JP4314915B2 - Information notification device, information notification method, and information notification program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a notification information apparatus that notifies a user of notification information that the user wants to notify another user and displays the notification information, and particularly relates to an improvement in display of the notification information.

  In recent years, Internet service providers (ISPs) provide various communication tools and services that allow members to freely exchange messages and the like. For example, Yahoo Japan Corporation offers Yahoo! Messenger as a free communication tool. Yahoo! Messenger has various functions that are convenient for users. Among these, if the basic function of online / offline is used, the login / logout state of the user who has been set and registered in advance can be known in real time, so that the other party such as chat can be found immediately.

  In addition, in such communication tools, not only the status of login / logout, but also by selecting from a predetermined list box or entering characters in the input field, the current status such as “in meeting” can be displayed. It is possible to notify a registered user. In addition, although the message notified to the other party in this way is particularly called an instant message, the instant message is displayed on the screen of the information terminal device used by each user. The received user can know the status of what other users are currently doing.

  However, in order to notify other users of their status, for example, if a message such as “Meeting for a new product development project” is entered, this message will be displayed in the same way as all the registered settings. It will be displayed on the user's screen. In general, the person who is trying to exchange messages using a communication tool is considered to be a business partner, a friend of a project under execution, a customer, a hobby friend, a family member, etc. If used, the content of the message to be notified is displayed on the screen of each terminal device used by the message recipient as it is, without depending on the relationship between the message input person and the message recipient. In other words, even when it is desired to use different expressions of messages to be notified by message receivers, it is impossible in the prior art because the input text is simply displayed as it is.

  Based on the example of the message above, the content of the message may be useful information for the member of the message input person (hereinafter referred to as “user A”), etc. It is enough to notify your status with simple or omitted contents such as “on the job”, and you may or may not want to notify the details of the message. Furthermore, if the notification destination is an outsider such as a customer, the detailed contents of the message may not be notified. In this case, it is considered sufficient to notify the state with a content of about “meeting”.

  As described above, the conventional communication tool does not provide a function that can respond to the request to change the expression to convey the message depending on the notification destination. Therefore, the user who wants to send the message uses another means to The message had to be notified to the user with a different expression. Even if users can be grouped to reduce the input load of messages, this is the same as the effect of reducing the number of notification destinations. It still needs to be entered.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an information notification apparatus and an information notification method capable of disclosing notification information in different expressions depending on a notification destination. .

  In order to achieve the above object, the information notification apparatus according to the present invention is an information notification for notifying the information terminal apparatus used by another user of the notification information to the other user inputted by the user and displaying it. In the apparatus, when the users are grouped, the group information storage means for storing the group to which each user belongs and the notification destination information, the inter-group information storage means for storing the inclusion relation between the groups, and the notification information in different expressions Conversion rule storage means for storing conversion rules for disclosure, applied conversion rule storage means for storing conversion rules to be applied for each group, and notification information for notifying users belonging to a group different from the user who input the notification information Notification information conversion means for converting according to a conversion rule corresponding to the inclusion relationship between the groups, the input notification information, Wherein the user has to enable the display of a different expression by the group it belongs.

  It should be noted that not only the user actually inputs but also the case of selecting and specifying from the displayed notification information corresponds to the above “input by user”. Moreover, it is sufficient that one or more users belong to each group when the users are grouped, and there may be cases where no one belongs. One user can belong to a plurality of groups.

  The notification information converting means converts the notification information notified to the user belonging to the group including the group to which the user who has input the notification information belongs into a different expression according to the conversion rule. The notification information notified to the user belonging to the group included in the group to which the user who has input the notification information belongs is not changed.

  In addition, the notification information conversion unit includes a customization unit that separately sets customization information for at least one of the group information, the inter-group information, the conversion rule, and the applied conversion rule stored in each storage unit, Is characterized in that, when customization information is separately set by the customization means, the notification information is converted using the set customization information preferentially.

