KR101087732B1 - E-book creation / management server and its method - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a server for generating / managing an electronic book and a method thereof. The electronic book generation / management server according to the present invention finds an image stored in a user's computer, uploads an image to the server, and converts the uploaded image into a page of the electronic book and applies the page to a corresponding page editing process. By performing the wig method, users can easily access and create an electronic book using their own images, sounds, and videos by accessing a web site without downloading and installing a special tool or program.

EBook, e-book, e-book, internet publishing

Description

Server and method for creating and managing e-books

The present invention relates to an electronic book (e-book) generation and management technology, and in particular to an electronic book generation / management system and method for uploading an image to easily create and view / manage the electronic book in the Wizwig method It is about.

With the development of the Internet and the proliferation of users, the Internet is rapidly increasing in importance as a strategic tool for improving efficiency and productivity throughout the industry. In addition, new business opportunities are continuously created through the Internet, and the scope is expanding.

As an example of business through the Internet, services such as internet advertising, internet broadcasting, online games, search services, portal services, and electronic commerce may be representative.

On the other hand, due to the development of computers, as paper prints such as newspapers, magazines, books, etc. gradually deteriorate, sites that provide e-book services that digitize these prints are increasing, and users using e-books gradually increase. have.

In order to use such an e-book service, a separate viewer program is required, which is inconvenient to use. In addition, the creation of an e-book is a difficult and expensive task for the general public. That is, in the conventional method, the e-book is very difficult to produce and inconvenient to use, the capacity is large, and the inconvenience of having to use a specific program is generated and the distribution is insufficient. In addition, since there is no site that provides a service for easily writing e-books for the general public, companies, and organizations that use a computer at a predetermined cost, general users cannot actively use the e-books. There was this.

Therefore, the technical problem of the present invention is that users can easily create an electronic book by uploading and editing multimedia such as images, sounds, and videos by accessing a web site without downloading and installing a special tool or program. An electronic book creation / management server and method thereof are provided.

Electronic book generation / management method according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem is to request a new member registration from the electronic book generation server to the user computer that performed a communication connection through the Internet, according to the new member registration An ID generating step of storing member information and generating a folder for each ID; Providing an e-book generation user interface screen from the server computer to a user computer which has performed member login; When the electronic book generation request using the electronic book generation user interface screen is received, the server requests input of basic information on the electronic book to be generated by the user computer, and in response to the electronic book basic information data being input, An electronic book information generating step of receiving and storing electronic book basic information data; A page editing step of finding an image stored in the user's computer, uploading the image to the server, converting the uploaded image into a page of the electronic book, and applying the image to the corresponding page; And an electronic book publishing step of publishing the electronic book including the basic information of the electronic book, an index for each page, and an image applied for each page.

The page editing step may include providing an editing user interface screen including an image palette and a book canvas area to the user computer; Arranging images selected and uploaded on the user computer to an image folder of the server; The images arranged in the image folder are arranged and displayed as thumbnail images in the image palette area; When the thumbnail image and the corresponding page of the book canvas are selected, automatically converting an original image corresponding to the thumbnail image according to the size of the page of the e-book; And displaying the converted image on a corresponding page of the book canvas area.

The publishing of the electronic book may include converting the basic information of the electronic book, index information of each page, and image information applied to each page so as to be actually viewed by the user computer, and recording them in a main database. .

The electronic book generation / management service method may include: receiving, by a book controller, a reading request for the published electronic book; Inquiring, by the book controller, information about the requested electronic book in response to the read request from the main database and transferring the information to the book output unit in an XML manner; Extracting, by the book output unit, information necessary for reading the requested electronic book from the main database; And loading, by the book output unit, information extracted from the main database and outputting the extracted information to the user computer.

Electronic book generation / management server according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem is connected to the user computer through the Internet network, the electronic book generation / management server for creating and managing the electronic book, the user interface unit And an ebook generating unit and an ebook reading unit.

The user interface unit requests a new member registration to the user computer performing a communication connection through the Internet network, stores member information according to the new member registration, creates a folder for each ID, and creates an electronic book with the user computer. Provides a user interface for using management services.

The electronic book generation unit receives basic information about an electronic book to be generated when the electronic book generation request is received from the user computer through the user interface unit, stores the information in a database, uploads an image stored in the user computer, Editing the uploaded image according to the page of the electronic book to edit the page applied to the page and the electronic book publishing to publish the electronic book including the basic information of the electronic book, page index and page applied image.

The electronic book generation unit uploads the image selected and uploaded by the user computer to the image folder of the server; When the thumbnail image and the corresponding page of the book canvas are selected, the original image corresponding to the thumbnail image is converted according to the size of the page of the e-book, and the converted image is placed and displayed on the corresponding page of the book canvas area. Wiziwig controller; And a publishing controller for converting the electronic book basic information, the index for each page, and the applied image for each page so as to be actually viewed on the user computer, and recording the electronic book basic information, stored in the temporary database, in the main database.

The electronic book reading unit receives a reading request for the published electronic book, the book controller for inquiring information on the requested electronic book in the main database and delivers to the book output unit in an XML manner; And a book output unit configured to extract information required for reading the requested electronic book from the main database, load information extracted from the main database, and output the extracted information to the user computer.

As described above, according to the present invention, users can easily create an ebook by uploading and editing multimedia such as images, sounds, and videos by accessing a web site without downloading and installing a special tool or program. .

In addition, according to the present invention, the generated e-book has an effect that the person and others can easily read through the input of the e-book URL address, the selection in the e-book list, the e-book community site.

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 the present specification, when one component 'transmits' data or a signal to another component, the component may directly transmit the data or signal to the other component, and at least one other component. Means that the data or signal can be transmitted to the other component through the element.

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.

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of an electronic book generation / management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, an electronic book generation / management system includes a server computer (hereinafter, abbreviated as “server”) 10 that is in charge of generating and managing an electronic book, and a user computer 30. The user computer 30 may access the server 10 through a wired / wireless internet network 20 to use an electronic book generation / management service.

The user computer 30 is a computer used by a general public, a company, a group, etc., and performs communication connection with the server 10 through the Internet network 20 according to a user's operation, and at the request of the server 10, The member login or membership registration data to be input is transmitted to the server 10. In addition, the user computer 30 receives from the server 10 user interface data prepared in advance for use of the electronic book generation / management service and displays it on the screen. Accordingly, the user may request or select membership registration, login, basic information input of an e-book, page editing, and the like through the user interface screen provided by the server 10.

In addition, the user computer 30 stores an image file (for example, a pdf file, a JPG file, a GIF file, a TIFF file, a png file, a jpeg file, etc.), a video file, a sound file, etc. to be generated as an electronic book, and the server ( Upload the file to the server 10 according to the request of 10) or the user's selection.

2 is a schematic functional block diagram of the server 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 3 is a schematic functional block diagram of the electronic book generating unit 100 shown in Figure 2, Figure 4 is It is a schematic functional block diagram of the e-book reading unit 200 shown in FIG.

2 to 4, the server 10 includes an electronic book generation unit 100, an electronic book reading unit 200, a user interface unit 300, a payment unit 400, and a database (DB, 500). do.

The electronic book generation unit 100 includes a book generation controller 110, an editing controller 120, and an image folder 130. The editing controller 120 includes an upload controller 121, a wiggle controller 122, and a publishing controller 123.

The book generation controller 110 receives basic information about the e-book to be generated and stores it in the DB 500. As illustrated in FIG. 8, the basic information of the electronic book may include a name of the electronic book, a book category, a book URL address, a book logo, a location coordinate of the book logo, and the number of pages. The basic information of the electronic book may further include a search keyword, background music, whether the book is open or the like. Basic information of the e-book may be set / changed by the user. The name of the electronic book is a name for identifying the electronic book, and the book category represents one of a plurality of categories for classifying the electronic book. The search keyword is text registered to be searched by the search engine and constitutes a meta tag. The meta tag is a tag placed at the top of the document when the e-book is generated as a hypertext generation language (HTML) document, and includes a search keyword to use a browser and a search engine.

The book generation controller 110 generates the image folder 130 by the electronic book basic information. For example, the book generation controller 110 generates a thumbnail image folder and an original image folder.

The editing controller 120 controls the editing and publication of each page constituting the electronic book, and performs information input / modification / inquiry between the main DB 510 and the temporary DB 520.

The upload controller 121 uploads an image and a flash (or silverlight) stored in the user computer 30 to the server 10. In detail, the upload controller 121 uploads an image selected by the user, converts the image into an image that can be used by the server, sorts the image by folder, and inputs the information of the image into the temporary DB 520. At this time, the upload controller 121 generates a thumbnail image corresponding to the uploaded image and stores it in the thumbnail image folder, and stores the original image in the original image folder.

The widwig controller 122 edits the uploaded image in a wikiwig manner (page allocation) and registers an index for each page and inputs the index into the temporary DB 520. For example, when the user applies the uploaded image to the page of the e-book, the Wiziwig controller 122 converts the thumbnail image according to the page of the e-book to generate a converted image (or a secondary thumbnail image) and convert the converted image. Display on the screen. The generated converted image may be stored in an image folder. In this case, the generated converted image may be stored in a thumbnail image folder and a converted image folder separate from the original image folder. As such, when the server 10 uploads the selected image from the user computer 30, the server 10 generates an image of a form to be used by the server 10 and stores the image separately from the original image, thereby reducing the load of the server 10 and You can prevent the image from being damaged.

The Wiziwig method refers to a method in which articles, images, diagrams, etc. displayed on the screen are published and applied to the e-book as it is displayed. This method is different from the method of changing the font, sentence arrangement, image type, etc. by entering the editing command.However, if the user places the text, image chart, etc. as shown on the screen, the user can obtain the same e-book as the screen. Its creation and editing is intuitive and convenient.

The publishing controller 123 is executed by the Wiziwig controller 122 and stores data stored in the temporary DB 520, that is, electronic book basic information, index information per page, and applied image information per page stored in the temporary DB 520. In the main DB 510 is converted into data that can be viewed in real.

Referring to FIG. 4, the e-book reading unit 200 includes an e-book reading controller 210, and a book output unit 220.

When the book reading controller 210 receives a reading request for a published electronic book, the book reading controller 210 inquires information on the requested electronic book from the main DB 510 and transmits the information to the book output unit 220 in an XML manner. The e-book reading request may be made by entering an e-book unique URL address in a web browser, selecting a corresponding e-book from an e-book list, or selecting an e-book from an e-book zone. The electronic book zone is an internet space that can be easily assembled by showing the electronic books generated by the electronic book generation / management method according to an embodiment of the present invention. The user may access the electronic book zone to sort and organize the electronic books by category, and create an electronic book-centered community by creating a blog, web-based, or album-type bulletin board.

The book output unit 220, based on the electronic book information and URL address received from the book reading controller 210, information necessary for reading the requested electronic book (eg, image information, book logo, position coordinates of the book logo, Sound data, etc.) is extracted from the main database 510, and the information extracted from the main database 510 is loaded and output to the user computer. In this case, the book output unit 220 may output an electronic book using a function such as flash, silverlight, Java, or the like.

Referring back to FIG. 2, the user interface 300 provides a screen and a menu necessary for the user to use the electronic book generation / management method of the present invention and also receives a request and a signal input by the user. In the embodiment of FIG. 2, the electronic book generating unit 100, the electronic book reading unit 200, the user interface unit 300, the payment unit 400, and the database (DB, 500) are implemented in one server 10. Although the present invention is not limited thereto, each component may be distributedly implemented in two or more servers as necessary.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for generating / managing an electronic book according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to this, first, a process of generating an ID through a new membership by accessing a server is performed (S100). In this step (S100), when the user connects to the server 10 via a wired / wireless internet network, the server 10 may request the user computer 30 to register. There are two main types of membership: individual membership and corporate membership. When membership is made according to a predetermined membership format, the server 10 stores member information in the DB 500 and generates a folder for each member ID (S100).

When a user who has registered as a member logs in, a user interface (UI) data for using an electronic book generation / management service may be output to the user computer 30.

After the member login and before generating the e-book, the payment unit 400 of the server 10 may allow the user to select and pay a suitable product among various managed products (S200). 7A illustrates an example of product types selectable by a user. Referring to this, the product type may be divided into A, B, C, etc. according to the number of pages and the number of electronic books that can be generated. When the user selects a product and requests a payment, a payment process is performed accordingly. When the payment is completed, the user can use the e-book generation and management service. Payment can be used to select one of all payment methods such as credit card, transfer, etc. made on the Internet.

7B is an example of a UI screen showing a type of a selected product and a list of generated e-books after selecting a type of a user product. When a selection or data for requesting the creation of an electronic book is input from the user, the server requests to input basic information of the generated electronic book (S300).

8 is an example of an electronic book basic information input UI screen. Referring to this, the user sets e-book basic information such as information on the e-book such as the name of the e-book, book category, book URL address, logo, and number of pages through the e-book basic information input screen. (S300). In addition, the basic information of the e-book may further include a search keyword, background music, whether the book is published or not (S300).

Next, a page editing process is performed (S400). FIG. 6A is a flowchart showing the page editing step S400 shown in FIG. 5 in more detail. Referring to this, when the basic input of the e-book is completed, the server searches for an image stored in the user's computer, uploads the image to the server (S410), and displays an editing UI screen for applying the uploaded image for each page. Provided (S420)

9 shows an example of an editing UI screen. Referring to this, the editing UI screen includes an image search area, an image palette area for displaying an uploaded image as a thumbnail image, and a book canvas area for displaying each page of the e-book.

The user can select an image stored in the user's computer through the browse menu in the image search area. The original image of the selected image is uploaded to the original image folder of the server 10, and the selected image is converted into an image (for example, a thumbnail image shown in the image palette) that can be used by the server 10, so that the server 10 Uploaded to a thumbnail folder (S410). Information of an image (eg, path information of the corresponding image) is input to a temporary DB. Uploaded images are also displayed as thumbnail images on the image palette.

The user may edit the corresponding page of the e-book by selecting the thumbnail image of the image palette and applying it to the corresponding page of the book canvas (S420). For example, if the user selects one image of the image palette and the corresponding page of the book canvas, the selected image is applied to the page. At this time, the selected image is converted according to the size of the page of the e-book and placed on the corresponding page, and the image applied to the page of the e-book is displayed in the book canvas area as it is (S420). Also, an image (converted image) converted to a size of a page of the electronic book may be stored in an image folder.

As such, when the uploaded image is allocated to each page in the wiziwig manner, the server 10 registers index information for each page and stores it in a temporary DB (S420).

When editing of all pages of the e-book is completed, the e-book may be published through publishing (S430). When a request for publication is input, the electronic book is converted into a form that can be viewed on a computer and stored (S430). That is, in response to the 'publish' request, the server 10 stores the data (eg, electronic book basic information, page index information, page applied image information, etc.) stored in the temporary DB 520 in the main DB ( 510) so that it can actually be viewed on the user's computer. In addition, published e-books are managed as a list and can be set as public or private.

FIG. 6B is a flowchart showing the book viewing (book viewing) step shown in FIG. 5 in more detail. Referring to this, the book reading controller 210 receives a reading request for the published electronic book (S510). As described above, the e-book reading request may be made by inputting an e-book unique URL address in a web browser, selecting a corresponding e-book from an e-book list, or selecting an e-book from an e-book zone. The book reading controller 210 inquires the information about the requested electronic book in the main database in response to the reading request and transmits the information to the book output unit 220 in an XML manner (S520). Next, the book output unit 220 extracts information (eg, image information, book logo, book logo coordinates, sound, etc.) necessary for reading the requested electronic book from the main database (S530). Based on the received information, the image of each page is loaded and output to the user computer according to the user's selection or setting (S540).

In the above-described embodiments, the description has been made mainly on the example of using the electronic book generation / management method of the present invention by accessing the server 10 using a user computer, but the electronic book generation / management method of the present invention can be used. The terminal is not limited to a computer, and any communication device (eg, a mobile terminal, an IPTV, etc.) capable of accessing the Internet may be connected to the server 10 to generate, manage, and view an electronic book.

The electronic book generation / management method according to an embodiment of the present invention may also be embodied as computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored.

For example, a computer-readable recording medium may include a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, an optical data storage device, and the like. The program code for performing the electronic book generation / management method according to the present invention may be It may be transmitted in the form of a carrier wave (eg, transmission over the Internet).

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. In addition, functional programs, codes, and code segments for implementing an electronic book generation / management method according to the present invention can be easily inferred by programmers in the art to which the present invention belongs.

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

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of an electronic book generation / management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a schematic functional block diagram of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a schematic functional block diagram of the electronic book generation unit shown in FIG. 2.

4 is a schematic functional block diagram of the electronic book reading unit shown in FIG. 2.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for generating / managing an electronic book according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6A is a flowchart showing the page editing step shown in FIG. 5 in more detail.

FIG. 6B is a flowchart showing the book viewing (book viewing) step shown in FIG. 5 in more detail.

7A illustrates an example of product types selectable by a user.

7B is an example of a UI screen showing a type of a selected product and a list of generated e-books after selecting a type of a user product.

8 is an example of an electronic book information input UI screen.

9 shows an example of an editing UI screen.

Claims (13)

An ID generation step of requesting a new member registration from the e-book generation server to a user computer that has made a communication connection through the Internet network, storing member information according to the new member registration, and generating a folder for each ID; Providing an ebook creation user interface screen to a user computer that has performed member login in the server; When the electronic book generation request using the electronic book generation user interface screen is received, the server requests input of basic information on the electronic book to be generated by the user computer, and in response to the basic information of the electronic book being input, the input electronic An electronic book information generation step of receiving the book basic information and storing the book basic information in a temporary database; Providing an editing user interface screen including an image palette area and a book canvas area to the user computer, aligning the images selected and uploaded on the user computer with the first image folder of the server, and editing in a wiki Registering an index of each page of the page to be stored in the temporary database, arranging and displaying an image arranged in the first image folder as a first thumbnail image in the image palette area, and the first thumbnail When the image and the corresponding page of the book canvas are selected, the second thumbnail image is automatically stored in the second image folder by automatically converting the first thumbnail image or the original image corresponding to the first thumbnail image to the size of the page. Displaying the second thumbnail image on the selected page. A page editing step comprising a step; And And an electronic book publishing step of publishing the electronic book including the basic information of the electronic book, the index of each page, and the image displayed on the page. delete The method of claim 1, wherein aligning to the first image folder Generating the first image folder having a thumbnail image folder and an original image folder; Arranging the first thumbnail image in the thumbnail image folder; And And sorting the original image corresponding to the first thumbnail image into the original image folder. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic book generation / management service method comprises: before the electronic book information generation step, A product setting step of requesting selection of a product type from the server by the server and storing information on the selected product type when the product type is selected by the user; And And requesting payment to the user computer according to the selected product type, and when the payment data is input, the payment settlement step of processing the payment. The method of claim 1, wherein the e-book basic information is And a name, a book category, a book URL address, a page number, and a meta tag of the e-book. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic book publishing step And converting the electronic book basic information stored in the temporary database, the index information per page, and the image information displayed on the page so that the user computer can actually view the electronic book. Way. The method of claim 6, wherein the electronic book generation / management service method Receiving, by a book controller, a read request for the published electronic book; Inquiring, by the book controller, information about the requested electronic book in response to the read request from the main database and transferring the information to the book output unit in an XML manner; Extracting, by the book output unit, information necessary for reading the requested electronic book from the main database; And And the book output unit loading information extracted from the main database and outputting the extracted information to the user computer. 8. The electronic book generation / management service of claim 7, wherein the information required for reading the electronic book includes a unique URL address of the electronic book, image information displayed on the page, a book logo, a book logo location coordinate, and sound information. Way. A recording medium on which a computer program for executing the method according to any one of claims 1 and 3 is recorded. An electronic book generation / management server connected to a user computer through an internet network and generating and managing an electronic book, Request a new member registration to the user computer that has performed communication access through the Internet network, store member information according to the new member registration, create a folder for each ID, and create / manage an e-book with the user computer. A user interface unit providing a user interface for use; And A book generation controller which receives basic information about an electronic book to be generated when the electronic book generation request is received from the user computer through the user interface unit, stores the received basic information in a temporary database, and generates a first image folder based on the basic information; And sort images uploaded and uploaded from the user's computer into the first image folder, register page-by-page indexes of pages edited by the Wiegee method, and store the indexes in the temporary database and arrange the images in the first image folder. The image is arranged in the image palette area as a first thumbnail image, and the second thumbnail image is obtained by automatically converting the first thumbnail image or the original image corresponding to the first thumbnail image to the size of the page. Store in a folder, and the second thumbnail on the page Generate an electronic book including a generated electronic book having an editing controller for displaying images / management server. The method of claim 10, wherein the editing controller An upload controller for aligning the uploaded image selected by the user computer with the first image folder; When the first thumbnail image and the corresponding page of the book canvas are selected, the original image corresponding to the first thumbnail image is converted into the second thumbnail image according to the size of the page of the e-book, and the converted second A wikiwig controller for displaying and displaying a thumbnail image on a corresponding page of the book canvas area; And A publishing controller configured to convert the electronic book basic information stored in the temporary database, the index for each page, and the image displayed on the page to be actually viewed on the user's computer, and to record in the main database, And an image arranged in the first image folder is arranged and displayed as the first thumbnail image in the image palette area. The method of claim 11, wherein the upload controller Create the first image folder having a thumbnail image folder and an original image folder, the first thumbnail image is aligned with the thumbnail image folder, and the original image corresponding to the first thumbnail image is aligned with the original image folder E-book creation / management server. The method of claim 11, wherein the electronic book generation / management server A book controller which receives the read request for the published e-book and inquires information on the requested e-book in the main database and transmits the information in an XML manner; And And a book output unit configured to extract information about the electronic book transmitted from the book controller in the main database, and load information extracted from the main database to output to the user computer.

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