JP2008176643A - Browsing system, terminal device and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve usability for users while reducing a wasteful communication charge for browsing contents independently from a system for moving and storing a content file. <P>SOLUTION: A user can browse a content referred in the past through a browser application of a cellular phone by use of short-range radio communication by referring to a content cache file 13 such as a general PC site which the user referred to on a personal computer 10 by use of a Web browser 11. Specifically, a cache reference program 12 sends, upon receipt of a history information acquisition request from the cellular phone, list information of histories, and sends, upon receipt of a content acquisition request, the requested content file. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a browsing system, a terminal device, and a program, and more particularly, to a browsing system in which a mobile phone and a terminal device are connected by short-range wireless communication, the terminal device, and a program for the terminal device. .

  Recently, many mobile phone devices equipped with a mobile phone web browser for displaying a site for a general personal computer have appeared.

  However, for example, when a businessman needs to check the contents again after browsing with a notebook personal computer, the user can operate the PC again or communicate again with the mobile phone web browser of the mobile phone device. However, in the case of a method in which charging is performed according to the amount of communication packets by a mobile phone web browser, there is a problem that enormous packet charges are required.

  In order to solve this problem, it is preferable to browse the previously referred content without using a personal computer and without incurring a communication fee even in a place where communication is not possible.

  The content information referred by the browser on the personal computer is stored in the cache file, so that the previously referred content can be referred to by using the cache file even in a place where communication is impossible.

  However, when trying to check previously referenced content while away from home, it may be difficult to take out a personal computer such as in a crowded train.

In addition, there exists an information browsing system disclosed in Patent Document 1 as a conventional invention that is similar in terms of browsing content that has been referred to before. There is also a conventional invention that automatically collects content based on viewer preference data, although the point of interest is different (for example, Patent Document 2).
JP 2003-330847 A JP 2003-163847 A

  However, the above prior art has the following problems. That is, the information browsing system disclosed in Patent Document 1 is a method of moving content files themselves, and does not have a storage like a hard disk device, and a mobile phone device that uses a random access memory that can be used by a Web browser and is small. Then, it is not suitable to save the content file itself.

  Therefore, in view of the above-described problems of the prior art, the present invention reduces unnecessary communication charges for browsing content and improves user usability regardless of the method of moving and storing the content file itself. The purpose is to let you.

  In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a mobile phone terminal device having a mobile phone browser communicates with a network, acquires content that can be browsed by the mobile phone browser, and stores it as cache data. The communication terminal is a browsing system connected by short-range wireless communication, the communication terminal creates a list of the cache data, and the mobile phone terminal device transmits the list via the short-range wireless communication. Obtaining a list of cache data, selecting content to be displayed by selection of an operator from the list of cache data, and transmitting the cache data of the selected content to the communication terminal via the short-range wireless communication And browsing with the mobile phone browser. It is a non.

  The invention according to claim 2 is the browsing system according to claim 1, wherein the communication terminal further has a cache acquisition program, and the mobile phone terminal device issues an automatic patrol request with a URL to the communication terminal. The cache acquisition program acquires content based on the URL and stores it as cache data.

  The invention according to claim 3 is the browsing system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the list of the cache data created by the communication terminal is a list arranged in order from the new cache data of the update history, It is a list having a file size.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the browsing system according to any one of the first to third aspects, if there is an acquisition request for content to be displayed from the mobile phone terminal device via the short-range wireless communication, the communication is performed. The terminal generates cache data from which images are omitted from the content to be displayed, and transmits the cache data to the mobile phone terminal device.

  The invention according to claim 5 is connected to a mobile phone terminal device having a mobile phone browser by short-range wireless communication, and communicates with a network to acquire contents that can be browsed by the mobile phone browser, and as cache data A communication terminal for storing, creating a list of the cache data, and sending a list of the cache data if there is a request for acquiring the list of the cache data from the mobile phone terminal device via the short-range wireless communication When there is an acquisition request for content to be displayed from the mobile phone terminal device via the short-range wireless communication, the communication terminal transmits cache data of the content to be displayed.

  According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the communication terminal according to the fifth aspect, the communication terminal further has a cache acquisition program, and if there is an automatic patrol request with a URL from the mobile phone terminal device, the cache acquisition program Acquires content based on the URL and stores it as cache data.

