JP2009193462A - User data management system - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to make it possible to organize data of a user while reducing a burden on the user.
A proxy server 3 provides a metadata information database 302 that stores a URI in association with corresponding metadata, and metadata corresponding to a URI requested to be browsed by a client terminal 2 from the metadata information database 302. The client terminal 2 includes a user data storage unit 201, and associates user data instructed to be stored by the user data storage unit 201 with the metadata provided by the metadata addition unit 301. The user data storage unit 202 to be stored, the user data search unit 203 for searching user data stored in the user data storage unit 202 by metadata, and the display of user data searched by the user data search unit 203 are instructed. A user data display unit 204 .
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Description

  The present invention relates to an information acquisition system using the Internet, and more particularly to a system that allows a user to organize user data such as URIs.

  In recent years, the spread of information by Internet services such as the World Wide Web has become popular, and the amount of information provided on the Web has increased. In accordance with this, the importance of technology for extracting only useful information from miscellaneous information of mixed boulders is increasing. As such technology, if the user encounters a favorite web page while browsing the web page with a computer browser or mobile phone, bookmark the URI or title of the web page so that it can be referenced later In the case of a mobile phone, the screen display state is saved in the form of a screen memo.

  It has been proposed to manage user data and share the web page browsing data stored as described above among communities with other users (see Patent Document 1). According to this, based on the attribute defined in advance, it can be classified into categories according to user instructions.

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  However, the above method requires input from the user in order to classify the data into categories, which is complicated for the user. Further, in general, a web page is often composed of a plurality of files on one screen, and it is difficult for a user to specify a classification category for all the files.

  Therefore, in view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to enable user data organization while reducing the burden on the user.

  In order to achieve such an object, the invention according to claim 1 is characterized in that at least one client terminal and the web server and the client terminal when the at least one client terminal connects to a web server. And a proxy server that mediates communication between the proxy server, the proxy server including a metadata information database that stores URIs in association with corresponding metadata, and a browsing that the client terminal browses. Metadata adding means for giving metadata corresponding to the requested URI from the metadata information database, wherein each of the client terminals instructs to save user data related to the URI in accordance with an input from the user And saved by the user data saving means User data storage means for storing the instructed user data in association with the metadata given by the metadata giving means, and user data search means for searching user data stored in the user data storage means by metadata And a user data display means for instructing display of user data searched by the user data search means.

  Thus, when saving user data, the user data can be automatically stored in association with the metadata, so that the saved user data can be searched by the metadata.

  The invention described in claim 2 is the user data organizing system according to claim 1, wherein the user data related to the URI includes a URI.

  Thus, the client terminal can access the web page having the same URI by referring to the URI which is the user data stored in the user data storage means.

  The invention according to claim 3 is the user data organizing system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the user data relating to the URI includes a file used for displaying a web page indicated by the URI. To do.

  Thus, by referring to the data stored in the user data storage means, it is possible to refer to the data without accessing the server.

  The invention according to claim 4 is the user data organizing system according to claim 3, wherein the file used for displaying the web page indicated by the URI is at least one of an HTML file, a CSS, an image file, and a script file. Any one of them is included.

  This makes it possible to display a web page by referring to the data stored in the user data storage means.

  A fifth aspect of the present invention is the user data organizing system according to the third or fourth aspect, wherein the file used for displaying the web page indicated by the URI includes a manifest file.

  As a result, it is possible to refer to the manifest file without accessing the web server only by searching the user data storage means.

  A sixth aspect of the present invention is the user data organizing system according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, wherein the client terminal collectively collects data that the user data storage means should instruct to store. And further includes collective storage data collecting means.

  Thereby, it becomes possible to save the user data collectively when saving the user data.

  The invention according to claim 7 is the user data organizing system according to claim 6, wherein the file used for displaying the web page indicated by the URI includes a manifest file, and the batch storage data collecting means includes: The storage of user data is collectively collected based on the manifest file.

