JP6118565B2 - Program information notification device, program information notification method and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a program information notification apparatus, a program information notification method, and a program for notifying a user of information related to a broadcast program.

  On the Internet, users can post comments on specific websites, and other users can view the posted comments. There are many different types of comments that are posted. Of these, comments are often posted on television broadcast programs (hereinafter also simply referred to as “TV programs”). Enjoy watching the comments of other users who are watching the same program as the TV program they are watching, seeing comments on TV programs that they are not watching, and watching them later with interest in the program Many users have created a new TV program viewing method.

  There is a high possibility that a television program will not be able to be watched if it is missed during broadcasting, except when it is recorded, or when it corresponds to on-demand broadcasting or time shift broadcasting. If a user knows after the broadcast that a TV program that is popular among many other viewers was being broadcast without knowing it, the user cannot watch that TV program, so There has been proposed a technique for notifying a user if there is a program.

  The broadcast receiving apparatus described in Patent Literature 1 detects the excitement by comparing the audience rating with a preset value, and notifies the presence of the excitement program if the excitement program is not viewed.

  The television device described in Patent Literature 2 detects a degree of excitement using a volume level, an instantaneous audience rating, etc. for a broadcast program whose viewing is interrupted, and if the detected degree of excitement is greater than a reference value, Notify the user that the excitement occurred after the interruption.

JP 2010-263527 A JP 2010-161489 A

  The techniques described in Patent Documents 1 and 2 notify the program so that the user does not miss it. However, since the criterion for notification is a fixed value, appropriate notification cannot be performed. For example, there are programs whose audience rating is high on average and low on average depending on the content of the TV program and the broadcast time zone. News programs and golden time broadcast programs generally have a high audience rating, and late-night broadcast programs generally have a low audience rating. If a fixed value is used to determine whether the program is exciting, a program with an average high audience rating will always be determined to be exceeding the fixed value. Even if the program is actually exciting, it does not exceed a fixed value, so it is very unlikely that the program is determined to be exciting.

  The program that the user wants to be notified is a program with a lot of topicality, such as happening in the program, appearance of a special performer, special broadcast content that is different from normal broadcast content, Presence / absence and magnitude cannot be determined by an absolute reference value such as a fixed value.

  In addition, if a TV program with a high topicality can be predicted, the user can be notified before the start of broadcasting, but there is no technique for predicting and notifying a program with a high topicality.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a program information notification apparatus, a program information notification method, and a program capable of notifying a user of information about a broadcast program having a high topicality.

The present invention is a program information notification device configured to be capable of data communication with a user terminal device possessed by a user,
Determining a topical information related to the topicality of a broadcast program from an external device, and determining a broadcast program having the topicality based on the acquired topicality information;
An information generating unit for generating specific information for specifying the broadcast program determined by the determining unit;
Have a, a notification unit for notifying the specific information which the information generation unit is generated to the user terminal,
The topicality information is the number of posts of comment information related to a broadcast program posted to a predetermined posting server device,
Storing a post number history in which the change over time of the number of posts is recorded for a certain period, and further, based on the stored post number history, further including a reference calculation unit that calculates a change over time in the number of posts serving as a reference;
The determination unit compares the number of posts at the current time with the number of posts as a reference at the same time as the current time calculated by the reference calculation unit, and the number of posts at the current time as a reference in advance. When there is more than a predetermined ratio , the program information notification device is characterized in that a broadcast program broadcast at the current time is determined as a broadcast program having topicality .

Also in the present invention, the information generating section, the broadcast program which the determination unit has determined, and generates a specific information including at least one of the broadcasting station names and broadcasting program names.

The present invention is also a program information notification method for notifying program information to a user terminal device possessed by a user,
A program information notification device acquires topical information related to the topicality of a broadcast program from an external device, and determines a broadcast program having topicality based on the acquired topicality information;
An information generating step for generating specific information for specifying the broadcast program determined in the determining step by the program information notifying device;
The program information notification device has a notification step of notifying the user terminal device of the specific information generated in the information generation step;
The topicality information is the number of posts of comment information related to a broadcast program posted to a predetermined posting server device,
The program information notifying apparatus further includes a reference calculation step of storing a post number history in which the change with time in the number of posts is recorded for a certain period, and calculating a change with time in the number of posts as a reference based on the stored post number history. And
In the determination step, the number of posts at the current time is compared with the number of posts as a reference at the same time as the current time calculated in the reference calculation step, and the number of posts at the current time is more than the number of posts as a reference. When there is more than a predetermined ratio, the program information notification method is characterized in that a broadcast program broadcast at the current time is determined as a broadcast program having topicality.

  Moreover, this invention is a program for functioning a computer as said program information notification apparatus.

