JP2000049848A - Electronic information providing device and record medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To present information with the high reliability of registration on an electronic bulletin board or the like by discriminating whether the number of electronic bulletin boards written by a user exceeds a prescribed limit or not, performing write onto the electronic bulletin board or the like when it is discriminated that number does not exceed the prescribed limit and registering a user number on a table. SOLUTION: A terminal 1 is operated by the user and connected through a network 2 of a communication network to a host 3, any article or comment is transmitted or registered to the electronic bulletin board or electronic meeting room provided inside the host 3, and such an article or comment is read out and displayed. The host 3 is connected through the network 2 to a lot of terminals 1 and composed of a certification means 4, a registration means 5, a reference means 6, an information holding means 7 and data base 8 or the like for providing the electronic bulletin board or electronic meeting room. The data base 8 provides an electronic information table 9 for each electronic bulletin board or electronic meeting room and the contents of user number and information registered or referred to are registered and managed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic information providing apparatus and a recording medium for providing usage information such as an electronic bulletin board or an electronic conference room registered or referenced by a large number of users.

[0002] In electronic information services such as the Internet, there are electronic bulletin boards and electronic conference rooms for publicizing articles and comments provided by users as places for discussion and exchange of opinions between users. In these electronic bulletin boards and electronic conference rooms, opinions from various positions, such as approval and disapproval of the topic of discussion, are registered in one electronic bulletin board or electronic conference room. There is a demand for a system that can easily recognize the information.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an electronic bulletin board and an electronic conference room, each of which roughly divides a topic, are prepared, and a user writes an article or a comment on the electronic bulletin board or the electronic conference room, or refers to the opinion and the like. The information is written on an electronic bulletin board or an electronic conference room, and the system registers it.

[0004]

For this reason, in order to determine the tendency of discussions, users participating in an electronic bulletin board or an electronic conference room need to analyze all contents by referring to all articles and comments. There was a problem. In addition, even if an electronic bulletin board or electronic conference room is set up by focusing on the approval or disapproval of the topic, users can consciously register similar articles and comments in many electronic bulletin boards and electronic conference rooms. There is also a problem that it is not always possible to obtain and present the correct number of counts by referring to the data.

[0005] The present invention solves these problems,
Multiple electronic bulletin boards, electronic conference rooms, etc. are treated as one set, and user registration and reference of articles and comments is restricted so as not to exceed the limit, and electronic bulletin boards, electronic conference rooms, etc. are registered. Alternatively, the purpose is to collect, aggregate, and present information with high reference reliability.

[0006]

Means for solving the problem will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, the host 3
Is connected from a plurality of terminals 1 via a network 2,
It controls the writing or reference from the terminal 1 to an electronic bulletin board, an electronic conference room, or the like, and includes an authentication unit 4, a registration unit 5, a reference unit 6, an electronic information table 9, and the like.

[0007] The authentication means 4 checks whether the user has the authority of registration and reference. The registration unit 5 controls registration of information such as articles and comments in an electronic bulletin board or an electronic conference room.

The reference means 6 controls reference to information such as articles and comments on an electronic bulletin board or an electronic conference room. The electronic information table 9 is provided for each electronic bulletin board or each electronic conference room, and registers and manages registered / referenced user numbers.

Next, the operation will be described. The authentication means 4 checks the authority at the time of the registration request from the user, and the electronic information table 9 when the registration means 5 is OK for the authority check.
It is determined whether the number of electronic bulletin boards or electronic conference rooms written by the user does not exceed the predetermined limit, and if it is determined that the number does not exceed the predetermined limit, the relevant electronic bulletin board or electronic conference room is determined. And the user number is registered in the electronic information table 9.

Also, the authentication means 4 checks the authority at the time of a reference request from the user, and the reference means 6 refers to the electronic information table 9 when the authority check is OK, and refers to the electronic bulletin board or the electronic conference referred to by the user. It is determined whether the number of rooms does not exceed the predetermined limit. When it is determined that the number does not exceed the predetermined limit, the user is referred to the electronic bulletin board or the electronic conference room and the user number is stored in the electronic information table 9. I try to register.

At this time, the contents of the electronic information table 9 provided for each electronic bulletin board or electronic conference room are totalized, and the totalized result is displayed at the time of a registration request, a reference request, or a usage information request. .

[0012] Further, as a predetermined limit, a maximum number of writable and a maximum number of writable are set, and when these limits are not exceeded, registration or reference is permitted to prevent intentional multiple writing or reference. It tries to increase the reliability of the number of times of registration or reference.

Therefore, the entire electronic bulletin board, electronic conference room, and the like are treated as one set, and writing (registration) and reference of articles and comments by the user does not exceed the limit of the entire electronic bulletin board. It is possible to automatically collect, aggregate, and present information with high reliability of registration or reference of a conference or an electronic conference room.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment and operation of the present invention will be sequentially described in detail with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 shows a system configuration diagram of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, a terminal 1 is operated by a user to connect to a host 3 via a network 2, and to transmit and register articles and comments on an electronic bulletin board or an electronic conference room provided in the host 3. And a terminal for displaying (referencing) articles and comments read and transmitted from an electronic bulletin board or an electronic conference room provided in the host 3.

The network 2 is a communication network connecting the terminal 1 to the host 3. The host 3 is connected from many terminals 1 via the network 2 and provides an electronic bulletin board and an electronic conference room.
It comprises registration means 5, reference means 6, information holding means 7, database 8, and the like.

The authentication means 4 refers to the authority information of each user stored therein and checks whether the user has the authority to register or refer to the electronic bulletin board or the electronic conference room when registering or referring to the electronic conference room. is there.

The registration means 5 writes (registers) information such as articles and comments for which registration has been requested by the user in an electronic bulletin board, an electronic conference room, or the like.
By referring to the electronic information table 9, it is determined whether or not a predetermined registration limit has been exceeded.

The reference means 6 refers to an electronic bulletin board, an electronic conference room, or the like to which a user has made a reference request. In this case, the electronic information table 9 is referred to and exceeds a predetermined reference limit. This is referred to when it is determined whether or not there is a difference.

The information holding means 7 registers information such as articles and comments to the electronic bulletin board and the electronic conference room in the database 9, refers to the information, and registers the registered or referred user number and the like to the electronic bulletin board or the electronic conference. The information is registered and managed in the electronic information table 9 for each room.

The database 8 collectively registers and manages articles and comments to be registered in an electronic bulletin board and an electronic conference room, and stores a user number and information in an electronic information table 9 provided for each electronic bulletin board and an electronic conference room. The content is registered and managed.

The electronic information table 9 is provided for each electronic bulletin board or electronic conference room, and registers and manages registered or referenced user numbers and information contents, and counts the number of times of use for each electronic bulletin board or electronic conference room. And present it to the user.

Next, the concept of the configuration of FIG. 1 will be described in accordance with the order of the flowchart of FIG. FIG. 2 shows a conceptual explanatory flowchart of the present invention. In FIG. 2, S1 is
The user writes or refers to the information. In the configuration shown in FIG. 1, the user operates the terminal 1 to connect to the host 3 via the network 2, and posts or comments on an electronic bulletin board or an electronic conference room provided by the host 3. The user makes a request to write such information, or to download and refer to already written articles and comments.

In step S2, it is determined whether the registration or reference exceeds the limit. This is to determine whether the registration or reference of S1 exceeds a predetermined limit (for example, a total of 10 electronic bulletin boards, a maximum of three registrations and a maximum of two references). YE
In the case of S, the process proceeds to S4. In the case of NO, since it is determined that the limit has not been exceeded, registration (writing of articles and comments on an electronic bulletin board or the like and registration) or reference (reading out information written on the electronic bulletin board or the like and reading to the terminal 1 in S3) (Send and refer to), and then go to S4. At this time, the registered or referred user number is registered in the electronic information table 9 in association with an electronic bulletin board or the like.

In step S4, the tabulation is performed. In this case, a total for each electronic bulletin board registered in the electronic information table 9 at the time of registration or reference in S3 (for example, a total of the number of times of use of registration and reference for each electronic bulletin board) is performed.

In step S5, total information is displayed. For example, when a user accesses the electronic bulletin board or the electronic conference room of the host 3, information on the number of times of registration / reference for each electronic bulletin board is displayed on the upper right of the screen.

As described above, when a user tries to write information on an electronic bulletin board or the like or refers to it,
Useful for each electronic bulletin board that allows registration and reference below the limit by referring to the electronic information table 9 while disallowing registration and reference above the limit and increasing the number of times of use of registration / reference to the electronic bulletin board Can be presented. The details will be sequentially described below.

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart (registration) for explaining the operation of the present invention. This is a detailed operation description when a user writes information on an electronic bulletin board or the like and registers it.
In FIG. 3, S11 accepts a request for registration of electronic bulletin board information from a user. In this case, the host 3 in FIG. 1 receives a request for registering electronic bulletin board information (a request for writing an article or a comment on the electronic bulletin board) from the terminal 1 via the network 2.

