JP2013084068A - Information display device, server, program, information display method, and information display system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance accuracy of information provided through a network.SOLUTION: An information display device comprises: request output means (22) which outputs a user ID of a user performing a request and the request for a posted article and a general article, which are provided by a posting management system which stores a posted article including time information in association with a user ID for identifying its poster and controls access to the posted article by another user ID associated with the user ID of the poser, and an article distribution system which stores general articles including time information and distributes the general articles corresponding to a request regardless of a request source; and time series display means (25) which displays the posted article and the general article provided corresponding to the request from the request output means in time series according to each piece of the time information.

Description

  The present invention relates to an information display device, a server, a program, an information display method, and an information display system that display information in an integrated manner.

In recent years, information provided via a network such as the Internet has been diverse and enormous, and it has become necessary for users to quickly and efficiently select and refer to highly accurate information among them. ing.
For example, in social media (medium), in order to provide the user with articles from a desired information source registered in advance by the user, it is useful in that the user can select the information source of the article to browse in advance. Since only this information is provided, there was a concern that the content of the provided information would be biased. On the other hand, mass media (media) require high publicity in articles, so the reliability of the articles is guaranteed, but there is a concern that the contents will be side by side and another bias may occur. there were.
Here, as a technique for displaying information provided via a network in a form that a user can efficiently grasp, a technique described in Patent Document 1 is known.
In the technique described in Patent Document 1, information such as posted articles is acquired from a plurality of Web sites, and these are integrated and displayed.
Thereby, since the user can browse in an integrated form without individually browsing information published on different websites, various public information can be efficiently grasped.

JP 2002-007404 A

However, in the conventional technology including the technology described in Patent Document 1, information acquired from a specific type of information source is simply integrated and displayed on one screen, so that the user can improve the accuracy of the information. It was difficult to provide sufficient support for judgment.
That is, in the prior art, it has been difficult to increase the accuracy of information provided via a network.

  An object of the present invention is to provide an information display method for further improving the accuracy of information provided via a network.

(1) Posts including time information are stored in association with user IDs for identifying the posters, and access to the posted articles is restricted by other user IDs related to the user IDs of the posters. A request for the posted article and the general article provided by a management system and an article distribution system that stores a general article including time information and distributes the general article in response to a request regardless of a request source. Request output means for outputting together with the user ID of the user to perform,
Time series display means for displaying the posted article and the general article provided in response to a request by the request output means in chronological order according to each time information;
An information display device comprising:

(2) The time-series display means sets the category of the selected attribute when the category of the attribute set in advance in the posted article and the general article is selected and specified. The information display device according to (1), wherein the posted article and the general article that have been selected are displayed in time series order.
(3) The time series display means displays a text display window when any of the posted articles and the general articles displayed side by side in the time series is selected, and displays the selected articles. The information display device according to (1) or (2), wherein details are displayed in the text display window.

(4) a rectangular display screen;
Posture detecting means for detecting the posture of the device itself,
The time series display means includes
When the text display window is displayed in a state where the device is used in a vertical type with the short side of the display screen as the base, the device is used in a horizontal type with the long side of the display screen as the base. When the posture detecting means detects that the state has been changed to the state to be performed, the display screen is switched to a display state in which the long side that is the bottom side is on the lower side, and the case of the horizontal type is more than the case of the vertical type The information display device according to (3), wherein the size of characters displayed in the text display window is increased.

(5) Article input receiving means for receiving an input of an article to be posted to the posting management system;
An article transmitting means for transmitting the article received by the article input receiving means to the post management system,
The time series display means includes
The article received by the article input accepting unit is transmitted to the posting management system by the article transmitting unit and provided as the posted article from the posting management system. The information display device according to any one of (1) to (4), which is added to an article and displayed in chronological order.
(6) provided with interest data storage means for storing data representing the user's interest;
The time series display means is displayed by the time series display means based on data representing the user's interest stored in the interest data storage means and attributes attached to the posted article and the general article. In the posted article and the general article, the posted article and the general article whose attributes coincide with the data representing the user's interest are selected, and the selected posted article and the general article are displayed in chronological order ( The information display device according to any one of 1) to (5).

(7) The request output means also outputs a user ID of another user who requests provision of the posted article among user IDs for identifying a poster in the posting management system,
The time series display means displays the posted articles of the other users and the general articles provided in response to a request from the request output means in order of time series according to each time information (1) to ( The information display device according to any one of 6).

