KR20120133592A - Electronic book library system based on social network, server, terminal and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A social network based electronic book library system, a server, a terminal device and a method are provided to enable people who do not purchase an electronic book to share additional information which an individual user registers. CONSTITUTION: An electronic book library server(104) manages a plurality of electronic books. The electronic book library server receives additional information related to the electronic books through a communication network. The electronic book library server registers the additional information related to the electronic books. A terminal device(100) produces the additional information of the electronic books and uploads the electronic books to the electronic book library server. [Reference numerals] (104) Electronic book library server; (106) Electronic book library database; (AA) Internet

Description

E-book library system, server, terminal device and method based on social network {ELECTRONIC BOOK LIBRARY SYSTEM BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK, SERVER, TERMINAL AND METHOD THEREOF}

The present invention relates to a social network-based e-book service, and more particularly, in the e-book service, a user who purchases an e-book reads a variety of e-books not described in the e-book, such as exchanging opinions and information about the e-book. Register additional information (videos, photos, background information, comments, etc.) to share with other users, and indirectly share additional information registered by individual users with respect to the e-book to those who have not purchased the e-book. The present invention relates to a social network based e-book library system, a server, a terminal device, and a method for promoting the activation of an e-book service by referring to information necessary for purchase.

In general, an electronic book is a book that is printed in letterpress and converted into a text file to be read on a computer. As the popularity of smartphones, notebooks, and tablet PCs increases, demand increases.

As described above, pad-type terminals (eg, iPads) such as smartphones, laptops, or tablet PCs occupy an important position in e-book consumption in that they are mobile platforms that can consume various kinds of digital contents. In particular, since the iPhone, a smartphone made by Apple, was introduced to the domestic market, smartphones have emerged as a topic of cultural industry and IT industry, and in this respect, the e-book industry is no exception.

In other words, more and more people want to read e-books on smartphones, and major e-book operators are also developing and distributing various kinds of applications (APPs) to meet these demands. However, smartphone apps similar to the existing e-book viewers are Android apps of Korea Epub, iPhone apps, Android apps of Kyobo Bookstore, mobile apps of Interpark, and Lidy Books. Most of them are developed by specific distributors, In many cases, the built-in e-book store and purchase functionality is a difference from the Americas app market represented by Stanza.

In addition, the pad-type terminal, which was established as an e-book consumption terminal through a product called iPad, a tablet PC developed by Apple, has become an important element in the e-book market in the sense of a mobile terminal capable of viewing dynamic e-books. have. For example, the “Alice in Wonderland” e-book, which was demonstrated at the launch of the iPad, is a symbolic event that opened up new possibilities for the e-book industry that has focused on e-book readers. While e-books with visual effects, sounds, and user interaction have been attempted through multimedia books and flash fairy tales, the iPad is a personalized device that can be held in the hands of consumers like paper books. It is a remarkable device in that it can maximize user responsiveness through a network and can update information in real time through a network.

On the other hand, the culture of sharing represented by the Internet and social networks is very unlikely in the e-book domain. This is because the digital copyright law is already formed mainly by business owners. In the past, when you bought a paper book, you had the right to do everything you want, but the reality is that e-books only give access, not ownership, and e-books purchased from Internet bookstores such as Amazon can only be consumed by personally registered devices. . This reality is expected to adversely affect the expansion and activation of the e-book industry in the mobile terminal market such as smartphones and pad-type terminals.

Accordingly, in the e-book service, the present invention provides various additional information (videos, photos, background information, etc.) related to an e-book not described in an e-book such as an exchange of opinions and information about the e-book. Comments, etc.) to be shared among users, and those who do not purchase e-books can share indirectly the additional information registered by individual users in relation to e-books, so that they can be referred to as information necessary for the purchase of e-books. The present invention provides a social network based e-book library system, server, terminal device, and method for promoting the activation of a book service.

The present invention described above is an e-book book and system, which manages a plurality of e-books, receives additional information related to the e-book through a communication network and registers as additional information related to the e-book that can be shared to a plurality of users. When the selection of the e-book, the e-book library server for providing the additional information registered in the e-book, and the additional information of the e-book is produced and uploaded to the server on the communication network, to other users registered on the server It includes a terminal device for downloading and displaying the additional information of the e-book produced by the.

In addition, the present invention is an e-book library server, a communication unit for communicating with the terminal device of the user registered in the e-book library service, and the e-book additional information DB for storing additional information associated with the e-book registered by each user And a server controller which receives the additional information related to the e-book from the terminal device and stores the additional information related to the e-book in the e-book additional information DB, and retrieves and provides the e-book additional information when requested from the terminal device.

The server controller may classify the additional information according to the importance of the information and selectively provide the additional information to a terminal device that does not purchase the e-book.

The additional information may be opinions written in text by each user associated with the e-book.

The additional information may be multimedia data attached by each user associated with the e-book.

The server controller may generate the additional information as metadata based on a standardized media file format.

The additional information may be written in metadata based on an ISO file format or an MP4 file format.

In addition, the present invention is a terminal device, and connected to the e-book library server via a communication network, the communication unit for performing data transmission and reception for the e-book library service, and the e-book library service web screen for the e-book library service A display unit for displaying the information and the additional information of the e-book provided by the e-book library service, uploaded to the server on a communication network, and downloading and displaying the additional information of the e-book produced by another user registered with the server. And a control unit.

The additional information may be opinions written in text by the user in relation to the e-book.

The additional information may be multimedia data attached by a user in relation to the e-book.

The controller may generate the additional information as standardized media file format based metadata and upload the additional information to the server.

The additional information may be written in metadata based on an ISO file format or an MP4 file format.

In addition, the present invention provides an e-book library service method, comprising: receiving and storing additional information produced by an individual user in association with an e-book from a plurality of terminal devices through a communication network; Searching for the additional information of the e-book when the stored additional information is requested, and transmitting the retrieved additional information to the terminal device that requested the additional information.

In the present invention, in the e-book service, a user who purchases an e-book, various additional information related to the e-book not described in the e-book such as opinions and information exchange about the e-book (video, photo, background knowledge, comments, etc.) ) To be shared among users, and to those who do not purchase e-books, the additional information registered by individual users indirectly related to e-books can be indirectly referred to as information necessary for the purchase of e-books. There is an advantage that can promote the activation of more.

1 is a network diagram of an e-book library system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a detailed block diagram of an e-book library server according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a detailed block diagram of a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a signal processing flow diagram for producing e-book additional information in a social network-based e-book library system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
5 is a diagram illustrating the concept of uploading additional information and sharing additional information in an e-book library server according to an embodiment of the present invention;
6 is a signal processing flowchart for sharing e-book additional information in a social network based e-book library system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the operating principle of the present invention. In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. The following terms are defined in consideration of the functions of the present invention, and may be changed according to the intentions or customs of the user, the operator, and the like. Therefore, the definition should be based on the contents throughout this specification.

1 illustrates a network configuration of a social network based e-book library system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, an operation of each component of the e-book library system of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1.

First, the terminal device 100 is a user interface device for transmitting / receiving data with the e-book library server 104, and moves a personal PC or a smart phone connected to a communication network such as the Internet via wired / wireless communication. It can be a communication terminal. The terminal device 100 registers with the e-book library server 104 and provides additional information related to a plurality of e-books registered by the individual provided by the e-book library server 104, that is, a video, an image, and a plot related to the e-book. By downloading and displaying additional information such as testimonials and inquiries, the user can check various information about an e-book to be purchased in advance.

The e-book library server 104 uploads and stores additional information such as a video, an image, a plot, a testimony, and a query made by each user in relation to an e-book purchased from a plurality of registered users, Provide it to other users who request it so that it can be shared among users who have purchased the book. At this time, the e-book library server 104, for example, by dividing the above additional information into paid or free information according to the importance of the information to the user who has not purchased the e-book for example by selectively providing only the free information of the user Induce e-book purchase.

That is, a user who purchases an e-book downloads the corresponding e-book using the terminal device 100 or reads the e-book directly from the web, markings unknown words, or displays the related information through the web. It is possible to produce additional information such as copying or linking. In addition, information (video, image, restaurant location, etc.) obtained from a previous trip may be added to the background place information of the e-book. In addition, other e-book users can share the additional information of the personal e-book from the list of users who purchased the same e-book, add or change the additional information of your own e-book to re-upload to the e-book library server 104 have. Such additional information is registered as the additional information of the corresponding e-book by the e-book library server 104 and stored in the e-book library DB (data base) 106. Accordingly, a new e-book buyer adds the e-book. By connecting to the e-book library server 104 that can share the information can be retrieved or recommended additional information of the desired e-book.

