KR20120013683A - Electronic Publishing System and Service Method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a web-based and mobile environment-based publishing service that can publish and sell works online.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic publishing service method for publishing an online work. Provides a builder for electronic publishing online, using the builder the present invention discloses an online electronic publishing service method for providing a web service to enable the publication and sale of works online.
A service method according to the present invention includes an electronic publishing service method for publishing a work online, comprising the steps of: a) performing member registration of a publisher for electronic publishing; b) providing an electronic publishing builder online and using the electronic publishing builder to compose paid or free content by the publisher; And c) a publishing process of paying online for the cost of constructing paid content and all costs of issuing an online electronic publication, and issuing an online electronic publication.
Accordingly, the present invention increases the dissemination effect of an electronic publication by issuing an online electronic publication through a builder provided online, and realizing a free webzine viewing through the sale and subscription of the published electronic publication and viewing advertisements upon subscription. It works. In addition, the present invention has the effect of authoring the webzine through the builder for the electronic publishing, by creating a set of content based on this, to induce the enhancement of the content.

Description

Electronic Publishing System and Service Method {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING}

The present invention relates to online electronic publishing, and more particularly, to provide an authoring tool that allows a user or author to directly author or write online in accordance with various publication formats, and the authored result online. An electronic publishing system and a service method capable of publishing or publishing.

With the development of communication networks and the Internet, many individuals and companies are implementing sales methods and systems with new items to become the leaders of the Internet and digital economies. As the company suffers from management deterioration, it is investing enormously in developing new contents.

On the other hand, recently, the social network is attracting attention, and many groups dealing with information as well as corporations and governments are focusing on communicating with a large number of users through the web or wireless communication network and obtaining a variety of information from them.

With the development and popularization of the Internet and wireless communication networks, the real-time information acquisition population is exploding while using mobile devices as well as e-mails and websites. However, nowadays, numerous contents based on wireless communication networks and websites have difficulty for users to search and acquire necessary information. Considering the situation where a large amount of information is continuously produced, it is natural that as time goes by, it becomes more difficult for the user to search for, acquire, and exchange information.

The contents of web-based services through wired or wireless communication networks are huge, and it is difficult for users to search or exchange information with each other, and it is also effective to manage a lot of useful information accumulated through search and acquisition. It is true that it is difficult.

       Conventional content publishing is a web-based community-based operating system. In this system, web programming is a service implemented by web programming, which inputs information to be published through a content input tool such as a diary, a writing note, and a bulletin board. It works by publishing. In other words, it provides the service that members can save the contents they want in the learning notes and publish them on the internet web base when a certain amount is saved.

      Such a conventional service is a method of making a link through a web programming operation in a web site, which is inconvenient in development time and system integration, and requires a lot of time and effort for future upgrades.

In addition, in the past, publications published through the Internet should be provided with an environment where a user can access the Internet and have a web-based reading environment in order to read the publications. It was only after access through search that the publication was available.

Similarly, content producers have published content by accessing to a publishing site by searching or entering an address, and inputting the content according to a dictionary form provided by the corresponding site when providing contents to be published.

However, this method cannot be easily applied to other sites, and a mobile terminal using a wireless communication network, which is rapidly spreading recently, cannot implement a network capable of producing high-quality contents by supporting free creation, sharing, and utilization of contents. There is a big problem in the marketability and scalability of the content because it is difficult to provide the content.

The present invention was created to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to allow a user to freely create content, and to publish and publish content in the Internet and wireless communication network, the content produced by the user directly. It provides an electronic publishing system and service method that can generate additional revenue by utilizing

Another object of the present invention is to collect the contents accumulated due to the user's creative activity around any category or theme to provide the user's easy selection and to actively inform the fact that the new content provided online content The present invention provides an electronic publishing system and a service method that can induce rapid provisioning, high quality, and convenience of searching and reading.

