KR20070008157A - Method of providing digital contents on the internet - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for offering contents through the Internet is provided to aggressively perform an Internet service by offering the contents with time division through the Internet and concentratedly offering the contents to each time section through various kinds of type capable of making an animation, a game, and a moving image diversely at a low cost. A specific time section among multiple time sections is assigned according to a request of a CP(Content Provider) wanting to provide content information through an Internet site(S61). The content information to be provided for the time section assigned to the CP is provided to each client in the corresponding time section through the Internet site(S63). The Internet site provides the content information corresponding to the corresponding time section to the client connected the Internet site. The content information is formed by including a program code executed in the client, or web-based animation or moving image information made from Flash.

Description

Method of providing digital contents on the Internet}

1 is an overview of an Internet service system;

2 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is an overview of providing content information divided by time intervals according to the present invention;

4 is an overview for explaining a state in which content is provided according to the present invention;

5 is an overview for explaining a series of time intervals as channels;

6 is a flow chart related to another embodiment of the present invention;

7 is an example of a process of determining content information according to a current time;

8 and 9 are flowcharts illustrating still another embodiment of the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

11: client 12: Internet

13: internet site 15: administrator

The present invention relates to a method for providing content through the Internet. In particular, the content provided through the Internet site is divided and set for each time interval, and the content provided in each time interval is interesting using various techniques such as animation or video. To make the content more aggressively available to customers.

With the development of communication technology, the Internet has become a part of daily life, and the Internet service has been expanded almost without limitation in various fields such as public relations of Internet shopping malls, individuals, groups, companies, financial transactions, and handling civil complaints in public offices.

On the other hand, each Internet site has a variety of forms, depending on the content and characteristics of the service, but is basically configured to list the various items related to the service and shows the corresponding content when a customer clicks on a particular item. In this case, each item may be composed of various shapes such as text, image, animation, etc., but the same is true in that the customer needs to find what he / she wants.

Such a conventional Internet service method may be effective when the customer clearly finds what he / she wants, but it is not easy to induce interest by actively presenting something to the customer who does not. For this reason, each Internet site writes various incentives such as an interesting animation that expresses what is attracted to specific information and places it in a prominent place on the home page to attract customers.

However, this method merely expresses the items to be attracted to specific information in an interesting manner, and is merely a conventional enumeration method, and does not deviate from the conventional method of searching for one's own desire by referring to the contents of Internet sites visited by customers. In other words, the conventional method can provide a variety of information or services through the Internet, but there is a weak point in terms of actively attracting customers.

In a situation where the importance of the Internet is rapidly increasing and competition is increasing in everyday life, it is equally important not only to provide a variety of information to customers but also to provide a more active service to customers. It is necessary to develop various ways to realize this.

Accordingly, the present invention was devised to meet the above necessity, and provides various contents by time intervals through the Internet, and in each time interval, the expressive power such as animation, game, video, etc. can be produced very diversely and inexpensively. The purpose is to provide a specific content intensively through various methods that can be carried out more actively to perform Internet services.

In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the method for providing content information via the Internet according to the present invention comprises the steps of: setting the content information to be provided to the client at each time interval of the plurality of time intervals on the Internet site; And providing, by the Internet site, content information corresponding to the corresponding time interval to the client in each of the time intervals.

Another embodiment according to the present invention comprises the steps of setting the content information to be provided to the client corresponding to each of a plurality of time intervals; Determining the current time when the Internet site is accessed by the client; And providing the content information corresponding to the time interval to which the identified time belongs to the connected client.

Another embodiment according to the present invention comprises the steps of: allocating a predetermined time interval of a plurality of time intervals in response to a request of a content provider to provide content information through an Internet site; Processing content information to be provided in the time interval allocated to the content provider to be provided to each client through the Internet site in the corresponding time period; And providing the content information corresponding to the time interval to the client accessing the Internet site.

The time interval may be configured such that at least two or more time intervals are continuously connected.

The content information may be configured to include computer program code executed on a client, where the computer program code may be configured to include a script (SCRIPT) language. In addition, the content information may be configured to include web-based animation or video information produced using FLASH.

