JP2003289384A - Communication mediation device between terminal devices and communication mediation method between terminal devices - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inter-terminal communication mediating device and an inter-terminal communication mediating method for enabling users to communicate without knowing concrete communication methods of each other when the users communicate with each other by terminal devices. <P>SOLUTION: This inter-terminal communication equipment 100 has a user information managing means 110 for registering user information, a user information retrieving means 120 for retrieving the user information registered in the user information managing means on a fixed condition, a user information providing means 130 for providing one piece of the user information retrieved by the user information retrieving means to the terminal device 10 of one user A, a communicable means for making the terminal device 11 of another user B communicable with the terminal device of the user of the one piece of user information provided to the terminal device, and communication mediation connecting means 140 and 170 for mediating communication between the terminal of the other user and the terminal device of the one user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an inter-terminal device communication intermediation device and an inter-terminal device communication intermediation method for mediating communication between a plurality of terminal devices.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Communication services such as bulletin boards and mailing lists on homepages are provided by connecting to an Internet network from mobile phones. In such a communication service, a large number of users are registered, and personal information such as preference information such as hobbies of each user is registered. Then, among the registered users, a user who finds another user who has a taste or the like with himself will directly contact the other user by the registered electronic mail address or telephone number.

[0003]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]
In the communication service, a user must always have a telephone number or e-mail address as a contact address for user registration, and the phone number or e-mail address will be disclosed to other users. With this, even if you contacted once, but even if you do not want to contact me, the other party knows your e-mail address etc.
After that, trouble occurs and a problem occurs.

In view of the above points, the present invention provides a communication intermediary device between terminal devices, which allows users to contact each other without knowing a specific method of contact with each other. It is an object to provide a communication mediation method between terminal devices.

[0005]

According to the invention of claim 1, the above-mentioned object is an inter-terminal device communication mediating device for mediating communication between a plurality of terminal devices under a certain condition. A user information management means for registering user information input by the terminal device; a user information search means for searching the user information registered in the user information management means under a certain condition; and the user Information providing means for providing one user information retrieved by the information retrieval means to the terminal device of another user, the terminal device of the other user, and the one of the one provided to this terminal device. Communication enable means for enabling communication with the user's terminal device of user information, and communication mediation connection means for mediating communication between the terminal device of the other user and the terminal device of the one user. Communication device between terminal devices characterized by having It is achieved by.

According to the structure of claim 1, the user information management means for registering the user information input by the user at the terminal device and the user information registered in the user information management means are stored in the user information management means. A user information search means for searching under a fixed condition. Therefore, the user information registered in the user information management means can be searched for one user information to be provided to another user. The user information providing means for providing the one user information searched by the user information searching means to the terminal device of another user is included in the searched user information. Can be provided to the terminal device of another user.

[0007] Further, it has a communication enable means for enabling the terminal device of the other user and the terminal device of the user of the one user information provided to this terminal device to communicate with each other. . Therefore, it is possible to communicate with one user having the one user information provided by the user information providing means only when the communication is enabled by the communication enable means. For this reason, other users can choose not to communicate if they do not wish to communicate with one user.

Further, since it has a communication mediating connection means for mediating communication between the terminal device of the other user and the terminal device of the one user, even when communication is selected by the communication enabling means. The terminal device of the other user can communicate with the terminal device of the one user only through the communication intermediary connection unit. Therefore, other users cannot know the mail address, telephone number, etc. of the terminal device of one user. Therefore, the information such as the mail address and the telephone number of the terminal device of one user provided by the user information providing means can be kept secret without being known to other users. it can. For this reason, one user can register his / her user information with the user information management means in a safe and easy manner, and keep the confidential state until he / she can disclose the mail address, telephone number, etc. without anxiety. Since it can be maintained, it becomes a highly reliable intermediary communication device between terminal devices.

