KR20010000188A - Online Music Purchase Method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for buying an audio file played on the internet is provided to increase the sale of an audio file, to allow a user to buy only a necessary file at a low cost, and to prevent electronic commercial transaction data from being disclosed in the buying of the product on the internet, by enabling the payment of the bill for the file via an audio response system(ARS). CONSTITUTION: The contents in a user terminal include a user selection part for sending the buying intention during the play of the audio file to the contents. The contents transmits necessary data to the ARS on the internet when a user shows the buying intention via the selection part, so that the bill for the audio file can be paid for a user terminal account. In response to the result of the process of the bill in the ARS, the audio file in state of being played is recorded as a file that can be played repeatedly in a storage device of the user terminal.

Description

How to purchase audio files while playing on Internet content {Online Music Purchase Method}

In the present invention, when music is being listened to on the Internet terminal content while listening to music through the Internet terminal content, the file price is added to the ARS (Auto Response System) account and the music file can be repeatedly played. The present invention relates to a method for purchasing an audio file during playback on the Internet, characterized by downloading as a file.

On Demand Service means Video On Demand Service (VOD), but various On Demand Services such as News On Demand (NOD), Interactive Video Games, Interactive Shopping, etc. are provided recently. have. As the on-demand service area expands, a number of channels and VOD service guide programs are provided in the form of print media such as newspapers and magazines or electronic program guide (EPG) data services.

Looking at the process of providing the AOD service such as a conventional Internet radio station, the user selects news or music through the user's terminal contents, the Internet contents on the user's computer or the Internet contents on the user's Internet phone, and the selected service code is the service provider through the Internet communication network. Delivered to the web server, the service provider web server transmits the corresponding service audio file and the accompanying additional information to the user terminal internet content, and the user terminal internet content receives the audio file and stores it in the memory (including the virtual memory). An audio file is played back by driving a playback program, and at the same time, additional information accompanying the output is output to an additional information output unit such as a monitor or a liquid crystal display.

In this AOD service, a listener receives an audio service through Internet content, and a service user has to go to a separate shopping mall and go through a music file purchase procedure to purchase a music file.

On the other hand, in order to purchase a product in an Internet shopping mall, it is necessary to provide an electronic payment method and perform an electronic payment process, so it is cumbersome to purchase a small product, and the product provided in the shopping mall is purchased in a packing unit. It was not possible to select and buy only one item, and it was not possible to use the product immediately because the product was not available until the delivery period.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for receiving an audio file during playback on Internet content that allows a user to download a music file being played with one click while listening to music through the Internet content.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method of receiving an audio file during playback on Internet content, which enables payment of a music file purchase price without using an ARS account, without a normal electronic payment process.

1 is a block diagram of the Internet involved in the present invention

2 is a configuration diagram of a user computer connected to an internet audio server

3 is a file storage step flow chart

Figure 4 is a bill processing step

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10: user terminal content 18: user selection unit 17: storage medium 21: payment processing unit

The present invention is to receive an audio file from the Internet server 130 through the user terminal Internet content on the Internet and to play the received file, the user selection unit for delivering the intention to purchase the audio file of the playback process to the Internet When the content is included in the content and the user transmits a purchase intention through the selection unit, the content transmits the necessary data to account for the payment amount of the audio file to the account of the user terminal with respect to the ARS system on the Internet, which is previously promised, and the ARS system. A method of purchasing an audio playback file on the Internet, comprising: recording an audio file as a repeatable audio file on a storage medium of a user terminal in response to a result of a payment processing response.

Referring to the configuration of the present invention in more detail as follows.

1 is a block diagram of the Internet involved in this invention. In FIG. 1, the Internet audio server 130 including the gateway 120 and the Internet broadcasting service (abbreviated as an audio server in the present invention), the ARS system 140, and the user terminal content 10 are connected to the Internet 100. It is.

The service selected by the user terminal content 10 is connected to the Internet audio server 130 through the gateway 120 (including other network point systems) of the Internet, and the user terminal content 10 is connected to the audio server 130. Providing the service item to the user, the user terminal content 10 transmits menu selection information to the audio server 130, and the audio server 130 responds to the selected audio file to the user terminal content 10 in response. And the user terminal content 10 temporarily stores the received audio file on a recording medium and also drives a playback program to play the audio file. The temporary storage area of the audio file is a memory or magnetic disk in a personal computer and a memory in an Internet phone.

2 is a configuration diagram of user terminal content 10 connected to the Internet audio server 130.

The user terminal content 10 which mounts a system program and an application program in the memory 12 and controls various devices connected to the bus 22 from the CPU 13 is connected to the Internet audio through a wired or wireless network interface 11. The audio file transmitted from the audio server 130, which is connected to the server 130, is decoded by the MPEG decoder 14 and stored in the memory 12 (including the magnetic recording medium). It is reproduced by outputting to 20.

The additional information such as video information or text information provided along with the audio information is processed along the additional information processing system and then output to the additional information output unit 19 through the additional information processing unit 15 so that the user terminal content 10 Play additional information such as video, still images or text information.

According to the present invention, when a music listener plays and listens to audio content from a user terminal content on the Internet as described above, a purchase intention is delivered to the content through a user selector 18 on the user terminal content when a music listener wants to purchase an audio file. The payment is made through the ARS payment line and the music file being played is downloaded to the user's computer.

The flowchart of FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 showing the file storage processing step will be described with reference. When the user terminal content 10 receives a purchase signal from the user selector 18 through the selector 18, the user terminal content 10 calls a file storage program to perform the file save step of FIG. 3. In the file storage mode of Fig. 3, it checks whether the received audio file is being played and returns if it is before playing. Inform the user of the charge, and confirm the intention to receive the file, and return when the user gives up the file.If the user chooses to receive the file, the user's terminal account code (terminal phone number payment account for Internet phones and communication set up on the computer for personal computers) ID account), the account item and the account amount are transferred to the payment processing unit 21 to be accounted for in the ARS account, and if it cannot be processed according to the result of the payment processing, it is returned as it is, and if the payment processing is completed, it is downloaded to the user terminal. The file being played back can be repeatedly played on the file storage medium 17 (the medium includes the nonvolatile memory of the terminal). Save as a file, and if the file creation is completed normally, the ARS payment line will be charged and the file will be returned to the user terminal specific file, indicating that the file is available for use, and returning if there is an error in the file creation process. After executing, return.

In the file storing step, an MPEG file downloaded to the user terminal for reproduction can be recorded on the storage medium of the user terminal as an MPEG compressed file which can be repeatedly reproduced by the user control.

The error processing process repeats the file generation process one or two times.If the normal file is obtained in the recurring process, the process proceeds to the step after the file is created.If the file is not created as a result, the account is stored in the payment line of the ARS system. The information is sent to the ARS server to cancel, and the processing information provided by the ARS server is terminated by displaying on the content of the user computer 10.

The payment processing routine transfers the account items such as the name of the audio file and the amount of the account to the ARS system 14 through the Internet network to the user's computer Internet access line account, and calculates the price, and the ARS system 140 If the payment completion response is received from the sender, the payment completion response is transmitted to the calling program and returned. If the payment is not accounted for in the ARS system, the payment processing response is sent to the calling program and returned.

As described above, the present invention provides a method for purchasing an audio file, which is being played on Internet content, which can easily download a music file being played while listening to music on the Internet content, and the present invention does not go through a normal electronic payment process. The payment line of the ARS system makes it easy to make payments for file purchases, increase the sales of good music to music file providers, and enable users to purchase only necessary files at low prices, Therefore, it is a very useful invention that prevents the damage caused by exposing electronic payment information, and can also purchase adolescents without a credit card, and reduce the media consumption of audio files.

Claims (1)

In receiving and playing audio files from the Internet server 130 in the user terminal Internet content on the Internet, In the terminal content, a user selection unit for delivering the audio file purchase intention of the reproduction process to the terminal content is included in the terminal content, and the user terminal content is about the ARS system on the Internet promised in advance when the user expresses the purchase intention through the selection unit. It transmits the necessary data to account for the purchase amount of the audio file to the user terminal account and records the audio file being played as a repeatable audio file on the user terminal storage medium in response to the result of the payment processing responded by the ARS system. A method of purchasing an audio file during playback on constituent Internet content.