JP2017228053A - Message receiver and notification history management method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a message receiver capable of selecting a required message.SOLUTION: The message receiver includes: a communication unit 1 that receives a piece of message information in which a piece of message text of a notification relevant to a household appliance 300 is associated with a service ID for identifying the content of a service relevant to the household appliance 300 from a server 200 linked with the home electronic; a notification history management unit 11 that extracts a piece of message information relevant to the identical service ID based on a preset condition from the message information and carries out a series of processing to delete the same; and a screen output unit 7 that displays a piece of message information after the deletion.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 17

Description

  The present invention relates to a message receiving apparatus used in a home appliance network system when home appliances of a house or apartment are connected to a network.

  In recent years, services have been provided for remotely controlling home appliances such as air conditioners, microwave ovens, and refrigerators connected to a network using portable terminals.

  In such a communication system for controlling home appliances, it is possible to carry out power control and operation control of home appliances by remote control from a portable terminal on a personal computer or home appliance installed in a house or apartment house. It becomes possible. In addition, it is possible to analyze the history by storing the result of controlling the home appliance by the user in the server and storing it as an operation history, and it is expected to propose an optimal home appliance usage method to the user.

  In Patent Literature 1, information acquired from a plurality of air conditioners is accumulated in a server, and the air conditioner from which the analysis result of the accumulated information is supplied can be clearly indicated to the terminal device.

  Further, in Patent Document 2, an operation button corresponding to a command command for executing an operation of a device is displayed, and a command that matches a transmission message can be sent to the device.

JP-A-2015-75307 JP-A-2015-65590

  However, in the methods of Patent Documents 1 and 2, it is possible to leave the contents received after the message notification in the portable terminal as a notification history, but messages that are no longer necessary for the user, for example, 30 minutes before and 1 day before When a notification notifying the room temperature state remains in the history, the information one day before is unnecessary for the user who wants to know the latest information.

  In order to solve the above-described conventional problem, the message receiving apparatus of the present invention provides a message text to be notified about the electric device and a service related to the electric device from a device cooperation server to which at least one electric device is connected. A communication unit that receives message information corresponding to a service ID for identifying contents, and a notification history management that performs processing for extracting message information related to the same service ID from the message information based on setting conditions and deleting the message information And a screen output unit for displaying message information after deletion.

  According to the message receiving apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to select a highly necessary message by presenting a screen for selecting an optimum message from the notification history to the user.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a communication system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. Schematic configuration diagram of a message receiving device in Embodiment 1 of the present invention Functional block diagram of the home appliance cooperation server in Embodiment 1 of the present invention Schematic configuration diagram of home appliances in Embodiment 1 of the present invention The figure which shows the structure of the received message information in Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the structure of the application transition information in Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the structure of the service registration information in Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the structure of the transmission data in Embodiment 1 of this invention. The flowchart until the transition screen from the message notification by the household appliance cooperation server in Embodiment 1 of this invention to the application in a message receiver is displayed. The figure which shows the structure of the household appliances management information in Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the structure of the acquisition information in Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the structure of the message information in Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the notification screen in Embodiment 1 of this invention The figure which shows the function screen in Embodiment 1 of this invention Flowchart of application activation / transition in the message receiving apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention The figure which shows the transition from the function screen in Embodiment 1 of this invention to a notification screen Schematic which shows the relationship between the main components of the message receiver in Embodiment 1 of this invention. Schematic which shows the relationship between the main components of the household appliance cooperation server in Embodiment 1 of this invention. The figure which shows the structure of the data regarding the time limit of notification log | history deletion in Embodiment 1 of this invention.

  According to a first aspect of the present invention, a message body notified about the electric device from a device cooperation server to which at least one electric device is connected is associated with a service ID for identifying the content of the service about the electric device. A communication unit that receives received message information, a notification history management unit that performs processing for extracting and deleting message information related to the same service ID based on setting conditions from the message information, and a screen for displaying message information after deletion And an output unit.

  In a second aspect of the present invention, particularly in the first aspect of the present invention, the second aspect further includes a storage unit for preliminarily storing the setting condition.

  In a third aspect of the invention, particularly in the first aspect of the invention, if there are a plurality of message information associated with the same service ID, the setting condition is deleted if it is message information received a predetermined time before the current time And a notification history management unit for performing the processing.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, the setting condition is a notification history for performing processing for periodically deleting a message other than the latest message when a plurality of message information associated with the same service ID exists. A management unit is further provided.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in particular, in the first aspect of the invention, a message body to be notified about the electric device and a service content related to the electric device are identified from the device cooperation server to which at least one electric device is connected. A message history corresponding to the service ID, extracting message information related to the same service ID from the message information based on setting conditions, performing a deletion process, and displaying the message information after deletion It is a management method.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In addition, each embodiment shown below is an example and the structure of a system and the structure of a functional block are not limited.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 shows a communication system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention, which includes a message receiving device 100, a home appliance linkage server 200, a home appliance 300, and a home relay device 400.

