JP2008112258A - Portable journalist terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable journalist terminal for sending an article of an abrupt event in real time from a news material collecting site. <P>SOLUTION: A portable journalist terminal downloads and uses a model acquired by presetting stylized input information (part of the accessory information of article) from a server. When a journalist selects the transmission destination signature of the article from a pull-down menu, the portable journalist terminal simultaneously selects a model for its department. The portable journalist terminal successively embeds the article in the model, and automatically prepares article data including the preset accessory information and the article. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a portable reporter terminal, for example, a portable reporter terminal using a cellular phone application.

Traditionally, newspaper companies have been required to deliver valuable and fresh news to their readers on a daily basis. For this reason, a reporter terminal using a notebook personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a “PC reporter terminal”) has become a common reporting tool for newspaper reporters. However, newspaper reporters say that they want to send breaking news from the interview site without opening the PC reporter terminal, or that they want to create and send articles in a timely manner even if they do not have a PC reporter terminal.

On the other hand, mobile phones are becoming more multifunctional and are actively used for business tools. The mobile phone e-mail communication network is expected to be secured in the event of a disaster, and attention is focused on further utilization.

Under such circumstances, a technology for remotely reviewing the material data for review material input to the client machine with reference to the language database stored in the server machine has been disclosed (for example, Patent Document 1). reference.).
JP 2004-252922 A

However, in the prior art, it has been difficult to apply a function used by a newspaper reporter on a PC reporter terminal to a mobile phone and use it as an article drafting terminal. For example, although it is a notebook type, a PC reporter terminal has a corresponding weight. Therefore, since it is not always carried around, when a sudden event occurs, the PC reporter terminal may not be at hand. There was a problem that articles about sudden events could not be sent in real time from the interview site.

For mobile phones, the conventional mail function requires input of fixed information every time, and the work efficiency of a reporter terminal is not high.

Regarding the article processing system, there is a problem that even if a document is received on the server side by e-mail from a conventional mobile phone, it takes time to load the manuscript. Further, depending on the system, the format of the document changes, so it has been difficult for a conventional mobile phone to cope with this.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a portable reporter terminal capable of sending an unexpected article in real time from the interview site.

In order to achieve the above object, the portable reporter terminal according to the present invention receives a template including items of predetermined incidental information expressed in a computer language format from the outside for each type of document and stores the template.
A second storage unit that stores, for each type, a document input as a character string, and applies the template corresponding to the type to the document, and assigns the incidental information items to the type and the reporter. It is characterized by comprising a template application unit that creates a mail body expressed in the computer language format by complementing with information relating to a reporter who has input the message, and a transmission unit that transmits the mail body.

According to the present invention, an unexpected event can be sent in real time from the interview site.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an article processing system including a portable reporter terminal. In this system, the portable reporter terminal cooperates with a server in a cellular phone carrier and an authentication / destination table / model management server in a newspaper company. The mobile reporter terminal is a mobile phone application, manuscript storage unit, template,
A destination table storage unit; These operate on a mobile phone application execution environment provided on the basic software of the mobile phone.

In this system, the mobile reporter terminal is connected to a mobile phone carrier via the Internet. It is connected to the newspaper system via the Internet. The portable reporter terminal is realized by a mobile phone.

The mobile phone carrier includes a mobile phone application management server.

