JP2002108763A - Information exchange system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information exchange system where a plurality of users who are interested in the same genre can easily be introduced, visibility is improved by controlling the information amount of an electronic bulletin board and information can easily be retrieved. SOLUTION: The system is provided with a data transmitting means 21 transmitting user information including introduction desiring data inputted when the users operating clients 11 to 13 desire the exchange of specified genre data selected from a plurality of genres and information with the other user to the server 20, a basic data base 22 which is installed in the server 20, which inputs user information transmitted by the data transmitting means 21 and can accumulate it and an exchange information transmitting means 36 specifying user information including introduction desiring data for the respective genres and transmitting specified user information for a plurality of users desiring the exchange of information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information exchange system for exchanging individual information using the Internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, electronic mail and electronic bulletin boards have been used as means for exchanging information using the Internet. E-mail was able to send a message to a specific person and was mainly one-to-one exchange, but could not contact anyone who did not know the e-mail address. On the other hand, electronic bulletin boards are used for contacting an unspecified number of people by writing a message on a bulletin board provided on the server so that other users can also read the message. By preparing, it was possible to have a discussion on a certain theme. For example, among users who individually create home pages, for example, 50 to 90
% Of users have set up a home page for their hobbies, but those users find other users with similar hobbies on an electronic bulletin board on the server and exchange information on the same topic. Was.

[0003]

However, with the rapid progress of information processing technology in recent years, the number of persons who open homepages has increased, and many homepages and electronic bulletin boards have existed on many servers. When writing to an electronic bulletin board, in which the number of accessing users is small, the number of days often passes without any response to the writing. On the other hand, when writing to an electronic bulletin board with a large number of users accessing it, the writing is buried in multiple questions and multiple responses, and in many cases there is no response, and it is also necessary to find a response. Had become difficult. For this reason, it has been difficult to find other users having a common genre in categories such as hobbies on the electronic bulletin board. Also, if you find multiple users with a common genre,
Disclosing your address and phone number on an electronic bulletin board could be used by a third party, so each user had to contact each other individually, which was very troublesome. The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and it is possible to easily introduce a plurality of users who are interested in the same genre, to improve the visibility by controlling the amount of information on an electronic bulletin board, and to search for information. It is an object of the present invention to provide an information exchange system that can easily perform the information exchange.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information exchange system which is accessible from a client via the Internet and has a server provided with a provided homepage. A data transmitting means capable of transmitting user information including specific genre data selected from a plurality of genres, and introduction desired data to be input when the user wishes to exchange information with another user, to the server, A basic database provided in the server and capable of inputting and storing the user information transmitted by the data transmitting unit, and user information including the introduction desired data among the user information stored in the basic database. The user identified for each genre and identified The distribution has a replacement information transmitting means for transmitting to a plurality of said users who wish to exchange information.

