JP2003323373A - Data processing server, data transmission server and data delivery system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data delivery system that can increase the data processing efficiency of the entire system without increasing a load when generating conforming data from data delivered from a source. <P>SOLUTION: The data delivery system comprises: a SMTP server 3 having a conforming image generating part 35 for generating a conforming image conforming to a portable telephone 5 as an image-attached email destination, except for given models, an image recording part 36 for recording the generated conforming image and an original image of the conforming image with a URL assigned thereto, and a transmitting and receiving part 34 for transmitting the URL information added to the email to the portable telephone 5; and a Web server 6 having a conforming image generating part 63 for generating a conforming image for a given model accessing the URL from the original image recorded in the image recording part 36, and a conforming image transmitting part 61 for transmitting the conforming image for the portable telephone 5 accessing the URL and the conforming image generated by the conforming image generating part 63 to the portable telephone 5. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data distribution system that processes data according to a data distribution destination and distributes the processed data to the distribution destination.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, there has been an increasing number of mobile phones capable of transmitting an image-attached electronic mail with an image file attached as data such as an image, music, or moving image file. Since there are multiple types of mobile phone models for each carrier, there are an extremely large number of mobile phone models.These mobile phones have different image display formats and display capabilities (see below) for each carrier and model. , Model ability) is different. Therefore, in the mobile phone that has received the image-attached e-mail, there is a problem that the image cannot be browsed accurately due to the difference in the model capability of the mobile phone on the e-mail sending side.

Therefore, conventionally, an image processing server for processing an image is provided on a network, an image-attached e-mail is once transferred to the image processing server, the attached image is processed, and then the processed image is processed. An e-mail transfer system has been proposed in which a URL is assigned and recorded, and an e-mail in which the URL information is added is sent to a destination mobile phone.

The above-mentioned e-mail transfer system uses the image attached to the transferred image-attached e-mail to generate an image (hereinafter referred to as a corresponding image) corresponding to the model capability of all models of the destination mobile phone. Generated by the image processing server. Then, a specific URL is assigned to the corresponding image and recorded in the recording unit, and an e-mail in which the URL information is added is transmitted to the destination mobile phone. The mobile phone that received the e-mail with the URL information added has its UR
By accessing L, you can download and browse images that match your model capability.

[0005] This electronic mail transfer system is, for example,
If you use it to deliver advertisement mail with images to an unspecified number of mobile phones, the image processing server will generate images that are compatible with all models of mobile phones at the delivery destination. Only one image needs to be sent to the server, and the advertisement mail can be efficiently delivered.

[0006]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional electronic mail transfer system, the mobile phone which receives the advertisement mail with the URL information added thereto always accesses the URL to download the image (view the advertisement). ) Not necessarily. In particular, for models with a small number of units sold, there is a high possibility that the advertisement mail itself will not be delivered, and there is little possibility of accessing the URL. Therefore, if a corresponding image of a model with a small number of units sold is generated every time the image-attached e-mail is transferred to the image processing server, the efficiency of generating the corresponding image becomes poor. As a result, there is a problem that the load at the time of generating the corresponding image is increased and the performance of the entire electronic mail transfer service is deteriorated.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and improves the data processing efficiency of the entire system without increasing the load when generating the corresponding data from the data transmitted from the distribution source. An object of the present invention is to provide a data distribution system, a data processing server in the data distribution system, and a data transmission server in the data distribution system that can be increased.

[0008]

A data processing server according to the present invention processes data transmitted from a distribution source terminal according to a distribution destination terminal, and based on a request from the distribution destination terminal, A data processing server in a data distribution system for transmitting corresponding data corresponding to the terminal of the data distribution destination to the terminal of the data distribution destination, wherein the terminals of the data distribution source except the predetermined terminal are the terminals of the data distribution source. Corresponding data generating means for generating the corresponding data from the data transmitted from the device, data recording means for recording the data and the generated corresponding data, and a place for recording the data and the generated corresponding data Distribution control means for controlling distribution of location information indicating the location information to the distribution destination terminal, wherein the distribution control means is recorded at the location indicated by the location information. In response to a corresponding data transmission request that requests transmission of corresponding data corresponding to the destination terminal, the corresponding data of the terminal is controlled to be transmitted to the request source, and corresponding data corresponding to the predetermined terminal is transmitted. It is characterized in that the data is controlled to be transmitted to the request source in response to the requested corresponding data transmission request.

According to the present invention, for a given terminal,
The data processing server does not generate the corresponding data, but transmits the data to the request source in response to the transmission request of the corresponding data corresponding to the predetermined terminal. By doing so, since it is not necessary for the data processing server to generate the corresponding data corresponding to the predetermined terminal, it is possible to reduce the load on the data processing server when the corresponding data is generated.

Further, in the data processing server of the present invention, the data transmitted to the request source is data for generating corresponding data corresponding to the predetermined terminal at the request source.

With this configuration, since it is possible to generate the corresponding data corresponding to all of the distribution destination terminals, it is possible to acquire the data corresponding to each terminal at all of the distribution destination terminals.

The data transmission server of the present invention processes the data transmitted from the terminal of the distribution source according to the terminal of the distribution destination, and based on the request from the terminal of the distribution destination, the data transmission server of the distribution destination of the data. A data transmission server in a data distribution system that transmits corresponding data corresponding to a terminal to a terminal of the distribution destination, and a corresponding data transmission request for requesting transmission of corresponding data corresponding to the terminal from the terminal of the distribution destination. In response to the corresponding data transmission request for acquiring the corresponding data corresponding to the terminal from the data processing server and requesting the corresponding data transmission request corresponding to the terminal from the predetermined terminal, the data processing server Acquisition means for acquiring the data from the acquired data, corresponding data generation means for generating the corresponding data corresponding to the predetermined terminal from the acquired data, The resulting above correspondence data in which the corresponding data and to said generating and characterized in that it comprises a corresponding data transmission means for transmitting to the destination terminal.

According to the present invention, data is acquired from the data processing server in response to a corresponding data transmission request from a predetermined terminal, and corresponding data corresponding to the predetermined terminal is generated from the data. By doing so, for a predetermined terminal, the corresponding data can be generated on the data transmission server side when there is a corresponding data transmission request, so that the load on the data processing server can be reduced.

The data distribution system of the present invention processes the data transmitted from the distribution source terminal in accordance with the distribution destination terminal, and based on the request from the distribution destination terminal, the data distribution destination A data distribution system for transmitting corresponding data corresponding to a terminal to a terminal of the distribution destination, wherein, for terminals of the distribution destination except a predetermined terminal, the corresponding data is transmitted from the data transmitted from the terminal of the distribution source. Corresponding data generating means for generating the data, the data recording means for recording the data and the generated corresponding data, and the location information indicating the place where the data and the generated corresponding data are recorded, Distribution control means for controlling distribution to a terminal, wherein the distribution control means corresponds to the terminal recorded at the location indicated by the location information from the distribution destination terminal. In response to a corresponding data transmission request for requesting transmission of corresponding data, transmission control of the corresponding data of the terminal is performed to the data transmission server, and in response to the corresponding data transmission request from the predetermined terminal, the data transmission server A data processing server that controls transmission of the data to
In response to the corresponding data transmission request from the destination terminal, the corresponding data corresponding to the terminal is acquired from the data processing server, and the data processing is performed in response to the corresponding data transmission request from the predetermined terminal. Acquisition means for acquiring the data from a server, corresponding data generation means for generating corresponding data corresponding to the predetermined terminal from the acquired data, the acquired corresponding data and the generated corresponding data And a data transmission server having a corresponding data transmission means for transmitting to the previous terminal.

According to the present invention, for a given terminal,
The data processing server does not generate the corresponding data, but the data transmitting server side generates the corresponding data in response to a corresponding data transmission request from a predetermined terminal. By doing so, since it is not necessary for the data processing server to generate the corresponding data corresponding to the predetermined terminal, it is possible to reduce the load on the data processing server when the corresponding data is generated. Therefore, it is possible to improve the data processing efficiency of the entire data distribution system from the distribution source to the distribution destination terminal.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The email delivery system described in the present embodiment is a delivery destination mobile phone when an owner of a used car dealer delivers an advertisement email with an image of a used car to an unspecified number of mobile terminals. It is a system that can change the delivery contents of electronic mail according to the model capability of the.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an electronic mail delivery system according to this embodiment. E-mail delivery system 1
Is a terminal such as a PC, a personal digital assistant, or a mobile phone that transmits electronic mail, and an e-mail sent from the transmitting terminal 2 is an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer).
SM sent to network 4 based on
TP server 3 (corresponding to a data processing server in the claims), network 4 such as the Internet, transmitting terminal 2
A mobile phone 5 for receiving an email transmitted from the mobile phone 5 and a web server 6 (corresponding to a data transmission server in claims) for providing a website that can be viewed by a browser or the like mounted on the mobile phone 5. To be done.

The SMTP server 3 and the web server 6
Is connected to the network 4 by wire or wirelessly, and the mobile phone 5 can be connected to the network 4 wirelessly. The mobile phone 5 is a plurality of mobile phones managed by carriers of D, J, and A companies.

The sending terminal 2 is a terminal owned by the owner of a used car dealership, and sends an electronic mail attached with an image of a used car to a large number of unspecified mobile phones 5. The image name attached to this image-attached e-mail is “car.png” in this embodiment.

The SMTP server 3 includes a reception unit 31, a corresponding image generation necessity registration unit 32, a control unit 33 corresponding to a distribution control unit in the claims, a transmission / reception unit 34, and a corresponding data generation unit in the claims. The corresponding image generation unit 35,
And an image recording unit 36 corresponding to the data recording unit in the claims.

The receiving unit 31 receives the image-attached e-mail transmitted by the e-mail software of the transmission terminal 2, and transfers the received image-attached e-mail to the control unit 33. The transmission / reception unit 34 transmits the electronic mail transmitted from the control unit 33 to the mobile phone 5 via the network 4 based on SMTP under the control of the control unit 33. Further, the transmission / reception unit 34 transmits the image recorded in the image recording unit 36 to the web server 6 via the network 4 under the control of the control unit 33.

The corresponding image generation necessity registration unit 32 registers the model name of each carrier of the mobile phone 5 and the necessity of generation of a corresponding image of the model, and the items shown in Table 1 are registered. The rejection registration table is recorded.

[0023]

[Table 1]

The information recorded in the corresponding image generation necessity registration table can be updated by the owner of the used car dealer, the administrator of the SMTP server 3, or the like. Here, a model that does not require generation of a corresponding image (corresponding to a predetermined terminal in the claims) is a model with a small number of units sold or a model with poor image display capability, such as an owner of a used car dealership or SMT.
It can be arbitrarily set by the administrator of the P server 3 or the like.

The corresponding image generating unit 35 has a recording unit (not shown), and the recording unit has items shown in Table 2 such as a carrier name, all model names of mobile phones of the carrier, and model capability of each model. The model capability management table in which is registered is recorded.

[0026]

[Table 2]

The information recorded in the model capacity management table can be updated by the owner of the used car dealer, the administrator of the SMTP server 3, or the like. Under the control of the control unit 33, the corresponding image generation unit 35 refers to the model capability management table and displays the corresponding images for all the models of carriers that cannot receive the image-attached e-mail except for the models that do not need to generate the corresponding image. To generate.

The image recording section 36 includes a corresponding image generating section 35.
Under the control of the control unit 33, the corresponding image generated in step 1 is recorded with a unique URL assigned thereto. Image “car.pn
The corresponding image of the model D1 for “g” is, for example, “htt
The URL "p: // smtpserver / car / D1" is assigned and recorded.

The control unit 33 has a recording unit (not shown), and the carrier name of the cellular phone 5 to which the image-attached e-mail is transmitted and whether or not the image-attached e-mail can be received are registered in the recording unit in association with each other. An image attachment e-mail reception availability determination table is recorded. The control unit 33 determines the carrier name from the email address of the mobile phone 5 to which the image-attached email is sent (@ and below addresses), and refers to the image-attachment email reception availability determination table, and the carrier attaches the image. Determine whether the carrier can receive e-mail. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the mobile phone 5 whose carrier is D cannot receive the image-attached e-mail.

Further, when the destination of the image-attached electronic mail is a carrier (carriers J and A) capable of receiving the image-attached electronic mail, the control unit 33 transmits the image-attached electronic mail to the transmission / reception unit 34. To do. On the other hand, if the destination of the image-attached email is a carrier that cannot receive the image-attached email (carrier D), the control unit 33
Of all the mobile phone models of the carrier D, the model name (D3 in the present embodiment) for which it is not necessary to generate a corresponding image is acquired from the corresponding image generation necessity registration unit 32.

Further, the control unit 33 controls the corresponding image generating unit 35, assigns a unique URL to the corresponding image generated by the corresponding image generating unit 35, and records it in the image recording unit 36.

When the destination of the image-attached electronic mail is a carrier (carrier D) that cannot be received, the control unit 3
3 is an image file (hereinafter referred to as the original image) attached to the image-attached e-mail, for example, "http: // smtpserv
The URL "er / car / original" is assigned and recorded in the image recording unit 36, and the original image is deleted from the image-attached email. Then, all the URLs of the corresponding image and the original image generated by the corresponding image generation unit 35 URL information including "(http:
// smtpserver / car ”) is added to the e-mail in which the original image is deleted and transmitted to the transmission / reception unit 34.

Further, the control unit 33 controls the mobile phone 5 described later.
The image in the image recording unit 36 is searched based on the model name information, the URL information, and other information from the web server 6. If there is a corresponding image corresponding to the mobile phone 5 in the image recording unit 36, the corresponding image is transmitted to the web server 6 by controlling the transmitting / receiving unit 34. On the other hand, when there is no corresponding image corresponding to the mobile phone 5, the original image of the corresponding image is transmitted to the web server 6 by controlling the transmitting / receiving unit 34.

The mobile phone 5 can browse the image attached to the received image-attached electronic mail.
In addition, a browser that can access the URL added to the e-mail is installed, and HTTP (Hypertext Transfer P
The web server 6 can be accessed based on the protocol.

The web server 6 comprises a transmitter / receiver 61, a controller 62, and a corresponding image generator 63. The transmission / reception unit 61 receives the model name information and URL information of the mobile phone 5 included in the HTTP request, and HT displays the corresponding image corresponding to the mobile phone 5 that made the request.
Reply to mobile phone 5 with STP response, SMT
Corresponding data and original data transmitted from the P server 3 are received.

The control unit 62 controls the transmission / reception unit 61 to transmit the model name information and the URL information of the mobile phone 5 received by the transmission / reception unit 61 to "http: // smtpserv".
Inquires whether or not there is a corresponding image of the model that has accessed the web server 6 among the corresponding images included in the URL "er / car". If there is a corresponding image, the corresponding image is acquired, and the transmission / reception unit 61 to control the mobile phone 5
To send. On the other hand, if there is no corresponding image, the corresponding image generation unit 63 acquires the original image “http: // smtpserver / car / original” of the corresponding image and generates the corresponding image of the model that has accessed the web server 6. To control. Then, the corresponding image generated by the corresponding image generation unit 63 is controlled by the transmission / reception unit 61 to be transmitted to the mobile phone 5.

The corresponding image generating section 63 has a recording section (not shown). In the recording unit, a model capability management table in which the items shown in Table 2 such as a carrier name, all model names of mobile phones of the carrier, and model capabilities for each model are registered is recorded. Further, the corresponding image generation unit 63, under the control of the control unit 62, refers to the model capability management table and generates the corresponding image of the mobile phone 5 that has accessed the web server 6 from the original image acquired by the control unit 62. To do. The above is a description of each component of the electronic mail delivery system 1.

Next, the operation of the electronic mail delivery system 1 from the time when the image-attached electronic mail is received by the SMTP server 3 to the time when the electronic mail is transmitted to the mobile phone 5 will be described. FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a flow from the reception of the image-attached electronic mail by the SMTP server 3 to the transmission to the mobile phone 5.

When the SMTP server 3 receives the image-attached electronic mail (S201), it is determined whether the destination of the image-attached electronic mail can receive the image-attached electronic mail (S202). When the destination can receive the image-attached electronic mail (S202: YES), the image-attached electronic mail is transmitted to the transmitting / receiving unit 34 and is transmitted to the mobile phone 5 based on the SMTP (S207).

On the other hand, when the transmission destination cannot receive the image-attached electronic mail (S202: NO), the model name (D3) for which the corresponding image generation is unnecessary is acquired from the corresponding image generation necessity registration unit 32 (S203). , Corresponding images of all models except the model D3 of the carrier D are generated by the corresponding image generation unit 35 (S204). Then, the corresponding image generated by the corresponding image generating unit 35 and the original image of the corresponding image are recorded in the image recording unit 36 with the URL assigned thereto (S20).
5). After recording the image, the original image is deleted from the image-attached e-mail, and URL information "http: // smtpserver / car" is added (S206). After that, the e-mail in which the URL information is added is transmitted to the mobile phone 5 based on the SMTP (S207).

Next, the operation of the mobile phone 5 from accessing the URL added to the received e-mail to receiving the corresponding image of itself will be described. Figure 3
6 is a flowchart illustrating a flow from the mobile phone 5 accessing the URL “http: /// smtpserver / car” added to the received e-mail to receiving the corresponding image of itself.

From the mobile phone 5 "http: // smtpserver / c
When the "ar" is accessed, the HTTP request is received by the transmission / reception unit 61 of the web server 6 (S301).
After receiving the HTTP request, based on the model name information and URL information included in the request, the corresponding image of the mobile phone 5 that has accessed is searched (S30).
2). URL of the image recording unit 36 "http: // smtpserver / c
If there is a corresponding image in “ar” (S303: YES),
The corresponding image is transmitted to the web server 6 and returned to the mobile phone 5 with an HTTP response (S306).

On the other hand, when there is no corresponding image in the image recording unit 36 (S302: NO), the original image "ht
tp: // smtpserver / car / original ”is transmitted to the web server 6, and the corresponding image of the mobile phone 5 that has accessed the web server 6 is generated from the original image (S30).
5). The generated corresponding image is returned to the mobile phone 5 with an HTTP response (S306).

As described above, according to this embodiment, when the destination of the image-attached e-mail is the mobile phone of the carrier that cannot receive the image-attached e-mail, the image generation is not necessary. For a model registered in the generation necessity registration table (hereinafter referred to as a rare model), the corresponding image of the model is not generated on the SMTP server 3 side. Regarding the rare model, when the web server 6 is accessed, the image generation unit 63 of the web server 6 generates a corresponding image and sends it back to the rare model.

Therefore, an image corresponding to a rare model that is unlikely to access the URL added to the e-mail is
Since it is not necessary to generate the MTP server 3 side in advance, it is possible to reduce the load on the image generation unit 35 when the corresponding image is generated. Therefore, the performance of the entire electronic mail delivery system 1 can be improved.

Further, in the present embodiment, the corresponding image of the image attached to the image-attached electronic mail is generated and the URL is allocated in the SMTP server 3. Therefore, it is possible to omit the step of transferring the image-attached e-mail to the image processing server and the like and then performing the image processing, which results in the time required for the e-mail delivery of the e-mail delivery system. Can be shortened.

[0047]

According to the present invention, for a predetermined terminal, the corresponding data is not generated in the data processing server, but the corresponding data is transmitted in the data transmitting server side in response to a corresponding data transmission request from the predetermined terminal. To generate. By doing so, since it is not necessary for the data processing server to generate the corresponding data corresponding to the predetermined terminal, it is possible to reduce the load on the data processing server when the corresponding data is generated. Therefore, it is possible to improve the data processing efficiency of the entire data distribution system from the distribution source to the distribution destination terminal.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an electronic mail delivery system according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a flow from when an image-attached e-mail is received by the SMTP server 3 to when it is sent to the mobile phone 5.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a flow from when the mobile phone 5 accesses the URL added to the received e-mail to when it receives the corresponding image of itself.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 E-mail delivery system 2 Sending terminal 3 SMTP server 4 network 5 mobile phones 6 Web server 31 Receiver 32 Corresponding image generation necessity registration unit 33,62 Control unit 34 Transmitter / receiver 35, 63 corresponding image generation unit 36 Image recording section 61 Transmitter / receiver

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. Corresponding data for processing data transmitted from a distribution source terminal according to a distribution destination terminal, and corresponding to the distribution destination terminal of the data based on a request from the distribution destination terminal. Is a data processing server in a data distribution system for transmitting to a terminal of the distribution destination, wherein the corresponding data is generated from the data transmitted from the terminal of the distribution source for the terminals of the distribution destination other than a predetermined terminal. Corresponding data generating means, data recording means for recording the data and the generated corresponding data, and location information indicating a location where the data and the generated corresponding data are recorded, to the delivery destination terminal. Distribution control means for controlling distribution, the distribution control means transmitting the corresponding data corresponding to the terminal of the distribution destination recorded in the location indicated by the location information. In response to the corresponding data transmission request, the transmission control is performed on the corresponding data of the terminal to the request source, and the request is transmitted in response to the corresponding data transmission request that requests transmission of the corresponding data corresponding to the predetermined terminal. A data processing server which controls transmission of the data based on the original. 2. Corresponding data corresponding to the terminal of the distribution destination of the data, which is processed according to the terminal of the distribution destination and processes the data transmitted from the terminal of the distribution source. Is a data transmission server in a data distribution system for transmitting to the terminal of the distribution destination, wherein the data is transmitted in response to a corresponding data transmission request from the terminal of the distribution destination for transmitting corresponding data corresponding to the terminal. Acquiring corresponding data corresponding to the terminal from the processing server, and acquiring the data from the data processing server in response to a corresponding data transmission request from the predetermined terminal requesting transmission of the corresponding data corresponding to the terminal. Acquisition means; correspondence data generation means for generating correspondence data corresponding to the predetermined terminal from the acquired data; and the acquired correspondence data and A corresponding data transmitting means for transmitting the generated corresponding data to a terminal of the distribution destination, the data transmitting server. 3. Corresponding data corresponding to the terminal of the delivery destination of the data is processed based on a request from the terminal of the delivery destination, by processing the data transmitted from the terminal of the delivery source. A corresponding data generation system for transmitting the corresponding data from the data transmitted from the distribution source terminal to the distribution destination terminals excluding a predetermined terminal. Means, data recording means for recording the data and the generated corresponding data, and distribution for controlling distribution of location information indicating a place where the data and the generated corresponding data are recorded to the destination terminal Control means, wherein the delivery control means requests transmission of corresponding data corresponding to the terminal recorded in the location indicated by the location information from the delivery destination terminal. In response to a corresponding data transmission request, the corresponding data of the terminal is controlled to be transmitted to the data transmission server, and in response to the corresponding data transmission request from the predetermined terminal, the data is controlled to be transmitted to the data transmission server. In response to the corresponding data transmission request from the data processing server and the distribution destination terminal, the corresponding data corresponding to the terminal is acquired from the data processing server, and in response to the corresponding data transmission request from the predetermined terminal. An acquisition unit that acquires the data from the data processing server, a correspondence data generation unit that generates correspondence data corresponding to the predetermined terminal from the acquired data, the acquired correspondence data and the generated And a data transmitting server having a corresponding data transmitting means for transmitting the corresponding data to the terminal of the delivery destination. Data distribution system to collect.