JP2001282750A - Information acquiring system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information acquiring system, by which the intranet is constructed by connecting a server and a client on a LAN, for enabling each client to easily acquire required information in the state of connecting a telecommunication line such as Internet to this intranet line. SOLUTION: A client 18 designates one index of news out of the indexes of news acquired from an information working server 14 by a server 16 and while using a URL corresponding to that designated index, the text of news is acquired from an information transmitting server 12 through the internet.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information obtaining system for a client to obtain necessary information in an intranet including a server and one or more clients.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, software (for example, Cybozu Office (trade name) manufactured by Cybozu, Inc.) capable of realizing groupware has been sold. The “groupware” is software that realizes communication between users and sharing of information, thereby improving work efficiency of the group.
This groupware is assumed to be used on a LAN. The main functions of this groupware are classified as follows.

The first is an electronic mail function, which allows a personal computer to exchange messages with a designated partner.

[0004] Second, a schedule sharing function allows a plurality of users to manage a common schedule.

[0005] Third, a document sharing function is to store information, such as ideas and know-how, which is difficult to push into a certain format in a database in the form of a document or a file so that a plurality of users can refer to and edit the database. ing.

A fourth function is a workflow function, which digitizes the flow of documents that are circulated in a fixed order, such as a request for approval or a travel expense report, and that are approved or denied.

Fifth, there is a function that enables linking to a home page on the Internet.

[0008]

In the fifth function of linking to a homepage on the Internet, for example, when acquiring information from newspapers, a client of groupware can access each newspaper site. It was necessary to connect and see the contents of each homepage. That is, without connecting to the site of each newspaper, it was not possible to know the information of the article in that newspaper.

In view of the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has a server and a client connected to each other via a LAN to form an intranet, and in a state where a telecommunication line such as the Internet is connected to the intranet, each client needs information. The present invention provides an information obtaining system that can easily obtain the information.

[0010]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, an intranet is constructed from an information acquisition server and one or more information acquisition clients, and an electric communication line such as the Internet is connected to the intranet. The information obtaining client is a system for obtaining necessary information, a text of information such as news, a summary of the information,
An information transmission server storing acquired information for acquiring the text of the information, and an information processing server for acquiring the summary and the acquired information from the information transmission server and processing the acquired abstract into a predetermined format. The information obtaining server has the summary, the obtained information from the information processing server, obtained and stored through the telecommunication line, and sends the stored summary and the obtained information to the information obtaining client; The information acquisition client designates one summary from the transmitted summary, uses acquisition information corresponding to the designated summary, and transmits a text of information corresponding to the designated summary through the telecommunication line. An information acquisition system, wherein the information is acquired from the information transmission server.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, an intranet is constructed from an information acquisition server and one or more information acquisition clients, a telecommunication line such as the Internet is connected to the intranet, and the information acquisition client transmits necessary information. A system for obtaining, a text of information such as news, a summary of the information, an information transmission server storing obtained information for obtaining the text of the information, and the summary and the obtained information from the information transmission server. And an information processing server for processing the obtained summary into a predetermined format, wherein the information obtaining server stores connection information for connecting to the information processing server, and wherein the information obtaining client When instructed to send the processed summary, obtain the connection information from the information obtaining server and obtain the connection information The obtained summary and the obtained information are obtained from the information processing server through the telecommunication line by using the information obtaining client, and the information obtaining client specifies one of the transmitted summaries and specifies the specified summary. An information obtaining system for obtaining a text of the information corresponding to the specified abstract from the information transmitting server through the telecommunication line using the obtained information corresponding to the abstract.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the information acquisition client executes a groupware program running on a Web browser from the information acquisition server to acquire the summary, the acquisition information, or the connection information. 3. An information acquisition system according to claim 1, wherein:

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the information processing server processes the summary obtained from the information transmission server into a text format or a script format. System.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the information processing server acquires and updates the summary and the obtained information at predetermined time intervals from the information transmission server. It is an acquisition system.

The invention according to claim 6 is the information acquisition system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the information processing server and the information transmission server are integrated.

[0016]

[Operation] An information obtaining system according to claim 1 will be described.

The information obtaining client operated by the user specifies one of the abstracts obtained by the information obtaining server from the information processing server, and uses the specified information by using the obtained information corresponding to the specified abstract. The text of the information corresponding to the summarized summary can be obtained from the information transmission server using the telecommunication line.

An information obtaining system according to a second aspect will be described.

