JP2004362207A - Start page guidance device and start page guidance method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a user with a chance to come into contact with beneficial information by a mechanism for sequentially displaying web pages which the user wants to browse in starting a browser program. <P>SOLUTION: A start page guidance device 10 capable of registering address information of a plurality of web pages which the user wants to display when starting the browser 21 is set on a computer network 40. The browser 21 is set so that a special web page of the start page guidance device 10 just after being started. In the special web page, a command for instructing to read and display another web page is stored. A different web page is shown every time the browser 21 is started as the address information for specifying the other web page with is sequentially overwritten with address information in which the start page guidance device 10 is registered. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a start page inducing apparatus and an inducing method for enabling an Internet user to sequentially display an arbitrary different web page every time an Internet browser is activated.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In today's world, the Internet is widespread, and many people use email and web pages for work and personal use. Among them, the application of a web page usually uses an application program called an Internet browser (hereinafter simply referred to as a browser).
[0003]
Microsoft Internet Explorer (registered trademark) of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and Netscape Navigator (registered trademark) of the United States of America, which can be used on a personal computer, are typical, and web pages can also be viewed on mobile phones and mobile information terminals. It has a built-in browser.
People who use the Internet use these browsers to search for Web pages on the Internet and to browse the contents.
[0004]
Many of these browsers have a mechanism for automatically reading and displaying a specific web page when activated by a user, and this specific web page is called a start page, In many cases, settings can be registered using the environment setting function.
[0005]
The Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator described above have the same function, and the browser function of a typical mobile phone has the same function.
For example, in the case of the Internet Explorer (Version 6), an item for registering information called a home page is included in an environment setting item called an Internet option, and a network address indicating the location of a web page called a URL (Universal Resource Locator) is included here. Can be set as a start page.
If a web page that provides news, such as http: // news /, is registered as a start page (home page) of Internet Explorer, when the Internet Explorer is started, the web page of http: // news / is automatically set. The content of the page is read and displayed on the browser screen.
[0006]
Many Internet users set a web page that provides the best information for themselves as a start page.
However, in these browsers, since only one web page can be registered as a start page, the same web page is displayed every time when the browser is started.
[0007]
This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 6. A browser connected to a computer network 40 in which an information providing server 30 (economic information 31, music information 32, and living information 33) that publishes a web page is mounted. When the user's information terminal 20 sets the URL of the economic information providing server 31 as the start page URL 22 for registering the web page to be automatically displayed when the browser is started, the browser 21a started first also has the second time. Both the browser 21b started at the first time and the browser 21c started at the third time all display the web pages of the economic information.
[0008]
However, since the contents of a normal web page are not updated many times a day, the contents of the web page can be generally grasped if viewed two or three times a day.
Therefore, after starting the browser several times, the value of the information obtained from the web page registered as the start page is significantly reduced.
[0009]
Nevertheless, the browser attempts to read and display the contents of the web page, which is the start page, every time the browser is started, so that the startup of the browser is delayed.
Some Internet users hate these inconveniences, do not set a start page, and open a blank page when the browser starts.
[0010]
Note that some web browsers can load multiple web pages at startup, but in this case, the web page displayed on the front of the screen is always the same, and the user can switch tabs. Other web pages are not displayed unless clicked, so that even if a plurality of web pages are read, the user automatically sees only one page.
[0011]
As described above, in a general browser mechanism, the web page automatically displayed at the time of starting the browser is fixed to one, so that the information that the Internet user can access is limited. Would.
[0012]
Therefore, as a method of displaying a different web page every time the browser is started, Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 304582 (2002) discloses a method in which a user registers personal information such as a hobby, a place of residence, and gender in advance. It proposes a method of switching and displaying related web pages in order. If the service according to this proposal is used, if the user registers the information of “travel” as a hobby, every time the browser is started, web pages closely related to travel will be displayed one after another.
[0013]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the service proposed by the disclosed patent, the information that can be registered by the user is personal information such as a hobby and a place of residence, and is not the URL of a web page that the user wants to view.
The web page displayed when the browser is started is displayed by selecting a web page that is closely related to the personal information registered by the user from the web pages registered by the service operator as appropriate, so that the user can be authenticated. You cannot display only the web page you want to view.
[0014]
Also, in the service proposed by the above-mentioned patent, the home page providing device reads the contents of the target web page and then transfers the contents to the browser. Web pages that exist on the established corporate network cannot be targeted. Similarly, in the case of a web page exclusively for members, the content of the web page is not normally provided unless the cookie information corresponding to the URL referred to is sent from the browser to the web server. There is a problem that the contents of the web page cannot be obtained accurately.
[0015]
Thus, the present invention provides a mechanism for sequentially displaying an arbitrary web page that a user wants to view every time the browser is started, even in a browser in which only one web page that is automatically read immediately after startup is registered. It is an object of the present invention to provide the browser user with an opportunity to access more useful information without being affected by firewalls and restrictions of cookies.
[0016]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above-described problem, in the present invention, an instruction to automatically read and display another web page is stored in a web page read immediately after the browser is started, and information for pointing to this another web page is stored. By changing each time, it is possible to display the contents of different web pages every time the browser is started.
[0017]
This will be described along with the contents of the invention described in the claims.
First, a start page inducing device (hereinafter, referred to as the present device) according to the first invention will be described.
[0018]
The present apparatus includes an information terminal equipped with an Internet browser (hereinafter simply referred to as a browser) having a function of automatically reading a specific web page at startup, and an information providing server for publishing WWW (World Wide Web) content such as a web page. It is operated on a computer connected to a computer network, such as the Internet or a local area network, which has the above.
[0019]
This apparatus has a bookmark information list that can store a plurality of pieces of information of web pages that the user wants to browse when the user starts the browser as start page information.
The web page information stored in the bookmark information list includes URL (Universal Resource Locator) information which is an address indicating the location of the web page on the Internet, title information which simply expresses the content of the web page, and As the minimum information.
[0020]
The apparatus further includes a list operation unit for providing a user with a procedure for editing (addition registration, correction registration, deletion, etc.) start page information of the bookmark information list. By using this procedure, you can perform operations such as increasing or deleting the web pages you want to display when the browser starts.
[0021]
In addition, the apparatus includes a list selection control unit that sequentially retrieves start page information from a bookmark information list under predetermined conditions, and an HTML that automatically reads and displays a web page indicated by a URL included in the start page information. And a gate page generation unit that generates a web page storing the instruction described in (1) as a gate page.
[0022]
Further, the present apparatus has a WWW server unit for performing a process of distributing a web page for editing a bookmark information list and a gate page to a browser.
[0023]
Next, a start page guidance method (hereinafter, referred to as the present guidance method) according to the second invention will be described.
[0024]
This guidance method includes an information terminal equipped with an Internet browser (hereinafter simply referred to as a browser) having a function of automatically reading a specific web page at the time of startup, and an information service for publishing WWW (World Wide Web) content such as a web page. The start page inducing device according to claim 1, which is connected to a computer network such as the Internet or a local area network in which a server exists, and each time a browser is started, a plurality of web pages that the user wants to view are displayed. It relates to means for realizing the display of the contents one by one.
[0025]
In the first step of the present guidance method, the user uses the web page for editing the start page information provided by the bookmark information list operation unit and the WWW server unit of the start page guidance device, and displays the web page when the browser is started. One or more pieces of information on an arbitrary web page on an arbitrary information providing server to be registered are registered in a bookmark information list in the start page inducing device.
[0026]
In the second step, the user sets the URL of the gate page of the start page guiding device as a web page that is automatically read immediately after the browser is started by using a start page (also referred to as a home page) setting function of the browser. register.
[0027]
In the third step, when the browser is started, the browser sends a gate page reference request to the WWW server unit of the start page inducing device based on the set value of the start page set and registered in the second step. Do.
[0028]
In the fourth step, the WWW server unit of the start page inducing device receives the gate page reference request issued by the browser, and instructs the list selection control unit to retrieve one start page information item from the bookmark information list.
[0029]
In the fifth step, the list selection control unit extracts one start page information from the bookmark information list based on a predetermined condition, transfers the start page information to the gate page generation unit, and instructs the generation of the gate page.
[0030]
In the sixth step, the gate page generation unit generates a Web page described in HTML as a gate page in which a command for automatically reading and displaying the URL included in the start page information is transferred to the WWW server unit.
[0031]
In a seventh step, the WWW server unit transmits the gate page generated by the gate page generation unit to the browser that has issued the gate page reference request.
[0032]
In the eighth step, the browser interprets the HTML command stored in the received gate page, automatically reads the web page indicated by the specified URL, and displays the web page on the browser.
[0033]
By the means described above, an arbitrary web page on an arbitrary information providing server is displayed when the browser is started.
[0034]
Further, each time the browser is started, the browser issues a reference request for the gate page to the start page inducing device, so that the third and subsequent steps are repeated. At this time, when the list selection control unit retrieves the start page information in the fifth step, the start page information registered in the bookmark information list is retrieved in order, whereby the URL stored in the gate page in the sixth step is obtained. Is changed, and as a result, in the eighth step, the web page automatically read by the browser according to the instruction described in the gate page becomes different from the previous one.
[0035]
By this method, even if the browser that can register only one web page that is automatically displayed at startup, any number of web pages that the user wants to view automatically is displayed every time the browser is started. It is possible to do.
[0036]
Next, in the third aspect of the present invention, in the sixth step of the description relating to the second aspect, the gate page generation unit is described in HTML which instructs the browser to re-read and display the URL. The present invention is related to a start page inducing method, wherein an HTML command called a frame tag is used as a command when a gate page storing a command is generated.
This frame command is described as <FRAMESET><FRAME SRC = “URL of web page to be reread”></</FRAMESET> in an HTML sentence, so that an arbitrary web page can be reloaded and displayed on the browser. Is an instruction for
[0037]
Next, the invention according to claim 4 is described in HTML in the sixth step of the above description of the second invention, in which the gate page generation unit instructs the browser to reload and display the URL. The present invention relates to a start page inducing method, wherein an HTML command called a META tag is used as a command when a gate page storing a command is generated.
This META tag instruction describes in a HTML statement <META http-equiv = “refresh” content = “0; URL = URL of Web page to be re-read”>, so that an arbitrary Web page can be re-read by the browser. This is an instruction to read and display.
[0038]
Next, the invention according to claim 5 is described in HTML in the sixth step of the above description of the second invention, in which the gate page generation unit instructs the browser to reload and display the URL. The present invention relates to a start page inducing method, characterized in that when a gate page storing an instruction is generated, an instruction called JavaScript is used as the instruction.
This JavaScript instruction instructs the browser to reload and display an arbitrary web page by describing <BODY onLoad = “location = 'URL of web page to be reread'”> in an HTML sentence. Instruction.
[0039]
Next, according to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the start page inducing method according to the present invention, in addition to the web page registered by the user, the start page in which the person who operates and manages the start page inducing device registers the start page. The present invention relates to a start page inducing method, characterized in that a web page registered by a user is displayed a specified number of times in addition to a bookmark information list as one piece of information, and then guided to a web page registered by an operation manager. .
[0040]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. First, FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing a configuration of an entire system in which a start page guiding device of the present invention is operated. The start page guiding device 10 has a function of automatically reading and displaying a specific web page at the time of startup. Is connected to a computer network 40 such as the Internet or a local area network in which an information terminal 20 equipped with a browser 21 having a Web service and an information providing server 30 for publishing WWW (World Wide Web) contents such as a web page exist.
The information providing server 30 may be any server that exists on the Internet or a local area network and provides arbitrary WWW contents that can be obtained using a URL. For convenience, here, a web page of economic information is used. A description will be given as a web server 31 for providing, a web server 32 for providing a web page for music information, and a web server 33 for providing a web page for living information.
Also, 31a, 32a and 33a in the figure are URLs for referring to the web pages of the respective web servers.
[0041]
Next, the configuration of the start page guidance device will be described with reference to FIG.
The start page inducing device 10 includes a bookmark information list 11 for storing a plurality of pieces of web page information that the Internet user wants to browse when the browser is started as start page information, and a start page information of the bookmark information list 11. A list operation unit 13 for providing a user with a web page 13a for performing an editing (additional registration, correction registration, deletion, etc.) procedure, and a list selection control unit for extracting start page information under a condition determined from the bookmark information list 11. A gate page generation unit 15 for generating, as a gate page 16, a web page in which an instruction to automatically read and display a URL included in the start page information extracted by the list selection control unit 14 is described in HTML; Bookmark information list And web page for editing one, and a WWW server section 12. responsible for processing for distributing gate page 16 to the browser.
[0042]
Any hardware may be used as long as it is equivalent to a general personal computer or EWS and has a computer network interface 17.
Here, it is assumed that the bookmark information list 11 stores at least a web page name and a URL.
[0043]
Next, an information terminal described in the following description will be described with reference to FIG. How to set the browser start page (also called homepage) will be described.
Here, the information terminal 20 that executes the browser is a general personal computer or a personal digital assistant (PDA) equipped with a Microsoft Windows (registered trademark) operating system, or a mobile phone. What is necessary is just to be able to execute the browsable browser 21.
The browser 21 has a function that can specify a start page to be automatically read when the browser is started by setting and registering any one URL by using a start page setting screen such as 22 in FIG. Need to be.
Here, as the start page, "http: //navi/gate.html" is designated assuming the URL of the gate page of the start page inducing device. The URL of the start page registered here is stored in a storage device (a hard disk device or a non-volatile memory) of the information terminal so that the browser 21 can arbitrarily read the URL.
[0044]
Next, an example of a gate page that stores an instruction described in HTML that causes a browser to automatically read another web page will be described with reference to FIG.
16a in FIG. 4 is a description example when a frame tag is used.
Normally, the frame tag divides the screen of the browser into a plurality of frame areas, and associates a URL to be displayed with each frame area, thereby instructing the browser to read and display an arbitrary web page.
The uppermost row of 16a in FIG. 4 describes a format in the case of using a frame tag, and an arbitrary URL is described in the portion of "URL to be displayed" on the fourth line.
The description example when the URL is actually substituted is shown in the middle. Here, the screen division is set to two upper and lower parts, and the upper part is described to be 20% of the height of the entire screen. In the upper part, a web page for performing system settings and the like is described so as to be read for convenience. In the lower part, the URL is described so as to display the web page desired by the user.
When the browser reads the gate page described in this manner, the screen of the browser is divided into two as shown at the bottom, and a setting page is displayed at the top, and a web page of economic information desired by the user is displayed at the bottom. Become like
Similarly, 16b in FIG. 4 is a case where a command called a META tag is used, and 16c is a description example in a case where JavaScript is used. In both cases, by writing an arbitrary URL in the “URL to be displayed” shown in the top format, the browser automatically reads the gate page after reading the gate page, and automatically reads the web page using the URL. Display on the browser screen as shown in.
[0045]
Next, a procedure for editing the bookmark information list will be described with reference to FIG.
The system configuration diagram surrounded by the two-dotted dashed line at the lower left of FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a processing system related to the description here.
When the browser 21 connects to the WWW server unit 12 of the start page guiding apparatus 10 and accesses the editing procedure web page 13a of the list operation unit 13 of the apparatus, a screen 51 in FIG. 5 is displayed. On this screen, there are a button 51a for moving to a page for performing a procedure for adding start page information and a button 51b for moving to a page for performing a procedure for deleting start page information.
[0046]
When the user clicks 51a, an information addition screen shown at 52 in FIG. 5 is displayed.
The information addition screen 52 has an input field 52a for inputting the name of a start page to be additionally registered, an input field 52b for inputting a URL, and a button 52c for executing a procedure.
When the user enters the name and URL and clicks the button 52c, the input information is transferred from the browser 21 to the list operation unit 13 via the WWW server unit 12, and the list operation unit 13 Then, new start page information is added to the bookmark information list 11 based on the received information. 5 represents the bookmark information list 11 to which new information has been added.
[0047]
When the user clicks 51b on the screen 51, an information deletion screen shown at 54 in FIG. 5 is displayed.
On the information deletion screen 54, the start page information currently registered in the bookmark information list 11 is displayed in a list, and the buttons (54a, 54b, 54c) whose names are described are changed to the buttons for executing the deletion. Has become.
If the user clicks on the button 54b, information on the clicked button is passed from the browser 21 to the list operation unit 13 via the WWW server unit 12, and the list operation unit 13 is the input value of the deletion screen 54. Then, based on the received information, the corresponding information (music) is deleted from the bookmark information list 11.
The screen 55 is a screen that guides the user that the information has been deleted, and the screen 11b represents the bookmark information list 11 after the music information has been deleted.
[0048]
Based on the above description, even if the browser that can register only one web page that is automatically read immediately after startup according to the present invention, every time the browser is started, the web page that the user wants to view is sequentially displayed. A homepage guidance method for realizing a display mechanism will be described with reference to FIGS.
[0049]
In the following description, as a condition used in the step of extracting one start page information from the bookmark information list by the list selection control unit, among the start page information registered in the bookmark information list, the immediately preceding reference date and time is most frequently used. The rule of taking out the old information (that is, the web page that is not referred to the longest in the registered information) is used, and for that purpose, the reference date and time information is added as the configuration information of the bookmark information list ( (See 11 in FIG. 7).
In the step of describing, in HTML, a command for the gate page generation unit to automatically read and display the URL stored in the gate page, the above-described method using the META tag (16b in FIG. 4) is used.
The URL for referring to the gate page of the start page inducing device is http: // navi / gate. html.
[0050]
In the bookmark information list 11 of the start page inducing device 10, three start page information are registered and stored in advance by the user, and the contents are as described in 11 in FIG.
The URL included in the start page information registered in the bookmark information list 11 is connected to the computer network 40 to which the start page inducing device 10 is connected as the information providing servers 31, 32, and 33, respectively.
The information terminal 20 used by the user is also connected to the same computer network 40.
In this information terminal 20, a browser 21 can be executed. The URL of the start page that is automatically referred to when the browser is started is http: //navi/gate.html, which is the URL of the gate page 16 of the start page inducing device 10 by the user. html.
[0051]
Hereinafter, the start page guidance method will be specifically described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. (See also Fig. 7)
When the user operates the information terminal 20 to perform a browser activation operation, the first browser 21a is activated (S1), and the browser 21a immediately confirms the URL 22 of the start page and extracts the URL of the gate page 16 (S2). ), The browser 21a requests the start page guidance device 10 in which the gate page 16 exists to acquire the gate page 16 (S3), and the WWW server unit of the start page guidance device 10 acquires the gate page 16 transmitted by the browser 21a. Upon receiving the request (S4), the list selection control unit performs a process of extracting start page information according to an instruction from the WWW server unit (S5).
[0052]
To explain this processing in detail, the list selection control unit first confirms whether there is a plurality of registrations in the bookmark information list (S51). If there is only one registration, the start page information is extracted (S52). ). Alternatively, when a plurality of start page information is registered, any one of the start page information is extracted according to a predetermined rule (S53). Here, a rule is set to extract the information with the oldest reference date and time. So you have to get the start page information of the economy. Subsequently, the list selection control unit updates the reference date and time of the economic start page information in the extracted bookmark information list 11 of the start page information to the current time. This is post-processing for making the different start page information the oldest information when performing the processing of S53 next (S54).
[0053]
Subsequently, the extracted start page information is passed to the gate page generation unit. The gate page generation unit extracts the URL included in the start page information, and generates a gate page storing an HTML instruction for rereading the URL (S6).
The HTML instruction contained in this gate page will be 23a containing the economic URL. The generated gate page is transmitted to the browser via the WWW server unit (S7).
Upon receiving the gate page, the browser 21a retrieves the URL to be reread from the gate page (S8), and makes a request to the corresponding web server to acquire the web page specified by the URL (S9).
The web server receives the request (S10a), and sends the web page specified by the URL to the browser (S11).
As a result, the browser displays the acquired contents of the web page (economic information) on the screen (S12).
[0054]
Subsequently, when the user starts the browser for the second time, the processing from S1 to S51 is performed in the same manner as the previous time. However, in S53, since the reference date and time of the economic start page information is updated, The start page information of the music is extracted, and as a result, the instruction including the URL to be re-read included in the gate page generated in S6 is 23b, and the information providing server making the request in S9 is the music information server 32. As a result, the screen displayed in S12 becomes the music information web page 21b.
[0055]
Further, when the browser is started for the third time, since the reference date and time of the music start page are updated following the economic start page information in S53, the start page information of life is extracted, and as a result, , The command including the URL to be re-read included in the gate page generated in S6 is 23c, the information providing server making the request in S9 is the music information server 33, and as a result, the screen displayed in S12 is It becomes a web page 21c of information.
[0056]
When the browser is started for the fourth time, the display of the start page information makes a full cycle, and the economy web page is displayed again.
[0057]
The configuration and method described above are an example of an embodiment of the present invention.
In the above description, the start page information registered in the bookmark information list is described as three pieces. However, by increasing the number of registrations, it is possible to guide the user to more web pages.
Also, as an example of a rule for selecting one start page information from the bookmark information list in the list selection control unit, a rule of selecting an item having the oldest reference date and time has been described. For example, the start page information to be selected can be limited.
Also, the method using the META tag as an instruction used by the gate page generation unit has been described as an example. However, the same result can be provided by a method using a frame tag or a method using JavaScript.
In any of these methods, since the browser accesses the web server that provides the web page that the user wants to view, the web page protected by the firewall, such as an internal homepage, cannot be accessed on the same network as the browser. Can be used as one of the start pages without any inconvenience.
[0058]
Furthermore, in the above description, the information registered as the start page information is described as three pieces of information registered by the user himself / herself. However, the administrator of the start page inducing device adds the three pieces of information to the arbitrary web page. After adding all the information and displaying all the start pages registered by the user himself, the system is operated based on the condition that the administrator is guided to the registered web page, so that the administrator can use the start page guidance device for the purpose of advertising distribution. If you use the start page guidance device in an organization such as a company, direct all employees to a web page with important contact information. It is also possible to do.
[0059]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the start page inducing device and the inducing method according to the first and second aspects, a plurality of web pages that the user wants to browse are sequentially and automatically displayed every time the browser is started. As a result, it is possible to come into contact with more information distributed on various web pages, and as a result, there is an effect that information useful for living, working, or studying can be efficiently acquired.
[0060]
In the first place, many Internet users accumulate a number of web pages of their interest in bookmarks, but few people are actually conscious of looking at them, but the guiding device and the guiding method of the present invention By using, you can display web pages of interest one by one simply by launching a browser, so make it a habit to collect information of interest while skimming through the displayed contents Will be able to
[0061]
According to the third, fourth, and fifth aspects of the present invention, the service according to the present invention is used if the browser used by the user is compatible with any one of a frame tag, a meta tag, and a JavaScript command. it can.
[0062]
The feature of the sixth aspect of the invention that the management and operation person can guide to the registered web page is described in the advertisement distribution industry. The mainstream approach was to deliver or launch an alternative browser, called a pop-up / pop-down ad, to display the ad. However, banner ads and text ads are not sufficiently appealing due to the small amount of information. On the other hand, pop-up / pop-down ads, on the other hand, can display advertising information on a free-sized screen, but this is also sufficient due to strong user dissatisfaction with launching a new browser regardless of the user's will It is said that it is difficult to obtain an effective advertising effect. However, with the guidance method according to the present invention, if there is such a consideration that guidance is performed after displaying all the start pages registered by the user himself / herself, an advertisement having a sufficient amount of information in a sufficient space can be added to another advertisement. It is possible to realize an epoch-making business form in which distribution to users can be performed without starting a browser and without deteriorating the user's feelings.
[0063]
In the case where the start page inducing device of the present invention is operated in an organization such as a company, an educational institution, or another organization, the use of the start page inducing device of the present invention is obligated to a browser user, thereby enabling the user to use the device. Can use the system to increase the efficiency of information collection according to their own tastes and needs, as well as to provide web pages for contact within the organization (recently referred to as corporate portals) and collaborative work Forcibly add start page information that leads to groupware, etc., and browse those web pages regularly.If there is information that needs to be disseminated as soon as possible, write that information. Can be used to immediately navigate to a web page that has been created, and the information distribution efficiency within the organization can be dramatically improved. To become.
[0064]
In addition, in the present invention, the mechanism for performing guidance is separated from the browser and the information terminal on which the browser is executed, and is integrated into the start page guidance device. Therefore, regardless of the type of the browser or the information terminal, the browser or the information terminal has a special function. Members who need to send and receive cookie information protected by a firewall by devising a method that always provides access to the web page from a browser while providing services without adding software We have made it possible to use web pages that are limited to users as start pages without any inconvenience.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing the configuration of a network system that operates a start page guidance device according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the relationship between the internal configuration of a start page guidance device and each processing unit.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a user information terminal and a start page setting screen.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the contents of an HTML document that stores an instruction to automatically read another web page.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a method of editing a bookmark information list of the start page guiding device.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a system configuration and operation of a conventional technique.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the configuration and operation of one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of one embodiment of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
10 Start page guidance device
11 Bookmark information list
12 WWW server
13 List operation part
13a Web page for editing procedures
14 List selection control unit
15 Gate page generator
16 Gate Page
17 Computer Network Interface
20 Information terminal
21 Browser
30 Information server
40 Computer Network

Claims (6)

There are an information terminal equipped with an Internet browser (hereinafter simply referred to as a browser) having a function of automatically reading a specific web page at the time of startup, and an information providing server for publishing WWW (World Wide Web) content such as a web page. A bookmark information list that is connected to a computer network such as the Internet or a local area network and that can store a plurality of pieces of web page information that a user wants to view when the browser is started as start page information; and the bookmark information list. List operation unit that provides users with procedures for editing (additional registration, correction registration, deletion, etc.) the start page information to the user, and a list selection that extracts the start page information in order from the bookmark information list according to the specified conditions Selection control unit, and a gate for extracting URL information included in the start page information extracted by the list selection control unit and generating a web page storing an instruction described in HTML that causes a browser to automatically reread the URL. A start page inducing device comprising: a page generating unit; and a WWW server unit for performing a process of distributing a web page and a gate page to a browser for performing a bookmark information list editing procedure. There are an information terminal equipped with an Internet browser (hereinafter simply referred to as a browser) having a function of automatically reading a specific web page at the time of startup, and an information providing server for publishing WWW (World Wide Web) content such as a web page. 2. A system comprising the start page guiding device according to claim 1 connected to a computer network such as the Internet or a local area network, wherein a start page provided by a list operation unit and a WWW server unit of the start page guiding device. Using a web page that edits information, the information of any web page on any information providing server that you want to display at the time of starting the browser is added to the bookmark information list in the start page guiding device as start page information. Registering one or more, and setting and registering the URL of the gate page of the start page inducing device as a web page to be automatically read immediately after the browser is started by using a start page setting registration function provided in the browser. When the Internet user activates the browser, the browser makes a reference request for a gate page to the WWW server unit of the start page inducing device based on the settings registered in the previous step; A step of instructing the list selection control unit to extract start page information from the bookmark information list by the WWW server unit of the start page inducing device receiving the page reference request; One start page based on the conditions of Retrieving the information and providing it to the gate page generation unit, wherein the gate page generation unit retrieves the URL information included in the start page information provided from the list selection control unit, and re-reads and displays the URL in the browser. Generating a gate page that stores an instruction described in HTML that instructs the browser, transmitting the generated gate page to the browser that has issued the reference request by the WWW server unit, Reading the information of the URL stored in the gate page and reading the web page corresponding to the URL from the information providing server and displaying the web page, thereby storing the bookmark information stored in the bookmark information list on the browser. Any web on any information providing server that you want to display when the browser starts Page information is displayed, and whenever the browser is started, when the browser in the above series of steps repeats the step of issuing a reference request for the gate page, the start page information extracted by the list selection control unit Are switched in order, the contents of the URL stored in the gate page are switched in order. As a result, the browser that reads the gate page immediately after starting the browser re-reads and displays a different web page every time according to the description content of the gate page. A method for inducing a start page. In the step of generating a gate page storing an instruction written in HTML for instructing a browser to reread and display a URL, the gate page generation unit uses an HTML instruction called a frame tag as the instruction. 3. The start page guidance method according to claim 2, wherein: In the step of generating a gate page storing an instruction written in HTML for instructing a browser to reread and display a URL, the gate page generation unit uses an HTML instruction called a META tag as the instruction. 3. The start page guidance method according to claim 2, wherein: In the step of generating a gate page storing an instruction written in HTML for instructing the browser to re-read and display the URL, the gate page generation unit uses an instruction called JavaScript as the instruction. 3. The start page guidance method according to claim 2, wherein: 3. The start page guidance method according to claim 2, wherein, in addition to the web page registered by the user, a web page registered by a person who operates and manages the start page guidance device is added to the guidance destination, and the web page registered by the user. In addition to the above, a start page guiding method characterized by guiding to a web page registered by an operation management person.

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