KR20030054958A - Method for providing information and apparatus for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An information providing method and a device therefor are provided to distribute connection requests of wireless terminals to a plurality of ports, and to analyze and statistically process information requests from wireless terminals to generate log information, thereby efficiently managing a plurality of users and securing the stability and integrity of wireless data. CONSTITUTION: If a wireless terminal requests a connection, an information providing server allocates a connection port to process the connection(S1). The information providing server receives an information request including at least one classification data for the requested information, plural detailed data related to the classification data, and terminal ID data from the wireless terminal(S2). The information providing server analyzes the request(S3). The information providing server generates and records various log information(S4). If an error is generated in the information request, the information providing server transmits an error message to the wireless terminal(S5), to wait a new information request. If an error is not generated in the information request, the information providing server prepares and generates a query on the basis of the classification data and the detailed data(S6). The information providing server transmits the generated query to a corporate server related to the information request, to request information provision and receive corresponding information from the corporate server(S7). The information providing server converts the received information into wireless data with a format suitable for the classification data and the detailed data(S8). And the information providing server transmits the information converted into the wireless data to the wireless terminal(S9).

Description

Method for providing information and apparatus therefor {Method for providing information and apparatus for the same}

The present invention relates to an information providing method and a device thereof, and more particularly, to provide information requested by a user more quickly and reliably using a wireless network, and to generate various statistical data on a user's request for information. The present invention relates to a method of providing information and a device thereof, which can be managed.

With the rapid development of information and communication technology, various kinds of information are provided faster than ever before. Due to the development of the Internet, the exchange of information using wired networks is being actively performed, and in order to be more freely in time and space, the provision of information using a wireless network is widely used.

In recent years, the number of users of a wireless terminal that searches for or receives information desired by the wireless terminal is rapidly increasing. In particular, many mobile users use wireless terminals because they can perform tasks more efficiently by using wireless terminals. Here, the term "wireless terminal" is a concept including a mobile communication terminal, a personal data communication terminal, a smart phone, a wireless pager, a personal mobile communication terminal, and the like, and includes all kinds of terminals for performing communication using a wireless network. Concept.

However, in the conventional information providing system using a wireless network, the communication cost of using a wireless network is excessive because the communication time required for wireless communication is long and the amount of wireless data transmitted and received is huge. In addition, due to environmental factors such as weather deterioration and technical factors such as weakness of communication network, relatively low communication speed compared to wired network, rapid increase of users, problems of disconnection of wireless communication and problems of data integrity There was this.

In addition, due to the nature of wireless communication, wireless terminals are often small in size to allow users to move and use them, and the operations that can be processed according to input are limited. There was a disadvantage of being narrow.

In the wireless communication system using the conventional wireless data communication, the communication data is limited to a function of simply transferring information using a method such as HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) or WAP (Wireless Application Protocol). There was a disadvantage that various statistical processing or analysis of the use of wireless communication was impossible.

Disclosure of Invention The present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and to provide an information providing method and apparatus for effectively reducing the communication cost used for wireless communication by reducing the communication time by effectively reducing the amount of data used for wireless communication. For the purpose of

Furthermore, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing information that can minimize the risk of disconnection during wireless data communication by receiving only the minimum data required for requesting information from the wireless terminal and secure the integrity of wireless communication. The purpose.

Furthermore, an object of the present invention is to provide an information providing method and apparatus capable of stably providing information even when a large number of users are connected by distributing and accessing a plurality of ports for connection request of a wireless terminal. do.

Furthermore, the present invention analyzes and statistically processes information requests from wireless terminals of multiple users to generate and manage various log information, thereby efficiently managing multiple users and improving stability and integrity of wireless data. An object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for providing information which can be further reinforced.

Furthermore, the present invention has the compatibility to overcome a number of country differences by configuring the data used in the wireless communication in Unicode, and if an error occurs in the request for information from the wireless terminal, it is immediately transmitted to the wireless terminal. It is an object of the present invention to provide an information providing method and apparatus for reducing waste of unnecessary communication costs by informing.

