ between the OAM / SM.

3 is a structural diagram of an information provider (IP) service to which the present invention is applied and shows a configuration of an information provider protocol service.

As shown in the figure, a user's input is input via an information provider protocol manager 35 and a user interface 34 which extract an information provider protocol via an interface 36 with a public communication network 37 for service provision. And a service control unit 32 and a data control unit 33 for processing. Various tables 3a, 3b and 3c for processing the service and data are defined, and these tables call the service control data 3d, and the various information 38 connected thereto is output to the user's terminal. Before being output to the user's terminal, the protocol converter of the information provider protocol manager 35 passes through, and the service manager 31 manages the information provider protocol service system itself. At this time, various data 3e related to service provision are generated and stored in various logs through a log process of the log manager 39.

4 is a flowchart of processing of an information provider service to which the present invention is applied.

When the service is started (41), after initializing the service control table used by the service manager for the service for the service and processing the environmental variables required by each user (42), whether the request of the subscriber access device is a product code connection or The initial screen for the information provider is output by distinguishing whether the information provider is connected (43). When it is ready to start the next service, it is in a waiting state (44) to analyze the incoming data for the information provider protocol (45), and analyzes the commands using this analyzed information provider protocol data (46). In the case of a connection, an initial screen of the entire information provider is provided. In the case of a product code connection, the authentication function of the information provider itself for the corresponding product code is processed. That is, after performing the movement command processing 47, the termination command processing 48, the additional function processing 49, the information retrieval 4a, the information input 4b and the help providing 4c, After assembling according to the information provider protocol (4d) and outputting the data screen (4e), the state transitions back to the user input waiting state (44). At this time, from (45) to (4d) to use the service control table of FIG. 5 to be described later for processing data, command analysis, and the like.

FIG. 5 is a structure diagram of an information provider (IP) service control table, which is a structure of a service control table used by the service manager 31 of FIG. 3 so that an information provider (IP) may implement and service an information provider protocol.

The MenuName 51 serves as a destination of the Go Command, and is displayed at the top of the menu screen. The menu identifier (MenuId) 52 is a unique number of the corresponding menu of the service, which is given by a separate numbering scheme, and has a unique scheme for improving service efficiency. That is, the menu identifier 52 is composed of 8 bytes and named b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8 according to the order of configuration of the byte, and the upper two bytes (b1, b2) are information providers. It is used as a separator to classify the service products of the following, the next two bytes (b3, b4) is used to distinguish by menu in the product, the next two bytes (b5, b6) is used to expand the menu of the product, The lower two bytes (b7, b8) have the property of being used as a product selection code on a menu screen, and only the next two bytes of the current menu identifier are used for classification when moving a menu or selecting a product. To pinpoint the existence of the product code by the information provider.

ServiceType 53 defines the type of service provided. According to this value, the purpose of the following two table values is different. If this value is M, it indicates that the directory 55 is a directory for service configuration, and the menu item number 54 indicates the number of items (ITEM) of the menu. When this value is non-B, the directory 55 represents a directory for providing one BBS type service. At this time, the menu item number (MenuItemNumber) 54 is not used. In addition, if this value is P, the directory 55 indicates that the directory 55 is a directory for providing a single PDS type service. At this time, the menu item number (MenuItemNumber) 54 is not used. If this value is C, it indicates that Directory 55 is a Service Call Command for providing a special service, so that MenuItemNumber 54 is the same as that of Command. The number of option parameters is shown, and option fields _1 (Optionfield_1) 63 to option fields _4 (Optionfield_4) 64, 65 and 66 are used as options of the above command. If this value is a jet Z, the directory 55 is used as the jump code for the service jump.

The menu item number (MenuItemNumber) 54 indicates the number of items (ITEM) of the service menu to be provided.

The directory 55 includes a menu of a provided service or a command for designating a home directory of a public library (PDS) or electronic bulletin board (BBS) type service or performing a service command. In the case of a jump command, it has a menu identifier (MenuId) of a control record to be jumped.

Menu selector 56 specifies a number selector that can be selected from the service menu. The format used at this time is n [, m [N-M]].

Here, the menu item number 54 and the menu selector 56 are used as valid values when the value of the service type 53 is non-B or P, and the service type 53 is used. If the value of is ratio (B) or blood (P), the menu item number 54 indicates the number of detail information that can be selected from the current product, and the menu selector 56 then selects an item on the menu screen provided to the user. To be used as a selector.

Privilege 57 is a field to guarantee the security of the user, and parent menu identifier 58 is a parent menu identifier of the current service. Used to distinguish the menu to be moved at the end of.

The counter start address 59 is a coordinate value in units of X and Y bytes of a column indicating the total number of data and the latest number of data in the menu file.

Item code 60 defines a product code of a service provided. That is, the commodity code 60 is composed of 10 bytes and is named b0, b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8, b9 according to the order of construction of the byte, and the upper five bytes (b0, b1, b2, b3, b4) are used as delimiters to distinguish the information providers, and the lower 5 bytes (b5, b6, b7, b8, b9) are used as delimiters to distinguish service products. If there is no commodity code 60, it is a method of determining which commodity is to be put in. A method of classifying a commodity with a commodity number of upper two bytes by comparing only the upper two bytes of the menu identifier 52 The product code is used to provide a separate service to the information user, and the user fee can be charged for each product code.

Charge Type 61 Defines the charge type of the service provided, and ChargeAmount 62 defines the charge unit of the service provided.

Option (63, 64, 65, 66) is used as the value of the command option required when performing the Service Call Command when the service type (Service_type) is Mr. (C). . In this case, when the value of the field is a question mark (?), A value input by the user is used as an option value by using the value of the next reserved field as a prompt for the user.

Finally, the comment 67 may describe a service control record provided by the information provider (IP).

In this case, the identifier of the information provider service menu is fixed to 8 bytes, and all other fields are variable to increase flexibility.

FIG. 6 is an information provider service data control flowchart according to the present invention, which is a detailed data control flowchart of portions 4a and 4b for information processing in the service processing flowchart of FIG. This section contains special functions for data control to perform the functions of storing, deleting, restoring and changing information. When the algorithm starts (61), when passed, it initializes the parameters (62), analyzes the input parameters, sets the variables (63), and then extracts them using the service control table contents of FIG. One information provider service data control table according to a product code or menu identifier is selected and the data control record of the screen is extracted using the information (64). According to the service primitive delivered from the user by the information list provided by the information provider, the data of the screen is updated (68) after the information input (65), the information change (66) and the information deletion (67). The fact is recorded in the information provider service data control table (69) and the algorithm ends (70). In this case, various types of information for various types of information for data control are defined as shown in FIG. 7 to be described later to perform read / write / update.

7 is a structural diagram of an information provider service data control table according to the present invention. Since the information provided by the information provider (IP) is different from the type and the location of the information, and the information provider and the information user are different, the information is configured as follows by using some fields of the service control table implemented in FIG.

Mark 71 defines the processing form of data used for the current service. If the mark value is D, it indicates that the data is deleted. If the mark value is hyphen, it indicates that the data is normal. In addition, the mark 71 indicates the use status and the current state of an item of information provided in the size of 1 byte in order to provide the information user with the right to modify and delete the information.

Years (72), months (73), days (74), hours (75), minutes (76), and seconds (77) provide data. Shows uploaded time. This value is used in combination with the logname 78 to create a unique data storage name and to display the date the data was entered on the user's screen. Here, using the year, month, day, hour, minute, and log names (72 to 78), the identification number (ID) of the information provided by the information provider can be unified separately, and the same user can continue to upload and update the data of the same name. Can be.

The line counter 79 indicates the number of lines of information data, the byte counter 80 indicates the amount of information, the read counter 81 indicates the number of times the user accesses the information, Content type 82 indicates the type of information. That is, the content type has a size of 1 byte, and is configured to service an open data room, an electronic bulletin board, a chat room, etc. using the information provider service data control table of the same type.

The file name 83 contains a file name for this information when the information is downloadable information.

A title 84 indicates the title of the information, and the number of lines 85 of the file indicates which information is the current information in the menu.

The present invention as described above has the effect that all information providers can use the information provider protocol to satisfy the information provider's desire to create a variety of values and to efficiently manage the information provider to improve the quality of service.

Claims (5)

In the information provider service data control method applied to the information providing apparatus, when the service is started, after initializing the service control table, the initial screen for the information provider is classified by distinguishing whether the request of the subscriber access device is a product code connection or an information provider connection. A first step of publishing the information and waiting for user input; a second step of analyzing the information provider protocol and the command and configuring the information provider protocol after the information; And a third step of transitioning to the user input standby state after outputting a data screen, wherein the information processing process of the second step comprises initializing parameters and analyzing the input parameters and classifying the commodity codes Or a fourth step of extracting a data control record of a corresponding screen by selecting an information provider service data control table according to a menu identifier; A fifth step of updating data on the screen after performing information input, information change, and information deletion process according to a service primitive delivered from the user by the information list provided by the information provider; And a sixth step of recording information processing contents in the information provider service data control table. 2. The information provider service data control table according to claim 1, wherein the information provider service data control table includes: a mark defining a processing form of data used for a current service; a year, month indicating a time for uploading by providing data; (months), days, hours, minutes and seconds; The log name used to create the name of the unique data storage device in combination with the year, month, day, hour, minutes, and seconds ( logname); A line counter indicating the number of lines of information data; A byte counter indicating the amount of information; A read counter indicating the number of times information is accessed; a content type indicating the type of information; A file name containing a file name of information that can be downloaded; A title indicating the title of the information; And an information provider service data control method for accommodating the information provider service including the number of lines of a file indicating the number of lines of stored information. The mark of claim 2, wherein the mark indicates whether the information provider uses the current item and whether the information is provided in a size of 1 byte in order to give the information user the right to modify or delete the information. An information provider service data control method for accommodating an information provider service. The content type according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the content type has a size of 1 byte and uses the information provider service data control table of the same type to serve public archives, electronic bulletin boards, and chat rooms. Information provider service data control method for accommodating the information provider service, characterized in that configured. 4. The method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the date, time, minute, minute and log name enable the information provider to unify the identification number (ID) of the information provided, and the same user can continue to upload materials of the same name. An information provider service data control method for accommodating an information provider service, characterized in that for updating.