KR20010069028A - Multi language internet domain name sytem and its method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system for using a multilingual domain name and a method for managing thereof are provided to make a Korean language site operation possible without appending an additional domain name server. CONSTITUTION: A window is provided for inputting a domain name. A web site outputting window opens a target web site. A device converts a consonant and a vowel of the domain name into the second language being matched to the consonant and the vowel of the domain name. Thus, a web site being matched to the second language is displayed on the web site outputting window. A user inputs a partial portion or the entire portion of a site name to be connected using the second language. The inputted second language for the site name is converted into the first language. The converted the first language is transmitted to a domain name system.

Description

Multi language internet domain name sytem and its method

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system and a connection method for converting a multilingual internet address into a first language internet address. Specifically, a part or all of the internet web address is configured in a separate language except the first language, and the separate language address The present invention relates to a multilingual internet address using system which automatically converts a URL into a first language URL to a corresponding website, and a method of operating the same.

Currently, the web of the Internet divides a number of resources on the Internet by using a notation called Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which is composed of three elements of protocol, host, and location path to determine the location of resources. have. However, since the Internet web notation method that has been conventionally used is only written in English, it is difficult to remember a website for Internet users who use languages other than English, and thus, commercial effects through the website are also reduced.

Although you can find the URL using the search engine software, if you don't know the URL, the search results presented for one keyword are so large that you can choose the exact web address Finding it has the disadvantage of taking a lot of time and effort.

For example, if you look at the web address of the homepage of Yongsan Electronics Land, you can use "www.electronicland.co.kr", which is the Korean website "www.Yongsan Electronics Land.co.kr" or "Web. Yongsan Electronics Land." If you can use it as a "company," it will make it easier for customers to remember your website, which will double your promotional efforts.

Internet terms will be briefly described to aid in understanding the present invention.

ISP (Internet Service Provider): Local Internet Service Provider.

IP (Internet Protocol) address: The address of a computer connected to the Internet as defined in the Internet Protocol of STD 5, RFC 791. The IP address is expressed as a 32-bit number. The notation is 123.160.25.4.

Domain Name Service (DNS): A service that translates an alphabetic domain name into its 32-bit IP address on the Internet.

URL (Uniform resource location): The address of a site (machine) that holds information on the Internet. An English character string, including characters. (Example of URL: http://www.microsoft.com)

E-mail Address: A client address (e.g. patent @ seoultech) that has an account (login account) on a specific machine connected to the Internet and contains the '@' and '.' Characters. .com) as an English character string.

Daemon: A Unix term for a particular kind of program that works in the background.

Client: Refers to the user side in the client / server configuration. When a user connects to the server, the client can refer to itself, point to the user's computer, or be a program running on the computer.

Proxy: A technology that stores information that users have accessed over the Internet in a certain area of the computer's hard disk so that users can use the information stored on the hard disk when they request the same Internet service.

Port: All upper layer applications that use TCP (or ULP) for DNS services have a port number that identifies the application. When a TCP system requests another TCP system, it uses the port number to identify the format of the service. This port number can be changed. Typically, more than 255 port numbers are reserved for local machine use, and less than port 255 are reserved for frequently used processes on the Internet.

The namespace of DNS is hierarchical, similar to the Unix file system. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a process of IP resolving for a domain name.

Step 1: The application on the client queries its local name server (specified in the TCP / IP configuration) to connect to "www.yahoo.com".

Step 2: Local Name Servo first checks to see if there is any data in its cache and if not found, queries the root name server. However, since the root name server doesn't have the data of "www.yahoo.com", it sends a reply to refer to the name server that manages the COM domain.

Step 3: The local name server again queries the COM name server, which in turn tells YAHOO.COM's name server. (In fact, since the root and COM domains are managed together by the ROOT Naserver, this process does not actually happen, and in step 2, the answer is to refer to the YAHOO.COM nameserver.)

Step 4: The local name server queries the YAHOO.COM name server. The YAHOO.COM nameserver is the actual nameserver that manages the data for the subdomain, so the authoritative answer is the IP address 204.71.200.74 for "www.yahoo.com". (If you translate the IP for "www.yahoo.com", you will see a different IP address coming up every time, which means that the site is running with multiple mirroring servers and multiple IPs in that domain for load sharing. Because I mapped.)

Step 5: Finally, the local name server sends the results back to the client.

Most internet sites operated in Korea provide Korean titles and Korean information, but there is an inconvenience in that the URL or E-mail address required when searching a website must be written in English. In other words, even if you know the name of a Korean site, if you don't know the URL address in English, you can't enter the site, and the URL can be easily memorized by linking with the English site name. Memorizing URLs is difficult and leads to confusion when using them.

These problems are obvious to both the general users who are not familiar with English and the Internet users who use only Korean sites, and the obstacles to the expansion of Internet users.

As a system for using a Korean Internet address, Korean Patent Publication No. 1998-064882 can be given. In addition to the domain name server for English site conversion, the system proposes a method of separately operating a domain name server for mapping conversion of a Korean site and a method of operating a server for converting an English site to a Korean site. The problem with the first method of the system is to change the operating system of the existing domain server because a separate server for the Hangul site is to be installed, and the problem with the second method is data for matching the English site with the Hangul site to be searched. Is to maintain the base.

