KR20150083954A - System and method for providing platform of cultural content based on social network - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for distributing cultural contents based on a social network and a method therefor. According to the present invention, the system comprises: a contents collecting part which collects contents to be included in a main page from at least one source server in accordance with a request to provide the main page from any user terminal; a contents editing part which provides a user interface to a user terminal to produce new cultural contents based on source contents provided through the main page and receives and stores produced cultural contents from the user terminal; a contents distributing part which posts produced cultural contents in at least one personal webpage of a user to be distributed based on personal connections of the user who produced cultural contents; a contents evaluating part which calculates evaluation indexes based on at least one of the times of sharing distributed cultural contents or evaluation data inputted for distributed cultural contents; and a contents providing part which provides the source contents including contents collected by the contents collecting part and at least one cultural contents selected in accordance with calculated evaluation indexes to be viewed by a plurality of users through the main page. According to the present invention, useful source to produce cultural contents can be provided and at the same time, cultural contents which are produced based on this can be distributed and evaluated by using a social network, thereby providing quality cultural contents to a number of users.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system and method for distributing cultural contents based on social networks,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a content distribution system based on a social network and a method thereof, and more particularly, to a content distribution system capable of facilitating collection, editing, evaluation and distribution of cultural contents, And a method for the same.

Recently, due to the development of the Internet and the opening of the cultural market, the flow of foreign culture has been facilitated, and the export of Korean culture has also become active. Especially, with the Korean Wave, there is a growing interest in Korean popular culture abroad.

Cultural contents related to music, movies, performances, travel, etc. are easily consumed or traded online, so the promotion of cultural contents and sharing of related information are often carried out online.

Particularly, in the promotion of cultural contents in overseas markets, the proportion of advertisements and promotions through online is very high.

Therefore, it is important to generate high quality cultural contents and to spread the generated cultural contents widely in order to publicize various cultural contents of Korea to the global market including the Korean market.

Until now, however, there has been no service for collectively creating and sharing cultural contents in various fields, and has been actively promoting Korean culture through distribution of contents using individual social networks.

Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1048644, for example, discloses a service method and system for generating a QR code for multimedia cultural contents produced by a user and sharing the same through an individual's social network.

However, even with such a method or system, there is a problem in that the distribution and distribution of the contents is not easy because the distribution of the cultural contents of the client is spread only through the network.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a service that enables everyone to easily create and distribute new cultural contents by collecting and providing contents over the entire culture provided from various sources.

Also, according to the present invention, cultural contents generated by various users are exposed to a plurality of different users, and the quality of content is distributed to a large number of users by employing an evaluation system using a social network for cultural contents generated by users There is a purpose in.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a cultural portal service that allows users to select and arrange contents provided from various sources and cultural contents created using the contents.

Further, the present invention aims to provide source contents for various Korean cultures, thereby allowing users to reproduce new cultural contents for Korea, thereby distributing various information about Korean culture all over the world.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system comprising: a content collection unit for collecting source content provided from a plurality of different source servers; A content editing unit for providing a user with a user interface that allows the user to edit content to generate new cultural content using the collected source content; A content distribution unit for storing the generated cultural content after editing and distributing the generated cultural content based on the social network of the user who created the cultural content; A content evaluation unit for evaluating the cultural content based on at least one of the number of times of distribution of the distributed cultural contents and the evaluation index; And a content providing unit for providing cultural contents evaluated to a predetermined level or higher to a plurality of users in a browsable manner.

According to the above-mentioned object of the present invention, it is possible to collect and provide contents over the entire culture provided from various sources, thereby providing users with the ability to share cultural contents or to process new cultural contents and distribute them to a large number of users The collection of data can be facilitated.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a variety of users can easily create different new cultural contents using various sources and expose high quality contents among a large number of users, Which can lead to interest of the users.

In addition, according to the present invention, users can select a desired source and arrange them in a page as desired by the user, thereby increasing the convenience of the user and inducing a continued interest in the user's interest .

In addition to providing contents for various Korean cultures to a large number of users, it also has the advantage of promoting Korean culture to the users of the world by continuously producing new and various high quality contents about Korean culture.

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

1 is a block diagram of a social network-based cultural content distribution system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of a content providing server providing a social network based cultural content distribution service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of distributing a cultural content based on a social network according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another part in between . Also, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without departing from the other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, a configuration of a social network-based cultural content distribution system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a social network-based cultural content distribution system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a content providing server providing a social network-based cultural content distribution service according to an embodiment of the present invention. And is a block diagram showing a functional configuration.

As shown in FIG. 1, the terminal usage restricting system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of user terminals 10 and a content distribution server 20 for exchanging data with each other via a network N, A server 30, and the like.

Here, the network N may be a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), a value added network (VAN), a personal area network (PAN) wireless networks such as mobile radio communication network, Wibro (Wireless Broadband Internet), Mobile WiMAX, HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) or satellite communication network.

The user terminal 10 may be implemented as a computer, a portable terminal, or a television set, which can be connected to a remote server through the network N or connected to other terminals and servers. Here, the computer includes, for example, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, and the like, each of which is equipped with a web browser (WEB Browser), and the portable terminal may be a wireless communication device , Personal Communication System (PCS), Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), Personal Handyphone System (PHS), Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) (W-CDMA), Wibro (Wireless Broadband Internet), Smart Phone, Mobile WiMAX (Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) (Handheld) based wireless communication device. In addition, the television may include an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), an Internet television (TV), a terrestrial TV, a cable TV, and the like.

A web browser or other application program may be installed in the user terminal 10. The user terminal 10 can communicate with a content distribution server 20 to be described later through such a web browser or another application program, You can create content and distribute the generated content.

On the other hand, the content distribution server 20 communicates with the user terminal 10 or another remote server, for example, the one or more source servers 30 shown in Fig. 1, via the network N and provides a content distribution service Computer.

The content distribution server 20 communicates with each of the plurality of user terminals 10 to create new content in the user terminal 10, distributes the generated content through the user's network, Can be distributed to all users.

Particularly, the content distribution server 20 transmits the culture related content provided by the source server 30 via the API (application programming interface) provided by the operator of the source server 30 to the content distribution server 20 through the content distribution server 20 And can be provided to the terminal 10.

Here, the source server 30 is a third party content provider operated by an operator different from the operator of the content distribution server 20, and is a source for various cultural and tourism fields such as music, art, movies, literature, It is a server that provides content.

Hereinafter, a social network-based cultural content distribution system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the configuration of the content distribution server 20 described above.

As shown in FIG. 2, the content distribution server 20 includes a content collection unit 21. The content collection unit 21 collects the source content stored in the content distribution server 20 or the content requested by the user terminal 10 among the source content stored in the source server 30 and transmits the collected content to the user terminal 10 .

To this end, the content collecting unit 21 directly accesses the content database provided on the content distribution server 20 side or directly or indirectly accesses the content database provided on the source server 30 side and is provided to the user terminal 10 Collect the content. At this time, the content collecting unit 21 may use the API provided by the source server 30 to access the source server 30.

Each of the source servers 30 may be a content provider that provides content in different cultural fields. The content collector 21 collects culture related content of different fields provided by the respective content providers, can do.

For example, when requesting content for music and movies from a specific user terminal 10, the content collection unit 21 may extract and collect some of the music and movie related source content provided by the source server 30 have.

At this time, each user terminal 10 sets its own desired field, so that only the source content of the corresponding field can be provided from the content distribution server 20, which will be described later with reference to the layout setting unit 26 Will be described in detail.

Here, the source content includes at least one of text information related to a cultural product, image, moving image, and other related link information, at least some of the contents included in the source content may be utilized or referred to in creating new content can do.

Meanwhile, the content distribution server 20 according to the embodiment of the present invention may include a content provider 22. The content providing unit 22 can provide the collected contents to the plurality of user terminals 10 by the content collecting unit 21 described above.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the content distribution server 20 can separately provide a main page and a personal page. The main page is an area for providing contents to a plurality of users irrespective of who the author or distributor is, and may be created by listing a plurality of source contents collected in the source server 30, for example. At this time, the fields of the source contents included in the main page may be set differently for individual users.

On the other hand, personal pages for a particular user may include a user who accesses the personal page and the author or distributor of the content, such as content that the user has created, shared or interested in, or content created, shared, And only the selected content is provided in consideration of the relationship with the content.

At this time, the main page and the personal page are separately prepared in the content providing server 20, and the user terminal 10 may display the main page and the personal page simultaneously on one screen or on another screen.

Here, the content providing unit 22 may arrange the source content collected by the content collecting unit 21 on the main page and provide the source content to the user terminal 10. That is, the above-described source content may be content that can be provided to all of a plurality of users without regard to a network, and each user can access contents regardless of a network.

Further, in one embodiment of the present invention, the source contents collected by the content collecting unit 21 and provided to the main page are limited to the content set in the copyright free state, i.e., the content belonging to the public domain But this is merely an example and the present invention is not limited thereto.

Meanwhile, the content distribution server 20 according to the embodiment of the present invention may include a content editing unit 23. The content editing unit 23 provides a content creation tool for creating new content in the user terminal 10 and receives new content created through the content creation tool from the user terminal 10 and stores the new content.

At this time, the content generation tool may be a web authoring tool provided through a web browser installed in the user terminal 10, or may be a authoring tool included in an application program installed in the user terminal 10 in advance.

The content editing unit 23 allows the user terminal 10 to utilize or refer to a part of the source content collected by the content collecting unit 21 as a source of the newly generated content when the new content is created So that the source content provided by the content provider 22 via the main page may be provided for copying and distribution to other media.

The content editing unit 23 enables generation of new cultural content by modifying the provided source content or creating new content including the content included in the source content, and transmits the newly generated cultural content to the content distribution server 20 As shown in FIG.

Here, the culture content refers to content newly generated in the service provided by the content distribution server 20 according to the embodiment of the present invention, and distributed through the above-described personal page. Also, if such cultural contents are posted on the main page, they are expressed in the source content again.

Meanwhile, in the embodiment of the present invention, the content distribution server 20 may include a content distribution unit 24. [ The content distributing unit 24 serves to distribute the cultural contents generated by the content editing unit 23 to the plurality of user terminals 10. [ At this time, the content distributing unit 24 distributes the cultural content generated by the arbitrary user terminal 10 based on the network of the user corresponding to the user terminal 10. In other words, the content distribution unit 24 distributes the created culture content to the creator of the created culture content, the personal information of each user of the friend or friend of the social network service, for example, By publishing the content, the newly created cultural content can be distributed based on the network relationship. Also, when the user viewing the cultural content published on the personal page of the author and the friend of the author as described above evaluates it, or copies or shares the content to another page, the distribution range of the cultural content is changed according to the network relationship between the evaluator and the sharer . In other words, when a new cultural content is created in the service provided by the content distribution server 20, the content distribution unit 24 can distribute the generated cultural content by posting it on a personal page of each user.

Furthermore, the content distribution unit 24 can expand the distribution range of the cultural contents by causing the generated and distributed cultural contents to be distributed again to the third party service.

The content distribution server 20 may also include a content evaluation unit 25. [ The content evaluation unit 25 may calculate an evaluation index for each cultural content by summing the evaluation of users, the number of times of sharing, and the like with respect to each of the cultural contents distributed by the content distribution unit 24. [

For example, each of the cultural contents posted on each user ' s personal page may include a user interface for inputting evaluation information on the cultural contents and a user interface for sharing the cultural contents with other media such as another personal page or another service Lt; / RTI > user interface. For example, you can set a rating for each cultural content, or you can select some of the positive or negative rating information, such as 'like', 'dislike', 'empathize', and so on.

Accordingly, the content evaluation unit 25 can calculate the evaluation index based on at least one of the evaluation information and the number of sharing inputted by a plurality of users for the same cultural content.

The content provider 22 described above extracts some of the cultural contents having the evaluation index calculated by the content evaluation unit 25 equal to or higher than a predetermined level or having a rating index higher than a predetermined rank among the plurality of cultural contents, You can post to the main page as source content. As a result, more reliable and higher-quality content can be posted on the main page than on the personal page.

Also, by providing such high-quality contents as a source of cultural contents to be newly generated, it is possible to guarantee the reliability of the information contained in the second and third processed contents.

That is, the content providing unit 22 provides the source content to a plurality of users through the main page, and the processed cultural content is distributed only to a part of users via the personal page, The content is again disclosed to a plurality of users as the source content, and it is possible to provide a virtuous ring structure for generating high-quality, reliable content.

Meanwhile, the content distribution server 20 according to the embodiment of the present invention provides the source content collected by the content collection unit 21 to the content providing unit 22 through the main page. When the source content to be included in the main page belongs And a layout setting unit 26 for setting the array structure of the source content from each user.

Accordingly, the user can select the structure and arrangement of the main page to be provided to the user, and a category to which the source content to be included in the main page belongs.

For example, the source content may be divided into a plurality of categories, such as music, art, literature, movies, performances, and travels, and the user may select all of them or only some of the source content . In addition, the size and position of the area in which the source content belonging to each category is displayed can be separately set. For example, in the main page, the source content or the list of the source content may be divided into categories, and the regions to which the source contents belonging to different categories belong can be divided and separated from each other, .

The layout setting unit 26 stores the layout setting information for the main page input from each user and can refer to the layout setting information in providing the main page to each user terminal 10. [

Also, the content collecting unit 21 may collect only the source content belonging to the specific category by referring to the layout setting information of the user corresponding to the user terminal 10 requesting the provision of the main page, so that the main page is created.

Also, as described above, the content provider 22 can extract only a part of the cultural content that has been highly evaluated by the content evaluation unit 25, include it as the source content again in the main page, and provide it to the user terminal 10 Accordingly, the main page may include not only the contents collected from the source server 30, but also some content that has been highly evaluated among the cultural contents edited through the service provided by the content distribution server 20, It can be included in the page.

Furthermore, the content providing unit 22 may be a user who has received a high evaluation and has created the selected cultural content to be posted on the main page, or a user who has received a relatively higher evaluation among them or a relatively large number of cultural contents A list of the users selected by the content may be provided together on the main page side so that they can apply for the formation of a network connection. Thereby allowing other users to establish a personal relationship with trusted users. Or their personal pages or the cultural contents created by them can be browsed so that highly reliable cultural contents can be confirmed in advance before being posted on the main page so that they can participate in the evaluation.

Furthermore, the content distribution server 20 according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include a connection management unit 27. The human network management section 27 provides the network distribution information to be used for selecting the distribution target in the above-described content distribution section 24 in distributing the cultural content.

The human network management section 27 manages a list of users who have formed a friendship relationship with each other by a mutual agreement relationship for an arbitrary user or manages a list of users who have requested a friend relationship unilaterally with respect to an arbitrary user, When the content is created, it may be posted on the personal page of other users included in the above-mentioned user list.

In addition, the human network management unit 27 may define a network relationship between users by using the network relationship information of the social network service of another third party relationship as another embodiment, and distribute the content accordingly.

Hereinafter, a method of distributing cultural contents based on a social network according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of distributing a cultural content based on a social network according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the method for distributing cultural contents according to the embodiment of the present invention may be started from the step S11 in which the content distribution server 20 collects the source content.

In step S11, when receiving the main page providing request of the user terminal 10, the content distribution server 20 confirms the layout setting information corresponding to the user and selects a category of the source content to be included in the main page, The source content belonging to the category can be collected. At this time, the content distribution server 20 can receive the source content from the source server 30 of the third party relation providing the reliable content.

Accordingly, in step S12, the content distribution server 20 creates a main page to be provided to the user terminal 10 by arranging the collected source content with reference to the layout setting information, and provides the created main page to the user terminal 10 can do.

On the other hand, when a new cultural content creation request based on the provided source content is received from the user terminal 10, the content distribution server 20 causes the user terminal 10 to create new culture content using the content creation tool, (S13).

Then, the content distribution server 20 distributes the generated cultural content through the personal page of one or more users (S14). For example, when the generated cultural content is created by the first user, the newly generated cultural content is posted on the personal page of the first user, so that the first user and the other users visiting the personal page of the first user Cultural contents can be viewed. In step S14, if the generated content is created by the first user, the content distribution server 20 confirms the network connection information for the first user and transmits the relationship information to the first user So that the corresponding cultural content can be posted on the personal page of the user. Accordingly, the corresponding cultural contents can be browsed to the second user and other users visiting the personal page of the second user.

In step S14, the content distribution server 20 may distribute the distributed cultural contents to other users' personal pages or distribute them to other services at the request of the users who can browse the cultural contents.

Further, in step S14, the content distribution server 20 may receive input or selection of evaluation information on the cultural content, or receive a sharing request, according to an input through the user terminal 10 of the users viewing the cultural content.

Accordingly, the content distribution server 20 integrates evaluation information on one and the same cultural content distributed and shared to a plurality of users, counts the number of sharing, calculates an evaluation index for each cultural content, Can be extracted (S15). To this end, the content distribution server 20 can distribute and manage the same cultural content even if the specific cultural contents are distributed to different users' personal pages, and can manage the same with the same identification information, .

Subsequently, the content distribution server 20 can receive the one or more cultural contents extracted as the upper cultural contents as the source content and provide the same to the plurality of user terminals 10 through the main page (S16) .

That is, not only the source content collected from the source server 30 but also the content that has been highly evaluated among the cultural contents can be included in the main page as the source content.

Of course, at this time, the cultural content that can be selected as the source content with a high evaluation index can be limited to the cultural content set to be viewable by all users, for example, set to 'full public' If the content is set to be viewable only by users within a certain range, such as setting the content to be 'friend public,' the source content may not be selected even if the evaluation index is highly recognized.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when the reliability of the content for distribution through the social network edited by the individual general users is recognized, the content is handled in the same manner as the source content created by the expert group provided from the source server 30, To be provided to users of the system.

Accordingly, it is possible to generate and provide a richer variety of contents such as general information about cultural products, reviews, advertisements, and the like from various viewpoints.

The content distribution method according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 includes the steps of time series processing in the content distribution system shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. Therefore, even when omitted from the following description, the content described above with respect to the content distribution system shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 can also be applied to the content distribution method according to the embodiment shown in FIG.

The content distribution method according to the embodiment described with reference to FIG. 3 may also be implemented in the form of a recording medium including instructions executable by a computer such as a program module executed by a computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. In addition, the computer-readable medium may include both computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Communication media typically includes any information delivery media, including computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave, or other transport mechanism.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes only and that those of ordinary skill in the art can readily understand that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the detailed description and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents are to be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention do.

Claims (11)

A content distribution server for providing content to a plurality of user terminals via a network,
A content collection unit for collecting content to be included in a main page from one or more source servers according to a main page providing request of an arbitrary user terminal;
A content editing unit for providing a user interface for editing content to a user terminal so as to generate new cultural content based on the source content provided through the main page, receiving the generated cultural content from the user terminal, and storing the generated cultural content;
A content distributing unit for distributing the generated cultural content to a personal page of one or more users based on a network relationship of a user who has generated the cultural content and distributing the generated content;
A content evaluation unit for calculating an evaluation index of cultural contents based on at least one of the number of times of distribution of the distributed cultural contents and the evaluation information inputted for the distributed cultural contents; And
And a content providing unit for providing the source content including one or more pieces of cultural content selected according to the content collected by the content collecting unit and the calculated evaluation index to a plurality of users through the main page, server. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the source content is divided into a plurality of categories,
The content distribution server comprises:
For each user, layout setting information including at least one of category information to which source content to be included in the main page belongs and size or position of an area in which source content belonging to each category is arranged, A content distribution server further comprising: 3. The method of claim 2,
The content providing unit,
And defines a category of source content included in a main page by referring to the layout setting information for a user corresponding to the arbitrary user terminal. The method according to claim 1,
The content providing unit,
And provides information of a user who has created a relatively large number of cultural contents included in the source content through the main page. The method according to claim 1,
The content distribution server comprises:
Further comprising, for each user, a relationship management section that stores and manages relationship information including a list of other users in a network relationship with each user. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the source content included in the main page includes:
Wherein the content is provided to be viewable to a plurality of users irrespective of the relationship between the users. The method according to claim 1,
The content distribution unit includes:
A content distribution server that distributes arbitrary cultural content by publishing it on a personal page of a user who has generated the cultural content and a personal page of another user who is in a network relationship with a user who has generated the cultural content. A content distribution server for providing content to a plurality of user terminals via a network,
Storing new cultural contents created according to a request of a user terminal;
Distributing the stored cultural content to another user having a network relationship within a certain range with the created user by posting the stored cultural content on a personal page of a user who created the cultural content;
Calculating an evaluation index of the cultural content based on at least one of the number of times of sharing of the cultural content distributed or the evaluation information input to the cultural content;
Extracting one or more cultural contents having a rating index or a rating index of a predetermined level or more among the plurality of cultural contents in which the rating index is calculated;
And providing the main page to a plurality of user terminals requesting by posting the source content including the extracted cultural content to the main page. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the distributing comprises:
And publishing the stored cultural content together with a personal page of a user who created the cultural content, on a personal page of another user having a network relationship with the created user in a certain range. 10. The method according to claim 8 or 9,
Providing the main page to a plurality of user terminals requesting,
Wherein the source content comprises:
And a content distribution server, which is connected to the content distribution server and includes content collected from at least one source server that is a third party relationship with the content distribution server, A content distribution method provided for browsing. 9. The method of claim 8,
The step of providing the main page to a plurality of user terminals,
Providing information of a first user who has created a relatively large number of cultural contents having a certain level or a rating index equal to or higher than a predetermined ranking to a plurality of user terminals requesting the main page; And
Further comprising the step of adding the information of the second user to the network connection information of the first user when a connection formation request for the first user is received from an arbitrary second user through the information of the first user A content distribution method.

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