KR101082671B1 - Web service providing system and web service providing method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a web service providing system capable of providing a smooth web service by effectively checking whether a corresponding terminal device has an execution environment capable of executing a web service when providing a new web service to an arbitrary terminal device. Disclosed are a method of providing a web service, a terminal device supporting the same, and a web service server. The web service providing system according to the present invention may store execution environment condition information including at least one of necessary software information and necessary hardware information for executing a predetermined web service, and if a predetermined event is input from an arbitrary terminal device. A web service server for confirming whether the execution environment condition is equipped to the terminal device based on the execution environment condition information, and when the confirmation request is received from the web service server, the preloaded software and hardware are searched for. And a terminal device including a built-in web server that returns a result of confirming whether or not the execution environment condition corresponds to the web service server.

Web service, execution environment, software, embedded web server

Description

Web Service Provision System and Web Service Provision Method {WEB SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND WEB SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD}

The present invention relates to a web service providing system. More particularly, when providing a new web service to any terminal device in a wireless mobile communication environment, whether or not the terminal device has an execution environment for executing the web service is provided. The present invention relates to a web service providing system and a web service providing method capable of providing a smooth web service by checking effectively, and a terminal device and a web service server supporting the same.

In general, when a terminal device accesses a web service server providing a web service and uses a web service such as an e-mail or a homepage in a wireless mobile communication environment, the terminal device executes an execution environment condition necessary to execute the web service. Should be equipped. In other words, you must have the software and hardware to run the Web services you want to use normally.

Meanwhile, according to the development of wireless mobile communication and diversified preferences of users, the types of terminal devices are very diverse, and new types of terminal devices will continue to appear in the future. This variety of terminal devices may be different from the hardware and software supported by each type.

As described above, in order to provide web services to various kinds of unspecified terminal devices having various different software and hardware, whether the terminal device using the web service has the execution environment conditions necessary for the web service, that is, software and hardware. Judging will be a very important issue.

Accordingly, the conventional web service providing environment stores and manages model information (including software information and hardware information) of all kinds of terminal devices on the market in a central server, or any terminal device manages web services. The terminal device adopts a method of transmitting all the software information supported by the terminal device to the web service server.

However, in the method of managing model information of all terminal devices in the central server, a new terminal device is quickly introduced, and the user can change the software of the terminal device personally, and even the same terminal device has different firmware versions. Considering a situation in which the installed applications may be different from each other, there is still a problem in determining an execution environment of the terminal device. In addition, the terminal device requesting the web service provides all the software information supported by the terminal device to the web service server. As the software that one terminal device can support varies, the terminal device is transmitted to the web service server. Since the amount of information to be continuously increased, there is still a problem in determining the execution environment of the terminal device in consideration of relatively expensive network usage fee and network usage.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to store execution environment condition information including at least one of necessary software information and necessary hardware information for executing a predetermined web service. And a web service server for confirming whether the execution environment condition is provided to the terminal device based on the execution environment condition information when a predetermined event is input from an arbitrary terminal device, and the confirmation request from the web service server. If received, a web service providing system including a terminal device including a built-in web server for returning to the web service server a check result of searching whether the built-in software and hardware corresponding to the execution environment conditions and the web service server and this By providing a way to provide web services that follow By whether or not effectively, make sure you have an execution environment that can run a Web service from a terminal device has hade provide a seamless Web services.

The present invention was created in view of the above circumstances, and another object to be achieved in the present invention is a service manager for pre-stored software information and hardware information about pre-installed software and hardware, and at the request of a user through a network. The service manager receives a built-in web browser for accessing a web service server to execute a service subscriber registration and a confirmation request for querying whether a predetermined execution environment condition is met from the web service server. A terminal device including a terminal device including a built-in web server which checks whether the execution environment conditions are met based on the stored software information and hardware information and returns the checked result to the web service server; Web service by providing a control method of the terminal device By identifying effective whether the terminal device has requested an execution environment that can run a Web service hade provide a seamless Web services.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and another object of the present invention is to provide execution environment condition information including at least one of necessary software information and necessary hardware information for executing a predetermined web service. If a predetermined event is input from an execution environment condition information manager to be stored in advance and a predetermined terminal device, whether the execution environment condition is provided to the terminal device based on the execution environment condition information stored in the execution environment condition information manager. By providing a web service server including a server administrator requesting confirmation, the terminal device requesting a web service effectively provides a smooth web service by checking whether or not the execution environment capable of executing a web service.

The web service providing system according to the first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, pre-stores the execution environment condition information including at least one of the necessary software information and the required hardware information for executing a predetermined web service When the predetermined event is input from any terminal device, the confirmation request is received from the web service server and the web service server requesting to confirm whether the execution environment condition is established to the terminal device based on the execution environment condition information. And a terminal device including a built-in web server that searches for built-in software and hardware and returns a confirmation result of confirming whether or not it corresponds to the execution environment condition to the web service server.

Preferably, the predetermined event is performed when the terminal apparatus accesses the web service server to perform a service subscriber registration, or when the terminal apparatus accesses the web service server providing the web service. It may include the case of requesting.

Preferably, new web content for providing a new web service is registered in the web service server, and at least one of necessary software information and necessary hardware information for executing the new web service in response to the new web service. It may further include a content providing server for providing the execution environment condition information including the web service server.

Terminal device according to the second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, connected to a predetermined web service server through the network at the request of a service administrator user for pre-stored software information and hardware information about the pre-installed software and hardware When the web service server receives a confirmation request for inquiring whether the web service server has a predetermined execution environment condition from the embedded web browser for executing service subscriber registration and the web service server, software information and hardware previously stored in the service manager are stored. And a built-in web server that checks whether or not the execution environment condition is met based on the information, and returns the checked result to the web service server.