Preferably, according to the invention of claim 2, in the configuration of claim 1, the communication intermediary connection means is an electronic mail relay server and / or a CTI (Computer).
This is a communication device between terminal devices, which is a Telephony Integration server.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the communication intermediary connection means is an electronic mail relay server and / or CTI (C).
computer Telephony Integra
It is a server. Since the e-mail relay server is provided, when the terminal device of the other user connects to the terminal device of the one user by e-mail, the other user uses the electronic device of the terminal device of the one user. Do not enter your email address on your terminal. That is, the other user inputs the e-mail address for contacting the e-mail relay server into his / her terminal device.

Then, the e-mail relay server inputs and connects the e-mail address of the terminal device of one user, and the other user can send an e-mail to the terminal device of the one user. it can. Therefore, the e-mail address of the terminal device of the one user is kept secret from other users and is kept secret. Also,
Since the CTI server is provided, when the other user tries to contact the terminal device of the one user by telephone, the other user sets the telephone number of the terminal device of the one user to his own terminal. Do not enter in the device. That is, the other user inputs the contact telephone number to the CTI server into his or her terminal device.

[0012] Then, the CTI server inputs the telephone number of the terminal device of the one user and connects by a telephone line or the like, so that the other user can talk with the one user by telephone. You can Therefore, the telephone number of the terminal device of the one user is not known to other users, and the secret is kept.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an intermediary communication intermediary method for intermediating communication between a plurality of terminal devices under a certain condition, wherein the user is a user of the terminal device. When the information is input, the user information management step of registering in the user information management means, and the user in which the user information search means searches the user information registered in the user information management means under a certain condition. An information retrieval step, a user information provision step in which the user information provision means provides one user information retrieved in the user information retrieval step to a terminal device of another user, and the user information provision step of the other user A communication selecting step in which the terminal device operates or does not operate the communication enable means for communicating with the terminal device of the user of the one user information provided to the terminal device, and the terminal device of the other user. And the terminal device of the first user Is achieved by the terminal device between communication method characterized by having a communication intermediary connecting step enables communication only by the serving intermediary connection means.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, when the user inputs the user information on the terminal device, the user information management step of registering the user information in the user information management means and the user information management means is registered in the user information management means. And a user information searching step in which the user information searching means searches the user information under certain conditions. Therefore, the user information registered in the user information management means can be searched for one user information to be provided to another user. And
Since the user information providing means has the user information providing step of providing the one user information retrieved in the user information retrieval step to the terminal device of another user, the retrieved one of the user information is provided. User information can be provided to the terminal devices of other users.

A communication selection in which the terminal device of the other user operates or does not operate the communication enable means for communicating with the terminal device of the user of the one user information provided to this terminal device. Have a process. Therefore, it is possible to communicate with one user having the one user information provided by the user information providing means only when the communication is enabled by the communication enable means. For this reason, other users can choose not to communicate if they do not wish to communicate with one user.

Further, the terminal device of the other user and the terminal device of the one user have a communication intermediary connection step in which communication is possible only by the communication intermediary connection means. Therefore, even when the communication is selected in the communication selecting step, the terminal devices of other users can communicate with the terminal device of one user only through the communication intermediary connection means. Therefore, other users cannot know the mail address, telephone number, etc. of the terminal device of one user. Therefore, the information such as the mail address and the telephone number of the terminal device of one user provided by the user information providing means can be kept secret without being known to other users. it can. For this reason, one user can register his / her user information with the user information management means in a safe and easy manner, and keep the confidential state until he / she can disclose the mail address, telephone number, etc. without anxiety. Since it can be maintained, it becomes a highly reliable intermediary communication mediation method between terminal devices.

[0017]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. still,
Since the embodiment described below is a preferred specific example of the present invention, various technically preferable limitations are attached, but the scope of the present invention particularly limits the present invention in the following description. Unless stated otherwise, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments.

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing a communication service device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The communication service device 100 is an inter-terminal device communication intermediary device that mediates communication between a plurality of terminal devices under certain conditions. The plurality of terminal devices are, for example, the mobile phone (A) 10 and the mobile phone (B) 1 shown in FIG.
It is 1. The mobile phone (A) 10 and the mobile phone (B) 11 are terminal devices that can be connected to the telephone company 13 in FIG.

(Communication service device 100
FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing the main software configuration of the communication service apparatus 100. The communication service device 100 is composed of a computer and the like. Further, various servers and databases provided in the communication service device 100 are also configured by computers and the like. Therefore, the hardware configuration is, for example, via a bus to a CPU (CentralP).
processing Unit), ROM (Read
Only Memory), RAM (Random A)
access memory) is arranged.

The bus is an internal bus having a function of connecting all devices and having an address and a data path.
The CPU controls the ROM and the like connected to the bus in addition to the processing of a predetermined program. The ROM stores the above-mentioned programs and various information. The ROM may include a FLASH ROM that is a rewritable nonvolatile memory. Such FLASH ROM stores, for example, data downloaded via a network. The RAM has a function as an area for comparing the contents of the memory during the program processing and for executing the program.

(Regarding User Information Database 110, etc.) As shown in FIG. 1, the communication service device 100 is a user information management means for registering user information input by the user at the terminal device, for example, a user information database. It has 110. The terminal device input by the user is, for example, the mobile phone (A) 10 or the mobile phone (B) 11 shown in FIG. 1, and the user is, for example, the user (A).
And the user (B). The user information is, for example, personal information of the user, and its name, handle name, mail address, telephone number, preference of the person who wants to be introduced, own profile, etc., and is provided by the communication service device 100. The service is configured to change its contents

(Regarding the roulette engine server 120 and the like) Further, a user information searching means for searching the user information registered in the user information database 110 under a certain condition, for example, the roulette engine server 1
Have twenty. Therefore, if the roulette engine server 120 searches the user information in the user information database 110 based on, for example, the favorite data of the other party, for example, the user (B) who is the other party of the favorite of the user (A). Is configured so that the data of can be retrieved and output. In addition, when a large number of users are output by the search under this condition, one or several arbitrary persons are further listed by the roulette method.

(Regarding the WEB server 130 etc.) One user information (for example, user (B)) retrieved by the roulette engine server 120 is transferred to a terminal device (for example, mobile phone) of another user (for example, user A). A10) has a WEB server 130 of FIG. 1, which is a user information providing means. In this WEB server 130, the mobile phone (A) 10 and the mobile phone (B) 11 are connected to the Internet network 1.
It is a server for connecting to the communication service apparatus 100 via the server 2.

The WEB server 130 is equipped with a user authentication server 131, a user access page generation server 132 and the like. That is, the user access page generation server 132 is for generating a window or the like for the user to access the WEB server 130. Further, the user authentication server 131 authenticates whether or not the user of the accessed mobile phone has performed user registration or the like. In this way, the WEB server 13
0 provides a window or the like according to access from a terminal device such as an external mobile phone, and provides a screen that is easy for the user to input. On the contrary, for the user, the roulette engine server 120 sends the user information database 110 to the user.
It will be responsible for the function of displaying the information retrieved from the on-screen.

(Regarding the selection screen created by the WEB server 130 as to whether or not to contact the user) The communication service device 100 is connected to another user, for example, the terminal device (A) 10 of the user (A). , This terminal device (A)
It has a communicable means for enabling communication with a user of one piece of user information provided in 10, for example, the user (B). That is, the roulette engine server 120
Then, when the user information database 110 is searched for a user who matches a certain condition, such as the preference of the other party, and output to the WEB server 130, the mobile phone (A) of the user (A).
A certain personal information of the user (B) is displayed on 10.

At the same time, the user access page generation server 132 generates a screen for selecting whether to contact the user (B), specifically to call or to send an electronic mail. This WEB server 1
The selection screen for whether or not to contact the user, which is created at 30, is an example of the communication enabling means.

The communication service device 100 (for the communication intermediary connection means, etc.) is a terminal device (for example, a mobile phone (A) 1) of the other user (for example, user A).
0) and the terminal device (for example, the mobile phone (B) 11) of the one user (for example, the user B), and mediates the communication intermediation connection means. And, preferably, the communication intermediary connection means is an electronic mail relay server and / or C
TI (Computer Telephony Int)
Eg) server.

That is, as shown in FIG. 1, the communication service device 100 is a mail relay server 1 which is a communication intermediary connection means and an electronic mail relay server.
40 is provided. This mail relay server 140
Is a mobile phone (A) 10 via the Internet 12.
A predetermined e-mail is sent to the mobile phone (B) 11 or the like, and an e-mail sent from the mobile phone (A) or the like is received. In addition, the communication service device 10
0 indicates the operation of the mail relay server 140, so that the error mail processing server 150 and the mail processing server 160
Etc. are provided.

(Regarding Role as Communication Intermediary Connection Unit of Mail Relay Server 140) As in the above-described example, the roulette wheel is used for the user (A) of the mobile phone (A) 10 because, for example, his / her taste is matched. The case where the engine server 120 searches and the user (B) is presented to the WEB server 130 will be described below. Here, as described above, the user (A) contacts the user (B), specifically, sees a selection screen as to whether or not to send an e-mail, and contacts, that is, sends an e-mail. Select. Here, the user (A) composes an e-mail using his or her mobile phone (A) 10 and performs a transmission process.

Then, this electronic mail is transmitted to the mail relay server 140 of the communication service device 100. The mail relay server 140 acquires the e-mail address of the user (B) in the user information database 110, and transmits the received e-mail to the mobile phone (B) 11 of the user (B). Thus, of the personal information of the user (B) presented to the user (A), the information of the e-mail address can be kept secret. Conversely, when the user (B) sends a reply e-mail to the user (A), the e-mail is temporarily
The user (B) does not know the electronic mail address of the user (A) because the mail relay server 140 is used.

(Regarding the CTI server 170 etc.)
As shown in FIG. 1, the communication service device 100 has a CTI server 170 which is a communication intermediary connection unit and a CTI server. The CTI server 170 includes a CTI control unit 171, a voice synthesis engine 1
73, a telephone line connection unit 170, etc., and is connected to the voice information database 174.

(Regarding Role of CTI Server 170 as Communication Intermediary Connection Unit) As in the above-described example, the roulette wheel is used for the user (A) of the mobile phone (A) 10 because, for example, his / her taste is matched. The case where the engine server 120 searches and the user (B) is presented to the WEB server 130 will be described below. Here, as described above, the user (A) sees the selection screen as to whether or not to contact the user (B), specifically, to call, and to contact, that is, to call, for example, an icon. Press to select. Here, the entered telephone number is the telephone line connection unit 1 of the CTI server 170.
A telephone number, which is a telephone number to 70, is once connected to the CTI server 170 of the communication service apparatus 100.

In the mobile phone (A) 10 of the user (A),
By pressing the icon, the intention of telephone contact is
User information database 1 input from the server 130
10 and so on. The CTI server 170 uses the data in the user information database 110 or the like to identify the user (A).
Confirms that the user has called the user (B), calls the mobile phone (B) 11, and the mobile phone (A) 10 calls the CTI server 1 of the communication service device 100.
The mobile phone (B) 11 is connected via 70.
Thus, the telephone number information of the personal information of the user (B) presented to the user (A) can be kept secret. On the contrary, similarly to the case where the user (B) calls the user (A), since the telephone once goes through the CTI server 170, the user (B) does not know the telephone number of the user (A). Has become.

The communication service device 100 also includes a file server 180 and the like. The communication service device 100 according to the present embodiment is configured as described above, and the operation and the like will be described below. (Regarding an operation example of the communication service device 100) Specifically, a roulette function will be described as an example, in which a large number of users are members and other users who have attributes such as preferences of the other party of the user are introduced. .

