TWI482036B - Method and system of network object combination - Google Patents

Description

Network object combination method and system thereof

The present invention relates to a network object assembly method and system thereof, and more particularly to the architecture and transmission of a network system for disassembling an object into a secondary object and automatically searching for a secondary object and assembly on the network.

Observing the network changes in the past decade, from the earliest Web1.0 era to the now popular Web2.0 era, we can find that every network generation change and replacement has a common key to change, that is, the profit model. Changes with the operating model.

Broadly speaking, Web1.0 is a marketing activity that uses the Internet as the main method to achieve certain sales targets. It can be called online marketing or online sales; that is, online marketing runs through enterprises. The whole process of conducting online business, including information release, information collection, and e-commerce (so-called professional website), which is mainly based on online transactions, is collectively referred to as the Web 1.0 era. The most representative example is Dot-com. Its main features include: closed network environment, unilateral download and browsing, website owners are mostly company lines, and there is no editing or modification for web content users. The rights and content structure are mainly web pages, and the way of information gathering is mainly e-commerce, and so on. The main monetization model in the Web1.0 era is to promote the products of the selling company through the Internet, or to invest in Internet stocks through the investment of the public.

The Web 2.0 study uses the views of Musser and O'Reilly (O'Reilly, 2006) to define Web 2.0 as the basis for a next-generation network formed by a series of economic, social, and technological trends. A mature and special medium characterized by user engagement, openness, and network effects. Its main features are: open and standardized network environment, two-way upload and download The management of mechanisms and web content is dominated by content editors, the popularity of personal websites, and the content structure is based on small components such as tags or application programming interfaces (APIs). Most of the nature, and so on.

In recent years, the Internet has continued to develop, and programming and software engineers have developed a new way to share modules: decentralized objects. The programmers who share the library with each other are no longer a real file, no longer use the storage media to link the libraries together, but connect the pre-written programs through the Internet. However, this is still insufficient. Because there is no uniform standardized interface, different languages cannot share the library, and designers need to spend too much time researching the application methods of different libraries.

Later, the concept of "Web Service" was proposed. Web Services standardizes some existing programming methods. Make the Web Service a software program named after the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). Web services must be discovered, described, and defined through the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) to access applications through XML messages and the Internet. This shows that Web Service can be accessed directly from the Internet and can be shared by programs in different languages.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a block diagram of the operation of a web service in the prior art. In the figure, the service (object) provider 1 publishes the network service to the Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry 3, and publishes the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file 2 The network address and the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) server 41 are created. The address where the WSDL file 2 and the program of the server are located can be determined by the service provider 1. Service User 5 to UDDI Registration Center 3 to find the demand The web service, from the network address pointed to by the UDDI registry 3, downloads the WSDL file 2 describing the web service. The service (object) user 5 implements the SOAP client program 42 according to the interface specification described in the WSDL file 2, and calls the remote network service by using the SOAP client program 42.

Web Service is an open and decentralized software component that allows applications on different machines and heterogeneous platforms in the Internet to work together in an integrated manner. There are numerous service providers in the actual Internet. For example, digital audio and video content providers, game service providers, etc., but these services are mostly presented to users in the form of websites.

The existing main Web2.0 websites, almost all of which are shared and provided by users, the website owners are only responsible for the management of the website, but the benefits of the entire website are often only those of the website operators. Dominance is not obtained by content providers, but because of the key technology of the website, it is still controlled by the website operators, so it is difficult for these content creators to obtain the creative feedback from them.

In view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the main purpose of the present invention is to enable each user to freely create objects, thereby achieving the concept of exchanging and selling objects, to obtain the creative benefits, and further extending the Internet. Interaction between people.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a network object combination method and system, which utilizes the disassembly and reassembly characteristics of an object, and adds digital rights management (DRM) in the content of each object. The mechanism, through Web Servic as the network architecture, SOAP as the communication protocol, WSDL and UDDI registration and search server, make the object easier to discover and use by other users.