Preferably, the confirmation request for inquiring whether the execution environment condition is satisfied corresponds to at least one of required software information and necessary hardware information required to execute a predetermined web service provided by the web service server. You can ask to see if the software and hardware are installed.

Preferably, when the embedded web server receives a confirmation request for inquiring whether the necessary software required to execute the web service is installed from the web service server, the embedded web server may be configured based on the pre-stored software information. It is possible to check whether the required necessary software is installed, and return the confirmed confirmation result to the web service server.

Preferably, when the embedded web server receives a confirmation request for inquiring whether the necessary hardware required for executing the web service is installed from the web service server, the embedded web server is based on hardware information previously stored in the service manager. Check whether the required required hardware is installed, and return the checked result to the web service server, and if it is confirmed that the required required hardware is not installed, Stored hardware information may be provided to the web service server.

Preferably, when the embedded web server receives a download request message for the new software corresponding to the required software from the web service server, the embedded web server may request a download execution from the embedded web browser.

Preferably, the embedded web browser requests the download of the new software to the web service server when the download execution is requested from the embedded web server, and the new software downloads the web service server according to the request. If so, the service manager can be controlled to install the downloaded new software.

Preferably, the hardware information pre-stored in the service manager may include at least one of terminal device model information, firmware information, and product information of the embedded hardware.

Web service server according to a third aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object is a predetermined from the execution environment condition information manager and any terminal device to store the execution environment condition information including at least one of the necessary hardware information When an event is input, the server manager includes a server manager for confirming whether the execution environment condition is provided to the terminal device based on the execution environment condition information stored in the execution environment condition information manager.

Preferably, the predetermined event may include a case where a service subscriber registration is executed from the terminal device or a case where the web service is requested from the terminal device.

Preferably, the server manager, upon the event, provides a confirmation request to the terminal device to inquire whether the necessary software required to execute the web service is installed, and the confirmation result returned in response to the confirmation request If it is determined that the required software is not installed in the terminal device based on the request, a download required message for new software corresponding to the required software can be provided to the terminal device.

Preferably, the server manager, at the event, provides a confirmation request to the terminal device to inquire whether the necessary hardware required for executing the web service is embedded, and the response is returned in response to the confirmation request. If it is determined that the required hardware is not embedded in the terminal device based on the result, a web service executable in the hardware of the terminal device may be searched based on the hardware information of the terminal device received together with the confirmation result. .

Preferably, the hardware information received from the terminal device may include at least one of the terminal device model information, firmware information, and product information of the embedded hardware.

Preferably, the server manager further includes a software manager that pre-stores software for executing a web service for providing to any terminal device, wherein the server manager is further configured to download new software corresponding to the required software from the terminal device. If so, the software manager can be controlled to provide the requested new software to the terminal device.

Web service providing method according to a fourth aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, the terminal device is connected to a web service server providing a predetermined web service, inputting a predetermined event executing the web service The web service server, which has previously stored execution environment condition information including at least one of necessary software information and required hardware information, receives the event from an arbitrary terminal device, based on the execution environment condition information. Confirming whether or not the execution environment condition is satisfied by the terminal device; and when the confirmation request is received from the web service server, searching for built-in software and hardware to determine whether the terminal device corresponds to the execution environment condition. And returning the confirmation result of confirming whether or not to the web service server.

Preferably, the predetermined event is performed when the terminal apparatus accesses the web service server to perform a service subscriber registration, or when the terminal apparatus accesses the web service server providing the web service. It may include the case of requesting.

A control method of a terminal device according to a fifth aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object is connected to a web service server providing a predetermined web service, and inputting a predetermined event. Upon receiving a confirmation request for inquiring whether or not an environmental condition is met, checking whether the execution environment condition is met based on software information and hardware information about pre-installed software and hardware, and checking the result of the web service. Returning to the server.

Preferably, the step of confirming whether or not the execution environment conditions are met, when the confirmation request for inquiring whether the necessary software required to execute the web service from the web service server is received, the pre-stored software Based on the information, it is possible to confirm whether or not the required required software is installed.

Preferably, the step of confirming whether or not the execution environment conditions are satisfied, when the confirmation request for inquiring whether the necessary hardware required to execute the web service is installed from the web service server, the pre-stored Checking whether the required required hardware is installed on the basis of hardware information, and if it is confirmed that the required required hardware is not installed, returning the confirmation result may include: Stored hardware information may be provided to the web service server.

Preferably, when a download request message for the new software corresponding to the required software is received from the web service server, requesting download of the new software from the web service server to the request from the web service server. Accordingly, when the new software is downloaded, the method may further include installing the downloaded new software.

In a control method of a web service server according to a sixth aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, determining whether a predetermined event is input from an arbitrary terminal device, and when the predetermined event is input, a predetermined web service Requesting the terminal device to confirm whether the execution environment condition is satisfied based on the execution environment condition information including at least one of necessary software information and required hardware information for executing the terminal and the terminal according to the confirmation request. And determining whether the terminal device satisfies the execution environment condition based on the confirmation result returned from the device.

Preferably, the step of requesting the confirmation to the terminal device includes providing the terminal device with a confirmation request for inquiring whether the necessary software required for executing the web service is installed. Determining whether or not the execution environment condition is satisfied includes determining whether the required software is installed in the terminal device based on the confirmation result returned from the terminal device according to the confirmation request. can do.