The newspaper company system includes a network composed of a mail server, FW (firewall), material management server, PC reporter terminal and PC desk terminal, WEB server, user authentication / destination table / model management server (hereinafter referred to as “server”). And a network of operation management terminals, each of which is connected to a portable reporter terminal via the Internet. Various servers of the newspaper company system are realized by open servers. The software includes an OS, a Web application execution environment, a Web / application server, a Web application, and a DBMS. Various terminals of the newspaper company system are realized by a desktop personal computer or a notebook personal computer. As software, an OS and a Web browser are used as components.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of document creation / transmission in the article processing system. The portable reporter terminal creates a manuscript with a cellular phone application. That is, editing operations such as text input, main headline input, tail part injection, subheadline input, and headline edition are performed on each related screen. For example, on the text input screen, the text is edited as vertically written text (character string). As shown in FIG. 2, the display screen is edited in such a way as to appear on an actual newspaper. The line number of the current edit line is displayed on the upper left of the screen, and the number of remaining editable lines is displayed on the upper right. An edit button, a confirm button, and a menu button are displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Each edited manuscript is stored in the manuscript box screen so that its title is displayed as a list. When one of the titles is selected, a pull-down menu for selecting functions such as mail transmission, search, document copy, document delete, and user setting appears.

When a mail transmission button is pressed to send a document, the edited vertical text is converted into an XML format after selecting a destination, which is embedded in the mail body and transmitted via the Internet.

In a newspaper company, a mail server receives the mail. The received mail document is automatically taken into the material management server connected via the FW. The captured document is further edited by a PC desk terminal connected to the material management server.

In the case of a PC press terminal connected to a newspaper company network by dial-up,
The original is edited on an input screen by a Web browser. That is, the received manuscript is confirmed, and manually imported to the reporter / desk terminal and corrected. In addition, the manuscript is transmitted from the reporter / desk terminal to the material management server.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of the operation of environment setting and change of the portable reporter terminal. The mobile phone application of the mobile reporter terminal is downloaded from the mobile phone application management server in the business website of the mobile phone carrier (S301). Then, authentication is performed with the newspaper company network, and a destination table and a template are downloaded from the in-house Web site (S302). In addition, from the company website, applications, destination tables,
Template update information is notified by e-mail (S303).

An in-house website of a newspaper company has a WEB server installed at a contact point of the Internet, and the WEB server is connected to a portable press terminal communication FEP (front end processor). This comprises an authentication server, a destination table / model management server, and a mail server. This destination table / model management server downloads the destination table and model to the portable reporter terminal.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram of the operation of registering various information on the operation management terminal. The authentication information, the destination table, and the template of the portable reporter terminal are registered from the operation management terminal. As for the registration of authentication information, the authentication information is input / registered from the operation management screen of the portable reporter terminal communication FEP (S401).
As for template creation, a template is created using a general-purpose editor such as a memo pad on the operation management terminal (S402). For creating the destination table and registering the template, see Communication F for Portable Reporter Terminal.
A template is specified when registering information in the destination table from the EP operation management screen (S403).

FIG. 5 is a screen transition diagram related to document creation of the portable reporter terminal. From the document box screen,
Transitions to the text input screen and the mailer screen described later. From the text input screen, a transition is made to a manuscript box screen, a tail edition input screen, and a main heading input screen. Transition from the end edition note input screen to the body text input screen. From the main heading input screen, a transition is made to a text input screen, a manuscript box screen, a sub heading input screen, and a distorted note input screen. From the headline edition note input screen, a transition is made to a main headline input screen and a subheadline input screen. From the sub heading input screen, the main heading input screen, the headline editing input screen, and the manuscript box screen are changed.

When creating a manuscript, the main text, main heading, sub-heading, end edition and heading edition are also input, and the created manuscript is stored and managed in a portable reporter terminal. Also, the created manuscript is sent by mail.

As a document management function of the portable reporter terminal, the document box screen displays a list of up to 99 documents with main headings. The manuscript box screen displays the operation state of each manuscript as “editing” or “mail”.

The body text input screen, main headline input screen, sub headline input screen, end edition note input screen, and headline edition screen provide a vertical writing display screen dedicated to reporter manuscripts. The vertical writing display screen is displayed with 11 characters padded on general paper. The manuscript is input up to 100 lines. In the last edition note entry screen, the missing characters are entered into the edition as a lexical answer. On the headline edition note input screen, headline edition notes are also entered individually.

