KR20010000209A - Internet domain advertisement method using telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for advertising Internet domains using a telephone is provided to supply a unit for easily accessing a publicity-targeted homepage than a homepage of other rival company, so as to increase the number of visitors relating to the publicity-targeted homepage, and to make a person who does not know a domain address or is not familiar to a computer easily connect the publicity-targeted homepage so as to induce the person to visit the publicity-targeted homepage. CONSTITUTION: A domain application program reads data through an interface. The program decides whether the read data is code data of a short key. If so, the program performs a web browser and reads a domain address which is equal to a code of the short key in a domain address database, then connects to a site selected by a user. A publicity-targeted domain address ordered from a domain advertiser corresponds to a key code, and is stored in the domain address database. An upper surface of a key for generating each key code, domain addresses corresponding around the upper surface, and a shop name of a domain owner are displayed. A telephone is mounted with a keypad, the domain addresses, and the shop name. The telephone, the interface, the domain address database, and media for storing the domain application program are supplied to a user for nothing or for counter value.

Description

How to Advertise Internet Domains Using a Phone {INTERNET DOMAIN ADVERTISEMENT METHOD USING TELEPHONE}

The present invention relates to a method of increasing the number of users by promoting the Internet domain, and more particularly, to an Internet domain advertising method for causing a lot of access by providing a means for the user to easily access the homepage.

The most important thing for Internet service providers is that many users access their homepage. Recently, as the Internet is generalized and various business purposes are used, efforts to attract netizens to their Internet domains have been developed in various ways.

The most common method is to advertise the domain address through existing media such as TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. This method is expensive and does not provide a means for Netizens to memorize the domain address and enter it into the computer, making it quicker, easier and preferentially accessing the homepage to promote. Another way to promote a domain is to click on a banner ad to access the banner owner's home page. This method has a problem in that it is not possible to expect a great effect unless many homepages simultaneously run banner advertisements.

In addition, a method of providing clothes for which domain names are numbered for promotion or a method of promoting a specific homepage through an event may be used. All of these methods have a problem in that they cannot be expected except for one-time effects.

In consideration of the above-mentioned problems of the conventional domain promotion method, the present invention can not only widely inform the public of the advertiser's domain address, but also access the homepage of the domain advertiser faster, easily, and preferentially than the competitor's homepage. To provide a means to do so.

In addition, the present invention provides an internet domain advertisement method in which the promotion effect can be continuously maintained.

1 is a block diagram of a general telephone having a key for accessing a domain, which is a system required for implementing an Internet domain advertisement method using a telephone according to the present invention, and a computer interfaced thereto.

2 is a block diagram of a telephone combined with an Internet phone having a key for accessing a domain, which is a system required for implementing an Internet domain advertisement method using a telephone according to the present invention and a personal computer interfaced thereto.

Figure 3 is a flow diagram of a domain access application that is one of the components of the Internet domain advertising method using a telephone according to the present invention.

4 is an external view schematically showing a telephone used in the Internet domain advertisement method using the telephone according to the present invention.

5 is a block diagram schematically showing a data structure stored in a domain address book database of an Internet domain advertisement method using a telephone according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an advertisement method schematically showing a process of receiving an advertiser's order, storing the advertiser's promotional domain in a domain address book database, and displaying it on a shortcut key of a phone.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

10: General telephone with key for accessing domain 11: Handset

12: Conventional telephone circuit 13: Keypad for domain connection

14: Microcomputer 15: Interface

30: Computer further equipped with keypad interface for domain connection

31: conventional computer 32: sound card

33: Domain access application 34: Interface driver

50: telephone combined with an internet phone with a domain access key

51: Conventional Internet phone and telephone circuit 52: Line selection unit

53: switching unit 71: general telephone selection button

72: Internet phone selection button 73: Transfer button for the Internet phone

74: domain access key

The present invention is at least one input key to solve the above technical problem

A phone equipped with a keypad configured to generate a unique code for each key when the user presses the key and transmit the generated code to an interfaced computer; stored in the computer interfaced to the keypad, and corresponding to the keycode A domain address book database for storing data about the domain address; Is executed in a computer interfaced to the keypad, the step of reading data through the interface, determining whether the read data is the code data of the shortcut key, if the read data is the code of the shortcut key to run a web browser and A domain application that reads a domain address corresponding to a code of a shortcut key from a domain address book database and connects to a site selected by a user; Storing an advertisement target domain address ordered from a domain advertiser in a domain address book database in association with a key code; Displaying a trade name of a domain address and a domain owner corresponding to or around a top of a key generating each key code; And providing a user with a telephone on which the keypad is mounted and displaying a domain address and a domain owner's name, a medium storing the interface, the domain address book database, and the domain access application, for free or for a fee. Provides an internet domain advertising method.

The telephone is integrally formed with a conventional telephone circuit and a handset, the keypad having at least one or more Internet domain access keys, and when a user presses a key to generate a predetermined code assigned to each key, the user inputs through the keypad. An interface that receives a domain code signal for a key from a computer (PC), executes a web browser, and delivers it to the computer for access to the domain for the input key, and a code for a key pressed by the user from the keypad. It is preferably configured to include a microcomputer to receive and control the transmission to the personal computer through the interface.

The telephone is formed integrally with a conventional telephone circuit and handset of the Internet phone, the keypad having at least one or more Internet domain access keys, and generates a certain code assigned to each key when the user presses the key, and through the keypad An interface that receives a domain code signal for a key input by a user from a computer (PC), executes a web browser, and delivers it to the computer for access to the domain for the input key, and a key pressed by the user from the keypad. A microcom to receive a code for and transmit the code to a personal computer through the interface, a line selector for selecting a general public telephone network telephone call and an internet phone call, a speaker of the handset according to the selection of the line selector, Microphone terminal is a speaker and microphone of the conventional telephone circuit It may be configured to include characters or a personal computer connected to the switching part to switch to the speaker and the microphone jack of the sound card mounted on.

Designing and manufacturing a keypad that generates a constant keycode when a user presses is a well-known technique that can be easily implemented by those skilled in the communication equipment industry.

In order to be able to transfer data between the keypad and a conventional computer, a separate interface is required, which preferably uses USB (Universal Serial Bus), which has become a standard of the recent serial data bus. The computer must be equipped with an interface driver. Generally, when you buy a general-purpose interface, the corresponding interface driver is provided, so you can use it.

The microcomputer controlling the interface and the keypad may use a separate microcomputer, but it is preferable to use a microcomputer provided in the conventional telephone. It simply acts as a control to transfer the data corresponding to the key code of the pressed key to the computer through the interface.

The domain address book database is an essential component of the present invention by managing a key code for a pressed key and a corresponding internet domain address. When designing and mass-producing the telephone, the key code assigned to each key is constant, but by changing the domain address (IP address) stored in the database of the domain address book, it is possible to provide a telephone that can be used by various advertisers. The domain address book database provides a domain address corresponding to a key that is inquired and pressed during execution of a domain access application. Since the amount of data to be managed is limited in the domain address book database, it is preferable to store the data in the data area of the domain access application without modifying a separate database so that the contents can be modified as a menu of the domain access application.

The shortcut key of the telephone distributed to the general public should display the business name along with the domain address so that the domain address and domain owner assigned to each key can be identified, thereby promoting the effect of promoting the domain address and the domain owner. . This domain address indication can be done not only during the phone assembly process but also after assembly.

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

1 is a block diagram of a general telephone having a domain access key and a computer interfaced thereto, which is a system required for implementing an Internet domain advertisement method using a telephone according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is an internet using a telephone according to the present invention. 3 is a block diagram of an Internet phone combined telephone having a domain access key and a personal computer interfaced thereto. FIG. 3 is one of the components of the Internet domain advertising method using the telephone according to the present invention. 4 is an external view schematically showing a telephone used in the Internet domain advertising method using the telephone according to the present invention, and FIG. 5 is an internet domain advertising method using the telephone according to the present invention. Schematically shows the data structure stored in the domain address book database 6 shows an analysis diagram of an advertisement method schematically showing a process of receiving an advertiser's order, storing the advertiser's promotional domain in a domain address book database, and displaying it on a shortcut key of a phone.

1 shows that the conventional telephone circuit 12 is integrally formed with the above-described domain connection keypad 13, and the conventional telephone circuit 12 generally includes a ring detector, a dialer, a voice processor, It is known in the art to be configured as a transceiver circuit, a hook switch and the like. The handset 11 is connected to the microphone and speaker terminals of the telephone circuit 12 to constitute the entire telephone.

As shown in Fig. 1, a general telephone 10 having a key for accessing a domain, which is one of the system elements necessary for implementing the method of advertising an internet domain using a telephone according to the present invention, is a keypad for accessing a domain 13; A microcomputer 14 which receives a code signal assigned to a key input from a domain connection keypad 13 and transmits the code signal to a computer, and an interface for transmitting the code signal to a computer by the transmission control of the microcomputer ( 15a). It is preferable to use a universal serial bus (USB) as the interface 15a. The keycode transmitted to the computer via the interface is read by a domain access application running on the computer, which requires a general interface driver 34. In the case of adopting the above USB interface, a common USB driver may be used. The computer is connected to the Internet network through a network, and when the user presses the keypad, the computer is connected to the corresponding domain address with the execution of the web browser.

Fig. 2 shows a block diagram of a telephone 50 having a domain telephone connection 13 and an accompanying device 14, 15a in a conventional telephone combined with a conventional internet phone. (51, 52, 53, 54) means 53 for connecting the speaker and microphone terminal of the sound card 32 of the computer to the handset of the telephone and the telephone number and transmission command input through the dialer of the telephone. It is generally configured with a serial communication port for transmitting to.

The telephone combined with the Internet phone includes a line selector 52 that enables selection of a general telephone call and an internet phone call as shown in FIG. 2, a telephone number and a transmission command unit 54 input to the dialer and the dialer. Is controlled by a conventional Internet phone / telephone circuit 51 having a control device for transmitting a transmission command inputted from the control panel to a computer through the interfaces 15a and 15b, and a control device of the internet phone telephone circuit. A switching unit 53 for connecting the handset to the sound card 32 of the computer 30 or the speaker and microphone terminals of the telephone line of the Internet, according to the selection of the line selecting unit 52, and the keypad 13 for domain connection. ), An interface 15a for transmitting a code signal inputted through a domain key of the domain connection keypad 13 to a computer, and a control device for controlling the domain keypad 13 and the interface 15a. It is configured to include a compartment.

In the domain advertisement method using the telephone according to the present invention, the conventional general telephones 11 and 12 or the conventional telephones 11, 51, 52, 53 and the Internet access devices 13, 14, and 15a are integrated. It is characterized by using a system that forms and interfaces it to a computer.

Figure 4 shows an external view schematically showing a telephone used in the Internet domain advertising method using the telephone according to the present invention. When the general telephone 10 is provided with domain connection keys 74a, 74b, ..., the general telephone selection button 71, the Internet phone button 72, and the transmission button 73 for the Internet phone are shown in the telephone appearance of FIG. ) Is unnecessary. The telephone shown in Fig. 4 is provided with a domain connection key 74a, 74b, ... in an Internet telephone combined telephone, and a general telephone selection button formed integrally with the line selector 52 shown in Fig. 71) and an internet phone selection button 72. In addition, the Internet phone combined telephone shown in FIG. 4 further includes an Internet phone transfer button 73 formed integrally with the transfer command unit 52 shown in FIG. The domain access keypad 13 shown in Figs. 1 and 2 includes a plurality of keys 74a, 74b, ..., which are assigned to each key on the surface of each key as shown in Fig. 4. The domain name should be printed so that the user can identify which key is assigned to which domain. As shown in Fig. 4, it is preferable to display the name of the company that owns the domain address of each key at the bottom of the location where each key is mounted in the phone case.

In order to access the domain using the telephone 10 having a domain access key according to the present invention, the domain access key 74 is interfaced to the telephone 10 and actually entered by a user after executing a web browser. There is a need for a personal computer 30 that can be connected to the site corresponding to the above). As described above, the personal computer 30 includes an interface driver 34 for controlling the interface 15b with the telephone and through the interface. A domain access application 33 for executing the web browser and reading the code for the transmitted user's selection key should be executed.

3 shows a flowchart of the domain connection application 33 when USB is used as the interfaces 15a and 15b.

As shown in FIG. 3, the domain access application 33 reads data from the interfaces 15a and 15b (101, 102 and 103) and determines whether the read data is a code of a shortcut key ( 104), if the read data is a shortcut code, a web browser is executed, and a user selected site access step of accessing a site selected by the user by reading a domain address matching the shortcut code from a domain address book database (DB); (105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111) and other command processing steps (112, 113, 114) for processing the read data is not a shortcut key data but a telephone number or a transfer command input to Diler.

Steps 101, 102 and 103 of reading data from the interfaces 15a and 15b include step 101 of reading data from a USB port, serial conversion step 102 of a virtual driver and step of reading serial data 103 It is composed of

The user selection site access step (105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111) includes the step 105 of requesting to stop transmission to the telephone, the step of executing a web browser (106), and the step of bringing the address corresponding to the shortcut key pressed in the domain address book database; 107, step 108 of finding the address, and step 109 of requesting the telephone to resume transmission.

The other command processing step includes the step 112 of requesting to stop transmission to the telephone, the step 113 of processing a telephone number or a transmission command input to the diler, and the step 114 of requesting to resume transmission to the telephone. It is composed.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a data structure stored in a domain address book database of an Internet domain advertisement method using a telephone according to the present invention. Each key 74a, 74b, 74c, 74d, 74e, 74f, The key code generated when pressing ....) and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the corresponding domain are shown as an example. First, a case where the keypad is configured to generate a key code of 1 byte will be described as an example.

The key code generated when the 74a key is pressed is 00000001,

The key code generated when the 74b key is pressed is 00000010,

The key code generated when the 74c key is pressed is 00000011,

The key code generated when the 74d key is pressed is 00000100,

The key code generated when the 74e key is pressed is 00000101,

The key code generated when 74f key is pressed is 00000110,

.....

And so on.

In addition, the domain name, trade name and IP address of the shortcut key shown in FIG.

74a; www.daum.com; Daum Communications Co .; 216.10.106.32

74b; www.yahoo.co.kr; Yahoo Korea Co., Ltd.; 211.32.119.135

74c; www.haansoft.com; Hangul and Computer Co., Ltd.; 203.246.176.101

74d; www.serome.co.kr; Sarome Technology Co., Ltd.; 211.50.138.140

74e; www.lycos.co.kr; Lycos Korea Co., Ltd.; 211.55.31.40

74f; www.empas.com; Knowledge Power Plant Co.; 211.115.211.8

......

And so on.

The domain name and the trade name of the company wishing to advertise are displayed in the shortcut key or its surroundings. The domain address database stores IP address data corresponding to each key code as shown in FIG. When pressed, the domain access application 33 inquires the domain address book database, executes a web browser, and connects to the corresponding IP address.

As such, when a telephone having a key for accessing a plurality of homepages is made and provided to the public free of charge, domain owners can share advertising costs and maximize homepage advertisement effects.

Figure 6 shows the domain advertising method according to the present invention classified by stages, step (300) receiving a domain advertisement order from the domain advertiser wants to advertise, the key target code domain address received from the domain advertiser ordered Storing in the domain address book database in correspondence with (301); displaying the name of the domain address and domain owner corresponding to or on top of a key for generating each key code on the telephone (302); And providing, to the user, gratuitously or freely, a medium storing a telephone, an interface, a domain address book database, and a domain access application in which the domain address and domain owner's name are displayed (303). In practice, each step does not necessarily have to be performed in the order shown in the drawings. That is, the step (301) of storing the advertisement target domain address ordered from the domain advertiser shown in Fig. 6 in the domain address book database in correspondence with the key code, and on or around the upper surface of the key generating the respective key codes. Indication 302 of the corresponding domain address and domain owner's name may be performed sequentially or simultaneously as necessary.

Since the present invention proposes a domain advertising method in which an advertising agency acts on behalf of an advertisement using a phone, FIG. 6 illustrates a step 300 of receiving a domain advertisement order from a domain advertiser who wants to promote his domain. Illustrated as including. However, the present invention uses an advertising system including an advertising telephone provided in the present invention as an essential component thereof, and the step of receiving the advertisement order may be omitted if necessary.

According to the present invention, by providing a means for easily accessing the promotion target homepage than other competitors' homepage, there is an effect of relatively increasing the number of visitors to the promotion target homepage. In addition, even if you do not know the Internet domain address, or if you are not familiar with the computer by making it easy to access the target home page, there is an effect of causing a visit to the home page.

In particular, when a domain owner receives an advertising fee and manufactures a telephone and a domain access application program according to the present invention and distributes it to a user free of charge, it is possible to discriminate from the conventional domain advertising technique and to share a production cost with a large number of advertisers. As a result, domain advertising can be maximized at low cost.

In addition, if the phone that can be used at the same time rapidly using the Internet phone is being sponsored by the advertiser and distributed to users for free, there is an advantage that can maximize the effect of domain advertising compared to other domain advertising methods .

Claims (6)

In the Internet domain advertising method of promoting the homepage of the advertiser to the public by the netizens, the Internet domain advertising method A telephone equipped with a keypad having at least one input key (shortcut key) configured to generate a unique code for each key and transmit it to an interfaced computer when the user presses the key; A domain address book database stored in a computer interfaced to the keypad, the domain address book database storing data about the key code and the corresponding domain address; Is executed in a computer interfaced to the keypad, the step of reading data through the interface, determining whether the read data is the code data of the shortcut key, if the read data is the code of the shortcut key to run a web browser and A domain application program for accessing a site selected by a user by reading a domain address matching a code of a shortcut key from a domain address book database; Storing an advertisement target domain address ordered from a domain advertiser in a domain address book database in association with a key code; Displaying a trade name of a domain address and a domain owner corresponding to or around a key generating the respective key codes; Providing a user with a telephone on which the keypad is mounted and a domain address and domain owner's trade name, a medium storing the interface, the domain address book database, and the domain access application, for free or for a fee; Internet domain advertising method using a telephone comprising a. The keypad of claim 1, wherein the telephone is integrally formed with a conventional telephone circuit and a handset, the keypad having at least one key for accessing an Internet domain and generating a predetermined code assigned to each key when a user presses the key; An interface for receiving a domain code signal for a key input by a user from a computer and executing a web browser to the computer for access to a domain for the input key; and a key pressed by the user from the keypad. Internet domain advertising method using a phone, characterized in that it comprises a micom to receive a code for and to transmit to the personal computer through the interface. The keypad according to claim 1, wherein the telephone is formed integrally with a conventional Internet phone / telephone circuit and a handset, and has at least one key for accessing an Internet domain and generates a predetermined code assigned to each key when a user presses the key. And an interface for receiving a domain code signal for a key input by the user through the keypad and executing the web browser to the computer for access to the domain for the input key, and the user from the keypad. A microcomputer for controlling a computer to receive a code for a key pressed and transmit the code to a personal computer through the interface; a line selector for selecting a general public telephone network telephone call and an internet phone call; Speaker and microphone terminals of conventional telephone circuits And a microphone terminal or personal computer with a sound card way of the Internet using a telephone, characterized in that the switching part comprises connecting by switching the speakers and the microphone terminal domain ad mounted on. 4. A method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the interface is a universal serial bus (USB). The method of claim 2 or 3, wherein the microcomputer for controlling the keypad and the interface commonly uses a microcomputer for controlling the circuit of the conventional telephone. The method of claim 1, wherein the domain access application determines whether the read data is a code of a shortcut key (104), and if it is not a shortcut key, processing a telephone number or a transmission command input to a dialer of the telephone. Using a telephone, characterized in that further performing 113