KR20020089795A - Service method for selling e-book using potable phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for selling an e-book(electronic-book) using a cellular phone is provided to offer a new business model by linking the cellular phone with the reading and to increase a reading population by extending the reading to the cellular phone users. CONSTITUTION: A customer(400) using the cellular phone requests the buying for the e-book by connecting to an e-book providing server(100) through the cellular phone via a wireless Internet network. A cellular phone billing system pays the buying amount with a cellular phone number of the customer requesting the e-book. The e-book server transmits an e-book file to the customer. A cellular phone billing system(500) transmits the customer information and the payment amount information to a mobile communication provider(600). The mobile communication provider receives the e-book payment amount from the customer and pays the e-book buying amount to the e-book providing server.

Description

How to sell e-books using a mobile phone {SERVICE METHOD FOR SELLING E-BOOK USING POTABLE PHONE}

The present invention relates to an e-business method using the Internet, and more particularly to an e-book providing server operating a web site providing an e-book to a mobile phone user through a mobile communication network. The present invention relates to an electronic book selling method using a mobile phone selling electronic books.

Our present age is surrounded by the word Internet. The Internet is recognized as a revolutionary word in our lives, and in just a few years after the term was born, it has changed our lives and culture rapidly and dramatically. Nowadays, the modern people are evaluated as basic qualities, not abilities, so that they cannot live socially without knowing the Internet. The emergence and rapid proliferation of the Internet are transforming life and culture beyond the imagination in many parts of the world. Now, people don't have to go to the store to buy things, don't spend a lot of time getting information, and don't have to meet people in person for exchange. This is because a huge communication network that connects all the small networks that exist all over the world, the communication environment called the Internet, can replace this. If we can connect to the Internet, we can buy and sell things anytime, anywhere, get information, and interact with strangers. The advantage of the Internet business is that it does not require a separate sales network, does not require separate space, and can be used at any time 24 hours a day, 365 days. Thus, we have encountered a myriad of groups that use the Internet to do business (we call it 'e-business'). Now, for those who want to be born, there is a perception that the Internet is the fastest shortcut to success. Therefore, the task of finding new items running on the web is considered to be a success.

All the acts and businesses that were done in the time when the Internet did not exist are being implemented on the Internet, and are attempting to be implemented. The same applies to reading. The meaning and function of reading will be as follows. Reading means reading a book. We understand the profound thoughts, sentiments and contents of the predecessors contained in the book, effectively leading our lives, and enriching our serious lives of expanding our thoughts and expanding our life experiences while making up for the shortages of our lives. Human beings expand, fix and abstract experiences through information obtained from books. Therefore, reading is an intellectual act that advances experience. Normally, the mental growth of man means the upgrading of this experience. ' If food is a means of meeting physical needs, then reading can be said to be a form of satisfying mental needs. Therefore, reading to fill mental poverty is the only means of living as a person. Therefore, it would be too natural to be a human being who reads, learns, thinks, and acts upon many books. As long as human beings exist, they are always learning and living, whether consciously or unconsciously. Therefore, continuing education is needed. And the best way of continuing education is reading. This reading acquires a great deal of knowledge in life. So reading is a treasure trove of our knowledge. There are many aspects to human existence. No matter how rich the material civilization is, the lack of nutrients, the food for the inner world, is difficult to enjoy human life properly. Therefore, we must maintain human life by purifying and sublimating human mind. In order to do so, the habit of 'when' and 'where' is to make a habit of reading, to build culture, to form a personality, and to become a desirable human being. For human success, diligence, patience, and effort are essential. But without the attainment of professional knowledge and skills, the accomplishment of the work cannot be promised. Anyone who is engaged in all work needs to get new knowledge and information and be creative in order to grow and develop. Reading is a way of restoring humanity that is declining due to the proliferation of material civilization and is the best way to save and protect 'I' from social evil. Usually, I read to read interesting novels and magazines and have a good time. However, there are cases where professionals read the way to rearrange the theory of their specialty, and the general public reads as a means to cultivate culture and to obtain indirect experience and information to become a desirable human being. Therefore, reading strengthens our minds, inspires us, instills faith and pride, enhances our virtue, cultivates the judgment of Saari, describes the use of things, by the action of human formation with sound minds, It is to increase the value of life so that each can effectively fulfill his task. Reading is the source of wisdom in all cultures that humanity can create. Therefore, reading is a means of indirect experience that matures one's knowledge and experience by passing on the experiences of others who have not experienced them directly. Through this means, it is a shortcut to personality that understands and experiences the world of the future, which is not known so far, to satisfy the qualities and emotions of the living person who form new values, and to enrich the serious life. As such, the importance of reading cannot be overemphasized. However, in a complex and diversified social structure such as modern society, it is harder to think than to spend time reading books. Life is busy, and spare time is reduced by that amount. Therefore, in order to read a book, you must deliberately spend some time reading yourself and find an online or offline bookstore to buy the book. Once you have bought a book, you should always carry it with you so that you can read it anytime, anywhere. For this reason, the reading population is gradually decreasing, and the sales of books are decreasing every year. The fact that society is complicated and diversified means that there are so many kinds of culture and knowledge required, and so many books about culture and knowledge are required. However, it is hard to know for modern people who do not have much free time unless they are interested in what kind of new book is available these days and which book is the best seller.

