JP2001160015A - Electronic bulletin board system through computer network - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bulletin board system through a WWW suitable for eliminating any unopened article by promoting a user of unopened bulletin board articles to open the bulletin board articles, by periodically informing the user until the user opens the articles. SOLUTION: When a user logs in by a Web browser, and article data to be opened by the user are present, the browser at the user's side is repeatedly informed, until the number of unopened article data is turned into zero. Especially, the interval of the communication of the presence of the unopened articles is changed, according to the division of the bulletin board of the unopened articles or the number of unopened articles, and the user is repeatedly promoted to open the articles, so that the number of unopened articles can be sharply reduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to WWW (World
Regarding an electronic bulletin board system by a computer system abbreviated as Wide Web), a user who has not opened a bulletin board article is notified periodically until the article is opened, thereby prompting the user to open the article and opening the message. The present invention relates to a WWW bulletin board system suitable for eliminating articles.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an article of an important bulletin board which a section (section) administrator wants to open by e-mail to an unopened user of an article of a bulletin board system by WWW by an e-mail. Check if you have opened the box, and check the unopened section (section)
There is a client-server system technology for eliminating unopened articles by automatically sending unopened articles to members by e-mail (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 9-331353). Also, there is an information management transmission method using a computer or a network, which automatically sends a reminder e-mail to unread readers of a so-called electronic bulletin board, that is, a reminder to open an electronic bulletin board article in a broadcast form (particularly, JP-A-9-218841). Also,
In the conventional method, when the user refers to the bulletin board data,
A so-called e-mail cooperative system in which a dunning mail is transmitted to the user in a broadcast format in order to allow the user to set the read to the unread / read information of the posted data to the user and to prompt the user to refer to the posted data is provided. is there. In this case, the server must be able to identify the unopened person, and must have a function of sending mail to all users.

[0003]

The above-mentioned prior art has a problem that when an unopened user does not notice the arrival of the e-mail, the article is read late, missed, or missed. In particular, in the case of an express bulletin board article that requires urgency, it may cause a problem in business.

[0004] Further, in the method of sending a reminder mail at any time in a broadcast format in order to urge the user to refer to a posted article when there is an unopened person, there is a burden on the WWW server side. -Since it is a server system, it is necessary to provide client-specific software on the client side.

[0005] If any problem occurs in the software, there is a problem that the software on each client must be corrected or replaced.

According to the present invention, when a user accesses a WWW server, a user who has an unopened article is automatically and periodically notified of the presence of an unopened article, so that the unsealing operation can be performed. The purpose is to promote.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention confirms whether a user who has accessed a WWW server by accessing an electronic bulletin board article is a registered user by a user information authentication means. In the case of a registered user, a bulletin board information display means that allows the user to display bulletin board information addressed to the user, and a bulletin board unopened including the number of unopened article data among the bulletin board information addressed to the user It is characterized by comprising a storage means for storing a notification list and a bulletin board information notification means for notifying the user at a predetermined cycle when there is unopened article data. Also, depending on the bulletin board classification of the unopened article data, for example, express, normal, etc., the notification cycle (notification time interval) of the presence of the unopened article
The notification cycle is shortened as the number of unopened articles increases, the notification cycle is gradually increased as the number of unopened article data decreases, and notifications are repeated until the number of unopened article data is exhausted There is a feature.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an overall configuration of an electronic bulletin board system using WWW according to an embodiment of the present invention. Broadly speaking, the system comprises a user's Web browser (with display device) 11, the Internet or intranet 12, a WWW server 13, and a DB (database) server 1C.

A user who refers to a bulletin board article from a Web browser 11 accesses a WWW server 13 via the Internet or an intranet 12. In that case, the server 13 checks with the user information authentication means 14 whether or not the user is a registered person. In the case of a registered person, the bulletin board information notifying means 15 notifies that there is a user unopened article by referring to the bulletin board unopened notification list 40 (see FIG. 4). Of course, this is performed with reference to the database server 1C. The user can read the bulletin board article data by the bulletin board information display means 17. When the bulletin board article data is selected and read, the bulletin board opened state updating means 18
Will be updated by The result can be read out by the bulletin board opening status display means 16. In that case, the information database 20 of the user of the database server and the database 30 relating to the attribute of the bulletin board information (FIG. 3) are referred to. Since the system is configured such that the user can access the WWW server to read and display necessary information on the display unit on the user side, the signal flow from the WWW server to the user's Web server side is omitted in FIG. are doing. Specifically, the bulletin board information display means 17 for displaying the bulletin board article data is displayed on the user's browser side,
The bulletin board open state updating means 18 sequentially updates the open state according to the user's opening, and the latest open state can always be displayed by the bulletin board open state display means 16.

