KR20130000545A - System and method of establishing application server for mobile community service - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An application device construction system and a method for providing a mobile community service are provided to supply contents for a customized application optimized in a specific community, thereby using various community services through one application server. CONSTITUTION: A universal application device(20) with a program module which is set by a manager composes contents for a customized application necessary for a specific community. An application generation device(30) monitors a use state for cloud based computing sources. The application generation device assigns proper computing sources for a community service to the universal application device. [Reference numerals] (10) Mobile terminal; (20) Universal application device; (30) Application generation device

Description

Application device construction system and method for providing mobile community service {SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ESTABLISHING APPLICATION SERVER FOR MOBILE COMMUNITY SERVICE}

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a mobile-based community service, and more particularly, a service platform capable of remotely allocating and allocating a service platform capable of providing various community services based on a cloud computing environment. By distributing program modules that can provide various areas of mobile community services on the platform, the distributed program modules can create new application contents suitable for a specific community, thereby providing various community services through one service platform. An application device building system and method for providing a mobile community service are provided.

Most web sites that provide community services operate web pages through the Internet. However, since it is difficult to provide a general web site to a mobile terminal, there are two methods of providing a general web site through a mobile terminal.

First, as shown in FIG. 1, there is a method of constructing a mobile-specific web page.

In general, since a web page provided through the Internet may display problems directly on the mobile terminal, problems such as a screen size and a format of unsupported content may occur, and thus may be optimized for the mobile terminal as shown in FIG. A mobile dedicated web page device 2 is separately constructed.

The mobile-only web page apparatus 2 reconfigures and provides a web page provided through the Internet in advance to suit the characteristics of the mobile terminal. Then, the mobile terminal 1 connects to a preset access address (URL) through the web browser 1a mounted on the terminal and receives a community service. Frequently, the service configuration of web sites having an access address in the form of m.XXX.com corresponds.

Second, there is a method of constructing and providing a content type for a mobile application through a dedicated application device rather than a web type.

2, the dedicated application device 3 generates content for an application for a specific community by providing content for a specific community in an application format optimized for the characteristics of the mobile terminal 1. This method has an advantage in that a number of additional functions can be developed compared to the mobile web method because the contents for the application are built using the service platform of the mobile terminal 1.

However, the construction method using a dedicated application device is not easy to reuse the content for the already built application, and if you want to provide other community services, there is an inefficient problem because it must be newly developed and built again.

In addition, the conventional method also has a problem that takes a long time to configure the system for providing the service.

The present invention was devised to solve the above problems, and remotely allocates a service platform capable of providing various community services based on a cloud computing environment, and assigns a mobile platform of various areas to the assigned service platform. To provide mobile community services that can provide various community services through one service platform by automatically distributing program modules that can provide services and creating new application content suitable for a specific community through distributed program modules. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an application device building system and method.

To this end, according to a first aspect of the present invention, an application device building system of the present invention includes a general-purpose application device provided with a program module that can be set by an administrator to customize content for a customized application for a desired community; And determining the size of a service for the desired community and monitoring a usage state of a cloud-based computing resource to allocate a computing resource suitable for the desired size of the community service for the general-purpose application device to the computing resource allocated to the manager. And an apparatus for generating an application device for automatically distributing a configuration program module.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the application device generating apparatus of the present invention monitors a usage state of cloud-based computing resources, grasps a service size of a community desired to be serviced, and allocates computing resources suitable for the service scale. A cloud management manager for automatically distributing program modules configurable by an administrator to the allocated computing resources; And a storage pool for storing and managing contents uploaded through the program module.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, an application device construction method of the present invention includes: monitoring a usage state of a cloud-based computing resource; Identifying a service size of a community desired to be serviced and allocating it as a resource having a low current load among computing resources suitable for the service size; Automatically distributing program modules configurable by an administrator to the allocated computing resources; And providing the distributed computing resource to drive the program module to customize the customized application content for a desired community.

According to the present invention, to provide a variety of community services through a mobile terminal to build a universal application device, and register a menu and content corresponding to a specific community in the built-in universal application device to provide a specific community as if providing a dedicated application By providing the content for the customized application optimized for the community has the effect that can accommodate a variety of community services through one application server (universal application device) without having to build a dedicated application server for each community. In other words, the versatility of the service can be secured.

In addition, the present invention has an effect of improving productivity by minimizing tasks and resources required for system configuration by automatically allocating and using a universal application device remotely according to the size of community service using a cloud computing environment.

