KR20110095755A - Internationalized internet address processing system and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An internationalized internet address processing system and a method thereof are provided to attach and process a TLD(Top Level Domain) by automatically determining a work inputted by a user. CONSTITUTION: If a keyword type character is inputted by an internet address, a client program(150) determines the sorts of the input character and applies a corresponding TLD to a keyword type internet address. If a query message is keyword type, a multi-language address processing module(250) determines the sorts of the user input language through the query message. The multi address process module applies the TLD to the query message and transmits to the DNS(Domain Name System)(200).

Description

Internationalized Internet Address Processing System and Method

The present invention relates to a system and method for processing an Internet address, and more particularly, to identifying a language of an input character using a method such as determining a language code of a character input by a user in processing an internet address written in multiple languages. The present invention relates to a system and a method for enabling processing even if a user inputs only a keyword form without separately inputting or adding the input.

Just as phone numbers are necessary for phone calls, Internet addresses are essential to accessing information on the Internet. For example, in order to deliver or receive a letter (information), you need to fill out the address of the other party. For this purpose, the Internet address is said to be one of the most basic and most important factors in the construction of the Internet.

In the early days of the Internet, only a few computers were connected by a network, so there was only an IP address, a machine-centric address, used to identify each device connected to the Internet. An IP address is the most basic Internet address that identifies the computer or device connected to the network in the Internet space. It is a tool for finding each computer or device on the Internet. All computers or devices connected to the Internet must be IP. You must have an address. IP address is necessary for the use of the Internet, but it is composed of numbers. Especially, in case of IPv6, it is expressed as long hexadecimal number, so it is difficult for a person to remember and use it. Domain names have been developed.

Domain names are organized in a hierarchical structure, called an Inverted Tree, with a tree placed upside down under a domain name called “.” Or Root. The steps immediately below the root domain name are called Level 1 or Top Level Domains (TLDs), which are known as com, net, org, edu, etc. and countries such as kr, jp, and cn. It is divided into a top level domain (ccTLD, country code TLD). The level below the TLD is called the Second Level or Second Level Domain (SLD) and is used below the national top level domain to characterize the institution.

Domain names, along with the World Wide Web, have made a significant contribution to the explosive growth of users by making it easier to use the Internet, and are still the most widely used method of accessing information on the Internet. These domain names can only be used in English letters called LDH (Letter, Digit, Hyphen) .However, Korean, Japanese, etc. are converted into codes expressed in LDH according to the prescribed rules in accordance with the Internet address request in the native language of non-English speaking countries. This led to the introduction of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), which allow the use of domain names in their own language.

In order to process multilingual domain names composed of native languages of non-English speaking countries, IDN uses a coding conversion method that converts non-English characters into English characters according to a predetermined rule. For example, the non-English letter 'Korea' is changed to 'xn-3e0bs9hfvinn1a'. However, since multilingual domain names use the hierarchical structure of existing domain names, there is an inconvenience that a TLD such as a country code should be added after the company name, the brand name, etc. of the website. Moreover, TLDs often do not have much meaning besides distinguishing each treatment system.

The present invention provides a method for automatically attaching and processing a TLD by judging an input language even if a user inputs a TLD that must be input and attached when using a hierarchical multilingual domain. It is about.

In the present invention, the language and country information of the user is determined using a method such as determining a language code of a character input by a user in processing an internet address displayed in multiple languages, even if a country separator is not separately inputted or added. Use the method to make it possible to process in.

The present invention utilizes a method of processing code translation and language code determination at each location of the client and server in order to process multilingual Internet addresses.

The multilingual address processing system and method according to the present invention makes it easier to use the Internet by determining the input language and automatically attaching the TLD even when only a word in the form of a keyword is input without using a separate TLD. Giving effect.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of a system for multilingual address processing according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a case where the client program 150 is used in the multilingual address processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a case where the multilingual address processing module 250 is used in the multilingual address processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a multilingual Internet address processing system and method. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for automatically attaching and processing a corresponding TLD through information input such as input language. For example, even if you input only 'Korea' in Korean, it is possible to add '.kr', a TLD corresponding to Korea, by adding an input string after 'South Korea' so that it can be processed as 'Korea.kr' through Korean language discrimination. .

