KR20010019827A - An Apparatus and its Method for generating data file from electronic document using message implementation guideline information, and EDI System using them - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An apparatus for generating a data file using document agreement information from an electronic document and a method thereof and an electronic document interchange system using thereof are provided to extract data, and to generate data file by verifying an error of data inputted by a user using document agreement information, and by using the document agreement information without a specific document interpretation course. CONSTITUTION: An electronic document preparing unit(301) provides a fixed type document to a user through a user interface, and enables the user to input data. A data file generating unit(302) applies agreement information of relevant document through the electronic document preparing unit(301), verifies an error of the data inputted. In addition, the data file generating unit(302) extracts the data, and generates a fixed form of data file. An information storing unit(303) stores a document form(304) provided from the unit(301), document agreement information(305) and data file generated from the unit(302).

Description

Apparatus and its method for generating data file from electronic document using message implementation guideline information, and EDI System using them}

The present invention relates to an apparatus for generating a data file using document agreement information from an electronic document, a method thereof, and an electronic document exchange system using the same. In particular, the present invention provides a document form by including document agreement information in a document form of an electronic document creation tool. An apparatus and method for generating a data file using document protocol information from an electronic document that can directly extract and use data without a separate document interpreter by removing the influence of data extraction due to the change of the data, and an electronic document exchange system using the same And a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing the method.

Conventional Electronic Document Interchange System (EDI System) is based on the value-added communication network (open network) environment using international standard protocols promised to exchange electronic documents with each other even in heterogeneous network environment. Therefore, in order to exchange electronic documents, it was necessary to install a separate standard protocol for sending and receiving documents in addition to a simple network / transport layer protocol. Even if an international standard document transmission protocol is installed, it guarantees standard document transmission. Has a problem in that a separate data extraction device is required to use as a input material of a local application.

In addition, the EDI system of a conventional value-added communication network (VAN) environment is a separate form when a user (User_A) writes a document in the form of a document used in his application in his local system to deliver the document. Since the document converter extracts the data of a specific field from the created document and delivers it to the destination User_B using the standard document delivery protocol, the user UserA for the document exchange has a document form / document conversion rule on his local system. There was a problem of having a repository and a document converter.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an apparatus and method for generating a data file from an electronic document using document protocol information, an electronic document exchange system using the same, and a program for realizing the method. Its purpose is to provide a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon.

That is, the present invention includes document protocol information provided in a document form provided to a user, thereby validating an error of data input by the user using document protocol information and directly using the document protocol information without a separate document interpretation process. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for generating a data file by extracting the same, an electronic document exchange system using the same, and a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing the method.

1 is an explanatory diagram of an electronic document transmission and reception using an Internet EDI system to which the present invention is applied.

2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an Internet electronic document exchange system in accordance with the present invention.

3 is a configuration diagram of an apparatus for generating a data file using document agreement information from an electronic document according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a detailed configuration diagram of an embodiment of the electronic document creating unit of FIG. 3 in accordance with the present invention.

5 is a detailed configuration diagram of an embodiment of a data file generation unit of FIG. 3 according to the present invention;

6 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a method for generating a data file using document agreement information from an electronic document according to the present invention.

7 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of an electronic document generating apparatus using document agreement information according to the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

201, 202: User 203: Internet

204: electronic document exchange system 205: user authentication unit

206: user information 207: data file generating device

208: electronic document generating apparatus 209: EDI document delivery and management unit

210: user-specific mailbox 301: electronic document creation unit

302: data file generation unit 303: information storage unit

304: Document Form 305: Document Convention Information

306: data file

The present invention for achieving the above object, in the apparatus for generating a data file using the document protocol information from the electronic document, providing a document of a certain form to the user to send the electronic document to receive the data from the electronic Electronic document creating means for creating a document; Data file generating means for generating an data file by extracting data using document agreement information after performing error verification of input data using document agreement information on the electronic document created by the electronic document creating means; And storage means for storing a document form provided by the electronic document creating means, document protocol information used by the data file generating means, and a data file generated by the data file generating means.

The present invention provides a data file generating method applied to a data file generating apparatus, comprising: a first step of providing a document form to a user and receiving data; A second step of performing error verification on document input information of the user; A third step of generating a data file by combining the data and the cast number by applying document protocol information if there is no error in the data as a result of the verification in the second step; And a fourth step of requesting re-entry if there is an error in the data as a result of the verification of the second step.

The present invention also provides a data file generation system having a processor, comprising: a first function of providing a document form to a user and receiving data; A second function of performing error verification on document input information of the user; A third function of generating a data file by combining the data and the cast number by applying document protocol information if there is no error in the data as a result of the verification of the second function; And a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing a fourth function requiring re-entry if there is an error in the data as a result of the verification of the second function.

The present invention provides an electronic document exchange system for exchanging electronic documents, comprising: user authentication means for permitting a user to send / receive an electronic document to access the electronic document exchange system; Data file generating means for generating a data file using document protocol information from the electronic document transmitted by the user; Electronic document generating means for generating an electronic document using document protocol information from a document in a data file format arrived at the user; Document delivery and management means for delivering and managing the data file generated by the data file generating means to storage means or for delivering the stored data file to the electronic document generating means; And storage means for storing information about the user and a document in a data file format arriving at the user.

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

1 is an explanatory diagram of an electronic document transmission and reception using an Internet EDI system to which the present invention is applied.

The Internet EDI system 103 is a system for transferring electronic documents between users of the EDI system 101 and 104, as shown in the figure. Unlike the EDI system of a conventional value-added communication network (VAN) environment, the EDI system through the Internet 102 There is no need to establish a separate value-added communication network (VAN) because it connects to the system 103 and sends and receives electronic documents.

2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an Internet electronic document exchange system according to the present invention.

In order for the EDI user 'A' 201 to send an electronic document to the EDI user 'A' 202, the EDI system 204 must first access the EDI system 204 via the Internet 203, where the Internet EDI system 204 authenticates the user. Through the unit 205, only the registered subscriber is allowed to access the system.

When the EDI user 'A' 201 sends an electronic document, the Internet EDI system 204 immediately transfers the EDI user 'D' to the inbox 210 of the recipient 202 if the electronic document is in an EDI data file format. If the electronic document is not in the EDI data file format, the EDI data file is converted into the EDI data file through the data file generating apparatus 207 and transferred to the box 210 of the '202'.

Here, the EDI data file is composed of real data to be transmitted by the sender and index information of document protocol information applied to real data extraction.

The EDI document delivery and management unit 209 delivers the EDI electronic document or stores and manages the electronic document in the user box 210.

The EDI user '202' accesses the EDI system 204 via the Internet 203 in order to receive a document that has arrived at him, generates an electronic document after undergoing user authentication by the user authentication unit 205 of the EDI system. Through the user interface of the device 208, a list of documents arrived at the user is checked, and a specific document to be viewed is selected to request generation of an electronic document.

Then, the electronic document generating device 208 finishes the syntax verification and error verification for the data file, and converts the electronic document into an electronic document by applying the electronic document form inherent in the EDI system and transmits the converted electronic document to the document receiving unit. The delivered electronic document is finally shown to the EDI user through the user interface.

3 is a configuration diagram of an apparatus for generating a data file using document protocol information from an electronic document according to an embodiment of the present invention. The data file generating apparatus 207 includes an electronic document creating unit 301 and a data file generating unit. 302 and an information storage unit 303.

The electronic document creating unit 301 provides a user with a certain form of a document through a user interface to input data, thereby allowing the user to create an electronic document to be transmitted on the web.

The data file generating unit 302 applies error information of the input data by applying protocol information of the corresponding document in the document created by the electronic document creating unit 301, and then extracts the data to generate a data file having a certain form. .

The information storage unit 303 may include a document form 304 (see FIG. 4) provided by the electronic document creation unit 301, document agreement information 305 used by the data file generation unit 302, and a data file generation unit ( The data file 306 generated at 302 is stored.

Here, the document protocol information 305 is a 'document paragraph abbreviation name' for a block of unit elements constituting a document (for example, a document summary information section and a document data section) and the name of the actual data in each document unit element. (Or meaning) "data abbreviation name" (e.g., sender / receiver, title, reporting agency, etc.), "data required / selected" to indicate whether the data must be entered or omitted. 'Data type / length', which indicates the rules for the type and length of the data stream, and the cast number corresponding to the index number linking the data element in the data file with a particular element of the document protocol information.

4 is a detailed block diagram of an embodiment of the electronic document creating unit of FIG. 3 according to the present invention.

The electronic document creating unit 301 which provides a document form and shows it to the user includes a destination selector 402, a document form selector 403, a document form outputter 404, and a data inputter 405, which is a user interface 401. Is displayed to the user.

The destination selector 402 allows the user to select where to send an electronic document among the destinations shown through the destination selection window 406.

The document form selector 403 is provided in advance so that the user can easily create an electronic document, the document form stored in the information storage unit 303 to the user through the document form selection window 407 to provide a document of a certain form To be able to select.

The document form output unit 404 downloads the actual document form of the document form selected by the document form selector 403 from the information storage unit 303 to the user terminal, and outputs the document form through the document form output window 408. Show to user

The data input unit 405 receives data about a document provided through the document form output window 408 through the data input window.

The electronic document form information provided by the electronic document creating unit includes a data name (eg, a title, a reporting agency, etc.), a location where the data is input, and a cast number. Here, the cast number is an index number that connects each input data and document agreement information.

However, what is shown to the user is the data name as shown in the document output window 408, and the user enters actual data corresponding to each data name.

By including a cast number, which is a connection number for document protocol information, in the document form, even if the document form on the interface shown to the user is changed, the data can be automatically extracted by the cast number without being affected by the data extraction. In addition, the document form on the user interface remains the same, even if a change in the data type of the input data or an increase or decrease in the number of data inputs occurs. do.

FIG. 5 is a detailed configuration diagram of the data file generation unit of FIG. 3 according to the present invention. The data file generation unit 302 includes a data error verifier 501 and a data file converter 502.

The data error verifier 501 obtains the data name and data creation rule information for each document component of the document protocol information using the cast number embedded in the document form from the electronic document created by the user, and then inputs the data entered by the user. Verify the error by applying the relevant document protocol information.

If there is no error in the electronic document, the data file generator 502 extracts the data based on the document protocol information, and combines the extracted data with the corresponding cast number to generate and store the data file.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of generating a data file using document agreement information from an electronic document according to the present invention.

The data file generating apparatus of the electronic document exchange system downloads the document protocol information and the document form from the information storage unit (601), and outputs the electronic document form to the user to send the electronic document (602).

Subsequently, when data on the electronic document output from the user is input (603), the data error verifier of the data file generating apparatus verifies the error of the input data using the document protocol information (604). Here, the verification includes syntax validation and semantic validation.

As a result of the verification, if there is an error in the input data, it is required to input again. This is to provide an opportunity for correction by notifying the document creator of an error before sending the document.

As a result of the verification, if there is no error in the input data, the data is extracted, and the data file is generated by combining with the cast number (605) and stored in the information storage unit.

7 is a configuration diagram of an electronic document generating apparatus using document agreement information according to an embodiment of the present invention. The electronic document generating apparatus includes a document receiving unit 701, an electronic document generating unit 702, and an information storing unit 703. It is composed.

The electronic document receiving unit 701 checks the document delivered to the user and then selects and displays the specific document to be viewed to the user.

When the electronic document generation unit 702 selects a document to be viewed using a user interface, the document document information 704 is applied to verify the error of the data file, and then the output document form 705 and the error verification are completed. The data file 706 is combined to generate an electronic document 707 and transmitted to the information storage unit 703.

The information storage unit 703 stores the document agreement information 704, the electronic document form information 705, and the received data file 706 used in the electronic document generation unit 702, and the electronic document generation unit 702. The electronic document 707 generated by the "

The document protocol information 704 is a 'document paragraph abbreviation name' for a block of unit elements constituting a document (for example, a document summary information section and a document room data section), and the name of the actual data within each document unit element (or Meaning (e.g., sender / receiver, subject, reporting agency, etc.), "Data abbreviation name", "Data required / selected", indicating whether the data must be entered or omitted. And 'data type / length', which represents a rule for length and length, and a cast number corresponding to an index number linking the data element in the data file with a specific element of the document protocol information.

The present invention described above is capable of various substitutions, modifications, and changes without departing from the spirit of the present invention for those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains, and the above-described embodiments and accompanying It is not limited by the drawings.

As described above, the present invention does not affect data extraction even if the document form on the interface shown to the user is changed by including a cast number for connecting input data and document protocol information in the document form provided to the user by the electronic document creating unit. In addition, even if the document form on the user interface is the same, even if the type / number of input data is changed, only the document protocol information needs to be changed, thereby having an excellent effect of accepting the document form without adding or modifying the form separately.

Claims (10)

An apparatus for generating a data file using document agreement information from an electronic document, Electronic document creating means for providing a document of a certain form to a user who wants to transmit the electronic document and receiving data from the user to create an electronic document; Data file generating means for generating an data file by extracting data using document agreement information after performing error verification of input data using document agreement information on the electronic document created by the electronic document creating means; And Storage means for storing a document form provided by the electronic document creating means, document protocol information used by the data file generating means, and a data file generated by the data file generating means Data file generation device comprising a. The method of claim 1, The electronic document creating means, Destination selection means for providing destination information to the user to select a predetermined destination; Document form selection means for providing a document form to the user to select a document of a certain form; Document style output means for downloading the document style selected by the document style selecting means from the storage means to the user terminal and outputting the document style to the user; And Document input means for receiving data from the user with respect to a document provided by the document form output means; Data file generation device comprising a. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The data file generating means, Data error verification means for performing error verification by applying document agreement information to data input through the data input means; And Data file generating means for generating a data file by combining the input data and the corresponding cast number by applying document protocol information to the input data confirmed that there is no error through the data error verification means. Data file generation device comprising a. The method of claim 3, wherein The document agreement information, The document paragraph abbreviation name for the block of unit elements that make up the document, the data abbreviation name that is the data name, the data mandatory or optional, the data type / length, and the cast number that connects the data in the data file with specific elements of the document protocol information. Data file generation apparatus comprising a. The method of claim 3, wherein The document form, And a data number, a location to which data is input, and a cast number. In the data file generating method applied to the data file generating device, A first step of receiving data by providing a document form to a user; A second step of performing error verification on document input information of the user; A third step of generating a data file by combining the data and the cast number by applying document protocol information if there is no error in the data as a result of the verification in the second step; And A fourth step of requesting re-entry if there is an error in the data as a result of the verification of the second step Data file creation method comprising a. The method of claim 6, The first step is, A fifth step of providing a document form to the user to select a document of a certain form; And A sixth step of downloading the selected document form from the storage means to the user terminal and outputting it to the user to receive data from the user; Data file creation method comprising a. The method according to claim 6 or 7, The error verification of the second step, A method of creating a data file, comprising syntax validation and semantic validation. In a data file generation system having a processor, A first function of receiving data by providing a document form to a user; A second function of performing error verification on document input information of the user; A third function of generating a data file by combining the data and the cast number by applying document protocol information if there is no error in the data as a result of the verification of the second function; And A fourth function for requesting re-entry if there is an error in the data as a result of the verification of the second function A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing this. In the electronic document exchange system for exchanging electronic documents, User authentication means for granting access to the electronic document exchange system to a user who wants to send / receive electronic documents; Data file generating means for generating a data file using document protocol information from the electronic document transmitted by the user; Electronic document generating means for generating an electronic document using document protocol information from a document in a data file format arrived at the user; Document delivery and management means for delivering and managing the data file generated by the data file generating means to storage means or for delivering the stored data file to the electronic document generating means; And Storage means for storing information about the user and a document in a data file format arriving at the user Electronic document exchange system comprising a.