(8) A server in an information display system including a terminal device and a server capable of communicating with each other, provided via a network, and displaying an article including time information,
From the terminal device, a posted article including time information is stored in association with a user ID for identifying the poster, and access to the posted article is restricted by another user ID associated with the user ID of the poster. The post management system and the post of the general article provided by the article distribution system that stores the general article including time information and distributes the general article in response to the request regardless of the request source. Article output means for acquiring the posted article and the general article from the posting management system and the article distribution system in response to the request when output together with the user ID of the user making the request;
Article integration means for integrating the posted articles from the posting management system acquired by the article acquisition means and the general articles from the article distribution system into a time-series sequence according to the time information;
Integrated article transmitting means for transmitting the posted article and the general article integrated by the article integrating means to the terminal device;
A server comprising

(9) Posts including time information are stored in association with user IDs for identifying the posters, and access to the posted articles is restricted by other user IDs related to the user IDs of the posters. A request for the posted article and the general article provided by a management system and an article distribution system that stores a general article including time information and distributes the general article in response to a request regardless of a request source. A request output function for outputting together with the user ID of the user to perform;
A time-series display function for displaying the posted article and the general article provided in response to a request by the request output function in chronological order according to each time information;
A program that makes a computer realize.

(10) The computer stores the posted article including the time information in association with the user ID for identifying the poster, and accesses the posted article with another user ID associated with the user ID of the poster. A post management system to limit, and a request for the post article and the general article provided by an article distribution system that stores a general article including time information and distributes the general article in response to a request regardless of a request source. A request output step for outputting together with the user ID of the user making the request;
A time series display step in which the computer displays the posted article and the general article provided in response to the request in the request output step in time series order according to each time information;
Information display method.

(11) An information display system that includes a terminal device and a server capable of communicating with each other, is provided via a network, and displays an article including time information,
The terminal device
A post management system that stores a post article including time information in association with a user ID for identifying the contributor and restricts access to the post article with another user ID associated with the user ID of the contributor; And the request for the posted article and the general article provided by the article distribution system that stores the general article including time information and distributes the general article in response to the request regardless of the request source. Request output means for outputting together with the user ID;
Time-series display means for displaying the posted article and the general article provided in response to a request by the request output means in time-series order according to each time information;
The server
When the request for the posted article and the general article provided by the posting management system and the article distribution system is output from the terminal device together with the user ID of the user who makes the request, the request is answered. Article acquisition means for acquiring the posted article and the general article from the posting management system and the article distribution system;
Article integration means for integrating the posted articles from the posting management system acquired by the article acquisition means and the general articles from the article distribution system into a time-series sequence according to the time information;
An information display system comprising: integrated article transmission means for transmitting the posted article and the general article integrated by the article integration means to the terminal device.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, it becomes possible to provide the information display technique which raises the accuracy of information more as a technique which displays the various information provided via a network.

1 is a diagram illustrating an overall configuration for explaining an information display system 1. FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration of a user terminal 2. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display screen formed by a display screen control unit 25. FIG. It is a figure which shows the change of the display state in the case where a display screen is a vertical type, and a horizontal type. 3 is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration of an information collection server 3. FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the integrated article set display process which the user terminal 2 performs. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of information collection / integration processing executed by the information collection server 3;

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[First Embodiment]
[overall structure]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration for explaining an information display system 1 according to the present embodiment.
The information display system 1 includes a user terminal 2 and an information collection server 3, and the information collection server 3 is configured to be able to communicate with the user terminal 2, the article distribution system 100, and the posting management system 200 via a network. ing.

  In the information display system 1, when the user terminal 2 transmits a browsing information acquisition request, the information collection server 3 that collects information receives a general article (for example, a news article published by the mass media) without restriction according to the request. Article distribution system 100 providing information and a post management system 200 providing posted articles (for example, SNS (Social Networking Site) shared articles shared among specific users in the community) according to management by a user account (user ID and password) To access. Then, the information collection server 3 collects articles having time information (for example, a time stamp or delivery date / time described in the text) provided from the article distribution system 100 and the post management system 200. Then, the information collection server 3 sorts the collected articles in the order of time series indicated by the time information and integrates them as a set of articles, and the integrated set of articles (hereinafter referred to as “integrated article set”) is the user. Transmit to terminal 2. The user terminal 2 displays the integrated article set received from the information collection server 3 in a browser window (hereinafter referred to as “time-series display window”). At this time, the user terminal 2 displays a tab indicating the attribute attribute classification in the time series display window, and when the user selects the tab, the attribute corresponding to the tab is selected from the integrated article set. Only the information it has is selected, and the selected information is displayed in the time series display window. Also, in the time series display window, articles such as headings or comment sentences that briefly represent the contents of the body that make up the integrated article set are displayed in a list, and when the user selects any article, the detailed information display window (Described later) appears, and the text corresponding to the article is displayed in the detailed information display window adjacent to the time-series display window.

