KR20050016829A - Methods for building a home page to use a mobile device - Google Patents

Abstract

 The present invention provides a method for configuring a homepage using a management system for receiving a message transmitted from a mobile communication terminal through an intermediary device, wherein the management system receives (a) user authentication information from a user through an Internet network. Issuing a mail account authenticated by the authentication information; and a web account containing a template page; issuing to the user; (b) the address for receiving the mail account, the authentication information; And index information of a location where a message is stored; receiving a message including the message from a mobile communication terminal through the intermediate apparatus; (c) authenticating the user with reference to the authentication information contained in the received message, and including the message in the user's mail account; And (d) recording the message on a homepage information section which is referred to when constructing a homepage from the web account of the user with reference to the index information of the message. The homepage is constructed by referring to the template page included in the account and the message contained in the homepage information unit.

Description

How to construct a homepage using a mobile terminal {Methods for building a home page to use a mobile device}

The present invention relates to a method of constructing a homepage using a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to include a message written in a mobile communication terminal in a place where a homepage is referred to so that the homepage can be configured by a message. A homepage is about how to organize.

With the development of information and communication technology, the emerging market is the Internet. It is no exaggeration to say that the Internet is made up of a myriad of homepages, which are like homes that contain information on the Internet, just like homes that exist offline.

On the other hand, the homepage is represented in hypertext on the Internet. However, since this hypertext is defined in the language HTML, it is for home users who are not familiar with it. Most homebuilders issue a web account to the user, where the homepage is organized by including web pages created by the user by editing sample pages (a template).

However, such a home builder has a limitation in that the user must connect to the server through the Internet in order to create or edit a homepage. Therefore, there is a disadvantage that nothing can be uploaded to the homepage in a situation where the Internet environment is not provided.

In addition, the mobile communication terminal, that is, the mobile phone industry, developed with the development of information and communication technology. Miniaturization Lightweight mobile phones offer users a variety of benefits. It's no longer uncommon for users to play games, electronic diaries, the Internet, and e-mail on their phones. Nowadays, a feature called 'photomail' has been added to mobile phones, allowing users to transfer pictures taken through the camera attached to the mobile phone to the Internet or to another user's mobile phone.

In particular, Intizen Co., Ltd. has provided a service called "Photoblog" and configured to upload photomail sent from a mobile phone to the homepage utilizing the photomail function. After registering the mobile phone number used by the user on the site through authentication, taking a picture using a camera phone and sending it to a specific e-mail address using a photomail transmission function, the message is stored in the folder specified above.

According to this, it is possible to upload the information desired by the user at any time and anywhere to solve the problem of the home building of the home builders presented above.

 However, the photomail uploaded to the homepage simply composes the homepage in the form of a bulletin board in a predetermined area. In other words, it is only possible to upload Photomail to the homepage, and there is a disadvantage in that it cannot be edited.

In addition, the 'photoblog' has a limitation that can be used only in limited mobile phones. In other words, the service can be used only in a terminal equipped with a photomail function, but the proportion of mobile subscribers using a mobile phone equipped with a photomail function is not high.

The present invention was devised to solve the above problems, and to provide the present invention configured to edit a home page with a message transmitted through a mobile phone.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a present invention configured to edit the homepage even with a mobile phone having only an e-mail transmission function.

In order to achieve the above object, a method for constructing a homepage according to the present invention includes a management system for receiving a message transmitted from a mobile communication terminal through an intermediary device. Receiving a user's authentication information from the user through an internet network, and issuing a mail account authenticated by the authentication information; and a web account including a template page; (b) an address for receiving the mail account, the authentication information; And index information of a location where a message is stored; receiving a message including the message from a mobile communication terminal through the intermediate apparatus; (c) authenticating the user with reference to the authentication information contained in the received message, and including the message in the user's mail account; And (d) recording the message on a homepage information section which is referred to when constructing a homepage from the web account of the user with reference to the index information of the message. The homepage is constructed by referring to the template page included in the account and the message contained in the homepage information unit.

Preferably, when uploading a message to a specific page of the home page, the present invention further comprises the step of providing the index information of the home page currently provided to the user to the user at the request of the user. Therefore, the user can update the target homepage newly through the mobile communication terminal.

Preferably, when the intermediate apparatus sends a message to the management system as admin, the present invention configures the authentication information with an ID and a password, and the management system authenticates the user.

On the other hand, if the intermediate apparatus transmits a message to a mail address uniquely provided for each mobile communication terminal, the authentication information is added by the intermediate apparatus in the present invention, thereby authenticating the user in the management system.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the specification and claims should not be construed as having a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

Figure 1 shows the configuration of a network in which the homepage configuration method of the present invention is implemented.

 1, a network implementing an embodiment of the present invention comprises a management system 10; A user terminal 20 connected to the management system 10 through an internet network 30; An intermediary device (40) including a data conversion device (41) and a base station (42) to enable transmission and reception of messages with the management system (10) via a wireless network; Transmit and receive antennas 50; And a mobile communication terminal 60.

The mobile communication terminal 60 can be any one that is portable and can transmit a message in an electronic mail form through the wireless Internet. Accordingly, the mobile communication terminal 60 may be a general mobile phone, an IMT 2000 terminal, a CDMA 2000 terminal, a PDA terminal, or the like. Preferably, a terminal with a camera may be used among terminals having a photomail transmission function, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

In addition, an inter-working function (IWF), which is one of the data conversion devices 41, is a device that connects the base station 43 and the WAP gateway server (not shown) and converts data between different models, and the base station 43 Is configured to process data of different protocols, and to open a line selectively according to data input through the transmission / reception antenna 50 to enable voice calls and data transmission. The intermediary device 40 including these is obvious to those skilled in the art, and detailed description is omitted since it is not related to the present invention.

On the other hand, the management system 10 according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

2, the management system 10 of the present invention includes a web server unit 11; A mail manager 12; A web account manager 13; And a home page providing unit 14. In addition, the management system 10 may include a database unit in which various information input from the user terminal 20 and various information generated interactively in the management system 10 are recorded, updated, or deleted in the process of implementing the present invention. 16) and a database manager 15 managing the same.

On the other hand, each component constituting the management system 10 of the present invention is implemented as a web program (or an independent server) associated with the web server unit 11, and optionally with the web server unit 11 In conjunction with the interactive information processing operation. If necessary, the above components are interlocked with the database manager 15 to query the database unit 16 or record, update or delete the information in the database unit 16. Each configuration may be coded by a known web programming language such as ASP, PHP, CGI, JSP, JAVA, etc., but the present invention is not limited thereto.

Preferably, the database unit 16 includes a mail account information unit 161; Home page information unit 162; And a member information unit 163. The database manager 15 and various databases are SQL server; Mysql server; Alternatively, it can be implemented as an Oracle server, and information construction in a database is preferably based on a relational database model.

More specifically, the web server unit 11 interactively operates with each of the components constituting the management system 10 in response to a user's request through the Internet network 30, and displays the results of the components. It is composed of a web page and provided to the user terminal 20 through the Internet network 30, and obtains the information necessary to implement the present invention through the web page to the database unit 16 in conjunction with the database management unit 15 Manage storage. In addition, when the user first accesses the management system 10 or obtains the member information from the user during the service application process according to the present invention, the user stores the member information in the member information unit 163 in the database unit 161 and the user manages the system 10. Make your site available. The member information unit 163 stores information such as a user name, address, and contact information.

The mail management unit 12 cooperates with the database management unit 15 to allocate the user's area to the mail account information unit 161 in the database unit 16 so that the user can be authenticated by the authentication information specified by the user. When a mail account is issued with the authentication information recorded, and a message written in the user's mobile communication terminal 20 is input through the intermediary device 40, the mail account is authenticated by referring to the authentication information contained in the received message. The message is recorded in the space allocated to the user in the information unit 161.

The web account manager 13 interoperates with the database manager 15 to allocate a user's area to the homepage information unit 162 in the database unit 16, to issue a web account including a template page, and to configure the homepage. If a message written in the user's mobile communication terminal 20 is input through the intermediary device 40, when the homepage is configured from the template page included in the web account with reference to the index information contained in the message, In the area referred to by the template page, that is, the homepage information unit 162 assigned to the user, the message is converted into the data format referred to by the template page.

The homepage providing unit 14 dynamically configures a homepage with reference to a message in a template page included in a web account of a user linked to a domain; and a homepage information unit 162 referenced by the template page. To provide.

On the other hand, the above-described management system 10 is configured to operate as one server, but those skilled in the art will know that the functionality can be configured to be distributed to a plurality of servers. In one example, the management system 10 is designed to be distributed, such that the database and each module are organized in individual server units.

Figure 3 illustrates the overall flow of the home page configuration method according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the user drives a web browser mounted on the user terminal 20 to access a site provided by the management system 10 through the internet network 30 (S100).

Then, the site requests a service for the homepage production method provided by the present invention through a predetermined web navigation (S200). In this case, the management system 10 provides a web page providing a web interface to the user terminal 20 through the Internet network 30 to obtain necessary information when applying for a service, and to provide the user with a web account. Issue it.

Thereafter, the user drives his mobile communication terminal 60 to create a message in a form proposed by the present invention through the wireless Internet, and transmits the message to the management system 10 through the intermediary device 40 (S300 and S400).

The management system 10 then authenticates the user with reference to the authentication information contained in the received message and stores the message in a database, that is, the homepage information unit 172, which refers to the message when constructing the homepage from the web account. Update the homepage (S500).

Lastly, the management system 10 of the present invention displays the text message to guide the fact that the homepage has been updated to reflect the message sent by the user. The user is notified of the updated fact through the transmission (S600).

4 illustrates a process in which a user applies a service to a site in order to use the method of constructing a homepage according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, in a state in which a user is connected to a site provided by the management system 10 through the Internet network 30 using the user terminal 20, the management system 10 is provided to the user. Authentication information; And, it provides a web interface that allows you to enter the application information, including the mobile communication terminal number (hereinafter, "telephone number") (S210). In the present invention, the authentication information may be a traditional ID and password can be used, and more preferably using an e-mail address (hereinafter referred to as 'phone mail address') uniquely provided to the mobile terminal used by the user, the phone Use your phone number (eg 0112344398@sk.com) as your ID.

In step S210, in the web interface provided to the user through the Internet network 30, the user writes the above-described authentication information and phone number and the rest, and clicks the send button provided in the web interface with the mouse to the Internet network 30 The application information is transmitted to the management system 10 through (S220, S230).

Then, the management system 10 having received the application information issues a web account containing the template page to the user, and when the homepage is configured from the template page included in the web account, the homepage information unit 172 referred to by the template page. Allocate The template page is a web page that contains a layout of the home page and information constituting the home page. In addition, while providing a home page to a user by issuing a web account, the mail manager 12 issues a mail account for which the user is authenticated by the received authentication information, and the database manager is configured to display a database of the user referred to by the mail account. In association with (16), it is assigned to the mail account management unit 161 in the database unit 16, and the application information received from the user is stored therein (S240).

5 illustrates a process in which a user composes a message constituting a homepage in a mobile communication terminal and transmits the message to a management system.

Referring to FIG. 5, the user drives the mobile communication terminal 60 to connect to a wireless network provided by the operator and execute an e-mail (S310).

Then, in response to the user's request, the mobile communication terminal 60 provides the user with an interface for composing a message through the display device of the terminal 60 (S320).

Then, the user composes a message in a form suggested by the present invention. More specifically, in the address area 501 which is received as the interface 500 illustrated in the drawing, the mail provided to the user by the management system in FIG. An account, and subject area 502 includes authentication information 502a of the mail account; And index information 502b; a message is written (S330). The index information is information for identifying a template page used by the homepage provider 14 to construct a homepage. Thereafter, the homepage providing unit 14 constructs a homepage with reference to a message; and a template page identified by the index information.

On the other hand, the message transmission provided by the current mobile service provider is made in two ways. One is the 'mail method', which forwards the message by adding a phone mail address to the message. The other is the 'admin method', which forwards the message to the admin.

In step S330, a user subscribed to a service provider (eg, SK Telecom) that provides the 'mail method' writes a message with the remaining information except for the authentication information, and the created message is managed through the intermediary device 40 ( 10). Then, the intermediary device 10 adds the message received from the user to the address for sending the user's phone mail address and forwards it to the management system 10.

On the other hand, a user subscribed to a service provider (eg, LG Telecom) that provides the 'admin method' records the authentication information registered in the service application process in the subject area and transmits it through the intermediary device 40. The intermediate apparatus then forwards the received message to the address from which the administration address is sent.

Optionally, the user may attach a picture, video or audio to a message using the mobile communication terminal 10 (S340 and S350).

6 illustrates a process in which a management system receives a message from a user's mobile communication terminal and constructs a homepage therefrom.

The mail management unit 12 of the management system 10 that has received the message through the intermediary device 40 links the authentication information contained in the received message with the database management unit 15 to the mail account information unit in the database unit 16 ( The user is authenticated in comparison with the authentication information contained in 161. If the authentication information is not included in the message, the user is authenticated with reference to the user's phone mail address contained in the sending address (S410 to S430).

After authenticating the user, the mail manager 12 stores the received message in the mail account information unit 171 of the user in the database 16 in cooperation with the database manager 15 (S440).

In addition, the web account management unit 13 operating in conjunction with the mail management unit 12 refers to the index information contained in the received message, and the homepage information unit referred to when the template page identified by the index information forms the homepage. In connection with the database manager 15 in the area 162, the homepage providing unit 14 converts and stores the received message into a data format which can be referred to when constructing the homepage from the template page (S450).

In step S450, if the previous message is stored in the same area, the web account manager 130 changes the new message to include the new message, and if the newly received message is a blank message in which only an address and a subject are recorded, index information. Deletes the message recorded in the home page information unit 172 corresponding to.

Accordingly, the homepage is dynamically configured in a format defined on the basis of the message (ie, the format defined by the template page) and provided to the requester through the Internet.

On the other hand, the homepage configuration according to the above-described Figs. 3 to 6 is described by taking a case where the user knows the index information of the homepage. Hereinafter, a method of constructing a homepage that is performed when a user does not know index information of the homepage will be described with reference to FIG. 7.

In operation S710, the user requests the homepage to the management system 10 through the Internet network 30 using the user terminal 20 (S710). Then, the homepage providing unit 14 of the management system 10 is linked to the database management unit 15, the message contained in the user area of the homepage information unit 162 in the database unit 16; and the web account linked to the domain The homepage is constructed with reference to the contained template page and provided to the user through the Internet network 30.

Then, the user requests the management system 10 to modify the homepage through a predetermined web navigation process and outputs it through the web browser mounted on the user terminal 20. In a state where the user outputs the home page to the web browser, the user requests the management system 10 to request the index information of the home page using the request means (eg, a button) provided in the home page (S720).

In response, the homepage providing unit 14 of the management system 10 checks the index information of the homepage currently provided to the user from the homepage information unit 162, stores the checked index information in a pop-up window, and displays the Internet network 30. Provided to the user terminal 20 through (S730).

Optionally, the homepage providing unit 14 dynamically constructs index information with a depth of the homepage provided to the user, stores the index information in the homepage information unit 172, and displays the index information in a popup window. It can also be provided to.

As described above, the user who has obtained the index information of the homepage through the above steps S710 to S730 creates a message to the mobile communication terminal 60, transmits the message to the management system through the intermediary device 40, and receives the management information. The system 10 updates the home page by including the received message with reference to the index information in the home page information unit 172 of the user (S740). Since the S740 process has been described above, a detailed description thereof is omitted.

If the homepage is normally updated, the homepage providing unit 14 of the management system 10 closes the popup window provided to the user terminal through the internet network 30 and reloads the homepage (S750).

As described above, although the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited thereto and is intended by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Of course, various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of equivalents of the claims to be described.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems, so that anyone can easily configure the home page from the template page, and when the information constituting the home page together with the template page uses a message transmitted from the mobile communication terminal, There is an effect that you can immediately update the homepage anywhere. Furthermore, the method for constructing a homepage proposed by the present invention has an effect that can be widely used by a user because the mobile communication terminal can transmit an e-mail through the wireless Internet, regardless of the model.

The following drawings attached to this specification are illustrative of preferred embodiments of the present invention, and together with the detailed description of the invention to serve to further understand the technical spirit of the present invention, the present invention is a matter described in such drawings It should not be construed as limited to

Figure 1 shows the configuration of a network in which the homepage configuration method of the present invention is implemented.

2 illustrates a configuration of a management system according to the present invention.

Figure 3 illustrates the overall flow of the home page configuration method according to the present invention.

4 illustrates a process in which a user applies a service to a site in order to use the method of constructing a homepage according to the present invention.

5 illustrates a process in which a user creates a message in a mobile communication terminal and transmits the message to a management system.

6 illustrates a process in which a management system receives a message from a user's mobile communication terminal and constructs a homepage therefrom.

7 illustrates a process of reconfiguring a specific homepage by a user using a mobile communication terminal.

* Brief description of the major symbols in the drawings *

10: management system 20: user terminal 30: Internet network

40: user terminal

Claims (8)

A management system for receiving a message transmitted from a mobile communication terminal through an intermediary device; (A) receiving, by the management system, the user's authentication information from the user through the Internet network, and issuing a mail account authenticated by the authentication information; and a web account containing a template page; (b) an address for receiving the mail account, the authentication information; And index information of a location where a message is stored; receiving a message including the message from a mobile communication terminal through the intermediate apparatus; (c) authenticating the user with reference to the authentication information contained in the received message, and including the message in the user's mail account; And, (d) recording the message in a homepage information unit which is referred to when constructing a homepage from the web account of the user with reference to the index information of the message; And in response to the request of the requester, constructing a homepage and providing the requestor with reference to a template page included in the web account and a message included in the homepage information unit. The method of claim 1, And providing index information of a home page currently provided to the user through the internet network to the user through a request of the user. The method of claim 2, And the index information is provided to the user through a web interface, and when the message is normally stored in the database in the step (d), the web interface is closed. The method of claim 1,  The message structure of the home page, characterized in that it comprises a text and a picture. The method of claim 4, wherein In the step (d), if the previous message is stored in the homepage information section identified as the index information, the new message is changed and recorded, and if the empty message, the homepage, wherein the previous message is deleted from the homepage information section. Configuration method. The method of claim 1, And after step (d), transmitting a text message indicating that the homepage has been normally updated to the user's mobile communication terminal through the intermediary device. The method of claim 1, The authentication information comprises a homepage configuration method characterized in that the ID and password. The method of claim 1, And the authentication information is a mail address uniquely assigned to each mobile communication terminal, and is added to the message by the intermediary device in step (b).