JP2008097139A - Information processor, information providing method and portal site system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable both of a listed company and stockholders to transmit and collect information bidirectionally. <P>SOLUTION: The above problem is solved with an information processor including: a document storage means for storing a document to be supplied to the stockholders from each listed company; and a Web page control means for providing the stockholder side terminal with a Web page including the document stored in the document storage means according to a request from a stockholder side terminal communicatable via a network and related to a stock held by a stockholder having logged in, and including link information for an electronic voting right exercising function related to exercising of an electronic voting right related to the stock. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information providing method, and a portal site system.

  Traditionally, convocation notices for general meetings of shareholders have been mailed to shareholders on paper. If the shareholders approve it, a convocation notice was sent by email. In addition, reference materials related to the general meeting of shareholders were generally mailed on a paper basis. Some reference materials related to the general meeting of shareholders are permitted to be disclosed on the Web.

  On the other hand, when exercising voting rights, shareholders should attend the general meeting or exercise the voting rights exercise form sent together with the notice of convocation, etc. Accessed URLs etc., and exercised on the Web. Shareholders received a notice of resolution on a paper basis by mail.

JP 2003-85355 A JP 2002-49742 A

  However, as described above, since operations are performed on a paper basis, such as a convocation notice for a general meeting of shareholders, there is a problem that costs are high for listed companies. Also, when disclosing reference materials related to the general meeting of shareholders on the Web, there is a problem that it is necessary to take a backup so that the Web server or the like does not go down.

  In addition, when shareholders have stocks of a plurality of listed companies, there is a problem that it is complicated to collect and monitor information of each listed company. Also, although a method for exercising voting rights on the Web is also provided, there is a problem that voting rights are not actively exercised using this method.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and it is an object of the present invention to enable both listed companies and shareholders to transmit and collect information in both directions.

  Therefore, the present invention is a document storage means for storing documents provided to shareholders by each listed company, and is stored in the document storage means in response to a request from a shareholder side terminal capable of communicating via a network. Web page control means for providing, to the shareholder side terminal, a Web page including a document relating to shares held by a logged-in shareholder and link information to an electronic voting right exercise function relating to the exercise of electronic voting rights relating to the shares It is characterized by having.

  With such a configuration, for example, listed companies can always provide documents to shareholders. In addition, it is always easy for shareholders to obtain documents from listed companies. Shareholders can also easily move to the electronic voting function and exercise their voting rights. In this case, a method for promoting the exercise of electronic resolution rights, such as offering souvenirs, can be established. Therefore, both listed companies and shareholders can transmit and collect information in both directions.

  The documents provided by each listed company to the shareholders correspond to, for example, shareholder meeting reference documents, business reports, and non-consolidated financial statements, consolidated financial statements, and revised information thereof. The document may include other IR information, a resolution notification, an electronic public notice, and the like. The information processing apparatus corresponds to, for example, a server described later. The shareholder-side terminal corresponds to, for example, a client described later.

  The present invention may be an information providing method and a portal site system.

  According to the present invention, both listed companies and shareholders can transmit and collect information in both directions.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

First, an example of the system configuration is shown in FIG. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a system configuration. As shown in FIG. 1, the system according to this embodiment includes at least one server (server 1 ₁ , server 1 ₂ ,...) And a plurality of clients operated by shareholders (client 2 ₁ , client 2 ₂ , clients 2 ₃ ,...) Are connected via the network 3.

  In addition, each server may share the function mentioned later, may perform a process simultaneously, and is good also as a backup server when a failure arises in one server.

  For example, the shareholder uses a portal site provided by the server 1 via the browser of the client 2 or receives mail transmitted from the server 1 via the e-mail software of the client 2.

  Next, FIG. 2 shows a hardware configuration of an example of the server 1. FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram of an example of the server.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the server 1 includes, as a hardware configuration, an input device 11, a display device 12, a recording medium drive device 13, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 15, and a RAM (Random Access Memory) 16. A CPU (Central Processing Unit) 17, an interface device 18, and an HD (Hard Disk) 19.

