JP2002094674A - Method of providing and servicing picture information on waiting condition indicators of portable terminals - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display a picture selected optionally among pictures to be distributed from a provider or prepared and registered pictures on a waiting condition indication area of a portable telephone terminal by handling this terminal, utilizing internets. SOLUTION: A client accesses an internet home page of a provider from an internet-functioning portable telephone terminal and requests to distribute a picture shown in a list of the web page. The server distributes the requested picture in the form of answer to the request to the client and displays the picture on a waiting condition indication area of the accessed portable telephone terminal. Pictures shown in a list of the internet web page of the provider include picture prepared and registered by clients in addition to pictures to be distributed by the provider.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image providing service method for displaying a client's request on a display unit of a portable telephone terminal in a standby state.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is a demand for freely selecting and displaying a favorite image of a client as an image to be displayed on a display unit in a standby state of a portable telephone terminal. The “favorite image” is an image relating to a person or a person's favorite character, a portrait, a photograph, a video, or the like selected by the owner of the mobile phone terminal.

However, in order to display these images on the display unit in the standby state of the portable telephone terminal, the images desired by the portable telephone subscriber are registered at a registration window designated by the mobile communication carrier (line provider). A procedure is required to receive the ID / password by bringing it to the business company and completing the registration of the image. After going through this procedure,
The subscriber can use the ID / password to display the registered image on the display unit of the mobile phone terminal in a standby state.

[0004]

Therefore, in order to display an image on the display portion of the mobile phone terminal in a standby state, a mobile communication provider (line provider) and an IP provider (hereinafter, referred to as a provider) have to do so. In addition to selecting from a limited set of prepared images, the owner of the mobile phone terminal himself / herself wants to display a desired image on the display unit in the standby state of the mobile phone terminal. Steps must be taken.

[0005] As described above, the fact that the person himself / herself must go to the registration window business company designated by the mobile communication carrier (line provider) to perform the application procedure is time-consuming for a remote person. This is a large financial burden, and the necessity of such procedures is a major factor that hinders the spread of image providing services to the display unit in the standby state of this type of mobile phone terminal. .

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to handle a portable telephone terminal, utilize the Internet, and display a personal character, a portrait, a photograph, a video, or the like on the display unit of the portable telephone terminal in a standby state. An object of the present invention is to provide a service system for arbitrarily selecting an image related to, or registering an image for production. In the present invention, the mobile phone terminal includes a PHS terminal.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a method for providing an image to a display unit in a standby state of a portable telephone terminal according to the present invention has an Internet function on an Internet homepage of a provider. A mobile phone terminal that accesses a mobile phone terminal and requests the provision of images listed on a homepage and provides the requested image to the client in response to the request, and accesses the client. The image is displayed on the display unit in the standby state of the machine.

The image requested by the client is an image prepared by the provider in advance, and is provided in response to a request from the client.

A plurality of images prepared in advance by the provider are displayed in a list on the provider's homepage, and the provided image is selected from the plurality of images in response to a request from the client.

[0010] The image of the Internet homepage of the provider is created by the client and registered with the provider.

An image produced by a client and registered in a provider is an image having openness and provided by the provider for a fee in response to requests from an unspecified number of clients.

An image produced by a client and registered in the provider is an image having openness and provided free of charge by a provider in response to requests from an unspecified number of clients.

An image produced by a client and registered in a provider is a non-disclosed image provided only by a specific client's request from the provider.

Further, a plurality of images prepared by the provider in advance and images of openness produced by the client and registered in the provider are commonly classified and registered in a database, and a search for providing an image can be performed. It was done.

[0015]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. A. In FIG. 1, the present invention provides an image from a provider 1 to a display unit in a standby state of a mobile phone terminal 2 of a client according to the following procedure. That is,
The client accesses the home page HP of the Internet provided by the provider 1 from the mobile phone terminal 2 having the Internet function using the line of the mobile communication carrier 3 and selects the client from the images displayed in the list on the home page HP Is selected, and the client is requested to provide the image.

The provider 1 provides an image requested by the client in response to the request to the client, and displays the image on the display unit of the portable telephone terminal 2 in a standby state. Is what you do.

The client can directly access the Internet homepage HP provided by the provider 1 from the portable telephone terminal 2 having the Internet function, or the client can make a direct connection from the voice information telephone 4 to request. Can also. However, Internet homepage H provided by Provider 1
It goes without saying that P can be accessed using the personal computer 5.

In the present invention, the images displayed as a list on the Internet homepage provided by the provider include images relating to the client himself or a person's favorite person, a portrait, a photograph, a video, and the like.
The image includes a still image, a moving image, and a sound. The client is a subscriber of a mobile phone having an Internet function.

The portable telephone terminal 2 having the Internet function has a function such as a black-and-white, color, IMT2000, and PDA terminal. According to many conventional mobile phone terminals with a WAP function, image search / selection is possible within a range where the memory capacity of the mobile phone is allowed (although the current mobile phone terminals with a WAP function have insufficient capacity). Therefore, it is only possible to search for the name of each department such as a person and the name). IMT2000 terminal and P
All DA terminals can search for images.

B. Images Registered in the Database The images registered in the database are two types: registered images provided by the provider using ready-made menus (ready-made menus), and registered images created by clients who have arbitrarily created and registered applications (custom-made menus). There are types. The ready-made menu is provided on the provider's homepage as a menu that allows the unspecified number of people to freely obtain registered images of the latest information registered information regularly obtained by the provider. This is an image created by the client and registered on the provider's website.

[0021] The custom-made menu includes a menu that is released to an unspecified number of people free of charge (free publication menu) and a menu that is released to an unspecified number of people for a fee (paid publication menu) depending on the client's selection. And a menu (private menu) that is open only to the person or a specific person.

Of the custom-made menus, free public menus and paid public menus to be disclosed to an unspecified number of people are treated the same as ready-made menus after registration, even if there are paid and free menus. Will be offered free of charge or paid by the provider, including search, but private menus are managed by keywords (for example, ID and password), and unless the keywords are used, both search and offer request Can not do. A private, bespoke menu can be compared to a bank safe or rental box.

C, Image Database The image displayed on the homepage HP of the provider 1 is:
It is stored as a database classified into several types. In the example of FIG. 2, the databases are classified into DB1 to DB6, and ready-made menus and custom-made menu areas are secured, respectively, and DB1 is a kind of image for each person, and DB2 is a kind of portrait for each person. , DB3, posters, logos, DB4, personal images, homework, DB5, corporate products and image ads, DB
Reference numeral 6 stores types of customer information.

D, Contents of Search Menu FIG. 3 shows the configuration of the Internet homepage HP provided by the provider 1. In FIG. 3, the Internet homepage HP provided by the provider has a search function 7 and a member registration function 8 as a main menu 6. The search function 7 is a function that allows a client who has accessed the Internet homepage HP provided by the provider 1 to search for a desired image from the search menu 9.

In the search menu 9, search items are classified into, for example, 10 sections. In this example, 1 division is an actor / talent, 2 division is a singer / dancer, 3 division is an athlete, 4 division is a politician, 5 division is other celebrities, 6 division is a conventional LOGO, 7 division is a past. Portraits, posters in 8 sections, personal images and family precepts in 9 sections, 10
Sectors are categorized as companies and company precepts.

Except for the nine sections, each section is a common category for the ready-made menu and the free-to-pay menu and the paid-to-pay menu among the custom-made menus. As a search procedure, 1 name (sort), 2 name input, 3 number selection, 4 image output confirmation, 5 number selection, 6 number (sort) are determined.

The nine departments are areas where the non-disclosure menu of the custom-made menu is created and registered. If you do not enter a keyword, you will not be able to search for images or provide images.

E, Configuration of Server FIG. 4 shows the configuration of the server. In FIG. 4, the server 11
Has input control means 12, output control means 13, and control means 14. The input control means 12 controls an image providing request input from the mobile phone terminal 2 of the client connected via the Internet homepage HP of the provider 1 by using an ID and a password, and inputs the request to the control means 14. .

The control means 14 includes databases DB1 to DB6.
A main program including a program for displaying images on the display unit of the mobile phone terminal 2 and a search for obtaining necessary information by character search and the like while performing data transfer and temporary storage of data. It has a program 15, responds to the client's request for image input, selects necessary information, and outputs it to the output control means 13. The output control means 13 outputs the information output from the control means 14 to the mobile phone terminal 2 of the client through the mobile communication carrier 3 or directly.

F, Search Procedure a) In FIG. 3, after the client connects to the Internet homepage provided by the provider using a portable telephone terminal (or voice information telephone, personal computer) having an Internet function, the client: First, the user searches the homepage for a desired item using a search menu.

B) When the client selects a specific section (1 to 8 or 10 sections) of the ready-made menu or the custom-made menu disclosed to an unspecified number of persons, a search is performed according to the following procedure. .

1) A sort of names (the same applies to names, titles, and company names) is displayed. 2) Select and enter the desired name. 3) When the selection number of the input name is displayed, select that number. 4) After inputting the selection number, several types of images and their numbers are displayed, and confirmation of image output is required. 5) Select the desired image number. 6) Sorting (classification) of the image numbers is displayed, and the search ends.

When the client selects a section (9 sections in this embodiment) of a private menu that is not disclosed to an unspecified number of persons, the user performs an input operation of a keyword (ID input, password) prior to the above operation. After the confirmation procedure, the desired image is displayed.

G, Member Registration Only a member can request an image from a provider. If you find an image you want to obtain in the search menu and want to receive the image, you must register as a member from the main menu in the following procedure.

1) Enter ID (mobile phone number), password, address, resident registration number, E-
Enter your mail address to complete the membership registration process. Provider completes this registration process,
Register as a client in the customer information database CDB.

2) When the member wants to change the registered contents of the member registration menu, the registration is changed using the already registered ID, password, address, resident registration number, and E-MAIL address. This change procedure rewrites the customer information database CDB.

3) After the member registration, the client selects an image requested by the client from a search menu, and starts a work for displaying the image on a display unit in a mobile phone terminal standby state having an Internet function. 4) When not registering as a member, an ID (mobile phone number) can be input to the guest menu 17 and only image search can be performed.

H, Operation Procedure FIG. 5 shows the actual procedure of the image acquisition operation and the procedure of the image production / registration operation. a. Provision of Image (a1) Connect to Provider (Step 1) Operate a mobile phone terminal having an Internet function to access the provider's Internet homepage.

(A2) Member Confirmation (Step 2) The provider confirms whether or not the accessing client is a member, and when confirming that the client is a member, permits the search. When the accessing client is not a member, the member is prompted to join. I
D. If the password is incorrect, the client is notified of a message prompting re-entry.

(A3) Search (Step 3) The client permitted to search starts searching for images held in the databases DB1 to DB6 of the provider in the manner shown in FIG. (A4) Selection (Step 4) The images held in the provider databases DB1 to DB6 are the ready-made menu and the custom-made menu as described above. When there is a favorite image in the search menu, that image is selected.

The ready-made menu provided by the provider and the free public menu and the paid public menu among the custom menus produced by the clients can be searched and browsed by an unspecified number of clients. However, the private menu cannot be viewed or searched by anyone except the specific person having the keyword.

(A5) File Transfer (Step 5) The data selected and input in Step 4 is transferred from the provider to the mobile communication carrier. The client confirms the file transfer and closes the provider homepage. (A6) Provision of Data (Step 6) From the data transferred from the provider to the mobile communication carrier, the mobile communication carrier extracts an image from a database shared with the provider and transfers the image to the client.

(A7) Display on Mobile Phone Terminal (Step 7) The transferred image is displayed on the display unit in the standby state of the mobile phone terminal having the Internet function of the client.

B. Procedure for Image Production / Registration (b1) Image Production (Step 8) An image file to be displayed in a standby state of a mobile phone terminal having an Internet function is created using a digital camera, a scanner, a word processor, or the like.

(B2) Access to Provider (Step 9) First, when the provider is accessed, it is checked whether or not the provider is a member. After confirming that the provider is a member, the client is searched for. To give permission. The client permitted to search searches the database DB1 to DB6 of the provider for the registration destination of the image data created by the client, and the database DB1 to DB6 to be registered.
Select one of the following.

The procedure here is an operation of image production / registration. This is the same as the procedure (steps 1 to 3) in the procedure for providing an image.

(B3) Registration of Production in Database (Step 10) First, the client determines whether the menu is made public or non-public, and if the user designates the publication as a custom-made menu, the user makes a distinction between free and paid, and private. When a menu is specified or when a paid public menu is specified, an ID and a password as a keyword are requested to be issued, and after the requested content is determined, the created image file is provided to the provider using the E-mail function of the personal computer. To the homepage.

The provider automatically sorts the transferred image file in accordance with the specification of the client, takes the image file into any of the production registration / registration areas of the databases DB1 to DB6, and further registers the image file. When the free public menu or the paid public menu is selected, the image is added to the search menu.

(B5) Procedure for displaying custom images (steps 1 to 7) Databases DB1 to DBD as custom menus
When receiving the provision of the image registered in B6, the user obtains the image by the procedure of steps 1 to 7 in the above-described "a. Is displayed on the display unit in the standby state.

It is to be noted that an image registered as a paid public menu or a private menu can be displayed on a standby display section of a portable telephone terminal having its own Internet function by inputting a designated keyword. . When receiving a public menu that another client has purchased for a fee, obtain a keyword from the provider requested by the client who registered for production, obtain the keyword, and enter the keyword to have the image of your own Internet function It can be displayed on the display unit in the standby state of the mobile phone terminal.

I. Billing System In FIG. 1, the provider 1 notifies the client's subscriber charge and the mobile communication carrier 3 the telephone call charge to the billing program 16, and the converted fee is charged to the client used. . In FIGS. 1 to 5, the area of the provider or the block indicating the procedure performed by the provider is indicated by a double line.

[0052]

As described above, according to the present invention, the images displayed in a list on the provider's homepage are provided to the client accessing the Internet homepage from a portable telephone terminal having the Internet function. An image can be freely selected according to the client's preference, and the image can be displayed on the display unit in the standby state of the mobile phone terminal of the client.

Further, the image provided by the provider is not limited to the client freely selecting from a large number of images prepared in advance by the provider.
The images registered with the provider can be provided to a specific person only as a private menu, and can be provided to a large number of unspecified clients and provided for free or for a fee.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a classification of a database.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a homepage on the Internet of a provider.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of a server.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a procedure of image provision and image production / registration.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Provider 2 Mobile telephone terminal 3 Mobile communication carrier 4 Voice telephone 5 Personal computer 6 Main menu 7 Search function 8 Member registration function 9 Search menu 10 Registration menu 11 Server 12 Input control means 13 Output control means 14 Control means 15 Main program 16 Billing program 17 Guest menu DB1 to DB6 Database CDB Customer information database HP Homepage

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Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A method in which a client who accesses an Internet homepage of a provider from a mobile phone having an Internet function and requests provision of an image displayed in a list on the homepage is responded to the request. Provide the requested image to the client,
A method for providing an image to a display unit in a standby state of a mobile phone terminal, wherein an image is displayed on a display unit in a standby state of a mobile phone terminal that has accessed. 2. An image requested by a client is an image prepared by a provider in advance, and provided in response to a request from the client.
The method of providing an image to a display unit in a standby state of a mobile phone terminal described in 1 above. 3. A plurality of images prepared in advance by the provider are displayed in a list on the provider's homepage, and the provided image is selected from the plurality of images in response to a request from the client. Claim 1.
The method of providing an image to a display unit in a standby state of a mobile phone terminal described in 1 above. 4. The mobile phone terminal according to claim 1, wherein the image of the Internet homepage of the provider is created by the client and registered in the provider. Image providing service method. 5. An image produced by a client and registered in a provider is an image having openness and provided by the provider for a fee in response to a request from an unspecified number of clients. Item 3. An image providing service method for a display unit in a standby state of a mobile phone terminal according to item 3. 6. An image produced by a client and registered with a provider is an image having openness and provided free of charge by a provider in response to a request from an unspecified number of clients. Item 3. An image providing service method for a display unit in a standby state of a mobile phone terminal according to item 3. 7. The image according to claim 3, wherein the image produced by the client and registered with the provider is an image which is not disclosed and is provided from the provider only in response to a specific client's request. A method for providing an image to a display unit in a standby state of a mobile phone terminal. 8. A plurality of images prepared in advance by a provider and open images created by a client and registered in the provider are commonly classified and registered in a database, and search for providing images is possible. 5. The method of providing an image on a display unit in a standby state of a mobile phone terminal according to claim 3, wherein the service is provided.