KR101556998B1 - Apparatus and method for servicing electronic documents - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and a method of an electronic document service. The system includes: an electronic document providing server for transmitting mark information for designing a layout to display an electronic document by inserting the mark information inside the electronic document; and a user terminal for receiving the electronic document transmitted by the electronic document providing server, and setting a layout configuration of the electronic document according to a user environment information based on the mark information included in the electronic document.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SERVICING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS [0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic document service system and method, and more particularly, to an electronic document service system and method, which can configure a layout of an electronic document according to user environment using mark information included in an electronic document System and method.

Electronic documents are being edited and used in various layouts. Most of these electronic document layout techniques are standardized, and a new type of user interface should be constructed and developed whenever layout suitable for each situation is implemented.

In addition, since the layout of the format to be used differs according to each situation, there is a problem that the format required by the user changes every time the layout is applied to the system.

In addition, in order to implement a layout according to various conditions at present, it is necessary to edit layouts of different formats and new layouts, and it is inevitable to modify the system according to the layout modification of such electronic documents.

However, modification of the electronic document layout and generation of new layouts can be modified and created to meet the requirements, but it is difficult to respond immediately to continuous requests.

Korean Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2011-0094874 discloses an electronic book production system and method thereof, and provides an editing environment for electronic book contents to perform editing according to a user's request.

However, the conventional art provides an editing environment for various contents registered on a web page by supporting a user interface in the form of a widget based on RIA (Rich Internet Application) through a technology that is a plug-in, It is difficult and complicated to easily perform the layout configuration according to various situations.

Korea Published Patent 2011-0094874

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic document service system and method for inserting mark information in an electronic document so that a layout configuration for displaying an electronic document can be set.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an electronic document service system and a method for configuring a layout of an electronic document according to a user environment based on mark information included in an electronic document.

In order to solve the above problems, an electronic document service system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an electronic document providing server for inserting mark information for layout implementation for displaying an electronic document in an electronic document and transmitting the electronic document, And a user terminal receiving the electronic document transmitted by the providing server and setting a layout configuration of the electronic document according to the user environment information based on the mark information included in the electronic document.

Further, the electronic document providing server is characterized by generating an electronic document according to a predetermined electronic document standard specification.

In addition, the electronic document providing server may be configured to input mark information in the electronic document by using an attribute for an HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) element and an HTML5 semantic tag.

Further, the mark information includes an instruction and a layout component for performing a mark purpose and a layout configuration setting of the electronic document.

The layout component may include elements such as a layout attribute, a media type, and an image quality.

The user environment information may include user information and device information.

The user information may include information such as the user's age, gender, and type of disorder.

In addition, the device information includes information such as resolution, operating system, network, and performance.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic document service method comprising: requesting a user terminal to download one or more electronic documents selected by a user to an electronic document providing server; The method comprising the steps of: transmitting to the user terminal an electronic document transmitted by the electronic document providing server to confirm whether mark information exists in the electronic document; Setting a layout configuration of the electronic document according to the user environment information based on the mark information, and displaying the electronic document according to the layout configuration set by the user terminal.

Further, the mark information includes an instruction and a layout component for performing a mark purpose and a layout configuration setting of the electronic document.

The layout component may include elements such as a layout attribute, a media type, and an image quality.

The user environment information may include user information and device information.

The present invention inserts mark information in an electronic document so as to set a layout configuration for displaying an electronic document and configures a layout of an electronic document according to a user environment based on mark information included in the electronic document .

Therefore, it is possible to edit the layout of the electronic document according to the user's request without providing a separate editing environment for setting (editing) the layout of the electronic document.

1 is a configuration diagram of an electronic document service system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the user terminal shown in FIG. 1. FIG.
3 is a flowchart illustrating an electronic document service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The terms "comprises", "comprising", "having", and the like are used herein to mean that a component can be implanted unless otherwise specifically stated, Quot; element ".

Also, the terms " part, "" module, " and" module ", as used herein, refer to a unit that processes at least one function or operation and may be implemented as hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software . It is also to be understood that the articles "a", "an", "an" and "the" Can be used.