  The home appliance 300 is a home appliance installed in a house, and is, for example, an air conditioner (for example, an air conditioner), a refrigerator-freezer, a rice cooker, a microwave oven, or a washing / drying machine. Home appliance 300 may be a single device or a plurality of devices. Hereinafter, in this embodiment, home appliance 300 will be described as an air conditioner.

  Hereinafter, details of the message receiving device 100, the home appliance cooperation server 200, the home appliance 300, and the home relay device 400 will be sequentially described.

  First, the message receiving device 100 will be described. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing main components of message receiving apparatus 100 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 17 is a schematic diagram for explaining the relationship between the main components of the message receiving apparatus 100.

  A message receiving device 100 shown in FIG. 1 is a communication device that can communicate with the home appliance cooperation server 200, and is, for example, a mobile phone or a portable information terminal.

  The message receiving device 100 includes a communication unit 1, a reception data management unit 2, a user request reception unit 3, a message extraction unit 4, an application transition information management unit 5, an application transition screen generation unit 6, a screen output unit 7, a storage unit 8, An application activation instruction unit 9, a screen transition management unit 10, and a notification history management unit 11 are included.

  In the message receiving device 100, the communication unit 1, the received data management unit 2, the user request reception unit 3, the message extraction unit 4, the application transition information management unit 5, the application transition screen generation unit 6, the screen output unit 7, and the storage unit 8, the application activation instruction unit 9, the screen transition management unit 10, and the communication unit 21, the data acquisition unit 22, the constant analysis unit 23, the transmission data generation unit 24, the user request reception unit 25, the service registration / The cancellation unit 26, the storage unit 27, and the on-demand analysis unit 28 are configured by an LSI (Large Scale Integration) that is an integrated circuit.

  Each of these means may be individually made into one chip, or may be made into one chip so as to include a part or all of them. The name used here is LSI, but it may also be called IC, system LSI, super LSI, or ultra LSI depending on the degree of integration. Further, the method of circuit integration is not limited to LSI's, and implementation using dedicated circuitry or general purpose processors is also possible. Each part may be configured using a programmable programmable gate array (FPGA) that can be programmed after manufacturing the LSI, or a configurable processor that can reconfigure the connection and setting of circuit cells inside the LSI. Furthermore, each part may be integrated by an integrated circuit technology that replaces the LSI due to the advancement of semiconductor technology or other derived technology. For example, integration may be performed by adapting biotechnology.

The communication unit 1 is a mechanism for communicating with the home appliance cooperation server 200 or another server, and is wireless by wired communication such as Ethernet (registered trademark) LAN, or wireless LAN, ZigBee (registered trademark), specific low power wireless, or the like. Communicate. The communication unit 1 receives message information from the home appliance cooperation server 200. The message information received by the communication unit 1 is output to the received data management unit 2.

  The message information includes a service ID for identifying the content of the service and title message information that is a notification message to the user. Specifically, the title message information has a configuration as shown in FIG. In addition, the service ID may include home appliance identification information for identifying the home appliance 300 that is a service target (hereinafter, referred to as a target device).

  Here, the service includes, for example, a “prevention of forgetting to cut” notification that notifies a situation where there is a high possibility that the user has forgotten to press the stop button of the target device. When the target device is an air conditioner, a temperature sensor provided in the air conditioner detects the temperature of the room in which the air conditioner is installed and notifies that the room temperature is excessively high. “High temperature alert” and “Low temperature alert” notifying that the room temperature is too low are included.

  The title / message information includes a message body for notifying the state of the target device, the state of the place where the target device is installed, and the title thereof. The title / message information is configured, for example, as “title: message body” by connecting “title” and “message body” with “: (colon)”. For example, as shown in FIG. 12, in the case of “preventing forgetting to cut” notification, the title is “preventing forgetting to cut” and the message body is “(target device) still attached”. In the case of “high temperature alert”, the title is “high temperature alert (xx ° C.)” and the message body is “high temperature state”. In the case of “low temperature alert”, the title is “low temperature alert (xx ° C.)” and the message body is “low temperature state”.

  The reception data management unit 2 registers the message information input from the communication unit 1 in the storage unit 8 as reception message information. The structure of the received message information is shown in FIG. The received message information registered in the storage unit 8 includes the received date and time that is the date and time when the message information is received, the service ID included in the message information, and the title and message information included in the message information. And are included.

