KR100741004B1 - Method of providing personalized community on internet and server therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing a personalized community screen according to a visitor accessing a community and a server thereof, and the method for providing a community according to the present invention comprises: (a) receiving a visitor's community access request information for the visitor; (B) outputting a community screen including at least one object using a pre-stored object location information database according to the identified visitor information; and (c) a user interface device on the provided community screen. Calculating a changed position of the object when the object is moved to a desired position by using and (d) outputting a community screen by moving the object to the calculated position; (e) the calculated location upon receiving a request to save the changed location of the object from the user The method may further include updating the object location information database using information, and (f) outputting a community screen including an object whose location has been changed using the updated object location information database. Accordingly, the community screen may be provided by moving and arranging the position of the object as desired by the visitor.

Blog, Myspace, Mini Room, Community

Description

Method of providing personalized community on internet and server therefor}

1 is a block diagram of a server providing a personalized community on the Internet according to an embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an object processing module of the server illustrated in FIG. 1;

3a to 3c is a block diagram of a database for providing a personalized community on the Internet according to an embodiment of the present invention,

4 is an example of a screen configuration of a personalized community provided according to the present invention;

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a personalized community on the Internet according to an embodiment of the present invention;

6A and 6B illustrate an example of community screen configuration before and after moving a menu provided according to the present invention.

The present invention relates to a method and a server for providing a community on the Internet, and more particularly, to a method and a server for providing a personalized community screen according to a visitor accessing the community.

With the explosive growth of the Internet population, various forms of communication functions are being provided using the Internet. In other words, beyond the simple service such as homepage service, mail service, file transfer service, Internet cafe service, web bulletin board and personal homepage and community functions, where multiple users interested in the same topic can gather and exchange data or opinions. Various types of communication services such as complex blog service, mini room service or mini homepage service are provided.

On the other hand, expressing one's identity to modern people is important, and there is an increasing demand for expressing one's own personality online. Accordingly, Internet services provide services such as decorating avatars, mini rooms, and decorating blogs.

However, the conventional decorating service has a problem in that a means of expressing a user's unique personality is limited by using a method of uniformly purchasing a skin or an item provided by a service company and applying it to their contents.

Accordingly, the technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method and a server for providing a personalized community screen according to the visitor by fully reflecting the individuality of the visitor accessing the community.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a personalized community on the Internet, the method comprising: (a) receiving a visitor's community access request and confirming information about the visitor; (b) outputting a community screen including at least one object using a previously stored object location information database according to the identified visitor information; (c) calculating a changed position of the object when the user moves the object to a desired position using an interface device in the provided community screen; And (d) moving the corresponding object to the calculated position and outputting a community screen. In addition, the above-described method for providing a personalized community includes the steps of: (e) updating the object location information database using the calculated location information upon receiving a request for storing a changed location of an object from a user; And (d) outputting a community screen including the object whose location has been changed using the updated object location information database.

Hereinafter, for convenience of description, some terms used throughout the specification of the present invention will be defined, and preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that detailed descriptions of related well-known functions or configurations may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. In addition, terms to be described below are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, which may vary according to intention or custom of a user or an operator. Therefore, the definition should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

First, a community is a general term for a communication service provided on the Internet, and includes an internet cafe, a homepage, a blog, a mini room, or a mini homepage.

In particular, the personalized community provided according to one embodiment of the present invention is called a feelog to distinguish it from the conventional community. Phillogue is similar to personal mini homepage, and combines smallville service that provides personalized screens according to visitors, and blog functions such as profile, my story, and guestbook.

In addition, the smallville is an area provided by the user as a space in which the user can decorate according to his or her personality, and objects included in the smallville area can be freely moved in a drag and drop manner.

Objects are small units that users can freely move and decorate in Smallville. Contents such as profiles, comments, feelings, and guestbooks, skins to decorate their contents, and their contents are displayed within the Smallville area. It consists of information about the location. As such, the type of the object combined with the skin for decorating the content information while showing the abbreviated part of the content information can be variously expanded.

Based on the definitions of the terms described above, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

1 is a system configuration diagram including a server providing a personalized community on the Internet according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the community system according to the present invention includes a user terminal 100, a communication network 111, and a server 120 providing a personalized community.

The user terminal 100 refers to a device that can connect to the Internet by wired or wireless, such as a personal computer, a notebook, a PDA, a mobile phone, and is connected to the server 120 through a communication network 111 such as the Internet or a wireless network. The user can access his / her subscribed log by inputting his / her identification information, and can freely position the object displayed in the smallville area by using an interface device such as a mouse, a touchpad, and a keypad provided in the user terminal 100. By moving and decorating Smallville, you can display your personality on the blog screen.

The server 120 includes a web application server (WAS) interface 121, a first processor 130, and a second processor 140.

The first processing unit 130 receives the visitor's community connection request, checks the information on the visitor, and requests the second processing unit to output the personalized log log screen according to the visitor. Visitor information is checked through the member information database 136, the member information manager 131, and the member authenticator 132, and the visitor confirmed through the phillog information database 137 and the phillog information manager 133. The second processing unit requests an output of the personalized Phillog screen, that is, the Smallville screen.

The second processing unit 140 includes a smallville connecting unit 141, object processing modules 142 to 145, and object databases 146 to 148. The second processor outputs the personalized fill log screen according to the visitor's preference by displaying the object at a designated location using the location information of the object previously stored in the object database according to the confirmed visitor information. In addition, when a user drags and drops a specific object in the smallville area of the output Phillog screen, the changed location is calculated and the specific object is moved and displayed at the location, and when the user requests to save the changed location, Update location information included in database.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a part related to object processing in the configuration of the server illustrated in FIG. 1.

Referring to FIG. 2, the second processor 140 may output an object display module 142, an object position coordinate calculation module 143, an object position moving module 144, and an object position storing module 145 to process an object. And a Smallville object database 146, a Smallville object location information database 147, and a note paper object database 148 as object-related databases. Of course, according to the designer's choice, the aforementioned database can be integrated into one database.

More specifically, the Smallville object database 146 stores content information of each object to be scattered on the Smallville screen and skin information for decorating the appearance of the content, and the Smallville object location information database 147 stores each content to be displayed on the Smallville screen. Store location information of an object. The memo object database 148 stores information on memos written by the user on the Smallville screen. In the present embodiment, the memo object database 148 has a large amount of information to be managed. However, the memo object database 148 is integrated into the smallville object database 146 according to the design. May be

The object display module 142 reads content information and skin information of each object to be displayed on the Smallville screen from the Smallville object database 146, and reads position information of each object from the object location information database 147. Applies a skin to the content and sprays it at the specified location on the Smallville screen. The object position coordinate calculation module 143 calculates a coordinate value of the moved position when the user drags and drops an object displayed on the smallville screen. The object position moving module 144 moves the position of the object according to the direction in which the user drags the object displayed on the smallville screen, and controls this when the object is dragged out of the smallville screen area. The object location storing module 145 stores and stores the final location of the object and stores it in the object location information database 147.

Accordingly, various skins can be selected according to the user's preference, and contents can be displayed at various positions by simply dragging and dropping the corresponding object, thereby providing a community screen in which user's personality is expressed more easily and freely. .

3A to 3C are schematic diagrams of a database for providing a personalized community on the Internet according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A schematically illustrates the configuration of the Smallville object database 146, where USER_ID is a unique ID of the user and SMALLVILLE_GROUP_ID is an ID with information about the user's personalized Smallville. A user may have a plurality of smallvilles, and there is a separate database for each smallville group, and stores smallville object information and skin information of the corresponding group. BLOG_ID is the ID for your blog. As mentioned above, blogs collectively refer to profiles, my stories, and guestbooks, except for Smallville, in the blog.

FIG. 3B schematically shows the structure of the object location information database 147. The coordinate values TOP and LEFT of the objects, the brightness of the skin BRIGHT, and the order in which they are displayed on the screen, that is, the objects are mutually In the case of overlapping, information such as display order is included in which object is displayed at a higher level.

3C briefly illustrates the configuration of the memo paper object 148, and includes MEMO_ID, width WIDE and HEIGHT, and memo content as identification information.

The above configuration of the database is only one embodiment, and of course, it can be modified and implemented in various forms according to the designer.

4 is an example of a screen configuration of a personalized community provided according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, an example of a fill log screen provided by the server 120 having the above-described configuration is illustrated. Phillog consists of Smallville, a personalized screen area, and other blogs such as Profile, My Story, and Guestbook. In particular, the smallville area 200 personalized and provided according to the visitor information includes smallville objects 210 to 280 decorated with various skins and displayed at various locations.

As described above, the smallville area of the phlog according to the present invention can not only change the skin of the object freely, but also arrange the object at a desired position by simply dragging and dropping the object. In other words, unlike the conventional mini homepages (cyworld, next planet, etc.) that simply change the skin of an object, the smallville area can freely position a user's homepage menu or content in a desired position with a mouse. Provides an advanced form of community screens.

For example, the following table shows the types of objects that can be moved in the Smallville area of the Phillog according to the present invention.

number designation The nature of the object How to move 210 Phillog Introduction Write an introduction to your filllog Drag & Drop Method 220 Note paper Fill in notes to make them visible Drag & Drop Method 230 Today's emotion To express one's emotion. Drag & Drop Method 240 Pelog Status Summarize major interests in your filllog Drag & Drop Method 250 Word of feeling Small Guestbook with Visitors Drag & Drop Method 260 Recent comments Philo owners show visitors' comments on posts in recent order Drag & Drop Method 270 My smallville Space to store your Smallville screen Drag & Drop Method 280 Recent Posts Show your own posts Drag & Drop Method

In addition, various objects can be added and provided. That is, the temperature of interest that expresses the intimacy between two people by increasing or decreasing the temperature depending on the degree of exchange between each individual (for example, when the other person's phillog is visited, the temperature of the person and my relationship are automatically displayed). (290), the relationship that I remember, the relationship that memorizes, the relationship that memorizes each other, the relationship (291) to classify and display the relationship as a friend, the other person's phlogue by giving a certain number of clover per visitor per day It may further provide a menu such as a reputation system 292 for visiting and displaying a crush, a link application 293, which is a two-person secret blog that can be created by two intimate people over a certain temperature.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a personalized community on the Internet according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, when a user inputs his / her membership information and accesses the fill log according to the present invention (S402), the server outputs a smallville screen to output a personalized Smallville screen according to the inputted member information through a user authentication process. The current location information of each object is checked with reference to the object location information database 147 (S400), and each object is displayed at a designated location on the screen (S404). When the user drags and drops an object in the smallville area of the displayed screen (S406), the coordinate of the change position of the object is calculated according to the dragged position (S408), and the object is moved to the calculated position (S410). To display (S412). When the user is requested to store the changed location (S414), the changed location is stored in the smallville object location information database 147 (S416), and the changed smallville object is output on the screen (S418).

6A and 6B show examples of smallville screens whose positions are moved according to the above-described process. 6A is a smallville screen before moving, and FIG. 6B is a smallville screen after moving. Comparing them, it can be seen that the positions of the objects 210, 220, and 230 have been changed to the positions of the objects 210 ', 220', and 230 '.

On the other hand, the community providing method according to the present invention can be created by a computer program. Codes and code segments constituting the program can be easily inferred by a computer programmer in the art. In addition, the program is stored in a computer readable media, and read and executed by a computer to implement a community providing method. The information storage medium includes a magnetic recording medium, an optical recording medium, and a carrier wave medium.

As described above, according to the present invention, a method for providing a personalized community screen reflecting the individuality of a visitor accessing a community and a server thereof are provided.

Accordingly, various skins of the object can be selected according to the user's preference, and the object can be displayed at various positions by simply dragging and dropping the object, thereby providing a community screen that expresses the user's personality more easily and freely. can do.

So far I looked at the center of the preferred embodiment for the present invention. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in a modified form without departing from the essential features of the present invention. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered in descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. The scope of the present invention is shown in the claims rather than the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope will be construed as being included in the present invention.

Claims (12)

In the method of providing a personalized community on the Internet, (a) receiving a visitor's community access request and confirming information about the visitor; (b) outputting a community screen including at least one object using a previously stored object location information database according to the identified visitor information; (c) calculating a changed position of the object when the user moves the object to a desired position using an interface device in the provided community screen; And (d) moving the object to the calculated position and outputting a community screen; (e) updating the object location information database using the calculated location information when receiving a request for storing the changed location of the object from a user; And and (f) outputting a community screen including the object whose location has been changed using the updated object location information database. delete The method of claim 1, Community providing method characterized in that the shape of the object can be changed according to the user's preference by using a decorable skin pool. The method of claim 1, And a position of the object within a predefined area of the community screen according to a user's preference. The method of claim 1, And the object is configured by combining content information, skin information and location information selected by the user. The method of claim 1, As the content information of the object, a summary of the main interests in the introduction of the phylog, the introduction of the phylog, the memo paper to write a simple memo, the emotion of the day expressing his emotion, and the phylog The status of a blog, a feeling that visitors have left as a guestbook, a recent comment that shows visitors' comments on articles written by the owner of the blog, starting with a recent comment, my smallville, where you can save your community screen, or Community providing method comprising a recent post showing a collection of registered posts. The method of claim 1, The community is a community, characterized in that the cafe, homepage, blog, mini-room or mini homepage is built on a website on the Internet. (a) receiving a visitor's community access request and confirming information about the visitor; (b) outputting a community screen including at least one object using a previously stored object location information database according to the identified visitor information; (c) calculating a changed position of the object when the user moves the object to a desired position using an interface device in the provided community screen; (d) moving the object to the calculated position and outputting a community screen; (e) updating the object location information database using the calculated location information when receiving a request for storing the changed location of the object from a user; And (f) a recording medium recording a program executable on a computer implementing a method for providing a community built on the Internet, the method comprising: outputting a community screen including an object whose location has been changed using the updated object location information database; . delete In the server providing a community built on the Internet, A first processor that receives a visitor's community access request, checks information about the visitor, and requests a personalized community screen output according to the visitor; And A second processor configured to output a community screen including at least one object using location information of an object previously stored in an object database according to the identified visitor information; The second processing unit, An object database including information on at least one object included in the community screen; If the user moves the object to a desired position using the interface device in the output community screen, the object processing unit for calculating the changed position of the object and moving the object to the calculated position to output the community screen; , When the object processing unit receives a request for storing the changed location of the object from the user, the object processing unit updates the object location information database by using the calculated location information, and includes an object whose location is changed by using the updated object location information database. Community providing server, characterized in that for outputting a community screen. delete The method of claim 10, The object database may include content information of an object, object skin information selected by a user, and location information of an object.

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