[0005] Here, the client refers to a computer that requests processing, and the server refers to a computer that performs the requested processing. The user is a person who operates the client. Genre data refers to information on fields and types provided in a certain category, such as "movie", "music",
Set genre data such as "TV" and "Movie"
The genre data such as "foreign film" and "Japanese film" can be provided in the classification of. The referral request data can be input when it is desired to disclose the information input by the user to other users who want to introduce. User information may include, for example, name, gender, email address,
An address or the like can be input. The data transmitting means and the exchange information transmitting means are realized by a program stored in the server. The data transmission means can transmit the user information including the genre data and the introduction request data at one time or at a plurality of times. The specified user information refers to, for example, user information retrieved from the basic database each time, or user information retrieved from the basic database and stored in another database. The exchange information transmitting means searches a basic database in the server, identifies user information including the desired referral data, and, when there is a plurality of user information including the desired referral data, stores a plurality of the accumulated user information for each user. Send each user information. At this time, the number of accumulation of user information is set in advance in the exchange information transmitting means,
It is also possible to set so that transmission is performed collectively when the number of accumulations is exceeded. It is also possible to set so that the user information is specified and transmitted at predetermined time intervals. Further, it is also possible to set so that the user information sent once is not transmitted after the first time. With this configuration, it is possible to eliminate the need to individually contact a plurality of users who request the same genre information,
You can easily introduce multiple users.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information exchange system according to the first aspect, wherein a genre-specific electronic bulletin board which can be installed for each genre data is installed on the server. It is also possible to provide bulletin board guide means for transmitting the address of the genre-based electronic bulletin board to the plurality of users who desire to exchange information by selecting the corresponding genre data. The bulletin board guide means is realized by a program stored in the server. The genre-based electronic bulletin board may be installed when a user who wants to exchange information appears, but may be installed in advance. With such a configuration, a plurality of users who request the same genre data can use the same genre-based bulletin board, so that the information is unified, the visibility of the genre-based bulletin board is improved, and the genre-based bulletin board has Search becomes easier. Also, since the address of the genre-based electronic bulletin board is transmitted, it is possible to use the genre-based electronic bulletin board in a state in which the user who requests other genre data is kept secret. In addition, genre data that further subdivides the theme of the genre-based electronic bulletin board is newly provided, and when a plurality of users who desire to exchange information by selecting additional genre data appear, a new genre-based genre is added. It is also possible to provide an electronic bulletin board. With such a configuration, the number of users who use the same genre-based electronic bulletin board can be limited to improve the visibility.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information exchange system according to the first or second aspect, wherein the server includes the user including the introduction request data specified by the server. It is also possible to provide a password management means for issuing a browsing password by which the user who wants to exchange information can view the information. The password management means is realized by a program stored in the server. For example, when the number of exchange information transmission units is set to 10, and when the number of users who desire information exchange is less than 10, there is no communication from the exchange information transmission unit to the users. Since the user can browse the user information specified on the server using the browsing password, it is possible to know the gathering status of other users who are interested in the same genre up to now and want to exchange user information, It is possible to contact other users individually without waiting for the server to transmit the user information of other users. Further, when the acquired user information is deleted, the same information can be obtained again.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information exchange system according to the first to third aspects, wherein a plurality of contents are posted on the server in addition to the provided homepage. It is also possible to provide content management means for issuing different editing passwords to a plurality of managers who operate the page and the content. The content management means is realized by a program stored in the server. Here, the operation refers to responding to the mail transmitted from the user, rewriting the provided information whose period has passed, or adding new provided information. Conventionally, when a store rents a server to operate a homepage, the amount of information posted on the homepage is small at only one store, so that many users cannot access the homepage. Rental fees were also high. In addition, if the operation of the homepage is performed in one store, it takes time and effort to operate the homepage, and in some cases, the agency is requested to produce and operate the homepage.

[0009] Furthermore, the capacity of the homepage of only one store is often smaller than the capacity of the server, and a useless free space always occurs. Also, if you ask an agency to run your business,
Response tended to be delayed. Therefore, instead of acting as an agent, each store manager jointly signs a server rental contract and operates a homepage, so that multiple homepages can be stored on one server and waste of capacity can be prevented, The server rental fee determined by the capacity can be reduced. Each administrator directly manages the content of the main page that the user first visits, eliminating the need to manage content that was previously common to each store's homepage, and responding quickly to user requests Can be. In addition, since each administrator has a different editing password, by checking the record of access to the server, the used editing password can be specified, and the contents of the editing performed by each administrator can be determined by another administrator. Can be checked. Note that the fourth invention can be performed independently of the first to third inventions.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings to provide an understanding of the present invention. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, an information exchange system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention can be accessed from a plurality of clients 11 to 13 via the Internet 14, and has a main page 26 and provided homepages 15 to 19. And a genre-specific bulletin board 23 accessible by a specific user. The details will be described below. First, each unit (the data transmission unit 21, the exchange information transmission unit 36, the password management unit 25, and the content management unit 32) configured by executing the program stored in the server 20 will be described.
As shown in FIG. 5, the data transmission unit 21 can transmit user information of a user operating each of the clients 11 to 13 to the server 20 via the Internet 14. As shown in FIG. 6, the exchange information transmitting means 36 can access the basic database 22 and the genre-specific database 37, search the basic database 22 and accumulate user information in the genre-specific database 37, Can be specified and stored in the genre-specific database 37. Further, the exchange information transmitting means 36
Can transmit the specified user information to a plurality of users who want to exchange information via the Internet 14 and the clients 11 to 13, respectively. As shown in FIG. 7, the password management unit 25 can issue a browsing password to each user via the Internet 14 and the clients 11 to 13. Then, as shown in FIG. 8, the content management unit 32 sends the contents 27 to 31 of the main page 26 (see FIG. 2).
And homepages 15 to 15 linked to them
It is possible to issue different editing passwords to a plurality of managers who manage (operate) the 19 through the maintenance computers 33 to 35.

Next, the connection state from each of the clients 11 to 13 and each of the maintenance computers 33 to 35 to the server 20 will be described. The clients 11 to 13 can execute the data transmission unit 21 and the exchange information transmission unit 36 of the server 20 via the Internet 14, and can access the genre-based electronic bulletin board 23 after password authentication by the password management unit 25. .

On the other hand, each of the maintenance computers 33 to 35
The user can access the server 20 via the Internet 14, and after authentication by the content management means 32, can access the basic database 22, the genre-specific database 37, and the genre-specific electronic bulletin board 23 to edit the respective contents. The provided home pages 15 to 19 provided in the server 20 are provided by the client 1
Only passwords 1 to 13 are permitted to be viewed from the password management unit 25, and the maintenance computers 33 to 35 are permitted to edit the content from the content management unit 32.

Next, the provided home pages 15 to 19 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIG. 2, the display screen 38 displayed by the clients 11 to 13 accessing the server 20 is composed of two frames 39 and 40 which are horizontally partitioned at an upper position. Main page 26 displayed in upper frame 39
Includes a plurality of contents 27 to 31. Each of the contents 27 to 31 has a corresponding one of the provided homepages 15 to 19.
There are links to each. With this configuration, the main page 26 is displayed on the lower frame 40 while the main page 26 is displayed at the top of the display screen 38.
To 19 can be switched and displayed. Links to the homepages of a plurality of shops are provided on the provided homepage 15, and the user can display the homepages of any shops.

In the content 28, a link is provided to the home page 16 provided by a "community" for exchanging user information. As shown in FIG. 3, the provided homepage 16 is provided with links 41 to 49 to a plurality of genre-based electronic bulletin boards 23 related to hobbies, and many other links. In the present embodiment, the user registration is set before displaying the genre-based electronic bulletin board 23 from the provided homepage 16.
At the lower part of the provided homepage 16, two types of links 51 and 52 of “I agree.” And “I do not agree.” If the user does not agree, click the link 52 to return to the provided homepage 15, and if the user agrees, click the link 51 to display a member registration form 67 shown in FIG. The member registration form 67 includes a plurality of information entry columns 53 to 58 for entering user information such as names, a joint selection column 60 for selecting whether a joint is required or not,
A genre selection column 61 is provided.

A list box 62 is provided in the genre selection column 61, and specific genre data selected by the user from a plurality of genres is included in the user information together with the contents described in the information entry columns 53 to 58. If the user wants to exchange information with another user, check the check box 63 described as “necessary” among the check boxes 63 and 64 in the joint selection column 60, and the user wants to introduce the desired data in the user information. Is included. Then, when the button 65 described as “register” is clicked, the data transmitting means 21 is activated as shown in FIG. 5, and the user information is transmitted to the server 20.

Next, the basic database 22 and the exchange information transmitting means 36 will be described with reference to FIGS. The basic database 22 provided in the server 20 stores the user information transmitted by the data transmission unit 21. The exchange information transmitting means 36 is activated when new user information is transmitted from the user to the server 20, and includes:
From the user information including the referral request data, the same genre included in the newly transmitted user information is specified. In the present embodiment, since the server 20 is provided with the genre-specific database 37, the exchange information transmitting means 36 stores the new user information in the basic database 22 and the genre-specific database 37 corresponding to the selected genre. By reading the data in the genre-specific database 37 after each accumulation,
Identify user information.

When the genre-specific database 37 is not provided, the user information in the same genre as the selected genre is searched from the user information in the basic database 22 and specified. Next, the specified user information is transmitted to a plurality of users who want to exchange information. With this configuration, a user who wants to exchange information can obtain and use a plurality of pieces of user information that are interested in the same genre, for example, the genre “Western painting”. User information is
It can be changed according to the user's house relocation or the like, and the genre to be selected can be changed. The exchange information transmitting means 36 can be set to newly transmit the user information when the user information is changed. Also, the exchange information transmitting means 36 sets the number of accumulation of user information in advance, and waits until the user information reaches a certain number before transmitting to each user to reduce congestion of transmission and reception. Is also possible.

Next, the password management means 25 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. When the user information including the referral request data is transmitted to the server 20,
The password management unit 25 issues a browsing password via the Internet 14 to each user who desires information exchange. The user having the viewing password can access the genre-based database 37 and view the user information including the desired introduction data specified by the server 20. Each user cannot rewrite the data in the genre-based database 37, and a user without a browsing password cannot access the genre-based database 37. With such a configuration, each user having the browsing password can obtain the user information without waiting for the communication from the exchange information transmitting unit 36.

Next, the content management means 32 will be described with reference to FIGS. A plurality of managers operating each content, for example,
4 are selected from stores that intend to sell products. Each manager has concluded a common agreement in advance and shared or shared the content common to each store, such as responding to inquiries from users regarding ordering methods, shipping methods and settlement methods, complaint processing, member registration, etc. To respond. The content management means 32 issues different editing passwords to a plurality of managers via the Internet 14, and the managers access the server 20 using the editing passwords. Can edit and operate Since a plurality of managers operate, it is possible to promptly respond to users, and it is possible to open a store for a long time. In addition, since different editing passwords are provided, it is easy to follow up when an accident or the like occurs. further,
Since a plurality of stores use the same server 20, the rental fee of the server 20 can be reduced.

Next, an information exchange system 66 according to a modification will be described with reference to FIGS. The information exchange system 66 is obtained by adding a bulletin board guide 24 to the information exchange system 10 by executing a program stored in the server 20. The bulletin board guide 24 is provided in the information exchange system 10 from the beginning. It has a function of automatically adding and installing a genre-specific electronic bulletin board 23 according to the situation. The details will be described below. The user information transmitted by the data transmission unit 21 is stored in the basic database 22 and the genre-specific database 37. The exchange information transmission unit 36 stores the user information until a preset number of collection user information is stored.
Do not send user information to each user. Also, no corresponding genre-based electronic bulletin board 23 is installed.

When the number of user information reaches the number of accumulations, the exchange information transmitting means 36 transmits the user information to each user and activates the bulletin board guide means 24 to transmit the genre data to the bulletin board guide means 24. Upon receiving the genre data, the bulletin board guide means 24 sets a genre-specific electronic bulletin board 23 on the theme of the genre data, selects the genre data, and sets the genre-specific electronic bulletin board set for each user who desires information exchange. Electronic bulletin board 23
Send the address of With such a configuration, each genre-based electronic bulletin board 23 is written by a certain number of users, so that the genre-based electronic bulletin board 23 has improved visibility and ease of use. In addition, when the genre-based electronic bulletin board 23 is installed, it is also possible to set so that a link to the genre-based electronic bulletin board 23 is automatically provided on the provided homepage 16 shown in FIG. With this configuration, the user looks at the provided homepage 16 and finds a genre-based electronic bulletin board 2 for a specific genre.
3 can be easily searched for.
The information exchange system according to the present embodiment has been described above. However, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment. For example, each user information may include a photograph or audio data. Also, the user information can include two or more genre data.

[0022]

In the information exchange system according to the first to fourth aspects, specific genre data is selected and user information of each user is transmitted to a user who desires information exchange with another user. Users can easily introduce multiple users without having to contact each other individually. In addition, the number of users who want to be introduced increases, and the ability to attract customers of the provided homepage can be improved. In particular, in the information exchange system according to the second aspect, since the electronic bulletin board for each genre and the bulletin board guide means for transmitting the address of the electronic bulletin board for each genre to the user, a plurality of users requesting the same genre data can be provided. Since the same genre-based electronic bulletin board can be used, the information is unified, the visibility of the genre-based electronic bulletin board is improved, and the search in the genre-based electronic bulletin board is facilitated. In the information exchange system according to the third aspect, since a password management means for issuing a browsing password to a user who desires information exchange is provided, it is possible to know the gathering status of other users,
Further, it is possible to individually contact other users without waiting for transmission of the user information of other users by the server. In the information exchange system according to the fourth aspect, since a plurality of managers are provided with content management means for issuing different editing passwords, a plurality of homepages can be stored in one server to prevent waste of capacity. The server rental fee determined by the capacity can be reduced. In addition, each manager can manage each content of the main page that the user first visits, can save the trouble of management, and can promptly respond to the user's request. Further, by checking the record of access to the server, the used editing password can be specified, and the contents of editing performed by each administrator can be checked by another administrator.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a connection state of an information exchange system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen of the information exchange system.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen of a homepage provided by the information exchange system.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a member registration form of the information exchange system.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of data transmission means of the information exchange system.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of exchange information transmitting means of the information exchange system.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a password management unit of the information exchange system.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of content management means of the information exchange system.

[Explanation of symbols]

10: Information exchange system, 11-13: Client,
14: Internet, 15-19: provided homepage, 20: server, 21: data transmission means, 22: basic database, 23: electronic bulletin board by genre, 24:
Bulletin board guide means, 25: Password management means, 26: Main page, 27-31: Content, 32: Content management means, 33-35: Maintenance computer, 36: Exchange information transmission means, 37: Genre-specific database, 3
8: display screen, 39, 40: frame, 41 to 49: link, 50: terms of use, 51, 52: link, 53 to 5
8: Information entry field, 60: Joint selection field, 61: Genre selection field, 62: List box, 63, 64: Check box, 65: Button, 66: Information exchange system, 67: Member registration form

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An information exchange system having a server provided with a provided homepage accessible from a client via the Internet, wherein a user who operates the client specifies specific genre data selected from a plurality of genres, and other genre data. A data transmission means capable of transmitting user information including introduction desired data to be input when information exchange with a user is desired, and the user information provided in the server and transmitted by the data transmission means; Out of the user information stored in the basic database, and user information including the introduction desired data is specified for each genre, and the specified user information is requested to be exchanged. Exchange to be sent to each of the plurality of users An information exchange system comprising: an information transmission unit. 2. The information exchange system according to claim 1, wherein the server stores a genre-based electronic bulletin board that can be installed for each of the genre data and an address of the installed genre-based electronic bulletin board in the genre data. And a bulletin board guide means for transmitting the information to a plurality of users who want to exchange information, respectively. 3. The information exchange system according to claim 1, wherein the server is capable of browsing the user information including the introduction request data specified by the server so that the user who wants to exchange information can browse the user information. An information exchange system comprising password management means for issuing a password. 4. The information exchange system according to claim 1, wherein the server comprises: a main page on which a plurality of contents are posted separately from the provided homepage; An information exchange system comprising: content management means for issuing different editing passwords to different administrators.