TWI731403B - Method and system for providing contents based on free charging ticket - Google Patents

Abstract

Examples relate to a system for providing contents based on a free charging ticket and a method for providing contents based on a free charging ticket performed by the system, the system including a free charging ticket management unit configured to transmit, to a user terminal, information about whether content is subject to a free charging ticket that is charged for free if a certain amount of time passes based on a content information table of a database including meta information about the content, receive an activation request for starting to charge the free charging ticket for the content subject to the free charging ticket from the user terminal, map the user and the content for which activation is requested and record a mapping result in a user table of the database when the activation request is received, and start to charge the free charging ticket for the mapped content based on the user table in which the mapping result is recorded, and a content providing unit configured to, when receiving a request for provision for the content from the user terminal, identify ticket information including the free charging ticket associated with the user terminal, and provide content information of the requested content to the user terminal based on a result of the identifying.

Description

Method and system for providing content based on free voucher

The present invention relates to a technology for providing content to users based on credentials. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for providing content based on a free certificate, wherein if a certain amount of time elapses, the user is charged with a free certificate to provide content to the user, thereby reducing the number of users due to a large increase. Heartwork (Content) server load, and effectively provide free certificates, and a system that provides content based on the free certificates in which the method is executed.

In modern busy life, with the development of information and communication technology via the Internet, people usually use smart phones to provide them with various contents, such as comics, dramas, and movies.

The provision of content via a smart phone is usually performed through the platform that provides the content. Content consumers use their own smart phones to access these platforms that supply the required content, and the smart phones download the data used to execute the corresponding content, and provide the corresponding content to these consumers.

Most of these platforms use two types of profit. The first type is a free content providing platform, which provides content for free to increase the number of platform users, and based on the increased number of users to profit through advertising, and the second type is a paid content providing platform, which provides paid content Content monetization.

In the past, the general reluctance to use paid content was the general online consumption environment. Based on this factor, the free content providing platform has become an advantage.

However, since free content providing platforms make profits through indirect means (such as advertisements, etc.), it is difficult to provide various content stably, and they are limited in establishing an environment for providing content with high performance. In particular, advertisements may be excessively used for maximum profit, which leads to a problem that user convenience is significantly reduced.

At the same time, in the case of a paid content providing platform, many consumers are unwilling to purchase the paid content because they doubt whether the paid content will meet their needs after purchasing the paid content.

In this case, the applicant has introduced a business model called "if wait, then free" (if wait, then free) into the provision of content services including Webtoon and online novels. Allowing users to watch content for free if they wait for a certain amount of time has significantly increased the influx of users on the platform, and can induce these users to consume paid content naturally, thereby driving the paid content market including online comics, online novels, etc. And the growth of related industries (Non-Patent Document 1). [Related Literature] [Non-Patent Literature]

(Non-Patent Document 1) Bridge Economics Internet document published on December 20, 2015, titled [KakaoPage "if wait, then free" (if wait, then free) to promote content payment culture]

[technical problem]

In one aspect, the present invention proposes a method and system for providing content based on a free certificate, so as to more effectively provide the user with a free certificate based on the free certificate given to the user through billing if a certain amount of time elapses. Content service.

In another aspect, the present invention aims to solve the problem of whether to apply free certificates, etc. and the billing time is different for each individual user and each individual content. Therefore, the database and the server increase with the growth of the number of users and content. There is a problem of greatly increasing the load, and a method and system for providing content based on free voucher are provided. [Technical Solution]

A method for providing content based on a free certificate executed through a server according to an embodiment of the present invention may include: transmitting information to a user terminal based on a content information table in a database including post-information about the content Information on whether a content complies with a free voucher that is exempt from billing if a certain amount of time passes; receiving an activation request from the user terminal to start charging the free voucher for the content that complies with the free voucher; When the activation request is received, the user is mapped to the content requesting the activation, and a mapping result is recorded in a user information table of the database; and the user information based on recording the mapping result Table, start to charge the free voucher for the mapped content.

A computer-readable recording medium according to an embodiment of the present invention may be capable of storing computer-readable program instructions that can be executed by a computer. In this specification, when the program instructions are executed by a processor of the computer, the processor can lead to a method for providing content based on the free certificate according to the aforementioned embodiment to be executed.

A system for providing videos based on free certificates, including a server, which executes a method for providing videos based on free certificates according to an embodiment of the present invention, the system may include: a free certificate management The unit is constructed based on a content information table of a database including post-information about the content, and transmits to the user terminal information about whether a content complies with a free certificate that is free of charge if a certain amount of time passes, and It constitutes receiving from the user terminal an activation request for starting to charge the free voucher for the content that complies with the free voucher, and constitutes when the activation request is received, the user and the requesting activation request The content mapping, and record a mapping result in a user table of the database, and form the user table based on recording the mapping result, and start charging the free voucher for the mapped content; and A content providing unit is configured to, when receiving a request to provide the content from the user terminal, identify the voucher information including the free voucher for the user terminal, and to configure the user terminal based on the identification result. The user terminal provides content information of the requested content. [Beneficial effect]

According to an aspect of the present invention, the method and system for providing content based on a free voucher can be used individually in terms of providing content to a user based on a free voucher given to the user through billing if a certain amount of time elapses. When the user terminal receives the free certificate activation signal, the free certificate is given to the user, thereby reducing the load on the server.

In addition, each database is created for a table that records the contents of the free certificate information and a table of users who records the information about the free certificate, and these tables are executed when the designated user requests to activate the free certificate for the specified content The mapping processing of data, thus achieving effective database management and fast data processing.

Therefore, when the number of users and content increases significantly, content can be effectively provided to users based on free certificates, and thus the efficiency of free certificate-based services can be improved, thereby further improving the satisfaction and loyalty of these users to the platform , And increase profits.

Furthermore, in the aspect of the system users, since whether to activate the free certificate and whether to complete the billing can be individually set for each user, it can be individualized to induce individual users to use according to the access frequency and time. More free certificates than other users. Therefore, the user's trust and loyalty to the service provided by the free certificate can be improved.

The effects of the present invention are not limited to the aforementioned effects, and those skilled in the art will be able to clearly understand the other effects mentioned in this specification from the scope of the patent application below.

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The embodiments will be described with reference to the drawings. However, it should be noted that the principles disclosed in this specification can be embodied in many different forms and are not limited to the examples described in this specification. In the embodiments of the present invention, implementations of known features and technologies may be omitted in this specification to avoid obscuring multiple features of the embodiments. Definition of terms

In this manual, "content provider" refers to the main body that provides information about online comics, online novels, digital books, movies, and radio programs. Here, "Provider" refers to an "Online service provider" that accepts money and provides information to users (or subscribers). The content provider may include a TV station, a radio station, a Video On Demand (VOD) provider, and an Audio On Demand (AOD) provider, etc. In this manual, "Content" refers to the concept of information or individual information elements that can be implemented as text, image, video, audio, or a combination thereof and can be provided to users. The present invention has advantages for content provided through a platform (accessed by multiple users), especially content with a high load, such as text (such as Internet novels, other e-books), images combined with text ( For example, web comics), videos, etc.

