JP2012216076A - Telop type message notification system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system capable of increasing validity of read/unread determination for a message receiver in a telop type message notification system.SOLUTION: In between a server machine for transmitting a telop message and a client machine for receiving the message, display stop operation is controlled not to be performed by an input part of the client machine from when a client user displays an operation screen for instructing display stop of a message on the client machine having a function to display a telop of the received message to when the message is completely displayed on a telop display part at least once. When the client user instructs the display stop, a read notification is transmitted to the server machine.

Description

  The present invention relates to a telop-type message notification system and method having a message read determination function.

  A telop has been used as one of the means for notifying a highly urgent message in real time. However, in the telop notification method, the sender can easily notify the message, but the confirmation method of whether the receiver has read the message is ambiguous.

  Note that, when considering not only telops but also messages in general, there are technologies described in Patent Documents 1, 2, and 3 as known examples for determining read. Patent Document 1 discloses a system in which an information sharing system such as groupware is added with a “sticky note” function for describing proprietary information that is not desired to be shared with respect to a shared information message. Patent Document 2 discloses a system that can easily determine whether a message has been read or not. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-228561 discloses an apparatus that distributes a message to a PC or the like so that a message recipient can easily recognize whether or not the message has been read on a predetermined browser screen.

JP 2008-65374 A JP 2010-176248 JP 2010-244577

  By the way, even in the telop-type message notification, there is a requirement that the sender of the message wants to notify the message unreader again of the message. However, since the sender cannot properly determine whether or not the receiver has referred to the message, the sender may misunderstand that the message is also referred to by a non-message reader. In this case, even if the sender thinks that the message has a high degree of urgency, there is a situation where the message is not actually transmitted to the recipient.

  Such a problem can be avoided to some extent by leaving a history as read at the timing when the receiver hides the message displayed on the screen and notifying the sender of the read. However, in such a system, when the recipient does not want to read the message, even when the displayed message is hidden, the sender is notified of the read, so the correct read determination cannot be made.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of improving the legitimacy of a read / unread determination of a message recipient in a telop type message notification system.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is a telop-type message notification system for transmitting a telop message from a server machine and displaying the telop message on a client machine, wherein the server machine transmits the telop message to the client machine. Means for transmitting the transmitted telop message, means for storing the read information as "unread" in the message information storage unit, means for receiving a read notification of the telop message transmitted from the client machine, Means for updating the read information of the corresponding message in the message information storage unit to “read” based on the received read notification, and the client machine telops the telop message transmitted from the server machine. Of the display method and the displayed telop message Means for the state to read, characterized in that it comprises means for transmitting a read notification for telop message as read in the server machine.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the telop-type message notification system according to the first aspect, the means for setting the state of the telop message displayed on the client machine to read is a stop operation when the user performs a predetermined operation. A screen is displayed, and when the user instructs to stop displaying the telop message on the stop operation screen, the state of the telop message is marked as read.

  The invention according to claim 3 is the telop-type message notification system according to claim 2, wherein the stop operation screen is displayed when the telop message is completely displayed at least once after the display. It is characterized in that it can accept a stop instruction.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the telop-type message notification system according to the second aspect, the telop message transmitted from the server machine is designated with an importance level, and the stop operation screen includes (1) a client machine When the importance of the telop message displayed in (2) is high, it is possible to accept an instruction to stop the display when the telop message is completely displayed at least once after the stop operation screen is displayed. (2) Client When the importance level of the telop message displayed on the machine is low, it is possible to immediately accept an instruction to stop the display on the stop operation screen.

  The invention according to claim 5 is the telop-type message notification system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the server machine is configured to determine whether the transmitted telop message history or unread or read at the transmission destination. It has the means to manage.

  The invention according to claim 6 is a telop-type message notification method for transmitting a telop message from a server machine and displaying the telop message on a client machine, wherein the server machine transmits a telop message to the client machine, and the server The machine stores the transmitted telop message as “unread” in the message information storage unit, and the client machine displays the telop message transmitted from the server machine in a telop format. The client machine sets the status of the displayed telop message as read, the client machine transmits a read notification about the read telop message to the server machine, and the server machine , A step of receiving a read notification of the telop message transmitted from the client machine, and the server machine sets the read information of the corresponding message in the message information storage unit to “read” based on the received read notification. And a step of updating.

  According to the present invention, in the telop-type message notification, there is an effect of improving the legitimacy of the message read determination. Therefore, it is possible to improve the accuracy with which the user of the server machine identifies the message unreader with respect to the user of the client machine.

It is a system block diagram in the actual condition form which concerns on this invention. This information is stored in the message information storage unit of the server machine. This information is stored in the message information storage unit of the client machine. It is a flowchart when transmitting a message from a server machine to a client machine. It is a flowchart until it receives a message in a client machine, and transmits a read notification to a server machine. It is a flowchart when the read notification from the client machine is received by the server machine. It is a figure which shows the flow on a screen until the stop operation of a message is attained at a client machine.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a telop message notification system to which the present invention is applied will be described.

  FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. The telop-type message notification system according to this embodiment includes a server machine 103 that includes an input unit 102 in an input device 101. The server machine 103 includes a message information storage unit 104 and a transmission / reception unit 105. The message sender inputs a transmission message and a transmission destination using the input unit 102. The server machine 103 stores a transmission message, a transmission date and time, a transmission destination machine name (IP address), read information, and the like in the message information storage unit 104 according to the input information. The read information is information indicating a message read state of the user of the client machine 107. In the message information storage unit 104, the read information is stored as “unread” at the time of transmission, and is set to “read” when a read notification is received from the client machine 107.

  This server machine 103 is connected to a client machine 107 via a network 106. The client machine 107 includes a telop display processing unit 108, a telop display stop processing unit 109, a stop operation screen display processing unit 110, a read notification processing unit 111, a transmission / reception unit 112, and a message information storage unit 113. The input device 114 includes an input unit 115, and the output device 116 includes a telop display unit 117 and a stop operation screen 118. The stop operation screen 118 is displayed when the user of the client machine 107 performs a predetermined operation on the input unit 115 in order to stop a message displayed on the telop display unit 117. 118 is displayed. Until the operation for displaying the stop operation screen 118 is performed from the input unit 115, the stop operation screen 118 is not displayed (or, for example, grayed out so that the operation cannot be performed). When the client machine 107 receives the message from the server machine 103, the client machine 107 stores the received message, the reception date and time, and the read information in the message information storage unit 113.

  When the client machine 107 receives a message from the server machine 103, the telop display processing unit 108 outputs the message to the telop display unit 117. The displayed message is repeatedly displayed on the telop display unit 117 until the user of the client machine 107 performs a stop operation. When the user of the client machine 107 displays the stop operation screen 118 by operating the input unit 115 and performs a stop operation on the displayed message, the display of the message is stopped by the telop display stop processing unit 109 (the telop display unit). 117 will not be output). When the message stop operation is performed, the message state of the client machine 107 stored in the message information storage unit 113 is set to “read”. The read notification processing unit 111 transmits a read notification to the server machine 103 via the transmission / reception unit 112.

  As will be described later, the importance of “high” or “low” is specified in the message transmitted from the server machine 103 to the client machine 107 and displayed. The user of the client machine 107 can stop the message having the importance level of “low” at any time. The stop operation of the message having the importance level of “high” is controlled so that the stop operation cannot be performed until the message is completely displayed once or more on the telop display unit 117 after the stop operation screen 118 is displayed. .

  When the read notification sent from the transmission / reception unit 112 of the client machine 107 reaches the transmission / reception unit 105 of the server machine 103, the server machine 103 reads the read information of the message stored in the message information storage unit 104 as “read Update to The administrator of the server machine 103 can confirm the message read information of the client machine 107 by referring to the read information of this message.

  FIG. 2 shows information such as message read information stored in the message information storage unit 104 of the server machine 103. The message information storage unit 104 stores a message ID 201, importance 202, transmission message 203, transmission date / time 204, transmission destination machine name 205, user name 206, and read information 207. The message ID 201 is an ID uniquely assigned to one message transmitted from the server machine 103. Since one message may be sent to a plurality of users at the same time, a plurality of records may be registered with the same message ID as shown in FIG. As the importance 202, the sender of the message sets “high” or “low” indicating the importance of the message. The read determination method for the message is changed according to the importance, which will be described later. A transmission message 203 indicates the content of the message, and a transmission date and time 204 indicates the date and time when the message is transmitted. The destination machine name 205 is the computer name or IP address of the destination of the message, and the user name 206 is a user name that identifies the destination user. The read information 207 is information indicating whether or not the user has read the message. When the message is transmitted, “unread” is set as an initial value. When the read notification is received, the read information 207 is rewritten to “read”.

  FIG. 3 shows information such as message read information stored in the message information storage unit 113 of the client machine 107. When the client machine 107 receives the message from the server machine 103, the client machine 107 stores the received message 301, the reception date / time 302, and the read information 303. When the message is received, the read information is stored as “unread”, but the user of the client machine 107 is updated from “unread” to “read” when the user stops the message.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the server machine 103 when a message is transmitted from the server machine 103 to the client machine 107. The administrator of the server machine 103 inputs a message, its importance, and a transmission destination using the input unit 102 (step 401). The input information of step 401 is stored in the message information storage unit 104 described with reference to FIG. 2 (step 402). At this time, the message ID is automatically assigned, and the read information 207 of the transmission message stores “unread”. Next, a message is transmitted to the user of the destination machine input by the transmission / reception unit 105 (step 403).

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure in the client machine 107 until the client machine 107 receives a message and transmits a read notification to the server machine 103.

  When a message is transmitted from the server machine 103 to the client machine 107, the transmission / reception unit 112 receives a message from the server (step 501). The received message is output to the telop display unit 117 of the output device 116 (step 502). When the user wants to stop the message, the user of the client machine 107 performs a predetermined operation with the input unit 115 of the input device 114. When the operation is detected, the stop operation screen 118 is displayed on the telop display unit 117 (step 503). ). Next, it is determined whether the importance level of the message is “low” or whether the message is displayed at least once (step 504). It is assumed that it is not necessary to confirm that the message with the importance level “low” has been displayed once or more, and the process immediately proceeds to step 505. For the message with the importance level “high”, control is performed so that the message cannot be stopped until the message is displayed on the telop display unit 117 at least once after the stop operation screen 118 is displayed (step S100). 504). In this case, after confirming that the message has been completely displayed at least once, the process proceeds to step 505.

  Note that the method for detecting that the telop message has been completely displayed once or more is arbitrary. In the system of the present embodiment, the display state when the message is displayed by the telop display processing unit 108 is acquired and determined. Although it is an indirect method, the time from when the telop display processing unit 108 instructs the telop display unit 117 to display a message until it is completely displayed once or more is roughly calculated in advance, and the time exceeds that time. When elapses, it may be determined that the image is completely displayed once or more.

  Next, the client machine 107 receives a message stop operation, and the message is not displayed from the telop display unit 117 when the user performs the message stop operation (step 505). It is assumed that the message state has already been read because the message is stopped, and the read information in the message information storage unit 113 described with reference to FIG. 3 is rewritten to “read” (step 506). Next, the read notification processing unit 111 transmits the read notification to the server machine 103 via the transmission / reception unit 112 (step 507).

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the server machine 103 when the server machine 103 receives a message from the client machine 107. When the read notification is transmitted from the client machine 107 to the server machine 103, the transmission / reception unit 105 receives the read notification from the user of the client machine 107 (step 601). Since the message ID, machine name, and user name are included in the read notification, the corresponding record is searched from the message information storage unit 104, and the read information 207 of the message is updated to “read” (step) 602).

  FIG. 7 shows an example of the flow on the screen from when a message is displayed on the telop display unit 117 on the client machine 107 until the message can be stopped. Here, as an example, it is assumed that a message “High” is displayed on the telop display section 117 as “Magnitude 10 earthquake occurred in Kanto”. Message display is started on the telop display unit 117, and a stop operation screen 118 is displayed by operating the input unit 115 (701). Since the importance of this message is “high”, the stop operation cannot be performed until the last character of the message is completely displayed on the telop display portion 117 after the stop operation screen 118 is displayed ( 701, 702). When the first character to the last character of the message are completely displayed once on the telop display unit 117 after displaying the stop operation screen 118, the stop operation disabled state is canceled, and the stop operation from the input unit 115 is performed. It becomes possible (703).

  In the above embodiment, one server machine 103 performs message transmission and already-read notification processing, but these may be performed by another server machine. That is, a message may be transmitted from the first server machine to the client machine, and a read notification from the client machine may be received by another second server machine to manage unread / read of each message. In that case, it is necessary to notify the second server machine of the information in FIG. 2 regarding the message transmitted from the first server machine.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 ... Input device, 102 ... Input part, 103 ... Server machine, 104 ... Message information storage part (server machine), 105 ... Transmission / reception part (server machine), 106 ... Network, 107 ... Client machine, 108 ... Telop display processing part 109 ... Telop display stop processing unit, 110 ... Stop operation screen display processing unit, 111 ... Read notification processing unit, 112 ... Transmission / reception unit (client machine), 113 ... Message information storage unit (client machine), 114 ... Input device 115, an input unit, 116, an output device, 117, a telop display unit, 118, a stop operation screen.

Claims (6)

A telop-type message notification system for sending a telop message from a server machine and displaying it on a client machine,
The server machine is
Means for sending a telop message to the client machine;
Means for storing the transmitted telop message in the message information storage unit with the read information as “unread”;
Means for receiving a read notification of a telop message transmitted from the client machine;
A means for updating the read information of the corresponding message in the message information storage unit to “read” based on the received read notification;
The client machine is
Means for displaying a telop message transmitted from the server machine in a telop format;
A means of marking the displayed telop message status as read,
A telop-type message notification system comprising: means for transmitting a read notification for a telop message that has been read to the server machine. In the telop type message notification system according to claim 1,
The means for marking the state of the telop message displayed on the client machine as the read-out display a stop operation screen when the user performs a predetermined operation, and the user instructs to stop displaying the telop message on the stop operation screen. Sometimes, the telop message notification system is characterized in that the state of the telop message is marked as read. In the telop type message notification system according to claim 2,
The telop-type message notification system, wherein the stop operation screen is capable of accepting an instruction to stop display when the telop message is completely displayed once or more after it is displayed. . In the telop type message notification system according to claim 2,
Importance is specified in the telop message sent from the server machine,
(1) When the telop message displayed on the client machine is high in importance, the stop operation screen is stopped when the telop message is completely displayed at least once after the stop operation screen is displayed. (2) A telop that can immediately accept a display stop instruction on the stop operation screen when the importance of the telop message displayed on the client machine is low Expression message notification system. In the telop type message notification system according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The server machine comprises a telop-type message notification system comprising means for managing a history of transmitted telop messages and whether unread or read at a transmission destination. A telop-type message notification method for sending a telop message from a server machine and displaying it on a client machine,
The server machine sending a telop message to the client machine;
Storing the telop message transmitted by the server machine in the message information storage unit with the read information as “unread”;
The client machine displaying a telop message transmitted from the server machine in a telop format;
The client machine sets the status of the displayed telop message as read,
The client machine sending a read notification about the read telop message to the server machine;
The server machine receives a telop message read notification sent from the client machine;
The telop-type message notification method comprising: the server machine updating the read information of the corresponding message in the message information storage unit to “read” based on the received read notification.

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