JP5133398B2 - Paper book / digital content correspondence generation apparatus and method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a paper book / digital content correspondence generation apparatus and method for generating a correspondence between a paper book and digital content using a summary page.

  In general, content on other media is created in association with a book using paper as a medium, and the created content is electronically managed as digital content. For example, there is a service that manages a drama created based on a novel as digital content and publishes it appropriately on a network.

  There are many cases where these paper book managers (publishers) and digital content managers (Internet operators) are different, and at present, the correspondence between paper books and digital contents is not properly managed. Therefore, when a user who has read a paper book desires corresponding digital content, or on the contrary, a user who has read the digital content desires a corresponding paper book, the user can find desired information at an early stage. There was a problem that I could not.

By the way, in recent years, a service called CGM (Consumer Generated Media) in which users on a network generate content by posting their own knowledge has attracted attention. Examples of the CGM service include a word-of-mouth evaluation service and a question answer type service. For example, a service such as Non-Patent Document 1 is known as a question answer type service.
According to the service of Non-Patent Document 1, a user's question and what he / she wants to know are accepted and published as a post, and an answer to the published question is received from another user, so that users including the poster can mutually know each other. And can share knowledge.

Yahoo Japan Corporation, “Yahoo! Wisdom Bag” [online], 2010, [Searched on December 9, 2010], Internet, <URL: http://chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/>

  However, in a service such as Non-Patent Document 1, when digital content corresponding to a paper book is desired, it is necessary to wait for an answer from another user, and a list of correspondence relationships between the paper book and the digital content. It lacks sex.

  By the way, in the CGM service taking Non-Patent Document 1 as an example, the user makes positive contributions based on the desire that the user wants to be useful to others using his / her knowledge.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a paper book / digital content correspondence generation apparatus and method that generates a correspondence between a paper book and digital content by utilizing the characteristics of the CGM service.

  (1) A paper book / digital content correspondence generation device that generates a correspondence between a paper book and digital content, and accepts a display request for a summary page of paper books from a user terminal that can communicate via a communication network. In response to this, a summary page generating means for generating a summary page that reads the identification code of the paper book from the paper book management database storing the identification code of the paper book and displays it as title information of the summary page, and the user terminal A posting page generating means for generating a posting page that accepts an input of a URL indicating digital content related to a corresponding paper book in response to receiving selection of the title information displayed on the summary page; Responding to accepting posting of the URL from the user terminal via the posting page. An associated means for storing the URL in association with the identification code of the paper book in a related content management database for storing the correspondence between the paper book and the digital content, and the summary page generating means As a summary page, a URL corresponding to the identification code of the paper book displayed as the title information is read from the related content management database, and a summary page that displays the URL in association with the title information is generated. -Digital content correspondence generation device.

  According to the paper book / digital content correspondence generation device of (1), the URL of the digital book corresponding to the paper book is obtained by using the identification code (for example, ISBN code or magazine code) of the paper book as the title. Accept from. Thereby, digital contents corresponding to paper books can be automatically collected. Then, a summary page that associates the paper book with the digital content is generated. Thereby, the correspondence between a paper book and digital content can be generated, and a summary page having a list property can be provided to the user. As a result, when the user who viewed the paper book desires the corresponding digital content, or conversely, the user who viewed the digital content desires the corresponding paper book, the information desired by the user (paper book, digital content ) Can be provided early, and a new distribution of paper books and digital content can be created.

  (2) The paper book / digital content correspondence generation device according to (1), wherein the summary page generation unit has a tree structure in which the title information is a parent node and the corresponding URL is a child node.

  According to the paper book / digital content correspondence generation apparatus of (2), since the correspondence between the paper book and the digital content is expressed by a tree structure, the user can easily grasp the correspondence.

  (3) The summary page generation unit generates a summary page including menu information for associating the plurality of paper books with respect to URLs corresponding to the identification codes of the plurality of paper books. (1) or (2) The paper book / digital content correspondence generation device described in 1.

  According to the paper book / digital content correspondence generation device of (3), when there are a plurality of paper books corresponding to the digital content, the paper pages are associated with each other in the summary page. Thereby, a user can be urged from a paper book to another paper book, and a new distribution can be urged about other paper books.

  (4) Accepting a display request for a summary page of paper books from a user terminal capable of communicating via a communication network executed by a paper book / digital content correspondence generation device that generates a correspondence between a paper book and digital content In response to this, a summarizing step of generating a summarization page to read out the identification code of the paper book from the paper book management database storing the identification code of the paper book and display it as title information of the summarization page, from the user terminal, In response to accepting selection of the title information displayed on the summary page, generating a posting page that accepts input of a URL indicating digital content related to the corresponding paper book; from the user terminal; In response to accepting the posting of the URL via the posting page, Storing the URL in association with the identification code of the paper book in a related content management database that stores the correspondence with the digital content; and identifying the paper book displayed as the title information as the summary page Reading a URL corresponding to a code from the related content management database, and generating a summary page displaying the URL in association with the title information.

  According to the method (4), the same effect as the paper book / digital content correspondence generation device of (1) can be obtained.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the summary page which shows the correspondence of a paper book and digital content can be provided with respect to a user.

It is a figure which shows the paper book and digital content corresponding | compatible relationship production apparatus of this invention. It is a figure which shows a paper book management database. It is a figure which shows a related content management database. It is a figure which shows the screen structure of a summary page. It is a figure which shows the screen structure of a contribution page. It is a figure which shows the screen structure of a summary page. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a process of a paper book and digital content corresponding | compatible relationship production | generation apparatus.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

[Configuration of Paper Book / Digital Content Correspondence Generation Device 1]
First, the configuration of the paper book / digital content correspondence generation device 1 according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The paper book / digital content correspondence generation device 1 includes a request reception unit 2, a page generation unit 3, a page transmission unit 4, and a storage unit 5, and a user terminal 7 via a communication network 6. Communicatively connected.
Here, the communication network 6 is preferably a wide area network such as the Internet. The user terminal 7 is a mobile phone or a personal computer that can be connected to a network, and is typically a terminal device that can access a web page by operating a browser.

<Request accepting unit 2>
The request receiving unit 2 includes a summary page request receiving unit 21, a posted page request receiving unit 22, and a posted content receiving unit 23 in order to receive a request transmitted from the user terminal 7 via the communication network 6.

  The summary page request accepting unit 21 accepts a display request for a summary page of a paper book from the user terminal 7. Here, the summary page is a web page that displays a list (tree structure) of digital contents related to a paper book for each of a plurality of paper books, and details thereof will be described later with reference to FIG.

  Post page request receiving means 22 receives a post page display request from user terminal 7. Here, the posting page is a web page for accepting input of a URL indicating the location of digital content related to a paper book, and details thereof will be described later with reference to FIG. The posting page display request means selecting information identifying one paper book from among information identifying a plurality of paper books displayed on the summary page.

  The posted content receiving means 23 receives input (posted content) received from the user terminal 7 via the posted page. Here, the posted content accepting unit 23 accepts, as posted content, a URL indicating the location of digital content related to the paper book corresponding to the posted page, a link title indicating the content of the digital content, and the like. The digital content related to the paper book is digital content determined to be related to the user who makes the posting.

  The request receiving unit 2 (the summary page request receiving unit 21, the posted page request receiving unit 22, and the posted content receiving unit 23) provides the page generating unit 3 with a predetermined request received from the user terminal 7.

<Page generation unit 3>
The page generation unit 3 generates a web page based on a request from the user terminal 7 received by the request reception unit 2, and therefore includes a summary page generation unit 31, a posted page generation unit 32, and an association unit 33. Including.

  The summary page generation means 31 stores the paper book identification code (for example, ISBN code or magazine code) in response to the summary page display request received by the summary page request acceptance means 21, and the paper book management database shown in FIG. The identification code of the paper book is read from 51 and a summary page is generated. Further, as will be described later, the summary page generating unit 31 reads predetermined information from the related content management database 52 (FIG. 3) based on the posted content received by the posted content receiving unit 23 through the posted page. ) Update the summary page.

  The posted page generating unit 32 generates a posted page in response to the posted page display request received by the posted page request receiving unit 22. Here, the posting page generation unit 32 receives an input of a URL indicating the location of digital content related to one paper book selected by the user (user terminal 7) among a plurality of paper books displayed on the summary page. Generate a posting page for.

  The associating unit 33 stores the posted content received by the posted content receiving unit 23 via the posted page in association with the paper book corresponding to the posted page in the related content management database 52 (FIG. 3).

  The page generation unit 3 (collection page generation unit 31, post page generation unit 32, association unit 33) provides the generated web page (collection page, post page) to the page transmission unit 4. Details of the web page generated by the page generation unit 3 will be described later with reference to FIGS.

<Page transmission unit 4>
The page transmission unit 4 includes a summary page transmission unit 41 and a posted page transmission unit 42 in order to transmit the web page generated by the page generation unit 3 to the user terminal 7.

The summary page transmission unit 41 transmits the summary page generated by the summary page generation unit 31 to the user terminal 7.
The posted page transmitting unit 42 transmits the posted page generated by the posted page generating unit 32 to the user terminal 7.
As a result, the summary page is transmitted and displayed to the user terminal 7 that has requested display of the summary page. In addition, the posting page is transmitted and displayed to the user terminal 7 which has made the posting page display request.

<Storage unit 5>
The storage unit 5 includes a paper book management database 51 and a related content management database 52 in order to store various data and generate a summary page and a posting page.

  The paper book management database 51 is a database for managing a paper book that generates a correspondence with digital content, and as shown in FIG. 2, a book identification code (ISBN code or magazine code) for identifying a paper book. In association with each other, various information such as a book name and an author name is stored.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the related content management database 52 is a database for managing the posted content posted from the user terminal 7 for each paper book (book identification code) stored in the paper book management database 51. Here, the related content management database 52 includes the URL of the digital content posted from the user terminal 7 as related to the paper book, the link title posted from the user terminal 7 as the content of the digital content, and the paper book and digital content. As the relationship, various information such as the relationship posted from the user terminal 7 is stored as the posted content.

[Hardware Configuration of Paper Book / Digital Content Correspondence Generation Device 1]
The hardware of the paper book / digital content correspondence generation device 1 described above can be configured by one or a plurality of general computers. For example, a general computer includes a central processing unit (CPU) as a control unit, and a memory (RAM, ROM), a hard disk (HDD), and an optical disk (CD, DVD, etc.) as a storage unit, and a network communication device. Various wired and wireless LAN devices as display devices, for example, various displays such as liquid crystal displays and plasma displays, and as input devices, for example, keyboards and pointing devices (mouse, tracking ball, etc.) Are connected by a bus line. In such a general computer, the CPU controls the paper book / digital content correspondence generation device 1 in an integrated manner, reads and executes various programs as appropriate, and cooperates with the above-described hardware. Various functions according to the invention are realized.

[Summary Page and Posting Page Generated by Paper Book / Digital Content Correspondence Generation Device 1]
Next, the configuration of the summary page and the posting page will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6, and details of the generation of the summary page and the posting page by the page generation unit 3 will be described.

<Summary page 100>
First, the configuration of the summary page will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a summary page 100 that is an example of a summary page.
The summary page 100 includes title information 110 and 120 and URL link information 111 indicating the location of the digital content posted from the user terminal 7 in association with the title information 110 and 120.

  The title information 110 and 120 is information for identifying a paper book. For example, a title of the paper book, an ISBN code of the paper book, or an image of the paper book can be used. The link information 111 is link information to digital content posted from the user terminal 7 as related to a paper book. As link information to the digital content, the URL of the digital content or an anchor text (for example, the link title in FIG. 3) linked to the digital content can be used. In other words, “display URL in association with title information” means that URL text is displayed in association with title information, and anchor text that sets the URL as a link destination is associated with title information. Display.

  In the summary page 100, the title information 110 and the link information 111 are displayed in a tree structure. More specifically, the title information 110 is displayed as a parent node and the corresponding link information 111 is displayed as a child node. . In FIG. 4, as a child node of the title information 110 (novel ABC), link information 111 of the digital content posted from the user terminal 7 (URL1 of the electronic book of the novel ABC and URL2 of the video content of the drama based on the novel ABC) ) Is displayed.

  The summary page 100 includes a relationship selection unit 130 for selecting the relationship of link information to be displayed as a child node of title information.

As will be described later, in the present embodiment, when accepting posting of digital content from the user terminal 7 as related to a paper book (title information), the selection of the relationship between the digital content and the paper book is also accepted. It is said. In the summary page 100, only the link information of the digital content having the relationship selected by the relationship selection unit 130 is displayed as a child node of the title information.
In FIG. 4, since “all” is selected in the relationship selection unit 130, all link information 111 is displayed as child nodes of the title information 110 regardless of the relationship. When “electronic book” is selected in the section 130, only “URL1” that is the electronic book of the title information 110 (novel ABC) is displayed as a child node, and “URL2” that is the video content of the drama is a child. Not displayed as a node.
Note that the selection of the relationship of the link information to be displayed by the relationship selection unit 130 may be selectable for the entire summary page 100 or may be selectable for each of the title information 110 and 120.

<Post Page 200>
Next, the configuration of the posting page will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a posting page 200 that is an example of a posting page.
Posting page 200 includes title information 210, digital content posting column 220, and operation buttons 230.

The title information 210 is information used by the user terminal 7 to identify a paper book to which the digital content URL is to be posted. For example, the title of the paper book, the ISBN code of the paper book, or the image of the paper book. Can be used.
The digital content posting column 220 is an information input column when the user terminal 7 posts as digital content corresponding to the title information 210 (paper book). In the present embodiment, as the digital content posting column 220, in addition to the input column for receiving the input of the link title indicating the content of the digital content and the URL indicating the location of the digital content, the selection of the relationship between the paper book and the digital content is received. An input field for receiving input of information (for example, music code) for identifying a selection field or digital content is provided. Based on the information input in the digital content posting column 220, the link information 111 displayed on the summary page 100 is updated.
The operation button 230 is an operation button for making a posting request based on input information in the digital content posting column 220.

<Generation of Summary Page 100 and Posting Page 200 by Page Generation Unit 3>
Next, with reference to FIG. 4 to FIG. 6, details of generation of a summary page and a posting page by the page generation unit 3 will be described.

Referring to FIG. 4, upon receiving a display request for summary page 100 from user terminal 7 (for example, a display request for designating URL of summary page 100), summary page generation means 31 performs paper book management database 51 (FIG. 2). ) To acquire information (ISBN, novel name, etc.) for identifying the corresponding paper book, and post contents (URL, link title, relationship, etc.) stored in association with the acquired paper book are related content. Obtained from the management database 52 (FIG. 3).
Here, at the time of display in FIG. 4, the related content management database 52 stores only the posted content 521 (“URL1”) and the posted content 522 (“URL2”) in association with “Novel ABC”. It shall be (Fig. 3 (1)).

The summary page generation means 31 generates summary pages with the information identifying the paper books acquired from the paper book management database 51 as title information and the posted contents 521 and 522 acquired from the related content management database 52 as link information. At this time, the summary page generation unit 31 generates a summary page with a tree structure in which the title information is a parent node and the link information is a child node.
In FIG. 4, the summary page generation unit 31 uses information identifying “novel ABC” acquired from the paper book management database 51 as title information 110, and the related content management database 52 as posted contents associated with this “novel ABC”. The summary page 100 which displays the posting content 521 (“URL1”) and the posting content 522 (“URL2”) acquired from the URL as the link information 111 is generated.
Here, the summary page generation unit 31 determines the relationship stored in the related content management database 52 when the relationship selection unit 130 specifies the relationship of the link information 111 to be displayed as a child node of the title information 110. Based on the property, a summary page that displays only the digital content having the specified relationship as the link information 111 is generated.

  The summary page 100 generated by the summary page generation unit 31 is transmitted to the user terminal 7 by the summary page transmission unit 41 and displayed on the user terminal 7. At this time, when the title information (110, 120) is selected on the user terminal 7, it is possible to post digital content related to the selected title information (paper book). That is, the posting page 200 is requested to be displayed by selecting the title information (110, 120) on the summary page 100.

When a posting request for posting page 200 is received, posting page generation means 32 generates posting page 200 for posting digital content for the selected title information.
For example, in FIG. 4, when the title information 110 for identifying “Novel ABC” is selected, the posting page generation unit 32 posts the digital content of “Novel ABC” shown in FIG. 5. 200 is generated.

After that, when predetermined information is input in the digital content posting column 220 of the posting page 200 and the operation button 230 (posting button) is operated, a posting request for input information is made from the user terminal 7. When the posting content receiving unit 23 receives this posting request, the associating unit 33 updates the related content management database 52 based on the received posting content.
In FIG. 5, information such as a link title “drama inserted song”, a URL “URL2”, and a relationship “related song” is posted as digital content of “Novel ABC”. Therefore, the associating unit 33 newly stores the posted content 523 (FIG. 3 (1)) corresponding to the received information in the related content management database 52.

  Since the related content management database 52 has been updated with the posted content 523 received from the user terminal 7, the summary page generating unit 31 serves as the link information 112 corresponding to the posted content 523 as a child node of the title information 110 (“Novel ABC”). A summary page 100 (FIG. 6) to which is added is generated.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, the link information 111 is displayed in association with the title information 110 on the summary page 100, and when the title information 110 is selected on the summary page 100, digital content posting on the title information 110 is posted. The accepted posting page 200 is displayed. After that, when a new posting is made on the posting page 200, the summary page 100 is updated, and digital contents related to the title information 110 (paper book) are sequentially added.

Here, some digital contents may relate to a plurality of paper books. Referring to FIGS. 3 (1) and 3 (2), digital content “inserted drama song” stored in association with “Novel ABC” and digital content stored in association with “Novel XYZ” It is assumed that “movie inserted music” is the same digital content. In such a case, the summary page generation unit 31 associates a plurality of paper books associated with common digital content.
Whether or not the digital contents are associated with each other can be determined by a URL indicating the location of the digital contents. With reference to FIGS. 3 (1) and 3 (2), the URLs of both the digital contents are as follows. Both are common to “URL3”.

Further, the association of a plurality of paper books may be performed by displaying a link to a tree structure based on another paper book (title information). In the present embodiment, an example of link display is shown in FIG. A menu 140 is displayed.
Referring to FIG. 6, menu 140 is displayed when cursor 300 is placed on link information 112 that is link information to digital content related to “novel XYZ” and “manga LMN”. In this menu 140, when “Novel XYZ” is selected, a tree structure having “Novel XYZ” as title information is displayed, and when “Manga LMN” is selected, a tree structure having “Manga LMN” as title information is displayed. Is displayed.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, the summary page generation unit 31 provides a link to a tree structure based on another paper book with respect to link information indicating digital content commonly associated with a plurality of paper books. Create a menu to display. Then, when a predetermined paper book is selected in this menu, the summary page generation unit 31 generates a summary page with the selected paper book as title information.

[Processing of Paper Book / Digital Content Correspondence Generation Device 1]
Next, the flow of processing performed by the paper book / digital content correspondence generation apparatus 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

  S1 to S4: When a summary page display request is transmitted from the user terminal 7 (S1), the summary page generation unit 31 extracts predetermined information from the paper book management database 51 and the related content management database 52, and collects the pages. Is generated (S2). Subsequently, the summary page transmission unit 41 returns the generated summary page to the user terminal 7 (S3), and displays the summary page on the user terminal 7 (S4).

  S5 to S8: Subsequently, when the title information displayed on the summary page is selected by the user and a display request for the posted page is transmitted from the user terminal 7 (S5), the posted page generation means 32 selects A posting page for digital content corresponding to the title information is generated (S6). Subsequently, the posted page transmitting means 42 returns the generated posted page to the user terminal 7 (S7), and displays the posted page on the user terminal 7 (S8).

  S9 to S13: Subsequently, when the posted content is transmitted from the user terminal 7 by posting the posted content on the posting page (S9), the associating unit 33 manages the related content based on the received posted content. The database 52 is updated (S10). Subsequently, the summary page generation unit 31 generates a summary page reflecting the posted content based on the updated related content management database 52 (S11). Thereafter, the summary page transmission unit 41 returns the generated summary page to the user terminal 7 (S12), and displays the summary page on the user terminal 7 (S13).

[Effects of paper book / digital content correspondence generation apparatus 1]
According to the paper book / digital content correspondence generation apparatus 1 as described above, information identifying a paper book (for example, a book name, ISBN code, etc.) is used as a title, and a URL where digital content corresponding to the paper book exists. Is received from the user terminal, the URL of the digital content corresponding to the paper book is automatically collected. Then, a summary page that displays the URL of the collected digital content in a tree structure with a paper book as a parent node is generated.
This makes it possible to provide a user with a summary page having a list of correspondence between paper books and digital content URLs. As a result, when the user who viewed the paper book desires the corresponding digital content, or conversely, the user who viewed the digital content desires the corresponding paper book, the information desired by the user (paper book, digital content ) Can be provided early, and a new distribution of paper books and digital content can be created.
At this time, according to the paper book / digital content correspondence generation device 1, when there are a plurality of paper books corresponding to the digital content, the paper pages are associated with each other in the summary page. Thereby, a user can be urged from a paper book to another paper book, and a new distribution can be urged about other paper books.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not restricted to embodiment mentioned above. The effects described in the embodiments of the present invention are only the most preferable effects resulting from the present invention, and the effects of the present invention are limited to those described in the embodiments of the present invention. is not.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Paper book / digital content correspondence generation device 2 Request reception unit 21 Summary page request reception unit 22 Post page request reception unit 23 Post content reception unit 3 Page generation unit 31 Summary page generation unit 32 Post page generation unit 33 Association unit 4 page Transmission unit 41 Summary page transmission unit 42 Post page transmission unit 5 Storage unit 51 Paper book management database 52 Related content management database 6 Communication network 7 User terminal

Claims (4)

A paper book / digital content correspondence generation device that generates a correspondence between a paper book and digital content,
In response to receiving a display request for a paper book summary page from a user terminal capable of communicating via a communication network, the paper book identification code is read from a paper book management database storing the paper book identification code. A summary page generating means for generating a summary page to be displayed as title information of the summary page;
Post page generation means for generating a post page that receives an input of a URL indicating digital content related to the corresponding paper book in response to receiving selection of the title information displayed on the summary page from the user terminal When,
Corresponding to the identification code of the paper book in the related content management database that stores the correspondence between the paper book and the digital content in response to accepting the posting of the URL from the user terminal via the posting page. An association means for storing the URL;
With
The summary page generating means, as the summary page, the read the URL corresponding to the identification code of the paper book to be displayed as the title information from said related contents management database, displays the URL in association with the title information When the URL is associated with an identification code of a plurality of paper books , a paper book / digital is generated that further displays a link to the title information of other paper books associated with the URL. Content correspondence generation device.   2. The paper book / digital content correspondence generation device according to claim 1, wherein the summary page generation unit has a tree structure in which the title information is a parent node and the corresponding URL is a child node.   The paper book according to claim 1, wherein the summary page generation unit generates a summary page including menu information for associating the plurality of paper books with respect to URLs corresponding to identification codes of the plurality of paper books. -Digital content correspondence generation device. A paper book / digital content correspondence generation device that generates a correspondence between a paper book and digital content executes,
In response to receiving a display request for a paper book summary page from a user terminal capable of communicating via a communication network, the paper book identification code is read from a paper book management database storing the paper book identification code. A summary step for generating a summary page to be displayed as title information for the summary page;
Generating a posting page that accepts input of a URL indicating digital content related to a corresponding paper book in response to accepting selection of the title information displayed on the summary page from the user terminal;
Corresponding to the identification code of the paper book in the related content management database that stores the correspondence between the paper book and the digital content in response to accepting the posting of the URL from the user terminal via the posting page. And storing the URL;
As the summary page, a URL corresponding to the identification code of the paper book displayed as the title information is read from the related content management database, the URL is displayed in association with the title information, and a plurality of papers are displayed in the URL. Generating a summary page that further displays a link to title information of another paper book associated with the URL if the URL is associated with an identification code of the book ;
Including methods.

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