KR19980050393A - Apparatus and method for reservation and automatic delivery of electronic newspaper using internet - Google Patents

Abstract

end. The technical field to which the invention described in the claims belongs:

It is a technology related to electronic newspaper using internet.

I. The technical problem the invention is trying to solve:

Reservation and automatic delivery of electronic newspapers using the Internet.

All. The gist of the solution of the invention:

In the present invention, the reservation module 2 is a module that specifies in advance the overall operation is composed of a sub-module, such as article reservation, activity time, article preservation, etc. Delivery module 4 is a point on the Internet (site) where the article is reserved at the specified time It is responsible for managing the information related to the delivered article by storing it in the designated location of the storage device of the user's computer. The output module 6 shows information such as the title of the article delivered to the user, input time, and the like, and outputs the article body, deletes the article, and views other article groups according to the user's instructions.

la. Important uses of the invention:

Electronic newspaper reservation and automatic delivery using internet

Description

Apparatus and method for reservation and automatic delivery of electronic newspaper using internet

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for automatically delivering an electronic newspaper by using the Internet.

A conventional program that performs automatic delivery of articles for Internet electronic newspapers is The PointCast Network (PCN) V1.0, which was developed and operated in 1996 by PointCast Inc. of the United States. Http://www.pointcast.com Available at /.

Internet searchers are a common tool that users can use to obtain information scattered on the Internet. The internet searcher is composed of a part for receiving an address where the information is located from the user, a part for obtaining the information located at the input address through the internet, and a part for outputting the obtained information.

The conventional internet searcher performs an operation as follows.

(1) The user receives an address indicating the location of the information.

(2) Access the address entered through the Internet.

(3) Get information located at the address.

(4) The imported information is displayed in the window.

In the conventional technology, whenever a user wants to obtain information, the user must input the address into the searcher one by one, and the user must wait until the searcher accesses the input address and retrieves and outputs the information. Also, since the information is temporary, the information does not disappear unless the user intentionally instructs to store the information.

Therefore, the user had to know the address of the desired information and had to spend the effort and time waiting for the information to be delivered to his computer.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for reservation and automatic delivery of an electronic newspaper using the Internet.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for bringing information desired by a user on behalf of the user, storing it on the user's computer, and displaying the desired article at the desired time.

1 is a view showing a configuration module and an operation state according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation control in the reservation module 2 of FIG. 1.

3 is an operation control flowchart of the delivery module 4 of FIG.

4 is a flowchart illustrating operation of the output module 6 of FIG. 1.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the same elements in the figures are denoted by the same numerals wherever possible. In addition, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

1 is a view showing a configuration module and an operating state according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to Figure 1, the configuration module according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a reservation module 2, delivery module 4, and output module 6.

Reservation module 2 is a module that specifies the overall operation in advance, it is composed of sub-modules such as article reservation, activity time, article retention. The article reservation submodule is responsible for scheduling and canceling the article groups and the main words to be delivered. The Activity Time submodule is responsible for scheduling the time periods for delivery once, daily and weekly. In addition, it is in charge of the reservation of time according to the designated period. In addition, the article preservation submodule is responsible for reserving whether the preservation or automatic deletion of the delivered and stored articles and the preservation period of the article when the automatic deletion is designated.

In FIG. 1, the delivery module 4 accesses a branch (site) on the Internet where a reserved article is located at a designated time, receives the article, stores the article in a designated location of a storage device of the user computer, and stores information related to the delivered article in a database. In charge of managing functions. The output module 6 shows information such as the title of the article delivered to the user, input time, and the like, and outputs the article body, deletes the article, and views other article groups according to the user's instructions.

Each module of the present invention is present in the operation standby state as shown in FIG. 1 and performs an operation designated by the following event. An operating state according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

Event 1; The selection of reservation module 2 occurs when the user selects reservation module 2 using the program interface. The event 1 allows the user to specify and change reservations.

Event 2; The delivery task execution instruction occurs when the user arrives at a predetermined time, when the user directly instructs, or when a message is transmitted from another program such as a screensaver. This is done.

Event 3; Selecting the output module 6 outputs information such as the title, input time, etc. of articles already delivered to the specified article group, such as reading the article body, deleting the article, and selecting another article group, and waits for the next event.

FIG. 2 is an operation control flowchart of the reservation module 2 performed by the event 1, FIG. 3 is an operation control flowchart of the delivery module 4 performed by the event 2, and FIG. 4 is an event 3 flow chart. The operation control flow chart at the output module 6 performed by FIG.

First, referring to FIG. 2, operation control of the reservation module 2 of FIG. 1 will be described. When the user selects the reservation module 2 using the program interface (step 200), the reservation module 2 performs the selection of the event (1) according to the steps 202, 204 and 206 accordingly. The event 1 includes an article scheduling event such as step 202, an activity time event such as step 204, and an article preservation event such as step 206. Article reservation events include selection of article group reservation / cancellation, keyword reservation / cancellation, etc. Activity time event has selection contents such as execution cycle once / daily / weekly and start time (month, day, hour, minute). . In addition, the article preservation event has selection contents such as automatic deletion or not, article retention period selection, and the like.

