KR20010016153A - System and method for demanding contents service fee using phone, and storage media having program source thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method and a system for charging a utilizing cost of contents using a wire/wireless telephone and storing medium for storing a program source thereof are provided to offer a convenience to a user and easily receive the utilizing cost of contents in a contents provider by adding the utilizing cost to a wire/wireless telephone bill and paying a telephone charge. CONSTITUTION: A charged contents providing server(20) provides a charged contents. A user terminal(10) is connected to the charged contents providing server(20) for using the charged contents. A communication company server(40) charges a utilizing cost of contents to a user. An ARS(Automatic Response System) server(30) is included in an ARS for identifying the user.

Description

METHODS AND METHOD FOR DEMANDING CONTENTS SERVICE FEE USING PHONE, AND STORAGE MEDIA HAVING PROGRAM SOURCE THEREOF}

The present invention relates to a method and system for accumulating and storing a content fee on a server that provides content information, and charging the user. Particularly, the present invention relates to a method and system for billing by adding a content fee to a user's wire / wireless telephone bill. The present invention relates to a recording medium storing the program source.

In this case, an ARS (Auto Answering System) may be used to identify the owner of the wired / wireless telephone.

Until now, a method of using and paying various paid contents such as information and games is to pay a certain amount to an information provider, i.e., a paid content providing server, and use the paid content as much as a predetermined amount, or to set a certain amount of time. Most subscriptions pay an unpaid fee for the period.

Such a flat rate is relatively expensive, so users feel economically burdened to use small amounts of services of various information providers, and many users use PC rooms or game rooms.

In addition, the method of using the paid content by paying a certain amount is a form in which the amount is deducted from the paid amount each time the user uses the paid content within the amount paid by the user. There is an inconvenience that the user has to pay the additional amount again.

In the case of using a modem, basically, a user pays a predetermined amount and pays as much as the user uses a paid service to a carrier such as chollian, unitel, or the like. However, such a pay-as-you-go system has a problem that is limited to users who use a modem.

Some of the users who use the leased line use the paid contents after paying by credit card and bankbook payment if they want to use the paid contents by accessing the server providing the paid contents in order to use the paid contents service through the Internet. have. Payment using a credit card is difficult to recover the amount of less than 1,000 won and may cause damage due to the theft of another person's card. Unpaid deposit method is also a hassle for the user to visit the bank directly.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, the present invention is to enable users to use the paid content in addition to pay the content fee in addition to the content bill paid by the user in paying the content fee. By providing convenience to the user, the content providing side has an object to support easier to recover the content usage fee.

In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method of charging a predetermined amount in exchange for receiving the paid content to a user who is provided with the paid content by accessing a paid content providing server through a modem or a dedicated line. (1) After receiving a member registration from the user accessing the paid content providing server, the user generates and connects a call to a wired / wireless telephone number designated by the user at the time of membership registration, and connects to the telephone number in the voice message management module. Confirming the user by transmitting a voice message; (2) If the registered user accesses the paid content providing server through the Internet and uses the paid content, the paid content providing server transmits the content fee to the telecommunication company server of the telephone number identified in step (1). In addition, the communication server provides a content charging fee method using a wired / wireless phone, characterized in that the process consisting of supporting the charge by adding the content fee to the telephone bill.

In order to achieve the above object, another embodiment of the present invention provides a paid content to a user terminal requesting a paid content service by accessing a paid content providing server through a plurality of user terminals capable of internet communication and providing the paid content. In the system that charges the user to pay a predetermined amount in return, the paid content providing server accumulates and stores the content usage fee for each user when the user receives the user registration and uses the paid content. ) Generate and connect a call to the phone number designated by the registered user, and confirm the user by sending a voice message; Provides a content usage fee (pay-as-you-go) billing system using a wired / wireless telephone, comprising a telecommunications company server that receives the user's content usage fee information from the paid content providing server and adds the bill to the user. do.

In order to achieve the above object, another embodiment of the present invention is connected to a paid content providing server through a modem or a dedicated line to charge a predetermined amount in return for receiving the paid content to a user provided with the paid content. A recording medium storing a method, comprising: (A) receiving a member registration from a user connected to the paid content providing server, generating and connecting a call to a wired / wireless telephone number specified by the user during membership registration, and managing voice messages. Sending a voice message from the module to the telephone number to identify the user; (B) when the registered user accesses the paid content providing server through the Internet and uses the paid content, the paid content providing server transmits the content fee to the telecommunication company server of the telephone number identified in the process (A). It provides a recording medium storing a program for a method for charging a content usage fee using a wired / wireless telephone, characterized in that the communication server server is a process for supporting the charge by adding the content fee to the telephone bill.

1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a content charging system using a wired / wireless telephone of the present invention

FIG. 2 is an operation flowchart showing an embodiment of a content usage fee charging method using a wired / wireless telephone executed by the system of FIG.

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2: communication network 10: user terminal

20: paid content providing server 22: the first user DB

30: ARS Server 35: ARS

40: communication company server 42: second user DB

50: wired / wireless telephone

These objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings and the following detailed description.

In the present invention below, a paid content providing server and a user terminal receiving content by accessing the paid content providing server are connected to a communication network, and a communication company server and an ARS server for charging a content use fee to a user using paid content, respectively. The embodiment of the system connected to the communication network will be described as an embodiment, but the technical idea of the present invention is not limited thereto, but may be variously modified and modified by those skilled in the art.

In addition, preferred embodiments of the present invention include embodiments such as computer systems and computer program products programmed to carry out the method of the present invention. In accordance with an embodiment of a computer system, a set of instructions for executing a method resides in one or more memories (RAM), which sets of other computer memory, such as, for example, a hard disk, until needed by the computer system. Can be stored as a computer program product.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of a content usage charging system using a wired / wireless telephone according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a content usage fee charging system using a wired / wireless telephone according to the present invention includes a paid content providing server 20 for providing paid content, and a user using the paid content by accessing the paid content providing server 20. The terminal 10 and the communication company server 40 for charging the content fee to the user. In addition, the ARS server 30 included in the ARS (Automatic Response System) for user confirmation may be further included.

A user for using the pay-per-use billing method of the present invention first needs to access the pay content providing server 20 and register as a member. When registering a member, the user's personal information is input. In addition, the user must input the telephone number of the wired / wireless telephone 50 that the user wants to pay.

The wired / wireless telephone number includes both a telephone number of a telephone used in a general home or an office and a mobile communication telephone number such as a mobile phone and a PCS. For example, in case of entering the telephone number of a general household, the content usage fee is added to the telephone bill of KT. will be.

If the user enters the phone number arbitrarily, the user goes through a user verification process to prevent the user from stealing another person's phone number. That is, the voice message management module (not shown) of the pay content providing server 20 generates and connects a call to the phone number and transmits a voice message.

For example, send a message to the user, such as "Hello, I'm going to confirm the XXX user who registered as a member of our site. Please enter the authentication number you received when you registered."

The authentication number is a serial number to be given at the time of member registration.

When the user inputs the authentication number according to the voice message as described above, the paid content providing server 20 confirms and authenticates the user by comparing the authentication number given to the user with the authentication number input by the user.

Another method of identifying a user can call the telephone number entered (designated) by the user in the ARS 35 to confirm the user.

When the confirmation signal is received from the ARS 35 and a request signal for inputting the authentication number is output, the user must input the authentication number. To this end, the paid content providing server 20 should transmit data about the authentication number to the ARS server 30. The authentication number received from the pay content providing server 20 is compared with the authentication number input by the user to authenticate the user.

In the member registration process, an ID and a password are further assigned to the user. This is to accumulate and store the content usage fee for each user when the user subsequently accesses the paid content providing server 20 to receive the paid content.

In order to accumulate and store the content usage fee for each user as described above, the paid content providing server 20 includes a first user DB 22.

Information about the content usage fee stored in the first user DB 22 is transmitted to the communication company server 40. The telecommunication company server 40 means a server included in the above-mentioned Korea Telecom or SK Telecom.

The telecommunication company server 40 receives the content usage fee information of the first user DB 22, stores it in the second user DB 42 and charges the corresponding user.

The content fee information stored in the first user DB 22 of the paid content providing server 20 is transmitted to the second user DB 42 or stored in the first user DB 22 at the same time for a predetermined period. 2 may also be stored in the user DB (42). Then, the user-specific content fee information stored in the second user DB 42 is charged to the user after a certain period of time. In general, the user is charged on a monthly basis.

On the paid content providing server 20 side, when the user pays the content usage fee charged by the communication company server 40, it is preferable to pay a certain amount of the content usage fee to the communication company server side when receiving the payment from the communication company server side. .

2 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method for charging a content fee using a wired / wireless phone executed by the system of FIG. 1.

First, member registration is received from a user who accesses the paid content providing server 20 (S100). When registering a member, ID, PASSWORD and authentication number are given to the user, and the user enters a wired / wireless phone number.

Then, a voice message management module (not shown) of the paid content providing server 20 generates and connects a call to a phone number designated by the user, transmits a preset voice message to the user, and assigns the call to the user. The user is confirmed by inputting the received authentication number (S110). If it is confirmed that the user is a legitimate user, the content fee used by the user is added to the telephone bill of the telephone number.

As described above, the user confirmation method may call the telephone number entered when the user registers in the ARS (Automatic Response System) 35 associated with the pay content providing server 20 to identify the user.

Then, the paid content providing server 20 checks whether the user accesses the paid content providing server 20 to use the paid content (S120), and if the user uses the paid content, the content fee is the first user DB. It is stored in 22, and is transmitted to the 2nd user DB 42 of the communication company server 40 (S130).

The communication company server 40 allows the content fee to be further added when the bill is sent to the user according to the content fee for each user stored in the second user DB 42 (S140).