  Thereby, the user data storage means can determine data to be stored collectively without analyzing the data file.

  The invention according to claim 8 is the user data organizing system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the client terminal analyzes a web browser and data displayed on the web browser. And collecting the screen display state collecting means for collecting, wherein the user data storage means further instructs to save the screen display state acquired by the screen display state collection means.

  Thereby, the screen display state can be stored in the user data storage means.

  A ninth aspect of the present invention is the user data organizing system according to any one of the first to eighth aspects, wherein the client terminal is a mobile phone.

  A tenth aspect of the present invention is the user data organizing system according to any one of the first to eighth aspects, wherein the client terminal is a computer terminal.

  The invention according to claim 11 is the user data organizing system according to any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the proxy server is in the client terminal.

  A twelfth aspect of the present invention is the user data organizing system according to any one of the first to tenth aspects, wherein the proxy server is in the web server.

  The user data organizing system of the present invention can reduce the burden on the user when organizing user data.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  A first embodiment of a user data organizing system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The user data organization system according to the present embodiment includes a mobile terminal (client terminal) 2 that connects to the web server 1 and browses a web page, and a proxy server that mediates communication between the web server 1 and the mobile terminal 2 ( Proxy) 3.

  Each of the web server 1, the portable terminal 2, and the proxy 3 can be a computer system or any other device capable of storing and manipulating data. Examples of the portable terminal 3 include a computer terminal or a portable laptop computer, a portable media player, a personal information manager, a home appliance, and the like. However, the portable terminal 3 is not limited to these terminals, and may have at least a processing unit and some data storage device. Good. Further, the proxy 3 may exist in the same device as the web server 1 or in the same device as the mobile terminal 2, or an ISP server if the mobile terminal 3 is a computer terminal, and mobile phone communication if it is a mobile phone. However, the present invention is not limited to any configuration.

  In the present embodiment, a case where the web server 1 is a server computer and the mobile terminal 2 is a mobile phone will be described as an example.

  Each of the web server 1 and the proxy 3 and between the proxy 3 and the portable terminal 2 can be connected by an arbitrary communication system. Examples include, but are not limited to, various wired communication protocols such as Ethernet, token ring, serial or parallel communication, various wireless protocols, packet communication, telephone, or any other communication medium. It is not something. In an embodiment in which the mobile terminal 2 is a mobile phone, the mobile terminal 2 and the proxy 3 can be connected by a line. In some cases, various encryption protocols can be used.

  The mobile terminal 2 mainly includes a web browser 200, a user data storage unit 201, a user data storage unit 202, a user data search unit 203, and a user data display unit 204. The user data storage unit 201 instructs user data storage in accordance with an input from the user via the data input unit 206. The user data storage unit 202 stores user data supported by the user data storage unit 201 in association with metadata to be described later. The user data display unit 204 displays user data searched by the user data search unit 203 using metadata. The user data storage unit 201, the user data search unit 203, and the user data display unit 204 are in a processing unit such as a CPU of the mobile terminal 2. The user data storage unit 202 is in the memory. The data input unit 206 is an input device such as a keypad or a mouse.

  The proxy 3 includes a metadata adding unit 301 and a metadata information database 302. The metadata assigning unit 301 assigns corresponding metadata from the metadata information database to the URI requested to be browsed by the user.

  The metadata information database 302 and the user data storage unit 202 can be a hard disk storage system, or can be any other type of storage medium including a solid-state memory such as a flash memory. In some cases, the storage medium may be a non-volatile memory or a volatile memory. That is, any type of data storage medium can be used.

  The metadata information database 302 stores the metadata and the URI of the web page in advance in association with each other. FIG. 3 shows a state in which metadata and URI are stored in the metadata information database 302.

  When the user of the mobile terminal 2 requests browsing of a web page, the metadata adding unit 301 searches the metadata information database 302 using the URI of the web page requested from the web browser 200 as a key, and is associated with the URI. Get the metadata. Subsequently, web page data is sent from the web server 1, and when the web page data is sent to the web browser 200, the acquired metadata is added and transmitted. At this time, the metadata may be added to the HTTP header, or may be transmitted in the <META> tag of the HTML file or using another communication path between the web browser 200 and the proxy 3. .

  The user data storage unit 201 acquires data to be stored from the web browser 200 based on a user's storage instruction, and sends the data to the user data storage unit 202.

  The user data storage unit 202 instructs storage of user data sent from the user data storage unit 201 and instructed to be stored by the user, and the user data is stored in the user data storage unit in association with the attached metadata. In this embodiment, the user data is a URI, and the user data storage unit 202 stores the URI and metadata in association with each other as shown in FIG.

  Next, a process in which a user displays a web page using metadata will be described.

  The user data search unit 203 searches the user data storage unit 202 for user data that matches the metadata using the metadata instructed by the user as a key, and sends the user data to the user data display unit 204.

  The user data display unit 204 formats the data sent from the user data search unit 203 for display, and sends the data to the web browser 200. In this embodiment, since the user data is a URI, the user data display unit sends the URI sent from the user data search unit 203 to the web browser 200. The web browser 200 acquires a web page from the web server 1 based on the sent URI.

  Then, 2nd embodiment which is a modification of the user data display system which is this invention is described with reference to FIG.

  In the user data organization system according to the second embodiment, the mobile terminal 20 includes a collective storage data collection unit 211 and a screen display state collection unit 221 in addition to the elements included in the mobile terminal 2 according to the first example. And further including. The collective storage data collection unit 211 and the screen display state collection unit 221 are both in the processing unit of the mobile terminal 20.

  In the mobile terminal 20 of the present embodiment, when the user instructs the newly received web page to store data, the batch storage data collection unit 211 receives a URI from the browser 200. The collective storage data collection unit 211 analyzes the data displayed on the browser 200 based on the received URI, and collects files necessary for display as data to be collectively saved. Further, the screen display state collection unit 221 acquires the screen display state of the browser 200. For example, as indicated by the pull-down menu, the selected check box or the like is acquired and transmitted to the user data storage unit 201. In accordance with this, the user data storage unit 201 includes an HTML file, an image file, a CSS (staged style sheet), a script file, a manifest file (a file including a list of files to be stored specified in advance by the content creator), a web page All the data to be stored related to the can be stored in the user data storage unit 202 in association with the metadata. FIG. 5 shows an example of user data stored in the user data storage unit.

  In the present embodiment, the mobile terminal 20 stores all files necessary for displaying a web page that supports saving in the user data storage unit 202. Therefore, the user of the portable terminal 20 can browse a favorite web page even when not connected to the Internet.

  The functions of the mobile terminal 2 and the mobile terminal 20 according to the above-described embodiment can be implemented as functions of the web browser 200 by using script technology such as Javascript.

  The system according to the present invention makes it possible to display the relevance link between user data so as to be traced even when the client terminal is not connected to the network while reducing the load on the client terminal.

  The present invention can be embodied as a device, system, method, and / or computer program. Thus, some or all of the present invention can be implemented in hardware or implemented by software (including firmware, resident software, microcode, state machines, gate arrays, etc.).

  Furthermore, the present invention can take the form of a computer program on a computer-usable or computer-readable storage medium, which is used by or with an instruction execution system. , Program code usable by a computer or readable by a computer is stored. In the context of this specification, a computer-usable or computer-readable medium is a recording, storing, or communicating program that is used by or in conjunction with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. , Any medium that can propagate, or carry.

  The computer-usable or computer-readable medium can be, for example but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, device, or propagation medium. Is not to be done. Computer readable media can include, but are not limited to, computer storage media and communication media, by way of example.

  Computer storage media is volatile and non-volatile, removable and non-removable implemented in any method or technique for storing information such as computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data. Media included. Computer storage media may include RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory, or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disc (DVD), or other optical storage, magnetic cassette, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage, or This includes, but is not limited to, other magnetic storage devices or any other medium that can be used to store desired information and that can be accessed from an instruction execution system. The program is electronically captured, for example, by optically scanning paper or other media, and then compiled, interpreted, or otherwise processed in an appropriate manner if necessary and then stored in computer memory It should be noted that the computer usable or computer readable medium may be a paper medium on which the program is printed or another suitable medium.

  Communication media typically embodies computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism and includes any information delivery media. It is. The term “modulated data signal” means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. For example, the communication medium includes, but is not limited to, a wired medium such as a wired network or direct wired connection, a wireless medium such as sound, RF, and infrared, and other wireless media. Combinations of any of the above are also included within the scope of computer readable media.

When the invention is embodied in the general context of computer-executable instructions, this embodiment may include program modules that are executed by one or more systems, computers, or other devices. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. In general, the functionality of program modules may be combined or distributed as desired in various embodiments.
While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. However, it is not intended that the invention be limited to the specific embodiments disclosed, but on the contrary, the invention is intended to cover all modifications, equivalents, which fall within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the claims. It should be understood that forms and alternative forms are covered. In general, these embodiments have been selected to highlight specific inventive aspects or features of the invention.

  Throughout this specification, identical reference numbers refer to identical elements throughout the description of the figures. When elements are referred to as being “connected” or “coupled”, these elements may be directly connected or coupled to each other, or there may be one or more intervening elements.

According to the user data organizing system of the present invention, it is possible to reduce the burden on the user when organizing user data.

It is a mimetic diagram of a user data organization system concerning a 1st embodiment. It is a schematic diagram of the user data organization system which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is an example of the content of the metadata information database which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is an example of the content of the user data storage part which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is an example of the content of the user data storage part which concerns on 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 200 Web browser 201 User data storage part 202 User data storage part 203 User data search part 204 User data display part 301 Metadata provision part 302 Metadata information database

Claims (12)

A user data organization system comprising: at least one client terminal; and a proxy server that mediates communication between the web server and the client terminal when the at least one client terminal connects to a web server,
The proxy server is
A metadata information database for storing URIs in association with corresponding metadata;
Metadata adding means for giving metadata corresponding to the URI requested to be browsed by the client terminal from the metadata information database;
Each of the client terminals is
User data storage means for instructing user data storage related to the URI in accordance with an input from the user;
User data storage means for storing the user data instructed to be stored by the user data storage means in association with the metadata given by the metadata grant means;
User data search means for searching user data stored in the user data storage means by metadata;
User data display means for instructing display of user data searched by the user data search means;
A user data organizing system comprising:   The user data organizing system according to claim 1, wherein the user data related to the URI includes a URI.   The user data organization system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the user data related to the URI includes a file used to display a web page indicated by the URI.   The user data organization system according to claim 3, wherein the file used for displaying the web page indicated by the URI includes at least one of an HTML file, a CSS, an image file, and a script file.   The user data organization system according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the file used for displaying the web page indicated by the URI includes a manifest file.   6. The client terminal according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the client terminal further includes a collective storage data collection unit that collects data to be stored by the user data storage unit in a collective manner. User data organization system. The file used to display the web page indicated by the URI includes a manifest file,
7. The user data organizing system according to claim 6, wherein the batch storage data collection unit collects user data storage in a batch based on the manifest file. The client terminal further includes a web browser and screen display state collection means for analyzing and collecting data displayed on the web browser,
8. The user data organizing system according to claim 1, wherein the user data storage unit further instructs to store the screen display state acquired by the screen display state collection unit. 9.   9. The user data organization system according to claim 1, wherein the client terminal is a mobile phone.   The user data organizing system according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the client terminal is a computer terminal.   The user data organizing system according to any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the proxy server is in the client terminal.   The user data organizing system according to claim 1, wherein the proxy server is in the web server.

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