KR101740648B1 - System and method for generating address data for part of contents in electronic book - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and a method for generating address data for a part of contents in an electronic book and an electronic book system for downloading at least one of the plurality of electronic books and outputting a part of contents included in the electronic book An extracting unit for extracting contents information included in the electronic book; An ID value setting unit for classifying a plurality of texts included in the content information individually and assigning an ID value to each text; An area processing unit for processing a part of the contents into a first area and confirming an ID value for the first area when a part of contents in the electronic book is specified through an input unit of the system; And an address data generator for generating address data for the first area by referring to the ID value of the first area. Therefore, it provides the effect of accessing specific contents directly by using address data without a separate download or authentication procedure.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system and method for generating address data for some contents in an electronic book,

The disclosed technique relates to a system and method for generating address data for a portion of content included in an electronic book.

According to the various utilization of the portable terminal, the case of using an e-book instead of a paper newspaper or a booklet is increasing.

The e-book is a file of a special format having a form of software, and can be freely downloaded and used in an online market on a smartphone, a pad or a PC, but is not a general purpose text file format, Quot; file "

Generally, paper books are somewhat lacking in durability and speed, but eBooks cover the disadvantages of these paper books and additionally support functions such as underlining, keyword search and simple memo for the convenience of users And is becoming a popular substitute for paper books.

However, while e-books have the advantage of being able to replace paper books in many ways, it is somewhat unreasonable to assume that they have not fully absorbed all the advantages of paper books. For example, it is easy to see many books in one book, or to show the impressions of oneself to someone, but eBooks are not yet convenient in this situation.

In addition, even in sharing contents with other users, paper books can be easily solved by lending books or copying contents. However, e-books are troublesome to share with other users due to their inherent properties, There is a somewhat heterogeneous aspect to the appeal, and it will be a challenge to solve these problems technically.

Korean Patent No. 10-1323264 (titled invention, a method for sharing a phrase in an e-book image, a server and a computer readable recording medium) is known as a conventional technology for sharing a part of an e-book content with other users.

The disclosed technology is to provide a system and method for generating address data for a part of contents of an e-book and directly allowing other users to access some contents in the e-book.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic book system for downloading at least one of a plurality of electronic books and outputting a part of contents included in the electronic book on a screen, An ID value setting unit for classifying a plurality of texts included in the content information and assigning an ID value to each text, a part of the content in the e-book is inputted through input means of the system An area processor for processing the part of the content into a first area and verifying an ID value of the first area when the first area is designated and an address value for the first area by referring to the ID value for the first area And a system for generating address data for some contents in an electronic book including an address data generating unit.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of downloading at least one of a plurality of electronic books and outputting a part of contents included in the electronic book through a screen, Extracting content information included in a book, assigning an ID value to each text by separately classifying a plurality of texts included in the content information in an ID value setting unit of the electronic book system, When the area processing unit receives a part of the contents of the electronic book through the input unit of the system, processing the part of the contents as the first area to confirm the ID value for the first area, Wherein the data generating unit generates the address data for the first area by referring to the ID value for the first area, That there is provided a method for generating address data for some content within the e-book.

Embodiments of the disclosed technique may have effects that include the following advantages. It should be understood, however, that the scope of the disclosed technology is not to be construed as limited thereby, since the embodiments of the disclosed technology are not meant to include all such embodiments.

According to one embodiment of the disclosed technology, a system and method for generating address data for some content in an e-book has the advantage that other users may be moved directly to specific content in the e-book using address data.

In addition, regardless of the solution or platform of the e-book of different solution or platform, it provides the effect of easily sharing contents using address data without a separate downloading or authentication procedure.

In addition, it provides an effect of preventing unnecessary access to other contents except for some contents based on the address data.

1 is a block diagram of a system for generating address data for some content in an electronic book in accordance with one embodiment of the disclosed technique.
2 is a flowchart of a method for generating address data for some content in an electronic book according to an embodiment of the disclosed technique.
3 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment using address data.
4 is a block diagram of an address data generation unit according to an embodiment of the disclosed technology.

While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments, but includes all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.

The terms first, second, A, B, etc., may be used to describe various components, but the components are not limited by the terms, but may be used to distinguish one component from another . For example, without departing from the scope of the present invention, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component. And / or < / RTI > includes any combination of a plurality of related listed items or any of a plurality of related listed items.

It is to be understood that the singular < RTI ID = 0.0 > terms < / RTI > used herein should be interpreted to include a plurality of representations unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. And "comprises ", when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, numbers, steps, operations, elements, parts, or combinations thereof, Or combinations thereof, as a matter of course.

Before describing the drawings in detail, it is to be clarified that the division of constituent parts in this specification is merely a division by main functions of each constituent part. That is, two or more constituent parts to be described below may be combined into one constituent part, or one constituent part may be divided into two or more functions according to functions that are more subdivided.

In addition, each of the constituent units described below may additionally perform some or all of the functions of other constituent units in addition to the main functions of the constituent units themselves, and that some of the main functions, And may be carried out in a dedicated manner. Accordingly, the presence or absence of each component described in this specification should be interpreted as a function.

1 is a block diagram of a system 100 for generating address data for some content in an electronic book in accordance with one embodiment of the disclosed technique. Referring to FIG. 1, a system 100 for generating address data for a part of content in an electronic book includes an extraction unit 110, an ID value setting unit 120, an area processing unit 130, and an address data generation unit 140 .

The extracting unit 110 extracts the contents information 111 included in the electronic book. Generally, e-books are not produced as a single solution or platform integrated form or standard, but are produced in different forms by different publishers and countries. Accordingly, since the contents included in the electronic book do not have a uniform shape, the extracting unit 110 extracts various contents included in the electronic book and internally identifies the contents as the contents information 111.

Here, the content information 111 is basically text in terms of an e-book, and further includes at least one of an image, a text, and a moving image. Of course, the text also includes various punctuation and spacing.

The ID value setting unit 120 classifies a plurality of texts contained in the content information 111 individually. In one embodiment, the contents of an electronic book composed of a plurality of texts can be classified into individual texts. If the text is Hangul, the text can be classified based on syllable such as vowel, consonant + vowel, vowel + consonant, consonant + vowel + consonant.

On the other hand, the ID value setting unit 120 assigns ID values 120a to individual texts classified individually. Here, the ID value 120a may be regarded as a kind of index value that matches each of the texts, unlike a general coordinate or an address value, and allows the user to directly check the value when the user selects the ID value 120a later.

In one embodiment, if the texts included in the content information 111 are 'Ganada Rama', an ID value 'a' is assigned to 'a', an ID value 'b' is assigned to 'I' 'May be assigned an ID value of' c ', and one ID value may be assigned to each text. As mentioned above, if the spacing between texts is also classified into one syllable, an ID value can be assigned, and the ID value can be similarly assigned to a sentence symbol such as a quotation mark or a comma.

Since the ID value 120a is a kind of eigenvalue, the ID value setting unit 120 may assign different ID values to distinguish each other even if the same syllable exists in the text included in the content information 111 do. The ID value assigned to each text is processed so that there is no overlapping value.

In assigning the ID value 120a, the ID value setting unit 120 uses an ID value generating unit 121. [ The ID value generation unit 121 generates a plurality of ID values so that the ID value 120a can be assigned to each of the individual texts included in the content information 111 without overlapping.

The area processing unit 130 processes the part of the content in the first area 131 when a part of the content in the electronic book is designated through the input unit of the system 100. [ Then, the ID value of the first area 131 is confirmed. The reader of the e-book can designate a part of the content to share specific contents with other users.

In one embodiment, some content can be assigned by dragging some content using a mouse, or by double tapping with a stylus pen or finger.

On the other hand, when a part of the content of the electronic book is designated as described above, the area processing unit 130 processes the designated part into the first area 131. [ Here, the area processing unit 130 may search for the first text and the last text of a designated part of the content, and process the text including the first text to the final text into the first area 131. [ The first area 131 is displayed on the screen through an additional effect so that the user of the electronic book system can easily confirm the user with the naked eye. For example, the first area 131 can be emphasized by adding an underline or a highlight effect.

Meanwhile, when the first area 131 is set as described above, the area processing unit 130 confirms the ID value for the first area 131. In one embodiment, the first text and the last text of the first area 131 may be searched to identify the ID values from the first text to the last text.