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily implement the technical idea of the present invention.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of a system for multilingual address processing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The system for multilingual Internet address processing according to the present invention includes a user terminal 100, a domain name server 200, and a web server 300 where a final connection is made. The multilingual address processing module 250 installed inside or in front of the client program 150 or the domain name server 200 installed in the user terminal 100 functions according to the form.

The user terminal 100 is a device where a browser is installed and a user inputs and uses an Internet address to access a web site. The user terminal 100 can be any device capable of internet, such as a refrigerator, a TV, a smartphone, as well as a general PC. It is not particular about connection method such as mobile.

The domain name server 200 is a server that responds to an IP address in response to a domain name query. Even if a general Internet user does not know a numerical IP address, it is easy to use a domain such as www.kipo.go.kr. Makes it easy to use the Internet. The domain name has a hierarchical structure, and the domain name server 200 finds the corresponding IP address through a process of sequentially checking from the upper level in order to interpret and process the queried domain name. However, the domain name server 200 is made to process only English characters composed of ASCII at the time the domain name system was designed, so when querying with a conventional domain name server 200 should be in the form of characters composed of ASCII.

Web server 300 is a server that contains the content of the Web site that the user finally wants to access using the Internet address. The user terminal 100 receives the IP address of the web server 300 from the domain name server 200 to connect to the server.

The client program 150 and the multilingual address processing module 250 are necessary for multilingual Internet address processing according to the present invention, and may be processed even if only one of them exists.

First, the client program 150 will be described. The client program 150 is a program module installed in the user terminal 100, and plays a main function for processing a multilingual Internet address according to the present invention. The client program 150 may be mounted in a browser as a plug-in, may be installed and functioned as a separate stand-alone program, or may be implemented in a manner combined with other functions in the OS or in a browser. The client program 150 checks whether the input Internet address is a keyword type, and if it is determined that the keyword is a keyword type, determines the language of the input character through character code checking. In this case, when the web browser of the user terminal 100 inputs a multilingual Internet address in a non-English character, the client program 150 encodes and processes it using a method such as Punycode that expresses it in English. It is preferable to process in a different order and method depending on whether or not to include the and when the encoding process.

In the case where the input non-English character is not encoded in the English form and determines the language of the character, the client program 150 determines the type of the corresponding language by checking and analyzing the character set of the input character. A character set refers to a collection of all characters for expressing a language used in a single language, and all special characters such as a sign and a space are also included in the character set. Characters input from the user terminal 100 are basically processed to Unicode. Unicode is a standard code designed to consistently represent and handle all the characters of the world on a computer. Existing encodings are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with each other in multilingual environments. Work is underway with the aim of replacing all the different character encoding methods with Unicode. Characters input to the user terminal 100 to be processed in Unicode can determine the language by checking the character set in the Unicode.

When it is confirmed that the input Internet address is a keyword type and in which language, the client program 150 attaches a TLD corresponding to the input language after the input keyword type internet address. For example, if the input language is determined to be Korean, '.kr' is attached. If the input language is determined to be Japanese, '.jp' is attached. The attached TLD may be an existing ccTLD, or may be another TLD separately designated. Information about the TLD may be stored in the client program 150, and may receive and process contents from an external management server, and may combine the two to receive data from an external server and process the data in its own DB. After that, the Internet address to which the TLD is attached is processed to be converted into English ASCII code format so that it can be processed by the existing domain name server 200. In general, a widely known method is a method such as Punycode, and the encoded string is transmitted and queried by DNS. In this case, it is preferable to use the programs and functions that are already provided in the user terminal 100 such as an OS or a browser, rather than the client program 150 itself.

In the case where the input non-alphabetic character is encoded in the English form and determines the language of the character, the client program 150 encodes or decodes the encoded character back to the original input Unicode form and then decodes the input character in the Unicode state. By checking and analyzing the character set, the type of language is determined. After determining the language type, the corresponding TLD is found, and the TLD encoded in the English form is also added to the DNS to be transmitted and queried.The entire TLD is added after conversion to Unicode. Can be encoded in English format, then forwarded to DNS and queried.

Next, the multilingual address processing module 250 will be described. The multilingual address processing module 250 is a functional module installed inside or at the front end of the domain name server 200. It will be in charge of the function. The multilingual address processing module 250 may be inserted in the form of a patch into an existing program of the domain name server 200, or may be made in a form included in the domain name server program from the beginning. In addition, when installed in the front of the domain name server 200 may be made in a separate form as a separate equipment, and executed as a separate program module and the main program in the domain name server 200, domain name server ( It is also possible to allow the main program of 200) to be processed first before functioning. The multilingual address processing module 250 determines whether the query message transmitted from the user terminal 100 is a keyword type, and if it is determined that the keyword is a keyword type, determines the language of the user input character through checking the character code of the query message. do.

In this case, the multilingual address processing module 250 may have a different processing procedure depending on whether the query message transmitted from the user terminal 100 is in English, that is, 7 bits or 8 bits.

In most cases, when a non-English alphabetic language address is input, the browser of the user terminal 100 encodes it in 7-bit English form such as Punicode, and then transfers it to DNS. In the case of code, it can be easily distinguished by starting with 'xn--' and it is easy to judge. However, an English-language query message cannot determine which character the user has entered by itself. Therefore, in this case, the query message encoded in English format must be converted back. In this case, reverse conversion converts to Unicode. In the Unicode state, the type of the corresponding language can be determined by checking and analyzing the character set of the input character. When it is confirmed in which language, the multilingual address processing module 250 attaches the TLD corresponding to the input language after the query message in the form of a keyword. In this case, the information about the TLD may exist as a DB in the multilingual address processing module 250 or may be stored in a separate server externally, and may be used by receiving contents from an external server and storing the information in the multilingual address processing module 250. Can be. In addition, the domain name server 200 encodes the 7-bit form in a processable 7-bit form and delivers the same to the domain name server 200 so that the domain name server 200 can respond to the user terminal 100 in search of an IP address corresponding thereto. Make sure In this case, the 7-bit TLD of the 7-bit query message received from the user terminal 100 is simply added to the domain name server 200, or the 7-bit query message is converted to 8-bit Unicode form TLD in the state In addition, the encoding order of the query message and the TLD, such as a 7-bit encoding method, can be implemented in various forms.

When the query message transmitted from the user terminal 100 is 8 bits, it is difficult to determine in which language the character input by the user is made. To check this, it is possible to know the encoding and the language type of the character input by the user through whether the query message is converted to Unicode by assuming a specific encoding. Since there are many encoding methods, it may be a problem in system load and processing time to convert and check each method individually. Therefore, it is preferable to check and apply the encoding having high utilization rate based on the location information of the user terminal 100. . After the input message is determined, the query message is encoded into a 7-bit form that can be processed by the conventional domain name server 200 after the TLD corresponding to the language is added, and then transferred to the domain name server 200, thereby providing the domain name server 200. Searches for an IP address corresponding thereto and responds to the user terminal 100.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a case where the client program 150 is used in the multilingual address processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

When the user inputs the Internet address to the browser address bar of the user terminal 100 (S101), the client program 150 recognizes the Internet address input (S103) and determines whether the input Internet address is a keyword type (S103). S105). At this time, whether the keyword type is determined can be easily determined by checking whether '.' Is included in the input Internet address. If it is determined that the Internet address entered by the user includes '.' And is not a keyword type, the client program 150 does not function any more, and the input Internet address is a domain name server according to a conventional processing method. It is transmitted to (200) (S111). It is determined that the input Internet address in the keyword type determination step (S105) is a keyword type, and the client program 150 checks the language type of the input Internet address (S107). The type of the language is determined by checking and analyzing the character set of the language.If the type of the language is confirmed with respect to the input Internet address, the TLD corresponding to the language is found and added to the input Internet address (S109). 150) or a 7-bit English character that can be recognized and processed by the domain name server 200 by a function such as a browser installed in the client. ), And may be omitted in some cases. The contents including the TLD are transmitted to the domain name server 200 through the RAM and inquired (S111).

3 is a flowchart illustrating a case where the multilingual address processing module 250 is used in the multilingual address processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

When the user inputs the Internet address to the browser address bar of the user terminal 100 (S201), the input Internet address is transmitted to the domain name server 200 and is queried (S203). At this time, if the Internet address input by the user is an 8-bit non-English letter, a program such as a browser of the user terminal 100 may be encoded and transmitted as a 7-bit type character that can be recognized and processed by a normal domain name server 200. It may be. The multilingual address processing module 250 is installed inside or at the front end of the domain name server 200, and first receives and confirms a query transmitted to the domain name server 200 (S205). The multilingual address processing module 250 receiving the query message from the user terminal 100 determines whether the query message is a keyword form (S207). The keyword can be determined by checking whether '.' Is included in the query message. If it is determined in step S207 that the query message is not a keyword type, the multilingual address processing module 250 does not perform any more functions, and the normal domain name server 200 processes the query message. (S213). When it is determined that the query message is in the form of a keyword, the multilingual address processing module 250 checks the language type of the Internet address input by the user through analyzing the query message (S209). When the query message transmitted from the user terminal 100 is converted into 7-bit punycode or the like, the national language address processing module 250 inverts the query message back to Unicode and converts the language of the input character through the character set. You can check it. However, when the query message from the user terminal 100 is 8 bits, the encoding and the language type of the character input by the user can be known by checking whether the query message is successfully converted after converting the query message to Unicode. Since there are many encoding methods, it may be a problem in system load and processing time to convert and check each method individually. Therefore, it is preferable to check and apply the encoding having high utilization rate based on the location information of the user terminal 100. . The query message that determines the input language is added to the domain name server 200 after the TLD corresponding to the language is added (S211), encoded in a 7-bit form that can be processed by the conventional domain name server 200, and thereby the domain (S211). The name server 200 finds an IP address corresponding to the name server 200 and responds to the user terminal 100.

Thereafter, the user terminal 100 receives the IP address of the web server 300 corresponding to the Internet address input from the domain name server 200 to access the web server 300.

100: user terminal
150: client program
200: domain name server
250: multilingual address processing module
300: web server

Claims (4)

In a system for processing multilingual internet addresses,
The client is installed in the user terminal, when the character of the keyword type is input to the Internet address to determine the language type of the input character, and the client for adding the TLD corresponding to the determined language of the input character to the keyword type Internet address Multilingual Internet address processing system comprising a program In a system for processing multilingual internet addresses,
If the query message transmitted from the user terminal in the form of a domain name system is a keyword type, the type of language input by the user is determined through the query message, and a TLD corresponding to the determined language is added to the query message. Multilingual Internet address processing system comprising a multilingual address processing module for transferring to a domain name system In the method of processing a multilingual internet address,
Recognizing, by the client program, that an Internet address is input;
Determining, by the client program, whether the input internet address is a keyword type;
Checking a language type of the input internet address when the input internet address is a keyword type;
Adding a TLD corresponding to the identified language to the internet address
Multilingual Internet address processing method comprising the
In the method of processing a multilingual internet address,
Receiving, by the multilingual address processing module, an inquiry message transmitted from the user terminal;
Determining, by the multilingual address processing module, whether the query message is a keyword form;
Checking the type of input language when the query message is a keyword type;
Adding a TLD corresponding to the identified language to the query message;
Delivering the query message added with the TLD to a domain name server;
Multilingual Internet address processing method comprising the

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