JPH11259497A - Internet service providing device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] For a device in which a user is provided with an Internet service by a server system, information unnecessary to the user is excluded in response to diversification of requests from the user, and the purpose and Information to be easily obtained. When a connection is made from a client terminal device to a server, a control device receives provided information provided in the server, and provides the provided information and user's personal preference information provided in its own station. The contents of the information that matches and matches with the contents 21 and 22 are transmitted to the client terminal device 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an Internet service providing apparatus, and more particularly, to an apparatus in which a user is provided with an Internet service by a server system.

[0002] In recent years, the rapid spread of networks has made it easy to provide and obtain various services and information, and users have been diversified regardless of age and occupation.

[0003] While it is easy to provide information and services, it is necessary to accurately grasp the services and information required by the user without providing the information specifying the user, and to transmit the transmitted information to the user side. It is becoming increasingly important to sort from

[0004]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 10 schematically shows a conventionally known Internet service providing apparatus. Reference numeral 1 denotes a WWW (World WWW) having various Internet service information.
ide Web) server 10 is a client (WWW) browser for browsing Internet service information provided by the server 1 on the user side.

[0005] The schematic operation of such a conventional example is as follows. A URL (homepage address) is input from the browser 10 to request a homepage transfer. The server 1 transfers the HTML document to the browser 10 according to the transfer request. The browser 10 interprets the HTML document received from the server 1 and displays it on an information display unit (not shown).

In the browser 10, the HTML
If it is found that there is data (image) that requires helper software or the like in addition to the document, the transfer of the file is further requested. The server 1 transfers a file such as an image according to the transfer request. The browser 10 displays the transferred image and the like on the information display unit.

In the browser 10, if there is a link to another document, another URL is input to request the transfer of the home page. The server 1 transfers the HTML document as described above. The browser 10 interprets the sent HTML document and displays it on the information display unit.

[0008]

In such a conventional example, a document transmitted from a WWW server via the Internet is analyzed by a WWW browser and a process for merely displaying the document is performed. Since the content of the information is not considered at all, the user has to repeat the operation several times to obtain the required information, and thus has to receive useless information.

In addition, there is another problem that it is not possible to provide information in response to a user's detailed request by simply displaying the information. Accordingly, the present invention, in response to the diversification of requests from users, excludes information unnecessary for users,
An object of the present invention is to realize an Internet service providing apparatus capable of easily acquiring target information.

[0010]

[1] In order to achieve the above object, an Internet service providing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a server having provided information, and a client terminal connected to the server via the Internet. And the user's personal preference information, and when receiving a connection request to the server from the client terminal device, receiving the provided information from the server, collating the provided information with the personal preference information, and And a control device for transmitting the matched information to the client terminal device.

That is, provision information is provided in the server, and preference information of the user is provided in the control device. In this state, the user makes a connection request with the server from the client terminal device to the control device.

The control device requests the server to transmit the provided information, and upon receiving the provided information, the control device compares the information with the personal preference information existing in the control device, and sends the contents of the matched information to the client terminal device. Send and display. In this way, it is possible to provide only the information according to the user's individual request existing on the client terminal device side, and it is possible to quickly and accurately obtain necessary information.

[2] The matching information is a display tablet, and the client terminal device can display the display tablet by a user interface.

[3] The display tablet includes a setting tablet, and the preference information of the individual can be changed by selecting the setting tablet.
That is, when the user wants to change personal preference information, the user can cope with the setting by selecting the setting tablet from the display tablet and the setting tablet that can be switched and selected. it can.

[4] Further, the provided information can be composed of server information classification data and definition data.

[5] On the other hand, the control device creates a display / setting tablet by analyzing the definition data from the server information classification data, transmits the tablet to the client terminal device, and transmits the tablet to the client terminal device. Is for the display /
The setting tablet is displayed by the user interface, and the personal preference information is created by selecting and setting the setting tablet, and the client terminal device can provide the personal preference information to the control device. is there.

That is, in addition to having the above-mentioned personal preference information in the control device in advance, the user can create the user's first personal preference information using the information provided by the server.

The control device first analyzes the definition data from the server information classification data, creates a display / setting tablet, and transmits it to the client terminal device.
As a result, the display / setting tablet is displayed on the client terminal device by the user interface, and the user selects the setting tablet and makes desired settings to thereby display the user's personal preference information. Can be created. Then, the client terminal device gives the personal preference information to the control device.

[6] The control device can create the display / setting tablet after creating the personal preference information in which the server information classification data is associated with the server name. . By associating the server names in this manner, the control device receives the provided information from the corresponding server and creates the individual's initial preference information only by outputting a connection request from the client terminal device to the server. Finally, personal preference information can be created as described above.

