JP5565063B2 - Information acquisition system, information acquisition method, and information acquisition program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information acquisition system, an information acquisition method, and an information acquisition program.

  In recent years, with the advancement of functions of mobile terminal devices (such as mobile phones), various types of information including important information have been stored in the mobile terminal devices.

  Therefore, depending on the telecommunications carrier that provides the mobile terminal device operation service, the telephone number of the phone book registered in each portable terminal device is stored in the telecommunications carrier in preparation for replacement or loss of the portable terminal device. There is also a case where a service for uploading and storing to a Web server is provided.

  However, when a user forgets a mobile terminal device such as a mobile phone at home or the like, only the telephone number is stored in the web server of such a communication carrier. When trying to acquire other information in the device (for example, information on contact and schedule, received mail information, etc.), the information in the mobile terminal device cannot be known at a place away from home, and bothered There is no means for acquiring information in the mobile terminal device except for directly operating the mobile terminal device after returning to the home where the terminal device is located, and there is an inconvenience.

  Therefore, in order to make it possible to acquire information in a portable terminal device placed at a distant place, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-229910 of “Patent Document 1” In the “transmission / reception method and control program therefor”, a user terminal of another terminal device transmits an e-mail information transfer request stored in the mobile terminal device to the mobile terminal device together with the user authentication information. The device proposes a mechanism in which, when the authentication of the user is obtained, the transfer-requested e-mail information is transferred to another requesting terminal device.

JP 2002-229910 A (page 5-6)

  However, in the case of the technique described in Patent Document 1, since the electronic mail is used as a communication means for acquiring information in the mobile terminal device, the user needs to know the mail address of the mobile terminal device. In addition, it is also necessary to provide a function for performing user authentication on the other side of the acquisition request destination as a mail function of the mobile terminal device. Further, information to be acquired from the mobile terminal device is e-mail information, for example. Unless there are some restrictions, such as a portable terminal device, it is difficult to realize such a device with limited search performance. Furthermore, even if it is attempted to acquire information searched in the past again, information may have already been deleted in a mobile terminal device having insufficient memory capacity.

(Object of the present invention)
The present invention has been made to avoid such a situation, and an object of the present invention is to provide a remote access means to the mobile terminal device from the outside, and from the outside, the necessity in the mobile terminal device. It is to provide an information acquisition system, an information acquisition method, and an information acquisition program that can easily acquire various information.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the information acquisition system, the information acquisition method, and the information acquisition program according to the present invention mainly adopt the following characteristic configuration.

  (1) An information acquisition system according to the present invention is based on a mobile terminal device storing various types of information, a terminal device for acquiring information in the mobile terminal device, and an information acquisition request from the terminal device. Information including an information providing server that uploads information searched by the mobile terminal device by transmitting a search request to the mobile terminal device and presents the uploaded information to the terminal device that is an information acquisition request source In the acquisition system, the information providing server is a Web server having at least a Web function, and at least information acquisition request operation from the terminal device and information uploaded from the mobile terminal device to the terminal device The presenting operation is performed based on the HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) protocol.

  (2) An information acquisition method according to the present invention is an information acquisition method for acquiring information of a mobile terminal device storing various types of information by remote access from a remote terminal device, and acquiring information from the terminal device An information providing server for uploading information searched by the mobile terminal device by transmitting a search request to the mobile terminal device based on the request and presenting the uploaded information to the terminal device of the information acquisition request source The information providing server includes at least a Web server having at least a Web function, and includes at least an information acquisition request operation from the terminal device and an operation of presenting information uploaded from the mobile terminal device to the terminal device. , Based on the HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) protocol.

  (3) An information acquisition program according to the present invention is characterized in that the information acquisition method described in (2) above is implemented as a program executable by a computer.

  According to the information acquisition system, the information acquisition method, and the information acquisition program of the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

  That is, when an information acquisition request is issued from a terminal device that is an information acquisition request source, for example, a client PC, in an information storage server that is stored in a mobile terminal device that is located at a remote location, On the other hand, by making an acquisition request for information of the mobile terminal device, information in the mobile terminal device to be acquired, for example, telephone book information is uploaded to an information providing server, that is, a Web server, and the information acquisition request source terminal device For example, since it has a mechanism to be provided to the client PC, the keyword required for acquiring the information in the mobile terminal device, for example, telephone book information, for example, the name of the person holding the telephone of the telephone number to be acquired, Information that you want to obtain by knowing phonetic information as a search condition, such as phone book information of the person's phone It can be easily viewed on the Web browser of the terminal device, for example, the client PC.

  Furthermore, as information in the mobile terminal device, not only phone book information but also other information stored in the mobile terminal device such as e-mail information, schedule information, ToDo list information, text memo information, bookmark information, and my profile information As for information, it is possible to easily browse information to be acquired on a terminal device, for example, a Web browser of a client PC, only by knowing keywords for searching for each as a search condition.

  Furthermore, in the mobile terminal device to be acquired, when the search request mail from the information providing server is received, the “information provision availability flag” and the password are checked, and the connection destination URL registered in advance is checked. Since only the (Unique Resource Locator) uses an HTTP (POST method) transmission operation to upload information, information leakage due to unauthorized access from a third party can be prevented.

  In addition, since the information retrieved once in the mobile terminal device is uploaded to the information providing server and stored as history information in the database of the information providing server, the user of the terminal device, for example, the client PC, can use the database of the information providing server. It is also possible to acquire necessary information from the history information.