The users are the above-mentioned users A and B, and the user A possesses the mobile phone (A) 10 and the user B.
Has a mobile phone (B) 11. Figure 2
3 is a schematic flowchart of a roulette function of the communication service device 100. First, user registration is performed as shown in FIG. 2 (ST1). That is, user A and user B each have their own mobile phone (A) 1
0, the WEB of the communication service apparatus 100 from the mobile phone (B) 11 via the Internet network 12.
The server 130 is accessed and user registration is performed using a user registration window or the like.

Specifically, name, age, sex, hobbies, favorite food, favorite vehicle, places to go often, handle name, preference of the person classified by category, own profile, telephone number, e-mail Enter the address etc. This completes the user registration. The personal information of the users A and B input in this way is stored in the user information database 110. (User information management step of registering user information database 110 when users A and B input user information on mobile phone (A) 10 and mobile phone (B) 11).

When registered as a member in this way,
For example, the communication partner is introduced once a day (ST2). (User information registered in the user information database 110 is stored in the roulette engine server 1
20 user information search process for searching under certain conditions)

The steps of introducing the other party will be described with reference to screen examples. Increasingly, the roulette engine server 120 of the communication service device 100 selects the user B who is another member having a matching attribute from the user A's hobbies and the like from the user information database 110, and the user A's mobile phone (A) 10 To the mail relay server 140
Send from

FIG. 3 (a) is a diagram showing an example of the roulette mail that has arrived at the mobile phone (A) 10 of the user A at this time. (The mail relay server 140 sends the user information of the user B retrieved in the user information retrieval step to the user A.
User information providing process to be provided to the mobile phone (A) 10 of
User B is introduced at this time, but the name is indicated by a handle name registered in advance. In addition, at this time, the user A has (1) contact, (2) reject, (3) see keep list, (4) re-lottery, (5) help, (6) setting, Six options are given. The refusal of (2) is when the information about the other party is not seen further, and the keep list of (3) is when the information is viewed later without seeing the information although the refusal is not refused. (4) is the roulette engine server again. This is the case when you want 120 to reselect the other party.

Here, when the user A selects the contact (1), the screen shown in FIG. 3B is provided. FIG. 3B is an example of a screen displayed after selecting “Try to contact” in FIG. 3A. Here, the profile of the user B is the communication service device 100.
Is acquired from the user information database 110 and displayed. Then, the user A has the options of (1) entering the room (2) refusing (3) returning, and when selecting to enter the room,
A screen as shown in FIG. 4A is displayed. Figure 4 (a)
Is an example of a screen displayed after selecting to enter the room in FIG.

(Communication possible means for the mobile phone (A) 10 of the user A to communicate with the user B provided to the mobile phone (A) 10 (icons for leaving messages and talking icons below)) In this case, the user B is currently in contact with another user. Here, the user A leaves (1) a message,
(2) Options such as speaking are prepared. If (1) leave message is selected, an e-mail document creation screen appears as shown in FIG. 4 (b). FIG. 4B is an example of a screen displayed after selecting leave message in FIG. 4A. Therefore, when the user A wants to leave a message, the user A creates a message here and sends an electronic mail to the user B. At this time, as described above, the electronic mail is temporarily sent to the mail relay server 1 of the communication service device 100.
Since it is transmitted to the user B via 40, the electronic mail address of the user B is never known to the user A.

When the user speaks (2) in FIG. 4A, the user B is called. At this time, as described above, since the telephone is connected via the CTI server 170,
The telephone number of user B is never known to user A.
(Communication intermediation connection step in which the mobile phone (A) 10 of the user A and the mobile phone (B) 11 of the user B can communicate only with the mail relay server 140 and the CTI server 170).

FIG. 5A is an example of a screen showing a case where (3) Put in keep list is selected in FIG. 3A. As shown in FIG. 5A, the list of introducers that the user A has put in the keep list so far can be seen. Then, if there is an introducer who wants to make a contact from the keep list, he or she can select it here and proceed to the screen of FIG. 4A, and can start contacting the other party. Therefore, since it is possible to contact the person later, not when the referral is received, it is possible to contact the person while thinking slowly.

