JP2002073447A - Home page access support system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To support an access to a home page. SOLUTION: This system comprises the following: an ID code recording card 1 on which an identification sign related to at least one of corporation, individual, object, information and service is indicated so that one can identify with the five senses, and an ID code corresponding uniquely to an address of a home page related to the identification sign is recorded to that the ID code can be read by at least one of optical means, magnetic means, electrical means and mechanical means; an ID code reader 2 which reads the ID code from the ID code recording card and outputs a call code including a code of the address for accessing to a predetermined ASP server and the read ID code; and the predetermined ASP server 3 which when the server is accessed from the ID code reader through a predetermined information communication means, converts the ID code included in the call code into an address that corresponds uniquely to the ID code and is registered in advance, gets access to the home page of the address, and connects the predetermined information communication means to the home page.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a homepage access support system suitable for promoting access from another person to its own homepage on the Internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when an individual or a corporation has its own homepage on the Internet and wants to widely disclose information through the homepage, the individual or corporation can be accessed by a link from another homepage, or another Internet user can use it. Other than getting them to search through, you can use non-internet, newspapers,
Publish your homepage address on the Internet through magazines, direct mail and other advertising media,
It is necessary to have a computer connected to the Internet through an Internet connection service provider or the like manually input the address from an Internet user using a keyboard.

[0003]

However, an address on the Internet is composed of a scheme name, a server name, a port number, and a path name, and has a maximum of 128 alphanumeric characters. Therefore, manually inputting an address is a very troublesome task for accessing a target homepage. It is extremely difficult for users who are unfamiliar with the Internet and computers to accurately input a lot of meaningless alphanumeric characters exactly one word at a time, which has hindered the spread of Internet use. .

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an access support system that advantageously solves the above-mentioned problems, and a homepage access support system of the present invention is a corporation. , Individuals,
Identification signs for at least one of goods, information and services are displayed so as to be identifiable by the five senses,
An ID code recording card in which an ID code corresponding to an address of a homepage associated with the identification mark on a one-to-one basis is readable by at least one of optical means, magnetic means, electric means, and mechanical means. And the I
An ID code reading device that reads an ID code from a D code recording card and outputs a call code including a code of an address for accessing a predetermined application service provider server and the read ID code; and a predetermined information from the ID code reading device. When accessed via the communication means, the ID code included in the call code is converted into a pre-registered address corresponding to the ID code on a one-to-one basis, and a homepage of the address is accessed, and the predetermined information communication means is accessed. And the predetermined application service provider server for connecting to the homepage.

In such a system, a corporation or an individual who wants to promote access from another person to his / her own home page on the Internet is provided on the ID code recording card with the corporation or the individual who is the self, or with the corporation or the individual. An identification sign for at least one of the object, information, or service to be displayed in a manner that can be identified by the five senses of the human (at least one of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch), and a homepage related to the identification sign The ID code corresponding to the address is recorded readable by at least one of optical means, magnetic means, electric means and mechanical means, and the ID code recording card is distributed. Then, another person who has obtained the ID code recording card connects the ID code recording card to predetermined information communication means available to him / her. When the read the ID code reading device, an ID code reader, the ID
The ID code is read from the code recording card, and a call code including the code of the address for accessing the predetermined application service provider server and the read ID code is output, and the predetermined information is described by the code of the address included in the call code. The predetermined application service provider server (application service provider (AS) accessed by the communication means
P) further converts the ID code included in the call code into an address corresponding to the ID code based on the registered data, accesses the homepage of the address, and performs the predetermined information communication. Connect the means to its homepage.

Therefore, according to the access support system of the present invention, a corporation or an individual who wants to promote access from another person to his / her own home page on the Internet only has to create and distribute an ID code recording card. Others who are interested in reading the identification sign displayed on the ID code recording card with their five senses can simply read the ID code recording card by an ID code reading device connected to their available predetermined information communication means. Thus, the predetermined information communication means can be very easily connected to a homepage related to the identification mark. For example, when the application service provider having the predetermined application service provider server registers, for example, an ID code and an address of a corresponding homepage in the server, or accesses the registered homepage and connects the predetermined information communication means. The access support system can be operated by charging a fee when collecting the information and collecting a fee from the owner of the homepage.

In the present invention, when the address of the home page has a data length that can be recorded on the card, the address of the home page is recorded as it is on the ID code recording card, and the ID code recording card is used. The contents may be read by an ID code reading device connected to the predetermined information communication means available to the user, so that there is no need to provide a predetermined application service provider server and the ID code reading device can be used. Does not need to output the code of the address for accessing the predetermined application service provider server in the calling code, so that the configuration of the homepage access support system can be simplified.

In the present invention, the predetermined information communication means may be a computer connected to the information communication line through a modem and a general telephone line or through a dedicated line. A mobile phone having a homepage information transmission function compatible with the i-mode (Internet connection service) provided by the NTT DOCOMO group may be used.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of a homepage access support system of the present invention, and FIG. 2A is an ID code recording card and ID in the system of the embodiment.
FIG. 2B is a perspective view showing the code reading device together with a computer to which the ID code reading device is connected.
FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view showing a portion A in FIG.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a recording form of an ID code on an ID code recording card. The homepage access support system of this embodiment includes an ID code recording card 1, an ID code reading device 2, a predetermined application service provider (ASP). And a server 3.

The ID code recording card 1 here is
As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, an identification mark 1a relating to at least one of a corporation or an individual who wants to promote access from another person to his / her home page on the Internet and a thing, information or service related to the corporation or the individual. (In the example shown, the corporate name is “○ △ HYPER” or “○ △ □
A character string representing "HYPERPRECISION",
○ △ □ indicates a specific character string) and is displayed in a visible manner, and an ID code 1b (in the illustrated example, HA) in one-to-one correspondence with an address of a homepage related to the corporation.
09316) can be read by a plurality of optical sensors 2a as optical means described later, for example, as shown in FIG.
It is recorded as a simple bit string.

The ID code shown in FIG.
The homepage address is directly represented by "010010111001001". The start / stop bit is superior to the odd / even bit as the data bit. In this case, the black state indicated by hatching) means the start of the homepage address, where the start / stop bit is 1 and the odd and even bits are 0 (white state shown without hatching in the figure). Time has the meaning of a stop bit. When only the start / stop bits and odd bits are 1, the e-mail address starts. When only the start / stop bits and even bits are 1, the telephone number starts. You may make it read by the apparatus 2, and may make it transmit an E-mail and a telephone automatically.

When the start / stop bit is 0, the odd bit and the even bit have a meaning as a data bit. The synchronization bit has a half width of the start / stop bit, and the start / stop bit and the data bit are read by the edge trigger when the ID code recording card 1 is slid in the ID code reading device 2. .

As shown in FIG. 2 (b), the ID code reading device 2 has a number of optical sensors 2a corresponding to the number of bit strings of the ID code 1b recorded on the ID code recording card 1, and a slot 2b. And a microcomputer (not shown) inside the slot 2b as shown by an arrow B in FIG.
When the code recording card 1 is slid, the ID code 1b is optically read by the optical sensors 2a. Then, by the microcomputer, the ID code reading device 2 is connected to a call code including an address code for accessing the predetermined application service provider server 3 and the read ID code as shown in FIG. 2A. The information is output to a personal computer 4 owned by a general Internet user or a personal computer 4 installed in a public facility or the like, which can be used by the general Internet user, as predetermined information communication means.

Then, the predetermined ASP server 3 here
Comprises a computer system constituting a server of a predetermined application service provider that provides a homepage access support service. When the ID code reading device 2 is accessed via the personal computer 4 and the Internet 5, the ID included in the call code is included. Code 1b is one-to-one with its ID code 1b
Is converted into a corresponding pre-registered address, the homepage of the address is accessed via the Internet 5, and the personal computer 4 is connected to the homepage.

Therefore, according to the system of this embodiment, a corporation or an individual who wants to promote access from another person to his / her own homepage on the Internet only has to create and distribute the ID code recording card 1, and the ID code recording card 1 can be distributed. Others who are interested in reading the identification mark 1a displayed on the ID code recording card 1 connect the ID code recording card 1 to the personal computer 4 available to the user.
The personal computer 4 can be very easily connected to the home page related to the identification mark 1a only by having the D code reader 2 read the data.
And, for example, an ASP including the predetermined ASP server 3
Is charged, for example, when registering the ID code and the address of the corresponding homepage in the server 3 or when accessing the registered homepage and connecting the personal computer 4, etc. By collecting the fee, the access support system can be operated.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the homepage access support system of the present invention. In the system of this embodiment, the identification mark 1a can be visually recognized on one side of the ID code recording card 1. A magnetic tape (not shown) is provided on the surface opposite to the ID code recording card 1 and the ID code 1 is attached to the magnetic tape.
b is magnetically recorded, and I-mode compatible mobile phone (mobile phone) 6 as a predetermined information communication means is provided with I
The D code reading device 2 is provided integrally,
When the ID code recording card 1 is slid in the slot 2b of the D code reader 2 as shown by an arrow C in FIG. 4, the ID code 1b is magnetically moved by the magnetic head (not shown) of the ID code reader 2. Read. Other configurations are the same as in the previous embodiment. In this embodiment, the recorded ID code and data may be optical, electrical, or mechanical.

According to the system of this embodiment, the same operation and effect as those of the previous embodiment can be obtained even with the mobile phone 6 which can access the homepage without restriction on time and place and without having a personal computer. Can be.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the illustrated examples, the present invention is not limited to the above-described examples. For example, the ID code recorded on the ID code recording card may be replaced by the optical means or the magnetic Means readable by means, conductive foil readable by electrical contacts as electrical means,
A protrusion or the like that can be read by a microswitch as a mechanical means may be used. In addition to the visible character string in the above example, the identification mark shown on the ID code recording card may be used by the visually impaired person or the like for the other five senses. (For example, a specific scent that can be identified by olfaction or Braille that can be identified by the tactile sensation of the fingertip)
It is good. In the above example, the ASP server 3 is provided. However, as shown in FIG. 3, when the homepage address is directly represented by the ID code, the ASP server 3 may not be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing one embodiment of a homepage access support system of the present invention.

FIG. 2A is a diagram showing I in the system of the embodiment.
It is a perspective view which shows the D code recording card and the ID code reader with the computer to which the ID code reader was connected, (b) is an enlarged perspective view which shows the A section of (a).

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a recording form of an ID code on an ID code recording card of the system according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the homepage access support system of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 ID code recording card 2 ID code reading device 2 a Optical sensor 2 b Slot 3 ASP server 4 Personal computer 5 Internet 6 Mobile phone

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An identification sign relating to at least one of a corporation, an individual, a thing, information and a service is displayed so as to be identifiable by the five senses of a person, and one-to-one corresponds to an address of a homepage related to the identification sign. ID code recorded so that it can be read by at least one of optical means, magnetic means, electric means and mechanical means
A code recording card; an ID code reading device that reads an ID code from the ID code recording card and outputs a call code including a code of an address for accessing a predetermined application service provider server and the read ID code; When accessed from the code reading device via the predetermined information communication means, the I
A predetermined application service provider server which converts the D code into a pre-registered address corresponding to the ID code on a one-to-one basis, accesses a homepage of the address, and connects the predetermined information communication means to the homepage. A homepage access support system. 2. An identification sign relating to at least one of a corporation, an individual, a thing, information and a service is displayed so as to be identifiable by the five senses of a person, and an ID code indicating an address of a homepage related to the identification sign is optical. ID-recording card readablely recorded by at least one of a magnetic means, a magnetic means, an electric means, and a mechanical means, and an ID code read from the ID code recording card, and the read ID code is read. An ID code reading device for outputting a calling code including the calling code to predetermined information communication means. 3. The homepage access support system according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined information communication means is a computer connected to an information communication line. 4. The homepage access support system according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined information communication means is a mobile phone having a homepage information transmission function.