It is a system configuration figure showing an example of a system configuration of an information acquisition system concerning the present invention. It is a sequence diagram which shows an example regarding the outline | summary of operation | movement of the information acquisition system shown in FIG. It is a sequence diagram which shows an example of the authentication operation | movement of client PC in the information acquisition system shown in FIG. It is a sequence diagram which shows an example of the information acquisition operation | movement of client PC in the information acquisition system shown in FIG. It is a flowchart for demonstrating an example of operation | movement in the portable terminal device of the information acquisition system shown in FIG. It is a schematic diagram which shows the example of a screen structure of the information provision setting screen for registering beforehand the information required when providing information in the portable terminal device of the information acquisition system shown in FIG.

  Preferred embodiments of an information acquisition system, information acquisition method, and information acquisition program according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, the information acquisition system and the information acquisition method according to the present invention will be described. However, the information acquisition method may be implemented as an information acquisition program executable by a computer, or the information acquisition Needless to say, the program may be recorded on a computer-readable recording medium.

(Features of the present invention)
Prior to the description of the embodiments of the present invention, an outline of the features of the present invention will be described first. According to the present invention, information stored in a mobile terminal device is remotely accessed from an external arbitrary network connection terminal via an information providing server having a Web function, that is, a Web server. Even if the user is located at a distant place, a mechanism that enables browsing of information desired to be acquired from the mobile terminal device on the Web browser by simple means is realized.

  In addition, the present invention realizes a mechanism that allows a history of past search results to be viewed at any time by storing it in a database on an information providing server, that is, a Web server. .

(Configuration example of embodiment)
Next, an example of the system configuration example of the information acquisition system according to the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing a system configuration example of an information acquisition system according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a client PC (Personal Computer) 10 which is an example of a terminal device used by a user for acquiring information of a mobile terminal device 40 includes an IP (Internet Protocol) network 50 which is an example of a network. In this example, the mobile terminal device 40 is connected to the information providing server 10A via the wireless communication network 60, which is an example of a network.

  Here, the information providing server 10 </ b> A has a function of uploading information in the mobile terminal device 40 that has been requested for acquisition from the client PC 10, and allowing the client PC 10 that is the acquisition request source to view the information. Information acquisition application server having a front-end function for exchanging various information with the mobile terminal device 40, that is, an information providing AP (Application) server 20, and authentication information (password) for performing user authentication of the client PC 10 And an information acquisition database server having a database function for storing and registering various information such as an upload destination URL (Unique Resource Locator) indicating the upload destination of information from the mobile terminal device 40 and information uploaded from the mobile terminal device 40, that is, information Provided DB (DataBase) The information providing AP (Application) server 20 is connected to the client PC 10 and the mobile terminal device 40 via the IP network 50 and the wireless communication network 60, and is also provided with an information providing DB (DataBase) server. 30 and a LAN (Local Area Network) 70.

  However, the information providing AP server 20 and the information providing DB server 30 constituting the information providing server 10A may be connected via the IP network 50 instead of the LAN 70, or a dedicated line may be connected. You may make it connect via. Furthermore, instead of configuring the information providing AP server 20 and the information providing DB server 30 constituting the information providing server 10A physically separately, the two may be integrated.

  Although FIG. 1 shows an example in which the mobile terminal device 40 is connected to the wireless communication network 60, information exchange with the information providing AP server 20 by electronic mail and HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) protocol is shown. The network may be connected to any network, for example, may be connected by the IP network 50 which is a network for performing communication between the client PC 10 and the information providing server 10A.

  A client PC 10 that is an example of a terminal device used by a user is a network connection terminal having a Web browser function that is used when the user performs an operation of acquiring information, and is connected via an IP network 50 that is an example of a network. By accessing the information providing server 10A, an HTTP connection is established with the information providing server 10A, and by inputting a keyword specifying information in the mobile terminal device 40 to be acquired, for example, telephone book information, as an information acquisition request, Information such as telephone directory information in the mobile terminal device 40 can be acquired via the information providing server 10A.

  The information providing AP server 20 constituting the information providing server 10A is a Web server that is connected to the IP network 50 and the wireless communication network, which are examples of networks, and has a front-end function for the client PC 10 and the mobile terminal device 40. In response to an information acquisition request from the client PC 10, an authentication check by the information providing DB server 30 existing on the same LAN 70 is instructed, and an instruction to register information uploaded from the mobile terminal device 40, for example, telephone book information in a database Furthermore, the information providing DB server 30 is caused to perform a search process for the information requested for acquisition, and information extracted as a search result, for example, phone book information, is provided to the client PC 10 that is the information acquisition request source. To do.

(Description of operation of embodiment)
Next, an example of the operation of the information acquisition system shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram illustrating an example of an outline of the operation of the information acquisition system illustrated in FIG. 1, in which the client PC 10 stores information stored in the mobile terminal device 40, the information providing AP server 20, the information providing An example of the operation when acquiring via the DB server 30 is shown.

  Here, FIG. 2 shows an example of an information transmission / reception sequence between the client PC 10, the information providing AP server 20, the information providing DB server 30, and the portable terminal device 40, and the information providing AP that constitutes the information providing server 10A. For each of the server 20, the information providing DB server 30, and the mobile terminal device 40 storing the information that is the target of the acquisition request, an example of the functional blocks necessary for the operation of the present embodiment is also shown. Yes.

  Prior to the description of the entire operation sequence, functional block configuration examples of the information providing AP server 20, the information providing DB server 30, and the mobile terminal device 40 that constitute the information providing server 10A will be described with reference to FIG. explain.

  First, in the server group constituting the information providing server 10A, the information providing AP server 20 includes an authentication input screen transmission unit 21, an authentication check unit 22, a search condition input screen transmission unit 23, a search condition reception unit 24, and a search request unit. 25, at least a connection destination URL notification unit 26, an information acquisition unit 27, and a result notification unit 28.

  The authentication input screen transmission unit 21 uses the authentication input screen for inputting user authentication information (ID, password, etc.) as a Web screen when the user of the client PC 10 that has requested connection is authenticated. The authentication check unit 22 receives the authentication information input on the authentication input screen transmitted to the client PC 10 from the client PC 10 via the IP network 50 and transmits the information to the information providing DB server. The search condition for transmitting the Web screen for inputting the information search condition when authentication is obtained based on the authentication result transferred to the network 30 via the LAN 70 and performed by the information providing DB server 30 Enter mobile mail address information (email address, password) of input screen transmitter 23 or mobile terminal device 40 Start phone mail address input screen transmitting unit for transmitting a Web screen for, when the authentication is not obtained, it is to notify the fact to the client PC 10.

  The search condition input screen transmission unit 23 displays a search condition input screen for allowing the user of the client PC 10 to input a search condition for acquiring information stored in the mobile terminal device 40 when authentication is obtained. The search condition receiving unit 24 transmits the search condition input to the search condition input screen transmitted to the client PC 10 from the client PC 10 via the IP network 50 as a Web screen. Upon receipt, the search request unit 25 is activated.

  The search request unit 25 generates a search request mail including the search condition received from the client PC 10 and transmits it to the mobile terminal device 40 via the wireless communication network 60. The connection destination URL notification unit 26 Information uploaded from the mobile terminal device 40 that transmitted the request mail via the wireless communication network 60 as a search result is transferred to the information providing DB server 30 and registered, and the mobile terminal registered in the information providing DB server 30 The connection destination URL information for browsing the information from the device 40 is transmitted to the client PC 10 as the acquisition request source via the IP network 50.

  When the information acquisition unit 27 receives a browsing request for information stored in the mobile terminal device 40 for the connection destination URL from the client PC 10 via the IP network 50, the information acquisition unit 27 sends the information providing DB server 30 to the information providing DB server 30 via the LAN 70. To obtain information related to the mobile terminal device 40 requested to be browsed and activate the result notification unit 28. The result notification unit 28 receives information related to the mobile terminal device 40 from the information acquisition unit 27. Is created as a Web screen and transmitted to the client PC 10 via the IP network 50.

  Next, in the server group constituting the information providing server 10A, the information providing DB server 30 includes at least an authentication check unit 31, an information registration unit 32, and an information search unit 33.

  The authentication check unit 31 makes a connection request by comparing the authentication information of the user of the client PC 10 transferred from the information providing AP server 20 via the LAN 70 with the authentication information of the user registered in advance. The user of the client PC 10 is authenticated, and the authentication result is returned to the information providing AP server 20 via the LAN 70. The information registration unit 32 is transferred from the information providing AP server 20 via the LAN 70. The search result information of the mobile terminal device 40 is registered in the database as information related to the mobile terminal device 40.

  The information search unit 33 searches for information related to the mobile terminal device 40 registered in the database based on the browsing request for information related to the mobile terminal device 40 of the client PC 10 transferred from the information providing AP server 20 via the LAN 70. Thus, the information is extracted and transmitted to the information providing AP server 20 via the LAN 70.

  In addition, the mobile terminal device 40 that stores the information that is the target of the acquisition request includes at least an analysis / information extraction unit 41 and a result transmission unit 42.

  The analysis / information extraction unit 41 analyzes the search condition included in the search request mail received from the information providing AP server 20 via the wireless communication network 60 to determine whether or not the information can be provided. Information that matches the conditions is searched and extracted, and the result transmission unit 42 creates the information extracted by the analysis / information extraction unit 41 as data for upload, and transmits information via the wireless communication network 60. Upload to the providing AP server 20.

  Next, an example of the operation of the information acquisition system shown in FIG. 1 will be described sequentially according to the sequence numbers given in FIG. In FIG. 2, for example, when acquiring the phone book information of the mobile terminal device 40, the client PC 10 starts a Web browser and accesses the information providing AP server 20 via the IP network 50 according to the HTTP protocol. As a result, the information providing AP server 20 activates the authentication input screen transmission unit 21, and displays the authentication input screen as a Web screen on the client PC 10 via the IP network 50 (sequence Seq1).

  When the user of the client PC 10 inputs authentication information according to the authentication input screen displayed on the screen, the authentication information is transmitted to the information providing AP server 20 via the IP network 50 (sequence Seq2), and the information providing AP The server 20 activates the authentication check unit 22 and transfers the authentication information received from the client PC 10 to the information providing DB server 30 side via the LAN 70 (sequence Seq3). In the information providing DB server 30, the authentication check unit 31 collates the transferred information for authenticating the user of the client PC 10 with the authentication information related to the user of the client PC 10 registered in advance in the database. As a result, the user authentication check of the client PC 10 is performed. The authentication check result is returned to the information providing AP server 20 via the LAN 70, and the authentication check unit 22 of the information providing AP server 20 confirms whether or not the user of the client PC 10 has been normally authenticated.

  When the authentication check unit 22 of the information providing AP server 20 confirms that the authentication of the client PC 10 has been normally performed, the mobile mail address information (e-mail) for accessing the mobile terminal device 40 that is the information acquisition target from the client PC 10. If the address and password are already set (that is, registered in the information providing DB server 30), the search condition input screen transmission unit 23 is activated and a condition for searching for information to be acquired is set. The search condition input screen to be input is displayed on the client PC 10 via the IP network 50 as a Web screen (sequence Seq4).

