JP2002044254A - System and method for monitoring content of mobile internet - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the user of a portable terminal from accessing inappropriate content information by providing objective quality evaluation information of content. SOLUTION: Quality information including classification and validity of each content of the CP server 50 for a CP 40 is stored, as a data base, in a management server 60 along with its address information. The management server is accessed from a portable terminal 10 through a portable telephone network 100 and an internet 200 and the quality information of a content is read out and displayed. An access prohibition request of a specific content is transmitted from the portable terminal to the management server and when a reply of address corresponding to the content is received, it is stored as an access prohibition request. Subsequently, distribution request of content for that address is suppressed in that portable terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mobile Internet content monitoring system and a monitoring method thereof, and more particularly, to a mobile terminal accommodated in a mobile telephone network, which can deliver content held by a content provider connected to the Internet. The present invention relates to a content monitoring system in a mobile Internet system and a monitoring method thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There has been provided a service in which a mobile terminal is connected to the Internet so that content (information) prepared by a content provider can be viewed. The content and quality of the content for each content provider (hereinafter collectively referred to as quality) are left to the discretion of the user (user).

[0003]

However, with the increase of contents, objectivity of the quality is required.

The present invention provides a mechanism for objectively evaluating and providing services from the standpoint of content quality for a user who uses a portable terminal. In addition, specific content that is considered to have a quality problem for the user is prevented from being viewed from the mobile terminal, and the user is protected from inappropriate content information.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a content monitoring system for a mobile Internet, which distributes content held by a content provider connected to the Internet to mobile terminals accommodated in a mobile phone network. In the mobile Internet system, the management server is connected to the Internet and stores, as a database, quality information indicating quality including content classification and validity of each content of the content provider as a database.

[0006] A mobile Internet content monitoring system according to a second aspect of the present invention is the mobile internet content monitoring system according to the first aspect, wherein the mobile terminal is connected to the mobile terminal via the mobile phone network and the Internet. By accessing the management server and requesting transmission of the quality information of the content, the content quality information transmitted from the management server is received and displayed.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a content monitoring system for a mobile Internet according to the first or second aspect, wherein the mobile terminal is connected to the mobile phone network and the Internet. Requesting an access prohibition request for the specified content by accessing the management server to receive and store an address corresponding to the specified content transmitted from the management server as an access prohibition address, and requesting distribution of the content to the address. Has a configuration that suppresses

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a portable terminal used in the content monitoring system of the mobile Internet according to the first aspect, wherein the portable terminal accesses a management server via a portable telephone network and the Internet to provide quality of the content. It is configured to receive and display the quality information of the content transmitted from the management server by making an information transmission request.

A portable terminal according to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the portable terminal according to the fourth aspect, accesses the management server via the mobile phone network and the Internet and issues an access prohibition request for the designated content. An address corresponding to the designated content transmitted from the management server is received and stored as an access prohibition address, and a content distribution request to the address is suppressed.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mobile Internet content monitoring method for enabling distribution of content held by a content provider connected to the Internet to mobile terminals accommodated in a mobile phone network. In the content monitoring method according to the above, the content of each content of the content provider is monitored, quality information indicating quality including content classification and validity is created, and stored as a database in the management server connected to the Internet. Transmitting a request for content quality information from the mobile terminal to the management server via the mobile phone network and the Internet, and requesting the management server for the requested content quality information with reference to the database. end Transmitted to, a step of displaying the quality information of the content received by the mobile terminal.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the content monitoring method for a mobile Internet according to the sixth aspect, the mobile terminal transmits an access prohibition request for the designated content to the management server. The management server refers to the database to determine an address corresponding to the designated content, transmits the address to the portable terminal as an access prohibition address, stores the access prohibition address received by the portable terminal, and distributes the content to the address There is a step of suppressing the request.

[0012] A content monitoring method for mobile Internet according to claim 8 of the present invention is the content monitoring method for mobile Internet according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the quality information of the content is received and managed from the user of the mobile terminal. It has a step of enabling the user of another portable terminal to refer to the information by registering it in the server.

