JP2002230395A - System and method for information distribution - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for information distribution which enable shortening of the time up to distribution. SOLUTION: This information distribution system which distributes different information to a plurality of users has a publishing company server 6 which generates information to be distributed to one of the users, user by user, and generates provided information for each user according to provided information indication data indicating the contents of the information to be provided for the users, and the system provides the information generated by the publishing company server 6 for customer terminals 7 and 8.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to an information distribution system and an information distribution method for distributing information to a plurality of users.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a service provider provides information required by a customer to a plurality of customers, a mailing list in which conditions relating to the necessary information for each customer are recorded for each customer and a printing company print the conditions. Documents were provided to a mailing company, and the mailing company mailed a document containing different information based on a mailing list.

[0003] For example, when an investment trust management report is sent from a securities company to a customer, each investment trust company creates an operation report and requests a printing company to print. Then, the printed operation report is delivered to a mailing company together with a mailing list. In the mailing company, the operation report was sent to each customer based on the delivery instruction for each customer attached to the mailing list.

[0004]

However, the above-mentioned conventional method has the following disadvantages.

For example, in the case of the investment trust operation report shown in the above example, it is necessary to report to hundreds of thousands of customers per account. However, since the information to be reported differs for each customer,
The task of associating hundreds of thousands of printed materials ordered from a printing company with the contents of shipment to customers based on a mailing list and delivery contents instructions, that is, sorting out shipping documents for each customer, was extremely burdensome.

[0006] Furthermore, in view of the fact that securities companies have to report operations to customers more frequently than ever before due to the revision of the Investment Trust Law, further shortening of the time required for shipping is required.

Further, according to the above-mentioned operation report, the postage and the burden on the mailing company are extremely large.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an information distribution system and an information distribution method capable of shortening the time until distribution.

[0009]

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information distribution system for distributing different information to a plurality of users, wherein information to be provided to any one of the users is provided for each user. And a provision information generation unit configured to generate provision information for each user based on provision information instruction data indicating content of information to be provided to a user, wherein the provision generated by the provision information generation unit is provided. An information distribution system is provided, wherein information is provided to each of the plurality of users.

According to such a configuration, the information to be provided to any user can be provided to each user based on the provided information instruction data, so that the information to be provided to the user is separately provided for each user. It is not necessary to generate the information, and it is easy to provide information to the user.

Preferably, the information to be provided to the user is provided as electronic data via a network, by mail, or by delivery of a recording medium on which the provided information is recorded.

Preferably, the provided information generation unit receives information to be provided to the user from a first terminal via a network, and receives the provided information instruction data from a second terminal via a network. .

Note that the present invention relating to an apparatus is also realized as an information distribution method realized by the apparatus.

Further, the present invention relating to an apparatus or a method is provided for causing a computer to execute a procedure corresponding to the present invention (or for causing a computer to function as means corresponding to the present invention, or for causing a computer to correspond to the present invention). The present invention is also realized as a computer-readable recording medium in which a program for realizing the function of performing the above is recorded.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of an information distribution system according to one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a network 1 includes investment trust company servers 2 and 3,
Securities company servers 4 and 5, publisher company server 6, and customer terminals 7 and 8 are connected. Each server and terminal,
Electronic data can be transmitted and received via the network 1.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a detailed configuration of the publishing company server 6. As shown in FIG.
An interface 61 for transmitting and receiving information to and from the processor 61, a processor 62 connected to the interface 61 for performing various processes required for information distribution, and storage means 63 to 66 connected to the processor 62. A main program is recorded in the storage unit 63. When performing various processes, the main program is read by the processor 62 and various processes are executed. The main program includes at least a transmission / reception program for transmitting / receiving information to / from the network 1 via at least the interface 61, a sorting processing program for sorting operation reports for each customer based on a mailing list, and storage means 64-66.
Includes a storage program for storing various processing data and a customer-specific operation report program for generating a customer-specific operation report to be transmitted to each customer.

The storage means 64 stores a mailing list. The storage means 65 records an operation report file. The storage means 66 stores a customer file.