In step S12, the user authority information of the user who has made the registration request is searched. In S13, it is determined whether or not the user has registration authority. In S12 and S13, the user who made the registration request determines whether or not the registration request is accepted in S21 to S26, as described later in S21 to S26.

In step S21, the number of electronic bulletin boards that can be registered is set to N. In step S22, the number of electronic bulletin boards to which the user who has made the registration request has registration authority is counted. this is,
The entire electronic information table 9 of FIG. 6 is searched, and the total number of electronic bulletin boards registered by the user in the past is counted.

A step S23 decides whether or not the number is equal to N.
This is to determine whether the number of electronic bulletin boards registered by the user counted in S22 is equal to a predetermined limit number N. In the case of YES, it is determined that the number of registered electronic bulletin boards is equal to the limit number N, and the process proceeds to S24.
In the case of NO, it is determined that the number of registered electronic bulletin boards is equal to or less than the maximum number N, so that it is determined that there is registration authority in S26, and the process returns to S14.

At S24, since it has been determined that the number of electronic bulletin boards registered at YES in S23 is equal to the limit number N,
It is determined whether the request is a registration request to an electronic bulletin board that has not been registered in the past. In the case of YES, it is determined that the number of electronic bulletin boards to be registered can exceed the limit number N.
To determine that there is no registration authority, and returns to S14. On the other hand, S
In the case of NO in 24, the number of electronic bulletin boards to be registered is equal to the maximum number N, but it is determined that the electronic bulletin board has been registered in the electronic bulletin board registered in the past. Return.

In step S14, it is determined whether the user has the authority to register electronic bulletin board information. It is determined whether the user has the authority to register electronic bulletin board information in S21 to S26 or none. In the case of YES, it is determined that the user has the registration authority, and the process proceeds to S15. In the case of NO, it is determined that the user does not have the registration authority, and the process ends without registration. This makes it possible to consciously increase the number of registrations in the electronic bulletin board, prevent the reliability of the information on the number of times of use from being lowered, and automatically collect highly reliable information on the use of the electronic bulletin board.

In step S15, electronic bulletin board information is registered.
This registers information (article, comment, etc.) for which registration has been requested in the electronic bulletin board. In step S16, the user information of the user who has made the registration request is updated. In this case, the registered user number and the contents of the information are registered as shown in the electronic information table 9 provided for each electronic bulletin board in FIG.

As described above, at the time of a registration request from the user, all of the electronic information tables 9 for each electronic bulletin board are searched and the number of electronic bulletin boards registered in the past is counted, and when the counted number is equal to the limit number, Users only register in the past registered electronic bulletin boards and refuse to register others.On the other hand, if the number is less than the limit, register in the electronic bulletin board for which registration was requested, so that users can It is possible to restrict registration to many electronic bulletin boards and increase the reliability of the number of times of use registered in the electronic information table 9. Then, the electronic information table 9 for each electronic bulletin board is counted, and highly reliable usage information for each electronic bulletin board can be presented to the user.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart (reference) for explaining the operation of the present invention. This is a detailed operation description when the user refers to information (information such as articles and comments) on the electronic bulletin board and the like.

In FIG. 4, S31 accepts a request for reference to electronic bulletin board information from a user. In this case, the host 3 in FIG. 1 accepts a request for referring to electronic bulletin board information (a request for referring to articles and comments on the electronic bulletin board) from the terminal 1 via the network 2.

In step S32, the use information of all electronic bulletin boards is searched. A step S33 decides whether or not the user has the reference authority.
In S32 and S33, the user who made the reference request determines whether or not the user has the reference authority, which will be described later in S41 to S46, with respect to the reference request received in S31.

In step S41, the number of electronic bulletin boards that can be referred to is set to N. In step S42, the number of electronic bulletin boards to which the user who made the reference request has the reference authority is counted. this is,
The entire electronic information table 9 of FIG. 6 is searched, and the total number of electronic bulletin boards that the user referred to in the past is counted.

A step S43 decides whether or not the number is equal to N.
It is determined whether the number of electronic bulletin boards registered by the user counted in S42 is equal to a predetermined limit number N. In the case of YES, it is determined that the number of registered electronic bulletin boards is equal to the limit number N, and the process proceeds to S44.
In the case of NO, it is determined that the number of registered electronic bulletin boards is equal to or less than the maximum number N, so that it is determined that there is reference authority in S46, and the process returns to S34.

In S44, since it has been determined that the number of electronic bulletin boards referred to by YES in S43 is equal to the limit number N,
It is determined whether the electronic bulletin board has not been referred to in the past. In the case of YES, it is determined that the number of electronic bulletin boards to be referred to can exceed the limit number N.
To determine that there is no reference authority, and returns to S34. On the other hand, S
In the case of NO in step 44, the number of electronic bulletin boards to be referred to is equal to the limit number N, but it is determined that the electronic bulletin board has been referred to in the past. Return.

A step S34 decides whether or not the user has the authority to refer to the electronic bulletin board information. It is determined whether the user has the authority to refer to the electronic bulletin board information in S41 to S46 or has none. In the case of YES, it is determined that the user has the reference authority, and the process proceeds to S35. In the case of NO, it is determined that there is no reference authority, and the process ends without registration. This makes it possible to consciously increase the reference to the electronic bulletin board, prevent the reliability of the information on the number of uses from being lowered, and automatically collect highly reliable information on the use of the electronic bulletin board.

In step S35, reference is made to electronic bulletin board information.
This refers to the information (article, comment, etc.) for which a reference has been requested on the electronic bulletin board (read out, transmit to the user, and display).

In step S36, the user information of the user who made the reference request is updated. This is registered in the electronic information table 9 provided for each electronic bulletin board shown in FIG. 6, which will be described later, though not shown, the number of the user who made the reference and the content of the information as necessary.

As described above, at the time of a reference request from the user, the entire electronic information table 9 for each electronic bulletin board is searched, and the number of electronic bulletin boards referred to in the past is counted. If the counted number is equal to the limit number, Users only refer to the past electronic bulletin boards and reject other references.On the other hand, if the number is less than the limit, the user can refer to the electronic bulletin board for which the reference was requested, so that the user can Reference to many electronic bulletin boards can be restricted, and the reliability of the number of times of use managed in the electronic information table 9 can be improved. Then, the electronic information table 9 for each electronic bulletin board is counted, and highly reliable usage information for each electronic bulletin board can be presented to the user.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the present invention (registration, part 2). This is another detailed operation description when the user writes information on an electronic bulletin board or the like and registers it.

In FIG. 5, in S51, the user refers to the electronic bulletin board. In step S52, writing is performed. S53
Accepts a registration request for information about the referenced electronic bulletin board information. In this case, the host 3 in FIG. 1 receives a request for registering electronic bulletin board information (for example, a request for writing an article or a comment on a referenced electronic bulletin board) from the terminal 1 via the network 2.

In step S54, the use information of all electronic bulletin boards is searched. This is done by searching all electronic information tables 9 in FIG. 6, which will be described later, to find use information (information of the registered and referenced electronic bulletin board) of the user who has made the registration request.

In step S55, as a result of the search in step S54, it is determined whether or not there is use information of the electronic bulletin board registered by the user in the past. In the case of YES, the process proceeds to S56. In the case of NO, since it is determined that there is no use information registered by the user in the past, the electronic bulletin board referred to in S58 is determined as the registration destination, and the process proceeds to S59.

In step S56, it is determined whether or not the electronic bulletin board which has been registered in the past in S55 is the same as the previously registered electronic bulletin board. In the case of YES, the electronic bulletin board referred to in S58 is determined as a registration destination, and the process proceeds to S59. on the other hand,
In the case of NO, since it is determined that the same electronic bulletin board as the electronic bulletin board registered in the past is not referred to, the electronic bulletin board which has been registered in the past is determined as the registration destination in S5.
Go to 9.

In step S59, the use information of the electronic bulletin board is registered with the determined registration destination. This corresponds to S57 or S5
The use information of the electronic bulletin board determined in step 8 is registered, that is, the user number and the content of the information are registered in the electronic information table 9 of FIG.

As described above, when information (articles and comments) is requested to be registered while referring to the electronic bulletin board, if the information has been registered in the past and is the same electronic bulletin board, the same electronic bulletin board of the past is displayed. Register, register in the electronic bulletin board that has been registered in the past or refer to another electronic bulletin board, and if there is no electronic bulletin board registered in the past, refer to the electronic bulletin board. Register on the bulletin board. With these, the user is arbitrarily restricted from registering a large number in a specific electronic bulletin board, the reliability of the number of times of use registered in the electronic information table 9 is increased, and the total number of the electronic information table 9 for each electronic bulletin board is calculated. This makes it possible to present highly reliable usage information for each electronic bulletin board to the user.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a table (electronic information table) according to the present invention. The illustrated electronic information table 9 is provided for each electronic bulletin board or electronic conference room, and registers the number of the user who wrote the information (article or comment) and the content of the information. Such information is registered and managed.

In FIG. 6, a reference (user number / count) is registered for each piece of registration information. As a result, not only the number of times of reference for each piece of information but also the actual number of viewers can be obtained (calculated by counting non-overlapping user numbers). For example, the following two pieces of information shown in the figure Serial number User number Information content Reference (user number / frequency) 1 1 Information for one-sided person 1 / 99,2 / 1 2 2 Information for everyone 1 / 1,2 / 1,3 / 1, 100/1, the total number of times of reference is the same as 100 times. However, the number of referrers is only two in information 1, whereas information 2 is significantly different from 100. Thus, there are cases where the number of times of reference does not correctly represent the actual number of users. For example, in fan voting such as an all-star game, the cause of the discrepancy between the number of information and the number of users in the real world is thought to be roughly the above example, and in order to know the actual situation of the number of users The present invention is very effective.

[0055]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The entire electronic bulletin board and electronic conference room are treated as one set,
An electronic bulletin board is used because the system is designed so that the writing (registration) and reference of articles and comments by the user does not exceed the limit for the whole and is automatically collected, tabulated and presented to the user as user information. Information on the number of times of use (registration) or reference with high reliability in electronic conference rooms or the like can be automatically collected, aggregated, and presented to the user. This allows
By publishing (counting and presenting to users) the number of users using electronic bulletin boards, etc., a highly reliable index of which electronic bulletin boards and electronic conference rooms are used more frequently is provided. It becomes possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual explanatory flowchart of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an operation explanatory flowchart (registration) of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart (reference) for explaining the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an operation explanatory flowchart (registration, part 2) of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is an example of a table according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1: Terminal 2: Network 3: Host 4: Authentication means 5: Registration means 6: Reference means 7: Information holding means 8: Database 9: Electronic information table

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Satoshi Tanaka 4-1-1, Kamiodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Inside Fujitsu Limited (72) Inventor Kazuaki Tsuda 4-chome, Kamiodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa No. 1 No. 1 Fujitsu Limited F term (reference) 5K030 GA15 HA05 HB19 KA02 LD16 LD20

Claims (5)

[Claims] An electronic information providing apparatus for providing usage information such as an electronic bulletin board or an electronic conference room to which a large number of users register or refer to, an authentication means for checking authority at the time of a registration request from a user; Alternatively, a table for registering a user number for each electronic conference room, and the number of electronic bulletin boards or electronic conference rooms written by the user with reference to the table when the authority check is OK exceeds a predetermined limit. Means for determining whether or not the user number has been exceeded, and means for writing to the corresponding electronic bulletin board or electronic conference room and registering the user number in the corresponding table when it is determined that the predetermined limit has not been exceeded. An electronic information providing device characterized by the above-mentioned. 2. An electronic information providing apparatus for providing use information of an electronic bulletin board or an electronic conference room registered or referenced by a large number of users, comprising: an authentication means for checking authority at the time of a reference request from the user; A table for registering a user number for each electronic conference room, and when the authority check is OK, the number of electronic bulletin boards or electronic conference rooms referred to by the user with reference to the table does not exceed a predetermined limit. Means for judging whether or not the predetermined limit has been exceeded, and means for referring to the electronic bulletin board or the electronic conference room and registering the user number in the corresponding table when it is determined that the predetermined limit is not exceeded. An electronic information providing device characterized by the above-mentioned. And means for totalizing the contents of the table provided for each of the electronic bulletin board or the electronic conference room, and displaying the totalized result at the time of the registration request, the reference request, or the use information request. The electronic information providing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein 4. The electronic information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a maximum number that can be registered and a maximum number that can be referred to are set as the predetermined limits. 5. An authentication means for checking authority at the time of a registration request from a user, a table for registering a user number for each electronic bulletin board or each electronic conference room, and referring to said table when said authority check is OK. Means for determining whether the number of electronic bulletin boards or electronic conference rooms written by the user does not exceed a predetermined limit; and when it is determined that the number does not exceed the predetermined limit, the electronic bulletin board or electronic conference A computer-readable recording medium recording a program to be written in a room and to function as a means for registering the user number in the corresponding table.