JP2008158576A - Information receiving terminal, information delivery system and information delivery method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information receiving terminal, an information delivery system and an information delivery method, selectively displaying information only useful for a user. <P>SOLUTION: An information receiving terminal 200 includes: a communication control device 201 for communicating with a contents server 100; a user information storing part 2031 storing user information about user's residence; a schedule information storing part 2032 storing schedule information about user's schedule; a user information control part 2021 for analyzing user's schedule stored as the schedule information to extract a place name; an information sorting part 2022 for extracting only the information related to the user's residence shown in the user information or the place name extracted from the schedule information among the information received from the contents server 100 through the communication control device 201; and a delivery information storing part 2033 storing the information extracted by the information sorting part 2022. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a terminal for receiving information, and more particularly to an information receiving terminal, an information distribution system, and an information distribution method that can selectively display only information related to a user's schedule.

  In recent years, services that distribute information over a network have become widespread. However, if the information provider uniformly distributes the same information to all recipients (users), information that is unnecessary for each user can be obtained. It can also be delivered.

  For this reason, an information distribution system that distributes only information desired by a user to an arbitrary user is also widespread. As one type, an invention for performing information distribution based on user schedule information is disclosed in Patent Document 1, “Information distribution system, information distribution server device, information distribution method, program, and storage medium”.

On the other hand, “Tagging content for different activities” disclosed in Patent Document 2 describes a method of classifying various types of information.
JP 2003-316687 A JP 2002-373169 A

However, in the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1, it is necessary to manage schedule information on the server side, which is a device different from the user terminal. For this reason, for users who do not want their own schedule to be known to others, psychological resistance arises in receiving services using this system.
Further, since it is necessary to connect to the network when updating the schedule, it is not possible to flexibly cope with changes in the schedule. In other words, in an environment where it is not possible to connect to the network, the schedule itself cannot be updated, and if information corresponding to the schedule before the change is distributed, the information may be unnecessary information for the user (in other words, after the change Information may not be available immediately according to the schedule.)

  In addition, the invention disclosed in Patent Document 2 requires the user to tag information content, but does not disclose any specific method. Therefore, it cannot be tagged to correspond to schedule information that can be changed dynamically. Moreover, even if it is applied to the mapping with the schedule, there is no reference for what kind of information is included in the schedule, and the application is not easy.

  Thus, conventionally, an information receiving terminal capable of selectively displaying only information useful for the user has not been provided.

  The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and an object thereof is to provide an information receiving terminal, an information distribution system, and an information distribution method that can selectively display only information useful for a user.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides, as a first aspect, a communication means for communicating with an external device, a means for storing user information relating to the user's whereabouts, and a means for storing schedule information relating to the user's schedule. And analyzing the user's schedule stored as schedule information, extracting the place name, and out of the information received from the external device via the communication means, from the user's whereabouts or schedule information indicated in the user information The present invention provides an information receiving terminal having information distribution means for extracting only information related to an extracted place name and distribution information storage means for storing information extracted by the information distribution means.

  In the first aspect of the present invention, when the user information is not registered, it is preferable to acquire the current position information of the own terminal and substitute it as the user information. In addition, when the schedule information is updated or added, it is preferable to transmit the location of the user indicated in the user information and the place name extracted from the schedule information to an external device, and request transmission of information related thereto.

  In order to achieve the above object, according to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information distribution system in which a content server and an information receiving terminal are connected via a network, and the information receiving terminal communicates with the content server. Communication means, means for storing user information relating to a user's whereabouts, means for storing schedule information relating to a user's schedule, means for analyzing a user's schedule stored as schedule information, and extracting a place name And information distribution means for extracting only information related to the location of the user indicated in the user information or the place name extracted from the schedule information from the information received from the content server via the communication means, and extracted by the information distribution means Distribution information storage means for storing the received information, Server is to provide information distribution system characterized in that it comprises means for transmitting information associated with at least one place name to the information receiving terminal.

  In the second aspect of the present invention, when the user information is not registered, the information receiving terminal preferably acquires the current position information of the own terminal and substitutes it for the user information. In addition, when the schedule information is updated or added, the information receiving terminal transmits the location of the user indicated in the user information and the place name extracted from the schedule information to the content server, and requests transmission of information related thereto. It is preferable to do.

  In order to achieve the above object, according to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information distribution method for distributing information from a content server to an information receiving terminal via a network, wherein the content server has at least one place name. The associated information is transmitted to the information receiving terminal, and the information receiving terminal analyzes the user's schedule stored as schedule information, extracts the place name, and among the information received from the content server via the network, It is an object of the present invention to provide an information distribution method characterized by extracting only information related to a place name extracted from a user's location or schedule information registered in advance and storing the extracted information.

