JP2002203058A - Message solicitation and delivery method, message reception system and message delivery system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a message solicitation and delivery system and its method that can facilitate the disclosure of message solicitation and message transmis sion. SOLUTION: This message solicitation and delivery system receives, through a network, a message solicitation request, sets up a message solicitation home page for each received solicitation request, discloses the message solicitation home page to solicit a message, receives a message subscribed using the home page, and transmits, through the network, the received message to a terminal for a delivery person who delivers the message.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a message delivery system for delivering a message from a sender to a predetermined recipient on behalf of the sender and a message receiving system for receiving the message.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, paper media such as newspapers and magazines have been used to solicit "encouragement messages", "celebration messages", "condolence messages", and the like. And a message delivery system that delivers messages by e-mail has been proposed.

For example, Patent Application No. 2000-32260
No. 5 describes the following invention relating to a message delivery system. In the invention described in this publication, first,
A client who requests message recruitment makes a request for message recruitment using a telephone or FAX to an intermediary that mediates posting of the recruitment article. The intermediary requests the server of the accepting agent that accepts the e-mail message to provide an e-mail address, and the server receives the e-mail address for receiving the message via the Internet. When the e-mail address is assigned, the broker publishes the solicited article including the e-mail address in a newspaper, a magazine, or the like. The e-mail address for receiving the message is under the control of the reception company.

[0004] A person who wants to send a message (sender) sees a recruitment article in a newspaper or the like, and sends a message by various media from a terminal connected to the Internet to the recruitment mail address by e-mail. Upon receiving the message, the receptionist system charges the message sender such as a message delivery fee, and sends an e-mail including the message to the terminal of the delivery agent acting as a delivery agent of the message via the Internet. Send. The delivery company outputs this e-mail to a predetermined medium and delivers it to the recipient of the message. In this way, a message solicitation article is posted and the sender's message is delivered to the recipient.

[0005]

As described above, in the conventional message delivery system, message recruitment is performed by newspapers,
Since it is published in magazines, etc., it is necessary to obtain an e-mail address for receiving messages before publication in the newspaper, and prompt recruitment may not be possible. In addition, since the recruitment article is a paper medium such as a newspaper, the message sender must separately activate an e-mail and send the message after reading the recruitment article, which takes new time and effort. Sometimes hesitated to send a message. Furthermore, for example, in recruitment of encouragement messages to victims,
Some are recruited for a long time. In this case, the newspaper,
In a medium such as a magazine, when a sender wants to send a message, the newspaper or the like is not at hand, and he / she may hesitate to send the message without accurately confirming the destination of the message. In addition, in the case of long-term recruitment, it is desirable to continuously place recruitment advertisements in newspapers, etc., but it is expensive to put recruitment articles many times in media such as newspapers. There are also problems.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and has as its object to provide a message recruitment delivery system and method that can facilitate publication of message recruitment and transmission of messages. I do. Still another object of the present invention is to provide a message recruitment delivery system and method capable of continuously providing recruitment information during a recruitment period.

[0007]

[MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention receives a message invitation via a network, creates an invitation website for each invitation received, and publishes the invitation website to release the message. The above-mentioned problem has been achieved by recruiting and receiving messages from a homepage and transmitting the received messages to a terminal of a deliverer who delivers the messages via a network.

[0008] In this way, on the homepage connected to the network, a solicitation advertisement is made public and a message is solicited.
By enabling the transmission of a message from the homepage, it is possible to transmit a message from the screen when a message is recruited. This eliminates the need for a new operation or procedure for transmitting a message after the message is recruited, and makes the message transmission extremely easy. As described above, according to the present invention, the recruitment and transmission can be performed by the homepage, and the difference between the recruitment advertisement medium and the message transmission medium as in the prior art can be prevented and the difference in the timing of recognizing the recruitment and the message transmission can be prevented. can do.

[0009] With this, the message sender can obtain an effect that the message can be easily transmitted as it is when there is a recruitment, and the recruitment requester can expect the effect of increasing the number of transmitted messages. . In addition, when there is a request to open a homepage via the network, the recruitment homepage is immediately opened and published on the network, so a time lag until the posting of the recruitment article is required as in the case of conventional newspapers etc. The recruitment can be started promptly at the same time as the recruitment request.

[0010] The first of the message recruitment delivery method of the present invention
Is a method of providing message recruiting information by a computer system connected to a network, receiving an applied message and delivering it to a delivery person, wherein a request for establishing a homepage for recruiting a specific type of message is provided. A recruitment request receiving step for prompting the reception and input of recruitment request information, a homepage creation step for creating a homepage for recruiting the requested message when the recruitment request information is received, and a computer using the created homepage. When the application message is received via the network by accessing the published homepage, the system accepts the application for the message by publishing it on the network by the system to prompt the application of the message, Received application message Characterized in that it comprises a message delivery process that distributes a predetermined delivery person to deliver to the recipient specified di. Thereby, the homepage is created at the same time as the recruitment, and the recruitment of the message can be started immediately.

