JP2008027285A - Web font server system and method for preparing or retrieving web font document using user definition character - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prepare and retrieve an Asian web font document using non-system Asian characters. <P>SOLUTION: This web font server system comprises: a distributing means for mutually connecting a web font server and a user's computer through the Internet in a communicable way and distributing a user interface display screen for a computer user to input a user definition character code from the web font server to the user's computer; a receiving means for receiving the user definition character code transmitted from the user's computer to the web font server; a retrieving means for retrieving a web font document stored in a web server according to the character code; and a transmitting means for transmitting to the user's computer a web font document retrieved through a web font browser that can browse a web font document. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a web font server system and method for online creation or retrieval of web font documents using Asian characters defined by a user.

  The Internet browser is widely used for searching and displaying an HTML-format electronic document from "World-Wide-Web" which is a part of the Internet.

  “World-Wide-Web” of the Internet is a collection of computer servers (also referred to as web servers) on the Internet, and HTML documents that can be publicly accessed by computer users via the Internet network. Is stored.

  When a computer user connects to the Internet, the user can browse and search a web page document on a web server by a browser program (hereinafter simply referred to as a browser). The user can input the name of a web page called URL (Uniform Resource Locator) in order to specify a specific site or a specific file on the search page of the browser.

  When a web page document represented by an HTML file is retrieved, the browser translates the HTML file and displays the document on the display so that the computer user can view it.

  The browser draws the text contained in the document and translates the downloaded HTML file and selects the appropriate font data to display the document on a monitor screen or other display device. The browser displays text by drawing strokes and glyphs of characters and symbols based on font data designated by the text in the HTML document.

  If there is no text font in the downloaded document, the browser selects and displays the default font instead of the (specified) font.

  However, if the web page document contains user-defined characters or non-system characters (meaning characters that do not exist in your computer; the same applies below), the browser will recognize the character code. The character is invalid, and a blank is displayed where it should be.

  This is often the case in Oriental languages, especially as Asian documents require user-defined characters in names. Because Asian characters are composed of several ideographic symbols, the composition of these symbols can be expressed freely. This causes many user-defined characters belonging to non-system characters that cannot be recognized by a normal browser.

Japanese Patent Application No. 2005-192393

  The same inventor as the present invention has already proposed a web font browser for browsing Asian documents containing user-defined characters having font faces that are not provided in the user's computer, and has applied for a patent in Japan. (Patent Document 1), the web font browser disclosed in the previous application can only browse Asian documents containing user-defined characters, and defines its own non-system characters used for web page documents It cannot be used. For example, it is not possible to create a personal record in which a non-system character name is entered in the web page document, or to search a web page document using a non-system character as a keyword.

  As described above, a web font server that provides a web font browser capable of creating or retrieving Asian web font documents using expanded or newly created characters--that is, non-system Asian characters that are not installed on the user's computer There is a need for a system and method, and the present invention has been made to provide a web font server system and method for creating or retrieving a web font document using user-defined characters in response to such a request. is there.

The object of the present invention is to provide a user interface display screen on which a web font server and a user's computer are connected to each other via the Internet so that the computer user can input a user-defined character code. A web font server system for performing an online search for Asian web font documents written in user-defined characters using an interactive program.
Distributing means for distributing the user interface display screen for inputting a user-defined character code by the computer user from the web font server to the user's computer, and a user definition transmitted from the user's computer to the web font server. A web font document stored in a web server connected to the web font server and receiving means for receiving a character code, wherein each text character in the document is expressed in a web font data format, A search means for searching; and an internet web font browser for a user to browse the document, wherein the web font document searched through the internet web font browser capable of browsing the web font document is the user And transmitting means for transmitting to the computer is accomplished by having the.

The present invention uses a web font server system in which a web font server and a user's computer are connected to be able to communicate with each other via the Internet, and a web font document including user-defined Asian characters is browsed online by a web font browser. Or, regarding the method of performing a search, the above object of the present invention is to
Obtaining a request message of a computer user; obtaining a web page document from the web server connected to the web font server via the Internet; and translating the web font browser in the user computer. Displaying a page document; sending a user interface display screen including the software input screen of Asian characters from the web font server to the user computer via the Internet; and input from the user interface display screen Obtaining a user-defined character code by an interactive program installed in the web font server; and the software by the interactive program Converting the user-defined characters into a web font data format together with an input screen; displaying the user interface display screen and the web page document on a monitor screen of the user computer by translation of the web font browser; A step of detecting a click signal of an icon clicked by the computer user by the interactive program; a keyword search of a web page document using a user-defined character; or a user-defined character in an appropriate part of a downloaded web page document. And executing the form registration by filling in with a web font browser, and displaying the retrieved web page document or the form registered web page document by a web font browser, The browser is achieved by a method which is characterized in that it is possible to browse the web font-based HTML files.

