JP3902574B2 - Personal information management system, personal information management method and program thereof - Google Patents

Description

  In the present invention, when an e-mail sender registers his / her personal information in the server in advance, and the e-mail sent by the caller has permission to refer to the personal information, the e-mail recipient accesses the server and sends the caller The present invention relates to a personal information management system, a personal information management method, and a program thereof for acquiring personal information and registering it in an address book held by the user.

  Conventionally, when a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone or PDA or a personal computer receives a call or e-mail, or for the first time, the caller does not know the identity of the caller only from the phone number remaining in the incoming call record. In the case of e-mail, the sender's identity may not be known only from the e-mail address of the sender.

  Further, when personal information is registered in the phone book or address book in the receiving terminal, only the telephone number and e-mail, or other personal information must be entered manually.

  In addition, the registered personal information cannot be easily transferred or copied to reflect it on other terminals owned by the user. Furthermore, in order for a person with personal information of another person to disclose the personal information to his / her close acquaintance, etc., it is necessary to obtain the consent of the other person with the personal information by telephone or e-mail. Accompanied.

  As a prior art of this kind corresponding to the above problems, Patent Document 1 discloses that a user who uses an e-mail function by an e-mail distribution system that collectively manages personal information including an e-mail address is personal information. At the time of registration, the contents for registering who the personal information is disclosed to are also described.

  Further, in Patent Document 2, when a communication terminal device having a telephone function is connected to a personal computer and a telephone transmission / reception process is performed by a screen operation of the personal computer, the name of the other party in the electronic telephone directory is based on the call history. And automatic registration of telephone numbers.

JP 2002-41522 (Page 3-9, Fig. 1)

JP 2000-78628 (Page 3-6, FIG. 1)

  In the above-mentioned patent document 1, when the personal information of the user is registered on the server, the person to whom the personal information is disclosed is registered in advance. When it is desired to disclose personal information to a non-destination, there is a trouble of registering the destination again as a target for disclosing personal information. On the other hand, when sending to the other party registered as the target of disclosure of personal information, it seems that there is a possibility that the user changes his mind and does not want to disclose it.

  Further, in Patent Document 2, there is a problem that there is a restriction in the amount of information in the registration of a wide variety of personal information because only registration in the electronic telephone directory is performed based on the call history.

  The present invention solves the above problems, and a server for managing personal information when the caller or e-mail recipient wants to know the caller's personal information when the caller has permission in the call or e-mail. Providing a personal information management system, a personal information management method, and a program for automating the registration of the acquired personal information in a telephone directory or address book in the terminal.

The first personal information management system according to the present invention takes out personal information of a sender to be entered in a signature column of an e-mail from a storage area when sending an e-mail, and includes image information including a portrait photograph for the extracted personal information. If there is no image information, fill in the e-mail signature field and send the personal information. If the personal information includes image information, attach the personal information to the e-mail as an attached file. A sending terminal to send, and
An incoming terminal that registers the personal information of the signature field or attached file of the email received from the outgoing terminal in the address book;
A network connecting the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal.

A first personal information management method according to the present invention includes a first step of retrieving, from a storage area, personal information of a caller to be entered in a signature column of an e-mail at a sending terminal for sending an e-mail;
A second step of confirming the presence or absence of image information including a portrait photograph with respect to the personal information extracted in the first step, and if there is no image information, the personal information is entered in an e-mail signature field and transmitted. When,
In the confirmation in the second step, when image information is included in the personal information, a third step of transmitting the personal information as an attachment file of an e-mail;
Is provided.

A first program of the present invention is stored in a computer.
A first step of retrieving, from a storage area, personal information of a sender who fills in an e-mail signature field in a sending terminal for sending an e-mail;
A second step of confirming the presence or absence of image information including a portrait photograph with respect to the personal information extracted in the first step, and if there is no image information, the personal information is entered in an e-mail signature field and transmitted. When,
In the confirmation in the second step, when image information is included in the personal information, a third step of transmitting the personal information as an attachment file of an e-mail;
Is executed.

The first effect is, email recipients, based on the received e-mail addresses, for the personal information of the caller can be acquired from the server, the recipient phone book or address book of the terminal Even if the caller's personal information is not registered, the identity of the caller can be confirmed.

The second effect is the email recipient if necessary, phonebook necessary personal information of the originator terminal can be registered in a simple operation in the address book.

  Next, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, the first embodiment of the personal information management system of the present invention is
The transmission terminal 10, the receiving terminal 20, the personal information capturing terminal 30, the personal information management server 40, and a network 100 including a telephone network and the Internet that connect them to each other.

  The transmitting terminal 10, the receiving terminal 20, and the personal information capturing terminal 30 are mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs, or information processing devices such as personal computers.

  The transmitting terminal 10, the receiving terminal 20, and the personal information capturing terminal 30 have one or both of a voice communication function such as a telephone for communicating via the network 100 and a data communication function. Furthermore, the personal information management server 40 is accessed via the network 100, such as a web page reference / registration function, and has a browser function for referring to / registering personal information.

  The sending terminal 10, the receiving terminal 20, and the personal information fetching terminal 30 have functions of an address book and a telephone book in which personal information is registered, and these pieces of information are magnetic disks connected to terminals not shown. It is stored in a secondary storage device such as a device. When using the voice communication function or the data communication function, the address book and telephone book stored in each terminal are referred to.

  The users of the transmitting terminal 10, the receiving terminal 20, and the personal information fetching terminal 30 perform initial user registration in advance in order to use the functions of the personal information management server 40.

  Here, the personal information is information such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and portrait photograph. When calling or sending an e-mail from the calling terminal 10, a search is executed using the name, phone number, or e-mail address as a search index key (index), and the destination phone number or e-mail address is stored in the phone book. And is referenced from the address book.

  When an incoming call or electronic mail is received at the receiving terminal 20, it is used to identify the caller by searching the address book or telephone book.

  When sending an e-mail by the sending terminal 10, if there is a predefined sender's personal information in the sender's signature added to the e-mail, it is automatically inserted.

  The personal information management server 40 has a database that stores personal information of a plurality of users, and is configured by an information processing device such as a workstation server.

  The personal information management server 40 performs registration and reference of personal information via the network 100 from a plurality of transmitting terminals 10, a plurality of receiving terminals 20, and a plurality of personal information capturing terminals 30.

  Since the personal information management server 40 provides a user name and password to the user who registered the user, the user is authenticated by the personal information management server 40 using the user name and password, and When the user is authenticated, the user authentication function that enables the use of the function of the personal information management server 40 is provided.

The network 100 is assumed to include a telephone network and the Internet. Incidentally, the telephone network has a caller ID function, the called terminal 20 for receiving a call shall be notified of the caller's telephone number.

  Next, the operation of the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1 and the flowcharts of FIGS. 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

  The operation of the first embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 2. The user accesses the personal information management server 40 on the network 100 using the calling terminal 10 (step A1). In response to this, the personal information management server 40 performs user authentication based on the user name and password transmitted from the user (step A2).

  When the user is authenticated as a regular user, the function such as the web browser is used from the calling terminal 10, and the user's name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, portrait photo, company information (year of service, work department) Personal information such as family name, family structure, etc., is registered in accordance with the rules of the personal information management server 40 (step A3).

  The user sets a personal information password for the registered personal information. This allows only the user who knows the personal information password to refer to the registered personal information.

  Such registration of personal information to the personal information management server 40 is executed not only from the transmitting terminal 10 but also at the receiving terminal 20 and the personal information capturing terminal 30 prior to the use of the personal information management server 40. Is. Further, the personal information to be registered respects the privacy of the individual, and the registration contents are left to the user, and it is not always necessary to register all the information prescribed by the personal information management server 40.

Next the user, via the network 100 to the called terminal 20 from the transmitting terminal 10, the transmission of the electronic mail (step A4). The user of the calling terminal 10, to the user of the receiving terminal 20, personal information management If you want to allow a reference to their personal information registered in the server 40, of personal information when personal information password the electronic mail that has been set to registration Fill in the signature box. If you do not disclose it, do not enter your password.

The called terminal 20, the child-mail received electricity from the calling terminal 10 (step A5).

The user of the incoming call terminal 20, when attempting to obtain detailed personal information electronic mail sender, the personal information management server 40 via the network 100, to access and use the features of the WEB browser or the like (Step A6 ).

  In response to this, the personal information management server 40 performs user authentication as to whether or not the user of the receiving terminal 20 is a regular user (step A7).

If it is the user authenticated as legitimate user, specifies the transmit mail email address for personal information management server 40 via the network 100, performs the personal information acquisition request (step A8).

If you receive an email, when you select the required e-mail from the list of received e-mail, the sender's e-mail address for the specified e-mail and personal information password is sent to the personal information management server 40 The

The personal management server 40 has received the request, searching a database of personal management server 40 in the specified e-mail address, a personal information password based. To search the database by a set of e-mail address and personal information password of the caller. When matching and corresponding personal information is retrieved, the personal information of the user of the transmitting terminal 10 is transmitted to the receiving terminal 20 via the network 100 (step A9).

This personal information in the called terminal 20 has received the information displayed on the screen, by the operation of pressing or the like of the registration button displayed on the screen, in the receiving terminal 20, Phonebook, personal information Address Book Is automatically registered (step A10).

In the above description, when transmitting personal information password from the calling terminal 10 to called terminal 20, although the transmission as it is, the calling terminal 10, which include the the email address of the destination of the encrypted transmission You can also In this case, the called terminal 20, to decrypt the personal information password received based on the email address of its own. By doing so, the security of personal information can be further ensured.

  A second embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  The name, address, telephone number, mail address, portrait photograph of the user stored in advance on the secondary storage device of the sending terminal 10 as the signature content of the email from the user of the sending terminal 10 via the network 100, Standard personal information such as company information is taken out, filled in the signature column of the email to be sent, and the signed email is sent to the receiving terminal 20 (step B1). At this time, if there is image data such as a portrait photo in the extracted personal information data, the entire signature data is created as an attached file of the e-mail, and this is automatically attached to the e-mail. In the e-mail signature column when the file is an attached file, “Sender information is included in the attached file” is written.

  The receiving terminal 20 receives the e-mail (step B2), displays the personal information described with reference to the e-mail signature or the attached file on the screen, and then the phone book in the receiving terminal 20 or Personal information is registered in the address book (step B3).

  As described above, in the present embodiment, personal information can be exchanged without using the personal information management server 40. In the present embodiment, the personal information fetching terminal 30 and the personal information management server 40 are not necessary due to the configuration.

  The third embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  The configuration of the third embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment.

  The user of the receiving terminal 20 accesses the personal information management server 40 on the network 100 via the receiving terminal 20 (step C1).

  In response to this, the personal information management server 40 performs user authentication as to whether or not the user of the receiving terminal 20 is a regular user (step C2). When the user is authenticated as a legitimate user, a function such as a web browser is used from the receiving terminal 20, and the user receives one or more personal information stored in the phone book or address book in the receiving terminal 20. A registration request is made as personal information dedicated to 20 users (step C3).

  The personal information management server 40 confirms the update date of the personal information already registered on the personal management server 40 and registers the same or older personal information in the phone book and address book received from the receiving terminal 20. The unregistered personal information is registered in the database (step C4). The user of the receiving terminal 20 sets a story book password and an address book password for the telephone book and address book registered in this way.

  Next, the user of the personal information fetching terminal 30 accesses the personal information management server 40 via the network 100 by using a function such as a WEB browser (step C5).

  In response to this, the personal information management server 40 performs user authentication as to whether or not the user of the personal information fetching terminal 30 is an authorized user who can refer to the personal information registered by the receiving terminal 20. Perform (Step C6).

  When the user is authenticated as a legitimate user, the personal information fetching terminal 30 designates the user of the receiving terminal 20 and makes a request for referring to the personal information registered by the receiving terminal 20 (step C7). At this time, the user of the personal information fetching terminal 30 presents the phone book password and the address book password set in the phone book and address book to be referred to.

  In response to the request, the personal management server 40 compares the presented password with the password set in the database and matches the registered personal information of the receiving terminal 20 corresponding to the personal information fetching terminal 30 via the network 100. Information is transmitted (step C8).

  The personal information fetching terminal 30 that has received the information displays the personal information on the screen, and registers the necessary personal information in the telephone book and address book in the personal information fetching terminal 30 by the user's operation (step C9). In the case of the present embodiment, the user of the receiving terminal 20 gives a password to the personal information capturing terminal 30 such as an acquaintance in advance.

  A fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  Since the user has a wide variety of personal information, the user stratifies this as a disclosure level and registers it in the personal information management server 40.

  For example, disclosure level 1 includes a user's name, phone number, address, etc., disclosure level 2 includes an e-mail address, office, office phone number, etc., and disclosure level 3 indicates a user's family status. , Level up to include hobbies, home overview photos, etc. However, the contents of this level classification are not fixed and are left to the user. This is because, for example, some individuals do not want to know the telephone number so much and want to disclose it only to a limited number of people.