The information acquisition client operated by the user, when instructed to send the processed summary,
Obtain the connection information from the information obtaining server, obtain the processed summary and the obtained information from the information processing server through the telecommunication line using this connection information, and designate one summary from the transmitted summary. Then, using the acquired information corresponding to the specified summary, a text of the information corresponding to the specified summary is obtained through a telecommunication line.

An information acquisition system according to claim 3 will be described.

The information acquisition client executes a groupware program running on a Web browser from the information acquisition server to acquire summary, acquisition information, or connection information.

An information acquisition system according to claim 4 will be described.

The information processing server processes the summary obtained from the information transmission server into a text format or a script format.

An information obtaining system according to claim 5 will be described.

The information processing server obtains summary and acquired information at predetermined time intervals from the information transmission server and updates the contents.

An information obtaining system according to claim 6 will be described.

The information processing server and the information transmitting server are integrated. Therefore, the system can be simplified.

[0028]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to FIGS.
A description will be given based on FIG.

(Overall Configuration) FIG. 1 is an overall view of an information obtaining system 10 according to this embodiment.

First, the overall structure will be described with reference to FIG.

A plurality of sites for providing information exist on the Internet. In this embodiment, it is assumed that there is an A newspaper site that provides news as information to a Z newspaper site. The A newspaper site is provided with an information transmission server 12A for the A newspaper for operating this site. Similarly, from the B newspaper site to the Z newspaper site, the information transmission server 12B sends 1
2Z are provided individually.

An information processing site exists on the Internet. Although the contents of this information processing site will be described in detail later, the information processing server 14 also exists at this site.

Further, an intranet composed of one server 16 and a plurality of clients 18 exists on the Internet. Here, the “intranet” refers to an in-house system constructed using the TCP / IP protocol of the Internet technology, a Web server, or the like, and a fire for preventing unauthorized entry from the outside between the outside and the inside network. A wall is provided to distinguish the inside from the intranet and the outside Internet. In order to realize this intranet, the server 16 and the plurality of clients 18 are connected to a LAN.
(LOCAL AREA NETWORK).

(Structure of Intranet) Next, four structures of the above-described intranet will be described in detail in order with reference to FIGS.

(1) First Configuration of Intranet FIG. 9 is a first configuration diagram of the intranet.

When using groupware software, the Web where the groupware software is installed
b. Communication is performed between the server and each client (state (1)).

When each client accesses a site on the Internet, the client connects to the Internet via a firewall server and a router to access the site (state (2)).

(2) Second Configuration of Intranet FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a second configuration of the intranet.

When using the groupware software, the Web where the groupware software is installed
Communication is performed between the server b and each client via the firewall server (state (1)).

When each client accesses a site on the Internet, the client connects to the Internet via a firewall server and a router and accesses each site (state (2)). .

(3) Third Configuration of Intranet FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a third configuration of the intranet.

When using the groupware software, the Web where the groupware software is installed
b. Communication is performed between the server and each client (state (1)).

When each client accesses a site on the Internet, the client connects to the Internet via a firewall server and a router to access each site (state (2)). .

(4) Fourth Configuration of Intranet FIG. 12 is a fourth configuration diagram of the intranet.

When using the groupware software, the Web where the groupware software is installed
b. Communication is performed between the server and each client (state (1)).

When each client accesses a site on the Internet, the client connects to the Internet via a router and accesses each site (state (2)).

In this embodiment, any of the above four configurations can be applied. In addition, the server 16 in the following description is
A Web server is referred to, and a client 18 is referred to as each client.

(Configuration in the Intranet) Next, the server 16 and the plurality of clients 18 connected to the above intranet will be described with reference to FIG.

The server 16 and the client 18 can both be realized by a personal computer.
The operating environment of Windows 9 is, for example, Windows 9
8 (registered trademark), a Web server, a program for groupware (for example, Cybozu O manufactured by Cybozu, Inc.)
ffice (product name)), and the client 18 operates a Web browser.

The groupware software uses a Web server as a server. For example, the CGI of the Web server
(COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE)
Use the function called. The OS is not limited to the Windows 98, but may be another Windows program, or may be an OS such as Linux or FreeBSD.

The server 16 executes the program of the groupware software and manages the data.

The client 18 operates a groupware program on the server 16 to input and display data. In this case, the client 18 performs the operation by using a Web browser.

(Information Transmission Site) Next, the information transmission server 12A in the A newspaper site will be described.