By switching the topic again; The telecommunications revolution of the 20th century could be wireless. In particular, mobile phones that can walk around and make calls have transformed our lives similar to the effects of the Internet. Before the appearance of the mobile phone, if you leave the outside when you leave a contact or when there is no urgent business, there is no way to contact in the situation, and if you do not know the whereabouts There was only a way to wait. However, since the advent of mobile phones, our society has changed rapidly. You no longer need to enter the building or wait in line at a public phone booth to call. Mobile phones have emerged that allow you to walk around and call anytime, anywhere. Mobile phone technology, which started from the concept of walking and making phone calls, opened the era of first generation mobile communication with analog and completed the second generation mobile communication with CDMA. And the new technology of 3rd generation mobile communication IMT-2000 is in the beginning of service. Cell phones now offer additional services such as electronic organizers, calculators, and Internet access using mobile phones, as well as call services. Now that people carry their phones as necessities, these value-added services can become a very important buying and selling strategy for users and for cell phone suppliers and service providers. Now, it is not just considering brand and call quality when purchasing a mobile phone, but also carefully considering additional services provided. Each handset manufacturer and service provider continues to develop new services. Good service can never be ignored because it leads to the purchase of a mobile phone. As a mobile phone is always carried by the user, if the service provided for reading using the mobile phone is provided, the user will have a great advantage. In addition, if a user can purchase only the necessary passages (pages) of a desired book through a mobile phone, the mobile phone user has the advantage of being able to read the desired book anytime and anywhere with only the mobile phone, and it will definitely contribute to the increase in sales for the mobile phone manufacturer or service provider. .

Meanwhile, Internet mobile phones that can access the Internet through mobile phones have already been released and are being serviced to users. Therefore, it would be good news for mobile phone users if the above-mentioned service which enables reading or connecting to the Internet and a mobile phone is implemented on the web. However, until now, there has been no service that can provide e-books provided on the web using a mobile phone, and there is no such business model. Therefore, if e-books can be provided through mobile phones, it will be able to recover the reading population which is gradually decreasing due to civilization and complexity, and it will be an opportunity to restore humanity through reading.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic book selling method that enables users to purchase and read an electronic book using a mobile phone as part of an increase in the reading population and encouragement and encouragement of reading.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for selling an e-book that creates a new e-business model by associating a mobile phone with a reading on the Internet.

The ultimate object of the present invention is to provide an e-book sales method for restoring the humanity of the individual throughout society by extending the reading base to the mobile phone user with easy mobility.

In order to solve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, an electronic book providing server for providing various types of electronic books through the Internet network and the electronic book providing server and the Internet network are connected to the mobile phone user. An electronic book comprising a mobile communication provider providing a web service for providing a book, a mobile phone billing system for supporting payment processing to the electronic book providing server, and a mobile phone connected to the mobile phone billing system and the mobile communication provider through a mobile communication network. A method of selling an electronic book in a providing system includes: requesting a mobile phone user to purchase an electronic book by accessing the electronic book providing server through a wireless Internet network through a mobile phone of the user; Paying the purchase price to the mobile phone number of the mobile phone user requesting the purchase in the mobile phone billing system; Transmitting the e-book file requested for purchase from the e-book providing server to the mobile phone user; Transmitting, by the mobile phone billing system, customer information and payment amount information of an electronic book purchased to the mobile communication service provider; Claiming, by the mobile telecommunications provider, an e-book payment amount to be paid to the mobile phone user; And paying the electronic book purchase price to the operator of the electronic book providing server in the mobile communication provider.

