JP2013145531A - Information management program and information management device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information management program and an information management device capable of displaying unread messages existing adjacent to a related message.SOLUTION: A second message represented by a piece of related message information is identified; a piece of message information is referred to using the second message; a predetermined number of third messages and second messages which are associated with a reception date close to a reception date of the second message are obtained to generate plural groups; a third message is selected so that display order of the second message in the group is different in each group; a piece of confirmation is referred to the second message and the third message in each group; the number of unread second messages and third messages is obtained respectively to identify a group having the largest number; and a page number relevant to the message, the reception date, a piece of specific information and a piece of related message information included in the identified group are displayed on a screen.

Description

  The present invention relates to an information management program and an information management apparatus that manage messages according to circumstances.

  For example, after a state in which a mail (message) received during a long-term business trip cannot be read and a user enters a state in which the mail can be read, unread mail is read sequentially. However, in a state where a large amount of unread mail is accumulated, it is rare to read all mail in order, and it is necessary to refer to the title displayed in the received mail list and the sender information. It is expected that you will select and read e-mails. In such a situation, mail may be left unread.

  Further, when displaying a list of mails, they may be sorted in the order desired by the user (for example, descending order of received date and time). Since the number of emails that can be displayed in the display area on the screen that lists emails is limited, unread emails may not be displayed in the display frame when more new emails are received. is there. And if a user forgets that it is unread which is not displayed on a display frame, it will be left unread.

  As a related technique, there is known a technique for displaying a reply or transfer for a sent mail by using information (RE) indicating a mail title reply or information (FW) indicating a transfer so that the hierarchical relationship can be understood. It has been.

Japanese Patent No. 3687884

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide an information management program, an information management apparatus, and an information management method for displaying an unread message existing in the vicinity of a related message.

  When the related message information indicating the location of the message related to the received first message is selected, the information management program executed by the computer according to one aspect of the present invention selects the second message indicated by the related message information. Is identified.

  Subsequently, the message information stored in association with the message content included in the received message, the reception date and time when the message is received, and the confirmation information indicating whether or not the message has been read by the user is referred to. Then, a predetermined number of messages including a plurality of third messages associated with the reception date and time close to the reception date and time of the second message and the second message are acquired to generate a plurality of groups. . At the same time, the third message is selected so that the display order of the second message in the group differs for each group.

  Subsequently, referring to the confirmation information of each of the second message and the third message for each group, the group having the largest number of the second message and the third message that have not been read is selected. Identify.

  Subsequently, the reception date and time associated with each message included in the specified group, the specific information for specifying the message, the number of pages on which the related message information is displayed, the reception date and time, and the specification Display page information for displaying the information and the related message information on the screen is generated.

Subsequently, the display page information is output.
When the related message information indicating the location of the second message related to the received first message is selected, the terminal information management program to be executed by the computer, which is another aspect of the present invention, the related message is selected. The second message indicated by the information is specified.

  Subsequently, the message information stored in association with the message content included in the received message, the reception date and time when the message is received, and the confirmation information indicating whether or not the message has been read by the user is referred to. Then, a predetermined number of messages including a plurality of third messages associated with the reception date and time close to the reception date and time of the second message and the second message are acquired to generate a plurality of groups. . At the same time, the third message is selected so that the display order of the second message in the group differs for each group.

  Subsequently, referring to the confirmation information of each of the second message and the third message for each group, the group having the largest number of the second message and the third message that have not been read is selected. Identify.

  Subsequently, the reception date and time associated with each of the messages included in the specified group, the scroll display position indicating that the specific information specifying the message and the related message information are displayed, the reception date and time, Display screen information for displaying the specific information and the related message information on the screen is generated.

  Subsequently, a screen is displayed based on the display screen information.

  According to the embodiment, there is an effect that the user can be made aware that there is an unread message that exists in the vicinity of a related message.

It is a figure which shows one Example of the system which manages information. It is a figure which shows one Example of the hardware of an information management apparatus. It is a figure which shows one Example of the control part and memory | storage part of an information management apparatus. It is a figure which shows one Example of the hardware of a terminal. It is a figure which shows one Example of the control part of a terminal. It is a flowchart which shows one Example of operation | movement of an information management apparatus. It is a flowchart which shows one Example of operation | movement of an information management apparatus. It is a figure which shows one Example of the data structure of user information. It is a figure which shows one Example of the data structure of message information. It is a figure which shows one Example of the data structure of display page information. It is a figure which shows one Example of a message list display screen. It is a flowchart which shows one Example of operation | movement of a related display production | generation part. It is a figure which shows the data structure of display page information. It is a flowchart which shows one Example of operation | movement of a location display production | generation part. It is a flowchart which shows one Example of operation | movement of a location display production | generation part. It is a figure which shows one Example of the data structure of message information. It is a figure which shows one Example of the data structure of a display optimal area | region information, and a message list display screen. It is a figure which shows one Example of the control part and memory | storage part of the terminal of Embodiment 2. FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of operation of the terminal according to the second exemplary embodiment. FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of operation of the terminal according to the second exemplary embodiment. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a message list display screen according to the second embodiment. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the data structure of the message information of Embodiment 2. It is a figure which shows one Example of the data structure of the display screen information of Embodiment 2. FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the operation of the related display generation unit according to the second embodiment. It is a figure which shows the data structure of the display screen information of Embodiment 2. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an operation of a location display generation unit according to Embodiment 2. FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an operation of a location display generation unit according to Embodiment 2. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the data structure of the message information of Embodiment 2. It is a figure which shows one Example of the data structure of the optimal display area information of Embodiment 2, and a message list display screen.

  On the screen for displaying the list of messages, it is assumed that the messages are sorted in an order desired by the user (for example, descending order of reception date and time). Also, since the number of messages that can be displayed in the display area of the screen for displaying a list of messages is limited, unread mail is not displayed in the display screen by receiving many new messages. As a result, a message is left unread, and if the user forgets that it is unread, it will be left unread. In view of this, a mechanism is provided in which an operation of browsing a message received in the past by the user is used as a key to notice an unread message.

  For example, when a message A related to a message received in the past, such as a reminder mail, is received, and an instruction to specify a message X (= mail received in the past) related to the message A is received from the user think about. Number of messages that can be displayed on the list display screen at a time and the number of unread messages near the message X in the sort order specified by the user so that they are included in the display area as much as possible. The display start position and the display end position are determined.

  Note that the situation in which the user is not aware of the message X is based on the idea that the messages received before and after the message X are received in the same manner as the message X but cannot be read.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a system for managing information. The system shown in FIG. 1 includes an information management device 1 and a terminal 2, and the information management device 1 and the terminal 2 communicate via a network 3.

  The information management apparatus 1 is a web server, for example, and is connected to the terminal 2 via the network 3. In FIG. 1, only two terminals are shown for ease of explanation, but actually, communication is performed with a plurality of terminals (clients) via the network 3.

  The terminal 2 is a terminal owned by the user on the transmission side and transmits a message to the information management apparatus 1 via the network 3. The terminal 2 is a terminal owned by the user on the receiving side, and receives display page information described later from the information management apparatus 1 via the network 3. For example, display page information or the like is acquired from the information management apparatus 1 via the network 3 using a browser or the like that the terminal 2 has. And the terminal 2 produces | generates the display shown to a user based on the acquired display page information, and outputs the produced | generated display on a screen.

For example, the network 3 may be a network such as the Internet, a local area network (LAN), or a wireless LAN.
The information management apparatus will be described.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of hardware of the information management apparatus. The information management apparatus 1 can be realized by using a web server or the like. The information management apparatus 1 includes a control unit 201, a storage unit 202, a recording medium reading device 203, an input / output interface 204 (input / output I / F), a communication interface 205 (communication I / F), and the like shown in FIG. Yes. Each of the above components is connected by a bus 206.

  The control unit 201 may be a central processing unit (CPU), a multi-core CPU, or a programmable device (such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or a programmable logic device (PLD)).