With such a function, the user can integrate various information on the website that he can obtain and arrange them in chronological order and display them on the browser. It becomes possible to grasp information having time series efficiently. In addition, since information published by the news media etc. and information shared based on the real-time experience of each individual user in SNS, etc. are displayed on the same timeline, information of different types of information sources can be combined. Can be presented to the user.
Therefore, according to the information display system 1 according to the present invention, the user can determine the accuracy of information while referring to various information provided based on different subjects and management algorithms as supporting each other. It is possible to further improve the accuracy of information provided via the network.
In FIG. 1, the information collection server 3 shows an example in which information is collected from one article distribution system 100 and the post management system 200, respectively. It is possible to have a configuration for collecting information.

[Configuration of user terminal 2]
In FIG. 1, a user terminal 2 is constituted by an information processing terminal such as a tablet PC (Personal Computer) having a browser function, and is configured to be able to communicate with an information collection server 3 via a network (not shown).
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration of the user terminal 2.
In FIG. 2, the user terminal 2 includes a user input reception unit 21, an information acquisition request unit 22, an acquisition information storage unit 23, a screen direction determination unit 24, and a display screen control unit 25.

  The user input receiving unit 21 receives various instruction inputs by the user, such as a browser activation instruction, an integrated article set sorting instruction, or an article selection in the integrated article set. In addition, the user input receiving unit 21 receives an input of a user ID and password of the posting management system 200. In addition, the user terminal 2 in this embodiment is provided with the touchscreen type input / output interface, and various instructions can be input when the user performs touch input on the display screen.

The information acquisition request unit 22 requests the information collection server 3 to acquire information from the article distribution system 100 and the post management system 200 when a browser activation instruction is input to the user input reception unit 21 ( Hereinafter, referred to as “browsing information acquisition request”). At this time, the information acquisition request unit 22 transmits the browsing information acquisition request including the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the article distribution system 100 and the URL, user ID, and password of the post management system 200 to the information collection server 3. . Then, the information acquisition request unit 22 receives the integrated article set transmitted from the information collection server 3.
Here, it is good also as transmitting the user ID of the other user which the user of the user terminal 2 designated as an information source desiring to include the posted article in the integrated article set.
As described above, when another user including the posted article is specified in the integrated article set, only the information source having high reliability for the user of the user terminal 2 is selected from the posted articles managed by the posting management system 200. Therefore, the accuracy of information provided can be further improved.

The acquired information storage unit 23 stores the received integrated article set when the integrated article set collected in response to the browsing information acquisition request is received from the information collection server 3.
The screen direction determination unit 24 uses the detection signal from the posture detection unit that detects the posture of the user terminal 2 such as an acceleration sensor or a gyro sensor as a display screen in which the user terminal 2 is a vertical type (that is, the bottom side is a short side). Whether the display screen is being used or used as a horizontal (that is, the bottom side is a long side) display screen, that is, the vertical direction of the display screen is determined. Then, the screen direction determination unit 24 notifies the display screen control unit 25 of the current display screen direction of the user terminal 2.

  The display screen control unit 25 uses the Web page information set as the initial display page of the browser and the integrated article set stored in the acquired information storage unit 23 to display the configuration of the display frame in the browser display area. The information to be displayed in each display frame is determined and a display screen is formed. The user terminal 2 has a rectangular display screen, and the display screen control unit 25 changes the configuration of the display frame according to the direction of the display screen notified from the screen direction determination unit 24. Further, the display screen control unit 25 increases the size of characters in the detailed information display window displayed adjacent to the time series display window in the case of the horizontal display screen than in the case of the vertical display screen. .

In addition, the display screen control unit 25 classifies information attributes (for example,
Tabs representing "All", "Economy", "Entertainment" (Entertainment), "Sports", "Technology", etc.) are displayed. The articles belonging to the category are selected and displayed in time series. As such a tab, a tab corresponding to a classification of “article provided by mass media”, a classification of “article provided by SNS”, or the like can be set. And since the articles provided by the mass media have attributes, when only the articles provided by the mass media are displayed, the tab corresponding to the classification of each attribute is displayed. Corresponding to the tab being selected and input, articles belonging to the classification may be selected and displayed in time series.
Further, every time the time-series display window is touched, the display screen control unit 25 transmits a browsing information acquisition request to the information collection server 3 and updates the display content to the latest state. The display screen control unit 25 resets the display content when the user inputs an instruction to end the browser, and the user terminal 2 enters a state of waiting for the start of a new browser.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen formed by the display screen control unit 25, FIG. 3 (a) is a diagram showing a state where the detailed information display window is not displayed, and FIG. 3 (b) is a detailed information display. It is a figure which shows the state by which the window was displayed. Note that the display screen example shown in FIG. 3 can be displayed as a part of the top page of the portal site or can be displayed in a single window.
In FIG. 3, the display screen formed by the display screen control unit 25 includes a time series display window 25a, a topic display area 25b, and a detailed information display window 25c.

The time series display window 25a is an area for displaying a list of articles included in the integrated article set stored in the acquired information storage unit 23 in time series. In the time series display window 25a in FIG. 3, for example, it corresponds to general articles in the first and third lines, and corresponds to posted articles in the second and fourth lines. In addition, an attribute indicating whether it is a general article or a posted article is added to the data of each article, and this attribute is displayed, or a tag for classifying an article by these attributes is displayed. May be.
The topic display area 25b is an area for displaying various information such as weather forecasts and topics picked up for the day, and the information displayed in the topic display area 25b is changed as appropriate.

  The detailed information display window 25c is an area for displaying a detailed text corresponding to the selected article when any article is selected by touch input or the like in the time-series display window 25a. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3B, the detailed information display window 25c appears in response to the article being selected and is displayed superimposed on the topic display area 25b. Further, the detailed information display window 25c has a display form for identifying that the selected article column and the detailed information display window 25c are related (in this state, an arrow positioned at the right end of the article is displayed). Become.

The characters displayed in the detailed information display window 25c are displayed in a larger size when the user terminal 2 is used as a horizontal display screen than when the user terminal 2 is used as a vertical display screen. Is done.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a change in display state between the case where the display screen is a vertical type and the case where the display screen is a horizontal type. FIG. 4A is a state where the display screen is used as a vertical display screen, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a state in which it is used as a horizontal display screen.
As shown in FIG. 4A, when the user terminal 2 is used as a vertical display screen and the detailed information display window 25c is displayed, the user is directed to use the user terminal 2 as a horizontal display screen. When it is changed, as shown in FIG. 4B, the portion including the detailed information display window 25c which is an active window is enlarged in accordance with the change in the horizontal width of the display screen. The article text displayed in the detailed information display window 25c is displayed with a larger character size.
Thus, when the display screen is a horizontal type, it can be estimated that the user intends to enlarge and display the point of interest, so by increasing the character size in the detailed information display window 25c, A display suitable for the intention can be performed.
When the display screen is horizontal, the display area other than the detailed information display window 25c has the same character size as when the display screen is vertical, and only the character size in the detailed information display window 25c is enlarged. It's also good. Even in this case, since the character size of the text that the user is paying attention to can be enlarged, the display can be made in accordance with the user's intention.

[Configuration of Information Collection Server 3]
FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration of the information collection server 3.
In FIG. 5, the information collection server 3 includes an information acquisition request reception unit 31, an article acquisition unit 32, a collected article storage unit 33, an article integration unit 34, and an integrated article set transmission unit 35.
The information acquisition request reception unit 31 receives a browsing information acquisition request from the user terminal 2 and instructs the article acquisition unit 32 to acquire articles from the article distribution system 100 and the post management system 200.

When the acquisition of the article is instructed from the information acquisition request receiving unit 31, the article acquisition unit 32 uses the URL of the article distribution system 100, the URL of the post management system 200, and the user terminal 2 included in the browsing information acquisition request. The user ID and password of the user to be extracted are extracted. Then, the article acquisition unit 32 accesses the article distribution system 100 based on the URL of the article distribution system 100 and acquires a general article being distributed. The article acquisition unit 32 accesses the posting management system 200 based on the URL of the posting management system 200 and logs in to the posting management system 200 using the user ID and password. Then, a posted article shared with other users is acquired.
The collected article storage unit 33 stores the general article and the posted article acquired by the article acquisition unit 32 as a set of articles corresponding to the browsing information acquisition request.

The article integration unit 34 rearranges the set of articles stored in the collected article storage unit 33 in chronological order without distinguishing between general articles and posted articles, and generates an integrated article set. That is, in the integrated article set, the general articles and the posted articles are arranged in the order sorted by the time series of the time information of the general articles and the posted articles. At this time, the article integration unit 34 can sort the general articles and the posted articles by various time information such as time stamps and date / time information included in the body of the article (delivery date / time described in the news article). . In this embodiment, it is assumed that sorting is performed using time stamps included in general articles and posted articles (in the case of news articles, the input date and time, in the case of posted articles, the posting date and time).
The integrated article set transmission unit 35 transmits the integrated article set generated by the article integration unit 34 to the user terminal 2 that has transmitted the browsing information acquisition request.

  The article distribution system 100 includes a general article server 101 that accumulates general articles submitted from a news agency that provides a news article as a general article or a public institution that provides publication information as a general article. ing. Then, when the general article server 101 is accessed, the article distribution system 100 provides general articles without restricting access. In other words, the article distribution system 100 uniformly provides general articles to all users without any limitation. In other words, acquiring a general article corresponds to following a Web page provided by the article distribution system 100. Examples of general articles include information published by mass media such as news media and television stations, information published by public institutions, and information that has been published on the network and is not subject to browsing restrictions. Can do.

