KR100296537B1 - Internet billing processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for processing internet billing is disclosed. The present invention requires a web page by the user's web browser. In response to the request of the web page by the web-card daemon, it is determined from the hypertext transfer protocol daemon whether the hypertext markup language web page is a paid or free menu. Controls whether applet tags are added to hypertext markup language web pages based on the Web-card daemon's decision. Download the hypertext markup language web page to the web browser by the web-card daemon. The web browser determines whether the applet tag is included in the hypertext markup language web page. When the applet tag is included in the downloaded hypertext markup language web page, the Java applet, which is the applet executable code corresponding to the applet tag, is downloaded from the web server to the user web browser. While the downloaded Java applet is running, it determines whether an event has occurred. When an event occurs, the applet of the web browser detects the occurrence time of the event. Charge the web page of the paid menu according to the time used based on the time of occurrence of the event detected by the web-card daemon.

Description

How to handle internet billing {INTERNET BILLING PROCESSING METHOD}

The present invention relates to a method for processing internet billing, and more particularly, to a method for billing a communication fee using a web-card daemon on the web.

Computer-distributed information resources, such as the Internet, allow users to connect servers and networks to retrieve enormous amounts of electronic information that was previously unavailable in conventional electronic media. Such electronic information is increasingly replacing traditional information transmission technologies such as newspapers, magazines, and event television. The term 'Internet' is an abbreviation of internetwork and refers to a collection of computer networks using a Transport Control Protocol / Interface Program (TCP / IP).

U.S. Patent No. 5,794,221, issued to Andrew Egendorf on August 11, 1998, discloses an Internet billing method.

1 is a block diagram showing a communication relationship between a conventional web server and a web browser. The internet protocol (IP) network 102 may be, for example, the public Internet or the dedicated Internet. Host system 104 and client system 106 may be, for example, a personal computer or computer workstation. Host system 104 and client system 106 each include a data storage device, a memory, a processing device, and a display. The memory device of the host system 104 stores the code for the web server 108. The processing unit of the host system 104 executes the web server 108. The data storage device of host system 104 stores web page 110 and associated applets 112. Web page 110 may be written in a hyper-text mark-up language (HTML). The applet 112 may be written in an interpreted language such as JAVA. Similar to the host system 104, the memory device of the client system 106 stores code for the web browser 114. The processing device of the client system 106 executes the web browser 114. The memory device of the client system 106 stores the downloaded web page 116 and associated applet 118. Web browser 114 is an applet-enabled web browser. Web browser 114 displays web page 116 and executes applet 118.

Hereinafter, a communication method between a conventional web server and a web browser will be described with reference to FIG. 1. The user of the client system 106 uses the web browser 114 to forward a request for a web page over the IP network 102. The request may be, for example, a uniform resource locator (URL) for web page 110. The web server 108 receives the request from the web browser 114 and in response, packages the web page 116 and applet 118 and sends it to the web browser 114 via the IP network 102. The web server 108 packages the web page 116 and the applet 118 based on the web page 110 and the applet 112 stored in the host system 104. After downloading the web page 116 and applet 118, the web browser 114 displays the web page 116 to the user of the client system 106 and executes the applet 118. The applet 118 needs to be downloaded and executed once by the web browser 114. If one link is selected in the web page 116, one request is sent to the web server 118 and the web server 118 sends the selected page.

Since the conventional HTTP is connectionless, the host system cannot recognize whether the user views the browser or the browser is turned off. For example, suppose an office worker leaves the office after forgetting to quit using the paid menu in a browser. If you press the play button on the browser the next day, the host system will not recognize anything except the date. That is, in the conventional Internet, the host system can perform the billing for the web page of the pay menu only in units of days or numbers, but not in units of minutes or seconds. Thus, it is not possible to perform an accurate time-based system on the web page of the paid menu used.

Accordingly, the present invention is to solve such a conventional problem, an object of the present invention is to provide an Internet billing method that can perform the billing process for the paid menu on the web.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises the steps of (i) requesting a desired web page by the user's web browser; (ii) receiving a hypertext markup language web page from a hypertext transfer protocol daemon in response to a request of the web pager by a web-card daemon, wherein the received hypertext markup language web page is a paid menu or a free menu. Determining whether it is determined; (iii) controlling, by the web-card daemon, to add an applet tag to the hypertext markup language web page according to the determination result of step (ii); (iv) downloading the hypertext markup language web page to the user's web browser by the web-card daemon; (v) determining whether an applet tag is included in the downloaded hypertext markup language web page by the user's web browser; (vi) if the applet tag is included in the downloaded hypertext markup language web page in step (v), downloading a Java applet from the web server to the user web browser, the applet executable code corresponding to the applet tag; (vii) while the downloaded Java applet is running, determining whether an event has occurred on the display window of the web browser; (viii) detecting the occurrence time of the event by an applet of the web browser when the event occurs in step (vii); And (ix) charging the web page of the paid menu according to the time used based on the time of occurrence of the event detected in step (viii) by the web-card daemon. To provide a method for processing Internet billing.

1 is a block diagram showing a communication relationship between a conventional web server and a web browser.

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an Internet charging processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of processing internet charging according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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202: Client system 204: Web browser

206: Java Applet 208: Web Server

210: Web-card daemon 212: Hypertext Forwarding Protocol Daemon

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

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an Internet charging processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The internet billing processing device includes a client system 202 and a web server 208. Client system 202 includes a web browser 204. The web browser 204 requests a web page to the web server 208 by inputting desired data, that is, a URL. The web server 208 includes a web-card daemon 210 and an HTTP daemon 212. A mutual coupling relationship between the web-card daemon 210 and the HTTP daemon 212 will be described. If the web-card daemon 210 is not present at 208, the web browser 204 of the client system 202 directly connects to the HTTP daemon 212 via a network to download a web page. However, the HTTP daemon does not know how much the user has viewed the web page. In order to charge the time, a web-card daemon is required. When the web-card daemon 210 exists between the web browser 204 and the HTTP daemon 212 and requests a paid web page, the web- The card daemon 210 recognizes this, downloads the paid web page to the user's web browser 204, and automatically downloads the Java applet 206, which is the applet execution code, to execute the Java applet 206. The HTTP daemon 212 has a plurality of web pages, and the web-card daemon 210 networked with the HTTP daemon 212 has an applet capable of time charging, so Apply billing to web pages through organic links.

The web-card daemon 210 receives a request of the web page from the web browser 204. The web page is provided to an HTTP daemon 212 networked with the web-card daemon 210 (2. Request). The HTTP daemon 212 sends an HTML web page to the web-card daemon 210 in response to the request of the web page from the web-card daemon 210 (3. Response). The web-card daemon 210 determines whether the HTML web page from the HTTP daemon 212 is a free menu or a paid menu. If the HTML web page is a free menu, the web-card daemon 210 In response to the request of the web browser 204, downloads the HTML web page to the web browser 204 (4. Response). If the HTML web page is a paid menu, the web-card daemon 210 adds an applet tag to call an applet to the HTML web page and adds the HTML web page to which the applet tag is added. In response to the request of 204, it downloads to the web browser 204 (4. Response).

The web browser 204 determines whether an applet tag is included in the HTML web page from the web-card daemon 210. When the applet tag is included in the HTML web page, the web browser 204 downloads the Java applet 206, which is applet executable code, from the web-card daemon 210 according to the applet tag (5. Applet transmission). . The Java applet 206 operates in response to the applet tag and adds 1 every second from the time zero when the web page is first started in the web browser 204 of the client system 202. In addition, the Java applet 206 detects whether an event in the web browser 204 due to user input, that is, forward, backward and other page requests of the current web page, has occurred. When the event occurs, the Java applet 206 stops adding one by one, detects the occurrence time of the event, and then inserts the program into the own program of the Java applet 206 or the program embedded in the web browser 204. The Java applet 206 is destroyed by this.

The web-card daemon 210 receives the occurrence time ET of the corresponding event from the Java applet 206 and charges the HTML web page of the paid menu based on the occurrence time ET of the received event. Perform

Hereinafter, an internet charging processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of processing internet charging according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step S301, the user of the client system 202 requests desired data, i.e., a web page, by inputting a URL using the web browser 204. The web page is a data file written in a hypertext language having multiple media such as text, graphic images, and recordings. The web page may be displayed as an object visible within a computer system. The visible object may have one or more parts, such as text, hot links, pictures, sounds, and video material. A web page can be constructed by loading one or more individual files into an activation directory or file structure that is displayed as a visible object in a graphical user interface. The request of the selected web page is forwarded to the web-card daemon 210 of the web server 208.

The web-card daemon 210 of the web server 208 receives the request of the web page from the web browser 204 and sends it to the HTTP daemon 212 (step S302). The HTTP is a known application protocol that provides user access to files using HTML. The HTML provides basic document formatting and allows the developer to write links to other servers and files. The HTML-compliant client browser includes the specification of a link via a URL. According to such a specification, a client requests a Transfer Control Protocol / Interface Program (TCP / IP) from a server identified in a link to receive a web page, i.e., a document formatted according to HTML.

The HTTP daemon 212 forwards the HTML web page to the web-card daemon 210 in response to the request of the web page from the web-card daemon 210 (step S303). The web-card daemon 210 receives the HTML web page from the HTTP daemon 212 and determines whether the received HTML web page is a paid menu (step S304).

As a result of the determination in step S304, if the HTML web page is the paid menu, the web-card daemon 210 adds an applet tag to call the applet to the HTML web page (step S305). Then, the web-card daemon 210 downloads to the web browser 204 which is the HTML web page to which the applet tag is added (step S306). On the other hand, if it is determined in step S304 that the HTML web page received by the web-card daemon 210 is a free menu, the web-card daemon 210 downloads the HTML web page to the web browser 204. (Step S306).

In step S307, the web browser 204 determines whether an applet tag is included in the downloaded HTML web page. As a result of the determination in step S307, when the applet tag is not included in the downloaded HTML web page, all the operations are terminated. On the contrary, if the applet tag is included in the downloaded HTML web page, the web browser 204 may generate a Java applet 206, which is applet executable code, from the web server according to the applet tag. Download in step S308.

The Java applet 206 operates in response to the applet tag from the web browser 204 (step S308), and detects whether an event by a user input has occurred (step S309). The events include forward button events, reverse button events, hypertext markup language events, browser exit events, mouse button events, jump uniform resource designator events, and menu events. As a result of the determination in step S309, when the event occurs, the Java applet 206 detects the occurrence time ET of the event (step S310). The occurrence time ET of the corresponding event detected by the Java applet 206 is provided to the web-card daemon 210. The occurrence time of the event includes a start time, a pause time, a restart time, a stop time, and an end time.

The web-card daemon 210 receives the occurrence time ET of the corresponding event from the Java applet 206 and uses the HTML web of the paid menu according to the time used based on the received occurrence time ET of the corresponding event. The billing for the page is performed (step S311). In this case, the HTML web page of the pay menu may have a text and an image. The download start time of the text is the same as the download time of the video, but the download end time of the text is faster than the download end time of the video. Therefore, the billing for the web page of the paid menu is preferably started from the point when the download of the text is completed. The charging result by the web-card daemon 210 is provided to the web browser 204 to bill the user.

As described above, the present invention performs the billing for the web page of the pay menu in minutes or seconds so that the billing according to the correct use time for the web page of the pay menu can be made.

While the invention has been shown and described with respect to certain preferred embodiments thereof, the invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, but in the field to which the invention pertains without departing from the spirit of the invention as claimed in the claims. Any person with ordinary knowledge will be able to make various modifications.

Claims (4)

(i) requesting the desired web page by the user's web browser; (ii) receive a hypertext markup language web page from a hypertext transfer protocol daemon in response to a request of the web page by a web-card daemon and the received hypertext markup language web page is a paid menu or a free menu. Determining whether it is determined; (iii) controlling, by the web-card daemon, to add an applet tag to the hypertext markup language web page according to the determination result of step (ii); (iv) downloading the hypertext markup language web page to the user's web browser by the web-card daemon; (v) determining whether an applet tag is included in the downloaded hypertext markup language web page by the user's web browser; (vi) if the applet tag is included in the downloaded hypertext markup language web page in step (v), downloading a Java applet from the web server to the user web browser, the applet executable code corresponding to the applet tag; (vii) while the downloaded Java applet is running, determining whether an event has occurred on the display window of the web browser; (viii) detecting the occurrence time of the event by an applet of the web browser when the event occurs in step (vii); And (ix) billing the web page of the paid menu according to the time used based on the time of occurrence of the event detected by step (viii) by the web-card daemon. How to handle internet billing. The method of claim 1, wherein in step (ii), the applet tag is added to the hypertext markup language web page when the hypertext transfer protocol web page is the paid menu. The Internet billing of claim 1, wherein the event comprises a forward button event, a reverse button event, a hypertext markup language event, a browser exit event, a mouse button event, a jump uniform resource designator event, and a menu event. Treatment method. The method of claim 1, wherein the occurrence time of the event includes a start time, a pause time, a restart time, a stop time, and an end time.