  The input device 11 includes a keyboard and a mouse that are operated by an operator of the server 1, and is used to input various operation information and the like to the server 1. The display device 12 includes a display used by the operator of the server 1 and is used to display various information. The input device 11 and the display device 12 are not necessarily required configurations as the hardware configuration of the server 1.

  The interface device 18 is an interface that connects the server 1 to a network or the like. A program relating to functions of the server 1 to be described later is provided to the server 1 by a recording medium 14 such as a CD-ROM or downloaded through a network or the like. The recording medium 14 is set in the recording medium drive device 13, and the program is installed from the recording medium 14 to the HD 19 via the recording medium drive device 13. The program may be installed in advance on the HD 19 or the like.

The ROM 15 records a program that is read first when the server 1 is powered on. The RAM 16 is a main memory of the server 1. The CPU 17 reads out a program from the HD 19 as necessary, stores it in the RAM 16, and executes the program to provide all or part of the functions described below. In addition to the program, the HD 19 stores reference materials, authentication information used for shareholder authentication, and the like.
In this embodiment, for the sake of simplification of explanation, reference documents for the general meeting of shareholders, business reports, individual financial statements, consolidated financial statements, revised information, other IR information, resolution notices and electronic public notices are included. May be simply referred to as a document.

  Next, FIG. 3 shows an example of the functional configuration of the server 1, which includes the CPU 17, RAM 16, HD 19, and programs. FIG. 3 is a functional configuration diagram of an example of the server. As shown in FIG. 3, the server 1 includes a document storage unit 21, a Web page control unit 22, a mail transmission unit 23, a collection unit 24, a notification unit 25, a distribution unit 26, as functional configurations. And an analysis unit 27.

  The document storage unit 21 stores the document as described above. For example, each listed company uploads a document to the server 1 using a PC or the like connected to the server 1 via a network. The server 1 stores the uploaded document in the document storage unit 21 for each listed company.

In addition, when uploading documents to the server 1, each listed company uses their PCs, etc., their company name, industry (for example, steel, communications, chemical, automobile, general heavy equipment, bank, trading company, etc.) (For example, the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the first section of the OSE, the second section of the OSE, Mothers, etc.), information such as the settlement date, the date of the general meeting, etc. is attached to the document and uploaded to the server 1.
By doing in this way, the server 1 can provide a company's company name search function, industry search function, affiliated market search function, settlement period search function, general meeting date search function, and the like on the portal site.

In response to a request from the client 2, the Web page control unit 22 stores documents related to shares held by the logged-in shareholder of the client 2 and electronic voting rights related to shares held by the shareholder, which are stored in the document storage unit 21. A Web page including link information to an electronic voting right exercise site related to exercising is provided to the client 2, or screen transition between Web pages is controlled in a portal site including the Web page.
The electronic voting rights exercising site is operated by each listed company by itself, or operated by a securities agency that performs the securities management business of each listed company.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 4 to be described later, a document and a Web page including link information to an electronic voting right exercise site further include link information to an electronic announcement site related to an electronic announcement concerning each listed company, Link information to a timely disclosure information site that timely discloses information about listed companies may be included. These pieces of information may all be included in the same Web page, or may be included in a plurality of Web pages in the portal site.
Furthermore, in FIG. 4, the model is such that an electronic public notice site, a timely disclosure information site, and an electronic voting rights exercise site are provided separately, and links to such sites are provided. The server 1 may be provided with an exercise processing function so that all processing is performed by the server 1.

  The mail transmission unit 23 transmits an email regarding the invitation notice to the client 2. In addition, the server 1 acquires the email address of the shareholder of each listed company from, for example, a securities agency (or a system operated by the securities agency), and transmits an email regarding the convocation notice.