According to the present invention, when the determining unit acquires the topical information related to the topicality of the broadcast program from the external device, and determines the broadcast program having the topicality based on the acquired topical information, the information generating unit The determination unit generates specific information for specifying the broadcast program determined, and the notification unit notifies the user terminal device of the specific information generated by the generation unit. The topical information is the number of posts of comment information related to a broadcast program posted to a predetermined posting server device, and the reference calculating unit records a post number history in which a change in the number of posts over time is recorded for at least one week. More than minutes, and based on the stored number of posts history, the change over time of the number of posts serving as a reference is calculated, and the determination unit is the same as the number of posts at the current time and the current time calculated by the reference calculation unit When the number of posts at the current time is compared with the number of posts at the current time and the number of posts at the current time is more than a predetermined ratio, the broadcast program being broadcast at the current time is changed to a broadcast program with topicality Determine as.

As a result, for broadcast programs in which comment information more than a predetermined ratio than the number of past comment information posts has been posted, the broadcast program that is currently a hot topic is determined and notified to the user Can do.

  According to the invention, the information generation unit generates specific information including at least one of a broadcast station name and a broadcast program name for the broadcast program determined by the determination unit.

  By viewing the notified specific information, the user can easily know the broadcast program currently being discussed.

According to the present invention, in the determining step, the topical information related to the topicality of the broadcast program is acquired from an external device, and the broadcast program having the topicality is determined based on the acquired topical information. Specific information for specifying the determined broadcast program is generated, and the generated specific information is notified to the user terminal device in the notification step. The topic information is the number of posts of comment information related to a broadcast program posted to a predetermined posting server device,
The program information notifying apparatus further includes a reference calculation step of storing a post number history in which the change with time in the number of posts is recorded for a certain period, and calculating a change with time in the number of posts as a reference based on the stored post number history. And
In the determination step, the number of posts at the current time is compared with the number of posts as a reference at the same time as the current time calculated in the reference calculation step, and the number of posts at the current time is more than the number of posts as a reference. When there is more than a predetermined ratio, the broadcast program broadcast at the current time is determined as a broadcast program having topicality.

As a result, for broadcast programs in which comment information more than a predetermined ratio than the number of past comment information posts has been posted, the broadcast program that is currently a hot topic is determined and notified to the user Can do.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a computer as a program for causing a computer to function as the program information notification device.

It is the schematic which shows the structure of program information notification system S1. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a numbering information table 100. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the text 20 of the report email transmitted to the administrator terminal device. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen 30 for registration displayed on the administrator terminal device 2. FIG. It is a figure explaining operation | movement of the user terminal device 3 which received the notification of the first time broadcast and the special number. It is the schematic which shows the structure of program information notification system S2. It is a flowchart which shows the change recording process of the number of comment contributions. It is a figure for demonstrating the judgment of the necessity of the notification to the user terminal device. It is a flowchart which shows the notification process to the user terminal device 3. FIG. It is a figure explaining the operation | movement of the user terminal device 3 which received the notification of the broadcast program with many comment contribution numbers especially. It is a figure explaining operation | movement of the user terminal device 3 which received the notification of the program which grew in the past.

  The present invention is a program information notification device for providing a service for notifying a user terminal device possessed by a user about a topical broadcast program. Application software for receiving services (hereinafter referred to as “application”) is installed in advance in the user terminal device, and the program information notification device can recognize the user terminal device to be notified.

  In the present invention, a topical broadcast program is, for example, SNS (Social Networking Service) such as mixi (registered trademark), Facebook (registered trademark), and Twitter (registered trademark), where each user can post a comment. This is a program in which the number of posts related to the program is temporarily increased, and it is a broadcast program that the user wants to share with other users and thus does not want to miss.

  It is difficult to estimate such a broadcast program simply by using an index such as a large number of viewers or a high audience rating. It is necessary to analyze what broadcast program is a program with increased topicality and notify the user terminal device of the broadcast program with increased topicality.

  The inventor of the present application considers that broadcast programs with increased topicality can be broadly classified into the following two types.

(A) A special broadcast program that is broadcast once, a so-called special number, and a first broadcast program (B) that is the first broadcast among regular broadcast programs that are broadcast regularly. Broadcast programs that have a particularly large number of comments compared to the number of posts in the previous week or the week before the same day of the week

< Prerequisite form >
First, a case where the user is notified of the initial broadcast and the special number in (A) will be described.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of the program information notification system S1. The program information notification system S1 includes an application server 1, an administrator terminal device 2, a user terminal device 3, a terminal management server 4, and a number information server 5 which are program information notification devices of the present invention, and implements a program information notification service. It is a system to do. The application server 1, the administrator terminal device 2, the user terminal device 3, the terminal management server 4 and the number information server 5 can be easily realized by general-purpose hardware such as a server machine, a personal computer, and a portable terminal device. Therefore, a detailed hardware configuration is omitted.

  The user terminal device 3 is installed with an application for receiving the program information notification, and each user terminal device 3 that has installed the application is registered in the terminal management server 4 with a terminal ID or the like. In the present invention, the notification to the user terminal device 3 is a notification request transmitted from the application server 1 to the terminal management server 4, and the terminal management server 4 receiving the request sends a notification request to each user terminal device 3. Notification according to the request content.

  The number information server 5 is a server that provides program advertisement information. The application server 1 periodically receives program advertisement information including a broadcast program name and a broadcast station name from the number information server 5. The received program advertisement information is stored in the storage unit 1a of the application server 1.

  The administrator terminal device 2 is a terminal device that can directly communicate with the application server 1 and is operated by a service provider that provides the program information notification service of the present invention.

  The application server 1 executes the information notification / registration application 1b, executes the program detection program 1c, communicates with the administrator terminal device 2, requests for communication to the terminal management server 4, and program advertisement information from the number information server 5. Management of reception of information.

  When the application server 1 receives the program advertisement information from the number information server 5, the application server 1 updates the number information table including the broadcast program name and the broadcast station name. The numbering information table is stored in the storage unit 1a of the application server 1.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the numbering information table 100. The numbering information table 100 includes a program name 101, a report setting 102, a start time 103, an end time 104, a station 105, and a count 106. The program name 101 is a broadcast program name included in the program advertisement information, and the station 105 is a broadcast station name included in the program advertisement information. In this example, the broadcast station name is indicated by a channel number assigned to each broadcast station.

  When the program advertisement information is received, it is determined whether the broadcast program registered in the program name 101 of the number information table 100 has the same program name as the broadcast program name included in the received program advertisement information. If there is, the count 106 is incremented by one. If there is no same program name, the received broadcast program name is newly registered in the program name 101 and the count 106 is set to 1. That is, the value of the count 106 represents the number of times that the application server 1 has received the program advertisement information including the broadcast program name registered in the program name 101. If the value of the count 106 is large, it means that the same broadcast program name is included in the program advertisement information, which is an index of how much the broadcast station intends to advertise the broadcast program. In the present invention, a broadcast program that is particularly focused on advertising is intended to notify the user in advance of the initial broadcast program or special broadcast program before broadcasting.

  When the count value registered in the count 106 exceeds a predetermined threshold, it is reported to the manager terminal device 2 that it is a broadcast program to be notified to the user. For the report, for example, a report e-mail including information such as a broadcast program name and a broadcast station name is transmitted to the manager terminal device 2.

  When the service provider receives the report e-mail from the application server 1, the service provider investigates the broadcast start time and the broadcast end time as information related to the broadcast program from the broadcast program name and the like. Register with. Further, whether to notify the user terminal device 3, when to notify, whether to notify the administrator terminal device 2, when to notify, etc. Also, information regarding this is registered in the application server 1 via the administrator terminal device 2.

  Various types of information registered in the application server 1 via the administrator terminal device 2 are registered in the numbering information table 100 as necessary. Broadcast start time and broadcast end time are registered at start time 103 and end time 104, respectively.

  A broadcast program with a large count value is likely to be a broadcast program having topicality such as an initial broadcast program or a special broadcast program because it is frequently advertised by the program advertisement information, but the count value is not necessarily a threshold value. All of the programs that exceed the above are not necessarily broadcast programs that should be notified to the user. In this case, it is preferable that the service provider can input that the program does not require notification from the administrator terminal device 2 to the user.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the text 20 of the report e-mail transmitted to the administrator terminal device 2. The report email text 20 includes a report date 21 indicating the date and time when the report email was sent to the administrator terminal device 2, and if the report email was sent in the past for the same broadcast program, First report date 22 indicating the transmission date and time, broadcast station 23 indicating the broadcast station name of the broadcast program, program name 24 indicating the broadcast program name, program ID 25 for identifying the broadcast program, detection count 26 indicating the count value, broadcast start A registration URL 27 indicating the URL of the registration page for registering time and the like, and a search engine URL 28 indicating the URL of the search page for searching for broadcast programs are described.

  The operator of the service provider who operates the administrator terminal device 2 searches for information on the broadcast program using an external search engine or the like. In the search engine URL 28 of the report e-mail, the broadcast program name and the broadcast station name, which are search keys, are designated as query parameters in advance and a link is set. Therefore, the operator only selects the search engine URL 28. You can easily search for information about broadcast programs.

  By searching, for example, if an explanation page of the corresponding program or a special site of the corresponding program is found on the official site of the broadcasting station, the contents of the program described on the page or site can be confirmed.

  When the broadcast start time and broadcast end time are confirmed from the program content described on the page or site, the operator selects the registration URL 27 and causes the administrator terminal device 2 to display a registration screen. The registration URL 27 includes the program ID 25 of the broadcast program and the ID (administrator ID) of the operator who operates the administrator terminal device 2 in the query parameters.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a registration screen 30 displayed on the administrator terminal device 2. In the registration screen 30, an ID input area 31 for inputting a program ID, a program name input area 32 for inputting a program name of the corresponding program, a start time input area 33 for inputting a broadcast start time, and a broadcast end time are input. End time input area 34, URL input area 35 for inputting the URL of the official site of the corresponding program, performer input area 36 for inputting the performer of the corresponding program, and memo to be entered as a memo if there is content to be notified to the user An input area 37, a notification timing selection area 38 for selecting a notification timing to the user terminal device 3, and a suppression period selection area 39 for selecting a period for suppressing notification to the administrator terminal apparatus 2 are included.

  Since the program ID, broadcast station name, and program name have already been input when the registration screen 30 is displayed, the operator inputs necessary items in each input area for other input items. Information such as broadcast start time and broadcast end time, official site URL, performers, and memos may be input as confirmed by the above search. Note that the contents of the input items can be changed by the operator's judgment.

  The notification timing to the user terminal device 3 is based on the broadcast start time in advance, such as the night before the broadcast (around 19:00), the morning of the broadcast (around 9:00), one hour before the start of broadcast, and 10 minutes before the start of the broadcast. What is necessary is just to select from the defined timing. Also, any time before the broadcast start time may be input as the notification timing.

  As described above, when the count value exceeds the threshold value, a report e-mail is transmitted from the application server 1 to the administrator terminal device 2. After the count value is exceeded, the program advertisement information is received, and the count value is Each time the number is increased, a report e-mail is transmitted. In order to avoid such repeated transmission of the report e-mail, it is preferable to be able to set a period during which notification to the administrator terminal device 2 is suppressed. Moreover, the structure which adds an initial threshold value to the count value at the time of the suppression period end after completion | finish of a suppression period, and utilizes this as a new threshold value may be sufficient. According to this configuration, the reporting e-mail is transmitted only after the count value increases by the initial threshold value after the suppression period ends.

  The suppression period may be selected from predetermined periods such as 1-month suppression, 3-month suppression, 6-month suppression, 1-year suppression, and permanent suppression based on the date when the first report e-mail is transmitted. An arbitrary period may be input as the suppression period.

  When the input and selected contents are confirmed, the items of the report setting 102, the start time 103, and the end time 104 of the number information table 100 are registered according to the confirmed contents. Furthermore, it is preferable that an input confirmation e-mail is transmitted to each manager terminal device 2 after confirmation. When there are a plurality of managers, by sending an input confirmation e-mail to each manager terminal device 2, it is possible to inform other managers that the input for a certain program has been completed. This eliminates the waste of information input by the administrator, or helps other administrators confirm the input information.

  In the example shown in FIG. 2, the program name “Sun Wars” is the first broadcast program, the start time is November 15, 2012 at 13:00, and the broadcast end time is November 15, 2012 at 15:00. It is 00 minutes, and since each item has already been registered, the report to the manager terminal device 2 is suppressed for three months. Since the program name “BBB News” is a news program broadcasted all year and does not need to be notified to the user terminal device 3, the start time and end time are not set, and the administrator terminal device Report to 2 is also unnecessary (permanent suppression). The program name “Okai Drama” has not been reported to the administrator terminal device 2 because the count value does not exceed the threshold value. The program name “D Special” is a special broadcast program, the start time is October 13, 2012, 20:00, the broadcast end time is October 13, 2012, 22:00, and each item has already been registered. Therefore, reports to the manager terminal device 2 are suppressed for three months.

  As described above, when the service provider registers necessary items for the broadcast program from the administrator terminal device 2, the application server 1 transmits a notification request to the user terminal device 3 to the terminal management server 4. . The notification request includes specific information for the user to specify the broadcast program, such as broadcast program name, broadcast station name, broadcast start time, broadcast end time, and notification time information indicating the date and time when the user terminal device 3 is notified. . Upon receiving the notification request, the terminal management server 4 notifies the specific information to each user terminal device 3 at the date and time indicated by the notification time information.

  Note that the control for notifying the user of the specific information in accordance with the notification time is not necessarily performed by the terminal management server 4. The notification time includes the specific information from the application server 1 to the terminal management server 4 in accordance with the notification time. The terminal management server 4 that transmits a notification request that does not include information and receives the notification request may immediately notify the specific information to each user terminal device 3. Further, upon completion of registration by the administrator, the application server 1 immediately transmits a notification request including specific information and notification time information to the terminal management server 4, and the terminal management server 4 immediately transmits notification time information to the user terminal device 3. The configuration may also be such that specific information is notified. In this case, the user terminal device 3 sets a timer mechanism according to the received notification time information, and notifies the user when the date and time indicated by the notification time information comes.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the user terminal device 3 that has received the initial broadcast and the special number notification. FIG. 5A shows the standby screen 8 of the user terminal device 3, and the standby screen 8 includes a status area 81 indicating the state of the user terminal device 3. Upon receiving the notification, the user terminal device 3 displays an application icon 82 related to the notification in the status area 81. When the user who recognizes that there is a notification by visually recognizing the icon 82 drags the status area 81 downward in the screen, a notification display area 83 shown in FIG. 5B appears. In this notification display area 83, more detailed information of the notification is displayed. Further, when the user taps the notification display area 83, the application is activated, and an application screen 84 shown in FIG. 5C is displayed. The application screen 84 is constructed based on the information input in FIG. 4 and includes various information related to notification, buttons 85 for posting information to various SNSs, an official page, a link 86 for making viewing reservations, and the like.

  When viewing reservation is selected, a screen for notifying the start of program broadcast by e-mail is displayed immediately before the broadcast start time of the program (for example, one minute before). Further, immediately before the broadcast start time, an alarm is sounded as an application function, the television receiver set in advance with the user terminal device 3 is turned on, and the broadcast program set in advance with the user terminal device 3 is set. The recording apparatus may be configured to perform operations such as making a recording reservation.

  By viewing the specific information notified to the user terminal device 3, the user can know in advance that the initial broadcast or special program will be broadcast and the date and time of the broadcast.

  In FIG. 1, the application server 1, the terminal management server 4 and the numbering information server 5 show the configuration of a program information notification system including three server devices each consisting of one server device. In order to ensure redundancy, the server functions may be realized by a plurality of server devices, or the server functions may be realized by a single server device.

< First Embodiment >
In the presupposed form , information related to a broadcast program to be notified to the user terminal device 3 such as the broadcast start time is registered from the administrator terminal device 2, but in the present embodiment, the application server 1 is responsible for all information. , Get and register yourself.

As with the administrator terminal device 2, the broadcast server start time and broadcast end time are acquired by the application server 1 by searching for the official site of the program and accessing the official site to detect a specific character string. Broadcast start time and broadcast end time are acquired. The acquired broadcast start time and broadcast end time are associated with the broadcast program name and broadcast station name and stored in the storage unit 1a. The notification timing to the user may be registered in advance in the application server 1 by the service provider. Similar to the presupposed form , it is only necessary to select from predetermined timings based on the broadcast start time, and any time before the broadcast start time may be input as the notification timing.

Thereby, in the first embodiment , the administrator terminal device 2 is not required, and the search of information by the service provider and the input operation of various types of searched information are all unnecessary.

Second Embodiment
Next, a case where a user is notified of a broadcast program with a particularly large number of comment posts (B) will be described. As mentioned above, programs that have more than a certain percentage of comments posted in the same time period, such as some happening during broadcasting or special guests appearing, etc. There is a high possibility that this is a highly broadcast program. However, since it is difficult to specify such a program in advance before broadcasting, it is desirable to detect the program during broadcasting and promptly notify the user.

  Since the number of tweets (comments) posted on Twitter (registered trademark) can be counted, for example, every minute, the number of posts for a currently broadcast program is regarded as the so-called “excitement” of the program. There are apps that inform users as indicators of The apps that have been running so far only show the fluctuations in the number of posts in real time, notify you when the number of posts exceeds a certain number, etc. There are many viewers and many comments are always posted In the case of such a broadcast program, it is always in a state of excitement, and it cannot be detected that a large excitement different from the normal excitement occurs, such as when a happening occurs, and the user cannot be notified. Further, if the user is repeatedly notified of the same program to which many comments are always posted, the user gets used to the notification and cannot fulfill the original notification function of notifying a topical program.

  In the present embodiment, such a number of comment postings is prominent and a broadcast program in which a larger excitement than usual is detected, and the user is immediately notified.

  FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of the program information notification system S2. The program information notification system S2 includes the application server 1, the user terminal device 3, the terminal management server 4, and the program information server 6 which are the program information notification devices of the present invention, and is a system for implementing a program information notification service. The application server 1, the user terminal device 3, the terminal management server 4, and the program information server 6 can be easily realized by general-purpose hardware such as a server machine, a personal computer, and a mobile terminal device. The configuration is omitted.

  Posting to Twitter service is more responsive to happenings than other SNSs, and has characteristics suitable for the purpose of the present invention, so this system uses the number of tweets posted on Twitter service as an indicator of excitement. Although the configuration to be used will be described, the number of posts in other SNSs (including the number written on the electronic bulletin board) may be used, or the number of posts in a plurality of SNSs may be integrated.

  The tweet monitoring program 1d executed by the application server 1 counts the number of tweets including a specific word corresponding to a broadcasting station such as a broadcasting station name from tweets continuously sent from the Twitter server 7, for example, every minute. And stored in the storage unit 1a.

  The comment stored in the Twitter server 7 is a comment body made up of a comment string indicating a comment content and broadcast station information indicating a broadcast station, and a user ID and a comment body that can identify a contributor who posted the comment information. It consists of posting time information indicating the time.

  The character string included in the comment text indicates characters, words, and sentences input by the posting user. For example, the comment text indicating the impression of the broadcast program is displayed in the comment text. The broadcasting station information is a character string indicating a broadcasting station name composed of a combination of kanji or alphabet, a so-called hash tag that is a specific character string composed of a symbol “#” followed by a plurality of alphabets, and the like. It is included in the comment text along with the comment content. When certain broadcast station information is included, the comment information can be determined to be comment information related to the broadcast program of the corresponding broadcast station. Broadcast station information is individually set for each broadcast station nationwide.

  The number of comments posted by each broadcasting station is stored in the number-of-posts accumulation unit 1e every minute, and then recorded as the variation in the number of comments posted by each broadcasting station over a certain period. In the present embodiment, the change in the number of posted comments is recorded with a certain period as one week. In addition, changes in the number of comment postings for the previous week, the week before the previous week, and three weeks ago are also accumulated.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the change recording process of the number of posted comments. In the variable recording process, the number of comments posted per minute recorded for each broadcasting station is simply recorded as the variation in the number of posts for one week. Further, the change recording process is performed once a week, and in this example, the change in the number of comment posts for the previous week is recorded every Monday.

In Step A1, one of the broadcast channel numbers indicating the broadcasting station is set in a variable “CHANNEL”, and in Step A2, 0:00 am on Monday of the week before the execution of the flow is set as the recording start time in the variable “TIME”. . In step A3, referring to the number of stored comment posts, for the broadcasting station indicated by “CHANNEL”, the time set in “TIME” and the two minutes before and after (TIME-2 minutes) to (TIME + 2 minutes) ) In other words, the maximum value of the number of comment posts in 5 post number data) is obtained and set to the variable “MAX”. In step A4, the maximum value “MAX” at “TIME” of “CHANNEL” is stored in the change table indicating the change in the number of comment posts.

  In step A5, the variable “TIME” is incremented by 1 minute, and it is determined whether or not the time set in “TIME” in step A6 exceeds 11:59 pm on Sunday of the week before the flow execution, which is the recording end time. . If the recording end time is exceeded, the process proceeds to step A7. If the recording end time is not exceeded, the process returns to step A3 to obtain the maximum value of the time advanced by 1 minute.

  In step A7, it is determined whether or not the recording process has been completed for all the broadcasting stations. If all the broadcasting stations have been completed, the flow is terminated, and if there is a broadcasting station that has not completed the recording process, step A1. Returning to, recording processing for the next broadcasting station is performed.

  In the example of this embodiment, the recording variation process shown in FIG. 7 is executed every week, and the latest three weeks of the variation in the number of comment posts already recorded are left in the variation table. That is, when a change for one week is newly recorded, the change record for four weeks ago is deleted. Note that the change in the number of postings to be recorded is not limited to three weeks, but may be four weeks or more or one or two weeks.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining determination of necessity of notification to the user terminal device 3. FIG. 8 shows a change in the number of past comment posts, a change in the current number of comment posts, and a reference value and a lower limit value for determining notification.

  Actually, at the current time, the current number of comment posts is compared with the reference value and the lower limit value every minute, and it is determined whether to notify the user terminal device 3 every minute. However, in FIG. 8, in order to facilitate understanding of the determination of notification, a change in the number of posts at the current time is shown, and a case where notification is made and a case where notification is not made will be described.

  B which shows the fluctuation | variation of the maximum value of the reference | standard contribution number by P1 which shows the fluctuation | variation of the number of comment contributions for the last week, P2 which shows the fluctuation | variation of the number of comment contributions of the last week, and P3 which shows the fluctuation | variation of the number of comment contributions three weeks ago Is required. On the other hand, a lower limit value U for determining notification is set in advance. The lower limit can be determined as appropriate. For example, the number of comment posts per minute is set to 100. In a time zone where the reference maximum value B is small, the broadcast program is not in a state to be notified, and there is a high possibility that the maximum value will be easily exceeded for other reasons different from the excitement. The significance of notification will fade. If the number of comment posts exceeds a certain number of posts and is larger than the number of comment posts in the past, the broadcast program that is the subject of the comment is so excited that the user should be notified Since the possibility increases, a lower limit is set as a fixed number of posts.

  Furthermore, since it is considered that there is not much possibility that the current number of comment posts has exceeded the standard maximum value B, it is not very likely that there is a climax that should be notified to the user. The user is notified when the current number of posted comments exceeds x times the value (x is 3 to 5, for example).

  Based on these conditions, the example shown in FIG. 8 will be described. When the change C in the number of posts at the current time exceeds the lower limit value U and the reference maximum value x times TH, the user is notified. Judge that it should. Also at time C2, the lower limit U and the reference maximum value x times TH are exceeded, but since the elapsed time from the already notified time C1 is within a certain time, the same program is excited for the same reason. It is assumed that it is continuing and is not notified at time C2. As the fixed time during which the notification to the user is not continuously performed, if the frequency of notification is once in one program, for example, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, etc. may be used. It should be noted that, even after the lapse of a certain time, when the variation C continues to exceed the lower limit value U and the reference maximum value x times TH continuously from the first notification, the user may not be notified.

  At time C3, the current number of comment posts exceeds TH times the reference maximum value, but since it does not exceed the lower limit value U, the user is not notified.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a notification process to the user terminal device 3. This flow is an example of the program detection program 1c, and is executed in the application server 1 every time interval for storing the number of comment posts in the storage unit 1a, for example, every minute.

  In step B1, one of the broadcast channel numbers indicating the broadcasting station is set in a variable “CHANNEL”, and in step B2, the current time is set in a variable “TIME”.

  In step B3, the variable table is referred to, and the number of comment posts in “CHANNEL” on “TIME-7 days ago”, that is, the same day of the week as the previous week is set to the variable “MAX1”. In step B4, the variable table is referred to, and the number of comments posted in “CHANNEL” on “TIME-14 days ago”, that is, the same day of the week last week, is set to the variable “MAX2”. In step B5, the variable table is referred to, and the number of comments posted on “CHANNEL” of “TIME-21 days ago”, that is, the same day of the week three weeks ago is set to the variable “MAX3”.

  In step B6, the maximum value is obtained from x times “MAX1”, x times “MAX2”, x times “MAX3” and the lower limit value, and is set to “MAX”. In step B7, it is determined whether or not the number of comment posts at the current time exceeds “MAX”. If it exceeds, the process proceeds to step B8, and if not, the process proceeds to step B9.

  In step B8, the broadcast station name corresponding to the broadcast station channel number set to “CHANNEL” and the program name broadcast on the broadcast station of the broadcast station channel number set to “CHANNEL” at the current time are entered into the user terminal. Notify the device 3.

  In step B9, it is determined whether or not the notification process has been completed for all broadcast stations. If all the broadcast stations have been completed, the flow is terminated. If there is a broadcast station for which the notification process has not been completed, step B1 is performed. Returning to, notification processing for the next broadcasting station is performed.

  As for the notification to the user terminal device 3, as shown in FIG. 6, from the program information server 6 in advance, including the broadcast station name, broadcast program name, broadcast start / end time, etc., for example, an electronic program guide (EPG) The program information is acquired and stored in the storage unit 1a, and the broadcast program name is acquired from the program information based on the broadcast station set to “CHANNEL” and the current time, and notified to the terminal management server 4 Send a request. The notification request includes specific information for specifying a broadcast program that the user is currently excited, such as a broadcast program name and a broadcast station name. Upon receiving the notification request, the terminal management server 4 promptly notifies each user terminal device 3 of specific information.

  Note that the essence of the present invention is to detect and notify the user of a large number of postings protruding from the variation in the number of postings repeated weekly, and the recording variation processing of FIG. 7 shown in this embodiment is performed once a week. 9 is not limited to the configuration for executing the notification process of FIG. 9 every minute. For example, the process for obtaining the maximum value for 2 minutes before and after the previous week, the previous week, and the previous 3 weeks is performed every minute, and the number of posts at the current time The structure to compare may be sufficient.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the user terminal device 3 that has received notification of a broadcast program with a particularly large number of comment posts. As shown in FIG. 5, when the status area on the standby screen is dragged downward with the notification icon displayed, a notification display area 87 shown in FIG. 10A appears. In the notification display area 87, more detailed information of the notification is displayed. Further, when the user taps the notification display area 87, the application is activated and an application screen 88 shown in FIG. 10B is displayed. The application screen 88 is a screen on which posts to the SNS related to the program that has been excited are displayed in real time, and the user can experience the excitement by viewing this screen. It is also possible to post a comment to the SNS from this screen. Such an operation is similar to the presupposed form , but the user can quickly access information that the user wants to know by appropriately switching the application screen according to the type of broadcast program.

  Further, the number of comments posted to the SNS stored in the application server 1 may be used to notify a program that has risen in the past, for example, a program that has risen on the same day last week. FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the user terminal device 3 that has received a notification of a program that has been excited in the past. As shown in FIG. 5, when the status area on the standby screen is dragged downward with the notification icon displayed, a notification display area 89 shown in FIG. 11A appears. In the notification display area 89, more detailed information of the notification is displayed. Further, when the user taps the notification display area 87, the application is activated, and an application screen 90 shown in FIG. 11B is displayed. The application screen 90 is a so-called ranking page display screen in which program names of broadcast programs broadcast on the same day of the week are displayed in the order according to the number of SNS posts.

  In addition, since it is necessary to promptly notify the user of a program with a large number of comment posts, it is preferable to notify the user using the notification sound or vibration using the function of the user terminal device 3, which has been excited in the past. Since the notification of the program has little influence even if the user does not notice it promptly after the notification, the notification of the program may be made only by the screen display as shown in FIG. 11 without the notification sound or vibration.

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Moreover, this invention can provide the server program for functioning a computer as said application server 1 as 3rd Embodiment .

  In addition, as a recording medium for recording the server program of the present embodiment, a memory (not shown) such as a ROM (Read Only Memory) itself may be a program recording medium because processing is performed by a microcomputer. Further, although not shown, a program reading device may be provided as an external storage device, and a program recording medium that can be read by being inserted therein may be used.

  In any case, the stored program may be configured to be accessed and executed by the microprocessor, or in any case, the program code is read and the read program code is stored in the microcomputer. It may be downloaded to a program storage area (not shown) and the program may be executed. It is assumed that this download program is stored in the main device in advance.

Here, the program recording medium is a recording medium configured to be separable from the computer main body, and is a tape system such as a magnetic tape or a cassette tape, a magnetic disk such as a flexible disk or a hard disk, or a CD-ROM / MO / MD / Optical disk such as DVD, card system such as IC card (including memory card) / optical card, mask ROM, EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory), EEPROM (registered trademark) Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Flash ROM
It may be a medium that carries a program code in a fixed manner including a semiconductor memory.

  In addition, since the computer has a system configuration capable of connecting to a communication network including the Internet, it may be a medium that dynamically carries the program code so as to download the program code from the communication network. When the program is downloaded from the communication network in this way, the download program may be stored in the computer main body in advance or installed from another recording medium. The present embodiment can also be realized in the form of a computer data signal embedded in a carrier wave in which the program code is embodied by electronic transmission.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Application server 1a Memory | storage part 1b Information notification / registration application 1c Program detection program 1d Tweet monitoring program 1e Posting number accumulation part 2 Administrator terminal device 3 User terminal device 4 Terminal management server 5 Number information server 6 Program information server 7 Twitter server 100 number information table 101 program name 102 notification setting 103 start time 104 end time 105 stations 106 count

Claims (4)

A program information notification device configured to be capable of data communication with a user terminal device possessed by a user,
Determining a topical information related to the topicality of a broadcast program from an external device, and determining a broadcast program having the topicality based on the acquired topicality information;
An information generating unit for generating specific information for specifying the broadcast program determined by the determining unit;
Have a, a notification unit for notifying the specific information which the information generation unit is generated to the user terminal,
The topicality information is the number of posts of comment information related to a broadcast program posted to a predetermined posting server device,
Storing a post number history in which the change over time of the number of posts is recorded for a certain period, and further, based on the stored post number history, further including a reference calculation unit that calculates a change over time in the number of posts serving as a reference;
The determination unit compares the number of posts at the current time with the number of posts as a reference at the same time as the current time calculated by the reference calculation unit, and the number of posts at the current time as a reference in advance. A program information notification device characterized in that, when the ratio is larger than a predetermined ratio, a broadcast program broadcast at the current time is determined as a broadcast program having topicality . The program information notification according to claim 1, wherein the information generation unit generates specific information including at least one of a broadcast station name and a broadcast program name for the broadcast program determined by the determination unit. apparatus. A program information notification method for notifying program information to a user terminal device possessed by a user,
A program information notification device acquires topical information related to the topicality of a broadcast program from an external device, and determines a broadcast program having topicality based on the acquired topicality information;
An information generating step for generating specific information for specifying the broadcast program determined in the determining step by the program information notifying device;
The program information notification device has a notification step of notifying the user terminal device of the specific information generated in the information generation step;
The topicality information is the number of posts of comment information related to a broadcast program posted to a predetermined posting server device,
The program information notifying apparatus further includes a reference calculation step of storing a post number history in which the change with time in the number of posts is recorded for a certain period, and calculating a change with time in the number of posts as a reference based on the stored post number history. And
In the determination step, the number of posts at the current time is compared with the number of posts as a reference at the same time as the current time calculated in the reference calculation step. A program information notification method characterized by determining a broadcast program broadcast at the current time as a broadcast program having topicality when the ratio is greater than a predetermined ratio. A program for causing a computer to function as the program information notification device according to claim 1 .

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