  The storage unit 202 may be a memory such as a read only memory (ROM) or a random access memory (RAM), a hard disk, or the like. The storage unit 202 may record data such as parameter values and variable values, or may be used as a work area at the time of execution. In addition to the storage unit 202, another storage unit may be provided outside the information management apparatus 1. For example, a database may be provided.

  The recording medium reading device 203 controls reading / writing of data with respect to the recording medium 207 according to the control of the control unit 201. Then, the data written under the control of the recording medium reader 203 is recorded on the recording medium 207, or the data recorded on the recording medium 207 is read. The removable recording medium 207 includes a computer-readable non-transitory recording medium such as a magnetic recording device, an optical disk, a magneto-optical recording medium, and a semiconductor memory. The magnetic recording device includes a hard disk device (HDD). Optical discs include Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), DVD-RAM, Compact Disc Read Only Memory (CD-ROM), and CD-R (Recordable) / RW (ReWritable). Magneto-optical recording media include magneto-optical disks (MO). Note that the storage unit 202 is also included in a non-transitory recording medium.

  An input / output unit 208 is connected to the input / output interface 204, receives input information, and transmits the received information to the control unit 201 via the bus 206. Further, operation information and the like are displayed on the display screen in accordance with a command from the control unit 201. Examples of the input device of the input / output unit 208 include a keyboard, a pointing device (such as a mouse), and a touch panel. In addition, the display which is an output part of the input / output part 208 can consider a liquid crystal display etc., for example. The output unit may be an output device such as a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) display or a printer.

  The communication interface 205 is an interface for performing Local Area Network (LAN) connection, Internet connection, and wireless connection. The communication interface 205 is an interface for performing LAN connection, Internet connection, or wireless connection with another computer as necessary.

  By using a computer having such a hardware configuration, various processing functions for performing information management, which will be described later, are realized. In this case, a program describing the processing contents of the functions that the information management apparatus should have is provided. By executing the program on a computer, the above processing functions are realized on the computer. The program describing the processing contents can be recorded in a computer-readable recording medium 207.

  When distributing the program, for example, a recording medium 207 such as a DVD or a CD-ROM in which the program is recorded is sold. It is also possible to record the program in a storage device of the server computer and transfer the program from the server computer to another computer via a network.

  The computer that executes the program stores, for example, the program recorded in the recording medium 207 or the program transferred from the server computer in its storage unit 202. Then, the computer reads the program from its own storage unit 202 and executes processing according to the program. Note that the computer can also read the program directly from the recording medium 207 and execute processing according to the program. Further, each time the program is transferred from the server computer, the computer can sequentially execute processing according to the received program.

A control unit and a storage unit of the information management apparatus 1 will be described.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the control unit and the storage unit of the information management apparatus. The control unit 201 illustrated in FIG. 3 includes a message processing unit 301, a request processing unit 302, an authentication unit 303, a related display generation unit 304, a location display generation unit 305, a specified display generation unit 306, and a display provision unit 307.

  The message processing unit 301 executes processing for controlling message exchange with the terminal 2 and the like. For example, the function which a web server has is executed. The request processing unit 302 receives a request from the terminal 2 and determines the received request content. The authentication unit 303 performs authentication when the user logs in.

When there is a message related to the received message, the related display generation unit 304 generates related message information indicating the location of the related message.
When the related message information related to the received first message is selected, the location display generation unit 305 specifies the second message indicated by the related message information. Subsequently, referring to message information to be described later, a plurality of third messages associated with the reception date and time close to the reception date and time of the second message and the determined number of second messages are obtained, and a plurality of groups are obtained. Generate. At the same time, the third message is selected so that the display order of the second message in the group differs for each group, and the confirmation information of each of the second message and the third message is referred to and read for each group. Determine the number of each of the second and third messages that have not been received. As a result, the largest number of groups are identified, and display page information for displaying on the screen the number of pages associated with the messages included in the identified group, the reception date and time, the specific information, and the related message information is generated. The group is, for example, display optimum area information 1701 shown in FIG.

  In the message information, the message content included in the received message, the reception date and time when the message was received, and confirmation information indicating whether or not the message has been read by the user are associated and stored in the order of the reception date and time. Yes.

  In the display page information, the reception date and time, the specific information, the related message information, the number of pages, and the display information are stored in the order of the reception date and time. The identification information is information for identifying a message included in the message content, and is information stored in “subject”, “sender”, and the like, which will be described later. The related message information is information indicating the location of a message related to the message, for example, information indicating the number of pages (number of pages) and the number of cases (number of messages). The page number is information indicating the number of pages on which the reception date and time, specific information, and related message information associated with each message are displayed. The display information is information for displaying the number of pages, reception date and time, specific information, and related message information on the screen.

The designated display generation unit 306 generates display page information for displaying a designated page or a designated message.
The display providing unit 307 outputs (transmits) display page information to the terminal 2. Then, the terminal 2 displays a screen based on the display page information.

  The storage unit 202 shown in FIG. 3 includes user information 308, message information 309, related display information 310, location display information 311, designated page information 312, designated message information 313, optimum display area information 314, and the like, which will be described later. .

The terminal will be described.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of terminal hardware. The terminal 2 can be realized using a personal computer, a mobile device equipped with a computer, or the like. The terminal 2 includes a control unit 401, a storage unit 402, a recording medium reading device 403, an input / output interface 404 (input / output I / F), a communication interface 405 (communication I / F), and the like shown in FIG. Further, each of the above components is connected by a bus 406.

  It is conceivable that the control unit 401 uses a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a multi-core CPU, and a programmable device (Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Programmable Logic Device (PLD), etc.).

  The storage unit 402 may be a memory such as a read only memory (ROM) or a random access memory (RAM), a hard disk, or the like. The storage unit 402 may record data such as parameter values and variable values, or may be used as a work area at the time of execution.

  The recording medium reading device 403 controls reading / writing of data with respect to the recording medium 407 according to the control of the control unit 401. Then, the data written by the control of the recording medium reading device 403 is recorded on the recording medium 407, or the data recorded on the recording medium 407 is read. The detachable recording medium 407 includes a computer-readable non-transitory recording medium such as a magnetic recording device, an optical disk, a magneto-optical recording medium, and a semiconductor memory. The magnetic recording device includes a hard disk device (HDD). Optical discs include Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), DVD-RAM, Compact Disc Read Only Memory (CD-ROM), and CD-R (Recordable) / RW (ReWritable). Magneto-optical recording media include magneto-optical disks (MO). Note that the storage unit 402 is also included in a non-transitory recording medium.

  An input / output unit 408 is connected to the input / output interface 404, receives input information, and transmits the information to the control unit 401 via the bus 406. Further, operation information and the like are displayed on the display screen in accordance with a command from the control unit 401. Examples of the input device of the input / output unit 408 include a keyboard, a pointing device (such as a mouse), and a touch panel. In addition, the display which is an output part of the input / output part 408 can consider a liquid crystal display etc., for example. The output unit may be an output device such as a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) display or a printer.

  The communication interface 405 is an interface for performing Local Area Network (LAN) connection, Internet connection, and wireless connection. The communication interface 205 is an interface for performing LAN connection, Internet connection, or wireless connection with another computer as necessary.

  By using a computer having such a hardware configuration, various processing functions for performing information management, which will be described later, are realized. In this case, a program describing the processing contents of the functions that the information management apparatus should have is provided. By executing the program on a computer, the above processing functions are realized on the computer. The program describing the processing contents can be recorded in a computer-readable recording medium 407.

  When distributing the program, for example, a recording medium 407 such as a DVD or a CD-ROM in which the program is recorded is sold. It is also possible to record the program in a storage device of the server computer and transfer the program from the server computer to another computer via a network.

  The computer that executes the program stores, for example, the program recorded in the recording medium 407 or the program transferred from the server computer in its own storage unit 402. Then, the computer reads the program from its own storage unit 402 and executes processing according to the program. The computer can also read the program directly from the recording medium 407 and execute processing according to the program. Further, each time the program is transferred from the server computer, the computer can sequentially execute processing according to the received program.

The control unit and storage unit of the terminal will be described.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of the control unit. The control unit 401 illustrated in FIG. 5 includes a data acquisition unit 501, a transmission information generation unit 502, and a display screen generation unit 503. For example, the data acquisition unit 501 acquires a message input by a user using a browser or the like. The transmission information generation unit 502 generates information to be transmitted to the information management device 1.

  The display screen generation unit 503 receives display page information used to display a message list display screen, which will be described later, from the information management device 1, and displays the message list display screen based on the display page information on the output unit (display of the terminal 2). Display).

The operation of the information management apparatus will be described.
6 and 7 are flowcharts showing an embodiment of the operation of the information management apparatus. In step S <b> 601, the request processing unit 302 receives a request transmitted from the terminal 2 from the communication interface 205 via the network 3. The request includes, for example, a login request, a related location display request, a specified page display request, and a specified message display request, which will be described later.

  In step S602, it is determined whether or not the request processing unit 302 is a login request. If the login request is received (Yes), the process proceeds to step S603. If the request is other than the login request (No), the process proceeds to step S603. The process proceeds to S608. The login request is information transmitted from the terminal 2 when logging in, and includes information (code) indicating the login information, user identification information for identifying the user (user ID), a password used for authentication, and the like. include.

  In step S603 (authentication process), the authentication unit 303 refers to the user information 308 stored in the storage unit 202 using the user ID and password included in the login information, and identifies the user whose password matches. To do.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of user information. The user information 801 in FIG. 8 includes information stored in “user ID”, “password”, “number of displayed items N”, and the like. The “user ID” is information for identifying the user. In this example, the mail addresses “123@OO.ne.jp”, “124@OO.ne.jp”, “125@OO.ne.jp” are used.・ ・ ・ ・ Etc. are stored. The user ID is not limited to an email address. In “Password”, a password is stored in association with each piece of information stored in “User ID”. In this example, “XXXXXXX”, “YYYYYY”, “ZZZZZZZ”, etc. are stored as passwords. In the “display number N”, the number of display information for specifying a message to be displayed on one page of a message list display screen described later displayed on the screen of the terminal 2 is stored. In this example, “5”, “6”, “10”,... Are stored in association with each mail address.

  In step S604, the display number N of the users authenticated by the related display generation unit 304 is acquired from the user information. In the case of FIG. 8, the page display number “5” corresponding to the user ID “123@OO.ne.jp” of the authenticated user is acquired.

  In step S605, N messages having the latest reception date and time are acquired from the message information of the user authenticated by the related display generation unit 304. The message information is a message that is stored for each authenticated user and a message that has arrived at the authenticated user and information about the message.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of message information. The message information 901 in FIG. 9 includes information stored in “user ID”, “reception date / time”, “message content”, “unopened”, and the like. In the present example, “user ID” stores mail address... “123@OO.ne.jp”. The user ID is not limited to an email address. In “Reception date and time”, information indicating the date and time when the information management apparatus 1 received the message transmitted from the terminal 2 is stored. In this example, “2011/01/20/13: 42: 00” indicating January 20, 2011 at 13:42, “2011/01/23/14: 00 indicating 13:00 on January 23, 2011”. : 00 "and the like are stored. The message content is stored in “message content”. In the message information 901 of FIG. 9, for example, a mail header (information above the message content) and the message content are stored. In this example, the message content is described for convenience, but information corresponding to the message body is actually stored at the location described as the message content. Confirmation information is stored in “unopened”, and when a message is read by the user (opened), confirmation information “1” indicating that the message has been read is stored, and is not read (unopened) Is stored with confirmation information “0” indicating that it has not been read.

Subsequently, in step S <b> 605, the related display generation unit 304 generates display page information for displaying, on the terminal 2, N messages with the latest reception date and time.
FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure of the display page information. The display page information 1001 in FIG. 10 includes information stored in “page”, “reception date / time”, “subject”, “sender”, “related MSG location”, “display information”, and the like. The “page” stores the designated page. In “Reception date and time”, the reception date and time corresponding to the message is stored. For example, the “reception date” of the message information stored in the storage unit 202 corresponding to the message is stored. In this example, “2011/01/04/14: 00”, “2010/11/09/13: 42”, “2010/10/04/11: 20”, “2010/09/06/16” indicating the reception date and time: 31 ”and“ 2010/09/06/15: 58 ”are stored.

  In “Subject”, a subject corresponding to the message is stored. For example, a character string corresponding to “Subject” in “Message content” of the message information stored in the storage unit 202 corresponding to the message is stored. In this example, the character strings “Monday is locker arrangement”, “FW: What do you want to do?”, “○ Gold procedure example, for reference”, “○ Gold request procedure guidance”, “Recently slump,” are stored. The “sender” stores the sender corresponding to the message. For example, a character string corresponding to “From” in “Message content” of the message information stored in the storage unit 202 corresponding to the message is stored. In this example, the character strings “Hirooka ○ Aro”, “Matsui ○ Ki”, “Nomo ○ Oo”, “○ Kim Organization”, and “Suzuki ○ Aro” are stored as senders. In “related MSG location”, the location of other messages related to the message is stored. “Display information” stores information necessary for displaying a list of messages. In this example, “data 1”, “data 2”, “data 3”, “data 4”, and “data 5” are stored as the information.

  In step S606, the related display generation unit 304 generates a page and related message information, and stores them in “page” and “related MSG location” of the display page information. For example, as shown in the display page information 1002 in FIG. 10, “5”, “5”, “5”, “5”, “5”,. Related message information “second page on page 6” is stored in “related MSG location” corresponding to “FW: What do you want to do?”.

  The content displayed in the “page” item is the number of pages determined by using the number of user information displayed (number of messages displayed on one page of the message list display screen) of message information stored in the order of received date and time. Is remembered. For example, if the number of display items displayed on one page is five, 1 to 5 items are displayed on the first page in the order of newest received date and time, 6 to 10 items are displayed on the second page, and 11 to 15 items are displayed. The number is displayed on the third page, the 16th to the 20th is displayed on the fourth page, the 21st to 25th is displayed on the fifth page, and the 26th to 30th is displayed on the sixth page. A method for generating related message information will be described later.

In step S <b> 607, the display providing unit 307 transmits various display page information described later to the terminal 2. The terminal 2 that has received the display page information displays a display screen based on the display page information.
FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a message list display screen. A display screen 1101 (for example, a window) is a display screen generated by the display screen generation unit 503 of the terminal 2 and displayed on the display unit (output unit) of the terminal 2. The terminal 2 receives display page information corresponding to the designated page display transmitted from the information management apparatus 1, and displays the display area 1102 using the display page information. In this example, the fifth page is shown.

  In this example, “5” corresponding to “page” included in the display page information 1002 is displayed in the “page” of the display area 1102. In this example, the “reception date / time” of the display area 1102 is “2011/01/04/14: 00”, “2010/11/09/13: 42”, or “reception date / time” included in the display page information. “2010/10/04/11: 20”, “2010/09/06/16: 31”, and “2010/09/06/15: 58” are displayed. In the “subject” of the display area 1102, “2010/11/09/13: 42”, “FW: What do you want?”, And “Matsui Yuki” corresponding to the “subject” included in the display page information are displayed in this example. ing. In the present example, the “sender” in the display area 1102 includes “Hirooka ○ Aro”, “Matsui ○ Ki”, “Nomo ○ Oo”, “Kimme”, and “Suzuki ○ Aro” corresponding to the “Sender” included in the display page information. Is displayed. In this example, “second page of 6th page” corresponding to “location of related MSG” included in the display page information is displayed in the “related MSG location” in the display area 1102. Note that the size of the display screen displayed in the display area 1102, the thickness of the frame line, the font size and type of the character string, information indicating opening / unopening, and the like of “display information” included in the display page information It is determined by information such as “data1” to “data5”.

