KR20040074706A - A System, Web Server For Connecting Wireless Internet Using Reduced code And Method Thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A wireless Internet access system using an abbreviated code, a Web server and its method are provided to allow a user to access a detailed service page or information of the wireless Internet by using only minimum URL information. CONSTITUTION: When a subscriber checks an SMS message received from a Web server and selects a connection menu, a terminal transmits URL information to a domain name server(S800,S810). The domain name server extracts an actual IP address corresponding to the received URL information and transmits it to the terminal(S820). The terminal is connected to a Web server of the received IP address(S830). When the terminal transmits the URL information to a code distribution server(S840), the code distribution server checks whether a code delimiter is included in the URL information(S850). If a code delimiter is included in the URL information, the terminal extracts code information after the code delimiter and transmits it to a code analyzing server(S860). The code analyzing server converts the code information into corresponding detailed item information(S870). The code analyzing server transmits the detailed item information to the terminal(S880). The terminal is connected to a Web page including the detailed item information(S890).

Description

Wireless Internet Access System, Web Server, and Method Using Short Codes {A System, Web Server For Connecting Wireless Internet Using Reduced code And Method Thereof}

The present invention relates to a wireless Internet access system using a short code, a web server, and a method thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to a wireless Internet access using a short code that allows a wireless Internet to access a detailed service page or information with minimal URL information. A system, a web server, and a method thereof.

With the development of mobile communication services and Internet services, terminals have been developed for surfing the web by wirelessly accessing the Internet in addition to the wired Internet. The user accesses the wireless Internet by using the terminal. The user directly enters the URL using letters or numbers to access the wireless Internet. When the operator reads the SMS message sent to the terminal and presses a call button, the SMS message is included in the SMS message. There is a way to connect to a URL address.

The present invention relates to a method of accessing a detail page using the wireless Internet as described above. In the latter case, when accessing a detail page of a corresponding service or information by URL callback after SMS transmission, a limitation of SMS length ( Currently, it is difficult to specify a long URL in order to display detailed information, such as on a wire.

Especially in the case of shopping, a long URL is generally formed on the product detail page. In the case of SMS messages for encouraging wireless Internet access, there are cases where variable text and numeric URLs are assigned or used in a fixed manner, or text and URL areas are fixed. As the area grows, more information can be transmitted to the subscriber.

However, the prior art for reducing the portion currently allocated to the URL has not been developed yet.

Accordingly, there is a growing demand for a wireless Internet access method capable of overcoming such an unreasonable wireless Internet access method using SMS and providing a subscriber with more information on the web page by reducing the area allocated to the URL. .

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is a wireless Internet access system using a short code that can access a detailed service page or information of the wireless Internet with a minimum URL information, a web server and its To provide a way.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method using a short code that can increase the amount of plain text in a limited capacity SMS message by using a short code.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method using a short code that can provide a subscriber with more detailed information on a corresponding web page through the expansion of the amount of plain text.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method using a short code that can maximize the utilization of SMS by using an SMS message using a short code.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method using a short code that efficiently uses a wireless network by providing minimal information between the wireless Internet networks and provides a low call cost from a user's point of view. To provide.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method using a short code that can be used without any change in any wireless Internet terminal including SMS URL callback function by using a general domain system. have.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method of directly accessing information and services by inputting only minimal information when using a wireless domain.

1 is a block diagram of a wireless Internet access system using a short code according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a code analysis server of FIG. 1;

3 is a block diagram of a wireless Internet access system using a short code according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the web server of FIG.

5 conceptually illustrates a structure of URL information generated in a terminal;

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of URL information of FIG. 5;

7 illustrates an example of an SMS message sent from a web server to a terminal;

8 is a flowchart illustrating a process of performing a wireless internet access method using a short code according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

9 is a flowchart illustrating a process of performing a wireless Internet access method using a short code according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

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100, 30: terminal, 102, 302: base station,

104, 304: base station controller, 106, 306: mobile communication switch,

108, 308: network matching device, 112: code distribution server,

114: address database, 116: code analysis server,

310: web server, 504: domain,

506: code separator, 508: code information.

According to a first aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, in a wireless Internet access system using a short code, a domain for analyzing the URL information transmitted from the terminal to convert to the actual IP address and transmit it to the terminal Name server-The terminal is connected to the web server of the IP address-, Code distribution server for extracting the code information after the code separator and transmits to the code analysis server when the URL information received from the terminal includes a code separator; A wireless internet access system using a short code may be provided, comprising a code analysis server converting the received code information into detailed item information corresponding thereto and transmitting the same to the terminal.

