JP2002199460A - Information service system and information providing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information service system, where an information sender and many unspecified information recipients send/receive information in real time, so as to attain interaction between them. SOLUTION: A server 3 receives information of disclosure object sent from the information sender 1, discriminates whether the disclosure object information can be made open to the public, transfers the information of disclosure object to a base station 4 in a disclosure object designation area 5 written in the disclosure object information, when the disclosure object information can be disclosed, the base station 4 receiving the transferred disclosure object information wirelessly broadcasts and mobile information terminals 6 receiving the broadcast information from the base station 4 abort the received information, when the received information is not of designated type information or display the received information on their screens, when the received information is the designated type information and can be accessible to an information sender contact place written in the information received.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to an information service system for providing information via a network such as the Internet, and more particularly to an information service system and an information providing method suitable for providing interactive local information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the spread of the Internet, techniques for providing various information via the Internet have been advanced. For example, in the prior art described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-69404, when information in a specific area is provided to an information receiver, the information receiver subscribes to an information providing service and receives information at an information server of the service providing company. The information receiver obtains the target area information by making an inquiry. In providing area-specific information, information to be provided is selected based on the location information where the information receiver exists. On the other hand, as a method of transmitting information to unspecified recipients in all areas, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open
The prior art described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 213961 employs a broadcast distribution method.

[0003]

In these conventional examples, there is a problem in a method of specifying an information distribution area. JP-A-11-69
In the case of providing information in the area to the information receiver using the conventional technology described in Japanese Patent No. 404, the area where the mobile terminal holder is located is mainly determined using the position information of the mobile terminal owned by the information receiver, It will provide information around the area. For this reason, there is a problem in that the information server must store data of all regions, and a large amount of resources are required. Also, in the prior art described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 8-2131961, since information is transmitted to all parties in the area by broadcast communication, some means must be taken in order to specify the area and perform broadcast communication. However, no consideration has been given to this point. If the information is distributed by broadcasting to the entire area, there is a problem that a large amount of information is sent to the mobile terminal.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an information service capable of distributing information to a large number of unspecified portable information terminals in a narrow specific area or in a wide area in a flexible manner. It is to provide a system and an information providing method.

In both the prior art described in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 11-69404 and the prior art described in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 8-2131961, the real-time information is not sufficiently considered. In the former case, the information receiver obtains the information at the time of the information receiver's spontaneous access to the information server, and even if the information is changed in the server, the information receiver can recognize the fact that the information has been changed in real time. Has no way of knowing. The latter aims at reducing communication traffic and reducing the capacity of the information storage device, and does not pursue real-time information.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an information service that enables an information receiver to receive a more real-time information distribution and also enables an information provider to establish an environment in which the information receiver can communicate with the information receiver in a more real-time manner. System and information provision method.

[0007]

The object of the present invention is to receive information to be disclosed transmitted from an information sender and to transmit the information to be disclosed to a base station in a designated area to be disclosed which is written in the information to be disclosed. A transfer server, the base station that receives the transfer of the disclosure target information from the server, and broadcasts the disclosure target information wirelessly, receives the information broadcast from the base station, and the received information is information of a user-specified type. If there is no such information, the received information is discarded, and if the information is of a user-specified type, the received information is displayed on a screen, and the portable information which enables access to the contact information addressed to the information sender written in the received information is provided. This is achieved by providing a terminal device.

Preferably, in the above, the portable information terminal device is a portable telephone, the base station is a base station of the portable telephone, and the broadcast is performed at predetermined time intervals, and is disclosed in the information. Information to be broadcast is determined from the designated time zone and the predetermined time.

[0009] Realization of information receivers in real time is realized by periodically transmitting information to an unspecified number of information receivers in an area at predetermined time intervals by broadcast. On the information provider side,
Information registration can be performed with the server via the Internet or the like, and a desired information disclosure time zone can be set at the time of registration. Therefore, it is possible to transmit information during a time zone intended by the information provider. By writing the contact code of the information provider in the information, the information receiver can easily access the information provider. Therefore, the information provider can be provided with not only real-time properties but also interactive properties. Further, by writing information for designating the disclosure target designation area in the information, information can be provided only in the specific area, and by setting a plurality of designated areas, the information provision area in various ranges can be provided. Can be specified.

[0010]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an information service system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Information sender 1
It can be connected to information transmission means 2 such as the Internet. The information transmission means 2 is connected to an information server 3 such as an information providing service company.
Is connected to a base station 4 installed in each area.
For example, an unspecified number of information receivers 6 are located in an area 5 under the jurisdiction of the base station 4, and a portable information terminal device such as a mobile phone owned by each user can be connected to the base station 4 by wireless communication. I have.

An information sender 1 registers information to be disclosed in an information storage device of an information server 3 installed in a service company or the like via information transmission means 2 such as the Internet.
The information server 3 performs a predetermined edit from the information of the information provider 1's desired disclosure area included in the information, and then transmits the information to the base station 4 that controls the area. The base station 4 that has received the information transmits the information to an unspecified number of information receivers 6 in the information disclosure area 5 by broadcasting, and the receiver replies to the information provider to the received information. Can be. Hereinafter, each detailed function will be described.

FIG. 2 is a detailed view of the portable information terminal device possessed by the information sender and the information receiver. This portable information terminal device has an information input device 7 and an Internet connection function 8.
A broadcast information receiving function 9, an information discriminating function 10, an information storing function 11, an information storing device 12, an information searching function 13, an information outputting function 14, and a reply function 15.
And a transmitting / receiving antenna 16 for wireless communication with the information transmitting means 2 or the base station 4.

An information provider (information sender) uses an information input function 7, an Internet connection function 8, and an information transmitting / receiving antenna 16 to disclose information to the server 3 of FIG. Is to be sent.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of information data transmitted from the information provider to the information server 3. The information to be registered includes an information type code 31 indicating a genre of information, an area code 32 indicating an information disclosure desired area, and an information disclosure desired time zone 3.
3, an information content 34 to be disclosed, and a contact code 35 indicating a method of contacting the information provider. By using the area code 32 in this manner, the information provider can easily and in detail set the information disclosure area, and can disclose the information to the area intended by the information provider.

The information receiver having the portable information terminal device shown in FIG. 2 receives the information transmitted from the base station 4 of FIG. 1 by the broadcast information receiving function 9 using the information transmitting / receiving antenna 16. Then, the received information is converted into an information type code 31 shown in FIG.
Is stored in the information storage device 12 for each information type.

Here, by setting the information type desired by the receiver in advance in the information discriminating function 10, if data that does not need to be received is received, the information is replaced by
A function is provided for automatically deleting based on the information type code 27. Also, a function is provided to delete the same information by the registration reception number 32 even when duplicate data is distributed by broadcast. With such a function, the capacity of the information storage device 12 can be reduced. To access the stored information, the receiver selects an information type using the information input function 7 and displays only the pertinent information on the information output function 14 by the information search function 13.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a service screen displayed by the information output function 14. The recipient 6 in FIG.
When it is desired to access the information provider based on the information displayed as shown in FIG. 7, the contact button 38 is pressed. This allows
Based on the contact code 35 in the information, the reply function 15 accesses the information provider by a method specified by the information provider.

FIG. 3 is a detailed functional configuration diagram of the server 3. The server 3 includes an Internet connection function 17 connected to the information transmission means 2 such as the Internet, an information appropriateness determination function 18, an information registration function 19, and an information storage device 20.
, An open area determination function 21, an information transmission function 22, and a transmission antenna 23. In the server 3, the information from the information provider received by the Internet connection function 17 determines whether or not the information is appropriate as information to be broadcast by the information appropriateness determination function 18. To store information.
The information stored in the information storage device 21 is accessed periodically by the open area discriminating function 22, and the information is classified for each information open area based on the area code 32.
2 and the information transmitting antenna 23 to transmit information for each base station 4 that covers the area. here,
The process of determining whether or not it is appropriate is a process of registering, for example, non-social groups such as gangs as data and automatically removing information provided by this group name (of course, After that, re-examination and re-examination are performed by humans as necessary.) There is also a method of determining whether or not human beings intervene in a man-machine manner and impair the public interest, whether or not the individual includes defamation and the like.

FIG. 4 is a detailed functional block diagram of the base station 4. The base station 4 includes a receiving antenna 24 and an information receiving function 2
5, an information registration function 26, an information storage device 27, a periodic information reading function 28, a broadcast function 29,
The transmission antenna 30 is provided. This base station 4
Then, the information transmitted by the server 3 is received using the information receiving antenna 24 and the information receiving function 25. The received information (the information in FIG. 5) is converted by the information registration function 26 into the information shown in FIG. 6 (the area code 32 in FIG. 5 is converted into the registration reception number 36) and registered in the information storage device 27.

The information registered in the information storage device 27 is periodically read out by the periodic information storage device 28. When the transmission time set by the information provider as the information disclosure desired time zone 33 in the information is reached, the broadcast function 29 is activated. Antenna 30
Broadcast from. The broadcasted information is unconditionally shown in FIG.
Is received by an unspecified number of recipients 6 in the information disclosure area 5 shown in FIG.

In addition, there is a method in which the server 3 is provided with a function for discriminating the designated time of publication in addition to the function of discriminating the area, and the results of the processing of these functions are temporarily stored in the storage device 20. In addition to the method in which the server 3 automatically transmits the public information, there is also an example in which the base station 4 accesses the server 3 to automatically acquire the public information. Conversely, there is also an example in which the server 3 itself sends public information to the base station 4 based on self-determination in accordance with the area and the opening time.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an information exchange procedure performed between the information sender, the information server, the base station, and the information receiver. The information sender transmits the information content to be disclosed to the information server from a portable information terminal device or a personal computer connected to the Internet (step S39). The structure of this transmission information is
The configuration shown in FIG. 5 includes an information type (genre) code 31, a region code 32, a desired release time zone 33, and a contact code 35 in addition to the information content 34.

The information server which has received this information determines in step S40 whether or not the received information can be disclosed. If it is determined that the information cannot be disclosed, step S4 follows.
In step 1, a message such as "such information cannot be registered" is displayed to the information sender, and the information is discarded (step S43).

If it is determined that the received information can be made public, the process proceeds from step S40 to step S42, and the received information is registered in the database of the base station corresponding to the area code 32. The base station whose information has been registered in the database extracts information having the corresponding desired publication time zone 33 from a large number of information at predetermined time intervals and broadcasts the information (step S44).

In the portable information terminal of the recipient who has received the information broadcast from the base station, step S45 is performed.
Then, it is determined whether or not the incoming information is information of the information type set by the user. If the incoming information is not the information of the information type set by the user, the information is discarded (step S46). In the case of the information, the process proceeds to step S47, and the incoming information is displayed for each genre using the information type code (FIG. 7). Then, the receiver asks whether or not he / she wants a reply to the incoming information (step S48). If no reply is received, the incoming information is discarded or stored. Call the contact code inside. Thereby, the information sender communicates with the receiver (step S51).

As described above, in the present invention, since the information service form using broadcast is used, the information receiver does not need to subscribe to such a service, and the information provider is charged. The information recipient can obtain the information for free. In addition, since the information provider can send information to a receiver having an unspecified number of mobile terminals in the area, the advertising effect of commercials and the like increases. Thus, it is possible to provide real-time interactive local information service.

[0028]

According to the present invention, an information receiver is provided with an environment in which information is automatically distributed by broadcasting, and an environment in which the information provider can be easily accessed. An environment is provided in which an information disclosure time zone, a region can be set, and a contact method can be specified, and a service of distributing interactive region information to both an information receiver and an information provider becomes possible. In addition, real-time properties can be ensured.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed functional configuration diagram of the portable information terminal device.

FIG. 3 is a detailed functional configuration diagram of the server shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a detailed functional configuration diagram of the base station shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of information registered in a server.

FIG. 6 is a configuration diagram of information registered in a base station.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display screen of the portable information terminal device.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure in the information service system according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 Information sender (information provider) 2 Information transmission means (network such as the Internet) 3 Information server 4 Base station 5 Information disclosure area 6 Information receiver (portable information terminal device)

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A base station corresponding to an area in charge, and information to be disclosed transmitted from an information sender is received, and the information to be disclosed is transferred to a base station in a designated area for disclosure written in the information to be disclosed. A transmission unit that is provided in the base station, receives the transfer of the disclosure target information from the server, and broadcasts the disclosure target information wirelessly, and receives information broadcast from the base station via the transmission unit. If the received information is not information of the user-specified type, the received information is discarded. If the received information is information of the user-specified type, the received information is displayed on a screen and the information sender written in the received information. An information service system comprising: a portable information terminal device capable of accessing a contact address. 2. The disclosure target information transmitted by the information sender includes an information type code indicating a genre of information, a region code indicating an information disclosure designated area, an information disclosure designated time zone, information contents to be disclosed, and information to an information sender. 2. The information service system according to claim 1, further comprising a contact code indicating a contact method of the information service. 3. The information service system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile information terminal device is a mobile phone, and the base station is a base station of the mobile phone. 4. The server has editing means for performing area division based on the transmitted designated area, and the base station comprises:
The information service system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising storage means for taking in information to be disclosed according to an area in which the user is in charge. 5. The disclosure target information according to claim 1, wherein the broadcast is performed at predetermined time intervals, and the disclosure target information to be broadcasted is determined from the release designation time zone written in the release target information and the predetermined time. An information service system characterized by deciding. 6. The server receives the disclosure target information transmitted from the information sender, transfers the disclosure target information to a base station in a disclosure target designation area written in the disclosure target information, and The base station that has received the transfer of the disclosure target information broadcasts the disclosure target information wirelessly, and the portable information terminal device that has received the information broadcast from the base station does not receive the information specified by the user-specified type. Wherein the received information is discarded, and in the case of information of a user-specified type, the received information is displayed on a screen and the contact information addressed to the information sender written in the received information can be accessed. How to provide information.