The second aspect of the message recruitment and delivery method of the present invention.
The recruitment request receiving step is a step of requesting the recruitment homepage establishment requester to input identification information, and verifying the input identification information and requesting the establishment of the recruitment homepage only when the user has a legitimate authority. And a step of receiving the request. Prohibiting the opening of a message recruitment homepage for unauthorized persons by inputting identification information and authentication.

The third aspect of the message recruiting and delivering method according to the present invention.
Is characterized in that the homepage creation step includes a step of automatically generating a URL that partially includes the type name of the solicitation message in order to publish the homepage on the Internet. By automatically generating the URL, the recruitment homepage can be quickly disclosed. Also, UR
By including the message type in L, it is possible to create a list for each service type using the URL as a key, and it is easy to associate links and the like.

A first aspect of the message delivery system of the present invention
The aspect of the invention is that a homepage publication management means for publishing and managing message recruitment information on a homepage and an application message from a sender terminal for accessing a homepage published by the message recruitment means and transmitting a message via the homepage. Connected to a network, comprising: a message receiving means for receiving; and a message delivery means for delivering, via a network, a received application message to a delivery terminal that outputs a message to be delivered to a recipient by a predetermined medium. This is a message delivery system for delivering an application message from a sender to a recipient. According to this aspect, it is possible to receive a message recruitment request irrespective of whether via a communication network or not, publish the message recruitment on the homepage, accept the message application via the network, and deliver it to the recipient. Becomes

[0014] The first of the message receiving system of the present invention
In the aspect, the message recruitment request receiving means for receiving the message recruitment information transmitted from the intermediary terminal that inputs the message recruitment request information via the network, and recruiting for each message recruitment based on the received message recruitment information A recruitment homepage creation means for creating a homepage, and a URL for automatically generating and adding a URL including a message type name to the created recruitment homepage
A homepage that registers the generating means and the recruitment homepage in the recruitment homepage storage means and publishes it on the network, accesses the recruitment homepage and sends a message, and receives an application message from a sender terminal via the homepage. And a management means for receiving a solicitation message via a network.

The second aspect of the message receiving system of the present invention
Is characterized in that the homepage publication management means monitors the publication period and closes the homepage after the publication period. This can prevent confusion caused by disclosing invalid recruitment.

The third aspect of the message receiving system of the present invention
The mode further comprises a list storage means for storing the list of recruitment homepages for each message type linked to the URL of the recruitment homepage, and a top homepage for displaying the list of recruitment homepages for each message type, When the homepage publication management means newly registers or closes the recruitment homepage, the recruitment homepage list in the list storage unit is updated. This makes it possible to easily reach the recruitment homepage desired by the message applicant.

A first mode of the message recruitment delivery receiving system of the present invention is a message recruiting request receiving means for receiving message recruiting information transmitted from a mediator terminal for inputting message recruiting information via a network; Based on the message recruitment information, a recruitment homepage creation means that creates a recruitment homepage for each message recruitment, and a sender terminal that publishes the recruitment homepage created on the network, accesses the recruitment homepage, and sends the message Application receiving means for receiving the application message via a homepage, and message distribution means for distributing the received application message via a network to a delivery terminal that outputs a message to be delivered to the recipient through a predetermined medium. Characterized by .

[0018]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. The embodiments described below are for explanation, and do not limit the scope of the present invention. Therefore, those skilled in the art can adopt embodiments in which each of these elements or all elements are replaced with equivalents, but these embodiments are also included in the scope of the present invention.

(Basic Concept of the Present Invention) Next, the basic concept of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of a network connection form used in the present invention and its basic operation as an image. The present invention is an unspecified number of people, celebration, condolences, encouragement of athletes, fundraising,
Various messages such as presentation of opinions on predetermined matters,
A system and method for delivering to a specific recipient using a communication network. Therefore, the reception management system 5 is connected to the communication network 10. An intermediary terminal 3, a sender terminal 4, a deliverer terminal 6, and a financing company system 8 are connected to the communication network 10, and these terminals or the system and the reception management system 5 are mutually connected via the communication network 10. Data communication is possible. still,
As described later, in the present invention, donation is understood as one of the messages.

In FIG. 1, a communication network (hereinafter, referred to as a communication network)
In this case, only one intermediary terminal 3, sender terminal 4, delivery terminal 6 and financial terminal 8 are connected to each other. Connected. The network 10 used in the present invention is based on an open network such as the Internet. However, not only open networks but also certain networks such as Atnifty, Big Lobe, and People (all of which are trademarks). May be a commercial personal computer communication network (hereinafter, referred to as a local network) shared only by the members, or an open network and a local network may be connected to each other. In the following description, it is assumed that the network 10 is the Internet, but the scope of the present invention is not limited to the Internet as described above.

The reception management system 5 publishes a recruitment request homepage for receiving a message recruitment request on the network 10. An intermediary having a predetermined authority accesses the recruitment request homepage from the intermediary terminal 3. Thus, the message recruitment homepage 55 can be established.

For example, suppose that an event is planned to give a large number of encouragement messages from an unspecified number of people to encourage specific athletes participating in the Olympics. The proposer or sponsor of such an event becomes a recruitment requester, and applies for recruitment of encouragement messages to an intermediary company.

The intermediary accesses the homepage providing server such as the WWW server of the reception management system using the browser software of the intermediary terminal 3 and displays the recruitment request homepage 50 on the intermediary terminal 3. When the user inputs identification information for verifying the authority of the intermediary from the recruitment request homepage 50 and applies for the recruitment request, the reception management system 5 verifies whether or not the agent is an intermediary. After being authenticated as an intermediary, the reception management system 5 sends a homepage creation screen 51. The homepage creation screen 51 is provided with an information input box for requesting input of information necessary for message recruitment.
In step 1, the mediator input information 52 is input. Intermediary terminal 3
When the input of necessary information is completed, the input information and the like are transmitted to the reception management system 5 via the network 10.

The reception management system 5 authenticates the validity of the mediator from the identification information transmitted from the mediator terminal 3,
Based on the received recruitment information, a message recruitment homepage 55 is created for each message recruitment, and at the same time, a uniform resource locator (hereinafter, referred to as a URL) is generated and made public on the network. In the following, the message recruitment homepage 55 is abbreviated as “recruitment homepage 55” as appropriate.

When the message recruitment homepage 55 is released, anyone on the network 10 can browse. By registering the top page of the reception management system in various search engines, it becomes possible to make it easier for message applicants to recognize the existence of the message recruitment homepage 55. An accessor's personal computer (PC) on the network 10 can be the sender terminal 4 of the message. In addition, personally owned P
In addition to C, transmission from a public terminal installed in a public facility that can be used by an unspecified number of people, a KIOSK terminal installed in a convenience store, or the like can be accepted. .

When the message recruitment homepage 55 of the reception management system 5 is accessed by the sender terminal 4 such as a PC or a public terminal, the message recruitment homepage 55 in which information on the recruitment message is described is displayed on the sender terminal 4. The screen of the recruitment homepage 55 is input by inputting various information including the message 56 from the homepage screen using a pointing device (hereinafter, referred to as a pointer) or a keyboard.
It is configured so that a desired message can be transmitted. As a message, not only text data and still image data but also compressed moving image, audio data, and the like can be transmitted as a file. When the message and the predetermined input are completed, the transmission message and the sender information are transmitted to the reception management system 5.

When the reception management system 5 receives the transmission information from the sender terminal 4 including the message 56 transmitted from the sender terminal 4, the received message and the sender information are managed for each recruitment homepage 55. With
It is transmitted to the delivery terminal 6 via the network 10.
A plurality of delivery terminals 6 are registered in advance, and the delivery terminal 6 most suitable for delivering a message to the message recipient 7 is selected. Generally, the message recipient 7
Is selected, the message conversion equipment held by the deliverer terminal 6 is also considered as a condition for selecting a transmission destination.

Upon receiving the message and the sender information, the delivery terminal 6 outputs a received message such as a voice, an image image, or a moving image. The delivery company converts the received message into a format that can be confirmed by the message recipient 7 and delivers the message to the message recipient 7. Eventually delivered message media include tapes, VTRs, memory cards,
It is possible to select delivery by various methods such as a message card.

[0029] Payment of the fee for opening the homepage
The charge is calculated by the reception management system 5 when the homepage is opened. The billing information is subjected to necessary encryption processing and then transmitted to the finance company system via the network 10, so that the money is cleared by the finance company system 8 when the homepage is opened or periodically. Will be

The payment of the message transmission delivery fee to be paid by the sender can be made by cash payment, check or the like, in addition to payment by credit card. In the case of cash, it is desirable to construct a system that pays to a manager of a public terminal or a collection contractor at a convenience store or the like. Existing means such as mailing checks or cash by registered mail or bank transfer may be employed. After confirming such payment by cash or check, the reception management system 5 preferably transmits the message 56 to the delivery terminal. Further, all the costs for sending and delivering the message can be borne by the message recruitment requester 2. In this case, when the recruitment homepage is established, a charge is set so that the recruitment requester bears all the expenses.

Here, the message transmitted from the sender includes money such as donations. For example, a case in which a contribution is raised together with a message of encouragement to the disaster-stricken area corresponds to such a case. In this case, a statement that the donation is also accepted and a method of donating are displayed on the homepage. Messages such as documents are processed by the above-described procedure, but money is collected in accordance with the above-described procedure of payment of expenses by cash or the like, and the details are delivered to the recipient. The cash or the like is delivered directly to the recipient or transferred to the recipient's bank account. Furthermore, in the message recruitment delivery system or method, it is possible to recruit only donations such as contributions. In this case, the sender selects a fund-raising method on the recruitment website 55 and inputs the amount. Payment of money is made in accordance with the above-mentioned procedure of payment of expenses by cash and the like, and when receipt of money is confirmed, it is treated as a donation,
Be managed. The fund-raising information is periodically transmitted to the delivery terminal 6, and the details of the fund-raising are periodically delivered from the deliverer to the receiver. Funds will be transferred to a designated bank account.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing one embodiment of the reception management system 5 of the present invention. Reception management system 5
Is composed of a message receiving system and a message delivery system. With the message reception system, in response to an application for message recruitment via the network,
It is a system that creates and publishes a homepage for recruiting messages. The message receiving system includes a recruitment request receiving unit 11, a homepage creating unit 12, a homepage publication managing unit 13, and a message receiving unit 14. Network interface 20
Enables communication with a terminal or system such as an intermediary terminal 3 connected via a network 10 including the Internet. The recruitment request receiving unit 11 manages reception of a request for creating the message recruitment homepage 55 (FIG. 1) requested through the network 10. When the recruitment request receiving unit 11 receives a request for creating the message recruitment homepage 55 via the network, the homepage creation unit 12 creates the message recruitment homepage 55. The created message recruitment homepage 55 is released and managed by the homepage release management means 13. When a message is applied by accessing the message recruitment homepage 55, the message receiving means 14 receives the applied message.

The message delivery system is a message recruitment home page 55 published on a network.
This is a system that receives and distributes messages via a network in order to receive an application for a message from and to deliver it to a predetermined recipient. The message distribution system includes a homepage publication management unit 13, a message reception unit 14, and a message distribution unit 15. When there is an application for a message via the published message recruitment homepage 55, the message receiving means 14 receives the application, the message delivery means 15 selects a message deliverer, and the network 1 is sent to the selected deliverer.
0 and distribute the message and charge.
In the message delivery system, the message recruitment request is not necessarily required to be made via the network, and the message recruitment homepage can be created by directly inputting the recruitment request information from the input / output terminal of the reception management system. it can.

The reception management system 5 will be described in further detail with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 shows the reception management system 5 of the present invention.
Is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment in which management functions, data storage functions, and homepage creation functions are roughly classified. The reception management system 5 shown in FIG.
20), a management unit 30, a homepage creation unit 40, and various storage units 41 to 46. Each of these functional units organically cooperates with the management unit 30 as a center, thereby realizing the functions of the system shown in FIG. Such a reception management system can be configured with servers for various functions such as various reception servers, accounting servers, authentication servers, accounting servers, management servers, and the like, and various database servers (as a server configuration). Is not shown).

The network interface unit 20 is provided with a WWW server 21, and various homepages to be published are stored in the WWW server 21. When the browsing request is accessed from the mediator terminal 3 or the sender terminal 4 (both in FIG. 1) via the Internet, the WWW server 21 requests the mediation request homepage 50 and the message solicitation homepage 55 from the mediator terminal. 3 or the sender terminal 4 via the network 10. The intermediary terminal 3 or the sender terminal 4 selects and specifies (clicks, etc.) a predetermined place on the homepage with a pointing device, or inputs predetermined data into an input box and attaches a file, It transmits predetermined information or a message 56 (FIG. 1) to the reception management system 5 via the network 10. The input and the like of the sender terminal 4 will be described later with a specific screen as an example.

The transmitted input information, message, etc.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) 2
The information is passed to the management unit 30 by a cooperation program such as 2 and is processed. The management unit 30 has various management functions. For example, the management control unit 31 and the homepage management unit 3
2. It has an authentication unit 33, a message reception processing unit 34, a charging processing unit 35, and other necessary function units (not shown).

Recruitment homepage 55 from intermediary terminal 3
If the request is an establishment request, the authentication unit 33 verifies whether or not the intermediary agent has the legitimate authority that satisfies the predetermined condition, and accepts only a request for creating a recruitment homepage 55 for a legitimate authority. In response to a request from an authorized intermediary agent, the management control unit 31 sets a homepage creation unit (hereinafter referred to as a homepage creation unit).
(Referred to as an HP creating unit) 40 to activate the recruiting homepage 55. The HP creation unit 40 creates a URL by a uniform resource locator creation unit (hereinafter, referred to as a URL creation unit) 42 and gives it as a unique address for accessing the created recruitment homepage 55. Creation of the URL will also be described later. The form storage unit 41 stores various basic forms for each message, and is associated so that a desired message form can be selected from the recruitment homepage.
In this specification, the term "message form" is used to mean "a basic form of a transmission message".

The created recruitment homepage 55 is a recruitment homepage storage unit (hereinafter referred to as a recruitment HP storage unit) 4
3 is stored. In the service-specific list storage unit 44, a recruitment homepage 55 recruiting messages is stored together with its URL as a list classified by message type (for each type of encouragement, congratulation, condolence, etc.). In these lists, the recruiting period and the recruiting theme name are also stored in association with the respective recruiting homepages 55. The top HP storage unit 45 stores a top home page. Top homepage is recruitment homepage 5
5, the contents of services to be provided are displayed in the top home page, and the recruitment home page 55 is displayed as a list for each type of message. As the list for each type of message, a list stored in the service-specific list storage unit 44 is used. When a specific recruitment homepage 55 is selected by a pointing device, the URL of the specified recruitment homepage 55 is read. A link is provided so that the selected recruitment homepage 55 is read. Further, it is preferable that a configuration is provided in which a recruitment requester can be linked from the top page to a recruitment request homepage.

The intermediary / delivery person storage section 46 stores a registration list of the intermediary and the delivery person. The registered contents include, for example, information indicating a place (address) of an intermediary or the like,
Information such as an e-mail address, system type and equipment information held, and accounting-related information is included. These registration information can be used, for example, when selecting a delivery person closest to the message recipient 7 (FIG. 1) to deliver the message.

Referring to FIG. 4, input information by the mediator terminal and handling of the information by the reception management system will be described. FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing a simplified relationship between the mediator input information 52 in the mediator terminal 3 (FIG. 1) and the storage location in the reception management system 5. The intermediary company that has received the request for message recruitment inputs intermediary input information 52 such as intermediary agent data, requester data, service type, message form, and recruiting theme as shown in FIG. I do. The data about the intermediary is necessary for confirming the legitimate authority and charging, etc.
Necessary for creating a URL, creating list registration data, and the like.
The recruitment period is to determine the release period of the homepage,
Delivery destination information is required for message delivery. Attaching a file is to attach a file created in advance as a message as necessary, especially when sending special messages including voice messages, image messages, video messages, etc., and want to quickly input messages Sometimes useful.

Upon receiving the service type and the requester's name, the URL generation unit 42 incorporates the service type into the URL server name column, and incorporates the requester's name and date as a file name, as shown in FIG. Create
The service type refers to the type of message to be recruited,
For example, names such as "encouragement", "celebration", and "regret" are used. By incorporating “service type” as the URL server name in this way, it is possible to classify each service type using the URL. Also, by using “name date” as the file name, it is considered that the same URL is rarely duplicated. When the same URL exists, by incorporating the reception time further,
It can be registered as a new URL.

Recruitment period, recruitment theme, service type, U
The RL and the like are stored in the service list storage unit 44 as list registration data 6.
It is stored as 1. These are homepage management department 3
2 (FIG. 3) is used to update the top HP, manage the expiration date of the open period of the recruitment website 55, and the like. For the open recruitment homepage 55, the recruitment period is checked at a fixed time every day, and the deadline management such as releasing the link of the recruitment homepage 55 for which the recruitment period has passed is executed, so that the message from the homepage for which the recruitment period has passed is executed. Can be prevented from being transmitted. Data on the recruitment homepage 55 is stored in the recruitment HP storage unit 43 as a record 62 for each reception number. This data is recruitment homepage 5
5 is used for various processes as basic data. For example,
Based on the distribution destination data stored in the record 62, the optimum delivery terminal is extracted and designated from the storage list of the intermediary / delivery storage unit 46.

Next, the form storage unit 41 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram conceptually showing the relationship between the message form list 47 classified by message type stored in the form storage unit 41 and each of the message forms 57 to 59. In the message form list 47, a service type 48 and a form type number 49 are stored as a list. The service list is a list of services that are being recruited, and here indicates types of messages such as encouragement messages, congratulation messages, and condolence messages. Form number 49
Are assigned serial numbers, and one form is stored in correspondence with each form type number. In the figure, 57a to 57n are forms used for encouragement messages, 58a to 58n are congratulation forms, and 59a to 59n are condolence forms. On the recruitment homepage 55, a form list of the corresponding service type is displayed and can be selected. For example, on the celebration recruitment homepage 55, when the pointer is moved to the form column, celebration 1 to celebration n are displayed in a pull-down list. In this state, if celebration 1 is selected, the message form list 47 displays the form format number n +
1 is specified, and the corresponding form 58a of celebration 1 is read and transmitted to the sender terminal.

(Message Recruitment Delivery Processing Procedure) The message recruitment processing procedure will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of a message recruitment delivery processing procedure according to the present invention, and FIGS.
5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure showing some of the steps of the processing procedure shown in FIG.

First, an example of the basic processing procedure of the recruitment delivery processing of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The recruitment request homepage is released by a computer system connected to the network. When there is a request for recruitment, it is confirmed whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied, and then a message recruitment is accepted (S101). Upon receiving the recruitment request, the reception management system 5 creates a message recruitment homepage 55 and publishes it on the network 10 (S10).
2). When there is an application for a message from the sender who has accessed the message recruitment homepage 55, reception processing of the message application is performed (S103). When the application for the message is accepted, a delivery person for delivering the application message in a predetermined format to the recipient of the message is selected, and the application message is delivered to the selected delivery person via the network 10 (S104).

The steps of accepting the recruitment request (S101) and creating the homepage (S102) in FIG. 6 will be described in further detail with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure for creating a message recruitment homepage 55 (FIGS. 1 and 2) and registering the message recruitment homepage 55 to the WWW server after receiving the recruitment request. In this step, a description will be given of a processing procedure in which a recruitment request is received by the reception management system 5, a message recruitment homepage 55 is created, and the message recruitment homepage 55 is registered in the WWW server 21 (FIG. 3). Upon completion of this registration, the message recruitment homepage 55 is released on the network.

When the intermediary terminal 3 (FIG. 1) accesses the recruitment request HP (homepage) 50 (FIG. 3) of the reception management system 5 and receives a request to open the recruitment homepage 55 (S201), the management unit The authentication unit 33 of FIG. 30 (FIG. 3) reads out the registration data in the intermediary / delivery storage unit 46 and performs an authentication process for confirming whether or not the intermediary has authorized authority (S202). If it is not recognized as a legitimate intermediary (S203; No), the process ends as an unauthorized access by an unauthorized person.

When the user is authenticated as a legitimate broker (S203; Yes), the recruitment homepage creation screen 5 is displayed.
1 (FIG. 1) is sent to the mediator terminal 3 (S20).
4). The mediator terminal 3 displays a recruitment homepage creation screen 51.
Is received, predetermined items necessary for creating a home page can be input from the screen 51. The reception management system 5 determines that a predetermined item required for creating a home page is not input from the intermediary terminal 3 within a predetermined time (S205; N
o), this processing is terminated because there is no intention to create a recruitment homepage.

When the input of the information of the predetermined items necessary for the creation of the homepage is received (S205; Yes), the HP creation unit 40 is activated and the message recruitment homepage 55 is started.
Is created (S206). The created message recruitment homepage 55 is transmitted to the mediator terminal 3 (S2
07). The intermediary terminal checks whether there is any problem in the received message recruitment homepage 55, and if there is no problem, sends a confirmation signal. If the reception management system 5 does not receive the confirmation signal from the intermediary terminal for a predetermined period (S208;
No), this process ends. When the confirmation signal is received within a predetermined period (S208; Yes), the URL generation unit 42 is activated and the message recruitment homepage 55 displays the U
RL is given (S209), registered in the WWW server 21, and the homepage is published on the network (S209).
210), and end the present process.

Next, with reference to FIG. 8 and FIGS. 10 to 12, a description will be given of a procedure for receiving an applied message by the reception management system 5 when a person who browses the message recruitment homepage 55 applies for a message. FIG.
Is a flowchart showing an example of an application message reception processing procedure in the reception management system 5, and FIGS. 10 to 12 are views showing an example of a screen displayed on the sender terminal 4 (FIG. 1). On the WWW server 21, it is possible to provide a top home page (not shown) for explaining that this site is a site for collecting messages and displaying a list of collected messages linked to the message collection home page 55. Here, an access person to the reception management system that may be a message sender will be described as a sender terminal 4.

When there is an access from the sender terminal 4 to the top homepage (hereinafter referred to as top HP) (S30)
1) The top HP screen including the information selection screen is transmitted (S302). FIG. 10 shows an example of the top HP screen. The top HP introduces a service on this homepage and informs the user that the type of service should be selected. In the top HP of FIG. 10, a "encouragement" button 71, a "celebration" button 72, and a "condolence" button 73 are provided as types of services (messages). The sender can select a service type using a pointer (not shown) such as a mouse of the sender terminal 4.

Returning to the flowchart of FIG. 8, if the reception management system 5 does not receive a service type selection signal from the sender terminal 4 within a certain period of time (S303; No), the reception management system 5 determines that there is no intention to transmit a message and performs this processing. To end. When a service type selection signal is received from the sender terminal 4 within a certain period (S303; Yes), the service type recruitment homepage 5 specified from the service-specific list storage unit 44 is received.
5 is transmitted (S304).

FIG. 11 shows, as an example of a screen of a list of recruiting HPs, a list screen when “encouragement” is selected as a service type in the top HP. On this screen, the message recruitment posting date and the theme name for each recruitment theme are shown. The theme names are all displayed for each recruitment homepage 55, and a link is formed so that the homepage is displayed when selected with the pointer. Therefore, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 8, when any recruitment homepage 55 is selected (S305;
YES), the selected HP is transmitted to transmitting terminal 4 (S306). If there is no selection of the recruitment homepage 55 within the predetermined period (S305; No), the process is terminated.

FIG. 12 shows an example of a screen of the message recruitment home page 55 displayed on the transmission terminal 4. On the message recruitment home page 55, a message theme name 81 indicating to whom the message is directed is displayed. Below that, a message acceptance period is shown, and a more detailed purpose explanation 82 is displayed. Further, when the service description 83 is selected, the type of the service is described. After the above description, a sender input field 84 is provided, and an input box 85 for inputting basic information about the sender is provided.
Below the input box, a message input box 86 and a file attachment box 87 are provided to enable insertion of a message or transmission of a file. After completing the necessary items and selecting the confirmation box 89,
A billing box 92 is displayed. In this example, it is required to input credit information on the premise of paying a credit. When all input is completed, the send button 9
3, the message application information is transmitted to the reception management system 5.

Returning to FIG. 8, when receiving the application information (S307; Yes), the reception management system 5 executes the billing processing unit 3
5, the usage fee is calculated, and the usage fee information is transmitted to the transmitting terminal 4 (S308). If the application information is not received within a predetermined time (S307; No), the process ends. The fee is displayed on the sender terminal 4, and when the sender confirms, a confirmation signal is sent from the sender terminal. Reception management system 5
Receives the confirmation signal (S309; Yes), sends a message to the delivery company and also sends billing information to the system 8 of the financial company (S310). Thereafter, reception completion information to the effect that reception of the message application has been completed is transmitted to the sender terminal 4 (S311), and the present process ends.

The deadline management process for the recruitment homepage will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 9 shows the recruitment homepage 5 of the present invention.
9 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a deadline management of No. 5; Period management is performed periodically. In this embodiment,
An example is shown in which deadline management is performed every day at midnight. It is periodically checked whether it is midnight, and if it is not midnight (S401; No), the process ends without performing the time limit management process. At midnight (S401; Ye
s), the publication date (posting date) of the recruitment homepage 55 is compared with the current date (S402). In a normal case, the publication deadline of the recruitment homepage 55 matches the message recruitment deadline, so that the recruitment deadline and the current date may be compared.

As a result of the comparison, if the posting deadline has passed (S403; Yes), the homepage whose posting deadline has passed is deleted from the public list (S404). Even in this case, the recruitment homepage 55 is stored in the recruitment storage unit 43 or another preliminary storage unit (not shown). It is possible to save as posting history. If the posting deadline has not yet passed (S403; No), the recruitment website 55
Is maintained, and the time limit management process ends.

In the above description, the reception management system is shown in the form of a functional block diagram. Each function of the present invention is described by a central control unit (CPU), a ROM, a RAM, a display device, an input / output device, an interface, a ROM, This can be achieved by a control program and a data set recorded in the RAM. Further, these control programs and data sets themselves for controlling the CPU to realize these functions and recording media on which these control programs and data sets are recorded are also included in the scope of the present invention.

[0059]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By posting a solicitation advertisement on the homepage connected to the network and soliciting messages, and enabling transmission of messages from the homepage, it is possible to send messages from the screen when you know that a message is available . This eliminates the need for a new operation or procedure for transmitting a message after the message is recruited, and makes the message transmission extremely easy. in this way,
ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, it is comprised so that recruitment and transmission can be performed by a homepage, and it can prevent the difference of the recognition of recruitment and the timing of message transmission which arises by the difference of the message recruitment advertisement medium and the message transmission medium like prior art. . As a result, the message sender can obtain an effect that the message can be easily sent as it is when it knows that the recruitment is available.
The effect of increasing the number of transmitted messages can be expected. In addition, when there is a request to open a homepage via the network, the recruitment homepage is immediately opened and published on the network, so a time lag until the posting of the recruitment article is required as in the case of conventional newspapers etc. The recruitment can be started promptly at the same time as the recruitment request.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of a network connection form used in a message recruitment delivery method and system of the present invention, and a basic operation image thereof.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing one embodiment of a reception management system 5 of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of a reception management system of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a relationship between input information from a mediator terminal and a storage location in a reception management system.

FIG. 5 is a diagram conceptually showing a relationship between a message form list 47 classified for each type of message and message forms 57 to 59 stored in a form storage unit 41 of the reception management system.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a message recruitment delivery processing procedure according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a procedure for creating a recruitment homepage and registering it in a WWW server.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a procedure for receiving an application message in the reception management system.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing one embodiment of a deadline management of a recruitment homepage of the present invention.

FIG. 10 shows an example of a top home page screen.

FIG. 11 is a display example of a recruitment homepage list screen when “encouragement” is selected as a service type.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a screen example of a message recruitment homepage 55.

[Explanation of symbols]

 3 Intermediary Terminal 4 Sender Terminal 5 Reception Management System 6 Delivery Terminal 10 Network 30 Management Unit 47 Message Form List 51 Intermediary Input Information 52 Intermediary Input Information 57 Encouragement Form 58 Celebration Form 59 Condolence Form 60 URL 61 List Registration Data 62 Recruitment request reception record

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A method for providing message solicitation information by a computer system connected to a network, receiving an applied message and delivering it to a delivery person, wherein (a) a homepage for soliciting a specific type of message (B) when receiving the recruitment request information, creating the homepage for recruiting the requested message for each recruitment request. A homepage creation step, (c) an application acceptance step of publishing the created homepage on the network by the computer system to promote application of the message, and accepting the application of the message by the published recruitment homepage; (d) By accessing the published homepage, Upon receiving the message, the message offering delivery method characterized by and a message delivery process that distributes a predetermined delivery person to deliver to the recipient specified applicants the received message. 2. The recruitment request receiving step (a) includes: (a1) a step of requesting the recruitment homepage establishment requester to input identification information; and (a2) verifying the input identification information. 2. The message recruitment and delivery method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of: receiving a request for opening a recruitment homepage only when the user has a legitimate authority. 3. The homepage creation step (b) includes a step of automatically generating a URL including a kind name of a message to be recruited in order to publish the homepage on the Internet. Item 1 or 2, the message recruitment delivery method. 4. A homepage publication management means for publishing and managing a message invitation on a homepage, and an application from a sender terminal for accessing the homepage published by the message invitation means and transmitting a message via the homepage. Message receiving means for receiving a message, message delivery means for delivering the received application message via a network to a delivery terminal that outputs a message to be delivered to a recipient by a predetermined medium,
A message delivery system for delivering an application message from a sender connected to a network to a recipient, the system comprising: 5. An invitation request receiving means for receiving message invitation request information transmitted via a network from an intermediary terminal for inputting message invitation information, and for each message invitation based on the received message invitation information. Means for creating a recruitment homepage for creating a recruitment homepage, and a URL for automatically generating and adding a URL including a message type name to the created recruitment homepage
A homepage for registering the recruitment homepage in the recruitment homepage storage means and publishing the recruitment homepage on the network, accessing the recruitment homepage and transmitting a message, and receiving an application message from a sender terminal via the homepage; A message receiving system for receiving a solicitation message via a network, comprising: a public management unit. 6. The message receiving system according to claim 5, wherein the homepage publication management unit monitors a publication period, and closes the homepage after the publication period has elapsed. 7. A list storage means for storing a list of recruitment homepages for each message type linked to a URL of the recruitment homepage, and a top homepage for displaying the recruitment homepage list for each message type, 7. The message receiving system according to claim 5, wherein the homepage publication management means updates a list of recruitment homepages in the list storage unit when newly registering or closing the recruitment homepage. 8. A recruitment request receiving means for receiving message recruitment information transmitted via a network from an intermediary terminal for inputting message recruitment information, and recruiting for each message recruitment based on the received message recruitment information. A recruitment homepage creation means for creating a homepage, and a recruitment reception means for publishing the created recruitment homepage on a network, receiving an application message from a sender terminal for accessing the recruitment homepage and transmitting a message via the homepage. Message delivery means for delivering the accepted application message via a network to a delivery terminal that outputs a message to be delivered to a recipient by a predetermined medium;
A message recruitment delivery system comprising: