JP2002297474A - Bbs(bulletin board system), remote terminal and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide BBS with credibility of written contents for BBS possible to write and browse information related to a region. SOLUTION: In writing of information to BBS, when writing from a cellular phone 11, information on a present position is acquired from the phone 11, and while deciding pros and cons of writing according to the information, writing destination to BBS by regions are changed. Accordingly, the BBS by regions can be attained and also the credibility can be improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic bulletin board system, and more particularly to an electronic bulletin board system capable of determining whether to write on an electronic bulletin board according to the position of a remote terminal and displaying local information from a reliable information source. Regarding bulletin board systems.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is an electronic bulletin board system for posting on a home page used on the Internet or the like so that it can be written and viewed from an unspecified number of computers.

[0003] In this type of electronic bulletin board system, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-48777 discloses a system in which content is deleted based on a predetermined publication period and is suitable for managing information suitable for one-time publication. Things are listed.

Some electronic bulletin board systems are provided with a desired theme, and are operated so that information related to the theme can be written and browsed.

[0005]

However, if a bulletin board is provided in which information related to an area can be written and browsed on a desired theme, if writing from an unspecified number of computers is permitted, the area is not actually accessed. There is a risk that uncertain information may be written from people who have never been to

[0006] If the user contains uncertain information, the electronic bulletin board is difficult to use because the information is not credible.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic bulletin board system in which information related to a region can be written and browsed, and the written content has credibility.

[0008]

According to the electronic bulletin board system of the present invention, the position information indicating the position of the first remote unit is received and stored together with the content information to be displayed on the electronic bulletin board. I do. Then, in response to a browsing request signal from the second remote device, content information classified according to region based on the position information is transmitted.

As described above, since the content information is sorted and stored on the basis of the position information of the first remote device, the user of the first remote device is a person who is familiar with information related to the area. And an electronic bulletin board system having high credibility of the content information can be provided.

Further, according to the electronic bulletin board system of the present invention described in claim 2, in the electronic bulletin board system of claim 1, further, when an information browsing request is received from a second remote device, The position information indicating the position of the second remote device is received, and the local content information corresponding to the position information is transmitted.

As described above, by transmitting the information on the area corresponding to the position information based on the position information of the second remote device, the second remote device can easily browse the information. It will be.

According to the electronic bulletin board system of the present invention described in claim 3, in the electronic bulletin board system of claim 1 or 2, the information bulletin board system further includes information of the information based on location information from the first remote device. It is determined whether writing is possible. Thereby, when writing information to a specific area, it can be determined whether or not the writing is from a remote device outside the area, for example,
Since writing from a remote device in the area can be permitted and writing from a remote device outside the area can be rejected, the credibility of the stored and transmitted content information can be improved.

Further, according to the remote terminal of the present invention, when transmitting the content information for posting on the electronic bulletin board, the self-location information is also transmitted.

Thus, in the electronic bulletin board system, since the position information can be received together with the content information, the credibility of the content information can be improved.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the remote terminal according to the fourth aspect, a plurality of self-position information is further stored and selected from the stored position information. So that you can send the information.

Thus, not only the information on the current location but also the information on the location where the user has been in the past can be transmitted, and at this time, the information can be authentic.

According to the program of the present invention, since the computer can execute a program of an electronic bulletin board for storing and transmitting information based on area information received from a remote device, As in the electronic bulletin board system according to the first aspect, the credibility of the contents written on the electronic bulletin board can be improved.

According to the program of the present invention, the remote terminal can execute a program for transmitting the location information in addition to the content information. Similarly, a remote terminal that can improve the credibility of the content written on the electronic bulletin board can be provided.

[0019]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a conceptual diagram of the system of the present invention. The system includes a mobile phone 11 (corresponding to a remote terminal of the present invention), a base station 13 capable of wireless communication with the mobile phone 11, a gateway server 15 connected to the base station 13, An Internet network 17 to which the gateway server 15 is connected, and an electronic bulletin board server 19 connected to the Internet network 17
(Corresponding to the electronic bulletin board system of the present invention).

Here, the gateway server 15 transmits the information received from the portable telephone 11 to the Internet network 17.
When transmitting to the mobile phone 11, the information is converted into a data format that can be transmitted and received on the Internet 17, and the information received from the Internet 17 is transmitted to the mobile phone 11. It is a server that converts it into a format that can be sent and received.

Referring to FIG. 3, the electronic bulletin board server 19 includes a control circuit 191 (corresponding to the classification means and transmission control means of the present invention) and a storage device 192 (corresponding to the storage means of the present invention). And a transmitting / receiving unit 193 (corresponding to the transmitting means and the receiving means of the present invention). The storage unit 192 stores information written on the electronic bulletin board and a program for executing a process of writing on the electronic bulletin board.

Further, the mobile phone 11 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2. The mobile phone 11 is provided with a control circuit 20 mainly composed of a microcomputer and for controlling the whole. The transmission / reception unit 21, the data conversion unit 22, and the audio processing unit 23 are connected to the control circuit 20, and the transmission / reception unit 21 is connected to the data conversion unit 22, and the antenna 24 is connected to the transmission / reception unit 21. Have been.

The control circuit 20 receives an operation signal of a key operation unit 25 including ten keys and cursor keys, and displays a message such as a telephone number or a mail.
A storage unit 27 including a RAM, a microphone 29 for inputting a transmission sound, and a speaker 28 for outputting voice are connected. Control circuit 2
0 is connected to a GPS receiver 30 (position detecting means of the present invention) for detecting its own position.

The storage unit 27 stores a control program for communication and a program for executing a function of transmitting position information in a process of writing to an electronic bulletin board, which is a main part of the present invention. Also, a browser program for browsing the electronic bulletin board created on the homepage is stored.

Next, the writing process to the electronic bulletin board, which is a main part of the present invention, will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

In this embodiment, the portable telephone 11a
(Corresponding to the first remote terminal of the present invention and the remote terminal)
, Information is posted and written, and the bulletin board server 19 stores the information based on the location information.
A description will be given of an example of a case where a request is made to browse information from a mobile phone 11b (corresponding to a second remote terminal of the present invention) and the information is browsed.

[Process of Posting from Mobile Phone to Bulletin Board Server] First, the process of writing information performed by the mobile phone 11a will be described.

In the portable telephone 11a, when the user presses the key operation unit 25, the browser function is activated, the browser is displayed on the display 26, and this processing is started (step S51).
At 2, the connection to the bulletin board server 19 is made. In this connection processing, the electronic bulletin board server 1 receives a pressing operation of the key operation unit 25 of the mobile phone 11 by the user.
9 to perform a call / authentication process for connection to the terminal 9.
Then, the mobile phone 11a acquires the latitude / longitude information by receiving the GPS signal at the GPS receiver 30, and
Bulletin board server 1 using the latitude and longitude information as position information
9 (step S53). Next, if the user has set the acquisition of the map information, the map corresponding to the position information is acquired, and the map is displayed on the display 26 as shown in FIG. S5
4). In this map, an icon 41 indicating the own position and a bulletin board icon 43 provided in the map are displayed. The bulletin board icon 43 is an icon indicating a bulletin board relating to a specific position in the map.

In the next step S55, when the user accepts the operation of selecting the bulletin board icon 43, a bulletin board outline 45 related to the bulletin board icon 43 is displayed as shown in FIG. 4B. Following the selection operation, when a key operation of the key operation unit 25 indicating execution of the writing process is received, for example, in the mobile phone 11a,
The input of a sentence as shown in FIG. 4C is accepted, and thereafter, the information shown in FIG.

By performing such processing, the portable telephone 1
From 1a, together with the position information in step S53,
Content information is sent. At this time, the telephone number of the mobile phone 11a and the information of the writer name are transmitted at the same time. In this new writing process, FIG.
After obtaining the bulletin board menu indicating the area name shown in (a), the bulletin board information of the area corresponding to the current position of the mobile phone is automatically selected from the menu. For example, as shown in FIG. Writing may be performed in a state where the writing content is displayed.

[Browsing Process of Bulletin Information on Bulletin Board Server Using Mobile Phone] Next, a process of browsing information posted on the bulletin board server 19 from the mobile phone 11b will be described. In the browsing process, the process shown in FIG. 5A is executed in the same manner as the above-described writing process.

Step S5 of the process of FIG.
In 5, when a browsing request operation indicating a request for browsing the bulletin board content is received from the user, a browsing request signal for bulletin board information related to the bulletin board icon 43 is transmitted to the bulletin board server 19, and thereafter, the bulletin board server 19 posts the bulletin board. The contents are received and displayed as shown in FIG. Note that, in this processing, the bulletin board server 19 sends
Information is received as shown in (b) and (c). For example, when the mobile phone 11b is located in the area A, as shown in FIG. 6B, bulletin board information in the area A is received. . The bulletin board information for each region includes the name of the writer, the telephone number of the mobile phone, information indicating the content of the writing, and the writing date. The mobile phone 11b receives this information from the bulletin board server 19 and processes the information.
The display processing is performed as shown in FIG.

As described above, in the present process, in the process of displaying the content of the bulletin board in the bulletin board server 19 of the mobile phone 11b, the content of the bulletin at the corresponding position in the bulletin board server 19 is browsed based on the position information of the mobile phone 11b. That is what you can do.

[Other Posting Process to Bulletin Board Server] In the process of writing to the bulletin board server 19, in addition to the above-described new writing process, a process of writing to the bulletin board shown in FIG. That is, a reply process can be executed. The reply process will be described. In step S55 of the process shown in FIG. 5A, when a write operation by the key operation unit 25 is received after the display content shown in FIG. The reply message is sent to the bulletin board server 19.

[Process of Bulletin Board Server] The process of the bulletin board server 19 will be described below with reference to FIG.

When the bulletin board server 19 starts this processing (step S61), first, the portable telephone 11
It is determined whether or not there is an access from the mobile phone 11a. For example, when there is an access from the mobile phone 11a, a signal requesting position information is transmitted to the mobile phone 11a (step S62). Then, when the location information is received from the mobile phone 11a (step S63), map information corresponding to the received location information is transmitted to the mobile phone 11a and provided (step S64). Then, it is determined whether a bulletin board exists in the vicinity including the position information or in the area included in the map (step S6).
5) If there is a bulletin board in this area, the bulletin board information corresponding to the position information is transmitted or received according to a request from the user (step S66). If there is no bulletin board in this area, the process ends.

In step S66, a storage process is performed as shown in FIG. FIG. 6A shows a bulletin board menu. When a process of writing the content of the bulletin board to the bulletin board from the mobile phone 11a is executed, the mobile phone 11 is displayed.
Based on the position information from a, the position information, the name and telephone number of the writer, and the written contents are received, and the information is stored for each bulletin board for each region. in this way,
By separating and storing the information on the bulletin board for each region, the information can be transmitted promptly when the request for browsing the bulletin board from the mobile phone 11a is received, and the mobile phone 11
By storing the information based on the current position information of the mobile phone 11a transmitted from the terminal a and browsing the information, the information can be separated for each information source, and the information only from the user who is truly at the place can be stored. And the credibility of the information can be improved.

As described above, according to the above-described embodiment, in the system shown in FIG. 1, the bulletin board write information from the portable telephone 11a is transmitted through the base station 13a to the location information. Local bulletin board (Fig. 6
(See (b)). When browsing the bulletin board from the mobile phone 11b, it is connected to the bulletin board server 19 via the base station 13a, and the bulletin board information of the area A (FIG. 6).
(B)) can be automatically browsed. Also,
When browsing the bulletin board from the mobile phone 11c, it is connected to the bulletin board server 19 via the base station 13b, and can automatically browse the bulletin board information of the area B (see FIG. 6C).

[Modifications] In the present invention, the above embodiments can be appropriately modified and applied as follows.

First, the format of the bulletin information stored in the bulletin board server 19 is not limited to storage by area as shown in FIG. 6, but as shown in FIG. The writing area information may be stored together with the insertion date, and the information for each area may be transmitted in response to a request from the user.

In the above-described embodiment, the map information is acquired based on the current position of the mobile phone 11a, and the bulletin board icon 43 in the map is selected and displayed. The bulletin board menu shown in FIG. 6A may be obtained without obtaining the map. Then, as far as information browsing is concerned, information on any region in the bulletin board menu can be browsed, and when region A is selected, the contents of the bulletin board for region A shown in FIG. When the area B is selected, the contents of the bulletin board of the area B shown in FIG. 6C may be acquired and displayed. As described above, it is possible to select and display a display mode, such as acquiring bulletin board information relating to the current position, selecting and displaying an area, or selecting and displaying all areas.

In the above embodiment, the current position information is transmitted in advance in the writing process from the mobile phone 11a to the bulletin board. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the writing process to the bulletin board is performed. At this time, the current position information may be transmitted. That is, in FIG. 5 (a), after accessing the bulletin board server 19 in step S52, a request for browsing the bulletin board is executed in step S55 without executing the processing of steps S53 and S54, and FIG.
When the bulletin board menu of (a) is received and the writing process is performed, the position information may be acquired and the position information may be transmitted to the bulletin board server 19 together with the written contents.

Further, the position information transmitted to the bulletin board server 19 is not limited to the current position information,
The user of a may have gone there, and the location information acquired as the location information may be transmitted. In this process, the history of the past position information is stored in the mobile phone 11a.
, And the user may select the position information from the past history and transmit the selected position information together with the written contents. In this way, by enabling the writing content to be transmitted based on the past position information, it is possible to transmit not only information around the current position but also information about an area where the user has been in the past. Since the information can be easily collected, the credibility of the information is not inferior because the credibility of the information is information on a region that has been visited in the past.

In the above embodiment, when the position information of the mobile phone 11 is obtained, the GP
The example in which the position information acquired by the S receiver 30 is used has been described, but the position information may be acquired by using the information of the base station 13 whose position is registered by the mobile phone 11. Further, the position information may be obtained from another position information providing server that provides the information from the base station 13.

In the above embodiment, the position information from the mobile phone 11a is acquired and stored in the bulletin board of the area corresponding to this position. However, when there is no bulletin board corresponding to the area, Since the bulletin board does not exist, the mobile phone 1 sends a reply that the information could not be written.
You may reply to 1a. If a bulletin board does not exist, a new bulletin board may be opened at that time.

As the bulletin board, not only a bulletin board related to an area but also a bulletin board related to a specific shop or facility may be provided.

In the above embodiment, the storage units 27 and 192 of the mobile phone 11a and the bulletin board server 19 are used.
In the example described above, the control program is included in advance. However, the control program is distributed through another server on the Internet, a CD-ROM, or the like, and is installed in the mobile phone 11 a or the bulletin board server 19. It may be executed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an entire system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a mobile phone according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a bulletin board server according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display on a mobile phone.

FIG. 5A shows a control circuit 20 of the mobile phone 11, and
(B) It is a figure which shows the control flowchart in a bulletin board server.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a menu and a storage format in a bulletin board server.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing another storage format in the bulletin board server.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 11 mobile phone (remote terminal) 19 electronic bulletin board server (electronic bulletin board system) 25 key operation unit 27 storage unit 30 GPS receiver (position information acquisition means)

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. Receiving means for receiving, from a first remote terminal, position information indicating the position of the first remote terminal and content information displayed on an electronic bulletin board; and content information received by the receiving means. Storage means for storing the location information and location information; sorting means for sorting the content information for each area corresponding to the location information; and area sorted by the sorting means in response to a request signal from a second remote terminal. An electronic bulletin board system, comprising: transmission means for transmitting another of the content information to the second remote terminal. 2. Request signal receiving means for receiving, from a second remote terminal, position information indicating the position of the second remote terminal, and a request signal for the content information; 2. The electronic bulletin board system according to claim 1, further comprising: transmission control means for determining the position information and transmitting the content information of an area corresponding to the position information to the second remote terminal. 3. The storage device according to claim 1, further comprising storage availability determination means for determining whether or not storage in the storage device is possible based on the area identification information received by the reception device.
Electronic bulletin board system described. 4. A remote terminal for transmitting the content information and the position information to the electronic bulletin board system according to claim 1, wherein: a position detecting means for detecting a self-position; and a display on the electronic bulletin board. A remote terminal comprising: a creation unit that creates content information; and an information transmission unit that transmits the content information and the own location information detected by the location detection unit. 5. A storage means for storing a plurality of self-position information detected by the position detection means, wherein the information transmission means transmits self-position information selected from the storage means. Remote terminal as described. 6. A computer comprising: from a remote terminal, position information indicating a position of the remote terminal;
A receiving step of receiving the content information to be displayed on the electronic bulletin board; a storage step of storing the content information and the position information received by the receiving means; and a classification of separating the content information by region corresponding to the position information. And a transmitting step of transmitting, to the remote terminal, the content information for each area separated by the separating means. 7. A remote terminal, comprising: a position detecting step of detecting a position of the user; a creating step of creating content information to be displayed on an electronic bulletin board; and the content information and own location information detected by the position detecting means. A program for executing an information transmission step to be transmitted.