  According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the communication terminal according to the fifth or sixth aspect, the list of the cache data is a list arranged in order from the new cache data of the update history and having a predetermined file size. It is characterized by being.

  The invention according to claim 8 is saved in the terminal device according to any one of claims 5 to 7 if there is an acquisition request for content to be displayed from the mobile phone terminal device via the short-range wireless communication. From the cache data of the content desired to be displayed, cache data from which an image is omitted is created and transmitted to the mobile phone terminal device.

  The invention according to claim 9 is connected to a mobile phone terminal device having a mobile phone browser by short-range wireless communication, communicates with a network, acquires contents that can be browsed by the mobile phone browser, and uses it as cache data. A program for a communication terminal to be stored, the process for creating a list of the cache data in the communication terminal, and a request for acquiring the list of cache data from the mobile phone terminal device via the short-range wireless communication If there is a process for transmitting the list of cache data, and a process for transmitting the cache data of the content to be displayed if there is an acquisition request for the content to be displayed from the mobile phone terminal device via the short-range wireless communication. And a program for executing the above.

  According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, in the program according to the ninth aspect, if the communication terminal has an automatic patrol request accompanied by a URL from the mobile phone terminal device, a process of acquiring the content based on the URL, and the acquisition Storing the processed content as cache data.

  The invention according to claim 11 is the program according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the list of the cache data is arranged in the communication terminal in order from the new cache data of the update history, and has a predetermined file size. It is characterized in that a process for creating a list having is executed.

  According to a twelfth aspect of the invention, in the program according to any one of the ninth to eleventh aspects, there is a request for acquisition of content to be displayed from the mobile phone terminal device via the short-range wireless communication to the communication terminal. For example, a process of creating cache data in which an image is omitted from the stored cache data of the content to be displayed and a process of transmitting to the mobile phone terminal device are executed.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, a useless communication charge in order to browse a content can be reduced, and a user's usability can be improved.

  Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of a cash browsing system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[First Embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the outline of the present embodiment. This embodiment uses short-range wireless communication from a browser application of a mobile phone device, refers to a browser content cache file referenced on a personal computer, and does not use a personal computer, even in a place where communication is not possible. You can browse previously referenced content without incurring communication charges.

  In FIG. 1, an example of a screen transition of the browser application of the mobile phone device is shown as a screen 1-1 to a screen 1-3. Here, the operator of the mobile phone device selects PC Kurokuza cache reference on the mobile phone device (screen 1-1). Then, the mobile phone device makes a history information acquisition request to the personal computer 10 (step S1).

  The cache reference program 12 of the personal computer 10 creates history information from the content cache file 13 created by the Web browser 11 referring to the general PC site, and sends the history information to the mobile phone device (step S2).

  The mobile phone device displays a list of history information on the screen and allows the operator to select content to be displayed (screen 1-2).

  Then, the mobile phone device issues a content acquisition request to the personal computer 10 based on the content information selected by the operator (step S3).

  Upon receiving the content acquisition request, the cache reference program 12 of the personal computer 10 extracts the corresponding content file from the content cache file 13 based on the requested content information, and transmits the content file to the mobile phone device (step S4). .

  Upon receiving the content file transmission, the mobile phone device displays the acquired content file (screen 1-3). Note that a short-range communication function may be used for communication between the mobile phone and the personal computer.

  Next, the configuration of the present embodiment will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 2 which is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present embodiment.

  In FIG. 2, a mobile phone device 100 has a mobile phone web browser 102 and a short-range communication device 101 capable of displaying PC site contents. The personal computer 200 includes a Web browser 202, a short-range communication device 201, a cache reference program 203, and a content cache file group 204.

  The functions of the mobile phone web browser 102 in the mobile phone device 100 include a history information acquisition function 103 and a cache content acquisition function 104. Each will be described below.

  The history information acquisition function 103 requests history information from the cache reference program 203 of the personal computer 200, acquires the history information, and displays a history list. The cache content acquisition function 104 causes the operator to select content to be displayed from the history list, and causes the cache reference program 203 of the personal computer 200 to acquire a content file corresponding to display content information (for example, as shown in FIG. 6). To display the content file.

