JP2007219763A - Diary server and diary system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily send comments on diary articles by a few procedures. <P>SOLUTION: This diary server is provided with an electronic mail receiving part 207 for receiving electronic mail to be transmitted from communication terminals 300A, 300B and 300C through the Internet 110; a diary data management table 201 for storing diary articles sent by electronic mail; a reception electronic mail analyzing part 206 for analyzing the content of the received electronic mail, and for extracting diary data; a Message-id preparation part 205 for transmission for preparing the "Message-id" of electronic mail for notifying new contribution; a diary parent-child relation setting part 204 for retrieving parent data as comment origin articles from the diary data management table 201; and a reception diary information registration part 203 for registering comment data sent from a comment sender in the diary data management table 201. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a diary server that manages diary contents on a communication network and creates and publishes diary pages, and a diary system that enables posting of diary articles and posting of comments to diary articles using e-mail. .

  In recent years, an electronic diary service (blog) that manages diary contents and creates and publishes diary pages is increasing on a diary server on the Internet, which is a communication network (hereinafter simply referred to as “network”).

  As a diary system for performing this type of electronic diary service, a user of a service accesses a diary page by a WEB browser using a communication terminal, and is displayed on a display screen (hereinafter referred to as “display”) of the communication terminal. There is a blog system that can write diary articles and comments on pages.

  In addition, some diary systems that provide electronic diary services do not require access to the diary page with a WEB browser, but can send diary articles to a predetermined address (diary server address) by sending an e-mail containing the diary article to be posted. Some can be posted.

  In such a diary system, in general, a diary creator who opened a diary blog posts diary data in which diary articles are written to a network diary server (hereinafter, diary data in which diary articles are written). The person who posts "is also called" diary creator ").

  Diary contents composed of electronic data such as sentences, photos, videos, sounds, etc. posted by the diary creator are stored in a diary server on the network.

  Diary readers (diary founders and third parties) who want to view diary articles posted on the diary server are home PCs (Personal Computers) or mobile communication terminals such as mobile phones and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistance) (Hereinafter, these are simply referred to as “communication terminals”) to access the diary server on the network, and display the diary page of the diary content stored in the diary server on the display to browse the diary article.

  In addition, diary readers (mainly third parties) add opinions and impressions about diary articles posted by diary creators to the diary server by adding them as “comments” in the diary page that is displayed and viewed on the display. You can post (hereinafter, those who post such comments are also referred to as “comment authors”).

  The comment posted by the diary reader is stored in the diary server in association with the diary article posted by the corresponding diary founder, and is displayed on the display of the communication terminal that accessed the diary server to display the diary viewer or diary. Can be viewed.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a technique related to this type of diary server and diary system, an electronic picture diary creation apparatus that creates an electronic picture diary book with reduced user effort and a control method thereof are known (see Patent Document 1).

  In the electronic picture diary creation device and its control method described in Patent Document 1, electronic mail data including transmission date and time, image data, message data, and the like is transmitted from the camera-equipped mobile phone to the electronic picture diary creation device.

  The electronic picture diary creation device receives electronic mail data, extracts image data and message data from the received electronic mail data, and stores them in the electronic picture diary database corresponding to the sender of the electronic mail data.

  When there is a request for browsing the electronic picture diary, corresponding image data, message data, and the like are found, and web page data for displaying the electronic picture diary is generated.

  The generated web page data is transmitted to the client computer that requested the browsing, and is displayed as an electronic picture diary on the display screen of the display device of the client computer.

  Further, as a technique related to this type of diary server and diary system, an electronic diary device and an electronic diary storage method capable of easily creating diary data by transmitting a reminder mail are known (patent) Reference 2).

In the electronic diary device and the electronic diary storage method described in Patent Document 2, the reminder mail creating means for creating the reminder mail based on the diary theme designated by the diary creator and the reminder mail at the diary interval designated by the diary creator Reminder mail sending means for sending, diary mail extracting means for extracting diary mail from the received e-mail, diary creator related information relating diary creator, diary theme, diary interval, etc., prompting sentence data for sending and diary It adopts a configuration comprising diary mail storage means for storing mail and browsing control means for controlling browsing of diary mail via a telecommunication line.
JP 2003-173309 A JP 2003-345722 A

  However, in a diary system using a conventional diary server, when a diary viewer who has viewed a diary article posts a comment on a diary article posted by the diary creator, the comment poster uses the WEB browser of the communication terminal. I had to post comments using it.

  For this reason, in a diary system using a conventional diary server, a comment poster opens a WEB browser on a communication terminal, accesses a predetermined diary page of the diary server, searches for a diary article to be commented, and searches He was forced to write a comment on the diary page of the diary article, upload it to the diary server, and post the comment.

  In this way, in a diary system using a conventional diary server, it is necessary to take many steps when a comment poster posts a comment on a diary article posted by the diary creator. There was a problem that it took time and effort.

