JP4437325B2 - Web data mail delivery system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a Web data mail distribution system capable of easily mail distributing image data and character data included in a Web page such as an Internet homepage.

  A variety of images are included on the Internet homepage, and a mail browser shortcut function or the like has been conventionally used to distribute an email of a favorite image to an acquaintance.

  According to the above conventional method, it is possible to send an image by e-mail relatively easily, but it is not easy to prepare a specific message for each image in advance or to make a mail with voice, It is necessary for the user to input a message or record a voice separately and incorporate the voice data into the mail every time an individual mail is sent. However, such work is complicated and very difficult for a computer beginner.

  The present invention is a Web data mail distribution system that distributes data displayed on a Web browser, which is an event-driven application of a client computer, by accessing the Web server computer, and mail distribution executed on the client computer A program that is uploaded to the server computer, and the program is activated on a client computer by generating a predetermined event in a screen in which the data is displayed on a Web browser, and the data It is characterized by composing and delivering a mail including.

  The client computer used in the system of the present invention preferably has an operating system having a graphical user interface, particularly preferably installed with Microsoft Windows, and an application executed on the operating system is displayed on the screen. It is preferably an event-driven application in which a predetermined function or subroutine is executed in response to an event such as a mouse click or a predetermined keyboard shortcut. As the Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer can be preferably used, but a third party browser having an equivalent function can also be used. The mail delivery program can be preferably realized by ActiveX control, but can also be realized by a JAVA applet or other techniques. The predetermined event is, for example, a mouse click of a transmission button arranged in a web page displayed on the web browser. When creating a new mail, the text and other data may be blank, but it may be configured so that data set in advance on the Web can be taken as an initial value and edited.

  Preferably, the program downloads data selected in a Web browser from a Web server computer, and creates an email including the data. Such a selection method may be appropriate, and thumbnail images of thumbnail images of a plurality of image data may be displayed and the user may be selected by a method such as a mouse click, or a character string such as an image description may be selected. It is also possible to do so.

  In the Web data mail distribution system of the present invention, the mail distribution program is a browser function expansion program executed on a Web browser, and the mail distribution program is included in a document file for displaying the data on the Web browser. A script for starting is described. If the program is not installed on the client computer when the script is executed, the program can be downloaded and installed from the server computer to the client computer. An example of such a browser function expansion program is ActiveX control. As the document file, an HTML file, an XML file, or the like can be used. An appropriate script such as JavaScript that can be used in an HTML file or an XML file on the client computer can be adopted as the script.

  The mail distribution program also obtains the voice data associated with the display data together with the display data from the server when the display data is displayed on the Web browser, and creates a mail including the display data and the voice data. And may be distributed. The audio data associated with the Web page is specified in the HTML file so that it is reproduced as background music when the Web page is viewed with a browser. The audio data associated with the display data is audio data set so that it can be passed as an argument by JavaScript or the like, for example.

  The mail distribution program may have a voice data recording function, and may create and distribute a mail including the recorded voice data and the display data. This recording function can also be implemented as an editing function for audio data acquired from the server described above. That is, it is also possible to set data acquired from the server as the initial value of the audio data, and distribute the data recorded by the sender using a microphone or the like during transmission.

  The present invention is also a Web data mail distribution system that distributes data displayed on a Web browser, which is an event-driven application of a client computer, by accessing the Web server computer, and is executed on the client computer. A mail delivery program, which is uploaded to the server computer, and the program is activated on the client computer by generating a predetermined event in the display screen of the Web browser, It is characterized by composing and delivering a mail including it. In this case, the data may or may not be displayed on the display screen of the Web browser.

  According to the present invention, a program uploaded in advance to a server computer is downloaded and installed on a client computer, and mail delivery is performed by the program. Therefore, even if no mail transmission application is installed on the client computer, mail can be transmitted and always used. Even if the mail environment of a computer different from the computer being used is different, the web image mail can always be transmitted by the same operation method, so that even a person who is not used to operating the computer can easily transmit the image mail. In addition, by including a voice mail creation function in the program, it is possible to send a voice mail image mail without performing the troublesome and difficult task for beginners of recording voice separately.

  DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a Web page management system, which includes a server computer 1 that functions as an FTP server and a Web server, a client computer 2 on which Microsoft Internet Explorer (Web browser) is installed, and The image / audio real-time upload device 3 for uploading images and sounds to the server in real time, and these computers are communicably connected via the Internet. In the present embodiment, the real-time upload device 3 and the client computer 2 are illustrated as separate computers, but they may be the same computer.

  The server computer 1 has an FTP server and a Web server (usually an http server) installed on an appropriate OS such as Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, or the like. In the present invention, since it is not necessary to use a server-side script such as CGI, server computers of almost all providers that provide a general FTP server function and a Web server function can be used as such a server computer.

  The client computer 2 is preferably a personal computer in which Microsoft Windows is installed. In the embodiment described below, the function of the ActiveX control incorporated in Windows Internet Explorer is used. It is also possible to implement using other applications having functions equivalent to the ActiveX control, such as JAVA applet of Sun Microsystems.

  The image / sound real-time uploading device 3 (live video providing computer) includes a Web camera and a microphone, and can be realized by a computer installed with an appropriate OS or a dedicated device in addition to the Windows PC. The apparatus 3 stores image data captured by the Web camera at a predetermined file name (for example, Photo.jpg) in a predetermined ftp folder (/ Photos / in the illustrated example) of the server computer every predetermined time (for example, every second). ), And a plurality of buffers for dividing and recording audio, the audio data acquired by the microphone is stored in one of the buffers, and audio data of a predetermined size is accumulated in the buffer By accumulating audio data in another buffer, the audio data is sequentially stored in a plurality of buffers in time series, and each time audio data of a predetermined size is accumulated in one buffer, the buffer Is uploaded to a folder in the server computer where the image data is stored in parallel with the audio data storage process. There. Specifically, as shown in FIG. For example, when audio data for one second is accumulated, it is accumulated in the dat file. 1. Stop recording to dat In addition to starting accumulating audio data in dat, Start uploading the dat file to the server computer. Similarly, 2. When data for 1 second is accumulated in dat, audio data is stored in 3. While accumulating in dat, 2. Start uploading dat. In the same manner, proceed sequentially. When audio data for 1 second is accumulated in dat, the counter is reset and 1. Audio data is accumulated in dat. With this processing, even if the device 3 is blocked from the Internet by a firewall, real-time video is always present on the server computer, so that real-time video can be viewed from any client computer at the same time. It can be suitably used. Note that the number of buffers is the last buffer, that is, 7. By the time the audio is stored in the dat file, the first 1. It is preferable to prepare a number having a sufficient margin for completing the upload of the dat file.

  The web page management system according to the present embodiment includes a management program executed on the client computer 2. The management program is preferably provided as an ActiveX control and extends the function of Internet Explorer (Web browser) to display the execution result of the program in the browser window. The management program is a binary executable program created using an appropriate program development language, and may be provided in the form of a single binary file or provided in the form of a separate binary file for each function. It may be. In the illustrated embodiment, NEWWEBP. ocx and NEWWEBBL. for live video display. A management program is provided in the form of two ocx binary files.

  The management program and initial data of the Web configuration data constituting the Web page are uploaded in advance from the client computer to the server by the uploader program. The uploader program can be configured by, for example, a Windows application, and can be recorded on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM and distributed, or can be downloaded from a FTP server or a Web server to a user's computer via a network. . FIG. 2 is an example of an execution screen of the uploader, and an input unit for inputting predetermined server connection information is provided in the execution screen. The server connection information includes an FTP server address, a port number, a user name (user ID), a password, a Web virtual folder name, and an http server address (Web server address). The input server connection information is temporarily stored in the memory and temporary file (connection information storage unit) of the client computer. When all the connection information is properly input and then the execution button is clicked, the management program and the initial data of the Web configuration data are uploaded into a predetermined virtual folder of the ftp server based on the connection information.

  An example of the management program and the initial data is shown below the server 1 in FIG.

  index. html is Web document data that can be browsed on a client computer by a Web browser via a network line, and is composed of an HTML document file. An example of the file contents is shown in FIGS. The JavaScript function used in the file may be described in the file, but in this embodiment, newwebcom. It is defined in the js file. An example of the function definition file is shown in FIGS. This function definition file is index. Since it is included in the html file, it constitutes a part of the Web document data.

  index. In the html file, NEWWEBBP. A script for starting the ocx program on the client computer is incorporated in line 147. The script is called Setup. When the mouse is clicked on the gif image, newwebcom. This calls the ShowWindows () function defined in the js file. The function is newwebcom. defined in lines 36 to 47 of the js file. The html file is displayed on the web browser.

  setup. The html file is NEWWEBBP. The ocx program is started on a Web browser, and an example is shown in FIG. When the file is displayed on the Internet Explorer (Web browser), the NEWWEBP.NET file is displayed by the mechanism of the ActiveX control incorporated in Windows. If the ocx program is already installed on the client computer, the program is started. If the ocx program is not installed, setup. Based on the data that is encrypted and described in the html file, the NEWWEBBP. After the ocx file is downloaded to the client computer and subjected to authentication processing, it is installed and executed on the client computer. Since the mechanism of starting such ActiveX control is conventionally known, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

  Also, in this embodiment, link.com that combines favorite links as Web document data. html file (see FIG. 12), afterMail. for easily sending e-mail with images in postcard format. html (see FIG. 13) and eMail. WEB (see FIG. 14), NEWWEBBL. which allows a client computer to implement a live video function including a Web image real-time display function and a real-time audio playback function. image to start ocx. html (see FIG. 14) is generated and uploaded to the server computer. The file contents shown in FIGS. 12 to 14 are initial values and the contents are not set. At this stage, a message for prompting initialization or setting is displayed.

  In this embodiment, the index. A definition file that defines the structure of an html file is Newweb. Created as a txt file and uploaded to the server. In accordance with the contents defined in the file, the management program uses an index. Generate an html file. Newweb. An example of a txt file is shown in FIG. 16. In this file, server connection information for a client computer to connect to an ftp server is set in the CPString variable, and the user name and password required when starting the management program are set. The encrypted character string generated based on the USER1 variable is set.

  NEWWEBP. The ocx program includes a data upload function for uploading web page configuration data in the client computer to the server computer by the ftp protocol, and a download function for downloading all or a part of the web page configuration data in the server computer to the client computer. , An editing function for editing the Web page configuration data downloaded in the client computer, and the index. Can be browsed by the Web browser based on the editing result of the editing function. A home computer automatic creation function for generating an html file (Web document data) is realized on a client computer.

  setup. From the html file NEWWEBBP. When ocx is executed, first, a Newweb. txt is downloaded to the client computer and NEWWEBBP. The user authentication process is performed by using the information read into the ocx program and set in the USER1 variable at the time of activation, and the execution of the program is continued only when authenticated. Newweb. You can download txt from NEWWEBBP. ocx is preferably started each time, but NEWWEBP. ocx is first executed, i.e. NEWWEBP. When ocx is downloaded from the server and installed, it can be configured to download only once. Once authentication is complete, Newweb. Based on the information set in the CPString variable in txt, NEWWEBP. The ocx program can be connected to the ftp server. In this embodiment, NEWWEBP. The ocx program includes index. html and setup. The html file is not read, and Newweb. These html files are generated each time based on the txt file, but the present invention is not limited to such an embodiment. Without providing a txt file, index. It is also possible to analyze the html file itself and obtain the page configuration information.

  FIG. 17 shows NEWWEBP. This is a management room screen that is displayed at the beginning of the ocx program, and various setting screens can be launched from the screen.

  FIG. 18 shows an example of a user management screen serving as a master management room, where the administrator's user name and password can be set and changed. In addition, it is preferable from an operational aspect that only one user name of the administrator of the top page of the Web page is fixed. The setting contents on this screen are as follows. Reflected in the txt file.

  FIG. 19 shows an example of a setting page for the top page of a Web page. The color and size of a character string to be displayed, an image to be displayed, a background image, and a page are displayed on the client computer when the page is displayed. Background audio can be edited (Web page configuration data editing function), and the setting content on the screen is Newweb. When it is reflected in the txt file and the execution button is clicked with the mouse, index. An html file (Web document data) is generated (homepage automatic generation function), Newweb. txt, index. Web page configuration data including html and various files referenced from these are uploaded to a predetermined folder of the ftp server.

  On the setting page of the top page, a Web camera can be set as a display photo. When a Web camera is selected, an input box for a network camera photo data storage folder name appears as shown in FIG. ing. Enter the path name (/photos/photo.jpg) where the above live video is stored in this input box and click the execute button with the mouse to create a link to the image.html file on the top page. You can configure the image.html file to be displayed when you click the link with the mouse. An example of an image.html file when the Web camera is set is shown in FIG. 25, and NEWWEBBL. ocx program is called from the server computer by the program. jpg and 1. dat-7. dat is acquired every predetermined time, image data from a web camera is displayed in real time in a web browser, and audio data from a microphone is reproduced in time series.

  When a link page (sub top page) is created on the top page setting screen, a subfolder (for example, / Data1 /) is created on the ftp server, and the same index. html files and setup. An html file is created. Therefore, when the sub top page is displayed on the Web browser, NEWWEBBP. When the script for starting the ocx program is executed, a sub-top page setting screen as shown in FIG. 21 is displayed after the authentication process similar to the above, and the page can be edited. The link page from the sub-top page can be set as a photo page that automatically arranges a plurality of photos in a good-looking manner on the photo page setting screen shown in FIG. When set as a photo page, a plurality of photos are automatically enlarged / reduced according to the designated number of lines and display type, and the appearance can be quickly changed with simple settings. The background image and background sound of the photo page can also be set on this setting screen. Also, voice data and text data associated with each photo can be input, and the input voice data and text data are described in the form of arguments in a script such as JavaScript, The audio data and text data associated with the photo (image data) can be accessed.

  When set as the photo page, the client computer 2 operates as a Web image data distribution system that distributes image data displayed on the Web browser by mail. Specifically, the photo set on the photo page is, for example, Photo1. An html file is generated and configured to be displayed by this file. The file contains NEWWEBP. A script for starting the ocx program with the argument “objMail” is incorporated, and by generating a predetermined event (for example, a mouse click on a character string, an image, or a button) in a screen displaying image data on a Web browser When the program is started by this script, a mail transmission screen shown in FIG. 23 is displayed in the Web browser. At this time, the program downloads the image data (display data) from the http server, displays it on the image display unit 5, inputs necessary information such as a transmission destination and subject, and presses the transmission button. The mail including the image data is distributed by the smtp transmission program. Then, NEWWEBP. The ocx program also functions as a Web data distribution program.

  An example of an operation block diagram of this Web data distribution system is shown in FIG. A web page (sub-top page) 10 created by the management program and uploaded to the server describes a link to a photo page and a script for starting a setting screen. When the mouse is clicked on the setting screen, the authentication page 11 is displayed. Is loaded into the browser, and the management program 12 is activated in the display screen of the browser by inputting the user name and password. As described above, the management program is provided with various setting screens. When predetermined information is input to the setting screen of the photo page 13 as shown in FIG. Display the thumbnail image (reduced image) or the image data itself. A photo Web page 14 such as html is created and uploaded to the server. The photo web page 14 is linked from the sub-top page 10 and displayed on the browser by clicking the link to the photo page on the sub-top page 10 with a mouse. Here, when the photograph_1 is clicked (reference numeral 15), photo1. The script described in html is executed (see FIG. 27), and this script is used to execute the NEWWEBP. When ocx is activated, the mail transmission program screen 16 shown in FIG. 23 is displayed in the display screen of the browser. When the mail distribution program is activated, text or voice data associated with the photo on the server 17 is acquired by a script included in the photo page, a mail distribution program, or the like and used as initial data to be attached to the mail. If you have already downloaded photo data or associated text or audio data to the client computer when displaying a web page with a browser, you can also use the already downloaded data as email attachment data. It is.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 29, the photo page 14 may display a list of thumbnail images of a plurality of photos, or may display the original image data in a reduced form in a list format. If the photograph_1 is clicked here, an enlarged screen confirmation display page 18 for each photograph is displayed in the browser, and the mail delivery program can be started by clicking the send button 19 in the page 18. . The enlarged screen confirmation display page 18 may be created in advance for each photo and uploaded to the server. The confirmation display page 18 is generated in the HTML document constituting the photo list display page 14 and displayed on the browser. It is also possible to write a script.

  Also, on the mail transmission screen, the audio data associated with the Web page and display data when displaying the image data on the Web browser is acquired from the server together with the image data, and the mail including the image data and the audio data is distributed. It is also possible to make a setting to deliver the mail including the voice data recorded using the voice data recording function of the program and the image data. This audio data may be settable in time, or may be audio data for a fixed time. The mail address is preferably made available by referring to mail software installed in Windows, such as Microsoft's Outlook address book.

  When entering the room entry data list from the management room screen, the screen shown in FIG. 22 is displayed, so that past room entry data can be managed. For such history management, the server computer is updated with Weblog. The log file is saved.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and the design can be changed as appropriate.

It is a simple block block diagram of the Web data management system which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is one Example of the execution screen of the uploader program of a management program. Index. Is one of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of an html file. Index. Is one of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of an html file. Newwebcom., Which is one of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of a js file. Newwebcom., Which is one of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of a js file. Newwebcom., Which is one of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of a js file. Newwebcom., Which is one of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of a js file. Newwebcom., Which is one of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of a js file. Newwebcom., Which is one of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of a js file. One of Web page configuration data, setup. It is a program list of one Example of an html file. Link., One of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of an html file. AfterMail., Which is one of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of an html file. EMail., Which is one of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of an html file. Image. Which is one of Web page configuration data. It is a program list of one Example of an html file. Newweb.net is one of Web page configuration data and definition data that defines the contents of Web document data. It is a program list of one Example of a txt file. It is a screen block diagram which shows the initial screen when a management program is performed within a web browser. It is a screen block diagram which shows the user management screen of the management program. It is a screen block diagram which shows the web page edit screen of the top page of the management program. It is a screen block diagram at the time of setting a display photograph to a Web camera in the same Web page edit screen. It is a screen block diagram which shows the web page edit screen of the sub top page which can be browsed via a hyperlink from a top page. It is a screen block diagram which shows the management screen of the access history of the management program. It is a screen block diagram which shows the transmission screen of the audio | voice photo mail with the management program. It is a simplified explanatory drawing explaining operation | movement of the some buffer of an audio | voice upload apparatus. Image when the Web camera is set. It is a program list of one Example of an html file. It is a screen block diagram which shows the photograph page setting screen of the management program. When creating a photo page, photo1. It is a program list of one Example of an html file. It is a processing block diagram which shows an example of operation | movement of a Web data delivery system. It is a processing block diagram which shows the other example of operation | movement of a Web data delivery system.

Claims (2)

A Web data mail distribution system that distributes data displayed on a Web browser that is an event-driven application of a client computer by accessing the Web server computer, and has a mail distribution program executed on the client computer The mail distribution program is uploaded to the server computer, and the mail distribution program is activated on the client computer by generating a predetermined event in the display screen of the Web browser, and includes the data including the data. create a a browser function expansion program executed on the configured Web browser to deliver said data to a document file to be displayed on the Web browser, mail delivery pro Script for starting the ram has been written, said if mail delivery program has not been installed on the client computer from the server computer to the client computer mail delivery programs are downloaded and installed when the script has been executed A Web data mail distribution system configured as described above. The mail delivery program also obtains the audio data associated with the display data and the Web page when displaying the display data on the Web browser from the server together with the display data, and creates a mail including the display data and the audio data. The Web data mail distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the system is distributed.