KR20040053554A - Contents service management method in multi-domain environment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for managing a contents service on a multi-domain environment is provided to systematically manage the CP(Contents Provider) information and the contents service information overlapped to single domains on a multi-domain environment, and consistently process a contents management system managed by each different system. CONSTITUTION: To integrally manage the CP information and the contents service information(311-315), an integrated contents service management system is constructed through a multi-domain management system(32). The CP information and the contents service information of each single domain are mapped to the tables(321-326) of the integrated contents service management system managed by the multi-domain management system. When the CP information and the contents service information are mapped to the table, the CP information and the contents service information overlapped to each single domain are managed.

Description

Contents service management method in multi-domain environment}

The present invention provides a content service management method for mapping content providers (CPs) and content service information duplicated in a plurality of single domains to an integrated service management system in a multi-domain environment, and a computer recording a program for realizing the method. The present invention relates to a readable recording medium.

Internet domains, most of which are currently operated, provide independent contents such as education, entertainment, finance, and shopping malls (hereinafter referred to as "content"). In general, since many content providers provide services in this domain, the domain manages information about the content providers and the content services provided by the content providers.

Most Internet users use the services of multiple single domains, and the multi-domain environment tends to solve the inconvenience of having to remember accounts and passwords for each domain. In addition, in order to control information access rights for users in the same value chain inside and outside the enterprise, a multi-domain environment is established between domains providing similar services or between domains belonging to the same group.

The multi-domain environment is an environment in which an integrated authentication (SSO: Single Sign On) service that can access multiple domains with one account can be used from a user perspective by managing a plurality of single domain user accounts. In addition to integrated authentication (SSO), this multi-domain environment provides advantages such as providing marketing information using customer relationship management (CRM) in multiple domains, providing integrated user payment services, and synergizing sales promotion between services in multiple domains. .

Here, the integrated user payment service is a service that provides payments made by a user in a multi-domain through one interface. Each domain included in the multi-domains uses one unified payment system, so that the user can process and view all the payment history used in the multi-domain at once while being provided with the service that seems to use the unique payment service in each domain. There is an advantage. In addition, a content provider in a single domain may provide a payment service without a payment system.

However, in order to provide an integrated user payment service, a system for managing multi-domains (hereinafter, referred to as a "multi-domain management system") must know information about a content service belonging to each domain. That is, it is possible to calculate and charge a usage fee for a user regardless of the domain only if the usage amount or conditions of each service are known.

In a single domain, only a content provider and a content service belonging to the single domain need to be managed, whereas in a multi-domain environment, single domain information, content provider information in each domain, and content service information provided by each content provider must be integrated. As described above, in order to provide a content service management system, a multi-domain management system needs to consider several matters as follows.

First, a single domain uses different content service management schemes. Even for domains that provide similar types of content, there are different systems for managing services according to domain characteristics. Therefore, a multi-domain management system should not only accommodate different service management schemes but also provide a mapping method consistently.

Second, since the same content provider can provide services to multiple single domains, there must be no conflict when managing content services. For example, an educational content provider "A" may provide content to "A" and "B" domains in the same multi-domain environment. Therefore, a multi-domain management system must be able to manage such overlapping services.

Third, other problems that may occur in providing integrated payment service should be considered.

Therefore, in a multi-domain environment, a consistent management method for a content management system that systematically manages content provider (CP) information and content service information overlapping a plurality of single domains and is managed in different systems for each domain is required.

The present invention has been proposed to meet the above-described needs, and systematically manages content provider information and content service information overlapping a plurality of single domains in a multi-domain environment, and manages contents managed in different systems for different domains. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of managing a content service for consistently processing a system and a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing the method.

1 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a management system of a content provider and a content service in a multi-domain environment according to the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a class of a content service management scheme in a multi-domain environment according to the present invention.

3 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a mapping process between a single domain and a multi-domain management system for content service management in a multi-domain environment according to the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a process of processing duplicate information for content service management in a multi-domain environment according to the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of processing duplicate information in a content service management method in a multi-domain environment according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

11,12: domain 21 ~ 24: representative content provider (representative CP)

31 ~ 36: Content Provider (CP) 41 ~ 46: Content Service

51 ~ 54: Category

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of managing a content service in a multi-domain environment. The present invention provides a first method of establishing an integrated content service management system through a multi-domain management system for integrated management of content provider information and content service information. step; A second step of mapping content provider information and content service information of each single domain to a table of an integrated content service management system managed by the multi-domain management system; And a third step of managing the content provider information and the content service information overlapping each other in the single domain at the time of mapping.