The address data generating unit 140 generates the address data 140a for the first area 131 by referring to the ID value of the first area 131. [ The address data 140a performs a function of a link to some content that the reader of the e-book wants to share with the other user. In one embodiment, the address data 140a may be a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or a link (link) to a specific web site or a web page when it is input by copying and pasting.

4, the address data generation unit 140 may further include an address data transfer unit 141 and an address data processing unit 142. [ The address data transmission unit 141 transmits the address data 140a to at least one user terminal whose e-book reader wants to share some contents of the e-book. At this time, the address data 140a can be transmitted to at least one user terminal in the form of a message such as sms or mms, and other users can check the contents by clicking or tapping the address data 140a included in the message .

Meanwhile, the address data processing unit 142 may change the address data 140a of the first area 131 so that the address data 140a may be modified or manipulated by another user to access another area of the content information 111, It is possible to block access to another area other than the first area 131.

In one embodiment, when the address data 140a for the first area 131 is generated, the electronic book system 100 already knows the information about the first area 131 and the address data 140a, It is possible to previously block access to an area other than the first area 131 through a link changed by other users than the book system and to allow the user to view some contents of the first area 131 Can be limited.

On the other hand, at least one user terminal having received the address data 140a displays a part of contents corresponding to the address data 140a. In the conventional case, for example, in order to cite or share a part of a content, when a URL of a web page containing the content is shared with the other party, the other party receives the URL, accesses the URL, There was a hassle.

On the other hand, in the disclosed technology, it is possible to jump directly to some contents position of an electronic book using address data. For example, when accessing contents of an electronic book from another user's terminal through a URL or a link, the remaining contents except for the first area 131 are displayed or blurred in order to block copyright or other problems, 1 area 131 can be displayed with an underline or a background color.

Of course, in the case of content that is not related to such an issue, it is also possible to display all the contents on the screen and display only a portion corresponding to the address data so that the contents can be viewed continuously. That is, by creating address data for a portion of the text, a simpler and more convenient aspect is highlighted compared to simply copying, sharing, or renting text.

Accordingly, the user of the e-book system can transmit unnecessary processes or contents that he or she intends to deliver to other users at the same time, and at the same time, the user who receives the address data can access the contents of the e-book without following any authentication or procedure .

3 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment using address data. Referring to FIGS. 3A to 3D, it is confirmed that address data is generated and transmitted to another user to share specific contents.

Referring to FIG. 3A, an electronic book system 100 for generating address data according to the disclosed technique includes a user terminal and a server, and a plurality of electronic books are uploaded to the server, and a user connects to the server through his or her terminal You can provide services to download e-books.

At this time, it is possible to provide a service for downloading a fee or free of charge according to the kind of the electronic book, and in the case of a charged user, it is possible for the user to download the electronic book for a fee according to a predetermined payment method.

On the other hand, if the electronic book is downloaded and opened as shown in FIG. 3 (a), the contents inserted into the electronic book can be confirmed. Typically, content is composed mainly of text, but pictures and background music may be added depending on the type of book.

Referring to FIG. 3B, it can be confirmed that a user designates a part of a content to deliver a specific content to another user while browsing the electronic book. In an embodiment, if the terminal reading the electronic book is a PC, a part of the content can be designated as an area by dragging with a mouse. In another embodiment, when viewing an e-book through a smartphone or a tablet PC, the user can designate the area by tapping or double tapping with a finger or a touch pen.

On the other hand, if the area is designated as described above, it is possible to generate address data for the corresponding area in order to allow other users to access some contents according to the designated contents. That is, address data can be generated in the form of a URL as shown in FIG. 3C.

Of course, it is also possible to allow other users to access the contents by creating posts or linking through the SNS as in the past, but in this case, there is a further disadvantage of accessing the SNS, , The conventional disadvantages still continue as compared with the method of using the address data, so the step is simplified and the address data is used for the convenience of the user.

FIG. 3D is a diagram illustrating that the other user having received the address data generated by the user of the system confirms the content according to the area specified by the address data in the other terminal. When receiving the address data in the form of a message, the user who receives the address data from the user of the e-book system (hereinafter referred to as the receiver) inputs the address data into the address bar of the browser and directly accesses some contents of the e-book according to the address data It is possible.

On the other hand, as shown in the figure, the entire contents are displayed on the screen, and only a part of the content according to the address data is highlighted or displayed, or only the contents according to the address data are displayed and the remaining contents can be processed as blur or blank. In an embodiment, if the content is an e-book paid for by payment, the recipient can not restrict the access to only the content of the content according to the address data.

2 is a flowchart of a method for generating address data for some content in an electronic book according to an embodiment of the disclosed technique. Referring to FIG. 2, a method of generating address data for some contents in an electronic book includes the following steps.

In step 210, the extracting unit 110 of the electronic book system 100 extracts the contents information 111 included in the electronic book. Generally, e-books are not produced as a single solution or platform integrated form or standard, but are produced in different forms by different publishers or countries. Accordingly, since the contents included in the electronic book are not uniform, the extracting unit 110 extracts various contents included in the electronic book and identifies the extracted contents as the contents information 111. [

Here, the content information 111 is basically text in terms of an e-book, and further includes at least one of an image, a text, and a moving image.

In step 220, the ID value setting unit 120 of the electronic book system 100 classifies a plurality of texts included in the contents information 111 individually and assigns ID values to the respective texts. The ID value setting unit 120 classifies a plurality of texts contained in the content information 111 individually. In one embodiment, the contents of an electronic book composed of a plurality of texts can be classified into individual texts. If the text is Hangul, the text can be classified based on syllable such as vowel, consonant + vowel, vowel + consonant, consonant + vowel + consonant.

On the other hand, the ID value setting unit 120 assigns ID values to individual texts classified individually. Here, the ID value may be regarded as a kind of index value that matches each of the texts, unlike a general coordinate or an address value, and allows the user to directly check the value when the user selects the ID value later.

In one embodiment, if the texts included in the content information 111 are 'abcaa', an ID value of '1' is assigned to the first 'a', an ID value of '2' is assigned to 'b' quot; c " is assigned an ID value of " 3 ", and one ID value can be assigned to each text.

Since the ID value is a kind of eigenvalue, the ID value setting unit 120 assigns different ID values to distinguish the IDs, even if the same syllables exist in the texts included in the content information 111. [ The ID value itself is not duplicated. For example, if the ID value for the first 'a' in 'abcaa' is given as '1', the ID value is assigned as 'a' for the second 'a' can do.

In assigning the ID value, the ID value setting unit 120 uses an ID value generating unit 121. [ The ID value generation unit 121 generates a plurality of ID values so that the ID value 120a can be assigned to each of the individual texts included in the content information 111 without overlapping.

The area processing unit 130 of the electronic book system 100 receives a part of the content in the electronic book through the input unit of the system 100 in step 230 and processes the part of the content into the first area 131 And confirms the ID value for the first area 131. [ The reader of the e-book can designate a part of the content to share specific contents with other users.

In one embodiment, some content can be assigned by dragging some content using a mouse, or by double tapping with a stylus pen or finger.

On the other hand, when a part of the content of the electronic book is designated as described above, the area processing unit 130 processes the designated part into the first area 131. [ Here, the area processing unit 130 may search for the first text and the last text of a designated part of the content, and process the text including the first text to the last text into the first area 131. [ The first area 131 is displayed on the screen through an additional effect so that the user can visually confirm the first area 131. For example, the first area 131 may be identified as shaded or underlined.

Meanwhile, when the first area 131 is set as described above, the area processing unit 130 confirms the ID value for the first area 131. In one embodiment, the first text and the last text of the first area 131 may be searched to identify the ID values from the first text to the last text.

In step 240, the address data generator 140 of the electronic book system 100 generates address data for the first area 131 by referring to the ID value of the first area 131. The reader data of the e-book performs a function of a link to a part of contents which the reader intends to share with other users. In one embodiment, the address data may be a URL or a link to a specific web site or a web page when the URL is copied and pasted.

4, the address data generation unit 140 may further include an address data transfer unit 141 and an address data processing unit 142. [ The address data transmission unit 141 transmits the address data 140a to at least one user terminal whose e-book reader wants to share some contents of the e-book. At this time, the address data can be transmitted to at least one user terminal in the form of a message such as sms or mms, and other users can check the contents by clicking or tapping the address data included in the message.

Meanwhile, the address data processing unit may change the address data of the first area 131 by the other user so that the first area 131 may not be accessed by accessing another area of the content information 111, It is possible to block access to other areas.

In one embodiment, when address data for the first area 131 is generated, the electronic book system 100 grasps information about the first area 131 and the address data, It is possible to prevent the users from accessing the area other than the first area 131 in advance and limit the authority to view some content with respect to the first area 131. [

On the other hand, a part of the contents according to the address data is displayed on the screen of the at least one user terminal having received the address data. In the conventional case, for example, in order to cite or share a part of a content, when a URL of a web page containing the content is shared with the other party, the other party receives the URL, accesses the URL, There was a hassle.

On the other hand, in the disclosed technology, some contents according to the address data are received. For example, the contents other than the first area 131 are displayed as shaded or blurred in order to block the occurrence of copyright or other problems, and only the contents of the first area 131 are displayed with an underline or a background color. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the unnecessary process or hassle and to easily share the contents of the e-book to the other party.

Although the system 100 and method for generating address data for some content in an electronic book according to an embodiment of the disclosed technique have been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings for purposes of understanding, It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Accordingly, the true scope of protection of the disclosed technology should be determined by the appended claims.

100: Address data generation e-book system
110: Extracting unit 120: ID value setting unit
120a: ID value 121: ID value generating unit
130: area processing unit 131: first area
140: address data generation unit 140a: address data
210: extracting content information 220:
230: Check ID value 240: Generate address data

Claims (16)

An electronic book system for downloading at least one of a plurality of electronic books and outputting a part of contents included in the electronic book on a screen,
An extracting unit for extracting contents information included in the electronic book;
An ID value setting unit for classifying a plurality of texts included in the content information individually and assigning an ID value to each text;
An area processing unit for processing a part of the contents into a first area and confirming an ID value for the first area when a part of contents in the electronic book is specified through input means of the system;
An address data generation unit for generating address data for the first area by referring to an ID value of the first area; And
An address data processor for allowing access to the first area by accessing address data and for blocking access to another area other than the first area so that the contents can not be accessed by accessing another area of the contents information; Including,
Wherein the address data generation unit generates the address data based on an ID value of a first text and a last text of the specified partial contents. delete The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,
And an ID value generator for generating a plurality of ID values matching the respective texts. The method according to claim 1,
If the address data is selected in the at least one user terminal, the content other than the first area is shaded or blurred to be displayed when the address data is the copyright protection target, 1 < / RTI > area. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the address data generator comprises:
Wherein the address data transmission unit transmits address data for the first area to at least one user terminal. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the address data for the first area comprises:
Is a URL or a link to the first area. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the ID value setting unit assigns a unique ID to each syllable of the texts included in the content information. 2. The method of claim 1,
And displaying the first area as an underline or a background color when the at least one user terminal is selected and displaying the remaining area except the first area as shade or blur if the content is a copyright protection target. A method for downloading at least one of a plurality of electronic books and outputting a part of contents included in an electronic book on a screen,
Extracting content information included in an extraction unit e-book system of an electronic book system;
The ID value setting unit of the electronic book system classifies a plurality of texts individually included in the contents information and assigns an ID value to each text;
When the area processing unit of the electronic book system receives a part of the contents of the electronic book through the input unit of the system, processing the part of the contents into the first area to confirm the ID value of the first area; And
The address data generating unit of the electronic book system generates address data for the first area by referring to the ID value for the first area, and based on the ID value of the first text and the last text of the inputted partial contents, And generating the address data,
The address data generating unit may further include an address data processing unit. The address data processing unit permits access when accessing the generated address data of the first area, accesses another area of the content data, And blocking access to another area other than the first area. delete 10. The apparatus according to claim 9,
And an ID value generator for generating a plurality of ID values matching the respective texts. 10. The method of claim 9,
If the address data is selected in the at least one user terminal, the content other than the first area is shaded or blurred to be displayed when the address data is the copyright protection target, 1 < / RTI > area. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the address data generator comprises:
And an address data transferring unit for transferring address data of the first area to at least one user terminal. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the address data for the first area comprises:
And a URL or link to the first area. 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the ID value setting unit assigns a unique ID to each syllable of the texts included in the content information. 10. The method of claim 9,
And displaying the first area as an underline or a background color when the at least one user terminal is selected and displaying the remaining area except the first area as a shade or blur if the content is a copyright protection subject.

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