  In step S608, it is determined whether the request processing unit 302 acquired in step S601 is a related location display request. If the request processing unit 302 is a related location display request (Yes), the process proceeds to step S609 and is not a related location display request. In the case (No), the process proceeds to step S610. The related location display request includes message identification information of a message selected by the user using the message list display screen displayed on the screen of the terminal 2 and message identification information of a message related to the message. The message list display screen is displayed by the terminal 2 receiving display page information generated to display the message list display screen from the information management apparatus 1, and using the display page information, the display unit (output) of the terminal 2 is output. Part).

In step S609, the location display generation unit 305 generates display page information corresponding to the location display described later. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S606.
In step S610, it is determined whether or not the request processing unit 302 acquired in step S601 is a specified page display request. If the request is a specified page display request (Yes), the process proceeds to step S611 and is not a specified page display request. In the case (No), the process proceeds to step S612. The designated page display request has a page designated by the user using the terminal 2 (designated page M) and the display number N.

In step S611, message information for N items from (+1 (specified page M−1) × number of displayed items N) +1 of the message information of the user authenticated by the specified display generation unit 306 is acquired and displayed on the specified page display. Corresponding display page information is generated.
For example, when the designated page M is 5 and the display number N is 5, 4 × 5 + 1 = 21 is obtained, and five messages (designated page information 312) are obtained from the 21st. Subsequently, display page information for displaying a list of the obtained five messages (display screen corresponding to the designated page display) is generated. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S606.

  In step S612, the request processing unit 302 determines whether or not it is a designated message display request. If it is a designated message display request (Yes), the process proceeds to step S613, and if it is not a designated message display request (No). Shifts to step S601. The designated message display request has information indicating a message designated by the user using the display screen shown in FIG. For example, when a line having “2010/11/09/13: 42”, “FW: what to do”, and “Matsui ○ Yuki” in the display area 1102 in FIG. 11 is selected, a message corresponding to the line is acquired. The designated message display request is transmitted from the terminal 2 to the information management apparatus 1.

  In step S613, the designated display generation unit 306 generates display page information corresponding to the designated message display of the designated message information. For example, information (designated message information 313) for displaying the message stored in the “message content” from the message information 901 in the storage unit 202 is acquired, and display page information corresponding to the designated message display including the acquired information. Is generated. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S607.

The operation of the related display generation unit (step S606 in FIG. 6) will be described.
The related display generation unit 304 adds the page, related message information, and link information to the display page information generated in steps S605, S609, and S611.

  FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the operation of the related display generation unit. In step S1201, the message display number L, which is a variable used by the related display generation unit 304 to count messages, is set to 1.

  In step S <b> 1202, the related display generation unit 304 searches for the related detection information from the “message content” of the message information indicated by the message number L. As related detection information, for example, “In-Reply-To”, “References”, and the like can be considered. “In-Reply-To” indicates to which message a reply is made when replying, and message identification information is normally designated. References is used to indicate a list of other messages related to the reply, and usually a plurality of Message-IDs are designated. Many mailers use this value for thread display.

  In step S1203, the related display generation unit 304 determines whether there is related detection information. If there is related detection information (Yes), the process proceeds to step S1204, and if there is no related detection information (No). The process moves to step S1208.

  In step S1204, the related display generation unit 304 acquires message identification information corresponding to the related detection information and sets it as related message information. When information stored in “message content” corresponding to the reception date “2011/01/20/13: 42: 00” of the message information 901 in FIG. 9 is searched, “In-Reply-To” is detected. . Subsequently, message identification information “20110100906161630001@OO.ne.jp” corresponding to “In-Reply-To” is acquired.

  In step S1205, the related display generation unit 304 searches for a message having message identification information that matches the related message information. For example, “Message-ID” for identifying a message stored in “Message content” of the message information is searched. Subsequently, the message identification information corresponding to “Message-ID” that matches the related message information is searched.

  In step S1206, the related display generation unit 304 determines whether the message has message identification information that matches the related message information. If the message has matching message identification information (Yes), the process proceeds to step S1207. Transition. If not (No), the process proceeds to step S1208.

  In step S <b> 1207, the related display generation unit 304 obtains what page and how many messages have the matched message identification information. The number of pages and how many pages are obtained can be determined by using the number of messages displayed on one page stored in the “display number N” of the user information corresponding to each user and the number of messages L, Find the page (number of pages) and the number of pages in the page (number of pages). For example, if the number of displayed messages N is 5, and a message having message identification information that matches the related message information is received from the latest received date and time to the 27th message (number of messages L), the number of pages 6 (number of pages) Set the number to 2 (what number).

Subsequently, display page information corresponding to the related display is generated using the page (numbered page) obtained by the related display generating unit 304 and the number of items in the page (numbered number).
FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of display page information. The display page information 1301 in FIG. 13 includes information stored in “page”, “reception date / time”, “subject”, “sender”, “related MSG location”, “display information”, and the like. A page is stored in “page”. In this example, “5”, “6”,... Are stored as the number of pages. In “Reception Date / Time”, the reception date / time corresponding to each message is stored. For example, the “reception date and time” of message information stored in the storage unit 202 corresponding to each message is stored. In this example, it represents the reception date and time... 06/16: 31 "," 2010/09/06/15: 58 ", ... are stored. In “Subject”, a subject corresponding to each message is stored. In this example, the subject is a character string ... "Monday locker arrangement""FW: What do you want to do?""○ Gold procedure example, for reference""○ Gold billing procedure guide""Recentlyslump" ...・ ・ Is stored. The “sender” stores the sender corresponding to the message. In this example, a character string... "" Hirooka * Aro "" Matsui * Yuki "" Nomo * Yuo "" * Kinki Mechanism "" Suzuki * Oro "... is stored as a sender.

  The location of other messages related to the message is stored in the “related MSG location”. In this example, “2010/11/09/13: 42”, “FW: What do you want to do”, “Matsui ○ Yoshi”, the location of other messages related to the message corresponding to the line “second page” on page 6 is stored. Has been. For example, using the page (what page) obtained by the related display generation unit 304 and the number of items in the page (what number), information “6 page, second number” indicating the second case of page 6 is generated. To do.

  “Display information” stores information necessary for displaying a list of messages. In this example,... "Data1", "data2", "data3", "data4", "data5", "data6", "data7",. The display screen of the terminal 2 displayed based on the display page information corresponding to the related display is “display information” included in the display page information, such as “data1” to “data7”. It is generated using the information. For example, the size of the display screen, the thickness of the frame line, the font size and type of the character string, information indicating opening / unopening, and the like are determined. In addition, information such as “data1” to “data7” of “display information” includes link information. For example, when “second page of page 6” is displayed as shown in the display area 1102 of FIG. 11, link information is displayed on page 6 when “second page of page 6” selected on the screen of the terminal 2 is selected. The link information for executing the process of switching the display is included.

In step S1208, the related display generation unit 304 obtains the message number L = L + 1.
In step S1209, the related display generation unit 304 compares the message count L with the display count N. If L> N, the related display raw process is terminated (Yes), and if L ≦ N (No). Shifts to step S1202.

The operation of the location display generation unit will be described.
14 and 15 are flowcharts showing an embodiment of the operation of the location display generation unit. FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of message information.

  In step S1401, the location display generation unit 305 acquires the original message identification information included in the related location display request and related message information related to the message identification information. When “second page 6” stored in “related MSG location” on the display screen 1101 in FIG. 11 is selected by the user, a related location display request is transmitted from the terminal 2 to the information management apparatus 1.

  In step S1402, the location display generation unit 305 identifies a message having related message information as message identification information with reference to the message information of the authenticated user. For example, referring to each “message content” of the message information 1601 in FIG. 16, the message identification information corresponding to “Message-ID” stored in “message content” matches the acquired related message information. Is identified.

