JP4978621B2 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing system, an information processing apparatus, and a program.

It is known from Patent Document 1 that a URL stored in a printer is transmitted from a portable terminal, and the printer acquires and prints information on the website of the transmitted URL.
JP 2003-345579 A

  The present invention provides information processing that allows the user to receive processing results for more narrowed down information as compared with information that is not selected based on predetermined criteria from acquired user-specified information. A system, an information processing apparatus, and a program are provided.

  In order to achieve the above object, an information processing system according to a first aspect of the present invention includes a reference unit that refers to information specified by specific information and provided by an information providing device via a communication unit, and the reference unit. A storage unit that stores the user-specified information including the specific information of the information specified by the user among the referenced information; and a user device that includes the user-specified information stored in the storage unit A user-specified information acquisition unit; a selection unit that selects information to be processed from user-specified information acquired by the user-specified information acquisition unit according to a predetermined criterion; and a selection unit selected by the selection unit Providing means for providing the user with a processing result obtained by processing at least a part of the information specified by the specific information included in the user-specified information; That.

  Further, the invention according to claim 2 is an information acquisition means for acquiring information specified by the specific information included in the user designation information selected by the selection means in the information processing system according to claim 1. Presenting means for presenting a list of information to be processed selected by the selecting means to the user based on the information acquired by the information acquiring means, and information on the processing targets presented by the presenting means Processing means for processing information selected by the user from the list, wherein the providing means provides the user with a processing result by the processing means.

  Further, the invention according to claim 3 is the information processing system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the user designation information acquired from the user device for each identification information for identifying the user of the user device. Management means for managing the history of the user, wherein the selection means uses the user-specified information acquired by the user-specified information acquisition means and the identification information for identifying the user managed by the management means. The information to be processed is selected based on a comparison with a history of person-designated information.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the information processing system according to the third aspect, the selection unit is managed by the management unit out of the user designation information acquired by the user designation information acquisition unit. The user designation information having a difference from the history of the user designation information to be processed is selected as the information to be processed.

  Further, the invention according to claim 5 is the information processing system according to claim 3, wherein the management means further manages whether or not processing is performed for each user-specified information to be managed, and the selection means Is characterized in that user-specified information that has not been processed among user-specified information acquired by the user-specified information acquiring means is selected as the information to be processed.

  The invention according to claim 6 is the information processing system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the user designation information further includes date and time information, and the selection means includes the user designation information. The processing target information is selected based on date information included in the user designation information acquired by the acquisition means.

  The invention according to claim 7 is the information processing system according to claim 6, wherein the selection unit includes the user designation information among the user designation information obtained by the user designation information acquisition unit. The user-specified information whose date and time information included in is within a predetermined period with respect to the reference date and time is selected as the information to be processed.

  The invention according to claim 8 is the information processing system according to claim 6, wherein the selection means has an interval of date and time information among the user designation information acquired by the user designation information acquisition means. User-specified information that is lower than a predetermined value is selected as the information to be processed.

  The invention according to claim 9 is the information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the generation unit generates print information based on at least part of the information acquired by the information acquisition unit, and the generation unit Printing means for printing based on the print information generated by the printing means, wherein the providing means provides the user with a print result by the printing means.

  The invention of the information processing apparatus according to claim 10 refers to a reference unit that refers to information specified by the specific information via a communication unit, and information specified by a user among the information referred to by the reference unit. Storage means for storing user-specified information including the specific information, user-specified information acquisition means for acquiring user-specified information stored in a user device, and acquired by the user-specified information acquisition means Selection means for selecting information to be processed from predetermined user-specified information based on a predetermined criterion, and at least information specified by the specific information included in the user-specified information selected by the selection means Providing means for providing a processing result obtained by processing a part to the user.

