KR20150052386A

KR20150052386A - Method for providing book contents in interactive way

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Publication number: KR20150052386A
Application number: KR1020130132708A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 손재권
Original assignee: 손재권
Priority date: 2013-11-04
Filing date: 2013-11-04
Publication date: 2015-05-14

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing book contents in an interactive way. The method for providing book contents in an interactive way according to the present invention comprises the steps of receiving identification information including the book purchase information of a user; granting access authority to the user according to the identification information and generating an account for the user having the access authority granted thereto; transmitting update information if there is update information for a book; and approving a request for access to the update information by the user if the user has access authority for access to the update information. Accordingly, a user that purchased a book can be notified of the update of the purchased book and opinion exchange is enabled for users that purchased the book and between users that purchased the book and the writer of the book.

Description

[0001] METHOD FOR PROVIDING BOOK CONTENTS IN INTERACTIVE WAY [0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a method of providing interactive book contents, and more particularly, to a method of using and managing purchased books on-line.

An electronic book refers to a book published in digital form instead of a paper medium of information and information, and an electronic book can be used through a PC or a terminal equipped with a viewer.

These electronic books are spreading in the form of general books due to the spread of smart phones and the Internet, and books made of conventional paper are replaced with electronic books to some extent. In addition, the user can use the electronic book very easily without any geographical or temporal limitation.

However, electronic books may have less concentration than paper books due to various functions of terminals. In addition, the electronic book can not feel the unique texture made of paper, and can give fatigue to the user through the display portion of the terminal. As the demand for paper books is still maintained, paper books are published separately from electronic books, and many users are using paper books.

However, paper books can not be updated if contents change, and there is a problem that a new book must be purchased again. In addition, paper books have limitations on how they can create their feelings when reading books and share them with other users. Even if a comment is written, troublesome procedures such as market client activation and contents search are required until a comment is written on the market homepage for selling electronic books. Of course, you can check readers reviews or reviews posted by other users about the book on the website (online bookstore) where the book was purchased, but this is an extremely limited communication structure and is mainly used for readers who purchased the book There is a limit to the level of communication for helping the purchasing decision for the preliminary buyer who intends to purchase the book. In addition, although it is possible to solve some questions about the book through knowledge Q & A, knowledge search, and café activity provided by various portal sites on the Internet, such a communication structure is also different from the electronic book itself It is only a limited level.

Accordingly, there is a need to develop a method for providing an interactive book content that has the merits of an electronic book, but can utilize an existing printed book as it is.

A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a bi-directional book content providing method for managing a book through online so that users of books can be informed of updated information about purchased books.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an interactive book content providing method for managing a book through on-line so as to exchange opinions between purchased users and purchasing users and writers.

The problems of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned problems, and other problems not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing interactive book contents, the method comprising: receiving certification information including purchase information on a book of a user; Generating an account for a user to which the access authority is granted, transmitting update information to the user when update information for the book exists, and transmitting the update information to the user, The method comprising the step of granting an access request.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the proof information includes at least one of a title, a price, a purchase date, and a code of a book.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the update information includes a number of copies of a book, a price, an issue date, a copyright holder, an ISBN, an update, a number of pages, and a change of a book.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer program product, which is characterized by further comprising the step of receiving a user's opinion on at least one of contents of a book, information of a book, and update information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of generating additional book information including at least one of update information and user's opinion.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing interactive book content, the method comprising: receiving proof information including purchase information of a user's book; The access right to the user is granted according to the authentication information, the account for the user who is granted the access right is created, the update information is transmitted to the user when the update information for the book exists, And permits the access request when the access right exists for the request.

The details of other embodiments are included in the detailed description and drawings.

The present invention can provide a method of providing interactive book contents in which books are managed on-line so that users of books can be informed of updated information about purchased books.

The present invention can provide an interactive book content providing method for managing a book through on-line so as to exchange opinions between purchasers and buyers and writers.

The effects according to the present invention are not limited by the contents exemplified above, and more various effects are included in the specification.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 is a schematic block diagram of a method for providing book content in both directions in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart showing a method of providing book contents in both directions in accordance with the flow of information in the configuration diagram of Fig. 1. Fig.
3 is a schematic diagram of proof information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 illustrates an embodiment of a method for providing update information of a book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention and the manner of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. Is provided to fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art, and the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims.

Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout the specification.

It is to be understood that each of the features of the various embodiments of the present invention may be combined or combined with each other partially or entirely and technically various interlocking and driving is possible as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, It may be possible to cooperate with each other in association.

Various embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention includes an author terminal 100, a server 200, and a user terminal 300, each of which operates while exchanging information with each other. Referring to FIG. 1, one author terminal 100, one server 200, and one user terminal 300 can communicate with each other, and a plurality of author terminals 100, a plurality of servers 200, , And a plurality of user terminals (300) can correspond to each other.

The author is a creator of a work. In an embodiment of the present invention, the author may be a writer who created a literary work. When there are a plurality of author terminals 100, each of a plurality of author terminals 100 can communicate with one server 200. The author terminal 100 includes various types of terminals for exchanging information with the server 200. [

A work is a variety of author 's creations belonging to literature, academic or art scope, including literary works, art works, photographic works, visual works, and musical works. More specifically, literary works include novels, poems, papers, lectures, screenplay, and the like. Also, the literary works may need to be updated depending on the type of contents of the works. Each work is independent of the format or content of the expression, and the corresponding work application can be made to represent each work.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the work may be a literary work, more specifically a book. Authors may sell their work, books, offline and online. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the author terminal 100 may transmit information on the author's book to the server 200. [

The server 200 exchanges information with the author terminal 100 and the user terminal 300. The information transmitted or received by the server 200 includes authentication information, access authority information, update information of a book, access request information, access permission information, comments, information on opinions, and the like.

The server 200 transmits information to the author terminal 100 or receives information from the author terminal 100. The information that the server 200 exchanges with the author terminal 100 includes update information, comments, and opinion information. The update information will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the server 200 receives a work from the author terminal 100. The author terminal 100 transmits the contents of one or more books and information about books to the server 200. In addition, each author may be connected to the server 200 owned by each author through the author terminal 100, and a plurality of authors may be managed through one integrated server 200. In other words, the contents of the book and the information about the book may be stored in a personal server connected to each author terminal 100, so that a plurality of the servers 200 may exist. In addition, the contents of the book and the information about the book by the plurality of authoring terminals 100 can be managed in one integrated server 200.

The server 200 may be a server that can be synchronized with one integrated server 200. The server 200 may be a cloud server and a server capable of synchronization. Specifically, the server 200 is an example of a Google Drive provided by Google.

The server 200 transmits information to the user terminal 300 or receives information from the user terminal 300. The information that the server 200 exchanges with the user terminal 300 includes authentication information, access rights, update information, access request information, access permission information, comments, and opinions. Information exchanged by the server 200 with the user terminal 300 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the server 200 exchanges information with the user terminal 300, receives information about a book purchased by a user via offline, and transmits information received from the author terminal 100 do.

The user terminal 300 exchanges information with the server 200. The user terminal 300 may include various kinds of information for exchanging information with the server 200.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a user purchases a book, and the server 200 can receive a receipt or purchase information from the user or the user terminal 300 and authenticate the user. In addition, the user terminal 300 can receive the changes to the purchased book, and can transmit the change to the server 200. [ The change may be update information, which will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

Fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart showing the configuration of Fig. 1 according to the flow of information.

Referring to FIG. 2, the server 200 receives the authentication information from the user terminal 300 (S101). The proof information includes information about the purchased book. The proof information can be, for example, the receipt or the code of the purchased book. Receipts are issued online and offline, and there is no limit to the form. In addition, the code of a book may be a unique identification mark produced by the author or publisher, and may be displayed or attached to the inside of the book. The code of the book may be a unique number or at least one of numbers, letters, and symbols. The proof information includes the information on the customer who traded the book, the name of the book, and the date and time of the transaction.

When receiving the authentication information (S101), the personal e-mail or personal social network service (SNS) account is included in the authentication information and transmitted to the server 200 or to the server 200 together with the authentication information . Personal e-mail or personal SNS accounts are a means of communication that can be used to comment or exchange comments about books.

The server 200 confirms the authentication information and gives the access right to the user terminal 300 (S103). The access right is the right to receive information or access the server 200 from the personal e-mail sent along with the proof information or the book purchased through the personal SNS account. The access authority is given only to the user who purchased the actual book through the proof information, and is generated after confirming the proof information in the server 200. The server 200 grants only one access right to one piece of proof information.

The server 200 creates a user's account 201 in the server 200 before granting the access right (S103), granting the access right (S103) or granting the access right (S103) . The account created in the server 200 stores user information such as personal e-mail or personal SNS account transmitted by the user. In addition, the account created in the server 200 may store the update information transmitted from the author terminal 100. The account created in the server 200 may be an account within the cloud server. For example, a Google Drive, which is one of the cloud servers provided by Google, can be used as the server 200, and an account created in the Google Drive can be used accordingly.

The author terminal 100 receives the update information from the server 200 (S105). When the server 200 receives the update information from the author terminal 100 (S 105), the received update information is stored in the account of the user created in the server 200. The update information may be information including a change to the book by the author. Specifically, the update information includes changes that include additions or modifications to the contents of the book or corrections to the misappropriation. The update information includes the number of copies of the book, the price, the issue date, the copyright holder, the ISBN, the update, the number of pages, and the changes to the book. In particular, changes to books include revisions to typographical errors, additions or changes to new content.

When the server 200 receives the update information (S105) and stores it in the created account, the server 200 informs the user that there is update information for the book (S107).

The user terminal 300 may request the access to the account created in the server 200 in response to the update information notification S107 of the server 200 in operation S109. When the server 200 receives the access request (S109) of the user terminal 300, the server 200 determines whether the user terminal 300 having the access request (S109) has the access right (203). If there is an access right, the server 200 generates an access permission 205 and permits access to the user terminal 300 that made the access request S109 (S111).

The access request (S109) and the transfer of the access permission (S111) may be performed online, respectively. More specifically, the transmission of the access request (S109) and the access permission (S111) can be done through the user's personal e-mail or personal SNS account.

When the user terminal 300 receives the access permission S111, the user terminal 300 can access the account of the user created in the server 200. [ The user can confirm the information stored in the user's account through the user terminal 300 accessing the account. The information stored in the account includes update information transmitted from the author terminal 100 and information on books purchased by the user. In addition, the information stored in the account may include comments on books and update information entered by other users.

The user can freely access the account created in the server 200 through the user terminal 300. Also, the user can check the information about the book and the update information through the account created in the server 200, and register a comment or comment on the book. As a result, other users can check and register their comments and comments. In the same manner, the author can freely access the server 200 using the terminal, confirm the comment or comment on the author's book, and register the comment or comment again. Through this interactive book content providing method, authors and users can communicate bidirectionally around a single book.

Further, the server 200 may generate the additional book information based on the update information and the user's comment or opinion. The additional book information may be, for example, an appendix, and may be a file in electronic form.

3 is a schematic diagram of proof information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the proof information may specifically be a receipt 600. The receipt 600 may be transmitted to the server 200 by the user through the receiving of the authentication information (S101) of FIG. The receipt 600 may be printed on paper or may be in electronic form on-line. Accordingly, the step of receiving the authentication information (S101) of FIG. 2 can be performed by mail or the like when the receipt 600 is paper. When the receipt 600 is an electronic format file, the receipt of the certification information (S101) of FIG. 2 can be made by e-mail or the like as an image file of the receipt 600 itself.

The proof information may be the code of the book in addition to the receipt (600). The code of a book may be a unique identification number such that the author or publisher includes purchase information for each book, and may comprise a unique number or at least one of numbers, letters, and symbols. Also, the code of the book may be displayed or attached inside the book

The receipt 600 includes information such as customer information, transaction information, title, date of transaction, transaction type, amount of supply, value added tax, and total. The receipt 600 may include a proof information recognition area 610 and the proof information recognition area 610 may include a QR code 611 or a bar code 613. [

The QR code 611 or the bar code 613 includes specific information included in the receipt 600. [ The QR code 611 or the bar code 613 can be recognized through the terminal 700 and can be transmitted to the server 200 through the terminal 700 more easily with specific information included in the receipt 600 .

FIG. 4 illustrates an embodiment of a method for providing update information of a book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, a book 800 includes a book 820 containing travel information as a content, and a photograph 810 of a travel destination and information 820 of a photograph 810 of a travel destination. The user terminal 310 displays a book 801 on the display unit and the book 801 stores information 811 on a travel destination, information 821 on a picture 811 of a travel destination and update contents 831 . The location, size, shape, and the like of the photos 810 and 811 of the travel destination, the information 820 and 821 of the travel photos 810 and 811, and the update contents 831 can be changed without limitation.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a book purchased by a user includes a photograph 810 of a travel destination, and a photograph 810 of a travel destination may be a photograph of a building. Thus, if a building is lost or destroyed at a destination, the author can update the changes to the photo. Further, another user can register a comment or an opinion on the change of the photograph (S113), and the registered comment and the opinion are transmitted to the author (S115), and the author can refer to the change and update. The update content by the author can be transmitted to the user terminal 310 through the server 200. [ The update content 831 may be added to the user terminal 310 and displayed.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the information 820, 821 on the photos of the destination may include annotations. Annotations include footnotes and Americas. The commentary is written by supplementing the meaning of some part of the contents of the text, or by a separate indication, and the footnotes are fewer at the bottom of the text, and the Americas at the end of the text. The footnote or endnote connects various information to the user terminal 310 through a link. Various information linked by footnotes or endnotes may include referenced documents, referenced internet sites, reference videos, reference pictures, other information referenced, and the like. The link connects the user terminal 310 with a file stored on the Internet or various terminals through an electronic signal. When the user wishes to confirm the specific contents of the footnotes or endnotes displayed in the information 821 on the photos of the travel destination, the user can input a footnote or an endnote link displayed in the information 821 on the photograph of the travel destination displayed on the user terminal 310 So that various information linked by footnotes or endnotes can be obtained more easily. That is, it is inconvenient to search specific information about footnotes and endnotes in a paper book through a separate terminal. However, it is difficult to search various information connected by footnotes or endnotes in the user terminal 310 through a method of providing an interactive book content Convenient and easy to identify and obtain.

In this specification, each block or each step may represent a part of a module, segment or code that includes one or more executable instructions for executing the specified logical function (s). It should also be noted that in some alternative embodiments, the functions mentioned in the blocks or steps may occur out of order. For example, two blocks or steps shown in succession may in fact be performed substantially concurrently, or the blocks or steps may sometimes be performed in reverse order according to the corresponding function.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in a combination of the two. The software module may reside in a RAM memory, a flash memory, a ROM memory, an EPROM memory, an EEPROM memory, a register, a hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor, which is capable of reading information from, and writing information to, the storage medium. Alternatively, the storage medium may be integral with the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside within an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC may reside within the user terminal. Alternatively, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to those embodiments and various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. . Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. Therefore, it should be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

100 author terminal
200 servers
201 Creating an account
203 Identifying Access Rights
300, 310 user terminal
S105 Receiving update information
S101 Receiving proof information
S103 Granting access
S107 Update Notification
S109 Access request
S111 Access permission
S113 Comments and comments
600 receipts
610 Certification Information Recognition Area
611 QR code
613 barcode
700 terminal
800 books
810, 811 Pictures of attractions
820, 821 Information about the photos of the destination
831 Updated contents

Claims

Receiving certification information including purchase information for a user's book;
Granting an access right to the user according to the authentication information, and creating an account for the user to which the access right is granted;
Transmitting update information to the user when update information for the book exists; And
Authorizing the access request when the access right exists for the access request of the user for the update information; And a second step of generating the two-way book content.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the proof information includes at least one of title, price, purchase date and code of a book.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the update information includes a number of copies of the book, a price, an issue date, a copyright holder, an ISBN, an update, a number of pages, and a change of a book.

The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising the step of receiving user feedback on at least one of the contents of the book, the information of the book, and the update information.

5. The method of claim 4,
Further comprising the step of generating additional book information including at least one of the update information and the opinion of the user.

Receiving proof information including purchase information on a user's book,
Assigning the access right to the user according to the authentication information, creating an account for the user to which the access right is granted,
When update information for the book exists, transmits the update information to the user,
And when the access right exists for the access request of the user for the update information, permits the access request. &Lt; Desc / Clms Page number 20 >