WO2011013878A1

WO2011013878A1 - Method and apparatus for providing mobile site

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Publication number: WO2011013878A1
Application number: PCT/KR2009/006651
Authority: WO
Inventors: 고윤환
Original assignee: Ko Youn Hwan
Priority date: 2009-07-27
Filing date: 2009-11-13
Publication date: 2011-02-03
Also published as: KR101054263B1; KR20110010892A

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for providing a mobile site. The method for providing the mobile site comprises the steps of: a mobile site providing device receiving an information request of a particular mobile site from a predetermined data processing device; the mobile site providing device feeding necessary information has at least a part of information corresponding to a web site from a web server for providing the web site corresponding to the particular mobile site; generating mobile site information on the basis of the fed necessary information; and transmitting the generated mobile site information to the predetermined data processing device.

Description

Mobile site provision method and device

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for providing a mobile site, and more particularly, to a mobile terminal, a mobile site which is automatically synchronized with the web site when there is a web site without having to create and manage a mobile site separate from the web site. A method and apparatus that can be provided.

Due to the development of mobile technology, the recent mobile terminal has developed enough to be able to access the Internet and do full browsing. However, even when full browsing is performed on the mobile terminal, when the user browses the vast amount of information on the website and the site customized to the web (or web browser) with the mobile terminal, the distortion of the content or the inconvenience of browsing Many problems have been raised.

Therefore, some service providers produce mobile-only sites using mobile terminals separately from web sites and provide them to users.

However, it is not only technically difficult to create a mobile-specific site separately from the web site, but it also consumes a great deal of time and human costs to create a mobile-specific site separately for the mobile platform. Even though it is expensive to manage and operate a dedicated site separately, operators are not able to easily provide it even if they feel the need of a mobile dedicated site or service.

Therefore, instead of creating and operating a mobile-specific site separately from the web site, if there is a specific web site, a method for automatically providing a mobile-only site to users in synchronization with the web site is required.

The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a method for automatically providing a mobile-only site to users in synchronization with this web site if there is a specific web site.

In addition, content is automatically renewed or resized for mobile platforms (e.g., Android, MAC OSX, Symbian, Windows Mobile, etc.) to provide users with readability, ease of browsing, and excellent readability in a mobile environment. It is to provide a way to provide a mobile site.

According to the mobile site providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, the service provider does not need to produce a mobile dedicated site separate from the web site.

In addition, when the content of the website is updated, the mobile site is also automatically updated, so there is no need to renew the mobile site again even if the website is changed or renewed. There is also an effect that can reduce the time for.

In addition, it is possible to easily provide a multi-purpose mobile platform access path by providing a marketing extension platform that can serve the contents of an existing web site on various mobile devices without additional cost, manpower, and production.

In addition, if there is a problem in creating a database due to a failure of the API service of the website, it can be checked remotely anytime and anywhere through the mobile site, thereby improving service quality management by maintaining a stable and continuous service.

It also leverages content from existing Web sites without the need for mobile development staff, time, and additional overhead, resulting in a cost-effective way of using one source multiple times.

You can also create a separate corporate blog or website desk to offset your marketing investment.

In addition, there is no need for purchasing additional servers for mobile sites, installing security programs, and removing them internally, and no additional security setting and development work are required for external server attacks, thereby improving the security of server security. There is.

In addition, since unnecessary information of a web site may not be provided in a mobile site, there is an effect of improving a user's use environment.

In addition, the content provided from the mobile site can be renewed or resized to fit the mobile platform, thereby reducing the unnecessary operation of the device when browsing. In addition, this has the effect of increasing the user's content usability and content leadership.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS In order to better understand the drawings cited in the detailed description of the invention, a brief description of each drawing is provided.

1 shows a schematic configuration of a system for providing a method for providing a mobile site according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 to 4 are diagrams for explaining a method of generating a content list as mobile site information in a mobile site providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

5 illustrates an example of a content list UI provided by a mobile site providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

6 to 7 are diagrams for explaining a method of providing a search function provided in a web site in a mobile site according to a method of providing a mobile site according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a mobile site, wherein the mobile site providing apparatus receives an information request of a specific mobile site from a predetermined data processing apparatus, and the mobile site providing apparatus corresponds to a web corresponding to the specific mobile site. Feeding the necessary information, which is at least a part of the information corresponding to the web site from a web server providing a site, generates mobile site information based on the fed information required, and generates the generated mobile site information into the predetermined information. Transmitting to the data processing apparatus of the apparatus.

The necessary information may be characterized in that the metadata (meta-data) of the content included in the web site.

The metadata may be characterized as metadata of RSS 2.0 standard.

The mobile site information may be mobile list information of a mobile site corresponding to a content list of the web site, and the mobile list information may be generated based on category ID information included in the metadata. .

The mobile site providing method may further include displaying the mobile list information on the terminal of the user so as to correspond to a UI (User Interface) type predetermined by the mobile site providing apparatus or selected by the user.

The method for providing a mobile site includes the step of the mobile site providing device receiving any content selection information selected by the user's terminal and included in the mobile list information and the content selection information received by the mobile site providing device. And transmitting the mobile content corresponding to at least one of the predetermined data processing apparatus or the terminal of the user, wherein the mobile content is resized to a predetermined size with a content corresponding to the content selection information. It may be characterized in that the content.

The method for providing a mobile site may include: receiving, by the mobile site providing apparatus, a search word from at least one of the predetermined data processing device or the terminal of the user, transmitting the received search word to the web server, and corresponding to a search result. Receiving at least a portion of search result information, and generating at least one content as mobile content to transmit at least a portion of the received search result information to at least one of the predetermined data processing apparatus or the user's terminal. It may include a step.

The step of transmitting the received search word to the web server and receiving information on at least one content corresponding to a search result may be characterized by using an open API.

The address of the mobile site may be set to include the address of the web site. The mobile site providing method may be stored in a computer readable recording medium recording a program.

The mobile site providing apparatus for solving the technical problem corresponds to the web site from a web server providing a web site corresponding to the specific mobile site in response to a request for information of a specific mobile site received from a data processing device. Feeding the necessary information that is at least a part of the information to be generated, generates mobile site information based on the fed the necessary information, and transmits the generated mobile site information to the predetermined data processing apparatus.

In order to fully understand the present invention, the operational advantages of the present invention, and the objects achieved by the practice of the present invention, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings which illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention and the contents described in the accompanying drawings.

In addition, in the present specification, when one component 'transmits' data to another component, the component may directly transmit the data to the other component, or through at least one other component. Means that the data may be transmitted to the other component.

On the contrary, when one component 'directly transmits' data to another component, it means that the data is transmitted from the component to the other component without passing through the other component.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements.

Referring to Figure 1, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 for a mobile site providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention while communicating with the user's terminal 200 and the web server 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention According to the mobile site providing method according to the predetermined information can be exchanged. The mobile site providing apparatus 100 may include predetermined modules (not shown) for each function for implementing a mobile site providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The mobile terminal 200 may request information on a predetermined mobile site from the mobile site providing apparatus 100 through a wireless network. That is, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may perform a function as a mobile site server for a mobile site requested by the user's terminal 200. According to another embodiment of the present invention, a mobile site server 500 for a mobile site may be separately provided, and when the user terminal 200 requests the mobile site server 500 for information on the mobile site ( That is, when a connection request is made), the mobile site server 500 requests the mobile site providing apparatus 100 for information on the mobile site, and in response thereto, receives the mobile site information corresponding to the mobile site. It may be. That is, when the mobile site providing apparatus 100 receives information on a specific mobile site from a predetermined data processing device such as the user terminal 200 or the mobile site server 500, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 corresponds to the mobile site. The mobile site information may be transmitted to the request data processing device.

As a result, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 functions as a predetermined mobile site server or, if a separate mobile site server exists, provides the mobile site information to the mobile site server in real time or at a predetermined time period. Can be done.

Hereinafter, for convenience of description, a case in which the user's terminal 200 directly receives a mobile site information request (that is, a mobile site access request) to the mobile site providing apparatus 100 will be described as an example. The scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and it can be easily inferred by the average expert in the technical field of the present invention that the technical idea of the present invention can be implemented in a similar manner even when a separate mobile site server is provided. .

In order to provide the mobile site, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 must provide a document and / or code corresponding to a predetermined mobile site, that is, the mobile site information to the terminal 200 or 200 of the user. In this case, the document and / or code may be automatically generated by using the predetermined information received by the mobile site providing apparatus 100 from the web server 300.

That is, according to the technical idea of the present invention, when a specific web site 400 exists, the mobile site is automatically used by using predetermined information (eg, HTML code, XML code, etc.) for providing the web site 400. Can be generated as Therefore, a service provider who wants to provide a mobile site does not need to create a mobile site separately from a web site, and the mobile site is automatically provided by the mobile site providing apparatus 100 as long as there is an existing web site. It is effective to produce and operate.

In this specification, the web site 400 may mean a virtual space composed of at least one web page, and the mobile site may include at least one mobile page corresponding to each of the at least one web page. It may mean a virtual space.

For example, the user may input the address of the mobile site "m.yahoo.co.kr" using the user's terminal 200 and request a connection to the corresponding mobile site. Then, in the past, a service provider providing a "yahoo.co.kr" site had to separately provide a service by creating a mobile-only site called "m.yahoo.co.kr", but according to the technical spirit of the present invention, According to the rule, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may automatically generate a site called "m.yahoo.co.kr" with a site called "yahoo.co.kr". Accordingly, the service provider does not need to separately prepare a mobile-only site or operate and manage the produced mobile-only site separately from the web site. According to the technical idea of the present invention, the web site and the mobile site provided by the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may be synchronized. That is, when the web site is updated in a predetermined manner, the mobile site may be automatically updated. Of course, when the web site is updated, the mobile site is not updated unconditionally and may vary depending on what information or rule is used when generating the mobile site.

The mobile site providing apparatus 100 may receive information necessary for making a mobile site, that is, necessary information, from the web server 300 among information corresponding to the web site. In this case, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may feed the necessary information from the web server 300. Feeding may refer to a series of data flows for actively bringing predetermined information, and may mean a contrast with being pushed from other data processing devices. Necessary information fed by the mobile site providing apparatus 100 to generate the mobile site information may vary according to implementation examples, which will be described later.

When the mobile site providing apparatus 100 feeds the necessary information, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 processes the required information that has been fed using a predetermined algorithm, and thus mobile site information for configuring the mobile site. Can be generated as

In this case, since the mobile site providing apparatus 100 automatically generates the mobile site information based on the necessary information, the necessary information may be information according to a predetermined rule or protocol. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the necessary information may be information conforming to the RSS 2.0 standard, and may be meta information of content constituting the web site. RSS is a standard mainly representing a content expression method. According to the mobile site providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 synchronizes the content included in the web site with the generated mobile site. May be imported into a predetermined standard, and a list of contents included in the mobile site may be constructed based on the obtained information.

For example, a web site may contain a variety of content (eg, executable files, documents, etc.), which is categorized into certain classification criteria, ie categories. The web site defines a user interface (UI) indicating such a category as a code (eg, HTML code) corresponding to the web site, and the various contents included in each category may be stored in a separate metadata form. . In general, the UI of the web site, various frames, scripts, etc. are defined in HTML code, and the content included in the web site may be separately stored in a meta-data DB. Accordingly, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may generate the mobile site information by feeding only the metadata stored in the metadata DB without importing the UI indicating the category. This is because the UI of the web site is customized in the web browser, and the UI customized in the web browser causes the content and / or the UI to be distorted on the mobile platform or the user may feel uncomfortable.

Accordingly, the technical idea of the present invention is that the content included in the web site and the content included in the mobile site (ie, mobile site information) generated by the mobile site providing apparatus 100 are synchronized, but the UI is the mobile site providing apparatus. 100 may be separately generated to be customized on the mobile platform.

Referring to FIG. 2, when various contents are included in a web site, the content list may be classified into at least one

category

10 and 20 as illustrated in FIG. 2. For example, when game content for PC is included in the web site, in FIG. 2, the game content for PC is added to the category of 'game' in the second category 20 in the category 'PC' in the first category 10. May be included. As such, all content included in the web site may be classified into a predetermined category and included in the web site. In this case, the UI representing the category as shown in FIG. 2 in the web site may not be of interest in the mobile site that the mobile site providing apparatus 100 intends to generate. This is because the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may pre-store or generate a customized UI on the mobile platform. Therefore, by feeding only the metadata defining each content, the mobile site can generate a content list, that is, a category representing the content and the contents included therein.

In this case, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may obtain metadata of each of contents from the metadata DB included in the web server 300. Since the mobile site providing apparatus 100 should automatically generate a content list at the mobile site using the metadata, it is preferable to feed the metadata in accordance with a predetermined data standard as described above. The predetermined data standard may be RSS 2.0 as described above, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and the method of providing a mobile site according to an embodiment of the present invention may be applied as long as the data is defined by a predetermined standard. The average expert will be able to reason easily.

3 illustrates an example of metadata of a content in a mobile site providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the metadata supplied by the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may be data conforming to the 2.0 standard as illustrated in FIG. 3. As such, metadata representing each of the contents is defined as tag information having a predetermined rule, and the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may automatically generate a content list of the mobile site by using the tag information. .

In this case, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may use category ID information included in the metadata. The category ID information may include information on a category including content corresponding to the metadata. For example, if the category ID is '11', the content corresponds to the first category of the primary category (eg, 'PC' in FIG. 2) and the first category of the secondary category (eg, 'utility' in FIG. 2). It may mean that the content is included. For example, if the category ID is '31', the content is the first category of the secondary category (eg, 'PMP Life Style' in FIG. 2) in the third category (eg, 'portable' in FIG. 2) of the primary category. This may mean that the content is included.

Using the category ID information, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may generate a content list included in the web site as a content list of the mobile site. In addition, the web site may maintain separate information related to the content list. In this case, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may further generate the content list for the mobile site by using the information. For example, the web site may individually provide a complete category list and sub-categories. Using such information, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may know the structure of the content list for the mobile site, and the content corresponding to each category may be known using the category ID of the metadata corresponding to the content.

In addition, the web site may provide the latest updated content in the updated order, and this information may be used to update the content list for the mobile site.

As described above, according to the technical spirit of the present invention, since a list of contents for a mobile site can be automatically generated using the content list itself constituting the website, there is no need to produce a mobile site separately, and the content included in the website is Content included in the mobile site may be synchronized.

4 illustrates an example of a content list of a mobile site generated by a mobile site providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, the content list generated by the above technical idea may be the same as FIG. 4. 2 and 4, UIs for providing a content list may be different. Because the UI provided by the mobile site providing apparatus 100 is a customized UI on the mobile platform, such a UI may be predetermined by the mobile site providing apparatus 100. For example, the UI may be determined differently according to the type of the terminal 200 of the user, or may be uniformly defined to fit the standardized mobile platform. For example, the UI may be preset in accordance with the VGA 640 × 480 standard, or the UI may be preset in accordance with the WSVGA 1024 × 600 standard. Therefore, if the UI according to a predetermined standard is set in advance, and the mobile site information generated by the mobile site providing apparatus 100 (for example, a mobile site content list) is applied using the UI, the display is shown in FIG. 4. As described above, there is an effect of providing a customized UI to the mobile terminal.

In addition, according to the mobile site providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, the user (or mobile site service provider) may select any one of a plurality of predetermined UIs. Each of the UIs can be customized to the mobile platform, and the UI can be set differently according to the user's taste.

FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a content list UI provided by a mobile site providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, wherein a user (or a mobile site service provider) uses a predetermined interface to display one of the UIs shown in FIG. 5. You can choose either. Then, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may provide a content list for the mobile site to the user's terminal 200 by using the selected UI. As described above, the method for providing a mobile site according to an embodiment of the present invention provides an UI suitable for a user eXperience (UX) design by allowing a user to select a UI while providing a UI suitable for a mobile platform.

Meanwhile, as described above, when the content list for the mobile site is displayed on the user's terminal 200, the user may select any one of the contents.

Then, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may receive the user's selection information and transmit the mobile content corresponding to the received content selection information to the user's terminal 200. In this case, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may not transmit the selected content as it is, but may renew and transmit the content to the terminal 200 of the user. For example, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may resize the content to conform to a predetermined mobile platform (eg, VGA 640 × 480 or WSVGA 1024 × 600) standard. Various renewals, such as changing the font and transcoding of the video, may be performed according to the implementation example or the type of the content. In this way, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may allow the user's terminal 200, that is, content suitable for the mobile terminal, to be played or browsed on the mobile terminal.

On the other hand, according to the mobile site providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, when a predetermined search function is included in a web site, such a search function may be provided in real time on the mobile site.

First, referring to FIG. 6, FIG. 6 shows a result screen after inputting a predetermined search word on a web site and performing a search. In general, when a search is performed on a web site, search results may be classified by search targets as shown in FIG. 6. For example, the search result 30 shows a result of performing 'integrated search' as a search object in the web site shown in FIG. 6, and the search result 40 shows a result of performing 'PC data' as a search object. In addition, in the web site, various results (eg, advertisement materials, sponsored links, sites, etc.) may appear as search results on the web site according to the search results. In this case, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may provide only at least a part of the search results as a search result in the mobile site. For example, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may select one or a plurality of search results for each search target and use the search result when the mobile site is searched. Which part of the search result is to be used as a search result of the mobile site may be predetermined in the mobile site providing apparatus 100. For example, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may output a portion of the search result (eg, the search result 40) when the search is performed with a predetermined search word on the web site as a search result on the mobile site. Then, the search result as shown in FIG. 7 may be displayed on the user's terminal 200.

To this end, as shown in FIG. 7, when a user inputs a predetermined search word through the user's terminal 200, the input predetermined search word may be transmitted to the mobile site providing apparatus 100. Then, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may transmit the received search word to the web server 300 and receive information on the transmission result. Then, at least some of the received search result information may be selected and at least some of the selected search result information may be transmitted to the user's terminal 200. In this case, the search result may be displayed on the terminal 200 of the user so as to correspond to a predetermined UI suitable for a predetermined mobile platform.

The mobile site providing apparatus 100 may transmit a search word to the web server 300 and receive a search result through an open application programming interface.

As described above, according to the mobile site providing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a function or content (for example, a content list generation function or a search function) determined by the mobile site providing apparatus 100 among all functions or contents of a web site is provided by a service provider. There is no need to create or produce a mobile site separately from the web site can be automatically generated by the mobile site providing apparatus 100 and browsed in the user's terminal 200.

That is, if a web site exists, the mobile site may be automatically generated by the mobile site providing apparatus 100 and provided to a user or a service provider who wants to provide a mobile site.

The mobile site providing apparatus 100 may use a URL of a web site to identify a mobile site requested to be browsed or generated. For example, when the URL of the web site is "aaa.bbb.ccc", the mobile site address that receives a browsing request to the mobile site providing apparatus 100 may be "m.aaa.bbb.ccc". That is, the URL of the web site corresponding to the URL of the mobile site may have a predetermined rule. Then, the mobile site providing apparatus 100 recognizes a web site corresponding to the mobile site to be created using this rule, and automatically uses the information corresponding to the recognized web site to automatically locate the mobile site as described above. Can be generated.

The method for providing a mobile site according to an embodiment of the present invention may be embodied as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. Computer-readable recording media include all types of recording devices that store data that can be read by a computer system. Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, hard disk, floppy disk, optical data storage, and the like, and also in the form of carrier waves (e.g., transmission over the Internet). It also includes implementations. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion. And functional programs, codes and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily inferred by programmers in the art to which the present invention belongs.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

The present invention is applicable to a mobile site providing method and apparatus.

Claims

Receiving, by the mobile site providing apparatus, a request for information of a specific mobile site from a predetermined data processing apparatus;

Feeding, by the mobile site providing apparatus, necessary information which is at least a part of information corresponding to the web site from a web server providing a web site corresponding to the specific mobile site;

Generating mobile site information based on the fed information; and transmitting the generated mobile site information to the predetermined data processing apparatus.
According to claim 1, wherein the necessary information,

Mobile site providing method characterized in that the metadata (meta-data) of the content included in the web site.
The method of claim 2, wherein the metadata is

Mobile site providing method characterized in that the metadata of the RSS 2.0 standard.
The method of claim 3, wherein the mobile site information,

Mobile list information of the mobile site corresponding to the content list of the web site,

The mobile list information is generated based on category ID information included in the metadata.
According to claim 4, The mobile site providing method,

And displaying the mobile list information on the terminal of the user so as to correspond to a UI (User Interface) type predetermined by the mobile site providing apparatus or selected by the user.
According to claim 5, The mobile site providing method,

Receiving, by the mobile site providing apparatus, any one content selection information selected by the user's terminal and included in the mobile list information; And

The mobile site providing apparatus further comprises the step of transmitting the mobile content corresponding to the received content selection information to at least one of the predetermined data processing device or the user terminal,

The mobile content is a mobile site providing method, characterized in that the content corresponding to the content selection information is resized to a predetermined size.
According to claim 1, The mobile site providing method,

Receiving, by the mobile site providing apparatus, a search word from at least one of the predetermined data processing apparatus or the terminal of the user;

Transmitting the received search word to the web server and receiving at least some of search result information corresponding to a search result; And

And generating at least one of the received search result information as content for mobile and transmitting the at least one content to at least one of the predetermined data processing apparatus or the terminal of the user.
The method of claim 7, wherein transmitting the received search word to the web server, and receiving information on at least one content corresponding to a search result,

Mobile site providing method characterized in that using the open API (openAPI).
The method of claim 1, wherein the address of the mobile site,

Mobile site providing method characterized in that it is set to include the address of the web site.
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 9.
In the mobile site providing apparatus for providing a mobile site,

In response to a request for information from a particular mobile site received from a given data processing device,

Feeding necessary information which is at least a part of information corresponding to the web site from a web server providing a web site corresponding to the specific mobile site,

The mobile site providing apparatus generates mobile site information based on the fed information, and transmits the generated mobile site information to the predetermined data processing apparatus.