Preferably, if it is determined that the required software is not installed, providing a download request message for the new software corresponding to the required software to the terminal device. If the download is requested, the method may further include providing the requested new software to the terminal device.

Accordingly, according to the web service providing system and the web service providing method of the present invention, when the terminal device accesses a web service server to perform a service subscriber registration or requests a web service, necessary software and necessary for executing the web service are required. When a web service is provided, the terminal device directly checks whether the terminal device has an execution environment capable of executing a web service by directly querying the terminal device whether the hardware is an execution environment in which the hardware is installed. The terminal device execution environment of the can be effectively and accurately confirmed. Thus, according to the present invention, the amount of information that the terminal device needs to transmit to the web service server, network usage is reduced, and expensive network usage fee can be reduced compared to the conventional execution environment check method.

In addition, according to the web service providing system and the web service providing method of the present invention, when the terminal device has an execution environment capable of executing the web service at the time of providing the web service, the necessary software is not installed if the necessary software is not installed. By inducing new devices to be installed in the terminal device, and searching for and providing similar or identical web services that can be provided at the hardware level installed in the terminal device if necessary hardware is not installed, the result is a smooth web on the terminal device. The service can be provided to the user.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a diagram schematically showing a web service providing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the web service providing system according to the present invention pre-stores execution environment condition information including at least one of necessary software information and necessary hardware information for executing a predetermined web service. When a predetermined event is input from the terminal device (eg, 300) of the web service server 100 and the web service server requesting to check whether the execution environment conditions are equipped to the terminal device 300 based on the execution environment condition information When the confirmation request is received from the 100, an embedded web server that searches for pre-built software and hardware and checks whether the response corresponds to an execution environment condition to the web service server 100 (320 of FIG. 3 to be described later). It includes a terminal device 300 including).

Here, although one terminal device 300 is illustrated, a plurality of terminal devices 300 of various types are provided, and each terminal device may support different hardware and software. Hereinafter, for convenience of description, the terminal device 300 will be referred to and described.

Here, the event input by the terminal device 300 to the web service server 100, the terminal device 300 is connected to the web service server 100 via the network (1) to perform the service subscriber registration, or The terminal device 300 accesses the web service server 300 through the network 1 to request a web service web service. Hereinafter, when the terminal device 300 executes service subscriber registration, a case of requesting a web service will be described as an example.

Here, the web service providing system of the present invention may further include a content providing server 200 for registering new web content for providing a new web service to the web service server 100. The content providing server 200 registers new web content corresponding to the web service server 100 in order to provide a new web service for providing arbitrary terminal devices. In addition, when the content providing server 200 registers the new web content in the web service server 100, at least one of necessary software information and necessary hardware information for executing the new web service in response to the new web service. It is preferable to provide the execution environment condition information including the web service server (100). Thus, when a web service for providing to arbitrary terminal devices is newly registered, the web service server 100 may also store execution environment condition information for executing the newly registered web service.

Here, when the new web content corresponding to the new web service is registered, the execution environment condition information corresponding to the new web service is also described as being provided from the content providing server 200, but this is only an embodiment. That is, when new web content corresponding to a new web service is registered, the web service server 100 may generate and store execution environment condition information corresponding to the new web content on its own based on the registered new web content.

Therefore, according to the web service providing system according to the present invention, when the terminal device 300 accesses the web service server 100 to execute a service subscriber registration or requests a web service, an execution environment condition necessary for executing the web service. The web service server 100 directly queries the terminal device 300 to determine whether the terminal device 300 is suitable for the web service server 100, and the web service server 100 executes the web service. By effectively checking whether or not you have a working environment, you can provide a smooth web service.

Hereinafter, referring to Figures 2 and 3, the configuration of the web service server 100 and the terminal device 300 of the web service providing system of the present invention.

First, a configuration of the web service server 100 will be described with reference to FIG. 2. The web service server 100 includes at least one of necessary software information 126 and necessary hardware information 123 for executing a predetermined web service. When a predetermined event is input from the execution environment condition information manager 120 and any terminal device (eg, 300) that prestores the execution environment condition information including any one, the execution stored in the execution environment condition information manager 120 It includes a server manager 110 to confirm whether or not the execution environment conditions are equipped to the terminal device 300 based on the environmental condition information.

Here, the event includes a case where a web service is requested from the terminal device 300 when the service subscriber registration is executed from the terminal device 300 as described above.

The execution environment condition information manager 120 prestores execution environment condition information including at least one of necessary software information 126 and required hardware information 123 for executing a predetermined web service. That is, for example, if the web service server 100 supports an e-mail service and a homepage service, the execution environment condition information manager 120 needs software for executing an e-mail service in response to the e-mail service. At least one of the information 126 and the required hardware information 123 may be stored, and at least one of the necessary software information 126 and the required hardware information 123 for executing the homepage in response to the homepage service may be stored. .

In addition, the web service server 100 may connect the other web server and the terminal device 300 to provide an E-mail service or a homepage service, so that the terminal device 300 may use the web service. In addition, the web service server 100 may directly provide a web service to the terminal device 300.

Accordingly, the web service server 100 may further include a web content manager 130.

Web content manager 130, an administrator for storing and managing web content for providing a predetermined web service, a web service (eg, e-mail service) that the web service server 100 can directly provide to a terminal device. Store the web content corresponding to.

Here, when the new web content is registered from the aforementioned content providing server 200 and execution environment condition information corresponding thereto is provided, the new web content is stored in the web content manager 130 and the execution environment condition information corresponding thereto is executed. The environmental condition information manager 120 will be stored.

When a predetermined event (service subscriber registration execution or a predetermined web service request) is input from the terminal device (eg, 300), the server manager 110 is based on the execution environment condition information stored in the execution environment condition information manager 120. The terminal device 300 serves as a request to confirm whether the execution environment condition is provided. At this time, the server manager 110 is preferably connected to the built-in web server (320 of FIG. 3) of the terminal device 300 to request confirmation, the server manager 110 based on the IP information of the terminal device 300 It is preferable to connect.

The server manager 110 will be described in more detail. Here, the event will be described as an example that the terminal device 300 executes the service subscriber registration.

When the service subscriber registration is executed from the terminal device 300, the server manager 110 may provide a web service (eg, an e-mail service or a homepage service) that the web service server 100 may provide to the terminal device 300. And the like, based on the execution environment condition information of the execution environment condition information manager 120, the terminal device 300 provides a confirmation request for inquiring whether necessary software required for executing the web service is installed. .

The server manager 110 may determine whether the necessary software is installed in the terminal device 300 based on the confirmation result returned from the terminal device 300 according to the confirmation request.

Here, the server manager 110 is based on the execution environment condition information of the execution environment condition information manager 120 corresponding to the web service provided to the terminal device 300 when the service subscriber registration is executed, that is, at the event, The terminal 300 may provide a confirmation request for inquiring whether the necessary hardware required for executing the web service is installed.

The server manager 110 may determine whether necessary hardware is installed in the terminal device 300 based on the confirmation result returned from the terminal device 300 according to the confirmation request.

Then, the server manager 110, based on the execution environment condition information of the execution environment condition information manager 120 corresponding to the web service provided to the terminal device 300 when the service subscriber registration is executed, that is, at the event, The terminal apparatus 300 provides a confirmation request for inquiring whether the necessary software and the required hardware required to execute the web service are installed to the terminal apparatus 300, and based on the confirmation result returned from the terminal apparatus 300, the terminal apparatus ( In step 300, it may be determined whether required software and required hardware are installed.

Meanwhile, referring to the case where the terminal device 300 sets a case of requesting a predetermined web service to the web service server 100 as an event, the server manager 110 requests the predetermined web service from the terminal device 300. (Eg, an e-mail service) is requested, based on the execution environment condition information of the execution environment condition information manager 120 corresponding to the requested web service (eg, an e-mail service), the corresponding web service ( For example, the terminal 300 provides a confirmation request for inquiring whether necessary software required for executing an e-mail service) is installed.

The server manager 110 may determine whether the necessary software is installed in the terminal device 300 based on the confirmation result returned from the terminal device 300 according to the confirmation request.

In addition, when a predetermined web service (eg, an e-mail service) is requested from the terminal device 300, the server manager 110 may execute an execution environment condition corresponding to the requested corresponding web service (eg, an e-mail service). On the basis of the execution environment condition information of the information manager 120, the terminal device 300 provides a confirmation request for inquiring whether necessary hardware required for executing the web service (eg, an e-mail service) has been installed. You may.

The server manager 110 may determine whether necessary hardware is installed in the terminal device 300 based on the confirmation result returned from the terminal device 300 according to the confirmation request.

In addition, when a predetermined web service (eg, an e-mail service) is requested from the terminal device 300, the server manager 110 may execute an execution environment condition corresponding to the requested corresponding web service (eg, an e-mail service). On the basis of the execution environment condition information of the information manager 120, the terminal device requests a confirmation request that inquires together whether the required software and the required hardware are installed to execute the web service (e.g., e-mail service). Based on the confirmation result returned from the terminal device 300 and provided to the device 300, it may be determined whether the required software and the required hardware are installed in the terminal device 300.

Accordingly, when the server manager 110 determines that the necessary software is not installed in the terminal device 300, the server manager 110 downloads a message requiring a download of new software not already installed in the terminal device 300, that is, software corresponding to the required software. It provides to the terminal device 300.

When the server manager 110 requests a download of new software corresponding to the required software from the terminal device 300 in response to the download required message for the new software, the server manager 110 requests the requested software, that is, the terminal device 300. New software not installed is provided to the terminal device 300.

To this end, the web service server 100 further includes a software manager 140 that pre-stores software for executing a web service for providing to any terminal device. That is, the software manager 140 pre-stores software corresponding to necessary software required to execute the web service in response to the web service supported by the web service server 100. Such software may be an execution player required to execute the web service.

Thus, when the server manager 110 requests the download of new software corresponding to the required software from the terminal device 300, the server manager 110 may control the software manager 140 to provide the new software to the terminal device 300. .

In addition, when the new software requested for download from the terminal device 300 is not stored in the software manager 140, the server manager 110 provides a corresponding new software to the providing server that provides the corresponding new software through the network 1. By providing the connection information to the terminal device 300, the terminal device 300 may be induced to download new software.

At this time, the server manager 110, when the terminal device 300 is input as an event to perform the service subscriber registration, if it is determined that the necessary software is already installed in the terminal device 300, the terminal device 300 It is desirable to remember that necessary software is installed in correspondence with each web service. In addition, when the server manager 110 receives an event that the terminal device 300 requests a predetermined web service (e.g., an e-mail service) as an event, the server manager 110 indicates that the necessary software is already installed in the terminal device 300. If determined, the web content manager 130 may be controlled or may be provided to the terminal device 300 in connection with another web server.

When the server manager 110 determines that the necessary hardware is not installed in the terminal device 300, the server manager 110 executes the hardware on the hardware of the terminal device 300 based on the received hardware information of the terminal device 300 together with the confirmation result. Search for possible similar or identical corresponding web services. Here, the hardware information received from the terminal device 300 may include at least one of the terminal device 300 model information, firmware information, and product information of embedded hardware.

Accordingly, when the server manager 110 receives the event input that the terminal device 300 executes the service subscriber registration, the server manager 110 searches for a similar or identical corresponding web service as described above, and then the terminal device 300. When the corresponding web service is searched for a similar or identical corresponding web service from the request, providing the terminal device 300 with the similar or identical corresponding web service previously searched by controlling the web content manager 130 or in association with another web server. desirable. In addition, when the terminal manager 300 receives a request for a predetermined web service (eg, an e-mail service) as an event, the server manager 110 searches for a similar or identical corresponding web service as described above. Afterwards, it is preferable to provide the terminal device 300 with a similar or identical corresponding web service that is controlled by the web content manager 130 or in connection with another web server.

At this time, the server manager 110, when the terminal device 300 is input as an event to perform the service subscriber registration, if it is determined that the necessary hardware is already installed in the terminal device 300, the terminal device 300 It is desirable to remember that necessary hardware is installed in correspondence with each web service. In addition, when the server manager 110 receives an event that the terminal device 300 requests a predetermined web service (for example, an e-mail service) as an event, the server manager 110 indicates that necessary hardware is already installed in the terminal device 300. If determined, the web content manager 130 may be controlled or may be provided to the terminal device 300 in connection with another web server.

Referring to FIG. 3, the terminal device 300 includes: a service manager 330 which pre-stores software information 336 and hardware information 333 about pre-installed software and hardware; Built-in web browser 310 and web service server 100 for accessing a predetermined web service server 100 through the network 1 and executing service subscriber registration in the web service server 100 according to a user's request. When a confirmation request for inquiring whether or not a predetermined execution environment condition is received is received, the service manager 330 checks whether the execution environment condition is met based on prestored software information and hardware information, and confirms the confirmed result. It includes a built-in web server 320 to return to the web service server 100.

Here, the confirmation request for inquiring whether or not the execution environment condition received from the web service server 100 is satisfied is required software information and required hardware required to execute a predetermined web service provided by the web service server 100. The query data includes a request for confirming whether software and hardware corresponding to at least one of the information are installed.

The service manager 330 stores software information 336 on which software is preinstalled in the terminal device 300, and hardware information 333 on what hardware is preinstalled in the terminal device 300. Here, for convenience of description, it will be described that software and hardware pre-installed in the terminal device 300 are included in the category of the service manager 330 configuration.

The embedded web server 320 has an execution environment condition for executing a web service from the web service server 100 as the terminal device 300 inputs a predetermined event (service subscriber registration execution or a predetermined web service request). When a confirmation request is received to query whether the data is lost or not, the built-in software and hardware are searched and returned to the web service server 100 confirming whether or not it corresponds to an execution environment condition.

In more detail, when the embedded web server 320 receives a confirmation request from the web service server 100 to inquire whether the necessary software required for executing the web service is installed, the embedded web server 320 may be sent to the service manager 330. On the basis of the previously stored software information 336, it is checked whether the required software is installed, and the checked result is returned to the web service server 100.

In addition, when the embedded web server 320 receives a confirmation request for inquiring whether the necessary hardware required for executing the web service is installed from the web service server 100, the hardware is stored in the service manager 330. Check whether the required hardware is installed on the basis of the information 333, return the checked result to the web service server 100, and if it is confirmed that the required hardware is not installed, return the confirmation result. The pre-stored hardware information of the service manager 330 is provided to the web service server 100.

When the embedded web server 320 receives a confirmation request from the web service server 100 to inquire whether the required software and the required hardware are installed together, the service manager 330 receives the request from the web service server 100. On the basis of the previously stored software information 336 and hardware information 333, it is possible to check whether the required software and the required hardware are installed, and return the confirmed result to the web service server 100.

After returning the confirmation result to the web service server 100, the embedded web server 320 receives a download request message for the new software corresponding to the required software from the web service server 100, the embedded web browser Request a download of the new software (310).

The embedded web browser 310 connects to a predetermined web service server 100 through the network 1 according to a user's request, and executes a service subscriber registration with the web service server 100. Is in charge of the interface. Accordingly, the embedded web browser 310 may access the predetermined web service server 100 through the network 1 according to a user's request, and perform an operation corresponding to a predetermined event. That is, the embedded web browser 310 may execute a service subscriber registration to the web service server 100 and request a predetermined web service (eg, an e-mail service) from the web service server 100 according to a user's request. Can be.

When the embedded web browser 310 requests to execute the download of new software corresponding to the required software from the embedded web server 320, the embedded web browser 310 drives a download page for requesting the download to the web service server 100 to input the user. According to the request to download the new software, and when the new software is downloaded according to the request from the web service server 100 controls the service manager 330 to install the downloaded new software. Thus, when the new software is downloaded from the web service server 100, the service manager 330 may install new software, that is, new software in the terminal device 300.

When the embedded web browser 310 provides a web service requested from the web service server 100, the embedded web browser 310 drives the software and hardware installed in the service manager 330 to provide the provided web service to the user. Make web services available.

Therefore, according to the web service providing system according to the present invention, when the terminal device 300 accesses the web service server 100 to execute a service subscriber registration or requests a web service, necessary software required for executing the web service is required. And whether the required hardware is installed in the execution environment, that is, whether the execution environment conditions necessary for the execution of the web service are directly queried to the terminal apparatus 300 and the web service server 100 through the confirmation result returned from the terminal apparatus 300. By checking whether the terminal device 300 has an execution environment for executing a web service, the terminal device 300 can effectively check the execution environment of the web service providing time. Thus, according to the present invention, the amount of information and network usage required for the terminal device 300 to be transmitted to the web service server 100 may be reduced, and expensive network usage fees may be reduced as compared with the conventional execution environment checking method.

In addition, according to the web service providing system according to the present invention, as a result of confirming whether the terminal device 300 has an execution environment capable of executing a web service at the time of providing the web service, if necessary software is not installed, By inducing the corresponding new software to be installed in the terminal device 300, and searching for and providing similar or identical web services that can be provided at the hardware level installed in the terminal device 300 when necessary hardware is not installed. The terminal device 300 may provide a smooth web service to a user.

Hereinafter, the control flow of the web service providing method of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. Here, for convenience of description, the components shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 will be described with reference to corresponding reference numerals.

First, the web service providing method of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4. Here, in FIG. 4, the terminal device 300 sets the event subscriber registration to the web service server 100 as an event, and whether the necessary software is installed as an execution environment condition when the web service server 100 performs the event. It will be described as a first embodiment to make an inquiry request.

First, in order to provide a new web service for providing to any terminal device, the content providing server 200 registers new web content corresponding to the web service server 100 (S10). At this time, when the content providing server 200 registers the new web content in the web service server 100, at least one of necessary software information and necessary hardware information for executing the new web service in response to the new web service. It is preferable to provide the execution environment condition information including the web service server (100). Thus, when a web service for providing to arbitrary terminal devices is newly registered, the web service server 100 may also store execution environment condition information for executing the newly registered web service.

When the user of the terminal device 300 requests service subscription to the web service server 100, the embedded web browser 310 of the terminal device 300 requests a predetermined web service server 100 through the network 1 according to the request. Access to the web service server 100 performs a service subscriber registration (S20).

Accordingly, the web service server 100 recognizes the service subscriber registration execution from the terminal device 300 as an event, and provides a web service (eg, E) provided by the web service server 100 to the terminal device 300. A terminal device requesting a confirmation request for inquiring whether necessary software required for executing a web service is installed, based on the execution environment condition information of the execution environment condition information manager 120 corresponding to the mail service, the homepage service, etc.). Provided to 300 (S30).

The built-in web server 320 of the terminal device 300, according to the confirmation request from the web service server 100, the necessary software is installed on the basis of the software information 336 previously stored in the service manager 330 is installed Check whether there is (S40), and returns the confirmed result to the web service server 100 (S50).

The web service server 100, which has returned the confirmation result from the terminal device 300, determines whether the necessary software is installed in the terminal device 300 based on the confirmation result, whereby the terminal device 300 executes the execution environment condition. Determine whether or not to meet (S60). Accordingly, if it is determined that the necessary software is not installed in the terminal device 300, the web service server 100 downloads software corresponding to the required software, that is, new software not previously installed in the terminal device 300. The necessary message is provided to the terminal device 300 (S65). On the other hand, if it is determined in step S60 that the terminal apparatus meets the execution environment conditions, that is, the necessary software is preinstalled in the terminal apparatus 300, the terminal apparatus 300 stores the necessary software in correspondence with each web service. It is desirable to.

When the download request message for the new software is received, the embedded web server 320 of the terminal device 300 requests the execution of the download of the new software to the embedded web browser 310 (S70), embedded web browser 310 Drives a download page for requesting the download to the web service server 100 and requests the download of new software according to the user's input (S80).

Therefore, when a download of new software corresponding to the required software is requested from the terminal device 300, the web service server 100 controls the software manager 140 or induces an association with another providing server, The new software is provided to the terminal device 300 (S90).

Thus, when new software is downloaded in response to a request from the web service server 100, the embedded web browser 310 of the terminal device 300 controls the service manager 330 to install the downloaded new software (S100). Thus, when the new software is downloaded from the web service server 100, the service manager 330 may install new software, that is, new software in the terminal device 300.

Accordingly, the terminal device 300 has an execution environment condition (required software) for receiving a web service that can be used through the web service server 100, and then the terminal device 300 has the web service server 100. When a predetermined web service is requested, the terminal device 300 can smoothly provide the web service to the user.

5, the terminal device 300 sets a request for a web service to the web service server 100 as an event, and checks whether the required hardware is installed as an execution environment condition when the web service server 100 performs the event. The request for confirmation to inquire whether or not to be queried will be described as the second embodiment.

First, in order to provide a new web service for providing to any terminal device, the content providing server 200 registers new web content corresponding to the web service server 100 (S110). At this time, when the content providing server 200 registers the new web content in the web service server 100, at least one of necessary software information and necessary hardware information for executing the new web service in response to the new web service. It is preferable to provide the execution environment condition information including the web service server (100). Thus, when a web service for providing to arbitrary terminal devices is newly registered, the web service server 100 may also store execution environment condition information for executing the newly registered web service.

When the user of the terminal device 300 requests service subscription to the web service server 100, the embedded web browser 310 of the terminal device 300 requests a predetermined web service server 100 through the network 1 according to the request. Access to the web service server 100 performs a service subscriber registration (S120).

Accordingly, the web service server 100 recognizes a web service request from the terminal device 300 as an event, and executes the execution environment condition information manager 120 corresponding to the requested web service (eg, an e-mail service). Based on the execution environment condition information, the terminal device 300 provides a confirmation request for inquiring whether necessary hardware required for executing a web service (eg, an e-mail service) has been installed (S130).

The built-in web server 320 of the terminal device 300, according to the confirmation request from the web service server 100, the required hardware is installed based on the hardware information 333 previously stored in the service manager 330 is installed. Check whether it is (S140), and returns the confirmed result to the web service server 100 (S150). In this case, the embedded web server 320 provides the pre-stored hardware information of the service manager 330 to the web service server 100 when the required hardware is not installed.

The web service server 100 that has returned the confirmation result from the terminal device 300 determines whether or not the necessary hardware is installed in the terminal device 300 based on the result of the confirmation. It is determined whether or not according to (S160). Therefore, if it is determined that the necessary hardware is not installed in the terminal device 300, the web service server 100, based on the hardware information of the terminal device 300 received with the confirmation result of the terminal device 300 Similar or identical web services executable in hardware may be searched for (S180). Accordingly, the web service server 100 may control the web content manager 130 or link with another web server to provide the terminal device 300 with a similar or identical corresponding web service searched for (S190). Here, the hardware information received from the terminal device 300 may include at least one of the terminal device 300 model information, firmware information, and product information of embedded hardware.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S160 that the required hardware is pre-installed in the terminal device 300, the web service server 100 controls the web content manager 130 or in conjunction with other web servers, the corresponding web service (e.g., E -Mail service) may be provided to the terminal device 300 (S170).

Thus, if the terminal device 300 has an execution environment condition (required hardware) for receiving the requested web service, the web service server 100 provides the web service to the terminal device 300 and executes the execution environment condition (required). Hardware), the web service server 100 provides the terminal apparatus 300 with a similar or identical web service corresponding to the corresponding web service suitable for the execution environment (hardware) of the terminal apparatus 300. 300 may smoothly provide the web service to the user.

Therefore, according to the web service providing system and web service providing method according to the present invention, when the terminal device accesses the web service server to perform a service subscriber registration or requests a web service, necessary software required for executing the web service and The web service server can query the terminal device whether the necessary hardware is installed in the execution environment, that is, whether it is suitable for the execution environment condition necessary to execute the web service, and the web service server can execute the web service. By checking whether the execution environment is provided, the terminal device execution environment at the time of providing the web service can be effectively and accurately verified. Therefore, according to the present invention, the amount of information and network usage that the terminal device has to transmit to the web service server is reduced, and the expensive network usage fee can be reduced as compared with the conventional execution environment checking method.

In addition, according to the web service providing system and the web service providing method according to the present invention, when the terminal device has a running environment for executing the web service at the time of providing the web service, it is necessary if the required software is not installed By inducing new devices to be installed in the terminal device, and searching for and providing similar or identical web services that can be provided at the hardware level installed in the terminal device if necessary hardware is not installed, the terminal device can be smoothly Allows you to provide web services to users.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and the technical field to which the present invention belongs without departing from the gist of the present invention as claimed in the following claims. Anyone skilled in the art will have the technical idea of the present invention to the extent that various modifications or changes are possible.

When the terminal device accesses the web service server to register a service subscriber or requests a web service, the terminal device directly inquires whether the terminal device satisfies the execution environment conditions required to execute the web service and the terminal device executes the web service. By checking whether or not an execution environment is available, the terminal device execution environment can be effectively and accurately checked at the time of providing a web service, and if the terminal device does not have an execution environment, new software corresponding to the required software is installed on the terminal device. The web of the present invention can provide a smooth web service to the user by searching for and providing similar or identical web services that can be provided at the hardware level installed in the terminal device when necessary hardware is not installed. Service Delivery System and Web Service In the case of applying the service providing method, a significant progress can be made in terms of the efficiency of the web service providing environment including the amount of network data, the burden of a large network usage fee, and the user satisfaction of the web service providing. And a web service providing server and a web service providing system that are commercially available or have a sufficient possibility of being commercially available and are practically evident so that they are industrially applicable.

1 is a schematic control block diagram of a web service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a control block diagram of a web service server of a web service providing system according to the present invention.

3 is a control block diagram of a terminal device of a web service providing system according to the present invention.

4 is a control flowchart illustrating a control flow of a web service providing method according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a control flowchart illustrating a control flow of a web service providing method according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

