JP2006197002A - Server apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To take a communication by those who watch an identical television program. <P>SOLUTION: If the user of a telephone terminal 300a turns on a television, the controller 310 of the telephone terminal 300a transmits the program information of a user ID, a password, and a television program to a matching server 200. When the matching server 200 receives these, the matching server 200 retrieves records coincident with the program information from a user setting database DB 221. "Telephone number information" stored by the retrieved record B is transmitted to the telephone terminal 300a. The telephone terminal 300a performs a voice speech connection with a telephone terminal 300b using the received "telephone number information". <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for linking broadcasting such as television and radio and a call through a telecommunication line.

  Exchange information such as “chat” and “bulletin board” on the Internet for the purpose of communication such as information exchange between viewers of TV programs and radio programs There is a site. Communication by this information exchange site is realized by a user actively searching and accessing the Internet.

  On the other hand, the following technologies are disclosed for the purpose of communication between viewers by linking broadcasting such as television and radio with a communication network such as the Internet. When a broadcasting device that performs digital broadcasting digitally broadcasts a broadcast course, the additional information is multiplexed with the content of the broadcast course and is digitally broadcast. This additional information includes a password for accessing a site (hereinafter referred to as a community site) provided as a community place related to the contents of the broadcast course. The viewer of the broadcast course uses this password to access the community site. Thereby, communication between viewers of the same program can be realized on this community site (Patent Document 1).

JP 2004-220169 A

In order to communicate using information exchange sites such as “chat” and “bulletin board” and community sites described in Patent Document 1, it is necessary for viewers of broadcast programs to actively access sites on the Internet. is there. That is, viewers of the same program cannot automatically communicate with each other.
Also, in order for a specific person to communicate at the information exchange site at the same time, it cannot be realized unless a large number of users actively want to communicate with the person who is watching this program. It was difficult to realize only in specific programs that were collected.
In addition, the community site described in Patent Document 1 can only be realized in a specific program in which additional information is multiplexed on the broadcast content. In addition, it is necessary to incorporate a function for multiplexing additional information on the broadcasting device side.

  In view of the above-described conventional problems, the object of the present invention is to link a broadcast program such as a television or radio and a communication network without adding special information to the broadcast information for any broadcast program. The object is to provide a server device capable of automatically realizing communication between viewers of the program.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the present invention comprises a receiving means for receiving terminal information including a terminal identifier that identifies a terminal that is communicably connected via a communication network and a program identifier that identifies a broadcast program, and a plurality of receiving means A storage unit that stores the terminal information, and a search unit that, when receiving the terminal information by the receiving unit, searches the storage unit for terminal information having the same program identifier as the program identifier included in the received terminal information. And the terminal identifier included in the terminal information searched by the searching means is transmitted to the terminal indicated by the terminal information received by the receiving means, or included in the terminal information received by the receiving means And a transmission means for transmitting the terminal identifier to the terminal indicated by the terminal information searched by the search means. .

  Further, the present invention provides terminal information that includes a terminal identifier that identifies a terminal that is communicably connected via a communication network and a program identifier that identifies a broadcast program, and user information indicating predetermined information of a user of the terminal Receiving means, storage means for storing the terminal information and the user information in association with each other, and when the terminal information is received by the terminal information receiving means, a program identifier included in the received terminal information Search means for searching for terminal information having the same program identifier from the storage means, and when a plurality of terminal information is searched by the search means, the priority of the searched terminal information is based on the user information Priority order determining means for determining the order, and terminal identification included in the searched terminal information based on the priority order determined by the priority order determining means Is transmitted to the terminal indicated by the terminal information received by the receiving means, or the terminal information retrieved by the searching means indicates the terminal identifier included in the terminal information received by the receiving means There is provided a server device comprising: a transmission means for transmitting to a terminal.

  In addition, the present invention identifies a terminal that is communicably connected via a communication network with a proxy server having a calling means for performing a voice call or a videophone call, and is communicably connected via the communication network. Receiving means for receiving terminal information including a terminal identifier to be performed, a program identifier for identifying a broadcast program, and user information including public setting information indicating whether to disclose the terminal identifier of the terminal; Storage means for associating and storing the terminal information and the user information, and receiving the terminal information by the receiving means, terminal information having the same program identifier as the program identifier included in the received terminal information. Corresponding to search means for searching from the storage means, terminal information searched by the search means or terminal information received by the receiving means If at least one of the public setting information indicates non-public, the terminal identifier included in the searched terminal information and the terminal identifier included in the received terminal information are transmitted to the proxy server. In other cases, the terminal identifier included in the terminal information searched by the searching means is transmitted to the terminal indicated by the terminal information received by the receiving means, or received by the receiving means. And a transmission unit that transmits the terminal identifier included in the terminal information to the terminal indicated by the terminal information searched by the search unit.

  Further, the present invention discloses terminal information including a terminal identifier that identifies a terminal that is communicably connected via a communication network, a program identifier that identifies a broadcast program, and the terminal identifier of the terminal. Storing a terminal identifier of a proxy server having a receiving means for receiving user information including public setting information indicating whether or not, and a calling means for making a voice call or a videophone call, and the terminal information and the user When the terminal information is received by the receiving means and storage means for storing information in association with each other, terminal information having the same program identifier as the program identifier included in the received terminal information is retrieved from the storage means. A search unit and a small amount of the public setting information included in the terminal information searched by the search unit or the terminal information received by the receiving unit; When at least one of them indicates non-public, the terminal identifier of the proxy server is transmitted to at least one of the terminal indicated by the searched terminal information or the terminal indicated by the received terminal information, and In other cases, the terminal identifier included in the terminal information searched by the searching means is transmitted to the terminal indicated by the terminal information received by the receiving means, or the terminal received by the receiving means There is provided a server apparatus comprising: a transmission unit that transmits a terminal identifier included in information to a terminal indicated by the terminal information searched by the search unit.

The present invention also identifies a terminal that is communicably connected via a communication network to a proxy server having a calling means for performing a voice call or a videophone call, and is communicably connected via the communication network. User information indicating predetermined information of the user of the terminal including terminal information including a terminal identifier, a program identifier for identifying a broadcast program, and public setting information indicating whether to disclose the terminal identifier of the terminal Receiving means, storage means for storing the terminal information and the user information in association with each other, and when the terminal information is received by the terminal information receiving means, a program identifier included in the received terminal information A search unit that searches the storage unit for terminal information having the same program identifier, and a plurality of pieces of terminal information are searched by the search unit Priority determining means for determining the priority of the searched terminal information based on the user information and at least one of the public setting information included in the searched terminal information or the received terminal information If it is a value indicating disclosure, based on the priority determined by the priority determining means, the terminal identifier included in the searched terminal information and the terminal identifier included in the received terminal information are There is provided a server device comprising a transmission means for transmitting to a server.
In a preferred aspect of the present invention, the storage means stores a terminal identifier of a proxy server having a calling means for performing a voice call or a videophone call, and the user information discloses whether or not the terminal identifier of the terminal is disclosed. If the transmission means has at least one of the searched terminal information or the public setting information corresponding to the received terminal information is a value indicating non-public The proxy server terminal identifier is transmitted to at least one of the terminal indicated by the searched terminal information or the terminal indicated by the received terminal information based on the priority determined by the priority determining means. To do.
In another preferred aspect of the present invention, the terminal identifier is a telephone number or an IP address.

(1) Configuration FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a communication system according to the present embodiment. In the figure, the Internet 100 is a network using TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) / IP (Internet Protocol) as a standard protocol. A matching server (server device) 200 and a plurality of telephone terminals (four telephone terminals 300a, 300b, 300c, and 300d in FIG. 1) are connected to the Internet 100. 1 illustrates four telephone terminals, it goes without saying that the number of telephone terminals included in the communication system is not limited to four. In the following description, when it is not necessary to distinguish each of the telephone terminals 300a, 300b, 300c, and 300d, they are simply referred to as “telephone terminals 300”.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the matching server 200. In the figure, reference numeral 210 denotes a control unit including an arithmetic device such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and various memories such as a ROM (Read Only Memory) and a RAM (Random Access Memory). The control unit 210 controls the operation of each unit of the matching server 200 according to the control program PRG 221 stored in the storage unit 220. Each component described below operates under the control of the control unit 210.

  230 is a communication interface for communicating with the telephone terminal 300. The matching server 200 is connected to the network via the communication interface 230. Reference numeral 240 denotes a display unit such as a liquid crystal display, which displays an image based on data supplied by the control unit 210. An operation unit 250 such as a keyboard or a mouse supplies a signal corresponding to the operation content of the user to the control unit 210.

  A user setting database DB 221 is stored in the nonvolatile area of the storage unit 220. The user setting database DB 221 is an aggregate of a plurality of records each corresponding to one user setting information. This user setting information is information set by the user of the telephone terminal 300, and is data that is referred to when matching processing, which is a feature of the present embodiment, is performed. This matching process will be described in detail later. When receiving the user setting information from the telephone terminal 300 via the communication interface 230, the control unit 210 stores the received user setting information in the user setting database DB 221.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of the user setting database DB 221. As shown in the figure, one record constituting this database includes “user ID”, “password”, “phone number information”, “connection destination list”, “connection upper limit number of people”, “program information”, and “connection information”. 7 fields. The “user ID” field stores a user identifier assigned to each user in order to identify the user of the telephone terminal 300. In the “password” field, a password character string set by each user to authenticate the user is stored. In the “phone number information” field, a terminal identifier for identifying the telephone terminal 300 such as a telephone number or an IP address of the telephone terminal 300 is stored. In the following description, this terminal identifier is referred to as “telephone number information” for the sake of brevity. In the “connection destination list” field, a list of “telephone number information” of the partner terminal that the user wants to make a voice call connection is stored. If “telephone number information” is not stored in this list, it is considered that a connection is desired to an arbitrary telephone terminal 300. In the “upper limit number of connections” field, a numerical value indicating the upper limit number of users that the user desires when making a multipoint telephone call connection is stored. In the “program information” field, a program identifier for identifying a television program being viewed by the user of the telephone terminal 300 is stored. In the “connection information” field, data indicating whether or not the internet connection of the telephone terminal 300 is connectable (connectable / not connectable) is stored. If the connection is possible, information indicating the connection state (not connected / connected at one point / connected at two points, etc.) is stored. In the following description, for convenience of explanation, information other than “program information” in the user setting information is collectively referred to as “user basic information”, and information on “user ID”, “password”, and “program information” is summarized. This is referred to as “user matching information”.

  Next, the configuration of the telephone terminal 300 will be described. FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the telephone terminal 300. The telephone terminal 300 is a personal computer, for example. In the figure, reference numeral 310 denotes a control unit including an arithmetic device such as a CPU and various memories such as a ROM and a RAM. The control unit 310 controls the operation of each unit of the telephone terminal 300 according to the control program PRG321 stored in the storage unit 320. Each component described below operates under the control of the control unit 310.

  Reference numeral 330 denotes a communication interface for communicating with other telephone terminals 300 and the matching server 200. The telephone terminal 300 is connected to the network via the communication interface 330. Reference numeral 390 denotes a user interface for the user to perform various operations. The user interface 390 includes a display unit 340, an operation unit 350, and a voice input / output unit 360.

  The voice input / output unit 360 includes a microphone, a speaker, a voice CODEC, and the like. The voice input / output unit 360 delivers voice data corresponding to the voice collected by the microphone to the control unit 310, while voice corresponding to the voice data delivered from the control unit 310 is received. Reproduce. Reference numeral 370 denotes a television antenna that receives a broadcast signal from a television relay station (not shown). Reference numeral 380 denotes a television tuner that selects an arbitrary broadcast station signal from broadcast signals received by the television antenna 370.

  A user ID 322 and a password 323 are stored in the nonvolatile area of the storage unit 320. The control unit 310 stores the user ID 322 and the password 323 input from the operation unit 350 by the user in the storage unit 320. These data are data transmitted to the matching server 200 for user authentication.

  FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration of processing performed by the control unit 310. When the control unit 310 executes the control program stored in the storage unit 320, each unit illustrated in FIG. 5 is logically realized.

  Reference numeral 10 denotes a television function unit that separates an audio signal from a broadcast signal selected by the television tuner 380 and outputs the separated audio signal to the audio input / output unit 360 and outputs the video signal to the display unit 340. In addition, the television function unit 10 performs control such as channel change, broadcast signal output start and output end, and the like based on a command input from the operation unit 350.

  Reference numeral 11 denotes an Internet telephone unit that performs voice calls with a plurality of other terminals via the Internet. When an instruction to connect to the Internet telephone is input from the operation unit 350, the Internet telephone unit 11 establishes an Internet telephone connection with the destination telephone terminal 300 via the communication interface 330. In addition, the Internet telephone unit 11 transmits “connection information” indicating a connection state to the matching server 200 via the communication interface 330. When the connection is established, the Internet telephone unit 11 converts the audio signal input from the audio input / output unit 360 into digital data, and transmits the converted digital data to the counterpart terminal via the communication interface 330. In addition, digital data of the counterpart terminal is received via the communication interface 330, converted into a voice signal, and output to the voice input / output unit 360. When a command for disconnecting the connection is input from the operation unit 350, the Internet telephone unit 11 disconnects the Internet telephone connection with the partner terminal via the communication interface 330.

  Reference numeral 12 denotes a matching information transmitting unit that transmits program information indicating a TV broadcast program output from the TV function unit 10 to the matching server 200. When a user inputs a command such as a television channel change, an output start or an output end using the operation unit 350, the TV function unit 10 performs control based on the input command and also receives a TV broadcast being received. The matching information transmitting unit 12 is notified of program information indicating the program. When the program information is notified, the matching information transmitting unit 12 reads the user ID 322 and the password 323 from the storage unit 320, and sends the “user matching information” (program information, the user ID 322 and the password 323) via the communication interface 330. Transmit to matching server 200.

  An automatic telephone connection unit 13 notifies the Internet telephone unit 11 of an Internet telephone connection instruction when “phone number information” of another terminal is received from the matching server 200. When the connection instruction is notified, the Internet telephone unit 11 makes an Internet telephone connection to the notified telephone terminal 300 via the communication interface 330.

(2) Operation Next, the operation of this communication system will be described. In this operation, the matching server 200 searches the user setting database DB 221 for a telephone terminal 300 (referred to as a telephone terminal 300b) that receives the same television program as a certain telephone terminal 300 (referred to as a telephone terminal 300a), and the telephone terminal This enables a telephone call by Internet telephone between 300a and the searched telephone terminal 300b.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation sequence of the communication system according to the present embodiment. A series of operations of this communication system will be described with reference to this figure. This operation is roughly divided into a user basic information registration operation B100 and a matching operation B200.

  First, the user basic information registration operation B100 will be described. This operation is started when the user of the telephone terminal 300a (or telephone terminal 300b) inputs “user basic information” to the telephone terminal 300a (or telephone terminal 300b) using the operation unit 350. When “user basic information” is input by the operation unit 350 of the telephone terminal 300a, the control unit 310 of the telephone terminal 300a transmits “user basic information” to the matching server 200 via the communication interface 330 (S100). The matching server 200 registers the received “user basic information” in the user setting database DB 221 (S101).

  The control unit 310 of the telephone terminal 300b also transmits the communication “user basic information” to the matching server 200 in the same manner as the telephone terminal 300a (S110). The matching server 200 registers the received “user basic information” in the user setting database DB 221 (S111). Note that the above-described operations of the telephone terminal 300a and the telephone terminal 300b are in no particular order, and the telephone terminal 300b can perform the “user basic information” registration operation before the telephone terminal 300a.

  Next, the matching operation B200 will be described. Here, the operation when the user of the telephone terminal 300b starts watching a certain program first, and then the user of the telephone terminal 300a starts watching the same program will be described.

  This operation is started when the user of the telephone terminal 300b starts reception of a television broadcast using the operation unit 350 or changes a television channel. The television function unit 10 of the telephone terminal 300b performs control based on a command input from the operation unit 350 and notifies the matching information transmission unit 12 of program information. When the program information is notified, the matching information transmission unit 12 reads the user ID 322 and the password 323 from the storage unit 320 and transmits “user matching information” including these to the matching server 200 via the communication interface 330. (S200). When the “user matching information” is received, the matching server 200 searches the user setting database DB 221 for a record with a matching user ID, and registers program information in the record (S201). Then, a record with matching program information is searched from the user setting database DB 221 (S202).

  Here, details of the processing (S201 and S202) of the control unit 210 of the matching server 200 in this operation will be described below. For convenience of explanation, the operations of step S201 and step S202 are collectively referred to as “matching process”. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the matching process of the matching server 200. This operation is started when the matching server 200 receives “user matching information” via the communication interface 230, as shown in FIG. Here, a user who uses the telephone terminal 300 that has transmitted “user matching information” will be described as “user A”, and a record in which user A user setting information is stored will be described as “record A”.

  First, the control unit 210 of the matching server 200 searches the user setting database DB 221 for a record A with a matching user ID, and refers to the record A to determine whether the received combination of user ID and password is correct ( S10). If it is not correct, error information is transmitted to the telephone terminal 300, and the process is terminated (S11). If it is correct, the received program information is registered in the record A (S12). Then, a record in which program information that matches the received program information is stored is searched from the user setting database DB 221 (S13). Here, it is determined whether or not there is a record that matches the program information (S14). If there is no record, the process is terminated as it is, and otherwise the process proceeds to the next process.

  In the present embodiment, considering the case where a plurality of records are searched, the priority order is determined based on the user setting information of each record, thereby determining the optimal telephone terminal 300 as the connection destination. Specifically, with respect to the user setting information of each record, a score (point) serving as a criterion for determining the priority order is calculated, and the telephone terminal 300 corresponding to the record having the highest point is optimal as the connection destination. Is determined. First, “connection information” is read from the retrieved record (hereinafter referred to as record B), and it is determined whether or not the telephone terminal 300 (hereinafter referred to as terminal B) indicated by the record B is connectable (S15). If the connection is possible, the “connection upper limit number of people” is read out from the record B, and whether or not the number of terminals currently connected to the terminal B is less than the upper limit number of people compared with the “connection information” read out earlier. Is determined (S16). If it is less than the upper limit, 1 point is added (S17). Next, the “connection destination list” of the record B is read, and it is determined whether or not the “phone number information” of the user A is included in the list (S18). If it is included, 1 point is added (S19). Thereafter, the above-described calculation process is performed for all the retrieved records, whereby each point is determined for each record. On the other hand, if “NO” is determined in steps S16 and S18, the process proceeds to the point calculation process of the next record (record of another terminal) without increasing the points.

  When the points of all the retrieved records are calculated, the records are sorted so as to be in the calculated point order (S20). Then, it is determined whether or not the points of all retrieved records are zero (S21). If it is impossible to connect or if the number of people already connected is equal to the upper limit, no points will be added. That is, when the points of all the retrieved records are zero, it means that there is no telephone terminal 300 that can be connected. If the points of all the retrieved records are zero, the process is terminated as it is. In other cases, the “telephone number information” stored in the record having the largest point is transmitted to the terminal A (S22). The matching process is performed as described above.

  Returning to the description of FIG. In the above-described matching process (S201 and S202), the user setting database DB221 of the matching server 200 does not register user setting information that matches the program information received from the telephone terminal 300b. In step S14, it is determined that there is no record that matches the program information, and the process ends.

  Next, when the user of the telephone terminal 300a starts receiving television broadcasting using the operation unit 350 or changes the television channel, the television function unit 10 receives a program being received from the matching information transmitting unit 12. Notify information. The matching information transmitting unit 12 transmits “user matching information” including program information to the matching server 200 via the communication interface 330 (S210). The matching server 200 registers the received program information in the user setting database DB 221 (S211). Then, a record with matching program information is searched from the user setting database DB 221 (step S212). Here, since the telephone terminal 300b receives the same program as the telephone terminal 300a, the user information of the telephone terminal 300b is searched.

  Here, as shown in step S22 of FIG. 7, the control unit 210 of the matching server 200 transmits the “telephone number information” of the telephone terminal 300b to the telephone terminal 300a (S213).

  The automatic telephone connection unit 13 of the telephone terminal 300a notifies the Internet telephone unit 11 together with the Internet telephone connection instruction and the received “phone number information”. The internet telephone section 11 performs internet telephone connection processing for the telephone terminal 300b using the notified "phone number information" (S214). Then, the telephone terminal 300b also performs a connection process (S215), whereby the telephone terminal 300a and the telephone terminal 300b are automatically connected for a call.

  Through the above processing, the user of the telephone terminal 300a and the user of the telephone terminal 300b who are watching the same program can automatically make a voice call without performing any special operation on the telephone terminal 300. In addition, since the present invention can be implemented for any TV program, communication by voice call is realized not by a limited number of viewers watching a specific program but by an unspecified number of viewers. be able to. That is, even if the user does not actively want to talk to the person who is watching this program, the user can communicate with a large number of people by voice calls only by using the telephone terminal 300. This makes it possible to virtually create a situation where people gather on TV programs, for example, so that people gather in interesting places in the city, and can make TV viewing lively.

  In addition, the user simply installs predetermined software (a computer program for realizing the functions of the matching information transmission unit 12 and the automatic telephone connection unit 13) on a terminal such as a personal computer that has been used in the past. A voice call can be automatically made without any modification. It is not necessary to add special additional information to broadcast information for a broadcast apparatus that broadcasts television.

In FIG. 7, the value of the points to be added need not be limited to a single point, and the value of the points to be added may be changed for each condition. For example, if one point is added in step S17 of FIG. 7 and two points are added in step S19, the telephone terminal 300 to be connected can be determined with emphasis on the determination content of step S18. In this way, by appropriately setting the manner of giving points, it is possible to arbitrarily set what conditions are prioritized.
In the above embodiment, only the operation of the two telephone terminals 300, that is, the telephone terminal 300a and the telephone terminal 300b has been described. Of course, three or more telephone terminals 300 can be used. In this case, the same operation as described above is performed.

  6, the “telephone number information” of the telephone terminal 300b is transmitted to the telephone terminal 300a. However, the transmission destination of the “telephone number information” is not limited to this. For example, The “telephone number information” of the telephone terminal 300a may be transmitted to the telephone terminal 300b. Also in this case, when the telephone terminal 300b makes a voice call connection to the telephone terminal 300a, the telephone terminal 300a and the telephone terminal 300b can be automatically connected by voice call.

  Further, in the above embodiment, the desired connection partner is specified by setting “phone number information” in the “connection destination list” of the user setting information, but the method of specifying the connection partner is not limited to this, For example, a list of user IDs may be used. The user setting information may be provided with a “profile” field such as the user's age, sex, region, and the like, and a desired connection partner may be specified by specifying the type of the profile. In addition, a group name of users belonging to a predetermined community may be provided in advance, and the group name may be designated.

  It is also possible to provide a field indicating user information regarding the TV program to be viewed in the user setting information. For example, in the case of a soccer program, information such as whether to support “home” or “away” can be set, and the matching server 200 calculates the points of the retrieved records (step in FIG. 7). From S15 to S19), points may be calculated with reference to this information.

  By allowing the user to set the type and profile of the connection partner, the matching server 200 can search for a more appropriate connection partner and realize more comfortable communication.

  In this embodiment, the “user basic information” is transmitted to the matching server 200 using the telephone terminal 300a and the telephone terminal 300b. However, any means can be used as long as the “user basic information” can be transmitted to the matching server 200. It is also possible to register from another personal computer or a mobile phone terminal.

Also, the Internet telephone connection form used in the above embodiment may be a P2P (Peer to Peer) system, or may be via a dedicated server. The call connection format between the telephone terminals 300 may be any type. For example, an IP telephone using a unique IP communication network in a communication carrier as a midway network, or a public switched telephone network (PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Networks) may also be used.
In addition, a mobile phone may be used as the telephone terminal 300 to make a call connection using a mobile telephone network.

<Modification>
As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to embodiment mentioned above, It can implement with another various form. An example is shown below.
(Modification 1)
When the telephone terminals 300 make a call connection, a connection may be made through the proxy server without disclosing the “phone number information” of the telephone terminals 300.
FIG. 8 is an overall configuration diagram of a communication system according to a modification of the present embodiment. This embodiment is different from the above-described embodiment in that Internet telephone connection between the telephone terminals 300 is performed via the proxy server 400. Accordingly, although the stored contents of the user setting database DB 221 of the matching server 200 and the matching processing operation of the control unit 210 are different, the constituent elements and approximate processing of the matching server 200 and the telephone terminal 300 are the same as in the above embodiment. is there. Therefore, the following description will be made mainly on the differences from the above-described embodiment, and the same reference numerals will be given to the same components and processes as in the above-described embodiment, and the description thereof will be omitted as appropriate.

  The communication system shown in FIG. 8 is different from that shown in FIG. 1 in that a proxy server 400 is connected to the Internet 100, and other configurations are the same as those in FIG. The proxy server 400 is a server that connects a plurality of telephone terminals 300 to the Internet. Through the proxy server 400, the telephone terminal 300 can make an Internet telephone connection without disclosing its “phone number information” to the other terminal.

  The configuration of the matching server 200 is different from that of the above embodiment in that a field of “telephone number disclosure setting” is provided in the user setting database DB 221 and “phone number information” of the proxy server 400 is stored. Other configurations are the same as those shown in FIG.

  The user setting database DB 221 has a field of “telephone number disclosure setting” in addition to the fields shown in FIG. In the “telephone number disclosure setting” field, data (public / non-disclosure) indicating whether or not the user discloses his / her own “telephone number information” to the connection destination user is stored. This data is data included in the “user basic information” and is received from the telephone terminal 300 during the user basic information registration operation.

Next, the operation of the communication system according to this modification will be described. Similar to the operation shown in FIG. 6, this operation is roughly divided into a user basic information registration operation and a matching operation.
The basic user information registration operation is different from that shown in FIG. 6 in that the “user basic information” transmitted from the telephone terminal 300 to the matching server 200 includes the above-described “phone number disclosure setting” data. The other operations are the same as the operations shown in FIG.

  Next, the matching operation will be described. Here, the operation when the user of the telephone terminal 300b starts watching a certain program first, and then the user of the telephone terminal 300a starts watching the same program will be described. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a sequence of this operation. Here, a case where the “telephone number disclosure setting” of the telephone terminal 300b is set to “private” will be described.

  When the matching server 200 receives “user basic information” from the telephone terminal 300a, the matching server 200 performs matching processing (step S10 to step S21 in FIG. 7). Since this process is described above, the description thereof is omitted. Thereafter, the matching server 200 refers to the “telephone number disclosure setting” of the telephone terminal 300b from the user setting database DB221. When a value indicating “public” is set in this setting information, the same processing as in the above-described embodiment is performed. That is, the “telephone number information” of the telephone terminal 300b is transmitted to the telephone terminal 300a. Here, since this data is a value indicating “private”, the matching server 200 transmits the “telephone number information” of the telephone terminal 300a and the telephone terminal 300b to the proxy server 400 (S223) and the terminal The “phone number information” of the proxy server 400 is transmitted to 300a (S224). The terminal 300a makes an Internet telephone connection to the proxy server 400 (S225), and the proxy server 400 establishes a connection with the telephone terminal 300a and the telephone terminal 300b (S226).

  As a result, the user of the telephone terminal 300 does not set “phone number information” to be connected to the “connection destination list”, for example, and a voice call connection is made to an arbitrary telephone terminal 300. However, communication by voice call can be realized without disclosing its own “phone number information”.

(Modification 2)
The terminal information of the partner telephone terminal 300 matched by the matching server 200 may be stored as a log so that it can be referred to as desired by the user even after the call ends. In this case, when the user (matching partner) of the matched partner telephone terminal 300 rejects this, the reference may not be made. For example, in the first embodiment, a “connection history” field is provided in each record of the user setting database DB 221 of the matching server 200. When the telephone terminal 300a and the telephone terminal 300b make a voice call connection, the matching server 200 stores the “telephone number information” of the telephone terminal 300b in the “connection history” field of the record of the telephone terminal 300a. . As a result, the user of the telephone terminal 300a can refer to the “telephone number information” of the telephone terminal 300b even after the call ends, and can make a voice call connection with the user of the telephone terminal 300b as necessary. Become. When the user of the telephone terminal 300b thinks that the user of the telephone terminal 300a does not want to disclose “telephone number information”, the information to that effect is transmitted to the matching server 200, and the matching server 200 receives the information. Thus, the “telephone number information” of the telephone terminal 300b is deleted from the record of the telephone terminal 300a.

  Further, when the matching server 200 responds to the matching partner, the matching server 200 may count the number of responses and charge the user.

  Further, although the telephone terminal 300 according to the above-described embodiment includes the TV function unit 10 and the Internet telephone unit 11, the TV and the telephone may be separate.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the telephone call between telephone terminals 300 was made into the voice call, the telephone call form is not limited to this, A video telephone call may be sufficient. Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the television broadcast and the internet were linked, it is also possible to use a radio broadcast etc. besides a television broadcast. In the above embodiment, when the telephone terminal 300 receives the “phone number information” from the matching server 200, the connection is automatically made. However, the connection confirmation screen is displayed on the display unit 240 of the telephone terminal 300, and the connection is made. The user may be able to select whether or not to do so.

It is a whole communication system lineblock diagram concerning this embodiment. It is a hardware block diagram of a matching server. It is a data structure figure of a user setting database. It is a hardware block diagram of a telephone terminal. It is a block diagram which shows the function structure of a telephone terminal. It is a figure which shows the operation | movement sequence of a communication system. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of a matching server. It is a whole block diagram of the communication system which concerns on the modification of this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the operation | movement sequence of a communication system.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 200 ... Matching server (server apparatus), 300 ... Telephone terminal, 210 ... Control part (search means), 310 ... Control part, 220, 320 ... Storage part (storage means), 230, 330 ... Communication interface (Reception means, Transmission) Means), 240, 340 ... display unit, 250, 350 ... operation unit, 400 ... proxy server.

Claims (7)

Receiving means for receiving terminal information including a terminal identifier for identifying a terminal that is communicably connected via a communication network and a program identifier for identifying a broadcast program;
Storage means for storing a plurality of the terminal information;
When receiving the terminal information by the receiving means, search means for searching the storage means for terminal information having the same program identifier as the program identifier included in the received terminal information;
The terminal identifier included in the terminal information searched by the search means is transmitted to the terminal indicated by the terminal information received by the receiving means, or the terminal included in the terminal information received by the receiving means Transmitting means for transmitting the identifier to the terminal indicated by the terminal information searched by the searching means;
A server device comprising: Terminal information including a terminal identifier for identifying a terminal that is communicably connected via a communication network and a program identifier for identifying a broadcast program;
User information indicating predetermined information of the user of the terminal;
Receiving means for receiving
Storage means for storing the terminal information and the user information in association with each other;
When receiving the terminal information by the receiving means, search means for searching the storage means for terminal information having the same program identifier as the program identifier included in the received terminal information;
Priority order determining means for determining the priority order of the searched terminal information based on the user information when a plurality of terminal information is searched by the search means;
Based on the priority determined by the priority determining means, the terminal identifier included in the searched terminal information is transmitted to the terminal indicated by the terminal information received by the receiving means, or the reception Transmitting means for transmitting the terminal identifier included in the terminal information received by the means to the terminal indicated by the terminal information searched by the search means;
A server device comprising: It is communicably connected via a communication network with a proxy server having a calling means for making a voice call or a videophone call,
Terminal information that includes a terminal identifier that identifies a terminal that is communicably connected via the communication network, and a program identifier that identifies a broadcast program;
User information including public setting information indicating whether or not to disclose the terminal identifier of the terminal;
Receiving means for receiving
Storage means for storing the terminal information and the user information in association with each other;
When receiving the terminal information by the receiving means, search means for searching the storage means for terminal information having the same program identifier as the program identifier included in the received terminal information;
When at least one of the terminal information searched by the searching means or the public setting information corresponding to the terminal information received by the receiving means indicates non-public, a terminal identifier included in the searched terminal information; The terminal identifier included in the received terminal information is transmitted to the proxy server. Otherwise, the terminal identifier included in the terminal information searched by the searching unit is received by the receiving unit. Transmitting means for transmitting to the terminal indicated by the terminal information or transmitting the terminal identifier included in the terminal information received by the receiving means to the terminal indicated by the terminal information searched by the searching means When,
A server device comprising: Terminal information that includes a terminal identifier that identifies a terminal that is communicably connected via a communication network, and a program identifier that identifies a broadcast program;
User information including public setting information indicating whether or not to disclose the terminal identifier of the terminal;
Receiving means for receiving
A storage means for storing a terminal identifier of a proxy server having a calling means for performing a voice call or a videophone call, and storing the terminal information and the user information in association with each other;
When receiving the terminal information by the receiving means, search means for searching the storage means for terminal information having the same program identifier as the program identifier included in the received terminal information;
When at least one of the terminal information searched by the search means or the public setting information included in the terminal information received by the receiving means indicates non-public, the terminal indicated by the searched terminal information or received The terminal identifier of the proxy server is transmitted to at least one of the terminals indicated by the received terminal information. In other cases, the terminal identifier included in the terminal information retrieved by the retrieval unit is transmitted to the reception unit. Or the terminal identifier included in the terminal information received by the receiving means is transmitted to the terminal indicated by the terminal information searched by the searching means. Sending means to
A server device comprising: It is communicably connected via a communication network with a proxy server having a calling means for making a voice call or a videophone call,
A terminal identifier for identifying a terminal that is communicably connected via a communication network;
A program identifier identifying the broadcast program;
Device information including,
User information indicating predetermined information of the user of the terminal including public setting information indicating whether or not to disclose the terminal identifier of the terminal;
Receiving means for receiving
Storage means for storing the terminal information and the user information in association with each other;
When receiving the terminal information by the receiving means, search means for searching the storage means for terminal information having the same program identifier as the program identifier included in the received terminal information;
Priority order determining means for determining the priority order of the searched terminal information based on the user information when a plurality of terminal information is searched by the search means;
If at least one of the searched terminal information or the public setting information corresponding to the received terminal information is a value indicating non-disclosure, the search is performed based on the priority determined by the priority determining means. Transmitting means for transmitting the terminal identifier included in the received terminal information and the terminal identifier included in the received terminal information to the proxy server;
A server device comprising: The storage means stores a terminal identifier of a proxy server having a call means for performing a voice call or a videophone call,
The user information includes public setting information indicating whether or not to disclose the terminal identifier of the terminal,
The transmission means, when at least one of the searched terminal information or the public setting information corresponding to the received terminal information is a value indicating non-public, the priority order determined by the priority order determination means The server device according to claim 2, wherein a terminal identifier of the proxy server is transmitted to at least one of a terminal indicated by the searched terminal information or a terminal indicated by the received terminal information based on the information.   The server device according to claim 1, wherein the terminal identifier is a telephone number or an IP address.

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