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

1 shows a block diagram of an electronic document service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, an electronic document service system includes a user terminal 100 and an electronic document providing server 200 connected via a network. Here, the network may be implemented by a communication technology such as mobile communication, wired / wireless Internet, short-range communication, and broadcasting communication.

The user terminal 100 is an e-book reader in which an application, such as a viewer, etc., to which a user can read an electronic document can be installed and driven. Such a user terminal 100 may be a tablet computer, a mobile terminal, a smart phone, a personal computer and a personal digital assistant (PDA), an e-book reader ), Navigation, and the like.

The user terminal 100 accesses the electronic document providing server 200 via a wired / wireless communication network and searches for and downloads a specific electronic document according to a control command of the user. Then, the user terminal 100 stores the downloaded electronic document and displays it on the screen.

The electronic document provision server 200 provides electronic documents (electronic publications) such as electronic books and digital magazines. At this time, the electronic document providing server generates an electronic document according to a predetermined electronic document standard specification.

The electronic document providing server 200 transmits the electronic document to the user terminal 100 when the user terminal 100 requests download of a specific electronic document. At this time, the electronic document providing server 200 may retrieve and read the electronic document selected by the user from the electronic document database (not shown) after user authentication to the user terminal 100, and may transmit the retrieved electronic document to the user terminal 100 .

The electronic document providing server 200 receives mark information for layout setting (implementation) of an electronic document and transmits the mark information to the user terminal 100. Here, the electronic document providing server 200 uses the attributes of HTML elements, HTML 5 semantic tag nav, and section, .

The mark information includes commands and layout components for mark purpose and layout implementation. Layout components include layout attributes (such as font size, font, and color), media type (image, audio, video, etc.), image quality (high resolution, low resolution, etc.).

For example, the electronic document providing server 200 inserts mark information including a data-command (command) and a data-param (layout attribute) in an electronic document as follows to instruct the user terminal 100 to execute a command and a layout Element. Accordingly, the viewer of the user terminal 100 enables the layout of the electronic document to be implemented based on the mark information upon loading the electronic document. That is, the viewer of the user terminal 100 configures the layout set when the data-param matches with the user environment information.

<HTML code>

<section data-command = "adaptive-layout" > // Indicates that this area will optionally contain layout components

<section data-command = "match-case" data-param = "image" >

<img src = .... />

    </ section>

<section data-command = "match-case" data-param = "audio" >

<audio src = "... />

    </ section>

</ section>

As described above, according to the present invention, when the user terminal 100 purchases an electronic document including mark information from the electronic document providing server 200 and then loads the purchased electronic document, (Editing) a layout configuration for displaying an electronic document (content) using marking information in a protocol implementation of the protocol. Therefore, the present invention can lower the complexity of content production when implementing the same effect.

Fig. 2 shows a block diagram of the user terminal shown in Fig.

2, the user terminal 100 includes a communication unit 110, a user input unit 120, a memory 130, an output unit 140, and a controller 150.

The communication unit 110 transmits and receives an electronic document and various contents by performing data communication with the other user terminal 100 or the electronic document providing server 200 by the user terminal 100. [ The communication unit 100 may be implemented as a mobile communication module, a wired / wireless Internet module, a short distance communication module, a broadcasting communication module, or the like.

The user input unit 120 generates input data for controlling the operation of the terminal 100 by a user. The user input unit 120 may include a key pad, a dome switch, a touch pad, a jog wheel, a jog switch, and the like.

The memory 130 may store a program for controlling the operation of the user terminal 100 or may perform a function for temporarily storing input / output data. For example, the memory 130 stores an electronic document and an electronic document viewer, user environment information, and the like.

The memory 130 may be a flash memory type, a hard disk type, a multimedia card micro type, a card type memory (e.g., SD or XD memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory) SRAM (Static Random Access Memory), ROM (Read Only Memory), EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory), PROM (Programmable Read- An optical disk, and a web storage.

The output unit 140 outputs one or more signals such as an audio signal, a video signal, an alarm signal, and a warning signal. The output unit 140 may include a display unit 141, an audio output unit 143, and the like.