At this time, the additional information of the e-book managed by the e-book library server 104 is e-book summary information for those who purchase the e-book newly, and those who have purchased the e-book on the page, the content described in the phrase It can be classified into e-book details that describe the main elements of metadata for describing and sharing them.

The e-book summary and e-book details can appear as shown in [Table 1] and [Table 2] below.

The e-book additional information may be composed of various media data. In order to share such additional information in a social network environment, a standardized media file format is required. In the present invention, the ISO basic media file format (ISO / IEC 14496-12) defined in MPEG can be used for this purpose. The basic media format has a structure that can be stored and distributed including various media types (video, image, text, etc.) including metadata defined in [Table 1] and [Table 2]. In addition, based on IPMP, metadata information defined in [Table 1] is free and metadata information defined in [Table 2] is paid for a new type of business model utilizing e-book supplementary information in social network environment. ) Can be provided.

The e-book library server 104 follows the utilization method defined in the standard without changing the standard file format structure as described above, and allows the e-book additional information to be shared and distributed in the terminal device 100 of the user. That is, the ISO basic media file format used in the present invention uses a brand name, a version, and a compatible brand name indicating that the ftyp box includes additional information (metadata, multimedia data, etc.) of the e-book. And an application that is a metadata processing engine capable of processing metadata included in a file format.

2 illustrates a detailed block diagram of the e-book library server 104 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the communication unit 200 communicates with a terminal device 100 including a mobile communication terminal such as a personal PC or a smartphone through a communication network such as the Internet.

The e-book library DB 106 is a plurality of DBs that store various information necessary for the operation of the e-book library server 104, for example, member information storing personal information of a user registered in the e-book library server 104. DB 206, an e-book list DB 208 for storing information on the list of e-books purchased by the user, and an e-book additional information DB 210 for storing additional information related to the e-book registered by each user. And the like.

The server controller 202 controls the overall operation of the e-book library server 104 according to the embodiment of the present invention according to the operation program stored in the memory unit 204. That is, the server controller 202 receives the personal information of the user who registers with the e-book library service and registers as a member, stores the information about the e-books purchased by each user online, and also the e-books purchased. Each user receives the additional information of the e-book uploaded in association with the e-book and stores it in the e-book additional information DB 210.

Then, the server controller 202 retrieves the additional information of the requested e-book from the e-book additional information DB 210 when there is a sharing request from another user for the additional information of the e-book stored as described above. Provided to the terminal device (100). Accordingly, the user can check the information on the e-book he wants to purchase in advance by using the additional information of the e-book provided from the e-book library server 104, so that the user can get help in purchasing the e-book.

3 illustrates a detailed block configuration of the terminal device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the communication unit 308 refers to a comprehensive configuration of a high frequency processing unit, an intermediate frequency processing unit and a baseband processing unit, and processes voice and various multimedia data from a communication network received through an antenna ANT at a wireless communication band frequency. Then, the intermediate frequency processing for lowering it back to the low frequency band, and it is processed again as a signal of the frequency band that can be processed by the controller 306.

The audio unit 310 modulates the voice signal input through the microphone MIC into a wireless signal under the control of the control unit 306, and demodulates the received wireless signal and transmits it to the speaker SPK as a voice signal.

The keypad 300 includes a plurality of numeric keys, and generates corresponding key data when the user presses a predetermined key and outputs the corresponding key data to the controller 306. The keypad 300 as described above has a difference in character arrangement by manufacturer and country, or in some smartphones, instead of a physical keypad, instead of a physical keypad, a touch screen on the display 304 as necessary in a software manner. It also provides a keypad that is displayed in a format.

The display unit 304 displays various information of the terminal device under the control of the controller 306, and receives and displays key data generated from the keypad 300 and various information signals of the controller 306.

The controller 306 controls the overall operation of the terminal device 100 according to the operation program stored in the memory unit 302. The operation program as described above connects the display unit 304 and the keypad 300 as well as the basic operating system required for the operation of the terminal device 100, manages input / output of data, or executes the terminal device 100. The term "software" refers to software that is preprogrammed at the time of manufacture to operate an internal application or the like.

In addition, the control unit 306 connects to the e-book library server 104 existing on a communication network such as the Internet when the connection request to the e-book library server 104 according to an embodiment of the present invention, the e-book library server 104 ) Receives the web screen configuration information of the e-book library service configured for the e-book library service and displays it on the screen of the display unit 304.

Accordingly, the user may download and view additional information uploaded by another user in relation to the e-book on the e-book library service web screen as described above, and read the additional information produced by the user in relation to the e-book purchased by the user. It may be uploaded to the library server 104 so that other users can view it.

4 is a signal processing flow for producing e-book additional information in a social network based e-book library system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, 3, and 4.

First, when a user wants to read an e-book purchased online from a terminal device 100 such as a smartphone, the user inputs a key input requesting loading of the e-book. Then, the terminal device 100 loads and displays the e-book requested by the user so that the user can read the corresponding e-book (S400).

Accordingly, the user may read the e-book through the terminal device 100 and may perform an operation for generating additional information related to the e-book while reading the e-book. That is, for example, an operation for generating additional information such as directly inputting a point or taking an authentication shot while underlining an impressive sentence using a key input means such as a keypad 300 while reading an e-book is performed. It can be done.

Then, the terminal device 100 prepares the first additional information on the corresponding e-book in accordance with the user input (S402), and uploads it to the e-book library server 104 (S404). That is, the terminal device 100 may add additional information such as location information of a phrase displayed by a user in a corresponding e-book, an impression point written in text, a video or an image-based authentication shot, etc. For example, the file is uploaded to the e-book library server 104 based on the ISO file format or the MP4 file format.

Then, the e-book library server 104 receives the additional information uploaded from the terminal device 100 and stores it in the e-book additional information DB 210 in the e-book library DB 106 (S406).

5 illustrates a concept of uploading additional information and sharing additional information in the e-book library server 104. An operation concept of the e-book library server 104 according to the signal processing flow of FIG. 4 will be described with reference to FIG. 5.

When additional information such as a user's feelings, a video, an image, etc. of the specific text of the e-book is created and uploaded from the terminal device 100 as metadata, the e-book library server 104 displays the additional information in FIG. 5. As shown, after registering and storing the additional information uploaded from the user in the corresponding e-book, another user's smartphone 102-1, pad-type terminal 102-2, PMP (personal multimedia player) 102- 3) When the request is made from the terminal device 102, the registered additional information is shared so that other users can check the additional information registered in the e-book.

Meanwhile, the user may generate additional information while reading the e-book, for example, displaying it in a sentence that is not understood or wants to hear the opinions of others.

Then, the terminal device 100 produces the location information of the phrase displayed by the user and the question made by the text in the e-book as the second additional information (S408), and then produces the standardized media file with the second additional information. A format, for example, an ISO file format or an MP4 file format, is uploaded to the e-book library server 104 (S410).

Accordingly, the e-book library server 104 registers the second additional information related to the e-book uploaded from the terminal device 100 as additional information of the corresponding e-book and stores it in the e-book additional information DB 210 (S412). ), If an answer to a question added by the user from another user is registered, it is displayed in the corresponding text of the e-book so that the user who inputs the query can check the answer or opinion from the other user.

FIG. 6 illustrates a signal processing flow for sharing e-book additional information in a social network based e-book library system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, 3, and 6.

First, when a connection request from the user to the e-book library server 104 is keyed in, the terminal device 100 requests a connection to the e-book library server 104 (S600). Accordingly, the e-book library server 104 transmits the web screen configuration information of the e-book library service configured for the e-book library service (S602).

Then, the terminal device 100 receives the web screen configuration information of the e-book library service configured for the e-book library service transmitted from the e-book library server 104 and displays it on the screen of the display unit 304 (S604). .

Accordingly, the user can select and view various additional information, such as a plot and a feeling point, that other users have registered as additional information on the e-book to be purchased on the e-book library service web screen as described above. You can get help. That is, the user can know what book the e-book is by reading another user's first, for example, the additional information expressed in the form of a table of contents for the e-book separately.

When determining the purchase of the e-book by checking the additional information as described above, the user can purchase the desired e-book through the e-book purchase menu on the e-book library service web screen.

Then, the terminal device 100 transmits the e-book purchase request to the e-book library server 104 (S606), the e-book library server 104 receives the e-book purchase request to the terminal device 100 By transmitting the book data (S608), the user who purchased the e-book may read the purchased e-book through the terminal device 100.

Meanwhile, the user who purchased the e-book as described above may request to download the additional information application including the additional information registered by the specific user for the e-book.

Then, the terminal device 100 requests the download of the additional information application to the e-book library server 104 (S610), the e-book library server 104 searches for the application (S612) to the terminal device 100 It transmits (S614).

Accordingly, the terminal device 100 downloads and installs the application to synchronize the additional information and the e-book purchased by the user (S616). Accordingly, when the user loads the e-book in the terminal device 100 and reads the e-book, the additional information is displayed in synchronization so that the user can view the additional information while reading the e-book.

Subsequently, the user may create personal thoughts and various supporting materials (videos, images, etc.) about specific phrases while reading the e-book with additional information. Then, the terminal device 100 produces the location information of the corresponding phrase and personal thoughts or various supporting materials input by the user as additional information (S618), and then uses the produced additional information as a standardized media file format, that is, for example. For example, the file is uploaded to the e-book library server 104 based on the ISO file format or the MP4 file format (S620). Accordingly, other users can see additional information registered by the user as a reference for the corresponding e-book.

As described above, in the present invention, in the e-book service, a user who purchases an e-book, various additional information related to the e-book which is not described in the e-book such as the exchange of opinions and information about the e-book, etc. (video, photo, Background information, comments, etc.) to be shared among users, and those who have not purchased an e-book can indirectly share additional information registered by individual users with regard to the e-book, and refer to it as information necessary for purchasing the e-book. This can further promote the activation of e-book services.

While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention should not be limited by the described embodiments but should be defined by the appended claims.

According to the present invention, in the e-book service, a user who purchases an e-book, various additional information related to the e-book not described in the e-book, such as the exchange of opinions and information about the e-book, and the like (video, photo, background knowledge, comments, etc.) ), So that users who do not purchase e-books can share the additional information registered by individual users indirectly with regard to e-books, so that they can refer to the information necessary for the purchase of e-books. It can be used in digital devices that can read books.

100: terminal device 104: e-book library server 106: e-book library DB

Claims (13)

Manage a plurality of e-books, receive additional information related to the e-book through a communication network and register as additional information related to the e-book that can be shared to a plurality of users, and when selecting the e-book to the e-book An e-book library server providing the registered additional information,
Terminal device for producing the additional information of the e-book to upload to the server on the communication network, and download and display the additional information of the e-book produced by other users registered on the server
E-book library system comprising a. Communication unit for performing communication with the terminal device of the user registered in the e-book library service,
An e-book additional information DB for storing additional information related to the e-book registered by each user;
The server control unit receives the additional information related to the e-book from the terminal device and stores it in the e-book additional information DB, and retrieves and provides the e-book additional information when requested from the terminal device.
E-book library server comprising a. The method of claim 2,
The server control unit,
And classifying the additional information according to the importance of the information and selectively providing the additional information to a terminal device that has not purchased the e-book. The method of claim 2,
The additional information,
The e-book library server, characterized in that the text written by the user associated with the e-book. The method of claim 2,
The additional information,
E-book library server, characterized in that the multimedia data attached by each user associated with the e-book. The method of claim 2,
The server control unit,
E-book library server, characterized in that for writing the additional information in the standardized media file format-based metadata. The method according to claim 6,
The additional information,
E-book library server characterized in that the metadata is written based on the ISO file format or MP4 file format. A communication unit for accessing an e-book library server through a communication network and performing data transmission / reception for an e-book library service;
A display unit for displaying an e-book library service web screen for the e-book library service;
A control unit for preparing the additional information of the e-book provided by the e-book library service and uploading it to the server on a communication network, and downloading and displaying the additional information of the e-book produced by another user registered with the server.
Terminal device comprising a. The method of claim 8,
The additional information,
And an opinion written in text by the user in relation to the e-book. The method of claim 8,
The additional information,
Terminal device characterized in that the multimedia data attached by the user in relation to the e-book. The method of claim 8,
The control unit,
And producing the additional information as standardized media file format based metadata and uploading the additional information to the server. The method of claim 11,
The additional information,
Terminal device, characterized in that written in the ISO file format or MP4 file format-based metadata. Receiving and storing additional information produced by an individual user in connection with an e-book from a plurality of terminal devices through a communication network;
Retrieving the additional information of the e-book when there is a request for the stored additional information for any e-book from the terminal device;
Transmitting the retrieved additional information to the terminal device that requested the additional information.
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