  The message information 1601 in FIG. 16 includes information stored in “user ID”, “reception date / time”, “message content”, “unopened”, and the like. In the present example, “user ID” stores mail address... “123@OO.ne.jp”. The user ID is not limited to an email address. In “Reception date and time”, information indicating the date and time when the information management apparatus 1 received the message transmitted from the terminal 2 is stored. In this example, “r_date1” to “r_date37”,... Are stored in ascending order of information indicating the reception date and time. The message content is stored in “message content”. In this example, information indicating the message contents, "Message 1" to "Message 37", is stored. For example, the mail header and message contents shown in the message information 901 in FIG. 9 are stored. Confirmation information is stored in “unopened”, and when a message is read by the user (opened), confirmation information “1” indicating that the message has been read is stored, and is not read (unopened) Is stored with confirmation information “0” indicating that it has not been read.

  In step S1403, the display number N of messages displayed on the message list display screen by the location display generation unit 305 is acquired from the user information 308. In this example, the display number N is 5.

  In step S1404, the position (number of lines R) of the message specified by the location display generation unit 305 is acquired using the message information. For example, when the “user ID” of the authenticated user in the message information 1601 in FIG. 16 is “123@xxx.ne.jp”, one or more related to “123@xxx.ne.jp” The reception date and time of each message is counted in the newest order, and the position (number of lines R) of the message specified in step S1402 is obtained. In the example of FIG. 16, there is related message information on the 27th line of the authenticated user of the message information 1601.

  In step S1405, the location display generation unit 305 initializes display optimum region information 314 described later. FIG. 17 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure of the display optimum region information and the message list display screen. The display optimum region information 1701 stored in the storage unit 202 in FIG. 17 includes information stored in “display target position” and “unopened number”.

In step S1406, P, which is a variable used by the location display generation unit 305 to count messages, is set to 1.
In step S1407, the location display generation unit 305 obtains RN + P using the row number R, the display number N, and the count P. Subsequently, the RN + P-th message is specified in the order of the reception date and time among the messages of the users who have authenticated the message information. For example, in the 27th line of the related message information, when the display number N is 5 and the count P is 1 to 5, in FIG. 16, the 23rd line when P = 1, the 24th line when P = 2, and P = When 3 is obtained, the 25th line is obtained, when P = 4, the 26th line is obtained, and when P = 5, the 27th line is obtained.

  Subsequently, the total of unopened rows is obtained for the N rows from the RN + Pth. In the case of FIG. 16, in the 23rd to 27th lines, the total of unopened lines is one line. In the 24th to 28th lines, the total number of unopened lines is 2. In the 25th to 29th lines, the total number of unopened lines is 3. In the 26th to 30th lines, the total number of unopened lines is 3. In the 27th to 31st lines, the total number of unopened lines is 3.

  In step S1408, the location display generation unit 305 uses the number of rows R, the number of displayed items N, and the count P as RN + P as a display target position, and stores the number of unopened rows as an unopened number in the display optimum region information. . In the case of FIG. 16, the rows “23-27”, “24-28”, “25-29”, “26-30”, and “27-31” obtained in step S1407 are stored in the “display target position” in FIG. Yes. The “unopened number” stores the total obtained in step S1407 in association with the “display target position”. In this example, a total of “1” is associated with “23-27”, a total of “2” is associated with “24-28”, and a total of “3” and “26-30” are associated with “25-29”. In total, “3” is stored in association with “3” and “27-31”.

In step S1409 in FIG. 15, 1 is added to P, which is a variable used by the location display generation unit 305 to count messages (P = P + 1), and the next message is selected.
In step S1410, the location display generation unit 305 compares the count P with the number N of cases. If P> N (Yes), the process proceeds to step S1411. If P ≦ N (No), the process proceeds to step S1407. .

  In step S1411, the location display generation unit 305 extracts the “display target position” information having the largest number of unopened items from the display optimum region information. In the example of FIGS. 16 and 17, information (groups) “25-29”, “26-30”, and “27-31” of “display target positions” related to a total of 3 having the largest number of unopened items are extracted. However, since three are extracted in this example, one of them is selected. As a selection method, for example, “25-29” in which the 27th line is displayed near the center of the display can be considered. However, the method is not limited to the above selection method, and when there are a plurality of groups having the largest total, a group in which the order of messages on the 27th line is before the center may be specified.

  In step S1412, the message corresponding to the display target position selected by the location display generation unit 305 is detected with reference to the message information, and the “page”, “reception date”, “subject” of each message of the display page information is detected. Information to be stored in “sender” and “related MSG location” is acquired, and display page information is generated.

  A display screen 1702 shown in FIG. 17 is displayed based on the display page information from which the terminal 2 receives the display page information. Note that “subject 28” and “subject 29” indicate the subject. “Ccc” and “ddd” indicate the sender.

  According to the first embodiment, when a related message is displayed in the display area of the message list display screen, the number of lines in the display area in the order of reception date and time is displayed in the vicinity of the related message. Determined by the number of unread messages present. As a result, it is possible to grasp that there is an unread message that exists in the vicinity of the related message.

  It should be noted that a character string may be displayed in a clickable state such as “second page on page 6” displayed in the display area of the message list display screen showing related messages. Further, a link button to be displayed may be prepared.

  Furthermore, it is not necessary for past emails to be related messages, which are messages that are not included in the currently displayed message list and that have been received in the past. Even if selected, it can be used as a trigger for operating the mechanism of the present application.

Embodiment 2 will be described.
The second embodiment is a case where the terminal 2 performs processing related to display executed by the information management apparatus 1 described in the first embodiment. A control unit and a storage unit of the terminal 2 in the second embodiment will be described. FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating an example of the control unit and the storage unit of the terminal according to the second embodiment. The control unit 401 illustrated in FIG. 18 includes a message processing unit 1801, a related display generation unit 1802, a location display generation unit 1803, a designated display generation unit 1804, and a display screen generation unit 1805.

  The message processing unit 1801 executes processing for storing a message in association with the reception date and time when the message arrives at the terminal 2. Further, for example, a function for controlling electronic mail is executed.

When there is a message related to the received message, the related display generation unit 1802 generates related message information indicating the location of the related message.
When the related message information related to the received first message is selected, the location display generation unit 1803 specifies the second message indicated by the related message information. Subsequently, referring to the message information, a plurality of third messages associated with the reception date and time close to the reception date and time of the second message and the determined number of the second messages are obtained to generate a plurality of groups To do. At the same time, the third message is selected so that the display order of the second message in the group differs for each group, and the confirmation information of each of the second message and the third message is referred to and read for each group. Determine the number of each of the second and third messages that have not been received. As a result, the most frequent group is specified, and display page information for displaying the scroll display position, the reception date and time, the specific information, and the related message information related to the messages included in the specified group is generated. Note that the group is, for example, optimum display area information 2901 shown in FIG. 29 described later.

  In the message information, the message content included in the received message, the reception date and time when the message was received, and confirmation information indicating whether or not the message has been read by the user are associated and stored in the order of the reception date and time. Yes.

  In the display screen information, the reception date and time, the specific information, the related message information, the scroll display position, and the display information are associated with each other and stored in the order of the reception date and time. The specific information is information for specifying a message included in the message content. The related message information is information indicating the location of a message related to the message. The scroll display position is information indicating that a reception date and time, specific information, and related message information associated with each message are displayed. The display information is information for displaying the scroll display position, the reception date and time, the specific information, and the related message information on the screen.

The designation display generation unit 1804 generates display screen information for displaying a designated page or a designated message.
The display screen generation unit 1805 receives display screen information described later, and displays a message list display screen on the output unit (display unit) of the terminal 2 based on the display screen information.

  18 includes message information 1806, related display information 1807, location display information 1808, designated display information 1809, designated message information 1810, optimal display area information 1811, and the like, which will be described later.

The operation of the terminal will be described.
19 and 20 are flowcharts illustrating an example of the operation of the terminal according to the second embodiment. In step S 1901, an instruction (request) input from the input / output unit 408 of the terminal 2 is received from the input / output interface 404. The request includes, for example, a list display request, a related location display request, a scroll display request, a specified message display request, which will be described later.

  In step S1902, it is determined whether or not the message information 1806 is a list display request. If a list display request is received (Yes), the process proceeds to step S1903, and if it is a request other than the list display request (No). Shifts to step S1907. The list display request includes information for causing the input / output unit 408 to display a message list display screen on the display unit.

  In step S1903, the related display generation unit 1802 acquires the number of messages displayed on the message list display screen. For example, the number displayed on the currently displayed message list display screen may be the display number N. The display number N may be a fixed value.

  FIG. 21 is a diagram illustrating an example of a message list display screen according to the second embodiment. A display screen 2101 (for example, a window) is a display screen generated by the display screen generation unit 1805 of the terminal 2 and displayed on the display unit (output unit) of the terminal 2. The terminal 2 displays the display area 2102 using the display screen information.

  In this example, the “reception date” in the display area 2102 is “2011/01/04/14: 00”, “2010/11/09/13: 42”, “c” corresponding to the “reception date” included in the display screen information. “2010/10/04/11: 20”, “2010/09/06/16: 31”, and “2010/09/06/15: 58” are displayed. In the “subject” of the display area 2102, “2010/11/09/13: 42”, “FW: What do you want to do”, and “Matsui Matsuki” corresponding to the “subject” included in the display screen information are displayed in this example. ing. In this example, “sender” in the display area 2102 includes “Hirooka ○ Aro”, “Matsui ○ Ki”, “Nomo ○ Oo”, “Kimme”, and “Suzuki ○ Aro” corresponding to the “sender” included in the display screen information. Is displayed. In the present example, “27th message” corresponding to “related MSG location” included in the display screen information is displayed in “related MSG location” in the display area 2102. The size of the display screen displayed in the display area 2102, the thickness of the frame line, the font size and type of the character string, information indicating opening / unopening, etc., are included in “display information” included in the display screen information described later. Are determined based on information such as “data1” to “data5”.

  In step S1904, the related display generation unit 1802 acquires information related to all messages received from the message information. The message information is a message stored in the user and information related to the message.

  FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of message information according to the second embodiment. The message information 2201 in FIG. 22 includes information stored in “reception date / time”, “message content”, “unopened”, and the like. In “Reception date and time”, information indicating the date and time when the information management apparatus 1 received the message transmitted from the terminal 2 is stored. In this example, “2011/01/20/13: 42: 00” indicating January 20, 2011 at 13:42, “2011/01/23/14: 00 indicating 13:00 on January 23, 2011”. : 00 "and the like are stored. The message content is stored in “message content”. In the message information 2201 in FIG. 22, for example, a mail header (information above the message content) and the message content are stored. In this example, the message content is described for convenience, but information corresponding to the message body is actually stored at the location described as the message content. Confirmation information is stored in “unopened”, and when a message is read by the user (opened), confirmation information “1” indicating that the message has been read is stored, and is not read (unopened) Is stored with confirmation information “0” indicating that it has not been read.

In step S1904, the related display generation unit 1802 generates N pieces of display screen information corresponding to the current scroll position using information related to the acquired message.
FIG. 23 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of display screen information according to the second embodiment. 23 includes information stored in “scroll display position”, “reception date / time”, “subject”, “sender”, “related MSG location”, “display information”, and the like. Information indicating that the message is to be displayed at the current scroll position is stored in the “scroll display position”. In this example, “1” indicating information indicating a message to be displayed at the current scroll position is stored, and “0” is stored in a message not to be displayed.

  In “Reception date and time”, the reception date and time corresponding to the message is stored. For example, the “reception date” of the message information stored in the storage unit 202 corresponding to the message is stored. In this example, “2011/01/04/14: 00”, “2010/11/09/13: 42”, “2010/10/04/11: 20”, “2010/09/06/16” indicating the reception date and time: 31 ”and“ 2010/09/06/15: 58 ”are stored.

  In “Subject”, a subject corresponding to the message is stored. For example, a character string corresponding to “Subject” in “Message content” of the message information stored in the storage unit 202 corresponding to the message is stored. In this example, the character strings “Monday is locker arrangement”, “FW: What do you want to do?”, “○ Gold procedure example, for reference”, “○ Gold request procedure guidance”, “Recently slump,” are stored. The “sender” stores the sender corresponding to the message. For example, a character string corresponding to “From” in “Message content” of the message information stored in the storage unit 202 corresponding to the message is stored. In this example, the character strings “Hirooka ○ Aro”, “Matsui ○ Ki”, “Nomo ○ Oo”, “○ Kim Organization”, and “Suzuki ○ Aro” are stored as senders. In “related MSG location”, the location of other messages related to the message is stored. “Display information” stores information necessary for displaying a list of messages. In this example, “data 1”, “data 2”, “data 3”, “data 4”, and “data 5” are stored as the information.

  In step S1905, the related display generation unit 1802 generates the scroll display position and the related message information, and stores them in the “scroll display position” and the “related MSG location” of the display screen information. The content displayed in the item “scroll display position” stores information for displaying a message at a location corresponding to the display position of the scroll display area 2103 in FIG. For example, as shown in the display screen information 2302 in FIG. 23, “1” “1” “1” “1” “1”. In addition, related message information “27th message” is stored in “related MSG location” corresponding to “FW: what to do” of “subject”.

  In step S 1906, the display screen generation unit 1805 transmits various display screen information to be described later to the terminal 2. The terminal 2 that has received the display screen information displays the display screen based on the display screen information.

  In step S1907, the location display generation unit 1803 determines whether the request acquired in step S1901 is a related location display request. If the request is a related location display request (Yes), the process proceeds to step S1908, and the related location display request is obtained. If it is not a display request (No), the process proceeds to step S1909. The related location display request includes message identification information of a message selected by the user using the message list display screen displayed on the screen of the terminal 2 and message identification information of a message related to the message. The display method of the message list display screen is displayed on the display unit (output unit) of the terminal 2 using display screen information generated for displaying the message list display screen.

In step S1908, the location display generation unit 1803 generates display screen information corresponding to the location display described later. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S1905.
In step S1909, it is determined whether or not the request acquired in step S1901 is a scroll display request. If the request is a scroll request (Yes), the process proceeds to step S1910. If not (No), the process proceeds to step S1910. The process shifts to S1911. The scroll display request includes information for displaying a message corresponding to the scrolled display position when the user scrolls the display screen to select a message to be displayed using the scroll area of the message list display screen. It is out. The information has a display number N determined by the size (H1) of the current message list display screen and the display size (H2) per message.

In step S1910, the designated display generation unit 1804 generates display screen information for displaying N items corresponding to the current scroll display position.
For example, when the display number N corresponding to the scroll display position is 5, five messages (specified display information 1809) corresponding to the scroll display position are acquired. Subsequently, display screen information for displaying a list of the acquired five messages is generated. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S1905.

  In step S1911, it is determined whether or not the request is a designated message display request. If the request is a designated message display request (Yes), the process proceeds to step S1912. If the request is not a designated message display request (No), the process proceeds to step S1901. To do. The designated message display request has information indicating a message designated by the user using the display screen shown in FIG. For example, when a row having “2010/11/09/13: 42”, “FW: What to do”, and “Matsui ○ Yuki” in the display area 2102 in FIG. 21 is selected, a message corresponding to the row is acquired. The specified message display request is generated.

  In step S1912, the designated display generation unit 1804 generates display screen information corresponding to the designated message display of the designated message information. For example, information (designated message information 1810) for displaying the message stored in the “message content” from the message information 2201 of the storage unit 402 is acquired, and display screen information corresponding to the designated message display including the acquired information Is generated. Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S1906.

The operation of the related display generation unit (step S1905 in FIG. 19) will be described.
The related display generation unit 1802 adds the scroll display position, related message information, and link information to the display screen information generated in steps S1904, S1908, and S1910.

  FIG. 24 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the operation of the related display generation unit according to the second embodiment. In step S2401, the message number L, which is a variable used by the related display generation unit 1802 to count messages, is set to 1.

  In step S2402, the related display generation unit 1802 searches for the related detection information from the “message content” of the message information indicated by the message number L. As related detection information, for example, “In-Reply-To”, “References”, and the like can be considered. “In-Reply-To” indicates to which message a reply is made when replying, and message identification information is normally designated. References is used to indicate a list of other messages related to the reply, and usually a plurality of Message-IDs are designated. Many mailers use this value for thread display.

  In step S2403, the related display generation unit 1802 determines whether there is related detection information. If there is related detection information (Yes), the process proceeds to step S2404, and if there is no related detection information (No). The process moves to step S2408.

  In step S2404, the related display generation unit 1802 acquires message identification information corresponding to the related detection information and sets it as related message information. When the information stored in the “message content” corresponding to the reception date “2011/01/20/13: 42: 00” of the message information 2201 in FIG. 22 is searched, “In-Reply-To” is detected. . Subsequently, message identification information “20110100906161630001@OO.ne.jp” corresponding to “In-Reply-To” is acquired.

  In step S2405, the related display generation unit 1802 searches for a message having message identification information that matches the related message information. For example, “Message-ID” for identifying a message stored in “Message content” of the message information is searched. Subsequently, the message identification information corresponding to “Message-ID” that matches the related message information is searched.

  In step S2406, the related display generation unit 1802 determines whether the message has message identification information that matches the related message information. If the message has matching message identification information (Yes), the flow advances to step S2407. Transition. If not (No), the process proceeds to step S2408.

In step S2407, the related display generation unit 1802 obtains the number of messages having the matched message identification information.
Subsequently, the display screen information corresponding to the related display is generated by using what number obtained by the related display generation unit 1802.

  FIG. 25 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of display screen information according to the second embodiment. The display screen information 2501 in FIG. 25 includes information stored in “scroll display position”, “reception date / time”, “subject”, “sender”, “related MSG location”, “display information”, and the like. Information indicating a message to be displayed is stored in the “scroll display position”. In this example, “1”, “1”, “1”, “1”, “1”,... Are stored. In “Reception Date / Time”, the reception date / time corresponding to each message is stored. For example, “reception date” of message information stored in the storage unit 402 corresponding to each message is stored. In this example, the reception date and time are represented as “2011/01/04/14: 00”, “2010/11/09/13: 42”, “2010/10/04/11: 20”, “2010/09 /”. 06/16: 31 "," 2010/09/06/15: 58 ", ... are stored. In “Subject”, a subject corresponding to each message is stored. In this example, the subject is a character string ... "Monday locker arrangement" "FW: What do you want to do?" "○ Gold procedure example, for reference" "○ Gold billing procedure guide" "Recently slump" ...・ ・ Is stored. The “sender” stores the sender corresponding to the message. In this example, a character string... "" Hirooka * Aro "" Matsui * Yuki "" Nomo * Yuo "" * Kinki Mechanism "" Suzuki * Oro "... is stored as a sender.

  The location of other messages related to the message is stored in the “related MSG location”. In this example, the location “27th message” of another message related to the message corresponding to the line having “2010/11/09/13: 42”, “FW: what to do”, and “Matsui ○ ki” is stored. Yes. For example, information “27th message” indicating the 27th event is generated using the number of events (what message) obtained by the related display generation unit 1802 described above.

  “Display information” stores information necessary for displaying a list of messages. In this example,... "Data1", "data2", "data3", "data4", "data5", "data6", "data7",. In addition, the display screen of the terminal 2 displayed based on the display screen information corresponding to the related display is “display information” included in the display screen information, such as “data1” to “data7”. It is generated using the information. For example, the size of the display screen, the thickness of the frame line, the font size and type of the character string, information indicating opening / unopening, and the like are determined. In addition, information such as “data1” to “data7” of “display information” includes link information. For example, when “27th” is displayed as the link information as shown in the display area 2102 of FIG. 21, when the “27th” displayed on the screen of the terminal 2 is selected, the 27th is displayed. The link information to be executed by the switching process is included.

In step S2408, the related display generation unit 1802 obtains the message number L = L + 1.
In step S2409, the related display generation unit 1802 compares the message count L with the display count N. If L> N, the related display raw process ends (Yes), and if L ≦ N (No). Proceeds to step S2402.

The operation of the location display generation unit will be described.
26 and 27 are flowcharts illustrating an example of the operation of the location display generation unit according to the second embodiment. FIG. 28 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of message information according to the second embodiment.

  In step S2601, the location display generation unit 1803 acquires the original message identification information included in the related location display request and the related message information related to the message identification information. When “27th mail” stored in “related MSG location” on the display screen 2101 in FIG. 21 is selected by the user, a related location display request is generated.

  In step S2602, the location display generation unit 1803 identifies a message having related message information as message identification information with reference to the message information. For example, referring to each “message content” of the message information 2201 in FIG. 22, a message whose message identification information corresponding to “Message-ID” stored in “message content” matches the acquired related message information. Is identified.

  The message information 2801 in FIG. 28 includes information stored in “reception date / time”, “message content”, “unopened”, and the like. In “Reception date and time”, information indicating the date and time when the information management apparatus 1 received the message transmitted from the terminal 2 is stored. In this example, “r_date1” to “r_date35”,... Are stored in ascending order of information indicating the reception date and time. The message content is stored in “message content”. In this example, information indicating message contents is stored... "Message1" to "Message35". For example, the mail header and message content shown in the message information 2201 in FIG. 22 are stored. Confirmation information is stored in “unopened”, and when a message is read by the user (opened), confirmation information “1” indicating that the message has been read is stored, and is not read (unopened) Is stored with confirmation information “0” indicating that it has not been read.

  In step S2603, the location display generation unit 1803 acquires the display number N of messages displayed on the message list display screen. In this example, the display number N is 5. It has a display number N determined by the size (H1) of the current message list display screen and the display size (H2) per message.

  In step S2604, the position (number of lines R) of the message specified by the location display generation unit 1803 is acquired using the message information. For example, the reception date and time of each message of the message information 2801 in FIG. 28 is counted in the newest order, and the position (number of lines R) of the message specified in step S2602 is obtained. In the example of FIG. 28, there is related message information on the 27th line of the message information 2801.

  In step S2605, the location display generation unit 1803 initializes display optimum region information described later. FIG. 29 is a diagram illustrating an example of a message list display screen having a data structure of display optimum region information according to the second embodiment. The optimum display area information 2901 stored in the storage unit 402 in FIG. 29 has information stored in “display target position” and “unopened number”.

In step S2606, P, which is a variable used by the location display generation unit 1803 to count messages, is set to 1.
In step S <b> 2607, the location display generation unit 1803 calculates RN + P using the row number R, the display number N, and the count P. Subsequently, the RN + P-th message is specified in the order of the reception date and time among the messages of the users who have authenticated the message information. For example, in the 27th line of the related message information, when the display number N is 5 and the count P is 1 to 5, in FIG. 28, when P = 1, the 23rd line, when P = 2, the 24th line, P = When 3 is obtained, the 25th line is obtained, when P = 4, the 26th line is obtained, and when P = 5, the 27th line is obtained.

  Subsequently, the total of unopened rows is obtained for the N rows from the RN + Pth. In the case of FIG. 28, in the 23rd to 27th lines, the total of unopened lines is one line. In the 24th to 28th lines, the total number of unopened lines is 2. In the 25th to 29th lines, the total number of unopened lines is 3. In the 26th to 30th lines, the total number of unopened lines is 3. In the 27th to 31st lines, the total number of unopened lines is 3.

  In step S2608, the location display generation unit 1803 uses the number of rows R, the number of displayed items N, and the count P, sets RN + P as the display target position, stores the number of unopened rows as the number of unopened pages, and stores it in the display optimum region information. . In the case of FIG. 28, the rows “23-27”, “24-28”, “25-29”, “26-30”, and “27-31” obtained in step S2607 are stored in the “display target position” in FIG. Yes. In the “unopened number”, the total obtained in step S2607 is stored in association with the “display target position”. In this example, a total of “1” is associated with “23-27”, a total of “2” is associated with “24-28”, and a total of “3” and “26-30” are associated with “25-29”. In total, “3” is stored in association with “3” and “27-31”.

