KR20050104261A - System and method for transacting a music album of the contents - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a digital content trading system and method for a music album for reprocessing digital content into an album format on the Internet.

Conventional digital content trading system allows a user to purchase or sell a corresponding digital content simply by selling a certain content through a plurality of PCs.

However, the conventional digital content trading system is limited to the information collected and provided by the content provider, and provides information such as the content genre and the selling price regardless of the consumer's preference, but also the content genre and the desired selling price according to the consumer's preference. It is just a simple content sale that cannot provide satisfactory effects because it cannot provide specific information.

In view of the above problems, the present invention resells the digital content file by using the processing unit and the compilation creation unit for the digital content file of the music album, so that each user can reduce the price burden on the purchase. Provides a digital content trading system and method.

In the present invention, when a music file, which is a digital content in an Internet website, is sold by a user, the user first purchases a music file sold on the site, and then reconstructs the music file and sells it to another user in the form of an album.

Therefore, it is possible to activate by reducing the user's price burden on the purchase of music files, and by reselling the purchased files, it is possible to purchase another file again. Have consciousness

Description

System and method for transacting a music album of the contents}

The present invention relates to a digital content trading system and method for processing and reselling digital content in the form of albums on the Internet, and more particularly, when a music file, which is digital content in an Internet website, is sold on the first site. The present invention relates to a digital content trading system and method of a music album in which a user purchases a music file and then reconstructs the music file and sells the same to another user in the form of an album.

In general, there are various ways of buying and selling digital contents. Among them, a content selling system using the Internet is operated under the management of a content transaction server using an internet network between a seller and a consumer who is a content producer.

In addition, since copyright protection of Internet digital content is a big problem because of P2P, it is operating as an important center of digital content.

As an example, a digital content selling system will be described with reference to FIG.

Referring to FIG. 1, the digital content selling system 100 of a music album in a content selling system collects a plurality of searched contents by accessing an environment providing server 10 and the environment providing server 10 and storing the content according to a predetermined criterion. To the content storage DB 20, the content provider 30 to provide access to the environment providing server 10 to provide various contents stored in the content storage DB 20, to the environment providing server 10 A consumer management server 40 for managing a consumer to view a variety of content, and a plurality of PCs 150 that can be connected to the Internet network to search for and request a variety of content.

The digital content trading system is a sale of the content provided by the content provider 30 from the content storage DB 20 connected to the environment providing server 10 through a plurality of PCs 150, so that the user as a consumer To simply buy and sell digital content.

However, this digital content trading system is limited to information collected and provided by content providers, and provides information such as content genre and selling price regardless of consumer's preference. It's just a simple content sale that can't give a satisfactory effect because it can't provide specific information.

In view of the above problems, the present invention resells the digital content file by using the processing unit and the compilation creation unit for the digital content file of the music album, so that each user can reduce the price burden on the purchase. The purpose is to provide a digital content trading system and method.

In order to achieve the above technical problem, in the content sales system according to the present invention,

Under the control of the operation server 12 and the operation server 12, a plurality of contents per album per planning album is set for the first sale of music, and the price is set, and the digital music file is processed at the set price. It consists of a primary processing unit 14 and the jukebox 16 to purchase a plurality of content per song, per planning album in accordance with the sale of the processing unit 14 and stored in a list, which content consumers Environment providing server (10) that provides an environment for accessing the Internet network to search for and purchase various contents,

A content storage DB 20 which manages to collect and store a plurality of searched contents by accessing the environment providing server 10 according to a predetermined criterion;

A content provider 30 that accesses the environment providing server 10 and provides various contents stored in the content storage DB 20;

A consumer management server 40 for managing a consumer who accesses the environment providing server 10 to view various contents, and

A user jukebox connected to the environment providing server 10 and under the control of the operation server 12 may be re-sold by a user who purchases songs composed of music files. It is characterized by having a plurality of user PCs 150 that can search and purchase.