1 is a schematic system block diagram for realizing a method of providing information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a schematic internal block diagram of an information providing server according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a schematic flowchart of an information providing method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

<Description of Major Symbols in Drawing>

10: wireless communication unit 11: port management unit

20: log information management unit 30: format conversion unit

40: query generator 50: query database

60: wired communication unit 100: information providing server

200: wireless terminal 300: corporate server

According to a preferred aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, the present invention relates to a method for providing information executable in an information providing server connected to a plurality of wireless terminals and a wireless network and connected to at least one enterprise server. Providing server,

An information request receiving step of receiving an information request including at least one or more classification data for the information requested from the wireless terminal, a plurality of detailed data related to the classification data, and terminal identification data; A query statement generating step of combining and generating a query for the information request by accessing a query database based on the classification data and the detailed data; An information providing request step of transmitting the query to an enterprise server related to the information request and requesting to provide information; An information format conversion step of receiving information from the enterprise server and converting the information into wireless data having a format corresponding to the classification data and the detailed data; And transmitting the converted wireless data to a wireless terminal that has requested the corresponding information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a plurality of information on the basis of the connection information of the wireless terminal for the connection request from the wireless terminal prior to the step of receiving the information request. The method may further include a connection request processing step of allocating a designated port among communication ports to process a connection.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides the information providing method according to a plurality of analysis conditions including the user, time of use, number of times of use for the information request received by the information providing server from the wireless terminal; The method may further include a log information management step of analyzing and generating and managing various log information.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a method for transmitting an error message to a wireless terminal that transmits an information request when an error occurs when the information providing server analyzes and processes the information request. The method may further include waiting for a new information request.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the present invention is characterized in that the radio data converted in the above-described information format conversion step is composed of Unicode and can be used interchangeably in different languages for different countries.

According to a further aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides an information providing server in an information providing server connected to a wireless network with a plurality of wireless terminals and connected to a network with at least one enterprise server to provide information according to a request of the wireless terminal. end,

A wireless communication unit which receives an information request from the plurality of wireless terminals through a wireless network and transmits information corresponding to the information request to the wireless terminal; A query database for storing a plurality of query statements by category; A query statement generator that accesses the query database based on the classification data and the detailed data input from the wireless terminal to combine and generate a query; A wired communication unit which receives the query from the query generator and sends the query to the corporate server to request information and receives the requested information from the corporate server; And a format conversion unit converting the information received from the corporate server into wireless data having a format corresponding to the classification data and the detailed data, and transferring the information to the wireless communication unit.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, the present invention relates to a port in which the above-described wireless communication unit allocates a designated port of a plurality of communication ports to a connection request from the plurality of wireless terminals to process a connection. Characterized in that it further comprises a management unit.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a variety of log information by analyzing the information providing server according to a plurality of analysis conditions including the user, time of use, number of times of use for the information request received from the wireless terminal Characterized in that it further comprises a log information management unit for generating and managing.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily understand and reproduce the present invention.

1 is a schematic system block diagram for realizing a method of providing information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown, according to the present embodiment, a plurality of wireless terminals 200, an information providing server 100, and a plurality of enterprise servers 300 may be included.

The plurality of wireless terminals 200 are means for requesting information and receiving the requested information through the information providing server 100 connected to the wireless network according to the present embodiment. In other words, the concept includes all means for performing communication through a wireless network, including a mobile communication terminal, a personal data communication terminal, a smart phone, a wireless pager, a personal mobile communication terminal, and the like.

In the connection of the plurality of wireless terminals 200 and the information providing server 100 through a wireless network, a general wireless communication server may be connected between them. In other words, means for connecting a wired network and a wireless network, such as wired / wireless network interface means, wireless communication servers, multiple switches, multiple base stations, etc., may exist between the multiple wireless terminals 200 and the information provision server 100. Since there are various known technologies, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The information providing server 100 receives a request for information from a plurality of wireless terminals 200 through a wireless network, receives the information according to the request from a plurality of enterprise servers 300 connected to the network, and makes a request. It is a means for transmitting to the wireless terminal 200. When the information providing server 100 receives an information request including at least one or more classification data for the information requested from the wireless terminal 200, a plurality of detailed data related to the classification data, and terminal identification data, the information request is based on the information request. Create a query for and transmits it to the enterprise server 300 receives the information. The received information is converted into wireless data corresponding to the format of the above-described information request and transmitted to the requesting wireless terminal 200.

