JP2001004386A - Method and system for displaying information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system where an information content provider can provide a map easily to a user by an arrangement wherein an information content server transmits an information content including information affixed with a specific tag to a terminal where the information is selected. SOLUTION: The system comprises a portable telephone network 100, an internet 103, and information servers 101, 102. The portable telephone network 100 comprises a portable telephone 111, gateway servers 108, 107, a client DB 106, an information server 105, and a map server 104. The gateway server 108 transmits a response to a portable telephone affixed with a terminal ID upon request from the portable telephone. The gateway server 107 identifies the address of request from the portable telephone, or the like, and makes a decision whether access to that address is allowed or not with reference to the client DB 106. The information servers 101, 102 are connected with the gateway server 107 through a leased line, or the like.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technology for providing information contents, and more particularly to a method for displaying map information related to information contents to a user.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, services for displaying a map or the like on a terminal and providing various information have become widespread. For example, there is a service in which a map around the current location is displayed on a notebook computer connected to a mobile phone or the like to acquire information on nearby stores. FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of a system according to the related art in which a certain information content provider displays a map related to the content to be provided. As shown in the figure, information is transmitted to a user from an information server connected to the Internet via a network such as the Internet. When displaying a route map, it is necessary to generate a map image in the information server in advance and describe it in information content that provides a link to the image.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, the information provider must generate the map image itself, and the information provider can easily provide the map display service. Did not. The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and has as its object to provide a method that enables an information content provider to easily provide a map to a user.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention can be configured as follows. According to the present invention, based on a request from a terminal, an information content providing server transmits information content including information with a specific tag to the terminal, and the terminal selects the information with the specific tag. The terminal is an information display method for acquiring and displaying the content from an information server having the content of the information.

[0005] According to the present invention, there is no need for the information content provider to prepare the information provided by the information server, so that a variety of information content services can be provided. According to the information display method of the present invention, based on a request from a terminal, an information content providing server transmits information content including information with a specific tag to the terminal, and the terminal adds the information with the specific tag to the terminal. By making a selection, the terminal can be configured to acquire and display the map information from a map server having map information corresponding to the information.

According to the present invention, an information content provider simply describes a specific tag (for example, <map>) in a store name, telephone number or address without describing a link to a map image, and provides a map display service. Can be provided.
Therefore, the content provider does not need to prepare a map in advance, which is effective in reducing costs. Also,
According to the information display method of the present invention, based on a request from a terminal, an information content providing server transmits information content including information with a specific tag to the terminal, and the terminal adds the information with the specific tag to the terminal. By making a selection, the terminal requests the route guidance information from a map server having route guidance information on the information tagged with the specific tag, and the map server generates a route guidance map and a route guidance sentence, and The terminal may transmit the route guidance map and the route guidance sentence to the terminal, and the terminal may display the route guidance map and the route guidance sentence.

According to the present invention, an information provider can easily provide a route guidance service. In order to achieve the above object, the present invention can be configured as follows. The present invention is a terminal, an information content providing server, and an information display system including an information server, and the information content providing server sends information content including information with a specific tag to the terminal based on a request from the terminal. By transmitting the information and selecting the information with the specific tag in the terminal, the terminal obtains and displays the content from an information server having the content of the information.

[0008] The present invention is also an information display system having a terminal, an information content providing server, and a map server, wherein the information content providing server, based on a request from the terminal, includes information to which a specific tag is attached. By transmitting content to the terminal and selecting the information tagged with the specific tag at the terminal, the terminal acquires and displays the map information from a map server having map information corresponding to the information. It can also be configured.

Further, the present invention is an information display system having a terminal, an information content providing server, and a map server, wherein the information content providing server includes, based on a request from the terminal, information including information to which a specific tag is attached. By transmitting the content to the terminal and selecting the information with the specific tag at the terminal, the terminal transmits the route guidance information to a map server having route guidance information on the information with the specific tag. Request, the map server generates a route guidance map and a route guidance sentence, transmits the route guidance map and the route guidance sentence to the terminal, and the terminal displays the route guidance map and the route guidance sentence. Good.

In the above configuration, the terminal may be a mobile phone, and the map server may be connected to a mobile phone network. According to these inventions, the same effects as described above can be obtained, and the above effects can be obtained with a mobile phone.

