JP2000057098A - User certification system, user information providing system to be used for the system and recording medium storing program for processing the system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To receive various information providing services without caring of a user ID and password on an internet or the like. SOLUTION: A teaching material providing service entrepreneur 13 provides teaching materials to a contracted client 12 by utilizing an internet 11. At the time of contraction, the entrepreneur 13 provides an FD or the like recording user information or the like for the client 12. The teacher of the client 12 sets this FD or the like on terminal equipment 16, opens the home page of the entrepreneur 13 and applies a teaching material providing service. At such a time, a host computer 14 of the entrepreneur 13 transfers a user information acquiring program to the terminal equipment 16, that program is executed on the terminal equipment 16, and the user ID and password or the like stored on the FD or the like are read out and transferred to the computer 14. Based on these data the computer 14 discriminates whether the relevant terminal equipment 16 is a contracted member or not.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a user authentication system, a user information providing system used in the user authentication system, and a recording medium storing a program for processing in the system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an information providing system using the Internet has been used. Further studies are being conducted in one of these fields, the field of education. For example, a teaching material development / providing system as shown in FIG. 1 is being studied. The provider 3 that develops and provides the teaching materials uses the network 10 based on the opinions and requests of the teachers and the like, and uses the network 10 (a school that has a contract with the provider 3 and is qualified to receive the teaching material information service provided by the provider 3). 1. Provide teaching materials to 1 and uncontracted schools (schools not contracted with Provider 3; not qualified to receive the teaching material information service) 2. On the network 10, a bulletin board 4, a request / opinion registration form 5, a mailbox 6, a teaching material DB 7, a sample etc. DB 8
And a link collection 9 and the like. The network usage means such as a bulletin board used here is maintained / provided by the provider 3.
Perform management. Here, the provider 3 is a network provider (in the case of the Internet, WWW (Wo
rld-Wide Web) It has a host computer 35 serving as a server. ), The home page on the development and provision of teaching materials is disclosed by the host computer 35. The provider 3 may be a developer, a manufacturer, or a provider of teaching materials, or may be a different organization. In the case of another organization, a developer, a manufacturer or a teaching material provider of the teaching material may be connected to a network via the host computer 35 of the provider 3, or a developer, a manufacturer or the teaching material of the teaching material. The form in which the provider independently connects to the network may be adopted.

[0003] If a user of a teaching material such as a school teacher has a request or an opinion regarding a teaching material on the bulletin board 4, it is created according to a request / opinion registration form 5 and posted (registered) on the bulletin board 4. The request / opinion registration form 5 is created by the provider 3 and is a form in which a request or an opinion is made. This form can be viewed on the network and downloaded as needed. It should be noted that the provider 3 posts an opinion or the like of a teaching material user such as a school teacher who cannot use the network on a bulletin board instead of the teacher. In addition, Provider 3
The development of teaching materials will be promoted with reference to these opinions. Further, the provider 3 displays teaching materials that can be provided, teaching materials to be developed, and the like, and teachers of the contracted school 1 and the uncontracted schools 2 can refer to this bulletin board to know the provided teaching materials.

[0004] As one usage of the mailbox 6, the contracted school 1 requests the provider 3 through the mailbox 6 for development of teaching materials, and the provider 3 sends the development request via the mailbox 6. The specifications and the like related to development are presented, and the contracted school 1 is checked for the specifications and the like.
In addition, the contract school 1 can make a request, an opinion, and the like regarding the development via the mailbox 6.

[0005] The teaching material database 7 accumulates teaching materials developed and created by the provider 3 and provides the contracted school 1 for use. The contracted school 1 accesses the teaching material database 7 and downloads and uses the teaching material from the teaching material database 7 within the contracted range. In the sample etc. database 8, a sample of the teaching material or a teaching material developed independently by the teacher is accumulated. The contracted school 1 and the uncontracted school 2 can access this database. Uncontracted school 2
It is expected to try this sample and become a contract school. In addition, the sample etc. database 8 stores teaching materials independently developed by teachers nationwide, and also functions as a database that can be used freely or by paying a certain royalty.

