JP2002269432A - System and method for information providing service - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for information providing service capable of providing the information on the contents pre-set for every information inquirer. SOLUTION: Company information on the information transmitting side companies provided from the information transmitting side companies, information providing agencies, and electronic markets is recorded in a company information database 24 in a state classified into one or a plurality of groups. A password is given to the information for each group. The information transmitting side companies notify the information inquiry side companies of individual passwords according to the passwords for each information of the information for which reading is permitted, and extract the information for which the reading is permitted to the information inquiry side companies based on the individual passwords inputted by the information inquiry side companies.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information providing service system and method, and more particularly to a system and method for accumulating information on an object such as a company or an individual and providing the information to an information inquirer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in a business-to-business transaction, it is indispensable to obtain information on a business partner in order to evaluate the creditworthiness of the business partner as to whether or not the business partner is comfortable with payment and delivery of goods. . As a means for obtaining such company information, a company homepage, a company information providing company, and the like have been conventionally used. Of these, the company's homepage is for the company to introduce its career, business content, etc., and anyone can browse and obtain company information. Further, the company information providing company is a company that provides credit information of the company to the contractor for a fee, and can obtain detailed credit information about various companies from the company information providing company.

[0003]

By the way, there is a demand for a company on the information transmitting side to provide information of contents selected according to the other party. For example, if the other party is a good company and you can expect a large amount of transactions, so if you want to make a deal by all means, you want to provide as detailed information as possible to impress your creditworthiness, On the other hand, a partner who does not have a large necessity for dealings may wish to provide only minimal information and not to show detailed information. There is also information that a competitor that sells similar products wants to keep it secret, but wants to provide it to a customer company that sells it.

However, the above-mentioned conventional means for obtaining corporate information cannot satisfy such a demand. That is, since the home page of the company can be viewed by anyone, the information to be provided cannot be changed according to the other party. Further, the contents of the credit information provided by the company information providing company are prescribed, and it is difficult to reflect the intention of the company that is the object of the information in the contents. Further, since the transaction information of the electronic market can be viewed by all members of the electronic market, it is still difficult to provide information according to the partner company.

[0005] In recent years, an electronic market for conducting various commercial transactions on a network has been spreading. If it is possible to obtain transaction information indicating the transaction results of the trading participants in the electronic market and the delay in settlement / delivery, etc., the creditworthiness of each trading participant can be evaluated. Such transaction information in the electronic market is information that has not been conventionally provided due to problems such as privacy. However, it is extremely useful if such information can be provided to specific counterparties on the premise of obtaining the consent of the trading participants.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and has as its object to provide an information providing service system and method capable of providing information having contents set in advance for each information inquirer. .

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 is an information providing service system for accumulating information about various objects and providing the information for viewing by an information inquirer. Information about the various objects is recorded for each object in one or a plurality of pieces of information, and a database in which section identification information is recorded corresponding to each section, and information is referred to by an information referrer. Password obtaining means for obtaining an information password for identifying information permitted to be viewed by the information inquirer of the information about the target, based on the obtained information password and the classification identification information. Information extraction means for extracting information permitted to be viewed by the information inquirer from the database, and information output means for outputting the extracted information. And wherein the Rukoto.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information providing service system for accumulating information on various objects and providing the information to an information inquirer for browsing. Database reference means for referring to a database in which one or a plurality of pieces of information are recorded separately and in which section identification information is recorded corresponding to each section; and A password acquisition unit that acquires an information password for identifying information that is permitted to be viewed by the information inquirer among the information, and the information inquiry based on the acquired information password and the classification identification information. Information extraction means for extracting information permitted to be viewed by a user from the database by the database reference means; Characterized in that it comprises an information output means for outputting a broadcast.

[0009] The invention described in claim 10 is an information providing service method for accumulating information on various objects and providing the information to an information inquirer for browsing. Obtaining an information password for identifying information that is permitted to be viewed by the information inquirer of the information; and recording information on the various objects in one or a plurality of information for each object. In addition, referring to the database in which the section identification information is recorded corresponding to each section, based on the acquired information password and the section identification information, the information inquirer is permitted to browse. The method comprises the steps of: extracting information from the database; and outputting the extracted information.

According to the first, second, and tenth aspects of the present invention, an information password for identifying information permitted to be viewed by an information inquirer is obtained, and based on the information password, the information password is obtained. Information permitted to be viewed by the inquirer is extracted and output. Therefore, by setting an information password corresponding to the information category for which browsing is permitted for each information inquirer, it is possible to provide information of the content set in advance for each information inquirer.

In this case, as described in claim 3, in the information providing service system according to claim 1 or 2, the password acquisition means may acquire the information password input by the information inquirer.

[0012] According to an eleventh aspect of the present invention, in the information providing service method according to the tenth aspect, in the step of obtaining the password, the information password inputted by the information inquirer may be obtained.

According to the third and eleventh aspects of the present invention,
The information password is notified to the information inquiry person in advance, and the notified information password is input by the information inquiry person,
It is possible to provide information of contents corresponding to each information referrer. Further, when changing the information category to be viewed by the information inquirer, it is only necessary to newly notify an information password corresponding to the changed category, and the information category can be changed easily.

Further, as described in claim 4, claim 1 is
Or the information providing service system according to 2, wherein the password acquiring means refers to an identification information acquiring means for acquiring identification information of the information inquirer, and a database in which a correspondence relationship between each information inquirer and the information password is recorded. And reading means for reading an information password corresponding to the acquired identification information.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information providing service system for accumulating information on various objects and providing the information to an information inquirer for browsing. A database in which the information on the persons permitted to be browsed is recorded separately, and the identification information of the persons permitted to be browsed is recorded according to each category, and the inquirer identification information is acquired to acquire the identification information of the information inquirer. Means, information reference means for extracting information of a section associated with the acquired identification information with reference to the database, and information output means for outputting the extracted information, I do.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, based on the identification information of the information inquirer, the information of the section to which the information inquirer is permitted to browse is extracted and output. Therefore, by setting the identification information of the party to whom browsing is permitted in each information section, it is possible to provide information of the content set in advance for each information inquirer.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the information providing service system according to any one of the first to third aspects, the information password is provided to the information inquirer of the information. It is characterized in that section identification information for all sections permitted to be browsed is encoded into a single code by a predetermined procedure and generated.

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the information providing service method according to the tenth or eleventh aspect, the information password includes all of the information which is permitted to be viewed by the information inquirer. Is generated by encoding the section identification information for the section (1) into a single code according to a predetermined procedure.

According to the sixth and twelfth aspects of the invention,
The single information password will include the section identification information for all the sections that are permitted to be viewed. For this reason, since the information inquirer need only have one information password for various objects of information, the management of the information password is simplified.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the information providing service system according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, the information on the various objects includes information provided by the objects themselves. And information provided by a third party other than the target.

According to the invention described in claim 7, not only the information provided by the information target itself but also information provided by a third party on the target is set for each information inquirer. be able to.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the information providing service system according to the third or sixth aspect, the information providing service system is constituted by computer means connected to an information communication network.
Receiving the information password input at the information inquirer's terminal and transmitted through the information communication network,
The information output means transmits the extracted information to the terminal via the information communication network.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the information providing service system according to the fourth or fifth aspect, the invention is constituted by computer means connected to an information communication network, and Receiving the identification information input at the information inquirer's terminal and transmitted via the information communication network, and the information output means transmits the extracted information to the terminal via the information communication network It is characterized by the following.

According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, in the information providing service method according to the eleventh aspect, in the step of obtaining the password, the password is input at a terminal of the information inquirer and transmitted through an information communication network. In the step of receiving the output information password and outputting the information password, the extracted information is transmitted to the terminal via the information communication network.

According to the eighth, ninth, and thirteenth aspects of the present invention, the information providing service can be provided by a server computer connected to the information communication network.

[0026]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically showing the contents of processing in the present system. In FIG. 1, an information providing server 10 includes an Internet 12
And a computer system connected to the computer. The information providing server 10 manages, via the Internet 12, a computer (hereinafter, referred to as an inquiry computer) 14 managed by an information inquiry company and an information transmission company (meaning a company to be subjected to information inquiry). Computer (hereinafter referred to as the originating computer) 1
6. Computers managed by the corporate information provider (hereinafter referred to as
A computer 18 (hereinafter, referred to as a market computer) and a computer (hereinafter, referred to as a market computer) 20 managed by the operator of the electronic market are connected.
However, some or all of the computers 14 to 20 may be connected to the information providing server 10 via a dedicated network other than the Internet 12 or a dedicated communication line.

The information providing server 10 has a member company database 22 and a company information database 24. FIG. 3 shows a configuration of registration data of the member company database 22. As shown in FIG. 3, the member company database 2
2, a member ID and a login password are registered for each information inquiry side company and each information transmission side company. Further, for each information transmission side company, an information registration password and an individual password described later are decrypted. A decryption key is registered. On the other hand, in the company information database 24, company information about each information transmission side company is registered. In addition, member company database 2
2 and a company information database 24 are provided independently of the information providing server 10, and these databases 22, 24 are provided.
And the information providing server 10 may be communicably connected. In short, any configuration may be used as long as the information providing server 10 can refer to both databases 22 and 24.

[0028] The information transmitting company is the transmitting computer 1
6 transmits its company information to the information providing server 10. Hereinafter, the company information provided by the information transmitting company by itself will be referred to as company-originated information. This company-originated information includes, for example, trade name, location, phone number, number of employees, year of establishment,
It contains general company information such as the type of business, capital, major banks, representative names, settlement periods, etc., and PR information on its products. The procedure for registering company-originated information from the transmitting computer 16 and the configuration of registered data in the company information database 24 will be described later in detail.

[0029] The corporate information providing organization is an information providing company (for example, Teikoku Data Bank) that provides various information providing services for a fee, a certified public accountant office, a tax accountant office, and other corporate financial information, and provides the information providing service. (For example, TKC). The information provided by the information provider includes, for example, credit evaluation points, sales rankings, profit rankings, settlement information, financial information,
It includes representative information, major shareholder composition, major business partners, etc.In addition, information provided by specialized financial information organizations includes:
For example, it includes financial evaluation information such as whether or not there is a problem in the settlement of accounts for each fiscal year.

The electronic market is a commerce market established on a network such as the Internet 12. Information provided by the electronic marketplace includes, for example,
Includes membership time, number of transactions, presence / absence of settlement or delivery delay, number of purchases, total sales, etc.

The company information provided by the company information provider and the electronic market (hereinafter referred to as external information)
Is associated with the member ID of the information transmitting company to which the information is to be sent, along with the company's own information.
Registered in.

Next, an outline of the processing in this system will be described. The information transmitting company registers in advance in the information providing server 10 the company transmitting information that may be browsed by all the information inquiry companies and the company transmitting information that is permitted to be viewed only by a specific company. For information that is permitted to be viewed only by a company, a password (hereinafter referred to as an information-based password) for specifying the company that has been permitted to view is set. Also, for external information about your company,
If you want a specific person to browse, set a password for each piece of external information. Then, the information transmission side company generates and notifies an individual password to each information inquiry side company based on the information-specific password of the specific information to be browsed.

In the following description, information that may be viewed by all information inquiring companies is referred to as general information, and information that is permitted to be viewed only by a specific partner is referred to as specific information. Further, the company-originated information designated as the specific information is called company-specific information, and the external information designated as the specific information is called external-specific information.

On the other hand, the information inquiry side company can access the information providing server 10 and browse the general information of each registered information transmission side company. Further, by inputting the individual password notified from the information transmitting company, it is possible to browse the specific information of the information transmitting company corresponding to the individual password.

In the system according to the present embodiment, as described above, the information transmitting company can provide the information of the contents set in advance for each information inquiry company. Hereinafter, the contents of the processing in the present system will be described more specifically with reference to FIG.

The information inquiring company that wants to receive information from the information providing server 10 accesses the information providing server 10 in advance to apply for membership (S10), and receives registration in the member company database 22, A member ID and a login password are obtained (S12). Similarly, the information transmitting side company that wants the information providing server 10 to provide its own information to the information inquiry side company accesses the information providing server 10 in advance and applies for membership (S
14) After receiving registration in the member company database 22,
A member ID, a login password, and an information registration password are obtained (S16).

The information sending company accesses the information providing server 10 from the sending computer 16 and registers the company sending information in the company information database 24 (S1).
8). External information provided by each company information provider and each electronic market is provided by the provider computer 1
8 or the market computer 20 at a predetermined timing (for example, periodically) to the information providing server 10 and registered in the company information database 24 (S2).
0, S22). On the other hand, the information inquiring company accesses the information providing server 10 from the inquiring computer 14 and inquires about desired company information (S24, S26).

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing when the information transmitting company registers its own information and when the information inquiry company makes an inquiry about the company information. As shown in FIG. 4, when the access to the information providing server 10 is performed, the input screen of the member ID and the login password is transmitted from the information providing server 10 to the access source computer (S100). The information providing server 10 displays the member I that has been input and returned on this input screen.
Member company database 2 based on D and password
Referring to FIG. 2, after authenticating that the accessing company is a member company (S102), a menu selection screen for selecting information registration or inquiry is transmitted to the access source computer (S104). Then, it is determined whether information registration or information inquiry is selected on this menu selection screen (S106).

As a result, when the information registration is selected, that is, when the access source is the originating computer 16, the information providing server 10 displays a screen for inputting the information registration password to the originating computer 16. It transmits (S108). Then, the member information database 22
, The input and returned information registration password is authenticated (S110), and the information registration screen is transmitted to the transmission side computer 16 (S112).

FIG. 5 shows an example of the information registration screen. FIG.
As shown in the figure, on the information registration screen, a general information designation area 50 for designating general information of the company-originated information, a company identification information designation area 52 for designating specific information of the company-originated information, and an external information Is specified as the specific information.

In the information transmitting company, general information and specific information of the company transmitting information are created in advance as files in a predetermined format (for example, XML or the like). And
General information designation area 50 and company specific information designation area 52
In each of the input fields, enter the file name of each file.
The company specific information designation area 52 is provided with an information-specific password input field for setting an information-specific password for the specific information. By clicking a "reference" button provided next to each file name input column, a list of files recorded in the transmission side computer 16 can be displayed. By clicking the "next specific information" button displayed in the specific information specifying area 52, an arbitrary number of specific information can be specified. Further, when the "information input form" is clicked, an input form screen for inputting company information is transmitted from the information providing server 10 to the transmission side computer 16, and data is input according to the input form screen. Also, it is possible to generate a company-originated information file in the predetermined format.

The external specific information designation area 54 displays a list of external information provided by the company information providing organization and the electronic market about the information transmitting company. In addition, an information-based password input field for inputting an information-based password is provided in correspondence with each piece of external information.
When the "information file reference" button displayed corresponding to each external information is clicked, the corresponding external information is read from the company information database 24, and the display screen for displaying the external information is displayed on the transmission side computer. 16 is transmitted. As a result, the originating computer 16 can refer to the content of each piece of external information about the company.

As described above, when the general information file name, each specific information file name, and each information-specific password are input and the "registration" button is clicked, the file specified by each input information file name is clicked. The contents of, and
The entered information-specific password is transmitted to the information providing server 10.
(S114). Then, a confirmation screen for confirming the registration information is transmitted from the information providing server 10 to the transmission side computer 16 (S116), and when the "confirmation" button included in the confirmation screen is clicked, transmission is performed from the transmission side computer 16. The obtained information is registered in the company information database 24 (S118).

FIG. 6 shows the structure of the registration data in the company information database 24. As shown in FIG. 6, in the company information database 24, general information and specific information are recorded in association with the member ID of each information transmitting company, and furthermore, a specific password corresponding to the information-specific password corresponding to each specific information is recorded. Recorded in connection with information.

On the other hand, when the information inquiry is selected in S106, that is, when the access source is the inquiry computer 14
In the case of, the information providing server 10 transmits an inquiry target designation screen for designating a company that is an information inquiry target to the inquiry side computer 14 (S120).

FIG. 7 shows an example of an inquiry target designation screen.
As shown in FIG. 7, the inquiry target designation screen includes input fields for inputting an inquiry target company name and an individual password notified from the inquiry target company. The ID of the inquiry target company may be input instead of the inquiry target company name. When the company name (or company ID) is entered in each of the input fields, and the individual password is notified to the information inquiry side company, the individual password is entered and the "inquiry" button is clicked. The information providing server 10 refers to the company information database 24, generates an information display screen according to the following procedure, and transmits the information display screen to the inquiry-side computer 14. In the following description, it is assumed that the information inquiry company X inquires the company information of the information transmission company A.

First, it is determined whether or not an individual password has been entered on the inquiry target designation screen (S122). If not, general information corresponding to the entered company name is retrieved from the company information database 24. A screen for reading and displaying the general information is generated (S124).
On the other hand, if the individual password has been entered, the specific information permitted to be browsed by the inquiring company is extracted based on the individual password and the information-specific password of each specific information (S126). Then, a screen displaying the extracted specific information together with the general information is generated (S12).
8).

Here, in order to describe the procedure for extracting the specific information from the individual password, first, the procedure for generating the individual password as a premise thereof will be described. For example, it is assumed that there are four pieces of specific information # 1 to # 4 for the information transmitting company A, and the following information-specific passwords are set for each of them. Specific information # 1 351 Specific information # 2 421 Specific information # 3 864 Specific information # 4 551

It is assumed that the information transmission side company A permits the information inquiry side company X to browse the specific information # 1, # 3, and # 4. In this case, for the specific information # 1, # 3, and # 4 that are permitted to be viewed, each information-specific password 3
51, 864, and 551, and a value (for example, 111) different from the information-specific password 421 is associated with the specific information # 2 for which browsing is not permitted, and these four numerical values are arranged in order from the upper digit, for example. Symbol string 351 111
864 551 is generated.

Hereinafter, the symbol string in which the codes corresponding to the specific information are arranged in this order is referred to as an information-specific password string. Even if this information-based password string is used as an individual password, it is possible to identify the specific information permitted to be viewed by the information inquiry side company X. However, if the information inquiry-side company X can access the information providing server 10 and inquire about the specific information # 1, # 3, and # 4 with the information-specific password string, these specific information # 1, # 3, and # It is revealed that the information-specific passwords of No. 4 are 351, 864 and 551, respectively. In order to prevent this, the above-mentioned password string for each information may be encrypted to be an individual password.
However, in this case, if the password column for each information is encrypted with the same encryption key for all the information inquiring companies, the individual password of the information inquiring company X becomes different If the information is leaked to the inquiring company Y, the information inquiring company Y may be able to browse the specific information that should not be permitted.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, the information transmission side company A performs a predetermined operation using the member ID of the information inquiry side company X on the encrypted information-based password column as an individual password. , The information inquiry side company X is notified. That is, it is assumed that the individual password is calculated by using the conversion function f and the individual password = f (the password column for each encrypted information, the member ID) (where the function f (x, y) is z = f (x , Y) for x
= G (z, y) is chosen so that there is a function g). As a result, a different individual password is generated for the information inquiry side company permitted to browse the same specific information, and the above-mentioned inconvenience when the individual password is leaked to another company can be prevented. As described above, the decryption key corresponding to the encryption key is recorded in the member information database 22 in association with each information transmitting company.

Since the individual password is generated in the above procedure, in S126, the specific information permitted to be viewed by the information inquiry company X is extracted from the individual password in the reverse procedure. be able to. Specifically, first, a function g corresponding to the conversion function f is obtained from the input individual password and the member ID of the information inquiry side company X.
Is used, the password sequence for each encrypted information is calculated by the password column for each encrypted information = g (individual password, member ID). next,
The decryption key of the information transmitting company A is read out with reference to the member database 22, and the information-specific password sequence is decrypted using the decryption key. Then, the decrypted information-based password string is divided into three digits, and the comparison between the value of each divided section and the value of the information-based password of each specific information indicates which specific information is permitted to be browsed. Is determined.

In the above example, the decrypted individual password is “351 111 864 551”, and the specific information # 1 to # 4 are respectively 351, 111, and 86.
4,551 correspond. Of these, specific information # 1, #
Since the passwords 3 and # 4 match the information-specific passwords, it is determined that browsing of these three pieces of specific information # 1, # 3 and # 4 is permitted.

In S128, the specific information determined to be permitted to be browsed is read out from the company information database 24 together with the general information.
An information display screen for displaying such information is generated.

When the information display screen is generated as described above, the information display screen is transmitted to the inquiry computer 14 of the information inquiry company A (S130).

In the above description, the information-based password string is encrypted and then converted based on the member ID using the conversion function f. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The individual password is encrypted by encrypting with an encryption key corresponding to the member ID of the company (the encryption key may be obtained from the member ID by a predetermined formula or the encryption key may be recorded for each member ID). It may be generated. In this case, when decrypting the input individual password, a decryption key corresponding to the encryption key may be obtained from the member ID of the information inquiry company, and the individual password may be decrypted with the decryption key.

8 to 11 show examples of company information displayed on the information display screen. FIG. 8 is an example of general information.
In this example, basic information such as a trade name and a location and a homepage address are included. FIG. 9 shows an example of company specific information. In this example, special product information for a specific customer is included.

FIG. 10 shows an example of the external identification information provided from the electronic market. In this example, three electronic markets “paper trading dot com”, “building material dot com”,
And transaction history at "Food.com" (enrollment date,
Transaction count, settlement delay, cumulative purchase amount, etc.).
In addition, although this example is a case where the information transmitting company is a product purchaser, when the information transmitting company is a product seller, information from the electronic market is used instead of the settlement delay and the total purchase amount as information from the electronic market. FIG. 11 in which the delivery delay and the accumulated sales amount are displayed is an example of the external identification information provided by the company information providing organization. In this example, the information is provided by the information providing company “Teikoku Databank”. Credit information (grading information, ranking information, financial results information, etc.), and financial information provided by "Tokyo Mitsubishi Accounting Office", a specialized financial institution.

The company specific information shown in FIG. 9 corresponds to the specific information # 1, the information from the electronic market shown in FIG. 10 corresponds to the specific information # 2, and the credit information from the information providing company shown in FIG. Assuming that the financial information from the specialized financial institution corresponds to the specific information # 3 and # 4 respectively, in the case of the above example, the specific information #
Since the browsing of No. 3 is not permitted, information from the electronic market shown in FIG. 10 is not displayed on the information display screen of the inquiring computer 14.

As described above, according to the system of the present embodiment, the information sending company notifies each information inquiry company of the individual password generated based on the specific information permitted to browse. In addition, it is possible to provide information of contents selected according to each information inquiry company. In other words, the information transmitting company can set the content of the information to be viewed by each information inquiry company on its own will, and can provide the information according to the other party.

Further, the information inquiry company can also obtain various company information of the information transmission company only by accessing the information providing server 10. That is,
One-stop information collection is realized, and excellent convenience is realized.

In the system according to the present embodiment, the information transmission side company not only has its own information provided by itself, but also information and electronic information provided by an external company information providing organization such as Teikoku Data Bank and Accountant Office. Is generally expensive to obtain, such as information provided by the market, or
Information that is difficult to obtain can be specified as specific information. Therefore, by providing such information to a specific customer, effective customer service can be provided.

Further, in the above embodiment, since information about which specific information is to be browsed is embedded in the individual password notified to each information inquiry company, the information-specific password for each specific information is transmitted to the other party. Notification is not required. Therefore, the information inquiry company only needs to have one individual password for each information transmission company, and the management of the password is simplified. Further, since the individual password is encrypted with the predetermined encryption key, there is no possibility that the individual password of each specific information is calculated from the individual password notified to the information inquiry company.

Further, when expanding the range of the specific information to be viewed by a certain information inquiry company, a new individual password corresponding to the specific information after the range expansion is generated, and the information inquiry company is sent to the information inquiry company. You only need to notify. That is, the range of the specific information to be browsed can be easily expanded without changing the information registered in the information providing server 10.

The following method can be used as a method for providing specific information preset for each information inquiry side company.

The password for each information of the specific information to be permitted to be viewed is notified to the partner company (the information inquiry side company). In the case of the above example, three passwords 351, 864, and 551 for each information are notified to the information inquiry company X. The information inquiry side company inputs all the information-based passwords notified at the time of information inquiry, and the information providing server 10 sends the specific information corresponding to the input information-based password to the information inquiry side company. It is extracted as information that is permitted to be viewed. The password for each information may be encrypted as in the case of the above embodiment.

A combination password is generated for each combination of which specific information is to be browsed, and this password is notified to the partner company. For example, three specific information #
If there are 1 to # 3, the following table shows the seven combinations of whether or not each specific information can be viewed (there is no need to set a password if all the specific information are prohibited). The combination password is set as described above, and the other company is notified of the combination password according to the combination of the specific information to be browsed.

[0068]

[Table 1]

The correspondence table is stored in the information providing server 10.
The specific information permitted to be browsed is determined by referring to this correspondence table based on the combination password input by the inquiry-side computer 14. For example, when 5011 is input as the combination password, it is determined that browsing of the specific information # 2 and # 3 is permitted.
Note that the combination password may be encrypted as in the case of the above embodiment.

The individual password of the above embodiment, the above-mentioned password for each information, or the above-mentioned combination password is recorded in the information providing server 10 in association with the member ID of each information inquiry company. The password associated with the member ID input by the computer 14 is read. In this case, it is not necessary to notify the password from the information sending company to the information inquiry company.

For each piece of specific information, the member ID of the partner company (information inquiry side company) permitted to browse is recorded. Then, when there is an inquiry request from the information inquiry side company, the specific information in which the member ID of the information inquiry side company is recorded is extracted.

In the above embodiment, the case where the company information is provided to the information inquirer has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the content of the information to be browsed for each information inquirer is described. It can be applied in any case where setting is useful.

[0073]

According to the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, tenth, and eleventh aspects of the present invention, it is possible to provide information having contents set in advance for each information inquirer. Claim 3
If the information password is entered by the information inquirer, as described in, when the information category to be viewed by the information inquirer is changed, it is only necessary to newly notify the information password corresponding to the changed category. Often, it is easy to change the information division.

According to the inventions described in claims 6 and 12, a single information password includes section identification information for all the sections for which browsing is permitted. For this reason, since the information inquirer need only have one information password for each object of information, management of the information password is simplified.

According to the invention described in claim 7, not only the information provided by the information subject itself but also the information provided by a third party on the subject is provided by the information referrer for each information referrer. Can be set.

According to the eighth, ninth, and thirteenth aspects of the present invention, the information providing service can be provided by a server computer connected to an information communication network.

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically illustrating processing contents in the present system.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration example of registration data of a member company database.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing when an information transmitting company registers its company information and when an information inquiry company makes an inquiry about company information.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of an information registration screen.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a configuration example of registration data of a company information database.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of an inquiry target designation screen.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of general information displayed on an information display screen.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of company specific information displayed on an information display screen.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of external identification information provided from the electronic market, which is displayed on the information display screen.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of external identification information provided from a company information providing organization, displayed on an information display screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Information Providing Server 14 Inquiring Computer 16 Sending Computer 24 Corporate Information Database

Claims (13)

[Claims] 1. An information providing service system for accumulating information on various objects and providing the information to an information inquirer for browsing, wherein the information on the various objects is recorded as one or a plurality of pieces of information for each object. And a database in which the section identification information is recorded corresponding to each section, and the information of the information inquired by the information inquirer that is permitted to be viewed by the information inquirer is identified. Password obtaining means for obtaining an information password for performing information extraction, and information extraction for extracting information permitted to be viewed by the information inquirer from the database based on the obtained information password and the classification identification information. Means, and information output means for outputting the extracted information. 2. An information providing service system which accumulates information about various objects and provides the information to an information inquirer for browsing, wherein the information about the various objects is recorded in one or a plurality of pieces of information for each object. Database referencing means for referring to a database in which section identification information is recorded corresponding to each section, and information inquiring information from the information inquiring person to the information inquiring person. Password obtaining means for obtaining an information password for identifying information permitted to be viewed; information permitted to be viewed by the information inquirer based on the obtained information password and the classification identification information Information extraction means for extracting the extracted information from the database by the database reference means, and information output means for outputting the extracted information. System, characterized in that to obtain. 3. The information providing service system according to claim 1, wherein said password acquiring means acquires an information password input by said information inquirer. 4. The information providing service system according to claim 1, wherein said password obtaining means includes: an inquirer identification information obtaining means for obtaining identification information of said information inquirer; Reading means for reading out an information password corresponding to the acquired identification information by referring to a database in which the correspondence relationship is recorded. 5. An information providing service system for accumulating information on various objects and browsing the information by an information inquirer, wherein the information on the various objects is recorded as one or a plurality of pieces of information for each object. A database in which identification information of a partner who is permitted to browse in accordance with each section is recorded, an inquirer identification information acquisition unit that acquires identification information of an information inquirer, and the database is referred to. A system comprising: information extraction means for extracting information of a section associated with the acquired identification information; and information output means for outputting the extracted information. 6. The information providing service system according to claim 1, wherein the information password is a division of all the divisions of the information permitted to be viewed by the information inquirer. A system wherein identification information is generated by encoding a single code according to a predetermined procedure. 7. The information providing service system according to claim 1, wherein the information on the various targets includes information provided by the target itself and a third party other than the target. A system comprising the provided information. 8. The information providing service system according to claim 3, further comprising computer means connected to an information communication network, wherein said password obtaining means is inputted at a terminal of said information inquirer and said information is input. A system receiving an information password transmitted via a communication network, wherein the information output means transmits the extracted information to the terminal via the information communication network. 9. The information providing service system according to claim 4, further comprising computer means connected to an information communication network, wherein said identification information acquisition means is inputted at a terminal of said information inquirer and said information is provided. A system comprising: receiving identification information transmitted via an information communication network; and the information output means transmitting the extracted information to the terminal via the information communication network. 10. An information providing service method for accumulating information about various objects and providing the information to the information referrer for viewing by the information referrer. A step of acquiring an information password for identifying information permitted to be viewed; and information on the various objects is recorded for each object in one or a plurality of pieces of information. Referring to the database in which the section identification information is recorded, and based on the obtained information password and the section identification information, extracting from the database information permitted to be viewed by the information referrer, Outputting the extracted information. 11. The information providing service method according to claim 10, wherein the step of obtaining the password includes:
A method comprising obtaining an information password entered by the information referrer. 12. The information providing service method according to claim 10 or 11, wherein the information password is provided in a predetermined procedure by classifying the class identification information for all classes of the information that are permitted to be viewed by the information inquirer. The method is characterized by being generated by encoding into a single code. 13. The information providing service method according to claim 11, wherein in the step of acquiring the password, the information password input by a terminal of the information inquirer and transmitted through an information communication network is received. Outputting the extracted information to the terminal via the information communication network.