KR20150119980A - Method and device for providing service for e-book - Google Patents

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KR20150119980A
KR20150119980A KR1020140044971A KR20140044971A KR20150119980A KR 20150119980 A KR20150119980 A KR 20150119980A KR 1020140044971 A KR1020140044971 A KR 1020140044971A KR 20140044971 A KR20140044971 A KR 20140044971A KR 20150119980 A KR20150119980 A KR 20150119980A
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An electronic book service method and apparatus are disclosed. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic book service method comprising: receiving an electronic book service for a book from a user terminal; Selecting one or more pages according to a predetermined rule among pages according to a book as an authentication page, providing information about an authentication page, and requesting authentication information for authentication to the user terminal; Performing an authentication procedure using an authentication page and an authentication page according to a response from a user terminal; And providing the e-book service corresponding to the book to the user terminal when the authentication is successful. According to the present invention, it is possible to protect copyright not only by directly authenticating the user who purchased the offline book, but also by providing the e-book according to the book online, It is convenient.

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[0001] METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR E-BOOK SERVICE [0002]

The present invention relates to an electronic book service, and more particularly, to an electronic book service method and apparatus for providing an electronic book according to a book only to a book buyer.

Recently, with the development of the Internet and mobile environment, there is an increasing demand for users to purchase e-book-type books. However, until now, all published books are not available in the form of electronic books.

Accordingly, after purchasing a general book, users who want an e-book use the scanned image file by using the service provided by the scan vendor. For these services, it is necessary to provide scanned e-books only to buyers of legitimate books for copyright protection. In other words, it is natural for a company that sells books to protect copyrights and copyrights of books, and therefore, a company providing scanned e-books is required to provide the service to users who have not purchased the book, May occur.

In order to provide a scanned e-book only to users who have normally purchased the book, a method in which a user directly provides the book to the corresponding company has been used. However, from the viewpoint of users, it is inconvenient to send the purchased books to the scanning company by mail, and the time and expense thereof are incurred.

In addition, conventionally, an electronic book scanned in the form of a file is provided. That is, when a buyer pays a fee, the electronic book file is downloaded from the Internet site, and then the electronic book file is stored in a mobile device such as a tablet PC or a smart phone, and is read. In recent years, a plurality of mobile devices have been frequently used for individual users. When an electronic book is accessed using all the mobile devices used, inconvenience of storing the files in all mobile devices and memory usage for the duplicated files .

Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2009-0082018 (Publication date: July 29, 2009) Method of providing e-book distribution service and service providing server

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic book service method and apparatus for providing an electronic book according to a book only to a user who purchased an actual offline book.

In addition, the present invention provides a Web-based e-book reading service method and apparatus for user's convenience.

Other objects of the present invention will become more apparent through the following preferred embodiments.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic book service method comprising: receiving an e-book service for a book from a user terminal; Selecting one or more pages in accordance with a preset rule among the pages according to the book as an authentication page, providing information about the authentication page, and requesting authentication information for authentication to the user terminal; Performing authentication using authentication information according to a response from the user terminal and the authentication page; And providing the electronic book service corresponding to the book to the user terminal when the authentication is successful, and a recording medium on which a program for executing the method is recorded.

Herein, the information about the authentication page includes a page number, and in the case of an image of a page corresponding to the page number as the authentication information, authentication can be successfully performed.

Also, the user terminal may be provided with a user interface for photographing the page, and a mark may be displayed at a specific position on a page image photographed according to the user interface.

Information on the authentication page includes information on a page number, a line number, and a word order. If the authentication information is a keyword corresponding to the page number, the line number, and the word order, the authentication can be successful.

The providing of the electronic book service to the user terminal may be performed by transmitting a web page displaying a page according to the book to the user terminal.

The performing the authentication procedure may include receiving information on a current location from the user terminal; And determining whether the current location is an impossible area.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication system including: a communication unit for communication with a user terminal through a communication network; A storage unit for storing e-book information about books; Extracts an electronic book corresponding to the book from the storage unit, selects one or more pages according to a preset rule among the pages according to the book as an authentication page, An authentication unit for providing information on the authentication page to the user terminal and performing an authentication procedure using the authentication information received from the user terminal and the authentication page; And a service providing unit for providing the electronic book service corresponding to the book to the user terminal when the authentication is successful.

Here, the service providing unit may transmit a web page displaying a page according to the book to the user terminal.

In addition, in the storage unit, impossible areas are stored, and the authentication unit can perform authentication prior to whether the current position received from the user terminal is the impossible area.

According to the present invention, it is possible to protect copyright not only by directly authenticating the user who purchased the offline book, but also by providing the e-book according to the book online, It is convenient.

In addition, according to the present invention, an e-book is provided in the form of a web page, thereby providing convenience for users to browse.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing an overall system for an electronic book service according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic book service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a flowchart illustrating an electronic book service process according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is an exemplary view showing an authentication page according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is an exemplary view showing a photographed image of an authentication page according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
6 is a table showing impossible area information managed by an electronic book service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments, but includes all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout the specification and claims. The description will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing an entire system for an electronic book service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, the entire system includes a user terminal 10 and an electronic book service apparatus 30. [ The user terminal 10 may be a mobile terminal such as a smart phone or a tablet PC, as well as a general computer, for example, as an Internet-enabled terminal through a communication network.

The electronic book service apparatus 30 according to the present embodiment provides an electronic book service to the user terminal 10, in particular, it may provide an electronic book in the form of a file, but according to another example, It is provided in the form of a web page that can be confirmed. That is, an electronic book is provided in the form of a web page produced by using technology such as HTML5. For example, when a user accesses a specific server provided by the electronic book service apparatus 30 as his / her user terminal 10 You can subscribe to books in the form of web pages using a web browser. Accordingly, the user can conveniently browse the e-book through the web anytime and anywhere.

In particular, the electronic book service device 30 does not provide e-book service to anyone but provides the e-book service only to the user who actually purchased the book. The e-book service performs the authentication procedure to check whether the book is actually purchased, which will be described in detail later.

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic book service apparatus 30 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, the electronic book service apparatus 30 includes a communication unit 210, a storage unit 220 and a control unit 230. The control unit 230 includes an authentication unit 231 and a service control unit 233 .

The communication unit 210 is a means for communicating with the user terminal 10 through a communication network. The communication means will be obvious to those skilled in the art, and therefore, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

For the book A, for example, book-related information about a book title, an author, and the like, and an image (hereinafter referred to as a page image) in which each page is scanned, are stored in the storage unit 220. For example, Is stored as electronic book information.

The controller 230 controls the overall function of each component and performs user authentication and e-book service so that the e-book service can be provided only to the user terminal 10 of a legitimate user.

The authentication unit 231 of the control unit 230 performs a function of authenticating whether or not the user requesting the e-book service legitimately purchases the book.

In the authentication method, an e-book corresponding to a book requested for an electronic book service is extracted from the storage unit 220 from the user terminal 10, and one or more pages according to a predetermined rule among the pages according to the book are authenticated Page, and performs the authentication procedure using the authentication information received from the user terminal 10 and the authentication page.

That is, the user authentication is performed by using an arbitrary page of the book, and the user who carries the actual book is able to directly check the page, thereby authenticating whether or not the user is a legitimate user.

As will be described later, the authentication unit 231 may perform authentication using the user's current location in addition to authentication using the page of the book. This will be described later with reference to the related drawing (FIG. 6).

The service control unit 233 of the control unit 230 enables the e-book service to be provided to the user terminal 10 whose authentication is successful. For example, And provides the user terminal 10 with a web page in which the page image is exposed.

Hereinafter, an electronic book service process performed by the electronic book service apparatus 30 will be described.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an electronic book service process according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an authentication page according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a view showing an image taken by capturing an authentication page in accordance with the present invention; FIG.

Referring to FIG. 3, an electronic book service apparatus 30 receives user information from a user terminal 10. When the electronic book service request is received (S310), the requested book is identified, and at least one of page images according to the book is selected as an authentication page according to a preset reference (S320). As an example of a method of selecting an authentication page, a random selection method may be used as an easy example. In another example, one of the pages having a certain number of characters or more among the page images may be randomly selected, Or images containing an image may be used.

When the authentication page is selected, the electronic book service apparatus 30 requests authentication information for authentication using the authentication page to the user terminal 10. For example, the electronic book service apparatus 30 requests any one of texts and images And requests the user terminal 10 to perform authentication (step S330).

Referring to FIG. 4 together for convenience of understanding, in the case where the word [Baekdusan] is selected as the authentication keyword 440 among the texts described in the authentication page 400, By providing information on the page information 430, the line number information 420, the word or the word order (in this embodiment, the third word in the word order) by the user 10, and if the user is a legitimate user, You can enter the keyword.

It goes without saying that such authentication can be performed not only by one authentication page but also by a plurality of authentication keywords using a plurality of authentication pages.

The present embodiment exemplifies the case where the text in the authentication page is used as an authentication key, and according to another embodiment, the authentication page itself may be used. According to this, the electronic book service apparatus 30 provides only the page information about the authentication page to the user terminal 10, and the user terminal 10 can provide a photographed image of the page in real time as the authentication information have. Therefore, the electronic book service apparatus 30 performs authentication success processing when the received photographed image is the same as the corresponding authentication page (image comparison technique can be used).

At this time, the electronic book service apparatus 30 may provide the user terminal 10 with an interface for shooting the corresponding page in real time because the user can pre-record or use another image file. For example, while the user terminal 10 is connected to the electronic book service apparatus 30 via an application program or the web, the electronic book service apparatus 30 provides a photographing interface through the application program or web page And the marking can be displayed on one side of the photographed image by driving the camera by the interface.

Referring to FIG. 5 showing an example of this, the word 'authentication shot' may be displayed as a marking 510 on the upper right side of the captured image 500 of the authentication page 400, The method can be set variously and randomly. Therefore, the user can generate the photographed image 500 in which the marking 510 is displayed in real time as authentication information only when the user is carrying the book.

It is a matter of course that the authentication may be performed using either or both of the video image of the authentication page itself and the authentication information using the specific authentication keyword in the authentication page.

Then, the e-book service apparatus 30 can confirm the location of the user because the user can perform the authentication using the book at the library or the bookstore without purchasing the book directly. In other words, the electronic book service apparatus 30 may set an area where authentication or service provision is impossible as [impossible area] in advance, fail the authentication of the user located in the area, or provide only the electronic book service have. For example, a second authentication using the authentication page described above may be performed after the authentication using the location is successful.

FIG. 6 is a table showing impossible area information managed by the electronic book service apparatus 30 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6, the electronic book service apparatus 30 stores and manages information on libraries and bookstores nationwide as an impossible area, and manages position coordinates of the impossible area as position information. Accordingly, the electronic book service apparatus 30 judges whether or not the current position of the user terminal 10 received from the user terminal 10 is included in the impossible area, and judges whether or not the user is a legitimate user.

However, the present invention is not limited to this, and even if there are other user terminals that are provided with the e-book service for the book in the vicinity, . That is, if the user is viewing a page image corresponding to the book as another user is dynamically changing the impossible area, the user is set as an impossible area. In other words, the electronic book service apparatus 30 confirms the location information of the users receiving the electronic book service and sets the corresponding location as an impossible area.

The electronic book service method according to the present invention can be implemented as a computer-readable code on a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording media storing data that can be decoded by a computer system. For example, it may be a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), a magnetic tape, a magnetic disk, a flash memory, an optical data storage device, or the like. In addition, the computer-readable recording medium may be distributed and executed in a computer system connected to a computer network, and may be stored and executed as a code readable in a distributed manner.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. It will be understood that various modifications and changes may be made.

10: User terminal
30: Electronic book service device
400: Authentication page
420: Line number
430: Page
440: Authentication Keyword

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Receiving an e-book service for a book from a user terminal;
Selecting one or more pages in accordance with a preset rule among the pages according to the book as an authentication page, providing information about the authentication page, and requesting authentication information for authentication to the user terminal;
Performing authentication using authentication information according to a response from the user terminal and the authentication page; And
And providing the e-book service corresponding to the book to the user terminal if the authentication is successful.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the information about the authentication page includes a page number, and authentication succeeds when the page is an image of a page according to the page number.
The method of claim 2,
Wherein the user terminal is provided with a user interface for photographing the page, and a mark is displayed at a specific position on a page image photographed according to the user interface.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the information about the authentication page includes information on a page number, a line number, and a word order, and authentication is successful when the authentication information is a keyword according to the page number, the line number, How books are served.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein providing the electronic book service to the user terminal comprises:
And transmitting a web page displaying a page according to the book to the user terminal.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the performing the authentication procedure comprises:
Receiving information on a current location from the user terminal; And
Further comprising the step of determining whether the current location is an impossible area.
A recording medium on which a program for performing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 6 is recorded so as to be read by a computer.
A communication unit for communication with a user terminal via a communication network;
A storage unit for storing e-book information about books;
Extracts an electronic book corresponding to the book from the storage unit, selects one or more pages according to a preset rule among the pages according to the book as an authentication page, An authentication unit for providing information on the authentication page to the user terminal and performing an authentication procedure using the authentication information received from the user terminal and the authentication page; And
And providing the electronic book service corresponding to the book to the user terminal when the authentication is successful.
The method of claim 8,
Wherein the service providing unit transmits a web page displaying a page according to the book to the user terminal.
The method of claim 8,
In the storage unit, impossible areas are stored,
Wherein the authentication unit prioritizes authentication of whether the current location received from the user terminal is the impossible area.
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