[0006] In the link collection 9, links or mailing lists relating to teaching materials, schools, education, and the like are collected and provided for use by related parties. In the teaching material development / providing system of FIG. 1, a teaching material providing service is conceivable. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, this service is to open a home page 30 on the Internet and provide useful teaching materials useful for school use. As a service, we have various menus,
Depending on the contents of the contract, users can access different services. The contracted school 1 has a public website 30
Of the teaching material providing homepage 31, and further, the teaching material page 32 and the sample page 33 can be accessed. The contracted school 1 can search for necessary teaching materials, download the teaching materials, and use them. on the other hand,
The uncontracted school 2 can access the sample material providing homepage 31 of the public homepage 30, and then access the sample page 33 to download and use the sample teaching material, but cannot access the teaching material page 32. .

[0007] In order to determine the access right, the server of the homepage 30 gives the contracted school a user ID and a password that allow access.
In the operation of the network, the server of the homepage 30 checks whether or not the school to which the teacher belongs has the access right based on the user ID and the password when the teacher accesses the homepage.

[0008]

In the conventional system, when accessing the teaching material database 7 or the teaching material page 32, a user ID and a password set for each contracted school are input. Therefore, it is necessary for the teacher to input the user ID and the password every time the user uses it, and there is a problem that it takes time to use the teacher.

Further, since the user ID and the password are set for each school, all the teachers who actually use the user ID and the password use the user ID and the password. As a result, there is a problem that the burden on the information manager increases due to inquiries from an unfamiliar teacher. Furthermore, since all the teachers know the user ID and password, if the teacher is transferred to an uncontracted school, even if the teacher is not contracted, the service can be obtained by using the user ID and password known before the transfer. There is a problem that becomes possible.

[0010] The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and is provided without being conscious of a user ID and a password.
It is an object of the present invention to enable various services to be enjoyed by a simple operation, and to further simplify management of a user ID and a password set in a unit group such as a school.

[0011]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when a service is provided from a host computer for service provision to a user terminal device 16 via a network (such as the Internet) 11, the user terminal device is provided. In the user terminal device used in the user authentication system in which the host computer performs the user authentication based on the user information (for example, information on the user such as the user ID and the password defined in FIG. 6) provided by In the configured user information providing system, a user information recording medium (FD, CDROM,
IC card or the like) is set so that it can be taken out, and the recording medium drive unit that drives the user information recording medium to read out the user information and the medium drive unit are started and set based on a command from the host computer. A user information providing system comprising: a user information reading unit that reads user information from a user information recording medium; and a user information transmitting unit that transmits information read from the user information recording medium to a host computer via a network.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a user information recording medium storing user information in advance is set to be removable, and a recording medium drive unit for driving the user information recording medium to read the user information, User information reading means for starting the medium drive unit based on a command from a host computer and reading user information from a set user information recording medium, and hosting information read from the user information recording medium via a network With the provision of the user information transmitting means for transmitting to the computer, the user can enjoy various services by simple operation without being conscious of the user ID and the password. , The management of the user ID and the password set for the user can be simplified.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the user information providing system according to the first aspect, the determining means determines whether or not the user information can be read by driving the recording medium drive unit. A user information providing system including a non-user information transmitting unit that transmits predetermined information other than user information (for example, NULL data) to a host computer when it is determined that user information cannot be read.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the user information cannot be read, by transmitting predetermined information other than the user information to the host computer, the access without setting the predetermined user information recording medium is performed. The service can be rejected for the user who has made it. According to the invention described in claim 3, when a service is provided from the service providing host computer 14 to the user terminal device 16 via the network (such as the Internet) 11, the user information provided from the user terminal device (for example, Information about the user such as the user ID and password defined in FIG. 6)
In a user authentication system in which a host computer performs user authentication based on a user information recording medium (FD, CD) storing user information in advance,
ROM, IC card, etc.)
In response to a request from a user terminal device having a recording medium drive unit for driving the user information recording medium to read the user information, the user information recording medium set in the recording medium drive unit of the user terminal device is read from the user information recording medium. A user information recording medium having program transmission means for transmitting a program for reading user information and transmitting it to the host computer, wherein the user terminal device is set in the recording medium drive unit according to the program transmitted from the host computer Is a user authentication system in which the host computer performs user authentication based on the user information when transmitting the user information read from the host computer to the host computer.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the host computer reads the user information recording medium set in the recording medium drive unit of the user terminal device, and reads the user information based on the information recorded on the user information recording medium. By performing the authentication, the user can enjoy various services by a simple operation without being conscious of the user information, and further simplifies the management of the user information set in the school or the like. be able to.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the user authentication system according to the third aspect, at least a user ID and a password are recorded on the user information recording medium. According to the invention described in claim 4, a user ID and a password are recorded on the user information recording medium, and the provider refers to the user ID and the password, so that the user does not need to input the user ID and the password. You can receive authentication and enjoy the service.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the user authentication system according to the fourth aspect, the user information recording medium further includes service contents that can be received by the user (for example, when there are a plurality of provided services, It is characterized by recording information for specifying a service type, a service level, and the like). According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, by recording information for specifying the service contents that can be received by the user on the user information recording medium, it is possible to provide fine-grained authentication and services based on the information based on the information. .