  It is assumed that an e-mail recipient given disclosure level 2 can also refer to disclosure level 1, and a recipient given disclosure level 3 can also see disclosure levels 1 and 2. Further, the number of levels of disclosure level to be set is also left to the user's setting, and if a plurality of levels are troublesome, only one level may be used.

  In this way, the user of the transmitting terminal 10 defines the disclosure level hierarchy, the personal information of each hierarchy, and the personal information password set in each hierarchy, and transmits them to the personal information management server 40 (step D1). The personal information management server 40 stores the information thus transmitted from the user transmitting terminal 10 in the database (step D2).

The user of the calling terminal 10, collector when performing e-mail to the receiving terminal 20 of another user, and transmits the set personal information password corresponding to the good level even disclosed in the signature panel of the email (Step D3). When the user of the receiving terminal 20 receives the electronic mail, personal information management accesses the server 40, the personal information management server 40 along with personal information password and the calling party email address described in the received email (Step D4).

  Since the personal information management server 40 searches the database from the received information and transmits the corresponding personal information to the receiving terminal 20 (step D5), the user of the receiving terminal 20 The personal information of the user who sent the mail can be referenced (step D6).

  Next, a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  When the user of the transmitting terminal 10 registers personal information in the personal information management server 40 (step E1), the personal information management server 40 registers this in the database and also refers to the registered personal information URL ( A Uniform Resource Locator) is uniquely generated and transmitted to the calling terminal 10 (step E2).

  The calling terminal 10 stores this URL. When the personal information is hierarchized as the disclosure level as described in the fourth embodiment, URLs are set for each disclosure level, and all the set URLs are notified to the transmission terminal 10.

  When the user of the sending terminal 10 sends an e-mail to the user of the receiving terminal 20, a URL corresponding to the level of personal information disclosed in the signature section is set in the e-mail, and a normal mail or HTML mail This is transmitted as (step E3). If you do not want to disclose personal information, you do not enter a URL.

  When the user of the receiving terminal 20 receives this, the personal information management server 40 is accessed by clicking the URL in the e-mail (step E4), so the personal information management server 40 transmits the corresponding personal information. (Step E5). The receiving terminal 20 refers to the received personal information (step E6).

  The personal information management server 40 confirms whether the user of the receiving terminal 20 is an authorized user before providing the personal information based on the URL, and provides the information to the authorized user. Will do.

As described above, in the present embodiment, by storing personal information in a server on the network, it is possible to have a backup of personal information in the terminal held by the user on the server. Also, personal information can be used at other terminals owned by the user.

  It has applicability in fields where personal information of users who use Internet telephones and electronic mail on the Internet is managed by an Internet service provider (ISP) or the like.

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Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Originating terminal 20 Incoming terminal 30 Personal information capture terminal 40 Personal information management server 100 Network

Claims (3)

When sending an e-mail, the sender's personal information to be entered in the e-mail signature column is taken out of the storage area, the presence or absence of image information including a portrait photo is checked against the extracted personal information, and if there is no image information , Sending personal information in the e-mail signature field, and sending personal information attached to the e-mail as an attached file if the personal information includes image information;
An incoming terminal that registers the personal information of the signature field or attached file of the email received from the outgoing terminal in the address book;
A personal information management system comprising: a network connecting the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal. A first step of retrieving, from a storage area, personal information of a sender who fills in an e-mail signature field in a sending terminal for sending an e-mail;
A second step of confirming the presence or absence of image information including a portrait photograph with respect to the personal information extracted in the first step, and if there is no image information, the personal information is entered in an e-mail signature field and transmitted. When,
In the confirmation in the second step, when image information is included in the personal information, a third step of transmitting the personal information as an attachment file of an e-mail;
A personal information management method comprising: On the computer,
A first step of retrieving, from a storage area, personal information of a sender who fills in an e-mail signature field in a sending terminal for sending an e-mail;
A second step of confirming the presence or absence of image information including a portrait photograph with respect to the personal information extracted in the first step, and if there is no image information, the personal information is entered in an e-mail signature field and transmitted. When,
In the confirmation in the second step, when image information is included in the personal information, a third step of transmitting the personal information as an attachment file of an e-mail;
A program that executes

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