  In addition, the reception data management unit 2 outputs a message organization request to the notification history management unit 11 after completing the new registration of the message to the storage unit 8.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the service ID is information that combines an ID for identifying the type of the target device and the type of service. For example, “ID for identifying the type of the target device” and “ID for identifying the type of the target device” are connected by “_ (underbar)” and arranged as “ID_service type for identifying the type of the target device” The More specifically, in the case of “CS_heatstroke” shown in FIG. 5, “CS” indicates that the target device is an air conditioner, and “heatstroke” indicates that the service is “high temperature alert”. ing. Further, in the case of “CS_lowempemp”, “CS” indicates that the target device is an air conditioner, and “lowempemp” indicates that the service is “low temperature alert”. The service ID may not include an ID for identifying the type of the target device, and may indicate only the service type.

  The user request reception unit 3 registers service registration information (see FIG. 7 to be described later) for the user to start using the service to the home appliance cooperation server 200, deletes service registration information registered in the past, and sets a control signal Or a mechanism for inputting a deadline for deleting the notification history, for example, an operation panel provided in the message receiving apparatus 100.

The message extraction unit 4 extracts only the message text from the service ID and the title / message information included in the message acquisition request input from the application transition screen generation unit 6 described later, and outputs the message body to the application transition screen generation unit 6.

  When an application transition information acquisition request including a service ID is input from the application transition screen generation unit 6 to be described later, the application transition information management unit 5 reads the application transition information managed for each service ID from the storage unit 8, and The information is output to the application transition screen generation unit 6.

  Details of the application transition information are shown in FIG. In the application transition information, display button information and transition destination information are described for each service ID. The display button information is information on buttons to be output to the screen output unit 7 described later, for example, the names of buttons to be displayed. The transition destination information describes transition information to an application (hereinafter referred to as an application) that is activated when a button displayed on the screen output unit 7 is selected.

  When the application transition screen generation unit 6 receives a notification screen display request from the user request reception unit 3, the application transition screen generation unit 6 performs a process of reading received message information from the storage unit 8. Here, the notification screen display request is information including application selection information corresponding to the title / message information selected by the user request receiving unit 3. The application selection information is information including the reception date and service ID.

  Then, the application transition screen generation unit 6 outputs a message acquisition request including a service ID and title / message information to the message extraction unit 4 in order to extract the message body from the received message information read from the storage unit 8. . Further, the application transition screen generation unit 6 outputs an application transition information acquisition request to the application transition information management unit 5. The application transition information acquisition request includes the service ID of the received message information read from the storage unit 8.

  The application transition screen generation unit 6 extracts display button information from the application transition information input from the application transition information management unit 5. Then, the application transition screen generation unit 6 generates a screen (hereinafter referred to as a notification screen) including characters and symbols corresponding to the display button information and a notification message corresponding to the message text input from the message extraction unit 4. And output to the screen output unit 7. Note that the notification message may be the same text as the message body or a different text.

  The screen output unit 7 displays the notification screen input from the application transition screen generation unit 6. The notification screen displayed on the screen output unit 7 is, for example, as follows.

  When the service ID of the received message information read from the storage unit 8 is “CS_heatstroke”, that is, when the service is “high temperature alert”, the message body of “high temperature alert” is shown in FIG. A notification message corresponding to “It is in a high temperature” is placed in the upper part of the screen “<(name of target device)> is in a high temperature state”, and characters corresponding to the display button information are displayed below it. Including the “Operating status” button, “Anywhere remote control” button, “Double temperature setting” button, “Head monitor” button, “Phone” button in order, and the “Close” button below , Any one of the “Cancel” buttons is arranged.

If the service ID of the received message information read from the storage unit 8 is “CS_turnoff”, that is, if the service is a “prevention of forgetting to cut” notification, the message body of “prevention of forgetting to cut” is “with air conditioner on The message “<(target device name)> air conditioner is still on” is placed at the top of the screen, and the button containing characters corresponding to the display button information below it is “ A “remote control everywhere” button is arranged, and either a “close” button or a “cancel” button is arranged below it.

  Here, when the display button on the notification screen displayed on the screen output unit 7 is selected, the functions to be activated and the functions that can be operated include, for example, the following. “Operation status”, which is a function that can be operated when the “operation status” button is selected, is a function for displaying the operation status of the target device. The “anywhere remote control” function that can be operated when the “anywhere remote control” button is selected is a function for remotely operating the target device. “Telephone”, an application that is activated when the “telephone” button is selected, is used to make calls to landlines in the house where the target device is installed or mobile phones of people in the room where the target device is installed. This is an application for a telephone function provided in the message receiving apparatus 100.