In addition, the electronic book providing server in the electronic book selling method using a mobile phone according to the second aspect of the present invention; It operates a web site that introduces and sells electronic books on the web, and features a database that stores and stores electronic books by type.

In addition, in the electronic book selling method using a mobile phone according to the third aspect of the present invention, the e-book providing server is characterized in that the sales file configuration so that the customer using the mobile phone can be purchased in units of pages.

In addition, in the electronic book selling method using a mobile phone according to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the mobile phone user may receive and read the purchased e-book file, and then read and read the e-book stored in a non-call state. It is characterized by.

1 is a diagram illustrating an electronic book providing system environment according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a state diagram between system configurations for providing an e-book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of reading / listening an electronic book from a mobile phone by purchasing an electronic book to a mobile phone user in an electronic book providing server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

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100: e-book providing server 110: database

200: Internet network 300: Mobile communication network

400: mobile phone 500: mobile phone billing system

600: mobile carrier

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First of all, in adding reference numerals to the components of each drawing, it should be noted that the same components have the same reference numerals as much as possible even if they are displayed on different drawings. Detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that are determined to unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

1 is a diagram illustrating an electronic book providing system environment according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The electronic book providing system applied to the present invention is an electronic book providing server 100 that provides various electronic books by type through the Internet network, and is connected to the electronic book providing server 100 through the Internet network 200. The communication provider 600 and the mobile phone billing system 500, the mobile phone billing system 500 and the mobile phone provider 600 and the individual mobile phone 400 is connected through the mobile communication network 300.

The e-book providing server 100 operates a web site (URL) for introducing and selling e-books on the web. The e-book providing server 100 includes a database 110 for electronic books of each type (here, the e-book is made of paper substantially). Is not a book, but an e-book (text type data) that does not conflict with copyright, such as the author's approval. In addition, the operator operating the electronic book providing server 100 is supported by the payment processing when the mobile phone user purchases the electronic book in connection with the mobile phone billing (billing) system (500). In addition, the e-book providing server 100 may support a service for providing an e-book according to the present invention to the subscriber cell phone 400 of the mobile communication service provider 600 in connection with the mobile communication service provider 600. Make sure The mobile phone 400 becomes a mobile phone supporting wireless Internet access.

FIG. 2 is a state diagram between system configurations for providing an electronic book according to an embodiment of the present invention. In detail, FIG.

First, the e-book web server provider 100 that has received the sales right from the author of the book operates its own e-book providing server and stores various e-book data in the database 110. In operation 701, the mobile phone billing company 500 is provided with a mobile phone payment processing system. In operation 702, the mobile phone provider 600 provides a web service for providing an electronic book to the mobile phone user. Done.

The mobile phone user 400 accesses the e-book web server 100 in step 703 and retrieves various book information supported by the e-book web server 100 through the mobile phone liquid crystal display. When the mobile phone user 400 searches for book information and finds a book to purchase, and confirms a book name / author / table of contents / purchasing price per page, in step 703, the electronic book web server 100 displays the electronic book for the corresponding book. Request a book purchase. When the e-book purchase request, the e-book web server 100 receives the mobile phone customer information from the mobile phone user 400 to receive the mobile phone customer information to the mobile phone billing company 500 in step 704. . Thus, in step 705, the mobile phone billing company 500 requests the purchase of the mobile phone user 400 to the electronic book (which may be one volume or may be sold in a table of contents or pages). Pay your purchases by mobile phone number. When the mobile phone billing company 500 pays the e-book purchase price of the mobile phone user 400, the e-book web server 100 transmits the electronic book file requested by the mobile phone user 400 in step 706. It transmits to the mobile phone user 400 through the 200 and the mobile communication network (300). The mobile phone billing company 500 transmits the e-book purchase customer information and payment amount information to the mobile communication service provider 600 in step 707, when the mobile communication service provider 600 issuing a bill at the end of the month using the mobile phone customer ( 400) to be billed together with the payment amount of the e-book purchase price. Then, the mobile phone user 400 checks the purchase price of the electronic book issued on the bill and pays the payment amount to the mobile communication provider 600 in step 709. On the other hand, the mobile communication provider 600 pays the e-book Web server provider 100 the price that their mobile phone subscribers purchased the electronic book.