[7] Further, when the server information classification data is added or changed, the control device analyzes the server information classification data based on the definition data and inquires whether or not to change the personal preference information. By adding display information to the display / setting tablet and selecting and setting the setting tablet via the user interface, the personal preference information can be changed.

That is, after the classification of the information provided from the server is added or changed, when the server is accessed, a screen for inquiring whether or not to change the personal preference information is displayed by the user interface. It is possible to dynamically respond to the addition / change of the information.

[8] The control device can be provided in the client terminal device. [9] Alternatively, the control device may be provided in a network. [10] Further, as the user interface, WWW
A browser can be used.

[0023]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment (1) of an Internet service providing apparatus according to the present invention.
A W server 1, a control device 2, and a client personal computer 3 as a client terminal device are connected. In this embodiment, the control device 2 is particularly installed on the Internet.

Provided information 11 is provided in the WWW server 1. The provided information 11 includes server information classification data 12 and definition data 13 for continuing to provide information.
And a server information changing unit 14 for changing the provided information 11 is provided. Also,
The control device 2 arranged on the Internet is provided with, for example, personal preference information 21 for the user A and personal preference information 22 for the user B.

Further, in the client personal computer 3, a reference approval unit 31 for referring to and approving the ID (user) name and password PWD, and an Internet service information browsing for displaying information and setting and inputting preference information. Browser 32 which is software for use
And a display / setting tablet 33 displayed by the WWW browser 32 and capable of setting information.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment (2) of the Internet service providing apparatus according to the present invention, which is basically the same as the embodiment (1) shown in FIG. 1, but is different. The point is that the control device 2 is provided not in the Internet but in the client personal computer 3.

The operation of the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 will be described below with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS.

First, the user inputs his / her ID name and password PWD from the client personal computer 3 to the reference approval unit 31 and requests the control device 2 to connect (Step S).
1) When the control is performed, the control device 2 further sends a connection request notification (step S1 ′) to the server 1.

In this case, the connection request (step S
Since the subsequent processing differs depending on whether or not 1) is the first access, the control device 2 makes this determination based on whether or not the preference information for each server exists (step S2). As a result, when it is determined that the access is the first access, first, the provision information 11 in the server 1 is transmitted to the control device 2 (step S3).

The control device 2 that has received the provided information 11 creates initial personal preference information in which the server information classification data 12 in the provided information 11 is associated with the server name because there is no personal preference information yet. (Step S4). This is a standard setting, and thus the preference information for each individual has not yet been reflected at this point.

An example of the server information classification data 12 in this case is shown in FIG. 5, where "sports", "politics",
Under the top nodes such as “entertainment” and “shopping”, for example, “soccer” and “baseball” are arranged for sports, for example. Each classification node is provided with an individual server information classification number, a node name, and a number of a parent node (“sports” for “soccer”). Although not shown, each node contains content information required by the user.

Initially, all of the server information classification data 12 is associated with the same server name to create the initial preference information. Next, the control device 2 generates a display / setting tablet 33 based on the definition data 13 included in the provided information 11 and passes it to the client personal computer 3 so that the browser 32 can display it (step S5).

FIG. 6 shows an example of the definition data 13 in this case. In this example, (1) addition to the category
Classification command tag for deleting, (2) Command execution tag, (3) Classification tag for classifying information, (4)
A control tag for executing the control process is included, and a specific example of the (3) classification tag is shown in FIG. 7. These are all created in HTML documents.

That is, the control device 2 can create the display / setting tablet 33 by the classification tag as shown in FIG. 7, and in the examples of FIGS. 1 and 2, the display tablet 33 is selected and shown. ing.

The display / setting tablet 33 is given in this way, and the client PC 3 displayed by the browser 32 sets the preference of the display / setting tablet 33. That is, as shown in FIG. 8, the display / setting tablet 33 is selected as the setting tablet, and detailed information classification is displayed for each of the top nodes “sports”, “politics”, “entertainment”, and so on. The user can select detailed information by checking (radio button) the item of information desired (step S).
6).

The client computer 3 sends the information selected in this way to the control device 2 and rewrites personal preference information to the set contents. This example is shown in FIG. 9 (1). By selecting the preference information as shown in step S6 with respect to the user's personal initial preference information created in step S4, the server of each classification is selected. An information classification number example is obtained.

In this case, the server information classification number "4"
As a result of selection of "13" and "16", preference information such as server information is obtained. When this is expressed in octets, a server information classification number is created in step S4 as shown in FIG. Information corresponding to the server name at the time, and this is stored in the control device 2 as personal preference information 2 for each server.
They are stored as 1 and 22.