[0013] A content monitoring method for mobile Internet according to claim 9 of the present invention is described in claim 6.
In the mobile Internet content monitoring method according to 7 or 8, a communication provider that provides a service for controlling a mobile phone network and connecting a mobile terminal to the Internet includes an Internet service provider that provides a connection within the Internet, and a content provider. And collecting the usage fee from the user of the portable terminal on behalf of the management server.

[0014]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS First, the outline of the present invention will be described. In a mobile Internet system in which a mobile phone network and an Internet network are connected and a user of a mobile terminal uses an Internet service, a management server is provided separately from a content provider, and the quality of content information is stored in the management server as a database. In this way, the information of the database is provided to the user of the mobile terminal for which the usage contract has been made.

The management server monitors the contents of contents provided by a contents provider (hereinafter, abbreviated as CP), and also classifies information such as news, adult, etc., and information such as the validity of the contents information. Store as quality information. At the same time, the Internet address of the content is also stored. The management server
Provide content quality information to users of mobile terminals for which usage contracts have been made. Further, the user of the mobile terminal can view the quality information of the content on the management server, declare an access prohibition address, and set the address on the mobile terminal via the management server. As a result, it is possible to prohibit the user himself or a person (for example, a minor) permitted to use it on behalf of the user from accessing malicious information or adult information.

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a system according to the present embodiment includes an Internet network 200, a mobile phone network 100 having a connection unit for the Internet network 200, and a plurality of mobile terminals 10 (10-1, 10-10) accommodated in the mobile phone network 100. -2)
And a first Internet service provider a (I) that enables the portable terminal 10 to connect to the Internet network 200.
SPa) 20, a second Internet service provider b (ISPb) 30 that can connect the mobile terminal 10 to a connection request destination in the Internet network 200 under the control of the ISPa 20, and a mobile terminal connected to the Internet network 200. 10, a content provider server (CP server) 50 (50-
A plurality of content providers (CPs) 40 (40-1 and 40-2), each of which includes a content server (CP-1) and a content server (CP-1) 50-2). It is composed of

Each of the CP servers 50-
The contents of news, adults, etc. obtained by monitoring the contents of the contents (contents dedicated to the mobile phone network) for the user (mobile terminal 10) of the mobile phone network 100 stored in the storage area 1, 50-2 in advance or as needed. Quality information including classification information and information such as the validity of the content information is stored. At the same time, the Internet address of the content is also stored. The quality information can be accessed and browsed from each of the mobile terminals 10-1 and 10-2.

The management server 60 receives a report of an access prohibition address from a user of each of the portable terminals 10-1 and 10-2 who browsed the information, and
-2, an access prohibition address can be set.

The ISPa 20 is also a communication service provider that provides communication in the mobile phone network 100, connects the mobile phone network 100 and the Internet network 200 via a gateway and a server, and connects the mobile terminals 10-1 and 10-2.
Is connected to the ISPb30. Further, instead of the ISPb 30, the CPs 40-1 and 40-2, and the management server 60, a fee for use can be collected from the user of the portable terminal 10.

The ISPb 30 is connected to the Internet 200
Service provider of the mobile phone network 100 and CP4
0-1 and 40-2 and a service for connecting with the management server 60.

Although not shown, each of the mobile terminals 10-1 and 10-2 includes a radio unit for transmitting and receiving radio signals to and from a radio base station of the mobile phone network 100, and includes a push-button switch for dialing from a user. An operation unit for inputting information such as a number,
A display unit including an LCD display for displaying information to a user, a transmitting unit and a receiving unit for inputting and outputting voice, a storage unit for storing information, and a control unit for controlling the above units. Have.

The mobile terminals 10-1 and 10-2 have a voice communication function using a telephone number on the mobile phone network 100,
It has a data communication function using addresses on the Internet network 200.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2 together with FIG.

The management server 60 has a CP
The quality information obtained by monitoring the content registered in the server 50 (50-1, 50-2) is stored (step A11 in FIG. 2).

