KR20150122607A - A method of providing reservation services for leisure vessels and reservation system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing a reservation service in a leisure vessel. The system includes: an access processing unit which receives an access request from a terminal of a customer using a marina; a permission processing unit which permits the access request according to whether the customer is a subscriber or not; a schedule reception unit which receives the sailing schedule regarding the leisure vessel from the customer; and a service unit which provides the reservation service for the customer according to the sailing schedule. The service unit includes a consulting unit providing consulting data of an expert group regarding the sailing schedule. The consulting unit includes an expert DB storing at least one item included in the consulting data classified by the expert group. The expert group includes experts classified as experienced sailors, marina staff, and sailing experts according to the grade. The service unit includes a companion processing unit which requests an accompanying permission to the customer and another customer who input the schedule identical to the sailing schedule input by the previous customer. Accordingly, the present invention provides various marina-based reservation services and guide for safe and convenient sailing for the customers using the leisure, thereby enabling beginners to conveniently and easily use the leisure vessel and the marina.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a reservation service for a leisure vessel,

The disclosed technology relates to a reservation service providing method and a reservation system for a leisure vessel, and more particularly, to a method and system for providing various reservation services by inputting a customer's voyage schedule without limitation.

The Marina is a harbor facility built on a harbor with yachts and leisure boats, moorings, shops and accommodations. These marina facilities or marina facilities are operated as an indicator of the level of advanced marine leisure activities among developed countries. Recently, the construction and operation of Marina Port has been greatly increased under the consultation with the city / county area where the port is located in Korea, and it is gradually spreading. In proportion to this, the demand of customers who enjoy marine leisure through marina is also increasing.

As mentioned above, the marina business has recently been increasing in Korea. In other words, the number of users of leisure boats using marinas is also increasing, and the demand and the customer base are scattered in various ways from users who have a keen knowledge of leisure vessels to beginners who use them for first time.

On the other hand, marina is not able to provide services that encompass all of these various customer segments. Although the construction and operation of the marina has increased significantly compared to the previous one, it is still a weak level that introduces the cultures of developed countries. Therefore, it is a reality that integrated marina services covering various customer groups are not provided.

Also, in the related art, there is also a problem that a variety of information related to the inbound and outbound operations, various information about the navigation, and services required for the beginners of leisure vessels are not provided.

Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2012-0071248 (title of invention: ship safe navigation device and method thereof) is known as a conventional technology for providing safe navigation of a leisure ship.

The disclosed technique is to provide a method and system for receiving a customer's voyage schedule and providing various reservation services of a marina.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a connection request to a customer using a marina, the method comprising: a connection processing unit for receiving a connection request from a terminal using a marina; And a service unit for providing a reservation service to the customer in accordance with the navigation schedule, wherein the service unit includes a consulting service providing consulting data of the expert group on the navigation schedule, Wherein the consulting unit includes an expert DB for storing at least one consulting data classified according to the expert group and the expert group is a group of consultants who are classified according to the grade as cruise experienced persons, , And the service unit classifies the customer and the customer And a coexistence processing unit for requesting the other customer who inputs the same schedule as the inputted voyage schedule to request a co-operation approval. The present invention also provides a reservation service providing system for a leisure vessel.

Embodiments of the disclosed technique may have effects that include the following advantages. It should be understood, however, that the scope of the disclosed technology is not to be construed as limited thereby, since the embodiments of the disclosed technology are not meant to include all such embodiments.

A system for providing a reservation service for a leisure vessel according to an embodiment of the disclosed technology can provide an easy and simple reservation service to novice users who lack sufficient knowledge and experience in using a leisure vessel, Lt; / RTI >

In addition, it is convenient to use the reservation service to use the marina facilities after arriving at the destination marina by navigating the sea, thereby providing convenience to customers and enhancing the added value of various marina based industries.

In addition, it provides customers with the opportunity to market the marina and its surrounding tourist industry to contribute to the development of the community.

1 is a flowchart of a method of providing a reservation service for a leisure vessel according to an embodiment of the disclosed technique.
2 is a block diagram of a reservation service providing system for a leisure vessel according to an embodiment of the disclosed technology.
3 is a block diagram of a reservation service providing system for a leisure vessel according to another embodiment of the disclosed technique.