First, to help understand the description, the meaning of terms used below will be described.

* Content Information: It means the information that internet site can provide to client through internet network. It is used to inform arbitrary contents to customers. Content information may include various types of information that can be provided through the Internet such as text, images, cartoons, animations, videos, voices, sounds, and games, information for promoting and selling newspaper articles, products, and test information. There are no restrictions on the content or purpose of the child, childcare information, fashion information, etc.

The content information may include any information necessary to achieve the purpose of the service provided by the Internet site. As one example, the content information may be configured to include both a program executed on the client side (e.g., a program written in JAVA SCRIPT) and a program executed on the server side (e.g., a program written in PHP).

In particular, since content information is provided through a medium called the Internet, it can be produced through various programming languages that can be used on the Internet such as 'HTML', 'JAVA', 'JAVA SCRIPT', 'PHP', 'ASP', and 'FLASH'. . In particular, the content information may be configured to include computer program code written in various program languages that can be used on the Internet and executed on a client, and the computer program code may include a script (SCRIPT) language.

In addition, the content information may be configured to include web-based animation or video information produced using FLASH.

When the content information is transmitted to a client from an Internet site, the content information may be interpreted and executed by various computer programs such as a web browser installed on the client. This makes it possible to construct a very interesting and diverse content of the content information. In particular, it is possible to easily implement the content information having a bidirectional property by configuring in a form that can respond to the action of the client.

In general, the content information can be output in various formats through a web browser installed on the client. However, the content information is not necessarily processed through the web browser, but can play a program or sound that plays a flash animation. Of course, it can be linked to any computer program required such as a program.

In addition, the Internet site and the client may not be connected only through a commercial web browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape, and the Internet site and the client may be connected to each other through various methods to exchange content information. For example, a specific computer program may be installed on a client and configured to process content information transmitted from an Internet site using the program.

* Internet site: Comprehensive system for providing schedule service by connecting with each client through internet network.

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

Referring to Fig. 1, each client 11 accesses an internet site 13 providing a service according to the present invention through an internet network 12. At this time, the Internet network 12 may be a wired or wireless Internet network, the client 11 is a wired or wireless Internet network, such as a desktop computer, a notebook computer, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a television set having an Internet access function It may be any computer device that can connect to the Internet site 13 via 12.

At this time, the Internet site 13 interworks with a database that stores and manages various information, and may provide various services by using the information stored in the database.

As an example of the process of the service in the Internet site 13, when the client 11 accesses the Internet site 13 through a web browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape, the basic homepage of the Internet site 13 is provided. (Eg, index.html, index.php, etc.) are automatically transmitted to the client 11, and the contents of this home page are generally interpreted by a web browser and output to the client screen. However, the client 11 loads a specific file of the Internet site 13 directly or installs a separate program other than a web browser on the client 11 to operate the Internet site 13 through the Internet network 12. Of course, it can be connected to any technology that allows to use the services provided by the.

On the other hand, the feature of the Internet site providing a service according to the present invention is to provide a specific content information intensively for each of a plurality of time intervals.

Referring to FIG. 2, one embodiment is described. First, content information corresponding to each of a plurality of time intervals is set in an Internet site (S21). In operation S22, content information corresponding to the corresponding time section is provided to the client through the Internet site.

That is, the Internet site provides content information depending on the passage of time, and more specifically, the content information is provided in units of time intervals. Here, the fact that the content information depends on the passage of time does not mean that the operation of the content such as animation changes over time, but the content information itself changes as the time interval is changed. For example, if the content information for promoting and selling the product A is provided in a certain time interval, the next time interval provides content information for promoting and selling the product B. Accordingly, it is possible to intensively provide specific content information for each time section.

To describe a specific example with reference to FIG. 3, the time interval is divided into one hour unit, and the content information A is provided from 09:00 to 10:00, the content information B is provided from 10 to 11 o'clock, and from 11 o'clock. By 12 o'clock, the content information C can be provided. From a customer's point of view, it is not the appearance of an Internet site in which various content items are statically listed as in the related art, but it can be seen that various content information is broadcasted as in a TV.

Referring to FIG. 4, both the access point t1 of the client A and the access point t2 of the client B belong to the time interval A. Therefore, both the client A and the client B come into contact with the content information A which is set to be provided in the time section A, and both of them come in contact with the same starting point of the content information A. That is, if the content is within the same time interval, the Internet content is loaded from the start point of the content information regardless of when each client accesses. This is one of the main differences between the conventional real-time broadcasting service such as a live broadcasting service in a broadcasting station and the present invention.

In addition, when the time has elapsed in the time interval B, both the client A, the client B, and the newly connected client C, which are still connected, provide the content information B, which is set to provide the time interval B, to the content information B. You will be exposed from the start. This is one of the main features of the present invention that distinguishes it from conventional content listing Internet services.

On the other hand, the time interval can be divided in various ways as needed. In addition, the type of content information to be provided in each time interval can be configured in various ways such as information for promoting and selling various products, public relations policy, political public relations, corporate public relations, and recruitment announcements. There is no

In addition, the time interval may be configured such that at least two or more time intervals are continuously connected. However, the time interval may be discontinuous, and the continuous portion and the discontinuous portion may be mixed.

In addition, the content information may be configured to be changed or updated according to the passage of time belonging to the time section again in the corresponding time section. In other words, the contents of the content information may be processed differently for each detailed time section by dividing a certain time section into detailed time sections. This means that the same content information is different, not the fluctuation of the content information itself.

For example, it is a concept of providing content information for promoting and selling the same product A, but which changes according to the progress of a detailed time section in the corresponding time section. As one specific example, when the content information is information promoting and selling a product, new contents may be processed such as prompting a purchase or providing a special gift when a deadline is imminent.

This method can be effectively used when the content information shorter than the time interval is produced and repeatedly executed during the time interval. In addition, the present invention may be effectively used to provide information that is different (or in a state where content information is executed by a difference in time) according to the time point at which each client accesses the same time interval.

In addition, the content information for each time interval may be configured to be automatically provided to the client when the client accesses the Internet site, or may be configured to be provided when a specific item is selected from the web pages provided by the Internet site. It may be.

In addition, the service made in accordance with the present invention may be configured to be performed in a single Internet site, may be configured to be performed in a plurality of Internet sites, may be configured to be divided into categories of content in a single Internet site, etc. It can have branches.

Referring to FIG. 5A, if one route providing various content information in each time interval is defined as one channel as time passes, the Internet site may provide one channel as shown in FIG. 5B. In addition, each channel may be provided for a plurality of categories. From the customer's point of view, various categories are presented to clients accessing the Internet site, and the channel is provided to the category selected by the customer. In addition, these channels can be configured in various ways.

In addition, according to the present invention, the Internet site may be configured such that a form for providing content information divided by time intervals and a form that does not (for example, a form of a conventional Internet site) are mixed.

Now, with reference to FIG. 6, another embodiment of providing content by dividing each time interval according to the present invention will be described.

The content information is set in the Internet site so as to correspond to each time section (S61).

In step S61, when the client accesses the Internet site or when the client clicks on a certain portion of the web page sent by the Internet site, the client sets the content information corresponding to the time interval to be transmitted to the client. it means.

When the client accesses the Internet site at any point in time, the Internet site determines the current time (S62), and transmits the content information corresponding to the time interval to which the identified time belongs to the client (S63).

At this time, the current time is determined and the content information corresponding to the time interval is transmitted to the client, which is composed of a program (for example, Java Script) that is transmitted to the client and executed on the client side or a program (for example, PHP) Can be configured in various ways.

For example, referring to FIG. 7, a client may enter an Internet address (for example, http://www.abcdf.com) to access an Internet site, and automatically index file (for example, index). .php) can be driven and configured to load a file that can determine the current time using a time grasping function coded in an index file and provide content information corresponding to the time interval.

Referring to the example illustrated in FIG. 3, if a client accesses an Internet site at 09:20, a file (eg, a.html) for providing content information (content information A) set corresponding to the time interval is set. ) Is loaded and sent to the client, and if the client accesses the Internet site at 10:37, a file (e.g. b.html) for providing content information (content information B) set corresponding to the time interval is It can be loaded and sent to the client.

7 is only an example for better understanding of the description and may be configured in various ways as necessary in addition to a method of automatically loading a basic file when accessing a specific Internet address.

Referring to Figure 8 will be described another embodiment for providing the content is divided by time interval in accordance with the present invention.

First, the content information to be provided to the client in each time interval is determined (S81). That is, the manager 15 of the Internet site determines the content information to be provided to the client through the Internet site in the corresponding time section.

In addition, the manager uploads each piece of content information to the Internet site for each time interval (S82).

For example, if the entire web page is uniquely configured for each piece of content information, at the beginning of each time interval, the administrator uploads an initial file (eg index.php) to provide the content information to the Internet site. However, if the configuration of the basic homepage is the same and the content information is provided only in a specific part, the file to be provided in the corresponding part of the homepage is uploaded using the reference file name. Referring to the example illustrated in FIG. 3, content information A is uploaded at 09:00 and content information B is uploaded at 10:00.

Now, when the client accesses the Internet site, content information corresponding to the current time is provided to the client through the Internet site (S83).

Referring to Figure 9 will be described another embodiment for providing the content is divided by time intervals according to the present invention.

First, a plurality of time intervals are set (S91), and time intervals are allocated to each content provider according to a request of a content provider to provide their own content information in each time interval (S92). As described above, the time interval can be configured in various ways as needed, and from the standpoint of the Internet site operator, it can be a process of recruiting third parties to provide various contents through the Internet network according to the present invention.

That is, step S92 is a procedure of allocating time intervals in accordance with an application of a content provider who wants to provide various contents information. Such a procedure may be performed through various methods. For example, it may be made in the form of receiving a request from a content provider by presenting various matters such as a condition for allocating a time section on the Internet, or may be made at a fee because the time section is allocated to the content provider. In addition, since the content providing effect may be different for each time section, the allocation fee for each time section may be differentiated.

Then, the content information to be provided by each content provider is set to be provided to each client through the Internet site in the corresponding time period (S93). Content information of each content provider may be received from the corresponding content provider, or may be produced on behalf of the content provider's production request.

Then, the Internet site provides the content information of the content provider corresponding to the time interval in each time interval on the Internet (S94).

An example of the case where the content information is information for promoting and selling various products will be described in detail.

The Internet site may perform various functions for a service for selling a product on the Internet such as membership registration, online payment, delivery information, order / cancellation, and the like. In addition, according to the present invention, the shopping mall is divided into respective time intervals to sell different products for each time interval.

In the example of FIG. 3, the Internet site divides the time interval into one hour unit, promotes and sells the product A from 09 to 10 o'clock, and promotes and sells the product B from 10 to 11 o'clock, From 12:00 until 12:00, commodity C can be promoted and sold. Accordingly, each time period is specialized to promote and sell a specific product intensively.

In other words, if the product C is a laptop computer XXX manufactured by Samsung Electronics, the laptop computer XXX will be sold from 11 to 12 o'clock. From the perspective of the consumer, it is not an appearance of an Internet site in which various products are statically listed as in the related art, but an appearance of an Internet site that concentrates on a specific product such as TV home shopping.

In this case, the content information refers to information that can induce consumer interest through various methods that can be performed on the Internet such as text, image, cartoon, video, animation, voice, sound, and game in the sense of information for promoting a product. However, in the sense of selling information on the Internet, it may include information such as membership registration, ordering, online payment, delivery status inquiry, order history search, and the like.

On the other hand, payment when selling various products on the Internet site can be configured to use the online payment method that can be made on the Internet, the payment method using a call center, or to use the method of the consumer of the two methods, Of course, this can be done in a variety of ways, such as to transfer money to a bank account. Here, the call center means a means for making a payment while making a call through an automatic answering system (ARS) or an agent using a telephone.

Now, to help understand the present invention, the difference between the conventional Internet service and the Internet service according to the present invention will be compared in terms of shopping malls.

1. A conventional internet shopping mall is configured to statically list many products through an image or description, and to display more details when a customer clicks a specific item.

However, in the Internet shopping mall according to the present invention, product information divided into time sections is promoted and sold in order. That is, it is related to the passage of time, and from the customer's point of view, only a product provided in the corresponding time period may be purchased. At this time, even if the product can be purchased by 'reviewing' a product that has already elapsed time period, this is a special problem.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention actively manages Internet sites by time intervals. In particular, the concept of allocating (or selling) a corresponding time period to sellers who want to sell each product is basically inherent. This time interval allocation concept is one of the features of the present invention.

2. Even though a conventional TV home shopping company relays a home shopping broadcast broadcasted on a TV through an internet site in real time, this is only showing a single content through a medium called the Internet.

In the case of the real-time relay through the Internet, it is divided into time zones and shows specific products due to the nature of the broadcast, but this is only a natural law of the passage of time, and does not divide the characteristics of the Internet site into time sections. It is just to provide.

However, it is apparent that each piece of content information in the present invention has unique characteristics, so that a plurality of pieces of content information exist according to the degree of division or allocation of time intervals. In addition, in the present invention, the same content is provided from the starting point at any time during the same time interval using the Internet site. Although an embodiment of the present invention describes dividing one time interval into a plurality of time intervals, this is essentially different from the conventional real-time video service.

3. It is not a time zone that a conventional Internet site provides a schedule for each time zone and outputs a corresponding recorded broadcast program when the user clicks on a specific schedule item. This is evident in that the same content is sent out whenever the user clicks the schedule of the time.

However, in the present invention, the content information provided through the Internet site automatically changes when the time interval elapses. That is, in the case of the conventional recording broadcast, the conventional enumeration method is merely employed.

It is a matter of course that the present invention can be modified in various ways without departing from the spirit of the claims set forth below.

According to the present invention, the Internet site can provide content information for each time section, and can provide a service in which the content information is automatically replaced as time passes. In addition, content information provided on the Internet can be produced more conveniently and cheaply than TV broadcast programs. In particular, since various methods such as cartoons, flash animations, and games can be easily applied to anyone, they can be easily and creatively applied to real services, and their application fields are very wide. In addition, when the time interval is made continuously it can be as if broadcasting.

In particular, when the present invention is used for a service that sells products on the Internet, it is possible to promote products more interestingly and actively to consumers, attracting potential buyers as real buyers, and creating a new internet shopping culture. .

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Setting content information to be provided to a client in each time interval of the plurality of time intervals on an internet site; And And providing, by the Internet site, content information corresponding to the corresponding time interval to the client in each of the time intervals. Setting content information to be provided to the client to correspond to each of the plurality of time intervals; Determining the current time when the Internet site is accessed by the client; And And providing the content information corresponding to the time interval to which the identified time belongs to the connected client. Allocating a predetermined time interval among a plurality of time intervals according to a request of a content provider to provide content information through an Internet site; Processing content information to be provided in the time interval allocated to the content provider to be provided to each client through the Internet site in the corresponding time period; And The Internet site comprises the step of providing the content information corresponding to the time interval to the client connected to the content providing method through the Internet. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The time interval is a content providing method through the Internet, characterized in that configured to continue at least two or more time intervals. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, And the content information comprises computer program code executed on a client. The method of claim 5, And the computer program code comprises a script (SCRIPT) language. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The content information is a content providing method via the Internet, characterized in that it comprises a web-based animation or video information produced using FLASH (FLASH). The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The content information is a content providing method over the Internet, characterized in that configured in the form that can respond to the action of the client. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, And the content information is configured to be output in various formats through a web browser of a client. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The content information for each time period is configured to be automatically provided to the client when the client accesses the Internet site, the content providing method via the Internet. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The content information for each time period is configured to be provided when a client accesses the Internet site and selects a specific item among web pages provided by the Internet site. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, And the content information is configured to be changed or updated according to the passage of time belonging to the time section again in the corresponding time section. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, The content information is a content providing method through the Internet, characterized in that it comprises information for promoting a product.

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