The mailer screen is for sending mobile mail. The draft is the standard E for mobile phones.
Send by email. An e-mail is created with the subject name signature, the main / sub headings of the manuscript, and the body of the manuscript automatically inserted into the text.

FIG. 6 is a screen transition diagram regarding user information and model setting of the portable reporter terminal. From the document box screen, a transition is made to the user setting screen. From the user settings screen, the document box screen,
Transition to the transmission destination selection screen and template acquisition screen. From the transmission destination selection screen, a transition is made to the user setting screen. Transition from the template acquisition screen to the user setting screen.

In the transmission destination selection screen, a plurality of document transmission destinations are registered in advance. In the transmission destination selection screen, a plurality of departments to which the original is scheduled to be transmitted are selected and registered in advance. When sending an original mail, select a destination from the pull-down menu.

On the user setting screen, user name and department are set. Specifically, the user and department to be attached to the document are set in advance. Also, the department to which the user belongs is selected from a pull-down menu.

On the template acquisition screen, the template prepared on the server side is used as the template setting function of the portable reporter terminal. Download the template for each department on the template acquisition screen. By saving typical incidental information of the original in the template, the work for creating the original can be saved.

According to this, it is possible to set / manage the user name of the terminal and the department to which it belongs as supplementary information of the manuscript.
In addition, it is possible to select only a required number of document transmission destination departments in advance, and it is possible to use a template in which supplementary information of a document is described in advance.

FIG. 7 is a screen transition diagram regarding various information operation management of the server. From the login screen, transition to the authentication information management screen. From the authentication information management screen, login screen and destination table
Transition to the template management screen. From the destination table / template management screen, a transition is made to the authentication information management screen.

On the authentication information management screen, the user ID of the portable reporter terminal, the user name,
Register password and phone number.

In the destination table / model management screen, the transmission destination department signature and e-mail address are registered to register the transmission destination department and model, and a template is selected and registered for each department. The template is created using a general-purpose tool such as Notepad.

In this way, information necessary for the operation of portable reporter terminals (terminal authentication information, destination part signature, template)
Is centrally managed on the server side. The operation management function is operated from a Web browser on an operation management terminal connected to the server.

On the other hand, the mobile reporter terminal has a login function, an original editing function, an original copy function, an original deletion function,
It has a document search function, a document management function, a user information setting function, a communication function, and a mailer linkage function.

The login function checks the user ID / password. The related screens are a login screen and a usage confirmation screen.

The manuscript editing function is for editing five manuscripts such as a main text, a main heading, a subheading, a tail edition, and a heading edition. Note that only for the text, character string search and specified line movement are performed. The related screens are a manuscript box screen, a text input screen, a main heading input screen, a sub heading input screen, a line number input screen, a tail editing screen, a heading editing screen, and a search character input screen.

The document copy function is for copying a document. The related screens are a manuscript box screen and a manuscript search result screen.

The document deletion function is for deleting a document. The related screens are a manuscript box screen and a manuscript search result screen.

The manuscript search function performs a character string search from the main heading of the manuscript. The related screens are a manuscript box screen and a manuscript search result screen.

The manuscript management function saves a manuscript created by this application. The related screen is a document box screen.

The user information setting function sets a user name, a download site URL such as a template, and sets a mail transmission destination department. The related screens are a user setting screen and a transmission destination selection screen.

The communication function downloads a template describing a format for passing a document to an e-mail and a destination address describing a destination department, an e-mail address, and a template to be associated by HTTP / HTTPS. The related screen is a template acquisition screen.

The mailer linkage function starts a mailer built in a mobile phone, and passes a manuscript created by this application in a template format selected by the user to the title, destination, and text. The related screen is a destination department selection screen.

FIG. 8 is a functional block diagram of the server. The server has a communication function, an operation management function, an authentication information management database (DB), and a destination table template management DB.

The communication function includes a transmission / reception function, an authentication function, a template providing function, and a destination table providing function. The transmission / reception function performs transmission / reception with the portable reporter terminal, and transmits a processing request to the distribution function. The distribution function distributes the processing request to the authentication function, the template providing function, or the destination table providing function.

The authentication function is for receiving an authentication request, receiving terminal information, and transmitting user information. Specifically, the reporter terminal is authenticated when the reporter terminal accesses the application server. The authentication information management DB is referred to according to these processes.

The template providing function is for receiving a template providing request and transmitting a template. Specifically, based on a request from a reporter terminal, a template registered in the application server is provided. The destination table template management DB is referred to according to these processes.

The destination table provision function performs destination table provision request reception and destination table transmission. Specifically, a destination table registered in the application server is provided based on a request from the reporter terminal. The destination table template management DB is referred to according to these processes.

The authentication information management DB manages user site classification, user ID, terminal ID, user information, and the like in association with each other.

The destination table template management DB manages user site classifications, destination IDs, destination names, email addresses, template names, and the like in association with each other.

The operation management function includes an authentication information management function and a destination table template management function. These are operated from the Web browser of the connected operation management terminal.

The authentication information management function performs terminal information setting and user information setting.

Specifically, it provides a login function to the data operation management function handled by the application server. In addition, users when using each function of user management, destination table management, and destination management
Check ID / password. The display screen after the login screen differs depending on the user type (general user, site administrator, system administrator). The related screen is a login screen.

In addition, as a site management function, a function of managing a site (a group of reporter terminal users and destination tables) is provided. New registration, editing, and deletion of the site itself. The related screens are a site list screen and a site selection screen.

Further, as a user management function, a function for managing terminal / user information used by the application server for terminal authentication is provided. User ID, user name, password, terminal ID (cell phone number), and user type are newly registered, edited, and deleted. The related screens are a user list screen and a user edit screen. The authentication information management function manages the authentication information management DB.

The destination table template management function performs destination table creation, destination table change, destination table deletion, template registration, and template replacement. Specifically, a destination table used in the reporter terminal is managed. New registration, re-registration, and deletion of department name, destination address, and template. The related screens are a destination list screen and a destination registration screen. This function manages the destination table template management DB.

FIG. 9 is a detailed view of the template. The template defines the transmission format of the manuscript created by the portable reporter terminal. By using the template defined in the XML format, the document is transmitted in the XML format. Preliminary supplementary information at the time of manuscript creation is described in advance in a template, thereby saving labor in manuscript creation.

The left side of FIG. 9 is an example of a template. Attached information such as the type of document is described in advance in a template in XML format. Therefore, there is no need to input when creating a reporter's manuscript. On the other hand, the specific character string in the template is replaced with a manuscript or incidental information. For example, the character string “% S12” is replaced with the department name, and the character string “% S11” is replaced with the reporter name. By doing so, the right side of FIG. 9 shows the document to be generated.

FIG. 10 is a screen setting table of the portable reporter terminal. For the related screen name and its item name, set the setting items as described in the numerical value, unit and remarks. Setting items on the login screen include a user ID and a password. The setting items on the manuscript box screen include the number of manuscripts, the text, the end edition, the main heading, the heading edition, and the subheading. A setting item on the search screen includes a word. There is a line number as a setting item of the line number input screen. Setting items on the user setting screen include a user, a URL, and a department name.

FIG. 11 is a screen setting table of the server. For the related function name and its item name, set the setting items as described in the maximum value, unit, character code and remarks. The setting items of the site management function include a site ID, a site name, and a site record. Setting items of the user management function include a user ID, a password, a user name, a telephone number, and a user record. The setting items of the destination management function include a destination ID, a destination name, a transmission destination, a template name, and a destination record.

As described above, according to the configuration of the first embodiment of the present invention, a bulletin can be sent from the interview site without using a mobile phone and opening a notebook computer. That is, a document can be created and transmitted without a notebook computer at the destination. In addition, the document amount can be confirmed according to the number of characters on the page. Furthermore, input work for items other than the original can be reduced.

In addition, the reporter's ability to respond to sudden situations and improved mobility can be achieved. Since it is possible to create and send articles using a mobile phone that is easier to carry than a PC reporter terminal, it is possible to perform light news gathering activities using only the mobile reporter terminal, and it can be assumed that the PC reporter terminal is not at hand in the event of a disaster. Even under unexpected circumstances, it will be possible to send a bulletin as a backup machine for PC reporter terminals.

Further, according to the configuration of the first embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to save labor for the incidental information input work and transmission work of articles. A portable reporter terminal can download a template preset with typical input information (part of incidental information of an article) from a server and use it. For example, when a reporter selects a destination department name of an article from a pull-down menu, the portable reporter terminal simultaneously selects a template for that department. The mobile reporter terminal will continue to embed the article in the template, and automatically create article data that includes preset supplementary information and articles. For this reason, the load on the reporter's incidental information input work is reduced, and the reporter can concentrate by examining the contents of the article.

In the configuration of the first embodiment of the present invention, the compatibility with the article processing system is ensured by adopting the XML format article format. The reporter terminal penetrates the newspaper industry with article data that combines articles (text, tail note, main headline, subheading, headline note) and incidental information (reporter name, reporter department name, sender name, etc.). Can be transmitted in the article format of XML format that is accelerating. Therefore, the import processing in the material management system that receives articles can be constructed by associating tag information. In other words, the capturing process can be automated based on the tag information.

The structure of the article format can be individually defined by the newspaper company as a template, and can be downloaded from the server to the portable reporter terminal from time to time, so that the article format can be easily changed.

Further, in the configuration of the first embodiment of the present invention, the use of a lightweight cellular phone OS language enables cooperation with the native function of the cellular phone. The application of the portable reporter terminal is realized by a lightweight cellular phone OS language. In general, the application in the OS language is generally smaller in size than those in other languages, and the startup time is short. Portable reporter terminals take advantage of this advantage to help reporters respond faster.

The OS language application can be linked with the native function of the mobile phone. Mobile reporter devices take advantage of this feature, allowing reporters to select department names to send articles,
The mail data of the article is automatically set to the destination based on the previously selected department name, and the mail address of the mobile phone is automatically set to the destination based on the department name selected in advance. to start. After the mailer is activated, the reporter can press the send button and send the article data efficiently without opening the address book.

It is a block diagram of the article processing system containing a portable reporter terminal. FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of document creation / transmission in an article processing system. It is a conceptual diagram of operation | use of the environment setting and change of a portable reporter terminal. It is a conceptual diagram of the operation | movement of the various information registration in an operation management terminal. FIG. 10 is a screen transition diagram related to document creation on a portable reporter terminal. It is a screen transition diagram regarding the user information and model setting of a portable reporter terminal. It is a screen transition diagram regarding various information operation management of the server. It is a functional block diagram of a server. It is a detailed view of a template. It is a screen setting table of a portable reporter terminal. It is a function setting table of a server.

Explanation of symbols

101 portable reporter terminal 102 manuscript 103 template / destination table

Claims (2)

In a portable reporter terminal capable of transmitting an e-mail text created by inputting a character string, a template including items of predetermined incidental information expressed in a computer language format is received and stored for each type of document from the outside. A second storage unit for storing a document input as a character string for each type
And a mail expressed in the computer language format by applying the template corresponding to the type to the manuscript and supplementing the items of the incidental information with information about the type and the reporter who entered the reporter. A portable reporter terminal, comprising: a template application unit that creates a text; and a transmission unit that transmits the mail text. A third storage unit for receiving and storing a destination table from the outside, wherein the first storage unit receives and stores the template from the outside based on a correspondence relationship with a destination of the destination table, and applies the template The portable reporter terminal according to claim 1, wherein the unit applies the template to the document based on a correspondence relationship with the destination selected from the previous destination table.

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