JP2007087391A - System and method for managing common bulletin board in individual web page - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for managing a common bulletin board in individual Web page, which may provide a community space for personal contacts from an individual web page without moving to another community site. <P>SOLUTION: The system and the method for managing the common bulletin board in individual Web pages, comprises the steps of: providing the individual Web page and a common bulletin board, which can be accessed by each user via the individual Web page and via a specified interface for the individual Web page; providing a page data uploaded by each user who joins the common bulletin board by using an individual Web page server; storing the user information in a user database; storing a data, which comprises the individual Web page and the information of the common bulletin board for joined users, into an individual information database; storing a Web page data in a common bulletin board database; providing an information list for persons who have joined the common bulletin board by using the individual Web server; and providing the Web page data selected from the common bulletin board by extracting from the common bulletin board database. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a management system and method for a shared bulletin board for personal web pages, and more particularly to a management system and method for a community bulletin board that can be shared with other members on a personal web page such as a blog or a mini home page. .

  The form of personal web page service on the Internet is becoming increasingly diverse. Conventional personal homepages are generally produced directly by individuals using homepage production tools and the like. When an individual directly creates a home page, even if a personal home page creation tool is used, it is very difficult for a user who does not have knowledge related to home page creation to have a personal home page because CGI work for editing HTML must be performed.

  The demand for personal space to inform you on the Internet is increasing, and Internet content providers have provided tools that allow individuals to easily create personal web pages, such as blogs, mini homepage services, etc. The number of users who use has increased rapidly.

  Such personal web pages have the advantage of providing private personal space, but the discontinuity caused by this has become a problem.

  Traditionally, attempts have been made to resolve such discontinuities by providing comments on information on personal web pages and providing guest books, but this has fundamentally solved the problem of discontinuity of personal web pages. I couldn't.

  Therefore, it is common for a user to participate in a separate community instead of a personal web page in order to communicate with an acquaintance of the network. Therefore, there is an inconvenience that the user has to use the service while moving between the personal web page and the community. In addition, the community in which the user joins and is active is an open community that is accessed by a search term or the like, and can satisfy the user's request to create a space only for acquaintances in a more personal form. There were no problems.

  The present invention is a personal web page that can provide a community space with acquaintances without moving from the personal web page to another community site in order to solve the above-described problems of the prior art. A shared bulletin board management system and method are provided.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide a system and method for operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page that can provide a community service in a personal form through a personal web page.

  In order to achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a personal web page server that provides a personal bulletin board that provides a personal web page to each user and is accessible via the personal web page. Provided. The shared bulletin board can be accessed through a specific interface provided on the personal web page. The personal web page server provides posted material data uploaded by users of a specific group who subscribes to the shared bulletin board. The personal web page server stores a user database for storing information on a user who uses the personal web page service, data constituting the personal web page uploaded by the user, and shared bulletin board information subscribed by the user. A personal information database, and a shared bulletin board database for storing posted material data uploaded to the shared bulletin board. The personal web page server provides the user with the list information of the shared bulletin board to which the user has subscribed, and when the user selects a specific shared bulletin board, the posting data of the selected shared bulletin board is stored in the shared bulletin board database. Extract from and provide.

  The personal web page may include a blog web page, a mini home page, and a personal home page.

  When a user requests creation of a shared bulletin board via the personal web page, the personal web page server assigns a unique ID to the created shared bulletin board, and stores the created bulletin board information in the shared bulletin board database. It is preferable to generate a field to save.

  The personal web page provided by the personal web page server is provided with an interface for inviting a user who participates in a shared bulletin board, and the personal web page server allows the user to be invited to the personal web page server. It is preferable to provide an invitation message to the user when connected to.

  When the invited user accepts the invitation, the personal web page server stores the information of the shared bulletin board subscribed to by the user in the personal information database, and the shared bulletin board of the user in the shared bulletin board database. It is preferable to store the subscription information.