[0011]

FIG. 2 shows a configuration of a map display system for realizing the above-mentioned map display. As shown in FIG. 1, the map display system includes a mobile phone network 100, the Internet 103, information content providing servers 101 and 102.
Consists of The mobile phone network 100 includes the mobile phone 11
1, a mobile network 109, a mobile network 110, a gateway server 1 (108), a gateway server 2 (107), a customer DB 106, an information content providing server 105, and a map server 104. Gateway server 1 (10
8) is a gateway for performing communication with the mobile phone, assigns a terminal ID to a request from the mobile phone, and sends a response to the mobile phone with the specified terminal ID to the mobile phone. Controls transmission.

The gateway 2 (107) identifies the address to which the request from the mobile phone or the like is directed, and determines whether the access to the address is permitted or not in the customer DB 10 (107).
6 is determined. When the access is not permitted, the access is rejected. When the access is permitted, the relay to the address is performed. The response refers to the gateway accommodating the destination terminal (mobile phone) from the customer DB and accesses the gateway. Gateway server 1 (107) in FIG. 2 is one such gateway.

The customer DB 106 is a database having server information accessible to the mobile phone (address for providing a service, etc.) and gateway information currently accommodated. The information providing servers 101 and 102 are connected to the gateway server 2 (107) via a dedicated line or the Internet, and generate and distribute information according to a request from the gateway server 2 (107).

The information providing server 102 (or 10
1) provides information content to a mobile phone, a PC connected to the Internet, or the like via the Internet.
In this configuration, first, the mobile phone 111 requests and receives a content from the information providing server 102. If the content is, for example, a list of stores and their telephone numbers, and the user of the mobile phone 111 wants to know the location of a specific store, the telephone number of the store in the received contents is displayed. When selected, the map server 104 transmits the map information of the store corresponding to the telephone number to the mobile phone 111, and the mobile phone displays the map.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a command sequence in the present system. The command sequence will be described with reference to FIGS. First, the mobile phone requests content from the information providing server. The information providing server transmits the content to the mobile phone based on the request.
The mobile phone displays the content on the screen. Then, the user selects a telephone number or the like of a place where the user wants to know the route from the contents.

Next, the portable telephone sets the destination information and the requested map type as information requests in the gateway server 1 (10).
8) via the mobile network 109. The gateway server 1 (108) adds the current location information and the terminal ID of the mobile phone. Note that the current location information may be included when the mobile phone makes an information request. The mobile phone can transmit longitude / latitude, address, telephone number, store name, and the like as information on the current position. If the current position of the mobile phone is blank, the gateway server 1 (108)
For example, the nearest station to the destination is set as the current position. The destination information is a longitude / latitude, an address, a telephone number, a store name, and the like.
As the requested map type, a simple route map or a route map to which peripheral information is added can be designated. The terminal ID is an ID number of a terminal accommodated in the mobile phone network.

Subsequently, the gateway server 1 (108)
Is current location information, destination information, requested map type and terminal ID
To the gateway server 2 (107). The gateway server 2 (107) checks the terminal ID with reference to the customer DB 106. Here, the terminal ID is customer D
If it is not in B or there is no terminal ID, the access is denied. If the result of checking the terminal ID is good, an information request is transmitted to the map server 104.

The map server 104 generates a guide map and a guide text. The map server 104 transmits the result product, the guide map, and the guide text as the processing result notification to the gateway server 2.
(107). The above result product is composed of the number of map files, the distance to the destination, the number of route landmarks, the number of neighboring landmarks, the number of route guidance sentences, and the like. The guidance map is a map file, and the guidance text is route landmark information (name, address, telephone number), surrounding landmark information (name, address, telephone number), route guidance text, and the like. The result product can be, for example, one HTML document composed of the above information.

Subsequently, the gateway server 2 (107)
Refers to the gateway accommodating the mobile phone of the transmission destination from the customer DB 106, and transmits a processing result notification to the gateway, for example, the gateway server 1 (108). Then, the gateway server 1 transmits the processing result notification to the mobile phone, so that the mobile phone can view desired route guidance information.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display screen when the content from the information providing server is displayed on the mobile phone. For example, by selecting a telephone number by key operation, a map of this restaurant is displayed. 5 and 6 are diagrams showing information transmitted from the information content provider. In the present embodiment, the information is created in an HTML-based document. H shown in FIGS. 5 and 6
The TML-based language is a subset version of the HTML language and is close to the specification of a language called compact HTML (C-HTML). Is defined. As shown in FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, by selecting the information with the map tag in the original description on the screen,
The map server searches the corresponding map information and transmits the map information to the mobile phone.

