KR20100096792A - Apparatus and method of searching inhouse-personal information - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An apparatus and a method of searching in-house personal information are provided to easily obtain the personal information of an employee through the transmission of a defined search message by managing the information of all employees through an in-house server and activating a wireless terminal through an LDAP client. CONSTITUTION: A data storage unit(110) stores the data generated from the transaction of an in-house network, and an LDAP(Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) module(120) creates an LDAP directory by using the stored data. When a search message is received, the LDAP module creates a search result from the LDAP directory and returns the search result. A wireless terminal includes an LDAP client(210) for transmitting the search message to an in-house server.

Description

In-house personal information retrieval device and its method {APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SEARCHING INHOUSE-PERSONAL INFORMATION}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for searching for corporate mail, address book information, and calendar information by operating as a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) client in a wireless terminal.

Recently, mobile communication technology has developed into various data communication services such as internet search, email transmission and content download as well as voice call service due to integration with wireless Internet.

Among these, many companies are building mobile office system based on location information that combines wireless internet and mobile communication technology to expand the business environment from wired to wired / wireless integrated environment. As a result, employees in the company can access the company's intranet using the wireless Internet as a portable terminal, and can search for various mails and employee personal information related to work.

1 is a view showing a conventional in-house personal information search method. In this case, in the conventional method, when a user accesses an intranet through a wireless terminal, a search menu such as “name search”, “department search” and “organization search” is displayed. Then, the user selects any one desired menu on the search menu screen displayed as shown in FIG. 1, and then continues to select the corresponding submenu, thereby searching for the schedule information or personal information of the desired employee.

However, according to the conventional in-house personal information retrieval method, since the user can access the intranet intranet online through his wireless terminal, the information can be retrieved. In addition, there is a problem in that the complexity of the terminal client increases when a separate protocol is defined and processed.

Meanwhile, LDAP, which is an application protocol for querying and modifying a directory service over TCP / IP, is defined in the past, and LDAP is commonly referred to as an "LDAP protocol". The LDAP is a directory service protocol that reduces the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) based International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) Recommendation X.500.

At this time, the directory defined in the LDAP is a collection of objects having similar characteristics organized in a logical and hierarchical manner. The most common example is a telephone directory. It has a series of names, in alphabetical order, each with a phone number and address.

However, since there is no case where the LDAP directory information management and search method defined by LDAP is applied to the company's personal information retrieval system, the quality of the information retrieval service is deteriorated because the optimized search function of LDAP cannot be utilized. there was.

The present invention is to solve the above problems, by managing the information of all employees in the form of LDAP directory in the company server, the wireless terminal operates as an LDAP client, the information of the employee easily by sending a defined search message easily It can be obtained.

In-house personal information retrieval apparatus of the present invention to solve the above object, the data storage unit for storing data generated from the transaction of the internal network; And an LDAP module which generates an LDAP directory using data stored in the data storage unit and generates and returns a search result from the LDAP directory when receiving a search message. And

And a wireless terminal for converting the search message into an in-house server according to the LDAP protocol when the user inputs a search word and receiving and processing the result value from the in-house server.

On the other hand, in-house personal information retrieval method of the present invention to solve the above object, the step of storing the data generated from a transaction of the internal network in the internal server to the data storage unit;

Generating an LDAP directory using data stored in the data storage unit;

Receiving a search message from a wireless terminal and reading a search word;

Obtaining information corresponding to the search term by searching the LDAP directory; And

And converting the obtained result value into a predetermined format and transmitting it to the wireless terminal.

On the other hand, in-house personal information retrieval method of the present invention to solve the above object, the step of generating a search message by the wireless terminal according to the LDAP protocol when the user enters a search word;

Sending the search message to an in-house server; And

And receiving and processing a result value of the search message from the in-house server.

According to the present invention, the internal server manages all employee information in the form of an LDAP directory, and the wireless terminal operates as an LDAP client so that the employee information can be obtained only by sending a defined search message. Compared to the method, the time for searching the employee's schedule information and personal information is significantly shortened, so that the quality of service is not only improved, but also the complexity of the terminal client is reduced because there is no need to define a separate protocol for searching the company information. There is.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the configuration of the in-house personal information search apparatus according to the present invention. 2 is a network diagram showing the configuration of an in-house personal information retrieval apparatus according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the in-house personal information retrieval apparatus includes an in-house server 100 having a data storage unit 110 and an LDAP module 120; The wireless terminal 200 includes an LDAP client 210, a mail client 220, a display 230, and an address book manager 240.

The internal server 100 stores data generated from a transaction of the internal network in the data storage 110. At this time, the data stored in the data storage unit 110 stores various information such as employee's daily schedule information, personal information, email contents, business contents, and the like.

Then, the LDAP module 120 extracts only schedule information and personal information for each employee from the various data stored in the data storage 110 to generate an LDAP directory. That is, since only the information abbreviated for each employee is stored and managed in the LDAP directory, the search time is increased accordingly.

In this case, the LDAP directory is a concept of organizing schedule information and personal information for each employee. The LDAP directory has a series of names, such as a phone book, in order to include personal schedule information and personal information for each name. It is a gathering of people.

Then, when the LDAP module 120 receives a search message from the wireless terminal 200, that is, a message including an employee's name in a text type, finds the name of the employee in the LDAP directory, the corresponding schedule information, and the individual. The information is extracted, and the result is returned to the wireless terminal 200 in accordance with a predefined format. The employee personal information is information including a telephone number (MIN), an e-mail address, a department, a position, name information, and the like.

At this time, the result value transmission format defined in the LDAP module 220 is arranged in the order of "name, e-mail, telephone number, department name", for example, "Hong Gil Dong, kdhong@daum.net, 010XXXXXXX, Electronic Team". It means form.

Meanwhile, the wireless terminal 200 includes an LDAP client 210 and a mail client 220 to perform an operation related thereto.

In this case, when the user inputs a search word to search for data of the in-house server 100, the wireless terminal 200 converts the search word into a search message according to the LDAP protocol and transmits the search message to the in-house server 100. In this case, the search message is defined as the name of the employee in text form, and thus, the user only needs to input a desired employee's name through the key input unit of the wireless terminal 100.

Then, the LDAP client 210 transmits a search message including the name information of the employee in text form to the in-house server 100. That is, the case in which the wireless terminal 200 transmits a "name" to a query is the most typical form.

Thereafter, the LDAP client 210 receives the personal information and the schedule information of the employee from the in-house server 100 and displays it to the user through the display unit 230.

On the other hand, when receiving the personal information of the employee from the in-house server 100, the wireless terminal 200 parses this information into a name, phone number, email information, and the like, and then the address book information of the employee to the address book Automatically store or update in the management unit 240. Such a function may be automatically set in the wireless terminal 200 or may be activated by a user by selecting a menu.

In addition, when a user of the wireless terminal 200 wants to send an email to a desired employee, after activating the mail client 220 and inputting a search command, the LDAP client 210 corresponds to this. The search message is transmitted to the in-house server 100.

Then, the mail client 220 receives the personal information of the employee from the in-house server 100 and extracts only the e-mail address from the information included in the result value and automatically inputs it into the recipient address input box.

That is, the above case refers to a case in which the user launches the mail client 220 and writes the mail but does not know the mail address. In this case, the LDAP client 210 is called to put the name and send the mail to the in-house server 100. Receives information from the in-house server 100 means a function to automatically enter the mail address.

Meanwhile, the transmission of the search message or the result value between the in-house server 100 and the wireless terminal 200 may be performed by data communication or SMS / MMS transmission method.

Then, in the in-house personal information retrieval method according to an embodiment of the present invention using the device having the configuration as described above will be described with reference to FIG. The same contents as those in the description thereof will be omitted.

First, the internal server 100 stores all data generated from a transaction of the internal network in the data storage 110 (S110).

Then, the LDAP module 120 generates an LDAP directory using data stored in the data storage unit 110 (S120). In this case, the 120th step S120 includes extracting only individual schedule information and personal information from the data stored in the data storage 110 (S121), and generating an LDAP directory using the same (S122). .

In this case, the personal information of each employee includes a telephone number (MIN), an e-mail address, a department, a position, name information, and the like, and the schedule information refers to information related to a schedule related to the corresponding employee or a schedule related to the entire company.

Thereafter, the internal server 100 receives a search message from the wireless terminal 200 and reads a search word (S130). In this case, the search message is textual name information, and the LDAP module 120 of the in-house server 100 reads a name that is a search word in the search message.

Thereafter, the LDAP module 120 searches for and obtains schedule information and personal information included in the name from the LDAP directory (S140), and then converts the search result into a preset format to the wireless terminal 200. Transfer to (S150). Here, the preset format is, for example, "Hil Kil-dong, kdhong@daum.net, 010XXXXXXX, Electronic Team", such as "name, email, phone number, department name" sorted in order, such as comma separated data in advance It means a predetermined standard.

On the other hand, in the following in the in-house personal information retrieval method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to Figs.

4 illustrates a process in which the wireless terminal 200 receives a search result value from the in-house server 100 and automatically stores the search result value in the internal address book manager 240 and then displays the result through the display 230. Figure showing.

First, when a user inputs a search word, for example, the name of an employee desired by the user, the LDAP client 210 generates a search message according to the LDAP protocol (S210), and then sends the search message to the in-house server as shown in FIG. 100) (S220).

Thereafter, the LDAP client 210 receives and processes a result value for the search message, that is, schedule information and personal information of the corresponding employee, from the in-house server 100 (S230).

That is, when the LDAP client 210 receives the employee's schedule information and personal information from the in-house server 100, the LDAP client 210 parses it (S231) and stores the parsed address book data in each address book field of the address book manager 240. The address book is updated by automatically inputting (S232).

Thereafter, the LDAP client 210 displays the above result to the user through the display 230 (S233).

On the other hand, Figure 5 shows the process of entering the e-mail address of the employee by calling the LDAP client 210, if the user does not know the mail address while writing the mail to launch the mail client 220.

That is, when the user drives the mail client 220 of the wireless terminal 200 to send an e-mail to the desired employee, the mail client 220 is activated (S310).

At this time, if the user does not know the employee's email address, the user enters the employee's name. Then, the LDAP client 210 generates a search message according to the LDAP protocol (S320), and sends the search message to the in-house server 100 as shown in FIG. 6 (S330).

Then, the LDAP client 210 receives the result value for the search message, that is, the personal information of the employee from the in-house server 100 and extracts the e-mail address from the result value (S340), the extracted mail The address is automatically input into the recipient address input box of the mail client 220 (S350).

Thus, even if the user does not know the employee's email address, the user can easily receive the email address and send the mail.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to a number of embodiments, the scope of the present invention is not limited to these embodiments and should not be interpreted, and the present invention may be variously modified without departing from the technical spirit described in the claims. Can be implemented.

1 is a view showing a conventional in-house personal information search method,

2 is a network diagram showing the configuration of an in-house personal information search apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention,

3 is an operation flowchart showing a processing process in the in-house server 100 position in the in-house personal information retrieval method according to the present invention;

4 is an operation flowchart showing a processing procedure of the wireless terminal 200 in the in-house personal information retrieval method according to the present invention;

5 is an operation flowchart showing another processing procedure of the wireless terminal 200 in the in-house personal information retrieval method according to the present invention;

6 is a view showing a process of searching for in-house personal information according to the present invention.

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

100: in-house server

110: data storage unit

120: LDAP module

200: wireless terminal

210: LDAP client

220: mail client

230: display unit

240: address book management unit

Claims (18)

A data storage unit for storing data generated from a transaction of an in-house network; And an LDAP module that generates an LDAP directory using data stored in the data storage unit, and generates and returns a search result from the LDAP directory when receiving a search message. And And a wireless terminal for converting a search message according to an LDAP protocol into a search message when the user inputs a search word, and receiving and processing a result value from the in-house server. The method of claim 1, The wireless terminal includes an LDAP client for sending a search message to the in-house server in accordance with the LDAP protocol. The method of claim 1, The employee personal information includes an internal personal information retrieval device including one or more of a telephone number (MIN), an e-mail address, a department, a position, and name information. The method of claim 1, The LDAP module of the in-house server extracts only employee schedule information or personal information from the data storage unit, and creates and manages a directory in an LDAP manner. The method of claim 4, wherein Upon receiving a search message from the wireless terminal, the LDAP module of the internal server extracts relevant information from the LDAP directory using a search word included therein, converts the result value into a predefined format, and transmits the result to the wireless terminal. Personal information retrieval device. The method of claim 1, In-house personal information retrieval apparatus that the search message sent by the wireless terminal to the in-house server is text type data. The method of claim 6, The search message is a company personal information search device that is the name of the person to search. The method of claim 1, The wireless terminal further includes a mail client for sending an e-mail. When receiving the personal information of the employee from the in-house server, the wireless terminal automatically inputs an e-mail address included in the result value into the recipient address field of the mail client. Information retrieval device. The method of claim 1, When the wireless terminal receives the employee's personal information from the in-house server, the wireless terminal parses the received information and automatically stored or updated in the internal address book. The method of claim 1, In-house personal information retrieval apparatus for transmitting the search message or the result value between the in-house server and the wireless terminal through a data communication. The method of claim 1, In-house personal information retrieval device is the transmission of the search message or the result value between the server and the wireless terminal in the SMS or MMS method. Storing, by the in-house server, data resulting from transactions in the in-house network; Creating an LDAP directory using the stored data; Receiving a search message from a wireless terminal and reading a search word; Obtaining information corresponding to the search term by searching the LDAP directory; And And converting the obtained result value into a preset format and transmitting the converted result value to the wireless terminal. The method of claim 12, The directory generating step may include extracting only employee schedule information or personal information from the data storage unit; And And generating a directory based on the LDAP protocol by using the extracted employee schedule information or personal information. The method of claim 13, The employee personal information includes a company information search method including one or more of the phone number (MIN), e-mail address, department, position, name information. Generating a search message by the wireless terminal according to the LDAP protocol when the user inputs a search word; Sending the search message to an in-house server; And And receiving and processing a result value of the search message from the in-house server. The method of claim 15, Receiving and parsing personal information of the employee from the in-house server; And And updating the address book by automatically inputting the parsed data into each field of the address book. The method of claim 15, Running a mail client; Receiving the personal information of the employee from the in-house server and extracting an e-mail address from the result value; And And automatically inputting the extracted mail address into a recipient address field of a mail client. The method of claim 17, Receiving and displaying the personal schedule information and personal information of the employee from the in-house server; In-house personal information search method further comprising.

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