JP5470991B2 - Useful information distribution system and method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information providing technique, and more particularly to a technique for providing useful information to a user who is using real-time communication.

In recent years, a user can use various functions other than a telephone function by executing a small-size program called a Java (registered trademark) application (hereinafter referred to as a Java application) on a mobile phone. Among such Java applications, there is an application that provides real-time communication between a plurality of portable terminals. Thereby, for example, by calling a member and communicating with each other in real time, it is possible to play a battle-type or cooperative game, or exchange messages by chat or the like.
Conventionally, in such a Java application for real-time communication, there is an application that displays advertisement information stored in the Java application in advance on the screen of a mobile phone when starting execution or waiting for communication.

JP 2002-259800 A

  However, in such a conventional technique, the advertisement information provided from the Java application for real-time communication at the start of execution or communication waiting is fixed advertisement information registered in advance when creating the Java application for real-time communication. Therefore, there is a problem that it is not possible to provide timely useful information in which members who perform real-time communication are interested in common.

  A technique for providing advertisement information related to products and services using a mobile phone has been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 1). This type of service is available from a mobile phone for schedule registration / confirmation by a user. When connected to a specific server, information corresponding to the individual user is provided. Therefore, information cannot be provided during the waiting time of the user who is operating the mobile phone, and it is also impossible to provide timely useful information in which members performing real-time communication are commonly interested.

  The present invention is for solving such problems, and provides a useful information distribution technique capable of providing useful information common to participating members of the real-time communication during the waiting time of the Java application for real-time communication. The purpose is that.

In order to achieve such an object, a useful information distribution system according to the present invention includes a distribution server connected to a communication network and a plurality of portable terminals, and the portable terminals are registered in the portable terminals. An interest factor analysis unit that analyzes information and extracts an interest factor related to the interest of the user of the mobile terminal, and a Java application for performing real-time communication between the mobile terminals via a communication network. A communication control unit for notifying the distribution server of user information including the communication information, and displaying the useful information distributed from the distribution server in response to the notification when waiting for processing of the Java application. A useful information database for storing various useful information to be distributed to the mobile terminal, and each mobile terminal performing real-time communication through the communication network. Based on user information, and common information extractor for extracting interest elements common among users of these mobile terminals as the common information, the valuable information retrieval unit for retrieving from the valuable information database useful information corresponding to the common information A useful information distribution unit that distributes useful information to each mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal analyzes various information registered in the mobile terminal and extracts a time element related to the schedule of the user. The communication control unit notifies the distribution server of user information including an interest element and a time element via the communication network, and the common information extraction unit performs the mobile information based on the user information from each mobile terminal. Interest elements and time information that are common among terminal users are extracted as common information.

The useful information distribution method according to the present invention includes a distribution server connected to a communication network and a plurality of portable terminals, and is used in a beneficial information distribution system that distributes useful information from the distribution server to each portable terminal. An interest element analysis step in which the interest element analysis unit of the mobile terminal analyzes various information registered in the mobile terminal and extracts an interest element related to the interest of the user of the mobile terminal. And the communication control unit of the portable terminal notifies the distribution server of user information including the element of interest via the communication network in response to the activation of the Java application for performing real-time communication between the portable terminals via the communication network. The user information notifying step and the common information extracting unit of the distribution server are based on the user information notified via the communication network from each mobile terminal performing real-time communication. In addition, a common information extraction step for extracting the common elements of interest among users of the mobile terminals as common information, and a useful information database in which the useful information search unit of the distribution server stores various useful information distributed to the mobile terminals. From the useful information search step for searching useful information corresponding to the common information, the useful information distribution unit of the distribution server, the beneficial information distribution step of distributing the useful information to each portable terminal, and the communication control unit of the portable terminal, The communication control step of displaying useful information distributed from the distribution server when waiting for processing of the Java application and the time element analysis unit of the mobile terminal analyze various information registered in the mobile terminal, A time element analysis step for extracting a time element related to the user's schedule, and the communication control step includes an interest element and a time The user information including the elements is notified to the distribution server via the communication network, and the common information extraction step is based on the user information from each portable terminal and shares the common interest element and time information among the users of the portable terminals. It is extracted as information.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the useful information common to the participating member of the said real-time communication can be provided in the waiting time of the Java application for real-time communication.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the useful information delivery system concerning this embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the bookmark information registered into the portable terminal. It is explanatory drawing which shows the multimedia data registered into the portable terminal. It is explanatory drawing which shows the electronic coupon preserve | saved at the portable terminal. It is explanatory drawing which shows the schedule information registered into the portable terminal. It is explanatory drawing which shows the user information notified to a delivery server from a portable terminal. It is a sequence diagram which shows operation | movement of the useful information delivery system concerning this embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the extraction operation | movement of the common information in a delivery server. It is an example of useful information display with a portable terminal.

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
[Configuration of this embodiment]
First, a useful information distribution system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a useful information distribution system according to the present embodiment.

This useful information distribution system includes a distribution server 20 and a plurality of mobile terminals 10 connected via a communication network 30.
The mobile terminal 10 is composed of an information communication terminal such as a mobile phone or a PDA, is connected to the communication network 30 via a wireless line, and notifies the user information to the distribution server 20 when the Java application for real-time communication is executed. It has a function of displaying useful information distributed from the distribution server 20 according to the screen.
The distribution server 20 includes an information processing apparatus such as a distribution server apparatus as a whole, and has a function of distributing useful information searched based on user information collected from each mobile terminal 10 to these mobile terminals 10.

  In the present embodiment, in the mobile terminal 10, user information including an interest element related to the interest of the user, which is extracted by analyzing various information registered in the mobile terminal, is transmitted between the mobile terminals 10 via the communication network 30. The distribution server 20 is notified in response to the activation of the Java application for performing real-time communication, and the user of each mobile terminal 10 is based on the user information notified from each mobile terminal 10 that performs real-time communication in the distribution server 20. Interest elements that are common to each other are extracted as common information, useful information corresponding to this common information is retrieved from the user information database and distributed to these portable terminals 10, and the beneficial information distributed from the distribution server 20 in the portable terminals 10 Information is displayed on the screen when waiting for processing of the Java application.

[Mobile devices]
The mobile terminal 10 used in the useful information distribution system according to the present embodiment includes a wireless interface unit (hereinafter referred to as a wireless I / F unit) 11, an application control unit 12, an operation input unit 13, a screen as main functional units. A display unit 14, a storage unit 15, an interest element analysis unit 16, a time element analysis unit 17, and a communication control unit 18 are provided.

The wireless I / F unit 11 includes a dedicated wireless communication circuit and has a function of performing data communication by connecting to the communication network 30 via a wireless line.
The terminal control unit 12 has functions for controlling basic functions such as a telephone function, a telephone directory function, a browser function, a multimedia data playback function, and a mail function according to a user operation, and an arbitrary Java application for real-time communication. And a function of performing execution control.
The operation input unit 13 has a function of detecting a user operation using various operation keys such as a dial key, a cursor key, and a function key.

The screen display unit 14 includes a screen display device such as an LCD, and has a function of displaying various information such as an operation menu, output information of the Java application, and useful information from the distribution server 20 on the screen.
The storage unit 15 includes a storage device such as a semiconductor memory, and has a function of storing processing information and programs used for operations in each functional unit, and further a Java application program. The main processing information stored in the storage unit 15 is to access various sites from the mobile terminal 10 in addition to various processing information used for basic functions such as the telephone function, mail function, and telephone book function of the mobile terminal 10. Bookmark information, multimedia data registered in the mobile terminal 10, and various processing information such as electronic coupons received by e-mail from an arbitrary site.

The interest element analysis unit 16 has a function of analyzing various processing information in the storage unit 15 and extracting an interest element related to the user's interest.
The time element analysis unit 17 has a function of analyzing various processing information in the storage unit 15 and extracting a time element related to the user's schedule.
The communication control unit 18 transmits a user information including an interest element and a time element to the distribution server 20 when a Java application for performing real-time communication between the mobile terminals 10 via the communication network 30 is activated, and In response to this, it has a function of displaying the useful information distributed from the distribution server 20 when waiting for processing of the Java application.

  FIG. 2A is an explanatory diagram showing bookmark information registered in the mobile terminal. FIG. 2B is an explanatory diagram showing multimedia data (music data) registered in the mobile terminal. FIG. 2C is an explanatory diagram illustrating an electronic coupon stored in the mobile terminal. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing schedule information registered in the mobile terminal.

  The bookmark information in FIG. 2A is connection destination information that is used when a user usually accesses a specific site from the mobile terminal 10 via the Internet using the browser function of the mobile terminal 10. The multimedia data in FIG. 2B is multimedia data data that the user normally plays on the mobile terminal 10 by using the multimedia data playback function of the mobile terminal 10. Here, music data is shown, but it may be video data. The electronic coupon in FIG. 2C is a coupon ticket collected from a store site on the Internet by using the electronic mail function of the mobile terminal 10. The schedule information in FIG. 3 is a schedule registered by the user in the mobile terminal 10 using the schedule management function of the mobile terminal 10. Here, the underlined day is the day when the schedule is not registered. Show.

The interest element analysis unit 16 analyzes various processing information registered in the storage unit 15 as shown in FIGS. 2A to 2C and extracts an interest element related to the interest of the user. Moreover, the time element analysis part 17 analyzes the various processing information as shown in FIG. 3 registered in the memory | storage part 15, and extracts the time element regarding the said user's schedule.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing user information notified from the mobile terminal to the distribution server. Here, the information “Southern All Stars” is extracted from the various processing information shown in FIGS. 2A to 2C as the user's interest element, and “1” as the user's time element from the various processing information shown in FIG. / 11,17,24,25 No information is extracted. User information including these interest elements and time elements is notified from the portable terminal 10 to the distribution server 20.

  Among the functional units of the mobile terminal 10, the terminal control unit 12, the interest element analysis unit 16, the time element analysis unit 17, and the communication control unit 18 may be realized by a dedicated information processing circuit, but may be a CPU or the like. You may implement | achieve by the arithmetic processing part which has a microprocessor and its peripheral circuit, and implement | achieves various processing parts by executing the program stored in the memory | storage part 15. FIG.

[Distribution server]
The distribution server 20 used in the useful information distribution system according to the present embodiment includes a communication interface unit (hereinafter referred to as a communication I / F unit) 21 and a useful information database unit (hereinafter referred to as a useful information DB) as main functional units. ) 22, a common information extraction unit 23, a useful information search unit 24, a useful information distribution unit 25, and a storage unit 26 are provided.

The communication I / F unit 21 includes a dedicated communication circuit and has a function of performing data communication by connecting to the communication network 30 via a communication line.
The useful information DB 22 includes a storage device such as a hard disk and a semiconductor memory, and is a database in which useful information distributed from the distribution server 20 to the mobile terminal 10 is registered in association with user interest elements and time elements.

The common information extraction unit 23 is based on the interest element and the time element included in the user information notified from each mobile terminal 10 that performs real-time communication, and the interest element and the time element that are common among the users of the respective mobile terminals. Is extracted as common information.
The useful information searching unit 24 has a function of searching useful information corresponding to the common information extracted by the common information extracting unit 23 from the useful information DB.

The useful information distribution unit 25 has a function of distributing the useful information searched by the useful information search unit 24 from the communication I / F unit 21 to each mobile terminal 10 that performs the real-time communication.
The storage unit 26 includes a storage device such as a hard disk or a semiconductor memory, and has a function of storing various processing information and programs used for operations in the respective function units.

  Among the functional units of the distribution server 20, the common information extraction unit 23, the useful information search unit 24, and the useful information distribution unit 25 may be realized by a dedicated information processing circuit. You may implement | achieve with the arithmetic processing part which has a peripheral circuit and executes the program stored in the memory | storage part 26, and implement | achieves various processing parts.

[Operation of this embodiment]
Next, with reference to FIG. 5, operation | movement of the useful information delivery system concerning this embodiment is demonstrated. FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram showing the operation of the useful information distribution system according to the present embodiment.

  In the mobile terminal 10, when a real-time communication application is activated in the terminal control unit 12 in response to a user operation, the communication control unit 18 confirms activation of the real-time communication application in response to a notification from the terminal control unit 12. (Step 100), an analysis request is instructed to the interest element analysis unit 16 and the time element analysis unit 17 (Step 101).

In response to this analysis request, the element of interest analysis unit 16 analyzes various processing information in the storage unit 15 to extract the element of interest (step 102), and the time element analysis unit 17 performs various processes in the storage unit 15. The time element is extracted by analyzing the information (step 103), and the extracted interest element and time element are notified to the communication control unit 18 by the analysis response (step 104).
The communication control unit 18 uses real-time communication related information such as identification information for identifying the real-time communication and member information related to members participating in the real-time communication for the interest element and the time element notified in the analysis response. At the same time, the wireless I / F unit 11 notifies the distribution server 20 via the communication network 30 as user information (step 105).

  In the distribution server 20, when each user information is received from the mobile terminal 10 of the member participating in the real-time communication by the communication I / F unit 21, the common information extraction unit 23 is common to the member from the user information. An interest element and a time element to be extracted are extracted as common information (step 110), and a useful information search request corresponding to the common information is notified to the useful information search unit 24 (step 111).

In response to the search request, the useful information search unit 24 searches the useful information DB 22 for useful information corresponding to the interest element and the time element of the common information (step 112), and informs the distribution request regarding the obtained useful information to be useful. The information distribution unit 25 is notified (step 113).
In response to the distribution request, the useful information distribution unit 25 distributes the useful information from the communication I / F unit 21 via the communication network 30 to the mobile terminals 10 of the members participating in the real-time communication. (Step 114).

  In the portable terminal 10, when the wireless I / F unit 11 receives useful information from the distribution server 20, the communication control unit 18 stores the received useful information in the storage unit 15 (step 120), and the terminal control unit 12. The useful information is displayed on the screen display unit 14 when waiting for processing of the Java application notified from (step 121).

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation of extracting common information in the distribution server. Here, the respective user information 41 to 43 is notified from the three mobile terminals 10 participating in the real-time communication.
The common information extraction unit 23 of the distribution server 20 compares the interest elements and the time elements of the user information 41 to 43, respectively, and extracts common elements. Here, the element “Southern All Stars” is commonly included in the elements of interest of the user information 41 to 43, and the element “1/24 no plan” is commonly included in the time elements of the user information 41 to 43. include. Therefore, the common information extraction unit 23 extracts these elements as common information 44.

  The useful information search unit 24 searches the useful information DB 22 based on the common information 44 including the interest element “Southern All Stars” and the time element “1/24 no plan”, and is held on a day without a plan. As event information, it searches for useful information 45 “1/24 held: Southern All Stars Budokan Live Information”.

  FIG. 7 is an example of useful information display on the mobile terminal. Here, a general waiting screen 50 is displayed on the screen display unit 14 while the Java application for real-time communication is activated. As described above, when the above-described useful information 45 is received from the distribution server 20 in the process waiting state in which the waiting screen 50 is displayed on the screen, the screen display of the screen display unit 14 is displayed on the useful information screen 51 indicating the content. Is switched.

[Effect of this embodiment]
As described above, in the present embodiment, in the mobile terminal 10, user information including an interest element related to the user's interest, which is extracted by analyzing various information registered in the mobile terminal, is transmitted via the communication network 30. Notification is made to the distribution server 20 in response to activation of a Java application for performing real-time communication between the mobile terminals 10, and each mobile terminal is based on the user information notified from each mobile terminal 10 that performs real-time communication in the distribution server 20. Interest elements common among the users of the terminal 10 are extracted as common information, useful information corresponding to the common information is retrieved from the user information database and distributed to the mobile terminals 10. Since the distributed useful information is displayed on the screen when waiting for processing of the Java application, real-time communication The waiting time of the Java application, it is possible to provide the valuable information that was common to the participating members of the real-time communication.

  In the present embodiment, the mobile terminal 10 analyzes various information registered in the mobile terminal 10 in the same manner as the above-described interest elements, extracts time elements related to the user's schedule, The user information including the time element is notified to the distribution server 20 via the communication network, and the distribution server 20 is based on the user information from each portable terminal 10 and the interest element and the time information that are common among the users of these portable terminals. Is extracted as common information, and timely event information having time characteristics such as a concert can be provided as useful information common to the participating members of the real-time communication.

[Extended embodiment]
In the above-described embodiment, the case where the interest element analysis unit 16, the time element analysis unit 17, and the communication control unit 18 of the mobile terminal 10 are provided as basic functions in the mobile terminal 10 is described as an example. The functional unit may be configured by a processing unit realized by a real-time communication application.
Thus, an existing mobile terminal 10 that does not have an interest element analysis unit 16, a time element analysis unit 17, and a communication control unit 18 from the beginning by simply downloading a real-time communication application from the management site and registering it in the mobile terminal 10. Even so, the useful information distribution system according to the present invention can be easily used, and high versatility can be obtained.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where user information is generated by analyzing various processing information in the storage unit 15 in response to the activation of the real-time communication application has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, user information may be generated by the interest element analysis unit 16 or the time element analysis unit 17 and stored in the storage unit 15 at the timing when the processing information to be analyzed is updated. Thereby, the user information in the storage unit 15 can be immediately notified to the distribution server 20 in response to the activation of the real-time communication application, and the useful information is displayed on the screen at an early stage in the activation of the real-time communication application. Is possible.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the case where a user's unique interest element is extracted from the processing information such as bookmark information, multimedia data, and electronic coupons has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to these, and elements of interest may be extracted from other processing information.
For example, the interest element analysis unit 16 selects words that are frequently used from various processing information such as character input history information, phone book registration information, and one-segment viewing history used in creating an e-mail. May be extracted as The same applies to the time element, and the processing information to be extracted from the time element is not limited to the schedule information. As for a method of extracting an element of interest from character information including words belonging to various categories such as character input history information, the word registered in an element dictionary prepared in advance is used as an element of interest. For example, a known technique such as extraction may be used.

In the above-described embodiment, the case of extracting an interest element and a time element from various processing information used in each functional unit of the mobile terminal 10 has been described as an example. A history of information exchanged between members in the past may be used.
For example, for each piece of real-time communication identification information performed by members having similar interests and hobbies, the communication control unit 18 stores the character information exchanged in the real-time communication in the storage unit 15 as history information. At this time, in the case of chat or electronic conference, the name or ID of the chat or electronic conference may be used as identification information. After that, when real-time communication is newly activated, the interesting element analysis unit 16 may extract a frequently used word as a user's interesting element from the history information corresponding to the identification information of the real-time communication. This makes it possible to easily extract elements of interest that have a high degree of commonality among members.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where words included in various processing information of the mobile terminal 10 are extracted as an interest element has been described as an example. However, a keyword having a relationship such as a correlation with the extracted word is an interest element. You may make it extract.
For example, a set of related words and keywords is previously registered in the storage unit 15 as a dictionary database, and the interested element analysis unit 16 searches the dictionary database for keywords corresponding to the words extracted from the processing information. What is necessary is just to notify the delivery server 20 of the interested element which consists of this keyword as user information.

Further, the keyword may be searched not by the mobile terminal 10 but by the distribution server 20.
For example, the above-described dictionary database is registered in the storage unit of the distribution server 20 in advance, and the common information extraction unit 23 performs, for each element of interest in the user data communicated from each mobile terminal 10 that is a member of the real-time communication. It is also possible to search the dictionary database, acquire keyword groups having relevance to the element of interest, and compare these keyword groups to extract keywords common to each member as common information.

  Thus, without increasing the configuration scale or processing burden of the mobile terminal 10, the intrinsic elements contained in the elements of interest extracted by the mobile terminal 10 can be expressed in the form of keywords based on knowledge information that is widely confused. It can be realized efficiently. Therefore, as the useful information to be distributed to each mobile terminal 10, various candidates can be easily searched from the useful information DB 22, and a useful information distribution service with high utility value can be provided.

  The present invention has been described above with reference to the embodiments, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. Various changes that can be understood by those skilled in the art can be made to the configuration and details of the present invention within the scope of the present invention.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Useful information delivery system, 10 ... Portable terminal, 11 ... Wireless I / F part, 12 ... Terminal control part, 13 ... Operation input part, 14 ... Screen display part, 15 ... Memory | storage part, 16 ... Interest element analysis part, DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 17 ... Time element analysis part, 18 ... Communication control part, 20 ... Distribution server, 21 ... Communication I / F part, 22 ... Useful information DB, 23 ... Common information extraction part, 24 ... Useful information search part, 25 ... Useful information Distribution unit, 30 .. communication network.

Claims (5)

Including a distribution server and a plurality of portable terminals connected to a communication network;
The portable terminal is
An interest element analysis unit that analyzes various information registered in the mobile terminal and extracts an interest element related to the interest of the user of the mobile terminal ;
In response to activation of a Java application for performing real-time communication between the mobile terminals via the communication network, user information including the element of interest is notified to the distribution server via the communication network, and accordingly wherein the beneficial information distributed from the distribution server, and a communication control unit for displaying screen when the pending of the Java application,
The distribution server
A useful information database for storing various useful information distributed to the mobile terminal;
Based on user information notified from each mobile terminal performing the real-time communication via the communication network, a common information extraction unit that extracts, as common information, elements of interest that are common among users of these mobile terminals;
And useful information retrieval unit that searches for useful information corresponding to the common information from the useful information data base,
A useful information delivery unit for delivering the useful information to each mobile terminal ;
The mobile terminal further includes a time element analysis unit that analyzes various information registered in the mobile terminal and extracts a time element related to the schedule of the user,
The communication control unit notifies the distribution server of user information including the interest element and the time element via the communication network,
The useful information distribution system , wherein the common information extraction unit extracts, as the common information, an interest element and time information that are common among users of the mobile terminals based on user information from the mobile terminals . The useful information distribution system according to claim 1,
One or both of the interested element analysis unit and the communication control unit are configured by a processing unit realized by the Java application. The useful information distribution system according to claim 1,
The communication control unit stores the character information exchanged between the mobile terminals by real-time communication in the storage unit as history information,
The useful information distribution system, wherein the interesting element analysis unit extracts a frequently used word from the history information as the interesting element. The useful information distribution system according to claim 1,
The distribution server further includes a dictionary database in which a plurality of pairs of interesting elements and keywords having relevance are registered,
The common information extraction unit searches the dictionary database for each interest element included in the user information from each mobile terminal, acquires each keyword group having a relationship with the interest element, and compares these keyword groups By doing this, a keyword that is common among users is extracted as the common information. A beneficial information distribution method used in a beneficial information distribution system that includes a distribution server and a plurality of portable terminals connected to a communication network, and distributes useful information from the distribution server to each portable terminal,
The interest element analysis unit of the mobile terminal analyzes various information registered in the mobile terminal, and extracts an interest element regarding the interest of the user of the mobile terminal ,
The communication control unit of the portable terminal distributes the user information including the element of interest via the communication network in response to activation of a Java application for performing real-time communication between the portable terminals via the communication network. A user information notifying step for notifying the server;
The common information extraction unit of the distribution server extracts, as common information, elements of interest that are common among users of the mobile terminals, based on user information notified from the mobile terminals performing the real-time communication via the communication network. A common information extraction step,
The useful information search unit of the distribution server searches for useful information corresponding to the common information from a useful information database storing various useful information distributed to the mobile terminal; and
The useful information distribution unit of the distribution server distributes the useful information to each portable terminal; and
A communication control step in which the communication control unit of the mobile terminal displays the useful information distributed from the distribution server on a screen when waiting for processing of the Java application ;
A time element analysis step in which the time element analysis unit of the mobile terminal analyzes various information registered in the mobile terminal and extracts a time element related to the schedule of the user;
With
The communication control step notifies the distribution server of user information including the interest element and the time element via the communication network,
The useful information distribution method, wherein the common information extraction step extracts, as the common information, an interest element and time information that are common among users of the mobile terminals based on user information from the mobile terminals .

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