DESCRIPTION NAME MULTIPLE RESOLUTION SERVICE USING NAME IDENTIFIER
[Technical Field]
[1] The purpose of this invention is to support a service enabling Internet users to conveniently access to wanting digital contents (including web pages) by using such names as title of contents, author, singer and name of actor, etc. In addition, the providers of digital contents can distribute on the Internet after inserting Name Identification Number(Name Identifier) information of the digital contents to be sold to various documents such as HTML, XML, SGML, PDF, MS Office(Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Hangul(Korean editor), E-Mail by using hyperlink. In this case, users can get digital contents service by simply clicking a Name Identification Number just like clicking URL link. The hyperlinking of Name Identification Number can be used instead of URL in all the cases of URL use and can provide reliable service to Internet users by preventing such fatal errors of URL as not being able to find the location of information due to the change of physical location.
[2] A service user gets services by putting in a movie title("Brotherhood of War") or a name such as a person's name on the browser's address window just like [Figure 3], by directly putting in Name Identification Number ("name:kr:Brotherhood of War") including a name just like [Figure 4], or by icking a Name Identification Number link included in a document just like [Figure 5]. (In the case of [Figure 5], it shows that an actual name Identification number is displayed on the lower-left side of a browser when a mouse pointer is located on the Name Identification Number link included in an email). Users, as a result of service request, receive a dynamically created HTML web page that provides convenient access to various types of information related to the wanted contents and can receive a service that allows a selection among the information. Therefore, it can support new and various services overcoming a simple homepage access service provided by the existing keyword domain service or real name service.
[3] Because a Name Identification Number has the functionality of URN, it can compensate for URL and can provide continuous and effective management of related link through a Name Identification Number even though physical location of content is changed. If you use URL, you have to modify URL information included in all the distributed documents when the physical location of digital contents is changed, which
is realistically impossible. Therefore, in this case, users of the documents including wrong URL information have no choice but to use the same documents. However, a Name Identification Number can resolve this problem without changing the distributed documents.
[4] This invention can provide Internet users with a new and convenient Internet services using a Name Identification Number with URN functionality, which removes inconvenience in accessing information on the Internet through the existing URL and improves the quality of simple homepage access service such as keyword domain service.
[5] The technological field that this invention belongs is the Internet information service utilizing URN technology, which is the field with active international standardization. URN has been studied since 1995 and eternally manages identifiers by compensating for the defects of URL. Consequently, URN prevents access error caused by the change of physical location and enables to provide various additional services. Because a name Identification number has URN functionality, it can directly point to such digital contents as music, movies, fiction books, cartoons, animations, etc. on the Internet; also, it can manage homepages of authors, email information of authors, shopping mall addresses that sell the relevant contents by applying multiple resolution technology. Multiple resolution is a resolution service that enables users to select among various services through a single name Identification number. Consequently, with one name Identification number, users can get various services such as purchasing relevant digital contents, accessing the author information of relevant digital contents, sending emails to authors or accessing publisher's homepage.
[6] This invention provides users with various services utilizing the merits of URN by replacing the existing keyword service(real name, keyword domain, Korean domain service) that provides a simple homepage access function with a standard URN service. Therefore, this invention can provide new services that cannot be handled by the existing keyword service and can be compatible with the Internet service to be internationally standardized. In the existing website access and information provision using keyword, keyword itself is sent to a server that changes it into Internet address and the resolution server searches keyword or real name database and provides a service of moving to the relevant address. Therefore, keyword itself can provides only a means to put in the browser window instead of real Internet address or domain name and cannot be used as linking information like URL or URN. In addition, keyword cannot be inserted in the contents and distributed on the Internet and it also cannot be
differentiated from the keyword included in general words. Because it only supports a keyword composed of one word, keyword itself cannot represent the title of general contents that allows a composition of a sentence.
[Background Art]
[7] In the current standard Internet address system, there are two ways to access information on the Internet: URL and URN. However, in the existing keyword domain service, keyword cannot be regarded as a standardized Internet service because keyword itself does not follow the URL or URN syntax. A new representation of name Identification number following the URN syntax structure has the merit of becoming an international service in the future global Internet service system because it is compatible with international standard method of URN Resolution service. Recently, a series of IETF RFCs(IETF RFC3401 , RFC3402, RFC3403, RFC3404, RFC3405) that can provide URN service with name Identification number utilizing the current DNS network by using DDDS(Dynamic Delegation Discovery System) algorithm were prepared and a real service is in preparation. If such Internet service RFCs are realized, a name Identification number service of this invention can be serviced in the form of "urn:name:kr:the+Lord+of+the+Ring" and can be in harmony with international standardization trend (when it is actually sent to DNS, the part "the Lord of the Ring" is sent after being encoded in UTF-8). On the other hand, because it is URN identifier, a name Identification number itself can have all the service and merit of URN. The following Table shows the summary of change in method to find information on the Internet and development stage.
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[9] The following Table explains the difference between this invention and keyword
or real name service that is currently provided by existing service providers.
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[Description of Drawings]
[11] [Figure 1] is a service flow diagram describing the service procedures of this invention.
[12] [Figure 2] is overall service system architecture and architecture for the role of each system that a local resolution server to process a user's request is selected through the country code of a name identification number, the client plug-in module sends a user's service request to a local resolution server of the selected country, a resolution server creates the result of a user's service request into a HTML and sends it to a user.
[13] [Figure 3], [Figure 4] and [Figure 5] represent three methods for users to request services. [Figure 3] is an example of putting in name on the browser's address window; [Figure 4] is an example of putting in name Identification number on the browser's address window; and [Figure 5] is an example of requesting a service without putting in on the browser's address window by clicking a name Identification number inserted in a document.
[14] [Figure 6], [Figure 7], [Figure 8] and [Figure 9] show examples of assigning each service country to the identical name by indicating area (country) designated operator and country code. [Figure 6] is an example of not indicating country code option. In this case, it has the identical meaning with "sony/kr" because user's country becomes a default. [Figure 7] is the result screen of the [Figure 6]. [Figure 8] is the case of requesting a service for name Identification numbers registered in US by additionally putting in "/us"; [Figure 9] is the result screen of the [Figure 8].
[15] [Figure 10], [Figure 11], [Figure 12] and [Figure 13] are the example of applying it to blog service by classifying the first word as a specific service area. [Figure 10] shows a service of directly connecting to the blog page of the wanted person by putting in the words 'blog' and 'Diabeditor'. [Figure 11] is the result screen of the [Figure 10]. [Figure 12] shows how to request the same service with the [Figure 10] by clicking the name Identification number inserted in the MS PowerPoint document and [Figure 13] shows how to request the same service with the [Figure 10] by clicking the name Identification number inserted in an email.
[16] [Figure 14] is the screen shot of calling moving picture contents on the browser's address window and [Figure 15] is the screen shot of service result. In this case, the ' moving picture contents are directly played by users' multimedia player.
[17] [Figure 16] and [Figure 17] shows how to analyze users' service request, create and send HTML document to users so that users can select the items that they wants on the system. [Figure 16] is a screen shot that a user put in car brand name "sm5" and [Figure 17] is a HTML screen shot created and sent to a user as a result of service. The screen is composed of three frames; homepage is displayed on the main frame and other frames are used for advertisement and menu.
[18] [Figure 18] and [Figure 19] show an example of using name Identification number in charged contents information. [Figure 18] is an example of putting in the title of TV drama contents to be served. [Figure 19] is a screen shot of moving to a registered page to purchase a requested content.
[Technical Problem]
[19] This invention proposes a new method of providing Internet service to support convenient access and connection for Internet resources by applying international standard URN technology for the purpose of improving the existing keyword domain or real name service. As a result, users are able to utilize the merits of both keyword or
real name domain service and URN service. In other words, the function of enabling a service to insert contents name information into such digital contents as HTML, XML, SGML, MS Office document, PDF, Hangul document and hyperlink as well as the function of conveniently accessing web page without knowing actual address, the merit of keyword domain service, are supported. It is not only providing an access service to a home page but also providing various HTML web screens for users to choose. In addition, users can directly look, listen or purchase such digital contents as movie, music, image, ebook, etc. [20] The technological characteristics of this invention includes URN Resolution technology, digital contents identifier technology, a technology for web browser to recognize new protocol(pluggable protocol), HTTP Proxy Server implementation, dynamic creation of HTML, metadata management; a name identification number service system is composed of all these characteristics. The details are described in the [Technical Solution] section.
[Technical Solution]
[21] This invention provide general users with client plug-in modules to support service flow shown in [Figure 1] and various functions. Servers to support services are mainly composed of multiple Local Resolution Servers. Local Resolution Server can be installed more than one per each country. Each Local Resolution Server is composed of HTTP proxy server for increasing the capacity of a system and dynamically creating and sending the result to users, metadata database and resolution server. This composition is described in [Figure 2].
[22] In this service system, a name identification number follows the format of URN to satisfy the URN function and uses proper identifier name called "NAME(the name of URN identifier is case-insensitive; NID)". The following shows the syntax of a name identification number. In the below expression, "|" means selection and "A | B" means A or B.
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<Name Identification Number> := "name:" <Country Code> ":" <Name String> <Country Code> := <Alpha> <Alpha> /* IS03166-1 Country Code (kr, jp, en, us...) */ <Name String> := 1*<URN Chars> <Alpha> := <Upper> | <Lower> <URN Chars> := <Trans> I "%" <Hex> <Hex>
[24] An example of correct name identification number represented in the previously defined syntax of name identification number is as follows:
[25] (Example 1) name:kr:the+Lord+of+the+Ring3
[26] (Example 2) name:kr:Who+ate+all+the+Sing-A+that+was+so+much
[27] (Example 3) name:jp:sony
[28] As shown in (Example 1) and (Example 2), this invention can use novel title composed of multiple words as well as keyword composed of a single word as identifiers. In (Example 1 ), "kr" means two-digit international standard country code defined IS03166-1; and "kr" means Korea, "en" means China, "jp" means Japan, "sg" means Singapore and "us" means the United States of America. In IS03166-1 standard country code, country code in the world is expressed in two-digit English character.
[29] So far the syntax of a name identification number was defined. Here, a syntax for requesting name identification number that can be used on the address input window of a browser or input window of toolbar by users is defined. In the below example, the country code described between "[" and "]" is option. Accordingly, since B is an option in "A[ B ]", it can be interpreted as either A or A B.
[30] <Service Request> := <Name Identification Number> | <Simple Name Request> < Name Identification Number > := /* same with the previous definition */ <Simple Name Request> := <Name String> [ " <Country Code> ] <Country Code> := /* same with the previous definition 7
[31] The following is an example of correctly putting in the address input window of a browser by users according to the previously defined service request format. [32] (Example 1 ) name:kr:the Lord of a Ring
[33] (Example 2) the Lord of a Ring
[34] (Example 3) name:jp:sony
[35] (Example 4) sony/jp
[36] (Example 5) sony/us
[37] (Example 6) sony/sg
[38] (Example 7) name:kr:blog Chang Hyun A
[39] (Example 8) blog Chang Hyun A
[40] In the above (Example 1) & (Example 2), (Example 3) & (Example 4), and (Example 7) & (Example 8) bear the same meaning. Generally, users simply put in a name on the address window of a browser or input window of toolbar as shown in (Example 2) and the plug-in installed in the users' computers automatically resolves and processes the contents written by users in the format shown in (Example 1).
[41] Both (Example 3) and (Example 4) bear the same meaning and are the examples of requesting a service for a name identification number registered in Japan. Generally, users make a service request by using name and region(country) designated operator " together as shown in (Example 4). Region(country) designated operator 7" is an option and it is regarded as country code of service region is omitted when it is missing. (Example 2) is interpreted as "the Lord of the Ring/kr". In this case, standard country code defined in IS03166-6 is used. If users put "sony", it is identical to "sony/kr" and automatically resolved into "name:kr:sony" for processing. [Figure 6] is a screenshot of service request by putting in "sony" on the input window of a browser and [Figure 7] is an actual result for the request. As shown in [Figure 7], "sony" was automatically resolved into "name:kr:sony" for service. (Example 5) is an example of accessing Sony US site, and [Figure 8] shows an actual service request screenshot and [Figure 9] is a screenshot of service result. Even in this case, it is shown that "sony/us" was automatically resolved into "name:us:sony" for service. (Example 6) is an example of accessing sony Singapore site.
[42] (Example 7) and (Example 8) bear the same meaning and are the examples of applying this service to blog or mini-homepage that is currently popular among netizens. When users put in "blog Diabeditor" on the input window of a browser as shown in [Figure 10], users can access to the mini-homepage of "Diabeditor" as shown in [Figure 11]. [Figure 12] shows an example of screenshot when users put pointer of a mouse on the name identification number included in MS PowerPoint document; when it is clicked, the same service with putting in "blog Diabeditor" on the input window of a browser. Therefore, users can let people know their own mini-
homepage or blog by inserting name identification number into such documents as E- Mail, PDF, MS Office. [Figure 13] shows an example of how to use name identification number as linking information in an email. When users locate the pointer of a mouse on the name identification number, the linking information of name identification number is displayed on the lower left of a browser just like a URL link; when users click it, the result is the service delivery as shown in [Figure 11], which is the same result with directly putting in "blog Diabeditor" on the input window of a browser like [Figure 10].
[43] Up to now, syntax of name identification number, service request format to be used on the the input window of a browser and the function of using name identification number like existing URL link in HTML, MS Office, PDF, E-Mail were described; now overall service structure will be explained.
[44] The overall service flow is described in [Figure 1]. Above all, a service request using a name identification number is initiated by putting a name on the address window of a browser or input window of a toolbar as described in [Figure 3], putting in name identification number including a name as shown in [Figure 4] or clicking a name identification number included in such documents as email as shown in [Figure 5]. The client plug-in creates a name identification number by automatically changing the name put in the input window of a browser by users into the syntax of name identification number. For example, if a user puts in the name of a famous singer "Lee Hyo-ri" in the input window of a browser, the client plug-in changes it into "name:kr:Lee Hyo-ri(S1 Stage). In this case, "kr" in the syntax of a name identification number is called "Country Code" and this country code can be effectively utilized when international and overseas services are launched. Country code uses two-digit standard country code defined in the IS03166-1. For example, When the same keyword "Car" is serviced, it can be interpreted differently depending on each country. And, especially in the case of an English keyward, differentiation is necessary because the meaning can be company, product or person depending on each country. In the case of Chinese characters, different countries can have different meaning for them in Asia. Therefore, if a country code is used, the same name can be differentiated. For example, services can be differentiated such that "name:kr:CAR" is for the domestic service, "name:jp:CAR" is for the service in Japan, "name:cn:CAR" is for the service in China, "name:sg:CAR" is for the service in Singapore and "name:us:CAR" is for the service in the United States. In this invention, a name identification number with different country code is processed in the respective Local Resolution Server.
Therefore, for the same name, it is easy to provide service for each country.
[45] This invention allows users to get services by clicking a mouse without writing on the input window of a browser because a name identification number is inserted into HTML, XML, SGML, MS Office or PDF document. When users click a name identification number including a name, the plug-in prepares to provide a service just like putting in the relevant name on the input window of a browser(S2 Stage). At this point, the plug-in installed in users' computers transforms "name:" into such protocol format as "http:" so that a browser can process it. In the example of PDF document, When the pointer of a mouse moves to the words that name identification number is inserted, the linked information on name identification number is displayed on the screen so that users become aware of getting services by simple click. As explained, in the S2 stage, even using such viewer as Acrobat Reader or general document editor without using Internet web browsers produces same services as putting in the input window of a web browser. When users click a name identification number("name:kr:RFC2141") in Acrobat Reader, they can see the result document immediately. At this point, a browser is automatically executed, PDF Reader is executed in a browser and IETF RFC2141 document is displayed for users. This service can be conveniently utilized in such area as academic paper that is connected to much reference. Therefore, by clicking a name identification number inserted as a linking information, users can directly see the wanted documents or digital contents. In addition, in the case of HTML document, an information on name identification number like "name:kr:Matrix3" is displayed on the lower left of a browser when the pointer of a mouse is located on the name identification number. When this is clicked, a moving picture digital content is played just like putting in "Matrix3" on the address window of a browser as shown in [Figure 14]. [Figure 15] is the screen shot of service result for users' request when the link on [Figure 14] and a name identification number of HTML document is clicked. In this case, the relevant moving picture content is directly transmitted to users and it is immediately played by a multimedia player installed in users' PCs.
[46] When the previously described S1 Stage or S2 Stage is executed, users plug-in selects a resolution server for the execution of a service request (S3 Stage). And plug-in module sends a user's request (transformed Name Identification Number or Name Identifier) to the selected resolution server (S4). S1, S2, S3 and S4 Stages all happens in users' computers. The service request of a name identification number is sent to Local Resolution Server.