  In particular, in a diary system using a conventional diary server, when a comment is posted using a communication terminal such as a mobile phone or a PDA, the comment poster is more difficult because the display of the communication terminal is small and the user interface is poor. It was forced to take time-consuming work.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and can easily post a comment on a diary article with few procedures, and without using special software, an existing communication terminal held by a comment poster It is an object of the present invention to provide a diary server that can post comments using the e-mail software and a diary system using the diary server.

  In order to solve such a problem, the diary server of the present invention is a diary server that manages diary contents on a network and creates and publishes diary pages, and is an e-mail transmitted from a communication terminal via the network E-mail receiving means for receiving e-mail, diary data management table for storing diary information posted by e-mail from the communication terminal, and diary data management table by analyzing the contents of e-mail received by the e-mail receiving means Incoming email analysis means to extract diary information to be stored in email, outgoing Message-id creation means to create email "Message-id" to notify new posts, and comments posted by comment authors Date of searching parent data, which is an article that is a source of comments related to data, from the diary data management table It adopts a configuration comprising parent-child relationship setting means, and received diary information registration means for shaping comment data posted by a comment poster into a format for registering in the diary data management table and registering it in the diary data management table .

  According to the present invention, it is possible to easily post a comment on a diary article with few procedures. In addition, comments on diary articles can be posted using existing e-mail software held by the communication terminal of the comment contributor without using special software.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing the overall configuration of a diary system using a diary server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the diary system 100 includes a diary server 200, communication terminals 300A, 300B, and 300C, the Internet 110, and the like. Here, only three communication terminals 300A, 300B, and 300C are illustrated, but the number of communication terminals is not particularly limited, and the number of diary servers 200 and the number of accessable diary servers 200 are not limited. It goes without saying that the diary system 100 is composed of communication terminals.

  First, the configuration of the diary server 200 used in the diary system 100 will be described. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of only a main part of the diary server according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the diary server 200 includes a diary data management table 201, a diary public data creation unit 202, a received diary information registration unit 203, a diary parent-child relationship setting unit 204, a transmission message-id creation unit 205, a received electronic Mail analysis unit 206, email reception unit 207, diary post data analysis unit 208, WEB access unit 209, diary notification address management table 210, diary notification email creation unit 211, diary notification email destination deriving unit 212, email A transmission unit 213 is provided.

  In FIG. 2, a diary data management table 201 is a database that stores dates, contributors, parent-child relationships, texts, and the like that are diary information.

  The diary public data creation unit 202 converts the diary data into data (such as html data) for publishing to the communication terminals 300A, 300B, and 300C shown in FIG.

  The received diary information registration unit 203 formats post data (diary data and comment data) posted from the communication terminals 300A, 300B, 300C, etc. into a format to be registered in the diary data management table 201, and stores it in the diary data management table 201. sign up.

  The diary parent-child relationship setting unit 204 searches the diary data management table 201 for parent data related to comment data posted from the communication terminals 300A, 300B, 300C and the like. Here, the parent data refers to a diary article that is a source of a comment posted from the communication terminals 300A, 300B, 300C and the like.

  The message-id creation unit 205 for transmission creates an e-mail “Message-id” for notifying members of a preset group of the content of new post data posted by the diary creator.

  The received e-mail analysis unit 206 analyzes the content of the received e-mail and extracts diary data to be registered in the diary data management table 201.

  The e-mail receiving unit 207 receives e-mail from the network.

  The diary posting data analysis unit 208 analyzes the diary and comment posting data from the WEB browser of the communication terminals 300A, 300B, and 300C, and extracts the diary data to be registered in the diary data management table 201.

  The WEB access unit 209 receives a WEB access packet from the WEB browser of the communication terminals 300A, 300B, and 300C, and transmits a response packet to the communication terminals 300A, 300B, and 300C.

  The diary notification address management table 210 manages e-mail addresses of notification partners that notify the contents of newly posted diary articles by e-mail.

  The diary notification e-mail creating unit 211 creates an e-mail for notifying the contents of a newly posted diary article.

  The diary notification e-mail transmission destination deriving unit 212 derives an e-mail destination (transmission destination) for notifying the contents of the newly posted diary article, and registers the derived e-mail destination in the e-mail header.

  The e-mail transmission unit 213 transmits an e-mail to the network.

  Next, communication terminals 300A, 300B, and 300C that communicate with the diary server 200 in the diary system 100 will be described. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of only a main part of the communication terminal communicating with the diary server according to the embodiment of the present invention. The configuration shown in FIG. 3 is a configuration common to the communication terminals 300A, 300B, and 300C, and will be described here by taking the communication terminal 300A as an example.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the communication terminal 300A includes a display unit 301, an input unit 302, an email control unit 303, a received email storage unit 304, a new email header creation unit 305, a reply email header creation unit 306, and a transmission. An e-mail body creation unit 307, an e-mail transmission unit 308, and an e-mail reception unit 309 are provided.

  In FIG. 3, the display unit 301 includes a liquid crystal display and displays diary articles and comments on the screen.

  The input unit 302 creates a diary article posted by the diary creator or creates a comment by the comment author, a keyboard (in the case of a PC and a mobile communication terminal), a mouse (in the case of a PC), etc. Input means.

  The e-mail control unit 303 performs management such as classification, display, and deletion of e-mails received and transmitted. In addition, the e-mail control unit 303 also instructs creation of an e-mail to be received or transmitted.

  The received e-mail storage unit 304 includes a hard disk (in the case of a PC) and a memory (in the case of a PC and a mobile communication terminal), and stores the received e-mail.

  The new e-mail header creation unit 305 creates “From:”, “To:”, “Message-id:”, and the like, which are header parts of the e-mail to be transmitted.

  The reply e-mail header creation unit 306 creates “From:”, “To:”, “Message-id: / In-reply-to:”, etc., which are header parts of the e-mail to be sent as a reply.

  The transmission e-mail body creation unit 307 creates a “body” portion of the e-mail to be transmitted.

  The e-mail transmission unit 308 transmits an e-mail to the Internet 110 that is a network.

  The e-mail receiving unit 309 receives e-mail from the Internet 110 that is a network.

  Next, an outline of the diary system 100 shown in FIG. 1 will be described.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the diary server 200 of the diary system 100 is connected to the Internet 110, which is a communication network of the diary system 100, and manages diary contents and creates diary pages (displayed in html format). And make public.

  The communication terminal 300 </ b> A is a diary creator's mobile terminal, and has completed diary opening processing such as user registration in order to use the electronic diary service by the diary system 100.

  The diary creator's communication terminal 300A has a function that enables posting of diary articles to the diary server 200 only by transmitting an e-mail including diary data to a predetermined address.

  Thereby, the communication terminal 300A of the diary creator has the trouble of posting a diary article using a WEB browser as in the conventional diary system, that is, access to the diary page → jump to the diary writing page → diary data writing → diary The procedure such as data registration can be omitted.

  In FIG. 1, first, the communication terminal 300A of the diary creator creates a diary article to be posted, and transmits (posts) the diary data of the created diary article to the diary server 200 using electronic mail.

  The diary server 200 that receives the e-mail including the diary data of the diary article posted from the diary creator's communication terminal 300A is a member of a preset group (here, diary viewer's communication terminals 300B and 300C). In addition, the contents of the diary article posted from the communication terminal 300A of the diary creator are notified by a diary notification e-mail.

  The e-mail address of the member of the group that is the destination of the diary notification e-mail is stored in advance in the diary notification address management table 210 of the diary server 200.

  The diary notification e-mail transmitted from the diary server 200 stores the text of the diary article, the name and e-mail address as information of the diary creator who posted the diary article, and the posting date and time of the diary article. Yes.

  Thereby, the diary viewer of the communication terminals 300B and 300C that has received the diary notification e-mail notified from the diary server 200 can view the contents of the diary article posted by the diary creator from the received diary notification e-mail. it can.

  Here, for example, when the diary viewer of the communication terminal 300B browses the contents of the diary notification e-mail notified from the diary server 200 and posts a comment on the viewed diary article, The comment contributor performs a reply process to the diary notification e-mail including the diary article viewed by the e-mail software.

  In this reply process, the destination address is the diary server 200 and the transmission source address is the communication terminal 300B. Then, the comment contributor writes a comment to be posted in the body of the reply mail for the diary notification e-mail including the viewed diary article.

  The diary server 200 that has received a reply mail including a comment from the communication terminal 300B of the comment poster is associated with the diary article to which a comment is to be added, and the comment information from the comment poster is posted on the diary content and published on the Internet 110. To do.

  Next, the format of the diary page that the diary creator of the communication terminal 300A posts to the diary server 200 will be described. FIG. 4 is an image diagram showing a diary page posted to the diary server according to the embodiment of the present invention. However, the diary page 400 shown in FIG. 4 shows an example of an image, and the layout may be another layout by a diary creator's free expression method.

  The diary page 400 shown in FIG. 4 is a display image on the screen of the WEB browser, and a diary article posted by the diary creator using the mobile terminal 300A (hereinafter referred to as “terminal 1”) is framed. Enclosed in

  The contents of the diary article enclosed in the frame are: Index number (here, Index: 1), posting date (here: Date: July 1, 2005), contributor information (here: From: terminal 1 (user01 @ mail.com)), and the contents of the diary article (here, the text: I went to the sea). The content of the diary article is not limited to this, and a photo or a video may be used as the diary article.

  Also, newly posted articles (Index: 1 and Index: 4 here) 401 and 402, which are newly posted articles by the diary founder, are laid out so as to be positioned at the top of the section of the diary page 400. ing.

  Further, a comment 403 posted by a comment poster using the communication terminal 300B (hereinafter referred to as “terminal 2”) with respect to a newly posted article 401 is displayed in association with the newly posted article 401 (this is displayed). "Thread display").

  Further, in response to the comment 403 posted from the terminal 2, the comment 404 returned from the terminal 1 is displayed as a thread in association with the comment 403. Such thread display is an example of display, and any layout may be used as long as a newly posted article 401 and a comment 403 corresponding thereto are associated with a comment 403 and a comment 404 corresponding thereto.

  The diary server 200 manages a diary data management table 201 for associating e-mail including diary articles and comments with diary data in order to manage diary data. The diary server 200 manages the diary notification address management table 210 in order to notify the members of the group of information on the posted diary articles.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a diary data management table of the diary server according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a diary notification address management table of the diary server according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the diary data management table 201 includes “diary index”, “parent index”, “date”, “poster”, “reception message-id”, “transmission message-id”, and “reception in”. -reply-to "and" body "fields.

  In FIG. 5, “Diary Index” is a value uniquely indicating an article in the diary.

  “Parent Index” is a diary index value of a diary article to be commented. In the case of a diary article in which a value is not set for this “parent index”, it indicates that the posted diary article is a new posted article.

  “Date” indicates the posting date of the posted diary article. This is information shown in the “Date:” field of the e-mail in which the diary article is posted.

  “Contributor” indicates information of a diary creator (diary contributor) who has posted a diary article. This is information indicated in the “From:” field of the e-mail in which the diary article is posted.

  “Received Message-id” is information indicated in the “Message-id” field of the e-mail in which the diary article is posted.

  “Send Message-id” is information indicated in the “Message-id” field set in the diary notification e-mail for notifying the contents of the diary article. This “Message-id for transmission” is newly created when creating a diary notification e-mail.

  “Receive In-reply-to” is information indicated in the “In-reply-to:” field of the e-mail to which the diary article is posted. An e-mail without this “Received In-reply-to” indicates that the e-mail has a new diary article posted.

  “Body” indicates the content of the posted diary article.

  Note that “To:”, “From:”, “Message-id:”, and “In-reply-to:” are fields of a general e-mail header. “To:” is the e-mail address (destination) of the e-mail recipient. “From:” is the email address of the person who wrote the email (sender). “Message-id:” is a name given to the email so that there is no duplication around the world. “In-reply-to:” is information indicating the original e-mail when a reply is made.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 6, the diary notification address management table 210 includes fields of “Index” and “diary notification address”.

  In FIG. 6, “Index” is the index value of the recipient of the diary notification e-mail. “Diary notification address” is an e-mail address (destination) of the recipient of the diary notification e-mail.

  For example, the diary article located at the top of the division of the diary page 400 shown in FIG. 4 is a newly posted article 401, 402 because no value is set for “parent index”.

  Also, the comments 403 and 404 shown in FIG. 4 have a value set in “parent index”, and the comment 403 is associated with the newly posted article 401 having “index” set in “parent index”. 404 is associated with a comment 403 having “Index” set as “Parent Index”.

  Next, based on these things, the flow of transmission / reception of e-mail and update of diary data between the diary server 200 of the diary system 100 of this example and each of the terminals 1, 2 and 3 will be described. FIG. 7 is a sequence diagram showing a flow of e-mail transmission / reception and diary data update between the diary server and each terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  In the sequence diagram shown in FIG. 7, as shown in FIG. 4, terminal 1 (diary founder) posts a newly posted article 401, and terminal 2 posts a comment 403 to this newly posted article 401. Furthermore, the operation when the terminal 1 posts the comment 404 to the comment 403 of the terminal 2 is defined.

  In addition, the group that notifies the diary article information is assumed to be terminal 1 (diary creator), terminal 2, and terminal 3. The diary server 200 stores information on this group in advance.

  In FIG. 7, it is assumed that the terminal 1 of the diary creator has posted a new diary article to the diary server 200 by e-mail (step ST701).

  When the diary server 200 receives an e-mail including a diary article posted from the terminal 1 of the diary creator (herein, this is referred to as “diary article posting e-mail”), the contents are converted into a diary article (in html format). The processed diary article is registered in the received diary information registration unit 203 (step ST702).

  At this time, in the diary server 200, the e-mail addressed to the diary registration address has the e-mail address in the “From:” field belonging to the diary creator, and the “In-reply-to:” field is empty. It is determined that the e-mail for posting a diary article is a new article posting e-mail including a newly posted article.

  In addition, the diary server 200 stores the “Message-id” of the e-mail notifying the diary article to be commented in the “In-reply-to:” field in the e-mail that came to the diary registration address. Is determined to be a comment posting e-mail including a comment.

  Upon receiving the diary article posting e-mail, diary server 200 transmits the diary information to terminal 1, terminal 2, and terminal 3 that are members belonging to the group by diary notification e-mail (step ST703).

  At this time, the diary server 200 newly creates “Message-id (message-id for reception)” of the e-mail for posting the diary article. The diary server 200 also sends “Message-id (received Message-id [for example,“ aaa ”])” of the e-mail for posting the diary article and “Message-id” of the diary notification e-mail for notifying the members belonging to the group. id (Message-id for transmission [eg “AAA”]) ”is stored in the diary data management table 201 in association with each other. Here, the diary server 200 also stores the “date” and “poster” of the diary article posting e-mail together in the diary data management table 201.

  When the terminal 1, terminal 2, and terminal 3 that have received the diary notification e-mail from the diary server 200 want to post a comment on the diary article of the diary notification e-mail that has received the notification, a reply process is performed as necessary. Do.

  Here, it is assumed that a comment is posted to the diary article of the diary notification e-mail to which the terminal 2 has been notified, and the comment poster of the terminal 2 performs a reply process.

  As a reply process, the comment contributor's terminal 2 sets the “From:” address of the diary notification email that is the received mail to the “To:” of the comment posting email that is the reply mail. The “To:” address is stored in “From:” of the comment posting e-mail.

  Further, the terminal 2 of the comment poster stores the value of “Message-id:” of the diary notification email that is the received email in “In-reply-to:” of the email for comment posting that is the reply email. .

  The comment poster terminal 2 creates a new “Message-id:” and stores it in “Message-id:” of the comment posting e-mail, which is a reply mail.

  Further, the comment poster terminal 2 enters the comment article in the “text” of the comment posting e-mail as a reply e-mail using the attached e-mail software.

  Then, the comment poster terminal 2 transmits the comment posting e-mail created as described above to the diary server 200 (step ST704).

  Upon receiving the comment posting e-mail from the comment poster terminal 2, the diary server 200 processes the content as a comment (in html format or the like) and registers the processed comment in the received diary information registration unit 203.

  The diary server 200 also searches for the parent article (diary article to be commented) from the diary data management table 201 using the value of the field of “In-reply-to:” in the received comment posting e-mail as a key. To do. The parent article and the comment article are displayed in association with each other.

  Here, the article in which the value of the “In-reply-to:” field in the comment posting e-mail received from the terminal 2 matches the value of the “Message-id” in the diary data management table 201 is the parent article. It becomes.

  The diary server 200 registers the “diary index” of the parent article in the “parent index” of the diary data management table 201.

  The diary server 200 associates the comment 403 posted by the comment posting e-mail from the comment poster of the terminal 2 with the newly posted article 401 of the terminal 1 of the diary creator as shown in FIG. 400 is added (step ST705).

  Moreover, when the diary server 200 receives the comment posting e-mail from the comment contributor of the terminal 2, the diary server 200 is a member who belongs to the diary information to which the comment 403 posted from the terminal 2 is added, as in step ST703. A diary notification e-mail is transmitted to terminal 1, terminal 2, and terminal 3 (step ST706).

  Here, the terminal 1 that has received the diary notification e-mail from the diary server 200 performs a reply process to post a comment 404 to the comment 403 of the diary notification e-mail that has received the notification. Since the reply process of the terminal 1 is the same as the reply process of the terminal 2 described above, a description thereof is omitted here.

  Then, the terminal 1 as a comment poster enters the comment 404 in the “text” of the comment posting e-mail, which is a reply e-mail, and transmits (posts) it to the diary server 200 (step ST707). ).

  When the diary server 200 receives the comment posting e-mail from the terminal 1 as a comment contributor, the diary server 200 processes the content as a comment (in html format or the like) and registers the processed comment in the received diary information registration unit 203.

  Then, diary server 200 adds comment 404 posted by comment posting e-mail from terminal 1 to diary page 400 in association with comment 403 of terminal 2 as shown in FIG. 4 (step ST708).

  Moreover, when the diary server 200 receives the comment posting e-mail from the terminal 1, the diary information to which the comment 404 posted from the terminal 1 is added is added to the terminal 1 and the terminals which are members belonging to the group, as in step ST706. 2. Transmit to the terminal 3 by diary notification e-mail (step ST709).

  Next, diary article and comment posting processing operations in the diary server 200 shown in FIG. 7 will be described. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a post processing operation for diary articles and comments in the diary server according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 8, when the posting processing operation starts and the e-mail receiving unit 207 receives the e-mail (step ST801), the diary server 200 analyzes the received e-mail header by the received e-mail analyzing unit 206 ( Step ST802).

  Next, the received e-mail analysis unit 206 extracts the “text” of the diary article or comment posted from the received e-mail (step ST803). Also, the received e-mail analysis unit 206 extracts “poster” from “From:” of the received mail (step ST804).

  Diary server 200 derives the value of “Message-id for transmission” in transmission Message-id creation section 205 (step ST805).

  Next, diary server 200 determines whether or not there is a field “In-reply-to:” in the mail header of the received mail (step ST806).

  If there is an “In-reply-to:” field in the mail header of the received mail in step ST806, the received mail storing the “Message-id” of the e-mail notifying the diary article to be commented. Is determined to be a comment posting e-mail, and the processes of steps ST807 and ST808 are executed.

  On the other hand, if there is no “In-reply-to:” field in the mail header of the received mail and it is empty in step ST806, the e-mail address of “From:” of the received mail is that of the diary founder. Then, it is determined that it is a newly posted diary article posting e-mail, and the processing of step ST809 is executed after jumping to the processing of step ST807 and step ST808.

  In Step ST807, the “Received Message-id” field of the diary data management table 201 is searched using the value of the “In-reply-to:” field of the received mail as a key, and the corresponding “Diary Index” is derived. To do.

  In step ST808, the “diary index” derived in step ST807 is set in the “parent index” of the received post data by the diary parent-child relationship setting unit 204.

  In step ST809, a new entry is created in the diary data management table 201, and the posted content is registered.

  Next, the diary server 200 creates a diary notification e-mail including the set “text” and “message-id for transmission” in the diary notification e-mail creation unit 211 (step ST810).

  Diary server 200 searches diary notification address management table 210 and derives the mail transmission destination address of the diary notification e-mail created in step ST810 (step ST811).

  Thereafter, diary server 200 transmits a diary notification e-mail addressed to the address derived in step ST811 to the network (Internet 110) (step ST812), and ends the post processing operation of diary articles and comments.

  By the way, the diary server 200 in the diary system 100 of this example, like the conventional diary system, is a communication terminal having a function of accessing a diary server on a network using a WEB browser (hereinafter, this communication terminal is referred to as “terminal 4”). ")" Is used, the stored diary data can be browsed.

  As a result, the terminal 4 that has accessed the diary server 200 of the present example can browse and post diary articles and post and create comments using the same operation method as before.

  That is, the terminal 4 in the diary system 100 using the diary server 200 of the present example can operate a diary article posted by e-mail or a diary article posted from the WEB browser by an operation using the WEB browser as before. You can post comments.

  Further, in the diary system 100 using the diary server 200 of the present example, the terminal 1 can post a comment by a comment posting e-mail to a comment posted by the terminal 4 via the WEB browser.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a diary data management table when a diary article or comment is posted via a WEB browser in the diary server according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 9, the column “diary index = 2” of the diary data management table 201 shows a case where the terminal 4 posted a comment via the WEB browser.

  As shown in the column “Diary Index = 2” in FIG. 9, when the terminal 4 posts a comment via the WEB browser, a unique “Message-id for transmission” (BBB) is created to manage the diary data. The data is stored in the table 201. In this case, “Receive Message-id” and “Receive In-reply-to” do not exist.

  Next, when the terminal 4 accesses the diary server 200 of the present example via the WEB browser to read and post the diary article, the e-mail of the diary server 200 and each terminal 1, terminal 2, and terminal 4 is sent. A flow of transmission / reception and update of diary data will be described. FIG. 10 is a sequence diagram for explaining the linking operation between the diary server and the terminal accessed via the WEB browser according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  In the sequence diagram shown in FIG. 10, the terminal 1 (diary creator) posted a new posted article, and the terminal 4 viewing the newly posted article via the WEB browser receives the new posted article via the WEB browser. An operation when a comment is posted and the terminal 1 returns a comment to the comment posted by the terminal 4 is defined.

  In addition, the groups that notify the diary article information are the terminal 1 (diary creator) and the terminal 2. The diary server 200 stores information on this group in advance.

  In FIG. 10, it is assumed that the terminal 1 of the diary creator has posted a new diary article to the diary server 200 by e-mail (step ST1001).

  When the diary server 200 receives an e-mail for posting a diary article including a diary article posted from the terminal 1 of the diary creator, the diary server 200 processes the contents as a diary article (in html format or the like) and receives the processed diary article. Registration is performed in the diary information registration unit 203 (step ST1002).

  At this time, in the diary server 200, the e-mail addressed to the diary registration address has the e-mail address in the “From:” field belonging to the diary creator, and the “In-reply-to:” field is empty. It is determined that the e-mail for posting a diary article is a new article posting e-mail including a newly posted article.

  In addition, the diary server 200 stores the “Message-id” of the e-mail notifying the diary article to be commented in the “In-reply-to:” field in the e-mail that came to the diary registration address. Is determined to be a comment posting e-mail including a comment.

  Upon receiving the diary article posting e-mail, diary server 200 transmits the diary information to terminal 1 and terminal 2, which are members belonging to the group, by diary notification e-mail (step ST1003).

  At this time, the diary server 200 newly creates “Message-id (message-id for reception)” of the e-mail for posting the diary article. The diary server 200 also sends “Message-id (received Message-id [for example,“ aaa ”])” of the e-mail for posting the diary article and “Message-id” of the diary notification e-mail for notifying the members belonging to the group. id (Message-id for transmission [eg “AAA”]) ”is stored in the diary data management table 201 in association with each other. Here, the diary server 200 also stores the “date” and “poster” of the diary article posting e-mail together in the diary data management table 201.

  Here, the terminal 4 accesses the diary server 200 via the WEB browser, browses the diary article posted by the terminal 1 (step ST1004), and the terminal 4 posts a comment via the WEB browser to the viewed diary article. (Step ST1005).

  In this case, the terminal 4 as a comment contributor accesses the comment addition page for the diary article on the diary WEB site of the browsing terminal 1 of the diary server 200 and writes a comment to be posted on the accessed comment addition page.

  The diary server 200 processes the content written in the comment addition page by the terminal 4 as a comment poster as a comment (in an html format or the like), and associates the processed comment with the newly posted article of the terminal 1 that is the diary creator. Are additionally registered in the received diary information registration unit 203 (step ST1006).

  Then, as in step ST1003, diary server 200 transmits the diary information to which the comment posted from terminal 4 has been added to terminal 1 and terminal 2 that are members belonging to the group by diary notification email (step ST1007). ).

  Here, the terminal 1 that has received the diary notification e-mail from the diary server 200 performs a reply process in order to add a new comment to the comment of the terminal 4 of the diary notification e-mail that has received the notification. . Since the reply process of the terminal 1 is the same as the reply process of the terminal 2 shown in FIG. 7, the description thereof is omitted here.

  Then, the terminal 1 as a comment poster enters the comment 404 in the “text” of the comment posting e-mail, which is a reply e-mail, and transmits (posts) it to the diary server 200 (step ST1008). ).

  When the diary server 200 receives the comment posting e-mail from the terminal 1 as a comment contributor, the diary server 200 processes the content as a comment (in html format or the like) and registers the processed comment in the received diary information registration unit 203.

  Then, diary server 200 adds the comment posted by the comment posting e-mail from terminal 1 to the comment addition page for the diary article on diary WEB site of terminal 1 in association with the comment of terminal 4 (step ST1009).

  Next, the diary article and comment posting processing operation of the diary WEB site in the diary server 200 shown in FIG. 10 will be described. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing post processing of diary articles and comments on the diary WEB site in the diary server according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 11, the diary server 200 starts posting processing operation, and when the diary article or comment post data accessed via the WEB browser is acquired by the WEB access unit 209 (step ST1101), the diary post data analysis unit 208 Then, “text” is extracted from the acquired post data (step ST1102). Further, “poster” is extracted from the obtained post data by diary post data analysis unit 208 (step ST1103).

  Then, diary server 200 derives the value of “message-id for transmission” in transmission message-id creating section 205 (step ST1104), and determines whether the posted data is comment data (step ST1105). .

  If the posted data is comment data in step ST1105, the diary parent-child relationship setting unit 204 derives “parent index” from the posted data (step ST1106).

  Then, a new entry is created in the diary data management table 201 by the diary public data creation unit 202, and the posted content is registered (step ST1107).

  On the other hand, if the posted data is not comment data in step ST1105, the process of step ST1106 is jumped, and the process of step ST1107 is immediately executed.

  Next, the diary server 200 creates a diary notification e-mail including the set “text” and “message-id for transmission” in the diary notification e-mail creation unit 211 (step ST1108).

  Diary server 200 searches diary notification address management table 210 and derives the address of the mail transmission destination of the diary notification e-mail created in step ST1108 (step ST1109).

  Thereafter, the diary server 200 transmits a diary notification e-mail addressed to the address derived in step ST1109 to the network (Internet 110) (step ST1110), and ends the post processing operation of diary articles and comments.

  As described above, when a diary article is posted, the diary server 200 in the diary system 100 of the present example sends the contents of the diary article by e-mail to a predetermined viewer (a person who is a target for a comment “diary contributor”. ”), And the viewer (comment author) simply enters a comment in the received e-mail and sends it back to create the diary page 400 in which the comment is given to the contents of the diary article. Is possible.

  Therefore, a comment contributor who uses the diary system 100 of this example can post a comment on a diary article simply by filling in the received e-mail and replying by e-mail. It does not take.

  In addition, a comment contributor who uses the diary system 100 of the present example can post a comment using existing e-mail software preinstalled in the communication terminals 300A, 300B, and 300C. There is no need to install new software.

  As described above, in the diary system 100 of the present example, functions such as posting and browsing diary articles and adding comments by a conventional WEB browser can be realized by a simple operation by e-mail.

  The diary server according to the present invention can easily post a comment on a diary article with a few steps, and a comment on the diary article can be posted on the existing communication terminal held by the comment poster without using special software. Since you can post using e-mail software, you can manage diary contents on the communication network, create a diary page and publish it, and post diary articles using e-mail and comments on diary articles It is useful as a diary system that enables posting.

Schematic sectional view showing the overall configuration of a diary system using a diary server according to an embodiment of the present invention. The block diagram which shows the structure of only the principal part of the diary server which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. The block diagram which shows the structure of only the principal part of the communication terminal which communicates with the diary server which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. The image figure which shows the diary page contributed to the diary server which concerns on one embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the diary data management table of the diary server which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the diary notification address management table of the diary server which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. The sequence diagram which shows the flow of transmission / reception of e-mail with the diary server and each terminal which concerns on one embodiment of this invention, and the update of diary data The flowchart which shows the posting processing operation of the diary article and the comment in the diary server which concerns on one embodiment of this invention The figure which shows the diary data management table at the time of posting a diary article and a comment via a WEB browser in the diary server which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. The sequence diagram for demonstrating cooperation operation | movement with the terminal accessed via the diary server and WEB browser which concerns on one embodiment of this invention The flowchart which shows the posting processing operation | movement of the diary article and comment of the diary WEB site in the diary server which concerns on one embodiment of this invention.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Diary system 110 Internet 200 Diary server 201 Diary data management table 202 Diary public data creation part 203 Reception diary information registration part 204 Diary parent-child relation setting part 205 Message-id creation part for transmission 206 Received e-mail analysis part 207 E-mail receiving part 208 diary posting data analysis unit 209 WEB access unit 210 diary notification address management table 211 diary notification email creation unit 212 diary notification email destination deriving unit 213 email transmission unit 300A, 300B, 300C communication terminal 301 display unit 302 input unit 303 Email control unit 304 Received email storage unit 305 New email header creation unit 306 Reply email header creation unit 307 Send email body creation unit 308 Email send unit 309 Electronic Mail receiver 400 Diary page 401, 402 Newly posted article 403, 404 Comment

Claims (5)

A diary server that manages diary content on the network and creates and publishes diary pages,
E-mail receiving means for receiving an e-mail transmitted from a communication terminal via the network;
A diary data management table for storing diary information posted by e-mail from a communication terminal;
Received e-mail analyzing means for analyzing the contents of the e-mail received by the e-mail receiving means and extracting diary information for storage in the diary data management table;
Message-id creation means for sending to create a message-id for emails notifying new posts,
A diary parent-child relationship setting means for searching parent data, which is an article that is a source of a comment related to comment data posted from a comment poster, from the diary data management table;
A diary server comprising: received diary information registration means for shaping comment data posted from a comment poster into a format for registering in the diary data management table and registering it in the diary data management table.   When the diary article or the e-mail in which the diary information is written is received, the diary notification e-mail or the comment in which the diary article is written is notified to a predetermined member registered in advance. The diary server according to claim 1, wherein the message-id of the written comment notification e-mail and the diary article are associated and stored in the diary data management table.   The association between the comment for the diary article and the diary article is performed with reference to the value of message-id and in-reply-to in the e-mail header of the e-mail received by the e-mail receiving means. Diary server. A diary system that creates a diary article using e-mail and creates a comment on the diary article using a diary server and a communication terminal having an e-mail transmission / reception function and a web browsing function,
The diary server includes an e-mail receiving unit that receives an e-mail transmitted from a communication terminal via the network, a diary data management table that stores diary information posted by e-mail from the communication terminal, and the e-mail Analyzing the contents of the email received by the receiving means and extracting the received email analysis means for extracting the diary information to be stored in the diary data management table, and creating the “Message-id” of the email notifying the new posting A message-id creation means for sending, a diary parent-child relationship setting means for searching parent data that is an article that is a source of a comment related to comment data posted by a comment author, from the diary data management table, and a comment Formatting comment data posted by contributors into a format for registering in the diary data management table Diary system comprising a receiving diary information registration means for registering the diary data management table. A comment creating method for creating a diary article using e-mail and creating a comment on the diary article by a diary server and a communication terminal having an e-mail transmission / reception function and a web browsing function,
The diary creator's communication terminal sends the created diary article to the diary server by e-mail to post the diary article,
A diary in which the diary server notifies the diary article posted from the diary creator's communication terminal in the diary posting step to the communication terminal of a registered group of a predetermined member registered in advance by a diary notification email. A notification step;
The communication terminal of the registered group notified of the diary article from the diary server in the diary notification step transmits a comment created for the diary article to the diary server by a comment notification email. A comment posting step to post,
A comment creating method comprising: a comment adding step in which the diary server to which the comment is posted from the communication terminal of the registered group in the comment posting step associates the comment as a comment corresponding to the diary article.

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