JP2002197001A - Information communication method for client-server type system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a more efficient information communication method, etc., for a system which uses a network such as a client-server type system. SOLUTION: When information is communicated in a format using common tags, the tags are replaced with short characters and symbols, their correspondence information is generated, and information after the replacement and the corresponding information are sent to a communication destination of the information. Information wherein a group is defined is prepared by communication destinations, a group of a communication is determined each time the communication is made by using the information wherein the group is defined, and the quality of the communication is integrated as the communication quantity of the determined group. Further, when a WWW page having a phone to function is generated, identification information on the anchor of the phone to function is added in the tag for the function and when the anchor is selected and the telephone number described in the tag of the anchor is dialed, the identification information is transmitted through a telephone line to specify the position of the selected anchor according to the identification information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of communicating information in a system using a network such as a client-server type system, and more particularly to a method of communicating information by compressing a data amount and distributing the information to a predetermined group. The present invention relates to a communication method of information for integrating the communication amount, and a receiving method when the automatic dial function is used.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, computers are increasingly used in an environment operating in cooperation with other computers connected to a network. In particular, a system called a client-server type has become widespread. . In such a client-server system, information is mainly stored and managed on the server, and the client appropriately obtains and uses necessary information from the server.

Recently, with the development of portable terminals,
There is an increasing number of cases where these terminal devices are used as clients and access information is used by accessing a server. A typical mobile terminal is a mobile phone, and the mobile phone makes use of its communication function to access a server on a network using a wireless telephone line. Applications of the server using a mobile phone include sending and receiving e-mails and browsing a WWW (World Wide Web) page.

[0004] When a server is used with a mobile phone as a client, a phone utilizing the communication function is used.
You can use the to function. This phone
The to function is an automatic dialing function that allows you to automatically make a call to a phone number preset at that location by selecting a location on the WWW page while browsing with a mobile phone. is there.

[0005] Thus, including the use by mobile phones,
Client-server type systems are widely used.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A conventional client
In a server-type system, usually, information to be exchanged is often held, communicated, and used in a format that can be easily handled by an application program that handles the information. For example, text on the WWW is HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) that defines the format when displayed by a WWW browser.
e) It was saved on the WWW server in the format and sent to the client as it was and displayed.

[0007] This conventional method has the easiness of writing and reading of information and the easiness of information management, but is not always optimized in terms of the amount of data and the communication time during communication. . Therefore, as an attempt to reduce the amount of communication, a method has been proposed in which information is compressed immediately before transmission on the information transmission side, and the information is restored to the original state immediately after reception on the reception side of the information. . However, this method can reduce the amount of communication, but the transmitting side, such as a server, executes information compression processing after receiving a transmission request. Had been reduced.

In the case of a format using a common tag such as HTML, the transmitting side replaces a long tag in advance with a specific short symbol uniquely determined from the tag and transmits the same, and the receiving side replaces the opposite. A method of restoring information by performing the above has been proposed to reduce the amount of communication.
However, in this method, it is necessary for both the transmitting side and the receiving side to know the rules of the replacement (such as a correspondence table between the tags and the symbols after the replacement) in advance, and for a specific tag defined in the rules, Since the compression is effective only when the tag is effective, the compression cannot be performed even if there is a tag having the compression effect other than the specific tag, and it is not possible to flexibly cope with the information to be transmitted.

As described above, the conventional client-server type system is inefficient in terms of the amount of communication and the communication time during information exchange.

In the conventional client-server system, use of electronic mail and browsing of WWW pages are performed for various purposes due to its convenience. There was a problem that it was difficult. For example, there are many cases where both e-mails for business purposes and private e-mails are performed in one client, but in order to classify the costs involved, prepare multiple e-mail addresses and use them for different purposes Or just give up the strict division.

[0011] Further, when the server host (host of the WWW page) provides the above-mentioned phone to function at a plurality of locations on the WWW page, there is an inefficient point. phon
The e to function can be used by preparing an anchor for the phone to function at the location on the WWW page where the function is to be provided, but this anchor can be used in the HTML file that composes the WWW page. Ph where you want to have the function
Prepared by inserting the tag for the one to function. In the tag, a telephone number to be automatically dialed when the anchor is selected is described. WWW
The organizer of the page prepares this function so that users of the WWW page can make inquiries and order products by telephone, and if a call using the phone to function is received, the organizer will The person in charge of the party responds to the call.

When preparing a telephone to function anchor at a plurality of locations on a WWW page, different telephone lines are prepared for each location, that is, different for each location where a tag for the phone to function is inserted. When preparing a telephone number, since the position of the anchor and the telephone number correspond one-to-one, the person in charge of receiving the telephone can easily identify from which anchor the call comes from when the telephone is called. Since the purpose of the call can be immediately grasped, immediate response is possible. However, it was necessary to prepare a plurality of telephone lines, and this was not a good idea especially when the number of anchors was large.

On the other hand, when a single telephone line is used for a plurality of anchors, it is possible to prepare by writing the same telephone number in all the tags for the phone to function. The person in charge could not identify the anchor from which the call was made, and had to confirm the purpose of the call to the other party again, and could not make a smooth response.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a client
It is an object of the present invention to provide a more efficient information communication method in a system using a network such as a server type system.

[0015]

According to one aspect of the present invention, in communicating information in a format using a common tag, a tag is replaced with a short character or symbol. At the same time, the corresponding information is generated, and the replaced information and the corresponding information are sent to the communication destination of the information.
Therefore, according to the present invention, it is not necessary to determine a replacement rule in advance, efficient compression can be performed according to information to be communicated, and the amount of communication at the time of information exchange can be further reduced.

In order to achieve the above object, another aspect of the present invention is to prepare information defining a group for each communication destination, and to define the group on a communication path each time communication is performed. And determining the communication group using the obtained information, and integrating the communication amount of the communication as the communication amount of the determined group. Therefore, according to the present invention, it becomes possible to classify the communication traffic of the communication performed from the same address separately for each group defined by the purpose of use, for example, for business use and for individual use, Distribution of communication costs can be easily and accurately performed.

[0017] In order to achieve the above object, still another aspect of the present invention provides a method of generating a WWW page having a phone to function by adding identification information of the anchor to a tag for the phone to function. When the anchor is selected and a call is made to the telephone number described in the tag of the anchor, the identification information is transmitted via a telephone line, and based on the identification information, the selected anchor is identified. Locating,
The purpose is to display the WWW page where the anchor is located to the person receiving the call. Therefore, according to the present invention, the person in charge of responding to a telephone call from a user using the phone to function can recognize the telephone call caused by any anchor even if the number of prepared telephone lines is smaller than the number of anchors. Because it can be recognized immediately, a smooth response is possible.

Further objects and features of the present invention will become apparent from the embodiments of the present invention described below.

[0019]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. However, such embodiments do not limit the technical scope of the present invention.
In the drawings, the same or similar components are denoted by the same reference numerals or reference symbols.

FIG. 1 shows a client / client to which the present invention is applied.
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram according to a first embodiment of a server type system. The client-server type system according to the present embodiment includes an electronic mail 1 transmitted to the client 1.
6 is once received and stored in the server 9, and then, upon a request from the client 1, the stored electronic mail 16 is transmitted from the server 9 to the client 1.
This is a so-called download request type system. The server 9 is characterized in that it compresses the e-mail 16 immediately after receiving it, and the client 1 restores the e-mail 16 immediately before displaying it.

The client 1 and the server 9 shown in FIG.
Is composed of a computer system such as a personal computer and is connected via a network or the like. The client 1 and the server 9 respectively include the transmitting / receiving devices 3 and 10, the information processing devices 2 and 11, and the storage devices 4 and 1.
The transmission / reception devices 3 and 10 are responsible for communication with the outside such as transmission / reception of the e-mail 16.

The information processing devices 2 and 11 have compression / decompression devices 6 and 13 composed of compression devices 7 and 14 and decompression devices 8 and 15, respectively. A process for restoring the compressed data to the original state is performed. Also, client 1
An e-mail display device 5 is also provided. The processing in each device provided in the information processing devices 2 and 11 is mainly executed based on a computer program describing those procedures. In addition, the storage devices 4 and 12
Is composed of a commonly used hard disk or the like, and is an electronic mail 16 transmitted between the client 1 and the server 9.
And other data.

Next, a processing procedure when the electronic mail 16 is received in the client-server type system will be described. First, when an electronic mail 16 addressed to (the user of) the client 1 is transmitted, the electronic mail 16 is first received by the server 9 as described above. Server 9
Receives the e-mail 16, immediately compresses the data using the compression device 14, and stores the e-mail 16 in its own storage device 12 as it is. At a predetermined timing, the client 1 is notified that the e-mail 16 has arrived, and the client 1
The data is stored until there is a transmission request (browsing request) of the electronic mail 16 from.

When there is a browsing request of the electronic mail 16 from the client 1, the server 9 transmits the received electronic mail 16 to the client 1 in a compressed form,
The transmitted e-mail 16 is stored in the storage device 4 of the client 1 in a compressed form. The data of the e-mail 16 is restored to the original state (the state when the server 9 receives the data) by the restoration device 8 immediately before the data of the e-mail 16 is displayed on the e-mail display device 5 to the user of the client 1. .

As described above, in the client-server type system, when there is a browsing request for the electronic mail 16 from the client 1, the data compression processing is performed just before transmission to the client 1 as in the related art. Instead, the client 1
Can reduce the processing time after issuing a request. Further, since the data is stored in a compressed state in both the client 1 and the server 9, there is also an effect that the storage capacity can be reduced. Further, the client 1 and the server 9
Since the compressed data is transmitted during the period, the amount of communication can be reduced, and the effect of reducing the cost for communication and the time for occupying the communication path can be expected.

In the above example, the information transmitted from the server 9 to the client 1 is the e-mail 16.
Similarly, when transmitting other information, the client-server type system according to the present embodiment can be applied. Further, the compression processing in the server 9 may not be performed for all information but may be performed only for information having a large data capacity. Further, when the information received by the server 9 is compressed and stored, the content of the information may be analyzed, and data may be created in advance so that the client 1 can easily use the information. For example, in the case of an e-mail, by providing in advance search index data that extracts a date, a sender, a title, and the like, provision of a search function to the client 1 can be easily realized. .

Next, a second embodiment of the client / server type system to which the present invention is applied will be described. The system according to the present embodiment replaces tag names with short characters and symbols when exchanging information using a common tagging format such as HTML, and transmits information on the correspondence relationship of the replacement. It is intended to efficiently exchange information by compressing the amount of data without having to statically determine a tag replacement rule in advance in both transmission and reception of information exchange.

The configuration of the client-server type system according to this embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment shown in FIG. The processing performed by the devices 7 and 14 and the restoration devices 8 and 15 is characterized.

FIG. 2 shows the compression devices 7, 1 according to this embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a specific example of a compression process performed in Step 4. (A) shows the information (document) in the tagging format before compression, (b) shows the information (document) after compression, and (c) shows the replacement performed at the time of compression. The correspondence is shown. In this example, the tag name is replaced with "# + serial number". For example, the tag name "MAILLIST" is replaced with "# 1".
And the tag name “MAIL” is replaced with “# 2”. Also,"#"
Is used as a mark indicating that substitution has been made. By this replacement, in this example, the tag names are all expressed by two characters, and the data amount is compressed. Further, when transmitting the compressed information as shown in (b) to the information exchange destination, the information indicating the correspondence of the replacement shown in (c) is also transmitted. Thereby, the information receiving side can recognize the contents of the replacement performed at the transmission source at the time of compression, and can recover the decompression devices 8 and 15 without knowing the replacement rules in advance.
In, the compressed data (the document shown in (b)) can be easily restored to the original state (the document shown in (a)).

Further, the correspondence of the replacement (FIG. 2C) may be described in the tagging document after compression. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example. In this example,
The replacement correspondence (a in FIG. 3) is described as a comment in the compressed tagging document. Then, in order to show that the replacement correspondence is described in the tagging document, the entire document is surrounded by a tag <tagrep>.

Next, the procedure of processing performed by the compression devices 7, 14 and the decompression devices 8, 15 in the present embodiment will be described. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a flow of processing performed on the information transmission side. As shown in (a) of the figure, the processing performed on the transmitting side is roughly performed by performing the above-described replacement (conversion) processing on the tagged document (file) to be transmitted (step S1 in FIG. 4), and as a result, This means that the generated replacement file (converted file OUT) and the replacement correspondence data (table Tbl) are transmitted to the other party (steps S2 and S3 in FIG. 4).

FIG. 4B is a diagram showing the flow of the process (process 1) in step S1 of FIG. 4A, that is, the tag replacement process performed by the compression devices 7 and 14. First, an original file before conversion (input file IN) and a file for outputting processed data (output file OUT) are opened, and processing is started from the beginning of the input file IN (step S11 in FIG. 4). Then, the leading part of the described data is obtained (step S13 in FIG. 4), and it is determined whether the part is a start tag, an end tag, or another part (FIG. 4). Steps S14 and S1
6).

If it is a start tag, a start tag replacement process (step S15 in FIG. 4, process 2) is performed. FIG.
(C) shows the contents of the start tag replacement processing. (D) of the figure is a diagram showing an example of the correspondence data (table Tbl) of the above-described replacement. First, it is checked whether the obtained start tag (referred to as X) exists in the table Tbl (step S2 in FIG. 4).
1) If not, add the data of X to the table Tbl (step S22 in FIG. 4). Specifically, the tag name X and the corresponding serial number (referred to as Y) are described in the table Tbl. Then, the process proceeds to step S23.

On the other hand, if X already exists in the table Tbl, the process directly proceeds to step S23, and in any case, the serial number Y corresponding to X on the table Tbl is obtained and <#Y Is output to the output file OUT (step S24 in FIG. 4). For example, in the example shown in FIG. 4D, when X is “MAIL”, Y becomes “2” and <# 2
> Is output.

Returning to FIG. 4B, if the acquired portion is an end tag (step S16 in FIG. 4), end tag replacement processing (step S17 in FIG. 4, processing 3) is performed. . This processing is the same as the above-described start tag replacement processing (processing 2) shown in FIG. 4C except for step S24. In step 24, instead of the above-described data of <#Y>, < / # Y> is output to the output file OUT.

If the acquired part is neither a start tag nor an end tag, the data of that part is output as it is to the output file OUT (step S1 in FIG. 4).
8).

Thus, the processing for the obtained part is completed, the processing moves to the next part of the input file IN, and the processing from step 13 is similarly performed on that part. The processing from step 13 to step 18
Each part of the input file IN is sequentially executed, and when there is no unprocessed part in the input file IN (FIG. 4
(N in step S12), the input file IN and the output file OUT are closed (step S19 in FIG. 4), and the compression devices 7, 1
The tag replacement processing (processing 1) performed in step 4 is completed. Output file OUT and table T generated as a result of this process
The bl is transmitted to the other party as correspondence data of the compressed file and the replacement.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a flow of processing performed on the information receiving side. As shown in (a) of the figure, the receiving side roughly receives the compressed file and replacement correspondence data (table Tbl) sent from the transmitting side (steps S1 and S2 in FIG. 5). ), A process of converting the compressed file to the original state using the replacement correspondence data (step S3 in FIG. 5).

FIG. 5B is a diagram showing the flow of the process (process 1) in step S3 of FIG. 5A, that is, the conversion process performed by the restoration devices 8 and 15. Here, basically, a conversion process reverse to the conversion process described based on FIG. 4B is performed. First, the received compressed file is set as the input file IN, and the file containing the processed data is set as the output file OUT, and both are opened (step S in FIG. 5).
11). Then, the process is started from the beginning of the input file IN, and the head of the described data is obtained (step S13 in FIG. 5). Next, it is determined whether the part is <#Y> meaning a start tag, </ # Y> meaning an end tag, or another part (step S14 in FIG. 5). And S16).

If the start tag is <#Y>, a start tag replacement process (step S15 in FIG. 5, process 2) is performed. FIG. 5C shows the contents of the start tag replacement processing. Also, (d) of the figure shows an example of the received replacement relationship data (table Tbl). First, the table Tbl is accessed, and a tag name (X) whose serial number is Y is acquired (step S21 in FIG. 5). Next, data <X> is output to the output file OUT (step S22 in FIG. 5). For example, if the acquired start tag is <# 2>, “MAIL”
<MAIL> is output to the output file OUT
Is output.

On the other hand, if the end tag is </ # Y>,
End tag replacement processing (step S17 in FIG. 5, processing 3) is performed. FIG. 5E shows the contents of the end tag replacement processing. Also in this case, first, the table Tbl is accessed to acquire the tag name (X) having the serial number Y (step S31 in FIG. 5). Next, data </ X> is output to the output file OUT (step of FIG. 5).
S32). For example, if the acquired end tag is </ # 2>, data </ MAIL> is output to the output file OUT.

If the acquired part is neither a start tag nor an end tag, the data of that part is output to the output file OUT as it is (step S1 in FIG. 5).
8).

Thus, the processing for the obtained part is completed, the processing moves to the next part of the input file IN, and the processing from step 13 is similarly performed on that part. The processing from step 13 to step 18
Each part of the input file IN is sequentially executed, and when there are no unprocessed parts in the input file IN (FIG. 5)
N in step S12), the input file IN and the output file OUT are closed (step S19 in FIG. 4), and the restoring devices 8, 1
The conversion processing (processing 1) performed in step 5 ends. The output file OUT generated as a result of this processing is the original file before compression, and this file is used on the receiving side.

As described above, in the system according to the present embodiment, when exchanging information using the common tagging format, the transmitting side, together with the compressed file in which the tag name has been replaced with short characters or symbols, and the replacement thereof, , And the receiving side decompresses the compressed file by using the transmitted correspondence information. Therefore, in the information exchange using the common tagging format, it is possible to reduce the amount of communication, and it is not necessary to statically determine a tag replacement rule in advance in both transmission and reception of the information exchange. However, efficient compression is possible, and there is no need to always prepare a replacement correspondence table.

In the above description, all tags existing in the file to be transmitted are replaced. However, tags for which the effect of replacement is not expected, such as tags having a short tag name or tags having a small number of appearances, are originally used. For, the replacement process may not be performed.

The compression and decompression method described in the present embodiment may be used for the compression and decompression processing at the timing described in the first embodiment. Further, the compression method according to the present embodiment may be used in combination with a conventional compression method.

Next, a third embodiment of the client / server type system to which the present invention is applied will be described. When exchanging information using a common tagging format such as HTML, the system according to the present embodiment analyzes the structure of the tag used, deletes the tag as appropriate, and replaces the tag instead. It is intended to compress the amount of data by inserting information indicating the insertion position.

The configuration of the client-server type system according to this embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment shown in FIG. The processing performed by the devices 7 and 14 and the restoration devices 8 and 15 is characterized.

FIG. 6 shows the compression devices 7, 1 according to the present embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a specific example of a compression process performed in Step 4. (A) of the figure shows the information (document) in the tagging format before compression, and (b) shows the information after compression. In this example, the end tag is deleted, and instead, the distance to the position of the corresponding end tag immediately after the start tag, that is, the size (length) inside the tag,
Is used.

For example, if the size from the first tag <MAIL> to the corresponding end tag </ MAIL> is 56 characters in the figure (a), as shown in the figure (b),
Insert the value 56 after the start tag <MAIL> and delete the end tag </ MAIL>. As a result, data of (the number of characters of the end tag minus one) can be compressed. As shown in (b) of the figure, the same processing is performed on the other tags, and the data is compressed.

Next, the processing procedure of the compression processing and the decompression processing in the case of the above-described method of deleting the end tag will be described. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a flow of a compression process in the compression devices 7 and 14 of the system according to the present embodiment. First, a file before compression (for example, the document shown in FIG. 6A) is set as an input file IN, and a file containing processed data is set as an output file OUT, and both are opened (step S1 in FIG. 7). Start processing from the beginning of IN. At this stage, a pointer indicating the current processing position in the file is at the head of the input file IN. In the example shown in FIG. 6A, the pointer is <MAIL
Is located just before>.

Next, the leading character is obtained from the position of the pointer (step S3 in FIG. 7), and whether it is a start tag (step S4 in FIG. 7) or an end tag (step S3 in FIG. 7). S9) or none of them is determined. If it is a start tag, the start tag is output to the output file OUT (step S5 in FIG. 7), and subsequently, a tag correspondence analysis process (process 1) is executed (step S6 in FIG. 7). This tag correspondence analysis processing will be described later. Note that the pointer is set when the start tag is output.
It moves immediately after the start tag, and also moves right after the part processed by the tag correspondence analysis processing.

In the example shown in FIG. 6A, the start tag <MAIL> is first obtained, and this <MAIL> is output to the output file OUT. The process proceeds to the end of the document shown in FIG. 6A, that is, </ MAIL>.

Next, returning to FIG. 7, the length of the character string returned as a result of the tag correspondence analysis processing is output to the output file OUT (step S7 in FIG. 7). In the example shown in FIG. 6A, 56 is output. Further, the character string itself returned as a result of the tag correspondence analysis processing is output to the output file OUT (step S8 in FIG. 7). FIG. 6 (a)
In the example shown in FIG. 6, all the character strings under <TITLE> shown in FIG. 6B are output to the output file OUT.

On the other hand, if the portion obtained in step S3 is an end tag (step S9 in FIG. 7), an error occurs and the process ends abnormally (step S10 in FIG. 7). This compression method is based on the premise that a start tag and a compression tag exist as a pair, in which case, step S3
This is because the processing flow is set up so that the part obtained in the section cannot be an end tag.

If the part obtained in step S3 is neither a start tag nor an end tag, it is output to the output file OUT as it is (step S11 in FIG. 7). Then, the pointer advances to the end of the output portion.

When the above processing is completed, as shown in FIG. 7, the processing returns to step S2, and the subsequent processing is continued from the position of the pointer at that time. And
Finally, when the input file IN has no unprocessed portions (N in step S2 in FIG. 7), that is, when the pointer reaches the last position of the input file IN, the input file IN
And the output file OUT is closed (step S12 in FIG. 7), and the compression process is completed. Then, the output file OUT is sent to the communication destination as a compressed file. In the case of the example shown in FIG. 6, as described above, in the first cycle of the processing, all the processing is completed, and at that time, the output file OUT forms the state after compression shown in (b). ing.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a processing flow of the tag correspondence analysis processing (processing 1) in step S6 of FIG. 7 described above. First, the string str returned as the result of this processing
Is initialized (step S21 in FIG. 8). Next, a head portion is acquired from the position of the pointer at that time (step S24 in FIG. 8), and whether it is a start tag (step S25 in FIG. 8) or an end tag (step S3 in FIG. 8)
0) or none of them.

If it is a start tag, the start tag
Write to str (step S26 of step 8), and the pointer moves right after the tag. Then, the tag correspondence analysis processing (processing 1) is recursively called (step S27 in FIG. 8), the processing is executed, and the length of the character string returned as a result, and subsequently, the character string The data itself is written to str (steps S28 and S29 in FIG. 8). At this point, the pointer moves to step S27.
Is moved immediately after the part processed by. In step S27, the character string str used when the tag correspondence analysis process (process 1) is performed recursively is the str (initialized in step S21, which is used in the parent process). It is assumed that a data storage area is secured separately from str).

On the other hand, the part obtained in step S24
If it is an end tag, the character string str at that time is returned, and the process ends (step S31 in FIG. 8). In this case, the pointer moves immediately after the end tag. If the acquired part is neither a start tag nor an end tag, the part is written into str as it is (step S32 in FIG. 8), and the pointer moves to immediately after the part.

In the case of step S29 or S32, the process returns to step S22, and the same process is repeated from the position of the pointer at that time. Then, if there is no defect in the structure of the tag of the input file IN, the process ends in step S31 described above. If there is no unprocessed portion in the input file IN at the time of step S22, the process ends abnormally as an error (FIG. 8).
Step S23).

In the case of the example shown in FIG. 6A, the pointer moves to the tag correspondence analysis processing (processing 1) shown in FIG. 8 at the position immediately after the start tag <MAIL>, and the pointer moves to the start tag <MAIL>. At the point immediately after <TITLE>, the processing shifts to recursive processing in step S27. In this recursive process, </ TITLE
>, The pointer position is immediately after </ TITLE>, and the process returns to the original (parent) process (step S28). Similarly, in the recursive processing of the second cycle in the flow of FIG. 8 (step S27), <BODY> to </ BO
DY> is processed. And the pointer is </ M
A third cycle is entered in a state immediately before AIL>, and in step S30, the parent tag correspondence analysis processing (processing 1), that is, step S6 in FIG. 7 ends.

Next, a process for restoring a file compressed by the above-described method will be described. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a flow of a restoration process in the restoration devices 8 and 15 of the system according to the present embodiment. First, the compressed file is set as the input file IN, the file for outputting the processing result is set as the output file OUT, and both are opened (step S1 in FIG. 9), and the processing is started from the leading position of the input file IN. Then, the leading part is obtained (step in FIG. 9).
S3), it is determined whether or not it is a tag (step S4 in FIG. 9).

If the tag is a tag, the tag is directly output to the output file OUT (step S5 in FIG. 9), and the size (number) located immediately after the tag is input to the input file IN.
(Step S6 in FIG. 9). At this point, the pointer indicating the processing position has moved immediately after the size. In the example shown in FIG. 6B, the tag <MAIL>
It is output to the output file OUT and the number 56 is read. The pointer moves immediately after 56.

Next, the processing 1 described later is called for the acquired tag, and the tag name and the read size are passed to the processing 1 (step S7 in FIG. 9). By this process, the process is executed for all the information included in the acquired tag, that is, the information from the start tag to the corresponding end tag in the original file.
Then, the pointer moves right after the processed part.

In the example shown in FIG. 6B, this step S
7, all the information included in the tag <MAIL> is processed, so that the processing is completed for all of the input files IN, and the pointer moves to the final position of the input files IN.

On the other hand, if the part obtained in step S3 is not a tag, the part is output as it is to the output file OUT (step S8 in FIG. 9), and the pointer moves immediately after the part.

After the end of step S7 or S8, the process returns to step S2, and the same process is repeated based on the pointer position at that time. Finally, when there is no unprocessed portion in the input file IN (N in step S2 in FIG. 9), the input file IN and the output file OUT are closed (step S9 in FIG. 9), and the restoration process ends. . Then, the generated output file OUT forms an original file before being compressed. In the example shown in FIG. 6B, as described above, all the processing ends in one cycle.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a processing flow of processing 1 called in step S7 of FIG. Here, the tag name and size passed to process 1 are respectively
We will use X and sz. First, a head portion is obtained from the position of the pointer at the time when the process 1 is called (immediately after the position where the size was inserted) (step S14 in FIG. 10). Then, it is determined whether or not the part is a tag (step S15 in FIG. 10). If the part is a tag, the tag is output to the output file OUT as it is (step S16 in FIG. 10). The pointer moves right after the tag. Subsequently, the length of the output tag is subtracted from sz (step S17 in FIG. 10), and the size located after the tag in the input file IN is read (step S18 in FIG. 10). Then, the pointer moves right after the read size, and the read size and 1 are further subtracted from sz (FIG. 10).
Step S19).

Here, the process 1 just described is recursively called for the tag acquired in step S15, and the process is executed (step S2 in FIG. 10).
0). For this processing, the tag name and the read size are passed, and the processing up to the end of the information included in the tag is executed. Specifically, in the original file,
The information included between the tag and the corresponding end tag and the corresponding end tag are output file OU
Output to T sequentially. By this processing, the pointer becomes
Move to the end of the information included in the tag.

On the other hand, if the part obtained in step S14 is not a tag, the part is output directly to the output file.
OUT (step S21 in FIG. 10), and subtract the size of the output portion from sz (step S2 in FIG. 10).
2).

As described above, step S20 or step S2
When the process of Step 2 is completed, the process returns to Step S11,
A similar process is repeated. Finally, when the value of sz becomes 0 (Y in step S11 in FIG. 10), the end tag of the tag X is output to the output file OUT (step S23 in FIG. 10), and the step in FIG. The process 1 called in S7 ends. If there is no unprocessed portion in the input file IN even though the value of sz is not 0 (N in step S12 in FIG. 10), the input file IN
The IN is inadequate and ends abnormally as an error (step S13 in FIG. 10).

In the example shown in FIG. 6B, when up to <MAIL> in FIG. 6A is output to the output file OUT, at step S7 in FIG. 9, X = <MAIL>, Processing 1 is called with sz = 56. Then, step S in FIG.
At 16, up to <TITLE> in FIG. 6A is output to the output file OUT, and at step S 20, X = <TITLE
Processing 1 is recursively called as LE>, sz = 9. By this processing, up to </ TITLE> in FIG. 6A is output to the output file OUT. Thereafter, the second cycle of the flow of FIG.
At 16, up to <BODY> in FIG. 6A is output to the output file OUT, and at step S 20, X = <BOD
Processing 1 is executed recursively with Y>, sz = 32. As a result, the output file OU up to </ BODY> in FIG.
Output to T. Since sz becomes 0 at this time, </ MA in step S23 of the third cycle.
IL> is output to the output file OUT, and step S7 in FIG.
Is completed. At this point, the output file
In OUT, the file before compression shown in FIG. 6A is completed.

As described above, by using the system according to the present embodiment, the tag is replaced with the position information having a smaller data amount, so that the communication amount can be reduced. Further, by combining with the compression method described in the second embodiment or the conventional compression method, the effect of the compression can be further enhanced. Note that the system may be used in combination with the system according to the first embodiment.

Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 11 is a configuration diagram for explaining the concept of one example. In the present embodiment, the server 9 reduces the communication volume between the server 9 and the client 1 with respect to the client 1 by using the system described in the first to third embodiments. It is intended to provide a service and receive a price for the service from the client 1. The configuration of the system according to the present embodiment is the same as that shown in FIG. 1, and the calculation of the consideration is performed in the information processing apparatuses 2 and 11. At the start of the provision of the service, the server 9 provides the client 1 with a means for compressing and restoring information to be communicated, for example, a computer program.

The example shown in FIG. 11 is a case where the price for the communication volume compression service is determined at a fixed rate with respect to the charge reduction corresponding to the reduced communication volume. In this example, using the communication volume compression service, the server 9 compresses the data 1 of the data size D1 into data 1 ′ of the data size d1 and transmits it to the client 1.
, Data 2 of data size D2 is compressed into data 2 ′ of data size d2 and transmitted to server 9. At this time, the use of the communication volume compression service reduces the total (D1 + D2-d1-d2) communication volume of (D1-d1) and (D2-d2).

On the other hand, the charge amount for communication when data 1 and data 2 are transmitted in the same size without using the communication volume compression service is denoted by K, and the charge amount when using the above communication volume compression service is used. If k is k, it means that the charge reduction of (Kk) has been obtained by using the communication volume compression service. In this example, this charge reduction (K-
s (Kk), which is obtained by multiplying k) by a certain ratio s, is used as a price for using the communication volume compression service. Then, the server 9 receives the price from the client 1, and the client 1 can obtain a cost reduction of (1-s) (Kk) by using this service. Therefore, in this example, as the amount of use of the service in the client 1 increases, the price of the server 9 increases, and the client 1 always pays more (payment and charge for communication than in the case where the service is not received). Total).

In the example described above, the service usage fee is determined at a fixed rate with respect to the communication charge reduction. However, another method may be used, and some examples will be described below. First, there is a method of making the service usage fee always constant. In this case, since the price does not fluctuate depending on the amount of communication and the amount of charge reduction, the server 9 can always expect a fixed price without being affected by the degree of use of the service on the client 1 side. Further, the client 1 side has a greater merit than the above-mentioned method when the usage amount increases.

Next, the usage fee is determined in accordance with the amount of charge reduction (communication reduction amount) for communication obtained by using the service. As described above, the charge reduction amount is multiplied by a fixed ratio. It does not have to be a method of determining. FIG.
(A), (b), and (c) of FIG. 2 are diagrams showing some examples thereof. (A) is a method of changing the rate of multiplying the charge reduction amount according to the charge reduction amount. Also,
(B) is a method in which the usage fee is set to a fixed amount when the charge reduction amount is small, and is set to a fixed multiplication rate when the charge reduction amount is large. Further, (c) is a method in which the usage fee is set free when the charge reduction amount is small, and is fixed when the charge reduction amount is large.

Next, a method of determining the usage fee based on the reduced communication amount (communication reduction amount) instead of determining based on the charge reduction amount may be adopted. In this case, first, there is a method of determining the use price by multiplying the communication reduction amount by a certain ratio. If the example of FIG. 11 is used, in this method, s '(D1 + D2-d1-d2) obtained by multiplying the communication reduction amount (D1 + D2-d1-d2) by a fixed ratio s' is used. FIG.
As exemplified in (d) of FIG. 2, the multiplication rate for the communication reduction amount may be changed according to the communication reduction amount. As described above, when the usage fee is calculated from the communication reduction amount, there is an advantage that the charge reduction amount need not be calculated.

Further, the price for use is not the amount of communication reduction,
The determination may be based on the communication amount itself. In that case,
First, there is a method of determining the use price by multiplying the communication volume by a certain ratio. If the example of FIG. 11 is used, in this method, s ″ (d1 + d2) obtained by multiplying the communication amount (d1 + d2) by a fixed ratio s ″ becomes the use price. Further, as exemplified in FIG. 12 (e), the multiplying rate for the traffic may be changed according to the traffic. As described above, when the usage fee is calculated from the communication amount, there is an advantage that the communication reduction amount need not be calculated.

As described above, according to the fourth embodiment, the server can receive the price by providing the service for reducing the amount of communication, and the client using the service can receive the communication. There is an advantage that costs can be reduced. The information compression / decompression method used in this service may be a method other than the methods described in the first to third embodiments.

Next, a description will be given of a fifth embodiment of the client / server type system to which the present invention is applied. The present embodiment relates to a method of accumulating the communication amount, and the server according to the present embodiment classifies the communication amount of the communication performed by the client via the server into a predetermined group to accumulate the communication amount. What you want to do.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a client-server type system according to this embodiment. In this system, the amount of e-mail transmitted from a client is divided into predetermined groups and is to be integrated. As illustrated, the server 132 includes a transmission device 133, an information processing device 134, and a storage device 137. The transmission device 133 is a part that transmits the e-mail transmitted from the client 131 to the transmission destination.

The information processing device 134 includes a filter device 135 having a transmission mail filter 136. Here, the above-described integration processing is performed for each of the groups of the transmission amount of the electronic mail. The outgoing mail filter 136 is usually preferably implemented as a computer program.

The storage device 137 has a table 138 in which definitions for dividing transmitted e-mails into the groups are described, and a table in which an integrated result (total result) of the transmission amount for each group is described. 139 are stored. In the destination group definition table 138 illustrated in FIG. 13, two groups “business” and “private” are prepared for “taguchi” who is the sender of the e-mail. Destination is defined. The table 139 of the total result of FIG. 13 describes the total result of the transmission amount of “business” and “private” for “taguchi” as the sender, corresponding to the table 138. . In addition,
In this example, the group of the destination of the e-mail is defined for each sender, and the total of the transmission amount is also to be calculated for each sender. However, if it is not necessary, the sender need not be classified. . Also, although all of the e-mail addresses are used for the definition of the destination, only the domain name (the part after the @) is defined, and regardless of the user name (the part before the @), sending to the same domain , May be divided into the same group.

As shown in FIG. 13, for example, the client 131 sends “shindo @ fujits” from the sender “taguchi”.
When an N-byte e-mail is transmitted to "u.co.jp", the transmission mail filter 136 of the server 132 sets the transmission amount N bytes of the e-mail as "business" of "user: taguchi". It is determined by referring to the table 138 that the data should be totaled, and the N bytes are added to the integrated amount of the group “business” of “user: taguchi” in the table 139.

FIG. 14A shows a processing flow when the server 132 receives an electronic mail transmission request from the client 131. Also, (b) in the figure
Table 1 of destination group definition used in the process
38 and a tabulation result table 139 are illustrated. In the example shown in (b), the sender “taguchi” sends “shindo @ fu
It is assumed that e-mail is sent to "jitsu.co.jp". When the server 132 receives the mail transmission request (step S1 in FIG. 14), first, the size of the mail (mai)
lSize) (step S2 in FIG. 14). Next, the header part of the mail is analyzed and the sender (sender
) And the transmission destination (dest) are acquired (step S3 in FIG. 14).

Next, the destination group definition 138 is accessed, the “user” column (X part in FIG. 14B) is searched, and the definition part for sender (FIG. 14B) (Y part) is searched (step S4 in FIG. 14). Then, with respect to the definition part for the sender, a place where dest is defined as the “transmission destination” (Z part in (b) of FIG. 14) is searched (step S5 of FIG. 14), and the corresponding “group name” (Referred to as group) is obtained (step S6 in FIG. 14).

Next, the totalization result table 139 is accessed, and the value of “usage amount” when “user” corresponds to “sender” and “group name” corresponds to “group” (part A in FIG. 14B) To get. Then, this value is set to size (step in FIG. 14).
S7). Next, the value of mailSize is added to the value of size,
The value after the addition is set as a new value of the size (step S8 in FIG. 14), and is written back to the totalization result table 139 (FIG. 1).
Step S9 of 4). As a result, the communication volume of the e-mail requested to be transmitted is integrated as the communication volume of the appropriate group. When the above processing is completed, the server 132 executes the transmission of the requested e-mail (step S10 in FIG. 14).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to classify the amount of e-mail usage into a predetermined group and add up. Therefore, if the groups are set for each purpose of use of the e-mail, cost calculation for each purpose of use can be easily performed. For example, if the amount of use of mail for business purposes and the amount of use of private mail are separately calculated and added, the cost of the company and the cost of the individual can be clearly calculated. Therefore, if this system is used, a common mail account can be used even when it is desired to distinguish between the cost of the company and the cost of the individual.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing another example of the client-server type system according to the present embodiment. In this system, the amount of received e-mail transmitted to a client is divided into predetermined groups and is to be integrated. As illustrated, the server 152 includes a receiving device 153, an information processing device 154, and a storage device 157. The receiving device 153 is a part that receives an electronic mail transmitted to the client 151 from the transmission source.

The information processing device 154 includes a filter device 155 having a received mail filter 156. Here, an integrating process is performed in which the received amount is divided into groups.
Incoming mail filter 156 is usually preferably implemented as a computer program.

Further, the storage device 157 has a table 158 in which definitions for dividing received e-mails into the groups are described, and a table 159 in which an integration result (total result) of the reception amount for each group is described. Is stored. In the source group definition table 158 illustrated in FIG. 15, groups are set according to the business purpose (“business A” and “business B” in FIG. 15), and the source of the e-mail is defined for each group. . In addition, the totaling result table 159 in FIG. 15 describes the totaling result of the reception amount for each business purpose group corresponding to the table 158. In this example, the mail address of the sender is defined only by the domain name (the part after @).

As shown in FIG. 15, for example, the transmission source “shi
ndo@pc.fujitsu.co.jp ”from client 151
When an N-byte email is sent to "chi",
It is determined by referring to the table 158 that the received mail filter 156 of the server 152 should total the received amount N bytes of the e-mail as “business A” by referring to the table 158. Duties
"A" group. The server 15
The detailed processing flow performed in step 2 is almost the same as that shown in FIG. 14A, and thus the description is omitted here.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to classify the amount of received e-mails into predetermined groups and add them up. Therefore, if the group is set for each business purpose, the amount of received e-mail can be distinguished for each business purpose, and the cost of receiving e-mail can be easily allocated to each business purpose.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing still another example of the client-server type system according to this embodiment. This system uses HTTP (Hyper
It is intended to integrate the traffic when using a WWW server by using a TextTransfer Protocol for each predetermined group. As shown in the figure, the server 162 includes a transmission / reception device 163, an information processing device 164, and a storage device 16
7.

The information processing device 164 includes the HTTP filter 1
There is a filter device 165 having 66, in which an integration process is performed for each group of traffic. HTTP filter 166 is typically preferably implemented as a computer program.

The storage device 167 has a table 168 describing a definition for dividing the access to the WWW server 170 by the client 161 into the group.
And a table 169 in which the integration result (total result) of the communication amount for each group is described. In the access destination group definition table 168 illustrated in FIG. 16, groups are set according to the business purpose (“business A” and “business B” in FIG. 16), and the access destination is defined for each group. In addition, the totaling result table 169 of FIG. 16 describes the totalizing result of the communication amount for each business purpose group, corresponding to the table 168.

As shown in FIG. 16, for example, when the client 161 makes an M-byte GET request to the WWW server 170 and the access destination WWW server 170 returns N bytes, the server 162 HTTP filter 16
In 6, the communication volume (M + N) bytes by the access is
It is determined by referring to the above table 168 from the access destination that it should be counted as “work A”,
The (M + N) bytes are added to the integrated amount of the “business A” group in the table 169. The server 1
The detailed processing flow performed in 62 is almost the same as that shown in FIG.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to classify and accumulate the traffic when accessing the WWW server into predetermined groups. Therefore,
If the group is set for each business purpose, the communication volume can be distinguished for each business purpose, and the communication cost can be easily allocated to each business purpose.

When the access destination is under the access destination described in the access destination group definition table 168 (located at a lower level), the access is defined as the upper level described in the table. May be determined as an access destination group. Also, without making such a determination, only when the actual access destination completely matches the access destination on the table 168, it may be determined that the access destination is included in the group defined for the access destination.
Further, in the above example, one access destination group definition 168 is made for the entire server 162, but this definition may be made for each user, and the communication volume may be totaled for each user for each business purpose. .

Although the case of accessing the WWW server by e-mail and HTTP has been described with reference to FIGS. 13 to 16, the system according to the fifth embodiment is different from the system according to the fifth embodiment in that the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is used. For example, it may be applied when other protocols are used.

Further, it is also possible to provide, as a service to the client, the sum of the communication amount divided by the server performed by the server of the present embodiment as a service to the client, and to receive a charge from the client for the service. With this service, the user can appropriately allocate the cost of the used communication amount for each purpose without preparing a large number of mail addresses and accounts.

Next, a system according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention will be described. The present embodiment relates to the above-described phone to function, and the system according to the present embodiment includes a W
When the WW page is generated, the identification information of the anchor is added to the tag for the phone to function, and when the anchor is selected and a call is made, the identification information is transmitted via the telephone line, and The position of the selected anchor is specified based on the identification information, and the WWW page on which the anchor is located is displayed to the person who receives the call.

The system according to the present embodiment employs the ph
Device for generating WWW pages with one to function (phone to synthesizer) and phon
A system for responding to the use of the e to function (ph
one to analyzer etc.).

First, a description will be given of the phone to synthesizer. FIG. 17 is a diagram for explaining the function of the phone to synthesis device. The example shown in FIG. 17 assumes a case where one standby telephone number 172 is prepared for a plurality of HTML files 171 and two or more anchors are not prepared in one HTML file. The phone-to-synthesizing device 173 receives the HTML 171 in which the place where the anchor of the phone to function is to be embedded and the standby phone number 172 as input and receives the HTML file 1 in which the phone to function is embedded
75 and the phone to table 174 are output. phone to
The table 174 is a table that associates the identification information of the anchor described in the tag with the position information of the anchor. The phone-to-synthesizing device includes a computer program describing the above-described processing procedure, and a computer system such as a personal computer that executes actual processing according to the computer program.

FIG. 18A is a diagram showing a flow of processing performed in the phone to combining apparatus 173 in the case of the example shown in FIG. Also, (b) in the figure
FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of a generated phone to table 174. First, as described above, the HTML 171 and the standby telephone number 172 in which the location (the part a and the part b in FIG. 17) for embedding the anchor of the phone to function are specified are input. The Phone to synthesis device 173 extracts one of the input HTML files 171 and analyzes the contents of the file from the beginning (step S2 in FIG. 18).

Then, the anchor insertion position (a in FIG. 17)
Part) (Y in step S3 in FIG. 18),
One line of data is added to the phone to table 174 (step S4 in FIG. 18). Specifically, in the "suffix" field,
Followed by a serial number (for example, * 002),
Is the file name to be processed (for example, catalog3.htm
l) is described. Next, a predetermined anchor is inserted at the anchor insertion position (step S5 in FIG. 18). Specifically, a tag indicating the anchor insertion position of the input file is
Replace with a tag with the specified phone to function. FIG.
In the example, part a and part b are replaced with part a ′ and part b ′, respectively.

In this example, since one anchor is assumed for one file, when the above processing is completed, the next file is taken out and the same processing is performed from step S2. Also, if the anchor position has not been found in step S3, the process shifts to the next file similarly. The above processing is executed until there is no unprocessed file, and the processing is terminated (step S1 in FIG. 18).
N).

Next, a description will be given of a specification example of the tag inserted at the anchor insertion position in step S5.
First, as the href attribute of the anchor tag (<a>), "te
If a number is described following "l:", it means that when the anchor tag is selected, a call is made to the described number. In addition, when ";" is described in the above number, the call is made with the number immediately before ";", and information indicating that information can be received is returned from the other party in response to the call. After that, it means that the number after ";" is transmitted to the other party. Therefore, it is necessary that a browser of a client (such as a mobile phone) that uses the anchor can understand the above specification.

In the example shown in part a ′ of FIG. 17, when this anchor is selected, a call is first made to “03-1111-2222”, and after information indicating that information can be received is returned therefrom, , "* 000" is transmitted.

FIG. 19 shows one HTML file 191.
An example in which there are a plurality of anchor insertion points is shown.
Also in this case, as in the case of FIG. 17, the Phone to combining device 193 stores the HTML file 191 and the standby telephone number 19
2, the phone to table 194 and the processed HTML file 195 are generated, and further information is added to the information recorded as the anchor position information of the phone to table 194 and the anchor tag to be inserted.

Specifically, as shown in part X of FIG.
A unique number in the file is added to the file name, and the number is added as a name attribute (Y portion in FIG. 19) in the corresponding anchor tag. Thus, even if a plurality of anchors exist in one file, the position of the selected anchor can be grasped without changing the standby telephone number.

When a plurality of anchors exist in one file, a method of writing a paragraph number along with a file name in anchor position information in the phone to table 194 may be adopted.

In the above description, it is assumed that there is one standby telephone number, but there may be a plurality of standby telephone numbers. In this case, the phone to synthesizer appropriately assigns a plurality of anchor insertion positions to those telephone numbers, and uses the anchor having the same telephone number as one unit, and assigns a unique number to each of the anchors. Just add it. At this time, a phone to table is created for each standby telephone number.

Next, a system used when the WWW page based on the HTML file generated by the above-described phone-to-synthesizing apparatus is used in a mobile phone or the like (hereinafter referred to as a calling phone) will be described. FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of such a system. The telephone transmitting / receiving apparatus 202 in the figure enables a call with the calling telephone when the phone to function of the WWW page is used,
A device for transmitting and receiving signals.

The Phone to analysis device 203 is a device for performing a process for specifying the position of the used anchor, and comprises a computer program describing the process and a computer system or the like for executing the process in accordance with the computer program. Also, a phone to table 174 generated by the phone to synthesis device is prepared in a state where it can be accessed from the phone to analysis device 203.

Further, the HTML display device 204 is
It is a device that displays the WWW page where the used anchor is located to the person who responds to the call by the function,
It is composed of a display and the like.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a processing flow when the phone to function of the WWW page is used. First, an anchor having a phone to function is selected in the calling telephone (step S1 in FIG. 21). Then, the description of the tag described above is interpreted by the browser of the calling telephone, and first, the designated telephone number (for example, “03-1111-222
2 ") via the telephone network 201 (step S2 in FIG. 21). Upon receiving the call request, the telephone transmitting / receiving device 202 establishes communication (step S3 in FIG. 21),
A signal to the effect that information can be received is returned to the calling telephone (step S4 in FIG. 21).

In response to the reception of the information, the transmitting telephone sets the information after the ";" (for example, "* 001") in the anchor tag, that is, the identification information of the anchor, to the telephone network. It is transmitted as an audio signal via 201 (step S5 in FIG. 21). The telephone transmitting / receiving device 202 converts the information of the received voice signal into data and transmits the data to the phone to analysis device 203 (step S6 in FIG. 21).

The ph that received the above information (for example, “* 001”)
The one to analysis device 203 accesses the phone to table 174 (step S7 in FIG. 21), and sets anchor position information corresponding to the information (for example, “cat” corresponding to “* 001”).
alog2.html "). Then, the anchor position information is notified to the HTML display device 204 (step S8 in FIG. 21).

The HTML display device 204 displays the corresponding HTML file on the basis of the notified anchor position information to the person in charge of the standby telephone (step S9 in FIG. 21). If there are multiple anchors in one HTML file, the information indicating the position in the file is included in the anchor position information as described above, and based on that, the HTML file is displayed at the position of the selected anchor. You.
Then, the person in charge starts a conversation with the user of the calling telephone, that is, the user of the phone to function, while watching the HTML display device 204 (step S10 in FIG. 21).

As described above, by using the system according to the present embodiment, the person in charge of the telephone call from the user using the phone to function can be provided with fewer telephone lines than the number of anchors. In any case, you can immediately recognize where the call originated from the anchor,
A smooth response is possible. Further, an HTML file for realizing such a function can be easily generated. Note that the phone to synthesis device and the phone to analysis device may be provided in one server.

The scope of protection of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, but extends to the inventions described in the claims and their equivalents.

(Supplementary Note 1) A method of communicating information to the client via the server in a client-server system including a client and a server connected via a network, wherein the server
Upon receiving the information to be sent to the client,
Compressing the information and storing the compressed information in a storage device of the server; and transmitting the compressed information to the client in a compressed state in response to a transmission request from the client. A method for communicating information, comprising:

(Supplementary Note 2) The information communication method according to Supplementary Note 1, wherein the compression of the information is performed when a data capacity of the received information is larger than a predetermined value.

(Supplementary Note 3) A method of communicating information in a format using a common tag between computer systems connected to each other via a network, wherein a tag name of the common tag is included in the information expressed in the format. With a character and / or symbol having a smaller number of characters than the tag name; a step of creating correspondence information indicating a correspondence between the replaced tag name and the character and / or symbol; Transmitting a subsequent information and the correspondence information to the computer system to which the information is to be communicated via the network.

(Supplementary note 4) The information communication method according to supplementary note 3, wherein the correspondence information is included in a file containing the replaced information.

(Supplementary Note 5) In Supplementary note 3 or 4, whether or not to perform replacement on the common tag is determined for each of the common tags based on the number of characters of the tag name and / or the number of appearances of the common tag. Communication method of information characterized by the fact that:

(Supplementary Note 6) A method of communicating information in a format using a common tag consisting of a start tag and an end tag between computer systems connected to each other via a network. A first step of deleting the end tag, and immediately after the start tag corresponding to the end tag, inserting information about a position that existed before the end tag was deleted; and a process in the first step. And transmitting the information expressed in the format to the computer system to which the information is to be communicated via the network after performing the step (a).

(Supplementary Note 7) A method of communicating information in a server that performs communication with a compressed data amount with a client connected via a network, wherein the server compresses information to be communicated to the client. Compression means, and a first step of providing decompression means for decompressing the compressed information, and when the server transmits information to the client, transmits the information after compressing the information, When receiving information from the client, the second step of receiving the information after being compressed by the compression means of the client, and the second step reduces the communication volume between the client and the server In contrast, the method of communication of information having a third step in which the server side receives consideration from the client side .

(Supplementary note 8) The information communication method according to supplementary note 7, wherein the consideration in the third step is a fixed amount.

(Supplementary Note 9) In the supplementary note 7, the price in the third step may be an amount by which the charge for the communication amount to the client is reduced by reducing the communication amount between the client and the server. An information communication method characterized in that it is determined according to:

(Supplementary note 10) The information communication method according to supplementary note 9, wherein the consideration in the third step is determined by multiplying the reduced amount by a fixed ratio.

(Supplementary Note 11) The information communication method according to Supplementary Note 7, wherein the price in the third step is determined according to the amount of communication reduced between the client and the server.

(Supplementary note 12) The information communication method according to supplementary note 11, wherein the price in the third step is determined by multiplying the reduced communication amount by a fixed ratio.

(Supplementary Note 13) The information communication method according to supplementary note 7, wherein the consideration in the third step is determined according to the traffic between the client and the server.

(Supplementary note 14) The information communication method according to supplementary note 13, wherein the price in the third step is determined by multiplying the communication amount by a fixed ratio.

(Supplementary Note 15) A communication method of information for accumulating a data amount of communication performed in a computer system connected to a network, the communication destination group defining a group for each communication destination on the communication path. A storage device for storing definition data and aggregation result data representing an integrated value of the communication amount for each group; and an information processing device, wherein each time the computer system performs communication via the network, the information processing device A first step of identifying the group of the communication based on the communication destination of the communication and the communication destination group definition data stored in the storage device, and the information processing device is stored in the storage device. A second step of updating the integrated value of the specified group of the aggregated result data to a value obtained by adding the data amount of the communication to the integrated value. The method of communication information and having a.

(Supplementary note 16) In Supplementary note 15, the communication destination group definition data and the aggregation result data are provided for each communicating party communicating with the computer system.
The identification of the group in the first step is performed based on the communication destination group definition data for the correspondent who has performed the communication, and the update of the integrated value in the second step is the totalization for the correspondent. An information communication method characterized by being performed on result data.

(Supplementary note 17) The information communication method according to Supplementary note 15 or 16, wherein the communication is transmission and / or reception of an electronic mail.

(Supplementary note 18) The information communication method according to supplementary note 15 or 16, wherein the communication is performed using HTTP.

(Supplementary note 19) In any one of Supplementary notes 15 to 18, further comprising the step of: providing information on the communication volume for each group contained in the tally result data to a user of the computer system; A method of receiving information from the user for providing the information from the user.

(Supplementary Note 20) A method for generating a WWW page in which a tag for an automatic dial function is inserted by a computer system, wherein a file constituting the WWW page in which an insertion position of the tag for the automatic dial function is specified When a telephone number to be dialed by the automatic dialing function is given, the tag for the automatic dialing function including the given telephone number and identification information of the insertion point is added to the insertion point in the file. A method for generating a WWW page, comprising: a step of inserting; and a step of generating a correspondence table in which identification information of the insertion point is associated with position information of the insertion point.

(Supplementary Note 21) When a call request by the automatic dial function is issued at a WWW site constituted by a file into which a tag for the automatic dial function including identification information of an insertion place is inserted, the call request is transmitted. Receiving, a receiving method in a receiving device having a correspondence table that associates the identification information and the position information of the insertion location, when the receiving device receives the call request,
Acquiring the identification information included in the tag for the automatic dial function that has issued the call request; and the receiving device responds to the identification information based on the acquired identification information and the correspondence table. A receiving method, comprising: a step of specifying the position information; and a step of displaying the file based on the specified position information.

(Supplementary Note 22) A service providing method in a server which has a WWW site composed of a file having an automatic dial function and provides a service to a client connected via a network, wherein the file is generated. In this case, the server inserts, in a tag inserted into the file for the automatic dialing function, a telephone number to be dialed when the automatic dialing function is used and identification information for identifying a place where the tag is inserted. Generating a correspondence table in which the identification information and the position information of the insertion point of the tag are associated with each other, and when the automatic dial function is used, the server determines whether the automatic dial function is used. Receiving the identification information of the insertion point of the tag selected for the communication, and based on the received identification information and the correspondence table. Service providing method characterized by comprising the step of identifying the location of the insertion point of the selected tag are.

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As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a more efficient method for information communication performed between a client and a server by compressing a data amount, and further reduce the communication amount. Become. Further, regarding the accumulation of the communication amount, the used communication amount can be classified and grouped for each group defined according to the purpose of use and the like, and the cost of communication can be easily and accurately distributed. be able to. Further, as for the phone to function used on the WWW page, when the phone to function is used, it can be immediately recognized from which anchor it was used, and a smooth response is possible.

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FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram according to a first embodiment of a client-server type system to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a specific example of a compression process according to a second embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a case where a replacement correspondence is described in a compressed tagging document in the second embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a processing flow performed on the information transmitting side in the second embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a processing flow performed on the information receiving side in the second embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a specific example of a compression process according to the third embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a flow of a compression process in a third embodiment;

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a processing flow of a tag correspondence analysis processing (processing 1) in step S6 of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a flow of a restoration process according to the third embodiment;

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a processing flow of processing 1 called in step S7 of FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a configuration diagram for explaining the concept of a fourth embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of a method of calculating a usage fee according to a fourth embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a client-server type system according to a fifth embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a processing flow when the server receives a request to send an e-mail in the example of FIG. 13;

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing another example of the client-server type system according to the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing still another example of the client-server type system according to the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a diagram for explaining functions of a phone-to-synthesizing apparatus according to a sixth embodiment;

FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating a telephone to
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a flow of a process performed in the synthesis device.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an example of a case in which one HTML file has a plurality of anchor insertion points in the sixth embodiment.

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a system used when a phone to function is used in the sixth embodiment.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a processing flow when a phone to function is used in the sixth embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 client 2 information processing device 3 transmission / reception device 4 storage device 5 e-mail display device 6 compression / decompression device 7 compression device 8 decompression device 9 server 10 transmission / reception device 11 information processing device 12 storage device 13 compression / decompression device 14 compression device 15 recovery Device 16 E-mail 131 Client 132 Server 133 Transmission device 134 Information processing device 135 Filter device 136 Transmission mail filter 137 Storage device 138 Destination group definition 139 Aggregation result 151 Client 152 Server 153 Receiving device 154 Information processing device 155 Filter device 156 Received mail Filter 157 Storage device 158 Source group definition 159 Total result 161 Client 162 Server 163 Transmitter / receiver 164 Information processing device 165 Filter device 166 HTT P filter 167 Storage device 168 Access destination group definition 169 Total result 170 WWW server 171 HTML file 172 Standby phone number 173 phone to synthesizer 174 phone to table 175 HTML file 191 HTML file 192 Standby phone number 193 phone to synthesizer 194 phone to Table 195 HTML file 201 Telephone network 202 Telephone transmitting and receiving device 203 phone to analysis device 204 HTML display device

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Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. A method of communicating information to said client via said server in a client-server type system comprising a client and a server connected via a network, said server comprising: When receiving the information to be transmitted, compressing the information and storing it in a storage device of the server; and the server compresses the compressed information in response to a transmission request from the client. Transmitting the information to the client without changing the information. 2. A method for communicating information in a format using a common tag between computer systems connected to each other via a network, wherein a tag name of the common tag in information expressed in the format is Characters with fewer characters than the tag name and / or
Or a step of creating correspondence information indicating a correspondence between the replaced tag name and a character and / or a symbol; and replacing the replaced information and the correspondence information with the network. Transmitting the information to the computer system to which the information is to be communicated via the communication system. 3. A method of communicating information in a format using a common tag consisting of a start tag and an end tag between computer systems connected to each other via a network, wherein the end is determined from the information expressed in the format. A first step of deleting a tag, and immediately after the start tag corresponding to the end tag, inserting information about a position that existed before the end tag was deleted; and performing a process in the first step. And transmitting the information expressed in the format to the computer system to which the information is to be communicated via the network. 4. A method for communicating information in a server performing communication with a compressed data amount between clients connected via a network, wherein the server compresses information to be communicated to the client. Means, a first step of providing decompression means for decompressing the compressed information, and the server, when transmitting information to the client, transmits after compressing the information, information from the client When receiving the information, the second step of receiving the information after being compressed by the compression means of the client, the communication amount between the client and the server is reduced by the second step On the other hand, there is provided a third step in which the server receives a price from the client. 5. A communication method of information for accumulating a data amount of communication performed in a computer system connected to a network, the communication destination group definition data defining a group for each communication destination on the communication path. And a storage device for storing aggregation result data representing an integrated value of the communication amount for each group, and an information processing device, wherein each time the computer system performs communication via the network, the information processing device A first step of identifying the group of the communication based on the communication destination of the communication and the communication destination group definition data stored in the storage device; and A second step of updating the integrated value of the specified group of the result data to a value obtained by adding the data amount of the communication to the integrated value. A method for communicating information, characterized in that: 6. The information communication method according to claim 5, wherein the communication is transmission and / or reception of an electronic mail. 7. The information communication method according to claim 5, wherein the communication is performed using HTTP. 8. A method for generating a WWW page in which a tag for an automatic dialing function is inserted by a computer system, the file comprising the WWW page in which an insertion position of the tag for the automatic dialing function is specified, When a telephone number to be dialed by the automatic dial function is given, a tag for the automatic dial function including the given telephone number and identification information of the inserted part is inserted into the insertion location in the file. A method for generating a WWW page, comprising: generating a correspondence table in which identification information of the insertion point and position information of the insertion point are associated with each other. 9. A WW constituted by a file into which a tag for an automatic dial function including identification information of an insertion point is inserted.
In the W site, when a call request by the automatic dial function is issued, the call request is received, a receiving method in a receiving device having a correspondence table that associates the identification information and the position information of the insertion location, The receiving device, when receiving the call request, acquiring the identification information included in the tag for the automatic dial function that issued the call request, the receiving device, the acquired identification Based on the information and the correspondence table, specifying the position information corresponding to the identification information; and the receiving device, based on the specified position information,
A receiving method comprising the step of displaying the file. 10. A service providing method in a server having a WWW site composed of a file having an automatic dial function and providing a service to a client connected via a network, the method comprising: Wherein the server inserts a tag into the file for the auto-dial function,
A correspondence table including a telephone number to be dialed when the automatic dial function is used and identification information for identifying a tag insertion location, and further associating the identification information with position information of the tag insertion location. And the server receives, when the automatic dial function is used, the identification information of the insertion position of the tag selected for use of the automatic dial function, and the received identification information And a step of specifying the position of the insertion position of the selected tag based on the correspondence table.