KR100610225B1 - Method and system for online disk service capable of controlling contents offering count - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are an online disk service method and system capable of limiting the number of times a content is provided. The present invention relates to an online disk service method and system capable of limiting the number of contents provided. More particularly, the web / wap server manages information on usage history of contents provided to a terminal through an online disk. A method and system for achieving the same effect as storing the content without allocating storage. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and system for flexibly managing an online disk by limiting the number of times of providing content that can be provided through the online disk. The method may include providing contents through an online disk according to the contents providing step, recording the contents usage history, limiting the number of times of providing contents provided through an online disk and generating an online amount, and limiting the number of times of providing contents. do. Therefore, the web / wap server can use the remote space as if it is a hard disk drive in a user terminal system without allocating a large amount of storage, and can flexibly manage the online disk.

Terminal, content, online disk

Description

Online disk service method and system that can limit the number of times of content delivery {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE DISK SERVICE CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING CONTENTS OFFERING COUNT}

1 is a schematic diagram of an online disk service restriction system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flow chart of a method for creating an online disk capable of limiting the number of content provisions according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing an online disk service capable of limiting the number of content providing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a configuration diagram of a history table according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a terminal screen when creating an online disk according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is an online disk configuration diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a screen of a terminal at the time of providing an online disk service capable of limiting the number of contents provided according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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100: terminal 200: online disk service restriction system

230: Content Server 235: History Table

260 Web / Wwap server 265 Online disk

500: Recent content usage list screen 550: Content usage information screen

700: My Online Disc Screen

The present invention relates to an online disk service method and system capable of limiting the number of contents provided. More specifically, the web / wap server manages a list of contents of contents to be stored by a user through an online disk. The present invention relates to an online disk service method and system capable of limiting the number of times a content is provided to achieve the same effect as storing the content without a substantial mass storage in a swap server.

The present invention also relates to an online disk service method and system that can set the number of content provisions that can be provided through the online disk, thereby limiting the number of content provisions for flexibly managing the online disk.

As the Internet is widely spread, various various Internet services are provided.

In particular, in order to access the Internet service in the past, it was necessary to access the network through a wired terminal such as a computer, but as the owner of a wireless terminal such as a mobile phone becomes more common and the network develops, it is possible to access the Internet service through the wireless terminal. .

Accordingly, as the various contents provided through the Internet service become more diverse and the capacity of the contents that the user intends to store in the terminal increases, the necessity of increasing the storage of the terminal also arises, but it does not overcome the limitation.

Therefore, the time and space constraints are gradually reduced in providing the Internet service, while the time and space constraints are limited in accommodating the Internet services. In particular, contents provided through the service to a wireless terminal such as a mobile phone under a wireless environment are provided. Appears when data needs to be saved.

Currently, web hard services that can use remote storage space as hard disk drives in their own terminal systems are being utilized, but in order to provide such web hard services, a large amount of storage space is allocated from a server to provide the services. In addition to having to be equipped with a variety of equipment, etc. to be accompanied by a problem that requires a high investment cost.

In addition, the number of provisions for the information stored in the web hard cannot be limited, and thus, the web hard cannot be flexibly managed, and the same service charge is used for both the number of times of use and the number of times of use. There is a problem that unreasonable use of the service is charged for information having a low number of times of use.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to store only the usage list of the content to be stored in the web / swap server in the online disk of the web / swap server and to manage the content data It is to provide a method and system for achieving the same effect as storing the content data in the storage substantially on the online disk without a large amount of storage for storing the data.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to limit the number of times that the content can be provided through the online disk to charge the service usage in accordance with the number of providing, thereby providing a more flexible method for managing the online disk and To provide a system.

An online disk service system capable of limiting the number of times of providing content according to the present invention for achieving the above object, provides content to a terminal connected through a network, and provides a history of use of the provided content and the number of times of providing the content. A content server that records in a history table; Content usage history for content that is connected to the network and receives content storage request information from the terminal in association with the content server, a content pointer indicating a location where the content is stored, and a limit on the number of content provisions received from the terminal And a web / wap server for storing information on an online disk, wherein the content server records the number of provisions of the contents provided to the terminal through the online disk, and compares the number of recorded contents provisions with the number of limit of the contents provision. It is characterized in that the provision of the content to the terminal is restricted.

In addition, an online disk service method capable of limiting the number of content provisions according to the present invention for achieving the above object includes: a) a content server providing content to a terminal connected to the content server through a network, and the content for the content. Recording the usage history in a history table; b) receiving, by the web / wap server, the on-line disk creation request information and the information on the number of times of limiting the provision of content through the on-line disk from the terminal; c) when the content server receives the history table search request information from the web / wap server, the content table is searched to obtain a content pointer indicating a content usage history of the content and a location where the content is stored. Transferring to a swap server; d) storing, by the web / wap server, content usage history and content pointer information received from the content server, and content providing restriction number of times information received from the terminal on an online disk; e) the web / wap server receiving the content list information from the terminal, searching the online disk, and transmitting a content pointer corresponding to the content list information to the content server; And f) providing, by the content server, the content corresponding to the content pointer to the terminal and incrementing and recording the content provision frequency in the history table, after the request of the web / wap server. When the content is to be provided to the terminal, the number of content provisions recorded in the history table is compared with the number of content provision limitations stored in the online disk, and the content is provided to the terminal when the number of content provisions is less than the content provision limit count. Characterized in providing to.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments will be described in detail an online disk service method and system capable of limiting the number of times the present inventors provide. Like reference numerals designate like elements throughout the drawings.

1 is a schematic diagram of an online disk service system capable of limiting the number of times a content is provided according to an exemplary embodiment. As illustrated in FIG. 1, an online disk service system 200 capable of limiting the number of times of providing a content includes a content server 230 and a web / wap server 260.

The content server 230 provides various content services to the terminal 100 connected to the Internet through the network 300, and records usage history of the provided content service in the history table 235.

The terminal 100 is a web such as a wireless terminal 130 or a computer for accessing Internet services through a network 300 based on a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) such as a mobile phone. Based on this, the wired terminal 160 for connecting to the Internet service through the network 300 is collectively.

In addition, the content is a concept that collectively refers to a variety of information or the contents of the various texts, codes, voices, sounds, images, video, etc. to produce, process and distribute digitally, in particular, the content server is VOD (Video on demand: It is desirable to be able to provide a multimedia content service that allows a user to watch a video that he / she wants to watch without time and space constraints.

On the other hand, the history table 235 records the usage history of the content service provided by the content server 230 to the terminal 100 and the number of times the content 450 provided through the online disk 265 is recorded. Where, the usage history is composed of data such as the terminal ID (410, 415), the content code number 420 and the capacity 430 and the connection date 440, the terminal 100 is a web (web) When accessing the content server 230 through the user ID is preferably substituted for the terminal ID (410, 415).

Each of the components and the management method of the history table 235 will be described in detail later with reference to FIG. 3.

The web / wap server 260 is connected to the network 300 and interworked with the content server 230 to store a request for storage through the terminal 100 among contents of contents recorded in the history table 235. Extracting the usage history of the received content, and further includes a content pointer 615 for indicating the location information that the content provided to the terminal 100 is stored in the online disk 265.

In addition, the number of times for providing the content for limiting the number of times 450 for providing the content provided through the online disk 265 is stored.

Meanwhile, the network 300 may be connected to the wired 160 or wireless 130 terminal 100 based on the web or the swap, and may be connected to the web / wap server 260. It is desirable to.

Next, an online disk service method capable of limiting the number of content provisions for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail.

2 is a flowchart of an online disk creation method capable of limiting the number of times of providing content according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an online disk service providing method of limiting the number of times of providing content according to an embodiment of the present invention. 4 is a configuration diagram of a history table according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 5 is a terminal screen when creating an online disk according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is an online disk according to an embodiment of the present invention. 7 is a block diagram of a terminal when providing an online disk service capable of limiting the number of contents provided according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, an online disk service method capable of limiting the number of content provisions 450 to be described below includes an application program for implementing the service in the terminal 100 of a user who wants to use the service. It is assumed that the subscriber is registered as a subscriber of the online disk service system 200 that provides the service.

As shown in FIG. 2, the terminal 100 accesses a content server 230 that provides content such as a VOD through the network 300.

When the terminal user requests a content providing method by selecting a desired content list from among various various contents provided by the content server 230 (S210), the content server 230 transmits the content data selected by the user to the terminal. It transmits to the 100 to provide a content service (S220).

Thereafter, the content server 230 records usage history of the provided content service in the history table 235 (S230).

The usage history recorded in the history table 235 is as shown in Figure 4 terminal ID (410, 415), content code number 420, content capacity 430, access date 440 and the number of times of providing content ( 450).

The terminal IDs 410 and 415 serve as authentication numbers for accessing the content server 230 as designated numbers of the terminal 100. When the terminal 100 is a mobile phone, the terminal ID ( 310 and 315 are telephone numbers assigned to the cellular phone and are composed of a first identification number (hereinafter referred to as "MIN 1") 310 and a second identification number 315 (hereinafter referred to as "MIN 2"). It is preferable.

That is, when the telephone number of the cellular phone is "010-XXX-YYYY", the MIN 1 310 is "010" and the MIN 2 315 is "XXX-YYYY".

The content code number 320 is a number assigned to identify each content service provided to the terminal 100, and may be arbitrarily assigned according to the convenience of the content server 230.

The content capacity 330 refers to storage occupied by content, which is data that can present appropriate online disk storage when a user registers as an online disk service subscriber and attempts to set up my online disk storage 571.

The access date 440 is a date when the content server 230 provides a content service to the terminal 100. The access date 440 records the access date 440 so as to know the content list 420 recently used or the content list used by date. In this case, it becomes data that can be provided to the user's terminal screen.

On the other hand, the content providing frequency 450 is a list for recording the number of times the content is provided to the terminal 100 through the online disk 265 after the online disk 265 is generated. .

  Based on the data list, the history table 235 after providing the content is managed in the following manner.

For example, when the terminal 100 is a mobile phone, the history table 265 is largely divided into three digits "MIN 1" 410 such as "010", "011" and "016". And "MIN 2" 415, such as "XXX-YYYY" which is the remaining phone number except for the three digit area codes according to each "MIN 1" 410.

The terminal 100 corresponding to each terminal ID 410 and 415 according to the phone number determined by the "MIN 1" 410 and the "MIN 2" 415, that is, the terminal IDs 410 and 415. ), The content code number 420, the content capacity 430, and the access date 440 are recorded.

If the content server 230 provided a VOD service having a content ID of "001" and a capacity of "1.4 GB" to a mobile phone having a telephone number of "010-123-5678" on May 27, 2004, As shown in FIG. 4, the usage history of the content service is recorded in the history table 235.

At this time, it is preferable that the recording of the content providing frequency 450 remains unchanged, which will be described in detail below.

This is not limited to the above method, and it is preferable that the application is appropriately arranged and managed according to the convenience of the administrator.

The usage history recorded in the history table 235 is provided on the terminal screen 500 or 450 of the user through the recent content usage list 520 and the content usage information 570 as shown in FIG. 5. In the recent content usage list screen 500, it is preferable to present a content list corresponding to the content code number 420 according to the access date 440 data recorded in the history table 235.

In addition, the content usage information screen 570 is provided when the user wants to know detailed information of the content list 525 selected by the user among the presented content lists through the menu 540 at the bottom of the recent content usage list screen 525. do.

The user can efficiently manage his / her online disk 720 through the content capacity 572 and the remaining storage 573 information presented on the content usage information screen 550.

Meanwhile, the content corresponding to the content list 525 selected by the user through the menu 540 may be stored in the online disk 265 provided by the user terminal 100 or the web / wap server 260.

When the user selects the content list (525) and selects the menu (542) with My Online Disk, the terminal (100) is connected to the web / wafer server (260) via the network (300) and the web / wafer server (260) Receive online disk 265 creation request information.

The terminal 100 transmits the request information for generating the online disk 265 and provides content for limiting the number of times 450 of contents to be provided through the online disk 265 after the online disk 265 is generated. The limited number of times 620 is transmitted (S240).

On the other hand, the limited number of times provided for content 450 does not limit the number of times provided for each content managed by the online disk 265 or the limited number of times provided for each content without limiting all the content managed by the online disk 265 You can limit the number of times the offer is provided.

Then, the web / wap server 260 makes a request to search the history table 235 to the content server 230 (S250).

The content server 230 receiving the search request information of the history table 235 searches the history table 235 and uses the contents of the content corresponding to the content list 425, that is, the terminal as illustrated in FIG. 4. It extracts and transmits data such as "content code number 001", "content capacity 1.4 GB" and "connection date 4th May 2004" corresponding to ID "MIN 1 is 010" and "MIN 2 is 123-5678". (S260).

The web / wap server 260 receives the data and stores the data on the online disk 265 together with the limited number of times of providing content 620 received from the terminal 100.

In addition, the content pointer 615 indicating a location where the content data corresponding to the usage history extracted in addition to the usage history is also stored is preferably stored to generate the online disk 265 (S270).

That is, the online disk 265 is created as shown in FIG.

This is necessary when data that is managed by the online disk 265 later is downloaded to the terminal 100, that is, data required to provide the content to the terminal 100 through the online disk 265. Detailed description will be described below in detail with reference to FIG.

Next, a description will be given in detail of a method for receiving content using an online disk generated by the above method.

As shown in FIG. 3, when downloading the content managed by the online disk 265 to the terminal 100, the terminal 100 is connected to the web / wap server 260 via the network 300. Connect.