  The collection unit 24 collects the opinions of shareholders of listed companies. For example, when the shareholder describes his / her opinion in a predetermined area of a mail reply mail related to the convocation notice transmitted by the mail transmitting unit 23, the collecting unit 24 collects the opinion.

  The notification unit 25 receives information indicating that the shareholder has exercised electronic voting rights from the electronic voting right exercise site (or the system related to the electronic voting right exercise site) included in the Web page provided by the Web page control unit 22. To the listed company from which the shareholder has exercised electronic voting rights, for example, by e-mail or the like. The listed company that has received the information performs a procedure of sending souvenirs to the shareholders, for example, when the shareholders attended the general meeting.

  The distribution unit 26 distributes the state of the general meeting of shareholders regarding the shares held by the shareholders to the client 2 as a moving image. The analysis unit 27 analyzes the document stored in the document storage unit 21 and provides the analysis result to the shareholders on the Web page in the portal site in response to a request from the client 2, for example.

  For example, the analysis unit 27 analyzes a business report of each listed company stored in the document storage unit 21, acquires information on major shareholders of each listed company, puts it on a Web page, and provides the analysis result to the shareholders To do. Moreover, when the listed company is included in the major shareholder, the analysis unit 27 includes link information to the Web page including the document of the listed company in the portal site in the Web page. By doing in this way, the shareholder obtains information on the major shareholder of the listed company having the stock using the Web browser of the client 2, and when the major shareholder is a listed company, for example, IR information of the listed company, etc. Can see. On the other hand, listed companies can not only analyze the information gathered by other listed companies, but also understand the investment trends of shareholders who own shares of multiple companies.

  FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram of a portal site published by the server 1. First, the shareholder can use the portal site published by the server 1 using the client 2. Shareholders can use the company's company name search function, industry search function, affiliated market search function, closing date search function, and general meeting date search function on the portal site to find out if they have a You can see IR information etc. that are open to the public of listed companies.

  Next, when a shareholder sees information that is not publicly disclosed, such as a reference document for a general meeting of shareholders of a listed company related to the shares he holds, a business report, and financial statements, such as individual notes, consolidated financial statements, etc. On the shareholder authentication Web page provided by the portal site, for example, an ID assigned to each shareholder and a password are input and authentication is requested.

  When the server 1 authenticates using the input information and the authentication information held in the HD 19 or the like and determines that the server 1 is a valid shareholder, the server 1 gives the shareholder a Web page including information that has not been disclosed to the public. provide.

  Note that the server 1 may provide shareholders with a My Page function or the like on the portal site. Here, the My Page function, as described above, once authenticates that a stockholder is a stock, and if it is determined that the stockholder is a valid stockholder, the information is retained, and thereafter the portal site. If it is determined that the user is an effective user by using the ID and password issued by the company, the shareholder is provided with a Web page containing the information not disclosed to the public regarding the shares held by the user based on the information. It is a function to provide. This makes it possible for shareholders to immediately provide electronic notices of listed companies registered in advance and arbitrary notices to shareholders. In addition, the server 1 may receive a notice of change of the shareholder profile, for example, a notice of change of an e-mail address, an address, etc. on a My Page and notify the listed company on behalf of it. For example, when the shareholder holds stocks of a plurality of listed companies, this function is convenient for the shareholder because the trouble of performing the above-described shareholder authentication for each of the plurality of stocks can be saved.

  Further, the server 1 may be configured to specify a payout destination in a my page function, for example. In the past, shareholders were notified of how to receive dividends along with a voting notice. Shareholders received dividends in any way they wish, such as receipt at a financial institution, transfer at a financial institution, or receipt by transfer. However, the method for receiving dividends can be specified with the My Page function.

