JP2002374304A - Web page distribution system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a Web page distribution system, by which an information originator, without access environment to the Internet, can receive an answer by an electronic mail from an information recipient to a distributed Web page. SOLUTION: A control means 12 correlates a prescribed electronic mail address and a user 20 with the Web page and stores them in a Web page DB 14. An electronic mail from a browser terminal 42, transmitted toward the electronic mail address correlated with this Web page, is received from a server. A control means 12 extracts a user name from the DB 14 based on the electronic mail address of the destination of the received electronic mail, and additionally extracts a FAX number coordinated with the user name from a user DB 16. Then, the means 12 converts information on the received electronic mail to FAX data and transmits it to a destination having the extracted FAX number.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a Web page distribution system and method suitable for receiving a response to a Web page distributed using an existing communication infrastructure.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the spread of the Internet, information distribution through a homepage has been widely performed. Information distribution via the homepage not only allows information senders to unilaterally distribute information, but can also be used in conjunction with e-mail to receive inquiries from information recipients who have viewed the homepage, orders for product purchase, etc. . Recently, there are businesses that provide a homepage distribution service on behalf of an information sender, and it has become possible to easily perform information distribution through a homepage. For this reason, not only large companies but also small-scale self-employed persons such as private shops are increasingly interested in information distribution through a homepage.

[0003]

In the above prior art, the information sender can distribute information on the homepage by requesting a distribution agency of the homepage. In order to receive a response by the transmitted e-mail, a terminal such as a personal computer having a communication function capable of accessing the Internet, and a mail to which an information recipient transmits an e-mail according to a contract with a provider or the like. Had to get the address. In addition, knowledge of the operation of the terminal for viewing the received e-mail was required. However, compared to general subscriber telephones and faxes,
At present, the penetration rate of terminals that can access the Internet, such as personal computers, is still low, and the general level of familiarity with the operation of these terminals by ordinary people is also low.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and enables an information sender without an Internet access environment to receive an electronic mail response from an information receiver to a distributed Web page. It is an object to provide a page distribution system and method.

[0005]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a predetermined e-mail address is added and a Web address is added.
A Web page database that stores a Web page associated with the page creator, a Web page creator database that stores the facsimile number of the Web page creator, and a terminal owned by a viewer of the Web page. Receiving means for receiving an e-mail addressed to the e-mail, Web page creator extracting means for extracting a Web page creator of a Web page to which the e-mail address of the received e-mail is added, and the extracted Web page Facsimile number extracting means for extracting the facsimile number of the creation source, facsimile data converting means for converting the e-mail received by the receiving means into facsimile data, and extracting the converted facsimile data by the facsimile number extracting means Fac Characterized by comprising a transmitting means for transmitting addressed to metric number.

[0006] According to a second aspect of the present invention, a Web page database storing a Web page to which a predetermined e-mail address is added and associated with the Web page creator, and a telephone number of the Web page creator are stored. Web page creation source database, receiving means for receiving an e-mail addressed to the e-mail address from a terminal possessed by a viewer of the Web page, and a Web to which an e-mail address of a destination of the received e-mail is added
Web page creator extracting means for extracting a Web page creator of page b, telephone number extracting means for extracting the extracted Web page creator's telephone number, and e-mail received by the receiving means are converted into voice. It is characterized by comprising voice converting means for converting, and transmitting means for transmitting the converted voice to the telephone number extracted by the telephone number extracting means.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect, a creator terminal of the Web page creator is provided, and the creator terminal is connected to the creator terminal via a predetermined network. A web page creation unit for creating the web page based on a creation instruction from the creator terminal.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a process for storing a Web page to which a predetermined e-mail address is added and associated with a Web page creator,
A process of storing a facsimile number of a page creation source, a process of receiving an e-mail addressed to the e-mail address from a terminal of a viewer of the Web page, and adding an e-mail address of a destination of the received e-mail Extracting the web page creation source of the extracted web page, extracting the facsimile number of the extracted web page creation source, and converting the e-mail received by the receiving unit into facsimile data; Transmitting the converted facsimile data to the facsimile number extracted by the facsimile number extracting means.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a process for storing a Web page to which a predetermined e-mail address is added and which is associated with a Web page creation source,
Processing for storing a telephone number of a page creation source;
A process of receiving an e-mail addressed to the e-mail address from a terminal possessed by a page viewer, and a Wen to which an e-mail address of the destination of the received e-mail is added
a process of extracting a web page creator of page b, a process of extracting the extracted phone number of the web page creator, a process of converting an e-mail received by the receiving unit into a voice, Transmitting the received voice to the telephone number extracted by the telephone number extracting means.

[0010] According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in accordance with the fourth or fifth aspect of the present invention, based on a creation instruction from a creator terminal of a Web page creator connected via a predetermined network. , And a process of creating the Web page.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the entire Web page distribution system according to the present embodiment. This system includes a server 10 and a user (Web
FAX (facsimile) 2 of page creator 20
2. a creator terminal 32 of the web page creator 30;
The web page viewer 40 includes a viewer terminal 42, the Internet 50, and a telephone line 60. The Internet 50 connects the server 10 with the creator terminal 32 and the viewer terminal 42 so that they can communicate with each other. The telephone line 60 connects the server 10 and the FAX 22 so that they can communicate with each other. Here, the user 20 is a user who desires to transmit information by a Web page and has a communication environment by the FAX 22, but does not have a personal computer or the like for accessing the Internet or creating a Web page.

The server 10 includes control means (receiving means, We
b page creator extracting means, facsimile number extracting means,
Facsimile data conversion means, Web page creation means)
12. Web page DB (Web page) for storing Web pages
(b page database) 14, a user DB (Web page creation source database) 16 for storing the facsimile number of the user 20, and a communication unit (transmission unit) 18.

[0014] The control means 12 is a Web server based on a creation instruction from a creator terminal 32 connected via a network.
A page is created and stored in Web page DB14. Also, the W created in response to the access from the viewer terminal 42
While delivering the eb page, the W
An e-mail addressed to the creator of the eb page is received, and the received e-mail is
Convert to X data and send.

The Web page DB 14 is a database for storing link information to a predetermined e-mail address and a Web page associated with the user 20. For example, FIG.
As shown in the figure, user name "user-a", e-mail address "user-a@e-chira-tokyo.net", Web page file name "user-a.htm", URL (Uniform Resource Locato
r) “www.e-chira-tokyo.net/user-a” is stored in association with it. In addition, by storing the Web page in association with a URL common to each category such as the region and the type of business of the user 20, the Web page can be delivered from the viewer terminal 42 so as to be searchable by category. In the example shown in FIG. 2 described above, the URL of the user name “user-a”
Is associated with the area "tokyo (Tokyo)".

The user DB 16 is a database for storing the FAX number of the user 20. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, a user name "user-a" and a FAX number "03-53XX-OOOO" are stored in association with each other. .

The communication control means 18 includes an Internet 50
Data is transmitted and received between the creator terminal 32 and the viewer terminal 42 connected via the. Further, it transmits FAX data to the FAX 22 via the telephone line 60.

The creator terminal 32 and the viewer terminal 42 are, for example, personal computers each having an input means, a communication means, and a display device. The creator terminal 32 instructs the server 10 connected via the Internet 50 to create a Web page, and causes the server 10 to create a Web page. The creator terminal 32 is a portable computer which has a communication function by wireless communication and is portable here. The viewer terminal 42 has a browser function of accessing the server 10 via the Internet 50 and browsing a Web page distributed from the server 10 and a mailer function of transmitting an e-mail.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5 are diagrams showing the operation (sequence) of the present system. First, an operation of creating a Web page of the user 20 will be described. Web
The user 20 who does not have a page creation environment can use the Web
It requests the page creator 30 to create a Web page (step S1 in FIG. 4). The Web page creator 30 receiving the request carries the creator terminal 32 to the user 20 and accesses the server 10 using the wireless communication function from the creator terminal 32 to create a Web page on the spot. Request (step S2). The control means 12 is a creator terminal 32
A predetermined Web page creation tool is executed in response to a request from the user (step S3). When the web page creation tool is executed, a web page creation screen is distributed from the control unit 12 to the creator terminal 32 (step S4). Web
The page creator 30 operates the creator terminal 32 in accordance with an instruction from the user 20 to create a Web page (step S5). As described above, by executing the web page creation tool on the server 10, the creator terminal 32
To create and update Web pages in real time. When accessing the server 10 from the creator terminal 32, a predetermined ID and password are transmitted, and based on this, the server 10 sends the creator terminal 32
May be authenticated. Thereby, the server 10
Can be prevented from being illegally accessed.

The creation of a Web page is performed by using a W
An eb page template is selected, and an image and necessary characters are input and created on the template. Note that a photograph or image desired by the user 20 is captured as image data by a scanner or a camera connected to the creator terminal 32 and can be used for a Web page. In addition, the user 20 can create a Web page according to the image by giving an instruction to the Web page creator 30 while checking the Web page creation screen displayed on the creator terminal 32. The capacity of the Web page to be created may be set in advance in the system. For example, “single page configuration, three or less images” is set.
By limiting the capacity of the Web page and creating a Web page containing the minimum necessary information in this way, the capacity of the Web page DB 14 can be reduced and the system cost can be reduced. Further, the time until the Web page is displayed on the viewer terminal 42 is reduced, and the Web
The b page viewer 40 can comfortably browse the Web page.

When the Web page is completed (step S
6) The creator terminal 32 sends a Web page creation completion notification to the server 10 together with user information such as a user name and an FX number (step S7). The control means 12 is
Based on the page creation completion notification, a predetermined e-mail address and URL are assigned in association with the created Web page (step S8), and the e-mail address is linked to the created Web page. The link of the e-mail address is, for example, “Inquiry” on the Web page.
Provide a button and link to it. In this way, when the "inquiry" button is pressed from the viewer terminal 42, the e-mail address of the inquiry destination for the Web page is called and the e-mail can be transmitted. The control means 12 stores the web page linked with the e-mail address into a user name, an e-mail address,
It is stored in the Web page DB 14 in association with the RL or the like (step S9).

Thus, the creation of the Web page of the user 20 is completed, and the created Web page is stored in the viewer terminal 42.
It is distributed so that it can be browsed from the server 10 in response to an access from the server 10. The Web page viewer 40 can browse the corresponding Web page by accessing the server 10 by inputting a predetermined URL from the browser terminal 42,
A search site for a web page provided by the server 10 may be provided, and the web page may be narrowed down by a predetermined search key input from the viewer terminal 42 so that the viewer terminal 42 can access a target web page. .
By doing so, even when the URL is unknown, the viewer terminal 42 can access the target Web page.

Next, an inquiry by e-mail is received from the Web page viewer 40, and the contents are
The operation of transmitting to the FAX 22 will be described. Web
When the page viewer 40 presses an “inquiry” button on the web page from the viewer terminal 42 to request an inquiry for the web page (step S1 in FIG. 5).
0), the electronic mail address linked to the Web page is distributed from the control means 12 (step S1).
1). An e-mail describing the contents of the inquiry is transmitted from the viewer terminal 42 to the e-mail address that has been delivered (step S12). The transmitted e-mail is received by the server 10 (step S13), and the control means 12 extracts a user name from the Web page DB 14 based on the e-mail address of the destination of the received e-mail, and further corresponds to the user name. The attached FAX number is extracted from the user DB 16 (step S14). Thereby, the FAX number of the user 20 to which the e-mail is transmitted from the viewer terminal 42 is extracted. Then, the control means 12 converts the information of the received e-mail into FAX data (step S15), and transmits it to the extracted FAX number (step S16). The transmitted FAX data is received by the FAX 22, and is output so as to be browsed on a predetermined sheet (step S17). This allows user 2
0 can confirm the inquiry by the e-mail transmitted from the Web page viewer 40.

Although the above embodiment has been described with reference to the case where an e-mail from a Web page viewer is transmitted to a user's FAX, the e-mail may be converted into voice and transmitted to a user's telephone number. Good. As a result, even a user without a facsimile can confirm an e-mail from a Web page viewer by telephone. Further, in the above embodiment, the case where there is one server has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a server may be configured for each of a predetermined number of users and a user group. By doing so, even if a specific server goes down, services for all users are not stopped, and the reliability of the entire system is improved. Further, by dividing the server into a plurality of parts, backup for each server becomes possible. By performing backup for necessary servers, the cost for backup can be reduced.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since the e-mail address is linked to the Web page associated with the Web page creator, the Web page creator transmitting the e-mail addressed to this address can be extracted. Also, by converting the received e-mail into data that can be received by facsimile and transmitting it to the Web page creator, the Web page creator can be used even if there is no e-mail reception environment (PC: personal computer, etc.). By using a facsimile which is a communication terminal of the above, it is possible to receive an inquiry by e-mail from a Web page viewer. As a result, it is possible to reduce the cost for newly preparing an environment for receiving e-mail. Also, by converting the received e-mail into voice, the Web page creator can more easily receive an inquiry from a Web page viewer using a telephone of an existing communication terminal.

Also, a Web page creator terminal that connects to a Web page database via a network is called a Web page creator terminal.
The web page creator operates and creates a web page based on the instruction of the web page creation source, and transmits the created web page to the created web page database, thereby creating a web page creation environment (PC, etc.) and creating a web page. W without
A web page can be easily created by utilizing the web page creation know-how possessed by the web page creator. In addition, a web page creator can go to a web page creator with a terminal having a communication function and create and upload a web page on the spot. By instructing the creation to the Web page creator, W
The web page creator can create a web page according to the image.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an entire Web page distribution system according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of an aspect of a Web page DB14.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of an aspect of a user DB 16;

FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram showing an operation of the Web page distribution system according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram showing an operation of the Web page distribution system according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

12 control means (receiving means, Web page creation source extraction means, facsimile number extraction means, facsimile data conversion means, Web page creation means) 14 Web page DB (Web page database) 16 User DB (Web page creation source database) 18 Communication Means (transmitting means) 20 User (Web page creator) 30 Web page creator 32 Creator terminal 40 Web page viewer template storage unit (first storage unit) 42 Viewer terminal (terminal owned by Web page viewer) )

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A Web page database storing a Web page linked to a Web page creator linked to a predetermined e-mail address, and a Web page creator database storing a facsimile number of the Web page creator. Receiving means for receiving an e-mail addressed to the e-mail address from a terminal possessed by a viewer of the Web page; and a Web page creator of the Web page to which the e-mail address of the destination of the received e-mail is added Web page creator extracting means for extracting, facsimile number extracting means for extracting the extracted facsimile number of the Web page creator from the Web page creator database, and converting the e-mail received by the receiving means into facsimile data Facsimile to convert We to the data converting unit, the converted facsimile data, characterized in that a transmission means for transmitting addressed to the facsimile number extracted by said facsimile number extracting means
b page distribution system. 2. A predetermined e-mail address is added,
A Web page database storing a Web page associated with the Web page creator; a Web page creator database storing the telephone number of the Web page creator; and a terminal provided by a viewer of the Web page. Receiving means for receiving an e-mail addressed to an e-mail address; Web page creator extracting means for extracting a Web page creator of a Web page to which an e-mail address of the destination of the received e-mail is added; Enter the telephone number of the Web page
telephone number extracting means for extracting from an eb page creation source database; voice converting means for converting the e-mail received by the receiving means into voice; and telephone for extracting the converted voice by the telephone number extracting means. A transmission means for transmitting the address to a number. 3. A creator terminal provided to the Web page creator, wherein the creator terminal is connected to the creator terminal via a predetermined network, and based on a creation instruction from the creator terminal,
3. The Web page distribution system according to claim 1, further comprising a Web page creation unit that creates a b-page. 4. A predetermined e-mail address is added,
And processing for storing a Web page associated with the Web page creator; processing for storing the facsimile number of the Web page creator; and e-mail addressed to the e-mail address from a terminal owned by the Web page viewer. A process of extracting a web page creation source of a web page to which an email address of a destination of the received email is added; and a process of extracting a facsimile number of the extracted web page creation source. A process of converting the e-mail received by the receiving unit into facsimile data; and a process of transmitting the converted facsimile data to a facsimile number extracted by the facsimile number extracting unit. Web page distribution method. 5. A predetermined e-mail address is added,
A process of storing a web page associated with the web page creator; a process of storing the telephone number of the web page creator; and an e-mail addressed to the e-mail address from a terminal owned by the web page viewer. Receiving the e-mail, extracting the Web page creator of the Web page to which the e-mail address of the received e-mail is added, and extracting the extracted telephone number of the Web page creator. A process of converting an e-mail received by the receiving unit into a voice, and a process of transmitting the converted voice to a telephone number extracted by the telephone number extracting unit. Web page distribution method. 6. A process for creating the Web page based on a creation instruction from a creator terminal of a Web page creator connected via a predetermined network. Item 5: We
b page delivery method.