  The posting management system 200 has a posted article server 201 that accumulates posted articles of SNS and posted articles in the network community. When the posted article server 201 is accessed, the posting management system 200 provides information only to users who have the authority to access posted articles. That is, the posting management system 200 provides a posted article to each user by adding a restriction according to the access authority of the user based on the user account. In other words, acquiring a posted article corresponds to following a user account managed by the posting management system 200. Examples of posted articles include post articles such as mixi (trademark), Facebook (trademark), GREE (trademark), various blogs, twitter (trademark), etc., posts, post information on various bulletin boards, and the like. The information provided in the posting management system 200 includes posted articles whose sharer is “all users”. In this case, all of the logged-in users (or users who are not logged in) are included. Information is shared for all users.

[Configuration of Information Display System 1]
The hardware of the user terminal 2 configuring the information display system 1 described above can be configured by one or a plurality of general computers. A general computer includes, for example, a central processing unit (CPU) as an information acquisition request unit 22, a screen direction determination unit 24, and a display screen control unit 25, and a memory (RAM, ROM) as an acquisition information storage unit 23. , Hard disk (HDD) and optical disk (CD, DVD, etc.) as network communication devices, various wired and wireless LAN devices as display devices, for example, various displays such as liquid crystal display, plasma display, etc. For example, a touch panel or a keyboard and a pointing device (mouse, tracking ball, etc.) are appropriately provided, and these are connected by a bus line. In such a general computer, the CPU controls the user terminal 2 in an integrated manner, and appropriately reads and executes various programs such as a program for integrated article set display processing to cooperate with the hardware described above. The various functions according to the present invention are realized.

  Moreover, the hardware of the information collection server 3 which comprises the information display system 1 demonstrated above can be comprised by 1 or several general computer. A general computer includes, for example, a central processing unit (CPU) as an information acquisition request reception unit 31, an article acquisition unit 32, and an article integration unit 34, and a collected article storage unit 33 as a memory (RAM, ROM), A hard disk (HDD) and an optical disk (CD, DVD, etc.) are used as the integrated article set transmission unit 35, various wired and wireless LAN devices are used as display devices, for example, various displays such as liquid crystal displays and plasma displays are used as input devices. For example, a keyboard and a pointing device (mouse, tracking ball, etc.) are provided as appropriate, and these are connected by a bus line. In such a general computer, the CPU controls the information collection server 3 in an integrated manner, and appropriately reads and executes various programs such as a program for information collection / integration processing, so that the above-described hardware and In cooperation, the various functions according to the present invention are realized.

[Operation]
Next, the operation of the information display system 1 will be described with reference to FIGS.
[Operation of user terminal 2]
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of integrated article set display processing executed by the user terminal 2. Note that the function for executing the integrated article set display process shown in FIG. 6 can be provided in a state where it is incorporated in a browser, or provided as an add-on function for downloading and adding software.
The integrated article set display process is executed when the user terminal 2 is turned on.
When the integrated article set display process is started, the user input receiving unit 21 determines whether or not a browser activation instruction is input by the user (step S1).
If the browser activation instruction is not input by the user, it is determined as NO in step S1, and the process in step S1 is repeated.
On the other hand, when the browser activation instruction is input by the user, YES is determined in step S1, and the process proceeds to step S2.

Next, the user input reception unit 21 receives the input of the URL of the article distribution system 100, the URL of the post management system 200, and the user ID and password regarding the user who uses the user terminal 2 (step S2).
At this time, the user ID of another user as an information source that the user of the user terminal 2 wishes to include the posted article in the integrated article information is also input, and the posted article by a specific user is to be acquired. Is also possible.
Subsequently, the information acquisition request unit 22 transmits a browsing information acquisition request including each piece of information received in step S2 to the information collection server 3 (step S3).
Furthermore, the information acquisition request unit 22 receives the integrated article set transmitted from the information collection server 3 (step S4).
Then, the acquisition information storage unit 23 stores the integrated article set (step S5).
Next, the screen direction determination unit 24 determines the direction of the display screen of the user terminal 2 based on the detection signal from the posture detection unit (step S6).

Next, the display screen control unit 25 determines the configuration of the display frame of the display screen and the information to be displayed in the display frame according to the direction of the display screen of the user terminal 2, and forms the display screen (see FIG. 3). (Step S7).
Subsequently, the display screen control unit 25 determines whether any article in the time-series display window 25a has been selected and input by the user (step S8).
If any article in the time-series display window 25a is selected and input by the user, YES is determined in step S8, and the process proceeds to step S9.
On the other hand, if any article in the time-series display window 25a is not selected and input by the user, NO is determined in step S8, and the process proceeds to step S10.
In other words, when an article is selected in step S8, the display screen control unit 25 causes the detailed information display window 25c to appear, and displays the detailed text corresponding to the selected article in the detailed information display window 25c (step). S9).
After step S9, the process proceeds to step S6.