An online electronic publishing service method according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, the electronic publishing service method for publishing a work online, comprising the steps of: a) performing the member registration of the publisher for the electronic publishing; b) providing an electronic publishing builder online and using the electronic publishing builder to organize content by a publisher; And c) a publishing process of paying the selling price of the contents online and issuing the contents to the user terminal.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the electronic publishing builder is an authoring tool for directly authoring or authoring according to a publication format such as poetry, essays, novels, periodicals, magazines, cartoons, diaries, pamphlets, digital photo albums, Integrating RIA / FLASH-based publication online authoring tool, online exhibition or search service, open market solution with online shopping mall, advertising system, POD (Publish on Demand) order system, video streaming system, digital rights protection technology (DRM) Any one or more means are provided.

In addition, the process a), a-1) the registration step for the publisher to register personal information in accordance with the membership requirements provided on the web; a-2) receiving a request for domain registration for a webzine from the publisher; And a-3) after approving the domain registration, recognizing the start of production for the webzine of the publisher.

In addition, the process b), b-1) in response to the publisher's request to create a webzine, starting a builder which is a publication online authoring tool; b-2) the content of the cover page, table of contents, article content, etc. of the webzine is input through the builder; And b-3) characterized in that consisting of the step of applying to the content to purchase the items necessary for the webzine paid or free.

As described above, the electronic publishing service method according to the present invention provides a content produced by a user through a builder provided online, and the system receives the content, publishes the content, and publishes the published content publication. It is effective to increase the dissemination effect of online content publications by realizing free webzine viewing through advertisement when selling and subscribing.

In addition, in the present invention, an online electronic publication can be written through a builder for electronic publishing, and a content set artifact can be created based on this, thereby inducing the enhancement of content, and in particular, providing contents to a mobile terminal in real time using a wireless communication network. It can work.

1 is a flowchart illustrating a webzine publishing procedure according to the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of grafting items and advertisements according to the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a profit process of the seller according to the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating the profit process of the publisher according to the present invention.
5 is a view showing an embodiment of the webzine according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First, the electronic publishing according to the present invention provides webzine publishing, subscription, product sales, advertisement, POD service. To do this, the user configures the contents of the work by using the electronic publishing builder. The user may apply the paid or free item as the content as necessary to produce the online electronic publication by expressing the user's desire to express.

The electronic publishing builder described above is an authoring tool provided online. It is an authoring tool that can be authored or written directly for various publication formats such as poetry, essays, novels, periodicals, photo books, shop magazines, magazines, cartoons, diaries, pamphlets, and digital photo albums.

 Accordingly, the user may use additional means for authoring online, such as an RIA / FLASH-based publication online authoring tool, an online exhibition or search service, an open market solution incorporating an online shopping mall, an advertising system, a POD (Publish on Demand) order system, Means such as video streaming system, digital rights protection technology (DRM) interworking, etc. may be provided.

1 is a flowchart illustrating a content publishing publishing procedure according to the present invention.

As shown, the publisher registration process for electronic publishing (S210), the content composition process (S220) through the builder according to the publisher's tastes and desires, the cost required to organize the content, and publish the online electronic publication Issuance process (S230).

In the above-described issuer registration process (S210), first, in step S211, the issuer performs membership registration online. Publishers register personal information in accordance with the membership requirements available on the web.

In step S213, the publisher requests domain registration for the online electronic publication. The domain can be newly registered, and the domain used by the publisher can be applied if necessary. If there is a request for a new domain by the issuer,

In response to the domain registration request, the web server determines whether the domain input from the user can be used, and notifies the user of the determination result.

The issuer resets the domain according to the notification result or uses the configured domain. The publisher requests to make an online electronic publication, for example, a webzine, to the web server for electronic publishing in step S215. This is requested through a button click in a web page provided by the web server.

In response to the publisher's request to create a webzine, the web server launches a builder, a publication online authoring tool. Publishers can use builders to insert webzine content, photos, drawings, items, advertisements, and merchandise. That is, as in step S221, the publisher composes the cover of the webzine, composes the contents of the webzine in step S223, and composes the article content in step S225. Here, the publisher may purchase and use an item necessary for constructing a webzine, and the item may be used for a fee.

The item provides a one-time item and a consumable item. The one-time item is an item that can be used unlimitedly in one online electronic publication upon purchase, and the consumable item is an item that automatically disappears after being used for a predetermined period or for a predetermined time. Accordingly, the publisher selects a one-time item or a consumable item according to the use purpose of the content, and purchases an item through a charging procedure for the item.

The item is a decorating item such as a frame, template, or effect. If the publisher wants to purchase the paid item as in step S227, the item enters step S231 and performs payment for the paid item. As described above, the builder distinguishes and provides one-time items applicable to arbitrary content and consumable items, and the publisher selectively purchases one-time items or consumable items based on these items. The issuer pays according to the item-specific sales procedure.

The issuer's payment may be assumed to be the issue cost of the webzine, including the cost of purchasing the item. When the payment is completed in this way, the online webzine is issued in step S223.

On the other hand, if the publisher does not purchase the paid item in step S227, the process enters step S229. In step S229, the issuer determines whether to purchase the disk capacity.

The disk capacity purchase is an additional purchase of the data capacity for creating a webzine. When the publisher purchases the disk capacity, payment and webzine issuance are made through the above-described steps S231 and S223.

However, if the publisher does not purchase the disk capacity in step S229, in step S231, the publisher pays only the online electronic publication, that is, the webzine publishing cost, excluding the cost of the paid item and the disk capacity. In operation S223, the web server issues a webzine authored by the publisher.

The webzine configured as described above is provided separately by user, by content, paid or free by a web server.

Accordingly, subscribers can view or subscribe to webzine provided on the web. Subscribers can watch both free and paid webzines, and in the case of paid webzines, the free webzine can be viewed by watching preset advertisement information. Of course, the subscription fee of paid webzine is passed to the advertiser for advertisement provided through the webzine.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an advertisement application procedure for a publication.

As shown, after the advertisement order is made based on the advertising contract in step S301, the webzine is configured by the publisher through step S303. The publisher may determine the insertion of an item for the webzine composition in operation S305, and may also determine the insertion of an advertisement in operation S307. If the publisher does not insert the item into the webzine in step S305, the process enters step S313 and is issued.

On the other hand, if the publisher wants to insert the item in step S305, the web server queries whether to insert the advertisement into the webzine. When the publisher requests the advertisement insertion, the web server enters step S309 and operates to subtract the advertisement item cost from the publication cost. However, if the publisher does not insert the advertisement into the webzine in step S307, the payment is made for the purchase of the item of the publisher in step S311, and the webzine is issued in step S313.

The above described procedure describes the webzine publishing process, but the following description describes the revenue process for sellers and publishers. Here, the seller is an entity for selling on the web one or more webzines written by publishers.

As shown, in step S401 the seller performs merchant registration with a web server. Merchant registration includes personal information required for sale, such as real name information, account information, contract information and the like. When the seller registration is completed, in step S403 the seller can configure the contents for the online electronic publication. For example, if the online electronic publication is a webzine, the content of the webzine can be edited with photos and pictures, and writing and editing are made as necessary.

Thereafter, the seller enters step S405 and performs a product registration for the webzine. Product registration registers the product price, including the basic information about the product. The basic information of the product includes brief information of the product, data capacity information, issuer information, and the like. When the product registration is completed, the webzine is issued in step S407. Therefore, the purchaser can enjoy the webzine at the same time as the webzine is issued, it is possible to purchase a product for the webzine as in step S409.

If the buyer wants to purchase the product for the webzine, the process enters step S411 and performs payment for the webzine purchase. At this time, the web server or a separate payment server (not shown) accumulates the product payment amount in real time. In other words, the payment server automatically calculates the sales volume and sales sales of the product. In operation S413, the payment server determines whether the settlement time according to the policy or contract has arrived, and performs settlement as in operation S415 according to the determination result. In this case, the settlement is based on the distribution of revenue between the seller and the web administrator.

4 illustrates a revenue process for an issuer. As shown, in step S501 the publisher configures the content for the webzine. Publishers use the Electronic Publishing Builder to compose webzine content, including inserting or editing photos, pictures, and writing and editing articles. Here, the webzine configuration of the publisher is assumed to be paid. Therefore, in step S503, the publisher issues a paid webzine.

Subscribers, on the other hand, watch online webzines written by publishers. Such webzine can be inserted into the advertisement, the subscriber can watch the webzine with the advertisement or without advertisement in step S503. If the subscriber wants to watch the webzine with the advertisement, the subscriber may enter the step S507 to subscribe to the paid webzine replaced with the advertisement fee.

On the other hand, if the subscriber wants to watch the webzine without advertisement in step S503, the subscriber enters the step S505 and the subscriber performs payment for the webzine subscription.

The payment server recognizes the payment situation of the subscriber, and performs an approval for it, and then performs the subscription procedure in step S507. In addition, after recognizing that the payment of the subscriber is completed, the payment server accumulates the subscription revenue in real time. Subscription revenue is per issuer. On the other hand, if the subscriber enters step S509 and the current subscription cost of the online electronic publication subscribed to by the subscriber, that is, the webzine, is higher than the viewing cost with the advertisement, the payment server receives the advertisement cost based on the advertisement viewing in step S511. Subtract from

In other words, by substituting the subscriber's subscription cost for the advertising cost, the subscriber's burden for purchasing the online electronic publication is reduced.

In addition, the payment server determines whether the settlement time by the policy or contract in step S513. This is subject to the settlement timing agreement between the publisher and the web administrator. Therefore, if it is determined in step S513 that the settlement server has arrived at the settlement time, the payment server enters step S517 and performs settlement according to the revenue distribution to the issuer. On the other hand, such a settlement may be based on the settlement time, but may be settled when the predetermined amount is exceeded as necessary. Step S513, which has not been described, describes a process of calculating subscription revenue when a certain amount is exceeded.

Although the present invention describes the webzine publication and profit online, the POD (Publish on demand) form, that is, personalized publishing is possible according to the content, and the individual POD application and production through online is possible.

Claims (11)

In the method of performing a publishing task in a content publishing service server,
Searching for corresponding data in a database inside the server according to a search request of a user accessing the content publishing service server;
Converting the retrieved data into an editable form in a user terminal device;
Editing the converted data according to a user's request; And transmitting the edited content to a terminal device of a user.
And the database comprises structured data having a bidirectional link, a multidirectional link, and a link function for a specific range. The method of claim 1,
And the structured data is XML (eXtensible Markup Language). The method of claim 1,
The editable data form of the user terminal device is any one of XML, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) or Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The method of claim 1,
Editing data according to a user's request includes storing the data of the portion selected by the user among the converted data in a temporary storage means;
And editing data stored in the temporary storage means according to a user's request. The method of claim 4, wherein
The data stored in the temporary storage means is any one of XML, HTML or Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The method of claim 1,
The editing of the data further includes inserting an advertisement into the edited data. The method of claim 1,
The terminal device of the user may be a personal computer, a wired Internet terminal device, or
An electronic publishing service method, which is one of wireless Internet terminal devices. The method of claim 7, wherein
And the data transmitted to the terminal device of the user is one of XML, HTML, and SGML. In a system for performing electronic publishing work,
A receiving unit which receives a search request of a user through a communication network;
A database in which structured data is stored;
Temporary storage means for storing data of a portion selected by the user;
A central processing unit for processing data of the database and the temporary storage means according to a request signal of the user transmitted through the receiving unit; And
An output unit for transmitting the output data of the central processing unit to the user terminal device,
And the data stored in the database is structured data having a bidirectional link, a multidirectional link, and a link function for a specific range. 10. The method of claim 9,
The structured data stored in the database is XML. 10. The method of claim 9,
The central processing unit converts the structured data stored in the database into a form that can be edited in a user terminal device;
And a controller configured to control an operation of the data converter based on a user signal input through a receiver.

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