KR20010114125A - Business Model Between Electronic Newspaper Supplier and Subscribers. - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, a newspaper supplier digitalizes and compresses a newspaper and transmits it to a set-top box of a subscriber addressed to a wired / wireless communication network, and the newspaper subscriber searches a newspaper article on a TV monitor and prints the necessary article by remote control of the set-top box. Subscribe to newspapers by scaling to the TV monitor aspect ratio, and the contractor collects the rental fee of the device for the addressed set-top box and the fee for sending the data from the subscriber, and the contracted newspaper price and set-top box cost and additional charges for the newspaper company. It provides a business model between an e-newspaper supplier and an e-newspaper subscriber who pays for telecom operations and uses the difference as a revenue model.

Description

Business Model Between Electronic Newspaper Supplier and Subscribers.

According to the present invention, an electronic newspaper provider digitalizes a plurality of newspapers and transmits them to an addressable set-top box, and the subscriber subscribes to the newspapers electronically on a TV monitor, and the subscribers collect the charges from the subscribers. It provides the business model between the electronic newspaper provider and the subscriber who pays the newspaper price and set-top box fee and the additional communication network operation fee to the subscribed newspaper company and uses the difference as a profit model.

The newspaper printed on the conventional paper has the inconvenience of delivering newspapers to the subscribers daily in each newspaper company, and the newspaper subscription costs continue to rise due to the increase in newspaper delivery labor costs, and it was difficult to secure newspaper delivery personnel.

In particular, there is a problem that can not be delivered in a timely manner to subscribers living in remote places or abroad.

In order to solve the above problems, a system has been developed to provide news from newspapers over the Internet, but subscribers have to subscribe to PC monitors, and there is inconvenience of having to search and access sites by newspapers individually. It was not possible to subscribe to the original newspaper form without editing the form, so there was a disadvantage that the subscriber did not feel like a printed newspaper.

In addition, all newspapers supplied through the Internet are operated as a free site, and since the business model between the newspaper supplier and the subscriber is not formed, even the prize money cannot be settled as an additional communication business model. Provides a business model for distributing printed newspapers electronically between newspapers and newspaper subscribers.

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1 is a block diagram of the present invention

Figure 2 is a block diagram of a set-top box for electronic newspaper subscription

[Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings]

1-1 to 1-N: Newspaper

2: Electronic newspaper provider

3-1 ～ 3-N: Addressed Subscriber Set Top Box

11: receiving means

12: addressing means

13: central processing unit

14: first memory means

15: signal processing means

16: search means

17: TV monitor

18: remote control means

19: second memory means

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described the configuration of the present invention and its effects and effects for achieving the above object.

1 is a block diagram of an electronic newspaper business model of the present invention, Figure 2 is a block diagram of a set-top box for an electronic newspaper subscriber to implement the business model of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the present invention provides N newspapers 1-1 to 1-N, and an electronic newspaper provider 2 that receives daily newspapers from each newspaper company, compresses them into digital data, and transmits them to subscribers. Wow; It consists of N addressed set-top boxes (3-1 to 3-N) that allow each subscriber to subscribe to a newspaper on a TV monitor.

As shown in Fig. 2, a typical set-top box for an electronic newspaper subscriber embodying the business model of the present invention comprises: receiving means (11) for receiving compressed digital data of a newspaper transmitted by an electronic newspaper provider; Addressing means (12) for designating an address of the receiving means; First memory means (14) for storing digital data received by the receiving means; Signal processing means (15) for converting the compressed digital data stored in the first memory means into a signal that can be displayed by the TV monitor; Signal retrieval means (16) for the subscriber to retrieve newspapers and pages to be displayed on the TV monitor and to enlarge specific articles on the pages; Second memory means (19) for scraping specific articles as retrieval means and storing them as digital data; A central processing unit 13 for centrally controlling the above means; Remote control means 8 for remotely controlling the central processing unit with a remote control.