In this manual, "Content information" includes various data and/or information used to implement the content. A device with an application (such as a user terminal), which can be provided by a system based on credentials and requests and/or received based on credentials. The provision of the content can execute the corresponding content on it and receive the content Provide the content to the user when content information. For example, when the content is a video, the video information refers to the information of a single medium, multimedia, and/or a subset thereof (ie, a collection of video components), and the video information may include video and/or audio track information , Codec class information (such as a base layer, an enhanced layer), or script information.

In this manual, "post-information" refers to information about the content and includes, for example, a server address and an identifier (ID) of the content, a title, a sequence, a section (Section) length and a size, etc. Basic meta information. In addition, the post-information may include detailed post-information that can access the content information, such as (URL) and a decision value for deciding whether to comply with the free voucher, etc., but it is not limited to this, and may include indicating the content Various information about the properties of the property.

In this manual, "Basic content" means supra contents that contain part of the content, which is a service object produced or provided by the content provider as a service.

In one embodiment, when the content is a movie, the basic movie refers to a movie usually called a program (for example, in a series broadcast by a radio station, an episode (program) can be referred to as the basic movie) . Alternatively, the movie may be referred to as the basic movie.

In another embodiment, when the content is usually text content or images combined with text content, novels (online novels), comics (web comics), and other e-books (online Comics and Internet novels are excluded, and the same applies to the following), etc., the basic novel, the basic comic, and the basic book mean one novel, one comic, and one book, respectively. Of course, the basic novel, the basic comic, and the basic book include some content that has not yet been completed and is undergoing serialization.

In this specification, "sub-content" (sub-content) means that when the entire paragraph of the basic content is divided into a plurality of partial paragraphs, it corresponds to the content of the partial paragraph. In an example, when the content is a video, "sub-video" (sub-video) means a video that corresponds to a partial paragraph when the entire paragraph of the basic video is divided into a plurality of partial paragraphs according to time. The partial movies of each paragraph are then the partial movies of the next paragraph to form the entire movie playback paragraph. A piece of film usually known as a "clip" is different from this part of the film.

At the same time, when the content is composed of multiple episodes, for example, a web comic or web novel composed of multiple episodes, or an e-book composed of multiple chapters, is composed of multiple episodes The constituted whole artwork can correspond to the basic content, and another drama series can correspond to this part of the content.

In this manual, "Display" means any information that can be recognized by the user, and "Execution" (for example, "playing") means to make the content Elements (for example, in the case of video and images, such as frames) are placed in a sequential manner so that the user recognizes them as the content.

In this manual, "Free charging ticket" means a voucher that is given for free if the user waits for a certain amount of time without paying.

In this manual, the terms "unit", "module", "Device", "Terminal", "Server" or "System", etc., is the combination of hardware and software to be executed through the corresponding hardware. For example, the hardware may be a data processing device, for example, a mobile phone and a PC including a CPU or other processors. In addition, the software executed through the hardware may refer to a program to be executed, an object, an executable code, a thread (Thread), a program, and so on. Description of the embodiment

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

The first figure is a schematic architecture diagram of a system for providing content based on free voucher according to an embodiment of the present invention. Please refer to the first figure, the system 1 for providing videos based on the certificate according to the embodiment is configured to realize the communication between the server 3 and the user terminal 4 via the network 2. In some embodiments, the system 1 may further include a financial institution server 5 for certificate settlement, and/or a content providing server (not shown) configured to communicate with the server 3.

The server 3 communicates with a plurality of client devices 4 (such as user terminals) via the network 2. The communication method via the network 2 can include various communication methods, which realize the network connection between objects (Networking), and can be wired communication, wireless communication, 3G, 4G, 5G wired Internet or wireless Internet In addition, it can be a wired public network, a wireless mobile communication network or a core network integrated with the mobile Internet, etc., and can provide a transmission control/Internet (TCP/IP) protocol and its upper layer Open computer network for many services in the Internet, namely Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Remote Login Protocol (Telnet), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Domain Name System (Domain Name System, DNS), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), but not limited to this. For example, the network 2 may include, but is not limited to, a communication network, which is selected from the group consisting of Local Area Network (LAN), Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), and Global Mobile Network. System (Global System for Mobile Network, GSM), Enhanced Data GSM Environment (EDGE), High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, W-CDMA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Bluetooth, Zigbee wireless network protocol, wireless local area network (Wi -Fi), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Advanced Long Term Evolution (LTE Advanced), IEEE802.16m, WirelessMAN-Advanced, High Speed Packet Access+ (HSPA+), 3GPP Long Range Evolution ( Long Term Evolution, LTE), mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e), UMB (previously EV-DO version C), Flash-OFDM, iBurst and MBWA (IEEE 802.20) systems, HIPERMAN, sub-beam multiple access (Beam- Division Multiple Access (BDMA), World Interoperability for Microwave Access (Wi-MAX), and at least one communication method for groups using ultrasonic communication.

In some embodiments, the type of network 2 used may vary according to the functions and characteristics of the objects. For example, an FTP network can be connected between the content providing server and the server 3, and a WiFi network can be connected between the server 3 and the user terminal 4.

Please refer to the first figure again. The server 3 includes a content providing unit 31 and a free certificate management unit 33. In addition, the server 3 further includes a database storage unit 37 to store a content table including content-related information (for example, including content information, etc.) and a user table including user-related information. Other embodiments of the server 3 may include additional, fewer or different components. For example, the server 3 may further include a content generating unit 35.

As mentioned above, in this specification, the system and the user terminal according to the embodiment may have all the hardware, or part of the hardware and part of the software. Therefore, the user terminal 4 and the server 3 and their components (such as each unit [or module] included therein [such as the content providing unit 31, the free certificate management unit 33, the database storage unit 37, and the content generating unit] At least one of 35]) can refer to the hardware and related software used to process data in a specified format and content and/or to transmit and receive the data through electronic communication.

Please refer to the first figure. Each component 31-37 of the server 3 is communicatively connected to each other, but does not necessarily form a physical integration device. For example, the database storage unit 37 may be individual servers or computing devices that communicate with each other in a distributed computing environment. In addition, each unit 31-37 is only distinguished according to the operational functionality performed in the computing device implementing it, and does not necessarily mean an individual separate device. For example, the content providing unit 31 and the free certificate management unit 33 do not necessarily mean separate devices.

The second figure is a schematic diagram illustrating a procedure of providing content according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The server 3 is configured to communicate with the application (or APP.) running on the user terminal 4 to implement the function of the application. Specifically, the server 3 manages server-based services, and supports terminal applications that execute methods based on free certificates to provide content, and/or any application programs that can be stored in the user terminal 4.

In particular, the server 3 can distribute content (such as web comics, web novels, electronic books, movies, etc.) to the user based on whether it has a certificate, and therefore, the terminal installed in the user terminal 4 The application can automatically or in response to the user’s request, transmit a request to provide content to the server 3, and receive the content from the server 3 [that is, receive the data and/or data used to execute the content from the server 3 News].

Please refer to the second figure, the server 3 is configured to receive, for example, a content providing request signal or a content purchase signal (this signal may include an automatic purchase signal) from the user terminal 4, identifying viewing authority information (such as a certificate), and The user terminal 4 provides information about the purchased content [content information and/or post-information, and in addition, viewing authority-related information (for example, voucher consumption notification)].

When a request for providing content-related information is received from the user terminal 4, the content providing unit 31 performs the function of providing the corresponding information to the user terminal 4 in accordance with the request.

In one embodiment, as described below, the content providing unit 31 may be configured to identify whether there is an available certificate, and based on the identification result, execute an application programming interface (API) for providing content. For example, the content providing unit 31 may include a content providing API module.

The content providing unit 31 can transmit to the user terminal 4 information for displaying the content homepage screen (where the user receives the basic introduction of the content and can select the basic content and/or part of the content), as a choice for the user Information about the content of the service. For example, the server 3 can transmit the post-configuration information of the service content to the user terminal 4.

In addition, after receiving a request to provide the content selected by the user, the content providing unit 31 may transmit content information of the requested content to the user terminal 4 (including information for execution in the user terminal 4) .

The provision of the information can be performed based on various conditions (for example, whether the user who has requested any information has a certificate, etc.).

In this manual, the "Ticket" means the right to use the content, and it can be expressed as virtual currency in a system that provides content based on free vouchers.

In this manual, the cash/credit card paid by the user can be converted into electronic money in the server, and the electronic money can be converted into a voucher that allows the user to watch each video. However, the voucher is not necessarily limited to payment using real money, but payment can be made using electronic money or the like. The methods used to purchase the voucher can be implemented through various methods, such as immediate payment, recurring payment, or electronic voucher, and are not limited to specific methods. The voucher can be purchased as the entire basic content voucher, but can also be purchased as a single voucher corresponding to each individual part of the content.

The scope of use of the certificate can be set in various ways. In one embodiment, when the content is a series of movies consisting of a plurality of episodes, the voucher can be set to use the movie of each episode of the series and/or part of the movie of each episode when the voucher is purchased . For example, the user can use each voucher when he watches at least a part of a movie in a specified episode.

In one embodiment, the voucher includes a prepaid voucher based on electronic money or real money; and an unpaid voucher. In this specification, the prepaid voucher includes a temporary voucher (for example, a rental voucher, etc.) that allows the user to use (for example, be able to view and/or access) the content for a certain amount of time; and a non-temporary A certificate (for example, a holding certificate, etc.) that allows the user to use the content for more than a certain amount of time.

The unpaid voucher includes an initial voucher (for example, a free voucher used to specify the first episode to the fifth episode of a web comic) for free use of a number of preset contents; a gift voucher consists of one The service provider randomly provides or is provided by a third party; and an event voucher, which is given when a specified condition is met.

The activity voucher includes a mission voucher, which is given to the user when a predetermined mission is satisfied. In one embodiment, the predetermined task includes a task of transmitting a designated message to at least one other user.

In addition, the activity voucher includes a free voucher, which is given to the user through billing if a predetermined period (ie, a billing time) elapses.

In one embodiment, due to the identification of the voucher information, when no voucher is available, the content providing unit 31 transmits a signal to the user terminal 4 in order to display a screen indicating that the voucher must be purchased on the user terminal 4.

In addition, when a voucher purchase request is received through the screen indicating the necessary purchase voucher, the content providing unit 31 may transmit a settlement request corresponding to the amount of the voucher purchase request to the credit card company or financial institution server 5, and execute a series of settlement procedures . For billing processing, when personal financial information (such as credit card information or financial institution account information, etc.) necessary for settlement is received from the user terminal 4, the content providing unit 31 can be based on the received The personal financial information requests settlement from the server 5 of the credit card company or financial institution. In this specification, the financial institution server as a whole means all institutions that handle financial affairs, and may include, for example, banks and securities companies.

When receiving the settlement completion notification from the credit card company or financial institution server 5, the content providing unit 31 can generate credential information in the user account of the user terminal.

In some embodiments, the content providing unit 31 may be further configured to settle the billing and generate electronic currency information in response, even when there is no voucher purchase request. The electronic currency information can be converted into a certificate.

The free certificate management unit 33 performs various operations related to the free certificate, such as the operation of transmitting to the user terminal 4 information indicating whether the content accessed by the user terminal 4 complies with the free certificate free of charge after a certain amount of time has passed. , And/or start charging for the free voucher.

In an embodiment, the free certificate management unit 33 may be configured to execute an application programming interface (API) that can perform the aforementioned operations. For example, the server 3 may include a free certificate management API module.

Alternatively, the free credential management unit 33 may be configured to execute a plurality of APIs, each of which performs the function of the free credential management unit 33. In one embodiment, the free credential management unit 33 can be configured to execute a free credential activation API that activates the charging function of the free credential, and a free credential usage API that executes the usage function of the free credential. In this case, the server 3 may include, for example, both a free certificate activation API module and a free certificate usage API module.

The free certificate management unit 33 transmits to the user information about whether the content complies with the free certificate free of charge after a certain amount of time has passed, and receives from the user terminal the information for starting the content compliance with the free certificate. When the charging of the free voucher is requested, start charging for the free voucher.

The third figure is a schematic diagram illustrating the procedure of starting charging for the free voucher according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Please refer to the third figure, the user terminal 4 requests content-related information from the server 3 (S310). In some embodiments, the request can be executed in a specified state. For example, as shown in the second figure, when the user terminal 4 accesses the content introduction and/or APP page (for example, the content homepage) in which the user can select the content, the user terminal 4 can request to use To display the content-related information of the accessed content homepage to the server 3.

When the server 3 receives a request for content-related information from the user terminal 4, the server 3 transmits the content-related information to the user terminal 4 in response to the request (S330). In addition to the content-related information, the response to the request transmitted when accessing the content homepage may further include additional information.

In one embodiment, the server 3 transmits to the user terminal 4 whether the content complies with the exemption of billing after a certain amount of time based on the content information table of the database storage unit 37 including the post-information about the content. Information about the free voucher (S330).

In this specification, the content information table includes a content identifier (for example, an artwork ID); and information indicating whether the content complies with the free certificate, etc. In some embodiments, the content information table may further include restricted use information among the content that complies with the free voucher, etc. (for example, for example, the number of episodes and/or content for which the free voucher may not be available Quantity).

The user terminal 4 can receive the response of S330, and provide the user with the content-related information to induce the user to make a choice. The user terminal 4 displays the service content items to the user based on the received service content information, so as to induce the user to select the content he wants to use. For example, as shown in the second figure, in any program content series, you can choose the fourth part of the 8th episode. In addition, whether the content accessed on the content homepage complies with the free certificate can be provided to the user.

When the content accessed on the content homepage complies with the free certificate and the user has not yet started charging for the user, the user terminal 4 can transmit to the server 3 the user's free certificate for providing the corresponding content on the content homepage Start request.

In one embodiment, under a given condition, the activation request of the user terminal 4 can be executed when the preset condition is met. In one embodiment, the activation request may be executed when the unpaid voucher (for example, for example, an initial free voucher) given for the corresponding content is completely consumed. The user's fulfillment of the relevant activation conditions for the corresponding content is executed through the user terminal 4.

As mentioned above, whether individual content (individual creation) complies with the free certificate is controlled on the server side, but the activation acceptance request for the content determined to comply with the free certificate is received from the user terminal according to the result. In addition, in this example, when the condition (for example, the condition of the initial free voucher such as the first to fifth episodes is free, etc. is fully consumed) is given, the activation request for the free voucher received from the user terminal satisfies the Pre-set conditions. Therefore, as the number of users and contents complying with the free certificates increases, the server 3 can reduce the load of determining whether the conditions are met.

In some embodiments, the request to start billing may include a call to the billing activation application programming interface (API) (S350) of one of the free certificates.

When receiving the activation request in step S350, the server 3 (or the free certificate management unit 33) activates the function of giving the user a free certificate for the corresponding content. That is, the charging of the user's free voucher for the corresponding content starts from step S350. If the charge-free period (time) elapses, the free voucher can be given.

In one embodiment, when the activation request is received, the free certificate management unit 33 maps the user with the requested activation content, and records the mapping result in the user information table (S370).

In this manual, the user information table includes a user identifier; a content identifier, which requests activation; an activation value, which indicates whether to activate the user's charging for the free certificate of the mapped content; And the billing completion time of the free voucher.

The mapping between the user and the content requested to be activated is based on the content identifier of the content information table.

In one embodiment, the charging completion time may be recorded in the user information table through the free certificate management unit 33 as the charging starts. Information about whether to activate the free certificate for the content is provided to the user based on the mapped user information table (S390).

In addition, when the activation request is received, the free certificate management unit 33 can immediately give the user an initial free certificate for the corresponding content. This will be described in more detail with reference to the following step S535.

Based on the information received in step S390, the user terminal 4 can display whether to charge the free voucher and the time remaining before the charge.

As mentioned above, through steps S310 to S390, the user's free certificate for the content is activated individually according to the activation request time for each user, and this fact is stored in the database 6.

Therefore, the server 3 does not give all users the right to watch the specified content at each predetermined time (for example, for the specified episode B of the content A that was previously set to be paid, it is modified to be free at 13:00 on the x month xx day) .

As mentioned above, by recording the information about the corresponding charge-free content in the content information table, and by recording the information about the corresponding user in the user information table, and through the dualization ( Matching these tables after Dualization) can effectively manage the charging start and charging situation of different free voucher for each individual user and for each content of the same user.

For reference only, in the case of the method of collectively granting all users the viewing rights of the specified content at a predetermined time, the present invention does not solve this situation by itself, that is, as mentioned above, the method is for each individual user and for each individual user. For each item of the same user, the billing start and billing situation of the free voucher are different. On the contrary, this method is not suitable because it has the basic problem of not being able to customize the free use of the required content for each individual user.

In an embodiment of the present invention, when using a free voucher that allows each individual user to use the required content for free if they wait for a certain amount of time, through this configuration, even if the user and the amount of content are large In addition, fast and effective data processing is still implemented, and each individual content is effectively provided for each individual user based on the free certificate.

The fourth figure is a schematic diagram illustrating a procedure in which the free certificate information is displayed on the user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Please refer to the fourth figure, the user terminal 4 requests content-related information from the server 3 (S410). The content-related information is similar to the content-related information of step S310, so detailed descriptions thereof are omitted in this specification.

The server 3 can transmit the requested content-related information to the user terminal 4 along with the request (S450). In addition, the response to the request may further include user-related information, etc. (for example, including whether the free certificate is activated, the charging completion time, and certificate information, etc.). In this case, the free certificate management unit 33 determines whether to activate the user's free certificate for the corresponding content based on the user information table, and includes whether to activate the free certificate in response to the request, and the billing completion time, etc. .

The user terminal 4 can display whether to charge the free voucher based on the response received in step S450, and the time remaining for the charging completion time. As explained above with reference to the third figure, the activation of the free certificate is based on the usage mode of each user. Therefore, the billing completion time can also be different for each user.

When the billing period elapses, using the billed free voucher can provide the user with the content of the request in step S310 or S410 in the third or fourth diagram. In this specification, the content related to the request in step S310 or S410 includes content in the same category.

Figure 5a is a schematic diagram illustrating a process of providing content to the user by using the free certificate according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Please refer to Figure 5a, the server 3 receives a request for providing content (such as basic content or partial content) from the user terminal 4 (S510). The provided request can be made through the input signal detected in the user terminal 4, but can be made through the command of an application program installed in the user terminal 4. In an embodiment, the request to provide content may include an instruction to make a content providing API call or a credential use API call.

In addition, the server 3 identifies, for the corresponding content, whether the free certificate of the user who has requested to provide the content is in the activated state (S530). Based on the identification result, the server 3 determines whether to provide content information and viewing rights for the corresponding content.

Figure 5b is a schematic diagram illustrating the process of identifying whether the user's free certificate is available according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When the charging for the free voucher for the requested content is activated, it can be recognized whether the free voucher is available.

In one embodiment, the free certificate management unit 33 of the server 3 identifies whether the charging of the free certificate for the content is in the activated state (S531). The identification can be performed based on a determination value indicating activation of the free certificate included in the user information table. In some embodiments, when the content for which the free voucher is activated is excluded from the application of the free voucher while billing is required, when the decision value indicates the activation status, the following related to the use of the free voucher The operation can only be performed on free vouchers that are being charged.

When the activation state is recognized in step S531, the free voucher management unit 33 recognizes whether the charging of the free voucher is completed (S533). Identifying whether the billing is completed can be performed based on the billing completion time of the free voucher and the current time. For example, the free credential management unit 33 determines that charging is completed when the following conditions are met (S535). [Equation 1] T _present ≥ T _CC

Among them, T _present represents the current time, and T _cc represents the charging completion time. The free voucher management unit 33 determines whether the charging is completed when the charging completion time is equal to the current time or when the current time has elapsed (S535). That is, by recording the completion time at the beginning of the billing, whether the billing is completed is determined based on time.

As mentioned above, in one embodiment, when the charging completion time is recorded in the user information table through the activation request for the first time, the free certificate is set to count when the current time is recorded as the charging completion time. Fee completion status. Therefore, the initial free certificate can be given to the user immediately while the function of giving the free certificate is activated, thereby further maximizing user convenience.

Thereafter, the free voucher management unit 33, while consuming the charged free voucher, gives the user the right to watch the corresponding content. In addition, the consumption result is recorded in the voucher consumption table (S537).

In addition, the free voucher management unit 33 updates the available billing completion time when the next free voucher is available. In one embodiment, the free voucher management unit 33 updates the billing completion time of the free voucher to be charged by adding the billing period of the free voucher to the billing completion time of the billed free voucher ( S539). The updated result can be further recorded in the user information table.

In addition, in order to enable the user's free certificate to continue to be charged and used for other content related to the corresponding content, the free certificate management unit 33 continues to maintain the activated state of the user's free certificate in the activated state.

In other embodiments, operations not described in Figure 5b can be added, modified, or omitted for further execution.

In one embodiment, before step S531, for example, the free certificate management unit 33 may further perform the step of identifying whether other unpaid certificates (for example, including a free gift certificate, etc.) given to the user are completely consumed, and /Or the step of identifying whether the requested content is limited-use content (for example, whether it is within the predetermined number of episodes from the most recent episode), even though the charging of the free voucher is activated.

In one embodiment, the initial free voucher is excluded from the unpaid voucher for which the free voucher management unit 33 decides whether to consume. By allowing the user terminal to meet the conditions in which the initial free certificate can be used, then the user terminal sends a free certificate activation request.

As mentioned above, the billed free voucher will be consumed only when the free voucher is used, and billing will start again. Therefore, the user can use the voucher-based content providing service more frequently to maximize the use of many free voucher in the same time. Therefore, the user's loyalty and trust in the service provided by the certificate-based content can be improved.

In addition, when the free voucher is used for many contents, the user will be able to decide whether to purchase the experienced contents more surely. Therefore, it can help the user's reasonable consumption.

Please refer to Figure 5a again. When the server 3 determines that the user has a certificate that can provide the content information of the requested content to the user terminal 4, it provides the user terminal 4 with the requested content. Content information (S550). In one embodiment, the server 3 transmits to the user terminal 4 the voucher consumption result of the free voucher (including the type of the voucher consumed and the number of remaining voucher, etc.) and/or the next billing completion time. In addition, in order to provide the content to the user through the user terminal 4, the server 3 transmits detailed meta information and/or content information of the corresponding content to the user terminal 4.

At the same time, please refer to the first figure. In one embodiment, the server 3 may further include a content generation unit 35 and/or a database storage unit 37. Each element will be explained in detail.

The content generating unit 35 divides the entire execution paragraph of the basic content into a plurality of partial paragraphs to generate partial content. For example, the content generating unit 35 divides the entire playback segment of the basic video into a plurality of partial segments to generate partial video information.

In addition, the content generating unit 35 generates meta-information for the basic content, and may generate meta-information for individual partial contents. In addition, meta-information for the basic content can be generated.

The content generation unit 35 can divide a basic content into partial paragraphs in various ways, for example, each partial paragraph is equal and/or unequal, so as to generate a plurality of partial content information with various execution times. Therefore, it can help the user to make reasonable consumption, taking into consideration various factors such as mental state, environment, and financial conditions. In addition, it can solve the problem that the user cannot view the entire content due to unexpected reasons (relative to the intention at the time of purchase), or the user should purchase the entire basic content, even though his/her interest may be Will be lowered.

The content generating unit 35 may be further configured to encode the partial content. The content generation unit 35 can prevent the part of the content from being played on a user terminal that does not have Approved access to the system 1 (for example, a user terminal in which the application is not installed) or a user terminal without a certificate. .

In one embodiment, the content generating unit 35 can generate part of the content with viewing rights (authorization) information through Digital Rights Management (DRM) processing. In this case, the credential information includes a decoding authority to decode the encoded part of the content. For example, the decoding right includes a DRM decoding right. However, the foregoing embodiments are examples for content encoding and are not limited thereto, and may be further configured to execute various encoding procedures.

Thereafter, the database storage unit 37 can store various databases. In this specification, the database means a collection of many structured, unstructured or semi-structured data, and can store data related to auctions conducted in the past. In this specification, the structured data is data stored in a fixed field, and may include, for example, a relational database and a spreadsheet. In addition, the unstructured data is data that is not stored in a fixed field, and may include, for example, text documents, images, videos, audio data, and so on. In addition, the semi-structured data is data that is not stored in a fixed field but includes meta data or schema, and may include, for example, extensible markup language (XML), hypertext markup language (HTML), text, etc. . The database storage unit 37 may include a user storage device (storage) that contains information about a user account, and a content storage device that stores content or at least a part of the content received from the content provider.

Each user of the system 1 that provides content based on the free certificate is associated with the user account information stored in the user information storage device. The user account information includes descriptive information about users registered in the system. In one embodiment, the user account information includes a plurality of data fields, each of which describes at least one attribute of the corresponding system user. Examples of information stored in a user profile include descriptive information, such as user ID, user terminal information, and certificate information.

The user account information may include the source (for example, a password of the user terminal, an access code, and a network address, etc.), which allows the user to access the information used to provide part of the video based on a certificate System 1.

In one embodiment, regarding the user of the free certificate, the database storage unit 37 may store a user information table of the free certificate. The user information table may include a user identifier; a content identifier that requests the use of the free voucher; the billing completion time of the free voucher; and a decision value to indicate whether to activate the free voucher for the content, etc. , But not limited to this.

As explained below, the information table that records the information about each user associated with the free certificate is made separately from the information table that records the information about the content associated with the free certificate, and the individual tables are in The mapping when the specified user requests to activate the free certificate for the specified content. For this purpose, even if the number of users and content increases significantly, the free voucher can still be effectively managed for each individual user and for each content of the same user. The different billing start and billing situation (as mentioned above, so The situation does not occur in the method of collectively providing the content to all users for free after a certain amount of time has passed).

When receiving a request for the use of the free certificate from the user terminal 4, the server 3 can quickly process operations in order to realize the use of the free certificate based on the user information table of the free certificate.

The certificate information includes information indicating whether the user has an available certificate or the number of certificates the user has. For example, the existence of a certificate can be marked as 1, and the absence of a certificate can be marked as 0, or the number of certificates held can be indicated in the form of data such as binary digits, or a combination thereof .

In one embodiment, the free certificate may be given after the server 3 activates whether to provide the user of the content with a free certificate for the corresponding content. As described above with reference to the third figure, the activation operation is performed by the free certificate management unit 33.

In one embodiment, the certificate information may further include category information. When the certificate information further includes category information, the user with the certificate information can only view the content in the category related to the corresponding certificate. In one embodiment, the category can be set as a series. In another embodiment, the category can be set as the entire basic content.

In one embodiment, the database storage unit 37 may store a voucher billing table that records the results of the provision according to payment, activity, gift and/or exemption, and record the result of consumption according to the use and/or expiration of the voucher The voucher consumption table.

In one embodiment, the content storage device stores an object representing content provided by the content provider, or an object representing part of the content created by the operator of the system 1 that provides part of the video based on the certificate.

In one embodiment, the content storage device stores the content information table, which records information about the content to which the free certificate is applied. The content information table may include, for example, a content identifier; a decision value indicating whether the free voucher is applied to the corresponding content; the billing completion time of the free voucher; and the user should wait until the billing completion time during this period Until the time. In addition, the content information table may further include conditional information, wherein the use of the free voucher is limited to the content for which the free voucher is applied (for example, the use of the free voucher is limited to the condition within the predetermined number of episodes from the latest uploaded recent episode ).

As mentioned above, the database storage unit 37 includes two tables, that is, a table that records content-related information about the free certificate, and a table that records user-related information about the free certificate. Each table is mapped when a specified user requests to activate a free certificate for specified content. Therefore, when the number of users who want to use the free certificate and/or the amount of content to which the free certificate is applied increases, it is possible to effectively manage whether to give the free certificate for each user and/or for each content. In particular, for a plurality of contents related to a user, different free vouchers (for example, different billing completion time) can be activated (that is, giving and/or billing) for each individual content, and for the plurality of contents For the individual content of the user, the activation of the free voucher (that is, giving and/or billing) is equal, and therefore, the free voucher may be unique to each user, and may be unique to each individual content of the same user use.

As mentioned above, the content generation unit 35 and/or the database storage unit 37 in the first figure is provided for illustrative purposes only, and the system 1 for providing content based on free certificates may be different from those in the first figure in other embodiments. The structure performs the aforementioned operations.

In one embodiment, the content generating unit 35 and/or the database storage unit 37 may be a computing device located far away from the server 3. In this case, the content generation unit 35 and/or the database storage unit 37 may be of the type of devices that can access the server 3 and perform data communication in response to a request from the user.

At the same time, for example, the user terminal 4 is implemented in the form of a smart phone and can communicate with the server 3 using an application program installed in the user terminal 4. The user terminal 4 performs various tasks via such communication, such as providing a request for a part of the movie selected by the user or a voucher payment request. However, the type of user terminal 4 is not limited to a smart phone, and the user terminal 4 can be implemented in the form of various computing devices, for example, other mobile communication terminals, personal computers, notebook computers, tablet computers, and Internet Television (Internet Protocol Television, IPTV).

The procedure of the server 3 to provide content to the user who has used the certificate through the user terminal 4 is described with reference to the sixth and seventh figures.

The sixth and seventh diagrams are schematic diagrams showing the procedure of providing content based on free voucher according to an embodiment of the present invention for each situation. Although in the sixth and seventh figures, the type of content requested and provided is a movie, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that the type is not limited to this. In addition, for clarity of description, the description of the implementation of overlapping steps is omitted here.

The sixth figure is a schematic diagram illustrating a process of providing a content to the user using a certificate for the content according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Please refer to the sixth figure, the server 3 receives a request for providing a first part of a plurality of partial videos from the user terminal 4 (S610). The provided request can be made through the input signal detected in the user terminal 4, but can be made through the commands of the application program installed in the user terminal 4. In some embodiments, the content-providing request may include instructions to make a content-providing API call.

In one embodiment, the server 3 may divide the basic video into a plurality of segments to generate a plurality of partial videos before receiving the request (S600).

After step S610, the server 3 identifies the credential information of the user who has requested to provide at least one part of the video (S620). Based on the identification result, the server 3 decides whether to provide the corresponding part of the video information.

When the server 3 determines that it has a certificate capable of providing the user terminal 4 with the video information of the requested first part of the video, the server 3 provides the user terminal 4 with the video information of the requested part of the video (S640 ). The server 3 transmits the detailed meta information and/or content information of the corresponding part of the video to the user terminal 4. In addition, the server 3 can provide authorization information for the corresponding part of the video, such as decoding permissions. In this case, the server 3 can provide detailed meta-information, but it is not limited to this, and in addition to the detailed meta-information, it can additionally provide basic meta-information (such as paragraph information).

In one embodiment, each item of partial video information may be composed of a single fragment file. In the case of downloading, each item of partial video information can be composed of a single segment file. In this case, there are advantages in terms of communication performance and terminal performance.

In another embodiment, for example, in the case of streaming or progressive download, each item of partial video information may be composed of a plurality of fragment files. For example, a part of the video information may be composed of dozens or thousands of fragment files in units of 10 seconds. Of course, the time interval of the segment files is not limited to 10 seconds, and can be changed arbitrarily according to the set value (for example, 1 second, 4 seconds, etc.).

When each item of the partial video information is composed of a plurality of segment files, the content generating unit 35 generates a segment list corresponding to each partial paragraph together. The fragment list is a list including the file name and format of each fragment file. In an embodiment, the content generating unit 35 may respectively generate a first segment list of the first partial movie, a second segment list of the second partial movie, ... an nth segment list of the nth partial movie. Or, as explained below, when the entire clip list of the basic movie is necessary, the content generating unit 35 may generate the entire clip list.

In one embodiment, the server 3 provides a fragment list of the first part of the video.

Therefore, the user terminal 4 uses the first part of the video information to play the first part of the video (S645). For example, when the user terminal 4 receives the clip list, the user terminal 4 stores the clip list of the first part of the movie in the playlist. Thereafter, the user terminal 4 can use the post-set information of the segment file included in the segment list to receive the content information of the segment file, and play the first part of the video.

As mentioned above, since the fragment list will only be provided to the user terminal 4 when there is a request for provision from the user terminal 4, a relatively small amount of information is stored in the memory of the user terminal 4. Therefore, Improve the performance of this application.

The seventh figure is a schematic diagram illustrating a process of using at least one certificate for at least one content to provide content to the user according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to the seventh figure, the server 3 receives a request for providing a first part of the plurality of partial videos from the user terminal 4 (S710).

In one embodiment, the server 3 may divide the basic video into a plurality of segments to generate a plurality of partial videos before receiving the request (S700).

After step S710, the server 3 identifies the credential information about the user account that has requested to provide the first part of the video (S720). Due to the identification, when it is determined that there is credential information that can provide the first part of the video information to the user terminal 4, the server 3 provides the requested first part of the video information to the user terminal 4 (S740), and the user terminal 4 4 Use the first part of the movie information to play the first part of the movie (S745).

The server 3 may receive a request to provide the second part of the video including the next paragraph and provide it to the user terminal 4. In the foregoing embodiment, before the completion of providing the first part of the movie, that is, before the end of the playback of the first part of the movie, the server 3 may receive from the user terminal 4 the second part of the movie including the next paragraph. Request (S750). In step S750, the request to provide the second part of the film can be automatically executed (for example, the user's separate consent is not required). In this case, the server 3 identifies whether the credential information related to the user account includes credential information for providing the second part of the video including the next paragraph (S760).

Due to the identification, the server 3 determines that there is credential information for providing the second part of the video to the user terminal 4, and the server 3 provides the second part of the video information to the user terminal 4 (S780). For example, the server 3 may provide a fragment list of the second part of the video.

In this case, in order to seamlessly play the second part of the movie after the playback of the first part of the movie is finished, the user terminal 4 may add the fragment list of the second part of the movie to the fragment list of the first part of the movie. Therefore, after the playing of the first part of the movie is finished, the second part of the movie can be played seamlessly and continuously in a frame. Therefore, when the user watches a plurality of partial movies in a continuous manner, they can be played seamlessly, thereby providing high user convenience.

In addition, when the first part of the movie is being played and the voucher information of the second part of the movie is recognized, the second part of the movie information can be provided to the user terminal 4, and at the same time, it can be transmitted for displaying the voucher information It is the signal of the screen updated on the user terminal 4.

For example, when the second part of the video starts to play, a signal for displaying a pop-up window such as "one ticket has been consumed" (one ticket has been consumed) can be simultaneously transmitted.

At the same time, when identifying the voucher information, even if there is no voucher for purchasing the next paragraph, part of the video of the next paragraph can still be automatically provided. In one embodiment, when identifying the voucher information, although there is no voucher for playing the next paragraph, the voucher for the next paragraph can be purchased without additional consent. Therefore, the partial video of the next paragraph can be received from the server 3. In this manual, the notification about automatic purchase may be provided to the user before or after the automatic purchase. That is, unless the user takes separate actions before the automatic purchase, a notification can be provided to notify that the voucher is automatically purchased and part of the video in the next paragraph is provided, and when the purchase is automatically made, the information screen that informs the completion of the purchase can be The user provides.

In some cases, the server 3 may receive a request to provide a third part of the movie that includes a paragraph that is not continuous with the first part of the movie to be played, and in this case, as described above, it may provide a fragment of the first part of the movie. The list adds and provides a list of clips of the third part of the video. That is, the newly added clip list is not limited to those that are continuous with the part of the video being played.

In addition, in the credential identification step S720, the server 3 can identify whether there is a free credential for the requested content provided by the user.

In one embodiment, before the first part of the movie is provided based on the certificate given by the payment, the server 3 may receive a request from the user terminal to additionally provide the part of the movie of the next paragraph (for example, the second part of the movie) .

Thereafter, after the provision of the first part of the film starts, when the free certificate is completed before receiving the request for additional provision of the second part of the film, the server 3 gives the user a free certificate. Thereafter, the requested additional second part of the movie can be provided to the user terminal based on the newly provided free voucher.

In one embodiment, the server 3 may receive the partial video of the next paragraph from the user terminal 4 before completing the provision of the part of the video based on the existing charged free certificate in the category in which the free certificate can be applied. Additional offer request. Thereafter, the server 3 identifies whether there is a certificate for providing a part of the video requested to be additionally provided based on the user's certificate information. If the user has a paid certificate and/or a free certificate, the server 3 provides the user terminal 4 with a part of the video requested to be additionally provided based on the certificate possessed by the user.

In another embodiment, the server 3 may generate a fragment list, and when receiving a request for providing from the user terminal 4, may provide a fragment list including a fragment file of a partial video that is not requested. That is, the server 3 can provide in advance fragment files of paragraphs that are not separately requested from the user terminal 4.

In an embodiment, the fragment list may be a fragment list of the entire paragraph.

Therefore, since the segment list of the entire paragraph is registered in the user terminal 4 before the request provided, it can be more easily played automatically or seamlessly in a continuous manner.

The steps described in the sixth and seventh figures are for illustrative purposes only, and may be executed in a different order, or may be omitted according to the settings of the server 3 and/or the terminal 4.

According to the system and method for providing content based on a free voucher as in the foregoing embodiment, partial videos corresponding to a plurality of divided segments of the basic video can be partially purchased, so that the user can selectively and actively consume the entire playback segment. Some videos that attracted his interest. In addition, before completing the part of the movie being displayed, the next part of the movie is requested to be seamlessly displayed with the frame, so seamless playback is achieved without interrupting the user's viewing process.

The operation of the system and method for providing partial movies based on the certificate as in the foregoing embodiment can be at least partially implemented as a computer program and recorded in a computer-readable recording medium.

The computer can be a personal computer, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a smart phone or similar computing devices and any integrated device. The computer is a device with one or more processors, memory, storage space, and network connection components (wireless or wired) for alternative and special purposes. The computer can execute an operating system (OS), for example, an OS compatible with Microsoft's Windows, Apple OS X or iOS, Linux distribution (distribution), or Google's Android OS.

The computer program includes a set of instructions, which can be executed in the aforementioned computer, and the name can be different depending on the type of the computer. For example, when the type of the computer is a smart phone, the computer program may refer to the application program APP.

The computer-readable recording medium on which the program used to perform the operation through the system and method for providing part of the film based on the certificate according to the embodiment has been recorded, including all types of recording devices in which computer-readable data is stored. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium are read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, and optical data storage device. In addition, the computer-readable recording medium is scattered over a computer system connected via a network, and the computer-readable codes can be stored and executed in a distributed manner. In addition, those skilled in the art to which this embodiment belongs will easily understand the functional programs, codes, and code segments used to implement this embodiment.

Although the present invention has been described above with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, this is only provided for illustrative purposes, and those who are familiar with the art will understand various modifications and changes made by it. However, it should be noted that such modifications fall within the technical protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention should be defined through the technical spirit of the patent scope applied for later in the text.

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The first figure is a schematic architecture diagram of a system for providing content based on free voucher according to an embodiment of the present invention. The second figure is a schematic diagram illustrating a procedure of providing content according to an embodiment of the present invention. The third figure is a schematic diagram illustrating a procedure for initiating charging for a free certificate according to an embodiment of the present invention. The fourth figure is a schematic diagram illustrating a process of displaying free certificate information on a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. The fifth figure is a schematic diagram illustrating a process of using a free certificate to provide users with content according to an embodiment of the present invention. Figures 6 and 7 are schematic diagrams showing the procedures for providing content based on free voucher for each situation according to an embodiment of the present invention. These drawings describe various embodiments of the present invention for illustrative purposes only. In the drawings, similar reference signs indicate equivalent or similar functions throughout many aspects. Those skilled in the art will easily understand from the following description that alternative examples of the structure and method described in the present invention can be used without departing from the principles of the invention described in the present invention.

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Claims (19)

A method for providing content based on a free certificate executed through a server. The method includes: based on a content information table in a database that includes post-information about the content, transmitting to a user terminal whether the content complies with the content. The amount of time is the information of a free voucher that is free of billing. Whether the content complies with the free voucher is determined for the content containing multiple episodes or multiple partial paragraphs, and the information of one or more episodes or one or more Part of the information is transmitted to the user terminal as part of the content information; receiving from the user terminal an activation request for starting to charge the free certificate for the content of the free certificate; when the free certificate is received When the request is activated, the user is mapped to the content that requested the activation, and a mapping result is recorded in a user information table of the database; based on the user information table that records the mapping result, it starts to target the The mapped content is charged for the free voucher; and after the free voucher is exhausted, its exemption has been completed, and the charge for a new free voucher containing multiple episodes or multiple partial paragraphs is started. Each part of the content corresponding to one or more episodes or one or more partial paragraphs shall comply with the principle of exhaustion of the free voucher; and when the first user and the second user with the free voucher have the same content When the exhaustion time is different and the free billing has been completed, each user's new free voucher has a different billing completion time. For example, the method for providing content based on a free certificate as described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the content information table includes a content identifier, the user information table includes a content identifier; and the user and the requesting activation The mapping between the contents is based on the content identifier of the content information table and the content identifier of the user information table. For example, the method for providing content based on a free certificate as described in item 2 of the scope of patent application, wherein the content information table further includes a decision value used to determine whether the content complies with the free certificate and the billing cycle of the free certificate; And the user information table further includes a user identifier; an activation value, which indicates whether to activate the provision of the free certificate for the mapped content of the user; and a charging completion time of the free certificate. As described in item 3 of the scope of patent application, the method for providing content based on a free certificate, wherein the user information table includes a free certificate billing table; and a free certificate consumption table, which includes the free certificate related to the user The method includes: in the case of activating the charging of the free voucher for the content, based on the billing completion time of the free voucher and a current time, to identify whether the billing of the free voucher is completed; When the user consumes the charged free voucher, the user is given the right to watch the content that has been charged with the free voucher; and the consumption result of the free voucher is recorded in the voucher consumption table. For example, the method of providing content based on free vouchers as described in item 4 of the scope of patent application, which further includes: By adding the charging period of the free certificate to the charging completion time of the charged free certificate, the charging completion time of the free certificate to be charged in the user information table is updated. For example, the method for providing content based on a free voucher described in item 4 of the scope of patent application further includes: when the charging of the free voucher for the content is indicated as activated in the user information table, the free voucher Voucher billing, and in the case that the content indicated as the activated state in the content information table is excluded from the content for which the free voucher is applied, it is allowed to pass the billed account after the billing of the free voucher is completed. Free voucher for the fee to watch the content. For example, the method for providing content based on free voucher described in item 4 of the scope of patent application, wherein the content is a text or image combined with text composed of a plurality of episodes, and the method further includes: from the user terminal Receiving a request to provide at least one of the plurality of episodes; identifying credential information related to a user account related to the user terminal, the credential information including the free credential information; and based on the identification result, Provide information about the at least one episode to the user terminal. Whether to apply the free voucher is determined for the artwork composed of the plurality of dramas, and each of the at least one drama can be consumed through the free voucher. For example, the method for providing content based on free voucher as described in item 4 of the scope of patent application, wherein the content is a basic video (video), and the method further includes: dividing the entire playback section of the basic video into a plurality of partial sections, To generate partial video information; receive a request from a user terminal to provide at least one of a plurality of partial videos; identify certificate information related to a user account related to the user terminal, and the certificate information includes the free certificate Information; and based on the result of the identification, to provide the user terminal with the at least a part of the video information, whether to apply the free voucher is determined for the entire basic video, and each part of the video can be consumed through the free voucher . For example, the method for providing content based on a free certificate as described in item 8 of the scope of patent application, further includes: before completing providing at least a part of the requested video information to the user terminal, receiving an additional from the user terminal Provide a request for a part of the video in the next paragraph; identify whether the voucher information related to the user account includes the free voucher, and billing for it is completed before receiving the request for additional provision of the part of the video for which the additional offer request is requested; and Based on the result of identifying the free voucher for which the billing is completed, the user terminal is provided with a request for additional provision of the targeted part of the video information. A computer-readable recording medium has stored therein computer-readable program instructions that can be executed by a computer. When the program instructions are executed by a processor, the processor of the computer is executed as the first in the scope of patent application. Any one of items to 9 is based on a free voucher to provide content. A system for providing videos based on a free certificate includes a server to execute a method for providing videos based on a free certificate. The system includes: a free certificate management unit, which is configured to include a content-related meta The content information table of a database of information is transmitted to the user terminal about whether the content complies with a free voucher that is free of charge if a certain amount of time passes. Whether the content complies with the free voucher is for a plurality of dramas The content of the episode or a plurality of partial paragraphs is determined, and the information of one or more episodes or the information of one or more partial paragraphs is transmitted to the user terminal as the partial content information, and is configured to be from the user The terminal receives an activation request for starting charging for the free voucher for the content that complies with the free voucher, and is configured to map the user with the content requesting the activation when the activation request is received, And records a mapping result in a user table of the database, and is configured to start charging the free certificate for the mapped content based on the user table that records the mapping result, and is configured to After the free voucher is exhausted, its exemption of billing has been completed, and it starts to charge for a new free voucher containing multiple episodes or multiple partial paragraphs; and a content providing unit, which is configured as When a request for providing the content is received from the user terminal, the certificate information including the free certificate about the user terminal is identified, and the certificate information is configured to provide to the user terminal based on the result of the identification The content information of the requested content, Each part of the content corresponding to one or more episodes or one or more partial paragraphs shall comply with the free voucher exhaustion principle; and when the first user and the second user with the free voucher have the same content When the exhaustion time is different and the free billing has been completed, each user's new free voucher has a different billing completion time. As described in item 11 of the scope of patent application, the system for providing content based on a free certificate, wherein the free certificate management unit includes a content information table and a user information table, each of the content information table and the user information table It includes a content identifier, and the mapping between the user and the content requesting the activation is based on the content identifier of the content information table and the content identifier of the user information table. For example, the system for providing content based on a free certificate as described in item 12 of the scope of patent application, wherein the content information table further includes a decision value for determining whether the content complies with the free certificate and the billing cycle of the free certificate; And the user information table further includes a user identifier; an activation value, which indicates whether to activate the provision of the free certificate for the mapped content of the user; and a billing completion time of the free certificate. For example, the system for providing content based on a free certificate as described in item 13 of the scope of patent application, wherein the user information table includes a free certificate billing table; and a free certificate consumption table, which includes the free certificate related to the user Information; and the free certificate management unit is further configured to, in the case of activating the charging of the free certificate for the content, based on the charging completion time of the free certificate and a current time, to identify whether the payment is completed Free voucher billing; when the user consumes the billed free voucher, give Grant the user the right to watch the content that has been billed by the free voucher; and record the consumption result of the free voucher in the voucher consumption table. As described in item 14 of the scope of patent application, the system for providing content based on a free certificate, wherein the free certificate management unit is further configured to add the billing period of the free certificate to the billing of the charged free certificate The completion time is used to update the charging completion time of the free certificate to be charged in the user information table. The system for providing content based on a free certificate as described in item 14 of the scope of patent application, wherein when the charging of the free certificate for the content is indicated in the user information table as the activated state, the free certificate is charged ; And in the case where the content indicated as the activated state in the content information table is excluded from the content for which the free certificate is applied, the free certificate management unit is further configured to allow the completion of charging for the free certificate Afterwards, watch the content through the charged free voucher. For example, the system for providing content based on free vouchers as described in item 14 of the scope of patent application, wherein the content is a text or image combined with text composed of a plurality of episodes, and the content providing unit is further configured to: When the content providing unit receives a request to provide at least one of the plurality of episodes from the user terminal, it identifies the credential information related to a user account related to the user terminal, the credential information Including the free certificate information; and based on the identification result, providing the user terminal with information about the at least one episode; and Whether to apply the free voucher is determined for the artwork including the plurality of dramas, and each of the at least one drama can be consumed through the free voucher. For example, the system for providing content based on free voucher as described in item 14 of the scope of patent application, wherein the content is a basic movie, and the system further includes: a movie generating unit configured to divide the entire playback section of the basic movie Into a plurality of partial paragraphs to generate partial movie information, and the content providing unit is further configured to identify the relevant information when the content providing unit receives a request to provide at least one of the plurality of partial movies from the user terminal A certificate information of a user account related to the user terminal, the certificate information includes the free certificate information; and based on the identification result, the user terminal is provided with the at least a part of the video information; and whether to apply the free certificate The voucher is determined for the entire basic video, and each part of the video can be consumed through the free voucher. As described in item 18 of the scope of patent application, the system for providing content based on a free certificate, wherein the content providing unit is further configured to provide at least a part of the requested video information to the user terminal after the content providing unit is completed Previously, in the case of receiving a request from the user terminal to additionally provide a part of the video in the next paragraph, identifying whether the voucher information about the user account includes the free voucher, and charging for it is when receiving the additional provision request The request for the additional provision of the part of the video for which the request is completed before; and based on the result of the free certificate identifying the completion of the billing for the user terminal, the additional provision of the information for the part of the film for the user terminal is requested.

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