JP2002207762A - Store information supplying system and computer- readable recording medium recorded with store information supplying program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a store information supplying system capable of searching information of a store by easily memorized information and supplying it to a browser. SOLUTION: The store information supplying system is provided with a store information storing means (a store information DB 111) for registering information of stores coordinately with telephone numbers, a telephone number existence determining means (a telephone number existence determining part 13) determining whether a character string in a predetermined position of an URL sent from the browser is a telephone number or not when store information is requested, a search sentence generating means (a search sentence generating part 15) generating a search sentence including a character string determined to be a telephone number, and a screen data generating and sending means (composed of a screen data generating part 16 and an I/O interface part 12) generating and sending screen data suitable for the browser including information of a store retrieved from the store information storing means by the generated search sentence.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a store information supply system for retrieving and supplying store information and a recording medium on which a program thereof is recorded.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, all store owners have
We are looking for ways to increase store awareness using the Internet.

[0003] Under such circumstances, store managers have set up their own homepages and posted advertisements on popular homepages in an attempt to improve user recognition.

However, in the related art, there is a case where even if a homepage is established by oneself, the recognition level does not increase as much as desired.

[0004] In other words, it is difficult to remember the domain name of the alphabet, and it is inconvenient to convey it verbally. In particular, when a unique domain name cannot be obtained, the URL becomes long, and the tendency becomes remarkable. Therefore, in many cases, opening the homepage does not substantially improve the effect.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to be able to retrieve store information by using information that easily remains in memory and supply it to a browser. The present invention provides a simple store information supply system and a recording medium.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a store information supply system in which store information is registered in association with a telephone number. And telephone number presence / absence determining means for determining whether a character string at a predetermined position in the URL transmitted from the browser when requesting the store information is a telephone number,
A search sentence generating means for generating a search sentence including a character string determined to be a telephone number; and screen data suitable for a browser by including information of a store searched from the store information storage means by the generated search sentence. And a screen data generation and transmission unit for generating and transmitting the image data.

[0007] According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the store information supply system according to the first aspect, the store information stored in the store information storage means is:
When the search sentence generating means is associated with a telephone number separated by a predetermined delimiter, and the character string determined to be the telephone number does not include the delimiter, the search sentence generation means The present invention is characterized in that a designated character is inserted at a place where it is assumed that there is a delimiter, regardless of whether or not there is a delimiter.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the store information supply system according to the first or second aspect, screen data corresponding to the User-Agent described in an http request header including the URL is displayed. It is characterized by being constituted to generate.

A store information supply system according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is the store information supply system according to any one of the first to third aspects, wherein the screen data generation and transmission means comprises:
When a plurality of store information is searched, screen data for displaying a list of the searched stores is generated and transmitted.

A store information supply system according to a fifth aspect of the present invention is the store information supply system according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, wherein the screen data generation and transmission means comprises:
When the information of the store is not found, screen data for notifying that the information was not found is generated and transmitted.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium on which a store information supply program is recorded, which determines whether a character string at a predetermined position in a URL transmitted from a browser when requesting store information is a telephone number. A telephone number presence / absence determining means for determining, a search text generating means for generating a search text including a character string determined to be a telephone number, and information on a store searched by the generated search text, which is suitable for a browser. And a screen data generating and transmitting means for generating and transmitting the screen data in the store information supply system.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration and a use form of a store information supply system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The store information supply system 1 is a computer system operated and managed by a company or the like that provides store information to users. The store information supply system 1 connects a browser 2 and an Internet 3 mounted on a PC (personal computer) or a mobile phone terminal used by the user. It can be connected via.

The store information supply system 1 includes a database system 11, an input / output interface unit 12, a telephone number presence / absence determination unit 13, a browser type determination unit 14, a search text generation unit 15, and a screen data generation unit 16.

The database system 11 stores the shop information D
B111, and stores and manages the store information in association with the management number for each store. The store information is a store name, an address, and the like. Further, the telephone numbers serving as search keywords in this embodiment are also stored as store information, separated by hyphens (-). Note that information other than items common to all stores, such as addresses, for example, information corresponding to medical treatment items specific to medical institutions is stored as store information for each type of business. Further, there may be a plurality of store information including the same telephone number, and in this case, a plurality of store information is retrieved from one telephone number.

As described above, the database system 11
Store information can be searched from the store information DB 111 by a search sentence including a telephone number from the search sentence generation unit 15. Then, the searched store information is output to the screen data generation unit 16.

The input / output interface unit 12 transmits the URL (U
niform Resource Locator) to the telephone number presence / absence determining unit 13, and http (hyper text transfer protocol) transmitted from the browser 2 to the store information supply system 1.
l) The User-Agent in the request header is output to the browser type determination unit 14.

The telephone number presence / absence determination unit 13
It is determined whether the character string at a predetermined position in the RL is equivalent to a telephone number, and the result of the determination and the URL are output to the search sentence generator 15.

The browser type determination section 14 determines the type of the browser 2 based on the User-Agent from the input / output interface section 12 and outputs the result to the screen data generation section 16.

The search sentence generating unit 15 regards the character string determined to correspond to the telephone number by the telephone number presence / absence determining unit 13 as a telephone number, generates a search sentence including the character string, and outputs it to the database system 11.

The screen data generation unit 16 generates and enters screen data suitable for the type of the browser 2 based on the determination result from the browser type determination unit 14 by including the store information output from the database system 11. Output to the output interface unit 12. The screen data is, specifically, a file in the html: hyper text markup language format, image data associated with the file, or the like, and a subset for a mobile phone may be used in some cases.

Then, the input / output interface unit 12
The screen data from the screen data generator 16 is transmitted to the browser 2.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

For example, as shown in FIG. 1, in the URL input area of the browser 2, "http: // m
achi.goo.ne.jp/047-773-0000 "is input and the decision button is clicked in the case of a mobile phone, or
When the ENTER key or the like is pressed in the case of C, this URL is transmitted to the store information supply system 1 by an http request header, and the input / output interface unit 12 receives this. Note that the http request header includes a User-Agent indicating the type of the browser 2.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a process performed by the telephone number presence / absence determining unit 13 based on the URL from the input / output interface unit 12.

First, in step S1, the URL is changed to ".jp /".
Extract the character string "047-773-0000" after the character string. Next, in step S3, the character string “047-773-0000” is replaced with a number and a hyphen.
It is determined whether it is composed only of (-). Where NO
If it is determined that the characters (including characters other than numbers and hyphens) are included, the process ends.

On the other hand, if it is determined as YES (only numbers and hyphens) in step S3, the character string "047-773-000
"0" is regarded as a telephone number, and the process proceeds to step S5. In step S5, it is determined whether the character string “047-773-0000” is within 20 characters. Here, if the determination is NO, the process ends.

If it is determined that the answer is YES (within 20 characters) in step S5, then in step S7 "there is a telephone number" and the URL "http://machi.goo.ne.jp/047-773-0000"
Is output to the search sentence generation unit 15 and the process ends.

When the processing is completed after the determination in step S3 or S5 is NO, the store information supply system 1 transmits screen data for searching for store information from the store name, address, or genre to the browser 2. Send. This allows the user to perform a store search by various methods other than including the telephone number in the URL.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the processing in the browser type determination section 14.

First, in step S11, a User-Agent is acquired. Next, in step S13, the type of the browser 2 is determined based on the User-Agent. Here, it is determined whether the browser is a mobile phone browser or a PC browser. Then, in step S15, the determination result is displayed on the screen data
And output the result.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing in the search sentence generation unit 15.

First, in step S21, the URL is changed to ".j".
The character string after "p /", that is, the character string "047-773-0000" regarded as a telephone number is extracted. Next, in step S23, it is determined whether or not the character string includes a hyphen. Here, when it is determined as YES (including the hyphen), a search sentence is generated in step S25. Note that NO
If it is determined in step S27 that the specified character "%" for the fuzzy search is entered in the character string as the telephone number in step S27, the process proceeds to the generation of a search sentence in step S25.

In step S29, the generated search sentence is output to the database system 11, and the process is terminated.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a search sentence generated by the search sentence generation unit 15.

These are search sentences called SQL sentences. The search sentence generation unit 15 stores the sentence for searching the number of stores shown in FIG. 5A and the store information itself shown in FIG. Generates a sentence for searching and creates a database system 11
Output to Therefore, the database system 11 can perform a search for this, and output the number of stores and store information to the screen data generation unit 16.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of specifying a fuzzy search.

As shown in FIG. 6, the search sentence generation unit 15
By inserting "%" in a place where a hyphen in the character string as a telephone number may enter, the database system 11 recognizes this as a hyphen or Null and can search.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a process performed by the screen data generation unit 16 when a search result of the database system 11 is obtained.

First, in step S31, the number of stores is determined. Here, when it is determined that the number of stores = 0, in step S33, screen data for notifying that there is no corresponding store is generated. On the other hand, when it is determined that the number of stores = 1, in step S35, screen data for displaying the store in detail is generated including the store information from the database system 11. On the other hand, when it is determined that the number of stores ≧ 2, in step S37, screen data for listing a plurality of store names is generated. The screen data is generated in a format suitable for the browser 2 based on the determination result from the browser type determination unit 14. Then, in step S39,
The generated screen data is output to the input / output interface unit 12, and the process is terminated.

Finally, the input / output interface unit 12
Transmits the screen data from the screen data generation unit 16 to the browser 2.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing search results displayed on the browser of the mobile phone terminal. 9 to 11 show a PC
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing search results displayed on the browser of FIG.

If there is no corresponding store, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 9, a notice to that effect is displayed. When the corresponding store is one store, the store information is displayed in detail as shown in FIG. 8B and FIG. When there are a plurality of applicable stores, as shown in FIG. 8C and FIG. 11, some information on the stores (in this case, the store name and the type of business) is displayed so as to be listed.

As described above, according to the store information supply system 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention, store information storage means (store information of the database system 11) in which store information is registered in association with a telephone number. DB111) and a telephone number presence / absence determining means (telephone number presence / absence determining unit 1) for determining whether or not a character string at a predetermined position in the URL transmitted from the browser at the time of requesting store information is a telephone number.
3), a search sentence generating means (search sentence generation unit 15) for generating a search sentence including a character string determined to be a telephone number, and information of a store searched from the store information storage means by the generated search sentence. Screen data generation and transmission means (consisting of a screen data generation unit 16 and an input / output interface unit 12) for generating and transmitting screen data suitable for a browser. It becomes possible to search and supply to the browser by the "phone number" which tends to remain, and as a result, the recognition of the store is remarkably improved. In addition, since the telephone numbers have a unique property that they cannot have the same number, it is possible to minimize the inconvenience that the store expected due to an input error is not displayed.

Further, when the store information stored in the store information storage means is associated with a telephone number delimited by a predetermined delimiter such as "hyphen (-)", the search sentence generation means: If the character string determined to be a phone number does not include a delimiter, insert a specified character such as "%" at the place where the delimiter is assumed to be, regardless of the presence of the delimiter. Accordingly, "fuzzy search" can be performed regardless of the presence or absence of a delimiter, and as a result, store information can be searched without regard to the delimiter.

Further, since it is configured to generate the screen data corresponding to the User-Agent described in the http request header including the URL, it is possible to search the store without worrying about the type of browser such as a mobile phone or a PC. Will be able to

When a plurality of store information is searched, the screen data generation and transmission means generates and transmits screen data for displaying a list of the searched stores, so that the user switches the screen. Without having to know the information of these stores at once.

The screen data generation and transmission means generates screen data for notifying that the store information has not been searched and transmits the screen data to the browser if the store information has not been searched. Due to the nature of the above, a unique effect is obtained in that the user can immediately recognize that the information of the store does not exist in the store information supply system unless there is an input error or the like.

The store information supply program for causing the above-described units to function in the store information supply system 1 includes a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, an optical disk,
It can be distributed by storing it in a computer-readable recording medium such as a magneto-optical disk or a magnetic tape. Therefore, by setting this recording medium in an arbitrary computer and reading and executing the processing program, the same operation as the present invention can be obtained, and as a result, the same effect as the present invention can be obtained on the computer. be able to.

[0050]

As described above, according to the store information supply system according to the present invention, the "telephone number" which is easily stored in the memory
By inputting the information into the input area of the RL, it is possible to search and display the information of the store, and as a result, the recognition of the store is significantly improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration and a use form of a store information supply system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing processing in a telephone number presence / absence determining unit 13;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a process in a browser type determination unit 14;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing processing in a search sentence generation unit 15;

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a search sentence generated by a search sentence generation unit 15;

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a specification example of a fuzzy search.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a process in a screen data generation unit 16;

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing search results displayed on a browser of a mobile phone terminal.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing search results displayed on a browser of a PC.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing search results displayed on a browser of a PC.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing search results displayed on a browser of a PC.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 store information supply system 2 browser 3 internet 11 database system 12 input / output interface unit 13 telephone number presence / absence determination unit 14 browser type determination unit 15 search sentence generation unit 16 screen data generation unit 111 store information DB

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. Store information storage means in which store information is registered in association with a telephone number, and a URL transmitted from a browser when requesting store information.
Telephone number presence / absence determining means for determining whether or not a character string at a predetermined position is a telephone number, a search text generating means for generating a search text including the character string determined to be a telephone number, and a generated search A store information supply system comprising: a screen data generation and transmission unit that generates and transmits screen data suitable for a browser by including information of a store retrieved from the store information storage unit by a sentence. 2. When the store information stored in the store information storage unit is associated with a telephone number delimited by a predetermined delimiter, the search statement generation unit determines the telephone number as the telephone number. 2. A method according to claim 1, wherein when the character string does not include the delimiter, a designated character is inserted at a position where the delimiter is assumed to exist, regardless of whether or not the delimiter is present. Store information supply system described. 3. The store information supply system according to claim 1, wherein the store information supply system is configured to generate screen data corresponding to a User-Agent described in an http request header including the URL. 4. The screen data generating and transmitting means generates and transmits screen data for displaying a list of the searched stores when a plurality of store information is searched. 3. The store information supply system according to any one of 3. 5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said screen data generation and transmission means generates and transmits screen data for notifying that the store information has not been searched when the store information has not been searched. Store information supply system described in Crab. 6. A telephone number presence / absence determining means for determining whether or not a character string at a predetermined position in a URL transmitted from a browser at the time of requesting store information is a telephone number. Store information supply means including a search statement generation means for generating a search sentence including the screen information, and a screen data generation transmission means for generating and transmitting screen data suitable for a browser by including information of a store searched by the generated search statement. A computer-readable recording medium on which a store information supply program for causing the system to function is recorded.