  Further, when the target device is an air conditioner, functions that can be operated when the display button is selected include, for example, the following. The “Double temperature setting” function, which can be operated when the “Double temperature setting” button is selected, detects the room temperature, automatically determines the operation mode, and the room temperature is within the set temperature range. It is a function to drive to become. The function “Oyaya Monitor”, which can be operated when the “Oyaya Monitor” button is selected, is displayed based on the presence or absence of human movement in the room detected by the motion sensor installed in the air conditioner. By doing so, it is a screen that realizes a function of indirectly confirming the state of a room person from a remote place.

  When the display button on the notification screen displayed on the screen output unit 7 is selected, the screen displayed when the application to be started is started is the application screen, and the display button on the notification screen displayed on the screen output unit 7 is The following description will be continued on the assumption that a screen that transitions in order to realize a function that can be operated when selected is a function screen.

  FIG. 14 shows a function screen that transitions when the “driving condition” button is selected on the “high temperature alert” service notification screen shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 14, on the function screen of “driving situation”, characters of “driving situation”, current time, information included in acquired information described later, a “close” button, and the like are displayed.

The storage unit 8 stores the following information.
Received message information output by the received data management unit 2 (see FIG. 5)
-Pre-stored application transition information (see Fig. 6)
・ Notification history deletion deadline (see Fig. 19)

  The application transition information may not be stored in advance in the storage unit 8 and may be stored in the home appliance cooperation server 200. In this case, when receiving the notification screen display request, the application transition screen generation unit 6 performs a process of reading the application transition information from the home appliance cooperation server 200.

  When an application activation request including transition destination information input from the application transition information management unit 5 is input, the application activation instruction unit 9 performs an application activation process based on the information and is necessary for the screen output unit 7 Output correct information.

In the notification screen generated by the application transition screen generation unit 6, the screen transition management unit 10 performs an operation to end the display of the notification screen in response to an operation through the user request reception unit 3. ”Or whether to continue displaying the notification screen. In addition, the screen transition management unit 10 includes an application screen that is a screen of an application to be activated by a button operation via the user request reception unit 3 on the notification screen generated by the application transition screen generation unit 6 or a corresponding function. After the transition to the function screen to be realized, when an operation for returning to the original screen such as “return” or “close” is performed on the transition destination application screen or function screen, processing for returning to the notification screen is performed.

  When the message organization request from the received data management unit 2 is input, the notification history management unit 11 reads the notification history deletion time limit and the received message information registered in the storage unit 8.

  An example of data regarding the deadline for deleting the notification history is shown in FIG. This data indicates that the deletion deadline is set to one hour for each of the service ID “CS_heatstroke” indicating the high temperature alert and the service ID “CS_lowempemp” indicating the low temperature alert. The deletion time limit of 1 hour indicates that the message received by the message receiving apparatus 100 one hour before the current time is to be deleted. When the deletion deadline is other than a number, for example, when there is no setting “Null value”, it indicates that the received message of the service ID is not to be deleted from the notification history.

  The notification history management unit 11 extracts a service ID in which a notification history deletion deadline is set, and checks whether there are two or more received messages associated with the service ID. When a service ID with two or more received messages is confirmed, the current time is acquired, and if there is a received message that exceeds the deletion deadline (1 hour in the example of FIG. 19) from the same time, the process is deleted from the notification history I do.

  For example, assuming that the current time is 2015/10/10 10:20:00, in the case of the received message shown in FIG. 5, since the service ID “CS_heatstroke” has two or more received messages, the reception date and time 2015/10/9 10 The received message at 0:00 (the received message at the bottom line in FIG. 5) is deleted.

  Next, the detail of the functional block of the household appliance cooperation server 200 is demonstrated. FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing main components of home appliance cooperation server 200 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. 3 includes a communication unit 21, a data acquisition unit 22, a constant analysis unit 23, a transmission data generation unit 24, a user request reception unit 25, a service registration / cancellation unit 26, a storage unit 27, and an on-demand analysis. Part 28. FIG. 18 is a schematic diagram illustrating a relationship between main components of the home appliance cooperation server 200.

  The communication unit 21 is a mechanism for communicating with the message receiving device 100 and the home relay device 400, and is based on wired communication such as Ethernet (registered trademark) LAN, wireless LAN, ZigBee (registered trademark), specific low power wireless, or the like. Perform wireless communication.

  The communication unit 21 outputs a service ID and title / message information to the message receiving device 100 based on a data transmission request input from the transmission data generation unit 24 described later. The data transmission request includes a service ID for identifying service contents and title message information.

  When a data acquisition request regarding information managed by the home appliance 300 (hereinafter referred to as home appliance management information) is input from the data acquisition unit 22 described later, the communication unit 21 sends the request via the home relay device 400. To the home appliance 300.

The data acquisition unit 22 outputs a periodic data acquisition request related to the home appliance management information via the home relay device 400 to the communication unit 21. The data acquisition unit 22 outputs the home appliance management information acquired via the communication unit 21 to the storage unit 27. The home appliance management information is information including acquisition date and time, home appliance identification information for specifying the target device, and acquisition information. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 10, the acquisition date and time, the home appliance identification information, and the acquisition information are configured. Here, the acquisition date and time is the data acquisition unit 2
2 may be updated to the time when the home appliance management information acquired via the communication unit 21 is acquired, or may be the acquisition date and time constituting the home appliance management information. In addition, in the case of an air conditioner, for example, the acquired information includes an operation state, an operation mode, a set temperature, a room temperature, an outdoor temperature, and the like as shown in FIG.

  The data acquisition unit 22 determines whether or not the home appliance 300 should be requested for data acquisition, that is, whether or not the home appliance 300 is a data acquisition target with reference to the service registration information. The service registration information is information registered in advance via the user request receiving unit 3 of the message receiving device 100. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, it is composed of a terminal ID, a service ID, home appliance identification information, and a registration date and time. The service registration information is information relating to which home appliance 300 (that is, the target device, for example, an air conditioner) is registered (that is, the registration date and time) for each service ID. The terminal ID is information for identifying a plurality of message receiving apparatuses 100 that have requested registration of each service.

  The constant analysis unit 23 periodically acquires and analyzes the acquisition information acquired from the home appliance 300 and satisfies a certain condition defined for each service from the storage unit 27. On the other hand, a message transmission request including the service ID is output. In order to determine whether the home appliance 300 is an analysis target, the service registration information is referred to, and what service is registered in which home appliance 300 (for example, an air conditioner) (that is, the registered service ID). Confirm and perform the analysis process.

  The transmission data generation unit 24 generates transmission data based on the message transmission request input from the constant analysis unit 23 and outputs the transmission data to the communication unit 21. FIG. 8 shows details of the transmission data. The transmission data includes a terminal ID, home appliance identification information, a service ID for identifying service contents, and title / message information associated with each service ID. The title / message information generated by the transmission data generation unit 24 may be configured by a combination of acquisition information acquired from the home appliance 300 and a fixed sentence, for example.

  When an analysis request including home appliance identification information output from the communication unit 1 of the message receiving device 100 is input, the user request receiving unit 25 is identified by home appliance identification information with respect to the on-demand analysis unit 28 described later. A request for analyzing the state of the device 300 is output. The home appliance identification information is a manufacturing number, a product number, or the like composed of numbers, English letters, symbols, or the like that can uniquely identify the home appliance 300.

  When the service registration / cancellation request including the home appliance identification information output from the communication unit 1 of the message receiving device 100 is input, the service registration / cancellation unit 26 performs a process of registering or deleting in the storage unit 27.

  The storage unit 27 stores the following data.

Home appliance management information (see FIG. 10) and acquisition information (FIG. 11) acquired periodically from the home appliance 300
・ Service registration information (see Fig. 7)

  When an analysis request including home appliance identification information is input from the user request reception unit 25, the on-demand analysis unit 28 acquires and analyzes the acquisition information stored in the storage unit 27 and responds with the result. For example, when an analysis request including “CS_turnoff” as a service ID and “air conditioner: CS-xx00001” as home appliance identification information, which is information for identifying a device, is stored in the storage unit 27. It is conceivable to extract the operating state of the air conditioner from the acquired information, confirm whether the air conditioner is in an operating state, and respond the result.

  Further, the home appliance 300 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a schematic configuration diagram of the home appliance in the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 4, the home appliance 300 includes an operation unit 30, a communication unit 31, a storage unit 32, and a control unit 33.

  The operation unit 30 is a mechanism for inputting settings related to the operation of the home appliance 300 and is, for example, an operation panel provided on the surface of the home appliance 300. The light receiving unit receives an operation signal input from the infrared remote controller.

  The communication unit 31 is a mechanism for communicating with the home appliance cooperation server 200 or the in-home relay device 400, by wired communication such as Ethernet (registered trademark) LAN, wireless LAN, ZigBee (registered trademark), specific low power wireless, or the like. Perform wireless communication. 4, the communication unit 31 is built in the home appliance 300, but the communication unit 31 may be configured separately from the home appliance 300 and may be connected to the home appliance 300 by wire. Here, the communication unit 31 has been described as a mechanism for communicating with the in-home relay device 400, but may be configured to directly communicate with the home appliance cooperation server 200.