  The Web browser 202 in the personal computer 200 can refer to a general PC site and has a cache function 205. This is a function of saving, in the content cache file group 204, a content file that is locally copied for browsing when the Web browser 202 browses a general PC site or the like. With this function, when the remote content that has not been updated by the Web browser 202 can be browsed again, a local copy can be referred to, and thus there are advantages such as speeding up of processing.

  The cache reference program 203 in the personal computer 200 has a history information extraction function 206 and a cache content extraction function 207. Each will be described below.

  The history information extraction function 206 refers to the content cache file group 204 and creates a history list (for example, as shown in FIG. 5) including a file date, a title, URL information, etc. Transmit to device 100.

  The cache content extraction function 207 extracts a content file corresponding to the requested display content information (for example, as shown in FIG. 6) from the content cache file group 204 and transmits the content file to the mobile phone device 100.

  It is assumed that communication between the mobile phone device 100 and the personal computer 200 is performed by the short-range communication devices 101 and 201 of each other. The communication protocol is not specified. The short-range communication devices 101 and 201 in the present embodiment are not particularly limited, but Bluetooth (registered trademark) communication, infrared communication, or the like is assumed.

  Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4 which are flowcharts showing the operation of the present embodiment. First, FIG. 3 shows the flow of processing until the history list is displayed.

  In FIG. 3, first, the cellular phone device 100 makes a history information acquisition request to the personal computer 200 by the history information acquisition function 103 of the mobile phone web browser 102 (step S301).

  Next, the cellular phone device 100 transmits a history information acquisition request to the personal computer 200 using the short-range communication device 101 (step S302).

  When receiving the history information acquisition request by the short-range communication device 201, the personal computer 200 determines whether or not the content cache file group 204 exists by the history information extraction function 206 of the cache reference program 203 (step S303). At this time, the history information extraction function 206 checks the number of history information at the same time. The number of cases examined is used in the next step S304.

  If the content cache file group 204 exists (step S303, Yes), the history information extraction function 206 extracts the date, title, and URL from the content cache file group 204 to create history information (step S304). At this time, the history information extraction function 206 creates suitable history information based on the number of history information checked in step S303. If too much history information is to be created, a threshold is appropriately set for the number of cases, and the number of pieces of history information that does not exceed the threshold is created (for example, a maximum of 128 cases).

  When the content cache file group 204 does not exist (step S303, No), 0 is set as the number of history information (step S305).

  Next, the personal computer 200 transmits the acquired history information to the mobile phone device 100 using the short-range communication device 201 (step S306).

  Next, the history information acquisition function 103 determines the number of history information items (step S307). When the number of cases is not 0 (step S307, No), the history information acquisition function 103 displays a list of history information on the screen (step S308). If the number of cases is 0 (step S307, Yes), an error message is displayed and the process ends (step S309). The error message may be, for example, “No cache”.

  Next, FIG. 4 shows a processing flow until the mobile phone device 100 acquires a content file.

  In FIG. 4, the mobile phone device 100 shows a history list screen to the operator, and the operator selects content to be displayed. Therefore, the cache content acquisition function 104 of the mobile phone web browser 102 makes a request to the personal computer 200 to acquire a cache file of the selected content (step S401). At this time, information on the selected content (hereinafter referred to as display content information) is created.

  Next, the cellular phone device 100 transmits the display content information and the content file acquisition request to the personal computer 200 using the short-range communication device 101 (step S402).

  In response to the above request or the like, in the personal computer 200, the cache content extraction function 207 of the cache reference program 203 extracts the corresponding content file from the content cache file group 204 based on the display content information (step S403).

  Next, the personal computer 200 uses the short-range communication device 201 to transmit the content file extracted by the cache content extraction function 207 to the mobile phone device 100 (step S404).

  The mobile phone device 100 that has received the transmission of the content file displays the acquired content file on the screen by the mobile phone web browser 102 (step S405).

  This is the end of the description of the operation of the present embodiment. Next, the history information list and display content information in the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a history information list according to the present embodiment. The history information list has a date, a title, and a URL, and stores the total number of cases.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of display content information according to the present embodiment. The display content information includes a date, a title, and a URL.

