Patent ID: 7359944

Claim:
A method of providing digital contents through a communication network, comprising: a first step of storing on a server digital contents each constructed with a plurality of service unit data and a plurality of advertisement contents; and a second step of outputting the stored service unit data and the stored advertisement contents alternately through one transmission path via the communication network, wherein the first step further comprises: storing a sequence file indexed to regulate a transmission order for the plurality of service unit data of a selected one of the digital contents; and inter-relating at least one of the advertisement contents to each index of the sequence file to store the inter-related advertisement contents as the advertisement contents of each service unit data of the selected digital content, wherein when a specific index of the sequence file is requested, and wherein the method further comprises: outputting the inter-related advertisement contents of the specific index; making the service unit data of the specific index stand by for output; outputting the service unit data standing by for output, when an acknowledgment by a user for the outputted advertisement contents of the specific index is received; and measuring a popularity of the digital contents by referring to a number of acknowledgments received regarding each of the plurality of advertisement contents that were outputted corresponding to the plurality of service unit data of the digital contents.