  Further, the customization unit sets customization information for each of one or a plurality of groups, and the notification information conversion unit applies the customization information to notification information from a group for which customization information is separately set by the customization unit. The notification information is converted by preferentially using.

  Further, the notification information converting means performs conversion for each divided information when the notification information is divided into a plurality of pieces of information. Dividing the notification information into 5W1H is an example of dividing the notification information.

  Further, the notification information converting means converts only a part of the divided information.

  The notification information is information representing the current state of each user.

  Further, the notification information to be input by each user is automatically set with already registered notification information corresponding to the group designated by the user.

The information notification method according to the present invention is implemented by a computer, and when a plurality of users are managed in groups, the information notification means accepts notification information for other users belonging to other groups input by the user. Step, a conversion step in which status conversion means converts notification information to be notified to other users into a different expression according to a conversion rule corresponding to the inclusion relationship between groups, and display on an information terminal device used by other users In order to make it possible, the information notification means includes a notification step of transmitting the notification information converted by the conversion step, and allows the input notification information to be displayed in different expressions depending on the group to which the other user belongs It is characterized by that.

The information notification program according to the present invention is configured so that when a user is grouped with a computer that notifies and displays information notified to another user input by the user to an information terminal device used by the other user, each user of group membership and group information storage means to store the notification destination information, the inter-group information storing means to store the inclusion relation between the groups, the conversion rule storing hand stores conversion rules for disclosing the notification information in different representations stage, applying transformation rules stored means to store a conversion rule to be applied to each between groups, the notification information to notify the user that belongs to the user and different groups have entered the notification information, corresponding to the containment relationship between the group conversion It is made to function as a notification information conversion means for converting into different expressions according to the rules.
The notification information converting means converts the notification information notified to the user belonging to the group including the group to which the user who has input the notification information belongs into a different expression according to the conversion rule. The notification information notified to the user belonging to the group included in the group to which the user who has input the notification information belongs is not changed.

  In addition, it has a customizing function for separately setting at least one of group information, inter-group information, conversion rule or applied conversion rule stored in each storage means, and the information is separately set by the customizing function. The notification information is converted by using the set information preferentially.

  According to the present invention, since the input notification information is converted in accordance with the conversion rule set between the group to which the user to be notified belongs, the notification information input by the group to which each user belongs is different. Can be notified and displayed by expression.

  In addition, since the customization function is provided so that the inclusion relationship of the group, the conversion rule, and the like can be set, the notification information can be displayed in an expression more suitable for the user relationship.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an information notification apparatus according to the present invention. The present invention is mainly assumed to be realized by P2P (peer-to-peer) computing or grid computing. However, in order to simplify the explanation, the present invention is characterized by this embodiment. Only a server 10 owned by an ISP that provides a simple communication tool service and a user terminal device 20 owned by a user who uses a communication tool provided by the ISP via the Internet 2 are shown. In the present embodiment, a description will be given by taking a status message (hereinafter simply referred to as “status”) indicating the current state of the notification source user as an example of notification information to be notified by the user to other users.

  The server 10 includes storage units 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 that store user information, group information, inter-group information, conversion rules, and application conversion rules, an information communication unit 16, an information management unit 17, and status conversion. Part 18. The information communication unit 16 exchanges information such as status with the user terminal device 20. The information management unit 17 manages information stored in the storage units 11 to 15. The status conversion unit 18 converts the status input by the user according to a conversion rule corresponding to the inclusion relationship between groups. FIG. 1 shows components necessary for realizing the processing functions characterized in this embodiment, and the server 10 is a web that provides a communication tool service even if not shown. The standard functions that should be possessed as a server are installed.