On the other hand, the present invention provides a content service management system having a processor, comprising: a first function of constructing an integrated content service management system to collectively manage content provider information and content service information; A second function of mapping content provider information and content service information of each single domain to a table of an integrated content service management system managed by the multi-domain management system; And a computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing a third function of managing content provider information and content service information overlapping between each single domain upon mapping.

The present invention is to provide a content service management system in a multi-domain environment to solve the above-mentioned considerations that may occur to provide a consolidated payment service in a multi-domain environment. As a concrete method for this, it is to establish an integrated content service management system that can cover various single domain service management systems, and to map a single domain content service management system and a multi-domain environment. to provide. In addition, the present invention provides a method of eliminating redundancy between a content service provider and a content service that are redundantly managed in a multi-domain environment.

The above objects, features and advantages will become more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, a single domain environment will be described to help understand the present invention.

In a single domain, the content provider (CP) is mainly managed in a hierarchical structure such as a representative content provider (representative CP), content provider (CP), and content service.

A representative content provider (CP) does not actually provide content, but is a business entity that collects several content providers (CPs) and makes a business contract with a domain as a representative.

Most content providers (CPs) provide services through representative content providers (representative CPs), but some providers independently provide content services to domains. The content provider (CP) is actually a service provider for a domain, and provides various types of content services.

The content service is a service actually used by a user of a domain, and can be classified according to content or billing method.

Therefore, in the single domain environment, information on the representative content provider (representative CP) and independent content provider (CP) and respective service information are managed.

Meanwhile, in a multi-domain environment, a plurality of domains are managed, so an identifier should be assigned to the domains. In addition, a representative content provider (representative CP) or independent content provider (CP) should identify which service is provided in which domain to prevent information inconsistency due to duplication. To do this, a consistent management system that can cover the content service management system of a single domain must be established, and mapping between domains must be performed according to the integrated management system.

Accordingly, in the present invention, in order to manage a plurality of content providers (CP) in a multi-domain environment, the integrated content provider management system is configured through a multi-domain management system (first step), and a content provider (CP) of a single domain is connected. Map the content service information to the multi-domain environment (step 2), and additionally manages content provider (CP) and content service information that overlaps between the various domains (step 3).

In the first step, a content service management system is configured in a multi-domain environment as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.

1 illustrates a management scheme of a content provider and a content service in a multi-domain environment, and FIG. 2 illustrates only a relationship between classes in a class diagram of UML (Unified Modeling Language).

In the present invention, the content service management system includes domains 11 and 12, representative content providers (representative CPs) 21 to 24, content providers (CPs) 31 to 36, and content services (as shown in FIG. 1). 41 ~ 46).

The multi-domain management system maintains identifiers and other domain information for the various domains 11, 12.

The representative content providers 21 to 24 are composed of information on each representative content provider 21 to 24 and an identifier set of domains 11 and 12 to which they belong. In this case, in the case of the independent content provider 33 without the representative content providers 21, 23, and 24, the independent content provider 33 itself becomes the representative content provider 22.

The content providers 31 to 36 include information about each content provider 31 to 36 and an identifier of a (domain, representative content provider) pair for identifying the representative content providers 21 to 24 to which they belong.

The content services 41 to 46 maintain information about the service, charging information about the service, and information about the content providers 31 to 36. The content services 41 to 46 follow the content service management hierarchy, and are classified into categories 51 to 54 according to the contents. For example, the entertainment category includes content services such as movies and cartoons, and the education category includes English, Chinese, and the like.

Referring to FIG. 1, the domain_1 11 is composed of three representative content providers (representative CP) of a representative CP_1 21, a representative CP_2 22, and a representative CP_i 23. 22) has the same information as CP_k 33 as an independent content provider.

The CP_1 31 and the CP_2 32 belong to the same representative CP_1 21, and provide their own content services 41 and 42, respectively. CP_k 33 is an independent content provider, which not only provides the content service 43 in the domain_1 11, but also provides the content service 43 in the domain_n 12 through the representative CP_j 24. .

In addition, the content services 41 to 46 may be classified into category_1 51, category_252,... , Category_y (54).

Tables of a content service management system managed by a multi-domain management system in a multi-domain environment include the following.