  According to the present embodiment described above, since the mobile phone device does not perform billing communication by using the already acquired content cache, it is possible to reduce the useless communication amount of the mobile phone device.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, since the content cache can be easily referred to by the mobile phone device without operating the personal computer, it is possible to improve user usability. In addition, by using the short-range communication function, it is possible to use even if the target is separated, such as a personal computer in a cage, so that it is possible to improve user usability.

[Second Embodiment]
The second embodiment of the present invention will be described below.

  FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the second exemplary embodiment of the present invention. The personal computer 200 in FIG. 2 is replaced with a mobile phone device 300 as shown in FIG.

  In the present invention, the device that provides the content cache file is not limited to the personal computer as in the first embodiment, but may be a mobile phone device. The present invention can also be implemented in a configuration in which mobile phone devices communicate with each other.

  In FIG. 7, a mobile phone device 300 includes software programs and hardware similar to those of the personal computer 200 in FIG. However, the content cache of the mobile phone device 300 is stored in the file format in the personal computer 200 in FIG. 2, but is stored as content cache data in the RAM 304 in FIG.

  In general, since the cache area of a mobile phone is small, the number of stored contents is small. However, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to use the mobile phone device 100 so that the content being displayed on the mobile phone device 300 is displayed. Become. In addition, it is possible to simultaneously refer to the content for which someone has performed billing communication with another mobile phone device.

[Third Embodiment]
In this embodiment, in the first embodiment, the personal computer 200 further has a cache acquisition program. In the following description, the description of the same configuration or operation as that described above is omitted for the sake of brevity. A block diagram showing the configuration of the present embodiment is shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 8, a cache acquisition program 801 is a program that performs processing for causing the personal computer 200 to acquire content on the network. This process can be automatically performed in response to an automatic patrol request from the mobile phone device 100. Therefore, it is different from the Web browser 202 in which an operator needs to instruct acquisition of content on the network. Here, the network is an information communication network including the Internet and an in-house LAN.

  This embodiment operates as follows. First, the mobile phone device 100 issues an automatic patrol request to the personal computer 200. The request at this time may be short-range communication performed using the short-range communication device 101 or Internet communication performed via the Internet, for example. Also, the request at this time is an automatic patrol request accompanied with a URL by passing the URL desired by the operator as a parameter.

  Next, the cache acquisition program 801 of the personal computer 200 that has received the automatic patrol request fetches (acquires) a content file such as a general PC site of the designated URL and stores it in the content cache file group 204. In addition, the page description language of the specified URL is analyzed, the link is followed, and all contents below the URL are taken into the cache.

  According to the present embodiment, since the operation of the personal computer is minimized and the content cache can be easily referred to by the mobile phone device, it is possible to further improve the usability of the user.

[Fourth Embodiment]
In this embodiment, when a history information acquisition request is issued in the first embodiment, the history information list is acquired in the order of the size specified in advance (for example, 64 Mbyte) in order from the newest date. It is.

  This will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, the mobile phone device of this embodiment transmits a history information acquisition request to the personal computer 10 (step S1). In response to this request, the cache reference program 12 of the personal computer 10 creates a history information list for a predesignated size and transmits it to the mobile phone device (step S2).

  The date may be a cache update date. The size may be specified by the personal computer 10 in advance, or may be specified by passing the size as a parameter when a history information acquisition request is issued from the mobile phone device (step S1).

  According to the present embodiment, it is possible to prevent information exceeding the storage capacity from being sent to a mobile phone terminal having a limited storage capacity.

[Fifth Embodiment]
In the first embodiment, when acquiring content, the image is omitted and only characters are acquired.

  This will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, the personal computer 10 of the present embodiment receives a content acquisition request from the mobile phone device (step S3). Then, the cache reference program 12 generates a content file of only character information excluding images for the content received from the content cache file 13 and transmits it to the mobile phone device (step S4). .

  According to the present embodiment, it is possible to realize data size compression of a file to be transmitted to a mobile phone terminal by not transmitting an image having a large data size to a mobile phone terminal having a limited storage capacity. .

It is a figure for demonstrating the outline | summary of 1st Embodiment by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of 1st Embodiment by this invention. It is a flowchart figure (the 1) which shows operation | movement of 1st Embodiment by this invention. It is a flowchart figure (the 2) which shows operation | movement of 1st Embodiment by this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the log | history information list of this embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the display content information of this embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of 2nd Embodiment by this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of 3rd Embodiment by this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Personal computer 11 Web browser 12 Cache reference program 13 Content cache file 100 Mobile phone device 101 Short range communication device 102 Mobile phone web browser 103 History information acquisition function 104 Cache content acquisition function 200 Personal computer 201 Short range communication device 202 Web browser 203 Cache Reference Program 204 Content Cache File Group 205 Cache Function 206 History Information Extraction Function 207 Cache Content Extraction Function 300 Mobile Phone Device 301 Short-range Communication Device 302 Mobile Phone Web Browser 303 Cache Reference Program 304 RAM
305 Cache function 306 History information extraction function 307 Cache content extraction function 801 Cache acquisition program

Claims (12)

Browsing in which short-distance wireless communication is connected between a mobile phone terminal device including a mobile phone browser and a communication terminal that communicates with a network and acquires content that can be browsed by the mobile phone browser and stores it as cache data A system,
The communication terminal creates a list of the cache data,
The mobile phone terminal device acquires a list of the cache data via the short-range wireless communication, selects content to be displayed by selection of an operator from the list of cache data, and selects the selected content The browsing data is acquired from the communication terminal via the short-range wireless communication and displayed by the mobile phone browser. The communication terminal further has a cache acquisition program,
When the mobile phone terminal device issues an automatic patrol request with a URL to the communication terminal,
The browsing system according to claim 1, wherein the cache acquisition program acquires content based on the URL and stores it as cache data.   The list of the cache data created by the communication terminal is a list arranged in order from the new cache data of the update history, and is a list having a predetermined file size. Browsing system. If there is an acquisition request for content to be displayed via the short-range wireless communication from the mobile phone terminal device,
The browsing system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the communication terminal creates cache data from which an image is omitted from the content to be displayed and transmits the cache data to the mobile phone terminal device. A communication terminal that is connected to a mobile phone terminal device including a mobile phone browser by short-range wireless communication, communicates with a network, acquires content that can be browsed by the mobile phone browser, and stores the content as cache data,
Create a list of the cache data,
If there is an acquisition request for the cache data list from the mobile phone terminal device via the short-range wireless communication, the cache data list is transmitted,
A communication terminal characterized by transmitting cache data of content to be displayed when there is an acquisition request for content to be displayed from the mobile phone terminal device via the short-range wireless communication. The communication terminal further has a cache acquisition program,
6. The communication terminal according to claim 5, wherein if there is an automatic patrol request with a URL from the mobile phone terminal device, the cache acquisition program acquires content based on the URL and stores it as cache data.   7. The communication terminal according to claim 5, wherein the list of cache data is a list arranged in order from the new cache data in the update history and having a predetermined file size. If there is an acquisition request for content to be displayed via the short-range wireless communication from the mobile phone terminal device,
8. The terminal according to claim 5, wherein cache data from which an image is omitted is created from the stored cache data of the content to be displayed and transmitted to the mobile phone terminal device. apparatus. A program for a communication terminal, which is connected to a mobile phone terminal device having a mobile phone browser by short-range wireless communication, communicates with a network, acquires content that can be browsed by the mobile phone browser, and stores the content as cache data Because
In the communication terminal,
Processing to create a list of the cache data;
If there is an acquisition request for the list of cache data via the short-range wireless communication from the mobile phone terminal device, a process of transmitting the list of cache data;
If there is an acquisition request for content to be displayed via the short-range wireless communication from the mobile phone terminal device, processing for transmitting cache data of the content to be displayed;
A program characterized in that is executed. In the communication terminal,
If there is an automatic patrol request with a URL from the mobile phone terminal device, processing to acquire content based on the URL;
The program according to claim 9, further comprising: a process for storing the acquired content as cache data. In the communication terminal,
11. The program according to claim 9, wherein a process of creating a list having a predetermined file size, which is a list arranged in order from the new cache data of the update history as the list of cache data, is executed. . In the communication terminal,
If there is an acquisition request for content to be displayed via the short-range wireless communication from the mobile phone terminal device,
A process of creating cache data from which the image is omitted from the stored cache data of the content to be displayed;
The program according to any one of claims 9 to 11, wherein a program to be transmitted to the mobile phone terminal device is executed.

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