JP3726020B2 - Provider system acting as file upload agent and file upload agent method - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a provider system及beauty file upload allowance whereabouts method of acting a file upload by a user for device purposes from the terminal, in particular inter - provider acting the files uploaded using the net system及beauty file about the upload cost line method.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, in order for a user terminal to upload a file to an information processing apparatus such as a target server through a network, the user terminal and the upload destination server must be connected via the network.
[0003]
Therefore, if the user terminal and the upload destination are fixed and the frequency is extremely high, a dedicated digital communication line will be prepared, and long-term fixed borrowing will be used, but a public telephone line will be used to upload a file from the sender to any destination in a timely manner. Use and connect both.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
Therefore, in the above conventional method, even when the user terminal and the upload destination server are physically located at a long distance, they are directly connected via a public telephone line, and the communication cost of the public telephone line is generally proportional to the distance. There was a problem of high costs.
[0005]
The present invention provides a file upload proxy system and method for solving this problem.
[0011]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The first flop Robai broth stem to act for the file upload of the present invention, the user is a provider system to act for file uploads to be performed on the destination device from the terminal, the user terminal and the destination device are connected by a public telephone line A plurality of access points connected to the Internet and a main station connected to the Internet. The main station receives a file to be uploaded from the user terminal and temporarily stores it, and receives an upload reservation from the user terminal. Address information on the public telephone line of the destination device, access information for logon, and e-mail address of the upload result notification destination are urged. When these information is acquired, communication is cut off, and the acquired information is stored in the control information area. Temporary upload reservation Access to the destination device using the nearest access point search means for searching for the nearest access point using the reserved destination device address information as a key, the Internet up to the searched access point, and the public telephone line ahead. , upload the target file, Bei example upload proxy means to notify by e-mail received from the destination apparatus and the success the email address this, when the upload proxy means receives the success or failure of the upload result from the destination apparatus And a means for acquiring a communication record including a communication time of a public telephone line from an access point via communication with a destination device and storing it in billing information, wherein the main station reads the communication record, Calculate the line usage fee and include it in the service fee and ask the user terminal. And said that you also have a charging means to.
[0012]
Flop Robai soup stem to act for the second file uploads present invention, in the flop Robai broth stem to act for the first file upload, file storage means of the main station, the uploaded file from the user terminal When received, the file name is changed to a unique file name, temporarily stored, and the correspondence information of the file name before the change and the file name after the change is stored in the control information area, and the upload proxy means obtains the correspondence information Then, the upload target file is read from the temporary storage location with the changed file name and uploaded to the destination device with the pre-change file name.
[0014]
A first file upload proxy method of the present invention is a method of proxying file upload performed by a user to a destination device from a terminal, wherein a plurality of access points to which the user terminal and the destination device are connected via a public telephone line A main procedure for processing a file upload request transmitted from a user terminal via an access point, the main procedure receiving a file to be uploaded from the user terminal and temporarily storing the file, and an upload reservation for the user terminal. Address information on the public telephone line of the destination device, access information for logon, and e-mail address of the upload result notification destination are urged. When these information is acquired, communication is cut off, and the acquired information is sent to the control information area. Upload reservation procedure temporarily stored in The nearest access point search procedure for searching for the nearest access point using the address information of the destination device as a key, and the destination device is accessed using the Internet up to the searched access point and the public telephone line ahead, and the target file is retrieved. uploaded, e Bei upload proxy procedures for notification by e-mail which was received from the destination apparatus and the success or failure in the e-mail address, when uploading behalf steps of the main procedure receives the success or failure of the upload result from the destination apparatus A communication record including a communication time of a public telephone line is obtained from an access point via communication with a destination apparatus and stored in billing information. The main procedure reads the communication record, and the public telephone line Calculate the usage fee and include it in the service fee to charge the user terminal And said that you also have gold procedure.
[0015]
According to a second file upload proxy method of the present invention, in the first file upload proxy method, when the file saving procedure of the main procedure receives an upload target file from the user terminal, the file name is changed to a unique file name. Change, temporarily save and store the correspondence information of the file name before the change and the file name after the change in the control information area, the upload proxy procedure acquires the correspondence information, and the file name after the change to the upload target file Is read from the temporary storage location and uploaded to the destination device with the file name before the change.
[0017]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Next, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a file upload proxy system according to the present embodiment.
[0018]
The file upload proxy system includes a user terminal 1, an Internet service provider system 3 (hereinafter abbreviated as provider system 3) connected via the public telephone line 2, and an upload connected via the provider system 3 via the public telephone line 4. And the destination server 5.
[0019]
The user terminal 1 is a terminal realized by a personal computer or the like. The user terminal 1 has a dial-up connection function as a lower layer communication function and a URL (Uniform Resource Locator-r) on the Internet as an upper layer communication function. It also has a browsing processing function for accessing and communicating with the URL and an e-mail receiving function.
[0020]
The provider system 3 includes a plurality of access points and a main station 30 connected to the access points via the Internet 41. The main station 30 is realized by a web server or the like, and includes a file storage means 31, an upload reservation means 32, a nearest AP (access point) search means 33, an upload proxy means 34, a memory 35, AP (access point) information 36, and a disk 37. Including.
[0021]
Of the plurality of access points, the access point closest to the user terminal 1 is designated as the nearest access point 38, and similarly, the access point nearest to the upload destination server 5 is designated as the nearest access point 39.
[0022]
The access point is a relay point for accessing a URL on the Internet through a public telephone line and supports dial-up connection with the user terminal 1 and the upload destination server 5.
[0023]
The nearest AP search means 33 of the main station 30 has a table indicating address information (for example, IP address) of the nearest access point for each area code on the public telephone line.
[0024]
Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the overall operation of the file upload proxy system of the present invention.
[0025]
Referring to this figure, the user connects to the main station 30 of the provider system 3 by connecting from the user terminal 1 to the nearest access point 38 via the public telephone line 2 (step A1). Next, the file to be uploaded is transmitted to the main station 30 (step A2) and stored in the disk 37 via the file storage means 31 (step A3).
[0026]
Next, the information of the upload destination server 5 which is the upload destination and the e-mail address of the upload result notification destination are transmitted (step A4), and registered in the memory 35 via the upload reservation means 32 (step A5). Then, the user terminal 1 disconnects the public telephone line 2 as soon as the transmission in step A4 is completed (step A6).
[0027]
Next, the nearest AP search means 33 searches for an access point nearest to the upload destination server (step A7). Then, the upload proxy means 34 logs on to the upload destination server 5 from the nearest access point 39 via the public telephone line 4 and uploads the file to the upload destination server 5. Notification is made (step A8).
[0028]
Next, the operation of the file storage unit 31 will be described with reference to FIGS. First, when a file transmission request is received from the user terminal 1 via the public telephone line 2 and the nearest access point 38, a file name and file data are requested and received (step B1).
[0029]
Next, the file name is changed so that the file name does not overlap with other files on the disk 37 (step B2), and the correspondence between the file name before and after the change is held in the memory 35 (step B3). Then, the received file is stored in the disk 37 with the changed file name (step B4).
[0030]
Note that the file name is changed by, for example, a method of renaming by sequentially assigning alphanumeric serial numbers each time a transmission request is received.
[0031]
Next, the operation of the upload reservation unit 32 will be described with reference to FIGS.
[0032]
First, the telephone number and logon information of the upload destination server 5 from the user terminal 1 via the public telephone line 2 and the access point 38, the storage destination directory information in the upload destination server 5 of the target file, and the result notification e-mail address. Obtain (step C1).
[0033]
Such information acquisition may be performed by transmitting the corresponding input screen information and the procedure associated therewith from the upload reservation means 32 to the user terminal 1 to prompt the user to input.
[0034]
When these pieces of information are acquired, a message such as “communication end” is output to the user terminal 1 to prompt the user terminal 1 to disconnect communication (step C2). Next, the information acquired in step C1 is held in the memory 35 (step C3).
[0035]
Next, the operation of the nearest AP search means 33 will be described with reference to FIGS. First, the telephone number of the upload destination server 5 held in the memory 35 is acquired (step D1). Next, the AP information 36 is searched using the area code of the telephone number of the upload destination server 5 as a key (step D2). Next, as a result of the search, the address information of the access point closest to the upload destination server 5 (nearest access point 39) is held in the memory 35 (step D3).
[0036]
Next, the operation of the upload proxy means 34 will be described using FIG. 1 and FIG. First, information on the nearest access point 39 held in the memory 35 is acquired (step E1). Next, the logon information of the upload destination server 5 held in the memory 35 is acquired (step E2), and the logon is performed to the upload destination server 5 via the nearest access point 39 (step E3).
[0037]
Then, the pre-change and post-change file names and storage destination directory information held in the memory 35 are acquired (step E4). Next, the target file is read from the disk 37 using the file name after the change, and is uploaded to the upload destination server 5 with the storage destination directory information and the file name before the change attached thereto (step E5).
[0038]
Next, the success or failure of the upload is received from the upload destination server 5 (step E6). Then, the communication with the upload destination server 5 is disconnected (step E7).
[0039]
Then, the e-mail address held in the memory 35 is acquired (step E8), and the success or failure of the upload is notified to the user terminal 1 using the e-mail (step E9).
[0040]
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a file upload proxy system according to the present embodiment.
[0041]
In the present embodiment, the main station 30A has the charging means 40 and the charging information 401, and the communication record 391 including the date and time of communication disconnection and the date and time of communication disconnection with the nearest access point 39A, and the line type. The upload proxy means 34A is different from the first embodiment in that the upload proxy means 34A acquires the communication record 391 from the nearest access point 39A and writes it in the billing information 401 after executing the upload.
[0042]
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the upload proxy means 34A. Referring to this figure, upload proxy means 34A disconnects communication with upload destination server 5 (step E7 in FIG. 7), obtains communication record 391 from the nearest access point 39A, starts communication, and disconnects communication. The date and time and the line type are written in the entry corresponding to the user in the billing information 401 (step E7-2). Thereafter, the operation is the same as described above.
[0043]
The billing means 40 periodically (for example, every month) tabulates the billing occurrence data of the billing information 401, calculates the bill amount for each user, and transmits an e-mail.
[0044]
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation of the accounting unit 40. Referring to this figure, billing means 40 selects one entry (user) of billing information 401 (step F1), and if there is a check whether there is an execution record or communication record of the previous month (step F2), it takes it out.
[0045]
The communication time and type are obtained from the communication record to calculate the public telephone line usage fee, the file upload fee is calculated from the execution record, and the public telephone line usage fee and the file upload fee are added to obtain the file upload related billing amount. (Step F3).
[0046]
Charges are also calculated for other service records last month, combined with the above file upload charges, and billed to each user (step F4). Is updated to the charged status (step F5). The above processing is performed for all entries of the billing information 401 (step F6).
[0047]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, the file upload proxy system and method according to the present invention uses a public telephone line using an Internet service provider having access points in various locations for file upload from a source terminal to a destination device at a long distance. Since the section is significantly shortened, the communication cost is reduced to the local call charge, which has the effect of reducing the communication cost.
[0048]
Further, according to the second embodiment of the present invention, the Internet service provider charges the usage fee of the public telephone line 4 used for uploading in all service fees for the user. Has the merit of not incurring the labor and communication costs for it.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of a first embodiment of a file upload proxy system according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the overall operation of the first embodiment of the file upload proxy system of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing detailed operation of the file storage unit 31 of FIG. 2;
4 is a flowchart showing a detailed operation of the upload reservation unit 32 in FIG. 2;
5 is a flowchart showing the detailed operation of the nearest AP search means 33 in FIG. 2;
6 is a flowchart showing a detailed operation of the upload proxy means 34 of FIG.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of a second embodiment of the file upload proxy system of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the upload proxy means 34A of FIG.
9 is a flowchart showing the operation of the charging means 40 of FIG.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 User terminal 2, 4 Public telephone line 3 Internet service provider system 30, 30A Main station 31 File storage means 32 Upload reservation means 33 Nearest AP search means 33 AP search means 34, 34A Upload proxy means 35 Memory 36 AP information 37 Disc 38 , 38A Nearest access point 39, 39A Nearest access point 391 Communication record 40 Billing means 401 Billing information 41 Internet 5 Upload destination server

Claims (4)

A provider system in which a user performs file upload on behalf of a destination device from a terminal, and a plurality of access points to which the user terminal and the destination device are connected via a public telephone line and a main station connected to the Internet for connecting them The main station receives a file to be uploaded from the user terminal and temporarily stores it, address information on the public telephone line of the destination device that receives the upload reservation of the user terminal, and access information for logon Prompt to send the e-mail address of the upload result notification destination, and when this information is acquired, the communication is cut off, upload reservation means for temporarily storing the acquired information in the control information area, and the reserved destination device address information as a key As the nearest access Access to the destination device using the nearest access point search means for searching for the target, the Internet up to the searched access point and the public telephone line ahead of the searched access point, upload the target file, and receive the success or failure from the destination device. Bei example upload proxy means to notify by e-mail to the email address, the when uploading proxy means receives the success or failure of the upload result from the destination device, from the access point via the communication with the destination device, a public telephone There is also means for acquiring a communication record including the communication time of the line and storing it in the billing information. The main station reads the communication record, calculates a public telephone line usage fee, and includes it in the service fee. acting the file upload it said that you also have a charging means to charge Flop Robai soup stem. When the file storage means of the main station receives the upload target file from the user terminal, the file name is changed to a unique file name, temporarily stored, and the correspondence information of the file name before the change and the file name after the change is controlled. The information is stored in an information area, and the upload proxy unit acquires the correspondence information, reads the file to be uploaded from the temporary storage location with the changed file name, and uploads the file to the destination device with the file name before the change. flop Robai soup stem acting on behalf of the file upload of 1, wherein the. A file uploading method sent from a user terminal via an access point to a plurality of access points to which the user terminal or the destination device is connected via a public telephone line. A main procedure for processing a request, the main procedure comprising: a file storage procedure for receiving and temporarily storing a file to be uploaded from a user terminal; and address information on a public telephone line of a destination device that receives an upload reservation of the user terminal; Prompt to send access information for logging on and e-mail address of upload result notification destination. When these information is acquired, communication is cut off, upload reservation procedure for temporarily storing the acquired information in the control information area, and reserved. Nearest destination device address information as a key Access the destination device using the nearest access point search procedure for searching for an access point, the Internet up to the searched access point and the public telephone line ahead of it, upload the target file, and receive the success or failure from the destination device. This example Bei upload proxy procedures for notification by e-mail to the e-mail address, when uploading behalf steps of the main procedure receives the success or failure of the upload result from the destination device, the access point via the communication with the destination device Thus, a communication record including the communication time of the public telephone line is obtained and stored in billing information. The main procedure reads the communication record, calculates a public telephone line usage fee, and uses this as a service fee. file up characterized that you also have charging procedure was to charge to the user terminal includes Over de agency method. When the file saving procedure of the main procedure receives the upload target file from the user terminal, the file name is changed to a unique file name, temporarily saved, and the correspondence information of the file name before the change and the file name after the change is controlled as described above. The information is stored in an information area, and the upload proxy procedure acquires the correspondence information, reads the file to be uploaded from the temporary storage location with the changed file name, and uploads the file to the destination device with the file name before the change. 3. File upload proxy method according to 3 .

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