The administrator of the management server 60 may be a specialized company that operates the management server, or may be ISPa20 or ISPb30.

As a method of monitoring the content of the CP server 50, the administrator uses his / her own portable terminal to execute the ISPa20,
CP40 (40-1, 40-2) via ISPb30
To the corresponding CP server 50 (50-1, 50-
There is a method of reading the content registered in 2). In addition, ISPb30 via a wired terminal and a wired communication network
To read the contents of the CP server 50.

Alternatively, the administrator receives quality information on contents from the user of the portable terminal 10 himself,
The information can be registered in the management server 60.

A certain mobile terminal 10, for example, a mobile terminal 10-
When the first user desires to acquire the quality information of the content, the user operates the operation unit of the portable terminal 10-1 to operate the portable telephone network 1
The request is sent to the ISPa 20 at 00, and a request for quality information of the content addressed to the management server 60 is transmitted (step A21).

When the ISPa 20 recognizes that the transmission is directed to the management server 60, it connects to the ISPb 30 and transfers a request for content quality information.

The ISPb 30 receiving this request connects to the management server 60 via the Internet network 200,
Distribute the request.

The management server 60 receiving this request transmits the quality information of the requested content to the portable terminal 10-1 via the reverse route of the above route (step A2).
2).

The portable terminal 10-1 displays the received quality information on the display unit. (Step A23). Mobile terminal 10
The user of -1 determines whether to browse the content based on the quality information.

If the user of the portable terminal 10-1 decides to prohibit access to specific contents or contents of the same classification (for example, for adults) as a result of the determination, the user operates the operation unit. Then, a request to prohibit access to specific content (including the same category) is transmitted from the mobile terminal 10-1 to the management server 60 (step A31). This request is received by the management server 60 via the above route.

In order to prohibit access to the designated content, the management server 60 transmits the address of the content or all contents of the same classification on the Internet 200 as the access prohibition address to the portable terminal 10-1 ( Step A32).

The portable terminal 10-1 having received the access prohibition address sets the access prohibition address in the storage unit of the terminal itself (step A33). The access prohibition address cannot be accessed until a cancellation instruction is received from the user. That is, by the control unit,
A content request to the address set as the access prohibited address is prohibited.

The access prohibition can be released by a method in which the user operates the operation unit to directly delete the data of the access prohibition address in the storage unit of the portable terminal 10-1, or the portable terminal 10-1 is managed by the management server 60. And send a release instruction while receiving the quality information of the corresponding content,
There is a method of having the management server 60 transmit an address to be released.

When canceling the access prohibition, an appropriate authentication method such as a password is used so that the access is not canceled against the intention of the user.

When the above-mentioned quality information request processing is completed, the portable terminal 10-1 terminates the communication and releases the connection with the management server 60 by the ISPa 20 and the ISPb 30.

Next, in the portable terminal 10-1 in which the access prohibition address is set as described above, each CP server 5
The operation when reading the contents registered in 0-1 and 50-2 will be described.

When the user wants to browse the contents of the CP server 50, the user operates the operation unit to specify an address corresponding to the contents and specify the ISPa of the cellular phone network 100.
20 (step B11).

The control unit of the mobile phone network 100 refers to the storage unit and determines whether the address is set as an access prohibition address (step B12).

If the address is set as an access prohibition address, no transmission processing is performed.

If the content is not set as an access prohibition address, the request for the content is transmitted to the ISPa 20, which connects the ISPb 30 and
30 connects to the corresponding CP 40, for example, CP 40-1, and transmits the address (step B13).

The CP 40-1 reads the content at the specified address from the CP server 50-1 and transmits the content to the portable terminal 10-1 via a route reverse to the above route (step B14).

The portable terminal 10-1 displays the received content on the display unit (Step B15).

If there is content to be browsed next, the processing from step B11 to step B15 is repeated. When there is no more content to be viewed, the mobile terminal 10-
1 terminates the communication and releases the connection with the CP server 50 by the ISPa 20 and the ISPb 30 (step B1).
6).

In the process of step A31, when the user of the portable terminal 10-1 desires to prohibit access to all contents of a specific classification, the classification can be registered in the management server 60. Thereafter, the mobile terminal 10
By simply accessing the management server 60 from −1, all of the access prohibition addresses corresponding to the latest classification at that time can be set in the portable terminal 10-1.

When registering or deregistering the classification of the content whose access is prohibited in the management server 60, not only the method of accessing the management server 60 from the portable terminal 10-1 described above, but also e-mail, telephone, FAX The user of the portable terminal 10-1 can use the management server 60
It is also possible to apply to the administrator of the above.

[0050]

According to the present invention, a management server is provided separately from a content provider on the Internet using a mobile telephone network, and quality information of contents such as data authenticity is stored as a database in the management server. As a result, the information in the database can be provided to the user of the mobile terminal for which use contract has been made. Further, the user of the mobile terminal can view the quality information of the content on the management server, declare an access prohibition address, and set the address on the mobile terminal via the management server. This can protect the user from inappropriate content information, such as prohibiting minors from accessing adult information and the like.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram for explaining an operation of the system shown in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Mobile terminal 20 Internet service provider a (ISP
a) 30 Internet service provider b (ISP
b) 40 content provider (CP) 50 content provider server (CP server) 60 management server 100 mobile phone network 200 internet network

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A mobile Internet system capable of distributing contents held by a content provider connected to the Internet to a mobile terminal accommodated in a mobile phone network, wherein each of the contents connected to the Internet is A mobile Internet content monitoring system comprising a management server that stores quality information indicating quality including content classification and validity as a database. 2. The mobile terminal accesses the management server via the mobile phone network and the Internet and makes a transmission request for content quality information, whereby the content quality information transmitted from the management server is transmitted. The mobile Internet content monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the content monitoring system receives and displays the content. 3. The mobile terminal accesses the management server via the mobile phone network and the Internet and issues an access prohibition request for the specified content, thereby responding to the specified content transmitted from the management server. 3. The mobile Internet content monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein an address to be accessed is received and stored as an access-prohibited address, and a content distribution request to the address is suppressed. 4. A mobile terminal used in the content monitoring system of the mobile Internet according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal accesses a management server via a mobile phone network and the Internet and requests transmission of content quality information. A mobile terminal for receiving and displaying quality information of content transmitted from a management server. 5. An address corresponding to the specified content transmitted from the management server is received as an access prohibition address by accessing the management server via the mobile phone network and the Internet and making an access prohibition request for the specified content. The mobile terminal according to claim 4, wherein the mobile terminal stores and stores a content distribution request to the address. 6. A content monitoring method in a mobile Internet system capable of distributing content held by a content provider connected to the Internet to a mobile terminal accommodated in a mobile phone network, wherein the content for each content of the content provider is provided. To create quality information indicating the quality including the classification and validity of the content, and store it as a database in a management server connected to the Internet, and from the mobile terminal via the mobile phone network and the Internet Sending a request for quality information of the content to the management server; obtaining the quality information of the requested content by referring to the database in the management server; and transmitting the quality information to the mobile terminal; and quality information of the content received by the mobile terminal. Feature to display Content monitoring methods of the mobile Internet to be. 7. A request to prohibit access to the designated content is transmitted from the portable terminal to the management server, and the management server refers to the database to obtain an address corresponding to the designated content and transmits the address to the portable terminal as an access prohibited address. 7. The mobile Internet content monitoring method according to claim 6, wherein the access prohibition address received by the mobile terminal is stored, and a content distribution request to the address is suppressed. 8. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein the quality information of the content is received from the user of the mobile terminal and registered in the management server so that the user of another mobile terminal can refer to the information. 7. The content monitoring method for mobile internet according to item 7. 9. A telecommunications carrier that provides a service for controlling a mobile phone network and connecting a mobile terminal to the Internet, in place of an Internet service provider for providing a connection within the Internet, a content provider, and a management server. 9. The method according to claim 6, 7 or 8, wherein a usage fee is collected from a user of the terminal.