  When the user of the client PC 10 inputs a search condition for information search according to the search condition input screen displayed on the screen, the search condition is transmitted to the information providing AP server 20 via the IP network 50, and the information providing AP server 20 is received by the search condition receiving unit 24 and activates the search request unit 25 (sequence Seq5). The search request unit 25 acquires the mobile mail address information (email address, password) of the mobile terminal device 40 that has already been set in the information providing DB server 30, and requests the return of the information specified in the search condition. A search request mail (information acquisition request mail) is created, and mail is transmitted to the mobile terminal device 40 from which information is to be acquired via the wireless communication network 60 (sequence Seq6).

  The mobile terminal device 40 that has received the search request mail activates the analysis / information extraction unit 41, analyzes the mail text of the search request mail (information acquisition request mail), and requests specified as search conditions. Based on the information (for example, when searching for the telephone number of the telephone of a specific person, the information stored in the portable terminal device 40 is searched based on the search keyword such as the person's name and phonetic). Then, information specified in the request information (for example, telephone book information of a specific person's telephone corresponding to the name specified as a search keyword) is extracted from the information, and the result transmission unit 42 to start.

  The result transmission unit 42 sets parameters of an HTTP request for uploading the information extracted by the analysis / information extraction unit 41, for example, telephone directory information, as a search result to the information providing AP server 20 that is the transmission source of the search request mail. create. Thereafter, the upload destination URL registered in advance in the mobile terminal device 40 (for example, in this embodiment, the URL of the information providing AP server 20 is registered and set), and the parameters of the created HTTP request HTTP (POST method) that creates content for uploading the extracted information, for example, phone book information (that is, upload URL), and requests content registration to the information providing AP server 20 via the wireless communication network 60. Transmission is performed (sequence Seq7).

  The information providing AP server 20 activates the connection destination URL notification unit 26 and information (for example, telephone) of the mobile terminal device 40 included in the upload content requested by the HTTP (POST method) received from the mobile terminal device 40. (Book information) is extracted and transferred to the information providing DB server 30 via the LAN 70 (sequence Seq8), thereby starting the information registration unit 32 of the information providing DB server 30 and information of the mobile terminal device 40, for example, telephone Register book information in the database. Further, the connection destination URL notification unit 26 acquires the URL parameter included in the upload content, and the client PC 10 stores information on the mobile terminal device 40 registered in the database of the information providing DB server 30, such as a telephone directory. A connection destination URL for accessing the information providing AP server 20 for browsing information is generated, and notified to the client PC 10 by responding to the client PC 10 via the IP network 50 with an HTTP response (sequence) Seq9).

  When the client PC 10 that has received the HTTP response from the information providing AP server 20 makes a Web access to the information providing AP server 20 via the IP network 50 using the connection destination URL included in the received HTTP response (sequence Seq10). ) The information providing AP server 20 activates the information acquisition unit 27, recognizes that it is an information browsing request related to information of the mobile terminal device 40 corresponding to the connection destination URL, for example, phone book information, and the information is An information acquisition request is transmitted via the LAN 70 to the registered information providing DB server 30 (sequence Seq11). The information providing DB server 30 that has received the information acquisition request from the information providing AP server 20 activates the information search unit 33 and searches the database, whereby the information of the mobile terminal device 40 specified by the information acquisition request is obtained. For example, the telephone directory information is extracted and transmitted to the information providing AP server 20 via the LAN 70 (sequence Seq11).

  When the requested information of the mobile terminal device 40, for example, telephone directory information is received from the information providing DB server 30, the information acquisition unit 27 of the information providing AP server 20 activates the result notification unit 28, and the result notification unit 28 receives the acquisition request. A content display screen capable of browsing information of the mobile terminal device 40 in which there is, for example, phone book information is created, and the content display screen is displayed on the client PC 10 via the IP network 50 as a Web screen (sequence Seq12). ). As a result, the user of the client PC 10 can browse the information of the mobile terminal device 40 requested to acquire, for example, telephone book information on the Web browser.

  Next, details of the authentication operation of the client PC 10 and the registration operation of the mobile mail address information (mail address, password) of the mobile terminal device 40 in the sequence Seq1 to the sequence Seq3 of the sequence diagram of FIG. explain. FIG. 3 is a sequence diagram showing an example of the authentication operation of the client PC 10 in the information acquisition system shown in FIG. 1. The client PC 10 requests user authentication from the information providing server 10A, and the user authentication of the client PC 10 is performed. After being obtained, the mobile mail address information (mail address and password) of the mobile terminal device 40 instructed by the client PC 10 is registered in the information providing server 10A (that is, the information providing DB server 30 via the information providing AP server 20). An example of the operation sequence up to this point is shown. The e-mail address of the mobile e-mail address information of the mobile terminal device 40 is the e-mail address of the mobile terminal device 40 used when transmitting a search request e-mail (information acquisition request e-mail) for acquiring information of the mobile terminal device 40. The password of the mobile mail address information is a password for user authentication for determining whether or not the user can acquire information on the mobile terminal device 40.

  Here, the client PC 10 and the information providing server 10A from the connection request to the information providing server 10A (the information providing AP server 20, the information providing DB server 30) to the registration of the destination information (email address, password) of the portable terminal device 40. All communication with the (information providing AP server 20 and information providing DB server 30) uses the HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) protocol in order to ensure the safety of communication using the HTTP protocol. .

  In FIG. 3, for example, when acquiring the phone book information of the mobile terminal device 40, the client PC 10 starts a Web browser and uses the HTTPS protocol to the information providing AP server 20 via the IP network 50. Therefore, a connection request is transmitted (sequence Seq21).

  Upon receiving the connection request from the client PC 10, the information providing AP server 20 displays an authentication input screen for authenticating the user of the client PC 10 on the client PC 10 as a Web screen, and authentication information (ID and password). Is requested (sequence Seq22).

  When the user of the client PC 10 inputs an ID and a password as authentication information when the authentication input screen is displayed and the input of the authentication information is requested, the authentication information is stored in the information providing AP server. 20 (sequence Seq23). The information providing AP server 20 transfers the authentication information received from the client PC 10 to the information providing DB server 30 as an authentication check request, and requests an authentication check of the user of the client PC 10 (sequence Seq24).

  The information providing DB server 30 performs a collation operation between the transferred information for authenticating the user of the client PC 10 and the authentication information regarding the user of the client PC 10 registered in the database in the information providing DB server 30 in advance. By doing so, an authentication check of the user of the client PC 10 is performed. The authentication check result in the information providing DB server 30 is notified to the information providing AP server 20 as an authentication check result notification (sequence Seq25), and it is confirmed in the information providing AP server 20 whether or not the client PC 10 has been normally authenticated. The

  When the information providing AP server 20 confirms that the user authentication of the client PC 10 has been normally performed as an authentication check result in the information providing DB server 30, the information providing AP server 20 returns information indicating authentication OK connection permission to the client PC 10. (Sequence Seq26). On the other hand, as a result of the authentication check in the information providing DB server 30, if the user authentication of the client PC 10 is bad, authentication NG information indicating that the authentication has not been obtained is transmitted to the client PC 10, and the client PC 10 The connection with the PC 10 is released.

  Thereafter, the information providing AP server 20 receives the mobile mail address information (mail address and password) of the mobile terminal device 40 from which information is to be acquired based on the past registration instruction from the client PC 10 that has returned the information indicating the authentication OK connection permission. Whether or not it has already been registered is confirmed with the information providing DB server 30, and if it has not been registered yet, the mobile mail address information (mail address and password) of the mobile terminal device 40 from which information is to be obtained ) Is displayed on the client PC 10 as a Web screen.

  The mail related to the mobile terminal device 40 that the user of the client PC 10 that has received the information indicating the authentication OK connection permission from the information providing AP server 20 and has confirmed that the mobile mail address information input screen is displayed on the screen When the address and password are input as the mobile mail address information, the client PC 10 notifies the information providing AP server 20 of the mobile mail address information (the mail address and password of the mobile terminal device 40) as a mobile mail address registration request. (Sequence Seq27). The information providing AP server 20 uses the mobile mail address information (the mail address and password of the mobile terminal device 40) received as the mobile mail address registration request from the client PC 10 as the mobile mail address DB registration request for the client PC 10 as the information providing DB server 30. (Sequence Seq28).

  When receiving the mobile mail address DB registration request for the client PC 10 from the information providing AP server 20, the information providing DB server 30 receives the mobile mail address information (mobile terminal device 40) for the client PC 10 included in the mobile mail address DB registration request. Are registered in the database, and the registration result (success / failure of registration) in the database is returned to the information providing AP server 20 as a DB registration result notification (sequence Seq29). The information providing AP server 20 displays the registration result in the database received from the information providing DB server 30 on the client PC 10 as a database registration completion screen, so that the user authentication operation of the client PC 10 and the user intends to acquire information. The registration operation of the mobile mail address information (mail address and password) related to the mobile terminal device 40 is completed (sequence Seq30).

  Next, in sequence Seq4 to sequence Seq12 of the sequence diagram of FIG. 2, in response to a request for acquiring information stored in the mobile terminal device 40, for example, telephone number information, transmitted from the client PC 10, the information providing server 10A ( In the information providing AP server 20 and the information providing DB server 30), information of the mobile terminal device 40 specified by the client PC 10, for example, telephone number information is acquired, and the information acquisition operation is performed until the information is presented to the requesting client PC 10. Details will be further described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram showing an example of the information acquisition operation of the client PC 10 in the information acquisition system shown in FIG. 1, and the requesting client PC 10 revisits the information providing server 10A (information providing AP server 20, information providing). It shows a case where a connection request is transmitted to the DB server 30) and the authentication operation is performed again.

  Here, the client PC 10 from the connection request to the information providing server 10A (that is, the information providing DB server 30 via the information providing AP server 20) to the presentation of information of the mobile terminal device 40 such as telephone number information to the client PC 10 All communication with the information providing server 10A (the information providing AP server 20 and the information providing DB server 30) uses the HTTPS protocol in order to ensure the safety of communication using the HTTP protocol.

  In FIG. 4, when a new connection request is made from the client PC 10 to the information providing server 10 </ b> A, a sequence for performing user authentication processing of the client PC 10 operates. That is, a connection request is transmitted to the information providing AP server 20 from the client PC 10 that intends to acquire the telephone number information of the mobile terminal device 40, and then the correct authentication information (ID and password) is received from the user of the client PC 10. ) And the sequence from sequence Seq31 to sequence Seq36 is executed as the operation until the authentication OK connection permission is received. Here, the sequence from sequence Seq31 to sequence Seq36 is exactly the same as the sequence from sequence Seq21 to sequence Seq26 in FIG. 3, and further description thereof is omitted here.

  When the authentication OK connection permission information is transmitted to the client PC 10 in the sequence Seq36, the information providing AP server 20 returns the information indicating the authentication OK connection permission as a result of the past registration instruction from the client PC 10 and the information acquisition target mobile terminal device Whether or not 40 mobile mail address information (email address and password) has already been registered is confirmed with the information providing DB server 30, and if already registered, it is stored in the mobile terminal device 40. A search condition input screen for requesting input of a search condition for searching for information to be acquired from the information to be acquired is displayed on the client PC 10 as a Web screen.

