KR100500363B1 - Method For Providing An Information Of Book On Internet - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of providing book information on the Internet for managing an image file and book information created by a publisher system, while providing an image file and book information for the book to a user terminal. The purpose is. To this end, the present invention provides a book information providing method on the Internet applied to the information providing system, the book information providing system 20, the first step of storing the book information and the book image produced from the original book publication; A second step of receiving, by the book information providing system 20, information about a book unique number (ISBN) and search request for the book unique number (ISBN) from a book information providing program installed in the user terminal 40; A third step of searching, by the book information providing system 20, whether book information corresponding to a book identification number (ISBN) exists in the book information storage unit 23; And when the book information corresponding to the book unique number (ISBN) is in the book information storage unit 23, images of the book stored in the information and the image storage unit 24 are stored. A fourth step of transmitting to the book information providing program executed in the user terminal 40.

Description

Method for Providing An Information Of Book On Internet}

The present invention relates to a method of providing book information on the Internet.

With the development of science and technology and the widespread use of the Internet, commerce through the Internet is increasing, so that books purchased only offline can be purchased through the Internet.

On the other hand, the sales of books on the Internet are steadily increasing, and the ultimate reason for the rapid increase in the sales of books on the Internet in the entire book sales market is the convenient search for books and relatively lower prices than the offline bookstores. can do.

However, one of the reasons why the book sales market using the Internet is not activated is that there is a drawback that the contents of the books are not actually displayed through the Internet. That is, users can search for books online, but in order to see the contents and composition of the books directly, they must find an offline bookstore, and many of them buy books directly from the offline bookstore.

On the other hand, Internet bookstores that analyze the user's patterns as described above are trying to increase the book sales rate through the Internet by allowing users to check the contents and composition of the book online using the two methods described below.

Hereinafter, a method of providing book information on the Internet provided by conventional Internet bookstores will be described with reference to FIGS. 1A and 1B and FIGS. 2A and 2B.

1A and 1B illustrate an example of a method of scanning and providing an image of a book in a conventional method of providing book information on the Internet. FIG. 1A is a view illustrating a work flow viewed from an Internet bookstore's point of view. This is the state of work flow from the publisher's point of view.

First, as illustrated in FIG. 1A, the A Internet bookstore contacts various publishers (I, II, III) to request sample books, and the publisher provides the A Internet bookstore with samples of the books published by the publisher. do. A bookstore provided with sample books from each publisher will open the book, scan the image, edit the scanned book's image in a suitable format, and provide it online to users. That is, the above method has a problem in that the Internet bookstore has to go through a complicated process of contacting the publishers and scanning them by receiving sample books of the books published by the publisher.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 1B, the publisher I also needs to provide books published by each Internet bookstore A, B, and C, so that additional work and expenses are required. This will occur.

2A and 2B illustrate an example of a method of providing a book information by generating a PDF file of a book in a conventional method of providing book information on the Internet, and FIG. 2A illustrates a process of generating a PDF file of a book by a publisher. 2b shows the state of work flow viewed from the publisher's point of view.

First, as shown in Fig. 2a, each publisher purchases a program for creating a PDF file to produce a PDF file for the books they publish, or directly produce a PDF file or request a PDF professional manufacturer. Since there is a need to create a PDF file for a book, there is a problem of adding a separate cost and work process.

In addition, as illustrated in FIG. 2B, even if each publisher produces a PDF file, as mentioned in the description of FIG. 1B, a PDF file of books published by each publisher must be provided to all Internet bookstores separately. The problem arises that additional work and costs of the company are required.

In other words, both the method of scanning the image of the book described above and providing the service and the method of producing the PDF file and providing the service are not only complicated in the method and procedure in producing and distributing the content, but also incur additional costs. In addition, there is a problem in that the burden of additional servers is added at a considerable cost in each Internet bookstore in order to overcome the burden of additional servers in providing services in the Internet bookstore.

The present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, the book information providing system manages the image file and the book information created by the publisher system, while the book information providing system through the system in cooperation with the book information providing system The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method of providing book information on the Internet for providing an image file and book information on the book to the user terminal when a request is made to view an image file and book information.

The present invention for achieving the above object is, in the book information providing method on the Internet applied to the information providing system, the book information providing system 20, the book information and the book image produced from the original book publications publisher system ( A first step of receiving the information from the book information storage unit 23 and the image storage unit 24; A second step in which the book information providing system 20 receives a book unique number (ISBN) and search request information on the book unique number (ISBN) from a book information providing program installed in the user terminal 40; A third step of searching, by the book information providing system, whether book information corresponding to the book unique number (ISBN) is in a book information storage unit (23); And providing information on the book and images of the book stored in the image storage unit 24 when the book information corresponding to the book unique number (ISBN) is in the book information storage unit 23. A fourth step is transmitted by the system 20 to the book information providing program executed in the user terminal 40.

In addition, the present invention provides a book information providing method on the Internet applied to the information providing system, the book information provided from the Internet bookstore system 30 by a user connected to the Internet bookstore system 30 through the user terminal 40 Search for information about the desired book and clicks the button 200, the book information providing program executed by the book information providing program execution request transmitted from the Internet bookstore system 30 to the user terminal 40 is provided. A first step of receiving, by the program, the book unique number (ISBN) for the book from the Internet bookstore system (30); A second step of transmitting, by the book information providing program, a signal for requesting to retrieve book information corresponding to the book unique number (ISBN) and the book unique number (ISBN) to a book information providing system (20); The book information providing program that receives the book information and the image corresponding to the book unique number (ISBN) from the book information providing system 20 outputs the book information and the image through the monitor of the user terminal 40. A third step is included.

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

Figure 3a is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the information providing system to which the present invention is applied, Figure 3b is an embodiment input screen that can input the book information and images applied to the present invention, the book information providing system 20 This is a capture screen of one embodiment of a running web page.

That is, the information providing system to which the present invention is applied includes a publisher system 10 operated by a publisher publishing a book, an internet bookstore system 30 for providing book information to a user, and the publisher system. The book information providing system 20 for receiving book information from the Internet bookstore and providing information on the book through the Internet bookstore when the book information inquiry request is received from the user through the Internet bookstore. And a user terminal 40 for accessing the Internet bookstore system.

First, the publisher systems 10 own book publication originals and extract book information and images from book publication originals. Extracting book information and images from the original book publication is done using a program used by the publisher for editing without the support of a separate program or equipment.

Next, the book information providing system 20 is the book information and images (images showing the core of the contents of the book, the image showing the description of the book, etc.) produced by the publisher system 10 (hereinafter, the same ) And provide the book information and images to the user terminal 40 through the Internet bookstore system 30.

That is, the publisher system 10 creates the book information and the image through the above process, accesses the website of the book information providing system 20 through a web browser of a terminal capable of internet connection, and then logs in the book information and Go to the image input screen to register the book information and the image created through the above process.

Meanwhile, the types of registered book information are book titles, book ISBNs, book introductions, author greetings, table of contents, and the like. Book images are original images of books for showing books. The registered book information is stored in the book information storage unit 23 of the book information providing system 20 and the book image is stored and managed in the image storage unit 24.

In addition, the website operation of the above-mentioned book information providing system 20 is managed through the webpage operation unit 25, the control unit 22 through the interface 21, publisher system 10, Internet bookstore system ( 30, communication with the user terminal 40 can be performed, and communication between the units 23 to 25 is controlled.

In this case, the screen illustrated in FIG. 3B is an embodiment input screen for inputting book information and images from a homepage operated through the webpage operating unit 25 of the book information providing system 20.

Next, the Internet bookstore system 30 requests the user terminal 40 to display book information and images stored in the book information providing system 20 by a business agreement with the book information providing system 20. Perform the function of sending to.

That is, the book information and the image are stored and managed in the book information storage unit 23 and the image storage unit 24 of the book information providing system 20, and the Internet bookstore system 30 stores the basic information about the book. While operating a web page to provide and a web page in charge of the purchase process for the book, while only the web page (Fig. 5a) that allows the user to request the book information providing system 20 specific information and images about the book To operate.

In other words, the book information and images produced by the publisher system 10 are not stored in the Internet bookstore system 30, but users want books through web pages (FIG. 5A) operated by the Internet bookstore system 30. Information and images are requested, and the requested book information and images are transmitted from the book information providing system 20.

The user who receives and reads the book information and the image through the above process can purchase the book again through the book purchase webpage operated by the Internet bookstore system 30.

On the other hand, the publisher system 10 may be directly responsible for the function of the Internet bookstore system 30. That is, the publisher system 10 may sell books online in the same manner as the Internet bookstore system 30 operates while book information and images are stored in the book information providing system 20. will be.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing book information on the Internet according to an embodiment of the present invention, and a process of delivering book information and a book image to users visiting a website of the Internet bookstore system 30 or the publisher system 10. It is shown.

First, a user accesses a website of an Internet bookstore system 30 or a publisher system 10 through the Internet using a browser of a user terminal 40, and uses a book search engine or moves through a general web page. The book is searched for (402). Hereinafter, a case in which the user accesses the Internet bookstore system 30 will be described as an example. However, the same may be applied to the publisher system 10 as described above.

After searching for the desired book, the user goes to the introduction page (FIG. 5A) of the book operated by the Internet bookstore system 30 (404). The book introduction page (FIG. 5A) is provided with a book information view button (No. 200 of FIG. 5A) along with general information of the book selected by the user.

When the book information view button 200 is first clicked through the user terminal 40, the book information providing program installation file stored in the book information providing system 30 is automatically downloaded and installed in the user terminal 40. 406, the book information providing program is automatically executed after the installation (408). At this time, when the book information view button 200 is clicked again later, the book information providing program is immediately executed because the program is already installed in the user's terminal 40 (408).

Meanwhile, as the book information providing program installed in the user's terminal 40 is executed, the ISBN information of the book selected by the user (a unique number given to books produced worldwide according to internationally standardized methods) (hereinafter, simply referred to as "ISBN Information "is transferred from the Internet bookstore system 30 to the book information providing program of the user terminal 40 (410).

In this case, the book information providing program requests the book information providing system 200 to search for information and images of the book using the ISBN information (412).

The book information providing system 20 searches for book information and an image matching the ISBN through the book information storage unit 23 and the image storage unit 24, and then retrieves the retrieved book information and image from the user terminal 40. The book information providing program is transmitted to the book information providing program (414), and the book information providing program is provided to the user through the monitor of the user terminal 40 (416).

At this time, the number of clicks of the book searched by the user is increased and stored in the book statistics table in the book information storage unit 23, and the book statistics information is connected to the book information providing system 20 in the Internet. The bookstore system 30 or the publisher system 10 may be provided. That is, the statistical information on the interest of the user and the flow of the book market may be provided by date, field, publisher, and website by using the book statistical information.

In addition, the image of the book is not immediately deleted from the user terminal 40 after the end of the book information providing program, but when the user later retrieves the book again image storage unit 24 of the book information providing system 20 In order to reduce the load of reloading from the may be stored in the image storage folder of the user terminal 40 for a certain period (about 10 days). On the other hand, the stored image may be automatically deleted after a certain period (about 10 days) through the automatic process of the book information providing program.

Meanwhile, hereinafter, the contents mentioned in the description of FIG. 4 will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 5A and 5B and FIGS. 6A to 6H.

FIG. 5A is a screenshot of an embodiment of an introduction page for a book among web pages operated by the Internet bookstore system 30 applied to the present invention, and FIG. 5B is provided by a book information providing system 20 applied to the present invention. This is an example of statistical data. 6A to 6G are exemplary views illustrating various operation screens of a book information providing program applied to the present invention, and FIG. 6H is an exemplary view of a book purchase page among web pages operated by the Internet bookstore system applied to the present invention. . Hereinafter, for convenience of description, a method in which a user accesses the Internet bookstore system 30 and reads book information will be described. However, the same may be applied to the case in which the user accesses the publisher system 10 as described above.

A user accesses a website of the Internet bookstore system 30 through a web browser of a user terminal 40 capable of internet, searches for a book (402), and then obtains an information page for a desired book (hereinafter, simply referred to as a "book introduction page"). (404). In this case, an example of the book information page is illustrated in FIG. 5A.

That is, when the book information view button 200 is clicked on the book introduction page operated by the Internet bookstore system 30 as shown in FIG. 5A, first, it is automatically determined whether the book information providing program is installed in the user terminal 40. If it is installed, the version of the book information providing program currently installed in the user terminal 40 is checked. If the book information providing program is not installed or the book information providing program is not the latest version, the latest installation program stored in the book information providing system 20 is automatically downloaded and installed (406). 408 is executed. When the book information providing program is executed, the first screen of the book information providing program as shown in FIG. 6A is driven through the user terminal 40.

When the book information providing program is executed 408, the book information providing program receives the website information of the Internet bookstore system 30 visited by the user and the ISBN information of the selected book from the internet bookstore system 30 (410).

The book information providing program transmits dual priority ISBN information to the book information providing system 20 to request the book information providing system 20 to search for the book information storing unit 23 (412).

At this time, the control unit 22 of the book information providing system 20 checks (412) whether the ISBN information of the book exists in the book information storage unit 23 of the book information providing system 20 and checks the information of the book. If the information does not exist, the message "No information on the book" is transmitted to the book information providing program of the user terminal 40 to be outputted, and the book information storage unit prints the ISBN code of the book without information. Store in (23). The reason for this is to ensure that information and images of books that users frequently search are prioritized over other general books. In addition, the book information providing program is automatically terminated after increasing the number of clicks on the day of the book in the statistics table by one.

If the ISBN code of the book exists in the book information storage unit 23, the controller 22 increases the number of clicks of the book on the book statistics table by one day.

In this case, the increase in the number of clicks on the day of the book as described above is because the number of clicks of the book selected by the user can be stored by date to be used as statistical data to grasp the user's interest and the flow of the book market. 5B illustrates an example of statistical information provided to the publisher system 10 or the Internet bookstore system 30 through the book information providing system 20.

The controller 22 of the book information providing system 20 stores statistical information, and then introduces the corresponding book, the greeting of the author, the table of contents, the best related field, the new related book, the reader review, the best publisher, the new publishing company, and the publishing company. Information and images of books and publishers such as books are searched in the book information storage unit 23 and the image storage unit 24, and the retrieved book information and images are transferred to the book information providing program of the user terminal 40 (414). ).

In this case, the user may check the information of the related book and the content image of the book through the book information providing program of the user terminal 40 (416).

Meanwhile, as described above, the drawings illustrated in FIGS. 6A to 6G illustrate various capture screens of a book information providing program applied to the present invention. That is, various examples of the book information providing program that is executed when the user clicks the view book information 200 button on the book introduction page (FIG. 5A) of the Internet bookstore system 30, the book introduction page ( 5a) is output in the pop-up window format.

First, FIG. 6A is a first cover screen of a book information providing program.

In this case, as shown in the drawing, the first cover screen of the book information providing program may show a logo 201 of the publisher or the Internet bookstore, event information 202 of the publisher or the Internet bookstore.

In addition, at the top of the book information providing program, a button 203 for moving to the first cover page of the book, a button 204 for moving to the previous page of the book, a button 205 for moving to the next page of the book, a book A button 206 for moving to the last chapter of the book and a minimize and close button 208 for the book information providing program may be provided.

In addition, a button 207 may be further provided to move to a purchase page of a book of a corresponding website when a book is purchased, and an example of a book purchase page of the Internet bookstore system 30 is illustrated in FIG. 6H. .

Also, reference numeral 209 denotes a cover of the book, and reference numeral 210 performs the same function as the button 205 for moving to the next page described above. That is, when the button 205 for moving to the next page or the portion corresponding to the reference numeral 210 is clicked, the screen moves to the next page, and the sound that turns the book along with the screen that seems to turn the actual bookshelf is provided as the sound effect.

Next, FIG. 6B is a second page screen of the book information providing program, and when the user moves to the next page from the front cover of the first screen shown in FIG. 6A, various information about the Internet bookstore, the publisher, and the book are provided.

That is, on the second page screen of the book information providing program, a picture 221 indicating the logo and event advertisement content of the Internet bookstore system 30 and a notice 222 of the website of the Internet bookstore system 30 are displayed. Etc. may be included.

In this case, the figure 221 and the notice 222 are not input from the book information providing system 20, but are related to the Internet bookstore system 30 that performs services in cooperation with the book information providing system 20. The content is input through the web site of the book information providing system 20. In this case, the input contents are displayed through the book information providing program.

In addition, the related field best five 223 shown in the figure is to provide information on the best five related fields with the increased statistical information when executing the book information providing program, and the related field new book 5 224 is a book. The book information DB of the information providing system 20 provides new information related fields 5 based on the release date of the book.

Also, reference numeral 225 performs a function similar to the previous button 204 shown in FIG. 6A as a function of returning to the previous page.

In addition, as shown in the figure, in addition to the above-described matters, various pieces of information may be included in the second page of the book information providing program.

Next, Figure 6c is a third page screen of the book information providing program, contents introduction 241, author greeting 242, table of contents 243 and the like are provided. In this case, the contents are provided to the user in a state in which the book information providing system 20 receives the book information providing system 20 from the publisher system 30 and stores them in the book information storage unit 23. In this case, when the provided content is larger than the size of the screen, the scroll 244 may be automatically generated to move up and down to check the content.

Next, FIG. 6D is a fourth page screen of the book information providing program, from which the book information providing system 20 shows an image 250 of an actual book provided from the publisher system 10.

That is, the image of the book as shown in FIG. 6D may be configured as about 10 pieces of sample images provided online from the publisher system 10, and users may check the contents and the composition of the book while moving to the next chapter. will be.

However, it is not suitable to check the details because it shows a reduced image of the actual image through the screen of the user terminal 40, for this purpose, the Zoom In and Zoom Out functions are provided, and the function is described in FIG. The screen is shown.

That is, FIG. 6E illustrates the operation states of Zoom In and Zoom Out. When a user clicks a book image of a desired content, the corresponding page is zoomed out to the entire screen of the book information providing program. It was made to move up and down to check the details. In addition, when the enlarged image is clicked again, it may return to the original screen (Zoom In).

Next, FIG. 6F illustrates a scroll button 261 automatically appearing on the zoomed out screen as an actual screen of the zoomed out book information providing program. In this case, when the zoomed-out screen is clicked as described above, the screen may be returned to the original screen.

Next, FIG. 6G is a last page screen of the book information providing program. After viewing all pages provided by the book information providing program, the book information providing program is terminated by pressing the close button among the minimize and close buttons 208. do.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and various modifications and changes can be made by those skilled in the art, which are included in the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims.

The present invention provides users with comprehensive contents of books on the Internet in a different way from the existing methods, so that the publisher can promote not only the publisher but also the published books in more various ways. Has an excellent effect of providing high quality contents to readers without any additional cost, thereby increasing customer satisfaction and increasing profits.

In addition, publishers or Internet bookstores have the advantage of reducing the cost of systems, administrators, and operators required to maintain a database of numerous books.

In addition, by using the statistical information collected in the database of the book information providing system to grasp the flow of the book market and the trend of users, it can be used not only for the sales and the number of sales of books, but also for the management activities of the Internet bookstores and publishers. It works.

In addition, from the users' perspective, the impression that images or PDF files give is not a real book, but a flat feeling of simply checking the contents of the book in A4 format. will be.

1A and 1B illustrate an example of a method of scanning and providing an image of a book in a conventional method of providing book information on the Internet.

2A and 2B are exemplary views illustrating a method of providing a book information by generating a PDF file of a book in a method of providing book information on a conventional Internet.

Figure 3a is an embodiment configuration of an information providing system to which the present invention is applied.

Figure 3b is an embodiment input screen that can input the book information and the image applied to the present invention.

4 is a flowchart of one embodiment of a method for providing book information on the Internet according to the present invention;

Figure 5a is a screenshot of an embodiment of the introduction page for the book of the web page operated by the Internet bookstore system 30 applied to the present invention.

5B is an exemplary view of statistical data provided by the book information providing system 20 applied to the present invention.

6A to 6G illustrate various operation screens of a book information providing program applied to the present invention.

Figure 6h is an example of a book purchase page of the web page operated by the Internet bookstore system applied to the present invention.

Claims (5)

In the book information providing method on the Internet applied to the information providing system, A first step in which the book information providing system 20 receives the book information and the book image produced from the original book publication from the publisher system 10 and stores the book information in the book information storage unit 23 and the image storage unit 24; A second step in which the book information providing system 20 receives a book unique number (ISBN) and search request information on the book unique number (ISBN) from a book information providing program installed in the user terminal 40; A third step of searching, by the book information providing system, whether book information corresponding to the book unique number (ISBN) is in a book information storage unit (23); And When book information corresponding to the book unique number (ISBN) is in the book information storage unit 23, the book information providing system includes images of the information and the images stored in the image storage unit 24. A fourth step (20) of transmitting to the book information providing program executed in the user terminal (40); Including but not limited to: The book information providing system 20, At least one of the number of readings of the book corresponding to the book unique number (ISBN) received from the book information providing program, the publisher of the book, reading time information, reading date information, book field, and website information A fifth step of using the statistical data and providing the statistical data request from the publisher system 10 or a business partnership internet bookstore system 30; More, When a user who accesses the Internet bookstore system 30 through the user terminal 40 searches for book information provided by the Internet bookstore system 30 and clicks the view book information 200 button for a desired book, the Internet The book information providing program executed by the book information providing program execution request transmitted from the bookstore system 30 to the user terminal 40 is a book unique number (ISBN) for the book from the Internet bookstore system 30. Receiving a transmission; Transmitting, by the book information providing program, a signal requesting to retrieve the book unique number (ISBN) and book information corresponding to the book unique number (ISBN) to a book information providing system (20); The book information providing program that receives the book information and the image corresponding to the book unique number (ISBN) from the book information providing system 20 outputs the book information and the image through the monitor of the user terminal 40. And providing book information on the Internet. delete delete The method of claim 1, The book information and the image received by the book information providing program from the book information providing system 20 are produced by the publisher system 10 from the original book publication, and the book information providing system 20 is connected to the publisher system ( 10) Method of providing book information on the Internet, characterized in that received from the storage and management. The method according to claim 1 or 4, The Internet bookstore system 30 provides only basic information about the book without storing detailed information and image information about the book, and the user wants detailed information and image information about the book. Transmits the book's unique number (ISBN) with a command to execute a book information providing program to the user terminal 40 used by the user, and performs a purchase procedure when the user requests to purchase the book. Book information providing method on the Internet, characterized in that.