FIG. 3A shows an example of the structure of the mailing list stored in the storage means 64. As shown in FIG. 3 (a), a securities company that requests the provision of an investment report to a customer and an investment trust company that generates the investment report are associated with each other.
The customer of the provider and the type (fund) of the management report provided to the customer are recorded. Further, each fund is associated with timing specifying information for specifying a timing at which an investment report is provided to the customer as necessary.

FIG. 3B shows an example of the configuration of the operation report file stored in the storage means 65. As shown in FIG. 3B, an investment trust company that provides an operation report, contents of various operation reports provided to a customer, and a type of each content are stored in association with each other. Although the contents are shown as character data for convenience in FIG. 3B, for example, XML (Extensible Marku) is used.
p Language, HTML (Hype)
rText Markup Language (PDF) file, PDF (Portable Document F)
or any type of file such as a file.

Next, an information distribution method according to this embodiment will be described with reference to a sequence diagram shown in FIG. In the following description, communication between each terminal and server is performed by transmitting and receiving information via the network 1 unless otherwise specified.

In the following description, a description will be given along a specific example shown in FIG. 5 for convenience of description. The investment trust company p managing the investment trust company server 2 has funds a and b
The investment trust company q that manages the investment trust company server 3 operates the funds c and d. A securities company r managing the securities company server 4 sells funds a and c, and a securities company s managing the securities company server 5 manages funds b and d.
Are sold. In this case, the customer t using the customer terminal 7 purchases the fund a from the securities company r and the fund d from the securities company s, and the customer u using the customer terminal 8 purchases the fund c from the securities company r and the securities company r. s has purchased fund b.

As shown in FIG. 4, first, a request for distribution of an operation report from the securities company server 4 to the customers of the funds a and c sold by the securities company r is sent to the publisher server 6.
(S1). In response to the distribution request, the publisher server 6 requests the securities company server 4 to provide a mailing list (s2). The securities company server 4 provides a mailing list in which the investment trust company p, the customer t, and the fund a are associated, and the investment trust company q, the customer u, and the fund c are associated with the list request (s).
3). When the mailing list is received by the publishing company server 6 via the interface 61, the mailing list is stored in the storage means 64 by the main program of the server 6 (s4). At the time of this storage, information (for example, securities company ID number, securities company name) for specifying the securities company r of the transmission source is stored in association with the information.

Similarly, when a request for distributing an operation report to the clients of the funds b and d sold by the securities company s is issued from the securities company server 5 to the publisher server 6 (s
5) In response to the distribution request, the publisher server 6 requests the securities company server 5 to provide a mailing list (s).
6) In response, the securities company server 5 provides a mailing list (s7). The main program of the publishing company server 6 stores the received mailing list in the storage unit 64 in association with the information specifying the securities company s (s
8).

In the above-mentioned steps (s3) and (s7), time specifying information for specifying the time of making an operation report to each customer t, u is stored in association with each fund on the mailing list.

The mailing list provided from the securities company servers 5 and 6 at this stage (s8) is stored in the storage unit 64.
Are stored in a table structure as shown in FIG.

On the other hand, when the investment trust company p creates an operation report for the fund a and the fund b, the contents of the operation report are used as electronic data, and the operation report type (fund name) is associated with the content, and the publisher server 6 (S11). Similarly, when the investment trust company q creates an operation report for the fund c and the fund d, the investment report company associates the content of the operation report with the operation report type and provides it to the publisher company server 6 (s12).

The main program of the publishing company server 6 is:
The received operation report content is associated with information (eg, investment trust company ID number, investment trust company name) specifying the type of the operation report and the source of the investment trust company p or the investment trust company r and stored in the storage means 65 (s13). ).

The main program of the publishing company server 6 is:
The mailing list stored in the storage means 64 is read out in a timely manner, referring to the time specifying information, and when it is determined that the time for performing the operation report has come according to the time specifying information, the operation report on the fund for which the report time of the read mailing list has come. Is obtained from the operation report file stored in the storage means 65 (s21). Then, a report e-mail including the operation report contents included in the obtained operation report file is generated for each customer and each fund (s22), and the report e-mail is transmitted to the customer t or the customer u (s22). s23a, s23b). Instead of transmitting the report e-mail, for example, the operation report content may be recorded on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM, and the recording medium may be delivered to the customer t or the customer u. A document on which the content is printed may be mailed.

More specifically, for example, when the main program of the server 6 determines that it is time to report on the management of all funds, the customer t receives a report e-mail about the fund a purchased from the securities company r. In addition to being transmitted based on a distribution request from securities company r, an e-mail for reporting on fund d purchased from securities company s is transmitted based on a distribution request from securities company s. On the other hand, a report e-mail about fund c purchased from securities company r is sent to customer u based on a distribution request from securities company r, and a report e-mail about fund b purchased from securities company s. Is transmitted based on a distribution request from the securities company s. Note that a plurality of funds having the same reporting time and reporting target may collectively generate one reporting e-mail and transmit the same to the customer by one e-mail.

The operation report file notified to each customer as described above is stored in the storage means 66 for each customer. The distribution or mailing date and time of the file is stored in the operation report file in association with each other.

As described above, according to the information distribution system of the present embodiment, only the mailing list is provided from each securities company and the management report file is received from the investment trust company. The situation can be notified. That is, it is possible to simply notify the customer without performing a sorting operation based on the delivery instruction for each customer. On the other hand, a securities company can provide reliable management reports only by providing a mailing list. In addition, since there is no need to perform a sorting operation, a period until an operation report can be shortened.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. Although a system for distributing information to a customer based on a request from a securities company has been described, the present invention can also be applied to a system for providing an operation report to a customer based on a request from a bank, a credit company, or the like. In addition, all information distribution that receives a mailing list and content from a requesting company that identifies the distribution destination customer and a content provider that provides the content to be distributed, and distributes the content to each customer based on the received information The present invention is applicable to a system.

Also, a case has been described in which a program for executing the functions of the present invention is incorporated in the processor 62, and the functions of the present invention are executed by the programs. For example, a computer-readable recording medium on which these programs are recorded may be used. The function may be read from a recording medium reading device (not shown) of the server 6 and the processor 62 may execute the function.

[0035]

As described above, according to the present invention, an information distribution system and an information distribution method capable of shortening the time until distribution are provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of an information distribution system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exemplary view showing an example of a detailed configuration of a publishing company server according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an exemplary view showing an example of the configuration of a mailing list and an operation report file according to the embodiment;

FIG. 4 is an exemplary view showing an example of a sequence of an information distribution method according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an exemplary view showing a specific example for explaining information distribution according to the embodiment;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Network 2, 3 ... Investment trust company server 4, 5 ... Securities company server 6 ... Publisher company server 7, 8 ... Customer terminal 61 ... Interface 62 ... Processor 63-66 ... Storage means

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An information distribution system for distributing different information to a plurality of users, the information distribution system comprising: a user and information type information indicating a type of information to be provided to the user; An information distribution unit that allocates, for each of the users, provision information configured from contents of information to be provided to the user associated with the information type information; and the plurality of provision information distributed by the provision information distribution unit includes the plurality of provision information. An information distribution system provided to each of users. 2. The provision of the provision information to the user is at least when the provision information is transmitted as electronic data via a network, when the distribution information is delivered by mail, or when the recording medium on which the provision information is recorded is delivered. The information distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the information distribution system is performed by one. 3. The provided information distributing unit receives the list from a first terminal via a network, and transmits the provided information and an information type of the provided information associated with the provided information from a second terminal. 2. The information distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the information is received via a network. 4. An information distributing method for distributing different information to a plurality of users, the information distributing method comprising: providing a user with information type information indicating a type of information to be provided to the user; Allocating, for each user, provided information composed of information to be provided to the user associated with information type information; and providing the provided information to each of the plurality of users based on the allocation. An information distribution method comprising: