JP2002215594A - Provider network system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the load of the facility cost, operation cost, management cost, etc., as to a provider-side storage device. SOLUTION: Part of a storage device 023 of a client terminal 022 which is normally connected to a server 011 of a provider 010 is secured as a provider- used area 025 that the provider 010 can use and the provider 010 ciphers contents data matching the environment of each client terminal 022 according to properties of the contents of a characteristic database of a client and stored contents data and saves the data in the provider-used area 025 of the client terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a network system between a provider and a client who has a contract for a dial-up connection service, and more particularly, a part of a storage device of a client to which a provider is always connected on the Internet. To a provider network system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 4 is a system configuration diagram showing a conventional network system between a provider and a client having a dial-up connection service contract.
The client's Internet connection service connects to the provider's server 111 from the client terminal 122 using the dial-up communication line 121 according to a contract between the client (including a company) terminal 122 and the provider 110 and communicates with the provider's server 111 to connect to the Internet. Triggered by requesting a connection to.

[0005] The server 111 of the provider that has received the request for connection to the Internet connects the client to the Internet network communication line 104. As a result, the client terminal 122 can access the server 103 on the Internet network. These client terminals 12
The Internet connection service 2 is managed by a database 113 about clients in the server 111 of the provider. The provider 110 secures an area for homepage contents in the data storage device 112 for the client terminal 122 in the server 111 of the provider together with the Internet connection service of the client terminal 122.

The data storage device 112 stores various data for service to the client terminal 122 and various data for the Internet user terminal 101 in addition to the data for the homepage. We have prepared. In addition, expenses required for the facilities, operation, and management of the provider 110 required for the Internet connection service and the data storage device 112 for various contents are collected from clients who have contracted for the Internet connection service.

[0005]

However, in this conventional provider network system, (1) an increase in the number of contents due to a rapid increase in the number of Internet users in recent years, and (2) an increase in the data amount of contents due to the development of multimedia. , (3) BtoB (between companies), Bto
With the rise of the e-commerce business of C (between companies and consumers) and the expansion of Internet auctions, there is a problem that the capacity of the storage device on the provider side increases drastically and the facilities, operation and management costs of the provider become enormous. In addition, since the equipment, operation, and management costs of the provider are collected from clients who have contracted for the Internet connection service, the provider can not only reduce but also increase the cost burden on the client required for the Internet connection service. There was a problem. In addition, since various types of data are intensively stored in the server of the provider, the amount of loss of data destroyed due to equipment failure is enormous, and there is a problem that the burden on the provider also increases in terms of reliability.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a provider network system which can cope with an increase in the amount of data by suppressing an increase in equipment, operation and management costs of the provider, and can improve the security against troubles occurring on the provider side. Is to provide.

[0007]

According to the present invention, there is provided a provider network system comprising: a content database for managing attribute of a client terminal; and a storage device for managing a use state of a provider use area of a storage device of the client terminal. A use status database, a communication unit for the Internet user terminal to access the provider use area, and a storage unit for storing the content in the provider use area based on the attribute of the client terminal and the attribute of the content to be stored. A client terminal that has a server device of a provider connected to an Internet network communication line, a storage device in which a client use area and the provider use area are secured, and is connected to the server device by a dial-up communication line;
A function of the client terminal communicating with the server device, a function of encrypting or restoring content data accessed to the provider use area, and a function of displaying the data of the provider use area on the Internet user terminal. And a provider connection means having a function.

[0008] The provider network system of the present invention secures an area that can be used by the provider in a part of the storage capacity of the client terminal that is constantly connected to the server device of the provider, and the provider stores and saves the contents of the characteristic database of the client. Content data suitable for the environment of each client terminal is encrypted based on the attribute of the content data and stored in the provider use area. When accessing specific content from the Internet user terminal, the server device of the provider searches the storage device usage database for the client terminal storing the content, connects the Internet user terminal and the client terminal, and performs encryption. Content displayed on the Internet user terminal.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing a configuration of a provider network system according to this embodiment. This provider network system includes content data of the provider 010 stored in the storage device 012, a client characteristic database (hereinafter, referred to as DB) built in the storage device 013, and a storage device 01.
Server (storage means) 011 of the provider 010 having the storage device use status DB of the client constructed in Step 4
And a client terminal 022 having a storage device 023 that secures a client use area 024 and a provider use area 025, a constantly connected dial-up communication line 211, which connects them, and software dedicated to provider connection (communication means, provider connection Means) 026, Internet user terminal 001, and Internet network server 00 relaying said Internet user terminal 001
3, Internet network and server 0 of provider 010
11 are connected to each other via an Internet communication line 004.

[0010] The server 003 of the Internet network and the server 011 of the provider 010 are information processing devices such as workstations for constructing the Internet network. The Internet communication line 004 is a communication line that connects servers that construct the Internet network to each other. The Internet user terminal 001 and the client terminal 022 are information processing devices such as a personal computer for using the Internet, and a server 00 of the Internet network.
3 and a function of displaying various contents on the Internet network via the server 011 of the provider 010. The storage device 023 of the client terminal 022
Is the client area 02 used by the client itself.
4 and a provider use area 025 that the provider 010 can use. The dial-up communication line 021 is connected to the server 011 of the provider 010 and the client terminal 02.
2 are interconnected communication lines.

[0011] The provider connection dedicated software 026 is a client terminal 022 that is connected to the server 011 of the provider 010.
Function for communicating with the provider 01 and the provider 01
When the Internet user terminal 001 accesses the data of the provider use area 025, the function of encrypting the data of the content stored by the provider 010 into the provider use area 025,
It has a function of restoring the encrypted data and displaying the content on a general-purpose browser normally used in the Internet user terminal 001.

The server 011 of the provider 010 records the operation status of the client terminal 022 from the past to the present and the quality status of the constantly connected line in the client characteristic DB of the storage device 013, and determines whether the data is for backup of highly important data. A client terminal 2 suitable for the content of data to be stored, such as for simple backup, for frequently accessed content, or for infrequently accessed content.
2 is provided. In the storage device usage status DB of the client of the storage device 014, information of data stored in the provider use area 025 of each client terminal 022 is recorded, and the Internet user terminal 0
01, the client terminal 022 in which the data of the content accessed from the client terminal 022 is searched, and the Internet user terminal 001 and the corresponding client terminal 022 are searched.
Have the function of interconnecting

Next, the operation will be described. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of storing various data such as contents in the provider network system, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation of supplying various data such as contents to the Internet user. FIG.
According to the flowchart shown in FIG.
Whether all client terminals 022 subscribed to the Internet connection service are (1) always connected, or (2)
If you have installed software dedicated to provider connection,
(3) 24 hours of operation, or during which time period of 24 hours, (4) the baud rate of the dial-up communication line, (5) frequency of communication errors, (6) client Information such as the terminal initialization frequency is stored in the client characteristic DB of the storage device 013. The information from the past is comprehensively determined, and the characteristics of the client are ranked (step S1). Furthermore, information ranked according to the importance and access frequency of each data, and information on the data constructed in the provider use area 025 of each client terminal 022 are recorded in the storage device use status DB of the client of the storage device 014. (Step S2). Then, the server 011 of the provider determines which data should be constructed in which client terminal 022 based on the information (Step S).
3).

Based on this determination, the provider 010 accesses the client terminal 022 and encrypts the data to be stored through the dedicated software for connecting to the provider (step S).
4), transmitting the encrypted data to the client terminal 022;
(Step S)
5). At this time, the same data is transferred to a plurality of client terminals 0.
It is also possible to make a distributed construction in 22.

Further, according to the flowchart shown in FIG. 3, the Internet user terminal 001 connects to the server 011 of the provider 010 via the Internet network server 003 and the Internet network communication line, and Make a connection request. The server 011 of the provider 010 detects the connection request (step S11), and searches where the data of the connection-requested content is constructed by referring to the storage device usage DB of the client of the storage device 014. (Step S12).

The contents data is stored in the storage device 01 in the server 011 of the provider 010.
If the data is stored as the data of the second content, the data of the content is directly returned to the Internet user terminal 001 from the server 011 of the provider 010 (step S13). If the content data is stored in the specific client terminal 022, the client terminal 022 is connected to the Internet user terminal 001 (step S14). If the content data is constructed in a plurality of client terminals 022, the client terminal 022 that can be currently connected is searched with reference to the client characteristic DB of the storage device 013 (step S15). The terminal 022 is connected to the Internet user terminal 001 (step S1).
6).

When the Internet user terminal 001 and the client terminal 002 are connected, the provider connection dedicated software 026 installed in the client terminal 022 constructs the contents requested from the Internet user terminal 001 in the provider use area 025. The encrypted data is retrieved from the data thus obtained (step S17), and the encrypted content is restored (step S18) and returned to the Internet user terminal 001 to be displayed on the browser of the Internet user terminal 001 (step S19). ).

When connecting to the Internet from the client terminal 022 on which the provider connection dedicated software 026 is installed, the provider connection dedicated software 026 determines whether or not the data of the requested content is in the client terminal 022 which has requested the connection. If the data is in the client terminal 022, the data is retrieved from the provider use area in the client terminal 022 without being connected to the provider 010, restored, and displayed directly on the client terminal 022.

As described above, according to this embodiment,
Since the requested content can be encrypted and stored in the provider use area 025 in the storage device of the client terminal, the content can be searched from the stored data, and the encrypted content can be restored and provided. It is possible to suppress the increase in the storage capacity of the provider side due to the increase in the number of contents, the amount of data of the content contents, the expansion of e-commerce and Internet auctions, and to suppress the increase in the facilities, operation and management costs of the provider side. There is an effect that it is possible to provide a provider network system capable of avoiding data loss or the like due to failure of the server equipment and improving safety and reliability against failure of the server equipment of the provider.

[0020]

According to the present invention, since the data that increases on the provider side can be stored in the storage device of the client terminal, equipment costs for the storage device on the provider side can be reduced.
It is possible to reduce each burden such as an operation cost and a management cost, and it is possible to reduce a burden on the facilities, operation and management of the provider.
In addition, since the same data can be distributed and stored in a plurality of client terminals, the data can be reliably backed up and the risk can be distributed, and there is an effect that the security against troubles occurring on the provider side can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing a configuration of a provider network system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of saving various data such as contents in the provider network system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation of supplying various data such as contents to Internet users in the provider network system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a system configuration diagram showing a configuration of a conventional provider network system.

[Description of Signs] 001: Internet user terminal, 004: Internet network communication line, 011: Server (storage means), 13: Client characteristic database, storage device (characteristic database), 014: Client Storage device usage status database, storage device (storage device usage status database), 021 ... Dial-up communication line, 022 ... Client terminal, 023 ... Storage device, 026 ... Provider connection dedicated software (Communication means, Provider connection means).

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A property database for managing content data, an attribute of a client terminal, a storage device usage database for managing a usage status of a provider usage area of a storage device of the client terminal, Communication means for accessing the use area, and storage means for storing the content in the provider use area based on the attribute of the client terminal and the attribute of the content to be stored. A server device, a client terminal having a storage device in which a client use area and the provider use area are secured, and a client terminal connected to the server device by a dial-up communication line; and a function of the client terminal communicating with the server device; Use of the provider Provider connection means having a function of encrypting or restoring the data of the content accessed to the area, and a function of enabling the data of the provider use area to be displayed on the Internet user terminal. Provider network system. 2. The server device constructs information of data stored in the provider use area as the storage device use status database, and stores the client terminal storing content data requested from an Internet user terminal in the storage device. 2. The provider network system according to claim 1, wherein the determination is made based on a device usage database, and the Internet user terminal is connected to the client terminal. 3. The provider network system according to claim 1, wherein the client terminal is always connected to a server device of the provider. 4. A characteristic database for managing the attribute of the client terminal manages a communication line quality state between the client terminals and an operation state of the client terminal, and the storage unit stores the contents of the characteristic database and data to be stored. 4. The provider network system according to claim 1, wherein the client terminal is selected based on the access frequency and importance of the provider.