JP2007249987A - Content application construction system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To visually, intuitively and simply perform content application construction and operation of change from a remote place. <P>SOLUTION: This content application construction system comprises a server computer for providing contents and operation terminals that can access the server computer. The server computer comprises: a page icon generating means for generating display icons corresponding to each of a plurality of pages constituting a content application from the operation terminals; a page content receiving means for receiving page contents; a cooperative instruction receiving means for receiving a cooperative instruction of each of the plurality of pages by performing a drag and drop operation of the display icons of each page generated by the page icon generating means; a cooperation processing means for specifying pages to be a cooperation target and performing prescribed cooperative processing of the both pages; and a registering means for receiving the registration of the content application composed of respective pages subjected to cooperation processing by the cooperation processing means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a content application construction system capable of remotely constructing a content application using an operation terminal on a server computer connected to a computer network such as the Internet.

  In recent years, along with the rapid development of the Internet network, mobile phones with access to the Internet network, which is an open computer network, have become widely used, and personal computers have been used in homes. It is distributed to implement various services.

  When these various contents are distributed to the above-described computer terminals such as mobile phones and personal computers, the content application corresponding to the contents to be distributed is a markup language such as a hypertext markup rung edge (HTML). It is necessary to construct (program) the program in a predetermined description language. However, if these construction tasks are carried out one by one to the server computer that contains various data, these construction tasks become troublesome. However, there is a problem that it is not possible to cope with the distribution of content that requires quickness.

  For this reason, as a method for solving these problems, a system that can access the server computer remotely from an operation terminal and construct or change a new content application on the server computer by an operation on the operation terminal is put into practical use. Has been.

  In the system that enables the content application to be constructed or changed remotely, as described above, since the construction or change can be performed remotely in near real time, it supports the delivery of content that requires quickness. However, it is not necessary to go to the server computer one by one in these construction work, and the labor can be greatly reduced, but it is necessary to carry out construction and modification operations remotely. Due to the lack of operability, a system that can easily perform construction work and change work more visually and intuitively has been desired.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made paying attention to the above-mentioned problems, and provides a content application construction system capable of visually and intuitively and simply performing remote content application construction and change operations. It is an object.

In order to solve the above problem, a content application construction system according to claim 1 of the present invention provides:
A server computer connected to a computer network composed of a plurality of computer terminals connected so as to be capable of data communication, and providing content based on a content application constructed for the computer terminal; the server computer being accessible; An operation terminal for constructing a content application,
The server computer
A page icon generating means for generating a page icon corresponding to each of a plurality of pages constituting the contents application from the operating terminal,
Page content receiving means for receiving the content of the page corresponding to each page icon generated in the page icon generating step;
Cooperation instruction receiving means for receiving a link instruction for each page by a drag-and-drop operation of a page icon to be linked generated in the page icon generation step;
Based on a cooperation instruction received by the cooperation instruction receiving means , a page to be linked is specified, and a cooperation processing means for performing predetermined cooperation processing on both of the specified pages ;
Registration means for accepting the registration of a content application consisting of the page that is cooperative processing by the cooperative processing means,
It is characterized in that it comprises.
According to this feature, in the operation terminal, by simply dragging and dropping the page icon of each page generated and displayed on the server computer, the cooperation between the pages is automatically constructed. Therefore, the operations for constructing these content applications can be easily performed visually and intuitively.

A content application construction system according to claim 2 of the present invention is the content application construction system according to claim 1,
The server computer distributes a page icon corresponding to each type of page on the operation terminal, the page icon generating unit receives the page type based on the selection from the various different pages icon of the said distribution, accepts the It is characterized by generating a type of page icon.
According to this feature, since the type of a page to be newly generated can be specified only by selecting the page icon corresponding to each displayed type, the operability can be further improved.

A content application construction system according to claim 3 of the present invention is the content application construction system according to claim 2,
The page contents acceptance unit, based on the selection operation of the page icon said generated by a predetermined page contents acceptance page corresponding to the page type of the page icon that the selecting operation is delivered to the operation terminal, the page content It is characterized by reception.
According to this feature, the display when you want to register the page contents, by selecting operating the page icon of the page to be the registration, the predetermined page contents acceptance page operation terminal corresponding to the page type of the page icon that the selected Therefore, the registration of these page contents can be performed more easily.

A content application construction system according to claim 4 of the present invention is the content application construction system according to claim 3,
The computer terminal is a mobile phone, and the content application is a content application corresponding to a plurality of markup languages corresponding to each mobile phone service provider , and the page content reception page is a service of each mobile phone. It is characterized by including guide information corresponding to the markup language of the provider.
According to this feature, by including guidance information corresponding to the markup language of each mobile phone service provider in the page content reception page, the specifications of the markup language of each mobile phone service provider are sequentially investigated. Thus, it is possible to avoid the trouble of confirming the information and to prevent the contents once entered from becoming a problem.

A content application construction system according to claim 5 of the present invention is the content application construction system according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The registration means issues an identification code for specifying a newly constructed content application, registers the content application in association with the identification code, and accepts the identification code or information capable of specifying the identification code. Based on this, the page icon of each page constituting the content application specified by the received identification code is distributed in a tree structure display that can specify the cooperation mode of each page , and the page content receiving means or the cooperation It is characterized in that the correction by either the instruction receiving means or the cooperation processing means is received.
According to this feature, by inputting the identification code or information capable of specifying the identification code, the content application once constructed can be easily changed, and the identification code is concealed. It is also possible to prevent content applications from being tampered with by a third party.

  Examples of the present invention will be described below.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the content application construction system of this embodiment, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the server computer used in this embodiment, and FIG. It is a figure which shows the display screen in the computer 9 which is an operation terminal.

  First, as shown in FIG. 1, the configuration of the content application construction system of the present embodiment is a mobile phone 8a of each mobile phone company 5-7 as a computer terminal having a connection function to the Internet network 10 which is an open computer network. , 8b, and 8c, a server computer 2 that provides various contents based on a registered content application via the Internet network 10, and the server computer 2 can be accessed via the Internet network 10. The computer 9 is mainly composed of an operation terminal operated by a system user of the content application construction system.

  In the following description, the operation terminal operated by the system user is exemplified by a computer 9. However, the operation terminal is not limited to the computer 9 that is fixedly installed. A mobile phone 9 ′ having a function of connecting to the network 10 may be used.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the server computer 2 used in the content application construction system of the present embodiment is installed in a service provider providing center that provides a content application construction service, and is an open computer through a communication device 3. A computer 9 connected to the Internet network 10 which is a network and operated by the system user connected to the Internet network 10, mobile phones 8 a, 8 b and 8 c which are content receiving computers, and the Internet network 10, data communication is possible.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the configuration of the server computer 2 used in this embodiment is the construction of a content application executed by the server computer 2 on a data bus 10 that transmits and receives data inside the computer. A central processing unit (CPU) 11 that performs various processes such as a process and a distribution process for distributing various contents based on the constructed content application, a RAM 12, current time information, and a day of the week of an arbitrary date The central processing unit (CPU) comprises a real-time clock (RTC) 17 capable of outputting calendar information, a communication interface 13 connected to the communication device 3 for transmitting and receiving data, a magnetic disk and a magneto-optical disk. 11 and the various reception pages used for the construction program Identification of the registered reception page database (DB), the user ID and password uniquely assigned to the system user so that the system user can be identified, and the content application constructed by the system user A user database (DB) that is registered in association with a content ID that is a code, and a storage device 15 that stores an operation system (OS) for operating the server computer 2 are connected. It is a normal computer capable of relatively high-speed arithmetic processing.

  Hereinafter, a content application construction processing situation in which a system user accesses the server computer 2 of the present embodiment via the Internet network 10 and constructs content to be provided to the mobile phones 8a, 8b, and 8c that are the receiving computers. This will be described with reference to FIGS.

  First, when a system user starts browser software on the computer 9 as the operation terminal and enters the URL of the server computer 2 on the browser software to access the server computer 2, the top page shown in FIG. It is displayed on the system user's browser software.

  On this top page, there is provided an input unit for inputting the user ID and password given to each user in advance, and the user ID and password are input to the input unit. After the input, the “login” item provided below the input unit is selected and input.

  Based on the input, the server computer 2 performs authentication by verifying whether the input user ID and password match the registered contents of the user database (DB), and the registered contents match. If a content ID registered in association with the user ID is extracted and there is no registration in the content ID, as shown in FIG. 4, nothing is displayed in the tree structure. When the content screen is distributed and the content ID is registered, a corresponding tree structure is generated from the content application data corresponding to the content ID, and the generated tree structure is displayed as shown in FIG. Distribute the content modification screen.

  First, the case of new creation without registration of the content ID will be described below. In the case of new creation, the screen of new content on which nothing is displayed in the tree structure shown in FIG. To be displayed.

  In the state shown in FIG. 4, when the system user wants to create an icon corresponding to the type of page to be created, for example, a menu page of the top page, from various icons arranged at the bottom of the display screen, the menu When the icon is double-clicked or dragged to the display area of the tree structure as shown in FIG. 4, the icon of the menu page is created and displayed in the display area of the tree structure.

  Along with the creation of these first page icons, the server computer 2 generates a content ID as an identification code corresponding to the content program to be constructed, and formulates a work area corresponding to the content ID, The content ID is stored in the work area together with the newly created page type.

  The icons of various pages created and displayed in the display area of the tree structure can be arbitrarily moved in the display area of the tree structure by operating the mouse or the like, and are also displayed in the display area of the tree structure. By double-clicking each displayed icon, a detailed setting window corresponding to the page type as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 is read from the reception page DB and displayed on the computer 9 of the system user. Thus, the system user can edit the detailed contents of the page.

  In the present embodiment, the various detailed setting windows of the reception page DB are modularized, and the generated content ID is passed to the module corresponding to the type of each page.

  The detailed setting window of the menu page used in the present embodiment is configured as shown in FIG. 6, and each of the page title, the URL address of the page, the background color / character color, the image file, and the top text is displayed from the top. The page title item accepts the page title of the menu page, the background color / character color item accepts the background color and the character color, and the image file item accepts the menu page. The server computer 2 accepts the text displayed at the top position of the menu page in the items of change and deletion of color and monochrome image files to be displayed on the screen, and the top text item.

  The connection status of each page connected to the menu page is displayed at the lower position of each item, and is displayed at the lower position of the menu page at a lower position of the connection status display portion. There is a bottom text item that accepts text text and an item for the number of remaining characters that displays the number of remaining characters that can be entered for each mobile phone company. It is possible to confirm whether or not the number of characters can be entered, or whether the number of entered characters exceeds the specified number of characters.

  In addition, at the bottom of the detailed setting window, a selection item of “page preview” that can be confirmed by previewing the menu page of the contents set in the detailed setting window, and the setting contents are saved and the setting screen is closed. And a selection item of “close without saving” for closing the setting screen without saving the setting contents.

  When a page other than the menu page, for example, a text page is to be created, a text icon is selected from various icons arranged below the display area in the display area of the tree structure as shown in FIG. Then, by dragging in the display area and double-clicking the text icon created in the display area, a text page detailed setting window as shown in FIG. 7 is displayed as in the case of the menu page.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the detailed setting window for the text page of this embodiment is provided with items of page title, URL address of the page, background color / character color, text, and the number of remaining characters from the top. The contents of each item are the same as those in the menu page, and how many characters can be entered or the number of characters entered by the item of the number of remaining characters in the detailed setting window. Whether the number of characters exceeds the specified number can be confirmed for each mobile phone company 5-7.

  As described above, in this embodiment, by displaying the remaining number of characters as guidance information corresponding to the markup language of the service provider of each mobile phone, how many characters can be input or the number of input characters is It is preferable because it is possible to confirm for each mobile phone company 5 to 7 whether or not the prescribed number of characters has been exceeded (if it exceeds, the negative value is displayed in red characters as shown in FIG. 14). However, the present invention is not limited to this, and as such guidance information, other information, for example, guidance such as the file format of the image file may be displayed, and furthermore, these displays are not appropriately provided. It is good also as a structure.

  When it is desired to link (link) the menu page and the text page displayed in the display area of the tree structure, a drag and drop operation is performed by dragging the icon of the text page and overlaying the icon on the menu page. Thus, as shown in FIG. 9, a connection line indicating that a link has been formed between the two icons is displayed, and the detailed setting window of the menu page to which the text page is linked is shown in FIG. In addition, the text pages in which links are formed in the connection state display section are automatically registered in order 1.

  As shown in FIG. 11 and FIG. 12, the content distributed by the content application formed by forming these links (links) is transferred to the demo text page shown in FIG. 12 on the menu screen of FIG. The link item of “1. Demo text” is automatically inserted, and the “Demo text only” page of FIG. 12 has “1. Previous” and “0. TOP” as shown in FIG. The "Back" link item is automatically inserted. If “1.Previous” and “Return to 0.TOP” of the page for the demonstration text only are selected, both return to the menu page.

  Further, when it is desired to create a text page with an image as a new page, as shown in FIG. 12, an icon of text with an image is displayed from various icons arranged below the display region in the display region of the tree structure. As in the case of the menu page and the text page, a text page with an image as shown in FIG. 14 can be selected and dragged into the display area and double-clicked on the text icon with an image created in the display area. The detailed setting window is displayed.

  As shown in FIG. 14, the detailed setting window of the text page with image of the present embodiment has a configuration almost similar to that of the detailed setting window of the menu page, and changes and deletes the image file displayed on the page. At the same time, the top and bottom texts displayed at the top and bottom positions of the image are received, and the text page with an image according to the setting contents in the detailed setting window of the text page with image shown in FIG. 14 is distributed. In this case, the screen is as shown in FIG.

  If you want to link a new text page with an image created in this way to the menu page, drag and drop the icon of the newly created text page with an image to the icon of the menu page, just like the text page. By doing so, a connection line with the menu page is formed as shown in FIG. 16, and as shown in FIG. 17, the image with the connected image is added to the contents of the connection status display section in the detailed setting window of the menu page. A text page is automatically registered.

  When these linkage operations are performed and the editing work (construction work) is completed, by selecting the “Save” selection item provided at the upper position of the tree structure display area on the screen shown in FIG. These constructed content applications are stored and stored in the storage device 15 of the server computer 2.

  The distribution screen based on the content application constructed in this way is as shown in FIG. 18, and the menu page in FIG. 18A, the text-only page in FIG. 18B, and FIG. 18C. 18A, a link item that enables movement to both the menu page shown in FIG. 18A and the text-only page shown in FIG. 18B, and the text page with an image shown in FIG. 18A. Each page is distributed by inserting a menu item and a link item that enables movement to both the image-added text page shown in FIG. 18C.

  In the case of changing the content application once constructed in this way after the construction, the content application screen shown in FIG. 19 is delivered by inputting the user ID and password on the top page. Corrections can be made.

  When it is desired to change only the contents of each page without changing the connection configuration of each displayed page on the content correction screen shown in FIG. 19, the icon of the page to be changed is as shown in FIG. In addition, by selecting “1. Edit” from the sub-window displayed by right-clicking on the mouse, the detailed setting window for the selected page is displayed, and the contents of the page can be changed. .

  Further, when the connection configuration of each page is to be changed, for example, when the text page is to be deleted, the text page to be deleted is selected by right-clicking the mouse to display the sub window, and then “2. Delete”. ”Is deleted, the icon of the text page is deleted, only the text page with an image is automatically changed to a configuration linked to the menu page, and from the contents of the connection status display portion of the detailed setting window of the menu page, The deleted text page is deleted, and the rank of the text page with image is changed from 2 to 1.

  If you want to change the link destination as a link configuration, drag and drop the icon of the page whose link you want to change to the new link destination to delete the old link registration and register the new link state. As a result, the content program is updated.

  The embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and modifications and additions within the scope of the present invention are included in the present invention. .

  For example, in the embodiment, each page icon as an object icon is generated for each type of page and distributed so as to be arranged below the display area of the tree structure. By selecting an icon, you can specify the type of object (page) that you want to create by simply selecting the display icon corresponding to each displayed type. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the type of these objects (pages) may be selected from the type menu and accepted by inputting the type.

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, the detailed contents of the accepted type of object (page) are received by receiving the detailed setting screen as the object content reception page. Although it is preferable because registration of contents can be performed more easily, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is possible to receive detailed contents of each object (page) without distributing these detailed setting screens. Anyway.

  In the embodiment, when logging in to the server computer 2, the content application that can be changed by the system user is specified by the user ID and the personal identification number. The content application can be prevented from being falsified by a third party, but the present invention is not limited to this.

  In this embodiment, the recipient's computer terminal is a mobile phone, but the present invention is not limited to this, and it may be a normal personal computer or PDA terminal that can be connected to the Internet network. These terminals are not particularly limited as long as they can be connected to the Internet network 10.

  In the above embodiment, the computer 9 of the system user and the server computer 2 are connected via the Internet network 10. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the computer 9 and the server computer 2 are connected. Any connection form can be used as long as it is a connection form capable of data communication.

  In the above embodiment, the user ID is received from the system user as information that can specify the content ID that is an identification code individually assigned to the content application on the top page. The present invention is not limited to this, and the content ID may be received directly.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the content application construction system of the Example of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the server computer 2 used for the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen (detailed setting screen) in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen (detailed setting screen) in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen (detailed setting screen) in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen displayed on the mobile telephone which is a receiving computer in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen displayed on the mobile telephone which is a receiving computer in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen (detailed setting screen) in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen displayed on the mobile telephone which is a receiving computer in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen (detailed setting screen) in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen displayed on the mobile telephone which is a receiving computer in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen (content correction) in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen (content correction) in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display screen (detailed setting screen) in the computer of the system user in the Example of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

2 Server computer 3 Communication device 4 Computer terminal 5 Mobile phone company (carrier A)
6 Mobile phone company (carrier B)
7 Mobile phone company (carrier C)
8a mobile phone 8b mobile phone 8c mobile phone 9 computer (operation terminal)
9 'Mobile phone (control terminal)
10 Data bus 11 Central processing unit (CPU)
12 RAM
13 Communication Interface 15 Storage Device 17 Real Time Clock (RTC)

Claims (5)

A server computer connected to a computer network composed of a plurality of computer terminals connected so as to be capable of data communication, and providing content based on a content application constructed for the computer terminal; the server computer being accessible; An operation terminal for constructing a content application,
The server computer
A page icon generating means for generating a page icon corresponding to each of a plurality of pages constituting the contents application from the operating terminal,
Page content receiving means for receiving the content of the page corresponding to each page icon generated in the page icon generating step;
Cooperation instruction receiving means for receiving a link instruction for each page by a drag-and-drop operation of a page icon to be linked generated in the page icon generation step;
Based on a cooperation instruction received by the cooperation instruction receiving means , a page to be linked is specified, and a cooperation processing means for performing predetermined cooperation processing on both of the specified pages ;
Registration means for accepting the registration of a content application consisting of the page that is cooperative processing by the cooperative processing means,
Content application building system, characterized in that it comprises a. The server computer distributes a page icon corresponding to each type of page on the operation terminal, the page icon generating unit receives the page type based on the selection from the various different pages icon of the said distribution, accepts the The content application construction system according to claim 1, wherein a page icon of a type is generated. The page contents acceptance unit, based on the selection operation of the page icon said generated by a predetermined page contents acceptance page corresponding to the page type of the page icon that the selecting operation is delivered to the operation terminal, the page content The content application construction system according to claim 2 which performs reception. The computer terminal is a mobile phone, and the content application is a content application corresponding to a plurality of markup languages corresponding to each mobile phone service provider , and the page content reception page is a service of each mobile phone. The content application construction system according to claim 3, comprising guide information corresponding to a markup language of the provider. The registration means issues an identification code for specifying a newly constructed content application, registers the content application in association with the identification code, and accepts the identification code or information capable of specifying the identification code. Based on this, the page icon of each page constituting the content application specified by the received identification code is distributed in a tree structure display that can specify the cooperation mode of each page , and the page content receiving means or the cooperation The content application construction system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein a modification by any one of the instruction receiving unit and the cooperation processing unit is received.

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