JP2003058664A - Information distribution device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily confirm whether a user is a buyer of an event ticket when distributing information associated with the event. SOLUTION: An information distributing server 10 distributes the information associated with the event to a terminal device 13. A storage 24 is stored with information that anybody can download and access-limited information that only ticket buyers can download. Each ticket of the event has an ID and a password for resetting the access limitation.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information distribution device that distributes information about events.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, the Internet has been rapidly developing. The number of sites that deliver information to terminal devices is not only increasing, but the information that is delivered is also diversifying, and in addition to text information and still images, the number of sites that deliver audio and video are increasing. I'm doing it.

For example, on a site operated by an organizer of various events such as sports games and music concerts,
As part of ticket sales promotion activities, various information (contents) related to the event, such as the event schedule and its outline, will be distributed. These contents are stored in the information distribution server that constitutes the site, and are downloaded in response to a distribution request from the terminal device.

Also, many sites allow reservations and orders for event tickets and the like to be accepted online. Such reservations and orders are performed by receiving the order information transmitted from the orderer and issuing the order number, orderer ID, password, etc. to the orderer.

The order information includes, for example, the name of a concert or the like desired to be purchased, information about the ticket such as the number of tickets, and personal information such as the orderer's address, name, and credit card number. . The order information sent from these orderers, the order number issued to the orderer,
The orderer ID and password are stored in association with a database or the like. When inquiring about the reservation status of tickets,
The information distribution server sends the inquiry requester the orderer I
By requesting D, password, etc., and comparing these sent ID, password, etc. with that in the database,
Confirm whether the inquiry requester is a ticket purchaser.

[0006] Further, for the purpose of further expanding the sales of tickets, it has been considered to prepare moving image data and audio data of performers of a concert as contents so that ticket purchasers can download these contents. In order to limit access to these contents to the ticket purchaser, it is confirmed whether or not the user is the ticket purchaser by the password or ID issued at the time of reservation or order.

[0007]

However, tickets are sold not only online but at stores. Since the people who purchased the ticket at the store do not have the password or the orderer ID, the information distribution server cannot easily confirm whether or not these people are the ticket purchasers. For this reason, there has been a problem that the people who bought the ticket at the store cannot access the content that the ticket purchaser originally could access. In addition, even if the ticket purchaser transfers the purchased ticket to a third party for a fee or free of charge, the ticket transfer recipient (third party) does not have the orderer ID or password. Occurs.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide an information distribution device capable of easily confirming whether a ticket purchaser or not.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, an information distribution device of the present invention is an information distribution device for distributing information related to an event to a terminal device via a communication network. Communication means for performing communication between the terminals, storage means for storing the information distributed in response to a request from the terminal device, and access restriction means for restricting access from the terminal device to at least a part of the information. The access restriction is released by the release information recorded in the ticket of the event.

As the information whose access is restricted, an order acceptance screen for accepting a print order for an image related to an event may be distributed, and the print order may be accepted.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION As shown in FIG. 1, an information distribution server 10 constitutes a site of an organizer who hosts an event such as a concert. The information distribution server 10 is associated with the event. Various information (contents)
Is remembered. In addition, this information distribution server 10
Accepts online booking and online ordering for event tickets. The terminal device 13 is the Internet 1
The information distribution server 10 is accessed via 1 to download various information, make reservations and orders.

The terminal device 13 is a mobile phone, PHS.
(Personal Handyphone System) terminal, PDA (Personal Handyphone System)
al Digital Assistant) terminal is used. The mobile terminal is connected to the Internet 11 via the mobile communication network 12. Of course, the terminal device is not limited to the mobile terminal, and may be a personal computer. Further, the access line for connecting to the Internet 11 need not be the mobile communication network 12, but may be the public telephone network or C
It may be an ATV (Cable Television) network.

The information distribution server 10 includes a controller 2
1, a communication interface 22, and a storage 24. The controller 21 includes a CPU, ROM, and RAM, and controls the communication interface 22 and the storage 24 by reading and executing various programs in the storage.

The communication interface 22 receives information transmitted from the terminal device 13, such as an information distribution request,
The information in the storage 24 is delivered to the terminal device 13. The communication interface 22 is a communication board in which a communication control circuit, a connector for connecting a communication cable, and the like are incorporated.

The storage 24 is, for example, an information storage device such as a hard disk, and stores various programs executed by the controller 21 and distribution contents.

As shown in FIG. 2, in the storage 24,
A program folder 31 for storing programs and a content folder 36 for storing distribution contents are provided. The program folder 31 stores various programs such as an information distribution program, an access restriction program, and a ticket order acceptance program.

The information distribution program extracts the specified file from the storage 24 based on the distribution request command from the terminal device 13 and sends it to the communication interface 22. When the ticket purchase request is sent, the ticket order acceptance program sends an order acceptance screen to the terminal device 13 and accepts the order based on the order information entered through this screen. If you accept an order,
Send the receipt number, orderer ID and password. This orderer ID and password are used when the ticket purchaser inquires about the acceptance status.

The content in the storage 24 includes content whose access is not restricted so that anyone can access it, and content whose access is restricted so that only a ticket purchaser can access it. The access restriction release program determines whether the sender of the distribution request is a ticket purchaser when a distribution request is made for the content for which access is restricted. , Remove the access restriction for the content.

The access restriction release program first determines whether or not the file specified by the distribution request command is content with access restriction. If the content has restricted access, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, a screen 32 requesting transmission of ID and password information is sent to the terminal device 13. Then, the ID and password information transmitted from the terminal device 13,
The ID and password information set in advance are collated, and if they match, the access restriction is released. When they do not match, for example, the terminal device 13 is notified that the ID and password information is incorrect, and the terminal device 13 is prompted to transmit the correct ID and password information.

As shown in FIG. 4, the ID and password are recorded in the ticket 33. The ticket purchaser sends this ID and password information to release the access restriction. Ticket sales modes include online sales and store sales. In any of the modes, the purchaser receives the ticket 33, and thus can know the ID and password.

In this example, as the release information for releasing the access restriction, an ID and a password consisting of letters and numbers are used as an example, but the release information may be other than this, for example, optical. Any information that can be recorded on a ticket, such as a bar code, magnetic information, electronic watermark information, etc., that can be read by any device, is acceptable. When the information other than the character information (ID or password) is used as described above, a dedicated release information reading device such as a bar code reader is required. Such a release information reading device is installed in, for example, a convenience store. It is good to do it. By doing this, the ticket purchaser can easily access the information distribution server from the nearest convenience store.

As shown in FIG. 5, the contents folder 3
Various contents are stored in 6. The content includes a document file, an image information file, an audio information file, and the like. These contents include a restricted file whose access is restricted and an unlimited file whose access is not restricted. The unlimited files are stored in the first subfolder 37, and the restricted files are stored in the second subfolder 38.

The first subfolder 37 includes, for example, an index page, a guide screen for a concert to be held,
Document files, image files, etc. for configuring the ticket order acceptance screen and the like are stored. With these,
Encourage viewers to buy tickets.

On the index page, a table of contents of contents provided by the site is described. In this table of contents item, a URL for specifying the corresponding content
(Uniform Resource Locator) Information is linked. When each index item is selected from the terminal device 13, the corresponding content is downloaded from the information distribution server 10 to the terminal device 13.

In the second sub-folder 38, for example, before the concert is held, document files and image files for constituting a summary explanation screen of each concert, an introduction screen of performers and performers, etc. are stored. To be done.

The screen 41 shown in FIG. 6 is an example of a screen stored before the concert is held. On this screen 41, the music to be played and the player's name are displayed. When the cursor is placed on the song title and the URL linked to it is sent to the information distribution server 10, detailed information (composer name, history, etc.) of the song is downloaded. If a URL linked to the performer's name is sent, a detailed profile of the performer is downloaded.

After the end of the concert, an image file of the best scene of the concert, an audio file of a part of the performance, etc. are stored. Figure 7
The image file may be a still image or a moving image, as shown in the screen 42 of FIG. When a desired item is selected on the screen 42 and the URL linked to it is sent, the designated image file or audio file is downloaded.

Since the image file is a display image displayed on the display of the terminal device 13, the number of pixels is smaller than that of the image data used for printing. As a result, the data size is reduced and the download time is prevented from being excessively long.

The operation of the above configuration will be described below with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. The terminal device 13 connects to the information distribution server 10. The controller 21 determines the URL sent from the terminal device 13,
When the file designated by the URL is a file in the second subfolder 38, the access restriction program is executed. Screen 3 for the terminal device 13
2 is sent, requesting the sending of the ID and password.

The ticket purchaser inputs the ID and password recorded in the ticket 33 from the terminal device 13 and sends them. The controller 21 determines the transmitted ID and password, and releases the access restriction if they match the preset ID and password. In the case of disagreement, it notifies that the ID and password are wrong and requests the transmission of the correct ID and password. When the access restriction is released, the specified file is delivered.

In the above example, an example in which only images, sounds, etc. are delivered to the ticket purchaser has been described, but an order for printing the images in the second folder 38 may be accepted. In this case, the print order reception program is stored in the program folder 31 of the information distribution server 10, the files that form the print order reception screen are stored in the second folder 38, and the information distribution server 10 includes the print order reception device. Function as.

The screen 46 shown in FIG. 9 is an example of this print order acceptance screen. In this screen 46, the image number,
The number of prints, address (destination), name, telephone number, credit card number, etc. are input, and these pieces of information are transmitted to the information distribution server 10 as order information. Image number is
When an image for display is downloaded, it is displayed in the image or around the image. Of course, the image number may be automatically input by selecting an image for display with a cursor or the like. Further, at the time of ordering, an index image in which a plurality of thumbnail images are combined may be distributed so that an image to be ordered can be selected from this index image.

Upon receiving this order information, the information distribution server 10 sends a receipt number to the terminal device 13. This order information and the print data for the designated image are sent to the printing company for printing. The completed print is sent to the orderer.

When a ticket is purchased online, the orderer ID and password are given in advance. The orderer ID and password may be used to make a print order. By doing so, it is possible to save the trouble of inputting the address, name, credit card number, and the like.

Since the print data has a higher resolution than the display data, the printed image has higher image quality than the display image. Further, since the printed image is an image of a concert that I have seen, it has a high added value as a memory or a memorial. For this reason,
Not only will this lead to increased ticket sales, but printing companies will also be able to obtain commercial benefits. This print is
Although it is provided for a fee to the ticket purchaser, it may be provided to the ticket purchaser free of charge.

In addition to the print order, a CD containing the performance of the concert may be ordered. Also, in the above example, it was explained that voice data can be downloaded free of charge. For example, short-time voice data is prepared as voice data that can be downloaded free of charge, and long-time voice data is provided for a fee. You may do it.

In the above example, a concert was taken as an example of the event, but the event includes not only concerts but also sports games such as boxing, soccer, baseball, etc., and kabuki, Noh plays, and the like.

[0038]

As described in detail above, the information distribution apparatus of the present invention is an information distribution apparatus that distributes event-related information to a terminal apparatus via a communication network, and communicates with the terminal apparatus. Communication means, a storage means for storing the information distributed in response to a request from the terminal device, and an access restriction means for restricting access to at least a part of the information from the terminal device, Since the access restriction is released by the release information recorded in the ticket of the event, it is possible to easily confirm whether or not the user is a ticket purchaser.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an information distribution device.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a program configuration stored in a program folder.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a screen for inputting an ID and a password.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a ticket in which an ID and a password are recorded.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing subfolders and file configurations in a content folder.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a screen showing event-related information before the event is held.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a screen showing event-related information after the event is held.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an information distribution procedure.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing a print order acceptance screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Information distribution server 11 Internet 13 Terminal 21 Controller 22 Communication interface 24 storage 31 Program Folder 36 Content Folder 37 First subfolder 38 second subfolder

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An information distribution device that distributes information related to an event to a terminal device via a communication network, and communication means for communicating with the terminal device, and distribution in response to a request from the terminal device. A storage unit for storing the information and an access restriction unit for restricting access to at least a part of the information from the terminal device are provided, and the access restriction is released by the release information recorded in the ticket of the event. An information distribution device characterized by the above. 2. The information of which access is restricted includes order acceptance screen information for accepting a print order of an image associated with an event.
Information distribution device described.