  The invention of the program according to claim 11 is the reference means for referring to the information specified by the specifying means via the communication means, and the information specified by the user among the information referred to by the reference means. Storage means for storing user-specified information including specific information, user-specified information acquisition means for acquiring user-specified information stored in a user device, and acquired by the user-specified information acquisition means Selection means for selecting information to be processed from user-specified information according to a predetermined criterion, and at least a part of the information specified by the specific information included in the user-specified information selected by the selection means The computer is caused to function as a providing means for providing the processing result obtained by processing the above to the user.

  According to the first, tenth, and eleventh aspects of the present invention, the user can select the narrowed-down information as compared with the information that is not selected from the acquired user-specified information. You can receive processing results.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, the convenience of information selection for the user is improved as compared with the case where information to be processed is not selected based on a predetermined criterion from the acquired user designation information.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, it is possible to select information to be processed based on history information managed for each user.

  According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the user can receive a processing result for information that has been newly added to or updated from the history among the information stored in the user device.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the user can receive a processing result for unprocessed information.

  According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, the user can receive the processing result for the information selected based on the date information included in the user designation information.

  According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, the user can receive the processing result for the information selected based on the reference date and time.

  According to the eighth aspect of the present invention, the user can receive processing results for a series of user designation information.

  According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, the user can be provided with a print result obtained by printing selected information among the information stored in the user device.

  DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments (hereinafter referred to as embodiments) for carrying out the invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows a system configuration diagram of an information processing system 10 according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, an information processing system 10 according to the present embodiment includes a mobile terminal 100, a printer (image forming apparatus) 200, and a management server 300. Each apparatus is connected to a network 400 such as the Internet. To access.

  In this embodiment, the mobile terminal 100 is a mobile phone, performs wireless communication with a base station device (not shown), accesses a web page existing on the network 400, and accesses a web that is accessed according to an instruction from the user of the mobile terminal 100. The URL of the web page to be printed is saved as bookmark information.

  The management server 300 acquires bookmark information stored in the mobile terminal 100, acquires a web page image for information selected from the acquired bookmark information, and displays a list of the acquired web page images as a list Information is transmitted to the printer 200 (or the portable terminal 100). The management server 300 may use a history of bookmark information acquired from the mobile terminal 100 in selecting the bookmark information.

  The printer 200 displays a list based on the list information received from the management server 300, and transmits the print target selected by the user from the displayed list to the management server 300. The management server 300 generates print data for the print target received from the printer 200, and transmits the generated print data to the printer 200. The printer 200 executes print processing based on the print data received from the management server 300. Hereinafter, in order to implement | achieve the said process, the detail of the function with which each apparatus contained in the information processing system 10 was provided is demonstrated.

  FIG. 2 shows a functional block diagram of each device included in the information processing system 10 according to the present embodiment. Details of the functions provided in each device will be described below.

  First, functions provided in the mobile terminal 100 will be described. As illustrated in FIG. 2, the mobile terminal 100 includes a control unit 102, an input unit 104, a display unit 106, a communication unit 108, an information storage unit 110, and an IC tag 112. Details of each part will be described below.

  The control unit 102 includes a central processing unit (CPU), and controls each unit of the mobile terminal 100, and executes input / output of various data, calculation of data, and the like.

  The input unit 104 includes an input device such as an input button or a touch panel provided in the mobile terminal 100, and receives information input from a user via the input device.

  The display unit 106 is configured by a display device such as a liquid crystal display provided in the mobile terminal 100, and displays an operation screen of the mobile terminal 100, an image of an accessed web page, and the like.

  The communication unit 108 performs data communication with an external device. In this embodiment, the communication unit 108 performs mobile wireless communication when communicating with a base station device, and communication with peripheral devices such as the printer 200 and other portable terminals 100. It is possible to support near field communication such as infrared communication used when performing. The mobile terminal 100 communicates with a website on the Internet and the management server 300 by relaying the base station device through mobile wireless communication.

