JP2003271387A - Download method and download system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically select and download only data which are considered necessary for a user from a plurality of data. <P>SOLUTION: A user frequency integrating part 13 integrates corresponding use frequency held in a program information management table 14 each time a program is used. A request level calculation processing part 15 calculates the request level of each program based on the significance level and use frequency of each program by referring to a program information management table 14 in response to a request from a user. A necessity level calculation processing part 23 calculates a necessity level based on the request level transmitted from user terminal equipment 10 and the significance level of each added or corrected program set in an added/corrected program information management table 22, and a download program selection processing part 25 compares the calculated necessity level with a prescribed reference value, and automatically selects a program to be downloaded to the user. <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 data download method and system, and more particularly, to efficiently download only necessary and effective data for a user when the number of download candidate data is enormous. Regarding the technique.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent computer systems, it is not uncommon for programs to be distributed by downloading addition / correction programs via the Internet. In particular, it is common to deliver the upgraded version of the purchased application by downloading.

By the way, there are various applications provided to users, ranging from a small-scale application consisting of one or a few programs to a large-scale application of hundreds of programs or several gigabytes. In this case, even if the entire version-upgraded program is provided all at once, there is no particular problem because the download is completed in a few minutes to a dozen minutes. On the other hand, in the latter case, it is not practical to download all the relevant programs all at once, so the user selects and downloads only the necessary programs.

As an example of the latter, it is assumed that a certain manufacturer provides a core business system and a user uses only a part of payroll calculation software of the function of the core business system. The core business system includes subsystems such as accounting, customer management, purchase / inventory management, and sales management. The payroll calculation used by the user is included in the accounting subsystem. However, the applications that make up this accounting subsystem include other software such as finance, retirement benefits, and bonus calculation in addition to payroll calculation.

[0005] In such a case, when the core business system is upgraded for the purpose of responding to the legal revision or the addition of functions, and the registered user is notified of that fact, the user downloads the amount of data. Considering the above, it is desirable to select and download only the payroll calculation software you are using, not the entire core business system that has been upgraded. However, even though it is a payroll calculation software, calculation programs such as a monthly salary system and an annual salary system are mixed, so the user can select the salary system that the company adopts from the list of download target programs shown in the list. A related program (for example, a monthly payroll application program) will be selected. Furthermore, if the monthly payroll application is composed of a large number of programs, downloading it all at once may take too much time and may interfere with your work. It will be.

[0006]

However, in the conventional method of allowing the user to select and download only the necessary program from a large-scale application, the user can accurately select the program to be downloaded. However, some programs may be forgotten to be downloaded due to a mistake in operation or the like. If you download the range including the necessary program, in the above example, the entire payroll calculation software and accounting software including the required monthly salary calculation program,
The downloaded program will not leak, but it is not realistic because it downloads a large amount of unnecessary programs.

As described above, when the size of the entire addition / correction program is large and the download takes a lot of time and cost, it is necessary to select the program to be downloaded. With a method that allows the user to select from the list and download it, important programs may be leaked or unnecessary programs may not be downloaded efficiently and effectively. It was

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to automatically select and download only data deemed necessary for a user from a large number of data. It is to provide a download method and a download system that can be performed.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, a download method according to the present invention is a user terminal which selectively selects one or more data from a plurality of data held and managed by a server. In a download method for downloading to a device, the frequency of use of each download data accumulated each time each download data downloaded from the server to the user terminal device is accessed by a user, and the server side for each download data. Based on the degree of importance set in advance, a request degree calculation step of calculating the request degree of each download data by a predetermined first calculation formula, and the download data of each download data calculated by the request degree calculation step. Request rate and downloads selected as download candidates on the server side. Necessity degree calculation step of calculating the necessity degree of each download data and each download candidate data by a second predetermined calculation formula based on the importance set to the candidate data, and the necessity degree calculation step The data selection step of determining the data to be downloaded to the user terminal device from among the download candidate data by comparing the necessity degree calculated by and the preset reference value, and the data selection step is determined. The downloaded candidate data and its importance to the user terminal device, and automatically download the data to be downloaded to the user terminal device based on the frequency of use on the user terminal device side and the importance of the download candidate data. To decide.

Further, the download candidate data is assumed to be data changed on the server side and data newly added.

Further, the request degree calculating step starts processing in response to an input operation from the user terminal device.

Further, the download system according to the present invention includes a server for holding and managing a plurality of data, and a user terminal device for selectively downloading and using data from one or a plurality of data held and managed by the server. And a usage frequency accumulating unit which is provided in the user terminal device and accumulates the usage frequency of the corresponding download data each time the download data downloaded from the server is accessed by the user. Use frequency storage means for holding the use frequency of the download data accumulated by the frequency accumulating means, download data downloaded to the user terminal device, and importance preset for each download on the server side are stored. Download data information storage means and use Based on the usage frequency of each download data held in the degree storage means and the importance degree stored in the download data information storage means, each in the user terminal device is calculated by a predetermined first calculation formula. The request degree calculation processing means for calculating the request degree of the download data, the request degree of each download data calculated by the request degree calculation processing means, and the download candidate data selected as the download candidate on the server side are set. Necessity calculation processing means for calculating the necessity degree of each download data and each download candidate data according to a predetermined second calculation formula based on the importance degree, and the necessity calculated by the necessity degree calculation processing means. Of the download candidate data by comparing the frequency with the preset reference value. Data selection processing means for deciding data to be downloaded to the user terminal device from the download means, and download means provided in the server for downloading the download candidate data decided by the data selection processing means and the importance thereof to the user terminal device. And the data to be downloaded to the user terminal device is automatically determined based on the frequency of use on the user terminal device side and the importance of the download candidate data.

It is assumed that the download candidate data is data changed on the server side and data newly added.

Further, the user terminal device includes the download data information storage means, the request degree calculation processing means, and the request degree of each download data calculated by the request degree calculation processing means in the download request to the server. The server has a download request processing unit for transmitting, and the server has the necessity degree calculation processing unit, the data selection processing unit, and a request reception processing unit for receiving a download request sent from the user terminal device. Then, the necessity degree calculation processing means calculates the necessity degree using the request degree of each download data included in the download request received by the request reception processing means, and the download means issues the download request. Download candidate data determined by the data selection processing means for the user terminal device; It is to download the severity.

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a download system according to the present invention. Figure 1
Shows a server 20 owned by the manufacturer that provides an application and an upgraded version of the application by downloading, and a user terminal device 10 owned by the user that downloads and uses a necessary program from the server 20, respectively. Information can be exchanged via the Internet 1.

The user terminal device 10 includes a program storage unit 11, a program execution unit 12, a usage frequency integration unit 13, a program information management table 14, and a request degree calculation processing unit 1.
5, a download request processing unit 16 and a program acquisition processing unit 17 are included. A plurality of programs used in the user terminal device 10 are stored in the program storage unit 11, and the program execution unit 12 executes the program used by the user from among them. The usage frequency accumulating unit 13 monitors the execution status of the program and accumulates the corresponding usage frequency held in the program information management table 14 every time the program is used. The request degree calculation processing unit 15 refers to the program information management table 14 when the user issues a download request instruction, and calculates the request degree of each program. The download request processing unit 16 includes the request degree of each program calculated by the request degree calculation processing unit 15 in the download request and includes the server 20.
Send to. The program acquisition processing unit 17 includes a server 20.
The program sent from the program is received, stored in the program storage unit 11, and the degree of importance of the program is registered in the program information management table 14, such as setting registration in the program information management table 14.

On the other hand, the server 20 includes a download request acquisition processing unit 21, an addition / correction program information management table 22, a necessity degree calculation processing unit 23, an addition / correction program storage unit 24, a download program selection processing unit 25, and a download processing unit. It has 26. The download request acquisition processing unit 21 receives the download request sent from the user terminal device 10. In the addition / correction program information management table 22, the importance of each program added or modified on the server 20 side is set, and the necessity degree calculation processing unit 23 adds the request degree and the addition included in the download request. The necessity degree of the program that is a download candidate is calculated based on the correction program information management table 22. The added / corrected program storage unit 24 stores added or modified programs.
The download program selection processing unit 25 determines a program to be downloaded to the user terminal device 10 based on the necessity degree calculated by the necessity degree calculation processing unit 23. The download processing unit 26 takes out the program determined by the download program selection processing unit 25 from the addition / correction program storage unit 24 and downloads it. It should be noted that the maker side should store the existing program that has not been modified and its importance, but it is not necessary to retain and manage it in the server 20, and the operation in this embodiment will not be described. Not shown because it is unnecessary.

Here, the user terminal device 10 and the server 2
The data held by 0 will be described again in detail.

A user who uses the user terminal device 10 is
According to the above-described example, the program storage unit 11 has a contract with the manufacturer who manages the server 20 regarding the license of the application. A plurality of programs related to calculation software are stored. In the program information management table 14, the ID of each program stored in the program storage unit 11 is set and registered, and the server 2 is associated with each program ID.
The importance and the frequency of use that have been added to the program at the time of downloading from 0 are retained. The frequency of use is initialized to zero when newly registered in the program information management table 14, and is accumulated by the frequency-of-use accumulator 13 each time the corresponding program is executed.

On the other hand, on the server 20 side, when a program that constitutes the core business system is added or modified by correcting a bug or adding a function, the program is registered in the addition / correction program storage section 24. That is, the addition / correction program storage unit 24 stores programs required for upgrading the provided version. In the addition / correction program information management table 22, the ID of the program is set and registered when stored in the addition / correction program storage unit 24, and is set by the system administrator or the like in association with each program ID. The importance of each program is retained.

The feature of the present embodiment having the above-mentioned configuration is that the user is only required to issue a download request without designating a necessary program, and the user can respond to the download request. It means that the necessary programs are automatically selected and downloaded. As a result, the user can prevent the omission of the designation of the program required for the upgrade, and can prevent the downloading of the unnecessary program.

Next, the download process in this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, in the user terminal device 10, the use frequency accumulating unit 13 in the present embodiment is constantly operating and monitors the processing of the program executing unit 12. Then, when the corresponding program is executed by the execution of the processing function by the user, the usage frequency accumulating unit 13 adds 1 to the corresponding usage frequency in the program information management table 14. On the other hand, in the server 20, the download request acquisition processing unit 21 stands by in a state of waiting for a download request from the user terminal device 10.

Here, when the user receives a notification from the manufacturer side to download by e-mail or the like upon completion of the upgrade version, thereafter, a download request is issued by a predetermined operation. In this embodiment, the user need only issue the request.

When it is detected that the user has issued a download request, the request degree calculation processing section 15 determines the importance and use frequency of each program registered in the program information management table 14 by a predetermined number. The degree of demand is calculated by substituting it into one calculation formula (step 1
01). Although dependent on the value of the degree of importance of the program, this calculation formula is a formula that increases the degree of demand of a program that is frequently used.

The download request processing unit 16 transmits the download request including the request degree of each program calculated by the request degree calculation processing unit 15 to the server 20 (step 1).
02).

In the server 20, when the download request acquisition processing unit 21 receives the download request sent from the user terminal device 10 (step 201), the necessity degree calculation processing unit 23 causes the necessity calculation processing unit 23 to use a predetermined second calculation formula. Using, the necessity degree of each program is calculated as follows (step 202).

First, the program necessary for the user who issued the download request is the program actually used by that user. Therefore, if the program has been modified, the modification program is of course necessary. On the other hand, from the manufacturer side,
It is a program that should be provided to the user by adding not only the modified program but also a program newly added by adding a function. Therefore, the necessity degree calculation processing unit 23 adds the program corresponding to the request degree included in the download request to the user who issued the download,
The program registered in the correction program storage unit 24 is used as a candidate for a program to be downloaded, and the request degree included in the download request and the importance degree registered in the addition / correction program information management table 22 are calculated by the above formula. To calculate the necessity degree for the user.

Then, the download program selection processing section 25 determines the necessity degree calculated by the necessity degree calculation processing section 23,
A preset reference value is compared and a program having a degree of necessity equal to or higher than the reference value is determined as a program to be downloaded to the user (step 203).

As is apparent from the above processing of the download program selection processing section 25, in the present embodiment, a program having a high necessity is selected. In other words, the necessity degree calculation processing unit 23 has to calculate the necessity degree so that the program actually used by the user and the newly added program are surely selected. Since the demand of the program actually used by the user should be high, the second calculation formula defines that the demand calculated for the program is high. Further, since the degree of demand of the newly added program is not calculated on the side of the user terminal device 10, the importance of the new program is set to be sufficiently high so as to compensate for it. In the present embodiment, although not explicitly shown, the subsystems to be downloaded to the user are narrowed down beforehand based on the contract information, the program configuration included in the download request, etc. Also prevent other subsystem related programs such as accounting and customer management from being elected. In any case, the selected program can be determined by the importance that can be set by the manufacturer, the first and second calculation formulas, and the reference value to be compared with the necessity, so adjust the respective relationships. Must be set to an appropriate expression or value.

In this way, the importance of the added / modified program is set so that the modified version of the program actually used by the user and the new program are surely selected, and the second calculation formula is set. Define. According to the above example, payroll software related programs are candidates for download, of which monthly salary related programs are selected because they have high demand, and annual salary related programs are not selected because they are zero or small enough to be equal to zero. . In addition, new programs related to monthly salary and new programs common to payroll calculation software are selected because their importance is set sufficiently high.

When the program to be downloaded is determined as described above, the download processing unit 26 takes out the corresponding program from the addition / correction program storage unit 24 and downloads it to the user terminal device 10 (step 204). At this time, the importance of the downloaded program is also downloaded.

In the user terminal device 10, the program acquisition processing unit 1 which has been in a reception waiting state after the download request.
When the program is downloaded from the server 20, the server 7 stores the program in the program storage unit 11 (step 104) and registers the degree of importance in the program information management table 14 in association with the program ID (step 105). . If the program is new, the program ID is newly registered, and the corresponding frequency of use is initialized to zero as described above. If the program already exists, only the importance level is updated with the downloaded demand level, and the current setting value is used as it is without any frequency of use.

According to the present embodiment, the program to be downloaded can be selected based on the request degree calculated based on the actual usage frequency of the user and the importance degree of the program. Therefore, the download request is issued from the user. The program required for the user can be automatically selected and downloaded according to the above. As a result, it is possible to prevent the omission of the download due to an erroneous selection of the necessary program, and it is possible to prevent the unnecessary program from being downloaded due to excessive specification. In this way, the program can be downloaded effectively and efficiently.

In this embodiment, only one user terminal device 10 is shown and described, but in reality, a large number of user terminal devices 10 should exist. In this case, the present invention can be applied by adding the identification information of the user terminal device 10 to the information exchanged between the user terminal device 10 and the server 20.

Further, in the present embodiment, the respective constituent elements are arranged as shown in FIG. 1, but the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, the program information management table 14 and / or the request of the user terminal device 10 are provided. The processing function of the degree calculation processing unit 15 may be provided on the server 20 side. Conversely, the addition / correction program information management table 22 of the server 20
And / or the processing function of the necessity degree calculation processing unit 23 may be provided on the user terminal device 10 side.

Further, although the download processing is started in response to the input operation of the download request by the user, the trigger of the download processing is not limited to this, and may be automatically started upon completion of the upgrade version. .

Further, in the present embodiment, the addition / correction program storage unit 24 is positioned as the upgrade version, but the program addition / correction program storage unit 24 is set.
If you manage the information about registration time and download status information of each user (whether there is a download, download execution time, etc.), you can download the corresponding added / modified program in real time every time the program is updated. Is also possible.

Further, in the present embodiment, the program actually used by the user and the program newly added or modified are set as the download candidates. However, depending on the setting of the importance, the manufacturer intentionally You can decide which program to download. For example, it is possible to download the notifications that are not related to the execution of the software.

Further, although the target data to be downloaded is a program in the present embodiment, it is not necessarily limited to the program and may be data such as a dictionary database.

[0042]

According to the present invention, the data deemed necessary for the user is automatically selected and downloaded based on the request degree calculated based on the actual use frequency of the user and the importance degree of the data. It is possible to prevent omission of download due to selection mistake of necessary data, and to prevent unnecessary data from being downloaded due to extra designation.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a download process according to the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Internet, 10 user terminal device, 11 program storage unit, 12 program execution unit, 13 usage frequency integration unit, 14 program information management table, 15
Request degree calculation processing unit, 16 Download request processing unit, 1
7 program acquisition processing section, 20 server, 21 download request acquisition processing section, 22 addition / correction program information management table, 23 necessity calculation processing section, 24 addition / correction program storage section, 25 download program selection processing section, 26 download processing Department.

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A download method for selectively downloading one or a plurality of data to a user terminal device from a plurality of data held and managed by a server, wherein each download data downloaded from the server to the user terminal device is Based on the use frequency of each download data accumulated each time the user accesses it and the degree of importance preset on the server side for each download data, each is calculated by a predetermined first calculation formula. The request degree calculation step of calculating the request degree of the download data, the request degree of each download data calculated in the request degree calculation step, and the download candidate data selected as the download candidate on the server side are set. Based on the importance and the second predetermined formula By comparing the necessity degree calculating step of calculating the necessity degree of each download data and each download candidate data and the necessity degree calculated in the necessity degree calculating step with a preset reference value, the download candidate data A data selection step of deciding data to be downloaded to the user terminal device from the inside, and a download step of downloading to the user terminal device the download candidate data and the importance thereof determined in the data selection step, A download method, wherein data to be downloaded to a terminal device is automatically determined based on the frequency of use on the user terminal device side and the importance of download candidate data. 2. The download method according to claim 1, wherein the download candidate data is data changed on the server side and data newly added. 3. The download method according to claim 1, wherein the request degree calculation step starts processing in response to an input operation from the user terminal device. 4. A download system comprising: a server that holds and manages a plurality of data; and a user terminal device that selectively downloads and uses data from one or a plurality of data that the server holds and manages. Usage frequency accumulating means provided in the user terminal device and accumulating the usage frequency of the download data corresponding to each download data downloaded from the server by the user, and downloads accumulated by the usage frequency accumulating means A usage frequency storage means for holding a usage frequency of data, a download data information storage means for storing download data downloaded to the user terminal device, and an importance level preset on the server side for each download , Each down held in the usage frequency storage means A request for calculating the request degree of each download data in the user terminal device by a first predetermined formula based on the use frequency of the load data and the importance degree stored in the download data information storage means. Based on the request degree of each download data calculated by the request degree calculation processing means and the importance set in the download candidate data selected as the download candidate on the server side in advance. Necessity calculation processing means for calculating the necessity of each download data and each download candidate data by the second calculation formula determined, the necessity calculated by the necessity calculation processing means, and a preset standard By comparing with the value, the download candidate data is downloaded to the user terminal device. Data selection processing means for determining data to be downloaded, and download means provided in the server for downloading the download candidate data determined by the data selection processing means and the importance thereof to the user terminal device, A download system, wherein data to be downloaded to the user terminal device is automatically determined based on the frequency of use on the user terminal device side and the importance of the download candidate data. 5. The download system according to claim 4, wherein the download candidate data is data changed on the server side and data newly added. 6. The user terminal device includes, in the download request, the download data information storage unit, the request degree calculation processing unit, and the request degree of each download data calculated by the request degree calculation processing unit to the server. Download request processing means for transmitting, the server, the need calculation processing means and the data selection processing means, request reception processing means for receiving the download request sent from the user terminal device, And the necessity degree calculation processing means calculates the necessity degree by using the request degree of each download data included in the download request received by the request reception processing means, and the download means determines the download request. Download candidate data determined by the data selection processing means for the issued user terminal device 5. The download system according to claim 4, wherein the importance level and the importance level are downloaded.