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, when a service is provided from a host computer for providing a service to a user terminal device via a network, the host computer uses the user information based on user information provided from the user terminal device. On a recording medium storing a program for processing in a user information providing system configured in the user terminal device used in a user authentication system configured to perform authentication, user information is stored in advance based on a command from a host computer. A user information reading procedure for starting a recording medium drive unit in which the stored user information recording medium is set so that the user information recording medium can be taken out and reading user information from the user information recording medium; User information transmission system for sending to the host computer via A recording medium storing a program that includes a procedure.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium storing a program used in the user information providing system according to the first or second aspect. According to the invention described in claim 7, when providing a service from the service providing host computer to the user terminal device via the network, the host computer performs user authentication based on user information provided from the user terminal device. The user information is stored in a recording medium storing a program for processing in the user information providing system configured in the user terminal device used in the user authentication system as described above, and based on a command from the host computer. A user information reading procedure for reading user information, and a user information transmission control procedure for transmitting information read from a user information recording medium to a host computer via a network (these procedures include, for example, Activate the recorded user information acquisition program and execute the flowchart of FIG. In a procedure shown.) And a recording medium storing the program with.

According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, a user information acquisition program for acquiring user information is recorded on a user information recording medium, and the program is started based on a command from a host computer, whereby: The host computer that performs user authentication does not need to transfer the program to the user terminal device, and can quickly and surely acquire user information such as a user ID and a password and perform user authentication.

[0021]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention, in which a teaching material providing service provider 13 provides teaching materials to a customer (school) 12 using the Internet 11. The teaching material information service provider 13 has a host computer 14 serving as a server and a database 15. In the database 15 of the homepage of the teaching material providing service provider 13, auxiliary teaching materials used in the lesson are registered. The customer 12 makes a service contract with the teaching material providing service provider 13 in order to use the auxiliary teaching material stored in the database 15. At this time, the teaching material providing service provider 13 provides the customer 12 with a user information recording medium (e.g., FD, CD-ROM, IC card, or the like) in which the available service, the user ID, the password, and the like are recorded.

The customer 12 is connected to the Internet 11 by the server 17 of the customer 12. The user terminal device 16 used by the teacher is connected to the server 17. The teacher of the customer 12 sets the user information recording medium provided by the teaching material providing service provider 13 on the terminal device 16, accesses the home page of the teaching material providing service provider 13, and receives the teaching material providing service.

Referring to FIG. 4, a flow in which the teacher of the customer 12 uses the Internet 11 to receive the service will be described. Before receiving the service, the teacher of the customer 12 sets the user information recording medium provided by the educational material providing service provider 13 in the terminal device 16 (for example, when the user information recording medium is the FD, the user terminal device FD drive device). Thereafter, the user accesses the homepage of the educational material providing service provider 13 using WWW browsing software (20). The host computer 14 of the teaching material providing service provider 13 transfers the homepage data to the terminal device 16 of the customer 12 (21). Customer 12
The teacher clicks a member-only button (or a screen for receiving provision of a teaching material requiring authentication) on the screen of the homepage of the teaching material providing service provider 13. The information of the click is the host computer 1 of the teaching material providing service provider 13.
4 (22). In response to the information, the host computer 14 of the educational material providing service provider 13 activates the user authentication system, and the user information acquisition program
(23). The terminal device 16 of the customer 12 executes the user information acquisition program, accesses the drive unit on which the user information recording medium provided by the teaching material providing service provider 13 is set, and reads the contents.
As a result, if the user is a contracted user, the user ID
The password and the password are transferred to the host computer 14 of the teaching material providing service provider 13 (24). If the user is not a contracted user, the NULL data is transferred to the host computer 14 of the teaching material providing service provider 13 (27). The host computer 14 of the teaching material providing service provider 13 is the terminal device 1 of the customer 12
It is confirmed whether or not the user is a member based on the data transferred from the client 6, and for the member, the data of the member-only page is transferred to the terminal device 16 of the customer 12 (26). However, an error message is transmitted to the non-member (28), and the use of the service is refused.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the user information acquisition program. First, it is checked whether the user information recording medium provided by the teaching material providing service provider 13 is set (member file check 31). If the user information recording medium provided by the teaching material providing service provider 13 is not set, NULL data is transferred to the host computer 14 of the teaching material providing service provider 13 (32).
If the user information recording medium provided by the teaching material providing service provider 13 is set, the file recorded on the user information recording medium is opened (33). The data of the file is loaded into the memory (34). The file is closed for the next processing (35). The expiration date is checked from the loaded data (36). If it is not, the NULL data is transferred to the host computer 14 of the teaching material providing service provider 13 (32). If it is within the time limit, the user ID and the password are provided to the host computer 14 of the teaching material providing service provider 13.
(38). As a result, the host computer 14 of the teaching material providing service provider 13 can confirm whether or not the user is a member based on data from the terminal device 16 of the customer 12.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the definition of a member file recorded on the user information recording medium. User ID, user name,
User representative name, user location, service start date,
The service end date and service form are defined. In addition, when there are a plurality of teaching materials to be provided and a plurality of levels or types of services to be provided, information on the service levels or types is used as a data item. In this case, the user will only be able to
I cannot get the service.

The educational material providing service provider 13 activates the user authentication system and the user information acquisition program executes
2 has been described, but a user information acquisition program may be recorded in a user information recording medium provided by a teaching material providing service provider, and the teaching material providing service provider 13 may start up the program. Good.
The user authentication system is activated when the user accesses or when the user requests a specific service.

FIG. 7 illustrates a configuration example of the user terminal device 16 used in the present invention. The user terminal device 16 includes an input unit 40, a display unit 41, a CPU 42, a memory unit 43, a communication unit 44, a hard disk 4
5. It has an FD drive unit and a CD-ROM drive unit 47. These units are connected via a system bus B.

The input unit 40 includes a keyboard, a mouse, and the like, and is used for inputting information. The display unit 41 includes a CRT, an LCD (liquid crystal display device), and the like, and displays information such as a home page. CPU4
2 is a processor of the terminal 17. Memory unit 4
Reference numeral 3 includes a memory such as a RAM and a ROM, and stores, for example, a program executed by the CPU 42 such as a user information acquisition program (see FIG. 5) and data necessary for processing. The communication unit 44 is connected to another device (for example, the server 1).
This is a unit for communicating with 7). Therefore, the terminal 16 is connected to the Internet by the communication unit 44 via the server 17. Hard disk 45
Stores a program or data required by the terminal device 16. The FD drive unit and the CD-ROM drive unit 47 are drive units for driving a portable storage medium. In the case of the present invention, the provider directly accesses these drive units.

The recording medium used in the present invention exists as an external storage device such as a floppy disk FD48 or a CD-ROM 49. The program and data recorded on the recording medium are stored in an FD drive unit and a C drive.
The data is loaded into the memory unit 43 by the D-ROM drive unit 47 and processed by the CPU 42. According to the above embodiment, as a school (organization), various types of user information can be easily managed not by individuals but by schools. In addition, each teacher can use the customer-limited site without managing user information.

Further, customer management becomes simple on the information provider side. In addition, it is possible to prevent information from leaking out of the organization (school).

[0031]

According to the present invention as described above, the following various effects can be realized. According to the first aspect of the present invention, a user information recording medium in which user information is stored in advance is set to be removable, and a recording medium drive unit that drives the user information recording medium to read out the user information; User information reading means for reading the user information from the user information recording medium set by activating the medium drive unit based on the instruction, and transmitting the information read from the user information recording medium to the host computer via the network User information transmitting means, the user can perform a simple operation without being conscious of the user ID and password.
Various services can be enjoyed, and the management of user IDs and passwords set for groups such as schools can be simplified.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the user information cannot be read, by transmitting predetermined information other than the user information to the host computer, the access without setting the predetermined user information recording medium is performed. The service can be rejected for the user who has made it. According to the third aspect of the present invention, the host computer reads the user information recording medium set in the recording medium drive unit of the user terminal device, and performs user authentication based on the information recorded on the user information recording medium. By doing so, the user can enjoy various services by a simple operation without being conscious of the user information, and can further simplify the management of the user information set in the school or the like. .

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the user ID and the password are recorded on the user information recording medium,
By referring to the user ID and the password by the provider, the user can be authenticated without entering the user ID and the password, and can enjoy the service. According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, by recording information for specifying the service contents that can be received by the user on the user information recording medium, it is possible to provide fine-grained authentication and services based on the information based on the information. .

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to provide a recording medium storing a program used in the user information providing system according to the first or second aspect. According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, a user information acquisition program for acquiring user information is recorded on a user information recording medium, and the program is started based on a command from the host computer, thereby enabling user authentication. The executing host computer does not need to transfer the program to the user terminal device, and can quickly and surely acquire user information such as a user ID and a password and perform user authentication.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining a teaching material development / providing system based on the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a system that provides teaching materials using a network.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of an operation sequence between a teaching material providing service provider and a customer (school).

FIG. 5 is an example of a flowchart of a user information acquisition program.

FIG. 6 is an example of a definition of a member file.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for describing a configuration example of a user terminal device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 contracted school 2 uncontracted school 3 provider 4 bulletin board 5 request and opinion registration form 6 mailbox 7 teaching material database 8 teaching material sample database 9 link collection 10 network 11 internet 12 customer (school) 13 teaching material providing service provider 14 teaching material providing service provider Host computer 15 Teaching material providing service provider database 16 Customer terminal 17 Customer server 30 Teaching material providing service provider homepage

Claims (7)

[Claims] When a service is provided from a host computer for providing a service to a user terminal device via a network, the host computer performs user authentication based on user information provided from the user terminal device. In a user information providing system configured in the user terminal device used in the system, a user information recording medium storing user information in advance is set to be removable, and the user information recording medium is driven to read the user information. A recording medium drive unit, user information reading means for starting the medium drive unit based on a command from a host computer and reading user information from a set user information recording medium, and information read from the user information recording medium To the host computer via the network The user information providing system including a chromatography The information transmitting means. 2. The user information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit determines whether the user information can be read by driving the recording medium drive unit, and the determination unit determines that the user information cannot be read. A user information providing system including a non-user information transmitting unit that transmits predetermined information other than user information to the host computer when the user information is transmitted. 3. A user authentication system in which a host computer performs user authentication based on user information provided from a user terminal device when a service is provided from a service providing host computer to a user terminal device via a network. In the system, the host computer is provided with a user information recording medium storing user information in advance, the user information recording medium being set to be removable, and a user terminal device having a recording medium drive unit for driving the user information recording medium to read the user information. A program transmitting unit for transmitting a program for reading the user information from the user information recording medium set in the recording medium drive unit of the user terminal device and transmitting the user information to the host computer in response to the request; The program transmitted from the host computer by the terminal device A user information read out from a user information recording medium set in a recording medium drive unit according to (1) to the host computer, and the host computer performs user authentication based on the user information. 4. The user authentication system according to claim 3, wherein at least a user ID and a password are recorded on the user information recording medium. 5. The user authentication system according to claim 4, wherein the user information recording medium further records information for specifying service contents that can be received by the user. 6. A user authentication system in which a host computer performs user authentication based on user information provided from a user terminal device when providing a service from a service providing host computer to a user terminal device via a network. In a recording medium storing a processing program in a user information providing system configured in the user terminal device used in the system, a user information recording medium in which user information is stored in advance based on a command from a host computer is used. Activating the recording medium drive unit set to be removable so as to read out user information from the user information recording medium, and transmit the information read from the user information recording medium to the host computer via the network. With user information transmission control procedure for Stored in the recording medium. 7. User authentication in which a host computer performs user authentication based on user information provided from a user terminal device when providing a service from a service providing host computer to a user terminal device via a network. A user who stores user information in a recording medium storing a processing program in a user information providing system configured in the user terminal device used in the system and reads the user information based on a command from a host computer. A recording medium storing a program including an information reading procedure and a user information transmission control procedure for transmitting information read from a user information recording medium to a host computer via a network.