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Pre-stores execution environment condition information including at least one of necessary software information and required hardware information for executing a predetermined web service, and based on the execution environment condition information when a predetermined event is input from an arbitrary terminal device A web service server requesting the terminal device to confirm whether the execution environment condition is satisfied; And When the confirmation request is received from the web service server, the terminal device including a built-in web server to search the built-in software and hardware to confirm whether the response to the execution environment conditions returned to the web service server; Web service providing system, characterized in that it comprises a. The method of claim 1, The predetermined event, And when the terminal apparatus accesses the web service server to perform service subscriber registration, or when the terminal apparatus accesses the web service server providing the web service and requests the web service. Web service provision system. The method according to claim 1 or 2, Registers new web content for providing a new web service to the web service server, and includes at least one of necessary software information and necessary hardware information for executing the new web service in response to the new web service. And a content providing server for providing environmental condition information to the web service server. A service manager that pre-stores software information and hardware information about pre-installed software and hardware; An embedded web browser that accesses a predetermined web service server through a network at the request of a user and executes a service subscriber registration to the web service server; And When a confirmation request is received from the web service server to inquire whether a predetermined execution environment condition has been received, it is determined whether or not the service environment manager corresponds to the execution environment condition based on pre-stored software information and hardware information. And a built-in web server for returning a confirmation result to the web service server. The method of claim 4, wherein The confirmation request for inquiring whether the execution environment condition is satisfied, And requesting confirmation whether software and hardware corresponding to at least one of required software information and required hardware information required for executing a predetermined web service provided by the web service server are installed. The method of claim 5, The embedded web server, If a confirmation request is received from the web service server to inquire whether the required software for executing the web service is installed, whether the required software is installed on the basis of the software information previously stored in the service manager. And confirming and returning the checked result to the web service server. The method of claim 5, The embedded web server, If a confirmation request is received from the web service server to inquire whether the required hardware required to execute the web service is installed, the service manager checks whether the required hardware is installed based on pre-stored hardware information. If it is confirmed that the required hardware is not installed, and if it is confirmed that the required hardware is not installed, the pre-stored hardware information of the service manager is provided to the web service server. Terminal device, characterized in that. The method according to any one of claims 4 to 7, The embedded web server, When the download request message for the new software corresponding to the required software from the web service server is received, the terminal device characterized in that for requesting the download execution with the embedded web browser. The method of claim 8, The built-in web browser, When the download execution is requested from the embedded web server, the web service server requests the download of the new software, and when the new software is downloaded according to the request from the web service server, the downloaded new software is installed. Terminal device, characterized in that for controlling the service manager. The method of claim 7, wherein Hardware information previously stored in the service manager, And at least one of terminal model information, firmware information, and product information of the hardware. An execution environment condition storage manager pre-stores execution environment condition information including at least one of necessary software information and necessary hardware information for executing a predetermined web service; And When a predetermined event is input from any terminal device, the server manager includes a server manager for confirming whether or not the execution environment condition is provided to the terminal device based on the execution environment condition information stored in the execution environment condition information manager. Web service server characterized by. The method of claim 11, The server manager, At the event, the terminal apparatus provides a confirmation request for inquiring whether necessary software required to execute the web service is installed to the terminal apparatus, and the necessity to the terminal apparatus based on the confirmation result returned in response to the confirmation request. If it is determined that the software is not installed, the web service server, characterized in that for providing a download request message for the new software corresponding to the required software to the terminal. The method of claim 11, The server manager, At the event, the terminal device provides a confirmation request for inquiring whether the necessary hardware required to execute the web service is embedded in the terminal device, and the terminal device is sent to the terminal device based on the confirmation result returned in response to the confirmation request. And if it is determined that the necessary hardware is not embedded, searching for a web service executable in the hardware of the terminal device based on the hardware information of the terminal device received together with the confirmation result. The method according to any one of claims 11 to 13, A software manager that pre-stores software for executing a web service for providing to any terminal device; The server manager, And when the download of new software corresponding to the required software is requested from the terminal device, controlling the software manager to provide the requested new software to the terminal device. A terminal device accessing a web service server providing a predetermined web service and inputting a predetermined event; When the event is input from an arbitrary terminal device, the execution environment condition is stored in the web service server that previously stores execution environment condition information including at least one of necessary software information and required hardware information for executing the web service. Confirming whether or not the execution environment condition is satisfied to the terminal device based on the information; And When the confirmation request is received from the web service server, the terminal device searches for preloaded software and hardware, and returns a confirmation result of confirming whether or not it corresponds to the execution environment condition to the web service server. Web service providing method, characterized in that. The method of claim 15, The predetermined event, And when the terminal apparatus accesses the web service server to perform service subscriber registration, or when the terminal apparatus accesses the web service server providing the web service and requests the web service. To provide web services. Accessing a web service server providing a predetermined web service and inputting a predetermined event; When a confirmation request for inquiring whether a predetermined execution environment condition is received from the web service server is received, checking whether the execution environment condition is satisfied based on software information and hardware information about pre-installed software and hardware. ; And And returning the confirmed confirmation result to the web service server. The method of claim 17, Determining whether or not corresponding to the execution environment conditions, If a confirmation request is received from the web service server to inquire whether the required software required to execute the web service has been installed, checking whether the required required software is installed on the basis of previously stored software information. Control method of a terminal device characterized in that. The method of claim 17, Determining whether or not corresponding to the execution environment conditions, When a confirmation request is received from the web service server to inquire whether the required hardware required to execute the web service is installed, the server checks whether the required hardware is installed based on previously stored hardware information. , If it is confirmed that the required required hardware is not installed, the control method of the terminal device, characterized in that to provide the pre-stored hardware information to the web service server when returning the confirmation result in the step of returning the confirmation result . The method according to any one of claims 17 to 19, Requesting download of the new software from the web service server when a download request message for the new software corresponding to the required software is received from the web service server; And when the new software is downloaded from the web service server according to the request, installing the downloaded new software. Determining whether a predetermined event is input from an arbitrary terminal device; When the predetermined event is input, it is determined whether the execution environment condition is provided to the terminal device based on execution environment condition information including at least one of necessary software information and necessary hardware information for executing a predetermined web service. Requesting confirmation; And And determining whether the terminal device satisfies the execution environment condition based on a confirmation result returned from the terminal device in response to the confirmation request. The method of claim 21, The requesting confirmation to the terminal device includes providing a confirmation request to the terminal device inquiring whether the necessary software required to execute the web service is installed. The determining of whether the terminal device satisfies the execution environment condition may include determining whether the required software is installed in the terminal device based on the confirmation result returned from the terminal device according to the confirmation request. Control method of the web service server, characterized in that it comprises a step. The method of claim 22, If it is determined that the required software is not installed, providing a download request message for the new software corresponding to the required software to the terminal device; And when the download of the new software corresponding to the required software is requested from the terminal device, providing the requested new software to the terminal device.

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