On the other hand, the e-book Web server operator 100 may be provided with a billing system in cooperation with the mobile phone billing company 500, or may operate by itself.

Next, an operation flow of reading an electronic book from a mobile phone by purchasing an electronic book to a mobile phone user in an electronic book providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 through the flowchart of FIG. 3. Explain.

First, in step 801, the mobile phone user 400 makes an Internet connection to the e-book providing server 100 through a mobile communication network 300, for example, wireless Internet networks 300 and 200 using his mobile phone. . In operation 803, the mobile phone user 400 searches the electronic book list provided by the electronic book providing server 100 through his mobile phone LCD screen. The electronic book list may be, for example, a book list, author, publisher, price, file size, story line, and the like. In step 805, the mobile phone user 400 searching for the electronic book selects a purchase book (by selecting a key). Then, the e-book providing server 100 provides the table of contents information about the purchase book to the mobile phone user 400 in step 807 to select whether to purchase the entire e-book or only part of the e-book. If the mobile phone user 400 only wants to purchase some pages, the mobile phone user 400 selects the page of the electronic book to be purchased in step 809. Then, in step 811, the e-book providing server 100 transmits the file for the book page requested by the mobile phone user 400 to the mobile phone user 400 through a wireless network interworking with the internet network and the mobile communication network. send. The mobile phone user 400 stores the page file of the purchase book received in step 813 and terminates the Internet access in step 815. The mobile phone user 400 receiving the electronic book through the above method selects the reading mode in the non-call state in step 817 and selects a specific book from the list of electronic books stored in step 819 based on the display contents of the LCD screen. Select the reading page. Then, in step 821, the mobile phone 400 displays the text or outputs the corresponding page through the LCD screen or the speaker / earphone so that the mobile phone user can enjoy reading.

As described above, if provided with the e-book providing system and the sales method according to the present invention, mobile users using a lot of mobile can also enjoy reading through their mobile phone anytime, anywhere if leisure occurs.

On the other hand, the detailed description of the present invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, of course, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

As described above, the present invention is equipped with a method of selling an e-book using a mobile phone that can be used by a mobile phone user, and thus, many mobile phone users can also enjoy reading through their mobile phone anytime and anywhere when leisure occurs. .

In addition, the present invention has the advantage of increasing the reading population and encourage and encourage reading by allowing users to read and purchase electronic books using a mobile phone.

In addition, the present invention has the advantage of creating a new e-business model by associating mobile phones and reading to the Internet.

In addition, the present invention has the advantage of helping to restore the humanity of the individual throughout the society through the expansion of the base of the reading by extending the reading to the mobile phone users easy to move.

Claims (4)

An electronic book providing server providing various types of electronic books through the Internet network, a mobile communication service provider connected to the electronic book providing server through the Internet network and providing a web service for providing electronic books to a mobile phone user; A method of selling an electronic book in a mobile phone billing system that supports payment processing to an electronic book providing server and a mobile phone billing system comprising a mobile phone connected to a mobile communication network with the mobile phone billing system: Requesting the user of the mobile phone to purchase the electronic book by accessing the electronic book providing server through a wireless internet network through his mobile phone; Paying the purchase price to the mobile phone number of the mobile phone user requesting the purchase in the mobile phone billing system; Transmitting the e-book file requested for purchase from the e-book providing server to the mobile phone user; Transmitting, by the mobile phone billing system, customer information and payment amount information of an electronic book purchased to the mobile communication service provider; Claiming, by the mobile telecommunications provider, an e-book payment amount to be paid to the mobile phone user; And The mobile communication provider pays the e-book purchase price to the operator of the e-book providing server; Electronic book selling method using a mobile phone, characterized in that consisting of. The method of claim 1, wherein the e-book providing server; A method of selling e-books using a mobile phone, which operates a web site that introduces and sells e-books on the web, and has a database storing the e-books by type. The method of claim 1, The e-book providing server is an electronic book selling method using a mobile phone, characterized in that for configuring the sales file so that the customer using the mobile phone can be purchased in units of pages. The method of claim 1, The mobile phone user may receive and store the purchased e-book file, and then read and read the e-book stored in a non-call state.