[47] The client plug-in module identifies service region/country number included in the prefix of a requested name identification number and designates a Local Resolution Server that will be responsible for final resolution service(S3 Stage). Even though a same keyword is requested, a service by country is possible. The keyword identifier included in the PDF document written in Japan should be interpreted to be managed in Japan and serviced as such. If a name identification number is 'name:jp:RFC2141', the client plug-in module recognizes it as a name identification number registered for service in Japan and relays the service request to a Local Resolution Server that is responsible for service in Japan. In this case, the service result can be an IETF RFC2141 PDF document translated into Japanese.
[48] The Local Resolution Server that will be responsible for processing user's name identification number searches metadata database that is managed together with name identification number and finds the information to be delivered to the user(S5 Stage). The metadata that is managed in the Local Resolution Server manages various information in addition to. web page URLs. For example, the name identification number of "name:kr:Lee Hyo-ri" can also manage such information as information as a singer, her homepage URL, location information of MP3 or music video on her popular content "10minutes", location information of shopping malls selling contents related to her, her email ID, homepage of her music publisher, etc. as well as her name "Lee Hyo-ri. [Figure 17] is an example of resulting screenshot for car brand name when "sm5" was put in the address window of a browser as illustrated in [Figure 16]. The resulting screenshot is composed of upper advertisement frame, menu fame at the below left part and main frame at the below right part and sent to users. Users can choose what they want in the service result screen. Screenshot [Figure 17] is an example of service and sent to users after being dynamically created. And, during the service, the composition of frame can be modified at any time. For this, a Local Resolution Server manages template for HTML document to be delivered as the result of service according to the type of name(personal name, organization name, content title, brand name, etc.) requested by users, reflects the result searched in the database into the template and sends it back to users after creating the final service result HTML document.
[49] A Local Resolution Server creates a HTML document based on metadata items found at the S5 stage to provide a service result for the name identification number requested by users and sends it to users(S6 Stage). The S6 Stage is serviced through a proxy server that is operated together with the Local Resolution Server. A
Proxy server enables a quick service by skipping S5 stage with the use of already cached result when the same name identification number that is previously serviced is requested; and, it conducts the function of creating and delivering HTML documents to be delivered to users. The HTML documents to be delivered to users can be changed anytime because it is created dynamically and can be modified for the display of commercial advertisement and service types of window frame. [50] The result of a name identification number request is received in the form of HTML document and executed on users' browsers. Users can choose what they want in the result screen(S7 Stage). Therefore, the relevant digital contents can be serviced as well as access to web pages. If those contents are freely available, music, movie, image, flash and animation can be directly serviced. In addition, users can send emails by selecting E-Mail ID(S8 Stage)
[Advantageous Effects]
[51] As previously described, the name identification number service of this invention enables the support for various new services by fundamentally improving the quality of existing keyword domain service and allows international service because it is compatible with URN resolution method that is currently standardized. In addition, because it has the function of digital content identifier, a name identification number can be inserted into various contents and distributed; users can get various services by mouse click without putting in keywords on the input window. When a name identification number is applied to a document, it can be used as relevant reference link; and, users can directly access the related document by clicking a name identification number while reading a document.
[52] Because this invention basically stemmed from the concept of digital contents identifier, it can be conveniently used under digital contents distribution environment. Users can directly move to the location of relevant homepage or content shopping malls if they remember the name of contents, author, performer name singer or actor; in the case of freely available contents, users can directly enjoy movie or music because the contents can be serviced right away; in the case of charged contents, it can contributes to the development of digital contents distribution industry because it can guide users to the places where they can purchase those contents. [Figure 15] is the screen shot that plays movie content as a result of putting in "Matrix3" on the address window of a browser. [Figure 18] is the example of charged content service; when "DaeJangKeun" (TV drama title) was put in on the address window of a browser,
users can be directed to the shopping malls for purchasing the relevant TV drama contents as shown in [Figure 19]. [53] Because this invention bore in mind global service and assigned country code in the syntax of a name identification number, global services can be launched in Japan, China, Singapore, USA, Europe, etc. as well as domestic service. This invention , in this URN era, proposes a method to create a new global service market by revealing a new access approach and a service connection approach.