[0010] For example, a bulletin board article setter can set an article by connecting a browser via the Internet or an intranet like the browser 11. Although FIG. 1 shows only one user 11, the browser 11
Similarly, other users or bulletin board article setters can connect a plurality of browsers via the Internet or an intranet, and can be both bulletin board article setters and users.

The user information management means 19 manages data relating to registered users, and manages user IDs, passwords, user names, and the like with reference to the database server 1C. Specifically, it is shown in FIG. The bulletin board information management means 1A manages the sender and user of the bulletin board article data name, and is specifically shown in FIG. The bulletin board article data file 1B is also linked to the bulletin board information management means 1A and the bulletin board information attribute database 30.

The DB server 1C includes a user information database 20 (see FIG. 2) and a bulletin board attribute information database 30.
(See FIG. 3). Hereinafter, each means will be described. First, the DB server 1C will be described. It comprises a user database 20 and an information attribute database 30. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the user information database 20 according to the present embodiment. It comprises a user ID 21, a password 22, and a user 23. In this example, the user ID 21 is HE
The case of C000 to HEC005 is shown. The password 22 corresponds to PWD000 to PW in accordance with the user ID.
D005 is shown. The same applies to the user 23, and the corresponding users are HEC Taro to HEC Goro.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the bulletin board information attribute database 30 according to the present embodiment, which is a database relating to attributes of bulletin board information. The bulletin board article data name 31 is the article 01. doc. ~ Article 03.doc. This is the case of three article data. The posting section 32 classifies whether the article is an express article or an ordinary article. In this example, the article 01.doc. And Article 03.doc. Is normal,
Article 02.doc. Only shows the case of limited express. The sender 33 is the user HEC000 and the user HE in FIG.
C004 shows an example of two persons. The user opened state 34 includes a user 35 and an opened state 36. In this case, the users are examples of the users 1 to 5. User 1 indicates that three articles have been opened, and User 2 indicates that articles 01. doc. Article 02.
doc. Indicates that it is in an unopened state. The mark indicates the opened state, and the X mark indicates the unopened state. 1
B is a bulletin board article data file, the article data name, article 01. doc. Article 02. doc. , Article 03. do
c. The file is prepared corresponding to.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the bulletin board unopened notification list 40 of the present embodiment. Notice section 41, notification time interval 42,
It consists of 43 unopened article data. The bulletin board section 41 indicates whether the bulletin board information is a normal section or an express section. In this example, there are two sections, but the number is not limited to two. Classification can be performed as needed. Reference numeral 42 denotes an example in which the notification time interval is set to 60 minutes for the ordinary section and 10 minutes for the limited express section. This represents a notification cycle to the client when there is an unopened article when logging in from the Web browser 11. For example, if there is an unopened article in the normal category, the Web browser is notified that there is an unopened article every 60 minutes. The notification method can be displayed on the display means shown in FIG. 12, or can be notified by a buzzer sound when the browser has a buzzer means.
Reference numeral 43 denotes the number of unopened article data. In this example, the number of unopened article data in the ordinary category is two, and the number of unopened article data in the express category is one. I have. Notification time interval 4 until the number of unopened article data becomes zero
Notification is sent to the browser side according to 2. As shown in FIG. 4, when the number of unopened article data exists in each bulletin board section, if the notification time interval is shorter, in this case, when the user is notified in a 10-minute cycle of the express section, the number of unopened article data is It has more effect on the reduction. As described above, when the unopened article data exists in a plurality of sections, it is preferable to notify by selecting the one with the shorter notification time interval. This example is effective in reducing the number of unopened article data items in the express article data.

When the number of unopened article data 43 is large, the sender wants to open the book as soon as possible so that the unopened article disappears from the sender side. May go. For example, the notification time interval 42 may be set to 30 minutes when the number of unopened article data in the ordinary category exceeds 5, such as 15 minutes when the number of unopened article data exceeds 10. In such a case, if the number of unopened articles is large, the user is frequently notified by a method such as displaying on a browser, which is effective in reducing the number of unopened articles. The notification time interval may be set to be automatically increased stepwise as the number of unopened article data decreases. In the above example, when the number of unopened article data, which was 10 or more, is reduced to 10 or less by subsequent opening, the notification time interval is switched from 15 minutes to 30 minutes. That is, it is characterized in that the notification time interval is changed stepwise according to the number of unopened article data, and has a great effect in reducing the number of unopened articles. In other words, the browser 11 has an effect that it is possible to roughly determine whether the number of unopened article data is large or small by looking only at the notification time interval. The notification time interval may be changed continuously according to the number of unopened article data, or may be changed stepwise as described above.

FIG. 12 shows the user information authenticating means 14, the bulletin board information notifying means 15, the bulletin board opened state displaying means 16, the bulletin board information displaying means 17, the user information managing means 19, and the bulletin board information managing means 1A of this embodiment. Web browser 1
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an input / display screen C1 displayed on the screen 1; It comprises an input / display area C2 and a notification area C3. The notification area C3 is used for the notification to the browser at the notification time interval corresponding to the number of unopened article data. The display area C2 is used for the article itself. Of course, when multiple browsers are connected,
The display screen is similarly configured.

Hereinafter, the operation of the Web server of this embodiment will be described in detail.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the processing of the user information authentication means 14. The user information authentication means 14 is
Input / display area C of input / display screen C1 of browser 11
From step 2, an input of a user ID and a password is accepted (step S51). The user information database 20 is searched using the input user ID and password as keys, and the presence or absence of the corresponding record is determined (step S52). The entered user ID and password are stored in the user information database 2
If the user ID 21 and the password 22 match (YES in step S52), the bulletin board information notifying unit 15 is called (step S53). The entered user ID and password are the user ID 2 of the user information database 20.
1 and the password 22 do not match (step S52).
NO), an error message indicating that the user has not been registered is output to the input / display area C2 of the Web browser 11 (step S54).

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the processing of the bulletin board information notifying means 15. The bulletin board information notification means 15 sets the notification time interval of the limited express to a designated notification time interval, in this case, 10 minutes, when the number of unopened article data items of the limited express in the bulletin board unopened notification list 40 is one or more. When the number of unopened article data items of the limited express is 0, the normal notification time interval of 60 minutes is set as the designated notification time interval (step S6).
1). Then, it waits until the designated notification time interval elapses (NO in step S62). When the designated notification time interval has elapsed (YES in step S62), the number of unopened article data in the bulletin board unopened notification list 40 is initialized to 0 (step S63). Subsequently, the bulletin board information attribute database 30 is read (NO in step S64), and when the user ID matches the user 35 in the user opened state 34 (YES in step S65), the opened state 3 of the user 35 is set.
If 6 is unopened (YES in step S66), the posting section 41 is the same as the posting section 32 of the bulletin board article data name 31.
Is added to the number 43 of unopened article data in the row (step S67). When the user ID in the user opened state 34 does not match the user ID (NO in step S65), or when the opened state 36 of the user 35 has been opened (NO in step S66), the bulletin board information attribute database continues. Read 30. As a result of reading all the bulletin board information attribute databases (YE in step S64)
S), when the number 43 of unopened article data is one or more (YES in step S68), that is, when there is unopened article data, a message with unopened article data is sent to W
Output to the input / display area C2 of the web browser 11 (step S69).

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the processing of the bulletin board opening status display means 16. Bulletin board opening status display means 16
Reads the bulletin board information attribute database 30 (NO in step S71), and sets the bulletin board article data name 31, the posting section 32, the sender 33, the user 35, and the opened state 36 to We.
Output to the input / display area C2 of the b browser 11 (step S72). Continue to bulletin board information attribute database 3
Read 0. When all the bulletin board information attribute databases 30 have been read (YES in step S71), the process ends.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the processing of the bulletin board information display means 17. The bulletin board information display means 17 reads the bulletin board information attribute database 30 (step S81).
NO), the bulletin board article data name 31 is changed to the Web browser 1
1 to the input / display area C2 (step S8).
2). Subsequently, the bulletin board information attribute database 30 is read. When all the bulletin board information attribute databases 30 have been read (YES in step S81), the user accepts selection of a bulletin board article data name to be opened from the bulletin board article data name list (step S83), and calls the bulletin board open state updating means 18 (step S83). Step S84). Subsequently, the contents of the bulletin board article data file 1B pointed to by the selected bulletin board article data name are stored in the input / display area C of the Web browser 11.
2 (step S85).

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the processing of the bulletin board opening status updating means 18. Bulletin board opening status updating means 18
Searches the bulletin board information attribute database 30 using the bulletin board article data name and the user ID received by the bulletin board information display means 17 as a key, and when the opened state 36 of the user 35 of the relevant bulletin board article data name 31 is unopened. (YES in step S91), the opened state 36 is updated to the opened value (step S92). Applicable bulletin board article data name 31
When the opened state 36 of the user 35 is opened (NO in step S91), the process returns to the bulletin board information display unit 17.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the processing of the user information management means 19. The user information management means 19 searches the user information database 20 using the user ID and the password received by the user information authentication means 14 as keys,
For example, in the case where the value of the user ID 21 is an administrator who is HEC000, when this matches the password (YES in step SA1), the user information attribute database 20
The registration, change, and deletion of the user ID 21, password 22, and user 23 are permitted (step SA2). When the password does not match the administrator password (NO in step SA1),
Error message of non-administrator is sent to Web browser 11
Is output to the input / display area C2 (step SA3).

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the processing of the bulletin board information management means 1A. When registering new bulletin board article data, the bulletin board information management unit 1A uses the Web browser 1
Bulletin board article data name 3 through input / display area C2 of 1
1. The bulletin board information attributes of the notice section 32, the sender 33, and the user 35 are received and registered in the bulletin board information attribute database 30, and when the bulletin board information attribute of the registered bulletin board article data is changed, the input / display of the web browser 11 is performed. Area C2
And displays the bulletin board article data name 31, bulletin division 32, sender 33, and user 35, accepts the change, changes the bulletin board information attribute registered in the bulletin board information attribute database 30, and displays the bulletin board of the registered bulletin board article data. When the information attribute is to be deleted, the bulletin board article data name 31, the bulletin section 32, the sender 33, and the user 35 are displayed through the input / display area C2 of the Web browser 11, and the deletion is accepted and registered from the bulletin board information attribute database 30. Deletes the bulletin board information attribute (step SB
1).

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a bulletin board user has an unopened article for a bulletin board article, the predetermined time interval (period) is repeated until the unopened article data is exhausted. ) To prompt the user to open
(If there is a display or buzzer function, even a buzzer sound), so the number of unopened articles can be reduced. In addition, the open status of unopened articles is sequentially updated, and the updated status can be displayed and confirmed on the browser of the article publisher.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an electronic bulletin board system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a user information database in FIG.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a bulletin board information attribute database in FIG.

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of a bulletin board unopened notification list in FIG.

FIG. 5 shows a processing flow of a user information authentication unit in FIG.

FIG. 6 shows a processing flow of bulletin board information notifying means in FIG.

FIG. 7 shows a processing flow of a bulletin board opening state display means in FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 shows a processing flow of bulletin board information display means in FIG.

FIG. 9 shows a processing flow of a bulletin board opening status update unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 shows a processing flow of the user information management means in FIG.

FIG. 11 shows a processing flow of a bulletin board information management unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 12 shows a display screen on the user side.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Web browser 12 Internet / intranet 13 WWW server 14 User information authentication means 15 Bulletin board information notification means 16 Bulletin board open status display means 17 Bulletin board information display means 18 Bulletin board open status update means 19 User information management means 1A Bulletin board information management means 1B Bulletin board article data 1C database server 20 user information database 21 user ID
22 Password 23 User 30 Bulletin board information attribute database 31 Bulletin board article data name 32 Bulletin classification
33 Sender 34 User open category 35 User 40 Bulletin board unopened notification list 41 Bulletin category
42 Notification time interval 43 Number of unopened article data C1 Input / display screen C2 Input / display area C3 Notification area

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Claims (2)

[Claims] In an electronic bulletin board system capable of displaying an article on an electronic bulletin board set on a server of a computer network on a browser of a user who has accessed the network, the use of the bulletin board of the user is authenticated. User information authentication means, bulletin board information display means for displaying an electronic bulletin board article addressed to the user on the browser side when the user is a registered user, and a notification list of the number of unopened articles addressed to the user The server comprises: a storage unit; and an electronic bulletin board information notification unit that notifies a browser of the user at a predetermined cycle that there is an unopened article until the number of unopened articles disappears. Electronic bulletin board system by computer network system. 2. A computer network system service.
In an electronic bulletin board system capable of displaying an article on an electronic bulletin board set in a server on a browser of a user accessed from a network browser, a user information managing means for managing users of the electronic bulletin board; User information authentication means for authenticating the use of the bulletin board; notification list storage means for the number of unopened articles addressed to the user; and unopened articles to the user at a predetermined cycle until the number of unopened articles disappears. Electronic bulletin board information notifying means for notifying that there is, bulletin board information managing means for managing the electronic bulletin board article, and displaying the electronic bulletin board article on the browser side from the bulletin board article data file when the user opens the article. Electronic bulletin board information display means, and a bulletin board opening letter that, when a user opens the article on the electronic bulletin board, the bulletin board article is opened Bulletin board system by a computer network, characterized in that the updating means, and the electronic bulletin board opened state display means for displaying the opening state of the electronic bulletin board article browser article issuer, the configured the browser.