As described above, in the present invention, when a user using a dedicated line uses paid content in a paid content providing server, the user is charged by adding the content fee as much as the user uses to a bill charged by a telecommunication company of a telephone number specified by the user. It can reduce the burden of using the content.

In addition, the paid content providing server that provides the paid content has an effect that can be more secure and convenient to recover the content fee.

Claims (14)

In the method for charging a predetermined amount in exchange for receiving the paid content to the user provided with the paid content by connecting to the paid content providing server through a modem or a dedicated line, (1) After receiving the member registration from the user accessing the paid content providing server, the user generates and connects a call to the wired / wireless phone number specified by the user when registering the member, and the voice message is transmitted to the phone number in the voice message management module. Confirming the user by transmitting; (2) If the registered user accesses the paid content providing server through the Internet and uses the paid content, the paid content providing server transmits the content fee to the telecommunication company server of the telephone number identified in step (1). And charging the service provider server to add the content usage fee to the corresponding telephone bill and to charge the content usage fee using the wired / wireless telephone. The method of claim 1, wherein when receiving a member registration from the user in step (1), an ID, a password, and an authentication number necessary for confirming the user are assigned. The method of claim 2, wherein when the user is confirmed in step (1), the voice message transmitted to the user includes a message for requesting the user to input the authentication number given when registering the member, and the authentication number received from the user. Method for charging a content usage fee using a wired / wireless telephone, characterized in that the user is identified by comparing the authentication number received from the paid content providing server. The method of claim 1, wherein the content fee charged to the user in step (2) is stored in a user DB of a paid content providing server and / or a telecommunication company server by accumulating the billed amount for a predetermined period. Method for charging content usage fee using a wired / wireless phone, characterized in that the user is supported to be charged after a period of time. The method of claim 1, wherein the content fee charged to the user in the second step is to transmit the accumulated fee and the stored content fee to the telecommunication company server periodically and to charge the user after a designated period. Content usage fee charging method using a wired / wireless telephone, characterized in that. In the system that accesses the paid content providing server through a plurality of user terminals capable of Internet communication, provides the paid content to the user terminal requesting the paid content service, and charges the user to pay a predetermined amount in return for receiving the paid content. The paid content providing server, Receiving a user registration from the user and accumulating and storing the content usage fee for each user when the user uses the paid contents, generates and connects a call to a phone number designated by the registered user, and confirms the user by transmitting a voice message; And a telecommunication company server which receives the user's content usage fee information from the paid content providing server and adds the bill to the user's telephone bill. The paid content providing server of claim 6, ID, PASSWORD, and authentication number are assigned when registering the user's membership, and when the user is confirmed, the authentication number assigned by the pay content providing server and the user are transmitted by sending a voice message including a message requesting the user to input the authentication number. Content usage fee charging system using a wired / wireless telephone, characterized in that determining whether the input authentication number is the same. The paid content providing server of claim 6, And a first user DB for accumulating and storing content usage fee for each user, wherein the content usage fee stored in the first user DB is periodically transmitted to the communication company server. According to claim 8, The communication server, And a second user DB for storing content usage fee for each user received from the paid content providing server. In a recording medium storing a method of charging a predetermined amount in return for receiving the paid content to the user provided with the paid content by connecting to the paid content providing server through a modem or a dedicated line, (A) After receiving the member registration from the user accessing the paid content providing server, the member generates and connects a call to the wired / wireless telephone number specified by the user when registering the member, and the voice message is transmitted to the telephone number in the voice message management module. Sending to confirm the user; (B) when the registered user accesses the paid content providing server through the Internet and uses the paid content, the paid content providing server transmits the content fee to the telecommunication company server of the telephone number identified in the process (A). A recording medium storing a program for a method for charging a content usage fee using a wired / wireless telephone, characterized in that the communication server server is a process for supporting the charging by adding the content usage fee to the telephone bill. The method of claim 10, wherein when receiving a member registration from the user in the process (A), an ID, a password, and an authentication number necessary for checking the user are assigned. Recording medium where program is stored. 12. The method of claim 11, wherein when the user is confirmed in the process (A), the voice message transmitted to the user includes a message for requesting the user to input the authentication number given when the user registers the member. A recording medium storing a program for a method for charging a content usage fee using a wired or wireless telephone, characterized in that the user is checked by comparing an authentication number received from a paid content providing server. 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the content usage fee charged to the user in the process (B) is stored in the user DB of the paid content providing server and / or the telecommunication company server by accumulating the billed amount in a unit of a predetermined period and the predetermined period A recording medium storing a program for a method for charging a content fee using a wired / wireless telephone, characterized in that the user is charged later. 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the content usage fee charged to the user in the process (B) is to periodically transmit the accumulated content and the stored content usage fee from the paid content providing server to the communication company server, and to support the user to be charged after the designated period. A recording medium storing a program for a method of charging a content usage fee using a wired / wireless telephone.