Domain table

-Domain_id: Identification code of single domain

-Domain_name: Name of the single domain, name of the Internet site to which the user connects

-Domain_Operator Information: As a provider information for a single domain, carrier number, contact information, address, representative name, emergency number, area code, multi domain service start date, multi domain service status, etc.

Representative Content Provider Table

-Representative CP_ID: Identification code of the representative content provider

-Domain_id (set): set of domain_id to which representative CP_ID belongs

-Representative CP_Name: Name to identify the representative CP

-Representative CP_ Business information: Business information for representative content providers, such as business number, contact number, address, representative name, emergency number, area code, billing address, account number for settlement, service start date, service status, etc.

Content provider table

CP_ID: Identification code of content provider

-Domain_representativeCP_ID (set): set of connection string of domain_ID and CP_ID to which CP_ID belongs

CP_Name: Name that can identify CP

-CP_ Business information: Business information about the content provider, such as business number, contact number, address, representative name, emergency number, area code, billing address, account number for settlement, service start date, service status, whether the representative content provider, etc.

Content Service Table

Content service ID: identification code for the content service

Content provider ID: ID of the content provider for the corresponding content service

Content Name: Content Name

-Category: Category code to which content belongs

-Content information: content service start date, content service status, description, adult status, free or not, content providing IP address, etc.

-Billing Information: Information for Billing

-Billing method: subscription, pay-as-you-go or basic fee system

-Charge unit: per case, per packet, per hour

-Billing Basic Amount: The amount charged to one billing unit

Category table

-Category ID: identification code for the category

-Category Name: Category Name

-Category description: Description of the category

If the multi-domain management system configures the same management scheme as in the first step, the second step maps the single domains to the integrated management scheme. This mapping process is shown in FIG. 3.

3 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a mapping process between a single domain and a multi-domain management system for content service management in a multi-domain environment according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, an identification code (domain_ID) of the single domain 31 is assigned to the domain table 321 of the multi-domain management system 32 (301).

In addition, the representative content provider information 311 or the content provider information 312 managed by the single domain 31 are mapped to the corresponding tables 322 and 323 of the multi-domain management system 32 (302 and 303). In addition, the content provider related information 313 maintained only in the single domain 31 is mapped to the representative content provider table 322 or the content provider table 323 of the multi-domain management system 32 in accordance with the contents (304). . In addition, the content service information 315 of the single domain 31 is categorized (307) with reference to the category table 326 while being mapped to the content service table 325 of the multi-domain management system 32 (306). In addition, the charging information 314 of the single domain 31 is also mapped to the charging table 324 of the multi-domain management system 32 (305). The other information managed in the single domain 31 is not used in the multi-domain management system 32 and thus is not processed in the mapping process.

The third step is a management process for duplicate information generated in the mapping process of the second step. The types of duplication can be classified as follows.

-Duplicate of the same representative content provider for different domains

-Duplicate of the same content provider (independent content provider) for different domains

-Duplicate of the same content provider for different representative content providers

Redundant storage of data causes inconsistencies in the data, so there must be a device that can be stored in a single repository and referenced for different purposes.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary explanatory diagram illustrating a duplicate information processing process for content service management in a multi-domain environment according to the present invention, and shows an example of processing the overlap of information in the third step.

First, when a new single domain is added to a multi-domain environment, new domain information is added to the domain table 321. At this time, it is checked whether information on the representative content provider (RCP) connected to the domain exists in the representative content provider table 322, and if there is, a new domain ID is added to the domain ID of the corresponding row of the representative content provider table 322. If not, add a row for new representative content provider information to the representative content provider table 322. The same process is repeated for all representative content providers (RCPs).

Next, the content provider CP connected to each representative content provider RCP is checked whether the content provider table 323 has information about the content provider CP, and if so, the content provider table 323. The ID of the relevant domain and the representative CP is added to the domain_representative CP_ID of the corresponding row in the table. If not, the new content provider information is added.

On the other hand, since the content service is unique to each content provider, in the third step, the content service is taken out of the question.

5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a process for processing duplicate information in a content service management method in a multi-domain environment according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5, in the multi-domain environment according to the present invention, the duplicate information processing process of the content service management method first checks whether information about a domain to be added exists in the domain table 321 (501).