According to a second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, in the web server providing a wireless Internet service access service using a short code, the code identifier when the URL information received from the terminal includes a code identifier And a code distribution unit for extracting subsequent code information, a code analysis unit for converting the code information received from the code distribution unit into detailed item information corresponding thereto, and a transceiver for transmitting the detailed item information to the terminal. A web server for providing a wireless Internet service access service using a short code may be provided.

According to a third aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, in a method of accessing the wireless Internet using a short code, the domain name server corresponds to the domain by analyzing the domain from the URL information received from the terminal Extracting and transmitting the actual IP information to the terminal, and checking, by the code distribution server, whether the code delimiter is included in the received URL information, and the code distribution server includes the code delimiter in the URL information. Extracting the code information and transmitting the code information to a code analysis server, the code analysis server converting the code information into corresponding detailed item information, and the code analysis server converting the detailed item information to the terminal. Wireless using a short code, characterized in that it comprises the step of transmitting An internet connection method may be provided.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, in a method for accessing the wireless Internet using a short code in a web server, receiving URL information from a terminal-the URL information is a domain, code Including a delimiter and code information, determining whether the code delimiter is included in the URL information, and analyzing the code information when the URL information includes the code delimiter to correspond to the code information. A wireless internet access method using a short code may be provided in a web server, comprising converting detailed item information and transmitting the detailed item information to the terminal.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, as a recording medium storing a computer-readable program, a domain name server corresponds to the domain by analyzing the domain from the URL information received from the terminal Extracting and transmitting the actual IP information to the terminal, and checking, by the code distribution server, whether the code delimiter is included in the received URL information, and the code distribution server includes the code delimiter in the URL information. Extracting the code information and transmitting the code information to a code analysis server, the code analysis server converting the code information into corresponding detailed item information, and the code analysis server converting the detailed item information to the terminal. A recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the transferring step May be provided.

Other objects, specific advantages and novel features of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description and the preferred embodiments associated with the accompanying drawings.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram of a wireless Internet access system using a short code according to a first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a wireless Internet access system using a short code according to the present invention includes a terminal 100, a base station 102 provided in a mobile communication network, a base station controller 104, a mobile communication exchange 106, and a network. The matching device 108, the proxy server 110, the code distribution server 112, the code analysis server 116, and the domain name server 111 are configured.

The terminal 100 receives the SMS message from the web server 310, and transmits the URL information to the mobile communication network when accessing the URL included in the SMS message. The terminal 100 includes a wireless web browser to display information provided by the web server 310 to the subscriber after being connected to the wireless internet.

The base station 102 transmits the connection request message 500 received from the terminal 100 to the base station controller 104, which in turn transmits it to the mobile switching center 106.

The mobile communication switch 106 provides an interworking function between a mobile communication network and a fixed network such as a PSTN, an ISDN, or an interworking function between a mobile communication network, a network of a third party such as a PLMN, an Internet network, a PSPDN, and other communication networks. The embodiment analyzes the data packet of the received access request message 500 to determine that it is a message to be transmitted to the wireless Internet network, and transmits it to the network matching device 108.

In addition, depending on the type of network, the base station controller 104 may perform the above analysis and transmit the same to the network matching device 108.

The network matching device 108 is located between the wireless communication network and the Internet network to perform a function as a gateway between both networks. Specifically, the network matching device 108 is responsible for matching between the mobile communication protocol and the Internet protocol when connected from the mobile communication network to the Internet network.

The proxy server 110 is located between the network matching device 108 and the domain name server 111, and relays the terminal 100 and the Internet network. The URL information transmitted from the terminal 100 is the proxy server 110. It is delivered to the code distribution server 112 via. However, since this is irrelevant to the features of the present invention, the following description assumes that data is directly transmitted and received between the terminal 100 and the code distribution server 112 in order to avoid confusion.

The code distribution server 112 determines whether the code separator 506 is included in the URL information received from the terminal 100, and when the code separator 506 is included, the code information 508 after the code separator 506. Extracts only and transmits it to the code analysis server 116. The code distribution server 112 may include the functions of a general web server.

The code analysis server 116 converts the received code information 508 into detailed item information corresponding thereto and transmits the same to the terminal 100. Here, the detailed item information is a concept including a detailed web page of the corresponding web site including detailed information such as product information. The code analysis server 116 will be described in more detail later with reference to FIG. 2.

The domain name server 111 analyzes the URL information transmitted from the terminal 100, converts the URL information into an actual IP address, and transmits the converted URL to the terminal 100 so that the terminal 100 accesses the IP address. .

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of the code analysis server 116 of FIG. 1. As shown in FIG. 2, the code analysis server 116 is composed of a code analysis module 206, a mapping module 202, a database management module 204, and a transmission / reception module 200.

The code analysis module 206 performs a function of analyzing the content of the message including the code information 508 received from the code distribution server 112.

The mapping module 202 converts the received code information 508 into detailed item information corresponding thereto. The code analysis server 116 includes an address database 114 that stores mapping information of code information 508 and detailed item information corresponding thereto, and the mapping module 202 refers to the code database 114 to obtain code information. 508 is converted into detailed item information.

The database management module 204 manages the address database 114 that stores detailed item information.

The transmission and reception module 200 receives a message including code information 508 from the code distribution server 112 and transmits the detailed item information to the terminal 100.

3 is a block diagram of a wireless Internet access system using a short code according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, unlike the first embodiment, the wireless Internet access system using the short code according to the second embodiment does not include the code distribution server 112 and the code analysis server 116. Instead, the web server 310 has a configuration that performs the functions of the code distribution server 112 and the code analysis server 116, which will be described in FIG.

4 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of the web server 310 of FIG. 3. As shown in FIG. 4, the web server 310 may include a code distributor 310-1, a code analyzer 310-3, a transceiver 310-5, a controller 310-7, and an address database ( 310-9).

The code distribution unit 310-1 determines whether the code delimiter 506 is included in the URL information included in the access request message 500 received from the terminal 100, and includes a code delimiter 506. The code information 508 after the delimiter 506 is extracted and transmitted to the code analyzer 310-3.

The code analyzer 310-3 converts the code information 508 received from the code distributor 310-1 into detailed item information corresponding thereto. The code analysis unit 310-3 may refer to the code analysis unit 310-3 by referring to the address database 310-9, which stores mapping information of the code information 508 and detailed item information corresponding thereto. Convert to detailed item information.

The transceiver 310-5 receives a connection request message 500 from the terminal 100, transmits the connection request message 500 to the code distribution unit 310-1, and transmits detailed item information to the terminal 100.

The controller 310-7 generates a control signal for controlling the above components. That is, the transmission / reception control signal is transmitted to the transceiver 310-5 and the code distribution control signal is transmitted to the code distribution unit 310-1 so that the code distribution unit 310-1 performs code distribution. The code analysis control signal is transmitted to the analysis unit 310-3 so that the code analysis unit 310-3 converts the code information 508 into detailed item information.

5 is a diagram conceptually illustrating a structure of URL information generated by the terminal 100.

Referring to FIG. 5, the URL information is composed of a domain 504, a code delimiter 506, and code information 508.

The domain 504 is a part representing the address of a web site operated by the web server 310 to be accessed. That is, the domain 504 means, for example, a character address of a web site such as "www.k-merce.com" or a numeric address corresponding thereto.

The code delimiter 506 indicates that the URL consists of short codes. The code delimiter 506 is located after the domain 504 and is set in a predetermined form. Here, the code separator 506 may be defined in various forms, and may be any form that can be distinguished from other services. The code distribution server 112 of the first embodiment or the code distribution unit 310-1 of the second embodiment recognizes that the URL is composed of a short code by checking the code delimiter 506.

The code information 508 is a short code representing detailed item information of the web site, that is, a sub URL address indicating a detailed web page. By using the short code used, the number of bytes can be significantly reduced.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of URL information included in the URL information of FIG. 5.

Referring to FIG. 6, "www.k-merce.com" 610 corresponds to a domain 504 that is an address of a web site. The "*" 620 corresponds to the code delimiter 506 and may be defined in various forms that may be displayed on the general wired Internet such as "#" and "&" according to a preset method as described above. “12345” 630 corresponds to code information 508. For example, when the sub URL of the detailed service web page of "www.k-merce.com" is expressed as ": 8581 / home / portal / html / 2depth_main.jsp? One = 2 & two = 0", By expressing it as "12345", the number of bytes occupied by the lower URL can be significantly reduced.

FIG. 7 illustrates an example of an SMS message transmitted from the web server 310 to the terminal 100. 7 shows an example of an advertising SMS message that web server 310 prompts a subscriber to access a web site via the wireless Internet.

