JP2006202101A - Information terminal, information distribution server and information distribution method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information terminal for presenting contents suitable for the tastes of a user without user's operation for acquiring information. <P>SOLUTION: An attribute information extracting part 102 extracts attribute information attached to contents browsed by a user at the time of browsing contents in a Web or the like. A history information processing part 105 records history information in association with content browsing in a Web or the like. A user information generation part 103 generates user taste information based on attribute information included in the history information. An access decision processing part 106 decides whether or not the user taste information has been updated. When it is decided that the user taste information has been updated, the updated user taste information is transmitted through an information transmitting/receiving part 101 to an information distribution server. Thus, it is possible to distribute contents related with the user tastes from the information distribution server. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an information terminal, an information distribution server, and an information distribution method that present content suitable for a user's preference.

  There is an information distribution system in which information suitable for a user's situation and preferences can be distributed to a user's mobile terminal in response to a request at the user's current time. This distribution system includes information storage means for storing provided information, which is information that the information provider desires to provide to the user, and information requested by the user via a communication network from a mobile terminal used by the user. Information provider for classification information receiving means for receiving classification information indicating classification, information narrowing means for narrowing provided information suitable for the classification information from the information storage means, and information provided by the information narrowing means Compares the delivery request condition, which is a desired condition for delivery of the provided information, with the delivery decision condition, which is a condition for determining whether to deliver the provided information, and matches the provided information that matches the delivery desired condition with the delivery decision condition. Information extracting means for extracting as provided information, and information for transmitting matching provided information extracted by the information extracting means to the portable terminal via the communication network And a signal means. The desired delivery conditions include the time that the information provider wants to deliver, the region that the information provider wants to deliver, and the type of information to be delivered, and the delivery decision conditions include the current time, Including information on the location and the type of information that the user of the mobile terminal prefers, and the information extraction means compares the time that the information provider wants to deliver with the time of the current time, and the area that the information provider wants to deliver Whether the desired delivery condition matches the delivery decision condition according to the result of at least one of the comparison with the position of the mobile terminal or the comparison between the type of information to be distributed and the type of information preferred by the user of the mobile terminal Is determined (see Patent Document 1).

JP 2004-192284 A

  In the above information distribution system, the user needs to perform an operation for setting the classification information indicating the classification of the information requested for distribution on the portable terminal, and transmit the set classification information to the information distribution system. For this reason, bothersomeness remains in operation accompanying information acquisition, and it cannot respond to a change in user preference.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an information terminal, an information distribution server, and an information distribution capable of presenting content suitable for the user's preference without the user performing an operation for obtaining information. It aims to provide a method.

  An information terminal according to the present invention includes an attribute information extraction unit that extracts attribute information associated with browsed content, a history information processing unit that records history information associated with content browsing, and the attribute information included in the history information. A user information generation unit that generates user preference information based on the information, an information storage unit that stores access condition information that is a determination condition as to whether or not to transmit the user preference information to an information distribution server, and a condition of the access condition information An access determination processing unit that determines whether the access condition information is satisfied; and an information transmission unit that transmits the user preference information to the information distribution server when the access condition information determination condition is satisfied.

  Thereby, when the user browses the content on the web or the like, a browsing history including attribute information attached to the content is created, and user preference information is generated based on the attribute information included in the browsing history, for example, user preference information User access information is transmitted to the information distribution server when an access condition such as update is established. Therefore, even if the user does not perform an operation for setting the user preference information or an operation for transmitting the set user preference information to the information distribution server or the transmission, the user preference information is generated, and the generated user preference information is the information. Sent to the distribution server. Therefore, the content related to the user preference information can be received from the information distribution server without the user performing an operation for obtaining information.

  In the information terminal described above, the access condition information is condition information that satisfies a condition when the user preference information is updated.

  Thereby, whenever the user preference information is updated, the updated user preference information is transmitted to the information distribution server, and the content related to the updated user preference information can be received from the information distribution server.

  An information distribution server according to the present invention receives an information storage unit that stores user preference information and one or more contents of one or more users, and notification information that the user preference information has been updated, and stores the information storage A user information processing unit that updates the user preference information stored in a unit, an information search unit that extracts content that matches the updated user preference information from the content stored in the information storage unit, and An information transmission unit that transmits content to the transmission source of the notification information.

  Thus, when notification information indicating that the user preference information has been updated is received, the user preference information stored in the information storage unit is updated, content that matches the updated user preference information is extracted, and the extracted content is notified. Send to the sender of the information.

  In the information distribution server, the user preference information stored in the information storage unit is information including a category preferred by the user and a category priority, and the information search unit is a category preferred by the user. And search for content based on the category priority.

  Thereby, the content suitable for the user's preference can be provided.

  An information distribution method according to the present invention is an information distribution method for distributing content suitable for an information receiver's preference, and the information terminal sends user preference information to the information distribution server when the information receiver's preference is updated. The information distribution server, when receiving the user preference information transmitted from the information terminal, distributes content related to the user preference information to the information terminal.

  Thereby, the information receiver can receive the distribution of the content related to the user preference information without performing an operation for obtaining information.

  In the above information distribution method, the user preference information is information including a category preferred by the user and a priority of the category.

  Thereby, the content suitable for the user's preference can be provided.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, even if a user does not perform operation for information acquisition, the content suitable for a user preference can be shown.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  The essence of the present invention is that user information registration and update to the information distribution server is performed by establishing a determination condition as to whether or not to access the information distribution server, and the information distribution server refers to the registered user information and It is configured to deliver content suitable for the above.

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1 to 9 are diagrams for explaining the embodiment. First, the configuration of the information providing system will be described with reference to FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the information providing system 350 includes an information distribution server 300 that transmits data, a plurality of information terminals 301 to 303 such as a mobile phone and a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), and the Internet 330 A plurality of information providing servers 311 to 313 that provide content via the network, and a base station 321 that receives data from the information distribution server 300 via the core network 320 and transmits this data to the information terminals 301 to 303 ˜323. The information distribution server 300 has a function of receiving information transmitted from the information terminals 301 to 303. Here, the numbers of the information terminals 301 to 303, the information providing servers 311 to 313, and the base stations 321 to 323 are not particularly limited.

  Next, the configuration of the information terminals 301 to 303 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an information terminal. The information terminals 301 to 303 include an information transmission / reception unit 101, an attribute information extraction unit 102, a user information generation unit 103, an information storage unit 104, a history information processing unit 105, and an access determination processing unit 106. . The information terminals 301 to 303 include an input operation unit (not shown), a display unit (not shown), an input / output control unit (not shown), and the like. The information terminals 301 to 303 have a function of browsing a Web site on a network such as the Internet, a function of transmitting information to the information distribution server 300, and a function of receiving information from the information distribution server.

  The information transmission / reception unit 101 transmits and receives information. The attribute information extraction unit 102 has a function of extracting attribute information such as category information accompanying the browsed content. The user information generation unit 103 has a function of generating user characteristic information that is the current user situation and user preference. The information storage unit 104 stores the acquired content, user information such as history information and user characteristic information, and access condition information that is a condition for determining whether or not to transmit information to the information distribution server. For example, the determination condition is satisfied by updating the user information in the information terminal designated by the information distribution server. The history information processing unit 105 has a function of generating and recording history information. The access determination processing unit 106 is a processing unit that determines whether an access condition is satisfied.

  Next, a processing flow at the time of updating user information on the information terminal will be described with reference to FIG.

  Here, the information terminals 301 to 303 store user preference information shown in FIG. 9A as user preference information as user information. FIG. 9A shows user preference information stored in the information storage unit 104. The user preference information includes category information and priority information indicating the user's interest in each category, and “entertainment” has the highest priority. It is shown that.

  In addition, the information storage unit 104 stores user identification information “AAA” as information related to the user of the information terminal. Furthermore, the information storage unit 104 stores access condition information, and the access condition information indicates that the update information is notified to the information distribution server 300 when the user preference information is updated.

  In step S201, when a user browses content on the Web, the attribute information extraction unit 102 extracts category information, which is attribute information accompanying the content, each time the content is browsed. In addition, the history information processing unit 105 stores the browsing record in the information storage unit 104.

  In step S202, the user information generation unit 103 refers to the browsing record including the category information extracted in step S201, and generates user preference information. Specifically, the user preference is prioritized based on the number of category information browsed and recorded. At that time, prioritization is performed while giving higher weighting to content browsed within a predetermined time from the current time. Here, content related to “sports” is viewed with priority, and is viewed within a predetermined time, so the importance related to “sports” increases. As a result, a change occurs in the priority of the category information as the user preference. The updated user preference information is shown in FIG. It is indicated that the priority of the category information is “sports” and “entertainment” in this order.

  In step S <b> 203, the access determination processing unit 106 determines whether to transmit user information to the information distribution server 300. In step S <b> 204, the access determination processing unit 106 determines that the access condition is satisfied because a change in user preference information, which is an access determination condition for the information distribution server, has occurred. In step S205, the information transmitting / receiving unit 101 transmits the updated user preference information to the information distribution server 300. The information distribution server 300 updates the registered user preference information.

  An example of the update information message transmitted from the information terminals 301 to 303 to the information distribution server 300 is shown in FIG. FIG. 8 is a message for notifying user information to be registered to the information distribution server 300, and includes information distribution destination address information 810 indicating the information distribution server 300 and user information 820 as update information. The user information 820 includes user identification information 831 and user preference information 832. The user identification information 831 “userID” indicates “AAA”. The user preference information 832 is user preference information regarding category information, and indicates that the priority of the user preference is the order of “sports” and “entertainment”.

  Next, the configuration of the information distribution server 300 will be described with reference to FIG. The information distribution server 300 includes a distribution request reception unit 401, an information storage unit 402, an information search unit 403, an information transmission unit 404, and a user information processing unit 405.

  The distribution request reception unit 401 receives content distribution requests from the information providing servers 311 to 313 and performs request reception processing. The information storage unit 402 stores information related to content requested for distribution and a user (user) of an information terminal that is a distribution destination of the content. The information search unit 403 selects an appropriate information based on user information such as a search function for extracting an appropriate information distribution destination user and user preference information stored in the information storage unit 402 for the content desired to be distributed. And a search function for extracting content. The information transmission unit 404 has a function of distributing content to the information terminal used by the user extracted by the information search unit 403. The user information processing unit 405 has a function of receiving user information registration requests and update requests from the information terminals 301 to 303 and registering or updating user information stored in the information storage unit 402.

  Next, the operation of the information distribution server 300 notified of the user preference information update request will be described with reference to the processing flow of FIG.

  Here, the user information shown in FIG. 7A is registered in the information distribution server 300. FIG. 7A shows user information stored in the information storage unit 402, which is composed of a set of user identification information and category information as preference information. User information of three persons identified by user identification information “AAA”, “BBB” and “CCC” is registered, and preference information of each user is “entertainment”, “entertainment” and “economic”, respectively. It is shown that there is.

  Further, in the information distribution server 300, three contents having the content registration information shown in FIG. 6 are registered as the contents desired to be received received from the information providing servers 311 to 313. As shown in FIG. 6, each registered content is registered including content identification information and category information as attribute information.

  In step S <b> 501, the user information processing unit 405 of the information distribution server 300 receives user information registration request information from any of the information terminals 301 to 303. Here, it is assumed that the user information shown in FIG. The user information processing unit 405 analyzes the reception information illustrated in FIG. 8 and extracts user identification information 831 and user preference information 832.

  In step S502, the user information processing unit 405 stores the user identification information 831 and the user preference information 832 extracted in step S501 in the information storage unit 402.

  FIG. 7B shows user information stored in the information storage unit 402. Information related to the user identified by the user identification information “AAA” has been updated, and it is indicated that the category information with the highest priority is “sports” and then “entertainment” as preference information.

  In step S503, since the user information stored in the information storage unit 402 has been updated, the information search unit 403 searches for content to be adapted based on user preference information that is updated user information.

  In step S504, the information search unit 403 searches for information related to “sports” that is the user preference information with the highest priority for the user identified by the user identification information “AAA”, and corresponds to the user preference information. The content identified by the content identification information “1111” having the attribute information whose category information is “sports” is extracted from the content stored in the information storage unit 402.

  If there is no content whose category information is “sports”, the content whose category information to be prioritized is “entertainment” may be extracted. Further, the content to be extracted is not limited to one content, and a plurality of content may be extracted.

  In step S505, the information transmission unit 404 transmits the content identified by the content identification information “1111” extracted in step S504 to the information terminal 301.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, by using the latest user information stored in the information terminal, content desired by the user can be agile without giving a load to the user according to the user information and the situation. Can be provided.

  In the present embodiment, the user identification information and the information terminal used by the user identified by the user identification information are associated one-to-one with user information stored separately by the information distribution server 300. It shall be.

  In this embodiment, an example is shown in which preference priority for category information is used as user information to be notified to the information distribution server. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and each evaluation value for category information may be used. . As a result, the information provider can provide information by using the rate of change of the evaluation value, and can provide information in consideration of the changing tendency of user preference.

  Further, category information that does not require distribution may be notified as user information notified from the information terminal to the information distribution server.

  The access condition information is desirably provided in advance from the information distribution server 300 to the information terminals 301 to 303. For example, the information distribution server 300 may broadcast the notification information for providing the information providing service and provide the access condition information. Alternatively, access condition information may be provided in response to a service provision start request from the information terminals 301 to 303 to the information distribution server 300.

  According to the present invention, there is an effect that it is possible to present content suitable for the user's preference without the user performing an operation for obtaining information, and a mobile phone, a portable information terminal, a notebook personal computer, It is useful for an information terminal such as a personal computer on a network constructed by a wireless LAN or a wired LAN, an information distribution server, and an information distribution method.

The block diagram which shows the information terminal of embodiment of this invention The flowchart for demonstrating the processing method at the time of the user information generation in the information terminal of embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the structure of the information provision system of embodiment of this invention The block diagram which shows the structure of the information delivery server of embodiment of this invention The flowchart for demonstrating the user information update process in the information delivery server of embodiment of this invention The figure which shows an example of the content registration information in the information delivery server of embodiment of this invention The figure which shows an example of the user information in the information delivery server of embodiment of this invention The figure which shows an example of the user information update request message transmitted from the information terminal of embodiment of this invention The figure which shows an example of the user preference information in the information terminal of embodiment of this invention

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 Information transmission / reception part 102 Attribute information extraction part 103 User information generation part 104 Information storage part 105 History information processing part 106 Access determination processing part 300 Information distribution server 301-303 Information terminal 311-313 Information provision server 321-323 Base station 350 Information Providing system 401 Distribution request reception unit 402 Information storage unit 403 Information search unit 404 Information transmission unit 405 User information processing unit

Claims (6)

An attribute information extraction unit that extracts attribute information associated with the browsed content;
A history information processing unit for recording history information associated with content browsing;
A user information generation unit that generates user preference information based on the attribute information included in the history information;
An information storage unit that stores access condition information that is a determination condition as to whether or not to transmit the user preference information to an information distribution server;
An access determination processing unit that determines whether the condition of the access condition information is satisfied;
An information transmission unit that transmits the user preference information to an information distribution server when the access condition information determination condition is satisfied;
An information terminal comprising: An information terminal according to claim 1, wherein
The access terminal is an information terminal that is condition information that satisfies a condition when the user preference information is updated. An information storage unit for storing user preference information of one or more users and one or more contents;
A user information processing unit that receives notification information that the user preference information has been updated and updates the user preference information stored in the information storage unit;
An information search unit for extracting content that matches the updated user preference information from the content stored in the information storage unit;
An information transmission unit that transmits the extracted content to the transmission source of the notification information;
An information distribution server comprising: An information distribution server according to claim 3, wherein
The user preference information stored in the information storage unit is information including a category preferred by the user and a category priority, and the information search unit is based on the category preferred by the user and the priority of the category. An information distribution server that searches content. An information distribution method for distributing content suitable for information receiver preference,
The information terminal transmits user preference information to the information distribution server when the preference of the information receiver is updated,
The information delivery method, when the information delivery server receives the user preference information transmitted from the information terminal, delivers content related to the user preference information to the information terminal. An information distribution method according to claim 5, wherein
The information distribution method, wherein the user preference information is information including a category preferred by the user and a priority of the category.

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