The enterprise server 300 is a means for managing a task related to a user of the plurality of wireless terminals 200 described above. The server 300 searches for information requested through a network in response to a request of the information providing server 100. Send to 100. In other words, it is a means for extracting the information corresponding to the query in accordance with the query sent from the information providing server 100 and transmits the information to the information providing server 100.

According to a preferred aspect of the present invention, the retrieval and extraction of information may be performed in the enterprise server 300, but the aforementioned information providing server 100 directly accesses the operational database of the enterprise server 300 that stores the information. It is also possible to search and extract the requested information. According to a preferred aspect of the present invention, the connection between the information providing server 100 and the enterprise server 300 is a standardized data connection method ODBC (Opendatabase Connectivity), ADO (ActiveX Data Objects), OLE-DB (Objects Linking and Embedding) Database). It is also possible to send calls and data for process processing to the transaction buffer in the form of a buffer.

Referring to FIG. 1, the use of this embodiment will be described schematically from the user's point of view. The user of the wireless terminal 200 requests the information to be provided using his wireless terminal 200. According to the present embodiment, the wireless terminal 200 does not generate a query for information according to a user's input, but transmits the classification data for the information and the detailed data related to the classification data to the information providing server 100. do.

The information providing server 100 receives an information request transmitted from the wireless terminal 200 and combines and generates a query for the request based on the classification data and the detailed data included in the request. The information providing server 100 transmits a query to the enterprise server 300 or directly accesses the operation database of the enterprise server 300 using the query to obtain information about the request.

The information providing server 100 converts the information on the request into wireless data having a format corresponding to the above-described information request, and transmits the information to the requesting wireless terminal 200 through the wireless network. When receiving the request information of the wireless terminal 200, the network connection with the information providing server 100 may be terminated. The user may check the requested information through his wireless terminal 200.

2 is a schematic internal block diagram of an information providing server 100 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As illustrated, the information providing server 100 according to the present embodiment includes a wireless communication unit 10, a log information management unit 20, a format conversion unit 30, a query generator 40, and a query database 50. , Wired communication unit 60 may be included.

The wireless communication unit 10 is a means for communicating with a plurality of wireless terminals 200 through a wireless network. As described above, a plurality of wireless terminals 200 may be connected through a general wireless communication server, and the wireless communication unit 10 receives an information request from the wireless terminal 200 and transmits information on the request to the wireless terminal 200. Means of transmission.

The wireless communication unit 10 may include a port manager 11. The port manager 11 is a means for processing a connection by allocating a designated port among a plurality of communication ports based on connection information of each wireless terminal 200 with respect to connection requests from the plurality of wireless terminals 200. The port manager 11 may operate the TCP / IP communication unit as a multi-port using a multi-threading method or a dynamic port handling method.

Multi-threading is a standard programming method in which threads are dynamically generated to handle tasks, and after processing, unnecessary data and processing are deleted from memory. Dynamic port handling is a method of dynamically generating a plurality of TCP / IP ports to process a plurality of tasks in the designated area in the same IP when the information request from the wireless terminal 200. Therefore, according to this method, since the identification information of the wireless terminal 200 can be processed separately, it is possible to prevent a load on a specific system and to prevent malfunction and illegal use of the wireless terminal 200. In other words, when the designated wireless terminal 200 requests abnormal information processing, it may be determined to be an abnormal user and suspended.

The log information management unit 20 is a means for generating and managing various log information by analyzing the information requests received from the plurality of wireless terminals 200 according to a plurality of analysis conditions including a user, a time of use, and a number of times of use. . The log information manager 20 may classify and manage the plurality of wireless terminals 200 that request information by accessing the information providing server 100 based on terminal identification data. It is preferable that the log information management unit 20 manage not only the request for information but also the processing result for the information request according to the analysis. Such log information may be presented to the user at the request of the user.

