JP2003256366A - Content application construction system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To execute the remote operation of construction and modification of a content application visually, intuitively and simply. <P>SOLUTION: A server computer 2 used for a content application construction system is installed in a provision center of a service provider and is connected to the Internet network ID through a communication device 3. The server computer 2 is capable of carrying out data communications with a computer 9 that is connected to the Internet network 10 and is operated by a system user and cellular phones 8a, 8b, 8c being content reception side computer terminals through the Internet network 10. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a content application construction system capable of remotely constructing a content application by using an operation terminal on a server computer connected to a computer network such as the Internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet network, mobile phones having an access function to these open computer networks have become remarkably widespread, and personal computers have penetrated into the home. Various kinds of contents are distributed and various services are implemented.

When these various contents are distributed to the computer terminals such as the mobile phone and the personal computer, the content application corresponding to the distributed contents is a mark such as a hypertext markup rung edge (HTML). It is necessary to build (program) in a prescribed description language such as an up language,
If these construction works are carried out one by one to the server computer containing various kinds of data, the construction works become troublesome, and there is a problem that it is not possible to deal with the distribution of contents that require promptness. there were.

Therefore, as a method for solving these problems, a system in which the server computer is remotely accessed from an operation terminal and a new content application can be constructed or changed on the server computer by an operation on the operation terminal. Has been put to practical use.

[0005]

In the system capable of remotely constructing or changing the content application, as described above, since these constructions or changes can be performed remotely in near real time, the quickness can be improved. Is required, and it is not necessary to go to the server computer one by one in the construction work, and although the labor can be greatly reduced, it is necessary to perform construction and change operations remotely. Therefore, since the operability of the construction work and the modification work is poor, a system capable of easily performing the construction work or the modification work more visually and intuitively has been desired.

[0006] Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and provides a content application construction system capable of easily constructing and changing a remote content application visually and intuitively. It is intended to be provided.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the content application construction system of the present invention is connected to a computer network composed of a plurality of computer terminals connected so that data communication is possible.
The server computer includes a server computer that provides content based on a content application constructed to the computer terminal, and an operation terminal that is accessible to the server computer and that constructs the content application.
An object icon generating step of generating a display icon of an object corresponding to each of a plurality of pages configuring a content application from the operation terminal, and an object for receiving the content of the object corresponding to each display icon generated in the object icon generating step A content receiving step, a linking instruction receiving step of receiving a linking instruction of each of the plurality of objects by a drag-and-drop operation of a display icon of each object generated in the object icon generating step, and a linking instruction receiving step Based on the received cooperation instruction, an object to be cooperated is specified, a cooperation processing step for performing a predetermined cooperation processing on both objects, and each object processed by the cooperation processing step. It is characterized by comprising a registration step of accepting registration of content applications et made, at least. According to this feature, in the operation terminal, by simply dragging and dropping the display icon of each object generated and displayed by the server computer, the cooperation between the objects is automatically constructed. Therefore, the operation of constructing these content applications can be easily performed visually and intuitively.

In the content application construction system of the present invention, the server computer distributes display icons corresponding to various kinds of objects to the operation terminal, and in the object icon generating step, from the distributed display icons of various kinds. It is preferable to accept the object type based on the selection of and to generate the display icon of the accepted type. In this way, the type of the object to be newly generated can be specified only by selecting the display icon corresponding to each displayed type, so that the operability can be further improved.

In the content application construction system of the present invention, in the object content receiving step, based on the selection operation of the generated display icon, a predetermined object content reception corresponding to the object type of the selected display icon is received. It is preferable that the page is delivered to the operation terminal and the content of the object is received. With this configuration, when the user wants to register the object content, by selecting and operating the display icon of the object to be registered, a predetermined object content acceptance page corresponding to the object type of the selected display icon is displayed on the operation terminal. Therefore, the contents of these objects can be registered more easily.

In the content application construction system of the present invention, the computer terminal for receiving content distribution is a mobile phone, and the content application supports a plurality of markup languages corresponding to service providers of each mobile phone. It is preferable that a content application can be generated, and that the object content reception page includes guide information corresponding to the markup language of the service provider of each mobile phone. In this way, by including the guide information corresponding to the markup language of each mobile phone service provider in the object content reception page, the specifications of the markup language of each mobile phone service provider can be sequentially investigated. By doing so, it is possible to save the trouble of checking the contents and prevent the contents entered once from becoming defective.

In the content application construction system of the present invention, in the registration step, an identification code for specifying a content application to be newly constructed is issued, the content application is registered in association with the identification code, and the content application is registered. On the basis of the reception of the identification code or the information capable of specifying the identification code, the display icon of each object constituting the content application specified by the received identification code is distributed so that the cooperation mode of each object can be specified, It is preferable to accept the correction by either the object content receiving step or the cooperation instruction receiving step and the cooperation processing step. With this configuration, by inputting the identification code or information that can identify the identification code, it becomes possible not only to easily change the content application once constructed, but also to keep the identification code confidential. Also, it is possible to prevent the content application from being tampered with by a third party.

[0012]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. (Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a content application construction system of this embodiment.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a server computer used in this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display screen on the computer 9 which is an operation terminal of a system user.

First, as shown in FIG. 1, the configuration of the content application construction system of the present embodiment is such that the Internet network 1 which is an open computer network.
For mobile phones 8a, 8b, 8c of mobile phone companies 5 to 7 as computer terminals having a connection function to 0,
A server computer 2 that provides various contents based on registered content applications via the Internet network 10, and a system use of a content application construction system capable of accessing the server computer 2 via the Internet network 10. Computer 9 which is an operation terminal operated by a person
It is mainly composed of and.

In the following description, a computer 9 is used as an example of an operation terminal operated by the system user, but these operation terminals are not limited to the computer 9 fixedly installed. Instead, a mobile phone 9 ′ having a function of connecting to the Internet network 10 may be used.

The server computer 2 used in the content application construction system of this embodiment is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 2, the content application construction service is installed in the providing center of the service provider, is connected to the Internet network 10 which is an open computer network through the communication device 3, and is connected to the Internet network 10. The computer 9 operated by the system user and the mobile phones 8a, 8b, 8 which are content receiving computers.
Data communication is possible through the Internet network 10 and the Internet network.

As shown in FIG. 2, the configuration of the server computer 2 used in this embodiment is implemented by the server computer 2 on a data bus 10 which sends and receives data inside the computer. A central processing unit (CPU) 11 for executing various processing such as content application construction processing and distribution processing for distributing various contents based on the constructed content application, and RA
M12, real-time clock (RT) that can output current time information and calendar information such as the day of the week
C) 17, a communication interface 13 connected to the communication device 3 for transmitting and receiving data, a magnetic disk or a magneto-optical disk, and the central processing unit (CP).
U) A program for construction executed by 11 and a reception page database (DB) in which various reception pages used for the construction program are registered, and unique to a system user so that the system user can be identified. The user database (DB) in which the user ID and password assigned to the user and the password and the content ID that is the identification code of the content application constructed by the system user are registered in association with each other and the server computer 2 operate The storage device 15 in which the operating system (OS) and the like are stored is connected to the storage device 15 and is used as a normal computer capable of relatively high-speed arithmetic processing.

Hereinafter, a system user accesses the server computer 2 of this embodiment through the Internet network 10 to access the receiving side computer, that is, the mobile phone 8.
The content application construction processing status for constructing the content to be provided to a, 8b, and 8c will be described based on the drawings after FIG.

First, when the system user activates the browser software on the computer 9 which is the operation terminal and inputs the URL of the server computer 2 on the browser software to access the server computer 2, it is shown in FIG. The top page is displayed on the browser software of the system user.

On this top page, there is provided an input section for inputting the user ID and password previously given to each user, and the input section stores the user ID of the user. After inputting the password, the item of "login" provided below the input section is selected and input.

Based on the input, the server computer 2
Authenticates by verifying whether the entered user ID and password match the registered contents of the user database (DB), and if the registered contents match, the user ID and password If the content ID registered in association with the content ID is not extracted and there is no registration in the content ID, the screen of the new content in which nothing is displayed in the tree structure is distributed as shown in FIG. If the ID is registered, the corresponding tree structure is generated from the content application data corresponding to the content ID, and the content correction screen shown in FIG. 19 in which the generated tree structure is displayed is distributed.

First, the case of new creation without registration of the content ID will be described below. In the case of new creation, the operator is presented with a screen of new content in which nothing is displayed in the tree structure shown in FIG. It is delivered to and displayed on the computer 9.

In the state shown in FIG. 4, when the system user wants to create an icon corresponding to the type of page to be created from various icons arranged at the bottom of the display screen, for example, a top page menu page. The icon of the menu page is created and displayed in the display area of the tree structure by double-clicking the menu icon or by dragging it to the display area of the tree structure as shown in FIG.

With the creation of these first page icons, the server computer 2 creates a content ID as an identification code corresponding to the content program to be constructed, and formulates a work area corresponding to the content ID. Then, in the work area, together with the type of the newly created page, the content ID
Memorize

The icons of various pages created and displayed in the tree structure display area can be arbitrarily moved in the tree structure display area by operating the mouse or the like, and the tree structure display can be displayed. By double-clicking each icon displayed in the area,
The detailed setting window corresponding to the type of page is read from the reception page DB and displayed on the computer 9 of the system user as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, so that the system user can see the details of the page. You can edit the contents.

In the present embodiment, each of the various detailed setting windows of the reception page DB is modularized, and the generated content ID is passed to the module corresponding to each page type. There is.

The detailed setting window of the menu page used in this embodiment has a structure as shown in FIG.
From the top, there are provided a page title, a URL address of the page, a background color / text color, an image file, and a top text item. In the page title item, the page title of the menu page is accepted,
In the item of background color and character color, the background color and the character color are designated and accepted, in the image file item, the change and deletion of the image file for color and monochrome displayed on the menu page are accepted, and in the top text item. The server computer 2 receives the text displayed at the upper position of the menu page.

At the lower position of each of these items, the connection status of each page linked to the menu page is displayed. At the lower position of the connection status display portion, the lower position of the menu page is displayed. The bottom text item that carries out the acceptance of the text displayed in
There is an item for the number of remaining characters that displays the number of remaining characters that can be entered for each mobile phone company. Depending on the item for the number of remaining characters, how many more characters can be entered, or the number of entered characters is specified. You can check whether the number of characters exceeds.

Further, at the bottom of the detailed setting window,
"Page preview" that allows you to preview and check the menu page with the contents set in the detailed setting window
Selection item, "Save and close" for saving the setting contents and closing the setting screen, and "Close without saving" for closing the setting screen without saving the setting contents And selection items are provided.

Further, when it is desired to create a page other than the menu page, for example, a text page, as shown in FIG. 5, a text icon is displayed in the display area of the tree structure from various icons arranged below the display area. Select, drag in the display area, and double-click the text icon created in the display area,
Similar to the case of the menu page, the text page detailed setting window as shown in FIG. 7 is displayed.

In the detailed setting window of the text page of this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, the items of the page title, the URL address of the page, the background color / character color, the text, and the number of remaining characters are displayed from the top. Is provided, and the contents in each of these items are the same as in the case of the menu page. Depending on the remaining number of characters item in the detailed setting window, how many more characters can be input, or Each mobile phone company 5-7 can check whether the number of characters has exceeded the specified number.

As described above, in the present embodiment, by displaying the number of remaining characters as the guide information corresponding to the markup language of the service provider of each mobile phone, how many more characters can be input, or Whether the number of characters you have exceeded the specified number of characters
(A negative value is displayed in red letters as shown in FIG. 4) is preferable because it can be confirmed for each mobile phone company 5 to 7, but the present invention is not limited to this.
As the guidance information, other information, for example, guidance regarding the file format of the image file may be displayed, or the display may not be provided appropriately.

In order to link (connect) the menu page and the text page displayed in the display area of the tree structure, the icon of the text page is dragged and dragged and dropped onto the icon of the menu page. By performing the operation, as shown in FIG. 9, a connecting line indicating that a link has been formed between both icons is displayed, and the detailed setting window of the menu page to which the text page is linked is displayed in FIG. As shown in, the text page in which the link is formed in the linked state display unit is automatically registered in the order 1.

As shown in FIGS. 11 and 12, the content distributed by the content application configured by forming these links (connections) has only the demo text page shown in FIG. 12 on the menu screen of FIG. A link item of "1. Demo text" for performing the transition to "1. Demo text" is automatically inserted, and as shown in FIG.
And a link item of "0. Return to TOP" is automatically inserted. In addition, only the text for the demo "1. Previous" on the page
And "0. Return to TOP" are selected, both return to the menu page.

Further, when it is desired to create a text page with an image as a new page, as shown in FIG.
In the display area of the tree structure, select a text icon with an image from various icons arranged under the display area and drag it into the display area to double-click the text icon with an image created in the display area. By clicking, as in the case of the menu page and the text page, the detailed setting window of the text page with an image as shown in FIG. 14 is displayed.

As shown in FIG. 14, the detailed setting window of the text page with an image of this embodiment has substantially the same structure as the detailed setting window of the menu page, and the image file displayed on the page is displayed. Along with the change and deletion, the top and bottom texts displayed at the upper and lower positions of the image are accepted, and the text page with image according to the setting contents in the detailed setting window of the text page with image shown in FIG. 14 is displayed. When delivered, the screen is as shown in FIG.

When it is desired to link the new text page with an image created in this way to the menu page, the icon of the newly created text page with an image is dragged to the icon of the menu page as in the case of the text page. By performing the drop operation,
As shown in FIG. 16, a connection line with the menu page is formed, and as shown in FIG. 17, the linked text page with an image is automatically added to the contents of the connection status display section in the detailed setting window of the menu page. Be registered.

When the editing work (construction work) is completed by performing these linking operations, the "save" selection item provided at the upper position of the tree structure display area on the screen shown in FIG. 16 is selected. As a result, these constructed content applications are stored and saved in the storage device 15 of the server computer 2.

The distribution screen based on the content application constructed in this way is as shown in FIG. 18, and the menu page of FIG. 18A, the text-only page shown in FIG. In the text page with an image shown in c), a link item that enables movement to both the menu page shown in FIG. 18A and the text-only page shown in FIG. 18B, and FIG.
Each page is delivered by inserting a link page that enables movement to both the menu page shown in (a) and the text page with image shown in FIG. 18 (c).

In the case of changing the content application once constructed in this way after the construction,
Correction can be made on the content correction screen shown in FIG. 19 which is delivered by inputting the user ID and password on the top page.

In the content correction screen shown in FIG. 19, when it is desired to change only the content of each page without changing the connection structure of each displayed page, the icon of the page to be changed is displayed as shown in FIG. As shown in, by selecting "1. Edit" from the sub-window that is displayed by right-clicking with the mouse, the detailed setting window of the selected page is displayed and the content of the page is changed. be able to.

When it is desired to change the connection structure of each page, for example, to delete the text page, right-click the text page to be deleted to display the sub-window, then 2. By selecting “Delete”, the icon of the text page is deleted, and only the text page with image is automatically changed to a structure in which the menu page is connected to the menu page. From the contents, the deleted text page is deleted, and the rank of the text page with image is changed from 2 to 1.

When it is desired to change the link destination as the link configuration, the old link registration is deleted and the new link is deleted by dragging and dropping the icon of the page whose link is to be changed to the new link destination. The status is registered and the content program is updated.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the drawings, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and the present invention is applicable even if there are changes and additions within the scope not departing from the gist of the present invention. include.

For example, in the above-described embodiment, each page icon as an object icon is generated for each page type, distributed so as to be arranged below the display area of the tree structure, and the page type to be created. Is accepted by selecting the page icon, and by doing so, the type of object (page) to be newly created can be specified simply by selecting the display icon corresponding to each displayed type. Therefore, it is preferable because the operability can be further improved, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the types of these objects (pages) can be selected from the type menu and accepted, or can be accepted by inputting the types. good.

Further, in the above embodiment, the detailed contents of the object (page) of the accepted type are distributed and accepted by the detailed setting screen as the object contents acceptance page. It is preferable that the registration of these object contents can be carried out more easily, but the present invention is not limited to this, and without distributing these detailed setting screens,
You may make it accept the detailed content of each object (page).

Further, in the above-described embodiment, when logging in to the server computer 2, the content application which can be changed by the system user is specified by the user ID and the personal identification number. It is preferable to do so because it is possible to prevent the content application from being tampered with by a third party, but the present invention is not limited to this.

Further, in the present embodiment, the recipient's computer terminal is a mobile phone, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may be a normal personal computer or PDA terminal connectable to the Internet network. However, these terminals are not particularly limited as long as they can be connected to the Internet network 10.

Further, in the above embodiment, the computer 9 of the system user and the server computer 2 are connected via the Internet network 10. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and these computers 9 and The connection form of the server computer 2 may be any form as long as the connection form allows data communication.

Further, in the above embodiment, the user ID is received from the system user as the information capable of specifying the content ID which is the identification code individually assigned to the content application on the top page. The present invention is not limited to this,
The content ID may be directly accepted.

[0050]

The present invention has the following effects. (A) According to the invention of claim 1, in the operation terminal, by simply dragging and dropping the display icon of each object generated and displayed by the server computer, the cooperation between the objects is automatically performed. Therefore, the operation of constructing the content application can be easily performed visually and intuitively.

(B) According to the second aspect of the invention, the type of the object to be newly generated can be designated by simply selecting the display icon corresponding to each of the displayed types, so that the operability can be further improved.

(C) According to the invention of claim 3, when it is desired to register the contents of an object, a display icon of the object to be registered is selected and operated, whereby a predetermined type corresponding to the object type of the selected display icon is selected. Since the object content reception page is displayed on the operation terminal, registration of these object contents can be performed more easily.

(D) According to the invention of claim 4, by including the guide information corresponding to the markup language of the service provider of each mobile phone in the object content reception page, the service provider of each mobile phone can be provided. It saves time and effort to sequentially check and confirm the markup language specifications, etc.
It is possible to avoid in advance that the entered contents become defective.

(E) According to the invention of claim 5, not only can the content application once constructed be easily changed by inputting the identification code or information capable of specifying the identification code. By concealing the identification code, it is possible to prevent the content application from being tampered with by a third party.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a content application construction system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a server computer 2 used in the embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display screen on a computer of a system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display screen on a computer of a system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display screen on a computer of a system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display screen (detailed setting screen) on the computer of the system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display screen (detailed setting screen) on the computer of the system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a display screen on a computer of a system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display screen on the computer of the system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display screen (detailed setting screen) on the computer of the system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a display screen displayed on a mobile phone which is a receiving side computer in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a display screen displayed on a mobile phone which is a receiving computer in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a display screen on the computer of the system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a display screen (detailed setting screen) on the computer of the system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a display screen displayed on a mobile phone which is a receiving side computer in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a display screen on the computer of the system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a display screen (detailed setting screen) on the computer of the system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a display screen displayed on a mobile phone which is a receiving computer in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a display screen (content modification) on the computer of the system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a display screen (content modification) on the computer of the system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a display screen (detailed setting screen) on the computer of the system user in the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

2 server computer 3 communication devices 4 computer terminals 5 Mobile phone company (Carrier A) 6 Mobile phone company (Carrier B) 7 Mobile phone company (Carrier C) 8a mobile phone 8b mobile phone 8c mobile phone 9 Computer (operating terminal) 9'Mobile phone (Operating terminal) 10 data bus 11 Central processing unit (CPU) 12 RAM 13 Communication interface 15 Memory device 17 Real Time Clock (RTC)

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A server computer, which is connected to a computer network composed of a plurality of computer terminals communicatively connected to each other for data communication, and provides contents based on a content application built to the computer terminal, and accesses the server computer. And an operation terminal for constructing the content application, wherein the server computer generates an object icon generation icon that generates a display icon of an object corresponding to each of a plurality of pages configuring the content application from the operation terminal. Step, an object content receiving step of receiving the content of an object corresponding to each display icon generated in the object icon generating step, and a linking finger of each of the plurality of objects. A cooperation instruction receiving step for receiving a display by dragging and dropping the display icon of each object generated in the object icon generating step, and an object to be cooperated based on the cooperation instruction received in the cooperation instruction receiving step. And a registration step of accepting registration of a content application consisting of each object that has been subjected to the cooperation processing in the cooperation processing step. Content application construction system. 2. The server computer distributes a display icon corresponding to each type of object to the operation terminal, and in the object icon generating step, the object type is based on a selection from the distributed display icons of each type. The content application construction system according to claim 1, wherein the content application construction system generates a display icon of the received type. 3. In the object content acceptance step, a predetermined object content acceptance page corresponding to the object type of the selected display icon is delivered to the operation terminal based on the selection operation of the generated display icon. The content application construction system according to claim 2, wherein the object content is received. 4. The computer terminal for receiving content distribution is a mobile phone, and the content application is capable of generating content applications corresponding to a plurality of markup languages corresponding to service providers of each mobile phone. The content application construction system according to claim 3, wherein the object content reception page includes guide information corresponding to a markup language of a service provider of each mobile phone. 5. In the registration step, an identification code for specifying a newly constructed content application is issued, the content application is registered in association with the identification code, and the identification code or the identification code is specified. On the basis of the reception of possible information, the display icon of each object constituting the content application specified by the received identification code is distributed so that the cooperation mode of each object can be specified, and the object content reception step, or the above The content application construction system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, which receives a correction by any one of the cooperation instruction receiving step and the cooperation processing step.