Method and system for creating profit using personal website

Abstract

The present invention relates, in general, to a method and system for generating profit using a personal website and, more particularly, to a method and system for generating profit using a personal website, which automatically post an advertisement or a news item suitable for the characteristics of each personal website provided in a member client or each personal website provided in an information provision server, on the personal website, and enable a member, operating the personal website, to generate profit.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other objects, features and other advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an advertising system using a personal website according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of personal website operated in member client according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the results of a search of personal websites according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the information provision server of the FIG. 1 according to the present invention;

FIGS. 5 a and 5b are flowcharts of a method of generating profit using a personal website according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIGS. 6 a and 6b are flowcharts of a method of generating profit using a personal website according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the construction of a system for generating profit using a personal website according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a block diagram of the information provision server of the FIG. 7 of the present invention; and

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a personal website operated by the information provision server according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Claims

1. A method of generating profit system using a personal website, comprising the steps of: installing a program required to construct a personal website in a member client;the member client operating a personal website provided by an information provision server and transmitting information about the personal website to the information provision server;the information provision server organizing information about the personal website into a database;the information provision server analyzing an advertisement requested by an advertiser client and transmitting an analyzed advertisement to a database (DB);transmitting the advertisement, which has been transmitted to and stored in the DB, to a personal website suitable for characteristics of the advertisement and posting the advertisement;an Internet user client accessing the information provision server and searching for the personal websites;selecting any one among found personal websites and accessing the selected personal website;the information provision server counting the number of clicks on the advertisement while the Internet user client, having accessed the personal website, clicks the posted advertisement and goes to an advertiser website via the information provision server; andthe information provision server transmitting part of an advertisement charge received from the advertiser client to the member client depending on the number of clicks.

2. The profit generating method according to claim 1, wherein the step of installing the program in the member client is performed so that a program allowing the information provision server and the personal website, operated by the member client, to have the same domain name is installed.

3. The profit generating method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting an advertisement to the personal website and posting the advertisement is performed so that, if information about the personal website is changed, an advertisement or a news item suitable for the changed information is posted on the personal website.

4. The profit generating method according to claim 3, wherein the step of transmitting an advertisement to the personal website and posting the advertisement is performed so that the information provision server simultaneously posts advertisements or news items to be posted on a plurality of personal websites having similar characteristics through a single process.

5. The profit generating method according to claim 1, wherein the advertisement or news item is displayed in any one specific frame of the personal website.

6. The profit generating method according to claim 1, wherein the step of selecting and accessing the any one personal website is performed to access the website using a dynamic IP address of the personal website.

7. The profit generating method according to claim 1, wherein the step of selecting and accessing the any one personal website is performed to directly access the personal website using a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the personal website.

8. A method of generating profit using a personal website, comprising the steps of: constructing an information provision server to drive a plurality of personal websites;the plurality of member clients accessing a hosting unit, provided in the information provision server, and operating the plurality of personal websites;storing and arranging information about the plurality of operated personal websites in a database (DB) of the information provision server, and storing and arranging advertisements or news items provided by advertiser clients in the DB of the information provision server;a web crawler, provided in an application unit of the information provision server, collecting information stored in the DB of the information provision server, analyzing the collected information about the personal websites, and transmitting an extracted advertisement or news item to the hosting unit, thus posting the advertisement or news item in an advertisement space of a corresponding personal website;an Internet user client searching for personal websites operated by a plurality of member clients, having the posted advertisement or news item, using the information provision server;selecting a personal website operated by an arbitrary member client among the found personal websites operated by the plurality of member clients, and accessing the selected personal website;the Internet user client clicking and reading the posted advertisement or news item; anddistributing profit, generated by the information provision server, to the member clients operating the personal websites as the advertisement or news item is read.

9. The profit generation method according to claim 8, wherein the web crawler provided in the application unit analyzes information posted on a corresponding personal website and extracts an advertisement or a news item suitable for the personal website from the DB provided in the information provision server.

10. The profit generation method according to claim 8, wherein the advertisement space of each personal website is constructed so that an advertisement or a news item, extracted from the DB of the information provision server by the web crawler, and an advertisement or a news item, extracted from the DB of the information provision server by letters, numerals and symbols input to an activation window, are posted in the advertisement space.

11. The profit generation method according to claim 10, wherein the activation window is constructed so that if a random advertisement selection method is selected through the activation window, the advertisement posted on personal website is selected randomly and is posted on advertisement space of the personal website.

12. The profit generation method according to claim 8, wherein the step of distributing profit, generated by the information provision server, to the member clients operating the personal websites as the advertisement or news item is read, is performed so that the plurality of member clients is paid advertisement charges by the information provision server depending on the number of clicks on a corresponding advertisement by the Internet user client.

13. The profit generation method according to claim 8, wherein the advertisement charges are distributed so that, as an advertisement or a news item is posted in the advertisement space of each personal website, the plurality of member clients is paid advertisement charges by the information provision server using a flat rate system.

14. The profit generation method according to claim 13, wherein the advertisement charges are distributed in such a way that an advertisement charge is distributed by the information provision server to a member client who has clicked an advertisement or a news item, having an event, posted on a personal website, and has executed the event.

15. The profit generation method according to claim 14, wherein the plurality of personal websites has same domain name each other.

16. A system for generating profit using a personal website, comprising: a plurality of advertiser clients for requesting posting of advertisements or news items on personal websites and providing advertisement charges for the advertisements or news items;a plurality of member clients for operating personal websites, on which an advertisement or a news item suitable for characteristics of the personal websites among the advertisements or news items is posted in advertisement spaces, the member clients being paid advertisement charges as the advertisements or news items are posted;a plurality of Internet user clients for accessing a personal website, operated by an arbitrary member client found in the plurality of member clients, and reading the posted advertisement or news item; andan information provision server for receiving advertisements or news items and advertisement charges from the plurality of advertiser clients, automatically providing an advertisement or a news item suitable for characteristics of the personal website to the personal websites, searching for member clients operating the personal websites, and distributing the advertisement charges to the member clients.

17. The profit generation system according to claim 16, wherein the information provision server comprises: a hosting unit for managing the personal websites having advertisement spaces;a data reception unit for receiving information posted on the personal websites and member information about the member clients;a database (DB) for storing therein the received information posted on the personal websites and the member information;an application unit including a web crawler for extracting an advertisement or a news item suitable for characteristics of a corresponding personal website from the information stored in the database, and matching the extracted advertisement or news item with the personal websites, a search engine for searching for the personal websites and advertisements or news items matching a keyword, entered by the Internet user clients, and a profit distribution engine for distributing advertisement charges; anda data transmission unit for transmitting the advertisement or news item, suitable for characteristics of the personal website, to the hosting unit.

18. The profit generation system according to claim 17, wherein the hosting unit comprises: a data reception unit for receiving the advertisements or news items transmitted from the information provision server and receiving information to be posted on the personal websites from the member clients;a database (DB) for storing the received advertisements or news items and the information posted on the personal websites;a web server for operating the personal websites using the advertisements or news items stored in the DB and the information posted on the personal websites; anda data transmission unit for transmitting the information stored in the DB and posted on the personal websites to the DB of the information provision server.

19. The profit generation system according to claim 17, wherein the web crawler provided in the application unit analyzes information posted on the personal websites and extracts an advertisement or news item suitable for a corresponding personal website from the DB provided in the information provision server.

20. The profit generation system according to claim 17, wherein the personal website includes an activation window enabling random advertisements, or advertisements according to input of letters, numerals and symbols, to be posted in the advertisement space of the personal website.

21. The profit generation system according to claim 20, wherein the advertisement space is designed so that the advertisement or news item suitable for the personal website, extracted from the DB of the information provision server by the web crawler, and an advertisement or a news item extracted from the DB of the information provision server using letters, numerals or symbols input to the activation window, are posted in the advertisement space.

22. The profit generation system according to claim 21, wherein the activation window is constructed so that if a random advertisement selection method is selected through the activation window, the advertisement posted on personal website is selected randomly and is posted in advertisement space of the personal website.

23. The profit generation system according to claim 17, wherein the profit distribution engine distributes advertisement charges from the information provision server to the member clients depending on the number of clicks by respective Internet user clients on a corresponding advertisement.

24. The profit generation system according to claim 23, wherein the profit distribution engine distributes advertisement charges from the information provision server to the member clients using a flat rate system as the advertisement or news item is posted in the advertisement space of the personal website.

25. The profit generation system according to claim 24, wherein the profit distribution engine distributes the advertisement charges from the information provision server to a member client who has clicked an advertisement or a news item, having an event, posted on a personal website, and has executed the event.

26. The profit generation system according to claim 25, wherein the plurality of personal websites has same domain name each other.