  The storage unit 32 stores destination information of the home relay device 400 or the home appliance cooperation server 200 or home appliance management information managed by the home appliance 300, and the control unit 33 performs communication with the home appliance cooperation server 200. The home appliance management information is read from the storage unit 32 and output to the communication unit 31. The household appliance management information includes acquisition information. For example, when the target device is an air conditioner, the acquired information includes an operation state indicating whether the air conditioner is in an operating state (on state) or not (off state), as shown in FIG. 11, and an operation indicating whether the air conditioner is a cooling operation or a heating operation. Mode, set temperature corresponding to the target temperature when the air conditioner is operated, set by the infrared remote controller via the operation unit 30 or the light receiving unit, the indoor temperature detected / obtained by the temperature sensor provided in the air conditioner, provided in the air conditioner The outdoor temperature detected / acquired by the selected temperature sensor is included.

  The control unit 33 performs the operation control inherent to the home appliance 300, for example, control related to communication via the communication unit 31 as well as control related to air conditioning operation in the case of an air conditioner.

  Next, the home relay device 400 will be described. The in-home relay device 400 is a communication device that can wirelessly communicate with one or a plurality of home appliances 300 installed in the home and can communicate with the home appliance cooperation server 200 via a network, for example, a gateway. The in-home relay device 400 relays home appliance management information managed by the home appliance 300 to the home appliance cooperation server 200. In addition, when the communication with the home appliance 300 fails for some reason, the home relay device 400 responds to the home appliance cooperation server 200 with the reason as error information.

  Hereinafter, an optimal application screen transition flow of the message reception device 100 or the home appliance cooperation server 200 of the present embodiment will be described.

  9 and 15 are flowcharts for explaining an optimal application screen transition executed by the message receiving device 100 or the home appliance cooperation server 200 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. The operation of the message receiving device 100 or the home appliance cooperation server 200 will be described with reference to FIGS. 9 and 15. In FIG. 9, an operation from the message notification by the home appliance cooperation server 200 to the display of the transition screen to the application in the message receiving device 100 will be described. FIG. 15 illustrates an application activation / transition operation in the message receiving apparatus 100.

  First, operation | movement of the household appliance cooperation server 200 is demonstrated using FIG.

The data acquisition unit 22 periodically acquires acquisition information (see FIG. 11) from the air conditioner via the communication unit 21, and outputs the acquired information to the storage unit 27 (step S1). Here, a description will be given assuming that data acquisition is performed for CS-xx00001, which is an air conditioner registered in the service registration information shown in FIG.

  The constant analysis unit 23 periodically reads out the acquired information shown in FIG. 11 registered in the storage unit 27 and determines whether or not a predetermined condition set according to the service is satisfied (step S2). For example, when the service ID is CS_heatstroke, that is, when the service is a “high temperature alert”, it is determined whether the room temperature is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold (for example, 31 ° C.). If the service ID is “CS_lowempemp”, that is, if the service is “low temperature alert”, it is determined whether the room temperature is less than a predetermined threshold (for example, 15 ° C.). When the service ID is “CS_turnoff”, that is, when the service is “prevent forgetting to cut” notification, it is determined whether or not the air conditioner is in an operating state.

  If the predetermined condition is not satisfied, the constant analysis unit 23 continues to analyze the data accumulated in the storage unit 27 (No in step S2). If the predetermined condition is satisfied, the process proceeds to the next step (Yes in step S2), and a transmission message generation request including a service ID is transmitted to the transmission data generation unit 24. Here, among the air conditioners registered in the service registration information (see FIG. 7), when CS-xx00001 satisfies the predetermined condition of the “high temperature alert” service, that is, when the room temperature exceeds a predetermined threshold The following description will be given as (hereinafter referred to as this case).

  The transmission data generation unit 24 refers to the message information (see FIG. 12) and generates transmission data corresponding to the case where the service ID is “CS_heatstroke”. In this case, “High temperature alert (xx ° C.): High temperature state” is selected as the title message information.

  Further, the constant analysis unit 23 refers to the service registration information (see FIG. 7), and the message receiving apparatus 100 having the terminal ID “1111111” as the destination information corresponding to the case where the service ID is “CS_heatstroke”. As a target device, the home appliance 300 whose home appliance identification information is “air conditioner: CS-xx00001” is selected.

  And the transmission data production | generation part 24 produces | generates transmission data (refer FIG. 8) from terminal ID, household appliance identification information, service ID, and title message information.

  After creating the transmission data, the transmission data generating unit 24 transmits the transmission data to the message receiving device 100 via the communication unit 21 (step S3). Here, there may be a case where the transmission data arrives at the message receiving device 100 via a server provided by Google or Apple, but this is not a limitation.

  Subsequently, the operation of the message receiving apparatus 100 will be described with reference to FIG.

  When communication unit 1 receives transmission data (see FIG. 8) transmitted from home appliance cooperation server 200, communication unit 1 outputs message information (see FIG. 12) included in the transmission data to reception data management unit 2.