  The information storage unit 110 includes a storage device such as a semiconductor memory, and stores bookmark information including a URL of a web page to be printed. In the mobile terminal 100 according to the present embodiment, a web page on the Internet accessed by the communication unit 108 is selected by the input unit 104 according to an operation input such as URL input or hyperlink selection, and the information storage unit 110. May be saved as bookmark information.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of bookmark information stored in the information storage unit 110. As shown in FIG. 3, the bookmark information includes one or a plurality of records in which each item of URL, registration date, and last access date is associated. The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is information indicating the location of data in the network, the registration date is the date / time information when the bookmark is registered, and the last access date is the last time the mobile terminal 100 accessed the bookmarked URL. Date and time information.

  The IC tag 112 may be constituted by a non-contact IC tag built in the mobile terminal 100, and stores authentication information such as identification information of the user of the mobile terminal 100 and key information of the public key cryptosystem. It is. The identification information may be identification information of the portable terminal 100 or may be identification information of the IC tag 112. The IC tag 112 is used when performing authentication processing with the printer 200 or the management server 300, for example.

  Next, functions provided in the printer 200 will be described. As shown in FIG. 2, the printer 200 includes a control unit 202, an operation panel unit 204, a communication unit 206, an image forming unit 208, and an IC tag reading unit 210. Details of each part will be described below.

  The control unit 202 includes a central processing unit (CPU), and controls each unit of the printer 200 and executes input / output of various data, calculation of data, and the like.

  The operation panel unit 204 includes a display device such as a liquid crystal display and an input device such as an input button, and functions as an input / output interface with the user.

  The communication unit 206 performs data communication with an external device. In this embodiment, the data communication protocol used when communicating with the management server 300, infrared communication used when communicating with the mobile terminal 100, and the like. It is possible to support near field communication.

  The image forming unit 208 forms an image on a print sheet based on the print data and performs printing. In this embodiment, the image forming unit 208 performs print processing based on the print data transmitted from the management server 300. . The print data may be in a page description language format or a rasterized bitmap format.

  The IC tag reading unit 210 may be configured by an IC tag reader that reads a non-contact IC tag built in the printer 200. The IC tag reading unit 210 receives identification information, authentication information, and the like stored in the IC tag 112 provided in the portable terminal 100. Read. In the present embodiment, the printer 200 transmits the identification information read by the IC tag reading unit 210, authentication information, and the like to the management server 300 via the communication unit 206, and relays the user authentication processing.

  Next, functions provided in the management server 300 will be described. As shown in FIG. 2, the management server 300 includes a control unit 302, a communication unit 304, an authentication unit 306, a user designation information acquisition unit 308, a history information management unit 310, a processing target selection unit 312, and a processing target information acquisition unit 314. A list information generation unit 316 and a print data generation unit 318. Details of each part will be described below.

  The control unit 302 includes a central processing unit (CPU), and controls each unit of the management server 300 and executes input / output of various data, calculation of data, and the like.

  The communication unit 304 performs data communication with an external device. In this embodiment, the communication unit 304 may support a data communication protocol used when communicating with the mobile terminal 100 or the printer 200.

  The authentication unit 306 performs authentication processing based on user authentication information transmitted from the printer 200, and public key cryptosystem authentication may be used for the authentication processing. If the user is not authenticated by the authentication unit 306, an error occurs at this point and the subsequent processing is stopped.

  The user designation information acquisition unit 308 acquires bookmark information stored in the information storage unit 110 of the mobile terminal 100 when the authentication unit 306 authenticates the user. The user-specified information acquisition unit 308 may acquire bookmark information directly from the mobile terminal 100 when acquiring the bookmark, or may acquire bookmark information via the printer 200. For example, data transfer of bookmark information between the printer 200 and the portable terminal 100 may be performed using infrared communication.

  The history information management unit 310 manages the bookmark information acquired by the user designation information acquisition unit 308 and its history for each user ID (which may be the ID of the mobile terminal 100 or the IC tag 112). .

