KR20030042590A - Method for checking credibility of web site and system therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method and a system for checking the reliability of a web site are provided to offer the reliable information for a subject operating the web site while minimizing the load of the network and a user computer. CONSTITUTION: If a cursor of an input device of a client is placed on the URL(Uniform Resource Locator) data in an application program such as a web browser or a word processor of the client, the information for a URL operation company is automatically obtained and the obtained information is displayed(S7). An automatic URL extraction step is divided into a URL extraction step(S510) automatically extracting the URL if the cursor is placed on the URL data in the application program, and an information collecting step(S550) collecting the information for the subject operating the URL from an official organization by using the extracted URL. The information for the URL operation subject includes the identity information integrating online and offline, the asset information, the administration information, the credit evaluation information, and other information.

Description

Method for checking credibility of web site and system therefor}

The present invention relates to a method and system for verifying reliability of a website, and more particularly, to a method and system for verifying reliability of a website that can verify the reliability of an operating subject based on various information on the subject operating the website. It is about.

Recently, due to the development of the Internet, a large number of users access websites through the Internet to obtain necessary information online or to perform electronic commerce. By the way, when using the website to obtain information or electronic commerce, etc., various information about the subject that operates the website is required.

For example, an Internet user might be impressed by whether the company that runs the website he wants to use is online or offline, what is his or her credit rating, whether the flagship business is manufacturing, services, wholesale or retail or software development, or how sales are immoral. A variety of information is needed, such as whether it is a company, a company with technical skills, a history of various punishment, a case of consumer damage, or a crime.

As described above, the reason for the need for information on the web site operator is that various activities performed on the Internet usually involve input of user's personal information, payment, and the like. In particular, if you use the information obtained through the website to make important acts such as investment or contract, or make payments such as cash deposit, credit card payment, electronic payment, the information about the operating body of the website must be It is necessary. In addition, if the creditworthiness of the company needs to be identified in advance, such as investment in stocks and bonds, membership in funds, and real estate sales, etc., the user must resolve the information to collect the information.

However, at present, it is difficult to determine the authenticity and reliability of the information because the user has no choice but to rely on the contents provided by the website in order to obtain information on the operation of the website.

Therefore, the prior art had the following problems.

First, it was difficult to obtain objective information about the website operators. Therefore, it was impossible to determine the reliability of the website operator. As a result, although there are many advantages such as electronic commerce using the Internet, there was a problem that the use is limited.

Second, in order to obtain information for determining the reliability of the website, the user has to use other websites or indirectly obtain the desired information in the form of offline or the like. Therefore, there is a problem that a lot of time wasted for obtaining information. In addition, there is a problem that the network traffic is increased in order to obtain information by visiting other websites using the Internet, and the load of the user computer is increased because resources of the user computer such as a CPU and a disk are used. .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for verifying reliability of a website that can provide a user with reliable information on a subject operating a website.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for verifying the reliability of a website that can provide a user with reliable information on the subject who operates the website while minimizing the load on the network and the load of the user's computer.

1 is a network diagram showing an operating environment of a system for verifying reliability of a website according to the present invention.

2 is a flow chart schematically showing the overall operation of the method and system for checking the reliability of a website according to the present invention.

3 is a diagram schematically illustrating a screen on which a method and a system for verifying reliability of a website according to the present invention operate.

4 is a flowchart schematically showing an embodiment of a method and system for verifying reliability of a website according to the present invention;

5 is a flowchart schematically showing another embodiment of a method and system for verifying reliability of a website according to the present invention;

6 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a thread control process in a method and system for checking reliability of a website according to the present invention.

7 is a flow chart schematically showing another embodiment of a method and system for verifying reliability of a website according to the present invention.

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1: internet 3: server

5: Client 7: Authorized agency server

9: UEL Table 40: Web Browser

50: word processor 60: indicator of input device

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes a UEL extraction step of automatically extracting the UAL when the indicator of the client input device is located in the UEL data in the application program of the client; An information collecting step of collecting information on a subject who operates the UAL using the extracted UAL; And a display step of displaying the collected information to the client.

On the other hand, the website reliability check method preferably further comprises the step of storing the information obtained in the information collecting step in a predetermined table of the UEL table.

On the other hand, the website reliability confirmation method is to automatically obtain the information on the URL data in the operation page displayed at the start of any application program regardless of the position of the indicator of the input device and automatically update the UEL table It is preferable to further include an update step.

The automatic updating of the UL table may include: capturing the work page; A separation step of separating the UEL data from the captured data; A collecting step of collecting information on the subject who operates the UAL using the separated UAL; And a recording step of recording the collected fact information in the UEL table.

Then, it checks whether the UEL extracted in the UEL extraction step is a new UAL that is not present in the UEL table, and re-collects information on the new UEL operating subject when the UAL is not a new UAL.

In addition, it is preferable to determine whether information is re-collected based on a predetermined criterion even if the UEL extracted in the UEL extraction step is UAL existing in the UEL table.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the present invention further includes a thread control step of identifying a thread that is currently running and forcibly terminating the thread according to a predetermined criterion when switching to a new page.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium storing a method for confirming reliability of the website described above.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, if the indicator of the input device is located near the UEL data of the application program, the UEL extraction means for extracting the UEL; Information collecting means for collecting information on a subject who operates the UAL using the extracted UAL; Provided is a website reliability confirmation system including display means for displaying the collected information.

The website reliability confirmation system may further include data storage means for storing the information collected by the information collecting means in a predetermined format.

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to obtain information about the subject who operates the website before, after, or simultaneously with access to the website without increasing network traffic and load on the user's computer.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, it will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention that can specifically realize the above object.

First, referring to FIG. 1, an environment in which a method and system for verifying reliability of a website according to the present invention will be described will be described below.

The Internet 1 is connected to various servers 3, for example, a web server 3a, a mail server 3b, an FTP server (File Transfer Protocol Server) 3c, other servers 3d, and the like. In 1), various clients 5 using the information of the servers 3 are connected by wire or wirelessly. The Internet 1 is also connected to servers 7a, 7b, 7c of various authorized institutions.

In this case, the client 5 is a concept including all devices capable of accessing the Internet. For example, the client 5 may be a portable portable computer 5a, a general computer 5b that is usually fixed and used, a mobile terminal 5c that is wirelessly connected to the Internet, and a home appliance 5d capable of connecting to the Internet. And the like. The general computer 5b includes a desktop, a workstation, a PC server, a Macintosh, and the like. The portable computer 5a includes a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a palmtop computer, and the like, and the mobile terminal 5c includes an Internet phone, a PDA, Including a cellular phone, an IMT 2000 terminal, and the like, the home appliance 5d capable of accessing the Internet includes a set top box, an Internet TV, an internet refrigerator, and the like. In addition, the client 5 may include a supercomputer, a main frame, a console and a terminal connected to a server, and the like.

The following describes the general process of using the Internet.

Internet users can use general-purpose web browsers such as Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Power Browser, etc., dedicated browsers (including proprietary programs provided by carriers such as Chillian, Hitel, Netsgo, etc.) or other utility programs that use web browser controls. (Hereinafter, referred to as "web browser" inclusive) to access various servers 3 and various pages (files) within the server (3).

The user accesses the website or selects a URL link by entering a URL (Uniform Resouce Locator or URI: Uniform Resouce Identifier) that distinguishes the server 3 (or a website) into the URL input box of the web browser. Click to access the website. When the user accesses the URL, the web page of the website is displayed on the screen. On the displayed web page, the user is concerned about whether or not to enter his / her personal information, whether or not to acquire the provided information, or whether or not the electronic commerce. At this time, according to the present invention, the user is automatically informed of the information on the subject that operates the website, the user can determine the reliability of the website based on this information.

That is, the system for verifying reliability of the website according to the present invention is installed in the client 5 and is automatically started when the client 5 is started or when the web browser is operated to provide the user with information on the operating subject of the website. Done. Of course, it is also possible to start the system for checking the reliability of the website according to the present invention by the user's choice.

In addition, information about a desired website can be known before directly accessing the website. Of course, information can be known at the same time as or after accessing the website.

Furthermore, even when various programs such as word processors (hereinafter referred to as "application programs") as well as web browsers are operated on the client 5, they are automatically started or selected by the user to operate the website. Information to the user. In other words, an application program means a program that runs on any computer that can access the network regardless of the operating system and firmware, and includes a web browser, general software (office products, groupware, utilities, tools, Java applets, Java programs, etc.), Contains various modules (plugin modules, standalone programs, custom controls, components, scripts, libraries, etc.).

In addition, the method and system for verifying reliability of a website according to the present invention may be implemented separately from all application programs, or may be implemented in its own module in an application program.

First, an embodiment of a method and system for checking reliability of a website according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.

The present invention is located when the indicator 60 of the input device of the client 5 is located in the UEL data 46, 52 in an application such as the web browser 40 or the word processor 50 of the client 5, etc. It may be divided into a process of obtaining information on the UEL operator (S5) and a step of displaying the obtained information (S7).

In addition, when the indicator 60 of the input device of the client 5 is located in the UEL data 46 and 52 among the data displayed by the application programs 40 and 50 of the client 5, the information acquisition process S5 is performed. It may be divided into a UEL extraction step (S510) for automatically extracting the corresponding UEL, and an information collecting step (S550) for collecting information on the subject operating the UAL using the extracted UAL.

Each step will be described in detail as follows.

In general, when an application program such as the web browser 40 or the word processor 50 is operated in the client 5, predetermined data is displayed on the screen. That is, the work page is displayed on the screen. For example, when a web browser 40 is executed to access an arbitrary website, the web page is displayed, and when the word processor 50 is executed, the page is displayed.

A web page typically contains a number of UAL data 46. In addition, the UAl data 46 may exist in various forms, but is usually in the form of Uallink. In other words, if you select (click) the URL link, you will be connected to the website. In the present invention, when the indicator 60 of the input device such as a mouse pointer is located near the UAL data in the form of a UEL link, the UAL is automatically extracted.

There are many ways to extract the UAL from the UAL link. However, UAL can be extracted by hooking window messages or by using Browser Helper Object, DDE, OLE, COM, Active X, Subclassing, or Scripting. In addition, programs that use general-purpose web browsers and browser controls can use their own URLs because they know the current URL links. The method of extracting UEL may be various, such as the above-described method, and all possible methods may be used in the present invention.

On the other hand, in recent years, in addition to the web browser, many application programs, for example, the word processor 50 may include the UAL data 52, and also make the UEL data 52 in the form of a UEL link. In particular, it is common for programs using browser controls to contain UAL data. Therefore, UAL can be extracted from many applications besides the web browser.

In addition, even if the URL data 46 and 52 are not in the URL link format in the application including the web browser, the corresponding URL may be extracted. For Ualel is made according to fixed rules. For example, when the UEL data 46 and 52 are in a simple text format, the text in the vicinity of the indicator of the input device may be automatically extracted to check whether the text is the UEL, and the UEL may be extracted.

Next, a step (S550) of collecting information on a subject operating the corresponding UAL (website) using the extracted UAL will be described.

There are many ways to gather information about the website's operators, but it is advisable to use a publicly recognized and trusted authority. The accredited institution may be an organization operated by a national or local government such as the Ministry of Information and Communication, a court, or may include a private organization operated with the permission or approval of the government.

There may be various ways to collect information from the authorized agency, but it is desirable to request the information on the UAL operating entity and receive the result information by accessing the server (7) of the authorized agency. In this case, of course, it is advisable to establish appropriate communication protocols with the public authorities. On the other hand, when the authorized agency discloses the information to the general public without any restrictions using the website, it is of course possible to access the website, capture the webpage, extract and process the necessary information, and use it.