  The user terminal device 20 includes an information communication unit 21, a user interface (UI) unit 22, and an application rule setting unit 23. The information communication unit 21 exchanges information between the server 10 and other user terminal devices 20 as necessary via the Internet 2. The user interface (UI) unit 22 is a user interface unit having a function of displaying a service screen provided by the communication tool on the display of the user terminal device 20, and a status input unit 24 that receives a status input by the user. And a status display unit 25 for displaying the statuses of other users sent from the server 10. The status conversion unit 18 of the server 10 converts the status input by the user into a different expression according to a predefined conversion rule stored in the conversion rule storage unit 14, but the application rule setting unit 23 performs this conversion. It has a customization function that can separately set the conversion rules used for the group and the group inclusion relationship. In addition, the user terminal device 20 is equipped with other standard functions that should be provided as a client device that uses a service provided by the server 10 such as a browser function.

  In the present embodiment, the configuration as described above is characterized in that it is possible to specify who and in what expression information (status in this embodiment) should be disclosed. Each information such as user information set for realizing this characteristic function will be described. Information management such as registration and update of various types of information is performed by the information management unit 17.

  A person who uses a communication tool usually needs to make member registration in advance, but the same applies to this embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a data configuration example of user information stored in the user information storage unit 11. The user information includes a user ID for identifying the user (login user ID for the tool), a user name used for screen display and the like, and notification destination information used for designating a notification destination of status. As the user information, information held and managed by the communication tool may be used.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data configuration example of group information stored in the group information storage unit 12, and FIG. 4 shows an inclusion relationship of each group defined in the group information shown in FIG. It is the figure which showed the data structural example of the information between groups. First, as shown in FIG. 3, the group information is information regarding each group when the users are grouped. In the present embodiment, a group ID for identifying a group, a group name for the user to recognize each group, and a user ID as information for specifying a user belonging to each group are associated with each other. The number of users belonging to each group may be 0 or more. One user can belong to a plurality of groups. The group information forming method uses a general-purpose function provided by the ISP, and a specific setting procedure or the like is not particularly described in the present embodiment.

  The inter-group information shown in FIG. 4 can be expressed by a set of a notification source group ID and a notification destination group ID. In the notification source group ID, the ID of the group on the status notification side is set, and in the notification destination group ID, the ID of the group on the status notification side is set. FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing the relationship between groups based on the definition contents of the inter-group information shown in FIG. 4, and the group ID is shown on the right shoulder or the left shoulder of each group indicated by an ellipse. According to FIG. 5, for example, an arrow is drawn from “World” with a group ID of G1 to “Employee of Company B” with G2, which is based on information between groups expressed as (2, 1). It is. This indicates that “World” at the base of the arrow includes “B company employee” at the tip of the arrow, but “B company employee” does not include “World”. Similarly, for example, an arrow is drawn from “Technology Development Department” with a group ID of G7 to “Web Technology G” of G11. This is based on information between groups expressed as (11, 7). The “Technology Development Department” includes the “Web Technology G”, but the “Web Technology G” does not include the “Technology Development Department”. As is apparent from FIG. 5, in this embodiment, the inclusion relation is defined so that a partial order relation is established.

  Note that group information and inter-group information are defined on the ISP side, and are prepared in principle for all tool users. The exception will be described later.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically showing the conversion rules stored in the conversion rule storage unit 14. According to FIG. 6, it can be seen that conversion rules to which conversion rule IDs R1 to Rn are assigned are defined in advance. In the present embodiment, the status to be transmitted to other users is notified in a common expression format of 5W1H. FIG. 7 shows an example of a status in which both 5W1H are designated for input. Hereinafter, the conversion rule will be described.

  In the following description of pattern matching, regular expressions and variable notations in the programming language “PERL” are used. However, the present embodiment does not limit the scope of the present invention to “PERL” regular expressions. For example, an arbitrary pattern matching language such as a regular expression defined by POSIX 1003.2 may be used.

  Referring to the conversion rule whose conversion rule ID is R1 in FIG. 6, “(. *)” Is designated for “who”, “why”, and “how” of the matching pattern, and “ “null”, “null”, and “$ 1” are designated for who, “why”, and “how”, respectively. This means that regardless of what is specified in the statuses “who” and “why”, “who” and “why” are null, that is, converted into blanks and notified. According to the example of FIG. 7, “who” and “why” are designated as “A”, “D”, “E”, and “to define product specifications”, respectively. Converted to output. That is, the information is not disclosed. As for “how”, since the output pattern is “$ 1”, this means that, regardless of what is input, it is converted and output so that only the first word of the input information is disclosed. . According to the example of FIG. 7, since “how” is designated as “TV conference system”, information “TV” is output according to the conversion rule of R1. “$ 1” may be “$ n” (n is a natural number) even if it is not “$ 1”. When the output pattern is null for the input status, nothing is output. Although not illustrated in FIG. 6, when the output pattern is “$ &”, the input expression is output as it is. On the other hand, when the output pattern is “$ n”, only some words corresponding to the position specified by n of the input status are output. In this embodiment, as described above, for each of 5W1H, the entire input status can be output as it is, or the entire status can not be output, or only a part can be output.

  Subsequently, “now” is specified for “when” of the matching pattern, and “now” is also specified for the output pattern. This means that if “now” is specified in “when”, the data is output as it is without conversion. This conversion rule R1 is a rule only when the status of the input “when” is “now”, and no rule is defined for other words.

  In addition, “head office” and “meeting” are designated for the “where” and “what” match patterns, respectively, and “in-house” and “working” are designated for the output patterns. This means that when “Headquarter” is entered in the “where” status, it is converted to “internal” and output. Also, when “meeting” is input to the “what” status, it means that “working” is converted and output. This conversion rule is a conversion rule for “head office” and “meeting”, and does not mention anything about rules for other statuses.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram showing application conversion rules stored in the application conversion rule storage unit 15. In FIG. 8, for example, R1, R25, and R6 are set as conversion rules applied to the information between groups (2, 1). This indicates that when the status is notified from “company B employee” with group ID G2 to “World” with G1, the set conversion rules R1, R25, R6 are applied in the set order. . For example, it is assumed that the status illustrated in FIG. 7 is notified from “company B employee” to “World”. Since “Headquarters” is designated in the “where” status from “Employee of Company B”, it is converted to “in-house” in accordance with the set first conversion rule R1 and notified to “World”. If the status does not correspond to the conversion rule R1, an attempt is made to apply the next set conversion rule (R25 in this example). Although not explicitly shown in this example, for example, if a conversion rule in which 5W1H is null is set at the end of the applied conversion rule, disclosure of useless status can be prevented.

  As described above, if the various conversion rules are defined in advance, and the application conversion rules are set for the relationships between groups as shown in FIG. When the status is transferred from the notification source group to the notification destination group, the status conversion is performed according to each application conversion rule.

  In the present embodiment, since each group forms an inclusion relationship, if (2, 1) is set, (1, 2) is not set in principle. That is, since there is no conversion rule to be applied, the status conversion unit 18 does not convert anything to the status notified from the “World” with the group ID G1 to the “company B employee” with G2. In other words, it can be said that the status conversion is executed in accordance with the conversion rule that nothing is converted (both 5W1H is “(. *)”).

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display of the user terminal device 20 in the present embodiment. This display screen is an example of a screen prepared by the communication tool, and is displayed by a browser function in the UI unit 22. FIG. 9 shows an area 32 for displaying the group to which the user belongs, and an area 34 for displaying the login “◎” or logout “×” state of the user set and registered as a communication partner and the status from each user. , An input area 36 for inputting its own status is shown. The group to which the user belongs can be acquired from the group information of the server 10. As described above, in this embodiment, since the status is input with 5W1H, the input field 36 is provided with an input field that matches this format. The user inputs the status to be notified to each of the input fields, but the status input in the past may be displayed in the list box and can be selected without actually inputting characters. As described above, when the displayed status is designated without actually inputting characters, it corresponds to the “input status”.

  Hereinafter, the operation in the present embodiment will be described. Here, the user who inputs the status will be described as “user A”.

  When the user (user A) belongs to a plurality of groups, the user A first designates an icon of a group that the user is currently in a state to be notified of. For example, if you are currently performing duties as Product Planning G and will start a meeting as a member of Product Planning G, select “Product Planning G” if you want to notify other users about this. become. The example of FIG. 9 shows an example in which “product plan G” is selected.

  After designating the group in which the user is present, the user A inputs the status by inputting 5W1H from the input area. When the status input unit 24 receives the input status, the information communication unit 21 transmits the status to the server 10 via the Internet 2. FIG. 10 is a diagram in which an example of a status to be notified is added to the partial order relationship of each group illustrated in FIG. 5, and this input information is illustrated as a status 40.

  In the server 10, when the information communication unit 16 receives the status sent from the user terminal device 20, the status conversion unit 18 converts the status as follows.

  The status conversion unit 18 recognizes the user and the group to which he belongs (“product plan G” in this example) from the information added to the sent status. Here, the status conversion unit 18 specifies the “corporate sales department” of G6 that is in an inclusive relationship with the “product plan G” whose group ID is G9 by referring to the inter-group information. Then, by referring to the applied conversion rule corresponding to (G9, G6), one or more conversion rules used for status conversion are specified. Since the status conversion processing in the status conversion unit 18 is as described above, description thereof is omitted, but the status 42 is obtained as a result of the status conversion unit 18 performing the status conversion processing. According to the example shown in FIG. 10, the status “in community Z” corresponding to “where” is hidden. Note that “x” in FIG. 10 means a blank.

  That is, the information communication unit 16 distributes the status of the user A to the user belonging to the “corporate sales department”. At this time, the input to the display of the user belonging to the “corporate sales department” is performed. The status corresponding to “where” is displayed as a status 42 that is not disclosed. Note that the user belonging to the “corporate sales department” can be specified by the group information, and the user terminal device 10 used by the user can also be specified from the user information.

  Next, the status conversion unit 18 refers to the inter-group information to identify “Company A employee” whose group ID is G3 and inclusive relation with the “corporate sales department”. Then, the conversion rule used for status conversion is specified by referring to the applied conversion rule corresponding to (G6, G3). As a result of the status conversion processing being performed by the status conversion unit 18, a status 44 is obtained. According to the example shown in FIG. 9, there is no hidden status. That is, the information communication unit 16 distributes the status of the user A to the user belonging to the “company A employee”. At this time, the input to the display of the user belonging to the employee “A company employee” is performed. The status 40 corresponding to “where” is displayed as a status 44 that is not disclosed.

  Subsequently, the status conversion unit 18 specifies “World” whose group ID is G3 in an inclusive relationship with “A company employee” by referring to the inter-group information. Then, the conversion rule used for status conversion is specified by referring to the applied conversion rule corresponding to (G3, G1). Then, the status 46 is obtained as a result of the status conversion unit 18 performing the status conversion process. According to the example shown in FIG. 9, the statuses “with in-house members” and “in the video conference system” corresponding to “who” and “how” are hidden. Further, according to the conversion rule adopted here, “what” “conference” is converted to “busy”.

  That is, the information communication unit 16 delivers the status of the user A to the user belonging to “World”. At this time, the input status 40 is displayed on the display of the user belonging to “World”. On the other hand, statuses corresponding to “who”, “where”, and “how” are not disclosed, and “what” is displayed as a status 46 converted to “busy”.

  As described above, according to the conversion rule used for the status conversion process for each group that includes the group to which the user A belongs, the input status 40 is displayed in a state that is not disclosed as appropriate. Become.

  On the other hand, for the group included in “product plan G” to which user A belongs (“market G” in the example of FIG. 9), the status conversion unit 18 does not convert the input status 40 ( As described above, it can be said that the status is converted according to the conversion rule that is not converted). The information communication unit 16 distributes the status to each user belonging to the group included in the “market G”, and the content of the status to be distributed is the status input as illustrated in the status 48 It is the same as 40, and the detailed content remains as it is. Further, the status is displayed in the expression of status 46 in the same manner as “World” on the user terminal devices 20 of “World B” whose group ID is included in “World” and “Family A” of G8. Will be.

