KR20050059385A - Contents scrap system and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a content scrap system and a method thereof.

According to the present invention, when the strap selecting means is provided to the user terminal connected through the network, and the user operates the scrap selecting means attached to the predetermined content, the content is scraped into the user's community. In particular, when scraping content, the entire text of the selected content is scraped to the user's community, or only a part of the content is scrapped to the user's community along with link information. If only a part of the scrap is scraped by the user, the user may select a part of the scraped content in the community based on the link information to provide the full text of the content to the user.

According to the present invention, since the content on the network can be easily scraped into a predetermined community, the content provided on the network can be more easily shared.

Description

Content scrap system and method

The present invention relates to a content scrap system and a method thereof, and more particularly, to a system and method for scraping content on a network such as the Internet.

Recently, with the rapid increase of the Internet, electronic commerce for the whole world is being made through the same medium of the Internet, and the communication function between users is gradually developed, and various forms of communication are being made through the Internet. .

With the development of communication, a community such as cafes, homepages, blogs, etc., where a large number of users can gather and exchange data and opinions on a specific topic, is being activated. The contents provided are also diversified.

Generally, when a user wants to post predetermined content to a community, the user directly inputs the content or posts a picture or a video in the form of a file attachment. In addition, users may fetch certain content scattered across the network and post it to the community. In this case, the user selects and copies the corresponding content and posts it to the community by pasting it into the community.

As described above, in order to post the content on the network to the community, the user must copy the content and access the community again to post the content. Therefore, the process is cumbersome and complicated.

Therefore, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to make it easier to share the content provided on the network.

In particular, it is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for easily scraping content on a network into a predetermined community.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for scraping content, the method comprising: a) providing content to which a strap selecting means is provided, respectively, to a user terminal connected through the network; And b) if the user operates the scrap selection means assigned to the predetermined content, scraping the content into the user's community.

In addition, the content scrap system according to another aspect of the present invention, a system that is connected to a plurality of user terminals and a plurality of site servers through a network, the content to which the strap selecting means is respectively given to the user terminal connected through the network Content providing server for providing a; A community server for providing a community to the users and posting a post provided from the users to the community, wherein the content providing server is configured to display the content when the user operates a scrap selection means assigned to a predetermined content. Transfer to the community server to be posted to the user's community.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention.

In an embodiment of the present invention, scrap selection means is provided for each content to facilitate scraping of content on a network. When the user selects the scrap selection means assigned to the predetermined content, the content is automatically delivered to the user's community. In other words, without the user selecting and copying the content separately and accessing the community and pasting the copied content into the community, when the scrap selection means assigned to the content is selected, the content is delivered to the user's community for publication. do. In the following description, an operation in which content is delivered to the community and posted is called "scrap of content." In addition, the content includes not only the content posted in the community but also all content posted on the network through all services provided by the system (eg, search service, community service, etc.), and the content includes text, photos, videos, This includes all data in various forms, including audio.

In addition, the user's community refers to a community (hereinafter referred to as a public community) in which a plurality of users join as members and exchange materials or opinions on a specific topic, and contents such as their own materials or opinions managed by the user Includes all of the communities that publish the (hereinafter referred to as private communities). In addition, any form of community that can be formed on the Internet can be used as a form of a personal community. For example, a blog provided in a form in which a plurality of contents are displayed in the order of the most recently posted and the contents of the contents are all displayed Can be.

Next, a detailed structure and operation of a content scrap system for implementing an embodiment of the present invention having such a feature will be described.

1 shows a structure of a content scrap system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the content scrap system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of user terminals 300 through a network (including all types of networks in various forms such as a telephone network, the Internet, and a wireless communication network). ), And also connected to a plurality of site servers (400).

The user terminal 300 is a communication device capable of connecting to the community connection system 100 through the network 200. For example, various communication devices such as a wired telephone, a mobile communication terminal, a computer, and a TV with Internet access may be used. Can be. Therefore, the user can access the community connection system 100 conveniently and quickly using PC communication, the Internet, the wireless Internet, a telephone network, and the like.

Site server 400 is a server of sites that provide various contents through the network 200, for example, a server for providing image content, a server for providing article content such as news, a server for providing product-related content Etc., servers that provide all the content available on the network are included.

The system 100 connected to the user terminal 300 and the site server 400 to provide a content scrap service includes an interface server 10, a content providing server 20, a community server 30, and an authentication server ( 40).

The interface server 10 allows a plurality of terminals 300 to be connected through the network 200, in particular, the Internet or the wireless Internet, and converts various pieces of information provided through the servers 20 and 30 to conform to a communication standard. Process and provide to a plurality of terminals 300, or to receive information transmitted from the terminal 300 through the network 200 to provide to the server (20, 30), and with a web server or other system A database interworking device (CGI) for transmitting and receiving information may be included.

The content providing server 20 is a server providing content to a user terminal 300 connected through a network. The content providing server 20 may search a content database 21 and a search word provided from the user terminal 300 in which the contents provided by the system are stored. Based on the content stored in the content database 21 and the searcher 22 which provides the content corresponding to the search term by searching the site server 400 connected to the content database 21 and the network 200. Content providing unit 23 for providing a plurality of contents to the user terminal 300 connected through the network 200, and scrap selection means for each content provided through the content providing unit 23 and the search unit 22 And a first scrap processing unit 24 for checking whether the user selects the scrap selection means.

Here, the content providing unit 23 provides the user with content generated and managed by the system to the user, and the search unit 22 searches for the content corresponding to the search word input by the user from the system itself database and other sites. To provide. The first scrap processing unit 24 gives a scrap selection means (hereinafter referred to as a "scrap button" for convenience of explanation) to the content provided to the user through various paths, and the user clicks the scrap button. If so, the corresponding content is scraped into the user's community in cooperation with the community server 30.

On the other hand, the community server 30 is a server for community registration and management, the registration unit 31 for creating and registering public and private communities, the authentication unit 32 for performing membership or user authentication for the community, Post processing unit 33 to perform post registration and management to the community, connection processing unit 34 to perform the connection of the user terminal to the corresponding community, grant a scrap button to the post registered in the community and select the user's scrap button And a second scrap processing unit 35 for checking whether or not, and a registration database 36, an authentication database 37, and a post database 38.

The registration database 36 stores the general information about the public community registered by individual community and category. For example, a first registration table storing registration information of a public community and a second registration table storing registration information of a personal community are stored. In the first registration table, identification codes of registered public communities are stored in correspondence with category codes assigned to categories such as broadcasting, entertainment, economics, and politics, and the registration date, name, address, number of users, and public are used for each identification code. Includes information such as general characteristics about the community. The second registration table includes information such as registration date, name, address, general characteristics, etc. of the personal community generated corresponding to each user ID.

The authentication database 37 stores a first authentication table including information about a user registered as a member for each public community, and a second authentication table storing information for authentication of the corresponding user for each individual community. The first authentication table includes information such as ID, password, e-mail address, name, social security number, etc. of each user registered as a member corresponding to the public community identification code. The second authentication table includes information such as an ID and a password of the corresponding user for each individual community.

The post database 38 stores contents posted by users for each community, that is, information on posts. For example, a first post table storing post related information posted for each public community and a second post table storing post related information for each individual community are included. The first post table includes information such as a post number, a title, a post content, a publisher's ID, a publication date, and the like corresponding to each public community identification code. The second post table stores information such as a post and a posting date in response to the personal community identification code. Here, the post includes all posts posted by the user, replies thereto, and visits.

Meanwhile, the authentication server 40 authenticates a user who can receive a service through the content scrap system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. For this purpose, an example of information on a user who is a member of the system is a member. For example, the database 41 may store information including an ID, a password, a name, an e-mail address, a social security number, and the like.

In this case, the authentication server 40 performs authentication for the system user, and the authentication unit 32 of the community server 30 performs authentication for the user for each community, but the authentication server 40 performs all authentication processing (system members). Authentication, public community member authentication, and personal community user authentication). In addition, authentication may be performed in various forms. In addition, each of the databases 41 and 36 for authentication may be implemented in an integrated form.

In addition, in the present embodiment, the first scrap processing unit 24 performs a scrap on the content provided by the content providing server 20, and the second scrap processing unit performs the scrap on the post provided by the community server 30. Although 35 is described to be performed, the present invention is not limited thereto, and one strap processing unit may collectively perform scrap processing for the content and the post.

For the convenience of description, the content provided from the content providing server 20 is referred to as content, and the content provided by the community server 30 is called a post, but all are included in the scraped content.

In addition, although the content providing server 20 and the community server 30 are implemented in one system, they may be implemented separately in different systems. In addition, in the above embodiment, the databases 21, 35 to 37 in each server 20 and 30 may be implemented in an independent server form, and are not limited to the types classified as described above.

Next, the operation of the content scrap system according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described based on such a structure.

First, a scrap processing process (first scrap processing process) for content provided by the content providing server 20 will be described.

2 illustrates a first scrap processing process according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, in order to receive various contents through the system 100, a user runs a program (eg, a web browser, etc.) for connecting to the Internet on the terminal 300. If a URL for connecting to 100 is entered, this URL information is converted and packetized by HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) in a web browser and then transmitted to the system 100 via the Internet.

Accordingly, the interface server 10 of the system 100 transmits a web page corresponding to the URL information to the user terminal 300, and the transmitted web page is converted into a window state on the web browser and displayed. Therefore, the user checks various information provided by the system 100 through a web page displayed on the screen of the terminal 300 (S100). Thereafter, when the user inputs a login ID, a password, etc. to receive the provided service, the authentication server 40 performs a login for the user (S110 to S120).

When the logged-in user inputs a search word in order to receive content corresponding to a predetermined search word, the search unit 22 of the content providing server 20 may enter the system itself database 21 and the network 200 based on the input search word. The connected multiple site server 400 is searched to find content corresponding to the search word (S130 to S40). Such a search process may be performed by items such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, articles, directories, web documents, news, images, and intellectuals (names of services provided by NAVER) or integrated.

The search unit 22 forms a search result page by combining the contents found through the search process and provides the search result page to the user terminal 300. At this time, the first scrap processing unit 24 assigns the scrap button to the searched content. (S150). That is, the search unit 22 provides the search result page to which the scrap button is assigned to each content to the user terminal 300. In this case, the entire text of the content is not displayed on the search result page, but only a part of the content is displayed and a scrap button is provided. Accordingly, the user may check contents corresponding to the search word input by the user through the search result page. Meanwhile, the first scrap processing unit 24 may provide a scrap button while showing the content of the content when the user clicks on the corresponding content without providing a part of the content and a scrap button on the search result page.

When the user who checks the content on the search result page provided as described above clicks a scrap button attached to the content in order to scrap the predetermined content to his community (S160), the first scrap processing unit 24 reads the full text of the corresponding content. Scrap to the community of users. Specifically, the first scrap processing unit 24 requests registration to the personal community while providing the user ID, the selected content full text, and the source information of the content to the community server 30, and accordingly, the community server 30 The post processing unit 33 finds the user's personal community based on the ID, and posts the content text and source information delivered to the personal community. In other words, the scraped information is stored in the post database 38 in correspondence with the personal community (S170 to S200).

When the scrap processing for the selected content is completed, the first scrap processing unit 24 displays the scrap completion to the user terminal 300 (S210). In addition, inquiring whether the scrap is confirmed, and when the user requests the scrap confirmation, the community server 30 requests a connection to the personal community while providing a user ID (S220 to S230). Accordingly, the connection processor 34 of the community server 30 connects the user terminal 300 to the personal community corresponding to the ID, and the post processor 33 personalizes the corresponding contents stored in the post database 38. Post on the community (S240). Accordingly, the user can easily confirm that the selected content is scraped to his or her personal community (S250). Meanwhile, the user terminal may directly connect the user terminal to the corresponding personal community without inquiring after the scrap process is completed.

Although only the scrap process for the content provided by the searcher 22 has been described herein, the scrap process as described above may be performed in the same manner for the content provided by the content provider 23.