  The reception data management unit 2 registers the received message information (see FIG. 12) in the storage unit 8 in chronological order as reception message information (see FIG. 5). In addition, the reception data management unit 2 outputs a message arrangement request to the notification history management unit 11.

When a message organization request is input, the notification history management unit 11 reads the notification history deletion deadline from the storage unit 8 and acquires the current time when confirming a service ID having two or more received messages. When there is a received message that exceeds the deletion deadline (1 hour in the example of FIG. 19), a process of deleting from the notification history is performed. For example, assuming that the current time is 2015/10/10 10:20:00, in the case of the received message shown in FIG. 5, since the service ID “CS_heatstroke” has two or more received messages, the reception date and time 2015/10/9 10 The received message at 0:00 (the received message at the bottom line in FIG. 5) is deleted.

Here, the notification history management unit 11 performs unnecessary message deletion processing triggered by a message organization request from the reception data management unit 2, but the notification history management unit 11 periodically receives received message information from the storage unit 8. May be obtained and deleted.
The reception data management unit 2 reads the reception message information registered in the storage unit 8 in time series and inputs it to the screen output unit 7.

  The screen output unit 7 displays the title / message information of the received message information input from the received data management unit 2 (step S4). Here, it is conceivable that the time information is displayed together with the title message, but it may be the reception date and time constituting the reception message information (see FIG. 5), or the reception data management unit 2 receives the reception message information from the storage unit 8. May be the date and time read out in time series.

  The user request receiving unit 3 detects whether or not the corresponding message is selected from the reception list displayed on the screen output unit 7 of the message receiving device 100 (step S5). When it is detected that the corresponding message has been selected (Yes in step S5), a notification screen display request including application selection information (reception date and time, service ID) of the message is output to the application transition screen generation unit 6.

  The application transition screen generation unit 6 extracts a message corresponding to the message information transmitted from the home appliance cooperation server 200 based on the application selection information (step S6).

  Moreover, the application transition screen production | generation part 6 extracts the display button information displayed on the screen output part 7 from application transition information (step S7).

  Then, the application transition screen generation unit 6 synthesizes the extracted message and display button information and outputs them to the screen output unit 7. The screen output unit 7 displays the notification screen input from the application transition screen generation unit 6 (step S8). An image of the screen display is shown in FIG.

  As a result, the message receiving apparatus 100 can select a highly necessary message by presenting a screen for selecting an optimum message from the notification history to the user. Furthermore, as described below, in the message receiving device 100, it is possible to start a highly necessary application by presenting a screen for selecting an optimal message from the notification history to the user. .

  An application operation flow after the notification screen of the message receiving device 100 is displayed will be described. FIG. 15 is a flowchart for explaining screen transition when an application operation is performed after the notification screen is displayed.

  The user request reception unit 3 constantly monitors whether or not a display button is selected by a user operation, and when the screen transition management unit 10 detects an operation for closing or canceling the notification screen, the display of the screen is terminated (step S1). No in S20). If there is no operation to close or cancel the notification screen, the process proceeds to the next step (Yes in step S20).

The user request receiving unit 3 determines whether or not an operation for selecting a display button is performed, and if there is an operation, the process proceeds to the next step (Yes in step S21).
The application transition screen generation unit 6 inputs an application transition information acquisition request including a service ID corresponding to the display button to the application transition information management unit 5, and the application transition information management unit 5 receives the corresponding transition destination information from the storage unit 8. And an application activation request including the information is output to the application activation instruction unit 9 (step S22).

  The application activation instructing unit 9 performs application activation processing based on the transition destination information, and outputs the application screen of the application to the screen output unit 7. Or the application starting instruction | indication part 9 instruct | indicates the transition to the function screen of transition destination information to the screen output part 7 (step S23). FIG. 14 shows an image of screen transition from step S20 to step S23.

  Here, when transitioning to the predetermined function screen, the button for transitioning to the function screen of “Anywhere remote control”, which is a function that allows remote control of the air conditioner in a state where permission for remote control setting of the air conditioner is invalid When a certain “anywhere remote control” button is selected, a display is made to notify the user that permission for remote control setting is invalid.

  When detecting an operation for closing or canceling the application screen or function screen of the transition destination application, the user request receiving unit 3 inputs a signal for closing or canceling the application screen or function screen to the screen transition management unit 10 ( Step S24).

  The screen transition management unit 10 outputs the notification screen to the screen output unit 7 again when “Close” or “Cancel” is not pressed on the notification screen (step S25). An image of screen transition from step S20 to step S25 is shown in FIG.