  Also, the above object of the present invention. Effectively, the method comprises the step of embedding all of the web page document, the software input screen and the user interface display screen as an HTML file before being sent to the web font browser for viewing or searching. Achieved

  According to the present invention, it is possible to create or search an Asian web font document using extended or newly created characters, that is, non-system Asian characters that are not installed on the user's computer.

  The present invention provides a network system and method for creating or retrieving web page documents using non-system Asian characters defined by a computer user. As described in the previous application (Patent Document 1), the web page document is configured as a web font document. However, the web page document is expressed as a web font-based HTML file stored in the web server or the web font server. It is what is done.

  As in the case of the previous invention, the web font server system of the present invention is a web font server (24) connected to a web server (21) that handles messages transmitted from a user's computer (28) via a network. It has. The present invention expands the possibilities of the previous web font server system, allowing a computer user at a remote site to key in user-defined or non-system Asian characters in a web page document, An interactive program for searching used web page documents is provided. Basically, the web font server system of the present invention has the same configuration as the web font server system in the previous application, and the web font server is an external character font located at a remote site via a public data line (for example, the Internet). It is also connected to the server. Therefore, any user-defined Asian characters can be obtained from the external character font server. Thus, in the present invention, all non-system Asian characters expressed in web font can be obtained from the web font server.

  In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the web font server 24 includes a web font file management system 60 that runs a web font data manipulation program that manages the installation and operation of files. Files included in the web font file management system 60 include character codes for input methods corresponding to Asian characters, font data corresponding to Asian characters, input methods for Asian characters, user interface display screens corresponding to each input method, and It is a dynamic link library (DLL file) for installing and operating those files. All files are expressed in the HTML format, and each HTML file has a header part and a body part. The body portion of the HTML file includes data including instructions, tags, codes, and search strings necessary to enable the browser to translate the HTML file.

  According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for creating a web font document using user-defined Asian characters online first obtains a message sent from the user's computer, and the request is sent to the web page document by the user. If the request is to enter Asian characters in the definition, the following process is started. This process downloads the desired web page document for the user to enter Asian characters where appropriate in the document, and if the Asian character is a non-system character, the user When a character input code is entered, the code is loaded into the web font server and the corresponding character is searched and displayed on the monitor screen of the user computer so that the user can select the desired character. Download the screen to the monitor screen of the user computer.

  Once all the characters to be entered are keyed, these characters are used to fill in the web page document or retrieve the associated web page document where user-defined characters are used Used as a keyword for

According to another aspect of the present invention, a web font browser for searching user-defined characters online performs the following (1) to (3).
(1) Respond to user requests including sending user-defined Asian character input requests to the web font server.
(2) A software input screen (emulated keyboard) for interactively inputting user-defined characters is received from the web font server and displayed.
(3) An interactive input screen and / or a web font document is displayed on the monitor screen of the user computer.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a web font server system according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the web font server 24 is connected to the web server 21 and acquires a message sent from the PC user via the web server 21. The contents of a message sent by a PC user through an Internet browser typically include browsing a web page document, downloading a web page document, keying characters and / or data into the downloaded web page document, and various tasks. An icon click signal to execute is included. Asian web page documents may require the input of non-system characters from the user's computer. For example, a web page document form for membership registration requires the user to enter his / her name, which includes non-system characters, i.e. characters that do not exist on the user's computer. is there. In such a case, this task cannot be executed by a conventional method using an Internet browser. To do this online with an internet browser, two tasks are required: One can browse web page documents containing user-defined characters that are not defined in the user's computer system, and the other is to key in user-defined characters in the web page document being viewed and It can be displayed on the screen of the user's computer.