FIG. 5B is an example of a screen showing a case where (2) reject is selected in FIG. When rejected in this way, the fact remains in the user information database 110 of the communication service device 100.
It is designed so that it will not be introduced again.

In this way, one roulette mail by the roulette engine server 120 is completed (FIG. 2).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the user information is registered in the user information database 110. Therefore, if the user information is searched, another user having an appropriate attribute can be easily searched. You can In addition, the retrieved user information is used as a roulette mail or the like for the mobile phone (A).
It can be provided to 10 mag any number of times. In addition, it is also possible for the other party who is the searched user to refuse the contact or put it in the keep list to make a contact later. Moreover, among the items registered in the user, the personal information which is not desired to be shown to the other party to be introduced can be kept secret.
In particular, the communication service device 100 is highly reliable and convenient because it is possible to communicate by telephone or e-mail with the other party while keeping the telephone number or the e-mail address of the other party's contact information secret.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. Further, the above-described respective embodiments may be configured by being combined with each other.

[0048]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the users contact each other by the terminal devices, the terminal devices can be contacted without knowing each other's specific contact method. A communication mediation device and a communication mediation method between terminal devices can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing a communication service device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a roulette function of a communication service device.

FIG. 3A is a diagram showing an example of a roulette mail delivered to the mobile phone (A) of the user A at this time. (B) FIG. 3 (b) is an example of a screen displayed after selecting "try to contact" in FIG. 3 (a).

FIG. 4 (a) is an example of a screen displayed after selecting to enter the room in FIG. 3 (b). 4 (b) is shown in FIG.
It is an example of a screen displayed after selecting leave message in FIG.

5A is an example of a screen showing a case where (3) Put in keep list is selected in FIG. 3A. FIG. (B)
3 is an example of a screen showing a case where (2) refusal is selected in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Mobile phone (A), 11 ... Mobile phone (B), 12 ... Internet network, 13 ... Telephone company, 100 ... Communication service device,
110 ... User information database, 120 ... Roulette engine server, 130 ... WEB server,
131 ... User authentication server, 132 ... User access page generation server, 140 ... Mail relay server, 150 ... Error mail processing server, 160 ...
・ Mail processing server, 170 ... CTI server, 17
1 ... CTI control unit, 172 ... Telephone line connection unit,
173 ... Voice synthesis engine, 174 ... Voice information database, 180 ... File server

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An inter-terminal device communication intermediary device that mediates communication between a plurality of terminal devices under a fixed condition, and user information management means for registering user information input by the user at the terminal device. And a user information search means for searching the user information registered in the user information management means under a certain condition, and one user information searched by the user information search means for another user. For providing the user information providing means for providing the terminal device of the other user, the terminal device of the other user, and the terminal device of the user of the one user information provided to the terminal device for communication. An inter-terminal device communication device, comprising: communication enable means, and communication mediation connection means for mediating communication between the terminal device of the other user and the terminal device of the one user. 2. The communication intermediary connection means is an electronic mail relay server and / or a CTI (Computer Tel).
The communication device between terminal devices according to claim 1, wherein the communication device is an ephone integration server. 3. A communication intermediary method between terminal devices for mediating communication between a plurality of terminal devices under a fixed condition, wherein when a user inputs user information at the terminal device, the user information management means A user information management step of registering, a user information search step in which the user information search means searches the user information registered in the user information management means under certain conditions, and the user information search step A user information providing step in which the user information providing means provides the user information of one user searched for in the terminal device of another user, and the terminal device of the other user is provided to this terminal device. The communication selecting step of operating or not operating the communication enabling means for communicating with the terminal device of the user of the one user information, and the terminal device of the other user and the terminal device of the one user , Only by communication intermediary connection means Terminal inter-communication method characterized by comprising: a communication mediation connecting process that enables signals, a.