Therefore, by the event (1) as described above, if the user designates and changes the reservation details and confirms in step 208, the reservation module of the database is designated and changed as in step 210.

Next, operation control in the delivery module 4 will be described with reference to FIG. 3. When the delivery module 4 is called by the event 2 (step 300), the delivery module 4 proceeds to step 302 to read the information of the reserved article group into the database to the user computer. Delivery units are in the same subject group and may be reserved for any number of general article groups. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step 304 and accesses an electronic newspaper providing system (server) for each reserved article group and receives a list of the article groups. The article group list contains information such as title, identification ID, and input time of articles after a certain time among articles in the article group. In step 304, the delivery module 4 analyzes the list of transmitted article groups and generates information about each article. Thereafter, the delivery module 4 proceeds to step 306 and accesses the electronic newspaper server again for each article configured in step 304 to receive the body of the article. The text of the transmitted article is analyzed to reconstruct multimedia information such as images included in the article. In addition, the delivery module 4 records the body of the article with a predetermined name in a predetermined location of the user computer storage device. Thereafter, in step 308, it is determined whether the delivery of all the articles belonging to the article group is completed. If not, the above-described step 306 is repeatedly performed, so that the delivery of all the articles belonging to the article group is completed. When article delivery is completed, the process proceeds to step 310 and records the information of the article group and the articles of the article group in the database of the user's computer. Thereafter, the method proceeds to step 312, and it is determined whether the article group processing is completed, and if it does not, the above-described steps 304 to 310 are repeated. This completes the article group processing and returns to the main program.

Finally, referring to FIG. 4, operation control of the output module 6 will be described. When the user selects to read the article body, delete the article, select another article group, etc. using the program interface, the output module 6 recognizes this in step 400 and performs the same operations as steps 402, 404, and 406 accordingly.

If the user selects to read the article body, the output module 6 proceeds to step 402 and outputs the article body to the Netscape Navigator. If the user selects to delete the article, the process proceeds to step 404 to delete the article and related information from the database and file. If the user selects moving to another article group, the process proceeds to step 406 to output the article title and related information belonging to the selected article group. Then return to the main program and wait for the next event.

In the above description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be defined by the described embodiments, but should be defined by the equivalents of the claims and the claims.

As described above, the present invention saves the user's effort and time by bringing the information desired by the user on behalf of the user, storing it on the user's computer, and displaying the desired article at the desired time.

Claims (4)

In the device for the reservation and automatic delivery of electronic newspaper using the Internet, Based on the user's article reservation selection, the user can reserve and cancel the article group, set the execution cycle and start time according to the user's active time selection, and specify whether to delete automatically based on the user's article retention selection. And electronic newspaper reservation means for performing the article retention period selection; An electronic newspaper delivery means for accessing a point on the Internet where a reserved article is located at a designated time, receiving the article, storing the article at a designated location in a storage device of a user computer, and managing information related to the delivered article in a database; It shows the information such as the title of the article delivered to the user, the input time, etc., characterized in that it consists of an electronic newspaper output means for outputting the article body, deletion of the article, and viewing of other article groups according to the user's instructions Device. According to claim 1, wherein the electronic newspaper reservation means Article reservation processing unit responsible for the reservation and cancellation function of article groups, subjects, etc. to be delivered, An activity time processor that is responsible for reserving a schedule of time at which the delivery work is performed once, daily, weekly, etc. And an article preservation processing unit for reserving whether or not to preserve or automatically delete the delivered and stored articles, and to reserve a deadline for preserving articles when specifying automatic deletion. In the method for the reservation and automatic delivery of electronic newspaper using the Internet, Based on the user's article reservation selection, the user can reserve and cancel the article group, set the execution cycle and start time according to the user's active time selection, and specify whether to delete automatically based on the user's article retention selection. And electronic newspaper reservation process for selecting the article retention period, An electronic newspaper delivery process that accesses a point on the Internet where a reserved article is located at a specified time, receives the article, stores it in a designated location on a storage device of the user's computer, and manages the information related to the delivered article in a database; Displaying information such as the title of the article delivered to the user, the input time, etc., characterized in that the output of the article body, the deletion of the article, and the output of the electronic newspaper to perform the reading of other article groups according to the user's instructions . According to claim 3, The electronic newspaper delivery process, If the user's request for electronic newspaper delivery is selected, the information of the reserved article group is read into the database on the user's computer, and the list of the article groups is transmitted by accessing the electronic newspaper providing system for each reserved article group. , After analyzing the list of the sent article groups, the information about each article is composed, and then each article is connected to the electronic newspaper server to receive the body of the article, and the body of the article is analyzed and the image included in the article. Reconstructing the multimedia information and recording the body of the article with a predetermined name at a predetermined location on a user's computer storage device; When the delivery of all the articles in the article group is completed, the method comprising the steps of recording the information of the article group and the articles of the article group in the database of the user computer.