The information on the UEL operating entity includes information for identity, asset information, management information, credit rating information, and other information that cover online and offline. The identity information may include the most basic information of the operating entity, such as the type of business, business status, manufacturing or sales of the operating entity. Asset information is information that can determine the potential value of the operating entity, and may include details of licensing, intellectual property rights such as patents, international standards and certifications obtained, and awards for product / technology / management. The management information is information that can determine the soundness of the management and may include stock status, sales and sales performance. The other information is information other than the above information, and may include information on whether there is a harmful site such as morality, unfair trade facts, crimes, indecent / violence / terrorism / suicide, and the like. Of course, information other than the above may also be included.

On the other hand, in the above-described embodiment has been described to automatically collect information about the UAL operating subject, the present invention is not limited thereto. That is, information may be collected at the user's choice. In particular, when there are a large number of UALs and authorized agencies, it is preferable that the user selects UALs and / or authorized agencies to collect information.

Finally, in the display step S7, the collected information is notified to the user, and the information can be output on the screen of the client 5 or output by sound. The display method can be variously configured by the user's selection, and details will be described later.

In addition, the above-described fact information may be evaluated based on an appropriate criterion to give a degree of reliability, and may be displayed to the user like the fact information or independently.

On the other hand, it is preferable to include the step of storing the information obtained in the information acquisition process (S5) in the UL table 9 after or before displaying to the user. This is because storing the collected information and using it again may increase network traffic or computing efficiency of the client 5. Here, the UL table 9 means a means for storing information about the UL and the UEL operating entity in a predetermined format, and may be a database, a simple file, or a memory.

Figure 4 illustrates one of the preferred embodiments of the method of verifying the reliability of the website according to the present invention when storing the information on the UEL operating body collected in the UEL table. Referring to Figures 2 to 4, it will be described in detail as follows.

When the user moves the indicator 60 of the input device in any of the application programs 40 and 50 including the web browser and accesses the random data 46 and 52, the user automatically detects the extracted data and extracts the URL (S510). ).

Next, the UEL table 9 is searched to determine whether the extracted UAL is a new UEL (S521, S523). If there is no new UAL, that is, if there is the corresponding information in the UEL table (9), the information is displayed to the user (S7). Collect the information on the operating subject of the collected information is displayed to the user (S550, S7). At this time, it is preferable to update the collected information to the UL table (S560).

On the other hand, if the extracted UAL is not a new UAL, that is, even if there is corresponding information in the UAL table 9, it is preferable to check whether or not to re-collect information (S525). This is because there is a case in which even if UAL is recorded in the UEL table, there is no information about the UAL, or the process may be stopped or incomplete without completing processing in the previous collection step. For example, there may be cases where a user has previously tried to collect information about the UAL, but has not obtained it. Also, when the information has been obtained but the information has been acquired for a long time, it may be good to check again.

In addition, when the extracted UAL is a new UAL, it is preferable to immediately collect information on the corresponding UAL, but even in this case, it may be determined whether to proceed to the information collecting step by checking whether the information is collected again (S530). ).

On the other hand, the basis for determining whether the information re-collecting step (S525, S530) is in progress is not limited to the above-mentioned, and may also automatically re-information when the condition is satisfied, but by granting the user authority according to the user's selection It is desirable to determine whether to recollect the information.

On the other hand, in the above-described embodiment, when the user launches the application programs 40 and 50, and the indicator 60 of the input device is placed in the arbitrary UAL data 46 and 52 in the application programs 40 and 50, the corresponding program is applied. Extracting the UAL, and collecting the information of the UEL operators described the display of the collected information to the user.

However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the user may use any application 40 or 50 in the client 5 to create a work page (for example, a web page of a web browser or a work page such as a word processor). When opened, it extracts the UEL data (hereinafter referred to as the "UEL data set") 46,52 from the work page, regardless of the position of the indicator 60 of the input device, and automatically collects information about the UEL operator. It is desirable to update the table 9. This is because it is preferable to automatically collect information and store it in the UL table 9 in terms of network traffic, reducing the load on the client, and the like.

Referring to Figures 2, 3 and 5, a description of the automatic UL table update process as follows.

First, when a user starts an application 40, 50, a work page is opened. For example, if you use a web browser to connect to any URL link, you will receive a web page. The received web page is captured by packet filtering, Winsock hooking, message hooking, Browser Helper Object, DDL, OLE, COM, Active X, Subclassing, Scripting, etc. (S910). Of course, a program using a general-purpose web browser and browser control can know the contents of the text itself and use it.

Thereafter, the captured content is analyzed (parsing) to extract the UAL data set (S920), and the information is collected through the interface with various authorized organizations using the extracted UAL (S950), based on the collected information. The UL table is updated (S960).

In this case, as described above, the UE data may be simple text data as well as the UE link. In addition, since the number of extracted UALs will usually be many, at the time of collecting information, the multi-threading (multi-threading) or multi-processing (Multi-processing) method using the simultaneous request to the information to several authorized institutions and receive the results It is desirable to.

On the other hand, although the information may be collected for all the UALs of the extracted UAL data set, it is preferable to determine the UALs to collect the information and collect only the information about them (S930). The criteria for determining which links to collect information are primarily by searching the UEL tables to find unidentified UELs, and other criteria may be set. In addition, it is desirable to classify the unidentified UALs that have not been identified by grouping each site and to arrange the UELL link groups for each site.

On the other hand, the automatic updating of the UL table may be operated separately from the above-described information acquisition process, that is, by using a multithreading (multiprocessing) method, or may be operated in conjunction with each other.

In addition, as described above, in the present invention, multiple threads (or processes) may operate simultaneously. Therefore, proper control of running threads is desirable in terms of network traffic and client load, and it is particularly desirable to control threads when a user accesses a particular website.

Referring to Figures 3 and 6, the thread control process will be described.

First, it checks whether the current page has been converted to a new page. For example, when the user selects (clicks) the UEL link, it is switched to a new page (S801).

If it is switched to a new page, check whether there is a thread that is currently working on a thread, for example, UALs (S803).

If the current thread exists, the environment setting is checked (S805). There can be several environments that can be set. For example, the previous thread that performs the investigation of the UALs may be set to terminate unconditionally, or set to terminate if the current number of threads is more than a predetermined number.

If the environment is configured to terminate a thread, for example, if a forced shutdown is set or if the current thread count exceeds the maximum number of threads, the thread will be killed internally. After the UAL table is written, the above-described information acquisition process and / or link table update process are performed again (S807).

On the other hand, as described above, the thread control process may be performed when switching to a new page or when the application program is started. However, it is preferable that the thread control process is performed only when the web browser is started. This is because there is a lot of UAL data in the received web page when the website is accessed, and since this UAL becomes the UAL that the user wants to obtain information, there is a great need to control the thread in this case.

In addition, when checking whether the application program is started, additionally checking whether the user accesses the website by inputting the URL in the URL input window of the web browser may additionally output information about the relevant URL.

Referring to Figures 3 and 7, an example of a method for displaying the information on the user operating the UAL to the user will be described as follows.

There are various ways of displaying information to the user, and it is preferable to set a display mode suitable for the user, and it is preferable to be able to designate in a plurality of manners.

If the display method is specified in the form of a pop-up window, the pop-up window is displayed on the screen, and information on the operation operator of the website is output to the pop-up window (S701 and S703). The pop-up window may exist at any fixed position up, down, left, or right of the desk window, or may move according to the movement of the indicator 60 of the input device.

In addition, if the display method is designated in the form of a tray icon, information is displayed by the tray icon 32 (S705 and S707). For example, a website may be rated based on the collected information of the website, and the shape or color of the tray icon may be changed according to the reliability rating. In addition, the tray icon may be utilized in various forms such as a small popup window such as a balloon-shaped help on the tray icon.

In addition, if the display method is specified to be displayed on the work page (body) of the application program, the user can recognize the UEL data of the work page, for example, by changing the color according to the reliability level (S709, S7116). .

If the display method is specified to be displayed on the title bar at the top or the status bar at the bottom of the application program, various types of information and the like are displayed on the title bar 42 and the status bar 44 (S713, S715).

In addition, if the display method is voice guidance (sound / sound), various types of voices or sounds may be output to easily recognize website information (S717, S719).

In addition, if the display method is designated as changing the icon of the input device indicator, the display device is changed to various types of icon input device indicators (S721 and S723).

Referring to Figures 1 to 3, it will be described the operation of the preferred embodiment according to the present invention described above.

The user executes various applications 40 and 50 including a web browser on the client 5 and moves the indicator 60 of the input device within the applications 40 and 50. When the indicator 60 of the input device is located near the UEL data 46 and 52, the user automatically collects new information about the subject who operates the UAL (website) or retrieves the information from the UEL table. Print information in the form

On the other hand, when various application programs 40 and 50 are executed and a work page is outputted, regardless of the position of the indicator of the input device, the UEL data set in the work page is automatically extracted to collect information to update the UEL table. . Of course, in this case, when the indicator of the input device is located near the UAL data 46 and 52 in the new work page, the information on the UAL operating subject is output.

On the other hand, when performing the information acquisition process and the UL table update process using the multi-threading (multi-processing) technique, to control the multi-thread appropriately by performing a thread control process at the time of running the various application programs (40, 50) do.

As described above, when the information on the company operating the UAL is displayed, the user can determine whether or not to determine the various electronic transactions and information acquisition and electronic behavior based on this.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and as can be seen in the appended claims, those skilled in the art can make modifications without departing from the spirit of the present invention. It will be understood that it belongs to the scope of the invention.

Referring to the effect of the method and system for checking the reliability of the website according to the present invention described above are as follows.

First, according to the present invention, the Internet users can know the information on the subjects who operate the website before, during or after accessing the website. Therefore, users can determine whether to conduct electronic commerce through the Internet by judging the reliability of the web site operator based on such information, thereby preventing any damage and improving the Internet usage environment.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the information on the owner or operator of the website is directly transmitted to the Internet user, it is inevitable to improve the quality of the website and the operator. It will be possible to promote the interests of both website operators and Internet users.

Second, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily and quickly know the information about the subjects who operate the website, which can eliminate the waste of time using the Internet, reduce the amount of meaningless network traffic and reduce the load on the user's computer. have.

Claims (10)

A UAL extraction step of automatically extracting the UEL when the indicator of the input device of the client is located in the UEL data in the application of the client; An information collecting step of collecting information on a subject who operates the UAL using the extracted UAL; And And a display step of displaying the collected information to the client. The method of claim 1, wherein the method of verifying website reliability further comprises storing information obtained in the information collecting step in a UL table having a predetermined format. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the website reliability checking method automatically obtains information on the UEL data in a work page displayed at any application start up regardless of the position of the indicator of the input device. The method of claim 1, further comprising a step of automatically updating the UL table. 4. The automatic updating of a UE table according to claim 3, further comprising: a capturing step of capturing the work page; A separation step of separating the UEL data from the captured data; A collecting step of collecting information on the subject who operates the UAL using the separated UAL; And a recording step of recording the collected fact information in the UL table. The method of claim 2 or 4, wherein if the UEL extracted in the UEL extraction step is a new UAL not found in the UEL table, and if it is not a new UAL, re-collecting information on the new UEL operating entity How to check website reliability. The method of claim 2 or 4, wherein the information extracted in the UEL extraction step is determined whether the information is re-collected based on a predetermined criterion even if the UEL exists in the UEL table. The method of claim 3, further comprising: a thread control step of identifying a thread that is currently running and forcibly terminating the thread according to a predetermined criterion when switching to a new page. A recording medium storing a method for checking the reliability of a website according to any one of claims 1, 2, 4, and 7. A yuelel extraction means for extracting the yuelel if the indicator of the input device is located near the yuel data of the application program; Information collecting means for collecting information on a subject who operates the UAL using the extracted UAL; Website reliability confirmation system comprising a display means for displaying the collected information. The website reliability verification system according to claim 9, wherein the website reliability verification system further comprises data storage means for storing the information collected by the information collecting means in a predetermined format.