Then, the web / wap server 260 provides the content list according to the terminal 100 managed by the online disk 265 through the terminal 100 to the online disk screen 700.

Subsequently, the user selects the content list 722 to be downloaded through the online disk screen 700 of the user, and selects the download 742 of the menu 740 to the web / wap server 260. 722 is transmitted (S310).

Then, the web / wap server 260 searches the online disk 265 (S320) and transmits a content pointer "a" 615 of the content corresponding to the content list 722 to the content server 230 ( S330).

Next, the content server 230 finds a location where the content is stored through the received content pointer 615.

And comparing the number of times of providing contents recorded in the history table with the number of times of providing contents recorded on the online disk with respect to the contents, when the number of times of providing contents is smaller than the number of times of providing contents, the terminal 100 (S340).

If the number of times for providing the content and the number of times for providing the content are the same, the content server does not transmit the content to the terminal.

Subsequently, the content server increases the number of times of providing content to the history table (S350).

If the content server fails to provide the content, the content providing frequency is preferably not increased.

In operation S330, the web / wap server 260 simultaneously stores the online disk storage 571, the content capacity 572, the remaining storage 573, the access date 574, the limited number of times of providing the offer, and the number of available times of providing. It is preferable to transmit data such as 576 to the terminal 100.

On the other hand, when the terminal 100 is connected to the web / swap server via a web (web) with a wired terminal 160, such as a computer, the user ID to the content usage history in place of the terminal ID (310, 315) Preferably utilized.

In addition, the process of creating the online disk 265 and downloading the content managed by the online disk 265 may be performed by the wireless 130 and the wired terminal 160 or the network 300 through web and swap. It is preferred that can be performed interchangeably.

As described above, the present invention provides an online disk service method and system capable of limiting the number of contents provided, so that the storage of the remote device can be used as if the storage of the user's terminal can be used to overcome the storage limitation of the terminal. .

In particular, the online disk of the web / wap server does not actually store the contents, but stores the usage history and the content pointer of the contents to provide the contents to the terminals by interworking with the contents server. The content may be stored in duplicate.

Therefore, the web / wap server can achieve the same effect as the online disk of the web / wap server storing content data without having to build a large amount of storage, thereby providing a system for implementing a service at low cost. There is an effect that can be built.

In addition, since the number of times of providing content that can be provided through the online disk can be limited, the online disk can be managed more flexibly.

Accordingly, the online disk service usage charges can be efficiently managed such that the contents of which the importance is low and the number of provisions of which the number of provisions are set to be low are reduced.                     

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that various modifications or changes can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims (6)

A content server providing content to a terminal through a network, and recording a content usage history of the provided content and the number of times the content is provided in a history table; And Content usage history for content that is connected to the network and receives content storage request information from the terminal in association with the content server, a content pointer indicating a location where the content is stored, and a limit on the number of content provisions received from the terminal Includes a web / wap server that stores information on an online disk, The content server records the number of times the content is provided to the terminal through the online disk, and compares the number of times the recorded content is provided with the number of times the content is provided to limit the content to the terminal. Online disk service system with limited number of times. The method of claim 1, wherein the content usage history is And a terminal ID or a user ID of the terminal, a content code number, content capacity, and access date data. a) providing a content by a content server to a terminal accessing the content server through a network, and recording a content usage history of the content in a history table; b) receiving, by the web / wap server, the on-line disk creation request information and the information on the number of times of limiting the provision of content through the on-line disk from the terminal; c) when the content server receives the history table search request information from the web / wap server, the content table is searched to obtain a content pointer indicating a content usage history of the content and a location where the content is stored. Transferring to a swap server; d) storing, by the web / wap server, content usage history and content pointer information received from the content server, and content providing restriction number of times information received from the terminal on an online disk; e) the web / wap server receiving the content list information from the terminal, searching the online disk, and transmitting a content pointer corresponding to the content list information to the content server; And f) providing, by the content server, the content corresponding to the content pointer to the terminal and incrementing and recording the content providing frequency in the history table, Subsequently, when the content is to be provided to the terminal at the request of the web / wap server, the number of content provisions is determined by comparing the number of provisions of contents recorded in the history table with the limit of provisions of contents stored on the online disk. An online disk service method capable of limiting the number of times of providing content, wherein the content is provided to the terminal when the number of times of providing is limited. delete The method of claim 3, wherein the content usage history is And the terminal ID or the user ID of the terminal, the content code number, the content capacity, the access date data, and the number of times the content is provided. The method of claim 5, wherein the history table retrieval process of step c) The content server receives the terminal ID or the user ID from the web / wap server, And a content code number assigned to the terminal ID or the user ID, the content capacity, and the access date data.

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