In the newspaper A site, articles published in the newspaper are stored as electronic data. In this case,
In the stored data, a body of the article, a heading of the article, and a URL for referring to the body are stored as one set. When storing the news, the news is stored separately for each category in the newspaper A site. In other words, the information is stored separately in a political category, an economic category, a sports category, a social category, and the like.

In the newspaper A site, the headline and the URL can be extracted from the body, headline, and URL of the news, which is composed of one set. Further, the heading and URL for each category described above can be extracted.

News data is similarly stored from the B newspaper site to the Z newspaper site.

(Information processing site) The information processing server 14 of the information processing site obtains news headlines and URLs from the sites of each newspaper, processes them into a predetermined format, and stores them. This operation will be described in detail below.

(Processing Flow) Next, in the overall configuration described above, the processing procedure until each client 18 obtains the text of the news stored in the site of each newspaper will be described in order. Go.

(1) Processing by which the information processing site obtains news headlines and the like The processing until the information processing server 14 obtains news headlines and the like from the information transmission server 12 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

In step a1, the information processing server 1
4 connects to the information transmission server 12 of the A newspaper site.

In step a2, the news headline and URL of the newspaper A site are acquired. Note that a heading and URL for each category may be acquired.

In step a3, the obtained news headline is processed into a text format so that it can be sent to the server 16.

At step a4, the processed news headline and the URL are stored in association with each other.

The state of steps a1 to a4 is referred to as A newspaper
It goes to the Z newspaper and stores it for each newspaper site.

In step a5, the above steps a1 to a4 are performed at a predetermined time (for example, every hour), and
The content is updated to the newest content.

By executing the above, the information processing server 14 is always in a state where the latest news headlines and URLs are stored.

(2) Processing for Intranet Server 16 to Store News Headlines Processing for storing news headlines and the like stored in the information processing server 14 in the server 16 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

In step b1, the server 16 and the information processing server 14 are connected via the Internet.

In step b2, the server 16 sends the processed news headline and U
Get RL.

In step b3, the obtained headline and URL of the processed news are stored separately for each newspaper site.

At step b4, the processing of steps b1 to b3 is performed at predetermined time intervals (for example, every hour), and the contents are updated to the newest contents.

In this manner, the processed news headlines and URLs are always stored in the intranet server 16.

(3) Processing till the Client User Displays the Body of News In step c1, the user sets the O
Start S.

At step c2, the Web browser is started.

In step c3, the URL of the groupware program is input on the activated Web browser. Thereby, the groupware program is accessed.

In step c4, when the groupware program is started, the shared top page of the groupware program is displayed on the display of the client 18. FIG. 3 shows an example of the display.

At step c5, a name and a password are entered in the name column and the password column in FIG. 3, respectively, and the login is clicked.

In step c6, the server 16 creates a personal top page corresponding to the individual based on the logged-in personal information. In this case, for example, information such as a schedule and a bulletin board as shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the personal top page, and at the same time, the headline of the news stored in the server 16 is simultaneously inserted and the personal top page is displayed. create.

In step c7, the client 18
Displays the personal top page. An example of the display is shown in FIG. 4, in which news headlines (headline news) are displayed for each newspaper.

At step c8, the user clicks and designates one of the displayed news headlines.

At step c 9, the server is connected to the information transmission server 12 of the site of the newspaper A via the Internet based on the URL corresponding to the specified news headline.

At step c10, the text of the news is sent from the connected information transmission server 12 of the newspaper A to the client 18, and the text of the news is displayed on the display 18.

According to the above processing, the headline of the news for each newspaper is displayed on the client's personal top page, and the news text can be easily obtained from the site of each newspaper simply by clicking the headline. Becomes possible.

(Modification 1) In the above embodiment, the headline and URL of the news are temporarily stored in the server 16, but the following method may be used instead.

That is, when processing a news headline in the information processing server 14, a script format (for example, J
ave Script), URL information is also added, and the information is stored in the information processing server.

The server 16 includes the information processing server 1
The information of the URL for connecting to the server 4 is also stored.

Then, the client 1 operated by the user
At step 8, the processing of the flowchart as shown in FIG. 8 is performed.

It is assumed that the processing in step d1 in FIG. 8 indicates the processing after step c5 in FIG.

At step d1, a U for connecting from the server 16 to the information processing server 14 of the information processing site
Get RL.

In step d2, the obtained UR
Based on L, it is connected to the information processing server 14 of the information processing site through the Internet.