Referring to FIG. 7, the terminal 100 screen 500 displays guide information about a service or a product handled by a corresponding web site, and a URL of the corresponding web site as shown in FIG. 6 is displayed at the bottom thereof.

When the subscriber selects the connection menu 510, the subscriber accesses the corresponding web site. 8 and 9, the process of accessing a web site after the subscriber selects the connection menu 510 will be described.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a process of performing a wireless internet access method using a short code according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 8, when a subscriber checks an SMS message received from a web server 310 and selects a connection menu (input of a connection request), the terminal 100 transmits URL information to the domain name server 111. (S800, 810). As described above, the URL information includes domain 504, code delimiter 506, and code information 508.

When the domain name server 111 extracts the actual IP address corresponding to the received URL information and transmits it to the terminal (S820), the terminal 100 accesses the web server of the received IP address (S830).

When the terminal 100 transmits the URL information to the code distribution server 112 through the mobile communication network (S840), the code distribution server 112 includes a code separator 506 in the URL information received from the terminal 100. In operation S840, if the code information includes the code delimiter 506, the code information 508 may be extracted after the code delimiter 506. 116) (S850, 860).

The code analysis server 116 converts the code information 508 into detailed item information corresponding thereto (S870). The code analysis server 116 extracts a mapping table from the address database 114, and extracts detailed item information corresponding to the received code information 508 by referring to the extracted mapping table. That is, the code analysis server 116 extracts a web page that includes detailed items corresponding to the received code information 508.

The code analysis server 116 transmits the detailed item information to the terminal 100 (S880).

The terminal 100 accesses a web page including detailed item information received from the code analysis server 116, that is, a detailed service item of a connected website (S880).

9 is a flowchart illustrating a process of performing a wireless Internet access method using a short code according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 9, first, the terminal 300 accesses the web server 310 (S900). After the subscriber checks the SMS message received from the web server 310 and selects the connection menu, the terminal 300 transmits the URL information to the domain name server 309 via the mobile communication network. When the domain name server 309 extracts the IP address corresponding to the received URL information and transmits the IP address to the terminal 300, the terminal 300 accesses the web server 310 having the received IP address.

When the terminal 300 is connected to the web server 310, the code distribution unit 310-1 of the web server 310 determines whether the code separator 506 is included in the URL information received from the terminal 300. Check (S910). The code distributor 310-1 recognizes that a short code is included when the code separator 506 is included in the URL information, and extracts the code information 508 after the code separator 506 to analyze the code. Send to 310-3.

The code analyzer 310-3 analyzes the code information 508 received from the code distributor 310-1 and converts the code information 508 into detailed item information corresponding to the code information 508 (S920). The code analyzer 310-3 extracts a mapping table from the address database 310-9 and extracts detailed item information corresponding to the received code information 508 by referring to the extracted mapping table. That is, the code analyzer 310-3 extracts a web page including detailed items corresponding to the received code information 508.

The transceiver 310-5 of the web server 310 receives detailed item information, that is, a web page including the detailed item from the code analyzer 310-3, and transmits it to the terminal 100 (S930). .

The terminal 100 transmits URL information combining the detailed item information received from the web server 310 to the domain 504 to the domain name server 111 and accesses the web page of the detailed item of the corresponding web site.

If the code separator 506 is not included in the URL information, the code distribution unit 310-1 recognizes that the short code is not included, and transmits the corresponding item information corresponding to the URL information to the terminal. (S940).

Although the present invention has been illustrated and described with reference to a mobile terminal, the present invention is not limited thereto, and is applicable to wired terminals and various communication terminals capable of transmitting and receiving text messages.

Although the present invention has been illustrated and described in the present embodiment, the present invention is not limited thereto, and it is obvious that the present invention can be applied to a long message service (LMS), a multimedia message service (MMS), and various data transmission services.

In addition, the present embodiment has been illustrated and described as a limited to the URL callback using SMS, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and the user may directly enter URL information including a short code into the terminal and access the web site. Of course.

Further, in the present embodiment, the web page of the detailed item is transmitted to the terminal as the detailed item information, but it is also possible to transmit the lower URL information as the detailed item information.

In addition, instead of transmitting the detailed item information to the terminal in the first and second embodiments, it is also possible to transmit the URL of the detailed item to the terminal and access the URL again from the terminal.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method using a short code that can access a detailed service page or information of the wireless Internet with only minimal URL information.

In addition, it is possible to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method using a short code that can increase the amount of plain text in a limited capacity SMS message by using a short code.

