KR20010008039A - Method for use specific standard time to optimize service - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A customization method of an internet service at a user's local time belt is provided to convert a time data of an internet service into a local time of a time belt corresponding to a user's residential area so that it can enhance a convenience when the user, belonging to any local time belt, chooses a service time of internet contents. CONSTITUTION: A customization method of an internet service at a user's local time belt comprises steps of a user accessing a local time customization service site(S1), a script function, included in the local time customization service site, reading a local time set in the user's computer and extracting a time difference between the read local time and the UTC(Universal Time Coordinated)(S2), the service site adding the time difference to the local time to compare the user' local time with the time data included in service contents under the same time reference, namely the UTC(S3), the service site extracting the service contents scheduled to be serviced at a time designated by the user(S4), the service site displaying the extracted contents at the user's designated time.

Description

Service method tailored to user time using specific reference time. {Method for use specific standard time to optimize service}

The present invention relates to a method of servicing time data stored in a database according to a user's time zone when serving a different time zone in an Internet service.

More specifically, with the recent development of Internet services and infrastructure, information is being provided simultaneously around the world. However, since there is a time difference according to the reference time zone for each region, it is difficult to recognize the time when the time information provided by the simultaneous information of the world due to each time zone is different from the user time zone. Internet service providers do not know which local time zone users access to the information recorded in the time zone of a specific region, and thus provides time information based on the location of the provider. Therefore, the user calculates and recognizes the time information provided by the information provider in his own time zone, and in the case of the information provider, the country of the time zone for which the service is provided is determined to provide different country information for each time zone. to be. In this case, there is a problem in that time information that is not suitable for the user is not provided when the consumer is not the expected time zone.

To solve this problem, it reads the difference between the time value set in the computer of the local user of different time zone and the specific reference time, and reads the time data of the DB according to the time field of each record. Compare and extract to the user. When printing, the time field of records of DB changes the value to the user's time zone and outputs the customized time information.

1 is a conceptual diagram relating to data transmission and reception for realizing the present invention.

2 is a service flow diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a DB configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a view showing a web service output screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

20: user computer, 22: time conversion step, 24: web server,

26: DB search, 28: DB,

30: Data retrieved from DB, 32: Output

100: time zone information, 200: start date and time, 300: end date and time

400: Start date time in UTC, 500: Start date time in UTC

Web service method according to the present invention for achieving the above object is

Data obtained by converting the time zone of the user computer 20 to a specific reference time zone,

The time data comparison method is characterized by comparing the time value of the information converted into a specific reference time to be provided by the server.

By changing the extracted time value of the extracted database for the additional service to the user's time zone, the user can easily think of the information in his own time zone.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the Internet broadcasting service as a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

1, 2, 3, and 4 of the present invention will be described with reference to the following.

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, when the user's computer 20 accesses the web server 24, the script function embedded in the page served by the web server reads the time set in the user's computer 20. Extract information that has a difference from (Universal Time Coordinated (UTC)) in minutes.

This information is used to determine the user's time difference by setting a specific reference time. At this time, by setting the specific standard time as UTC, the reference time can be set immediately without any other calculation. For example, Korea has a value of -540 because it is 9 hours ahead of universal time. If this difference is added to the time value set in the user's computer 20, time comparison is possible based on UTC. Therefore, when comparing the information stored in the database, when the UTC time zone data fields 400 and 500 are stored in the DB 28, the time difference between the user's time zone and the international standard time is added to the time of the user computer 20. As a reference, any region of the world can provide a record having desired time information of the DB 28 to be provided. Each region where each broadcast program proceeds instead of the standard time, such as the case where the record of the DB 28 consists of the region information 100 and the start time 200 and the end time 300 of the broadcasting time of the region. Since the time data is recorded as the standard, it is necessary to change to the standard time. Here, the time zone information 100 according to each time zone is converted into a UTC reference time and compared.

The time zone information 100 may provide regional information to the user as a content that can distinguish the country and the local time zone information, and has data for converting the time zone of the records to UTC. For example, when a country name is input to the time zone information 100, the country has a calculated value for conversion to standard time according to the country name. In case of 'KOREA', it is set based on UTC by adding 9 hours to the time values 200 and 300, respectively.

Among the data compared in this way, a data record satisfying the condition time value is extracted (S4) and output to the user. When providing a worldwide broadcast program that is currently being broadcast to the user, a condition for outputting the time value passed through the step (S3) of changing the user's time to UTC based on the value between the start time 400 and the end time 500 is provided. When used, any program in any time zone in the world will find and output the program currently being broadcast.

When outputting, the broadcast program provider time zone stored in the data is displayed on the local broadcast time (S300) for the user's convenience during output, and the local broadcast time (S300) is converted into the user time zone in the user reference time field (S200). When the data of the program data DB 28 is created based on UTC, the information is changed to the user's time zone by adding a difference value between the user's time zone and UTC and outputted to the user.

When stored as data having time zone information 100, the start time 200 and the end time 300 are first converted into UTC reference time and compared with user time information converted to UTC standard.

The time information is set to the user reference time by subtracting the difference between the user time and UTC. In this way, the database time data can be output as the user reference time (S200). At this time, if the condition is satisfied in order to increase the visual effect, the display mark is put in the status field (S100).

Therefore, according to the present invention, the time data possessed by the DB in the Internet service provides the best time information to users having different time zones, so that the user easily obtains the desired information.

In addition, the information provider can accurately provide the temporal meaning of the data, regardless of the visitor in any time zone. That is, in the case of Internet broadcasting, if there is A data broadcasting at 1 PM UTC, the existing output is output at 1 PM UTC, but according to the present invention, when a Korean user connects to it, it is output at 10 PM Is provided for convenience.

Claims (5)

In providing time information to the user in internet service, Data obtained by converting the time zone of the user's computer 20 based on a specific time zone, Comparing time values of database (28) information converted to a specific reference time to be provided by a server. The method of claim 1, wherein the specific time zone is used as a standard for international standard time (UTC). In constructing a database for Internet services, By adding the time zone information field 100 to the record configuration of the DB 28, Configuration to convert DB record time information to specific reference time zone information. In providing time information to the user in the Internet service, DB data extracted by the condition, Method of simultaneously outputting the data (S200) converted from the time data of the DB to the user reference time. In providing time information to the user in the Internet service, DB data extracted by the condition, The time data of this DB is converted into user reference time (S200), Output method that displays the status (S100) when a certain condition value is satisfied.