  In the third aspect of the present invention, when the user's whereabouts are not registered in the information receiving terminal, it is preferable that the information receiving terminal acquires the current position information of the own terminal and substitutes it as user information. . In addition, when the schedule information is updated or added to the information receiving terminal, the information receiving terminal transmits the location of the user and the place name extracted from the schedule information to the content server, and the content server transmits from the information receiving terminal. It is preferable to transmit information related to the location of the user extracted and the place name extracted from the schedule information to the information receiving terminal.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the information receiving terminal which can selectively display only information useful for a user, an information delivery system, and an information delivery method can be provided.

[First Embodiment]
A first embodiment in which the present invention is suitably implemented will be described. FIG. 1 shows a configuration of an information distribution system according to the present embodiment. This information distribution system has a configuration in which a content provider 100 and an information terminal 200 are connected via a network.
The information terminal 200 includes a communication control device 201, an information control device 202, and a storage device 203. The information control apparatus 202 includes a user information control unit 2021 and an information distribution unit 2022. Further, the storage device 203 includes a user information storage unit 2031, a schedule information storage 2032, and a distribution information storage unit 2033.

  The communication control device 201 passes information distributed from the content provider 100 to the information control device 202.

  The user information control unit 2021 refers to information stored in the user information storage unit 2031 and the schedule information storage unit 2032, and delivers information to the information distribution unit 2022. Further, the user information control unit 2021 receives information from a server on the network such as the content provider 100 via the communication control device 201 based on the information stored in the user information storage unit 2031 and the schedule information storage unit 2032. get. The information distribution unit 2022 distributes the information acquired from the communication control device 201 based on the information passed from the user information control unit 2021 and outputs the information to the storage device 203.

  The user information storage unit 2031 stores location information (address, nearest station, etc.) of the user of the information terminal 200. The schedule information storage unit 2032 stores schedule information for the user of the information terminal 200.

FIG. 2 shows a flow of information distribution processing of the information distribution system according to the present embodiment.
The communication control device 201 of the information terminal 200 receives the distribution information from the content provider server 100 and outputs it to the information control device 202. At this time, if user information and schedule information are stored, an information distribution process described later is performed by the information distribution unit 2022. The distributed information is stored in the distribution information storage unit 2033 (step S24).

  FIG. 3 shows a data flow in the process of distributing information distributed from the content provider 100. It is assumed that “Tokyo” is stored in the user information storage unit 2031 as the address information of the user of the information terminal 200. The schedule information storage unit 2032 stores information “9/1 (Monday) 10: 00-Nagoya” as the user's schedule.

  Assume that the information distribution unit 2022 receives distribution information A as shown in FIG. 3 via the communication control device 201. In the distribution information A, regional information is added as an attribute. Here, the distribution information A is weather information, and includes weather information of “Hokkaido”, “Tokyo”, “Nagoya”, and “Hakata”, respectively.

  When the information distribution unit 2022 receives the information distributed from the content provider 100, the information distribution unit 2022 confirms whether user information and schedule information are stored through the user information control unit 2021. When these pieces of information are stored in the user information storage unit 2031 or the schedule information storage unit 2032, it is further confirmed whether or not location information is included in the information. Since the location information “Tokyo” and “Nagoya” is included here, the user information control unit 2021 notifies the information distribution unit 2022 of the location information. The information distribution unit 2022 matches the information notified from the user information control unit 2021 with the distribution information A. That is, the weather information of “Tokyo” and “Nagoya” is extracted from the distribution information A and stored in the distribution information storage unit 2033.

  Information stored in the distribution information storage unit 2033 is displayed to the user via an output device (not shown). At this time, the information may be displayed in a telop on a display device (such as a display) mounted on the information terminal 200 or displayed as additional information in the schedule table, and the display method is arbitrary.

By such an operation, it is possible to display only information useful for the user. The schedule information may be updated, but can correspond to a change in the user's schedule.
Further, since the information useful for the user is automatically extracted, the user's labor is reduced.
Furthermore, since the user's schedule information is managed inside the information terminal 200 operated by the user, personal information does not leak from the server.

As described above, the information distribution system according to the present embodiment matches the user information (address information) and schedule information with the information (region information) added to the distributed information at the time of push distribution. Only useful information can be displayed.
Further, the user does not need to perform any operation in order to display the latest useful information on the terminal.

  FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of the information distribution system according to the present embodiment. FIG. 5 shows the information flow in the transfer information acquisition process.

  It is assumed that “A station” is stored in the user information storage unit 2031 as the nearest station information. Further, it is assumed that information “9/1 (Monday) 10: 00-Nagoya” is stored in the schedule information storage unit 2032 as the user's schedule.

The user information control unit 2021 automatically acquires transfer information by referring to the nearest station information and schedule information.
The process in which the user information control unit 2021 acquires transfer information will be described in more detail using the flowchart of FIG.
The user information control unit 2021 acquires the schedule information (“9/1 (Monday) 10: 00-Nagoya”) triggered by the change in the information in the schedule information storage unit 2032 (step S41 / Yes). (Step S42). Since the acquired schedule information includes date / location information (step S43 / Yes), the user information control unit 2021 further acquires the nearest station information (“Station A”) from the user information storage unit 2031 (step S43). S44). The user information control unit 2021 acquires transfer information (departure time 8:00, arrival time 9:50, B train) from the content server 100 via the communication control unit 201 based on the nearest station information and schedule information. (Step S45).

  Information is acquired using a method of referring to URL information stored in a storage device (not shown) in the information terminal 200 or an application in the information terminal 200 (an application for acquiring transfer information). A known method such as an acquisition method can be applied. Here, it is assumed that a method of referring to a URL stored in the terminal is applied.

  The transfer information acquired from the network via the communication control unit 201 is displayed to the user using an output device (not shown). At this time, a telop may be displayed on a display mounted on the information terminal 200, or may be displayed as additional information on a schedule table, and the display method is arbitrary.

  If the nearest station information is not included in the user information, if the information terminal 200 is a portable terminal, the longitude / latitude information of the information terminal 200 is acquired by a GPS receiver (not shown), and the information terminal 200 The nearest station to the current location may be set as the nearest station by mapping with the map data.

  As described above, at the time of pull distribution, the information distribution system according to the present embodiment can acquire useful information for the user based on the user information and schedule information stored in the information terminal.

Each of the above embodiments is an example of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, in the above embodiment, the content server and the information terminal have a one-to-one configuration as an example, but the information terminal may be configured to receive distribution of information from a plurality of content servers.
As described above, the present invention can be variously modified.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the information delivery system which concerns on suitable embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of operation | movement which stores the information distributed by the information delivery system. It is a figure which shows the flow of the information in a delivery information distribution process. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the operation | movement in which an information delivery system acquires transfer information. It is a figure which shows the flow of the information in a transfer information acquisition process.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Content server 200 Information terminal 201 Communication control apparatus 202 Information control apparatus 203 Storage apparatus 2021 User information control part 2022 Information distribution part 2031 User information storage part 2032 Schedule information storage part 2033 Distribution information storage part

Claims (9)

A communication means for communicating with an external device;
Means for storing user information relating to the user's whereabouts;
Means for storing schedule information relating to a user's schedule;
Means for analyzing a user's schedule stored as the schedule information and extracting a place name;
Among information received from the external device via the communication means, information distribution means for extracting only information related to the location of the user indicated in the user information or the place name extracted from the schedule information;
An information receiving terminal comprising distribution information storage means for storing information extracted by the information distribution means.   2. The information receiving terminal according to claim 1, wherein when the user information is not registered, the current location information of the terminal is acquired and used as user information.   When the schedule information is updated or added, the location of the user indicated in the user information and the place name extracted from the schedule information are transmitted to the external device, and transmission of information related to these is requested. The information receiving terminal according to claim 1, wherein the information receiving terminal is an information receiving terminal. An information distribution system connected to a content server and an information receiving terminal via a network,
The information receiving terminal
Communication means for communicating with the content server;
Means for storing user information relating to the user's whereabouts;
Means for storing schedule information relating to a user's schedule;
Means for analyzing a user's schedule stored as the schedule information and extracting a place name;
Information sorting means for extracting only information related to the location of the user indicated in the user information or the place name extracted from the schedule information among the information received from the content server via the communication means;
Distribution information storage means for storing information extracted by the information distribution means,
The content server
An information distribution system comprising means for transmitting information associated with at least one place name to the information receiving terminal.   5. The information distribution system according to claim 4, wherein, when the user information is not registered, the information receiving terminal acquires the current position information of the own terminal and substitutes it for user information.   When the schedule information is updated or added, the information receiving terminal transmits the location of the user indicated in the user information and the place name extracted from the schedule information to the content server, and information related thereto 6. The information distribution system according to claim 4, wherein transmission is requested. An information distribution method for distributing information from a content server to an information receiving terminal via a network,
The content server transmits information associated with at least one place name to the information receiving terminal,
The information receiving terminal is
Analyzing the user's schedule stored as schedule information, extracting the place name,
Of the information received from the content server via the network, only information related to the location of the user registered in advance or the place name extracted from the schedule information is extracted, and the extracted information is stored. Information distribution method.   8. The information receiving terminal according to claim 7, wherein when the user's whereabouts are not registered in the information receiving terminal, the information receiving terminal acquires the current position information of the own terminal and substitutes it as user information. Information distribution method. When the schedule information is updated or added to the information receiving terminal, the information receiving terminal transmits the location of the user and the place name extracted from the schedule information to the content server,
9. The content server transmits to the information receiving terminal information related to the location of the user and the place name extracted from the schedule information transmitted from the information receiving terminal. Information delivery method.

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