The set-top box described above is only a typical standard set-top box, and includes a set-top box for cable TV reception, a set-top box for satellite broadcasting reception, a VOD set-top box, etc., and combines multiple functions into a single set-top box, or In the case of a digital TV monitor, the TV monitor may be integrated with the TV, or a set-top box for an electronic newspaper subscription may be configured by adding necessary additional functions.

First, the electronic newspaper provider installs a set-top box addressed to a subscriber who wants to subscribe to a newspaper on a daily TV monitor, and forms an additional communication network between the electronic newspaper provider and the addressed set-top box.

The supplementary telecommunications network is configured by telephone line, cable TV network, or wireless communication network, and the electronic newspaper provider compresses the newspaper into digital data every day at night and sends it to each addressed set-top box.

Each addressed set-top box stores the digital data of newspapers sent to its own address in the memory means, and subscribers remotely control the set-top box with the remote control to display the digital data stored in the memory means on the TV receiver to subscribe. Subscribe to a newspaper. At this time, the subscriber can search the type of newspaper with the remote control, search by newspaper type and page, and if you want to read a specific article or advertisement in detail, the subscriber can specify the article or advertisement that you want to read by zooming in on the specified magnification at the specified magnification. When the article or advertisement is to be saved by scraping the article or advertisement, it may be stored in the form of digital data in the second memory means 19 for storing the scrap article of the set-top box by remote control operation, and the printed article or advertisement may be printed. If you do, you can also output to the printer by remote control operation.

As mentioned above, the electronic newspaper provider, which forms an additional communication network between the electronic newspaper provider and the subscriber, enters a newspaper article supply contract with each newspaper company (1-1 to 1-N) and receives daily newspapers from the newspaper company.

At this time, each newspaper company supplies on-line digital data constituting each page of the newspaper to an electronic newspaper provider, and the electronic newspaper provider compresses the data and transmits it to each addressed set-top box. Newspapers that do not have a digital data editing and printing system are established by an electronic newspaper provider by digitalizing the newspaper using a screening method, and transmitting the digital data to the electronic newspaper provider, which is compressed and addressed to N addressed newspapers. The subscriber will transmit to the set-top box.

In the above method, the electronic newspaper provider transmits and reads the data stored in the memory means 14 of the set-top box to the TV monitor by the subscriber. The subscriber operates the remote controller 8 and the search means of the set-top box ( 16) Select the page of the newspaper you want to read on the TV monitor, and then use the remote control to set the horizontal and vertical intervals for each column in the order of the columns you want to read. If you set to and press the button on the remote control, the central processing unit (13) of the set-top box automatically divides the article by the horizontal and vertical ratio of the TV monitor screen based on the upper right of the column divided by lines in the order of the input columns. Magnify and display on TV monitor. The subscriber reads the enlarged article continuously by displaying the next section of the article sequentially on the TV monitor by the operation of the remote control.

Even when the articles are to be expanded and read across the pages of the newspaper, the horizontal and vertical partition lines of the articles in each column can be set in the order that the subscribers want to read the columns in the above manner. The processor expands the articles in the order of the columns set by the subscriber and displays them on the TV monitor so that the subscribers can read the articles in order.

In addition, when a specific article is to be made into a database by the above method, the specific article can be stored in the second memory means of the set-top box as a remote control operation signal to make the database.

In this way, the e-newspaper provider sends newspapers in digital data to each subscriber addressed daily, collects set-top box rent and newspaper subscription fees from each subscriber, and the e-newspaper provider collects set-top box rent collected from each subscriber. It is to construct a supplementary telecommunications business model that pays newspaper charges to the newspapers contracted with a subscription fee, pays set-top box rent and supplementary network operation costs, and uses the difference as a profit model.

The payment method between the newspaper company, the electronic newspaper provider, and each subscriber uses the existing payment method and method.

As described above, the present invention provides a system in which a newspaper subscriber can receive a plurality of newspapers as digital data and subscribe to a TV monitor with one set-top box, and each newspaper company does not separately configure an electronic newspaper delivery system. Instead, it provides an effective electronic newspaper business model that allows newspapers to deliver electronic newspapers in a single system.