According to the above object, the network object combining method proposed by the present invention comprises the following steps. First of all, Analyze the plurality of secondary objects required for the network object to be generated, and establish a connection relationship of the plurality of secondary objects, and then search for the network object to be composed through a registered network object intellectual property management system. The second object is needed, and finally, the plurality of objects that are searched according to the connection relationship automatically generate a network object having a sequence of executions of a series of actions.

The network object intellectual property management system preferably includes an object provider server, a digital rights management module, and a directory registration server. The object provider server is configured to store at least one shared object, wherein the shared object includes a basic object and a permission status. The digital rights management module performs a rights management on the basic object through the permission status. The digital rights management module includes a user authentication, an access restriction, a usage restriction, a usage time limit, and a usage limit. The directory registration server logs in at least one shared object information, wherein the object user searches the directory registration server for one of the required shared objects, and makes a connection request to the object provider server through the SOAP transmission protocol. In order to download the shared object or transmit an operational data.

Preferably, the network object comprises a centralized object and a distributed object, wherein the centralized object downloads the required plurality of secondary objects to a host end for object combination, and the distributed object is based on the plurality of objects. The combination structure of the secondary objects establishes a network connection sequence, and sequentially transfers the operation data to the plurality of secondary objects when the network object is executed, so that the plurality of secondary objects can communicate and calculate, and provide a data operation network.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a proposed network object combination system mainly includes a network object analysis module, a primary object search module, and an object generation module. The network object assembly system of the present invention is used to perform the steps claimed by the above network object assembly method.

As described above, the network object combining method and system thereof according to the present invention may have one or more of the following advantages:

(1) It can make the generation of objects have a unified process.

(2) Using Web Service as the network architecture, the basic objects that can be repeatedly assembled and used as a service mode make the objects more easily explored and used by other users.

(3) Adding a digital rights management module and a DRM mechanism to add authority status settings to each of the base objects that can be repeatedly assembled and used to provide rights management and circulation protection.

1‧‧‧ Object Provider

1A, 1B, 1C‧‧‧ Object Provider Host

2‧‧‧Network Service Description Language Document

3‧‧‧Unified Description Search and Integration Registration Center

41‧‧‧Simplified Object Access Protocol Servo End Program

42‧‧‧Simplified Object Access Protocol Client Program

5‧‧‧ object users

51‧‧‧Object User Host

6‧‧‧ Problem Narrative

7‧‧‧ Receiving Service Demand Module

8‧‧‧ format translation module

9‧‧‧Object Analysis Module

10‧‧‧Object Search Module

11‧‧‧ Object Generation Module

12‧‧‧Network Object Intelligence Management System

13‧‧‧Shared objects

131, 131A, 131B, 131C and 181‧‧‧ basic objects

1311‧‧‧ objects

132‧‧‧Permission status

14‧‧‧Digital Authority Management

15‧‧‧ Directory Registration Server

16‧‧‧Object Provider Server

S1-S5‧‧‧ Network Object Combination Steps

1 is a block diagram of the operation of a network service in the prior art; FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a preferred embodiment of the network object assembly method of the present invention; and FIG. 3 is an object analysis of the present invention. 4 is a functional block diagram of a preferred embodiment of a network object combination system of the present invention; FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a network object intellectual property management system of the present invention; and FIG. A schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of the implementation of the distributed article of the present invention.

Please refer to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 , which are respectively a flow chart of a preferred embodiment of the network object assembly method of the present invention, and a schematic diagram of the analysis and assembly of the object of the present invention. In the figure, this method contains the following steps. First, in step S1, a problem description file created by the service requirement input by the user is received. The problem description file may be an XML format file, and defines an initial state and a termination state, wherein the execution is performed by a series of actions. The order is to transition the initial state to the termination state to achieve the service requirement. The problem narrative file is then translated into a uniform format in step S2. For example, an XML file of a different format is converted into a unified format XML file by using a user-predefined eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) format.

