KR20100021060A - Method of providing digital newspaper by digital newspaper apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for providing a digital newspaper by a digital newspaper apparatus is provided to display and transmit various digital newspapers to a user terminal according to the selection from a user. CONSTITUTION: Digital newspaper display information is inputted from a user(412), and a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information is searched from a digital newspaper database(413,414). The searched digital newspaper is displayed according to the digital newspaper display information(415). The digital newspaper display information includes at least one among the kinds of digital newspaper information, the date information of the digital newspaper, main news information, digital newspaper page information, and keyword information.

Description

METHOD OF PROVIDING DIGITAL NEWSPAPER BY DIGITAL NEWSPAPER APPARATUS}

The present invention relates to a digital newspaper providing method of a digital newspaper terminal, and more particularly, to install the digital newspaper terminal connected to various newspaper company servers in a public place and display various digital newspapers according to a user's selection or a terminal of a user. The present invention relates to a digital newspaper providing method of a digital newspaper terminal that enables anyone to subscribe to a digital newspaper in a public place conveniently.

The expansion of the information infrastructure and the development of IT technologies have led to the spread of the digital economy, the increase in the bandwidth of the Internet network and the rapid increase in the number of high-speed Internet subscribers, improving the multimedia information usage environment such as audio and video. Due to the development of image processing technology, the importance of the digital content industry has been highlighted. Digital content refers to information that is utilized through information and communication networks, digital broadcasting networks, and digital storage media by processing and processing codes, text, voice, sound, and images in digital formats using advanced IT technologies.

In the past, to listen to a singer's music, she would buy that artist's LP or tape and listen to it on a turntable or cassette. However, with the advancement of information technology, people rarely buy LPs or tapes to listen to music. Usually, people listen to music through CDs, and recently most people listen to music through MP3 files. Since digital contents such as MP3 files are permanently recorded in the memory means of the digital device, they are easy to store and move, and can be reproduced on various types of terminals, so that compatibility is also excellent.

Recently, digital devices such as PMP, which can watch videos such as movies and TVs on the go, as well as listening to music through MP3 files, are widely used. The digital content market has almost replaced the existing analog content market. have.

In addition, due to the development of digital technology and information and communication technology, in the information age, now anyone can receive information necessary for themselves anytime and anywhere through a PC or a mobile communication terminal. Currently, the Internet is not limited to a specific field but is widely used, and as a part of real life, the number of Internet users using the Internet is increasing rapidly, and the number of service providers providing specific services to the Internet users is increasing rapidly.

In the past, most people have been provided with necessary information through newspapers and other mass media. However, this does not provide a variety of rich information at the desired time due to space-time constraints and space constraints, and the information can be provided only in the order or intention designed by the information provider.

Accordingly, each media company provides its newspapers and broadcasts in the form of digital contents through Internet websites. Thus, users can subscribe to digital newspapers anytime and anywhere through digital devices or various mobile devices with Internet access such as PCs and laptops.

However, as mentioned above, the hierarchy for subscribing to digital newspapers through digital devices is limited to students or office workers who are familiar with digital interfaces. Accordingly, there is a demand for the development of a technology that enables everyone, including those who are not familiar with digital, to be excluded from information, to easily and conveniently subscribe to digital newspapers in public places such as terminals or subway stations.

The problem to be solved of the present invention, by installing a digital newspaper terminal connected to a network of various newspaper server in a public place and according to the user's choice to transmit a variety of digital newspaper to the display or the user's terminal, anyone in the public place conveniently digital It is to be able to subscribe to the newspaper.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to enable a user to subscribe to a digital newspaper by operating the digital newspaper terminal more conveniently and intuitively through a user friendly interface.

In addition, the problem to be solved of the present invention is to provide a variety of advertisements along with the display of the digital newspaper, it is possible to pursue the publicity and the profitability of providing the digital newspaper together.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to enable a user to receive various advertisement related services such as a discount coupon related to the advertisement through an advertisement provided with the display of the digital newspaper.

In order to solve the above problems, the digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, maintaining a digital newspaper database; Receiving digital newspaper display information from a user; Retrieving a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information from the digital newspaper database; And displaying the retrieved digital newspaper according to the digital newspaper display information.

In addition, the digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention, the step of displaying at least one digital newspaper recorded in the digital newspaper database; Receiving digital newspaper purchase information from a user; Retrieving a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information from the digital newspaper database; And transmitting the retrieved digital newspaper to the terminal of the user according to the digital newspaper purchase information.

According to the digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal of the present invention, an easier and more convenient method through a user-friendly user interface provided by the digital newspaper terminal installed in a public place for all users including the digital unfamiliar hierarchy. As a result, users can subscribe to or purchase digital newspapers they want, thereby maximizing user convenience.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described an embodiment of the present invention;

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a digital newspaper terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Digital newspaper terminal 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, the digital newspaper database 110, the user interface unit 120, the search unit 130, digital newspaper control unit 140, advertising database 150, network The unit 160, and the failure monitoring unit 170.

The digital newspaper database 110 maintains one or more digital newspapers. The digital newspaper database 110 may record a digital newspaper received from one or more newspaper server servers connected to the network through the network unit 160. The newspaper company server may provide the issued digital newspaper to the digital newspaper terminal 100 each time a digital newspaper is issued through a business partnership with an operating entity of the digital newspaper terminal 100.

In addition, the newspaper server provides various types of digital newspapers corresponding to the request of the digital newspaper terminal 100 to the digital newspaper terminal 100, and the digital newspaper terminal 100 digitally receives the digital newspaper provided from the newspaper server. It can be recorded and maintained in the newspaper database 110. In addition, the digital newspaper terminal 100 may be provided to the user by receiving a digital newspaper from the newspaper server in a streaming method.

The user interface 120 receives digital newspaper display information from the user. In order to input the digital newspaper display information of the user, the user interface 120 includes a keypad, a mouse, a touch screen module, a multi-touch sensing module, or a surface computing module. That is, the user may input the digital newspaper display information through the input modules.

The digital newspaper display information includes at least one of digital newspaper type information, digital newspaper date information, main news information, digital newspaper page information, and keyword information. For example, the user may input the type of digital newspaper to which the user wants to subscribe through the user interface 120. In addition, the user may input the date of the digital newspaper to which the user wants to subscribe through the user interface 120. In addition, when the user wants to subscribe only to the main news of the digital newspaper, the user may input the main news information through the user interface 120. In addition, the user may input the page information of the digital newspaper that he wants to subscribe among the digital newspaper. In addition, the user may input a keyword corresponding to the article desired by the user to subscribe only to the article corresponding to the keyword.

2 is a diagram illustrating a user interface of a digital newspaper terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention.

As described above, the user interface of the digital newspaper terminal according to the present invention may include a keypad, a mouse, a touch screen module, a multi-touch sensing module, or a surface computing module. . 2 illustrates an example in which the user interface 200 is implemented as a touch screen module among the input modules.

The user interface 200 of the digital newspaper terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a first interface 210, a second interface 220, a third interface 230, a fourth interface 240, and a fifth interface ( 250, sixth interface 260, and seventh interface 270.

The first interface 210 may display text such as an announcement. The digital newspaper may be displayed on the second interface 220. The third interface 230 may display breaking news or main news in a subtitle form.

The fourth interface 240 may display a touch screen button for user input. For example, the fourth interface 240 may display a menu button, an advertisement button, a previous screen button, a date change button, a main news button, etc. for a user input in the form of a touch screen. An advertisement may be displayed on the fifth interface 250. Line advertisements may be displayed in text form on the sixth interface 260 and the seventh interface 270.

In FIG. 1, the search unit 130 searches for the digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information from the digital newspaper database 110. For example, when the digital newspaper display information includes digital newspaper type information called "trend newspaper" and digital newspaper date information called "June 23, 2008," the search unit 130 may read "June 23, 2008." The digital newspaper “date trend newspaper” is retrieved from the digital newspaper database 110.

When a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information is retrieved from the digital newspaper database 110, the digital newspaper control unit 140 uses the searched digital newspaper through the user interface 120 in response to the digital newspaper display information. Display to the user.

However, when the digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information is not retrieved from the digital newspaper database 110, the search unit 130 may transmit the digital newspaper display information to an external server connected to the network through the network unit 160. Request the corresponding digital newspaper. The external server may be implemented as each newspaper server server connected to the digital newspaper terminal 100.

When the digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information is received from the external server, the digital newspaper controller 1540 uses the received digital newspaper to correspond to the digital newspaper display information through the user interface 120. To display.

For example, when the digital newspaper display information includes the digital newspaper type information of "trend newspaper" and the digital newspaper date information of "June 23, 2008," the main newspaper information of "major news in the political situation." The digital newspaper control unit 140 may display the main political news of the digital newspaper, “Trend newspaper dated June 23, 2008,” to the user.

In addition, when the digital newspaper display information includes page information “5 pages” together with digital newspaper type information “trend newspaper” and digital newspaper date information “June 23, 2008”, the digital newspaper control unit ( 140 may display, to the user, five pages of the digital newspaper, "Trend newspaper dated June 23, 2008."

In addition, when the digital newspaper display information includes digital newspaper type information of "trend newspaper" and digital newspaper date information of "June 23, 2008", keyword information of "candle protest" is included. 140 may select and display only the articles corresponding to the candlelight demonstration among the articles of the digital newspaper "Jun 23, 2008, the trend newspaper" to the user.

The advertisement database 150 records advertisement data. The advertisement data may be implemented as digital content that can be displayed or reproduced through the user interface 120, for example, an image file, an audio file, a text file, a photo file, or the like.

3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an advertisement database of a digital newspaper terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the advertisement database 300 of the digital newspaper terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, advertisement data and schedule information corresponding to the advertisement data may be recorded.

The schedule information may include time information and interface type information when the advertisement data is displayed or reproduced. For example, as described above with reference to FIG. 2, when the user interface 200 includes the first interface 210 to the seventh interface 270, in response to the first advertisement data, “5 in the second interface” may be used. Schedule information ”may be recorded in the advertisement database 300.

In addition, schedule information “for 30 minutes in the fifth interface” may be recorded in the advertisement database 300 corresponding to the second advertisement data. In addition, schedule information “for one hour in the sixth interface” may be recorded in the advertisement database 300 corresponding to the third advertisement data. In addition, schedule information “according to a user input in the second interface” may be recorded in the advertisement database 300 corresponding to the fourth advertisement data.

Referring back to FIG. 1, the digital newspaper control unit 140 displays advertisement data according to schedule information recorded in the advertisement database 150. For example, when advertisement data and schedule information are configured as in the advertisement database of FIG. 3, the digital newspaper control unit 140 stops displaying the digital newspaper every 5 minutes in the second interface on which the digital newspaper is displayed. 1 You can display or play the advertisement data.

In addition, the digital newspaper controller 140 may display or play the second advertisement data for 30 minutes through the fifth interface. In addition, the digital newspaper controller 140 may display the third advertisement data for one hour in the form of a line advertisement through the sixth interface. In addition, the digital newspaper control unit 140 may stop displaying the digital newspaper according to a user input and display or play the fourth advertisement data through the second interface.

As such, the digital newspaper control unit 140 may display or play the advertisement data instead of the display of the digital newspaper at every predetermined period, or display or play the advertisement data in an interface separate from the display of the digital newspaper. You can also play.

In addition, when receiving a content request from the user in response to the advertisement data displayed or reproduced through each interface, the digital newspaper controller 140 may provide the user with content corresponding to the feedback. For example, when the fifth interface 250 is implemented as a touch screen and the advertisement data “outback stake” is displayed or played through the fifth interface 250, the advertisement data called “outback stake” is “10”. Advertising discount data ”may be included.

In this case, the user may touch and click the advertisement sub data called “10% discount coupon” through the fifth interface 250 implemented as a touch screen. At this time, the digital newspaper control unit 140 connects to an external server corresponding to the advertisement data called “outback stake” according to the user input and requests the external server to transmit the content of the “10% discount coupon”. Can be.

When receiving the content of the "10% discount coupon" from the external server, the digital newspaper control unit 140 inquires about the transmission method of the content "10% discount coupon". For example, the digital newspaper control unit 140 may inquire the user of the selection of a transmission method such as whether the content of “10% discount coupon” is printed on paper or provided to the user's mobile communication terminal. Can be.

When the user selects and inputs the content transmission method, the digital newspaper controller 140 may provide the user with the content of “10% discount coupon” in a transmission method corresponding to the user's selection.

In order to provide the advertisement data-related content as described above, the advertisement database 150 may further record advertisement sub data corresponding to each advertisement data and information on an external server providing the content.

The failure monitoring unit 170 monitors whether a failure of the overall operation of the digital newspaper terminal 100 occurs. If it is determined that a failure has occurred in the operation of the digital newspaper terminal 100, the failure monitoring unit 170 is a terminal of the administrator to remotely locate the failure information, for example, the administrator's mobile terminal or PC, etc. Can transmit

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the digital newspaper terminal not only displays the digital newspaper according to the user's selection, but also transmits and sells the digital newspaper to the terminal of the user.

The digital newspaper control unit 140 randomly displays the digital newspaper or various digital newspapers according to a user input through the user interface unit 120. The user interface 120 receives digital newspaper purchase information from the user.

The digital newspaper purchase information may include at least one of digital newspaper type information, digital newspaper date information, file format information, billing information, user terminal information, and transmission method information. That is, the user may input digital newspaper purchase information on the date, file format, billing type, terminal type, transmission method, and the like of the digital newspaper to be purchased.

For example, the digital newspaper purchase information may include digital newspaper type information such as “trend newspaper”, digital newspaper date information “June 23, 2008”, file format information “jpg file”, and “mobile communication bill payment”. It may include billing information, user terminal information "011-777-1234", and transmission scheme information "bluetooth (bluetooth) transmission".

The search unit 130 searches for the digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information from the digital newspaper database 110. When the digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information is not searched in the digital newspaper database 110, the search unit 130 may convert the digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information to an external server connected to the network through the network unit 160. Request a newspaper, and receive a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information from the external server.

The digital newspaper control unit 140 transmits the searched or received digital newspaper to the terminal of the user according to the digital newspaper purchase information. For example, the digital newspaper purchase information includes file format information of "jpg file", billing information of "mobile communication fee payment", user terminal information of "011-777-1234", and "bluetooth transmission". When the transmission method information is included, the digital newspaper control unit 140 transmits the digital newspaper to the terminal of the user in the form of a jpg file through the Bluetooth method, and then the user has the mobile terminal number of 011-777-1234. The mobile communication terminal may charge a fee for selling the digital newspaper.

The transmission of the digital newspaper to the user terminal may be implemented to include not only a Bluetooth method but also various types of short range communication methods widely used in the art such as Zigbee or Ultra WideBand.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a digital newspaper providing method of a digital newspaper terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The digital newspaper terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention maintains a digital newspaper database (step 411). The digital newspaper terminal receives digital newspaper display information from the user (step 412). The digital newspaper display information includes at least one of digital newspaper type information, digital newspaper date information, main news information, digital newspaper page information, and keyword information.

The digital newspaper terminal retrieves a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information from the digital newspaper database (step 413). When the digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information is retrieved from the digital newspaper database (step 414), the digital newspaper terminal transmits the searched digital newspaper to the user. Display according to step 415.

In step 414, if the digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information is not retrieved from the digital newspaper database, the digital newspaper terminal requests a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information from an external server (step (416)). The digital newspaper terminal receives a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information from the external server (step 417), and displays the digital newspaper to the user according to the digital newspaper display information (step 415). ).

Along with the display of the digital newspaper, the digital newspaper terminal maintains an advertisement database in which advertisement data and schedule information corresponding to the advertisement data are recorded (step 418). The digital newspaper terminal displays the advertisement data according to the schedule information (step 419).

The digital newspaper terminal monitors itself whether the operation has a failure (step 420). If it is determined that a failure occurs, the digital newspaper terminal transmits the failure occurrence information to the terminal of the manager (step 421).

5 is a flow chart showing the flow of a digital newspaper providing method of a digital newspaper terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The digital newspaper terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention maintains a digital newspaper database (step 511). The digital newspaper terminal receives digital newspaper purchase information from the user (step 512). The digital newspaper purchase information includes one or more of digital newspaper type information, digital newspaper date information, file format information, billing information, user terminal information, and transmission method information.

The digital newspaper terminal retrieves a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information from the digital newspaper database (step 513). When a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information is retrieved from the digital newspaper database (step 514), the digital newspaper terminal transmits the digital newspaper to the user's terminal according to the digital newspaper purchase information (step 514). Step 515).

In step 514, if the digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information is not retrieved from the digital newspaper database, the digital newspaper terminal requests a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information from an external network connected to the network. (Step 516). The digital newspaper terminal receives a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information from the external server (step 517). The digital newspaper terminal transmits the received digital newspaper to the terminal of the user according to the digital newspaper purchase information (step 515).

In addition, the method for providing a digital newspaper according to the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal line, a wave guide, or the like, including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal designating a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which can be variously modified and modified by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Modifications are possible. Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should be understood only by the claims set forth below, and all equivalent or equivalent modifications thereof will belong to the scope of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a digital newspaper terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a user interface of a digital newspaper terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an advertisement database configuration of a digital newspaper terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a flow chart showing the flow of a digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flow chart showing the flow of a digital newspaper providing method of a digital newspaper terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100: digital newspaper terminal

110: digital newspaper database

120: user interface unit

130: search unit

140: digital newspaper control unit

150: advertising database

160: network

170: fault monitoring unit

Claims (14)

Maintaining a digital newspaper database; Receiving digital newspaper display information from a user; Retrieving a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information from the digital newspaper database; And Displaying the retrieved digital newspaper according to the digital newspaper display information.  Digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The digital newspaper display information includes at least one of digital newspaper type information, digital newspaper date information, main news information, digital newspaper page information, and keyword information. The method of claim 1, If a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information is not retrieved from the digital newspaper database, requesting a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information from a network-connected external server; Receiving a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper display information from the external server; And Displaying the received digital newspaper according to the digital newspaper display information. Digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal further comprising a. The method of claim 1, Maintaining an advertisement database in which at least one advertisement data and scheduling information corresponding to each advertisement data are recorded; And Displaying the advertisement data according to the respective scheduling information. Digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal further comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein The displaying of the advertisement data according to the respective scheduling information may include: Displaying the advertisement data in place of the display of the digital newspaper every predetermined period. Digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein The displaying of the advertisement data according to the respective scheduling information may include: Displaying the advertisement data separately from the display of the digital newspaper. Digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The digital newspaper terminal receives the digital newspaper display information from the user through any one of a keypad, a mouse, a touch screen module, a multi-touch sensing module, and a surface computing module. Method of providing digital newspapers in newspaper terminals. The method of claim 1, Determining whether a failure occurs in the operation of the digital newspaper terminal; And If the failure occurs in the operation of the digital newspaper terminal as a result of the determination, transmitting the failure occurrence information to the selected manager terminal; Digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal further comprising a. Displaying one or more digital newspapers recorded in the digital newspaper database; Receiving digital newspaper purchase information from a user; Retrieving a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information from the digital newspaper database; And Transmitting the retrieved digital newspaper to the terminal of the user according to the digital newspaper purchase information. Digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal comprising a. The method of claim 9, The digital newspaper purchase information includes at least one of digital newspaper type information, digital newspaper date information, file format information, billing information, user terminal information, and transmission method information. . The method of claim 9, The digital newspaper terminal receives the digital newspaper purchase information from the user through any one of a keypad, a mouse, a touch screen module, a multi-touch sensing module, and a surface computing module. Method of providing digital newspapers in newspaper terminals. The method of claim 9, Requesting a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information from a network-connected external server if the digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information is not retrieved from the digital newspaper database; Receiving a digital newspaper corresponding to the digital newspaper purchase information from the external server; And Transmitting the received digital newspaper to the terminal of the user according to the digital newspaper purchase information Digital newspaper providing method of the digital newspaper terminal further comprising a. The method of claim 9, The digital newspaper terminal transmits the digital newspaper to the terminal of the user through a local area network, and the local area network is any one of Bluetooth, Zigbee, and UWB (Ultra WideBand). A method of obtaining content between a terminal and a local server. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 13.

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