As a result of the check, if the information about the domain (D) to be added does not exist in the domain table 321, the information about the domain (D) is added to the domain table (321) (502), and the corresponding domain (D). Check if the information about the representative content provider (RCP) connected to the representative content provider table 322 is present (504), and if so, add a new domain ID to the domain ID of the corresponding row of the representative content provider table 322. If not, 505, add a row for new representative content provider information to the representative content provider table 322, if not. Repeat step 504 to step 506 for all representative content providers RCP 503.

Thereafter, the content provider CP connected to each representative content provider RCP is checked in the content provider table 323 for information on the content provider CP (508). 509 adds the ID of the relevant domain and the representative CP to the domain_representative CP ID of the corresponding row of 323; otherwise, the new content provider information (domain, Representative CP_ID) is added (510). The steps 508 to 510 are repeated for all content providers CP 507.

4, a method of solving the information duplication problem will be described.

First, it is assumed that information on domain D2 and the following representative content provider RCP, content provider CP, and content service are already added to the multi-domain management system. In this case, when a new domain D1 is to be added, first, the domain table 321 checks whether there is information about the domain D1 (501), and if the information about the domain D1 is not included in the domain table 321, the domain table 321 Generate a row for domain D1 (502).

In operation 504, it is checked whether information on RCP1, which is a representative content provider of the domain D1, exists in the representative content provider table 322.

As a result of the checking, since the representative content provider RCP1 also belongs to the domain D2, since the corresponding row exists, only the D1 information is added to the domain ID column of the representative content provider table 322 (505). In addition, since the content provider CP1 is managed in the representative content provider RCP1, this information also exists in the content provider table 323 (508), so that only D1RCP1 information is added to the domain_ representative CP_ID of the corresponding row of the table (509). ).

The method of the present invention as described above may be implemented as a program and stored in a computer-readable recording medium (CD-ROM, RAM, ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, magneto-optical disk, etc.).

The present invention described above is not limited to the above-described embodiments and the accompanying drawings, and various substitutions, modifications, and changes are possible in the art without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be clear to those of ordinary knowledge.

As described above, the present invention manages a content provider and content service information overlapping a plurality of single domains in an integrated management service system in a multi-domain environment, thereby facilitating the provision of an integrated payment service and establishing a duplicate payment service of single domains. This can reduce costs.

Claims (4)

In the content service management method in a multi-domain environment, A first step of constructing an integrated content service management system through a multi-domain management system in order to collectively manage content provider information and content service information; A second step of mapping content provider information and content service information of each single domain to a table of an integrated content service management system managed by the multi-domain management system; And The third step of managing content provider information and content service information overlapping between each single domain when mapping. Content service management method in a multi-domain environment comprising a. The method of claim 1, The integrated content service management system forms a hierarchical structure of domain, representative content provider (representative CP), content provider (CP), content service, The table of the integrated content service management system includes a domain table including domain_id, domain_name, domain_business information, representative CP_ID, domain_ID (set), representative CP_name, representative CP_business information. A representative content provider table including a content provider table including CP_ID, domain_representative CP_ID (set), CP_name, and CP_business information, content service ID, content provider ID, content name, category, and content information. And a content service table including a billing information, a billing method, a billing unit, and a billing base amount, and a category table including a category ID, a category name, and a category description. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The third step, A fourth step of checking whether information about a domain to be added exists in the domain table; If the information on the domain to be added does not exist in the domain table as a result of the check in the fourth step, the information about the domain is added to the domain table and the representative content provider (RCP) connected to the domain is added. A fifth step of checking whether information on the representative content provider table is present; As a result of the checking of the fifth step, if information on the representative content provider (RCP) is in the representative content provider table, a new domain ID is added to the domain ID of the corresponding row of the representative content provider table; Adding a row for information to the representative content provider table; A seventh step of checking whether there is information on the corresponding content provider CP in the content provider table with respect to the content provider CP connected to each representative content provider RCP; And As a result of the check in the seventh step, if there is information about the corresponding content provider (CP) in the content provider table, the ID of the relevant domain and the representative CP is added to the domain_representative CP_ID of the corresponding row of the content provider table. Eighth step of adding new content provider information (domain, representative CP_ID) to domain_representativeCP_ID of the corresponding row of the content provider table Content service management method in a multi-domain environment comprising a. In a content service management system having a processor, A first function of constructing an integrated content service management system to integrate and manage content provider information and content service information; A second function of mapping content provider information and content service information of each single domain to a table of an integrated content service management system managed by the multi-domain management system; And A third function of managing content provider information and content service information that overlaps with each single domain when mapping. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing this.