KR20040013453A - Selling system for digital contents - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system for selling digital contents is provided to guarantee a balanced profit of a contents maker and a customer, to view the uncompleted contents as a sample and to additionally buy the uncompleted contents through the Internet by storing the completed and the uncompleted contents together. CONSTITUTION: The contents maker(1) stores a rewritable medium storing one completed contents and many uncompleted contents, and distributes it through an offline distribution network(2). The customer(3) buys the medium with a purchase expense of the completed contents. The customer buying the medium possesses a right to use the completed contents and uses the rest uncompleted contents as the sample. If the customer wants to buy the uncompleted contents, the rest part of the uncompleted contents is downloaded through the online with a charge.

Description

Digital Contents Sales System {SELLING SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL CONTENTS}

The present invention relates to a digital content sales system, and in particular, only a part of digital content such as digital music can be used, and by allowing the user to use necessary contents through authentication, widen the selection of digital content consumers, reduce costs, and From a producer's point of view, it is about a digital content sales system that can secure a minimum cost.

In general, digital contents such as music albums that are recorded and sold on compact disc (CD) media are sold at a price corresponding to all recorded songs.

From the consumer's point of view, in order to listen to one of the songs you want, you have to buy media that contains other songs, which is unnecessary.

The conventional digital content selling system will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a flow chart of a conventional digital content sales system. As shown in FIG. 1, a media containing content produced by a content producer 1 is distributed to an online or offline distribution network 2 to allow a consumer 3 to pay the bill. Will buy.

At this time, REWRITE is prohibited in the media, and the consumer 3 is authorized to use all contents contained in the media.

The above method has the advantage of simple purchase and use, but the consumer 3 must purchase all the contents contained in the media even if he / she wants to purchase one desired content. In other words, when you want to purchase the content you want to buy additional content that is incidental to increase the expense.

For example, a consumer 3 who wants to listen to a representative song of a musician needs to purchase other songs of the musician in order to purchase the representative song of the musician, which results in undesired expenses.

In order to solve this problem, a method of acquiring the right to use only desired contents through user authentication after receiving the media for free has been proposed.

2 is another flow chart of a conventional digital content sales system. As shown in FIG. 2, a content producer 1 freely distributes a plurality of digital contents to a consumer 3 through a distribution network 2 offline. do.

The consumer 3 who receives the media distributed in this way accesses the homepage of the content producer 1 through online and makes a payment, and acquires the right to use the content.

This means that the content producer 1 sells an authentication key that is separate from the distribution of the digital content online, and the consumer 3 may select and purchase some or all of the content included in the distributed media.

For example, the media containing the contents is distributed free of charge by the content producer 1, and the contents of the media are all digital contents, and are encrypted so that they cannot be used without an authentication key.

When the consumer receives the content and there is content that he wants to use, the user can go online to pay for the right to use the content he wants and receive the authentication key to use the desired content.

This assumes that 10 contents are contained in the media, and assuming that the consumer 3 uses one content, the cost of the consumer 3 is reduced to 1/10 compared to the method shown in FIG. You can do it.

However, in the above method, the content producer has to distribute the media free of charge, so that if the consumer (3) who has received the media free of charge does not use the content at all, the media production cost cannot be recovered, resulting in damages. .

That is, the conventional digital content selling system is configured to make it difficult to establish a balanced profit between the consumer and the content producer according to the selection of the method.

If the profit of the consumer increases, the content producer loses. If the profit of the content producer increases, the loss of the consumer who purchases even unnecessary content increases.

In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a digital content selling system that can ensure a balanced profit between content producers and consumers.

The present invention for achieving the above object is to store the completed content and the unfinished content in the media together, provide to the consumer at the price of the completed content, the consumer to view the unfinished content as a sample, so that the additional purchase through the Internet Characterized in that configured.

1 is a flow diagram of one embodiment of a conventional digital content selling system.

2 is another embodiment of a conventional digital content selling system.

3 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention for selling digital content.

4 is a flowchart of a process of additionally purchasing digital contents in FIG.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

1: Content provider 2: Distribution network

3: consumer

When described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, the present invention configured as described above are as follows.

3 is a flowchart of a digital content selling system according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the content producer 1 stores offline and complete contents in a rewritable medium by storing one completed content and a plurality of unfinished contents through offline. Through the distribution, the consumer 3 purchases the media at the purchase cost of the completed content.

The consumer 3 who has purchased the media has the right to use the completed content, and the remaining unfinished content can be used as a sample.

The consumer 3 may use the unfinished content stored in the concept of the sample, and if the user wishes to purchase, the remaining part of the unfinished content desired to be purchased may be downloaded online for a fee.

Referring to the present invention in more detail as follows.

First, the content producer 1 stores one completed content and a plurality of unfinished content in a rewritable media and distributes the same through an offline distribution network 2.

The plurality of unfinished content may be used by the consumer 3 as part of the content.

For example, when the content producer 1 sells digital music content, a plurality of pieces of music are stored and sold together with the finished music.

The distributed media is sold to consumers at the price of the completed digital content.

When the consumer 3 purchases the media, the completed digital content can be used immediately, and the remaining unfinished content can be used in the form of a sample.

For example, when a music content media is purchased, one piece of music can be listened to, and the remaining incomplete content of music can be heard.

Thus, the consumer 3 uses a sample, and if there is a favorite digital content among the samples, it can purchase additionally.

The present invention can increase the sales profit of digital content by providing a sample to increase the purchase desire of the consumer (3).

That is, the consumer 3 can reduce the spending by purchasing only the desired content, and the content producer 1 can sell at least one content, and provide a sample of unfinished content to provide advertising effects and The consumer's desire to purchase can be increased.

When the consumer 3 purchasing the media tries to purchase the unfinished content provided as a sample, the consumer 3 can access the homepage of the content producer 1 and purchase the content.

In other words, the contents are incomplete contents contained in the media, and the remaining portion of the contents can be paid on the Internet, downloaded, and the media can be rewritten. Thus, the remaining portions can be downloaded and recorded on the media to obtain the completed contents.

The process of purchasing the remaining portion of such unfinished content will be described in more detail.

4 is a flow chart of additional content purchase in the digital content sales system of the present invention, in which a consumer who purchases media accesses a site of a content producer to purchase unfinished content, which is a sample, as completed content (S401). )Wow; Selecting the content which the consumer wishes to purchase further (S402); Calculating a recordable capacity by calculating the remaining capacity of the media purchased by the consumer and considering the size of the content sample to be purchased (S403); Checking the capacity of the content desired to be purchased (S404); Determining whether the remaining capacity of the media is larger than that of the content to be purchased (S405); Selecting a sample to be deleted if the remaining capacity of the media is insufficient (S406); Deleting the selected sample and returning to step S403 (S407); Downloading the purchased content if the remaining capacity of the media is larger than the capacity of the content to be purchased (S408); Storing the downloaded contents in media and converting the downloaded contents into finished contents (S409); Determining whether a production is desired for storage (S410); Selecting content to be deleted if the production is not desired for storage (S411); Deleting the selected content (S412); If the storage medium is desired, inputting a write prohibition code into the media (S413); If it is determined whether to end the purchase of the content and there is no stop command, it is determined that the purchase of the content is to be added and the process returns to step S402, and if there is a stop command, the process ends.

Hereinafter, a method of additionally purchasing contents of the present invention as described above will be described in more detail.

First, in step S401, the consumer 3 who has used the sample content connects to the Internet site of the content producer 1 in order to purchase the completed content of the sample content.

Next, in step S402, the consumer 3 selects the content he / she wishes to purchase, and pays for the cost of purchasing the content.

Then, in step S403 it is measured how much storage capacity remains in the media purchased by the consumer (3).

Next, in step S404, the capacity of the content that the consumer 3 wants to purchase is calculated.

Next, in step S405, the capacity of the purchased content is compared with the remaining capacity of the media.

In other words, if there is enough space to store the content, the content can be downloaded and stored. However, if there is not enough space to store the content, an error occurs. Therefore, a check operation is performed to prevent the error.

Next, in step S406, when the capacity of the purchased content is more than the remaining capacity of the media, it is necessary to secure the remaining capacity of the media by deleting the incomplete content, that is, the sample content, and the consumer 3 selects the sample content to delete. To help.

Next, in step S407, the sample content selected by the consumer 3 is deleted from the media.

At this time, the usable capacity of the media increases due to deletion of the sample content, and the process returns to step S403 to confirm the increase.

In step S408 and step S409, if the remaining storage capacity of the media is sufficient space to store the purchased content as a result of checking in step S405, the consumer 3 downloads the purchased content and stores it in the media.

At this time, the content to be stored is stored after the content provided as the sample, which has the effect of reducing the time required for storage.

Next, in step S410 it is possible to choose whether to produce a storage medium.

The storage medium may determine whether to continue using the previously purchased content, and if the content is no longer used, the storage medium may be deleted to increase the storage capacity of the media.

In step S411, if the user sets not to produce the storage medium, the user selects content to be deleted, and in step S412, the selected content is deleted from the media.

Then, in step S413, when the user selects the production of the storage medium, the REWRITE prohibition code is stored so that the recording is not possible on the media.

Next, in step S414, the consumer 3 is queried if there is no more content to purchase, and if there is no intention to purchase, the user 3 ends, and if there is a purchase intention, the user moves to a page where other contents can be selected.

The consumer 3 who additionally purchased the content through the above process may use the additionally purchased content.

In other words, the sampled contents can be converted into complete contents by the consumer 3 at a cost, and the consumer 3 has the authority to use the contents.

As described above, in the present invention, a content producer sells a media including a completed content and an incomplete content to a consumer at a completed content purchase cost, and the consumer uses the incomplete content on the media, and then additionally purchases it if there is a purchase intention. By using the method, it is possible to equalize the profit structure of the content creator and the consumer.

In other words, the content producer realizes the minimum profit from the distribution of the media, and the consumer can purchase the content suitable for the taste at an affordable price.

Claims (4)

A selling step in which the content producer records the completed contents and the incomplete contents on the rewritable media; A purchasing step in which the consumer purchases the media at a completed content purchase price; Content and sample use step of using the completed content by the consumer and using unfinished content as a sample; And an additional purchase step in which the consumer purchases the incomplete content provided as the sample from the content producer's Internet site, converts the complete content into complete content, and uses the same. The system of claim 1, wherein the incomplete content or sample is part of completed content. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional purchase step comprises: a first step in which the user accesses an Internet site, selects content to be purchased, and pays the price; A second step of comparing the media remaining capacity of the user with the capacity of content desired to be purchased; A third step of designating and deleting a part of sample contents by the consumer and returning to the second step if the remaining capacity is insufficient; A fourth step of downloading the content selected by the consumer and storing it in the media if the remaining capacity is sufficient; When the storage is complete, the consumer judges whether to purchase more contents, and if there is no intention to purchase more, storing the write prohibition code on the media, and returning to the first step if there is a willingness to purchase other contents. Digital Content Sales System. 4. The digital content selling system according to claim 3, wherein the fourth step downloads the contents purchased by the user and stores the sample contents which are already stored in the media.