FIG. 7 shows an example of performing route guidance based on information transmitted by the map server. In the figure, the screens displayed on the mobile phone are changed according to the key input by the operator.
A transition is made as shown in FIG. (A)
Shows the first screen of route guidance starting from JR Kamakura Station and going to Kamakura Police as a destination. As shown in the figure, the distance from the start point to the destination is indicated, and a building or the like (hereinafter, referred to as a landmark) serving as a mark is indicated by a numeral or character icon on the map. A route guidance sentence is shown at the bottom of the screen. An icon corresponding to the icon on the map is displayed in the route guidance message, and when the icon is input by a key, a transition is made to a guidance message around the landmark corresponding to the icon.

In FIG. 7, when 1 is input on the screen of (a), the screen of (b) is displayed, and when 2 is input on the screen of (b), the screen of (c) is displayed. The screen shown in FIG. As described above, since an appropriate guide text and map are displayed along the process, operability is good even with a small-screen mobile phone. FIG. 8 shows an example of data in an HTML-based language generated by the map server to be transmitted to the mobile phone, and corresponds to the screen display shown in FIG. The mobile phone interprets the HTML document and displays a map. In FIG. 8, for example, a screen in which 1 is input at accesskey = 1 corresponds to FIG. 7B.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but can be variously modified without departing from the gist thereof.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, the information content provider does not describe the link to the map image, but writes a specific tag (for example, <
A map display service can be provided simply by describing map>). Therefore, the content provider does not need to prepare a map in advance, which is effective in reducing costs.

Further, since a link to a map server can be easily generated from a document describing an address or the like, a map search can be performed by one simple key operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an information display system according to a conventional technique.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an information display system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a command sequence of the information display system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of content display on a screen of a mobile phone.

FIG. 5 is a first example of an HTML-based document describing content.

FIG. 6 is a second example of an HTML-based document describing content.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of route guidance on a screen of a mobile phone.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of data output by a map server for a mobile phone.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 100 mobile phone network 101, 102 information providing server 103 internet 104 map server 105 information providing server 106 customer DB 107 gateway server 2 108 gateway server 1 109 mobile network 110 mobile network 111 mobile phone

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Claims (7)

[Claims] An information content providing server transmits information content including information tagged with a specific tag to a terminal based on a request from the terminal, and selects information tagged with the specific tag at the terminal. Wherein the terminal acquires and displays the content from an information server having the content of the information. 2. An information content providing server transmits information content including information tagged with a specific tag to the terminal based on a request from the terminal, and selects information tagged with the specific tag at the terminal. Wherein the terminal acquires and displays the map information from a map server having map information corresponding to the information. 3. An information content providing server transmits information content including information tagged with a specific tag to the terminal based on a request from the terminal, and selects the information tagged with the specific tag at the terminal. The terminal requests the route guidance information from a map server having route guidance information related to the information tagged with the specific tag, the map server generates a route guidance map and a route guidance sentence, and An information display method, comprising: transmitting a guidance map and a route guidance sentence; and the terminal displaying the route guidance map and the route guidance sentence. 4. An information display system comprising a terminal, an information content providing server, and an information server, wherein the information content providing server transmits, based on a request from the terminal, information content including information tagged with a specific tag to the terminal. Transmitting information to the terminal and selecting the information with the specific tag in the terminal, whereby the terminal acquires and displays the content from an information server having the content of the information. 5. An information display system comprising a terminal, an information content providing server, and a map server, wherein the information content providing server, based on a request from the terminal, transmits information content including information with a specific tag to the terminal. And the terminal selects the information with the specific tag, thereby acquiring and displaying the map information from a map server having map information corresponding to the information. Information display system. 6. An information display system comprising a terminal, an information content providing server, and a map server, wherein the information content providing server, based on a request from the terminal, converts the information content including information tagged with a specific tag to the terminal. And the terminal selects the information tagged with the specific tag at the terminal, so that the terminal requests the route guidance information from a map server having route guidance information on the information tagged with the specific tag, An information display, wherein the map server generates a route guidance map and a route guidance sentence, transmits the route guidance map and the route guidance sentence to the terminal, and the terminal displays the route guidance map and the route guidance sentence. system. 7. The information display system according to claim 5, wherein the terminal is a mobile phone, and the map server is connected to a mobile phone network.