JP2007188378A - Collectively received data display processor, collectively received data display processing program, and computer-readable recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To present richer information to a user by structuring a plurality of screens by collectively receiving data with a certain amount of information described. <P>SOLUTION: A mail receiving part 2 receives structured data, as one e-mail, including a plurality of display unit data as a unit for switching display on a display screen of the display device 6, and stores in a received mail storage part 3. A display data creating part 13 analyzes the structured data, and creates display data relating to the display unit data in accordance with a previously prescribed information display rule. A data display part 15 displays the display data on the display device 6. An input detection part 12 detects input from the input device 5, and selects the display unit data as a display object. Thereby, display can be switched. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a batch received data display processing device for displaying data received by a terminal having a communication function such as a portable terminal.

  There are devices that can acquire information using communication, such as personal computers and mobile phones. In these apparatuses, software such as an HTML browser and mail software that displays information acquired through communication is often used.

Further, in Patent Document 1 below, when a service process is executed by displaying a screen on a display unit and sequentially changing the screen, when the created display information and transition information are changed, the change work is performed. In order to make it easy to execute the process in a short time, the screen display on the display unit, the detection of the factors that cause the screen displayed on the display unit to transition, and the screen in the display unit that corresponds to the detected transition factor are displayed. A technology is described in which the main unit performs a transition, and an auxiliary device is provided separately from the main unit so that the auxiliary device creates display information such as display contents and transition information such as the screen number of the next screen. Yes.
JP-A-5-257670

  However, especially in a portable terminal or the like, information received by e-mail is limited in the number of characters and attached file size, and rich information other than text information cannot be displayed. In addition, since there is no method for displaying a screen having a complicated configuration that goes back and forth between a plurality of screens, it is necessary to terminate the mail display screen once when performing operations other than text information and attached file reference. For example, the email text is limited to the limited number of characters, and if a link for the network is specified in the text, communication is required to change the screen, and it is necessary to start the HTML browser (mobile version) .

  In addition, in order to change the screen in software such as an HTML browser, it is necessary to communicate sequentially via a wired or wireless network to acquire files sequentially. Furthermore, the user has to repeatedly select and display a file using an input device such as a mouse or a keyboard.

  Moreover, although the technology for easily creating transition information is described in Patent Document 1, the display of received data using communication, particularly the switching of the display of page information that is display unit data is efficiently performed. The technology to do is not considered.

  The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems, receives a group of information as a group, and receives each information included in the received information group without communicating with the outside each time. It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus that can change a screen and refer to it at any time.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides structured data including a plurality of display unit data (also referred to as pages) as a unit of display switching on a display screen of a display device by communication with the outside. Data receiving means for collectively receiving the data, data storage means for storing the received data, analyzing the structured data, and displaying data related to the display unit data in accordance with a predetermined information display rule Display data creation means for creating a display, data display means for displaying the created display data on a display device, and a display based on display data created by the display data creation means by detecting an input from the input device Input detection means for selecting unit data, and the display information can be changed by input from the input device. To.

  Further, when there is designation information for accessing an external information source using communication in the structured data, and the input detecting means detects an instruction for the designation information, the external data source is transmitted using communication. The information source may be provided with external information acquisition means for acquiring information from an external information source and causing the data display means to display the information on a display device.

  Further, by receiving and storing the structured data as an electronic mail, it is possible to easily receive the data and manage the received data.

  Further, the display data creation means includes a detailed information list creation means for analyzing the structured data and creating list information of display unit data included in the structured data, so that the user can easily input from the input device. The display information can be selected and the display unit data can be switched.

  FIG. 1 is a comparative explanatory view of the prior art and the present invention. Conventionally, for example, when information is acquired and displayed from the outside with a mobile phone, for example, as shown in FIG. 1A, an information acquisition request is sent to the external information server from the initial acquisition screen of the HTML browser (mobile version), The information acquired from the external information server was displayed on the screen. Each time the screen is switched, an information acquisition request is sent to the external information server, so communication takes place and it takes time to display the communication cost and information on the screen.

  On the other hand, in the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1B, a unit of information is collectively obtained and stored in a storage device. When switching the display information on the screen, instead of sending an information acquisition request to the external information server each time, select the information requested for display from the information group stored in the storage device. Display it on the screen. Therefore, the information group acquired in advance can be displayed by switching the screen display one after another without communication.

As described above, according to the present invention, a system capable of the following can be provided.
(1) A plurality of screens can be configured by collectively receiving data describing information, and richer information can be presented to the user.
(2) Furthermore, by attaching a link to a video to an image or a Web screen, more detailed information can be presented, and can be interactively displayed or deleted as necessary.
(3) In addition, the information provider can attach an image file or information regardless of the limitation of the receiving terminal, and can transmit more information in a lump and display it on the receiver's terminal.
(4) Files can be opened and screen transitions can be made with a simple input operation, eliminating the need for complicated input operations.

  Hereinafter, as an embodiment of the present invention, an example will be described in which an e-mail is used to acquire an information group that can be displayed with a screen transition. The following is an example, and it is also possible to implement the present invention by changing the data reception method and the screen transition method in accordance with the service and file structure.

  FIG. 2 shows a device configuration example according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a data processing apparatus having a CPU and a memory, specifically a mobile phone, a portable information device, a personal computer, and the like. Reference numeral 2 is a mail receiving unit, 3 is a received mail storage unit for storing received mails, and 4 is a general mail display control unit for controlling display of a general conventional electronic mail using existing mail software.

  A batch received data display control unit 10 includes a batch received data list creation unit 11, an input detection unit 12, a display data creation unit 13, an external information acquisition unit 14, and a data display unit 15. The display data creation unit 13 includes a display page creation unit 131 and a detailed information list creation unit 132.

  Reference numeral 5 denotes an input device such as a cursor key, various operation buttons or a mouse, 6 denotes a display device such as a liquid crystal display, 7 denotes a network for performing wired or wireless communication, and 8 denotes an information server such as a Web site.

  In the following, a normal e-mail conventionally used is referred to as a general mail, and a mail including an information group to be displayed according to the present invention is referred to as a batch received data mail. The mail text of the batch received data mail is called batch received data. Note that general mail and batch received data mail can be identified by header information or the like.

  The general mail and the batch received data mail are received by the mail receiving unit 2 and stored in the received mail storage unit 3 constituted by a nonvolatile memory. The general mail display control unit 4 displays a list of received mails stored in the received mail storage unit 3 on the display device 6 and further displays received mails selected from the list on the display device 6. The above general mail display control is the same as the conventional electronic mail display control.

  In the present embodiment, the batch received data display control unit 10 includes a software program called a metadata mailer agent (MMA) and its execution means. The batch received data list creation unit 11 in the batch received data display control unit 10 is a processing unit that creates a list of batch received data mails stored in the received mail storage unit 3. The input detection unit 12 is a processing unit that detects selection information input from the input device 5.

  The display data creation unit 13 is processing means for creating screen data to be displayed on the display device 6 based on the selection information detected by the input detection unit 12. In particular, the display page creation unit 131 is a processing unit that analyzes structured batch reception data and creates screen data of a display page corresponding to a Web page. The detailed information list creation unit 132 includes Processing to create a list of titles of display pages when there are multiple display page data corresponding to Web pages in the lower hierarchy of a display page in structured batch received data Means.

  When the selection information detected by the input detection unit 12 is, for example, a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) described in the currently displayed batch reception data, A processing means for accessing information server 8 which is an external information source via network 7 and acquiring information using communication when the specified information is for accessing an external information source using communication. is there.

  The data display unit 15 displays the list information created by the batch received data list creation unit 11, the display data created by the display data creation unit 13, or the information obtained by the external information acquisition unit 14 on the display device 6. Processing means.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of screen transition when the data processing apparatus 1 is a mobile phone. It is assumed that general mail and batch received data mail are already stored in the received mail storage unit 3. In FIG. 3, the screens P1 to P7, P10 to P13, and P20 to P24 surrounded by bold lines indicate ranges in which transition can be performed without new communication. Among the screens in this range, screens P10 to P13 and screens P20 to P24 in a range surrounded by a dotted line are screens that are displayed based on the data received as batch received data. Screens P30 and P40 are screens for displaying site information acquired by communication in response to an information acquisition request.

  When the mail button is pressed on the standby screen P1, the screen transits to the mailbox screen P2. When an inbox is selected on the mailbox screen P2, the screen transits to the inbox list screen P3. In each screen, the “return” button or the clear button is used to return to the previous screen or a specific screen. The same applies to the screens described below.

  When the menu button is pressed on the standby screen P1, the screen transitions to the menu screen P4. The menu screen P4 displays icons for using various functions of the mobile phone. When the mail icon is selected, the screen changes to the mailbox screen P2. When the icon is selected, the screen transitions to the software list screen P5.

  A list of various types of application software is displayed on the software list screen P5. When a metadata mailer agent (MMA) is selected here, a transition is made to the MMA menu screen P6. On the MMA menu screen P6, various menus such as “reception data display”, “favorite list”, “basic setting”, and the like are displayed. Here, when “display received data” is selected, the batch received data display control unit 10 is activated, and the received data list screen P7 is displayed. This is a display screen for list information of batch received data. The screen transition to the reception data list screen P7 can also be performed by selecting MMA on the reception box list screen P3. The screen transition between the screens P1 to P5 is the same as the screen transition in the conventional mobile phone.

  Here, it is assumed that a “travel guide” file and a “program guide” file have been received and stored in advance as the batch received data mail. These titles are displayed as list information on the received data list screen P7. When “Travel Guide” is selected, the screen P10 is displayed according to the structured data described in the “Travel Guide” file. When “Details” is selected in this screen P10, the travel guide is displayed. Transition to the detailed information list screen P11. In response to the selection on the detailed information list screen P11, screens P12 and P13 which are detailed information screens are displayed. In this example, a button for acquiring external information is provided on the hotel detailed information screen P13, and when this button is pressed, the information server is accessed by communication, and the screen P30 of the site information obtained therefrom is obtained. Is displayed.

  Similarly, when “program guide” is selected on the received data list screen P7, the program guide screen P20 is displayed according to the structured data described in the file, and the program viewing confirmation screen is displayed according to the selection information. P21, program detailed information list screen P22, related chapter detailed information screen P23, caster detailed information screen P24, etc. are displayed without new communication. Also, in this example, when the user confirms viewing on the program viewing confirmation screen P21, an access is made to the information server that delivers the content, and a transition is made to the video content playback screen P40.

  FIG. 4 shows a process flowchart of the batch received data display control unit 10. When the batch received data display control unit 10 which is a metadata mailer agent is activated, the batch received data list creation unit 11 is first called, and the batch received data list creation unit 11 is stored in the received mail storage unit 3. A list of batch received data mails is created (step S1). This list screen is displayed on the display device 6 via the data display unit 15 (step S2). Instead of displaying the list screen first, the latest batch received data mail (the last received time) may be automatically displayed as an initial menu.

  When there is an input from the input device 5, the input detection unit 12 analyzes the input information from the cursor position information on the screen when the input is made (step S3), and if it is an end instruction by a clear button or the like, The process of the batch received data display control unit 10 is terminated (step S4). If it is a “return” button, an instruction is given to the data display unit 15 to return to the previous screen stored in advance (step S5).

  If the input detection unit 12 analyzes the input information and the link information to the Web site is operated (step S6), the external information acquisition unit 14 is called. The external information acquisition unit 14 accesses a Web site (information server 8) that is an external information source using communication, acquires the requested external information (step S7), and displays the acquired external information as data. It passes to the part 15 and is displayed on the display device 6 (step S8).

  As a result of the input detection unit 12 analyzing the input information, if a request for displaying a detailed information list is made (step S9), the detailed information list creating unit 132 is called. The detailed information list creation unit 132 analyzes tags and the like of the batch received data, extracts structured detailed information, creates list screen data of the detailed information (step S12), and passes it to the data display unit 15 Is displayed on the display device 6 (step S13).

  If the input detection unit 12 analyzes the input information and it is selection information for a new screen (display page), it analyzes the tags of the batch received data and creates screen data for the display page (step S10). Then, the data is transferred to the data display unit 15 and a new page screen is displayed on the display device 6 (step S11). Thereafter, the process returns to step S3 and waits for input of the next selection information.

FIG. 5 shows a description example of batch received data. In the present embodiment, the batch received data is described in a page description language that describes structured data such as XML (extensible markup language). Note that FIG. 3 shows an example of a simplified description for easy understanding, but here, each tag has the following meaning.
<Overall> ... </ Overall>: Defines a page indicating the entire contents.
<Details> ... </ Details>: Defines detailed information pages.
<Title> ... </ title>: Defines the title of the page.
<Summary> ... </ Summary>: Defines a summary description of a page.
<Keyword> ... </ Keyword>: Defines a keyword for searching a page.
<Image>... </ Image>: Defines an image to be displayed in the page.
<Video> ... </ Video>: Defines the video to be displayed in the page.
<Relation> ... </ Relation>: Defines link information such as a URL for acquiring external information.
<Start Date / Time> ... </ Start Date / Time>: Defines the start date / time of the display expiration date.
<Limit> ... </ Limit>: Defines the display expiration date from the start date and time.
<NOx> ... </ NOx>: Defines the x-th page of detailed information.
In addition, various tags used in HTML or the like may be used.

  FIG. 6 shows a display example of batch received data. In this example, it is assumed that there are batch reception data files of album 1, album 2 and album 3 as the batch reception data mail, and album 3 is described by structured data as shown in FIG.

  When the metadata mailer agent is activated, a batch received data list screen P60 is created from the titles of the batch received data mails and displayed on the display device 6. When the user clicks on “Album 3”, the display page creation unit 131 creates the entire information display screen P61 from the data in the <whole> </ whole> tag shown in FIG. Is done. In this batch received data, the <Details> </ Details> tag exists after the <Overall> </ Overall> tags. Therefore, the “Details here” button is automatically displayed on the overall information display screen P61. Has been added.

  When the user clicks the “Click here for details” button, the detailed information list creation unit 132 creates the detailed information list screen P 62 and displays it on the display device 6. Here, there are two pages <NO1> and <NO2> in the <detail> </ detail> tag, and their respective titles are displayed.

  When the user clicks on the title “XXX station”, the display page creation unit 131 creates and displays a detailed information (NO1) screen P63. Since there is a next page in the detailed information page, place a Next button on the screen. When the user clicks this “next” button, the display page creation unit 131 creates and displays a detailed information (NO2) screen P64 which is the next page. On this screen P64, a “next” button for displaying the next page and a “previous” button for displaying the previous screen P63 are arranged. Also, since the link information to the Web site is designated by the <relation> </ relation> tag, a “→ click here for details” button is arranged.

  Up to this point, all the screens are displayed based on the collective reception data shown in FIG. 5 and the like, so that the screen does not change every time the screen is switched, and the screen changes quickly. When the user clicks the “→ Click here for details” button, the external information acquisition unit 14 accesses the website from the link information described in the <relation> </ relation> tag, acquires the site information, The related information screen P65 is created and displayed on the display device 6. The metadata mailer agent can transition from the related information screen P65 to a related information screen which is other external information by having a function similar to that of a conventional Web browser.

  In the above, an example in which the metadata mailer agent automatically arranged buttons for screen transition has been described. Of course, the creator of the batch reception data explicitly sets the button for screen transition between pages with a predetermined tag. It is possible to change the page to be displayed in the batch received data by describing the user and operating the button.

  In the above embodiment, the example in which the batch reception data is acquired in advance by e-mail has been described. However, the batch reception data may be acquired using communication such as the Internet. In this case, for example, a method of providing a button “collective reception” on the Web page and acquiring data by clicking this button can be used.

  The above process of displaying the batch received data can be realized by a computer and a software program, and the program can be provided by being recorded on a computer-readable recording medium or provided via a network. .

It is comparison explanatory drawing of a prior art and this invention. It is a figure which shows the apparatus structural example which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen transition. It is a process flowchart of a batch received data display control part. It is a figure which shows the example of description of collective reception data. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of collective reception data.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Data processor 10 Collective reception data display control part 11 Collective reception data list creation part 12 Input detection part 13 Display data creation part 131 Display page creation part 132 Detailed information list creation part 14 External information acquisition part 15 Data display part 2 Mail reception Section 3 Received mail storage section 4 General mail display control section 5 Input device 6 Display device 7 Network 8 Information server

Claims (6)

A batch received data display processing device having an input device and a display device,
Data receiving means for receiving structured data including a plurality of display unit data as a unit of display switching on the display screen of the display device as a single unit by communicating with the outside;
Data storage means for storing the received data;
Display data creation means for analyzing the structured data and creating display data related to the display unit data in accordance with a predetermined information display rule;
Data display means for displaying the created display data on the display device;
A batch received data display processing device comprising: input detection means for detecting an input from the input device and selecting display unit data that is a source of display data created by the display data creation means. In the batch received data display processing device according to claim 1,
In the structured data, when there is designation information for accessing an external information source using communication, and the input detection means detects an instruction for the designation information, the external information is obtained using communication. A collective reception data display processing device comprising external information acquisition means for accessing a source, acquiring information from an external information source, and causing the data display means to display the information on the display device. In the batch received data display processing device according to claim 1 or 2,
The batch received data display processing device, wherein the data receiving means is means for receiving the structured data as an e-mail. In the batch received data display processing device according to claim 1, claim 2 or claim 3,
The collective received data display processing device, wherein the display data creation means includes detailed information list creation means for creating a list information of display unit data included in the structured data. Computer
A batch received data display processing program for causing the batch received data display processing apparatus according to claim 1, claim 2, or claim 4 to function as each of the means. Computer
A computer-readable recording medium on which is recorded a batch received data display processing program for functioning as each of the means included in the batch received data display processing device according to claim 1, claim 2, claim 3 or claim 4.

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