JP4849141B2 - Communication apparatus and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication device.

  Various contents are released on the network. There is a server that publishes content summary information including a plurality of content information including a content URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and a content title. An example of the content summary information is feed information (Feed). As the format of the feed information, for example, there is an RSS (Resource Description Framework Site Summary) or Atom.

Non-Patent Document 1 below discloses software for accessing a server, obtaining feed information from the server, and displaying the title of each content. When this software is installed in a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as “PC”), the user can view the title of the content on the PC. When the user selects the title by clicking or the like, the PC activates the browser and accesses the URL of the content corresponding to the title. Thereby, the content is displayed on the PC, and the content can be browsed.
Tomoyuki Ozu, “Displaying RSS-delivered article titles in an electric bulletin board style” Dirty News Reader ”, [Online], May 26, 2004, Impression Corporation, [Search July 29, 2008], Internet, <http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/article/2004/05/26/dirtynewsreader.html>

  However, when the acquired feed information includes a plurality of pieces of content information that are the same or similar to each other (hereinafter referred to as “similar content information”), it is included in all the content information included in the acquired feed information by the software described above. When the title to be displayed is displayed, the display area of the display device is occupied by the title included in the plurality of pieces of similar content information.

  In addition, it is unlikely that a title included in content information similar to content information related to content browsed in the past is selected. This is because the content related to similar content information is likely to be the same as or similar to the content browsed in the past.

  Users who want to browse multiple titles of content information that are not similar to each other are similar to the title included in the content information similar to the content information related to the content browsed in the past and the content information related to the content browsed in the past It was necessary to browse while distinguishing it from titles included in other content information that is not. For this reason, in the conventional display mode in which all titles included in the acquired feed information are displayed, there are cases where the viewability is poor for the user.

  The present invention prevents a title included in the same or similar content information from being displayed unnecessarily on the display unit when displaying the title included in the content information on the display unit, and provides a highly readable communication device. The purpose is to provide.

  In order to achieve this object, the invention according to claim 1 is a communication apparatus capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus connected via a network, and includes content information including a content title and position information of the content. A plurality of position information storage means capable of storing a plurality of pieces of position summary information of content summary information, and summary information for acquiring the contents summary information based on each of the position information stored in the position information storage means An acquisition unit; a content information storage unit that stores content information included in the content summary information acquired by the summary information acquisition unit; and a title display that displays a title included in each content information stored in the content information storage unit And one of the content information stored in the content information storage means A selection unit that selects content information, a content acquisition unit that acquires content based on position information of the content included in the content information selected by the selection unit, and a content acquired by the content acquisition unit Other content information stored in the content information storage unit similar to the content information on the condition that the content display unit and the content related to the content information selected by the selection unit are displayed by the content display unit And a title display control means for controlling the title display means so as to restrict the display of the titles included in the communication device.

  As a result, the display of the title included in the content information similar to the selected content information can be restricted, so that the user of the communication device displays the title from the plurality of content titles displayed on the display means. There is no need to distinguish between the title included in the content information related to the content and the title included in the content information similar to the content information. Therefore, it is possible to provide a communication device capable of displaying a title that is highly readable for the user. Furthermore, since the titles included in each of the plurality of pieces of content information that are not similar to each other are displayed in the limited display area of the display means, the user displays a plurality of titles included in the pieces of similar content information. Compared to the case, it is possible to easily grasp titles included in many pieces of content information that are not similar to each other.

  Note that the term “content location information” is a concept that includes any information that can identify the location of content (content acquisition destination). Further, the term “position information of content summary information” is a concept including any information that can specify the position of content summary information (where the content summary information is acquired). An example of the position information is a URL. The title means a character string that is less than the entire character string of the content and reflects the content.

  Further, the other content information determined to be similar by the first determination unit may be the same content information as the content information to be determined, or may be content information in which a character string of a predetermined length matches. There may be.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, on the condition that the content information is selected by the selection unit, the selected content information is associated with display information related to display of the content related to the content information and stored. When new content summary information is acquired by the summary information acquisition unit in a state where the content information is stored in the first content information storage control unit that controls the content information storage unit and the content information storage unit, First determination means for determining whether or not the display information is associated with content information stored in the content information storage means similar to content information included in newly acquired content summary information, The title display control means is determined when an affirmative determination is made by the first determination means. The title display means is controlled to limit the display of the title included in the content information included in the newly acquired content summary information, while the negative determination is made by the first determination means, the new acquisition is performed. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the title display unit is controlled to display a title included in content information included in the content summary information.

  Thereby, even when content information similar to the content information related to the already displayed content is newly acquired, the display of titles included in the newly acquired content information can be restricted. Therefore, it is possible to limit the unnecessary display of titles included in newly acquired content information that is unlikely to be selected by the user, and to provide a communication device with high title browsing.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, when an affirmative determination is made by the first determination unit, the content information included in the newly acquired content summary information is associated with display information related to display of the content related to the content information and stored. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising second content information storage control means for controlling the content information storage means.

  Thereby, in addition to the content information selected by the selection means, the display information can be stored in association with the content information included in the newly acquired content summary information. Accordingly, when content information is newly acquired, similar content information acquired in the past (newly acquired last time) even if the content information selected by the selection unit is deleted. The display of titles included in the content information newly acquired this time can be restricted based on the display information associated with the. Therefore, it is possible to prevent a large number of titles included in similar content information from being displayed, and it is possible to provide a communication device that is highly readable for the user.

  In the invention according to claim 4, when new content summary information is acquired by the summary information acquisition unit in a state where content information is stored in the content information storage unit, the newly acquired content summary information is A second determination unit that determines whether or not content information similar to the content information is stored in the content information storage unit, wherein the title display control unit is affirmatively determined by the second determination unit; When the process based on the determination result by the first determination unit is executed and a negative determination is made, the title display unit is controlled to display the title included in the content information included in the newly acquired content summary information. The communication apparatus according to claim 2 or claim 3, wherein

  As a result, when the content information already stored is not similar to the content information included in the newly acquired content summary information, the title included in the content information included in the newly acquired content summary information is displayed. The title of dissimilar content information that should not be restricted can be viewed by the user.

  The invention according to claim 5 includes third content information storage control means for controlling the content information storage means so as to store the content information selected by the selection means in association with selection information indicating that the content information has been selected. The title display control means controls the title display means so as to display a title included in the content information stored in association with the selection information. It is a communication apparatus of description.

  As a result, even when a plurality of pieces of content information are similar, the title included in the selected content information can be displayed. Therefore, even when the user browses content that has been browsed in the past, it can be used. The user can select the title related to the content.

  In the invention according to claim 6, when the title display control means displays the title included in the content information associated with the selection information, the display of the title included in the content information similar to the content information is restricted. The display means is controlled to display a title included in the similar content information when an instruction to display a title whose display is restricted by the operation means is input. The communication device according to claim 5.

  As a result, a title whose display is restricted can be displayed as necessary.

  The invention according to claim 7 is a character string included in at least one of a title and position information included in one content information, and a character string included in at least one of a title and position information included in other content information. The content information and the other content information are handled as content information similar to each other when the number of characters matches a predetermined number of character strings. Is a communication device.

  Thereby, it can be judged whether it is similar to other content information based on the various information contained in content information. In particular, when the position information of content included in one content information matches the position information of content included in other content information, both pieces of content information are described for the same content. It can be determined that the content information is similar, and the number of displayed titles can be reduced.

  The invention according to claim 8 can communicate with an information processing apparatus connected via a network, and can be read by a computer comprising display means capable of displaying information and information storage means capable of storing information. First storage control means for storing a plurality of pieces of position information of content summary information in the information storage means, wherein the computer stores a plurality of pieces of content information including content titles and position information of the contents Summary information acquisition means for acquiring the content summary information based on each piece of position information stored in the position information storage means, and content information included in the content summary information acquired by the summary information acquisition means Content information storage means stored in the storage means, and each content stored in the content information storage means Title display means for displaying the title included in the content information on the display means, selection means for selecting one content information among the content information stored in the information storage means, and the content selected by the selection means Content acquisition means for acquiring content based on position information of the content included in information, content display means for displaying the content acquired by the content acquisition means on the display means, and content selected by the selection means The title display means for restricting the display of titles included in other content information stored in the information storage means similar to the content information on the condition that the content related to the information is displayed on the display means. Title display control means for controlling Is a program characterized and.

  Thereby, the same effect as that of claim 1 can be obtained.

It is the figure which showed the outline of the communication system in one Embodiment of this invention. It is the figure which showed an example of the memory content memorize | stored in URL storage area. It is the figure which showed an example of the memory content memorize | stored in the content information storage area. 6 is a flowchart illustrating content information display processing executed by the multifunction machine. 6 is a flowchart showing similar content information search processing executed by the multifunction peripheral. 6 is a flowchart illustrating content display processing executed by the multifunction machine. It is an example of a display of the title of the content displayed on a display part. It is an example of a display of the title of the content displayed on a display part. It is an example of a display of the title of the content scroll-displayed on a display part.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a communication system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The communication system 1 includes a multifunction machine 10 capable of realizing various functions, a plurality of content providing servers 20 and 30, and a router 40. In addition, although the communication system 1 shown in FIG. 1 has one multifunction device 10 and two content providing servers 20 and 30, the number can be changed as appropriate.

  The content providing servers 20 and 30 have the same configuration as a known server computer, are connected to the Internet line 60, and each publishes a different site. Each site contains a plurality of contents. Further, each of the content providing servers 20 and 30 stores RSS-format feed information including a plurality of content information, which is information obtained by summarizing each content included in its own site. Each content providing server 20, 30 also publishes a site that distributes the feed information.

  The content information includes a content title character string, a URL indicating a content acquisition destination, a content summary character string, and the like. The specific contents of the feed information will be described in detail later. Each content providing server 20, 30 provides feed information and content in response to a request from the multifunction machine 10. The content is text data, image data, video data, or the like.

  The multifunction device 10 includes a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, and the like (not shown), and a control unit 11 that controls each operation of the multifunction device 10 (the entire multifunction device 10) based on a program stored in the ROM. A network interface (hereinafter referred to as “network I / F”) 12 that is connected to the local area network line 50 and communicates with the content providing servers 20 and 30, an operation unit 13 that receives an instruction from a user of the multifunction machine 10, A display unit 14 (an example of a display unit) that displays various types of information, a hard disk, and the like, includes a storage unit 15 that stores various types of information, a printing unit 16, and a reading unit 17. The control unit 11 and the units 12 to 17 are connected to each other via a bus line.

  The storage unit 15 includes a URL storage area 151 (an example of position information storage means) and a content information storage area 152 (an example of content information storage means). As will be described in detail later, as shown in FIG. 2, the URL storage area 151 stores a URL (an example of position information of content summary information) 102 indicating an acquisition destination of feed information. As will be described in detail later, the content information storage area 152 stores content information 122 included in the acquired feed information 112, as shown in FIG. As described above, the content information 122 is information including a content title character string 140, a content summary character string 142, a URL 144 indicating a content acquisition destination, and the like, and is created for each content.

