KR20040025067A - System for connecting url through key-word in wireless internet and method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for accessing a URL via a keyword on the wireless Internet. The disclosed URL access system includes a mobile communication terminal with a built-in browser for wireless internet access, and keyword and English URL information of a website corresponding thereto. The keyword DB, a keyword address conversion server that searches a keyword DB entered by the user through the mobile communication terminal and converts the keyword into an English URL according to the search result, and a URL received from the keyword address conversion server through the Internet. It includes a gateway for accessing the website, a switch for transmitting the keyword inputted through the mobile communication terminal to the keyword address translation server, and transmitting a web page of the website connected through the gateway to the mobile communication terminal. When a user enters a keyword, it automatically enters an English URL By converting into a wireless web site, it is advantageous to provide the convenience of accessing the web site by entering a keyword without inputting a difficult English URL.

Description

SYSTEM FOR CONNECTING URL THROUGH KEY-WORD IN WIRELESS INTERNET AND METHOD THEREFOR}

The present invention relates to a system and method for accessing a URL through a keyword on the wireless Internet. A system and method for accessing a URL via keywords on the Internet.

Internet websites are identified by a unique number of addresses, called IP addresses, and domain names are the plainly labeled names. Domain names are translated into IP addresses by DNS servers.

Resources on the Internet are classified using the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which consists of three elements: protocol, host, and location path.

On the other hand, when accessing the wireless Internet using a mobile communication terminal, it was previously possible to obtain necessary information on the Internet only through the homepage operated by a mobile phone company (eg, SK Telecom's 'NATE'). Internet users can freely access any website they want.

However, since the domain name must be input by combining English and special characters, the input work is very troublesome on the mobile communication terminal.

That is, the keypad of the mobile communication terminal includes several consonants, vowels, alphabets and numbers in one button. Therefore, there is a problem that a considerable physical and time wasted when inputting a combination of addresses such as English and special characters.

The present invention has been proposed to solve such a conventional problem. When attempting to access a specific website using a mobile communication terminal, only certain keywords (Korean, English, numbers, special characters, etc.) are not entered. It is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for accessing a URL through a keyword on a wireless Internet, which allows a user to access a corresponding wireless website of an actual URL.

In an aspect of the present invention for realizing the above object, a URL access system using keywords on the wireless Internet includes a mobile communication terminal having a browser for wireless internet access, and keyword and English URL information of a website corresponding thereto. Using a stored keyword DB, a keyword address conversion server that searches for the keyword entered by the user through the mobile communication terminal in the keyword DB and converts the keyword into an English URL according to the search result, and the URL received from the keyword address conversion server. A gateway for accessing the website through the Internet, the keyword input through the mobile communication terminal, to the keyword address translation server, and the web page of the website connected through the gateway; It includes an exchange to transmit.

In another aspect of the present invention, a method of accessing a URL through a keyword in the wireless Internet includes a first step of receiving a keyword of a website to be accessed through a mobile communication terminal; And a third step of converting the web page into an English URL, and transmitting the web page to the mobile communication terminal by accessing the web site by the converted URL.

1 is a configuration diagram of a URL access system using keywords on the wireless Internet according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of converting a keyword address into an actual URL in the wireless Internet according to the present invention.

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101: mobile communication terminal 102: base station

103: base station controller 104: switchboard

105: keyword address translation server 106: keyword DB

107: WAP Gateway 108: Internet

109: Website

There may be a plurality of embodiments of the present invention. Hereinafter, preferred embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. This embodiment allows for a better understanding of the objects, features and advantages of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of a URL access system via keywords in the wireless Internet according to the present invention.

The mobile communication terminal 101 is a terminal capable of communication and wireless internet connection while being carried by a person and freely moving. The mobile communication terminal 101 is within a range of an arbitrary base station 102, and the information of the mobile terminal 101 is connected to the base station 102. It is transmitted to the exchange 104 via the base station controller 103 for controlling it, and the information transmitted from the exchange 104 is transmitted to the mobile terminal 101 via the base station 102 and the base station controller 103.

The base station 102 connects the mobile terminal 101 to the base station controller 103, and includes a digital channel unit (DCU), a timing / frequency control unit (TCU), and a radio frequency device. (Radio Frequency Unit; RFU), Global Positioning System (GPS), and the like. The base station 102 performs a wired / wireless conversion function of communicating with the mobile terminal 101 by wireless and communicating with the base station controller 103 by wire.

The base station controller 103 connects the base station 102 to the exchange 104 to coordinate the connection between the base stations 102, to support multiple base stations 102, and to communicate between the base station 102 and the exchange 104. It functions as a signal processing for.

The exchange 104 connects a call when the mobile subscriber makes or receives a call, connects with the base station controller 103 to perform a call setup and release function of the mobile communication terminal 101, and processes and adds a call. It performs various functions related to service and performs interworking with other networks.

The keyword DB 106 stores specific keywords (Korean, English, numbers, special characters, etc.) and English URL information corresponding thereto. The keyword for accessing the website is based on a 1: 1 correspondence with the English URL, but is stored to correspond to n: 1 when a similar vocabulary or abbreviation indicating the same object exists.

The keyword address conversion server 105 searches for the keyword input by the user in the keyword DB 106, converts the keyword into an English URL according to the search result, and transfers the converted URL to the WAP gateway 107.

The WAP gateway 107 is a network point that serves as an entrance to the Internet 108. The WAP gateway 107 connects to the website 109 through the Internet 108 using the URL received from the keyword address translation server 105.

A process of accessing a website by a URL access system through keywords on the wireless Internet according to the present invention configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

First, a mobile communication service provider receives a keyword consisting of Korean, English, numbers, and special characters from a website operator to provide a keyword internet access service through its network. The database must be stored in the keyword DB 106 to correspond to n: 1 (where n is a natural number).

Thereafter, the user inputs a keyword or actual URL of the website 109 to be accessed through a browser embedded in the mobile communication terminal 101 (S201).

The keyword or actual URL entered by the user is transmitted to the exchange 104 through the base station 102 and the base station controller 103, and the exchange 104 determines whether the address requested by the user is a keyword address or an actual URL. Determine (S202).

The exchange 104 requests the connection of the website 109 by transmitting the address to the WAP gateway 107 if the address input to the mobile communication terminal 101 is the actual URL.

However, if the address inputted to the mobile communication terminal 101 is a keyword address, it requests a conversion to an English URL while transferring a keyword to the keyword address conversion server 105 for access to the corresponding website 109.

The keyword address translation server 105 searches for the keyword delivered from the keyword DB 106 to determine whether the keyword exists (S203). If the keyword entered by the user exists, the English address corresponding to the keyword, that is, the actual keyword is used. If the keyword entered by the user does not exist (S205), it is converted to the URL corresponding to the closest keyword (S206).

The keyword address translation server 105 transmits the converted URL to the WAP gateway 107 to request access to the website 109.

As such, the WAP gateway 107 receives the URL of the website 109 from the exchange 104 or the keyword address translation server 105, and accesses the website 109 via the Internet 108 to the website 109. ) Transmits the web page to the user's mobile communication terminal 101 through the switch 104, the base station controller 103, and the base station 102 (S207).

In the above description, but limited to one embodiment of the present invention, it is obvious that the technology of the present invention can be easily modified by those skilled in the art. Such modified embodiments should be included in the technical spirit described in the claims of the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, when a wireless Internet user inputs a keyword, the wireless Internet user automatically converts the keyword into an English URL and connects to the corresponding wireless website. Convenience is provided.

In addition, corporations or individuals who operate websites can more easily promote keyword addresses, which are relatively easy to remember or enter, compared to English URLs. Can be obtained.

Claims (6)

A mobile communication terminal with a built-in browser for wireless Internet access, A keyword DB that stores the English URL information of the keyword and its corresponding website, A keyword address conversion server for searching a keyword entered by the user through the mobile communication terminal in the keyword DB and converting the keyword into an English URL according to the search result; A gateway for accessing the website through the Internet by using the URL received from the keyword address translation server; The keyword transmitted through the mobile communication terminal to the keyword address translation server, and through the keyword on the wireless Internet including a switch for transmitting a web page of the website connected through the gateway to the mobile communication terminal URL access system. The method of claim 1, The keyword DB is a URL access system via a keyword on the wireless Internet, characterized in that the specific keyword and the corresponding English URL information is stored in a one-to-one correspondence. The method of claim 1, The keyword DB is a URL access system via a keyword on the wireless Internet, characterized in that the specific keyword and corresponding English URL information is stored corresponding to n: 1, where n is a natural number. A first step of receiving a keyword of a website to be accessed through a mobile communication terminal; A second step of searching for the received keyword in a keyword DB and converting the received keyword into an English URL according to the search result; And a third step of accessing the corresponding website by the converted URL and transmitting a web page to the mobile communication terminal. The method of claim 4, wherein The first step receives the keyword or the actual URL, In the second step, after determining whether the address requested to be accessed through the mobile communication terminal is a keyword address or an actual URL, the keyword URL is selectively converted to the English URL only if the keyword address is the keyword. URL access method. The method of claim 4, wherein In the second step, if the keyword does not exist in the keyword DB, the URL access method through the keyword on the wireless Internet, characterized in that for converting to the URL corresponding to the closest keyword.