The description of the disclosed technique is merely an example for structural or functional explanation and the scope of the disclosed technology should not be construed as being limited by the embodiments described in the text. That is, the embodiments are to be construed as being variously embodied and having various forms, so that the scope of the disclosed technology should be understood to include equivalents capable of realizing technical ideas.

Meanwhile, the meaning of the terms described in the present application should be understood as follows.

The terms first, second, etc. are intended to distinguish one element from another, and the scope of the right should not be limited by these terms. For example, the first component may be referred to as a second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as a first component.

It is to be understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected to the other element, but there may be other elements in between. On the other hand, when an element is referred to as being "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that there are no other elements in between. On the other hand, other expressions that describe the relationship between components, such as "between" and "between" or "neighboring to" and "directly adjacent to" should be interpreted as well.

It should be understood that the singular " include "or" have "are to be construed as including a stated feature, number, step, operation, component, It is to be understood that the combination is intended to specify that it is present and not to preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, numbers, steps, operations, components, parts or combinations thereof.

Each step may take place differently from the stated order unless explicitly stated in a specific order in the context. That is, each step may occur in the same order as described, may be performed substantially concurrently, or may be performed in reverse order.

All terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which the disclosed technology belongs, unless otherwise defined. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries should be interpreted to be consistent with the meanings in the context of the relevant art and can not be interpreted as having ideal or overly formal meaning unless explicitly defined in the present application .

1 is a flowchart of a method of providing a reservation service for a leisure vessel according to an embodiment of the disclosed technique. Referring to FIG. 1, a method of providing a reservation service for a leisure vessel includes receiving a connection request (step 110), approving a connection request (step 120), receiving a navigation schedule (step 130) (140). Hereinafter, the technical features performed in each step will be described in detail.

In step 110, the reservation processing server of the marina receives the connection request from the customer using the marina. In receiving the connection request, the reservation processing server of the marina receives a connection request from the customer's terminal. Here, the terminal means a mobile terminal used by the customer. For example, the terminal may be a smart phone or a tablet PC.

On the other hand, the terminal preferably executes an application or a program for requesting connection to the reservation processing server of the marina. And the connection request means requesting connection to the reservation processing server of the marina through such application or program. For example, the connection request may be a login attempt to connect to the reservation processing server of the marina.

On the other hand, the reservation processing server of the marina is wirelessly connected to the customer's terminal. As described above, since the terminal includes a terminal having a network function such as a smart phone, it is possible to receive a connection request by supporting a short-range wireless network using a wireless network. For example, the wireless network may be 3G or 4G.

It will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that such communication methods are exemplary for an understanding of the disclosed techniques and that other types of communication functions may be utilized.

In step 120, the reservation processing server of the marina approves the connection request of the customer. In approving the connection request, the reservation processing server of the marina checks whether the customer has subscribed to the reservation system of the marina or the reservation processing server. If the customer is a subscriber, the reservation processing server approves the customer's access request and permits the customer to access the reservation processing server.

On the other hand, if the customer is an unregistered subscriber, he refuses the connection request. If the connection request is denied, it is possible to additionally include a step of requesting the customer to join. For example, if the customer does not subscribe to the reservation system of the marina, the reservation processing server may refuse the customer's connection request and request the customer's terminal to join the marinas system.

In step 130, the reservation processing server of the marina receives the navigation schedule of the customer for the leisure vessel. Leisure vessels are small vessels that are used for leisure purposes at sea. For example, the leisure vessel may be a yacht, a motor boat and a small sailboat.

Conventional techniques mainly provide navigation information for ships and large ships, but they do not provide navigation information for small ships or yachts such as leisure vessels.

In order to solve the problems of the related art, in step 130, the customer's voyage schedule is received to provide voyage information for the customer using the leisure vessel and various reservation services according to various facilities of the marina.

Generally, it is common for a customer who makes a voyage using a leisure vessel to prepare a schedule or plan for his / her voyage in advance. Therefore, the reservation processing server of the marina receives the navigation schedule including such information. For example, the voyage schedule includes at least one of departure date, departure date, departure point, destination, boarding personnel or hull information of the leisure vessel.

Here, the departure date and time is the date and time when the leisure vessel leaves the port. The starting point is the port where the leisure vessel departs. And the destination is the port where the leisure ship arrives via the sea. And the number of aboard is the number of people aboard the leisure vessel. And hull information is information on leisure vessels, including size and type of leisure vessels.

In step 140, the reservation service is provided to the customer according to the received voyage schedule. The reservation service here refers to the various services that the customer needs from before the departure of the leisure vessel, to the departure, the voyage, the voyage and the arrival at the marina.

That is, step 140 includes steps of renting a leisure vessel, performing an inbound / outbound notification, providing navigation information, reserving accommodation in a marina, reserving maintenance for a leisure vessel, Providing consulting, suggesting to accompany other customers having the same voyage schedule, and providing tourist information of the area where the marina is located. A detailed description of each step included in step 140 will be described later with reference to FIG.

In Korea, on the other hand, the number of customers enjoying marine leisure activities using leisure vessels is not high because the marine leisure facilities are not enough and the development stage is in the early stage compared with advanced countries. For this reason, there are not many users who have enough knowledge and experience about using leisure vessels. That is, it is desirable to provide a reservation service that is highly utilized and easy to understand for beginners who use a leisure vessel.

2 is a block diagram of a reservation service providing system for a leisure vessel according to an embodiment of the disclosed technology. Referring to FIG. 2, a system for providing a reservation service for a leisure ship includes a connection processing unit 210, an approval processing unit 220, a constant reception unit 230, and a service unit 240. The technical features of each component will be described in detail below.

The connection processing unit 210 receives a connection request of the customer. In receiving the connection request, the connection processing unit receives a request for connection of the customer via the wireless network. Therefore, it is preferable that the customer uses a terminal for accessing the reservation service providing system. Herein, a terminal means a terminal capable of wireless communication. For example, the terminal may be a mobile terminal such as a smart phone. Using the smartphone as a terminal, customers can communicate wirelessly with the marina reservation service system in the near sea.

The approval processing unit 220 approves the connection request of the customer. In approving the connection request, the approval processing unit 220 determines approval according to the customer's joining. For example, if the customer is already subscribed to the reservation system of the marina, the approval processing unit 220 approves the connection request of the customer. In another example, if the customer is not subscribed to the reservation system of the marina, the approval processing unit 220 does not approve the connection request of the customer. Then the customer requests to join the marina reservation system to the terminal that sent the connection request.

On the other hand, the approval processing unit 220 can restrict the connection of the customer to prevent the system from being overloaded due to an increase in the number of customers using the reservation service providing system of the marina in the future. For example, the reservation service providing system may limit the connection time of the customer who has approved the connection. In this case, the customer can be automatically logged out after the set access time. In another example, the approval processing unit 220 can set a waiting time for connection. When the first connected customer finishes the connection, it is possible to approve the most recent customer in the queue and access the system.

The schedule receiving unit 230 receives the voyage schedule for the leisure vessel. Here, leisure vessels are small vessels that customers use for leisure purposes at sea. For example, the leisure vessel may be a yacht, a motor boat and a small sailboat. The schedule receiving unit 230 receives a voyage schedule from a customer preparing for voyage using such a leisure vessel. Here, the voyage schedule includes at least one of departure date, departure date, departure point, destination, boarding personnel or hull information of the leisure vessel.

The departure date and time is the date and time when the leisure vessel leaves the port. The starting point is the port where the leisure vessel departs. And the destination is the port where the leisure ship arrives via the sea. And the number of aboard is the number of people aboard the leisure vessel. And hull information is information on leisure vessels, including size and type of leisure vessels.

The service unit 240 provides the reservation service of the marina according to the customer's voyage schedule received by the certain receiving unit 230. [ Marina's reservation service means the various services that customers need to use leisure vessels. In other words, it is a comprehensive service that includes the use of various marina facilities and the provision of all necessary tasks in preparation for navigation.

For example, the reservation service provides rental services for leisure vessels, reporting of inbound and outbound leisure vessels, provision of navigation information for leisure vessels, reservation of marina accommodation, maintenance reservations for leisure vessels, consultation of experts on voyage of leisure vessels, This includes offering suggestions to other customers who have the same voyage schedule as themselves and providing tourist information for the area in which the marina is located. Hereinafter, each reservation service will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

3 is a block diagram of a reservation service providing system for a leisure vessel according to another embodiment of the disclosed technique. 3, the service unit of the reservation service providing system includes a rental processing unit 310, an input / output processing unit 320, a navigation information providing unit 330, a accommodation processing unit 340, a maintenance processing unit 350, a consulting unit 360, A travel processing unit 370 and a tourist information providing unit 380.

The rental processing unit 310 rents the leisure vessel according to whether the customer who uses the marina owns the leisure vessel. Customers who use marinas are those who own a leisure vessel or rent a marina leisure vessel to enjoy the voyage.

In Korea, which is still in the introduction stage compared to advanced countries, it is estimated that many of marina customers enjoy leisure activities and enjoy marine leisure activities. Accordingly, in one embodiment of the disclosed technology, a leisure vessel is rented in the rental processing unit 310 in case the marina customer leases the leisure vessel.

Prior to renting the leisure vessel, the rental processing unit 310 confirms whether the leisure vessel is owned by the customer. As described above, customers are leisure owners or users who want to rent leisure vessels. For example, the rental processing unit 310 receives a lease request for a leisure vessel from a customer, and rents a marina leisure vessel on request. Here, it is possible for the customer to rent any one of the various leisure vessels owned by the Marina according to his / her taste.

On the other hand, when the customer rents the leisure vessel, the rental processing unit 310 can provide the customer who borrowed the leisure vessel with additional safety education according to the leisure vessel. Safety education here means guidance on how to operate or operate a leisure vessel. If the customer is a ship owner of a leisure vessel, it would be desirable to see that he is aware of how to operate his leisure vessel and how to prepare for safety.

However, if the customer intends to use the leased vessel to sail, there may be a case that the accident occurs during the voyage due to the immaturity of the leased vessel or the inadequate safety measures. Therefore, in order to prevent the occurrence of such an accident, the rental processing unit 310 preferably includes a safety education unit for providing safety education to a customer renting a leisure vessel.

The entry / departure port handling unit 320 replies to report the departure of the leisure vessel and report the arrival of the port. According to Article 19 (1) of the Waters Leisure Safety Act of Korea, a person who intends to perform water leisure activities at a distance of more than 10 nautical miles from the place of departure is required to report to the maritime liaison office or police officer as prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs. In other words, when departing from a leisure vessel, the departure and departure must be declared in accordance with the above-mentioned legal provisions.

In the conventional case, customers using a CIQ (Customers Immigration Quarantine) program have had to manually write out departure notification forms and entry declaration forms. In order to solve this hassle, it is now possible to write a report related to inbound and outbound on-line, but this also does not solve the fundamental problem that it is simple but cumbersome compared to using the CIQ program. Accordingly, in the disclosed technology, the entry / departure processing unit 310 replaces the departure notification of the customer and the arrival of the arrival of the entry in order to solve the troubles due to the entry / exit notification.

The input / output processing unit 320 can perform a procedure related to input / output at the request of the customer. For example, when a customer delegates a procedure for issuing a departure notification form, the entry and exit processing unit 320 may use the previously stored information of the registered customer to perform the departure notification in connection with the CIQ program. As another example, if the sailing customer delegates the procedure for issuing the arrival report to the marina of the port to arrive after a while, the incoming and outgoing port processing unit 320 may report the arrival of the port as in the case of the departure report processing.

As described above, it is possible for the customer to perform various tasks through the reservation service provision system of the marina instead of performing the separate procedure or directly writing the documents. Accordingly, the reservation service provision system of the marina provides an effect of avoiding hassle and making leisure vessels convenient to use.

The navigation information providing unit 330 provides navigation information necessary for navigation of the leisure ship according to the navigation schedule inputted by the customer. The navigation information includes one of route information, weather information, and maritime information. The route information is information indicating the way the leisure ship passes through the sea. In providing the route information, the navigation information providing unit 330 preferably provides at least one route information.

* Each route information has the same origin and destination, but the route information provided by the reef, water depth, and leisure ship characteristics may be different due to the geographical characteristics of the sea, not the land. Since the navigation schedule transmitted by the customer through the terminal includes information on the hull, the navigation information providing unit 330 provides route information to the customer's terminal in consideration of all of these points.

Weather information is information about climate or weather that changes with navigation. Due to the geographical nature of the sea, there may be some differences from the climate or weather on land. Therefore, it is desirable to provide weather information considering this point.

The sea information means a Beaufort class table indicating the state of the sea surface in navigating. The Beaufort scale table is a class table detailing the state of the sea surface according to the direction and intensity of the wind. In navigating to a leisure vessel, the state of the sea surface can be used as an indicator for safe navigation. Therefore, it is preferable that the navigation information providing unit 330 also provide maritime information.

The accommodation processing unit 340 provides accommodations of the marina according to whether the customer is staying or not. Accommodation may be a hostel or connected accommodation provided by the marina. It is possible to arrange accommodation provided by the Marina so that long-distance voyagers can have enough rest. For example, if the customer transmits a request for accommodation to the reservation service providing system using the terminal, the accommodation processing unit 340 can reserve an empty room in advance in the accommodation facility.

In addition, the accommodation processing unit 340 can also reserve other subsidiary facilities to be requested by the customer in need. Here, the auxiliary facilities are supposed to be supported by a marina facility such as a restaurant, a game room, a convenience store or a pub. For example, the accommodation processing unit 340 can reserve a lodging facility provided by the marina or a lodging facility linked to the marina by requesting or requesting whether the customer is staying. In addition, reservations can be made for additional facilities. Therefore, it is possible to provide convenient services to customers by reserving the facilities of the marina according to the request of the customer at the reservation processing server.

The maintenance processing unit 350 reserves a maintenance service for the leisure vessel. The maintenance service here includes one of fuel refueling, hull anchorage or hull maintenance for a leisure vessel. In order to supplement the use of fuel due to navigation, the customer can reserve fuel refueling to the maintenance processing unit 350 as maintenance service. And if the customer is staying or sightseeing in the vicinity of the marina, a leisure vessel should be kept for a certain period of time. Accordingly, the maintenance processing unit 350 anchors the leisure ship hull at the request of the customer.

On the other hand, as a method for mooring the hull by the maintenance processing unit 350, there is a method of mooring on the sea or bringing it up to land so as to be moored. In general, mooring at sea has advantages in convenience. However, there is a problem in the hull of the leisure vessel if it is moored for a long time in the sea. In this case, it is preferable to use a method of lifting the leisure vessel to the land by using the lifting device provided by the marina. Such anchoring of the hull can be done at the request of the customer or at the request of the marina to decide the customer.

On the other hand, unlike the ground, on the sea, damage to the ship due to collision with the reefs or obstacles in the sea during the voyage can occur. Therefore, the maintenance processing unit 350 provides repair of the hull for maintenance of the leisure vessel.

The consulting unit 360 provides consulting data of experts on voyages for customers using leisure vessels. The consulting materials here refer to the manuals or guidelines required for navigating on leisure vessels. For example, consulting materials can be tips on navigating leisure vessels that are difficult for beginners to navigate. In another example, the consulting material may be a safety guide to prepare for various variables that may arise while navigating.

Experts are composed mainly of knowledgeable and experienced personnel who are involved in the navigation of leisure vessels. The consulting unit 360 classifies these experts into grades. For example, grades can be classified as nautical experience, marina practitioners, or nautical experts. It will be appreciated by one of ordinary skill in the art that the classifications may be differentiated from those described above.

Meanwhile, the consulting unit 360 stores the consulting materials according to the group, and uses the expert DB to provide the consulting materials meeting the conditions. Expert DB stores at least one consulting data for each group.

The accompanying processing unit (370) requests the other customer who inputs the same voyage schedule as the customer who entered the voyage schedule to approve the companion. Due to safety reasons or educational reasons related to the operation of leisure vessels, there may be customers who are on different leisure vessels and whose departure, destination, and date and time of departure are the same in the voyage using a leisure vessel. In such a case, the reservation service providing system can request the two customers to accompany each other.

If both customers accept the offer, they will provide the same reservation service to each other. For example, the accompanying processing unit 370 can support a novice who intends to use the leisure vessel to accompany the navigation expert. As another example, the accompanying processing unit 370 may provide the consulting data of the experts provided by the consulting unit 360 to the customers of the leisure vessel who approved the travel together. Therefore, it provides an effect to prepare for safety accidents that may occur during navigation.

Tourism Information Offering (380) provides tourist information on the area where the marina is located. Here, the tourist information includes one of the local product information, event information or tourist information in the area where the marina is located.

Here, the specialties information is about the famous specialties in the area where the marina is located. For example, the special product information may be information on food and accessories. And event information is about the events that take place in the area where the marina is located. For example, the event information may be information on a local festival. And tourist information is information about popular tourist attractions in the area where the marina is located. For example, tourist destination information may be information on a historical site, a scenic spot, a mountain, or a beach.

On the other hand, the tourist information providing unit 380 can provide not only tourist information for the area where the marina is located but also tourist information for the neighboring area. Therefore, it is effective to market the tourism industry in the area where the marina is built and its neighboring areas.

Although the method and system for providing reservation services for leisure vessels have been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings for the sake of understanding, the embodiments of the disclosed technology are merely illustrative, and those skilled in the art It will be understood that various modifications and equivalent embodiments are possible. Accordingly, the true scope of protection of the disclosed technology should be determined by the appended claims.

110: Receive connection request 120: Approve connection request
130: Schedule of receiving the voyage 140: Reservation service provided
210: connection processing unit 220:
230: schedule reception unit 240: service unit
310: rental processing unit 320: input / output processing unit
330: Providing navigation information 340: Accommodation processor
350: maintenance processing unit 360: consulting unit
370: accompanying processing unit 380:

Claims (9)

A connection processing unit for receiving a connection request from a terminal of a customer using the marina;
An approval processing unit for approving the connection request according to whether the customer is subscribed;
A schedule receiving unit for receiving a voyage schedule for voyage of the leisure vessel from the terminal of the customer; And
And a service unit for providing a reservation service to the customer according to the navigation schedule,
The service unit includes a consulting unit for providing consulting data of a specialist group on the navigation schedule,
The consulting unit includes an expert DB for storing at least one consulting data classified according to the expert group, and the expert group is classified into passers-by-passers, mariners, or nautical experts according to a grade,
Wherein the service unit comprises a coexistence processor for requesting the other customer who entered the same schedule as the customer and the schedule entered by the customer to approve the coexistence. The apparatus of claim 1,
Wherein at least one of departure date and time, departure point, destination, boarding personnel or hull information of the leisure vessel is received at the navigation schedule, and the hull information includes a size and a type of the leisure vessel. The system according to claim 1,
And a rental processing unit for checking whether the leisure vessel is owned by the customer's terminal and renting the leisure vessel according to the ownership of the leisure vessel. The rental system according to claim 3,
And a safety education unit for renting one of a plurality of leisure vessels possessed by the marina and providing safety education for the rented leisure vessel, wherein the safety education unit includes a control method or operation guide for the leisure vessel Reservation Service System for Leisure Ships. The system according to claim 1,
And an input / output port processing unit for performing an input / output port notification to / from the leisure ship in the reservation system according to whether or not the customer has reported an incoming / outgoing port. The system according to claim 1,
And a navigation information providing unit for providing navigation information according to the navigation schedule, wherein the navigation information providing unit is configured to provide a reservation service for a leisure vessel including one of route information, weather information or marine information used by the leisure vessel as the navigation information Delivery system. The system according to claim 1,
And a accommodation processing unit for reserving accommodation facilities of the marina, wherein the accommodation processing unit provides accommodation facilities of the marina in accordance with a request for accommodation of the customer. The system according to claim 1,
Wherein the maintenance service includes one of fuel refueling, hull anchoring, or hull maintenance for the leisure vessel, wherein the hull anchoring includes a marine mooring and landing of the leisure vessel, Reservation service provision system for leisure vessel including berth. The system according to claim 1,
And a tourist information providing unit for providing tourism information according to the navigation schedule, wherein the tourist information includes one of special product information, event information, or sightseeing spot information of the area where the marina is located.

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