In addition, subscribers can subscribe to a large number of newspapers on TV monitors, eliminating the need to reduce and eliminate newspapers, and provide a business model that allows users to live anywhere in the world or subscribe to certain newspapers in a timely manner at low prices.

Claims (8)

In the business (business) model that electronically distributes newspapers, (1) an electronic newspaper provider receiving newspapers in the form of digital data from one or more newspaper companies, compressing the digital data and transmitting the digital data to a set-top box for newspaper subscriptions of subscribers addressed by subscribers; (2) receiving the digital data transmitted from the addressed set-top box of each subscriber from the electronic newspaper provider and storing it in memory means of the set-top box; (3) The subscriber can remotely control the set-top box with the remote control means, and process the digital data stored in the memory means of the set-top box as a signal that can be displayed on the TV monitor by the signal processing means of the set-top box. Subscribing the newspaper to the TV monitor in a manner of viewing the printed newspaper and randomly enlarging the specific article to a specific size; (4) collecting the digital data transmission fee and the set-top box rent of each newspaper provided by the electronic newspaper provider to the set-top box of each addressed subscriber from the subscriber for each period; The electronic newspaper provider pays the newspaper bill, the set-top box cost, the network operation fee, and the difference as a profit model, at a fee collected from the subscribers addressed by the newspaper provider. Business model for value-added communication among subscribers of electronic newspaper. The method according to claim 1, An additional communication business model between an e-newspaper supplier and an e-newspaper subscriber, characterized by a newspaper serving as an e-newspaper provider The method according to claim 1 or 2, An additional communication business model between an e-newspaper supplier and an e-newspaper subscriber, characterized in that the newspaper provider transmits the digital data to the set-top box of the addressed subscriber by wire. The method according to claim 1 or 2, An additional communication business model between an e-newspaper provider and an e-newspaper subscriber, wherein the e-newspaper provider transmits the digital data to the set-top box of the addressed subscriber. The method according to claim 1 or 2, An additional communication business model between an e-newspaper supplier and an e-newspaper subscriber, comprising an addressable newspaper set-top box embedded in a TV set The method according to claim 1 or 2, In the method of digitalizing the newspaper, the electronic newspaper provider receives the printed newspaper from the contracted newspaper company and scans the newspaper. The electronic newspaper provider digitalizes the newspaper and compresses the data to address each subscriber set-top box. The additional communication business model between the electronic newspaper provider and the subscriber of the electronic newspaper, characterized by transmitting by The method according to claim 1 or 2, In a method in which a subscriber arbitrarily enlarges a specific article to a specific size by reading a newspaper displayed on a TV monitor, (1) partitioning and specifying horizontal and vertical intervals for each column of articles in a line on a TV monitor in a line in the order that the subscriber wants to read it by a remote control means on a newspaper page; (2) The central processing unit of the set-top box remembers the sequence of columns specified by the subscriber and divides the articles into horizontal and vertical size ratios of TV monitors based on the upper right of each column in the column order according to the subscriber's remote control signal. An additional communication business model between an electronic newspaper provider and an electronic newspaper subscriber, comprising a step of sequentially displaying and subscribing to a TV monitor. A method of subscribing a newspaper to a TV monitor by processing a digital data stored in a memory means of the set-top box by transmitting a newspaper as compressed digital data by an electronic newspaper provider to a set-top box for subscription of an electronic newspaper. (1) partitioning and specifying vertical and horizontal intervals for each column of articles in a line on a TV monitor in a line in the order that subscribers want to read by remote control operation of a set-top box on a newspaper page; (2) The central processing unit of the set-top box remembers the specific order of the columns partitioned by the subscriber in the horizontal and vertical lines above, and the TV is based on the top right of each column specified by the subscriber according to the subscriber's remote control signal. Expanding the articles according to the horizontal and vertical size ratios of the monitors, and displaying the articles on the TV monitor in a specific column order and a base order of the articles based on the upper right of each column; Subscriber is present on the TV monitor in the order of the column and article description, the method of subscribing the newspaper article to the TV monitor, characterized in that the enlargement ratio of the displayed text is increased in proportion to the area of the TV monitor.