In addition, in order to achieve the technical problem to be achieved, in the content selling method,

A step (s31) of accessing the environment providing server 10 to the content provider 30 and the user PC 150 to provide the content composed of the electronic file;

The operation server 12 performs a login process, authenticating the content provider 30 and the user PC 150 (s33);

The content provider 30 and the user PC 150 connected to the operation server 12 search for the content they want to trade (s35);

Thereafter, the user PC 150 displays the content list under the control of the operation server 12 and resells the content (the content to be processed with the songs or albums to purchase) among the list to be resold. Searching and selecting various contents using the jukebox for the user (150) (s 37);

Purchasing the content selected by the user PC 150 as a digital music file download service from a website and storing the selected content in the user jukebox 16 of the user PC 150 (s 38);

Registering transaction processing conditions for the content transmitted from the user PC (150) to the first processing unit (14) (s 39);

The operation server 12 transmits the content desired by the user PC 150 to the secondary processing unit 18 between the content provider 30 and the registered user PC 150 (s 41);

Is there enough points to pay the album to be purchased by the user PC 150, and the name of the song, the number of songs, the price of the song and the number of albums created by the compilation creation unit 120, the number of albums stored in the jukebox 16 Checking the linkage information such as, and album price, and then checking whether to approve (s 43); And,

When the content created by the compilation creation unit 120 in association with the juke box 16 is approved (s 43), payment of the content (s 45) is performed, and the user juke box 16 of the user PC 150 is used. It is characterized in that it comprises a step (s 47) that is stored as a list to allow the user PC 150 to listen.

When the digital content of the music album of the present invention is sold, the access step (s31), the content search step (s35), and the authentication step (s33) of the user PC 150 are provided. It is also possible for the user PC 150 to perform instead of the provider 30.

In addition, the digital content trading system of the music album of the present invention can download music as a digital content music file (for example, in the form of an MP3 file) from an Internet site by using a legal music file with a copyright-related rights agreement from a record producer. Service to be possible.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In describing the present invention, the same parts as in the prior art will be described with the same reference numerals, and repeated description thereof will be omitted. In the present specification, the music file is a digital file of all kinds capable of digitally implementing music (sound), and has an extension of * .mp3 / * .wave / * .au / * .ra / * .mid / * .wmv For example, the file format would be / * .avi / * .mpeg / * .ogg, and so on.

2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a digital content selling system of a music album according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the digital content trading system 100 of the music album shown in FIG. 2 includes an environment providing server 10, a content storage DB 20, a content provider 30, a consumer management server 40, and the like. A plurality of PCs 150 are provided.

That is, the digital content selling system 100 of the music album, as described above, accesses the environment providing server 10 and the environment providing server 10 to collect and store a plurality of searched contents according to a predetermined criterion. The content storage DB 20 to manage, the content provider 30 to access the environment providing server 10 to provide a variety of content stored in the content storage DB 20, the environment providing server 10 to access a variety of A consumer management server 40 for managing the consumer to view the content, and a plurality of PCs 150 that can be connected to the Internet network to search and request a variety of content.

However, in the digital content sales system 100 of the music album, the environment providing server 10 provides an environment in which a content consumer can access a variety of contents and request a purchase by accessing the Internet network.

Then, the environment providing server 10 is the operation server 12, and under the control of the operation server 12, the content provider 30 through the Internet network, the content provider 30 per song per album per planning album per album In the case of the initial sale of the music, the price is set, and the plurality of contents are sold in accordance with the primary processing unit 14 for processing the digital music file at the set price and the processing unit 14. The user (member of this site) makes selective purchases per song, album, or planned album, and the purchased contents are configured in their jukebox 16 which is stored as a list. The music file (eg MP3, Wave, OGG, etc.), which is a digital content file, is stored in the user's personal computer (PC) 150 and has its area as a legal digital file.

In addition, in the digital content sales system 100 of the music album, the content provider 30 creates a music digital file, which is a digital right processed for a specific digital content, and sells the produced content corresponding to a song, album theme, and time limit. And a condition such as a selling cost and the like in the content storage DB 20 as a registration condition and simultaneously notify the electronic bulletin board by the consumer management server 40 and notify the environment providing server 10. At this time, the song to be sold or the album to be sold are sent to the user PC 150 connected through the Internet network NT.

In addition, the user PC 150 is provided with a plurality of accessors and is provided from the environment providing server 10 with a jukebox (not shown) allocated for the user used by the user PC 150. The jukebox for the user is managed by a jukebox application program to reproduce, edit and process the content music file data.

Here, the jukebox for the user of the user PC 150 can find the corresponding music in the environment providing server 10, and automatically displays album information such as the artist's name, album, year, music files such as MP3 and WAVE through the automatic information. It can be added or modified automatically.

Next, the consumer management server 40 is connected to the environment providing server 10 and under the control of the operation server 12 is authorized to re-sell a user who has purchased songs composed of music files. At this time, the consumer management server 40 creates a compilation to create a compilation with the secondary processing unit 18 and the secondary processing unit 18 that can process and sell only the music legally purchased by the user PC 150 in the web site. The unit 120 is provided.

The secondary processing unit 18 supplies a purchase list list of contents stored in the content storage DB 20 at the request of the user PC 150.

In addition, the compilation creation unit 120 is in the same album format as the 'compilation' record that the content processed by the secondary processing unit 18, that is, the music producers of the content provider 30 gathers and releases only popular songs. Write. Here, the content created by the compilation creation unit 120, that is, the sale of the music file generated by the compilation creation unit 120, should be a new album containing two or more songs unconditionally in album unit format rather than song unit. Also, the album you create should be different from the existing officially released album. On the other hand, the upper limit of the album price is not determined, but the lower limit is determined for the minimum guarantee of copyright and operating costs, and when selling below the lower limit, the user himself must pay for the cost and sell. You can decide how much you can sell, and you'll earn points when you sell your album, which you can use to cash in on other albums.

Now, a content selling process based on the digital content selling system of the music album shown in FIG. 2 will be described using the flowchart of FIG.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a content selling method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, first, the content provider 30 and / or the user PC 150, which are to be provided to the music file users as the content composed of electronic files, access the environment providing server 10 (s 31). The operation server 12 authenticates the content provider 30 and / or the user PC 150 through a login process (s 33).

The content provider 30 accessing the operation server 12 provides the produced songs and albums as a content list (s35).

Then, the user PC 150 displays the content list and selects the content (the content to be processed with the song or compilation album to be purchased) from the list (s 37).

In other words, the selection of content to be processed in the digital content trading system 100 of the music album is connected to the environment providing server 10 by the user jukebox of the user PC 150 and controlled by the operation server 12. The user who purchased the music file under the music file is authorized to resell it.

The content selected by the user PC 150 is purchased and stored in the user jukebox 16 of the user PC 150 in the same manner as a digital music file purchase procedure in a general website (see music file download service). s 38)

Thereafter, the operation server 12 registers the transaction processing conditions for the content transmitted from the user PC 150 to the first processing unit 14 (s 39). Here, the content provider 30 registers the transaction price and condition selected by the user PC 150.

In addition, the operation server 12 transmits the content desired by the user PC 150 to the second processing unit 18 between the content provider 30 and the registered user PC 150 (s 41), and the operation server ( 12) indicate whether there are enough points for the user PC 150 to pay for the album to be purchased, and at the same time, the name of the song stored in the jukebox 16, the number of songs and the name of the compilation album created by the creator 120 of the compilation album, After confirming by linking information such as the album number, album price, and check whether the approval (s 43). If it is disapproved in the step (s 43) of checking the transaction approval confirmed to the compilation creation unit 120 in conjunction with the juke box 16, the content provider 30 through the confirmation process of the transaction conditions re-entry step (s 44) The user PC 150 inputs the transaction condition again.

When the content created by the compilation creation unit 120 approves (s 43), the content is settled (s 45), and stored in the user jukebox 16 of the user PC 150 as a list and stored in the user PC. Allow listening at 150 (s 47).

Therefore, the digital album sales system and method of the music album for the sales method on the Internet can sell legal music files processed by the compilation album of the new user. In other words, by selling new re-creation of users (especially digital music album contents), it reduces the distribution of P2P illegal digital music files and recognizes legal distribution of Internet digital contents by solving copyright problem and selling new community method. And activation.

As described above, the digital content trading system and operating method of the music album of the present invention can be activated by reducing the user's price burden on the purchase of music files, and other files can be re-sold through resale of the purchased files. It creates the capacity to buy again so that each user can have a legitimate digital ethic. In addition, the digital album sales system and method of music album prevents P2P from sharing illegal digital music files and helps sell music files with legal rights. It is effective in activating and strengthening users' awareness of copyright.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a digital content selling system of a music album according to the prior art;

2 is a block diagram schematically showing a digital content selling system of a music album according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

3 is a flowchart illustrating a content selling method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

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

10: Digital Contents Trading System

12: operation server 14,18: processing unit

16: Jukebox 20: Content Storage DB

120: compilation writing unit 150: user PC

Claims (7)

In the content sales system, Under the control of the operation server 12 and the operation server 12, a plurality of contents per album per planning album is set for the first sale of music, and the price is set, and the digital music file is processed at the set price. It consists of a primary processing unit 14 and the jukebox 16 to purchase a plurality of content per song, per planning album in accordance with the sale of the processing unit 14 and stored in a list, which content consumers Environment providing server (10) that provides an environment for accessing the Internet network to search for and purchase various contents, A content storage DB 20 which manages to collect and store a plurality of searched contents by accessing the environment providing server 10 according to a predetermined criterion; A content provider 30 that accesses the environment providing server 10 and provides various contents stored in the content storage DB 20; A consumer management server 40 for managing a consumer who accesses the environment providing server 10 to view various contents, and It is provided with a jukebox for the user of the user PC 150 connected to the environment providing server 10 and the user who purchased the music files made of music files under the control of the operation server 12 can be resold again, the Internet network Digital content trading system of the music album, characterized in that it comprises a plurality of user PCs (150) that can be connected to the search and purchase a variety of content. The method of claim 1, The personal computer (PC) of the user is a digital content trading system of a music album, characterized in that provided with a legitimate digital music file. The method of claim 1, The consumer management server 40 is connected to the environment providing server 10 and under the control of the operating server 12, the user who purchased the music composed of the digital music file is authorized to re-sell again Digital content trading system of music albums. The method of claim 1, The consumer management server 40 creates a compilation to create a compilation with the secondary processing unit 18 and the secondary processing unit 18, which can process and sell only the music legally purchased by the user PC 150 in the web site. Digital content trading system of the music album, characterized in that it comprises a unit (120). In the method of selling content, A step (s 31) of accessing the environment providing server 10 to the content provider 30 and the user PC 150 to provide the content composed of the electronic file; The operation server 12 performs a login process, authenticating the content provider 30 and the user PC 150 (s 33); The content provider 30 and the user PC 150 connected to the operation server 12 search for the content they want to trade (s 35); Thereafter, the user PC 150 displays the content list under the control of the operation server 12, and the user PC 150 may resell only the content to be processed with the songs and albums to be purchased from the list. Searching for and selecting various contents using the user's jukebox (s 37); Purchasing the content selected by the user PC 150 as a digital music file download service from a website and storing the selected content in the user jukebox 16 of the user PC 150 (s 38); Registering transaction processing conditions for the content transmitted from the user PC (150) to the first processing unit (14) (s 39); The operation server 12 transmits the content desired by the user PC 150 to the secondary processing unit 18 between the content provider 30 and the registered user PC 150 (s 41); Is there enough points to pay the album to be purchased by the user PC 150, and the name of the song, the number of songs, the price of the song and the number of albums created by the compilation creation unit 120, the number of albums stored in the jukebox 16 Checking the linkage information such as, and album price, and then checking whether to approve (s 43); And, When the content created by the compilation creation unit 120 in association with the juke box 16 is approved (s 43), payment of the content (s 45) is performed, and the user juke box 16 of the user PC 150 is used. And a step (s 47) which is stored as a list in the list to allow listening to the user PC (150). The method of claim 5, If it is disapproved in the step (s 43) of checking the transaction approval confirmed to the jukebox 16 or the compilation creation unit 120, the transaction condition that the user PC 150 inputs the transaction condition from the content provider 30 again. Digital content trading method of the music album comprising the re-input step (s44). The method of claim 5, The access step s31 of the environment providing server 10, the content search step s 35, and the authentication step s33 of the user PC 150 may be performed by the user PC 150 instead of the content provider 30 to be provided. Digital content selling method of the music album, characterized in that performed by.