  In the present embodiment, in home appliance cooperation server 200, data acquisition unit 22 periodically acquires home appliance management information from home appliance 300. The constant analysis unit 23 analyzes the acquired information included in the home appliance management information and determines whether or not the conditions set for each service are satisfied. The transmission data generation unit 24 generates transmission data using a service ID for identifying service contents and title / message information associated with the service ID. The communication unit 21 transmits the generated transmission data on the network.

  Further, in the message receiving device 100, the communication unit 1 receives transmission data from the home appliance cooperation server 200. The reception data management unit 2 stores message information included in transmission data transmitted from the home appliance cooperation server 200 together with the reception date and time. The message extraction unit 4 extracts the message body from the received data. The application transition information management unit 5 identifies application transition information associated with the service ID extracted from the received data. The application transition screen generation unit 6 extracts display button information to be displayed on the screen output unit 7 and generates a notification screen by synthesizing the notification message and the display button corresponding to the message body extracted by the message extraction unit 4. . When the display button on the notification screen is selected, the application activation instruction unit 9 activates an appropriate application based on the application transition information, and makes a transition from the notification screen to the application screen. Or the application starting instruction | indication part 9 is changed to an appropriate function screen based on application transition information, when the display button of a notification screen is selected.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the message receiving device 100 includes the communication unit 1, the application transition screen generation unit 6, and the application activation instruction unit 9. The communication unit 1 receives the service ID and title / message information included in the transmission data transmitted from the home appliance cooperation server 200. In addition, the storage unit 8 of the message receiving apparatus 100 or the storage unit 27 of the home appliance cooperation server 200 includes a service ID, display button information regarding a display button used when generating a notification screen, and a display button of the notification screen. Application transition information that associates transition destination information that defines an application to be activated when selected is stored. Then, the application transition screen generation unit 6 extracts display button information corresponding to the service ID included in the transmission data from the application transition information. Further, the application transition screen generation unit 6 generates a notification screen including a display button corresponding to the display button information and a notification message corresponding to title / message information included in the transmission data. Then, when the notification screen display button is selected, the application activation instruction unit 9 included in the message receiving device 100 activates an appropriate application based on the application transition information, and makes a transition from the notification screen to the application screen.

  Thereby, in the message receiving device 100, by presenting the user with a button that transitions to the application screen that matches the message content after the notification, it is possible to reduce the time and effort required to activate the application and reach the screen. Is possible.

  Further, the message receiving device 100 includes a screen transition management unit 10. The screen transition management unit 10 manages whether or not the processing on the notification screen is finished, and performs processing for returning from the application screen from the transition destination to the notification screen.

  In the message receiving device according to the present invention, it is possible to store information on home appliances connected to the network and notify the mobile terminal owned by the user of the result of analyzing the state of the home appliance. Moreover, the screen transition method according to the present invention is useful for a mobile terminal represented by a smartphone and a server system. Further, the server system may be implemented and operated on a home relay device.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the home appliances of the embodiment, and the present invention can be used in electric devices used in stores, facilities, offices, factories, vehicles, and the like.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Communication part 2 Received data management part 3 User request reception part 4 Message extraction part 5 Application transition information management part 6 Application transition screen generation part 7 Screen output part 8 Storage part 9 Application start instruction part 10 Screen transition management part 11 Notification history management Unit 21 Communication unit 22 Data acquisition unit 23 Continuous analysis unit 24 Transmission data generation unit 25 User request reception unit 26 Service registration / release unit 27 Storage unit 28 On-demand analysis unit 30 Operation unit 31 Communication unit 32 Storage unit 33 Control unit 100 Message Receiving device 200 Home appliance linkage server 300 Home appliance

Claims (5)

Message information that associates a message body to be notified about the electric device with a service ID for identifying the content of the service about the electric device is received from the device cooperation server to which at least one electric device is connected. A communication department;
A notification history management unit that performs processing for extracting and deleting message information related to the same service ID based on setting conditions from the message information;
A screen output unit that displays the message information after deletion,
A message receiving device comprising:   The message receiving device according to claim 1, further comprising a storage unit that stores the setting condition in advance.   The setting condition further includes a notification history management unit that performs processing to delete message information received a predetermined time before the current time when a plurality of message information associated with the same service ID exists. The message receiving device according to claim 1.   2. The message according to claim 1, further comprising: a notification history management unit that periodically deletes a message other than the latest message when a plurality of message information associated with the same service ID exists. Receiver device. Received from the device cooperation server to which at least one or more electrical devices are connected, message information in which a message body to be notified about the electrical device is associated with a service ID for identifying the content of the service related to the electrical device. ,
From the message information, message information related to the same service ID is extracted based on the setting condition, the deletion is performed, and the message information after deletion is displayed.
Notification history management method.