  FIG. 4 shows an example of a management table managed by the history information management unit 310. As shown in FIG. 4, the management table is configured to include one or a plurality of records in which items of user ID (UID), URL, registration date, last access date, and print flag are associated. The print flag is a true / false value indicating whether print processing has been executed for the record, “T” indicates that print processing has been performed, and “F” indicates that print processing has not yet been performed. Show.

  The processing target selection unit 312 selects a processing target based on a predetermined condition from information included in the bookmark information acquired by the user designation information acquisition unit 308. Hereinafter, the processing target selection criteria (first to fourth selection criteria) used by the processing target selection unit 312 according to the present embodiment will be described as an example.

  First, the first selection criterion is different from the information managed by the history information management unit 310 among the information included in the bookmark information acquired by the user designation information acquisition unit 308, that is, new or updated. Information is selected as a processing target. In the first selection criterion, “new” means that the URL is different from that of the history, and “update” means that the URL is the same but the registration date, the last access date, etc. are different. Good.

  The second selection criterion is that information included in the bookmark information acquired by the user-specified information acquisition unit 308 has not yet been printed, that is, the history information management unit 310 sets the “print flag” to “ “F” is selected as a processing target.

  The third selection criterion is that information included in the bookmark information acquired by the user-specified information acquisition unit 308 is selected as a processing target when the date / time information is within a predetermined period from the reference date / time. Is. The reference date and time may be, for example, the current date and time, or may be the latest date and time among the date and time information included in the bookmark information.

  The fourth selection criterion is that when the information included in the bookmark information acquired by the user-specified information acquisition unit 308 is arranged in time series based on the date / time information, the interval of day and time exceeds a predetermined period. In this case, information up to that point is selected as a processing target. According to the fourth selection criterion, since bookmark information registered within a short period of time is highly likely to be registered by a user through a series of web browsing, these are selected as a group of processing targets.

  The processing target selection criteria used by the processing target selection unit 312 have been exemplified above. However, the processing target selection unit 312 may select a processing target by combining these selection criteria, or use a selection criterion other than these. It doesn't matter.

  The processing target information acquisition unit 314 acquires processing target information from the network 400 based on the information selected by the processing target selection unit 312. In the present embodiment, the processing target information acquisition unit 314 downloads and acquires HTML data of a web page from the network 400 based on the URL selected by the processing target selection unit 312. If there are a plurality of selected URLs, the HTML data of the web page of each URL is acquired.

  The list information generation unit 316 generates a list of information selected by the processing target selection unit 312 based on the processing target information acquired by the processing target information acquisition unit 314. In the present embodiment, the list information generation unit 316 generates thumbnail images of web pages obtained by accessing the URL selected by the processing target selection unit 312 and generates list information for displaying the generated thumbnail images as a list. To do.

  The list information generated by the list information generation unit 316 is transmitted to the mobile terminal 100 or the printer 200 and displayed on each device. For example, when the list information is transmitted to the mobile terminal 100, a list of thumbnail images is displayed on the display unit 106 of the mobile terminal 100, and information selected by the user from the displayed list is a print target. To the management server 300. When the list information is transmitted to the printer 200, a list of thumbnail images is displayed on the operation panel unit 204 of the printer 200, and information selected by the user from the displayed list is a print target. It is transmitted to the management server 300.

  The print data generation unit 318 generates print data for information selected as a print target based on the web page data acquired by the processing target information acquisition unit 314 for the information. The format of the print data may be generated in a format corresponding to the printer 200. The print data generated by the print data generation unit 318 is transmitted to the printer 200, and the printer 200 performs print processing based on the transmitted print data. In the information processing system 10 according to the present embodiment, the print processing result based on the bookmark information stored in the mobile terminal 100 is given to the user by the cooperation of the mobile terminal 100, the printer 200, and the management server 300 as described above. Provided.

  Next, the flow of processing performed by each device of the information processing system 10 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the sequence diagram shown in FIG.

  The mobile terminal 100 accesses a web page on the Internet (S1), bookmarks and stores the web page to be printed in accordance with a user instruction (S2). When the user holds the mobile terminal 100 over the IC tag reader provided in the printer 200 after saving the bookmark of the web page, the printer 200 reads the authentication information stored in the IC tag 112 of the mobile terminal 100 (S3). The printer 200 transmits the read authentication information to the management server 300 (S4), and the management server 300 executes an authentication process based on the transmitted information (S5). Here, when the user is authenticated by the management server 300, the bookmark information stored in the portable terminal 100 is uploaded to the management server 300 (S6). The bookmark information may be uploaded via the printer 200 or transferred to the management server 300 without going through the printer 200. When the bookmark information is transferred to the management server 300 without going through the printer 200, the mobile terminal 100 transmits the bookmark information together with the authentication information. Further, in this case, it may be transferred before authentication using an IC tag reader provided in the printer 200, and the management server 300 temporarily stores the transferred bookmark information together with the authentication information from the printer 200. After the authentication based on the transmitted authentication information, the bookmark information corresponding to the authenticated authentication information may be acquired from the temporarily stored information.

  When acquiring the bookmark information of the portable terminal 100, the management server 300 selects information satisfying a predetermined condition from information included in the acquired bookmark information as a processing target (S7). The management server 300 accesses the URL included in the selected bookmark to be processed (S8), and acquires HTML data of the web page (S9). Then, the management server 300 generates list information for displaying a thumbnail image of each bookmark selected based on the HTML data of the acquired web page (S10), and transmits it to the printer 200 (or / and the mobile terminal 100). (S11).

  The printer 200 displays a list of thumbnail images according to the list information received from the management server 300 (S12), and transmits a bookmark selected by the user from the displayed list to the management server 300 (S13). The management server 300 generates print data based on the previously acquired web page data for the transmitted bookmark (S14), and transmits it to the printer 200 (S15). The printer 200 executes print processing based on the print data transmitted from the management server 300 (S16).

  The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above. For example, in the above-described embodiment, the printing process is executed based on the bookmark information stored in the mobile terminal 100. However, the executed process is not limited to the printing process, and a FAX transmission of a web page image or a web page is performed. Various processing such as translation processing may be executed.

  In the above embodiment, the functions provided in the printer 200 and the management server 300 are implemented in separate devices. However, the functions provided in each device may be implemented in one housing. A part of the functions of each device may be further provided to another device in another casing.

  Furthermore, there may be a plurality of folders for storing bookmarks in the mobile terminal 100, and some of them may be dedicated folders for storing bookmarks to be printed, or bookmarks may be uploaded when uploading bookmark information to the management server 300. You may make it select the folder which saved.

  Note that the functions of each unit included in the mobile terminal 100, the printer 200, and the management server 300 include a control unit such as a CPU, a storage unit such as a memory, and an input / output unit that transmits and receives data to and from an external device. It may be realized by reading and executing a program stored in a computer-readable information storage medium. The program may be supplied to each device as a computer by an information storage medium, or may be supplied via a data communication network such as the Internet.

It is a system configuration figure of the information processing system concerning this embodiment. It is a functional block diagram of each device included in the information processing system. It is a figure which shows an example of bookmark information. It is a figure which shows an example of a management table. It is a sequence diagram of an information processing system.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Information processing system 100 Mobile terminal 102 Control part 104 Input part 106 Display part 108 Communication part 110 Information storage part 112 IC tag 200 Printer 202 Control part 204 Operation panel part 206 Communication part 208 Image forming unit 210 IC tag reading unit 300 Management server 302 Control unit 304 Communication unit 306 Authentication unit 308 User specified information acquisition unit 310 History information management unit 312 Processing target selection unit 314 Processing target Information acquisition unit, 316 list information generation unit, 318 print data generation unit, 400 network.

Claims (10)

Reference means for referring to the information specified by the specific information and provided by the information providing apparatus via the communication means, and user designation including the specific information of the information designated by the user among the information referred to by the reference means A storage device for storing a plurality of information, and a user device including:
User designation information acquisition means for acquiring a plurality of user designation information stored in the storage means of the user device;
Selecting means for selecting information to be processed from a plurality of user specified information acquired from the user device by the user specified information acquiring means according to a predetermined criterion;
Information acquisition means for acquiring information specified by the specific information included in the user-specified information selected by the selection means;
Presenting means for presenting the user with a list display of images generated based on the information specified by the specific information included in the user designation information selected by the selecting means acquired by the information acquiring means; ,
Processing means for processing the information selected by the user from the list displayed by the presenting means;
An information processing system comprising: an information processing apparatus including: a providing unit that provides a processing result by the processing unit to the user. For each identification information for identifying a user of the user device, further includes a management means for managing a history of user designation information acquired from the user device,
The selection means is based on a comparison between the user designation information acquired by the user designation information acquisition means and the history of user designation information managed by the management means for identification information for identifying the user. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the information to be processed is selected. The selecting means includes the user designation information acquired by the user designation information acquisition means, and the user designation information having a difference from the history of the user designation information managed by the management means as the information to be processed. The information processing system according to claim 2 , wherein the information processing system is selected. The management means further manages whether or not processing is performed for each user designation information to be managed,
It said selection means to claim 2, characterized in that selecting a user specifying information processing is not performed among the user specifying information obtained by the user specifying information acquisition means as the information of the processing target The information processing system described. The user designation information further includes date and time information,
Said selection means to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that selecting the information of the processing target based on the time information included in the user-specified information acquired by the user-specified information acquiring means The information processing system described. The selecting means is a user whose date and time information included in the user specified information is within a predetermined period with respect to a reference date and time among the user specified information acquired by the user specified information acquiring means. The information processing system according to claim 5 , wherein designation information is selected as the information to be processed. The selecting means selects user-specified information whose interval of date and time information is less than a predetermined value among the user-specified information acquired by the user-specified information acquiring means as the information to be processed. The information processing system according to claim 5 , wherein the system is an information processing system. Generating means for generating print information based on at least part of the information acquired by the information acquiring means;
Printing means for printing based on the print information generated by the generating means,
The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the providing unit provides the user with a print result by the printing unit. Reference means for referring to information specified by specific information via communication means, and storage for storing a plurality of user-specified information including the specific information of information specified by a user among information referred to by the reference means User designation information acquisition means for acquiring a plurality of user designation information stored in a user device including:
Selecting means for selecting information to be processed from a plurality of user specified information acquired from the user device by the user specified information acquiring means according to a predetermined criterion;
Information acquisition means for acquiring information specified by the specific information included in the user-specified information selected by the selection means;
Presenting means for presenting the user with a list display of images generated based on the information specified by the specific information included in the user designation information selected by the selecting means acquired by the information acquiring means; ,
Processing means for processing the information selected by the user from the list displayed by the presenting means;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a providing unit that provides a result of processing by the processing unit to the user. Reference means for referring to information specified by the specifying means via communication means, and storage for storing a plurality of user-specified information including the specific information of information specified by the user among information referred to by the reference means User designation information acquisition means for acquiring a plurality of user designation information stored in a user device including:
Selecting means for selecting information to be processed from a plurality of user specified information acquired from the user device by the user specified information acquiring means according to a predetermined criterion;
Information acquisition means for acquiring information specified by the specific information included in the user-specified information selected by the selection means;
Presenting means for presenting the user with a list display of images generated based on the information specified by the specific information included in the user designation information selected by the selecting means acquired by the information acquiring means; ,
Processing means for processing the information selected by the user from the list displayed by the presenting means;
A program for causing a computer to function as providing means for providing processing results by the processing means to the user.

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