JP2003141087A - Individual confidential communication method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform concealment communication to a party at the other end whose password and location are unknown using the Internet. SOLUTION: Confidential important matters such as a message and an image are communicated with a desired communication party at the other end existing in an unspecified region through the Internet connecting function of the communication device such as a computer 14 and a cellular phone by an electronic device of the computer 14 or the personal digital assistant 15 connected to the Internet 10. In communication, an item known only to the persons concerned is set as a password, a plurality of passwords are provided, and some of the passwords are permitted to be ambiguous as fixed to judge the conformity of the passwords.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an individual confidential communication method for individually communicating various information in a confidential state with a specific destination in an unspecified set by utilizing the Internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, "chat", "message service",
Functions such as "mail communication" and "public website" are used.

"Chat" is a communication method in which opinions are exchanged among a plurality of unspecified participants in a simultaneous proceeding format.
In the "message service", the recipient who knows the password individually obtains the information from the sender. Also,
"Mail communication" is also for transmitting information to a specific mail address. Also, "Home page release"
Is a means for disclosing information to an unspecified number of people who have accessed the home page.

[0004]

However, "chat" is a method of making a public message to an unspecified person, and if the communication content is confidential to the specified person, it is put in the chat. If it is made public, the information may be used maliciously and cannot be used.

[0005] In the "message service", it is necessary for the viewer to disclose the name of the viewer himself or related persons in order to judge whether the communication is addressed to him or her before browsing the communication contents. , It cannot be used for communications that you want to keep confidential, including those involved. The "mail communication" is a communication that cannot be performed unless the other party's mail address is known.

[0006] Further, in "publication of home page", the search up to the home page is of a public nature, and confidential items cannot be disclosed as it is. Also, when setting a password required for browsing, the viewer needs to know the password.Therefore, in the conventional method of setting a specific password for individuals or groups, the method of transmitting the password is It is impossible to communicate with no specific person.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and enables the use of the Internet to perform confidential communication with a party whose location is unknown and who does not know the password. It is an object of the present invention to provide a personalized confidential communication method.

[0008]

The present invention uses an electronic device such as a computer or a personal digital assistant connected to the Internet to address a desired communication partner existing in an unspecified range, such as a computer or a mobile phone. This is an individual confidential communication method for communicating confidential important matters such as messages and images via the Internet connection function of a communication device. At the time of communication, the items that only the parties can know are set as passwords, and a plurality of these passwords are provided. Some of the passwords are allowed to have a certain ambiguity and the passwords are judged to be in agreement.

The password includes image information that can be known only to the parties, for example, the arrangement of the family at the table at that time, the room configuration, etc., and the password information is used to determine whether the password matches.

Further, regarding matters that can be known only between the parties, the matching judgment of the password which allows ambiguity is inferred based on the fuzzy theory.

In particular, the present invention relates to a communication item addressed to a person who wants to communicate (contact) with a specific person existing in an unknown unspecified range, on the home page of the Internet provided by the administrator. When posting a (message, photo, etc.) and a viewer who is an unknown specific person wants to view the communication items addressed to him / herself, various passwords can be entered so that only the parties can know the password. It enables communication.

Although there are many examples of use, the most effective example is to send a contact message to a missing person. In this case, if the title on the homepage is, for example, "I keep the message addressed to you from my family for those who have left home due to some reason," many disappeared families Because I think that I am concerned about
The missing party views the contact message for himself. Also, after browsing, I will be able to communicate the reply and report to the publisher whether there is a browsing,
It is also possible to add added value such as.

As a result, the inheritance problem involving the disappeared person,
This is an effective communication method for publishers, such as making important communications such as safety information.

As a method of setting the password, the password requires a plurality of inputs. For example, the password is set as follows. (A) Name of the person who wants to browse (kanji, phonetic alphabet), (b) Date of birth of person who wants to browse, (c) Password according to the guidelines specified by the publisher (blood type and place of origin of the person who wants to browse, etc.) ), (D) Only the parties can know. In particular, when addressing a person who has disappeared, use a pictorial password (designating the seat of the family at the dining table, designating the bedroom of the family in the floor plan of your home, etc.) that is unknown to a third party.

As a result, it becomes impossible for a third party to browse the communication contents, and the confidential contents can be safely posted in the communication contents.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3 show an individual confidential communication method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
In this embodiment, the Internet 10 as shown in FIG.
It utilizes a communication infrastructure for transmitting various information via the Internet, has a server 12 connected to the Internet 10, and the Internet 10 has a personal digital assistant 15 including a computer 14 which is a large number of electronic devices and a mobile phone. Are provided so that they can be connected.

The system used for this individual confidential communication method includes, in the server 12, each computer 14, and the portable information terminal 15, a predetermined communication program which is a transmitting means for transmitting via the Internet 10 and other storages. It is provided with a processing device such as a device, a CPU, and a communication circuit.

The individual confidential communication method of this embodiment is used, for example, when a person is missing due to running away from home or other disappearances and he / she wants to communicate (contact) with a specific person who is missing in an unspecified range. It is possible. First, as shown in FIG. 2, a person who wants to make contact with a specific missing partner is to make a communication on the home page of the Internet 10 provided by the administrator 20 who operates the system of the individual confidential communication method. Post communication items (messages, photos, etc.) addressed to the person you want to take. This posting enables confidential communication to a specific partner, and when the viewer 24 who is an unknown specific person wants to browse the communication items addressed to himself, as described later, It is possible to make a third party inaccessible and perform confidential communication by inputting a password that can be known only to both the posting applicant 22 who wants to contact and the viewer 24 who is a specific partner. it can.

Further, the posting applicant 22 needs to input the posting reason (communication request reason), and after the administrator 20 inspects the posting reason, the person who is in contact with public order and morals and the one that is feared to be illegal Publication is not permitted when it is an objective.

The password setting method is as follows: First, the person who wants to post it in the mailbox provided on the home page of the Internet 10 provided by the system administrator 20.
2 posts the contents of communication (email and photograph). At this time,
The viewers 24 in the unspecified range set several kinds of passwords for opening the mailbox to prevent unauthorized access by a person other than a specified partner and at the same time prevent information leakage.

In order to improve confidentiality, the password is provided with a plurality of items for personal identification as described below.

For example, in the case of a person who disappears, the password a is the name of the viewer, the password b is the birth date of the viewer, the password c is the blood type of the viewer, and the password d is known only to the parties of the viewer. For example, the password is a pictorial diagram of text information or image information that is difficult to find in a resume such as the name of the home nursery school or kindergarten or the arrangement of the family dining table at the time of disappearance.

Here, with respect to the password d, the fact that only the parties can know is that the access is denied due to the ambiguity of the memory of the person concerned and the difference in the description style, and due to a slight difference in the password even though the person is a legitimate person. There is. Therefore, in order to prevent this, the description style is specified in the entry guidelines and ambiguous expressions such as "Northern nursery school"
Even if is input as "Northern nursery school", "Northern nursery school" is set as an essential word, and when it is included, it is set as a password to judge that it is valid. In the determination of the ambiguity, a certain percentage, for example, 90% or more of the characters are matched, or the meaning is understood and the above meaning is matched. , Server 12 that makes decisions based on logical decisions such as fuzzy reasoning
The password is automatically judged by a predetermined judgment program.

The pictorial password uses a password that can be expressed only by the parties concerned and cannot be expressed in a language or numbers. For example, as an example of "designate a family seat at the table just before disappearance",
By the screen operation as shown in FIG. 3, the password drawing is completed. Here, I am listening to the arrangement of the family at the table at the time of disappearance. First, in (1), select the shape of the table at that time. Then, in (2), the family numbers are arranged around the selected table. This operation is performed by operating the pointer on the screen of the computer, for example. Then, it is determined whether or not the person is the person by using the completed pictorial diagram as a password.

Here, as shown in FIG. 3, the direction of the dining table may be arbitrary, and it is determined that the legitimate passwords are matched based on the legitimacy of the family's seat permutation, the table shape, and the number of families. Also in this case, a certain degree of ambiguity may be allowed for the determination.

Further, when the parties are specified, the existing mail or the like can be used to set the added value such as a mechanism in which after viewing the communication addressed to oneself, a reply can be made as desired. Is easily possible.

After the predetermined items have been posted as described above, when the viewers 24 in an unspecified range view the posted contents, I was wondering whether the disappeared person, a specific person, is looking for someone. In that case, the presence or absence of communication addressed to himself is appropriately checked on the home page of the administrator 20. In this case, do this as follows.

First, the item corresponding to oneself is selected from the types of the person with whom communication is desired (communication with a missing person, past acquaintances, etc.) set by the applicant 22. After selecting the type of the person with whom communication is desired, for example, the area corresponding to oneself is selected.
For "Selection of region", set the region item set by the publisher according to the type of person you want to communicate with (eg, the place of origin if you are missing, the region you met when you were addressed to someone in the past, etc.) .

After selecting the area, the passwords a to
Enter d to make it possible to browse the communication contents addressed to you from the message box. Each password is accompanied by an explanation of the input procedure according to the type of the other party with whom communication is desired.

When all the passwords a to d match, the viewer 24 can obtain the information posted by the applicant 22. In addition, it is possible to contact the applicant 22 for publication. Applicant 22 is Viewer 24
It is possible to confirm whether or not a specific viewer 24 has viewed the posted content without contact from.

According to the individual confidential communication method of this embodiment, since the password is a matter that only the parties who want to communicate with the person who wants to communicate with the specific person existing in the unspecified range can know the password, Information is not leaked to many people. In addition, the password based on the matters that only the specific persons can know is formed by the processing of the server 12 so as to allow a certain ambiguity. There is no need to be hit by the difference, and it makes up for the ambiguity of memory. Further, by using a graphic password, the reliability can be further enhanced.

The individual confidential communication method of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and the electronic equipment provided with the individual confidential communication method is not limited to a computer but is a portable information terminal or various mobile phones. But good. In addition to the communication for the disappeared person, the application can be variously used for a system that communicates to a corresponding specified person from among unspecified persons.

[0033]

According to the individual confidential communication method of the present invention, the information that only the parties can know is used as a password for a specific partner in an unspecified range, and some passwords are ambiguous. Is permitted by a predetermined reasoning, and the parties can be more surely confirmed. Further, by using the graphic password, it is possible to increase the types of information shared only by the parties, increase the range of use as a password, and make the confirmation means more reliable.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a system of an individual confidential communication method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a method of using the individual confidential communication method of this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing how to decide a password for the individual confidential communication method of this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Internet 12 servers 14 Computer 15 Mobile information terminal 20 administrator 22 Applicants 24 Viewers

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An electronic device such as a computer or a personal digital assistant connected to the Internet is used to reach a desired communication partner existing in an unspecified range via an Internet connection function of a communication device such as a computer or a mobile phone. In an individual confidential communication method that communicates confidential important matters such as messages and videos, set items that only parties can know as passwords, provide multiple passwords, and for some of those passwords, An individual confidential communication method characterized by allowing a certain ambiguity to judge a password match. 2. The password includes image information that can be known only to the parties, and the password matching judgment is performed based on the image information.
The individual confidential communication method described. 3. The item according to claim 1 or 2, wherein, regarding matters that can be known only between the parties, a password matching decision that allows ambiguity is inferred based on fuzzy theory. Individual confidential communication method.