The display unit 141 displays information to be processed by the user terminal 100. For example, the user terminal 100 displays a GUI (Graphic User Interface), an electronic document, contents, and the like. Such a display device may be a liquid crystal display, a thin film transistor-liquid crystal display, an organic light-emitting diode, a flexible display, a 3D display ), A transparent display, a touch screen, and an electronic paper display (EPD). Here, when the display unit 141 is implemented as a touch screen, the display unit 141 may be used as an input device.

The sound output unit 143 outputs an audio signal, and outputs an audio signal (sound signal) related to a function performed by the user terminal 100. The sound output unit 143 may include a speaker, a buzzer, and the like.

The control unit 150 controls the overall operation of the user terminal 100 by controlling the above-described components. The control unit 150 loads the electronic document selected by the user from the memory 130 and displays the electronic document on the screen of the display unit 141 when the electronic document viewer operates as an electronic document viewer.

When the electronic document is loaded from the memory 130, the control unit 150 arranges the electronic document HTML page. Then, the control unit 150 checks whether the mark information in the electronic document exists through the organizing of the electronic document HTML page. The control unit 150 implements an electronic document layout according to the user environment information stored in the memory 130 based on the mark information when the mark information exists on the electronic document.

Here, the user environment information includes user information (profile) and device (viewer) information. The user information includes user age, sex, type of disorder (hearing impairment, visual impairment, etc.), and the device information includes resolution, operating system, network, performance, and the like.

In other words, the control unit 150 automatically changes the layout attribute, the media type, and the image quality for the layout configuration in which the electronic document is displayed according to the user information and the device information. For example, the controller 150 adjusts the font size according to the age of the user. Alternatively, if the user is a visually impaired user, the control unit 150 may configure a layout for playing and displaying only the audio and / or video included in the electronic document, and may display the image and / Configure the layout.

The controller 150 implements a layout for displaying an image according to the resolution of the user terminal 100. When the user terminal 100 is in a 3G communication environment, the controller 150 restricts the video, sets the image quality to a low resolution, fi) Set the image quality to high resolution if the environment. If the user terminal 100 is a low-resolution terminal, the control unit 150 sets the image quality to a low resolution so as to display a low-resolution image.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an electronic document service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the electronic document provision server 200 receives a request for downloading one or more electronic documents from the user terminal 100 (S101). The user terminal 100 accesses the electronic document providing server 200 through the communication unit 110 and requests download of the electronic document selected by the user.

In response to a request from the user terminal 100, the electronic document providing server 200 searches the database for a corresponding electronic document, reads the electronic document, and transmits the electronic document to the user terminal 100 (S102). At this time, the electronic document providing server 200 inserts mark information for layout implementation for displaying an electronic document into the electronic document and transmits the same. The mark information includes a command and a layout component for performing a mark purpose and a layout configuration setting.

The user terminal 100 receives the electronic document transmitted from the electronic document providing server 200 and confirms whether the received mark information exists in the received electronic document (S103). Here, the user terminal 100 analyzes the package file of the electronic document and inquires the electronic document HTML file path. The package file is an OPF (Open Packaging Format) file that defines organic relations and metadata of various components such as an image constituting an electronic document, other files, and XML (Extensible Markup Language). The user terminal 100 loads the electronic document HTML file based on the inquired electronic document HTML file path to organize the electronic document HTML page. Then, the user terminal 100 confirms whether mark information exists in the electronic document through the organizing of the electronic document HTML page.

If there is mark information in the electronic document, the user terminal 100 sets the layout configuration of the electronic document according to the user environment using the mark information (S104). That is, the user terminal 100 sets the layout configuration for displaying the electronic document by checking the user environment information based on the command and the layout element included in the mark information. Accordingly, the user terminal 100 can change the layout configuration of the electronic document according to the user environment information.

The user environment information includes user information and device (viewer) information. Here, the user information includes information such as the user's age, gender, disorder type, etc., and the device information includes information such as resolution, operating system, network, performance, and the like.

Then, the user terminal 100 displays the electronic document according to the set layout configuration. For example, a layout attribute, a media type, and an image quality for a layout configuration in which an electronic document is displayed can be automatically changed.

Specifically, the character size can be adjusted according to the age of the user. If the user is older than a certain age, the character size can be greatly increased. Alternatively, if the user is a visually impaired person, a layout for reproducing and displaying only the audio and / or video included in the electronic document is configured, and if the user is a hearing-impaired person, a layout capable of displaying images and / or text first.

In addition, a layout can be implemented to display an image according to the resolution of the user terminal 100. For example, if the resolution of the user terminal is low, the image can be limited or a high-quality image can be converted into a low-

In addition, if the user terminal 100 is a 3G communication environment, the image quality is set to a low resolution and the image quality is set to a high resolution if the environment is a wi-fi environment. In addition, if the user terminal 100 is a low-resolution terminal, the image quality is set to a low resolution so that a low-resolution image can be displayed.

That is, the layout configuration of the electronic document can be variously changed according to the user environment information by using the marking as described above. On the other hand, if there is no mark information in the electronic document, the user terminal 100 reproduces and displays the electronic document based on the default layout set in the electronic document.

The embodiments described above are those in which the elements and features of the present invention are combined in a predetermined form. Each component or feature shall be considered optional unless otherwise expressly stated. Each component or feature may be implemented in a form that is not combined with other components or features. It is also possible to construct embodiments of the present invention by combining some of the elements and / or features. The order of the operations described in the embodiments of the present invention may be changed. Some configurations or features of certain embodiments may be included in other embodiments, or may be replaced with corresponding configurations or features of other embodiments. It is clear that the claims that are not explicitly cited in the claims can be combined to form an embodiment or be included in a new claim by an amendment after the application.

Embodiments in accordance with the present invention may be implemented by various means, for example, hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof. In the case of hardware implementation, an embodiment of the present invention may include one or more application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable logic devices (PLDs) field programmable gate arrays, processors, controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, and the like.

In the case of an implementation by firmware or software, an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented in the form of a module, a procedure, a function, or the like which performs the functions or operations described above. The software code can be stored in a memory unit and driven by the processor. The memory unit is located inside or outside the processor, and can exchange data with the processor by various known means.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit of the invention. Accordingly, the foregoing detailed description is to be considered in all respects illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the present invention should be determined by rational interpretation of the appended claims, and all changes within the scope of equivalents of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention.

100: user terminal 110:
120: user input unit 130: memory
140: output unit 141: display unit
143: Acoustic output unit 150:
200: electronic document providing server

Claims (12)

For the layout implementation for displaying an electronic document, a command for performing layout configuration of the electronic document and mark information including layout elements including a layout attribute, a media type, or an image quality element are inserted into the electronic document An electronic document providing server for transmitting the electronic document; And
Requesting the electronic document providing server to download one or more electronic documents selected by the user, and when the mark information in the electronic document received from the electronic document providing server exists, includes the user's age, sex, And setting a layout attribute or a media type of the electronic document based on user information of the electronic document and displaying the electronic document according to the set layout attribute or the media type;
Wherein the user terminal changes the font size or font of the layout attribute according to the age of the user or selects a media type to be displayed according to the type of the user's fault.
The method according to claim 1,
The electronic document providing server,
And generates an electronic document according to a predetermined electronic document standard.
The method according to claim 1,
The electronic document providing server,
An attribute of an HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) element, and mark information in the electronic document using an HTML5 semantic tag.
delete delete delete delete The method according to claim 1,
The user terminal
Wherein the setting unit sets the layout attribute, the media type, or the image quality of the electronic document based on device information including resolution, operating system, network, or performance information of the user terminal.
(a) requesting a user terminal to download one or more electronic documents selected by a user to an electronic document provision server;
(b) transmitting, by the electronic document providing server, the selected electronic document to the user terminal;
(c) setting the layout attribute or the media type of the electronic document based on the user information including the user's age, gender, or type of failure when the mark information in the electronic document exists in the user terminal ; And
(d) the user terminal displaying the electronic document according to the set layout attribute or media type,
Wherein the step (b) includes the steps of: receiving a command for performing a layout configuration setting of an electronic document and a layout attribute, a media type, or an image quality element for a layout implementation for displaying an electronic document; Inserting mark information including a layout component in an electronic document,
The step (c) includes the step of the user terminal changing the font size or font of the layout attribute according to the age of the user, or selecting a media type to be displayed according to the type of the user's fault Electronic document service method delete delete delete

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