2 and 3 are block diagrams illustrating the technique disclosed in Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 1998-064882. Prior to the description, it is assumed that the English site name of Pacific Co., Ltd. is "www.amore.co.kr" and that the IP address is "210.120.61.100".

In FIG. 2 (a), when the user requests to convert "www. Pacific.co.kr", which is partially or entirely composed of a second language, into an IP address by using the Internet access means, the matching conversion server 70 may request the www. Pacific.co.kr is converted into "www.amore.co.kr", which is a URL composed of the actual first language used by DNS (60). The converted first language URL obtains the corresponding IP address 210.120.61.100 using the conventional DNS 60 which changes the URL configured in English in the same manner as described in FIG. 1 to the IP address. FIG. 2 (b-1) shows an item of a database to be built in the matching conversion server 70 used in FIG. 2 (a). A database is essential for matching each Korean URL requested by the user to an English-language URL used in DNS 60. Therefore, there are many problems that arise when the database is constructed and updated at all times, and when two or more companies intend to use one Korean name.

The system shown in FIG. 3 is a system using two DNS 61, 62 composed of Korean and English. As shown in FIG. 3 (a), when the client system 10 requests an IP address of a URL including Korean characters, an IP address is transmitted to the client system 10 after processing the translation in the NDNS 61 (Native Domain Name System). When the address is transmitted, and the client system 10 requests the IP address of the URL configured in English, the conventional DNS 62 processes the translation and then sends the IP address to the client system 10. The method presented in FIG. 3 (a) has to be equipped with two DNS systems composed of English and Korean, and a separate logic circuit for determining whether the URL requested by the client uses Korean has to be added. Therefore, the system construction cost increases and the network slows down. Has its drawbacks.

Another system for using a Korean Internet address is presented in Korean Patent Publication No. 1999-030346. The system also has to operate a Hangul site processing web server separately, and there is a problem in managing a database for matching the English site matching the Korean site to be searched.

The present invention is to solve the above problems, to provide a multi-language Internet address using system and a method for operating the Hangul site that can be operated without adding a separate domain name server.

In addition, the present invention proposes a multilingual Internet address using system and an operation method thereof, which do not require a separate database server for artificially matching a Korean site name with an English site name.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a process of IP resolving for a domain name.

2 and 3 are block diagrams illustrating the technique disclosed in Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 1998-064882.

4 is a block diagram illustrating a relationship between a client system and a DNS of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a step of converting a first language URL applied to the present invention into a second URL.

6 is a flow chart showing a domain name registration method of a second language URL.

****** Explanation of the main symbols in the drawings *******

20: local name server 30: root name server

40: COM Name Server 50: YAHOO.COM Name Server

70: matching conversion server 61: NDNS (Native Domain Name System)

60, 62: DNS (Native Domain Name System)

The present invention provides a method for enabling an Internet site name of which a part or all is written in a second language to be connected to an internet site name of a first language.

A site name input step of inputting a part or all of a site name to be accessed by a user in a second language;

A site name conversion step of linguistically converting the input second language into a first language;

And a transmission step of transmitting the converted first language to a domain name system.

The above object of the present invention

A window for entering a domain name;

A website output window in which the target website is opened;

An apparatus for converting into a second language matching respective consonants and vowels of the input domain name; And

It is also achievable by a domain name conversion system comprising a device for displaying a website matching the domain name converted in the second language on the website output window.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a relationship between a client system and a DNS of the present invention. In the present invention, a process of converting a URL composed of a second language into an IP address is as follows.

When the user requests the web access means of the IP address of the URL including the second language "www.pacific.co.kr", the client system 10 sets the second language URL to "www.taepyeongyang.co.kr". Performs a linguistic transformation with a first language URL of " Thereafter, the corresponding IP address may be received by transmitting the URL (www.taepyeongyang.co.kr) converted to the first language to the DNS 60. In the case of using the system shown in FIG. 4, since the DNS 60 receives a URL configured in the first language from the client system as in the prior art, the conventional DNS system can be used in the same manner.

As a representative example of the web access means, a web browse may be mentioned. In addition, an apparatus or a program including a means accessible to the Internet may be mentioned. In addition, the object of the present invention can be achieved by using a communication device such as a computer, a PDA, an Internet TV, a wireless telephone, or an IMT 2000 terminal having the web access means.

Making linguistic transformations within the client system is a very simple task with current technology. As an example, a system using web browsing is described. When a user inputs a URL including a second language in the URL input window, some programs of the web browsing itself or a separate program in another client system may be processed. .

4B is a diagram showing the data structure of the DNS 60 used in the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4 (b), the DNS system of the present invention has a linguistically translated URL of a second language in addition to an IP address matched with a URL (www.amore.co.kr) composed of a conventional first language. (www.taepyeongyang.co.kr) contains all the matching IP addresses, so you can see that the two IP addresses are the same. It can be seen that the DNS presented in the fourth (b) can be taken in the same manner as the structure of the DNS using the conventional first language URL.

The meaning of "URL composed of the first language" used in the present invention is used as a term meaning a URL that does not include the second language. The second language is used to refer to languages of other countries except for the universal language (the definition of the first language) in the Internet URL notation. Under the current system environment, examples of "URL composed of the first language" include URLs without Korean characters, such as "www.007cinema.co.kr", and examples of "URL composed of the second language" include "www. .007 Cinema, Company, Korea. "

The linguistic transformation according to the present invention, for example, the Korean "Pacific" is composed of a combination of Korean consonants and vowels of ㅌ, ㅐ, ,, ㅕ, ㅇ, ㅇ, ㅑ, ㅇ. According to the pronunciation of the Korean consonants and vowels, the most similar English consonants and vowels are listed. "ㅌ" is "t", "ㅐ" is "ae", "t" is "p", and "ㅕ" is "yeo" ", Stand" ㅇ "may be expressed as" ng "," 야 "is" ya "," ㅇ "may be represented as" ng ". Or a syllable unit conversion. In other words, "tae" may be converted to "tae", "flat" to "pyeong" and "yang" to "yang". Korea has these standardized rules for writing Korean characters in English. This example applies equally to Japanese. In order to express Japanese hiragana in English according to pronunciation, Japanese has an English letter system corresponding to Japanese consonants and vowels.

Therefore, according to the present invention, in order to express the Korean consonants and vowels according to the pronunciation, the Korean consonants and vowels only need to have a certain rule to match the English consonants and vowels. According to the present invention, the consonants and vowels of Korean characters do not necessarily correspond to the consonants and vowels of English. For example, "ㄱ" is "0", "b" is "00", and "c" is "000". Hangeul consonants and vowels can also be written by matching them. Even in this case, the number of matching symbols corresponding to the number of consonants and the number of vowels is required in order to display Korean.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a step of converting a first language URL applied to the present invention into a second URL, which is configured as the following step.

First step: A step of inputting a URL composed of a second language and using a web browser is a step of inputting a URL including a second language in a search input box.

The second step is a step of determining whether the second language URL is included, and determining whether the second language is included by checking the URL input in the search input window.

Third step: linguistically converting the second language URL to the first language URL. If it is determined in the second step that the second language is included in the URL, linguistically converting the second language to the first language. It's a step.

The fourth step is to perform an IP address translation query on the first language URL to the domain name server.

Since the first to fourth steps of the above steps are performed in the client system, the DNS system is the same as the conventional operation method in which the IP address translation of the first language URL is requested. There is an advantage.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of registering a domain name of a second language URL.

The first step is a step in which a user requests to register a URL in which some or all of the second language is used. Conventionally, only a first language URL can be requested. However, when the domain registration system of the present invention is used, not only the first language URL but also the second language. You can request the registration of a URL.

Second step: linguistically converting the second language URL into the first language URL, which can be easily implemented in software or hardware as illustrated in FIG. 5.

Third Step: By registering and managing the Internet site name converted into the first language in a domain name system, it is possible to register and maintain a URL configured in a second language using a conventional DNS.

According to the multilingual URL support scheme and system proposed in the present invention, a second language URL can be used without an additional DB server or an additional DNS. By using a linguistic conversion method without using a separate additional DB server, the problem of maintaining a separate matching table through a continuous operation is eliminated, and there is an advantage that the conventional DNS can be used as it is.

In addition, the DNS can be used in the same structure as the conventional DNS to eliminate the problem of weighted network traffic generated in the prior art.

The most important advantage is that by making the second language URL available, it is possible to further increase the importance of publicity through the URL.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary and should be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible. . Therefore, the true scope of protection of the present invention should be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

Claims (8)

A method for enabling access to Internet site names in which some or all of them are written in a second language, to Internet site names in a first language, A site name input step of inputting a part or all of a site name to be accessed by a user in a second language; A site name conversion step of linguistically converting the input second language into a first language; And transmitting the converted first language to a domain name system. The internet access method according to claim 1, wherein said converting step further comprises a separate identifying symbol for distinguishing from an internet site name composed only of the first language. The Internet access device according to claim 1, comprising at least one of a computer, a PDA, an Internet TV, a wireless telephone, or an IMT 2000 terminal using the Internet access method. The present invention relates to a domain name management method for managing an internet site name in which part or all of a second language is managed by using a domain name system for managing an internet site configured in a first language. Requesting, by the user, an internet site name in which part or all of the second language is configured; A first language conversion step of linguistically converting a portion of the Internet site name composed of a second language into a first language linguistically; And managing the internet site name converted into the first language by registering it in a domain name system. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first language conversion step further comprises a separate identifying symbol for distinguishing an Internet site name composed of only the first language. A window for entering a domain name; A website output window in which the target website is opened; An apparatus for converting into a second language matching respective consonants and vowels of the input domain name; And And a device for displaying a website matching the domain name converted in the second language on the website output window. 7. The domain name conversion system according to claim 6, wherein the domain name conversion system is installed in a web browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape. 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the second language is configured such that the language matching the consonants and the vowels of the input domain name can be changed while the domain name input window is not changed. A domain name conversion system, characterized in that the domain name entered in the window can be changed even if it does not change.