At step d 3, the headline and the URL of the news processed in the script format are
Is obtained from the information transmission server 14.

At step d4, the headline of the obtained news is inserted into the personal top page processed and sent by the server 16.

At step d5, a personal top page in which the headline of the news is set is displayed on the display of the client 18. The subsequent processing is the same as that from step c8 in FIG.

By doing so, in this modified example, it is not necessary to store the news headline and the URL in the server 16, and the news headline can be obtained from the information processing server 14 when the client 18 directly needs it. it can.

(Modification 2) In the above embodiment, news published in each newspaper is used as information. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and gourmet information, map information, and other information can be applied to the above embodiment. .

(Modification 3) In the above embodiment, a news headline is used. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a news summary or abstract may be used. In the present specification, the term “abstract” includes all sentences that concisely summarize information such as a headline, an abstract, and an abstract.

(Modification 4) In the above embodiment, the information processing server 14 only processes news, but instead, the information processing server 14 itself has a role as the information transmitting server 12, and Etc. may be transmitted.

[0098]

According to the information obtaining system according to the first and second aspects of the present invention, by selecting the summary of the processed information at the client, the text can be easily obtained.

In the information obtaining system according to the third aspect, the information obtaining client sends the information to the Web server from the information obtaining server.
b. By executing the groupware program operating on the browser, the summary, the obtained information, or the connection information can be obtained, so that the execution can be performed reliably and easily.

According to the information obtaining system of the fourth aspect, the information processing server processes the abstract into a text format or a script format, so that the information obtaining client can also obtain the uniform abstract.

According to the information obtaining system of the fifth aspect, new summary and obtained information can be always obtained.

According to the information acquisition system of claim 6, the system can be simplified.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an overall view of an information obtaining system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a server and a client.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a shared top page.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a personal top page.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process for the information processing server to acquire a news headline or the like.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a process in which a server acquires a news headline or the like.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing processing until a client displays a news text.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a process according to a first modification.

FIG. 9 is a first configuration diagram of an intranet.

FIG. 10 is a second configuration diagram of the intranet.

FIG. 11 is a third configuration diagram of the intranet.

FIG. 12 is a fourth configuration diagram of the intranet.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Information acquisition system 12 Information dispatch server 14 Information processing server 16 Server 18 Client

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A system in which an intranet is constructed from an information acquisition server and one or more information acquisition clients, a telecommunication line such as the Internet is connected to the intranet, and the information acquisition client acquires necessary information. An information transmission server storing the text of information such as news, a summary of the information, and acquired information for acquiring the text of the information; obtaining the summary and the acquired information from the information transmission server; An information processing server for processing the digest into a predetermined format, wherein the information obtaining server obtains and stores the abstract and the obtained information from the information processing server via the telecommunication line, and stores the stored information. Summary, sending the obtained information to the information obtaining client, wherein the information obtaining client A summary is specified, and the text of the information corresponding to the specified summary is obtained from the information transmission server through the telecommunication line using the acquisition information corresponding to the specified summary. Information acquisition system. 2. A system in which an intranet is constructed from an information acquisition server and one or more information acquisition clients, an electric communication line such as the Internet is connected to the intranet, and the information acquisition client acquires necessary information. An information transmission server storing the text of information such as news, a summary of the information, and acquired information for acquiring the text of the information; obtaining the summary and the acquired information from the information transmission server; An information processing server for processing the digest in a predetermined format, wherein the information obtaining server stores connection information for connecting to the information processing server, and wherein the information obtaining client stores the processed abstract. When instructed to send, obtain the connection information from the information obtaining server and use the connection information to Obtain the processed summary and the obtained information from the information processing server via a communication line, and the information obtaining client designates one summary from the sent summary and responds to the specified summary An information obtaining system for obtaining a text of information corresponding to the specified summary from the information transmitting server through the telecommunication line using the obtained information. 3. The information obtaining client executes a groupware program running on a Web browser from the information obtaining server to obtain the summary, the obtained information, or the connection information. The information acquisition system according to claim 1. 4. The information acquisition system according to claim 1, wherein said information processing server processes the summary obtained from said information transmission server into a text format or a script format. 5. The information acquisition system according to claim 1, wherein the information processing server acquires and updates the summary and the acquired information at predetermined time intervals from the information transmission server. 6. The information acquisition system according to claim 1, wherein said information processing server and said information transmission server are integrated.