  In step S2609 of FIG. 27, 1 is added to P which is a variable used by the location display generation unit 1803 to count messages (P = P + 1), and the next message is selected.

  In step S2610, the location display generation unit 1803 compares the count P with the number N of cases, and if P> N (Yes), the process proceeds to step S2611, and if L ≦ N (No), the process proceeds to step S2607. .

  In step S2611, the location display generation unit 1803 extracts the “display target position” information having the largest number of unopened items from the display optimum region information. In the example of FIGS. 28 and 29, information (groups) “25-29”, “26-30”, and “27-31” of “display target positions” related to the total 3 having the largest number of unopened items are extracted. However, since three are extracted in this example, one of them is selected. As a selection method, for example, “25-29” in which the 27th line is displayed near the center of the display can be considered. However, the method is not limited to the above selection method, and when there are a plurality of groups having the largest total, a group in which the order of messages on the 27th line is before the center may be specified.

  In step S2612, a message in a row corresponding to the display target position selected by the location display generation unit 1803 is detected with reference to the message information, and “reception date”, “subject”, and “sender” of each message in the display screen information are detected. Information to be stored in the “related MSG location” is acquired, and display screen information is generated.

  The terminal 2 displays a display screen 2902 shown in FIG. 29 based on the display screen information. Note that “subject 28” and “subject 29” indicate the subject. “Ccc” and “ddd” indicate the sender.

  According to the second embodiment, when a related message is displayed in the display area of the message list display screen, the number of lines in the display area in which the reception date and time are displayed in the order from the newest reception date is displayed in the vicinity of the related message. Determined by the number of unread messages present. As a result, it is possible to grasp that there is an unread message that exists in the vicinity of the related message.

  Note that “27th message” displayed in the display area of the message list display screen showing related messages may be displayed in a clickable state. Further, a link button to be displayed may be prepared.

  Furthermore, it is not necessary for past emails to be related messages, which are messages that are not included in the currently displayed message list and that have been received in the past. Even if selected, it can be used as a trigger for operating the mechanism of the present application.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various improvements and modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information management apparatus 2 Terminal 3 Network 201 Control part 202 Storage part 203 Recording medium reader 204 Input / output interface 205 Communication interface 206 Bus 207 Recording medium 208 Input / output part 301 Message processing part 302 Request processing part 303 Authentication part 304 Generation of related display Section 305 Location display generation section 306 Designated display generation section 307 Display provision section 308 User information 309 Message information 310 Related display information 311 Location display information 312 Designated page information 313 Designated message information 314 Display optimum area information 401 Control section 402 Storage section 403 Recording medium reader 404 Input / output interface 405 Communication interface 406 Bus 407 Recording medium 408 Input / output unit 501 Data acquisition unit 502 Transmission information generation unit 503 Display screen generation 801 User information 901, 1601 Message information 1001, 1002, 1301 Display page information 1101, 1702 Display screen 1102 Display area 1701 Display optimum area information 1801 Message processing unit 1802 Related display generation unit 1803 Location display generation unit 1804 Designated display generation unit 1805 Display screen generation unit 1806 Message information 1807 Related display information 1808 Location display information 1809 Designated display information 1810 Designated message information 1811 Display optimum area information 2101, 2902 Display screen 2102 Display area 2103 Scroll display area 2201, 2801 Message information 2301 2302 2501 Display screen information 2901 Display optimum area information

Claims (8)

When the related message information indicating the location of the second message related to the received first message is selected, the second message indicated by the related message information is specified,
Refer to the message information stored in association with the message content included in the received message, the reception date and time when the message was received, and the confirmation information indicating whether or not the message has been read by the user, Generating a plurality of groups by acquiring a predetermined number of messages including a plurality of third messages associated with a reception date and time close to the reception date and time of the message and the second message, and for each group Selecting the third message so that the display order in the group of the second message is different,
For each group, refer to the confirmation information of each of the second message and the third message to identify a group having the largest number of the second message and the third message that have not been read;
The reception date and time associated with each message included in the specified group, the number of pages on which specific information for specifying the message and the related message information are displayed, the reception date and time, and the specific information , Generating display page information for displaying the related message information on the screen,
Outputting the display page information;
An information management program for causing a computer to execute processing.   When there are a plurality of the groups having the largest number of unread messages, the computer is caused to execute a process of identifying a group in which the order of the second message is the center or a reception date and time before the center. The information management program according to claim 1. Message information stored in association with message contents included in the received message, reception date and time when the message was received, and confirmation information indicating whether or not the message has been read by a user,
The reception date and time, the specific information for specifying the message included in the message content, the related message information indicating the location of the message related to the message, the reception date and time and the specific information associated with each message The number of pages on which the related message information is displayed, the number of pages, the reception date and time, the specific information, and display information for displaying the related message information on the screen are associated with each other and stored in the order of the reception date and time. Display page information, and a storage unit having
When related message information related to the received first message is selected, a second message indicated by the related message information is specified, the message information is referred to using the second message, A plurality of third messages associated with the reception date and time close to the reception date and time of the second message and the second message are acquired to generate a plurality of groups, and the group The third message is selected so that the display order of the second message in the group differs for each group, and the confirmation information of each of the second message and the third message is referred to for each group. A group having the largest number of each of the second message and the third message that has not been read is identified, and the identified group And location display generation unit for generating display page information for the associated message information and the page number and the reception date and the specific information associated with the message contained in the flop is displayed on the screen,
A display providing unit for outputting the display page information;
An information management device comprising: The location display generation unit
4. The group according to claim 3, wherein when there are a plurality of the groups with the largest number of unread messages, the group of the second message is identified as a center or a group having a reception date before the center. 5. Information management device. When the related message information indicating the location of the second message related to the received first message is selected, the second message indicated by the related message information is specified,
Refer to the message information stored in association with the message content included in the received message, the reception date and time when the message was received, and the confirmation information indicating whether or not the message has been read by the user, Generating a plurality of groups by acquiring a predetermined number of messages including a plurality of third messages associated with a reception date and time close to the reception date and time of the message and the second message, and for each group Selecting the third message so that the display order in the group of the second message is different,
For each group, refer to the confirmation information of each of the second message and the third message to identify a group having the largest number of the second message and the third message that have not been read;
Scroll display position indicating that the reception date and time associated with each message included in the identified group, the specific information for specifying the message, and the related message information are displayed, the reception date and time, and the specification Generating display screen information for displaying information and the related message information on the screen;
Displaying a screen based on the display screen information;
An information management program for a terminal, which causes a computer to execute processing.   When there are a plurality of the groups having the largest number of unread messages, the computer is caused to execute a process of identifying a group in which the order of the second message is the center or a reception date and time before the center. The terminal information management program according to claim 5. Message information stored in association with the message content included in the received message, the reception date and time when the message was received, and confirmation information indicating whether or not the message was read by a user;
The reception date and time, the specific information for specifying the message included in the message content, the related message information indicating the location of the message related to the message, the reception date and time and the specific information associated with each message The scroll display position indicating that the related message information is displayed, the scroll display position, the reception date and time, the specific information, and display information for displaying the related message information on the screen are associated with the reception. Display screen information stored in order of date and time,
When related message information related to the received first message is selected, a second message indicated by the related message information is specified, the message information is referred to using the second message, A plurality of third messages associated with the reception date and time close to the reception date and time of the second message and the second message are acquired to generate a plurality of groups, and the group The third message is selected so that the display order of the second message in the group differs for each group, and the confirmation information of each of the second message and the third message is referred to for each group. A group having the largest number of each of the second message and the third message that has not been read is identified, and the identified group And location display generation unit for generating display page information for displaying the associated message information and the scrolling display position and the reception date and the specific information associated with the message contained in the flop on the screen,
A display screen generator for displaying the display screen information on a screen;
A terminal comprising: The location display generation unit
8. The group according to claim 7, wherein when there are a plurality of the groups having the largest number of unread messages, the second message is identified in the order of the center or the reception date and time before the center. Terminal.

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