JP2002215648A - Information collecting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information collecting system that can efficiently collect only the information required by those who wish to acquire the information in order to solve the problem of difficulty in acquiring necessary information in conventional Internet retrieval. SOLUTION: This information collecting system is composed of a client who wishes to acquire necessary information, an agent requested from the client to mediate in acquiring the information, and an information provider having an information input-output means capable of acquiring and sending the information through the Internet. On the basis of the information required by the client invited using a home page on a server, the information provider provides the server with specified information through the Internet, and specified evaluation is given to the provided information at the server.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information collecting system, and more particularly to a means for efficiently collecting necessary information using the Internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the recent advance in information and communication technology, mobile phone systems and Internet systems have become widespread in society and are becoming an indispensable social infrastructure for our lives.
In particular, the Internet system is a highly integrated technology of computer technology and communication technology, and users are rapidly increasing with the increase in connection service providers (providers) due to high performance and low price of computers and entry from different industries. The number is expanding.

[0003] Various kinds of information are provided on the Internet through homepages published by respective companies (or individuals). However, it is not easy to find necessary information from a vast amount of information. To solve such problems, there are many free search sites on the Internet. The search site uses software called a search engine, extracts the information corresponding to the search formula from the homepage information registered in the search site in advance based on the search formula entered by the user, and uses the URL ( Uniform Resource Locator, which means server address).

[0004]

However, the above-described conventional search sites have the following problems. In other words, because the Internet is a global network, the amount of information is extremely rich,
As a result, the number of homepages hit by the search formula becomes enormous, and furthermore, there is a considerable amount of unnecessary information included therein, and there is a problem that it is difficult to reach the homepage on which the necessary information is posted. In addition, a great deal of labor is required to extract desired information from such a large amount of information, and in the worst case, there is a problem that necessary information cannot be obtained. The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems related to the conventional information collection system,
It is an object of the present invention to provide an information collection system capable of efficiently collecting information required by an information acquisition applicant.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, an information collecting system according to claim 1 of the present invention uses a server connected to the Internet,
An information collection system that collects information required by a client from an information provider and provides the information to the client, and a means for soliciting the information required by the client via the Internet, and information from the information provider. Receiving the received information via the Internet, collecting and retaining the received information, evaluating the retained information, processing the information based on the evaluation, and sending the Internet to the client. And means for providing via The invention described in claim 2 of the information collection system according to the present invention is an information collection system that uses a server connected to the Internet to collect information required by a client from an information provider and provide the information to the client. Web page for soliciting the information required by the client, Web page to which the information provider can write and transmit information, means for collecting and holding the received information, and holding Means for evaluating the information being processed and a Web page for processing the information based on the evaluation and providing the processed information to the client. Claims of the information collection system according to the present invention
The invention according to claim 3 is the information collection system according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the evaluation is performed by a DDS (Decision Support System).
ystem). The invention described in claim 4 of the information collection system according to the present invention is defined in claims 1 and 2
Alternatively, in the information collection system according to claim 3, when providing information to a client, information is presented in order from information considered to be close to information required by the client based on the evaluation.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on illustrated embodiments. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of an information collection system according to the present invention. The information collection system shown in this example has a PC (Personal Computer) 20 as an information input / output unit capable of acquiring and transmitting information via the Internet 10 and a requester 30 who desires to obtain required information, An agent 50 who is connected to the Internet 10 and has a server 40 on which a home page (Web page) 40a is open to the public and is requested to mediate information acquisition from the requester, and can acquire and transmit information via the Internet 10 It comprises a plurality of information providers 70 each having a PC 60 as information input / output means.

[0007] The information collection system shown in this example functions as follows. First, the requester 30 accesses the server 40 (the agent 50) from the PC 20 via the Internet 10 and requests that the required information be collected. At this time,
The server 40 may install a transmission form for filling in "necessary information" on the homepage 40a, or may post an e-mail address and accept it by ordinary mail. The server 40 displays on the homepage 40a an invitation to provide information based on the request. Among the Internet users who browsed the offer, an information provider 70 who owns information related to the request information provides predetermined information to the server 40 from the PC 60 via the Internet 10. Also at this time, the server 40 receives information from the information provider 70, for example, by setting up a transmission form on the homepage 40a.

The server 40 performs a predetermined evaluation on the provided information, analyzes the provided information, and extracts data close to the information requested by the client 30. After that, the headings or summaries of the extracted data are ranked on the basis of the evaluation results and ranked in order from the one that seems to be close to the request of the client, and are published on the homepage 40a. Notify by means. It should be noted that the page on which the extracted data is posted cannot be seen without the password previously assigned to the requester.

[0009] The requester 30 browses the extracted data using the PC 20, selects one that is close to the requested content, and downloads the full text of the data to the PC 20. The server 40 displays, on the screen (browser) of the PC 20, a price contracted in advance according to the number of downloaded data. As for payment, for example, electronic payment is made on the Internet 10. The server 40 subtracts a predetermined commission from the consideration paid by the client 30,
The remaining amount is paid to the information provider 70 by ranking the amount based on the analysis result of the provided information. Also in this case, if electronic settlement is made on the Internet, the agent 50 will be able to reduce the clerical work, which is convenient.

[0010] Here, as one of means for evaluating the provided information performed in the server 40 described above,
DSS (Decision Support System) is known. DSS is known as a decision support system in which a decision making process is performed by a computer. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram for explaining an example of a DSS model. Shown in this figure
The DSS model includes a search criterion input unit 110, an evaluation unit 120 that evaluates the keyword coverage and the frequency of the information to which the provided information is input and searched, and the source of the information, and the provided information to be input and the evaluation unit 120. A keyword search is performed based on the supplied keyword, and the result is fed back to the evaluation unit 120, or an arithmetic processing unit 130 that outputs the result as a final search result is sequentially connected.

The DSS model shown in FIG. 1 functions as follows. First, the search request from the client 30 is sent to the server
When input to 40 search criteria input sections 110, search criteria conditions (for example, keyword coverage of 80% or more, keyword
(0 times or more) and the search keyword are determined by the agent 50 and transmitted to the evaluation unit 120. The evaluation unit 120 first sends the search keyword to the arithmetic processing unit 130, evaluates the completeness and frequency of use of the search keyword for each provided information, and if necessary, revises the search criteria conditions to search criteria input unit 11
Request 0. If there is no need for reevaluation, the result is output from the arithmetic processing unit 130 to the main CPU of the server 40 as final evaluation.

In the above-described embodiment, the DSS is exemplified as the evaluation means. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is needless to say that another artificial intelligence algorithm may be used. In addition, although the requester 30 made a request for information retrieval to the agent 50 via the Internet 10, there is no need to particularly explain that ordinary communication means such as telephone, fax, and letter may be used. .

In short, according to the present invention, information related to information required by the client 30 is collected as primary information from the information provider 70, and secondary information is extracted from the primary information through a predetermined process (DSS). In the first place, the primary information has eliminated the information not required by the client with a considerable probability in the first place, so that the client eventually obtains only the necessary information efficiently as secondary information. Becomes possible. In addition, some information providers may regularly enter information that is not related to information solicited with malicious intent.Therefore, monitor for a certain period of time, and add the information of the person concerned to the evaluation process. A configuration in which the data is deleted without deleting will also lead to an improvement in efficiency.

[0014]

According to the present invention, as described above, an information provider who possesses the information desired to be obtained on the Internet is recruited through the agent, and the information is provided by the information provider, and the agent determines a predetermined information. Since the result of the evaluation and analysis of the information is provided to the client, the client has a significant effect in realizing an information collection system capable of efficiently obtaining only necessary information.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of an information collection system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing an example of a DSS model used in a server for evaluating and analyzing provided information;

[Explanation of symbols]

 10, Internet 20, 60 PC 30 as information input / output means Requester 40 Server 50 Agent 70 Information provider

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An information collection system for collecting information required by a client from an information provider using a server connected to the Internet and providing the information to the client, and providing the information required by the client. Means for soliciting information from the information provider via the Internet, means for collecting and holding the received information, means for evaluating the held information, Means for processing information based on the evaluation and providing the information to a client via the Internet. 2. An information collection system for collecting information required by a client from an information provider using a server connected to the Internet and providing the information to the client, and providing the information required by the client. Web page for recruiting information, and Web where information providers can write and send information
Page, means for collecting and holding the received information, means for evaluating the held information, and a web page for processing the information based on the evaluation and providing the information to the client. An information collection system characterized by comprising: 3. The evaluation is carried out by a DDS (Decision Support System).
Claim 1 or Claim 2 characterized by using m)
Information collection system described. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein when providing the information to the client, the information is presented in order from the one considered to be close to the information required by the client based on the evaluation. The information collection system described in Item 3.