  On the user terminal device 20 of the user who is to receive the status from the user A, the status is displayed in the area 34 of the display screen shown in FIG. Different expressions depending on the user, that is, expressions of statuses 42, 44, 46, and 48 are displayed.

  Note that “Web technology G” can receive a status having the same content as the status 40 and a status having the same content as the status 44 according to the partial order relationship. In this case, the content of the status 40 from “product planning G” which is strongly related to the partial order relationship of the group is displayed on the display of the user belonging to “Web technology G”. Of course, the display of the status 44 is not denied. In addition, although the user can belong to a plurality of groups, in this case as well, it is desirable to display the status input based on the inclusion relation of the group in a state in which the contents are disclosed.

  As is clear from the above status conversion example, in this embodiment, the status notified to the group (for example, “World”) that includes the group that is the status notification source (for example, “company A employee”). As for, the expression is ambiguous by converting “meeting” to “busy”. Alternatively, it is not disclosed as “how” in the “TV conference system.” In this embodiment, notification to the group including this group is referred to as notification to a weak relationship. However, it obscures the expression of the status to be conveyed when notifying the status to this weak relationship, and the status to be conveyed when reporting the status to the opposite, that is, to the strong relationship. It is expressed as it is.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, how the status input by the user is disclosed according to the inclusion relationship between the group to which the user who notifies the status belongs and the group to which the user who receives the status belongs. You can specify what to do. User A need only input one detailed status 40 without being aware of the relationship with the user receiving the status.

  By the way, in the above description, conversion rules and the like common to all members of the communication tool / service are defined in advance in the server 10 owned by the service provider, and the status is converted in accordance with the conversion rules and the like in the server 10. However, the setting contents of various information common to the entire system are not necessarily the best setting contents for individual members or a plurality of members, and the information set in the storage units 11 to 15 of the server 10 is customized. In some cases, individuals may want to create groups or set group inclusion relationships and conversion rules. In order to be able to adapt to such a member's request, in this embodiment, an application rule setting unit 23 is provided as a customization means.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram schematically showing the relationship between groups when the inclusion relationship set at the individual level is reflected. In FIG. 11, the information set at the individual level is indicated by a broken line, but in FIG. 11, the group “individual” is set as the group information, and from there the “corporate sales department” and “family A” Information set. Furthermore, the inter-group information was set from “Company A employee” to “Family A”. Although not specifically shown, an applicable conversion rule is also set separately for the set inter-group information. When setting information between groups, it is necessary to keep in mind that the partial order relationship of the entire system is maintained.

  According to the example of FIG. 10, for example, the expression of the input status shown in the status 40 is converted to the expression of the status 46 because it is notified via “World” when displayed in “Family A”. Here, when the inclusion relationship is set as customization information so that “family A” is included in “company A employee”, the status conversion unit 18 preferentially uses the set customization information for status conversion. Do. As a result, “family A” is notified of the status 44 of “company A employee”. This is made possible by setting the inclusion relation by the application rule setting unit 23. Furthermore, if the application rule setting unit 23 uniquely sets the application conversion rule as customization information in the group information of “family A” and “company A employee”, the status conversion unit 18 is set uniquely. Status conversion is performed using customization information preferentially. As a result, as illustrated in FIG. 11, “family A” is notified of the status 50 based on the expression that is neither status 46 nor status 44.

  “Group A employee” with group ID G3 is assumed to be an individual who belongs to the group, but “family A” refers to the family of “company A employee”. Assumed. That is, in the above example, the group information, the information between groups, the conversion rule, and the setting of the applied conversion rule at the individual level have been described. It is also possible to set the customization information at a department level or a company level that includes a plurality of groups.

  As is clear from the above description, the customization information is set between the notification source group and the notification destination group instead of overwriting the information stored in each of the storage units 11 to 15 with the customization information. If the customization information is set by the application rule setting unit 23, the status conversion unit 18 converts the notification information by using the set customization information with priority. In order to operate in this manner, it is necessary to add identification information for identifying which group is used for conversion between customization information. The identification information here may be a user ID (login ID) at the personal level, and may be added to the user ID and stored in the group-to-group information and conversion rules set at the personal level. In the case of the department level, a new ID is assigned to the department, and the department ID is added with customization information and stored.

  Thereby, for example, when the status conversion unit 18 notifies the status to “family A” from “company A employee”, the user ID “company A employee” is added to the inter-group information, the conversion rule, and the application conversion rule. If the customization information is set, the corresponding customization information is preferentially used. 11, the status 44 of “Company A employee” converts the status 44 based on the customization information and notifies it to “family A.” If the customization information is not set, as described above, “ Since the status 44 of “Company A employee” passes through “World”, it is notified to “Family A” by the expression of status 46.

  In this way, it is possible to apply not only information set in common to the system but also conversion rules that can be applied only to each group or a plurality of groups. In addition, in this Embodiment, although the application rule setting part 23 was provided in each user terminal device 20, you may provide in the server 10. FIG.

  In the present embodiment, the input status can be notified and displayed to other users in different expressions. In the present embodiment, the status conversion unit 18 and the storage units 11 to 15 are mounted on the server 10 and the above function is described as one function of the communication tool. It is also possible to distribute the directly converted status from the device 20 to the user terminal device 20 used by another user.

  In order to use the function provided by the present embodiment, the user first designates a group from the screen to identify which group the user is currently acting as, and should be notified. As described above, it is necessary to input the status in 5W1H. However, it may be convenient to set the status automatically by simply specifying the group. For example, a new group (for example, “A project”) is generated for a special project using a customization function. And this A project always holds a meeting, and it is also assumed that the meeting is held at a predetermined place (for example, “Shinjuku”). In such a case, it is troublesome to input the status “conference” and “Shinjuku” every time the group of the A project is designated. In such a case, the status ("Meeting", "Shinjuku") can be registered in advance corresponding to the group, and when the group (A project) is designated by the user, Automatically set the registered status ("Meeting", "Shinjuku"). As described above, it is convenient to provide a function for setting a status in advance for a group. It should be noted that the statuses set in advance need not be all 5W1H, but may be a part thereof, or may be corrected by displaying the registered status in the input area 36.

  In the present embodiment, the status is expressed in the 5W1H format for the sake of convenience. However, the present invention is not limited to this. Further, the information notified to other users is not limited to the status indicating the current state, and can be applied to notification of schedule information and past performance information.

  In order to use the function provided by the present embodiment, the user first designates a group from the screen to identify which group the user is currently acting as, and should be notified. As described above, it is necessary to input the status in 5W1H. However, it may be convenient to set the status automatically by simply specifying the group. For example, a new group (for example, “A project”) is generated for a special project using a customization function. And this A project always holds a meeting, and it is also assumed that the meeting is held at a predetermined place (for example, “Shinjuku”). In such a case, it is troublesome to input the status “conference” and “Shinjuku” every time the group of the A project is designated. In such a case, the status ("Meeting", "Shinjuku") can be registered in advance corresponding to the group, and when the group (A project) is designated by the user, Automatically set the registered status ("Meeting", "Shinjuku"). As described above, it is convenient to provide a function for setting a status in advance for a group. It should be noted that the statuses set in advance need not be all 5W1H, but may be a part thereof, or may be corrected by displaying the registered status in the input area 36.

It is the block diagram which showed one Embodiment of the information notification apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is the figure which showed the data structural example of the user information memorize | stored in the user information storage part in this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the data structural example of the group information memorize | stored in the group information storage part in this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the data structural example of the information between groups which showed the inclusion relationship of each group in this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed typically the relationship between groups based on the definition content of the information between groups in this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed typically the conversion rule memorize | stored in the conversion rule memory | storage part in this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the example of the format of the status used in this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the application conversion rule memorize | stored in the application conversion rule memory | storage part in this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the example of a screen displayed on the display of the user terminal device in this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed the example of the status converted into different expression by performing status conversion processing in this Embodiment. It is the figure which showed typically the relationship between the groups to which the relationship between the groups which the individual set in this Embodiment was added.

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2 Internet, 10 servers, 11 User information storage unit, 12 Group information storage unit, 13 Inter-group information storage unit, 14 Conversion rule storage unit, 15 Applicable conversion rule storage unit, 16, 21 Information communication unit, 17 Information management unit, 18 status conversion unit, 20 user terminal device, 22 user interface (UI) unit, 23 application rule setting unit, 24 status input unit, 25 status display unit.

Claims (12)

In the information notification device that notifies and displays the information to be notified to other users input by the user to the information terminal device used by the other users,
Group information storage means for storing the group to which each user belongs and notification destination information when the users are grouped;
An inter-group information storage means for storing inclusive relations between groups;
Conversion rule storage means for storing conversion rules for disclosing notification information in different expressions;
Applied conversion rule storage means for storing conversion rules to be applied between groups;
Notification information conversion means for converting notification information to notify a user belonging to a group different from the user who has input the notification information according to a conversion rule corresponding to the inclusion relationship between the groups;
An information notification apparatus characterized in that the input notification information can be displayed in different expressions depending on the group to which other users belong. The information notification device according to claim 1,
The notification information converting means converts the notification information notified to the user belonging to the group including the group to which the user who has input the notification information belongs into a different expression according to the conversion rule, and notifies An information notification apparatus characterized in that the expression is not changed for notification information notified to a user belonging to a group included in a group to which the user who has input information belongs. The information notification device according to claim 1,
Customizing means for separately setting customization information for at least one of group information, inter-group information, conversion rule or applied conversion rule stored in each storage means;
The notification information converting means, when customization information is separately set by the customization means, converts the notification information by using the set customization information preferentially. In the information notifying device according to claim 3,
The customization means sets customization information for each group or groups,
The notification information conversion unit converts the notification information by using the customization information preferentially for the notification information from the group in which the customization information is separately set by the customization unit. The information notification device according to claim 1,
The notification information converting means, when dividing the notification information into a plurality of information, performs conversion for each divided information. The information notification device according to claim 5,
The notification information converting means converts only a part of the divided information. The information notification device according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
The notification normal information is information representing a current state of each user, an information notification device. The information notification device according to any one of claims 1 to 7,
An information notification apparatus, wherein notification information to be input by a user is automatically set with already registered notification information corresponding to a group designated by the user. Implemented by computer,
In a case where a plurality of users are managed in groups, the information notification means receives notification information to other users belonging to other groups input by the user;
A conversion step in which the status conversion means converts notification information to be notified to other users into a different expression according to a conversion rule corresponding to the inclusion relationship between groups;
A notification step in which the information notification means transmits the notification information converted by the conversion step in order to be displayed on an information terminal device used by another user;
An information notification method characterized in that the input notification information can be displayed in different expressions depending on groups to which other users belong. A computer that notifies and displays information to be notified to other users input by the user to an information terminal device used by other users ,
When grouping of users, group information storage means to store the group membership and notification destination information of each user,
Inter-group information storing means to store the inclusion relation between groups,
Conversion rule storing means to store a conversion rule for disclosing the notification information in different representations,
Applying transformation rules stored means to store a conversion rule to be applied to each between groups,
Notification information converting means for converting the notification information to notify the user that belongs to a group different from the user who inputs the notification information, the different representations according conversion rule corresponding to the containment relationship between the group,
Information notification program to function as .   The information notification program according to claim 10,
  The notification information converting means converts the notification information notified to the user belonging to the group including the group to which the user who has input the notification information belongs into a different expression according to the conversion rule, and notifies An information notification program characterized in that the expression is not changed for notification information notified to a user belonging to a group included in a group to which the user who inputs information belongs. The information notification program according to claim 10,
When there is a customization function for separately setting at least one of group information, inter-group information, conversion rule or applied conversion rule stored in each storage means, and when the information is set separately by the customization function An information notification program for converting notification information by using the set information preferentially.

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