KR20090002064A

KR20090002064A - A contents supply system and supply method thereby

Info

Publication number: KR20090002064A
Application number: KR1020070054398A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 이상진
Original assignee: 이상진
Priority date: 2007-06-04
Filing date: 2007-06-04
Publication date: 2009-01-09

Abstract

The present invention relates to a content providing system and a content providing method using the same, in order to increase user satisfaction by selecting and providing contents related to expertise required by a user by a specialist having a predetermined qualification, according to the present invention. The content providing system includes: a user terminal connected to each other through a data network and used by a user; A provider-side terminal managed by a content provider and transmitting content to a service server; An expert terminal for selecting and presenting content requested by the user terminal, presenting necessary input items to the user terminal as needed, and receiving and presenting the selected content; Upload a web page for transmitting data and content through the data network, receive the content from the provider terminal, store it in a DB server, designate an expert terminal according to the field input by the user terminal, A service server that provides the user terminal to download content selected by the expert terminal; And a DB server storing user related information and content related information.

Description

Content providing system and content providing method using same {A contents supply system and supply method hence}

1 is a block diagram of a provisioning system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a user DB.

3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a content DB.

4 is a flowchart of a providing method according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a detailed flowchart of an input item input routine in FIG.

6 is a detailed flowchart of a content providing routine of FIG. 4.

7 is a detailed flowchart of the management routine in FIG.

8 is a flowchart of a providing method according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

100: providing system 110: service server

120: DB server 140: expert terminal

150: terminal terminal 160: data network

170,180: user terminal

The present invention relates to a content providing system and a content providing method using the same, and more particularly, a technology for improving user satisfaction by selecting and providing contents related to expertise required by a user by a specialist having a predetermined qualification. It is about.

Through the spread of computers, the development of data communication systems, and the spread of mobile communication terminals including mobile phones, it is possible to supply contents composed of various data.

Users can easily provide not only text information but also multimedia information by using a computer or a mobile phone, thereby obtaining expertise in various fields.

On the other hand, with the spread of digital devices such as digital cameras, digital camcorders, etc., the user can create a variety of content produced based on his or her knowledge or experience.

By generating such various contents and a user's search system, a user who wants contents such as knowledge in a specific field can acquire contents through search at any time.

However, since such content is simply searched and sorted by a keyword, the user must check which content is desired content one by one, which causes a problem of excessive waste of communication resources and time resources. In addition, when the content creator is not an expert, there is a problem in that information having wrong information or non-objective information is delivered to the user and distortion of the information occurs.

In addition, certain contents may be provided for a fee. In this case, a user may pay money for contents containing unwanted or incorrect information, thereby causing financial damages.

The present invention is derived to solve the problems according to the prior art described above, it is to provide a content selected by the expert to the user to improve the reliability of the content, to provide a technology that can eliminate the waste of communication resources or time resources It is done.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a technology that can be used to accept the user's reviews using the content selected by the expert, to ensure that the expert is responsible for selecting the content to provide a highly reliable content.

In order to achieve the above object, a content providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention, the user terminal connected to each other via a data network, used by the user; A provider-side terminal managed by a content provider and transmitting content to a service server; An expert terminal for selecting and presenting content requested by the user terminal, presenting necessary input items to the user terminal as needed, and receiving and presenting the selected content; Upload a web page for transmitting data and content through the data network, receive the content from the provider terminal, store it in a DB server, and designate an expert terminal according to the field input by the user terminal. A service server providing the user terminal to download content selected by the expert terminal; And a DB server storing user related information and content related information.

In the present invention, the DB server comprises: a user identification information storage area for storing information for identifying a user; A field identification information storage area for storing a field of the content requested by the user terminal; And a user input information storage area for storing information input by the user terminal in order to collect contents required by the user terminal.

In the present invention, the user DB: an expert request for storing the information input by the user terminal by the request of the expert terminal, when the expert terminal requests input of additional input items to the user terminal in order to select the content; And an input information storage area.

In the present invention, the DB server comprises: a content file storage area for storing a content file; A field identification information storage area for storing identification information of a field to which the content file belongs; And a keyword information storage area for storing keyword information designated by the provider-side terminal.

In the present invention, the content DB may further include: an expert classification information storage area for storing classification information designated by the expert side terminal.

In the present invention, the content DB may further include: a producer information storage area for storing producer information of the content file.

In the present invention, the content DB may further include: a user evaluation information storage area for storing user evaluation information received from the user-side terminal that downloaded the content file.

In order to achieve the above object, the content providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, through a content providing system including a service server, a DB server, an expert terminal, a provider terminal and a user terminal connected to each other via a data network. In a method of providing a content requested by a user terminal after accessing the web page uploaded from the service server and registering and logging in, the user terminal selects the field of content to be provided by the user terminal, the service server A content field selection routine for specifying an expert terminal according to the field of the selected content; An input item input routine in which the service server receives an input of an input item for content selection from a user terminal; And a content providing routine for selecting and providing content based on an input item received by the input item input routine by the expert terminal specified in the content field selection routine.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the input item input routine may include: an input first step of presenting basic input items for content selection at the service server and inputting basic input items by a user side computer; And an input second step of transferring the information input in the first input step to the expert terminal.

In the present invention, the input item input routine comprises: an input third step of examining whether there is an additional request input item from the expert terminal; And an input fourth step of receiving additional input items input by the expert terminal to receive additional input items when there is an additional request input item in the survey of the third input step. Can be.

In the present invention, the content providing routine comprises: providing a first step of arranging the content selected by the expert terminal to display on the user terminal, the user terminal selects the necessary content from the sorted content; And a providing second step of converting the content selected in the providing first step according to the hardware environment of the user terminal.

In the present invention, the management routine for receiving the satisfaction of the content from the user-side terminal; may further include.

In the present invention, the management routine includes: a first step of the service server receiving content satisfaction from a user terminal; And a second management step of updating and reflecting content satisfaction received in the first management step in content information.

In the present invention, the management routine includes: a third step of the service server receiving the expert satisfaction from the user terminal; A management fourth step of investigating whether the satisfaction received in the third management step is less than a criterion; And a fifth step of changing the expert managing the expert terminal if the satisfaction level does not meet the criteria in the fourth management step.

In order to achieve the above object, a content providing method according to another embodiment of the present invention, the user-side terminal through a content providing system including a service server, a DB server, a provider-side terminal and a user-side terminal interconnected via a data network Accessing a webpage uploaded from the service server, registering, logging in, and providing content requested by a user terminal, wherein the content uploading content and a profile of a provider associated with the content by the provider terminal; Upload routines; A content retrieval routine in which the user terminal accesses the service server to retrieve contents, and the service server displays content according to a search condition and a profile of a provider associated with the content to the user terminal; And a content download routine for downloading the content after the user terminal confirms the content and the profile.

In the present invention, the content retrieval routine may include: the service server may display all profiles received from the provider-side terminal together with the content on the user-side terminal.

In the following, embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that detailed descriptions of related known functions or configurations may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description will be omitted. In addition, the terms to be described later are terms set in consideration of functions in the present invention, and these terms may vary according to the intention or custom of the producer producing the product, and the definition of the terms should be made based on the contents throughout the present specification.

(Offer system)

First, a content providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.

1 is a block diagram of a providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a user DB, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a content DB.

As shown, the content providing system 100 according to the present embodiment (unless otherwise described below for convenience of description, the content providing system is referred to simply as the 'providing system') refers to the data network 160. The service server 110, the DB server 120, the expert terminal 140, the provider terminal 150, and the user terminal 170 and 180 are interconnected through each other.

The data network 160 interconnects devices having a communication function such as a server and / or a terminal, and may be an internet network or a mobile communication network.

The user terminals 170 and 180 are terminals used by a user, and a computer or a mobile phone having a communication function may be used. Unless otherwise described below, the reference numerals of the user terminals will be used unified as '170'.

The provider terminal 150 is managed by the content provider and transmits the content to the service server 110.

The expert terminal 140 is a terminal managed by an expert designated by the service server 110. The expert terminal 140 selects and presents contents requested by the user terminal 170, and presents necessary input items to the user terminal 170 as necessary. After receiving it, the content is selected and presented.

The service server 110 uploads a web page for transmitting data and content through the data network 160, receives the content from the provider terminal 150, stores the content in the DB server 120, and stores the user terminal 170. The expert terminal 140 is designated according to the field inputted by), and the user terminal 170 downloads the content selected by the expert terminal 140.

The DB server 120 stores user related information and content related information. The DB server 120 preferably includes a user DB 121 and a content DB 131.

Referring to FIG. 2, the user DB 121 will be described. The user identification information storage area 122 stores information for identifying a user. The identification of the user may be identified through a login account if the terminal of the user is a computer, and a cell phone number if the mobile terminal is a mobile phone.

The field identification information storage area 123 stores a field of content requested by the user terminal 170. At this time, the fields may be divided into the fields of learning, exercise, treatment, as well as the fields of life such as medicine, food, and liquor.

The user input information storage area 124 stores information input by the user terminal 170 in order to collect contents required by the user terminal 170. The information to be input by the user terminal 170 is preferably presented by the service server 110, and preferably includes input items of detailed items required for searching for each field.

In the expert request input information storage area 125, when the expert terminal 140 requests input of additional input items to the user terminal 170 in order to select content, the user terminal 170 of the expert terminal 140 is connected to the expert terminal 140. Stores the information entered by the request. That is, only the user input information presented by the service server 110 may identify the environment specialized for the user who is unable to select the professional content of the expert, and the expert request input information may be required for more satisfactory content selection.

Referring to FIG. 3, the content DB 131 will be described. The content file storage area 132 stores a content file. The content files stored therein may be document files, picture files, sound files, video files, and the like.

The field identification information storage area 133 stores identification information of the field to which the content file belongs. The field identification information storage area 133 constituting the content DB 131 may correspond to the field identification information storage area 123 constituting the user DB 121.

The keyword information storage area 134 stores keyword information designated by the provider side terminal 150. This area may be used when the user terminal 170 searches for contents according to a conventional method without passing through the expert terminal 140, and may also be used when the expert terminal 140 searches for contents. .

The expert classification information storage area 135 stores classification information designated by the expert terminal 140. This area is used to classify content based on expert experience or knowledge.

The producer information storage area 136 stores maker information of the content file. This area may be used to store the information of the producer who produced the content file selected by the expert terminal 140 to give the producer a predetermined benefit, and induce the producer to pay attention to the selection of the content file. The quality of the content can be improved.

The user evaluation information storage area 137 stores user evaluation information received from the user terminal 170 which downloaded the content file. This area can be used for storing the user's evaluation, eliminating the possibility of content selection fixing of the expert terminal 140 and the provider terminal 150, and reflecting the user's opinion so that the expert or provider can refer to it. .

(Delivery method)

Hereinafter, a content providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 7.

4 is a flowchart of a providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 5 is a detailed flowchart of an input item input routine in FIG. 4, FIG. 6 is a detailed flowchart of the content providing routine in FIG. 4, and FIG. 4 is a detailed flowchart of the management routine.

As shown, the content providing method according to the present embodiment (unless otherwise described below for convenience of description, a 'content providing method' is simply referred to as a 'providing method') for a service server interconnected through a data network. Through the content providing system including a DB server, an expert terminal, a provider terminal, and a user terminal, the user terminal accesses the web page uploaded from the service server, registers and logs in (S100), and the content requested by the user terminal. In order to provide, the content field selection routine (S200), an input item input routine (S300), a content providing routine (S400), and a management routine (S500) are largely included.

The content field selection routine S200 is a routine for selecting a field of content to be provided by the user terminal and specifying the expert terminal according to the field of the selected content by the service server.

Input item input routine S300 is a routine in which a service server receives an input of an input item for content selection from a user terminal.

Referring to FIG. 5, the input item input routine S300 will be described in detail. In the first step of input, a basic input item for content selection is presented by a service server, and a basic input item is input by a user side computer. S310).

In operation S320, information input in the second input step and the first input step S310 is transmitted to the expert terminal. Through the above steps, basic information for content selection required by the user using the user's computer is secured.

On the other hand, if the expert using the expert terminal determines that the information for selecting the content required by the user lacks, the additional request input may be presented. That is, the third step of the input, it is checked whether there is an additional request input from the expert terminal (S330).

If there is an additional request input item in the investigation of the fourth input step and the third input step S330, the additional input item presented by the expert terminal is transferred to the user terminal to receive the additional input item (S340).

The content providing routine S400 is a routine for selecting and providing content based on an input item received in the input item input routine S300 by the expert terminal specified in the content field selection routine S200.

Referring to FIG. 6, the content providing routine S400 will be described in detail. In the first step of providing, the contents selected by the expert terminal are arranged and displayed on the user terminal, and the user terminal needs contents among the aligned contents. Select (S410).

In operation S420, the content selected in the providing second step and the providing first step S410 is converted according to the hardware environment of the user terminal. For example, if the content to be provided to the user terminal is a video file, the service server cannot play back the video file that requires a higher specification than the graphic control chip and display screen resolution of the user terminal. The content is converted according to the hardware environment of the user terminal.

The management routine S500 is a routine for receiving the satisfaction of the content from the user side terminal.

Referring to FIG. 7, the management routine S500 will be described in detail. In the first management step, the service server receives content satisfaction from a user terminal (S510).

The content satisfaction received in the second management step and the first management step S510 is updated to reflect the content information. Through the above steps, it is possible to measure the quality of the content information provided by the provider terminal, thereby inducing the provider terminal to make an effort to increase the content satisfaction.

On the other hand, if the user fails to select the content required by the expert due to the lack of expert knowledge or ability using the terminal may be required to respond to this. To this end, the third management step, the service server receives the expert satisfaction from the user terminal (S530).

In step S540, it is checked whether the satisfaction level received in the fourth management step and the third management step S530 is below a standard.

If the satisfaction level in the survey of the management step 5 and the management step 4 (S540) does not meet the standard, the expert managing the terminal of the expert side is changed (S550). Through the above steps, the expert managing the expert terminal can be guided to carefully select the contents required by the user.

(Provision Method-Second Embodiment)

Hereinafter, a providing method according to a second exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 8.

As shown, the providing method according to the second embodiment of the present invention, the user terminal in the service server through a content providing system including a service server, a DB server, a provider-side terminal and a user-side terminal interconnected via a data network After the user accesses the uploaded webpage, registers, logs in, and provides the content requested by the user terminal, the content upload routine, the content search routine, and the content download routine are included.

The content upload routine S600 is a routine for uploading a content and a profile of a provider associated with the content by the provider side terminal. The provider managing the provider-side terminal uploads the profile of the provider related to the content as well as the content produced directly or acquired through an external path. For example, if the content is content related to a diet, the provider may provide a profile of his / her weight changed through the diet content.

The content retrieval routine S700 is a routine in which a user terminal accesses a service server to retrieve contents, and the service server displays a content according to a search condition and a profile of a provider related to the content on the user terminal.

In this case, the content retrieval routine (S700), it is preferable that the service server displays all profiles received from the provider terminal with the content on the user terminal.

Thus, the user can check the profile of the provider associated with the content when searching for the content. That is, the reliability of the content can be indirectly checked through the profile of the provider who provided the content.

The content download routine S800 is a routine for downloading content after the user terminal checks the content and the profile.

The user can check the professionalism or reliability of the content through the profile of the provider, so that the user can purchase the content based on more information than the conventional method.

Content management routine (S900) is a routine for receiving and managing the satisfaction of the content from the user terminal, the management step 1, the service server receives the content satisfaction from the user terminal, received in the management step 2, management first step The content satisfaction is updated to reflect the content information. Through the above steps, it is possible to measure the quality of the content information provided by the provider terminal, so that it is possible to induce the provider terminal to make an effort to increase the content satisfaction.

(Application example)

Hereinafter, an application example of content provision according to the present invention will be described.

* Provide diet content *

First, a case in which the user wants to receive diet content will be described.

In the first step, the provider uploads content, such as an effective exercise method and diet decoration, to the service server based on his or her experience or knowledge.

In the second step, the user inputs basic items such as, for example, age, body type, height, weight, weight loss goal, diet environment, and diet priority area, so as to receive the diet contents.

In a third step, the service server specifies a diet expert and transfers the basic items input in the aforementioned second step to the expert terminal.

In the fourth step, when the expert needs to receive additional information from the user, for example, when an allergic reaction to a specific food or an investigation of food that cannot be eaten is necessary, a request for inputting additional information is transmitted to the user.

In the fifth step, when the user inputs the additional information, the expert selects the contents uploaded in the above-described first step based on the basic item and the additional information and based on the expert's knowledge and experience.

In the sixth step, the user downloads and experiences content selected by an expert for a fee or free, and leaves a user's testimonial.

In the seventh step, the service server examines the user's reviews, gives a predetermined benefit to the provider and the expert who received the good reviews, and gives a predetermined disadvantage to the provider and the expert who received the bad reviews.

Through the above steps, the user can perform an effective diet based on the content selected by the expert, and the provider and the expert can obtain the price of the effort from the service server.

* Provide Disk Therapy Content *

Hereinafter, a case in which the user wants to receive the disc treatment content is described.

In the first step, the provider uploads contents such as exercise methods, dieting, etc., which are effective for disc treatment, to the service server based on his or her own experience or knowledge.

In the second step, the user inputs basic items such as, for example, a disk area, a surgery, and a disease related to the disk in order to receive the disk treatment contents.

In the third step, the service server specifies the disk treatment expert and transfers the basic items input in the aforementioned second step to the expert terminal.

In the fourth step, when the expert needs to receive additional information from the user, for example, when an allergic reaction to a specific food, a living environment, or an occupation is needed, a request for inputting additional information is transmitted to the user.

The subsequent process may be performed in the same manner as the provision of the above-mentioned diet content.

The embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, it is to be noted that the present invention is not particularly limited only to the above-described embodiments, and that various modifications and changes can be made by those skilled in the art within the spirit and spirit of the appended claims as necessary.

For example, a user may be provided with cooking-related content from an expert (cook, nutritionist), etc., a learning-related content may be provided from an expert (instructor, professor), etc., and the styling-related content may be provided with an expert (makeup artist). , Hair artists, etc.).

As described above, according to the present invention, by selecting an expert to provide the content required by the user, it is possible to provide a technology in which only high quality content is provided to the user.

Claims

Interconnected through the data network,

A user terminal used by the user;

A provider-side terminal managed by a content provider and transmitting content to a service server;

An expert terminal for selecting and presenting content requested by the user terminal, presenting necessary input items to the user terminal as needed, and receiving and presenting the selected content;

Upload a web page for transmitting data and content through the data network, receive the content from the provider terminal, store it in a DB server, designate an expert terminal according to the field input by the user terminal, A service server that provides the user terminal to download content selected by the expert terminal; And

And a DB server storing user related information and content related information.

The method of claim 1, wherein the DB server is:

A user identification information storage area for storing information for identifying a user;

A field identification information storage area for storing a field of the content requested by the user terminal; And

And a user DB configured to store information input by the user terminal in order to collect content required by the user terminal.

The method of claim 2, wherein the user DB is:

An expert request input information storage area for storing information input by the user terminal by a request of the expert terminal when the expert terminal requests input of additional input items to the user terminal for selecting contents; Content providing system, characterized in that.

The method of claim 1, wherein the DB server is:

A content file storage area for storing content files;

A field identification information storage area for storing identification information of a field to which the content file belongs; And

And a content DB configured to store keyword information designated by the provider-side terminal.

The method of claim 4, wherein the content DB is:

And an expert classification information storage area for storing classification information designated by the expert terminal.

The method of claim 4, wherein the content DB is:

And a producer information storage area for storing producer information of the content file.

The method of claim 4, wherein the content DB is:

And a user evaluation information storage area for storing user evaluation information received from a user terminal which has downloaded the content file.

Through the content providing system including a service server, a DB server, an expert terminal, a provider terminal, and a user terminal connected to each other through a data network, the user terminal accesses a web page uploaded from the service server, registers and logs in. Later, in the method for providing the content requested by the user terminal,

A content field selection routine for selecting a field of content to be provided by the user terminal and specifying the expert terminal according to the field of the selected content;

An input item input routine in which the service server receives an input of an input item for content selection from a user terminal; And

And a content providing routine for selecting and providing content based on an input item received by the input item input routine by an expert terminal specified in the content field selection routine.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the input item input routine is:

An input first step of presenting basic input items for content selection in the service server and inputting basic input items by a user side computer; And

And a second input step of transferring the information input in the first input step to the expert terminal.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the input item input routine is:

A third step of checking whether there is an additional request input item from the expert terminal; And

And an additional input fourth step of receiving additional input items input by the expert terminal to receive additional input items when there is an additional request input item in the survey of the input third step. Characterized in that the content providing method.

The method of claim 8, wherein the content providing routine is:

A first step of arranging contents selected by the expert terminal and displaying the selected contents on a user terminal, and selecting, by the user terminal, necessary contents among the aligned contents; And

And a providing second step of converting the content selected in the providing first step according to a hardware environment of the user-side terminal.

The method of claim 8,

And a management routine for receiving a satisfaction level of the content from the user side terminal.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the maintenance routine is:

A first step of managing, by the service server, content satisfaction from a user terminal; And

And a second management step of updating and reflecting content satisfaction received in the first management step in content information.

The method of claim 13, wherein the maintenance routine is:

A third step of the service server receiving expert satisfaction from a user terminal;

A management fourth step of investigating whether the satisfaction received in the third management step is less than a criterion; And

And a fifth step of changing the expert managing the expert terminal if the satisfaction level is less than the criterion in the survey of the fourth management step.

After the user terminal accesses the web page uploaded from the service server through a content providing system including a service server, a DB server, a provider terminal, and a user terminal connected through a data network, registers and logs in, and then logs on the user side terminal. In the method for providing the content requested by,

A content upload routine for uploading content and a profile of a provider associated with the content by the provider-side terminal;

A content retrieval routine in which the user terminal accesses the service server to retrieve contents, and the service server displays content according to a search condition and a profile of a provider associated with the content to the user terminal; And

And a content download routine for downloading the content after the user terminal confirms the content and the profile.

The method of claim 15, wherein the content retrieval routine is:

And the service server displays all profiles received from the provider side terminal together with the contents on the user side terminal.

The method of claim 16,

And a management routine for receiving satisfaction of contents from the user terminal.

The maintenance routine is: