JP2003036236A - Url distribution system and method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a URL distribution system and a method in which regarding the URL requested to be acquired by a user, its request is transmitted by an e-mail to an e-mail address designated in advance and the URL requested to be acquired is sent back to the above user. SOLUTION: The URL distribution system, which is capable of transmitting and receiving data via a network with a user terminal owned by a user, and transmits by the e-mail the URL for a Web page through which the above user wants to browse to the user terminal, comprises an e-mail means for receiving the e-mail requesting transmission of the URL from the terminal and storing the e-mail address of the user on a user database, and a URL transmission means for transmitting the e-mail, to which the above URL is listed or attached, to the e-mail address received from the user terminal.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a URL distribution in which a user wants to acquire a URL to be transmitted to the user by sending a request to the predetermined e-mail address by e-mail. System and method

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Although there are various websites on the network that provide various information, it is necessary to enter the URL indicating the location of the website by itself. For example, the URL from an advertising medium (brochure) is used. When acquired, the acquired URL is input from the user terminal of the user.

[0003]

In order to display a web page as in the above method, when inputting the URL by itself, it is necessary to input the acquired URL without making a single mistake, especially the input key. It is very complicated when accessing from a mobile phone or the like, which is limited.

Further, in order to try to access the relevant web page again, it is necessary to search for the URL of the relevant web page based on the access history, make access, and save the URL in "favorite".

However, when the above method is used, there are problems that the access history may be erased, and the work of separately storing the URL in "favorites" is required.

[0006]

In view of the above problems, the present inventor makes a request for transmission of the URL of a corresponding web page to a predetermined e-mail address so that the URL is described or attached. Invented a URL delivery system and method for receiving a received email.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, data can be transmitted / received to / from a user terminal owned by a user via a network, and the UR of a web page desired by the user to browse
UR for sending L to the user terminal by e-mail
In the L distribution system, an electronic mail means for receiving an electronic mail requesting transmission of the URL from the user terminal and registering the electronic mail address of the user in a user database, and an electronic mail address received from the user terminal And a URL transmitting means for transmitting an email in which the URL is described or attached.

According to a third aspect of the invention, data can be transmitted and received to and from a user terminal owned by the user via a network, and the UR of the web page desired by the user to browse.
UR for sending L to the user terminal by e-mail
In the L delivery method, URL delivery in which an email requesting transmission of the URL is received from the user terminal, and an email in which the URL is described or attached to the email address received from the user terminal is sent. Is the way.

According to a fourth aspect of the invention, data can be transmitted / received to / from a user terminal owned by the user via a network, and the UR of a web page desired by the user to browse.
UR for sending L to the user terminal by e-mail
In the L delivery method, an e-mail requesting the transmission of the URL is received from the user terminal, the e-mail address of the user is registered in a user database, and the e-mail address registered in the user database is stored in the user database. This is a URL distribution method in which an e-mail in which a URL is described or attached is transmitted.

According to the inventions of claim 1, claim 3, and claim 4, instead of inputting the URL, which is generally more redundant than the electronic mail address, only inputting the electronic mail address enables the desired web page to be displayed. URL can be obtained,
By simply selecting (or clicking) the URL described or attached to the received e-mail, the corresponding web page can be accessed, and complicated input of the URL is unnecessary. Further, this makes it possible to avoid input mistakes and registration mistakes in the URL.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the URL delivery system, in the electronic mail means, a list of customers of the URL delivery system, information about a user who is the customer, and information provided to the user terminal are provided. It is determined whether the received electronic mail address and the customer list match based on a customer database that stores the received electronic mail address and the customer list in the URL transmitting means. When the e-mail in which the URL is described or attached is transmitted to the user terminal, the information suitable for the user is obtained based on the information about the user stored in the customer database. It is a URL distribution system that is sent to the user terminal after being added to the electronic mail.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the URL delivery method, the reception is performed based on a customer database that stores a customer list, information about the user who is the customer, and information provided to the user terminal. Judging whether or not the e-mail address and the customer list
Information about the user stored in the customer database when the e-mail in which the URL is described or attached is transmitted to the user terminal when the received e-mail address and the customer list match. Based on the above, the URL distribution method is to add information suitable for the user to the electronic mail and then send the electronic mail to the user terminal.

According to the inventions of claims 2 and 5, when the user is already a customer of the URL distribution system and has registered information about himself / herself, not only the URL is received, but the user is suitable for himself / herself. It is also possible to obtain information that is estimated to be present.

Further, by accumulating the electronic mail address of the request mail (that is, the electronic mail address of the user) which is the electronic mail in which the user has requested the URL, it becomes possible to lead to future marketing activities.

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An example of an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an example of the system configuration of the present invention. URL distribution system 1
Can transmit and receive data via the user terminal 6 of the user and the network 7. Here, the network 7 is an open network such as the Internet, LA
It may be a closed network such as N,
It does not matter whether it is wired or wireless.

The URL distribution system 1 has an electronic mail means 2, a URL transmission means 3, a user database 4 and a customer database 5.

The electronic mail means 2 receives from the user terminal 6 an electronic mail requesting the transmission of the URL of the corresponding web page (hereinafter referred to as request mail), and sends the electronic mail address of the user (that is, electronic mail from the user terminal 6). This is a means for registering the sender's electronic mail address of the request mail received by the mail means 2) in the user database 4 (described later). It is also means for determining whether or not the received electronic mail address matches the customer list stored in the customer database 5 (described later).

The URL transmitting means 3 receives the request mail from the user terminal 6 and receives the URL of the corresponding web page.
Is described in or attached to an electronic mail and is transmitted to the user terminal 6. Further, when the user is registered in the customer database 5 as a customer, it is also a means for adding information suitable for the user to the electronic mail transmitted to the user terminal 6.

The user database 4 is a database that stores the electronic mail address of the user received from the user terminal 6.

The customer database 5 includes a list of users registered as customers (so-called customer list) and information about users who are customers (for example, user's address, name, occupation, sex, age, and field of interest (eg, user). Car, cosmetics,
This is a database that stores information such as travel information)) and information provided to the user terminal 6.

[0021]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an example of the process flow of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. 2 and the system configuration diagram shown in FIG.

The URL of a web page (for example, htt
(http://www.xxx.co.jp/originalpageforusers.html), the user who wants to obtain UR from the user terminal 6
A request mail, which is an electronic mail requesting to send the URL of the corresponding web page, is sent to a predetermined electronic mail address (for example, request@xxx.co.jp) of the L distribution system 1 (S100). ). The request mail to be transmitted at this time may have the text described or may be a blank mail. FIG. 3 shows an example of the request mail.

The e-mail means 2 of the URL delivery system 1 which has received the request mail from the user terminal 6 (S1
10), the email address of the user who is the sender of the received request email (eg url@tos.ne.jp)
Is registered in the user database 4 (S120).

The electronic mail means 2 compares the electronic mail address (url@tos.ne.jp) of the received request mail with the customer list stored in the customer database 5, and the user who sent the request mail ( url@tos.ne.j
It is determined whether or not the user having the e-mail address of p) is a customer (S130).

If the user is a customer (ie, the user's email address matches the customer list),
Based on the information about the user stored in the customer database 5 (for example, the user's address, name, occupation, sex, age, field of interest (eg, car, cosmetics, travel, etc.)) Extract the information to be provided (S
140). For example, if the user is interested in a car and is a man in his 50s, then information about a luxury sedan, which is presumed to be usually interested in a man in his 50s, will be extracted. .

After extracting the information for each customer in S140,
Or, if the user is not a customer in S130 (that is,
If the user's e-mail address does not match the customer list), the URL transmitting means 3 sends the e-mail address (ur) stored in the user database 4 in S120.
l@tos.ne.jp) and extract the URL of the relevant web page (http://www.xxx.co.
jp / originalpageforusers.html), or if the user is a customer in S130, S14
The information extracted at 0 is also added, and this e-mail is transmitted to the user terminal 6 (S150). UR in Figure 4
An example of an electronic mail in which L is described or attached is shown.

The user receives the e-mail (FIG. 4) transmitted from the URL distribution system 1 at S150 on the user terminal 6, browses the e-mail, and displays the URL described or attached to the e-mail. By selecting (or clicking), it is possible to automatically jump to the corresponding web page.

This makes it possible to eliminate the complexity of manually inputting the acquired URL. Generally, the URL is often more redundant than the e-mail address (in this embodiment, the URL is 46 characters and the e-mail address is 17 characters), and only the e-mail address shorter than the URL is desired. Web page U
The RL can be acquired, and it becomes possible to avoid input mistakes in the URL, registration mistakes, and the like.

Further, in this embodiment, a predetermined e-mail address (request @
When you send a request mail to (xxx.co.jp),
The predetermined URL is transmitted to the user terminal 6.
Therefore, in the request mail, if the user inputs a keyword (search term) of the URL desired to be acquired (for example, how to create a web page) in the subject (Sub :) field and sends it as a request mail, The request means is received by the mail means 2, and the URL is based on the received keyword (how to make a web page).
By searching a list list (it is preferable to have a database that stores a plurality of URLs and the contents described in the web page of the URL in association with each other), the related web page ( It is also possible to extract a web page regarding how to create a web page and send the URL to the user terminal 6 as the URL desired by the user. FIG. 5 shows an example of adding a keyword to the request mail. Further, FIG. 6 shows an example of an e-mail in which a URL is described or attached, which is a search result transmitted from the URL distribution system 1.

In the conventional search engine, when browsing the results retrieved in the past, the user himself / herself needs to save the web page in which the search result in the search engine or the like is described.

However, by receiving the search result by e-mail as described above, it is possible to easily browse the search result in the past, which leads to improvement in usability. Further, since the result is transmitted by electronic mail, it is not necessary to always connect the user terminal 6 to the network 7, and it is sufficient to connect the result to the network 7 only when the user wants to browse the result.

Each means and database in the present invention are as follows:
The functions are only logically distinct and may physically or virtually form the same area.

In implementing the present invention, a storage medium storing a software program for realizing the functions of the present embodiment is supplied to the system, and the computer of the system reads and executes the program stored in the storage medium. It will be realized by

In this case, the program itself read from the storage medium realizes the function of the above-described embodiment, and the storage medium storing the program naturally constitutes the present invention.

As a storage medium for supplying the program, for example, a floppy (registered trademark) disk, a hard disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a magnetic tape, a non-volatile memory card or the like can be used.

Further, by executing the program read by the computer, not only the functions of the above-described embodiment are realized, but also based on the instruction of the program,
It goes without saying that this also includes the case where an operating system or the like running on a computer performs a part or all of the actual processing and the processing realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments.

Further, after the program read from the storage medium is written in a non-volatile or volatile storage means provided in a function expansion board inserted in the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, the program is then written. Based on the instruction of the above, it is obvious that the case where the arithmetic processing unit or the like provided in the function expansion board or the function expansion unit performs a part or all of the actual processing and the processing realizes the function of the above-described embodiment is included. Is.

[0038]

According to the present invention, the URL of a desired web page can be obtained only by inputting an e-mail address instead of inputting a URL which is generally more redundant than an e-mail address. It is possible to avoid registration mistakes and the like. Also, the acquired URL
Only by selecting (or clicking), the user can reach and browse to the desired web page.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an example of a system configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of a process flow of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a request mail.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an electronic mail in which a URL is described or attached.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a request mail in which keywords are described.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an electronic mail in which a URL as a search result is described or attached.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: URL distribution system 2: E-mail means 3: URL transmission means 4: User database 5: Customer database 6: User terminal 7: Network

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A URL distribution system capable of transmitting / receiving data to / from a user terminal owned by a user via a network, and transmitting the URL of a web page desired by the user by electronic mail to the user terminal. In the above, an e-mail means for receiving an e-mail requesting transmission of the URL from the user terminal and registering the e-mail address of the user in a user database, and an e-mail address received from the user terminal Send an e-mail with the URL described or attached
A URL distribution system comprising an RL transmission means. 2. The URL distribution system stores, in the electronic mail means, a customer list of the URL distribution system, information about a user who is the customer, and information provided to the user terminal. Based on the customer database, it is determined whether the received electronic mail address matches the customer list, and when the received electronic mail address matches the customer list in the URL transmitting means, When sending an e-mail in which the URL is described or attached to the user terminal, information suitable for the user is added to the e-mail based on the information about the user stored in the customer database. The URL distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the URL is transmitted to the user terminal later. 3. A URL distribution method capable of transmitting / receiving data to / from a user terminal owned by a user via a network, and transmitting the URL of a web page desired by the user to the user terminal by electronic mail. In the above, the electronic mail requesting the transmission of the URL is received from the user terminal, and the electronic mail in which the URL is described or attached is transmitted to the electronic mail address received from the user terminal. URL delivery method. 4. A URL distribution method capable of transmitting / receiving data to / from a user terminal of a user via a network, and transmitting the URL of a web page desired by the user to the user terminal by electronic mail. In, an e-mail requesting transmission of the URL is received from the user terminal, the e-mail address of the user is registered in a user database, and the URL is described for the e-mail address registered in the user database. Alternatively, a URL delivery method characterized by transmitting an attached e-mail. 5. The URL delivery method, based on a customer database storing a customer list, information about the user who is the customer, and information provided to the user terminal, the received e-mail address and When it judges whether or not it matches the customer list, and when the received e-mail address and the customer list match, when sending the e-mail describing or attaching the URL to the user terminal, 5. The information suitable for the user is added to the electronic mail based on the information about the user stored in the customer database, and then the electronic mail is transmitted to the user terminal. URL delivery method described in.