At the time of the second or subsequent access, the server information classification data is stored in a local storage device.
The personal preference information that has been accumulated once is displayed on the browser 32 of the client personal computer 3 in the reverse sequence to the above. Next, when it is determined in step S2 that the access is the second or subsequent access, step S2 is executed.
In step 8, as in step S3, the provided information 11 existing in the server 1 is transmitted to the control device 2.

After that, the analysis of the definition data 13 is executed (step S9). As shown in FIG. 4, first, the control device 2 that has received the provided information 11 analyzes the definition data 13 in the provided information 11 (step S21), and proceeds to step S2.
The processing for each definition data type as shown in FIG.

Example (1): Command execution tag A command described as shown in FIG. 6 is dynamically called in the control device 2 and executed by another process. For example, if the command execution tag shown in FIG. 2B indicates an e-mail transmission, a file transfer instruction, or the like, reading such a command into the definition data allows the command to be dynamically executed. Become.

Example (2): Classification command tag This is the classification command tag shown in FIG. 1A. For example, when the classification is changed by the server information change unit 14, the tag is added or changed. Therefore, the display information for inquiring whether to change the personal preference information is displayed on the screen, and then the change information is stored.

That is, the browser 32 displays display information for inquiring whether or not to change personal preference information on the screen, and the user who sees this changes the tablet 33 for setting to change the preference information. Is stored in the control device 2.

Returning to FIG. 3, the control device 2 which has received the provided information 11 compares it with the personal preference information 21 and 22 created in step S7 existing in its own station (step S1).
0).

Then, the control device 2 generates a display / setting tablet 33 which is information required by the user,
It is passed to the client personal computer 3 and displayed by the browser 32 (step S11).

When the preference information is set again by the display / setting tablet 33 as shown in FIG. 8 as necessary, the arrangement of the top nodes differs for each individual (step S12).

[0046]

As described above, according to the Internet service providing apparatus of the present invention, when the client terminal device connects to the server, the control device receives the provided information provided in the server, and receives the provided information. And the contents of the information that matches and matches the user's personal preference information provided in its own station to the client terminal device, so that services and information can be classified and displayed for each type. It becomes possible. In addition, by transmitting only the information that the user needs, it becomes easier to search for and receive the desired information,
The transfer of necessary information can be eliminated and unnecessary traffic on the network can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment (1) of an Internet service providing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment (2) of the Internet service providing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart (1) for explaining the operation of the Internet service providing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart (2) for explaining the operation of the Internet service providing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of server information classification data used in the Internet service providing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of definition data used in the Internet service providing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram specifically showing a part of the example of the definition data shown in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a display / setting tablet in the Internet service providing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of preference information for each individual created by the Internet service providing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a conceptual explanatory diagram of an Internet service providing apparatus according to the related art.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 WWW server 2 Control device 3 Client personal computer 11 Provision device 12 Server information classification data 13 Definition data 14 Server information change part 21, 22 Personal preference information 31 Reference approval part 32 WWW browser 33 Display / setting tablet 34 Setting tablet In the drawings, the same reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Noriaki Kawaguchi 1-5-5 Shimonopporo Techno Park, Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo-city, Hokkaido Fujitsu Hokkaido Communication Systems Co., Ltd.

Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. A server having provided information; a client terminal connected to the server via the Internet; and a user having personal preference information, and receiving a connection request from the client terminal to the server. And a control device for receiving the provided information from the server at the time of receiving the information, checking the provided information with the personal preference information, and transmitting the content of the matched information to the client terminal device. Internet service providing device. 2. The Internet service providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the matched information is a display tablet, and the client terminal device displays the display tablet through a user interface. 3. The Internet service providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display tablet includes a setting tablet, and the preference information of the individual can be changed by selecting the setting tablet. . 4. The Internet service providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the provided information is composed of server information classification data and definition data. 5. The client terminal according to claim 4, wherein the control device creates a display / setting tablet by analyzing the definition data from the server information classification data and transmits the tablet to the client terminal device. A device displays the display / setting tablet via a user interface, selects and sets the setting tablet, and creates the personal preference information, and the client terminal device transmits the personal preference information to the control device. Internet service providing apparatus characterized in that the Internet service is provided. 6. The control device according to claim 5, wherein the control device creates the personal preference information in which the server information classification data is associated with the server name, and then creates the display / setting tablet. Internet service providing device characterized by the following. 7. The control device according to claim 3, wherein, when the server information classification data is added or changed, the control device analyzes the server information classification data based on the definition data to determine whether to change the personal preference information. Providing an Internet service by adding display information for inquiring the user to the display / setting tablet and changing the personal preference information by selecting and setting the setting tablet via the user interface. apparatus. 8. An Internet service providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control device is provided in said client terminal device. 9. An Internet service providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control apparatus is provided in a network. 10. The Internet service providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user interface is a WWW browser.