KR20020079077A - Information Portal Bridging System - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an information exchange service apparatus and a method thereof, and in particular, a user recognition service means having a routing function from a vendor to another vendor and a hub function of acquisition information, thereby simplifying and varying an individual information acquisition path. The present invention relates to an information exchange service apparatus and a method based on user recognition, which can support an electronic device and enable information transmission and exchange between different vendors.

The present invention provides a peer-to-peer service device / knowledge management system, comprising: a personal identifier database storing personal receipt information of multiple users and Mac addresses of available terminal devices as a table; And a plurality of peer-to-peer / knowledge management system vendors, a plurality of user terminals, and when the user connects through the user terminal, the Mac address registered to the user and the Mac address of the user terminal connected to the user. If there is a match, there is provided an information exchange service device further comprising a user recognition service device that enables the terminal to obtain information from the peer-to-peer / knowledge management system vendor.

Description

Information exchange service device based on user recognition and method thereof {Information Portal Bridging System}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information exchange service apparatus and a method thereof, and in particular, includes a user recognition service means having a routing function from a vendor to another vendor and a hub function of acquisition information. The present invention relates to an information exchange service apparatus based on user recognition and to a method for supporting information transfer and exchange between different vendors.

P2P service, unlike the existing method of searching for information on the Internet through a search engine, can receive information directly from all personal computers connected to the Internet, as well as search. Free commerce is possible because individuals can meet and trade in person without going through a portal or an intermediate site.

In the local area network (LAN), PCs exchange free file exchanges on the Internet. Most of the sites currently in operation are content-oriented, such as music files or videos, but if activated, the market is expected to grow even more, since personally-owned intellectual information can be shared.

Unlike the existing method of searching for information on the Internet through a search engine, the P2P service can be directly provided with information from all personal computers connected to the Internet, search and download.

Most of the sites currently operated are contents such as music files or videos, but if activated, the market is expected to grow even more, since personally owned intellectual information can be shared. Existing B2C e-commerce requires shopping malls or intermediary sites, but P2P services have the advantage of encouraging subscribers as they can exchange information between members when they open the service.

In the United States, Napster is offering a service to share music files (MP3) in the form of P2P. Already 5 million members share music files, and are becoming popular among netizens with the nickname "Elvis Presley" on the Internet. As the service of sharing music files has been exploding in popularity, recently, "Imash", which enables video sharing, was introduced one after another. Another example is Globalscape's `` Cue MX '', a service that allows users to share any file they want, `` Gnutella '' by Nullsoft, and `` Freenet '' developed by English programmer Iron Clark.

In Korea, Sori Sea provides a service that allows users to freely search and download MP3 files shared on individual servers in a P2P format. Seafriend (http://www.seefriend.co.kr) provides a service that enables users to search and download PCs between users using the P2P Web. This service is a real-time search and download service that connects a PC to a PC and searches for information, and allows Sea Friend members to share, search, and download all files such as music, videos, literature, hobbies, and learning.

Founding System has expanded its local area network to the Internet to develop and commercialize the Udns service, which allows PC users to freely pass each other's computers on the Internet without a separate server or static IP. Digito is also operating the P2P service for the file room function of the real-time messenger "Soft Messenger 2000".

Other than this, it is not a P2P service but Simmani's `` pop desk '' (http://www.popdesk.co.kr) is being serviced in a similar form.

1 is a block diagram of a peer-to-peer service apparatus according to the prior art.

The user must connect to peer to peer vendor A 110 or peer to peer vendor B 120 to obtain the desired information.

The peer-to-peer vendor A 110 checks whether the user is an opportunity source in the vendor A member database 111 when the user connects, and uses the peer-to-peer service if the user is an opportunity source.

Similarly, peer-to-peer vendor B 120 also checks if the user is an opportunity source in the vendor B member database 121 when the user connects, and uses peer-to-peer service if it is an opportunity source.

In addition, when the user acquires the information using the peer-to-peer service using the personal terminal 2 (131), the user is limited to the terminal acquiring the acquired information, and thus the other personal terminal 1 (130) or the personal terminal 3 (132). In this case, a method of copying from the personal terminal 2 131 should be used.

As described above, the peer-to-peer service according to the prior art has a problem in that the service is attributed to the peer-to-peer vendor because the peer-to-peer vendor has to enter and acquire information. there was.

In addition, there is a problem in that there is no service of a single path in the information acquisition path due to the limitation of information transmission and exchange between different peer-to-peer vendors.

Recently, various terminals that can be owned by individuals have emerged, and with the emergence of Post PCs, various types of information acquisition terminals have been diversified, and services that support the simplicity and diversity of personal information acquisition paths are required. There was a problem that it is difficult to meet this.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a user recognition service means having a routing function from a peer-to-peer vendor to another peer-to-peer vendor and a hub function of acquisition information. It is an object of the present invention to provide an information exchange service apparatus and method based on user recognition that can support a variety and enable information transmission and exchange between different peer-to-peer vendors.

In addition, the present invention provides a user recognition service means having a routing function from one vendor to another vendor of the knowledge management system and a hub function of the acquisition information to support the simplicity and variety of individual information acquisition paths, and An object of the present invention is to provide an information exchange service apparatus and a method based on user recognition, which enable information transfer and exchange between vendors.

1 is a block diagram of a peer-to-peer service apparatus according to the prior art.

2 is a block diagram of a peer-to-peer service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a service hierarchy diagram for showing a layer of a service proposed in the present invention.

4 is a flowchart of a peer-to-peer service method based on user recognition according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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210, 220: peer to peer vendor 230: user recognition service device

240: personal identifier database

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a peer-to-peer service device, comprising: a personal identifier database storing personal receipt information of a plurality of users and Mac addresses of available terminal devices as a table; And a plurality of peer-to-peer vendors, connected to a plurality of user terminals, and when the user connects through the user terminal, if the Mac address registered to the user matches the Mac address of the connected user terminal, the corresponding terminal. And a user recognition service device for acquiring information from the peer-to-peer vendor.

In addition, the present invention provides a knowledge management system, comprising: a personal identifier database storing personal receipt information of a plurality of users and Mac addresses of available terminal devices as a table; And a plurality of knowledge management system vendors, a plurality of user terminals, and when the user connects through the user terminal, if the Mac address registered to the user matches the Mac address of the connected user terminal, And a user recognition service device which enables the terminal to acquire information from the vendor of the knowledge management system.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method including: a first step of registering personal information, a Mac address of a terminal to be used, and an ID of a network device; Registering information using the information indexing and file conversion service of the user recognition service apparatus; A third step of searching for information by using an index service of the user recognition service apparatus; A fourth step of acquiring information using routing and hub services of the user recognition service apparatus; And a fifth step of connecting and transmitting a corresponding terminal when the user recognition service searches for a Mac address and the Mac address matches a registered Mac address.

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

In the present invention, the user recognition service is proposed to solve the problem of receiving information in the existing peer-to-peer network. Recently, various terminals owned by an individual have appeared, and the form of the information acquisition terminal has been changed due to the appearance of a post PC. As diversified, they can support the simplicity and diversity of an individual's information acquisition path.

In addition, it has been proposed to overcome the limitations of information transmission and exchange between different peer-to-peer vendors to enable a single service of the information acquisition path.

However, user-aware services are not the concept of storing information, but merely serve as routers and hubs that support the information flow.

In addition, it is possible to access a single receiving information through a variety of terminals, and supports personal use, corporate, group use.

Such receipt information may be freely designated such as an Email Address, URL Address, Unique Number, and Telephone Number. In addition, it supports server and nonserver services, and all network devices have a unique Mac address.

In other words, when the Information (Contents) Portal Bridging System is used between vendors, it can be expressed as Routing, and when the Information (Contents) Portal Bridging System is used between individual terminals, it can be expressed as a Hub function.

In addition, this system is not limited to peer-to-peer services, but can be widely used for knowledge-related information exchange systems such as KMS. Here, for convenience of explanation, a peer-to-peer service is described as an example.

However, this service is not limited to peer-to-peer service, for example, because it can be used as a platform for knowledge-based electronic commerce in electronic commerce.

2 is a block diagram of a peer to peer device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to the drawing, the peer-to-peer vendor 1 210 and the peer-to-peer vendor 2 220 are connected to the user recognition service apparatus 230 through a communication network.

In addition, the terminals available to the user—a terminal available in the office, an HPC, a PDA, a mobile phone, and the like, available in the home as a terminal available externally—are provided through the wired or wireless communication network. Is connected to.

Of course, the terminals available to the user may directly connect to the peer-to-peer vendor 1 210 or the peer-to-peer vendor 2 220 by wire or wirelessly without passing through the user recognition service device 230.

Meanwhile, the user recognition service device 230 includes a personal identification (PI) database 240 that stores personal receipt information for identifying each user. Referring to the drawing, user A stores personal receipt information of an email address in the personal identifier database 240 provided, and stores Mac addresses of available terminals accordingly. User B stores a URL address as personal receipt information. It stores the Mac address of the available terminals according to the user, User C stores the Unique Number as personal receipt information, and stores the Mac Address of the available terminals accordingly, User D stores the Phone Number as personal receipt information It stores the Mac address of the available user terminals accordingly.

Now, look at in detail the operation of the peer-to-peer device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The user accesses the user recognition service device 230 using the terminal 1 or the terminal 2 or the terminal 3 in the office. The user recognition service device 230 may then determine whether or not the individual by referring to the various Mac addresses set in the individual, without individually identifying the individual.

If the determination result is one of user A, user B, user C, and user D, the user recognition service device 230 connects to peer-to-peer vendor 1 210 or peer-to-peer vendor 2 220 that the user has registered as a member. Set.

For example, when a user accesses peer-to-peer 1 210, the user searches for information desired by peer-to-peer vendor 1 210, which is desired by peer-to-peer vendor 1 210. When the information is retrieved, the user can access a computer belonging to peer to peer vendor 1 210 and download and use the desired data.

However, when the peer-to-peer vendor 1 210 does not obtain the desired information, the user accesses the peer-to-peer 2 220 to search for the desired information and, if present, accesses the computer and downloads the data. You can use it.

However, in the present invention, the user recognition service device 230 automatically routes from peer to peer vendor 1 210 to peer to peer vendor 2 220 so that the user at peer to peer vendor 2 220 may retrieve the desired information. It becomes possible.

Thus, if there is desired information, the user can access a computer belonging to peer to peer vendor 2 220 and download and use the desired data.

Meanwhile, when the user is outside, the user may access the user recognition service device 230 by wire or wirelessly using the HPC, PDA, mobile phone, etc. to access the same and use the information. In addition, it is possible to route and use information obtained by accessing the terminal 1, terminal 2, and terminal 3 from the user's office through the user recognition service apparatus 230.

In addition, in the home, the user may access the user recognition service device 230 using the home terminal 1, the home terminal 2, and the home terminal 3 to use the same service. Regardless, if the Mac address registered to the user and the Mac address of the terminal match, the terminal may acquire information from the peer-to-peer vendor 1 210 or the peer-to-peer vendor 2 220.

The above-described method may be called an Internet service type, which recognizes a user in the center of the Internet or a communication network, and acquires information forwarded to his or her terminal as if the user receives an e-mail. This is because it provides services that can be done. In other words, it can be thought of as a common post office concept.

However, unlike the above, you can think of a personal program type. This type corresponds to the concept of a private post office as a method of using a user recognition service as if an individual installs a program separately to operate a service and use it as a personal mail server. Can be.

3 is a service layer diagram for showing a layer of a service proposed in the present invention, and a gray portion shows a service layer to be proposed.

In this case, PI means Personal Identification, CHR means Contents Hub and Router, UIS means User Identification Service, and KMS means Knowledge Management Service.

Meanwhile, the user recognition service apparatus may additionally provide the following services.

1) Indexing

For ease of retrieval and retrieval of data, indexing is processed by XML Base when registering data to support indexing method for retrieving data between KMS and P2P vendors.

2) Transaction Log Check

Provides transparency of data by always storing information on the movement of data such as commerce and exchange of data.

3) Compress

It supports internal compression for the movement of data such as commerce and exchange of data, thereby reducing the speed of data transmission and reception.

4) Virus Check

Provides stability of data by supporting virus check internally for data movement such as commerce and exchange of data.

5) File Conversion

Optional feature that indexes XML data and converts it to public information type if you want to index the data.

It converts TXT, DOC, HWP, PDF (document information), JPG, TIFF (picture information), WAV (voice information), MPEG, ASF (video information).

6) Commerce

Payment means service to service the paid exchange and provision of materials

4 is a flowchart of a peer-to-peer service method based on user recognition according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step S110, the user registers the personal receipt information to the user recognition service device. At this time, the personal information and the MAC address of the terminal to be used and the ID of the network device are registered. Herein, the personal receipt information may be available for an Email Address, URL Address, Unique Number, Telephon Number, and the like.

Next, in step S120, the information is registered. At this time, the user recognition service apparatus supports the indexing service and the file conversion service as additional services.

In step S130, the information is retrieved, and the information is retrieved using the index service of the user recognition service apparatus.

In step S140, information is acquired, and information is acquired using the information routing and hub service of the user recognition service apparatus.

Next, in step S150, the information is transmitted. If it is determined that the corresponding user terminal is searched for the Mac address of the user recognition service apparatus, the connection is established and the information is transmitted.

On the other hand, additionally provides additional transmission services such as commerce payment means, Transanction Log Check, Compress Transfer, Virus Check.

Also, Index Sync service and Information Transfer can be used for heterogeneous KMS and P2P vendors.

Here, Index Sync is a service name data index information synchronization program for mutual data search between UIS, heterogeneous KMS, and P2P vendors, and Damon format is composed of services on each main server and connected to the network. Synchronize the information.

In addition, Information Transfer service is a data exchange service program for mutual data exchange between UIS and heterogeneous KMS and P2P vendors, and is operated as a service to each main server in Damon format to connect to the network. When a server arises, it is a service program that sends data from both servers to the commander.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments, and should be interpreted by the appended claims.

As described above, according to the present invention, various terminals that can be owned by individuals appear, and the appearance of the Post PC allows various types of information acquisition terminals to be diversified. There is.

In addition, the present invention has the effect of overcoming the limitations of information transmission and exchange between different peer-to-peer vendors and ensuring the unity of the information acquisition path.

Claims (9)

In a peer-to-peer service device, A personal identifier database storing the personal receipt information of a plurality of users and the Mac addresses of available terminal devices as a table; And Connected to multiple peer-to-peer vendors, connected to multiple user terminals, and when the user connects through the user terminal, if the Mac address registered to the user matches the Mac address of the connected user terminal, the corresponding terminal And a user recognition service device for acquiring information from the peer-to-peer vendor. The method of claim 1, And the user recognition service device supports information transmission and exchange between the plurality of peer-to-peer vendors. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The user recognition service device, An information exchange service apparatus comprising an indexing method for data retrieval between KMS and P2P vendors by processing indexing with XML Base when registering data for ease of retrieval and acquisition of data. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The user recognition service device, An information exchange service device comprising a Transaction Log Check function that provides information transparency by constantly storing information on data movement such as commerce and exchange of data. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The user recognition service device, An information exchange service apparatus that supports a compression function to reduce data transmission and reception speed by internally compressing data movement such as commerce and exchange of data. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The user recognition service device, An information exchange service device that provides stability of data by supporting virus check internally for data movement such as commerce and exchange of data. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The user recognition service device, An information exchange service device comprising an optional function of converting data into a public information type after indexing with XML, when indexing of data is desired. In the knowledge management system, A personal identifier database storing the personal receipt information of a plurality of users and the Mac addresses of available terminal devices as a table; And Connected to multiple vendors, connected to multiple user terminals, and when the user connects through the user terminal, if the Mac address registered to the user and the Mac address of the connected user terminal match, An information exchange service device further comprising a user recognition service device for acquiring information. A first step of registering personal information, a Mac address of a terminal to be used, and an ID of a network device; Registering information using the information indexing and file conversion service of the user recognition service apparatus; A third step of searching for information by using an index service of the user recognition service apparatus; A fourth step of acquiring information using routing and hub services of the user recognition service apparatus; And And a fifth step of connecting and transmitting a corresponding terminal when the user recognition service searches for a Mac address and the Mac address matches a registered Mac address.