On the other hand, the display screen control unit 25 determines whether any of the tabs in the time-series display window 25a has been selected and input (step S10).
If any tab in the time-series display window 25a is selected and input, YES is determined in step S10, and the process proceeds to step S11.
On the other hand, if none of the tabs in the time-series display window 25a is selected and input, NO is determined in step S10, and the process proceeds to step S12.
That is, the display screen control unit 25 selects articles belonging to the selected tab category from the integrated article set, and displays them in time series in the time series display window 25a (step S11).
When the process in step S11 is completed, the process proceeds to step S6.

On the other hand, the display screen control unit 25 determines whether or not an instruction to update the display contents of the time-series display window 25a is given (step S12). That is, the display screen control unit 25 determines whether or not the browser update button is selected and input, or whether or not the time-series display window 25a is touched.
When updating of the display contents of the time series display window 25a is instructed, it is determined as YES in Step S12, and the process proceeds to Step S3.
On the other hand, when the update of the display content of the time series display window 25a is not instructed, NO is determined in step S12, and the process proceeds to step S13.

That is, the display screen control unit 25 determines whether or not the end of the browser is selected and input by the user (step S13).
If the end of the browser is not selected and input by the user, NO is determined in step S13, and the process proceeds to step S6.
On the other hand, when the end of the browser is selected and input by the user, YES is determined in step S13, and the process proceeds to step S1.

[Operation of information collection server 3]
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a flow of information collection / integration processing executed by the information collection server 3.
The information collection / integration process is repeatedly executed during the operation of the information collection server 3.
When the information collection / integration process is started, the information acquisition request receiving unit 31 determines whether or not a browsing information acquisition request is received from the user terminal 2 (step S21).
If the browse information acquisition request has not been received from the user terminal 2, the process proceeds to step S21.
On the other hand, when the browsing information acquisition request is received from the user terminal 2, the process proceeds to step S22.

That is, the article acquisition unit 32 extracts the URL of the article distribution system 100, the URL of the post management system 200, the user ID, and the password included in the browse information acquisition request (step S22).
Next, the article acquisition unit 32 acquires information from the article distribution system 100 and the post management system 200 (step S23). That is, the article acquisition unit 32 accesses the article distribution system 100 based on the URL of the article distribution system 100 and acquires a general article being distributed. The article acquisition unit 32 accesses the posting management system 200 based on the URL of the posting management system 200 and logs in to the posting management system 200 using the user ID and password. Then, the article acquisition unit 32 acquires a posted article shared with other users.

Next, the collected article storage unit 33 stores a set of articles acquired by the article acquisition unit 32 (step S24). At this time, the collected article storage unit 33 stores the general article acquired from the article distribution system 100 and the posted article acquired from the posting management system 200 as an information group that is simply assembled.
Subsequently, the article integration unit 34 rearranges the set of articles stored in the collected article storage unit 33 in the order of time series (here, the time stamp order) without distinguishing between general articles and posted articles. A set is generated (step S25).
Then, the integrated article set transmission unit 35 transmits the integrated article set generated by the article integration unit 34 to the user terminal 2 that has transmitted the browsing information acquisition request (step S26).
When the process in step S26 is completed, the process proceeds to step S21.

As described above, in the information display system 1 according to the present embodiment, in response to a request from the user terminal 2, the information collection server 3 provides a general article without limitation according to the request and the user The general article and the posted article are acquired from the posting management system 200 that provides the posted article according to the management by the account. Then, the information collection server 3 integrates the acquired general articles and posted articles as an integrated article set, and the user terminal 2 displays the integrated article set on the time series display window 25a in a timeline.
Therefore, the user of the user terminal 2 can read articles such as SNS managed by the user account and general articles such as news articles that are widely released without any access restriction (regardless of the article request source). You can also list them in chronological order.

As a result, the user can refer to various information with different types of information sources, level of disclosure (degree of access restriction), information management algorithm, etc., and use the complementary relationship created by the various information, We can grasp each other's information as support.
Therefore, the user can further improve the accuracy of the information provided via the network.

When a tab displayed in the time-series display window 25a is selected and input, only articles that match the attribute corresponding to the tab are selected and displayed in a list.
Therefore, since the user can display a list only for articles having a specific attribute, it is possible to efficiently grasp the target article and confirm the reliability of the information.
Further, a list of articles is displayed in the time series display window 25a, and when any article is selected and input, the text corresponding to the article is displayed in the detailed information display window 25c.

For this reason, when the user wants to know the detailed contents while efficiently grasping the outline of a plurality of articles by the time series display window 25a, it can be displayed in the detailed information display window 25c. It becomes possible to grasp the contents of.
The characters displayed in the detailed information display window 25c are displayed in a larger size when the user terminal 2 is used as a horizontal display screen than when the user terminal 2 is used as a vertical display screen. Is done.
That is, when the display screen is a horizontal type, it can be estimated that the user intends to enlarge and display the attention point. Therefore, by enlarging the character size in the detailed information display window 25c, A suitable display can be performed.

[Application Example 1]
In the user terminal 2 in the above embodiment, when a user posts an article to the posting management system 200, an integrated article displayed on the user terminal 2 before being stored as a posting article in the posting article server 201 of the posting management system 200. It is possible to insert into a set.
That is, when an article is posted from the user terminal 2 to the posting management system 200, the posted article is accumulated in the posting article server 201 of the posting management system 200. Then, through the procedure in the first embodiment, the posted article is transmitted to the user terminal 2 as a part of the integrated article set via the information collection server 3. As a result, on the user terminal 2, the posted article is displayed as one article included in the integrated article set.

At this time, after the article is posted from the user terminal 2 until the article is transmitted from the information collection server 3 to the user terminal 2 as a part of the integrated article set, the time lag in displaying the posted article on the user terminal 2 Will occur.
Therefore, in this application example, in synchronization with the posting to the posting management system 200, the display screen control unit 25 temporarily displays the article posted from the user terminal 2 at a position corresponding to the time series of the time series display window 25a. Insert as display article. When the posted article is received as a part of the integrated article set from the information collection server 3, the display screen control unit 25 deletes the article displayed as the temporary display article and displays the integrated article set. To ensure consistency.
With such a configuration, the result of posting made by the user of the user terminal 2 can be quickly reflected in the time-series display window 25a, so that the influence of the delay of update processing in the posting management system 200 can be reduced. It becomes possible.

[Application 2]
In the said embodiment, the attribute set to the article displayed on the time series display window 25a, the selection history of the article by the user of the user terminal 2, and the user of the user terminal 2 specified based on the selection history It is possible to manage data representing interests (hobbies and preferences) and execute a process (hereinafter referred to as a “highlight process”) for displaying information that suggests browsing to the user in the integrated article set. It is.

That is, the display screen control unit 25 displays a tab (hereinafter referred to as “highlight tab”) indicating that the highlight process is executed in the time-series display window 25a, and the highlight tab is selected and input. In this case, among the articles included in the integrated article set, articles whose attributes match the data representing the user's hobbies and preferences (hereinafter referred to as “attribute matching articles”) are selected and displayed in the time-series display window 25a. A list can be displayed. The data representing the user's hobbies and preferences is stored in the acquired information storage unit 23 as the browsing history of articles included in the integrated article set, and the attributes of articles included in the integrated article set browsed (selected) in the past are stored. It can be extracted and stored on the basis.
With such a configuration, the user of the user terminal 2 can easily grasp the information of interest that has been missed in the integrated article set, and can refer to the acquired article more efficiently. .
In this case, by excluding articles browsed in the past from the attribute matching articles and displaying them in a list, the user can more efficiently grasp the information of interest that has been missed.

As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not restricted to embodiment mentioned above. The effects described in the embodiments of the present invention are only the most preferable effects resulting from the present invention, and the effects of the present invention are limited to those described in the embodiments of the present invention. is not.
For example, in the present embodiment, the information collection server 3 has been described as an example in which the information collection server 3 is realized as a single server. However, the functions of the information collection server 3 are distributed and implemented in a plurality of servers. It is also possible to realize the function of the information collection server 3 by cooperating as a whole.
In the present embodiment, the information collection server 3 sorts the set of articles in time series to form an integrated article set, and transmits the integrated article set to the user terminal 2. However, the information collection server 3 performs sorting. It is also possible to send a set of articles to the user terminal 2 without sorting, and sort them in time series in the user terminal 2 to make an integrated article set.

In the present embodiment, the above-described general article and posted article have been described as examples. However, as the article in the present invention, various types of information including time information can be targeted. Of these articles, articles that are not restricted based on user's authority for article acquisition are treated as general articles, and articles that are restricted based on user authority for article acquisition are handled as posted articles. Thus, the present invention can be realized.
In the present embodiment, a computer is described as an example of the user terminal 2 and the information collection server 3 in the information display system 1. However, the present invention is not limited to the computer, and a method for executing various functions by the computer, the computer The present invention can also be applied to a program for causing the computer to execute various functions and a storage medium storing the program.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information display system 2 User terminal 3 Information collection server 21 User input reception part 22 Information acquisition request part 23 Acquisition information storage part 24 Screen direction determination part 25 Display screen control part 25a Time series display window 25b Topic display area 25c Detailed information display window 31 Information acquisition request reception unit 32 Article acquisition unit 33 Collected article storage unit 34 Article integration unit 35 Integrated article set transmission unit 100 Article distribution system 101 General article server 200 Post management system 201 Posting article server

Claims (11)

A post management system that stores a post article including time information in association with a user ID for identifying the contributor and restricts access to the post article with another user ID associated with the user ID of the contributor; And the request for the posted article and the general article provided by the article distribution system that stores the general article including time information and distributes the general article in response to the request regardless of the request source. Request output means for outputting together with the user ID;
Time series display means for displaying the posted article and the general article provided in response to a request by the request output means in chronological order according to each time information;
An information display device comprising:   The time-series display means is configured such that when any of the categories of attributes set in advance in the posted article and the general article is selected and specified, the attribute category selected and specified is set. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the posted article and the general article are selected and displayed in chronological order.   The time-series display means displays a text display window when any of the posted articles and the general articles displayed side by side in the time-series order is selected, and details of the selected articles are displayed. The information display device according to claim 1, wherein the information display device is displayed in a text display window. A display screen configured in a rectangle;
Posture detecting means for detecting the posture of the device itself,
The time series display means includes
When the text display window is displayed in a state where the device is used in a vertical type with the short side of the display screen as the base, the device is used in a horizontal type with the long side of the display screen as the base. When the posture detecting means detects that the state has been changed to the state to be performed, the display screen is switched to a display state in which the long side that is the bottom side is on the lower side, and the case of the horizontal type is more than the case of the vertical type The information display device according to claim 3, wherein the size of characters displayed in the text display window is increased. Article input receiving means for receiving input of articles to be posted to the posting management system;
An article transmitting means for transmitting the article received by the article input receiving means to the post management system,
The time series display means includes
The article received by the article input accepting unit is transmitted to the posting management system by the article transmitting unit and provided as the posted article from the posting management system. The information display device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the information display device is added to an article and displayed in chronological order. An interest data storage means for storing data representing the user's interest;
The time series display means is displayed by the time series display means based on data representing the user's interest stored in the interest data storage means and attributes attached to the posted article and the general article. In the posted article and the general article, the posted article and the general article whose attributes match the data representing the user's interest are selected, and the selected posted article and the general article are displayed in chronological order. Item 6. The information display device according to any one of Items 1 to 5. The request output means also outputs a user ID of another user who requests provision of the posted article among user IDs for identifying posters in the posting management system,
The time series display means displays the posted articles of the other users provided in response to a request from the request output means and the general articles in chronological order according to each time information. The information display device according to any one of the above. A server in an information display system comprising a terminal device and a server capable of communicating with each other, provided via a network, and displaying an article including time information,
From the terminal device, a posted article including time information is stored in association with a user ID for identifying the poster, and access to the posted article is restricted by another user ID associated with the user ID of the poster. The post management system and the post of the general article provided by the article distribution system that stores the general article including time information and distributes the general article in response to the request regardless of the request source. Article output means for acquiring the posted article and the general article from the posting management system and the article distribution system in response to the request when output together with the user ID of the user making the request;
Article integration means for integrating the posted articles from the posting management system acquired by the article acquisition means and the general articles from the article distribution system into a time-series sequence according to the time information;
Integrated article transmitting means for transmitting the posted article and the general article integrated by the article integrating means to the terminal device;
A server comprising A post management system that stores a post article including time information in association with a user ID for identifying the contributor and restricts access to the post article with another user ID associated with the user ID of the contributor; And the request for the posted article and the general article provided by the article distribution system that stores the general article including time information and distributes the general article in response to the request regardless of the request source. A request output function for outputting together with a user ID;
A time-series display function for displaying the posted article and the general article provided in response to a request by the request output function in chronological order according to each time information;
A program that makes a computer realize. Post in which a computer stores a posted article including time information in association with a user ID for identifying the poster and restricts access to the posted article with another user ID associated with the user ID of the poster A request for the posted article and the general article provided by a management system and an article distribution system that stores a general article including time information and distributes the general article in response to a request regardless of a request source. A request output step of outputting together with the user ID of the user to perform;
A time series display step in which the computer displays the posted article and the general article provided in response to the request in the request output step in time series order according to each time information;
Information display method. An information display system comprising a terminal device and a server capable of communicating with each other, provided via a network, and displaying an article including time information,
The terminal device
A post management system that stores a post article including time information in association with a user ID for identifying the contributor and restricts access to the post article with another user ID associated with the user ID of the contributor; And the request for the posted article and the general article provided by the article distribution system that stores the general article including time information and distributes the general article in response to the request regardless of the request source. Request output means for outputting together with the user ID;
Time-series display means for displaying the posted article and the general article provided in response to a request by the request output means in time-series order according to each time information;
The server
When the request for the posted article and the general article provided by the posting management system and the article distribution system is output from the terminal device together with the user ID of the user who makes the request, the request is answered. Article acquisition means for acquiring the posted article and the general article from the posting management system and the article distribution system;
Article integration means for integrating the posted articles from the posting management system acquired by the article acquisition means and the general articles from the article distribution system into a time-series sequence according to the time information;
An information display system comprising: integrated article transmission means for transmitting the posted article and the general article integrated by the article integration means to the terminal device.

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