In addition, the post processing provided by the community server 30 may be a scrap processing process as described above. That is, when the second scrap processing unit 35 grants a scrap button to a post posted on a public community or a private community, and a user who checks the post clicks a scrap button assigned to the post, as described above, To scrap selected posts into the user's personal community. 3 illustrates a screen example in which a scrap button (add to my blog) is assigned to a post posted to a community (for example, a cafe). In this case, when a user clicks a scrap button of a post posted to a cafe or the like, the post is scraped to the user's blog or the like. Since the scrap processing of the post can be easily performed based on the first scrap processing above, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

However, in the first embodiment, as the full text of the content is scraped, a copyright problem or a capacity problem of a database may occur. In consideration of this, the second embodiment of the present invention scraps only a part of content or a post.

4 illustrates a first scrap processing process according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

As in the first embodiment, when a user who logs in after entering the system 100 enters a search word, the search unit 22 searches for content corresponding to the search word, and the first scrap processing unit 24 displays a scrap button on the searched content. Give it to the user terminal. Then, when the user clicks the scrap button for the searched predetermined content, the first scrap processing unit 24 performs a scrap of content to the user's community (S300 to S370).

However, as in the first exemplary embodiment, only a part of the selected content is scrapped without performing scrap processing on the content full text. That is, after generating a summary of the selected content, and transmits to the community server 30 along with the user ID and source information to request the content posted (S380 ~ S390). Here, the summary is not limited to a summary of what the contents of the contents are, but includes some contents arbitrarily extracted from the contents. In this case, the first scrap processor 24 may generate the content summary text differently according to the content characteristics. For example, if the content requested by the user is an article, a summary is generated in a form including a title and a content satisfying the set amount at the beginning of the article. In addition, when the selected content is a web document, a summary is generated in a form including only a predetermined part including a search word (in general, a highlighted part of the front and rear paragraphs including the search word when searching). In addition, when the content is a dictionary, a summary is generated in a form that includes both words and content. In addition, when the content is a question and answer provided through a knowledgeable service, a summary is generated in a form that includes only a part of the question and answer that satisfies the set amount. In addition, when the content is an image such as a photo album, a summary including only a thumbnail is generated. These summaries contain links to web pages where the full text of the content is located.

The content summary generated as described above is posted on the user's community as in the first embodiment (S400 to S420), and when a user who accesses the personal community and checks the scraped content summary clicks the content summary, The full text of this content is provided to the user (S430 to S480). That is, the first scrap processing unit 24 (or the connection processing unit 34) connects the user terminal 300 to a page where a content full text is located based on link information included in the selected content summary text, so that the user can check the full text. Make sure Such content text may be provided to the user in the form of a popup.

Scraping only the summary without scraping the full text of the scraped content as described above may be equally applicable to posts provided on the community by the community server 30. This processing of the post can be easily inferred from the second embodiment by those skilled in the art, and thus detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Meanwhile, in the above embodiments, the content is scraped to the user's personal community, but the user's public community (for example, a bulletin board or a library of a cafe) also scraps the content in the same manner as the above content scrap processing process. This can be done. In addition, in the case where a large number of communities are assigned to the user, when the user requests scraps of contents by operating a scrap selection means, the community to which the user belongs is selected to be selected by the user, and then the selected community among the plurality of communities is described as You can scrap content together.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the most practical and preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above disclosed embodiments, but also includes various modifications and equivalents within the scope of the following claims. For example, the components of each system described above may be implemented in hardware or software to perform their functions.

As described above, since the contents on the network can be easily scraped into a predetermined community according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the contents provided on the network can be more easily shared.

In addition, since the user side can easily scrap various contents on their community, it is possible to improve community participation of other users. Therefore, communication between users can be made more active.

1 is a structural diagram of a content scrap system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram sequentially illustrating a content scrap processing process according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

3 is an exemplary view of a content to which a scrap button is applied according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram sequentially illustrating a content scrap processing process according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (1)

In the method of scraping content over the network, a) providing contents to each of the user terminals connected through the network to which the strap selecting means are assigned; And b) if the user operates the scrap selection means assigned to the predetermined content, scraping the content into the user's community Recording medium in which a program implemented with a function including the stored.