The format conversion unit 30 receives information requests transmitted from the plurality of wireless terminals 200 from the wireless communication unit 10, converts them into wired data, and converts the information on the request into a radio having a format corresponding to the information request. Means for converting to data. In other words, the request for information received from the wireless terminal 200 is input as wireless data including classification data and detailed data, and the format conversion unit 30 converts it into wired data that can be processed by the information providing server 100. do. In addition, the requested information is converted into wireless data suitable for wireless communication having a format corresponding to the above-described classification data and detailed data, and outputted to the wireless communication unit 10.

According to a preferred aspect of the present invention, the information processing in the information providing server 100 and the wireless data transmitted and received via the wireless network is preferably composed of Unicode. By using Unicode, it is possible to overcome the limitations of many language differences between countries, and it is preferable that the controller of each module supports character forms of multilingual support in internal information processing.

The query generator 40 is a means for combining and generating a query based on the classification data included in the above-described information request and a plurality of detailed data related to the classification data. The query generator 40 may access the query database 50 based on the above-described classification data and detailed data to combine and generate a query corresponding to the request. The query database 50 is a means for storing and managing a plurality of query statements by category. The query database 50 may classify and store a plurality of query statements for a plurality of classification data and detailed data related thereto.

The classification data and the detailed data correspond to data for generating a query as data for which a user requests information through the wireless terminal 200. As an example of a sales employee, data corresponding to orders, discounts, accounts, collections, ledgers, etc. may correspond to the classification data. The detailed data may correspond to detailed information about the corresponding classification data, and detailed information about each item in the above-described example. In other words, this may include a period-by-period inquiry or item information about an order.

The wired communication unit 60 is a means for transmitting the query generated from the above-described query generator 40 to a corporate server 300 connected through a wired network and receiving information from the corporate server 300. The wired communication unit 60 may be connected to the plurality of enterprise servers 300 through a standardized data connection method as described above.

3 is a schematic flowchart of an information providing method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The description of the flowchart will be described based on the processing performed in the information providing server 100.

When the user completes input of information to be inquired by his wireless terminal 200, the wireless terminal 200 requests a connection to the information providing server 100 through the wireless network. The request for the connection may include identification data and password of the wireless terminal 200. If there is a connection request from the wireless terminal 200, the information providing server 100 allocates a connection port based on identification data of the corresponding wireless terminal 200 to process the connection (S1).

The information providing server 100 receives an information request including at least one or more classification data, a plurality of detailed data related to the classification data, and terminal identification data for the information requested from the connected wireless terminal 200 (S2). . The information providing server 100 converts an information request in the form of wireless data into a format of data that can be processed by the information providing server 100 and analyzes the request (S3).

The information providing server 100 generates and records various log information with respect to the information request according to a plurality of analysis conditions including the user, the time of use, and the number of times of use, based on the analysis data for the information request (S4). If an error is detected in the information request, the information providing server 100 stops further processing, transmits an error message to the wireless terminal 200 requesting the information, and waits for a new information request (S5). The detection of such an error and the transmission of an error message according to the error detection are preferably performed regardless of time.

If it is determined that the information request has no error and is a legitimate request, the information providing server 100 combines and generates a query based on the classification data and the detailed data included in the information request (S6). The combination and generation of the query statement may be performed by accessing the query database 50 to extract the query statement corresponding to the information request. The information providing server 100 requests the provision of the information by transmitting the generated query to the enterprise server 300 associated with the corresponding information request connected through the network, and receives the corresponding information from the enterprise server 300 (S7). As described above, the information providing server 100 may directly access the operation database of the enterprise server 300 and extract information based on the query.

The information providing server 100 converts the information input from the enterprise server 300 into wireless data having a format corresponding to the request for information from the wireless terminal 200 described above, that is, a format corresponding to the classification data and the detailed data. (S8). The information providing server 100 transmits the information converted into wireless data to the wireless terminal 200 which requested the corresponding information through the wireless network (S9). The user may check the requested information through the wireless terminal 200.

According to the above-described configuration, the present invention has an advantage in that the communication cost used for wireless communication can be effectively reduced by reducing the communication time by effectively reducing the amount of data used for wireless communication.

The present invention can minimize the risk of disconnection during wireless data communication by receiving only the minimum data required for requesting information from the wireless terminal, and can secure the integrity of wireless communication.

In addition, the present invention has the advantage that it is possible to stably provide information even if a plurality of users are concentrated by access processing by distributing to a plurality of ports for the connection request of the wireless terminal, the information from the wireless terminal of multiple users By analyzing and statistically processing the request and generating and managing various log information, it is possible to manage a large number of users more efficiently and enhance the stability and integrity of wireless data.

In addition, the present invention has the compatibility to overcome a number of country differences by configuring the data used in the wireless communication in Unicode, and immediately notify the wireless terminal when an error occurs in the request for information from the wireless terminal By doing so, there is an advantage of reducing unnecessary communication costs. The present invention has a secondary effect that can increase the efficiency of the work by more easily and quickly look up the information that the sales staff has a lot of mobility and work to be performed.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that many different and obvious modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the invention from this description. Therefore, the scope of the invention should be construed by the claims described to include many such variations.

Claims (8)

An information providing method executable in an information providing server connected to a plurality of wireless terminals through a wireless network and networked with at least one corporate server, The information providing server: An information request receiving step of receiving an information request including at least one or more classification data for the information requested from the wireless terminal, a plurality of detailed data related to the classification data, and terminal identification data; A query statement generating step of combining and generating a query for the information request by accessing a query database based on the classification data and the detailed data; An information providing request step of transmitting the query to an enterprise server related to the information request and requesting to provide information; An information format conversion step of receiving information from the enterprise server and converting the information into wireless data having a format corresponding to the classification data and the detailed data; An information transmitting step of transmitting the converted wireless data to the wireless terminal that requested the information; Information providing method comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein the information providing method is: Prior to the step of receiving the information request, a connection request processing step of the information providing server to assign a designated port of the plurality of communication ports for the connection request from the wireless terminal based on the connection information of the wireless terminal to process the connection; Information providing method further comprises a. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the information providing method is: A log information management step of the information providing server generating and managing various log information by analyzing the information request received from the wireless terminal according to a plurality of analysis conditions including a user, a time of use, and a number of times of use; Information providing method further comprises a. The method of claim 3, wherein the information providing method is: If an error occurs in the analysis and processing of the information request by the information providing server, transmitting an error message to the wireless terminal that sent the information request and waiting for a new information request; Information providing method further comprises a. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The converted wireless data is an information providing method, characterized in that consisting of Unicode. An information providing server connected to a plurality of wireless terminals via a wireless network and connected to at least one corporate server through a network to provide information according to a request of the wireless terminal. The information providing server: A wireless communication unit which receives an information request from the plurality of wireless terminals through a wireless network and transmits information corresponding to the information request to the wireless terminal; A query database for storing a plurality of query statements by category; A query statement generator that accesses the query database based on the classification data and the detailed data input from the wireless terminal to combine and generate a query; A wired communication unit which receives the query from the query generator and sends the query to the corporate server to request information and receives the requested information from the corporate server; A format converting unit converting the information received from the corporate server into wireless data having a format corresponding to the classification data and the detailed data, and transferring the information to the wireless communication unit; Information providing server comprising a. The method of claim 6, wherein the wireless communication unit: A port management unit for allocating access requests from the plurality of wireless terminals and assigning a designated port among a plurality of communication ports to process the connection based on the connection information of the wireless terminal; Information providing server further comprises. The method of claim 6 or 7, wherein the information providing server is: A log information management unit for generating and managing various log information by analyzing the information request received from the wireless terminal according to a plurality of analysis conditions including a user, a use time zone, and a number of times of use; Information providing server further comprises.