  Furthermore, a calendar function may be provided on My Page. For example, it is possible to extract date information of a general meeting of shareholders for each company using the analysis unit 27 and display the information on a calendar function based on the date information. This makes it easier for shareholders who have shares in multiple companies to know the schedule of a general meeting of shareholders.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the server 1 links information to a timely disclosure information site that timely discloses link information to an electronic public notice site and information related to listed companies on a Web page including a document, for example. Or link information to an electronic voting rights exercise site may be included.

  As shown in FIG. 4, even if each listed company releases its own shareholder meeting reference documents, etc. on its website, and the same information is also disclosed on the portal site of server 1, even if the web server goes down by any chance Information can be disclosed on the portal site as a backup site.

  Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 4, when a securities agency operates an electronic voting right exercise site, shareholders can easily move from the portal site to the electronic voting right exercise site.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the shareholder can easily obtain disclosure information on the Web. Also, by exercising on the electronic voting rights exercise site via the portal site, for example, souvenirs can be obtained, so that the exercise of voting rights can be promoted. In addition, since the shareholders can watch the video distribution of the general meeting of shareholders, they can participate electronically at the general meeting of shareholders. In addition, by using the above-mentioned My Page function, it is possible to easily collect and monitor the reference documents for the general meeting of shareholders even when holding shares of multiple companies. Shareholders can easily provide opinions to companies that hold shares.

  In addition, according to the present embodiment, the company does not have to send the reference document for the general meeting of shareholders to the shareholders on a paper basis, so that the cost burden can be reduced, and information on general shareholders and other listed companies' The opportunity to collect information is expanded. Further, the server 1 can be used as a backup server for reference documents for the general meeting of shareholders provided on the company's website.

  That is, according to this embodiment, both listed companies and shareholders can send and collect information in both directions.

  The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, but the present invention is not limited to such specific embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the gist of the present invention described in the claims.・ Change is possible.

It is a figure which shows an example of a system configuration. It is a hardware block diagram of an example of a server. It is a function block diagram of an example of a server. It is a conceptual diagram of the portal site which the server 1 discloses.

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Claims (9)

Document storage means for storing documents provided to shareholders by each listed company;
In response to a request from a shareholder's terminal that can communicate via a network, documents relating to shares held by the logged-in shareholder, which are stored in the document storage means, and electronic voting relating to the exercise of electronic voting rights relating to the shares Web page control means for providing the shareholder-side terminal with a Web page including link information to the right exercising function;
An information processing apparatus comprising:   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a mail transmission unit that transmits a mail regarding a convocation notice to the shareholder side terminal.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a collecting unit that collects opinions about the listed company from shareholders of each listed company.   When information indicating that the shareholder has exercised electronic voting rights is received from the system relating to the electronic voting right exercise site, information relating to benefits that the shareholder wishes to a listed company relating to the electronic voting rights exercised by the shareholder The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a notification unit that notifies   5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising distribution means for distributing video information of a general meeting of shareholders related to the stock.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the Web page further includes link information to an electronic public notice function related to an electronic public notice relating to each listed company.   The information processing according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the Web page further includes link information to a timely disclosure information function that timely discloses information about each listed company. apparatus. An information providing method in an information processing apparatus,
Documents related to shares held by logged-in shareholders that are stored in document storage means for storing documents provided to shareholders by each listed company in response to requests from shareholders' terminals that can communicate via the network And a web page control step of providing a web page including a link to an electronic voting right exercise function relating to the exercise of electronic voting rights related to the stock to the shareholder side terminal. A portal site system that collectively provides documents provided to shareholders by each listed company,
Document storage means for storing documents provided to shareholders by each listed company;
Documents related to shares held by logged-in shareholders, link information to the electronic voting rights exercise function related to the exercise of electronic voting rights related to the shares, and electronic public notices related to each listed company, which are stored in the document storage means Web page control means for providing a shareholder side terminal with a Web page including link information to the electronic public notice function and link information to a timely disclosure information function that timely discloses information about each listed company;
The portal site system characterized by having.

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