Next, in step S3, the secondary object required to be used in the object declared by the problem description file is analyzed, and a connection relationship between the plurality of secondary objects is established, wherein each object is used to describe each action, and the definition thereof Have action name, input parameters and output parameters, and input parameters and output parameters The number can be an empty collection. This step S3 uses an object-oriented concept. As shown in FIG. 3, the object can be divided into three levels, the 0th level is the most basic secondary object 1311, and the first level is the basic object 131 combining a plurality of secondary objects. And, the second level is an application or product 13 that combines a plurality of objects. By the reusability of the object, a cumbersome program or article 13 can be disassembled into a series of small and simple secondary objects 1311.

Then, in step S4, through a registered network object intellectual property management system to search for a plurality of secondary objects, the network object intellectual property management system may include a Web Service architecture and a DRM mechanism. Finally, in step S5, the plurality of secondary objects automatically generate a network object having an execution sequence of a series of actions according to the connection relationship.

Referring to Figure 4, there is shown a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the network object assembly system of the present invention. First, the receiving service demand module 7 receives a problem description file 6 established by the service requirement, and then passes the problem description file 6 to a format translation module 8, and translates the problem description file 6 into a unified format, and then the object analysis module. Group 9 analyzes the problem by arranging the sub-objects of the items declared in file 6 and establishing the connection relationship between the plurality of objects. Then, the object search module 10 searches for a plurality of secondary objects required by a registered network object intellectual property management system 12. Finally, an object generation module 11 automatically generates a plurality of secondary objects according to the connection relationship to generate a network object having a sequence of executions of the series of actions. Wherein, the user has two ways of executing the object. For example, the problem that the secondary object in the file 11 is the basic object 131A, 131B, 131C, and the first type is the centralized object, directly from the object provider A host. 1A, object provider B host 1B, object provider C host 1C downloads the object, and recombines the use at the local end; the second is the remote exchange of operational data through the SOAP transport protocol, directly at the remote object provider The objects are used on the host side of A, B, and C, and finally the result is returned to the local end.

Please refer to FIG. 5, which is a schematic diagram of the network object intellectual property management system of the present invention. In the figure, each of the basic objects 131 may be composed of a plurality of secondary objects 1311, and the objects are basic resources, objects and The functions of disassembly and assembly between objects. Before the basic object 131 is uploaded to the network, it is set by the permission status 132, and the object provider must first set the object permission status 132 in the digital rights management module 14, and attach the object use description and authority management, wherein the digital rights management The module can be a DRM mechanism. In addition to the basic encryption protection, the permission status 132 may also include user authentication, access restrictions, usage restrictions, time limits, and number of times. The user authentication function confirms the identity of the legitimate user. A user who is not legally authorized can not browse or play the basic object 181 even if the digital file is obtained. The access restriction function can establish individual access restrictions according to different access rights granted. For example, some basic objects are not provided to general users for browsing, and must be members or a specific group to browse the entire content. The usage restriction function grants different usage restrictions depending on the authorized content. For example, restrictions on copying, printing, etc., other operations that are not understood in the authorization cannot be used unless legal authorization is obtained. The time limit function is granted different usage periods depending on the authorized content, such as one month, one week, or other specified period. Once the time of use is reached, it is no longer possible to use the content that was originally legally obtained unless legal authorization is obtained again. The number limit function is granted different usage times depending on the authorized content. For example: 3 times, 10 times or other specified times. Once the number of uses is exhausted, the content that was originally legally obtained can no longer be used unless legal authorization is obtained again.

The new object with the permission status 132 set will be re-considered as an unauthorized shared object 13 before being registered and registered with the directory registration server 15, wherein the directory registration server 15 can be a UDDI registry. And a WSDL file is published on the UDDI registry to describe and define how to use this object, for example: it will define the function name (function name) and parameter passing. The remote object user 5 can find the shared object 13 that meets the requirements through the directory registration server 15 database, and requests the directory registration server 15 database to download, and indicates the path to which the shared object 13 belongs. The object user 5 has two ways of using the object: the first is to directly download the unauthorized shared object 13 and reuse it on the host side; the second is that the remote end can exchange computing data through the SOAP transport protocol, directly On the remote object provider server 16 Use the object and finally pass the result back to the local end. Regardless of which way the object user 5 chooses, the unauthorized shared object 13 cannot be used anyway, and the digital rights management module 14 needs to request the permission of the open object, and the object user 5 to the digital authority management mode of the source end of the object. The group 14 proposes the authorization request of the object, and after receiving the authorization request of the remote end, the digital rights management module 14 first confirms the permission status 132 of the shared object 13 downloaded by the object user 5, and if the status is not paid, the request is required. The fee authority fee; if the payment is made, the digital rights management module 14 passes back the authority key of the basic object 131 to the user, thereby opening the object authority. After the user obtains the relevant permission of the object, the original unauthorized object can be decrypted, and the decrypted object can be completely disassembled or reassembled.

Please refer to Fig. 6, which is a schematic view of a preferred embodiment of the implementation of the distributed article of the present invention. In the figure, there are three human machine interface endpoints, namely, an object user host 51, an object provider host 1A, and an object provider host 1B. Each endpoint has a set of programs responsible for transferring data. The message contact between endpoints is transmitted in SOAP format using XML objects hosted on the TCP/IP protocol. In the prototype system based on the operation of the object, the object user does not directly download the object, but uses the remote object to transmit through the simple object access protocol, and finally returns the result to the user end of the object user. The same purpose has been achieved. In addition, the objects of each host endpoint can use C#.NET as the programming language for writing DLL files.

First, an XML file is input to the object user host 51. The content of the file is to perform sorting and four operations, and the system reads the content data. After the XML file of different formats is translated into the module via the native format, it becomes a new XML file conforming to the input specification of the next object. Then, the XML element data in the unified format XML file is taken out through an XML Reader module, and sent to the remote object provider host 1A in a string manner. There is a different sorting method for the shared object 13 on the object provider host 1A, which is a bubble sorting method, a stacked sorting method, and a quick sorting method. Each sorting method is a separate object, and at the same time, it can be executed independently and independently. Work. The object provider host 1A sorts the received data according to the bubble sorting method selected by the user, and the sorted result is temporarily stored in the object provider host 1A, and then the temporarily stored string data is sent to the object. Provider host 1B. The object provider host 1B provides a shared object 13 composed of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division objects. The object provider host 1B performs the addition operation on the received data according to the specified addition object, and then performs the division operation by the specified division object, and then returns the calculated result to the object provider host 1B for temporary storage. Finally, the temporarily stored result data is transmitted back to the object user host 51, and the object user host 51 saves the received result data into an XML file output or presents the result through a window, and the entire operation processing of the object is performed. It is performed on the remote computer, and the object user host 51 is only responsible for translating the input object to conform to the object input format on the backend host.

The above is intended to be illustrative only and not limiting. Any equivalent modifications or alterations to the spirit and scope of the invention are intended to be included in the scope of the appended claims.

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Claims (22)

A method for combining a network object comprises the steps of: (A) analyzing a plurality of secondary objects required to generate a network object, and establishing a connection relationship of the plurality of secondary objects; (B) through a registered The network object intellectual property management system searches for the plurality of secondary objects; and (C) automatically generates the network object having the sequence of execution of the series of actions according to the connection relationship; wherein the network object The intellectual property management system further includes: a plurality of object provider servers respectively storing at least one shared object, wherein the shared object includes a basic object and a permission state; a digital authority management module, each of the plurality of object provider servos The digital authority management module sets the permission status of each of the basic objects, so that the digital rights management module manages the rights of each of the basic objects through the permission status; and a directory registration server is registered with each The information of the at least one shared object, wherein an object user searches the directory registration server for one of the required objects to share the object, and Easy object access protocol (Simple Object Access Protocol, SOAP) object to provide a connection request made by the server, by the connection to download the shared object or an operation of data transfer. The method for assembling a network object according to claim 1, wherein before the step (A), the method further comprises: receiving a problem description file created by a service requirement; and translating the problem description file into The uniform format causes the step (A) to analyze the plurality of objects to be used by the object declared by the problem statement. The method for assembling a network object according to claim 2, wherein the problem description file defines an initial state and a termination state, wherein the initial state is switched to the termination state in an execution order of the series of actions. And to achieve the service needs. The network object combination method according to claim 3, wherein the problem description file is an archive in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. The method of network object composition according to claim 4, wherein the problem description file is translated into a unified format using an Extensible Style Sheet Language (XSL). The network object combination method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of secondary objects are used to perform an action, which defines an action name, at least one input parameter, and at least one output parameter, wherein the at least one The input parameter and the at least one output parameter can be an empty set. The method for assembling a network object according to claim 1, wherein the digital rights management module includes a user authentication, an access restriction, a usage restriction, a usage time limit, and a usage limit. Features. The method of assembling a network object according to claim 7, wherein the network object comprises a centralized object and a distributed object. The network object combination method according to claim 8, wherein the centralized object downloads the plurality of secondary objects required to be downloaded to a host end to perform the network object combination. The method of assembling a network object according to claim 8, wherein the distributed object establishes a network connection sequence according to the combined structure of the plurality of secondary objects, and sequentially executes the network object when the network object is executed. The operation data is transmitted to the plurality of secondary objects, so that the plurality of secondary objects can be communicated and operated to provide a data operation network. The method of assembling a network object according to claim 10, wherein the operation data is obtained by intercepting one element data required by the plurality of secondary objects in the problem description file. A network object combination system comprising: a network object analysis module for analyzing a plurality of secondary objects required to generate one of the network objects, And establishing a connection relationship of the plurality of secondary objects; an object search module searches for the plurality of secondary objects through a registered network object intellectual property management system; and an object generation module, the plurality of secondary objects The network object automatically generates a network object having a sequence of execution actions according to the connection relationship; wherein the network object intellectual property management system further comprises: a plurality of object provider servers, respectively storing at least one shared object, wherein the network object The shared object includes a basic object and a permission status; a digital authority management module, wherein the plurality of object provider servers set the permission status of each of the basic objects by the digital rights management module to enable the digital authority The management module manages the rights of each of the basic objects through the permission status; and a directory registration server logs the information of each of the at least one shared object, and an object user searches the directory registration server for the required information. Share the object and send it to the object through a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) For a connection request made by the server, by the connection to download the shared object or an operation of data transfer. The network object combination system of claim 12, further comprising: receiving a service demand module, receiving a problem description file created by a service requirement; and a format translation module, describing the problem The file is translated into a uniform format, such that the object analysis module analyzes the plurality of objects that are to be used by the object declared by the problem statement. The network object combination system of claim 13, wherein the problem description file defines an initial state and a termination state, wherein the initial state is switched to the termination state in an execution order of the series of actions. And to achieve the service needs. The network object combination system of claim 14, wherein the problem description file is an archive in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. The network object combination system of claim 15, wherein the format translation module utilizes an extensible style sheet language (XSL). The network object combination system of claim 12, wherein the plurality of secondary objects are used to perform an action, which defines an action name, at least one input parameter, and at least one output parameter, wherein the at least one The input parameter and the at least one output parameter can be an empty set. The network object combination system of claim 12, wherein the digital rights management module includes a user authentication, an access restriction, a usage restriction, a usage time limit, and a usage limit. Features. The network object combination system of claim 18, wherein the network object comprises a centralized object and a distributed object. The network object combination system of claim 19, wherein the centralized object downloads the plurality of secondary objects required to be downloaded to a host end to perform the network object combination. The network object combination system of claim 19, wherein the distributed object establishes a network connection sequence according to the combined structure of the plurality of secondary objects, and sequentially executes the network object when the network object is executed. The operation data is transmitted to the plurality of secondary objects, so that the plurality of secondary objects can be communicated and operated to provide a data operation network. The network object combination system according to claim 21, wherein the operation data is obtained by intercepting one element data required by the plurality of secondary objects in the problem description file.