  When the user selects a specific shared bulletin board from the shared bulletin board list information, a unique ID of the shared bulletin board or link information for accessing the bulletin board is transferred to the personal web page server, and the personal web page server It is preferable to extract the posted material data from the shared bulletin board database using the received information.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, a method for operating a shared bulletin board is to provide a personal web page having an interface capable of accessing the shared bulletin board, and by a user of a specific group subscribed to the shared bulletin board. Providing a personal web page that provides uploaded bulletin data, and providing information on a shared bulletin board subscribed to by the user when the user selects an interface for accessing the shared bulletin board; When the user selects a specific shared bulletin board, the bulletin board data of the selected bulletin board is extracted and provided, unique ID information is assigned to the shared bulletin board, and the personal web page information is stored. The bulletin board ID of the shared bulletin board subscribed for each user is stored in the database. Extracting and providing the bulletin board data extracts the bulletin board data corresponding to the bulletin board ID of the selected shared bulletin board from the database storing bulletin board information, and the extracted bulletin board data is extracted from the personal web page. Including displaying above.

  As described above, according to the present invention, a community space with an acquaintance or the like can be provided without moving from a personal web page to another community site.

  In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a community service in a personal form as compared with a conventional community via a personal web page, and thus it is possible to provide a community service in various forms.

  Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of a management system and method for a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 2 is a screen view showing an example of a shared bulletin board provided from a personal web page according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

  The present invention provides a personal web page service that provides a bulletin board for sharing information or friendship with an acquaintance on a network on a web page that provides personal information such as a blog or a mini home page.

  As described above, personal web page services such as conventional blogs and mini-homepages have been operated in a manner that provides only a space where personal information such as personal texts and photographs can be stored. Such personal web pages have the advantage of being able to provide a private space for individuals on the network, but the discontinuity caused by this has become a problem.

  According to the present invention, a community bulletin board that can be shared with many people on a personal web page can be operated together. As shown in FIG. 2, a personal web page according to an embodiment of the present invention has a category “playground” in addition to a space for providing personal information, and a community bulletin board shared with other users by this category. Is provided.

  When the user selects the category “playground” on the personal web page, the shared community bulletin board information 200 to which the user has subscribed is provided to the user. After the user selects the “playground” category, the user can select one of the shared community bulletin boards and check the contents of the bulletin board.

  FIG. 2 shows the case where the user selects a movie club named “Cinefree” from among the community bulletin boards subscribed to by the user, but the user selects one of the bulletin boards. On the right side of the personal web page screen, the selected bulletin board notice is displayed.

  A bulletin board operated by a personal web page participates by a large number of users like a general community bulletin board, and can access the bulletin board via a personal web page. When a user accesses a bulletin board and creates a new bulletin or comment, the created bulletin information is saved, and other users who have subscribed to the bulletin board can access the bulletin board via a personal web page. You can also check the bulletins and comments created previously.

  The user can invite acquaintances on other networks to the community bulletin board via the interface 202 displayed as “Invite” at the lower left corner. And the acquaintance on the network who joined the community bulletin board can confirm the content of the bulletin board via the personal web page.

  Thus, when a shared bulletin board is provided from a personal web page, the user can reduce the inconvenience of moving from the personal web page to a community bulletin board of a community site such as a cafe for community activities. In addition, community bulletin boards on personal web pages operated by the above-mentioned method have personal community characteristics compared to existing open communities, so when composing a community among acquaintances only It has an advantage over existing community bulletin boards. The shared bulletin board on the web page of the present invention is preferably not operated by a search word like a general community, but is operated by configuring community members via invitations.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a management system for a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

  Referring to FIG. 1, a system for operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a personal web page server 100, a personal information database 102, a shared bulletin board database 104, and a user database 106. .

  In FIG. 1, the user client 108 is connected to the personal web page server 100 via a network. Here, the network is not only a wired network such as the Internet network and a private network, but also a mobile communication network and a wireless Internet network. All wireless networks can be included.

  The user client 108 is provided with a program, for example, a web browser, for communicating with the personal web page server and displaying data provided from the personal web page server. The user client 108 can include not only a general PC (Personal Computer) but also all devices capable of digital information processing and communication via a network, such as a notebook personal computer and a PDA.

  The personal web page server 100 provides a personal web page that provides a shared bulletin board service according to the present invention. Personal web page services can include any form of service that can store personal private information such as blogs, mini homepages, and the like. For example, the personal web page server 100 provides a general blog web page service, provides each user's blog page with an interface for selecting a shared bulletin board as shown in FIG. When a specific shared bulletin board is selected, the bulletin board data of the bulletin board is provided.

  The personal information database 102 stores data to be displayed on the user's personal web page. When a user places a sentence or a photograph on his / her personal web page, data uploaded by the user is stored in the personal information database 102. The personal information database 102 can have a field for each user, and each user field stores related data of a posting placed on the personal web page of the user. Further, it is preferable that data is stored in each user field for each preset category. For example, when there are three categories “Home”, “Blog”, and “Playground” as in the web page of FIG. 2, the personal information database 102 preferably includes a separate subfield for each category.

  Of course, it is obvious to those skilled in the art that the personal information database 102 does not need to have fields for each user or for each category, and the configuration of the fields of the database can be varied depending on necessity.

  The user database 106 stores information on registered users who use the personal web page service. The user database 106 stores authentication data such as user IDs and passwords, and personal information such as the age and sex of each user. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the user database 106 stores the shared bulletin board information to which each user has subscribed.

In the shared bulletin board database 104, information posted on each shared bulletin board loaded via a personal web page is stored. When the user selects the specific shared bulletin board on the web page provided by the personal web page server 100, the personal web page server 100 extracts the posting data corresponding to the bulletin board selected by the user from the shared bulletin board database 104.
The shared bulletin board database 104 is preferably provided with a field for each generated bulletin board, and the posting data created by the user via the shared bulletin board is stored in a subfield of each bulletin board field.

  Although FIG. 1 shows a configuration in which a user database, a shared bulletin board database, and a personal information database exist separately, it is obvious to those skilled in the art that the database can be integrated or further segmented as necessary. That is.

  Further, although FIG. 1 shows that the personal web page server performs all the communication with the DB and the communication with the user client, a separate DB server may exist separately.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a process for creating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

  Referring to step 300 of FIG. 3, the user requests the personal web page server to create a shared bulletin board while connected to the personal web page server. The web page provided by the personal web page server has an interface that allows the user to request the creation of a shared bulletin board, and the user requests the personal web page server to create a shared bulletin board using the provided interface. can do.

  In step 302, the personal web page server transfers a web page that can set bulletin board information generated by the user in response to the bulletin board generation request. The bulletin board generation web page provided by the personal web page server includes an interface through which the user can input a bulletin board category, for example, a category such as a social gathering, a club, a family association, and a bulletin board name.

  In step 304, the user inputs the bulletin board category and name using the bulletin board generation web page interface provided in step 302. The web page provided in step 302 preferably includes a script for converting the category and name input by the user into a preset data format. When the user completes the input, in step 306, the script converts the input data into a preset data format and transfers it to the personal web page server.

  In step 308, when the personal web page server receives the web page generation information from the user client, the personal web page server assigns a unique bulletin board ID used to identify the generated bulletin board. For example, the personal web page server can assign a numerical ID in order each time a shared bulletin board is generated, or can assign a unique ID to each bulletin board using a more complicated algorithm for security.

  In step 310, the personal web page server assigns a unique ID of the generated bulletin board, and then adds a new bulletin board field to the shared bulletin board database. The bulletin board data written on the generated bulletin board is stored in the field added in step 310.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of inviting another user to the shared bulletin board according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

  As described above, the shared bulletin board according to the present invention is a personal bulletin board that can be viewed from a personal web page, and it is preferable to recruit members who share the bulletin board via an invitation like a messenger. . However, like a general community bulletin board, members can be recruited by subscription application for each bulletin board.

  In step 400 of FIG. 4, the bulletin board creator or bulletin board member selects the “invite” interface in FIG. 2 to invite other users.

  When the user selects the “invite” interface, an interface is provided through which user information to be invited can be input via a pop-up window or the like. The pop-up window provided when the “invite” interface is selected can be pre-included in a web page provided with the “invite” interface, and the user's “invite” interface Activated in response to selection. Alternatively, when the “invite” interface is selected, a separate web page for inputting user information to be invited may be provided from the personal web page server.

  In step 404, for the convenience of invitation, a list of acquaintances on the network registered by the user may also be provided to the user. Information on the invited user input by the user is transferred to the personal web page server.

  In step 406, the personal web page server extracts user information to be invited, and then records information indicating that there is an invitation request from the specific bulletin board in the field of the invited user in the user database. The invitation request information may be stored in another database instead of the user database according to the setting of the operator. The invitation request information may include invited user information, a bulletin board name, a unique ID of the invited bulletin board, an invitation message input by the user, and the like.

  In step 408, when the user to be invited logs in, the personal web page server loads the information of the user database at the time of login of the user, and the invitation request information is also loaded at this time.

  In step 410, the personal web page server detects the invitation request information and displays an invitation message to the logged-in user (invited user). The invitation message may be displayed on a preset part of the web page provided when the user logs in, or may be displayed using a separate pop-up window.

  In step 412, the invited user determines whether or not to accept the invitation using the interface provided in the invitation message, and when accepting the invitation, the information of the user's invitation is reflected in each database. For example, when the invited user accepts the invitation, the bulletin board information to which the invited user has joined is stored in the user field of the user database. The bulletin board information to which the invited user has joined is also stored in the personal information database. The bulletin board information subscribed by the user stored in the personal information database is used to provide a subscribed bulletin board list as shown in FIG.

  FIG. 5 is a view illustrating a configuration of a field for storing bulletin board information subscribed by a user among information in a personal information database according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the personal information database stores unique ID information of the bulletin board to which the user has subscribed, name information of the bulletin board, and link information that can load the bulletin board information.

  When the user selects “playground” from the web page of FIG. 2, the information as shown in FIG. 5 is loaded from the personal information database, and the list information of the participating bulletin boards as shown in FIG. 2 is provided. The

  When the user accepts the bulletin board invitation request, fields for storing the ID, name, and link information of the bulletin board are generated in the personal information database, and the information is stored.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a process of providing information posted on a shared bulletin board from a personal web page according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

  In step 600 of FIG. 6, the user clicks on a shared bulletin board icon such as “playground” in FIG. 2 to view information on the shared bulletin board on a personal web page.

  In step 602, when the user clicks the shared bulletin board icon, the shared bulletin board request information is transferred to the personal web page server.

  In step 604, the personal web page server extracts bulletin board information subscribed to by the user from the personal information database of the user. The subscribed bulletin board information can be stored in the personal information database in the form shown in FIG. That is, the personal web page server extracts the unique ID information of the bulletin board to which the user has subscribed and the name information of the bulletin board.

  In step 606, the personal web page server transfers the extracted bulletin board information to the user client, and the subscribed bulletin board list information is displayed on the web browser.

  In step 608, the user selects a desired bulletin board from the displayed bulletin board list. In step 610, the bulletin board selection information is transferred to the personal web page server. The personal web page server can receive the unique ID information of the selected bulletin board and link information that can load the data of the bulletin board.

  In step 612, the personal web page server uses the bulletin board selection information to extract the bulletin board posting data selected from the shared bulletin board database. In step 614, the personal web page server performs general data processing such as ordering on the extracted posting data, and then transfers the posting data to the user client.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a process of storing posted material data created on a shared bulletin board according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

  If the user creates a new bulletin board in step 700 of FIG. 7, the posting creation request information is transferred to the personal web page server through the interface provided in the bulletin board web page.

  In step 702, the personal web page server transfers a preset posting creation page to the user client, and the user creates the posting using the provided posting creation page. The user can enter text or insert a file stored on the client or a specific link on the Internet.

  In step 706, after the user creates a bulletin, when the bulletin transfer interface such as the “Done” button is selected, the bulletin data created by the user is converted into a preset data format and is stored in the personal data format. It is transferred to the web page server. The posting creation page includes a script for converting the posting data created by the user into a preset format. The script includes the unique ID of the bulletin board, the creator of the posting, etc. Preset posting data added as header information is transferred to the personal web page server. Of course, it is obvious to those skilled in the art that not only the bulletin board unique ID information but also the bulletin board is composed of a plurality of categories, category ID information and the like can be additionally included in the header.

  In step 708, the personal web page server uses the bulletin board unique ID information to determine a field of the shared bulletin board database for storing the transferred bulletin board data. If the field information for storing the posting data is determined in step 710, the posting data transferred to the field is stored.

  The post on the shared bulletin board saved by the procedure as shown in FIG. 7 can be viewed by other users participating in the bulletin board via his / her own personal web page. Community activities with acquaintances are possible.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a management system for a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a screen view illustrating an example of a shared bulletin board provided by a personal web page according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of generating a shared bulletin board in a personal web page according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of inviting another user to a shared bulletin board according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a configuration of a field for storing information on a bulletin board subscribed by a user among information in a personal information database according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing information posted on a shared bulletin board by a personal web page according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a process of storing posted material data created on a shared bulletin board according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols

100 personal web page server 102 personal information database 104 shared bulletin board database

Claims (11)

A management system for a shared bulletin board on a personal web page,
A personal web page server that provides each user with the personal web page and the shared bulletin board accessible via the personal web page, and posted by a user of a specific group who subscribes to the shared bulletin board A personal web page server that provides property data;
A personal information database for storing data constituting the personal web page uploaded by the user and bulletin board information of the shared bulletin board subscribed to by the user;
A shared bulletin board database for storing the posted material data uploaded to the shared bulletin board,
The personal web page server provides the user with list information of the shared bulletin board to which the user has subscribed, and when the user selects a specific shared bulletin board, A system for operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page, wherein the bulletin board data is extracted from the shared bulletin board database and provided.   The system for operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to claim 1, wherein the personal web page includes a blog web page, a mini home page, and a personal home page.   The personal web page server receives a request to create the shared bulletin board from the user via the personal web page, assigns a unique ID to the shared bulletin board created by the user, and creates the bulletin board of the created shared bulletin board 2. The system for operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to claim 1, wherein a field for storing information is generated in the shared bulletin board database.   The personal web page providing the shared bulletin board includes an interface for inviting a user who participates in the shared bulletin board, and the personal web page server sends the user to the user who is the target of the invitation. The system for operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to claim 1, wherein an invitation message is provided when connected to a web page server.   When the user who has received the invitation request accepts the invitation request, the personal web page server stores the bulletin board information of the shared bulletin board subscribed to by the user in the personal information database, and stores the bulletin board information in the shared bulletin board database. 5. The system for operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to claim 4, wherein the subscription information of the user's shared bulletin board is stored. The personal web page server provides list information of the shared bulletin board via the personal web page, and the personal web page includes a unique ID of the shared bulletin board or link information for accessing the shared bulletin board. ,
When a specific shared bulletin board is selected by the user from the list information of the shared bulletin board, a unique ID of the shared bulletin board or link information for accessing the shared bulletin board is transferred to the personal web page server, 4. The system for operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to claim 3, wherein the personal web page server extracts the bulletin board data from the shared bulletin board database using the received information. A method of operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page,
(A) providing the personal web page accessible to the shared bulletin board, the personal web page providing bulletin board data uploaded by a user of a specific group subscribed to the shared bulletin board; Stages,
(B) providing the bulletin board information of the shared bulletin board subscribed to by the user when the user accesses the shared bulletin board;
(C) extracting and providing the bulletin board data of the selected shared bulletin board when the user selects the specific shared bulletin board;
(D) assigning unique ID information to the shared bulletin board;
(E) storing a bulletin board ID of the shared bulletin board subscribed to by the user for each user in a database for storing the personal web page;
The step (c) extracts the bulletin board data corresponding to the bulletin board ID of the selected shared bulletin board from a database storing bulletin board information of the shared bulletin board, and the extracted bulletin board data is stored on the personal web page. A method of operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page, characterized by comprising:   The method of claim 7, wherein the personal web page includes a blog web page, a mini home page, and a personal home page.   (F) When the user requests creation of a new shared bulletin board, a field for storing bulletin board information of the new shared bulletin board created by the user is added to the database, and the created new bulletin board is also created. 8. The method of operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to claim 7, further comprising the step of assigning a unique ID of the shared bulletin board. The personal web page providing the shared bulletin board includes an interface for inviting users to participate in the shared bulletin board;
(G) Upon receiving invitation request information from the user, detecting a connection of the user who is the target of the invitation and transferring an invitation message;
(H) when the invited user accepts the invitation request, reflecting the user's bulletin board subscription information in the database;
The method for operating a shared bulletin board on a personal web page according to claim 7, further comprising:   The computer-readable recording medium which recorded the program for performing the method as described in any one of Claims 7 thru | or 10.

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