  In the previous application (see Patent Document 1), the present inventor has proposed a system for online browsing of web page documents in which user-defined characters are used. In the above invention, a web font server system for converting a web page document into a document based on web font data is proposed. As a result, the web font document is a web font browser for browsing a document containing non-system characters. Can be translated.

  The present invention adopts the same web font server system, but has a new configuration for searching non-system characters online and an extended function including an extended web font browser for displaying the results searched online. ing. As described below, the web page document stored in the web server 21 is referred to as a reconstructed web font document.

  In one preferred embodiment of the present invention, a web font file management system 60 (software) for manipulating web font data files is installed in the web font server 24 of FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, the web font data manipulation program manages the installation and use of each file necessary for online search for non-system characters.

  Each of these files has a character input code for input methods that support Asian characters (external characters), font types for external characters, Asian character input methods according to user preferences, and software input screens that support each character input method. A user interface display screen including a dynamic link library (DLL file) for various function calls is included.

  Referring to FIG. 1, the operation scenario of this system is as follows. A computer user browses a web page document for member registration downloaded from a web server 21 connected to a network (Internet). When a computer user needs to key non-system characters into the web page document, the user requests the web font server 24 to send a user interface display screen for entering non-system characters. Click on the icon (440 in FIG. 4).

  Accordingly, the web font server 24 sends a user interface display screen for character input including a software input screen for the user to key in the non-system character code and a display area for displaying the input result.

  The user interface display screen for inputting characters is translated by the web font browser 28 of the present invention and displayed on the monitor screen 15 of the user computer. The input character code (for example, the number of strokes) input by the key is taken into the web font data operation program (FIG. 2) installed in the web font server 24 and processed.

  The web font data operation program searches the web font database 26 for all characters or conversion candidate characters corresponding to the input character code. The processed result is embedded as an HTML file and sent to the user computer via the network.

  The web font browser 28 translates the received HTML file and displays the translated result on the monitor screen 15. The user interface display screen disappears from the monitor screen 15 when the input of non-system characters is completed. In other words, the web font file management system installed in the web font server 24 allows the PC user at the remote site to browse web page documents, download web page documents, enter non-system characters, The input results can be viewed and the desired non-system characters can be keyed into the web page document downloaded by the web font browser of the present invention.

  Hereinafter, how the web font data operation program operates to complete the above-described process will be described with a specific example.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the web font data operation program starts with a message from the user PC that the web font server 24 requests download of a web page document for Asian character input such as the member registration form shown in FIG. When it is received (step S31), its operation becomes active (Yes in step S32).

  The web page document for membership registration is already in the format of web font data, and has the HTML format as shown in the following formula 1 (the formula 1 shows only the portion related to the character information).

  The HTML file is translated by a web font browser and displayed as a web page document as shown in FIG. As shown in step S33 of FIG. 3, the PC user starts key input of desired Asian characters (including external characters). If the characters to be input belong to the characters (characters in the PC from the beginning) provided by the system such as the two characters 401 ("Yoshida") shown in 401 of FIG. Characters are directly input from the PC keyboard 10 (see FIG. 1) according to the input method provided by the PC system (step S34). If the character to be input is a non-system character such as 402 in FIG. 5, the user clicks the icon 440 shown in FIG. 4 to enter the user-defined character online input mode (step S35).

The web font data manipulation program sends a user interface display screen including a software input screen (in this example, the stroke number input screen 450), and is displayed in front of the web page document as a new window for non-system character (external character) input. It is displayed (see step S36, FIG. 5). In addition to the stroke number input screen, the user interface display screen window also has a display area 460 for displaying conversion candidate characters having the same stroke number. In this example, a character conversion candidate whose number of strokes to be input at position 402 is “6” is displayed. (To be more specific, when “6” is entered in the stroke number input area and the search button below is clicked, the external characters of the stroke number 6 are retrieved and the conversion candidate characters are displayed in the display area 460.)
Next, as shown in FIG. 5, the user selects a character to be input at a predetermined position 402 of the web page document. The selected character is displayed at a predetermined position (step S37). The input result is shown in FIG. The HTML file of this web page document (FIG. 6) is expressed by the following formula 2 (only the character information related part is shown).

  As shown in step S71 of FIG. 7, the user interface display program of the web font data operation program receives the stroke number data (here, “6”) input by the user (actually selected from the pull-down menu). In step S72, the web font data operation program receives stroke number information. In step S73, the corresponding conversion candidate character is searched based on the stroke number information. In step S74, conversion candidate characters are collected and embedded as a set of character codes in the form of web font data. The character code set embedded in the user interface display program is defined in an HTML file that can be translated by the web font browser 28. In step S75, the character code set is sent to a user interface screen display program for linking with the display area 460. The result is the HTML file shown below.

  Next, this HTML file is sent to the user's computer via the Internet (step S76). In step S77, the web font browser installed on the user's computer translates the character code set and displays the conversion candidate characters in the display area 460.

  In FIG. 3, when all the characters to be input are input to appropriate portions of the web page document, in step S38, the user interface screen display program displays an icon made by the user ("Send" button in FIG. 6 or FIG. 8). Get the click signal. As shown in step S39, if the task is for membership registration, the web font server 24 sends the completed web page document using user-defined characters to the web server 21. Similarly, if the keyword search icon (“Send” button in FIG. 8) is clicked, the web font server 24 uses the entered keyword to start the search for the associated web page document. Send to.

  As described above, the content of the web font document is a web font-based HTML file. The content of the web font-based HTML file includes the font face name, its URL, character code, and font data. The contents of the web font based HTML file are recognized and understood by the web font browser described below. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation flow of the web font browser for online search for user-defined characters according to the present invention. The web font browser 28 (FIG. 1) is software for searching and browsing online web font documents including user-defined characters from the web server 21 connected to the Internet.

  A web font browser for browsing web page documents is disclosed in a previous Japanese patent application (Patent Document 1), but the web font browser for online search for user-defined characters according to the present invention is user-defined. When a computer user clicks on icon 440 (FIG. 4) to enter Asian characters, the operation begins.

  As shown in step S91 of FIG. 9, if the input character belongs to a system character (that is, a character existing in the user's computer), the browsing web font browser of the previous invention is the Asian character. Display entered characters at appropriate places in a web page document filled with characters. The web font browser for online search activates its operation only if the entered characters are non-system or user-defined Asian characters.

  In step S92, the web font browser according to the present invention translates the received HTML file and displays a software input screen on the monitor screen, and the computer user uses the input method (stroke number input) indicated by 450 in FIG. Wait until the desired character input code is keyed.

  In step S93, the web font browser for search sends the input code to the web font server via the Internet. The web font server searches for all characters corresponding to the same input character code (number of strokes), and puts it in the display area of the user interface display screen as an HTML file by the web font data operation program (FIG. 2). Then, the HTML file is sent back to the web font browser for display (see 460 in FIG. 5) and waits until the computer user selects a desired character.

  In step S94, the web font browser displays a web font document corresponding to the language described in the specification in the new web font-based HTML file (FIG. 6).

  In this specification, the case where the Asian character input method is stroke number input has been described as an example, but reading input may be used.

  Further, the system and method according to the present invention can be executed by a computer, and a person skilled in the art can naturally create an execution program from the contents described in this specification.

  Although a preferred embodiment of the present invention has been illustrated and described, the present invention is not limited to this, and various modifications can be made without departing from the object of the present invention.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the web font server system based on this invention for the computer user in a distant place to search a user-defined Asian character in a web font server online. It is a figure which shows the structure of the web font server which has a web font file management system. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the method of online search of a user-defined Asian character. It is a figure which shows the example of the typical web page document in which a user inputs an Asian character. It is a figure which shows the user interface display screen which displays the conversion candidate character with respect to a user definition character input code displayed as a separate window so that the web page document which inputs a user definition character may be covered. It is a figure which shows the result of having input the user-defined character in the example of the illustrated web page document. It is an example of the flowchart which shows the flow until the character of a conversion candidate is displayed on the monitor screen of a user's computer, selecting and inputting the stroke number of a character as a character input code. The example of the screen which inputs a user-defined Asian character as a keyword for searching a related web page document is shown. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a process of the web font browser program for the online search of a user-defined Asian character in this invention.

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10 Keyboard 15 Monitor Screen 21 Web Server 24 Web Font Server 26 Web Font Database 28 Web Browser Program 60 Web Font File Management System

Claims (12)

A web font server and a user's computer are communicably connected to each other via the Internet, and the computer user uses an interactive program having a user interface display screen for inputting a user-defined character code. A web font server system for performing an online search for Asian web font documents written in letters, the system comprising:
Distribution means for distributing the user interface display screen for the user of the computer to input a user-defined character code from the web font server to the user's computer;
Receiving means for receiving a user-defined character code transmitted from the user's computer to the web font server;
Search means for searching for a web font document stored in a web server connected to the web font server, wherein each text character in the document is expressed in a web font data format, using the character code;
An Internet web font browser for a user to browse a document, and a transmission means for transmitting the retrieved web font document to the user's computer through an internet web font browser capable of browsing the web font document;
A web font server system comprising: The user interface display screen further includes:
A software input screen for the user to input the user-defined character code, and a display area for classifying and displaying the searched results,
The web font server system according to claim 1, wherein the web font server system is configured by a program capable of using at least one Asian character input method. The interactive program further comprises:
An online data acquisition program in which the web font server captures the user-defined character code and responds to user input;
A font data format file conversion program for associating the user-defined characters with an HTML file format of a web font;
A transmission program for delivering the converted HTML file to the user computer for displaying the software input screen and the classified search results by the web font browser;
The web font server system according to claim 1, further comprising: The program for inputting Asian characters further includes:
Means to launch at least one Asian character input method;
Means for displaying the software input screen stored as an HTML file in the web font server by the web font browser;
A means for displaying a conversion candidate character corresponding to a character code in a display area by the web font server so that the user can see and select the conversion candidate character, wherein the display screen of the conversion candidate character in the display area is the web font server The web font server system according to claim 2, wherein the web font server system is stored as an HTML file. The online data acquisition program further includes:
Means for obtaining a request message of the computer user;
Means for obtaining a character code transmitted from the user computer;
Means for obtaining a clicked signal on the monitor screen;
The web font server system according to claim 3, further comprising:
The font data format file conversion program further includes:
Means for determining a web font data format of the character;
Means for configuring the web font data into an HTML file;
And a means for converting the content of the document including the content of the software input screen into a web font document, wherein the font data format in the web font document is expressed in the web font data format. The web font server system described in 1. Using a web font server system in which a web font server and a user computer are connected to each other via the Internet, web page documents including user-defined Asian characters are browsed or searched online by a web font browser. A method comprising the steps of:
Obtaining a request message of a computer user;
Obtaining a web page document from the web server connected to the web font server via the internet;
Displaying the web page document by translation of the web font browser in the user computer;
Sending a user interface display screen including a software input screen of the Asian characters from the web font server to the user computer via the Internet;
Obtaining a user-defined character code input from the user interface display screen by an interactive program installed in the web font server;
Converting the user-defined characters into a web font data format together with the software input screen by the interactive program;
Displaying the user interface display screen and the web page document on a monitor screen of the user computer by translation of the web font browser;
Detecting a click signal of an icon clicked by the computer user by the interactive program;
Performing a keyword search for a web page document using user-defined characters, or performing form registration by filling an appropriate location in a downloaded web page document with user-defined characters;
Displaying the retrieved web page document or form registered web page document with a web font browser, wherein the web font browser is capable of browsing web font based HTML files.   8. The web page document, the software input screen, and a user interface display screen are all embedded as HTML files before being sent to the web font browser for browsing or searching. The method described in 1. A search for an Asian web page document in which user-defined characters are used, or a web font browser for searching for user-defined Asian characters for input to the web page document, the web font browser comprising:
Means for responding to computer user requests;
Means for sending the request message of the computer user to a web font server;
Means for receiving an Asian character input method including a software input screen sent from the web font server;
Means for displaying a software input screen for the computer user to input a user-defined character code according to the Asian character input method and to display the result on a monitor screen;
Means for displaying a web font document in which the user-defined character is used;
A web font browser characterized by comprising: The means for displaying a web font document using the user-defined character further comprises:
Means for sending a message to the web font server to retrieve a desired user-defined Asian character;
Means for receiving an HTML file containing user-defined characters sent from the web font server;
Means for translating the received HTML file;
Means for displaying the translated result;
The web font browser according to claim 9, further comprising:   A computer-readable recording medium on which a program for causing a computer to execute each step according to claim 7 is recorded.   A computer-readable recording medium on which a program for causing a computer to execute each step according to claim 8 is recorded.

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