JP2002247239A - Information providing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To order detailed information additionally and to simply store received information after obtaining the summary of required information by retrieving information by using a portable terminal. SOLUTION: This system is provided with a portable contents storage part 2 for storing contents to be displayed on the portable terminal 5, a user information storage part 3 in which a portable terminal number and a related fax number are coordinated and stored, a fax data storage part 4 in which fax data coordinated with the respective pages of portable contents are stored, and a data processing part 1 for accepting access from the portable terminal. When access occurs from the portable terminal, the part 1 recognizes the portable terminal number and transmits the portable contents to be terminal. When a fax data request signal is inputted from the portable terminal, the pat 1 specifies fax data corresponding to the page of the contents in the middle of being displayed on the portable terminal at the time and transmits it to the fax equipment of the fax number corresponding to the portable terminal number.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a system for providing various information using a portable terminal such as a portable terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, there is a system for providing various contents to a portable terminal. For example, the user can access a homepage of the content to be viewed using a portable terminal and display the content on a display.

[0003]

As described above, information can be viewed using the portable terminal. However,
Mobile devices, such as mobile phones,
The display is smaller. Since the display is small, there is a problem that displayed characters are small and difficult to read. In addition, since information that can be displayed on one screen is limited, the screen may need to be scrolled many times to see all information. It is troublesome for the user to read text while scrolling the screen while the text is small. For this reason, even if the information is displayed on the user's own portable terminal, the user may not read the information properly, but may obtain only the summary and turn off the switch. Further, some portable contents are designed to display only simple information from the beginning.

[0004] Portable terminals are often smaller in capacity than ordinary personal computers, and the amount of information to be received or displayed is often limited. In such a case, there is a problem that it is difficult to receive and display the image information and the chart information. Furthermore, mobile terminals do not usually have a print function. This is because it is hard to carry a printer. For this reason, even if the received data is displayed on the display, it cannot be printed and viewed or saved later. In addition, because of the small capacity, many portable terminals cannot store all the received information until they are connected to a printer. That is, when a portable terminal is used, even if it is desired to obtain detailed information, it is rare that such information can be easily obtained. In particular, obtaining information, including images and charts,
was difficult. Plus, for small phones,
The received information could not be saved.

On the other hand, when viewing a variety of contents, it is natural that a personal computer having a large display is easier to view than using a portable terminal. The installation place of the personal computer is limited. You cannot search for information anywhere, like a mobile terminal. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an information providing system capable of performing an information search using a portable terminal to obtain an outline of necessary information and then obtaining detailed information separately. Another object is to provide an information providing system capable of easily storing received information.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a portable content storage section for storing portable content displayed on a portable terminal such as a portable telephone, and information of a user who uses the portable terminal. A user information storage unit, a facsimile data storage unit for storing facsimile data corresponding to each page of the portable content, and a data processing unit for receiving access from the portable terminal; In advance, the portable terminal number and the associated fax number are stored in association with each other, and the data processing unit recognizes the portable terminal number of the portable terminal when accessed from the portable terminal,
While transmitting the portable content to the portable terminal, from the portable terminal, when a fax data request signal is input, specify the fax data corresponding to the page of the content being displayed on the portable terminal at that time,
It is characterized in that it is transmitted to the fax machine of the fax number corresponding to the above-mentioned portable terminal number.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a fax data request button is provided on a display screen of portable content displayed on a portable terminal, and the fax data request button is provided with a content for specifying a page being displayed on the portable terminal. When the fax data request button is pressed, the page specifying signal of the portable content being displayed is input to the data processing unit, and based on the page specifying signal, the data processing unit It is characterized in that fax data corresponding to the displayed page is transmitted.
Pressing the fax data request button displayed on the portable terminal means moving the cursor to the position of the displayed button and pressing the enter key.

[0008] A third aspect of the present invention is provided with an advertisement storage unit, which stores an advertisement in which an attribute relating to a user is associated with the advertisement storage unit, registers a user attribute in a user information storage unit, and a data processing unit. It is characterized in that the user attribute is compared with the advertisement attribute, an advertisement matching the user attribute is selected, and the advertisement is added to fax data and transmitted.

A fourth aspect of the present invention is provided with an advertisement storage unit for storing an advertisement in which an attribute relating to information content is stored in the advertisement storage unit, and registering a user attribute in the user information storage unit, and a data processing unit. Is characterized in that the fax data is compared with the advertisement attribute, an advertisement matching the content of the fax data is selected, and the advertisement is added to the fax data and transmitted.

[0010]

1 to 3 show a first embodiment of the present invention. In the first embodiment, it is assumed that a user who uses this system using the mobile phone 5 as a mobile terminal has previously registered as a member. On the information providing side, a data processing unit 1 that receives access from the mobile terminal 5;
A portable content storage unit 2 for storing portable content to be displayed on the mobile phone 5, a user information storage unit 3,
And a fax data storage unit 4. The data processing section 1 has a function of recognizing the telephone number of the called mobile phone 5, that is, a so-called number display function.

The user information storage unit 3 stores information such as a mobile phone number and an address name of a registered user.
The number of the fax device 6 used by the user is also registered. That is, the user information storage unit 3 stores the mobile phone number and the fax number in association with each other. The user can register a fax number that is easy to receive, for example, a home or office fax number. The fax data storage unit 4 stores fax information. These fax data are information related to each page of the portable content. Here, detailed information corresponding to each page of the portable content is stored in the fax data storage unit 4 as fax data.

For example, when a dish menu is introduced in portable contents, the dish name, the characteristics of the menu,
Main materials and the like can be displayed on the mobile phone 5. However, the amount of each ingredient, seasoning, and the like, the cooking procedure, and the like are prepared as fax data as detailed information and stored in the fax data storage unit 4.
The facsimile data stored in the facsimile data storage unit 4 is stored in a state in which it is associated with the content page so that it can be understood which detail data is related to which page of which content. Here, one piece of fax data is stored in association with a specific page of the portable content, but when one piece of information of the portable content extends over a plurality of pages, the same information is stored in all of those pages. One piece of fax data may be associated.

Next, a procedure in which a user obtains cooking information using this system,
Will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. However, the flowchart of FIG. 2 shows a processing procedure of the data processing unit 1. The user accesses the data processing unit 1 from the mobile phone 5 and specifies a desired cooking site. The data processing unit 1 performs step 1
Then, the telephone number A of the mobile phone 5 is recognized and stored, and the portable content designated by the user is selected from the portable content storage unit 2 and transmitted to the mobile phone 5 in step 2.

Display 7 of mobile phone 5 (see FIG. 3)
Displays the homepage of the cooking site. When the user selects a page, for example, “Today's menu”, the display 7 of the mobile phone 5 displays a page 8 displaying a dish name and main ingredients as shown in FIG. . On this page 8, a "details" button 9 is displayed. When the "details" button 9 is pressed, a signal for requesting detailed information, that is, a fax data, and a signal for specifying the currently displayed page are transmitted to the data processing unit 1. In other words, the "details" button 9 is the fax data request button of the present invention.

The data processing section 1 receives a fax data request signal in step 3 and a display page specifying signal in step 4. In step 5, the data processing unit 1 specifies the facsimile number B corresponding to the mobile phone number A recognized in step 1 from the user information storage unit 3. In step 6, based on the display page specifying signal,
The fax data corresponding to the page 8 displayed on the display 6 is selected from the fax data storage unit 4. In step 7, the fax data is transmitted to fax 6 of fax number B.

As described above, the user can obtain the cooking information from the cooking site for the mobile phone, and can extract the detailed information such as the cooking procedure by the facsimile 6. For example, it is possible to decide a dinner menu while viewing the page 8 of the menu of the day with the mobile phone 5 from a place where the user is going, and then buy the material displayed there and return home. At this time, by pressing the “details” button 9 on the screen 8, the fax 6 at home can be made to fax detailed information such as a cooking procedure, and using the information transmitted by fax after returning home,
You can also cook.

However, the portable content is not limited to the cooking information of the above embodiment, and the facsimile data is not limited to detailed data such as a cooking procedure. Portable content,
Any information that can be provided to the portable terminal may be used, and the facsimile data may be any data related to the portable content information. Since the portable content is displayed on a small display, the minimum necessary information is displayed efficiently.The fax data is represented on a small display of a portable terminal or a terminal with a small capacity. It is preferable that the information assists information that cannot be obtained.

With the system of the above embodiment, detailed information that cannot be displayed on a small screen of a portable terminal, or that is difficult to read even if displayed, can be received as fax data. The information transmitted by fax has larger characters and is easier to read than that displayed on a portable terminal or the like, so that the information can be fully utilized. In addition, images, charts, and the like, which are difficult to display due to the small capacity of the portable terminal, can be transmitted by being included in the fax data. Therefore, data with a large amount of information such as images can be sent as fax data. Further, the received information is printed by the fax device 6, so that the information that could not be saved can be saved in the portable terminal in a printed out state.

In the first embodiment, a case has been described in which one fax number is registered in association with a portable terminal number. In this case, the data processing unit can automatically specify the fax number and transmit the fax data simply by pressing the “details” button 9. However,
The user may be allowed to register a plurality of fax numbers in advance. In this case, when the user presses the "details" button 9, the data processing unit 1 does not immediately transmit the fax data, but confirms the fax transmission destination as shown in FIG. The confirmation screen 10 is displayed on the portable terminal 5. On the confirmation screen 10, fax destinations registered in advance are displayed, for example, at work or at home. When the user selects a destination to which the fax data is to be transmitted from the displayed destinations, the data processing unit 1 transmits the fax data to the selected destination.

The second embodiment shown in FIG.
Is different from the first embodiment. Other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment, and therefore, only the portions different from the first embodiment will be described here. Advertisement storage unit 1
1 stores an advertisement to be added to fax data transmitted to the user's fax device 6. In this advertisement, an attribute relating to the user and an attribute relating to the information content are associated as advertisement attributes. The advertisement attribute for the user is, for example, such that the advertisement is for women or for office workers. The advertisement attribute related to the information content is based on what the advertisement itself is related to, and the attribute is classified in advance.

On the other hand, in the user information storage section 3, attributes such as gender, age, and occupation are registered as user information in addition to the user's mobile phone number and name. Then, in the second embodiment, when the user presses the “Forward” button 9 shown in FIG. 3 while displaying the portable content on the mobile phone 5, the data processing unit 1 Is transmitted to the facsimile apparatus 6 in the same manner as in the first embodiment. However, in the second embodiment, the data processing unit 1
However, after specifying the fax data, an advertisement is added to the fax data and transmitted.

The advertisement added to the facsimile data is selected by the data processing section 1 according to the attribute relating to the user and the attribute relating to the content. Which attribute is used to select an advertisement is set in advance. For example, if you want to select ads based on user-specific advertising attributes,
An advertisement that matches the user attribute stored in the user information storage unit 3 is selected. When an advertisement is selected based on the attribute related to the information content, the relevance to the content of the fax data or the portable content is selected. You select an ad.

As described above, if the user or the advertisement selected based on the attribute of the information is added to the fax data, the interest of the user is higher than if the advertisement is randomly added to the fax data. Can send ads. Therefore, higher advertising effects can be expected. Also, if an advertisement fee is collected from the advertiser of the advertisement added to the fax data, it is possible to cover the fax transmission cost of the member user or the information providing side with the advertisement fee.

[0024]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, it is possible to retrieve detailed information and the like by facsimile after performing an information search by a portable terminal to obtain an outline of necessary information. Since the destination of the fax is registered in advance, the user does not need to input a fax number or the like every time the information is viewed, and can receive the fax data by a simple operation. Further, since the information obtained by facsimile can be saved in a printed state, the received information can be stored even when the information is obtained by a portable terminal having no print function.

According to the second aspect, the fax data request button makes it possible to request fax data more easily. According to the third and fourth aspects, it is possible to select an advertisement that is likely to be of interest to the user and transmit the selected advertisement together with the fax data. Therefore, the advertisement effect can be enhanced as compared with the case where the advertisement is simply added.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing processing steps of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display of the mobile terminal of the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen for confirming a fax transmission destination.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of a second embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 data processing unit 2 portable content storage unit 3 user information storage unit 4 fax data storage unit 5 portable terminal 6 fax device 11 advertisement storage unit

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A portable content storage unit for storing portable content displayed on a portable terminal such as a portable terminal,
A user information storage unit for storing information of a user who uses the mobile terminal, a facsimile data storage unit for storing facsimile data corresponding to each page of the mobile content, and a data process for receiving access from the mobile terminal The user information storage unit previously stores the portable terminal number and the associated fax number in association with each other, and the data processing unit, when accessed from the portable terminal, Recognizing the portable terminal number of the terminal, transmitting the portable content to the portable terminal, and when a fax data request signal is input from the portable terminal, a page of the content being displayed on the portable terminal at that time. Specify the fax data corresponding to the mobile terminal number and Information providing system and transmitting the Akkusu device. 2. A display screen for portable contents displayed on a portable terminal is provided with a fax data request button, and the fax data request button is provided with a page specifying signal of contents for specifying a page being displayed on the portable terminal. When the above fax data request button is pressed,
A page identification signal of the portable content being displayed is input to the data processing unit, and the data processing unit transmits fax data corresponding to the page being displayed based on the page identification signal. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein: 3. An advertisement storage unit, comprising:
In addition to storing an advertisement in which attributes relating to the user are stored, the user attributes are registered in the user information storage unit,
3. The data processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the data processing unit compares the user attribute with the advertisement attribute, selects an advertisement that matches the user attribute, adds the advertisement to fax data, and transmits the fax data. Information providing system described. 4. An advertisement storage unit, wherein the advertisement storage unit
While storing an advertisement in which the attribute related to the information content is stored, the user attribute is registered in the user information storage unit, and the data processing unit compares the fax data with the advertisement attribute and matches the content of the fax data. The information providing system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the advertisement is selected, and the advertisement is added to fax data and transmitted.