KR20030042601A - Method for manufacturing electronic yellow page for web service - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for making an electronic telephone directory for a web service is provided to make the telephone directory necessary for a telephone directory inquiry service attaching an AD(ADvertisement) on the web by using the data for making the conventional telephone directory. CONSTITUTION: The needed data is extracted from a database storing telephone subscriber information, advertiser information, and AD image information(16). The update information according to the modification of the additional information for an Advertiser and the advertiser information is combined with the extracted data(18). An automatic layout work is carried out by each page of the telephone directory based on the combined data, and at the same time, an AD image is adjusted in a constant size on a page(20). An electronic document of a telephone directory format is generated by the layout work(21). The electronic document is converted into an HTML(HyperText Markup Language) format, and at the same time, a searching index is connected to the corresponding page of the HTML electronic document by generating the searching index(23).

Description

How to create an electronic phone book for web services {METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC YELLOW PAGE FOR WEB SERVICE}

The present invention relates to a method for producing an electronic phone book for a web service, and more particularly, to a method for producing an electronic phone book by an electronic editing technique to provide an electronic phone book search service on a web.

In general, the phone book is made in the form of a booklet, and contains a variety of phone numbers for each business, industry, name. This directory is freely distributed to the public, which is possible because advertisements are included on a part of each page of the telephone directory, and a telephone book production company produces a telephone book book at a cost in return for the advertisement. That is, the public can use the phone book for free by advertisements contained in the phone book.

However, with the development of the Internet, there has been a demand for searching such a phone book on the Internet. Accordingly, major portal sites provide a tool for searching a phone book on the web. .

According to the telephone directory service provided on the web, the telephone numbers of the businesses are made in the form of a database by industry or region, and when a user inputs a trade name or a region or a business type, the corresponding trade name is entered. In most cases, a phone number corresponding to a service number is searched and displayed, or a phone number corresponding to an input region or industry is searched for and a list of subscribers is displayed.

The telephone directory service on the web has a problem in that the revenue source is dependent on banner advertisements, so that a service operation cost cannot be preserved unless a separate banner advertisement business is activated. Therefore, if the existing phone book book can be viewed on the web as it is, since the web users who want to search the phone number to see the ads contained in the old phone book book, the advertising effect is very large and the advertising fee can be raised In addition to the existing phone book book or Internet banner ads, additional advertising means will be added to the income of the phone book operators (or Internet service providers).

In order to provide such a phone book service on the web, a different method from the existing phone book production process is required, and the present invention is prepared for such demand.

The present invention has been made under the above-described technical background, and provides a method for producing an electronic phone book necessary for a phone book inquiry service with an advertisement attached on the web by using data for making an existing phone book booklet. There is this.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a method for producing an electronic phone book according to the present invention.

(Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing)

11: Phone book DB 12: Telephone subscriber information DB

13: advertiser information DB 15: additional information DB

16: data extraction block 17: update information DB

18: Data link and reset block 20: Screen auto layout block

23: HTML conversion block

The present invention for achieving the above object,

Extracting necessary data from a database storing telephone subscriber information, advertiser information, and advertisement image information;

A second step of combining additional information about the advertiser and update information for reflecting the change in the advertiser information with the data extracted in the first step;

A third step of performing an automatic layout operation for each page of the phone book based on the data combined in the second step, and simultaneously adjusting the advertisement image to a predetermined size on the corresponding page;

A fourth step of generating an electronic document similar to a phone book book as a result of the layout operation of the third step;

And converting the electronic document generated in the fourth step into the HTML format, and simultaneously generating a search index and linking the electronic document to the corresponding page of the electronic document converted into the HTML format.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a method for producing an electronic phone book according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a database storing basic information for producing an electronic phone book, in which a subscriber information DB 12 and an advertiser information DB 13 form a phone book DB 11. It is coming true. The advertiser information DB 13 is connected to a recording medium 14 storing an advertisement image file. The telephone subscriber information DB 12 stores a general trade name, an address, a phone number, and an industry code, and the advertiser information DB 13 stores an advertiser name, an address, a phone number, and an industry code. The recording medium 14 stores an advertisement image to be inserted into each page of the phone book. The above-described DBs are informations used when the telephone book is prepared in a booklet form, and constitute the telephone book DB 11. That is, in the present invention, the existing subscriber information and advertiser information used when producing a booklet-type phone book are used.

When the database for preparing the phone book is prepared as described above, telephone subscriber information, advertiser information, and advertisement image are extracted from each of the DBs 12 and 13 and the recording medium 14 in the data extraction block 16.

On the other hand, the additional information DB 15 that stores additional information about the advertiser includes, for example, an e-mail address, a homepage URL (Uniform Resource Locator), various coupon information, coverage notes, map information, and the like. Internet phone related information is stored.

In addition, an update information DB 17 is prepared to reflect the change in the subscriber information and the advertiser information.

Next, the subscriber information, advertiser information, and advertisement image extracted at block 16 are combined with additional information and update information at data link and reset block 18. In more detail, in the data link and reset block 18, a list ID is assigned to the listing unit of the phone book, and the extracted information data is assigned to each listing ID by a predetermined amount. Further, the additional information and the update information stored in the additional information DB 15 and the update information DB 17, respectively, are matched and combined with the pages of the telephone book corresponding to each listing ID. In addition, various tags for layout are provided for each page.

In the screen automatic layout block 20, an automatic layout operation is performed for each page based on the data linked and reset by the block 18. At this time, the advertisement image is adjusted to an appropriate size on each page by the image conversion block 19 and then output to the screen automatic layout block 20. In more detail, the screen automatic layout block 20 sets a template according to regional and edition contents, and automatically layouts each page based on the link and reset data and the resized advertisement image. Will be In this case, a special advertisement and a tip advertisement may be generated on an arbitrary page. By this automatic layout operation, the electronic document 21 in the form of a telephone book book is completed. In this case, the layout process may be separately developed by using a publishing editing program such as "QuarkXpress" or programming.

Next, the electronic document 21 having the layout is converted into a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) format to provide a web service by the block 23. At this time, a search index for each page is generated by the block 22, and the generated search index is provided to the HTML conversion block 23. Therefore, in the block 23, the search index is connected to the corresponding page of the electronic document 21, and then converted into HTML format.

Next, in block 24, program source code is generated by a common gateway interface (CGI) program, and the generated program source code is compiled in block 25 and then block 26. Provided for by Web Services.

Therefore, by connecting the electronic phone book program produced by the above process to the home page, the telephone number information search service by the web page in the form of a phone book booklet becomes possible.

As described above, each page of the phone book is configured by adding additional information and update information to the subscriber information and the advertiser information, and the layout operation is performed while the advertisement image is inserted into the corresponding page. After attaching a search index to a directory document and converting it into an HTML-formatted document and producing it for a web service, the phone book containing an advertisement can be searched on the web.

Claims (4)

Extracting necessary data from a database storing telephone subscriber information, advertiser information, and advertisement image information; A second step of combining additional information about the advertiser and update information for reflecting the change in the advertiser information with the data extracted in the first step; A third step of performing an automatic layout operation for each page of the phone book based on the data combined in the second step, and simultaneously adjusting the advertisement image to a predetermined size on the corresponding page; A fourth step of generating an electronic document in the form of a telephone book booklet as a result of the layout operation of the third step; And a fifth step of converting the electronic document generated in the fourth step into the HTML format, and simultaneously generating a search index and linking the electronic document to the corresponding page of the electronic document converted into the HTML format. How to create an electronic phone book for your service. The method of claim 1, The additional information of the second step is an electronic phone book manufacturing method for a web service, characterized in that the advertiser's e-mail address, homepage URL, various coupon information, coverage notes, map information and Internet phone-related information. The method of claim 1, The second step is A listing ID is assigned in units of pages of a phone book, the data extracted in the first step is allocated to each listing ID by a predetermined amount, and the additional information and the update information are pages of the phone book corresponding to each listing ID. And matching to, and assigning a tag for layout to each page. The method of claim 1, The method of manufacturing an electronic phone book for a web service, characterized in that it further comprises a sixth step of generating and combining the source code for the phone number search program in the electronic document converted to the HTML format in the fifth step, and compiling it. .