In addition, it is possible to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method using a short code that can provide a subscriber with more detailed information on a corresponding web page by increasing the amount of plain text.

In addition, by using an SMS message using a short code, a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method using the short code that can maximize the utilization of the SMS can be provided.

In addition, it is possible to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method using a short code that efficiently uses a wireless network and provides a low call cost from a user's point of view by transmitting minimal information between the wireless Internet networks.

In addition, by using a general domain system, it is possible to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method using a short code that can be used without any change in all wireless Internet terminals including an SMS URL callback function.

In addition, it is possible to provide a wireless Internet access system, a web server, and a method of directly accessing information and services by only inputting minimal information when using a wireless domain.

Although the present invention has been described in connection with the above-mentioned preferred embodiments, it is possible to make various modifications or variations without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the appended claims will cover such modifications and variations as fall within the spirit of the invention.

Claims (13)

In the wireless Internet access system using a short code, A domain name server for analyzing URL information transmitted from a terminal, converting the URL information into an actual IP address, and transmitting the same to the terminal; the terminal is connected to a web server of the IP address; A code distribution server for extracting code information after the code separator and transmitting the code information to the code analysis server when the code information is included in the URL information received from the terminal; And And a code analysis server converting the received code information into detailed item information corresponding thereto and transmitting the converted code information to the terminal. The method of claim 1, The code analysis server A code analysis module for analyzing contents of a message including the received code information; A mapping module for converting the received code information into detailed item information corresponding thereto; A database management module for managing an address database storing the detailed item information; And And a transmission / reception module for receiving a message including the code information from the code distribution server and transmitting the detailed item information to the terminal. The method of claim 1, The detailed item information includes at least one of a web page of a detailed item or a URL of a detailed item. In the web server providing a wireless Internet service access service using a short code, A code distribution unit extracting code information after the code separator when the code separator is included in the URL information received from the terminal; A code analysis unit converting the code information received from the code distribution unit into detailed item information corresponding thereto; And And a transmitting / receiving unit for transmitting the detailed item information to the terminal. The method of claim 4, wherein The code analysis unit A code code analysis module for analyzing a content of a message including the received code information; A mapping module for converting the code information into detailed item information corresponding thereto; And And a database management module configured to manage an address database for storing the detailed item information. The method of claim 4, wherein And the detailed item information includes at least one of a web page of a detailed item or a URL of a detailed item. In the method of connecting to the wireless Internet using a short code, Analyzing, by the domain name server, URL information received from the terminal, extracting actual IP information corresponding to the domain, and transmitting the extracted domain information to the terminal; Checking, by the code distribution server, whether the code delimiter is included in the received URL information; Extracting, by the code distribution server, the code information when the code identifier is included in the URL information and transmitting the code information to a code analysis server; Converting, by the code analysis server, code information after the code separator into corresponding subitem information; And And transmitting, by the code analysis server, the detailed item information to the terminal. The method of claim 7, wherein The code analysis server converts the code information into corresponding subitem information. The code analysis server extracting a mapping table from an address database; And And extracting detailed item information corresponding to the received code information with reference to the mapping table. The method of claim 7, wherein The code delimiter and code information Wireless Internet access method using a short code, characterized in that it comprises at least one of numbers, letters, special symbols or a combination thereof. In a method of accessing the wireless Internet using a short code in a web server, Receiving URL information from a terminal, wherein the URL information includes a domain, a code delimiter, and code information; Checking whether the code separator is included in the URL information; Analyzing the code information when the URL information includes a code delimiter and converting detailed item information corresponding to code information after the code delimiter; And And transmitting the detailed item information to the terminal. The method of claim 10, If the code information includes a code separator, the step of analyzing the code information and converting it into detailed item information Extracting a mapping table from an address database; And And extracting detailed item information corresponding to the received code information with reference to the mapping table. The method of claim 10, The code delimiter and code information Wireless Internet access method in a web server using a short code, characterized in that it comprises at least one of numbers, letters, special symbols or a combination thereof. A recording medium storing a computer readable program, Analyzing, by the domain name server, URL information received from the terminal, extracting actual IP information corresponding to the domain, and transmitting the extracted domain information to the terminal; Checking, by the code distribution server, whether the code delimiter is included in the received URL information; Extracting, by the code distribution server, the code information after the code separator and transmitting the code information to the code analysis server when the code separator is included in the URL information; The code analysis server converting the code information into corresponding subitem information; And And a program for executing the step of transmitting, by the code analysis server, the detailed item information to the terminal.