1 is a block diagram of a system for providing a mobile-specific web page.
2 is a block diagram of a system for providing a conventional mobile-only application.
3 is a diagram illustrating an application device building system for providing a mobile community service according to the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration based on a cloud computing environment of the apparatus for generating an application device of FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is a detailed configuration diagram of the general purpose application device of FIG. 3.
6 is an example of a screen for generating a dynamic menu through the dynamic menu manager of FIG. 5.
7 is an example of a screen for registering content through the content registration and management unit of FIG. 5.
8 is a flowchart illustrating a method for constructing an application device for providing a mobile community service according to the present invention.
9 is a detailed view of FIG. 8.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The configuration of the present invention and the operation and effect thereof will be clearly understood through the following detailed description. Prior to the detailed description of the present invention, the same components will be denoted by the same reference numerals even if they are displayed on different drawings, and the detailed description will be omitted when it is determined that the well-known configuration may obscure the gist of the present invention. do.

The community referred to in the present invention refers to a group having a common feeling by living in a certain region or a certain region where a common life such as a community or a community is made. For example, religious groups such as church groups or Buddhist groups, association groups including the Korea International Trade Association or SME Associations, educational groups to pass certifications or specific notices, sports or photography This could include extracurricular activities, gathering groups of people with opinions on a particular theme.

Communities can be categorized according to their purpose. Portal-type communities, news or broadcasts that can be shared by anyone who is a member of the portal site through homepages such as Daum Café, Naver Café and Cyworld Club. An informative community that forms a community in the form of sharing opinions about a specific theme, such as a site, a counseling community that forms a community for specific counseling in hospitals, youth counseling centers, educational organizations, and financial organizations, Non-profit communities that form communities for the purpose of sharing information or campaigning for public interest. The community service according to this refers to a service that directly creates and shares information in a community corresponding to the same area and provides a space for them to gather together.

Based on this, the present invention will be described.

3 is a diagram illustrating an application device building system for providing a mobile community service according to the present invention.

The application building system according to the present invention includes an application device generator 30 and a general purpose application device 20.

The application device generator 30 allocates a low-load computing resource for the general purpose application device 20 of the present invention by utilizing a plurality of cloud computing resources connected through a communication network, and provides a specific community service to the general application device 20. Automatically distribute the administrator configuration program to provide.

Cloud computing refers to internet-based (cloud) computing technology. In a computer network diagram, the Internet is represented by a cloud, which represents a complex and hidden infrastructure. Cloud computing is a computing style in which IT-related functions are provided as services. Users can access services from the Internet without the need for or expertise in the technology infrastructure they support. That is, the user may be provided with the computing resources he / she wants anytime, anywhere through the Internet using cloud computing. Computing resources are typically managed by separate resource providers, such as large data centers, and their targets may be hardware resources such as CPU capacity, memory, storage, or development platforms, applications, and the like. A service provided by a resource provider to use computing power in a terminal is called a cloud computing service.

The application device generating apparatus 30 according to the present invention identifies available cloud computing resources in consideration of the size of the specific community service (the total number of users, the number of concurrent users, the required storage capacity, etc.). For example, some community services are small in size and can be distributed along with hardware resources already in use for other community services. As such, the concept of distributing and operating a plurality of service modules in the same resource is referred to as multi-tenancy, and the present invention uses computing resources more efficiently in the form of this multi-tenancy.

The general-purpose application device 20 is provided with a program module (administrator setting program module) that can be set by an administrator to configure content for an application for a desired community. In the case of a general Internet-based web page, a web screen having an arrangement and size suitable for the characteristics of the mobile terminal 10 is changed to provide a service for a specific community. The HTML editor is provided for this purpose.

The universal application device 20 is installed in the cloud computing resources automatically allocated through the application device generating device 30, customizing such as configuring a service menu required by the community through a separate administrator setting program ).

That is, the general application device 20 registers menus and contents corresponding to a specific community in a general application format and provides content for an application for a specific community as if a mobile only application is provided by a dedicated application providing device. do.

Each component 30, 20 for implementing this is specifically configured as follows.

4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration based on a cloud computing environment of the apparatus for generating an application device of FIG. 3.

Application device generating apparatus 30 according to the present invention is a cloud management manager 31 for managing the computing resources of the cloud, a plurality of web devices (33a, 33b to 33n), a plurality of web application devices (32a, 32b to 32n) , A plurality of data storage devices 34a, 34b to 34n, and a storage pool 35.

A plurality of web devices 33a, 33b to 33n are programs that process server functions on the web, and receive a request from a web client (browser) and respond to the web service results back to the web client according to the request. To process.

The plurality of web application devices 32a, 32b to 32n are in charge of processing a request received from each web device 33a, 33b to 33n through a service logic.

In general, the plurality of web devices 33a, 33b to 33n are in charge of only the functions requested by the client and the logic to display on the screen, and the plurality of web application devices 32a, 32b to 32n provide various community functions. It shares the function to perform. Thus, many web application devices 32a, 32b through 32n have web devices 33a, 33b through 33n mapped to receive requests from clients. For convenience of understanding, the web device 1 33a is mapped with the web application device 1 32a, and the web device 2 33b is mapped with the web application device 2 32b to provide a corresponding community service.

In the present embodiment, the web application devices 32a, 32b to 32n and the web devices 33a, 33b to 33n are described separately, but may be implemented as one device or an agent may be mounted in another server hardware device as necessary. Remotely detect the system status of each device.

The plurality of data storage devices 34a, 34b to 34n are databases that are mapped with the plurality of web application devices 32a and 32b to 32n to store data necessary for the web application. In particular, the present embodiment stores metadata of content related to a specific community service.

The storage pool 35 stores a large amount of physical files among contents related to a specific community service to reduce the load on the data storage devices 34a, 34b, and 34n.

In the present embodiment, a plurality of web application devices 32a, 32b to 32n, a plurality of web devices 33a and 33b to 33n, and a plurality of data storage devices 34a and 34b to 34n are included in the system state (CPU) of each device. Agent that monitors usage of disk, disk, memory, etc.) is installed. Therefore, the system state information of each device is periodically transmitted to the cloud management manager 31.

The cloud management manager 31 is a system state from an agent installed in a plurality of web devices 33a, 33b to 33n or a plurality of web application devices 32a and 32b to 32n, and a plurality of data storage devices 34a and 34b to 34n. Allocate available web devices or web application devices in consideration of the size of the specific community service (total number of users, expected concurrent users, required storage capacity, etc.) to receive information and service. In addition, the administrator setting program module for providing a specific community service to the assigned device is automatically distributed. The automatically distributed device is the above-mentioned universal application device (20 of FIG. 3), and then sets content for an application suitable for a specific community by using an administrator setting program module installed in the universal application device (20 of FIG. 3). Done.

For example, in FIG. 4, a program necessary for generating content for an application for a specific community, that is, an administrator setting program is automatically distributed by allocating a web application device 2 (32b) among a plurality of devices connected to the cloud, and through the administrator setting program. The uploaded data is shown to be allocated to be stored in the data storage device n 34n having the most free disk space. In addition, a large content file such as a video or an audio file, which is uploaded through an administrator setting program, may be stored and shared in the storage pool 35. In this case, metadata about the large amount of content stored in the storage pool 35 is stored in the data storage device n 34n.

In addition, the cloud management manager 31 may simultaneously provide several community services to one cloud computing device according to the size of the community service and the system state of each cloud computing device. Alternatively, multiple cloud computing devices can be utilized for one community service. For example, church community services are small and can be distributed and provided with web application devices already in use for Buddhist community services.

The distribution of service modules to cloud computing resources is performed through agent-to-agent communication (FTP) of the assigned web application device. That is, the cloud management manager 31 copies the administrator configuration program module implemented in the form of WAR (Web Archive) or JAR (Java Archive) to the web application device through the agent and automatically registers it through the command line command (this process). Is the same as deploying a normal web module).

FIG. 5 is a detailed configuration diagram of the general purpose application device of FIG. 3.

Referring to FIG. 5, the general purpose application device 20 is server hardware allocated from cloud-based computing resources, and basically includes a web service function 21 that receives a request from a web client (browser) and performs logic of a corresponding service. ). Here, the computing resource includes a plurality of web devices, a plurality of web application devices, or a plurality of data storage devices mentioned above.

In addition, the universal application device 20 performs a function 23 of generating content for an application suitable for a specific community by using a management setting program automatically distributed when allocated from the application device generating device 30.

The configuration for the application content generation function 23 may include a dynamic menu manager 231, a content registration and manager 233, a service and statistics manager 235, and the like.

The dynamic menu manager 231 provides a menu management screen for creating and creating a menu item to provide content related to a specific community. This menu management screen is a management screen that an administrator for providing a community service connects to the universal application providing apparatus 20 and is provided with.

The dynamic menu manager 231 generates a menu item required for a specific community through a menu management screen and sets detailed properties of the generated menu item. Menu items can be created in a tree structure that includes the upper layer and its lower layers. Detailed properties of menu items can be accessed according to the menu's read, write, comments, etc. , Whether to allow scraps, whether to use horse heads, and the like.

In particular, the dynamic menu manager 231 provides to select and specify one of a variety of bulletin board types (general bulletin board, video bulletin board, calendar bulletin board, etc.) that are predefined in menu generation.

Referring to FIG. 6 as an example, first, a menu to be created in 1 of the menu management screen and a board form to be included in the menu are designated. In this case, the selectable bulletin board type includes a general bulletin board, a video bulletin board, a memo bulletin board, a schedule bulletin board, and the like.

When one board type is selected, related menu items are displayed in a tree form on the menu management screen as shown in 2, and when a specific menu is selected in the displayed tree, a screen for setting detailed properties of the menu is displayed as shown in 3 on the menu management screen. do. On the property setting screen, properties such as menu name, menu description, corresponding menu access permission, public information, list type selection, recommendation permission, comment permission, scrap permission, and heading can be set.

The menu information thus set is dynamically reflected by the dynamic menu manager 231 when providing a specific community service. Therefore, even a community service having menu items and content contents having completely different numbers or shapes, multiple services are possible using the general-purpose application providing apparatus 20 of the present invention.

Referring back to FIG. 5, the content registration and management unit 233 registers and creates content related to the menu item generated by the dynamic menu management unit 231 through the content registration screen. In this case, the content related to the menu item may be document content (such as text or HTML form), a physical content file attached such as a video or audio, a tag value for searching, and the like.

7 is an example of a content registration screen, and uploads and registers various contents. First, if a menu to be registered is designated in 1 of the content registration screen, a screen for creating a content to be inserted into a document and uploading a file or photo to be attached is displayed as shown in 2. In addition, screens for attaching large-capacity video or audio files to screens 3 and 4, and screens for inputting tag values for searching are displayed. In this case, when the uploaded content is a large amount of video content, it may be stored and managed in a shared storage pool of a cloud computing environment.

Referring back to FIG. 5, the service and statistics manager 235 may check the status of system resources currently being used (consumption of CPU, disk, memory, etc.) and whether the service processor is running through the service and statistics management screen. For each indicator additionally provides the ability to generate a visual or audible alarm if it matches or exceeds any set value. In addition, the service and statistics manager 235 also provides various service statistics such as access status, download status, and menu access status by day, week, month, and year.

The method of providing a mobile-based community service by building a system configured as described above is as follows.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a method for constructing an application device for providing a mobile community service according to the present invention, and FIG. 9 is a detailed view of FIG. 8.

First, referring to FIG. 8, as a method of building an application device in hardware to provide a mobile community service according to the present invention, the application device generating device 30 uses another cloud-based computing environment. By using the computing resources in use for services or by allocating additional computing resources as needed, we propose a method to utilize the existing server platform rather than unconditionally building a server for a specific community service.

To this end, the application device generating apparatus 30 monitors the system state of each resource through an agent installed in the computing resource in the cloud computing environment (S1). Computing resources include web devices, web application devices, or data storage devices.

Thereafter, the size (specific storage capacity, expected number of accessors, etc.) of a specific community service to be serviced is determined, and computing resources suitable for the size of the service are determined (S2).

In addition, the application device generating apparatus 30 automatically distributes the administrator setting program module to the allocated computing resource (S3). This automatically distributed computing resource soon becomes the general purpose application device 20.

Thereafter, the general application device 20 drives the automatically distributed administrator setting program (S5), and performs a customized operation (customization) to make a service configuration suitable for a specific community through this program (S6).

That is, as shown in FIG. 9, a menu for a specific community service is configured (S62).

As a specific menu configuration method, a menu to be created and a board type to have a corresponding menu are selected from a menu management screen included in the built-in administrator setting program module, and detailed properties of the created menu item are set.

The content to be inserted into the desired menu item is uploaded and registered (S64). As a specific process of registering the content, enter the content to be posted on the content registration screen or, if there is an attached file, attach the corresponding attached file and register it.

At this time, most of the content is stored in the form of metadata in the data storage device allocated through the application device generating device 30, and a large content file can be stored separately in a separate storage pool.

Through this process, the general purpose application device 20 generates application content optimized for a corresponding community as if the existing dedicated application providing device provides mobile application data for a specific community service (S7).

Through this process, the present invention can provide a variety of community services using a single universal application device, and even if the content or menu is updated, it is managed in the form of a bulletin board. By changing properties, you can easily update and reuse data for your application. In addition, since the general purpose application device is allocated and used as a cloud computing environment, the task and resources required for system configuration can be minimized and used efficiently.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the present invention, and various modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Accordingly, the embodiments disclosed in the specification of the present invention are not intended to limit the present invention. The scope of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all the techniques within the scope of equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

Conventionally, a method of providing a mobile-based community service is provided by constructing a mobile-only web page or providing a mobile-only application. However, the present invention provides a mobile application device for providing a community service in various areas to a cloud computing environment. It is possible to provide community service of various areas through one application device by providing content for application specific to a specific community by creating content or menu corresponding to a specific community in the general-purpose mobile application device built and built on the basis. do. This allows businesses to accommodate many different community services through a single platform, providing a high cost advantage over how new ones must be built each time for a particular community. Recently, as social network service (SNS) is activated, mobile service construction is increasing in church-related communities, and the present invention will promote the expansion of mission culture business by providing customized mobile solutions to such mobile activities. Can be.

10: mobile terminal 20: universal application device
30: application device generator 31: cloud management manager
32a to 32n: multiple web application devices
33a to 33n: multiple web devices
34a to 34n: multiple data storage devices
35: storage pool 21; Web service function
23: content creation function for the application 231: dynamic menu management unit
233: content registration and management unit 235: service and statistics management unit

Claims (11)

A general-purpose application device equipped with a program module configurable by an administrator to provide customizing content for a specific application required by a specific community; And
Grasp the size of the service for the desired community and monitor the usage state of the cloud-based computing resource to allocate a computing resource suitable for the desired size of the community service to the general-purpose application device, and to assign the computing resource to the allocated computing resource. Application device generator that automatically distributes modules
Application device building system comprising a. The method of claim 1,
The general-purpose application device,
The program module includes: a dynamic menu manager configured to provide a menu management screen for generating a menu item for the desired community and setting detailed properties of the menu item;
Content registration and management unit for uploading, registering and managing the relevant content to the menu item generated by the dynamic menu management unit
Application device building system comprising a. The cloud that monitors the usage status of cloud-based computing resources, identifies the service size of the community to be serviced, allocates the computing resources suitable for the service size, and automatically distributes program modules that can be set by the administrator to the allocated computing resources. Management manager; And
Storage pool for storing and managing the content uploaded through the program module
Application device generating apparatus comprising a. The method of claim 3, wherein
The cloud management manager,
Characterized in that the communication is used to communicate with the agent mounted on the cloud-based computing resources to determine the usage state of each computing resource, the use state information for the computing resources, characterized in that for delivering the program module to the allocated computing resources Application device generator. The method of claim 3, wherein
The cloud management manager,
And computing the computing resource for a new community service to a computing resource that already provides a community service. The method of claim 3, wherein
The cloud management manager,
And a computing resource for automatically distributing the program module and a computing resource for storing the content uploaded through the program module. The method of claim 3, wherein
The computing resource is
Application device generating apparatus, characterized in that any one or more of a web device, a web application device, a data storage (Database). Monitoring usage status for cloud-based computing resources;
Identifying a service size of a community desired to be serviced and allocating it as a resource having a low current load among computing resources suitable for the service size;
Automatically distributing program modules configurable by an administrator to the allocated computing resources; And
Providing distributed computing resources to drive program modules to customize content for custom applications for desired communities
Application device construction method comprising a. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the assigning comprises:
And assigning the computing resource for a new community service to a computing resource that already provides a community service. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the assigning comprises:
And a computing resource for automatically distributing the program module and a computing resource for storing the content uploaded through the program module. The method of claim 8,
Providing to customize the content for the customized application,
Generating a menu item for the desired community and setting detailed items of the generated menu item;
Uploading, registering, and managing content related to a community to a menu item generated in the dynamic menu configuration step
Application device construction method comprising a.

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