  The user of the client PC 10 that has received the information indicating the authentication OK connection permission from the information providing AP server 20 and has confirmed that the search condition input screen is displayed on the screen searches for information on the mobile terminal device 40 to be acquired. For example, when a specific person's name or the like is input as a search condition and a keyword indicating that the person's telephone number is desired is input, the client PC 10 causes the search condition (for example, name and telephone number) to be acquired. ) Is notified to the information providing AP server 20 as a telephone number acquisition request (sequence Seq37).

  When receiving the telephone number acquisition request from the client PC 10, the information providing AP server 20 accesses the information providing DB server 30 and receives the mobile mail address information (mail address) of the mobile terminal device 40 that the client PC 10 is the target of information acquisition. , Password), and create an email body indicating the request for obtaining the phone number with a password for the mobile email address information, set the email address of the mobile email address information as the destination information of the created email body, A telephone number acquisition request mail is transmitted to portable terminal device 40 (sequence Seq38). Here, the mobile mail address information (mail address, password) of the mobile terminal device 40 is registered in advance in the information providing DB server 30 by the sequence Seq28 of FIG.

  The mobile terminal device 40 that has received the telephone number acquisition request mail from the information providing AP server 20 analyzes the text of the received telephone number acquisition request mail and searches for a keyword (name indicates a search condition) for searching for information. Information indicating that a person's telephone number is to be retrieved), and by performing a search based on the keyword with the phone book information as a search target among the information stored in the portable terminal device 40, an acquisition request can be obtained. HTTP (POST method) that extracts phone book information including the target phone number, edits the extracted phone book information as upload content (upload URL), and requests content registration from the information providing AP server 20 ) Transmission is performed (sequence Seq39).

  The information providing AP server 20 extracts the phone book information of the portable terminal device 40 included in the upload content requested by the HTTP (POST method) received from the portable terminal device 40, and provides the information provision request as the information registration request. By transferring to the DB server 30 (sequence Seq40), the information providing DB server 30 registers the transferred telephone directory information of the mobile terminal device 40 in the database. Further, the information providing AP server 20 acquires the URL parameter included in the upload content, and the client PC 10 browses the phone book information of the mobile terminal device 40 registered in the database of the information providing DB server 30. For this purpose, a connection destination URL for accessing the information providing AP server 20 is generated, and the client PC 10 is notified by responding to the client PC 10 with an HTTP response (sequence Seq41).

  In the client PC 10 that has received the HTTP response from the information providing AP server 20, information stored in the mobile terminal device 40 requested to acquire the connection destination URL included in the received HTTP response from the user of the client PC 10, for example When it is stored as destination information for acquiring a telephone number and Web access is made as an information acquisition request to the information providing AP server 20 using the connection destination URL (sequence Seq42), the information providing AP server 20 Recognizing that the information is a request for browsing information related to the mobile terminal device 40 corresponding to the connection destination URL, for example, telephone directory information, and transmitting an information acquisition request to the information providing DB server 30 in which the information is registered (sequence) Seq43). The information providing DB server 30 that has received the information acquisition request from the information providing AP server 20 searches the database to extract information of the mobile terminal device 40 specified by the information acquisition request, for example, phone book information. The result notification is transmitted to the information providing AP server 20 (sequence Seq44).

  When the requested information of the mobile terminal device 40, for example, phone book information is received from the information providing DB server 30 as a result notification, the information providing AP server 20 browses the information of the mobile terminal device 40 that has made an acquisition request, for example, the phone book information. A content display screen that can be displayed is created, and the content display screen is displayed on the client PC 10 as a Web screen (sequence Seq45). As a result, the user of the client PC 10 can browse the information of the mobile terminal device 40 requested to acquire, for example, telephone book information on the Web browser.

  Next, in sequence Seq6 to sequence Seq7 in the sequence diagram of FIG. 2 and in sequence Seq38 to sequence Seq39 of FIG. 4, the information acquisition request mail from the information providing AP server 20 is received and the corresponding information is uploaded. Details of the operation of the mobile terminal device 40 until it is uploaded as content to the information providing AP server 20 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining an example of the operation in the mobile terminal device 40 of the information acquisition system shown in FIG.

  When the mobile terminal device 40 receives mail via the wireless communication network 60 (step S1), the mobile terminal device 40 activates the analysis / information extraction unit 41 shown in FIG. 1 and analyzes the mail title and mail text of the received mail. Thus (step S2), the type of the mail is determined (step S3). When the mail is not an information acquisition request mail from the information providing AP server 20, for example, a telephone number acquisition request mail but a normal mail (in the case of “normal mail” in step S <b> 2), the process proceeds to a normal mail reception process. (Step S8).

  On the other hand, when the mail is an information acquisition request mail from the information providing AP server 20, for example, a telephone number acquisition request mail (in the case of “information acquisition request mail” in step S2), the requested information can be provided. Is determined based on the “information provision availability flag” set and registered in advance for each information, and the password included in the received information acquisition request mail is set in advance in the mobile terminal device 40 It is determined whether or not it matches the registered password (step S4).

  If the “information provision enable / disable flag” is off or if the password verification result does not match (if either “NO” in step S5), it is refused to provide information. Then, the information providing AP server 20 side is notified and the processing is stopped (step S9).

  On the other hand, if the “information provision availability flag” is on and the password verification results match (if both are “YES” in step S5), an information acquisition request mail, for example, a telephone number acquisition request mail Search condition is extracted from the mail body of the mobile phone device 40 based on the extracted search condition (for example, the condition of searching for the telephone number of a person's telephone indicated by the name of a specific person or phonetic). Search for information in After that, an HTTP request parameter is created based on information extracted as a search result, for example, telephone directory information (step S6).

  After that, the result transmission unit 42 of the mobile terminal device 40 uses the created HTTP request parameters and the upload destination URL (for example, the URL of the information providing AP server 20) registered in advance in the mobile terminal device 40. The content for uploading the extracted information, for example, telephone directory information (upload URL) is created, and HTTP (POST method) requesting content registration is transmitted to the information providing AP server 20 (step S7).

  Here, a screen configuration example of the information provision setting screen displayed on the screen in order to pre-register the “information provision availability flag”, the password, and the upload destination URL used in step S7 for each information used in steps S4 and S5 of FIG. Is shown in FIG. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a screen configuration example of an information provision setting screen for pre-registering information necessary for providing information in the mobile terminal device 40 of the information acquisition system shown in FIG. As an input frame for information to be pre-registered, at least an information provision availability flag setting frame 81, an upload destination URL input frame 82, and a password input frame 83 are provided.

  In the information provision setting screen of FIG. 6, the information provision availability flag setting frame 81 is an input frame for setting an “information provision availability flag” indicating whether or not to permit information provision to ON or OFF. In the example of the information provision enable / disable flag setting frame 81 in FIG. 6, a case is illustrated in which whether or not provision of all information in the mobile terminal device 40 is permitted is illustrated, but a pull-down menu is used. The “information provision availability flag” may be set separately for each piece of information of the mobile terminal device 40. The upload destination URL input frame 82 is an input frame for setting an upload destination URL when uploading information to the information providing AP server 20, and the password input frame 83 is a partner permitted to provide information. It is an input frame for registering a password for performing user authentication of whether or not.

  The information provision setting screen of FIG. 6 illustrates the case where the information provision availability flag setting frame 81, the upload destination URL input frame 82, and the password input frame 83 are displayed on the same screen. You may make it comprise as an input screen.

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In the information acquisition system according to the present invention, as described above, the information providing DB server 30 has a mechanism for registering the information of the mobile terminal device 40 as a database of upload history information. This information can be stored as history information, and the information can be provided in response to a case where information on the mobile terminal device 40 that has been searched in the past from the terminal device, for example, the client PC 10 is acquired. it can.

  Furthermore, the information of the mobile terminal device 40 to be acquired is not limited to the phone book information, but the e-mail information, schedule information, ToDo list information, text memo information, bookmark information, and my profile in the mobile terminal device 40. As for other information stored in the mobile terminal device 40 such as information, it is also possible to obtain the necessary necessary information by inputting a keyword for searching for each other. For example, with respect to the schedule information, the acquisition target is the schedule information, and by specifying the period to be acquired, information related to the schedule for the period can be acquired. As for e-mail information, the acquisition target is e-mail information, the e-mail address or sender name of the e-mail to be acquired is specified, and if necessary, the e-mail reception period By designating, it is possible to acquire important information included in the received e-mail, for example, information on a meeting destination, URL information on a search destination, and the like.

(Explanation of effect of embodiment)
As described in detail above, the following effects can be obtained in the above-described embodiment.

  That is, a keyword necessary for acquiring information stored in the mobile terminal device 40 located at a remote location, for example, telephone book information, for example, the name of the telephone number to be acquired and its furigana information are used as a search condition. As a result, it is possible to easily browse information to be acquired, for example, phone book information on a terminal device, for example, a Web browser of the client PC 10. Furthermore, as information in the mobile terminal device 40, not only phone book information but also e-mail information, schedule information, ToDo list information, text memo information, bookmark information, my profile information, etc. are stored in the mobile terminal device 40. As for the other information, it is possible to easily browse the information to be acquired on the terminal device, for example, the Web browser of the client PC 10 only by knowing the keyword for searching each as a search condition.

  Further, in the mobile terminal device 40 to be acquired, when the search request mail from the information providing AP server 20 is received, the “information provision availability flag” and the password are checked and registered in advance. Since a method of uploading information by an HTTP (POST method) transmission operation only to the connection destination URL is adopted, information leakage due to unauthorized access from a third party can be prevented.

  In addition, since the information retrieved once in the mobile terminal device 40 is uploaded to the information providing AP server 20 and stored as history information in the database of the information providing DB server 30, the user of the terminal device, for example, the client PC 10, Necessary information can be acquired from the history information in the database of the information providing DB server 30.

  The configuration of the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described above. However, it should be noted that such examples are merely illustrative of the invention and do not limit the invention in any way. Those skilled in the art will readily understand that various modifications and changes can be made according to a specific application without departing from the gist of the present invention.

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10A Information provision server 20 Information provision AP server 21 Authentication input screen transmission unit 22 Authentication check unit 23 Search condition input screen transmission unit 24 Search condition reception unit 25 Search request unit 26 Connection destination URL notification unit 27 Information acquisition unit 28 Result notification unit 30 Information providing DB server 31 Authentication check unit 32 Information registration unit 33 Information search unit 40 Portable terminal device 41 Analysis / information extraction unit 42 Result transmission unit 50 IP network 60 Wireless communication network 70 LAN
81 Information provision availability flag setting frame 82 Upload destination URL input frame 83 Password input frame

Claims (6)

A mobile terminal device storing various types of information, a terminal device for acquiring information in the mobile terminal device, and transmitting a search request to the mobile terminal device based on an information acquisition request from the terminal device The information acquisition system includes an information providing server that uploads information searched by the portable terminal device and presents the uploaded information to the terminal device that is the information acquisition request source. A Web server having at least a Web function, and at least an information acquisition request operation from the terminal device and an operation of presenting information uploaded from the mobile terminal device to the terminal device by an HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) protocol Based on the
Prior to the information acquisition operation of the mobile terminal device as an information acquisition target, the terminal device, with respect to the information providing server, an e-mail address that is the destination of the e-mail of the mobile terminal device as an information acquisition target; Mobile mail address information including at least a password for user authentication of the terminal device is transmitted, and the information providing server receives the mobile mail address information from the terminal device when receiving an information acquisition request from the terminal device. Set and register in advance as information,
When the information providing server receives an information acquisition request from the terminal device, the mail address of the mobile terminal device of information acquisition target included in the mobile mail address information set and registered in advance is used as the destination. The mobile terminal device that transmits a search request mail with information search conditions specified in the information acquisition request from the terminal device to the mobile terminal device based on an e-mail protocol, and receives the search request mail The apparatus uploads the information retrieved and extracted based on the search condition attached to the search request mail to the information providing server according to an HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) protocol,
The portable terminal device registers in advance an upload destination URL (Unique Resource Locator) to be uploaded to the information providing server, and searches and extracts information based on a search condition attached to the received search request mail. An upload URL, which is upload content, is created from the parameters of the HTTP request created for uploading to the providing server and the upload destination URL registered in advance, and the created upload content is used as the information providing server. HTTP (POST method) is sent as a content registration request according to the HTTP protocol,
When the information providing server receives an upload URL, which is the upload content, from the mobile terminal device, the information providing server obtains information on the mobile terminal device included in the uploaded content from the mobile terminal device. The upload destination URL is registered and saved in the database as upload history information, and the upload destination URL included in the upload content is used as the connection destination URL information for accessing the registered and saved information of the mobile terminal device by the HTTP response. An information acquisition system that performs notification by responding to the terminal device that is an information acquisition request source . The information providing server creates the search request mail with the password included in the mobile mail address information set and registered in advance when creating the search request mail to be transmitted to the mobile terminal device. E-mail is sent to the mobile terminal device, and the mobile terminal device sets an information provision availability flag indicating whether information can be provided for each stored information or in common for all information, and a user of the terminal device. A password for authentication is set and registered in advance, and when the search request mail is received, the password is set in advance prior to an operation for searching for information based on the search conditions attached to the search request mail. The registered information provision enable / disable flag is set in a state indicating permission, and a password registered in advance is registered. If the password which are assigned to the serial search request mail matches, information acquisition system according to claim 1, characterized in that performing the search and extraction operation of the information based on the search condition. The terminal device is an information acquisition target uploaded to the information providing server by performing Web access to the information providing server based on the connection destination URL received from the information providing server. 3. The information acquisition system according to claim 2, wherein a user of the terminal device can browse the information of the mobile terminal device that is an information acquisition target by displaying the information on the screen on a Web screen. . As an HTTP protocol for transmitting and receiving information between the information providing server, the terminal device, and the portable terminal device, an HTTPS (HTTP over Secure Socket Layer) protocol that can ensure the security of the transmitted / received information is used. The information acquisition system according to claim 1 , wherein the information acquisition system is an information acquisition system. An information acquisition method for acquiring information of a mobile terminal device storing various types of information by remote access from a remote terminal device, wherein a search request is made to the mobile terminal device based on an information acquisition request from the terminal device At least an information providing server that uploads information retrieved by the portable terminal device and presents the uploaded information to the terminal device that is an information acquisition request source, and the information providing server includes a Web function At least information acquisition request operation from the terminal device and presentation operation of information uploaded from the mobile terminal device to the terminal device based on HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) protocol Carried out,
Prior to the information acquisition operation of the mobile terminal device as an information acquisition target, the terminal device, with respect to the information providing server, an e-mail address that is the destination of the e-mail of the mobile terminal device as an information acquisition target; Mobile mail address information including at least a password for user authentication of the terminal device is transmitted, and the information providing server receives the mobile mail address information from the terminal device when receiving an information acquisition request from the terminal device. Set and register in advance as information,
When the information providing server receives an information acquisition request from the terminal device, the mail address of the mobile terminal device of information acquisition target included in the mobile mail address information set and registered in advance is used as the destination. The mobile terminal device that transmits a search request mail with information search conditions specified in the information acquisition request from the terminal device to the mobile terminal device based on an e-mail protocol, and receives the search request mail The apparatus uploads the information retrieved and extracted based on the search condition attached to the search request mail to the information providing server according to an HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) protocol,
The portable terminal device registers in advance an upload destination URL (Unique Resource Locator) to be uploaded to the information providing server, and searches and extracts information based on a search condition attached to the received search request mail. An upload URL, which is upload content, is created from the parameters of the HTTP request created for uploading to the providing server and the upload destination URL registered in advance, and the created upload content is used as the information providing server. HTTP (POST method) is sent as a content registration request according to the HTTP protocol,
When the information providing server receives an upload URL, which is the upload content, from the mobile terminal device, the information providing server obtains information on the mobile terminal device included in the uploaded content from the mobile terminal device. The upload destination URL is registered and saved in the database as upload history information, and the upload destination URL included in the upload content is used as the connection destination URL information for accessing the registered and saved information of the mobile terminal device by the HTTP response. An information acquisition method comprising: notifying an information acquisition request source by responding to the terminal device. 6. An information acquisition program, wherein the information acquisition method according to claim 5 is implemented as a program executable by a computer.

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