KR20090017320A - Method and system for utilizing web hard contents as ucc - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and a service for offering a service using UCC(User Created Contents) of web-hard contents by offering a storage area of a web-hard are enable a user to utilize the contents, which are not opened and occupies only the storage space. A screen for selecting contents to be used as UCC among multimedia contents stored in a web-hard is provided to a user terminal when a request is received from the user terminal. Information of the contents to be used as the UCC is received from the user terminal. The selected contents are opened as the UCC.

Description

Method of providing web hard service using web hard contents and system thereof {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING WEB HARD CONTENTS AS UCC}

The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing a UCC utilizing service of web hard content, and more particularly, to provide a storage area of a web hard when a user stores content of a web hard user as user-generated content (UCC). The present invention relates to a method for providing a UCC utilizing service of a web hard content and a system thereof.

Currently, most of the hard disk space occupied by web hard users is multimedia content such as video, images, and music. Many of these materials are very useful when they are made public, but most of them are not buried in the public, or do not know how to convert them to UCC.

The present invention was devised to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is useful to utilize contents that occupy only storage space without being disclosed by providing appropriate benefits to users on the condition of releasing personal storage data of Webhard users as UCC. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method and a system for providing a service using UCC of a web hard content.

In order to achieve the above object, a method of providing a service for publishing a multimedia content stored in a web hard by the UCC (User Created Contents) service system using the web hard content according to the present invention, (a) Web hard Processing a login of a user accessing the portal homepage of the UCC service using the contents; (b) if the user terminal is requested to utilize the multimedia content stored in the web hard as UCC, providing a screen for selecting the content to be used as the UCC among the multimedia content stored in the web hard to the user terminal; (c) receiving, from the user terminal, content information selected as a content to be used as a UCC by the user among multimedia contents stored in a web hard; (d) publishing the selected content as a UCC.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a method for providing a service for publishing a multimedia content stored in a web hard as a UCC by a user created contents (UCC) service system using the web hard content, comprising: (a) using the web hard content; Processing a login of a user accessing the portal homepage of the UCC service; (b) receiving a request for uploading multimedia content to be stored in a web hard from the user's terminal; (c) requesting the user terminal to determine whether to publish the uploaded multimedia content to UCC; and (d) storing the multimedia content on a web hard when the user terminal accepts the disclosure to UCC, and then publishing the multimedia content on the web hard, and storing the multimedia content on the web hard if not accepted.

In each case of the two inventions, after step (d), the method may further include (e) calculating a discount amount of the web hard fee of the content provider corresponding to the contents provided for use as UCC.

The discount amount is preferably proportional to the capacity of the provided content.

Between step (c) and step (d) of the first invention, (c1) separating the content selected as the content to be used as the UCC in the step (c) into a UCC public content storage area on the web hard; It may further include.

In the step (d) of the second invention, if the user terminal accepts the uploaded multimedia content to UCC, the multimedia content is preferably stored in the UCC public content storage area on the web hard.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a system for providing a service for publishing a multimedia content stored in a web hard as a User Created Contents (UCC), the system comprising: a web hard part for storing the multimedia content uploaded by a user; A portal service module that provides a portal homepage for providing a web hard user with a web hard drive and providing a service utilizing a multimedia content stored in the web hard as a UCC; A public content information database storing information including a name of multimedia content published to UCC, provider information, and a location on a web hard drive; A public content information reception and retrieval module for receiving multimedia content information to be published to UCC from a web hard user, storing the multimedia content information in the public content information database, and retrieving specific public content information from the public content information database; And a controller configured to control each of the components to perform a series of processes of providing a UCC service using web hard content.

The system may further include a web hard discount amount calculating module for calculating a discount amount of the web hard fee of the content provider in response to content provided to be used as a UCC by the web hard user.

Preferably, the web hard includes a UCC open content storage area for storing contents published to UCC and a private content storage area for each user.

The UCC public content storage area may be stored separately according to a content type including an image, a video, a sound, and a text.

The system may further include a UCC format module configured to format a public content corresponding to information stored in the public content information database in a UCC format.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a method and system for providing a service using UCC of the web hard content that can be usefully used as a UCC, provided that the user's stored data of the web hard users are appropriately provided to each individual. It works.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the specification and claims should not be construed as having a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a network for implementing a UCC service using web hard content according to the present invention. Referring to the drawings, the UCC service system 100 using the web hard content is a web hard user computer 30, an Internet user computer (10.1 to 10.N, hereinafter referred to as 10.N) and a portal web service through an information communication network. It is associated with a portal web server (20.1 to 20.N, hereinafter referred to as 20.N) that provides.

The web hard user 30 using the web hard, which is included in the UCC service system 100 using the web hard content, uses the web hard content to open and utilize the multimedia content stored on the web hard as UCC. It can request to the used UCC service system 100. Of course, at this time, it is desirable to provide a corresponding benefit to those who provide the content to the UCC. For example, there may be a method of discounting the web hard fee according to the exposure frequency or capacity of the content to be published. On the other hand, the user 30 may be asked whether to utilize the UCC for the content to be uploaded and stored in the web hard of the UCC service system 100 using the web hard content instead of the already stored content. If the user accepts the usage, the web hard will be saved and released to UCC. If the user refuses, the user will save it privately to the existing user area. It is also possible to separate the storage area on the web hard of the content to be used as UCC from the private area. The UCC switching method of such personal content will be described again with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

The content disclosed as UCC may be published and published on the portal service homepage of the UCC service system 100 using the web hard content, or may be published and published on the homepage provided by another portal web server 20.N. The Internet user 10.N can freely play / view.

2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a UCC service system 100 using web hard content. The web hard unit 102 includes a web hard for storing multimedia content uploaded by a user. Preferably, the web hard may include a UCC public content storage area for storing content published to UCC and a private content storage area for each user. In this case, the UCC public content storage area may be stored separately according to a content type including an image, a video, a sound, and a text, and the private content storage area means a storage area of each existing web hard user. When the content stored in the private content storage area is to be disclosed to the UCC, the content may be transferred to the public content area and stored, and may be stored separately according to the above-described content type.

The portal service module 103 provides a web homepage for providing a web hard user and a service for utilizing a multimedia content stored in the web hard as a UCC.

The public content information database 105 stores public content information including the name of the multimedia content published by the UCC, provider information, and a location on the web hard.

The public content information receiving and retrieval module 104 receives multimedia content information to be published to UCC from a web hard user, stores the multimedia content information in the public content information database 105, and provides specific public content information from the public content information database 105. It also plays a role in searching.

The UCC format module 106 plays a role of configuring a format for publishing public content corresponding to the information stored in the public content information database 105 to UCC.

The web hard discount amount calculation module 107 is a module for calculating a discount amount of the web hard fee of the content provider in response to the content provided to be used as the UCC by the web hard user. The predetermined calculation rate is input so that the discount amount can be calculated accordingly.

The controller 101 controls each of the above components to perform a series of processes of providing a UCC service using the web hard content.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of publishing contents previously stored in an individual web hard area to a UCC. After the web hard user accesses the service homepage provided by the UCC service system 100 using the web hard content (S301), the user requests to utilize the multimedia content stored on the web hard as the UCC (S302). As mentioned above, this can be increased when a certain benefit is given to the provider to the UCC. It is desirable to enable the above request by clicking a button on the homepage. When the UCC service system 100 using the web hard content receives the UCC utilization request, the UCC service system 100 provides a screen for selecting contents to be converted to UCC among the contents on the web hard of the requester (S303), and the requestor selects the contents. (S304). In this case, preferably, the selected contents are separately stored in the UCC public content storage area (S305). In addition, as described above, it is also desirable to store separately according to the content type including the image, video, sound, text. Thereafter, the content may be configured in a format for publishing to UCC and posted on the service homepage provided by the UCC service system 100 using the web hard content, or the UCC may be provided as a service homepage provided by another portal service web server ( S306).

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of determining whether to use UCC with respect to newly uploaded and stored contents. After the web hard user accessing the service homepage provided by the UCC service system 100 using the web hard content logs in (S401), when the web hard user requests upload of content to be stored in the web hard (S402), the web hard The UCC service system 100 using the content asks the web hard user whether the uploaded content may be used as the UCC (S403). When the user of the web hard disk accepts the use of the UCC, the web hard storage is stored and the contents are formatted in the UCC and posted on the service homepage provided by the UCC service system 100 using the web hard contents, or the service homepage provided by another portal service web server. The UCC may be provided (S404, S406, S407). If you do not accept the use as UCC is stored in the web hard as before (S404, S405). In this case, as described above, the UCC may be separately stored into the UCC public content storage area and the private area (user personal web hard area).

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment in which the web hard 102 is divided into a public area to UCC and a private storage area of each user. As described above, the UCC public content storage area may be stored separately according to a content type including an image, a video, a sound, and a text, and the private content storage area refers to a storage area of each existing web hard user. When the content stored in the private content storage area is to be disclosed to the UCC, the content may be transferred to the public content area and stored, and may be stored separately according to the above-described content type.

On the other hand, when providing personal content to UCC, the web hard discount may be discounted according to the frequency of exposure as UCC. If this is the case, the discount may fluctuate monthly.

As described above, although the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited thereto and is intended by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Of course, various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of the claims to be described.

1 is a view showing the configuration of a network for implementing a UCC service using a web hard content according to the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a UCC service system using web hard content.

3 is a flow chart of a process of publishing content previously stored in a web hard area of a person to UCC.

Figure 4 is a flow chart of a method for determining whether to utilize the UCC for the newly uploaded and stored content.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an embodiment of dividing a web hard into a public area to UCC and a private storage area of each user. FIG.

Claims (11)

UCC (User Created Contents) service system using the web hard content, a method for providing a service for publishing a multimedia content stored in the web hard as a UCC, (a) processing a login of a user accessing the portal homepage of the UCC service using the web hard content; (b) if the user terminal is requested to utilize the multimedia content stored in the web hard as UCC, providing a screen for selecting the content to be used as the UCC among the multimedia content stored in the web hard to the user terminal; (c) receiving, from the user terminal, content information selected as a content to be used as a UCC by the user among multimedia contents stored in a web hard; (d) publishing the selected content as a UCC; UCC utilization service providing method of the web hard content comprising a. UCC (User Created Contents) service system using the web hard content, a method for providing a service for publishing a multimedia content stored in the web hard as a UCC, (a) processing a login of a user accessing the portal homepage of the UCC service using the web hard content; (b) receiving a request for uploading multimedia content to be stored in a web hard from the user's terminal; (c) requesting the user terminal to determine whether to publish the uploaded multimedia content to UCC; (d) storing the multimedia content on a web hard when the user terminal accepts it to be published in UCC, and then publishing the multimedia content as a UCC; otherwise, storing the multimedia content on the web hard; UCC utilization service providing method of the web hard content comprising a. The method according to claim 1 or 2, After the step (d), (e) calculating a discount amount of the web hard fee of the content provider in response to the contents provided for use as UCC; UCC utilization service providing method of the web hard content, characterized in that it further comprises. The method according to claim 3, The discount amount, Proportional to the capacity of the provided content UCC utilization service providing method of the web hard content, characterized in that. The method according to claim 1, Between step (c) and step (d), (c1) separating and storing the content selected as the content to be used as the UCC in the step (c), into a UCC public content storage area on the web hard; UCC utilization service providing method of the web hard content, characterized in that it further comprises. The method according to claim 2, If the user terminal accepts the uploaded multimedia content in UCC in step (d), the multimedia content is stored in the UCC public content storage area on the web hard. UCC utilization service providing method of the web hard content, characterized in that. A system that provides a service for publishing multimedia contents stored in a web hard as UCC (User Created Contents). A web hard part configured to store multimedia content uploaded by a user; A portal service module that provides a portal homepage for providing a web hard user with a web hard drive and providing a service utilizing a multimedia content stored in the web hard as a UCC; A public content information database storing information including a name of multimedia content published to UCC, provider information, and a location on a web hard drive; A public content information receiving and retrieval module for receiving multimedia content information to be published to UCC from a web hard user, storing the multimedia content information in the public content information database, and retrieving specific public content information from the public content information database; A control unit which controls each of the components to perform a series of processes of providing a UCC service using web hard content; UCC service system using a web hard content including a. The method according to claim 7, A web hard discount amount calculation module for calculating a discount amount of a web hard fee of the content provider in response to content provided to be used as a UCC by a web hard user; UCC service system using a web hard content, characterized in that it further comprises. The method according to claim 7, The web hard includes a UCC public content storage area for storing the content published to UCC and private content storage area of each user UCC service system using a web hard content characterized in that. The method according to claim 9, The UCC public content storage area, Stored separately according to the type of content, including images, video, sound, and text UCC service system using a web hard content characterized in that. The method according to claim 7, A UCC format module configured to format a public content corresponding to the information stored in the public content information database to a UCC; UCC service system using a web hard content, characterized in that it further comprises.

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