  The control unit 11 acquires the feed information 112 from the content providing servers 20 and 30 based on the program stored in the ROM. The control unit 11 acquires the feed information 112 by accessing the feed information acquisition destination URL 102. The control unit 11 stores the content information 122 included in the acquired feed information 112 in the content information storage area 152.

  The control unit 11 causes the display unit 14 to display the content information 122 stored in the content information storage area 152. Further, based on the content acquisition destination URL 144 included in the content information 122 selected by the user, the content is acquired and displayed on the display unit 14.

  Hereinafter, a specific configuration and processing operation of the multifunction machine 10 will be described in detail.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the contents stored in the URL storage area 151. As described above, the URL storage area 151 stores the URL 102 indicating the acquisition destination of the feed information stored in each content providing server 20, 30 (feed information distribution site published by each content providing server 20, 30). The control unit 11 acquires the feed information 112 by accessing the content providing servers 20 and 30 based on the feed information acquisition destination URL 102 stored in the URL storage area 151. In the example of FIG. 2, n feed information acquisition destination URLs 102 are stored in the URL storage area 151. Each feed information acquisition destination URL 102 is assigned an identification number 100. In the present embodiment, the identification number 100 is represented by the symbol “i”. Each feed information acquisition destination URL 102 stores a feed information distribution site name 104 in association with it. The feed information distribution site name 104 is the name of the site that distributes the feed information 112 specified based on the feed information acquisition destination URL 102.

  The feed information acquisition destination URL 102 in the URL storage area 151 is input and stored when the user of the multifunction machine 10 operates the operation unit 13. The feed information distribution site name 104 may be acquired from a site that distributes the feed information 112, or may be input and stored when the user operates the operation unit 13.

  Next, contents stored in the content information storage area 152 will be described with reference to FIG. The content information storage area 152 can store the feed information 112 for each feed information acquisition destination URL 102 stored in the URL storage area 151. That is, the identification number 110 represented by the symbol “i” corresponds to the identification number 100 of FIG. 2. For example, the feed information 112 of the record indicated by “i = 0” in the content information storage area 152 is , Acquired from the site specified by the feed information acquisition destination URL 102 of the record indicated by “i = 0” in the URL storage area 151. The same number of feed information as the number of feed information acquisition destination URLs 102 stored in the URL storage area 151 is stored (n in this embodiment).

  Next, the individual feed information 112 will be described. The feed information 112 includes feed information distribution site information 120 and a plurality of content information 122. The feed information distribution site information 120 includes a site name character string 130. The site name character string 130 is a title character string of a site to which the feed information 112 is distributed. This can also be a character string stored as the feed information distribution site name 104 in the URL storage area 151 described above.

  The content information 122 is equal to the number of contents included in the site published by the content providing server 20 or 30 from which the feed information 112 is acquired. The feed information 112 acquired from the site corresponding to “i = 0” in FIG. 3 has m pieces of content information 122. Each content information 122 is given an identification number 124. The identification number 124 is expressed by the symbol “j”.

  Each content information 122 includes a content title character string 140, a content summary character string 142, a content acquisition destination URL 144, a read / unread flag 146, a similar content information identifier 148, and a representative content flag 150. . The content title character string 140 is a character string of the content title. The content summary character string 142 is a summary of the character strings included in the content. In other words, the content summary character string 142 is a character string that is more than the title of the content and less than the entire character string of the content, and is a character string that reflects the contents of the content.

  The content acquisition destination URL 144 is a URL indicating a content acquisition destination. The read / unread flag 146 indicates whether or not the content display operation has been performed based on the content acquisition destination URL 144. When the display operation is not performed, the unread flag “0” is stored and the display operation is performed. If so, the read flag “1” (an example of display information) is stored.

  As will be described in detail later, the similar content information identifier 148 stores the identification number 124 assigned to the content information 122 determined to be the same or similar, and indicates which content information 122 has a similar relationship. is there. Further, when the same or similar content information exists, a similar identifier common to the same or similar content information 112 is also stored. When the same or similar content information 112 is not stored in the content information storage area 152, the identification number 124 and the similar identifier of the other content information 112 are not stored.

  The representative content flag 150 indicates representative content information 122 of the content information 122 in which a common similar identifier is stored, and a representative content flag “1” (an example of selection information) is set. It is remembered.

  In the present embodiment, the multifunction device 10 displays a list of content title character strings 140 included in each of the plurality of content information 122 included in the acquired feed information 112 on the display unit 14. However, the multifunction machine 10 can also display various information included in the content information 122 such as the content summary character string 142 and the content acquisition destination URL 144 on the display unit 14.

  Next, processing executed by the control unit 11 of the multifunction machine 10 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a content information display process executed by the control unit 11 of the multifunction machine 10 based on a program stored in the ROM. This content information display process is a process of displaying the content title character string 140 on the display unit 14. The content information display process is started when the multifunction device 10 is turned on or when a content information display button (not shown) of the operation unit 13 is pressed by the user of the multifunction device 10. This is executed until the power of the multifunction machine 10 is turned off.

  In the content information display process, first, the control unit 11 acquires the feed information 112 based on all the feed information acquisition destination URLs 102 stored in the URL storage area 151 (S402). The acquired feed information 112 is stored in the content information storage area 152 for each feed information acquisition destination URL 102 (for each identification number 110), as shown in FIG. Then, the control unit 11 extracts one from the unprocessed content information 122 included in the acquired feed information 112 (S404). The unprocessed content information 122 indicates content information 122 that has not been subjected to a similar content information search process that will be described later.

  Next, the control unit 11 performs a similar content information search process on the content information 122 extracted in the process of S404 (S406). As will be described in detail later, the similar content information search process searches the content information 122 already stored in the content information storage area 152 for content information 122 similar or identical to the content information 122 extracted in the process of S404. It is processing to do. Hereinafter, in the present embodiment, similar or identical content information 122 is simply referred to as similar content information 122. In addition, since the similar content information 122 is one of the content information 122 memorize | stored in the content information storage area 152, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected in this embodiment.

  The control unit 11 determines whether the similar content information 122 is stored in the content information storage area 152 based on the result of the process of S406 (S408). This determination is made based on information stored in the RAM by the processing of S504, S518, and S520 described later. When determining that the similar content information 122 is not stored (S408: NO), the control unit 11 stores the unread flag “0” in the read / unread flag 146 included in the content information 122 extracted in the process of S404. (S410). The content information 122 is treated as display target content information 122 and displayed on the display unit 14 as described later. Thereafter, the process proceeds to S426.

  On the other hand, in the process of S408, when the control unit 11 determines that the similar content information 122 is stored in the content information storage area 152 (S408: YES), the control unit 11 extracts the similar content information 122 (S412). It is determined whether or not the content information 122 has been read (S414). That is, the control unit 11 checks the read / unread flag 146 included in the similar content information 122 and determines that the read has been performed if the read flag “1” is stored, and the unread flag “0” is stored. If it is determined that it has not been read, the process of S414 is performed.

  In the process of S414, when the control unit 11 determines that the similar content information 122 has been read (S414: YES), the read flag “1” is added to the read / unread flag 146 included in the content information 122 extracted in S404. Is stored (S416). Then, in order to make the content information 122 have a similar relationship with the similar content information 122, the mutual content information 122 is linked (S418). Specifically, the control unit 11 stores the identification number 124 given to the similar content information 122 in the similar content information identifier 148 included in the content information 122 extracted in S404, and the similar content information 122 extracted in S412. In the similar content information identifier 148, the identification number 124 assigned to the content information 122 extracted in S404 is stored. In addition, the similar identifier stored in the similar content information identifier 148 of the similar content information 122 extracted in S412 is stored in the similar content information identifier 148 of the content information 122 extracted in S404.

  If a similar identifier is not stored in the similar content information identifier 148 of the similar content information 122, an arbitrary identifier different from the similar identifier already assigned to the other content information 122 is stored in the similar content information 122. The similar content information identifier 148 included and the similar content information identifier 148 included in the content information 122 extracted in S404 are stored. Thereafter, the control unit 11 shifts the processing to S426. Thereafter, the control unit 11 shifts the processing to S426.

  On the other hand, when the control unit 11 determines in the process of S414 that the similar content information 122 extracted in S412 is unread (S414: NO), the control unit 11 sets the read / unread flag 146 included in the content information 122 extracted in S404. The unread flag “0” is stored (S422). Then, in order to make the content information 122 have a similar relationship with the similar content information 122, the mutual content information is linked (S424). Specifically, since the process is similar to the process of S418, description thereof is omitted. Thereafter, the control unit 11 shifts the processing to S426.

  Next, the control unit 11 determines whether or not the similar content information search process of S406 has been performed on all the content information 122 included in the feed information 112 acquired in S402 (S426). Here, when the control unit 11 determines that the similar content information search process has not been executed for all the content information 122 (S426: NO), the process returns to S404, and the content information for which the similar content information search process has not been executed. The similar content information search process is executed for 122.

  On the other hand, if the control unit 11 determines that similar content information search processing has been executed for all content information 122 (S426: YES), the read / unread content information 122 stored in the content information storage area 152 is read out. The content title character string 140 included in the content information 122 in which the unread flag “0” is stored in the flag 146, and the content title included in the content information 122 in which the representative content flag “1” is stored in the representative content flag 150. The character string 140 is displayed on the display unit 14 (S428). Further, the display of the content title character string 140 included in the other content information 122 is restricted.

  It should be noted that the representative content flag “1” stored in the representative content flag 150 indicates the content information 122 that is representative among the plurality of content information 122 having a similar relationship as described above. The process of storing the representative content flag “1” will be described later.

  Then, the control unit 11 shifts the process to S430, whether or not the content title character string 140 displayed in the process of S428 is selected, in other words, whether the content information 122 including the content title character string 140 is selected. It is determined whether or not (S430). In this embodiment, when the content title character string 140 displayed via the operation unit 13 is selected, the control unit 11 is configured to select the content information 122 including the content title character string 140.

  If it is determined that the content title character string 140 has been selected (S430: YES), the process proceeds to S432, and the content display process is performed. As will be described in detail later, the content display processing is processing for acquiring content based on the content acquisition destination URL 144 included in the content information 122 including the selected content title character string 140 and displaying the content on the display unit 14. is there.

  When the content display process (S432) is completed or when it is determined that the content title character string 140 is not selected in S430 (S430: NO), the control unit 11 performs the acquisition process of the feed information 112 in S402. It is determined whether a predetermined time (for example, 60 minutes) has elapsed (S434). If the control unit 11 determines that the predetermined time has not elapsed (S434: NO), the control unit 11 returns to the process of S428 and continues to display the content title character string 140 while determining that the predetermined time has elapsed (S434: YES). ), The process returns to S402, and the feed information 112 is newly acquired.

  When content information (similar content information) 122 similar to content information 122 newly acquired by acquisition of new feed information 112 has already been stored in content information storage area 152 by the above content information display processing, the similarity If the read flag “1” is stored in the read / unread flag 146 of the content information 122, the read flag “1” is also stored in the read / unread flag 146 of the newly acquired content information 122 ( S416) If the unread flag “0” is stored in the read / unread flag 146 of the similar content information 122, the unread flag “0” is also stored in the read / unread flag 146 of the newly acquired content information 122. (S422).

  As a result, even if a plurality of similar content information 122 is stored in the content information storage area 152, if any of them stores the unread flag “0”, the control unit 11 performs a new process in S 428. The content title character string 140 included in the acquired content information 122 and similar content information 122 can be displayed. Therefore, the content title character string 140 that suits the user's preference can be selected from the content title character strings 140 included in each of the plurality of displayed similar content information 122, and the user selects Can have a width of.

  If similar content information 122 is already stored in the content information storage area 152 with the read flag “1”, the newly acquired content information 122 is stored in the content information 122 by the processing of S428 by the control unit 11. The display of the content title character string 140 included can be restricted. Therefore, it is possible to prevent deterioration of the viewability of the content title character string 140 due to the fact that the title character string 140 included in the similar content information 122 is displayed on the display unit 14 as soon as possible.

  When content information 122 similar to the newly acquired content information 122 is not stored in the content information storage area 152, the unread flag “0” is added to the read / unread flag 146 of the newly acquired content information 122. Is stored (S410). Thereby, the content title character string 140 included in the newly acquired content information 122 can be reliably displayed (S428). The title character string 140 of dissimilar content information that should not be restricted can be viewed by the user.

  Here, the similar content information search process (S406 in FIG. 4) executed by the control unit 11 will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, the control unit 11 determines whether or not the content information 122 is stored in the content information storage area 152 (S502). If it is determined that the content information 122 is not stored in the content information storage area 15 (S502: NO), the control unit 11 stores in the RAM that the similar content information 122 does not exist (S504). The similar content information search process is terminated. An example of the case where the content information 122 is not stored in the content information storage area 15 is a case where the content information 122 cannot be read from the content information storage unit 152 due to some failure.

  On the other hand, when it is determined that the content information 122 is stored in the content information storage area 152 (S502: YES), the control unit 11 unprocessed content among the content information 122 already stored in the content information storage area 152. One piece of information 122 is extracted (S506). Note that the unprocessed content information 122 here indicates the content information 122 for which the processes of S506 to S512 are not executed.

  Next, the control unit 11 compares the content information 122 extracted in S404 of FIG. 4 with the content information 122 extracted in the process of S506 (S508), and determines whether or not a character string of a predetermined amount or more is duplicated. (S510). As a specific comparison and duplication determination method, in this embodiment, the content title character string 140 included in the content information 122 extracted in S404 of FIG. 4 and the content title included in the content information 122 extracted in the process of S506 are used. Although the structure which compares with the character string 140 and judges based on the same or two or more words overlapping is employ | adopted, it is not limited to it.

  For example, the content summary character string 142 included in the content information 122 extracted in S404 of FIG. 4 is compared with the content summary character string 142 included in the content information 122 extracted in the process of S506, and the same or a predetermined amount of words or more are compared. The content title character string 140 and the content summary character string 142 may be compared with each other, and the content information 122 extracted in S404 of FIG. What is necessary is just a structure which can judge whether the content information 122 extracted by the process is the same or similar. In particular, when the content acquisition destination URL 144 included in the content information 122 extracted in S404 of FIG. 4 and the content information 122 extracted in S506 is the same, both pieces of content information 122 are described for the same content. Therefore, both pieces of content information 122 can be reliably handled as the same (similar).

  If the control unit 11 determines in the process of S510 that character strings of a predetermined amount or more are not duplicated (S510: NO), the process proceeds to S514. On the other hand, when the control unit 11 determines that the character string of a predetermined amount or more is duplicated in the process of S510 (S510: YES), the content information 122 extracted in S506 is stored in the RAM (not shown) as the similar content information 122. (S512), the process proceeds to S514. Note that the content information 122 stored in S512 is used in S412.

  In the processing of S514, it is determined whether or not the processing of S506 to S512 has been performed on all the content information 122 stored in the content information storage area 152, and if it is determined that it has not been performed (S514: NO), The control unit 11 returns the process to S506. Further, when the control unit 11 determines that the processing of S506 to S512 has been performed on all the content information 122 stored in the content information storage area 152 (S514: YES), it is stored in the content information storage area 152. In any content information 122, it is determined whether or not the content information 122 stored as the similar content information 122 in the process of S512 exists (S516). This is affirmed when the content information 122 is stored in the RAM as the similar content information 122 by the processing of S512.

  When the control unit 11 determines that the content information 122 stored as the similar content information 122 does not exist in the process of S512 (S516: NO), the control unit 11 stores in the RAM that the similar content information 122 does not exist ( S518), the similar content information search process is terminated. On the other hand, if it is determined that the content information 122 stored as the similar content information 122 exists (S516: YES), the fact that the similar content information 122 exists is stored in the RAM (S520), and the similar content information search is performed. End the process.

  Next, processing executed by the control unit 11 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing content display processing (S432 in FIG. 4) executed by the control unit 11.

  First, the control unit 11 extracts the similar content information 122 corresponding to the content information 122 determined to be selected in S430 of FIG. 4 from the plurality of content information 122 stored in the content information storage area 152 (S600). In this process, the content information 122 that stores the similar identifier that is the same as the similar identifier stored in the similar content information identifier 148 included in the selected content information 122 in the similar content information identifier 148 is stored as the similar content information 122. Extract from region 152.

  The control unit 11 determines whether the similar content information 122 has been extracted in the process of S600, that is, whether the similar content information 122 exists in the content information storage area 152 (S602). If it is determined in the process of S602 that the similar content information 122 does not exist (S602: NO), the process proceeds to S608. When it is determined that the similar content information 122 does not exist as described above, the similar content information identifier 148 included in the selected content information 122 may not be stored, or may be included in the selected content information 122. This is a case where there is no content information 122 for storing the same similar identifier as the similar identifier stored in the similar content information identifier 148.

  On the other hand, when the control unit 11 determines that the similar content information 122 exists (S602: YES), the read flag “1” is added to the read / unread flag 146 included in the content information 122 determined to be selected in S430. Is stored (S604). As will be described in detail later, when content is acquired according to the content acquisition destination URL 144 included in the content information 122, the read flag “1” is stored in the read / unread flag 146 included in the content information 122. .

  If the control unit 11 determines in the process of S604 that the read flag “1” is stored in the read / unread flag 146 of the selected content information 122 (S604: YES), the process proceeds to S608. Migrate processing. When the control unit 11 determines that the read / unread flag 146 of the selected content information 122 does not include the read flag “1” (S604: NO), the control unit 11 links to the selected content information 122. The read / unread flag 146 included in all the similar content information 122 being stored is stored as the read flag “1” (S606). The linked similar content information 122 is content information 122 in which the same similar identifier is stored in the similar content information identifier 148 as described in the processing of S418 and S424.

  Subsequently, the control unit 11 stores the read / unread flag 146 included in the selected content information 122 as the read flag “1” (S608), and the representative content flag 150 included in the content information 122 includes The representative content flag “1” indicating the representative content information 122 of the similar (linked) content information 122 is stored (S610).

  Then, the control unit 11 acquires content based on the content acquisition destination URL 144 included in the selected content information 122 (S614), and causes the display unit 14 to display the content (S616). The control unit 11 waits until an instruction to end the display of content is input from the user of the multifunction device 10 via the operation unit 13 (S618: NO), and when an end instruction is input (S618: YES). This content display process is terminated.

  By the above content display process, the read flag “1” can be stored in the read / unread flag 146 of the content information 122 similar to the selected content information 122 (S606). The display of the content title character string 140 included in the content information 122 can be restricted. When the content related to the selected content information 122 is displayed, the content related to the content information 122 similar to the content information 122 is likely to be similar or equal to the displayed content. For this reason, when content related to one content information 122 is displayed, it is unlikely that other content information 122 similar to the content information 122 is selected. Therefore, as described above, when one of the plurality of similar content information 122 is selected, the display of the content title character string 140 included in the content information 122 similar to the selected content information 122 is restricted. This is suitable for displaying many title character strings 140 that are not similar to each other on the display unit 14, and can provide a display mode that is highly readable for the user.

  Here, referring to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, the content title character on the display unit 14 realized by the control unit 11 executing the content information display process, the similar content information search process, and the content display process. A display mode of the column 140 will be described.

  When the process of S428 described above is executed by the control unit 11, as shown in FIG. 7A, the identification number 700, the content title character string 140, the feed information distribution site name 104, and the read / unread information A list 702 is displayed on the display unit 14 as one record for each content information 122. In FIG. 7A, records relating to the six pieces of content information 122 included in the feed information 112 acquired by the process of S402 are displayed. Hereinafter, as shown in FIG. 7A, the state in which records related to the content information 122 stored in the content information storage area 152 are displayed in a list may be referred to as “content information list display”. .

  The identification number 700 specifies the content information 122 including the title character string 140 to be displayed, and is a number assigned to each record of the content information 122. The unread / read information 702 is obtained based on the content acquisition destination URL 144 included in the content information 122 specified by the record, and whether or not the display operation for displaying on the display unit 14 has been performed, in other words, the multifunction device. It shows whether 10 users have browsed the content. This display shows “read” if the read flag “1” is stored in the read / unread flag 146 included in the content information 122, and “unread” if the unread flag “0” is stored. The

  Specifically, for example, No. The content information 122 specified by one record indicates that the content information 122 is included in the feed information 112 acquired from the site (0). Further, it is indicated that the content related to the content information 122 is not acquired and displayed based on the content acquisition destination URL 144, that is, the user of the multifunction device 10 is “unread”.

  No. The content information 122 specified by the record of No. 2 is obtained from the feed information distribution site (0) from No. 2. 4 is obtained from the feed information distribution site (1). The content information 122 specified by the record 6 is acquired from the feed information distribution site (2). The content related to any content information 122 is “unread”.

  No. 2, no. 4, no. The content title character strings 140 included in the content information 122 specified by the six records are “XX company financial results”, “XX company financial results”, and “financial information (XXX companies)”. Each content title character string 140 includes character strings (words) “XXX company” and “financial account”. 2, no. 4, no. The content information 122 specified by the six records is content information 122 similar to each other.

  Next, in the display state of FIG. A case where the content information 122 specified by the second record is selected will be described. When the display unit 14 supports touch panel operation, this selection method may be selected by touching the displayed content title character string 140 by the user, or the operation unit 13 is provided. The content title character string 140 of the record with the identification number 700 corresponding to the pressed numeric button may be selected by pressing the numeric button. By selecting the content title character string 140, the content information 122 including the content title character string 140 is selected.

  When the content title character string 140 is selected by the user (S430: YES), that is, when the content information 122 including the selected content title character string 140 is selected, the content display process of FIG. Is done. The control unit 11 acquires content based on the content acquisition destination URL 144 included in the selected content information 122 and displays the content on the display unit 14 (illustration of the display mode of the content is omitted). When the user presses a content display end button (not shown) provided in the operation unit 13 (S618: YES), the process returns to the content information list display by the process of S428 of the control unit 11. The display mode at that time is as shown in FIG.

  That is, the No. for specifying the selected content information 122 by the content display process. The read / unread information 702 of the record No. 2 is displayed as read (S608), and No. similar to the selected content information 122 is displayed. 4 and no. In the read / unread flag 146 of the content information 122 specified by the record No. 6, the read flag “1” is stored by the process of S <b> 606. 4 and no. The content information list is displayed in a display form in which the six records (content title character string 140) are omitted from the display on the display unit 14.

  Furthermore, no. The representative content flag 150 included in the content information 122 specified by the record 2 stores the representative content flag “1” (S610), and is handled as the representative content information in the similar content information 122. For this reason, even if a plurality of similar content information 122 exists, no. The second record is displayed (S428).

  No. whose display is omitted. 4 and no. 6 records No. 6 by selecting the similar button 704 (an example of a display indicating that the display of titles is restricted) in FIG. 7B, as shown in FIG. The content information 122 similar to the content information 122 specified by the second record is displayed with the subordinate code 706 added.

  This is because of the process of S418. The content information 122 specified by the record No. 2 and the similar content information 122 (the content information 122 specified by the No. 4 and No. 6 records) both store the same similar identifier, thereby controlling The unit 11 is realized by displaying the content information 122 in association with the subordinate code 706.

  Next, in the display state as shown in FIG. 7B or 7C, or in the state where the content information 122 is stored so as to be displayed in such a display mode, the feed information distribution is further performed by the process of S402. A display mode when the feed information 112 is newly acquired from the site (3) will be described.

  The newly acquired feed information 112 is feed information 112 including two pieces of content information 122 (content information 122 specified by No. 7 and No. 8 records) as shown in FIG. . No. In the content information 122 specified by the record of No. 7, the content title character string 140 is “XXX company settlement information”, and the control unit 11 performs No. 2, no. 4, no. It is determined that the content information 122 is similar to the content information 122 specified by the record 6 (S510).

  Furthermore, those no. 2, no. 4, no. In the content information 122 specified by the record No. 6, since the read flag “1” is stored in each read / unread flag 146, the processing of S416 causes No. The read / unread flag 146 included in the content information 122 specified by the record 7 is also stored in the read / unread flag 146. In the process of S428, the No. 7 related to the newly acquired content information 122 is stored. 7 records are excluded from the display target.

  On the other hand, no. The content information 122 identified by the record No. 8 has the content title character string 140 of “Earthquake bulletin”, and any of the content information 122 (No. 1-7 of No. 1 to 7) already received and stored in the content information storage area 152 It is not similar to the content information 122) specified by the record. Therefore, in the content information display process of FIG. The record of 8 is a display target in the process of S428.

  That is, when the feed information 112 in FIG. 8D is acquired, the display mode of the content information list display is as shown in FIG. That is, no. 7 is limited (omitted) to display the record of the content information 122 specified by the record 7 on the display unit 14. Only 8 records are added and displayed. No. whose display is omitted. 7 records No. 7 when the similar button 704 is selected. The content information 122 similar to the content information 122 specified by the second record is displayed with a subordinate code 706 (FIG. 8 (f)).

  No. Even if the content information 122 specified by the record 2 is selected and the read flag “1” is stored in the read / unread flag 146 (S608), the representative content flag “ Since “1” is stored, the display in the display unit 14 is not limited by the processing of S428.

  As described above, according to the MFP 10 of the present embodiment, when similar content information 122 exists between the plurality of content information 122 included in the acquired feed information 112, any similar content information 122 is included. When the content is not acquired and viewed, the content title character string 140 included in all the similar content information 122 is displayed. When any similar content information 122 is selected and the content is browsed, the display of the content title character string 140 included in the other similar content information 122 not selected is restricted (omitted) and selected. Only the content title character string 140 included in the content information 122 can be displayed.

  Therefore, until one of the similar content information 122 is selected, the content title character string 140 of the plurality of similar content information 122 can be displayed, and the content title character string 140 that meets the user's preference can be selected. Once selected, it is possible to prevent the title character string 140 included in the plurality of similar content information 122 from being displayed unnecessarily, and the display mode of the content title character string 140 that is highly readable for the user Can be provided.

  Further, when the feed information 112 is newly acquired, if similar content information 122 that has already been read and similar to the content information 122 included in the feed information 112 already exists in the content information storage area 152, The display of the content information 122 included in the acquired feed information 112 is restricted. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the occupation of the display area due to the content title character string 140 included in all newly acquired content information 122 being displayed. Then, the user performs a complicated operation of browsing the content title character string 140 while determining whether or not the content title character string 140 of the content information 122 is similar to the content information 122 related to the read content. The content title character string 140 can be browsed suitably.

  Although the present invention has been described based on the embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various improvements and modifications can be easily made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Can be inferred.

  In the MFP 10 of the present embodiment, the content title character strings 140 of the content information 122 included in the feed information 112 are displayed as a list (see FIGS. 7 and 8). As shown in FIG. May be scroll-displayed in the display area 902 of the display unit 14. Also in this case, the content title character string 140 included in the similar content information 122 whose display is restricted by selecting the similar button 704 can be displayed.

  In the present embodiment, each of the content providing servers 20 and 30 stores both the content and the feed information 112. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the server for storing the content and the feed information 112 are not limited thereto. The server for memorize | storing may be comprised separately.

  Further, although the present embodiment has been described by using the multifunction machine 10, the present invention is not limited to this, and a similar operation can be performed even on a PC having a program in which instructions for executing each process of FIGS. It is possible to execute.

  In addition, the control unit 11 may control to display the content title character string 140 of the content information 122 excluded from the display target by selecting the similar button 704 as illustrated in FIG. Alternatively, the display may be limited so that the similar button 704 is not displayed and is not displayed completely.

  The content title character string 140 is an example of a content title, the content acquisition destination URL 144 is an example of content position information, the content information 122 is an example of content information, the feed information 112 is an example of content summary information, and a feed information acquisition destination URL. Is an example of the position information of the content summary information, the read flag “1” of the read / unread flag 146 is an example of display information, and the representative content flag “1” of the representative content flag 150 is an example of selection information.

10 MFP (an example of a communication device)
20, 30 Content providing server (an example of an information processing apparatus)
40 router 50 local area network line 60 internet line

Claims (8)

A communication device capable of communicating with an information processing device connected via a network,
Position information storage means capable of storing a plurality of pieces of position information of content summary information having a plurality of pieces of content information including a title of the contents and position information of the contents;
Summary information acquisition means for acquiring the content summary information based on each of the position information stored in the position information storage means;
Content information storage means for storing content information included in the content summary information acquired by the summary information acquisition means;
Title display means for displaying a title included in each content information stored in the content information storage means;
Selecting means for selecting one piece of content information from the content information stored in the content information storage means;
Content acquisition means for acquiring content based on position information of the content included in the content information selected by the selection means;
Content display means for displaying the content acquired by the content acquisition means;
On the condition that the content related to the content information selected by the selection means is displayed by the content display means, the titles included in other content information stored in the content information storage means similar to the content information Title display control means for controlling the title display means to limit display;
A communication apparatus comprising: The content information storage unit is configured to control the content information storage unit to store the selected content information in association with display information related to display of the content related to the content information, on condition that the content information is selected by the selection unit. 1 content information storage control means;
When new content summary information is acquired by the summary information acquisition unit in a state where content information is stored in the content information storage unit, the content similar to the content information included in the newly acquired content summary information First determination means for determining whether or not the display information is associated with the content information stored in the information storage means,
The title display control means controls the title display means to limit the display of the title included in the content information included in the newly acquired content summary information, when the first determination means makes an affirmative determination, 2. The title display unit is controlled to display a title included in content information included in the newly acquired content summary information when a negative determination is made by the first determination unit. The communication device described.   When a positive determination is made by the first determination means, the content information storage means is controlled so as to store the display information related to the display of the content related to the content information in association with the content information included in the newly acquired content summary information. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising second content information storage control means. When new content summary information is acquired by the summary information acquisition unit in a state where the content information is stored in the content information storage unit, content information similar to the content information included in the newly acquired content summary information Comprises second determination means for determining whether or not is stored in the content information storage means,
The title display control unit executes processing based on the determination result by the first determination unit when the second determination unit makes an affirmative determination, and when the negative determination is made, the newly acquired content summary information has 4. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the title display unit is controlled to display a title included in the content information. A third content information storage control unit that controls the content information storage unit to store the content information selected by the selection unit in association with selection information indicating the selection;
5. The title display control unit controls the title display unit to display a title included in content information stored in association with the selection information. 6. Communication equipment.   The title display control means performs a display indicating that the display of the title included in the content information similar to the content information is restricted when displaying the title included in the content information associated with the selection information. 6. The communication according to claim 5, wherein when an instruction to display a title whose display is restricted by the operation unit is input, the display unit is controlled to display a title included in the similar content information. apparatus.   A character string included in at least one of the title and the position information included in one content information and a character string included in at least one of the title and the position information included in other content information are equal to or greater than the predetermined number of character strings. The communication apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein when the contents match, the one content information and the other content information are handled as content information similar to each other. A computer-readable program capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus connected via a network and having display means capable of displaying information and information storage means capable of storing information,
The computer,
First storage control means for storing a plurality of pieces of position information of content summary information having a plurality of pieces of content information including a title of the contents and position information of the contents in the information storage means;
Summary information acquisition means for acquiring the content summary information based on each of the position information stored in the position information storage means;
Content information storage means for storing content information included in the content summary information acquired by the summary information acquisition means in the information storage means;
Title display means for displaying a title included in each content information stored in the content information storage means on the display means;
Selecting means for selecting one content information among the content information stored in the information storage means;
Content acquisition means for acquiring content based on position information of the content included in the content information selected by the selection means;
Content display means for displaying the content acquired by the content acquisition means on the display means;
Displaying titles included in other content information stored in the information storage unit similar to the content information on the condition that the content related to the content information selected by the selection unit is displayed on the display unit. Title display control means for controlling the title display means to limit;
A program comprising: