JP5730690B2 - Content management apparatus, content management method, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a content management apparatus or the like that provides uploaded content to an information terminal.

  Conventionally, a print image with a file name including a patient identification code and a classification code representing a medical category from a medical department sub-system of a medical department in a computer network, a report of radiation department findings input, etc. When the file is sent to the print image file management server, the server decodes the patient identification code of the file name, identifies the patient chart folder from the patient chart file server, and responds to the classification code in the patient chart folder. There has been known a comprehensive medical information management system for sending a report to a created folder (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2000-348115 (first page, FIG. 1 etc.)

  However, the conventional management system has a problem that it is not possible to appropriately manage registration and provision of contents that require approval.

  For example, when considering content related to medical care provided to medical personnel and the like, it is necessary that such content is described in terms of medical laws, medical technology, and the like. For this reason, medical-related content needs to be registered or provided after being approved by an appropriate approver from the viewpoint of law or medical technology.

  However, in a conventional management system, if users can freely register content related to medical care and provide registered content, content that has not been approved by the approver or the like is registered. There has been a problem that content that is inappropriate from the viewpoint of the law or medical technology may be distributed through the management system.

  A content management apparatus according to the present invention includes a content receiving unit that receives content transmitted by one or more provider terminals that are information terminals used by the content provider, the content received by the content receiving unit, and content identification information A content storage unit that stores content-related information that is information having content identification information, a content storage unit that stores content-related information including content received by the content receiving unit in the content storage unit, Information that is transmitted by one or more requester terminals that are information terminals used by the requester, and that is content identification information and transmission request information that is information requesting transmission of content associated with the content identification information. A content request information receiving unit for receiving content request information, which is information An approval result for receiving an approval result which is information transmitted by one or more approver terminals which are information terminals used by the content approver and which indicates the result of the approval process for the content received by the content receiver. A receiving unit and a content transmitting unit that, when the content requested by the content request information is an approved content, reads the content from the content storage unit and transmits the content to the requester terminal that is the transmission source of the content request information. A content management apparatus provided.

  With this configuration, it is possible to appropriately manage registration and provision of content that requires approval.

  The content management apparatus according to the present invention further includes an approval instruction transmission unit that transmits an approval instruction, which is an instruction for requesting approval of the content received by the content reception unit, to one or more approver terminals. The approval result receiving unit is a content management apparatus that receives an approval result of content requested for approval by an approval instruction from one or more approver terminals.

  With such a configuration, it is possible to request approval of the received content and to approve the provided content.

  In the content management apparatus of the present invention, in the content management apparatus, the approval instruction transmitting unit transmits an approval instruction for the content indicated by the content request information when the content request information receiving unit receives the content request information. It is a content management device.

  With this configuration, it is possible to perform approval when the content request information is received, and it is possible to perform approval only for the requested content, so that useless approval processing can be omitted.

  The content management apparatus of the present invention is a content management apparatus in which the approval instruction transmission unit transmits an approval instruction for content when the content reception unit receives the content.

  With this configuration, it is possible to perform an approval process on the registered content, and it is not necessary to perform an approval or the like when providing the content, and the content can be quickly provided.

  In the content management apparatus of the present invention, in the content management apparatus, the approval instruction transmission unit transmits an approval instruction to two or more approver terminals designated in advance, and the content transmission unit requests content request information. Content management that reads content from the content storage unit and transmits it to the transmission source of the content request information when all of the approval results transmitted by two or more approver terminals for the content indicate approved content Device.

  With this configuration, the approval process can be requested to a plurality of approver terminals, and the accuracy of the approval can be improved.

  Also, the content management apparatus of the present invention provides the content management apparatus, in which the approval result received by the approval result receiving unit indicates that the content has been rejected, and the information indicating the approval result is transmitted. It is a content management apparatus further provided with the denial information transmission part transmitted to a user terminal.

  With this configuration, it is possible to notify the provider terminal that has transmitted the content that the content has been denied.

  In the content management apparatus of the present invention, in the content management apparatus, the content is associated with content fee information indicating a fee for the content, and the approver who uses the approver terminal that is the transmission source of the approval result is used. On the other hand, the content management apparatus further includes an accounting processing unit that performs a process of paying a part of the fee of the content to be approved indicated by the approval result.

  With this configuration, the approver can be given a fee for the approval process.

  The content management apparatus of the present invention further includes an action information acquisition unit that acquires action information that is information indicating an action performed by an approver using the approver terminal in the content management apparatus. The accounting processing unit is a content management apparatus that performs a process of paying an approver a different charge according to action information out of the charge of the content to be approved.

  With this configuration, it is possible to pay the approver a fee corresponding to the action performed by the approver at the time of approval.

  The content management apparatus according to the present invention is a content management apparatus in which the content is a manual of a medical institution.

  With such a configuration, registration and provision of a manual that needs to be approved can be appropriately managed.

  According to the content management apparatus or the like according to the present invention, it is possible to appropriately manage registration and provision of content that requires approval.

Block diagram of a content management system in an embodiment of the present invention Flow chart showing operation of the content management apparatus Conceptual diagram of the content management system The figure which shows an example of the interface screen of the provider terminal 20 Figure showing a display example of the same content The figure which shows the same content related information management table Figure showing a display example of the same content list Figure showing the approval destination management information Figure showing an example of the approval instruction The figure which shows an example of the approval result transmission screen Figure showing the act ratio management table Figure showing the same bank transfer management information The figure which shows the example of a display which shows that the purchased contents can be transmitted The figure which shows an example of the external appearance of the computer system The figure which shows an example of a structure of the computer system

  Hereinafter, embodiments of a content management apparatus and the like will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, since the component which attached | subjected the same code | symbol in embodiment performs the same operation | movement, description may be abbreviate | omitted again.

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FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a content management system 1 in the present embodiment.

  The content management system 1 includes a content management device 10, one or more provider terminals 20, one or more requester terminals 30, and one or more approver terminals 40. For example, the devices and the terminals constituting the content management system 1 are connected via a network, a communication line, or the like so that information can be transmitted and received. For convenience of explanation, FIG. 1 shows a case where there is one provider terminal 20, requester terminal 30, and approver terminal 40, but the number of these terminals is one or more. May be.

  The content management apparatus 10 includes a content reception unit 101, a content storage unit 102, a content storage unit 103, a content request information reception unit 104, an approval instruction transmission unit 105, an approval result reception unit 106, a content transmission unit 107, and a denial information transmission unit 108. , An action information acquisition unit 109 and an accounting processing unit 110 are provided.

  The provider terminal 20 includes a provider storage unit 201, a provider transmission unit 202, a provider reception unit 203, and a provider output unit 204.

  The requester terminal 30 includes a requester input reception unit 301, a requester transmission unit 302, a requester reception unit 303, and a requester output unit 304.

  The approver terminal 40 includes an approver reception unit 401, an approver output unit 402, an approver input reception unit 403, and an approver transmission unit 404.

  The content receiving unit 101 receives content transmitted by one or more provider terminals 20. The content is, for example, data obtained by digitizing characters, audio, video, maps, etc., software, or a combination of these. The content received by the content receiving unit 101 is, for example, a manual of a medical institution. The medical institution is, for example, a hospital, a clinic, a clinic, or the like. The manual is information such as a guide, a handbook, an instruction manual, a processing procedure manual, and the like. The medical institution manual is, for example, information for explaining procedures for various treatments performed in the medical institution, operating methods of medical devices, medical instruments, and facilities. The content received by the content receiving unit 101 is, for example, content that needs to be approved before distribution or distribution is performed. However, it does not matter whether the approval processing has already been performed at the time when the content receiving unit 101 receives it. The approval will be described later.

  In addition to the content, the content receiving unit 101 may further receive information regarding the content. Information related to content is, for example, content title, content file name, content price information, or genre information that is information indicating the content genre. For example, when the content is a manual of a medical institution, the genre information may be information on a medical department (for example, internal medicine, surgery, otolaryngology, etc.) corresponding to the manual. Further, the genre information may be information indicating a user group who uses a manual, such as for nurses, doctors, radiographers, and administrative departments. Further, the genre information may be information indicating the type of device indicated by the manual.

  In addition to the content, the content receiving unit 101 may further receive information related to the content provider. The information regarding the content provider is, for example, identification information of the provider terminal 20 that has transmitted the content, or identification information of the provider who uses the provider terminal 20. The identification information of the provider terminal 20 is address information such as an IP address or a mail address of the provider terminal 20, for example. The identification information of the provider is a name, an employee number, and the like. The provider identification information may be the email address of the provider. The provider terminal 20 is an information terminal used by a content provider. The provider terminal 20 will be described later.

  In addition to the content, the content receiving unit 101 may further receive content identification information that is identification information of the content. The content identification information may be information that can identify the contents. The content identification information is, for example, a character string (including numbers) uniquely assigned to the content. The content title and file name described above may be used as the content identification information. Note that the content receiving unit 101 may acquire content identification information about the content when the content is received.

  Note that the content receiving unit 101 may receive content-related information having content. The content related information will be described later.

  The content receiving unit 101 is usually realized by a wireless or wired communication means, but may be realized by a means for receiving a broadcast. The content receiving unit 101 may or may not include a communication device. This also applies to other receiving units.

  The content storage unit 102 stores content related information including the content received by the content receiving unit 101. The content related information is information including content received by the content receiving unit 101 and content identification information that is identification information of the content. The content identification information included in the content related information may be content identification information received together with the content by the content receiving unit 101, or may be content identification information acquired when the content receiving unit 101 receives the content. The content storage unit 103 to be described later may be content identification information acquired for the content received by the content receiving unit 101.

  In addition to the content and the content identification information, the content related information further includes information related to the content received by the content receiving unit 101 as described above (title, file name, etc.) and information related to the content provider (provided) For example, the identification information of the provider terminal 20 or the identification information of the provider).

  Note that the content storage unit 102 may not store all the related information including the content received by the content receiving unit 101. For example, the content related information received by the content receiving unit 101 is temporarily stored in a storage medium (not shown), and is approved by the approval result receiving unit 106 described later in the stored content related information. Only the content-related information that has received the approval result indicating that may be stored in the content storage unit 102 by a content storage unit or the like to be described later. The content-related information may be stored in association with information indicating whether the content is approved (hereinafter referred to as approval status information).

  The content storage unit 102 is preferably a non-volatile recording medium, but can also be realized by a volatile recording medium. The storage here is a concept including temporary storage. This also applies to other storage units.

  The content storage unit 103 stores content related information including the content received by the content receiving unit 101 in the content storage unit 102. For example, the content accumulation unit 103 accumulates content-related information including content received by the content reception unit 101 and content identification information of the content. The content identification information may be content identification information received together with the content by the content receiving unit 101, may be content identification information acquired when the content receiving unit 101 receives the content, or the content storage unit 103. However, it may be content identification information acquired when content-related information is accumulated. The content storage unit 103 also includes information (title, file name, etc.) regarding the content received together with the content by the content receiving unit 101, information regarding the content provider (identification information of the provider terminal 20, and identification of the provider). Content-related information further including information etc. may be stored in the content storage unit 102. When the content receiving unit 101 receives content related information, the content storage unit 103 may store the content related information in the content storage unit 102.

  As described with respect to the content storage unit 102, the content storage unit 103 does not have to store content-related information for all the content received by the content reception unit 101. The content storage unit 103 may store content-related information in association with approval status information indicating whether the content is approved. The content storage unit 103 can usually be realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the content storage unit 103 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded on a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The content request information receiving unit 104 receives content request information transmitted from one or more requester terminals 30. The content request information is information including content identification information and content transmission request information associated with the content identification information. The transmission request information is information for requesting transmission of content, and is, for example, a query or command for requesting transmission. If the content identification information also functions as transmission request information, it may be considered that the content identification information also serves as transmission request information. The content request information is, for example, information for requesting download of one or more contents stored in the content storage unit 102. The requester terminal 30 is an information terminal used by a content requester. The requester terminal 30 will be described later.

  Note that the content request information may further include identification information of the requester terminal 30, for example, address information such as an IP address and a mail address. Further, it may further include identification information (name, employee number, etc.) of a requester who uses the requester terminal 30 and a credit card number of the requester. The requester's credit card number may be used as the requester's identification information.

  The approval instruction transmission unit 105 transmits the content approval instruction received by the content reception unit 101 to one or more approver terminals 40. The approver terminal 40 is an information terminal used by the approver. The approver terminal 40 will be described later. The approval instruction is an instruction for requesting approval of content. Specifically, this is an instruction for requesting one or more approvers using one or more approver terminals 40 to approve content. The approval instruction is, for example, information having identification information of content to be approved and content storage location (for example, URI or URL). Further, the approval instruction may be information having content to be approved. The approval instruction is, for example, a character string or image information indicating that an approval is requested. The content received by the content receiving unit 101 may be the content received by the content receiving unit 101 and the content before being stored in the content storage unit 102, or the content received by the content receiving unit 101 The content stored in the storage unit 102 may be used. The content before being stored in the content storage unit 102 may be content received by the content receiving unit 101 and stored in a storage medium (not shown).

  Approval here means, for example, judging whether the content meets the contents to be observed such as laws, guidelines, standards, and technical considerations in the field where the content is used. is there. Further, the approval may include judging whether there is an error or an unclear point, and judging whether the content conforms to a format specified in advance. good. Approval means that the content has been approved by the approver to satisfy the above-mentioned content to be observed, and that the content is free from errors or indistinct points. For example, when the content is a manual of a medical institution, the content to be observed is the medical related law (for example, medical law, doctor law, pharmacist law, public health nurse midwife nursing) Law, laws such as the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, ordinances of law enforcement, or regulations or government ordinances of law enforcement regulations, etc.), guidelines, standards, points for medical treatment or medical technology. The approved content is, for example, a description that does not cause a problem in the medical law or a manual that is correctly described as a medical procedure. An approver is a person who approves content. For example, it has authority to approve content, qualification to approve, responsible person responsible for providing content, and the like. For example, when the content is a manual of a medical institution, the approver is a doctor, a person who has a qualification for handling medical devices, or the like.

  The approval instruction transmission unit 105 reads approval destination identification information for identifying one or more approver terminals 40 that are transmission destinations of approval instructions stored in advance in a storage medium (not shown), and the approval indicated by the approval destination identification information An approval instruction is transmitted to the person terminal 40. This storage medium (not shown) is referred to herein as an approval destination storage unit for convenience. The approval destination identification information is, for example, address information such as an IP address of the approver terminal 40 or a mail address. The one or more approval destination identification information read by the approval instruction transmission unit 105 may be designated in advance regardless of the content of the content received by the content reception unit 101. Alternatively, the approval instruction transmission unit 105 may read the approval destination identification information corresponding to the genre for the content received by the content receiving unit 101 from the approval destination storage unit. For example, a plurality of approval destination identification information is stored in advance in the approval destination storage unit in association with the genre information, and the approval instruction transmission unit 105 is associated with the content received by the content reception unit 101. One or more approval destination identification information corresponding to the genre information may be acquired as information indicating one or more approver terminals 40 that are the transmission destinations of the approval instruction for the content.

  For example, when the content request information receiving unit 104 receives the transmission request information, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 transmits an approval instruction for the content indicated by the transmission request information. In this case, as described later, it is preferable not to transmit an approval instruction when the content receiving unit 101 receives content. The transmission when the transmission request information is received may be a trigger for receiving the transmission request information and transmitting the approval instruction. In this way, only the content requested from the requester terminal 30 can be appropriately processed for approval, and useless approval processing for content that is not required can be omitted.

  Further, the approval instruction transmission unit 105 may transmit an approval instruction for the content when the content reception unit 101 receives the content. That is, when content is uploaded to the content management apparatus 10, an approval instruction for the content may be transmitted. When the content is received, the transmission may be a trigger for transmitting the approval instruction. By doing in this way, the content stored in the content storage part 102 can be made into the content which passed the approval process.

  When the content receiving unit 101 receives content, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 transmits an approval instruction, or when the content request information receiving unit 104 receives transmission request information, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 issues an approval instruction. The content provider may be able to select whether to transmit. For example, when the content receiving unit 101 receives the content to the content transmitted by the provider terminal 20, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 transmits an approval instruction, or the content request information receiving unit 104 receives the transmission request information. Is associated with information specifying whether the approval instruction transmission unit 105 transmits the approval instruction, and the approval instruction transmission unit 105 transmits the approval instruction in any of the above cases according to this information. Whether or not to do so may be determined.

  Further, when the content receiving unit 101 receives content, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 transmits an approval instruction, or when the content request information receiving unit 104 receives transmission request information, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 issues an approval instruction. The approval instruction transmission unit 105 may determine whether to transmit according to the content attribute. The content attribute is information indicating the type of content data or the content. The content attribute may be an attribute of information related to the content. The content attribute may be, for example, an attribute of the content provider. The content attribute may be content genre information. For example, the content receiving unit 101 may determine at what timing the approval instruction is transmitted according to the group to which the content provider belongs. Further, when the character string indicating the classification of the content included in the content or associated with the content is a character string designated in advance, it is determined at which timing an approval instruction is transmitted. You may do it. Further, it may be determined at what timing the approval instruction is transmitted according to the genre information associated with the content.

  The approval instruction transmission unit 105 may transmit the approval instruction to two or more approver terminals 40 designated in advance. The two or more approver terminals 40 may be two or more approver terminals corresponding to the content genre as described above. Approval is performed by the approver using each of the two or more approver terminals 40, so that the content can be more accurately approved.

  The approval instruction transmission unit 105 is normally realized by a wireless or wired communication unit, but may be realized by a broadcasting unit. The approval instruction transmission unit 105 may or may not include a communication device. The same applies to other transmission units.

  The approval result receiving unit 106 receives an approval result transmitted by one or more approver terminals 40. Specifically, the approval result receiving unit 106 receives the approval result for the content requested to be approved by the approval instruction from one or more approver terminals 40. The approval result is information indicating the result of the approval process for the content received by the content receiving unit 101. Approval processing is processing performed by one or more approvers for content, and is processing for determining whether or not content can be approved. The approval process is usually a process performed manually. A process in which an approver modifies and approves content may be considered as an approval process. In addition, a process of giving an instruction to correct a content and then approving the correction on the condition may be considered as an approval process. The approval result is, for example, information indicating whether or not the content requested by the approval instruction has been approved by the approver (that is, approved or rejected). In addition, the approval result may include identification information of the content that has been approved. Further, the approval result may include identification information (name, employee number, etc.) of the approver. The approver identification information may be the approval destination identification information described above. Note that the approval result is stored in the content storage unit 102 in association with the content related information, and is information for managing whether the content is approved or not (for example, flag information). May be an instruction to set to a value according to the approval result by the approver. For example, if one content is approved as a result of the approval process, an approver described later with an instruction to overwrite the flag information corresponding to this one content with a value indicating approval as the approval result The terminal 40 may transmit.

  Here, it does not matter how the approver performs the approval process for the content received by the content receiving unit 101. For example, at least the content indicated by the approval instruction can be acquired from the content storage unit 102 via the network or the like by using the approver terminal 40 by the approver who has received the approval instruction. The approver may output the data from the approver terminal 40 and perform an inspection for approval.

  In addition, the approver transmits the corrected content to be approved to the content management apparatus 10 from the approver terminal 40, and the approval result receiving unit 106 receives the corrected content. The content storage unit 103 may store the corrected content in the content storage unit 102 as a corrected version of the content before correction. In this case, the reception of the corrected content by the approval result receiving unit 106 may be considered as the reception of the approval result indicating that it has been approved.

  In this case, the modified version of the content indicated by the content request information is transmitted to the requester terminal 30 from the content transmission unit 107 described later as the content indicated by the content request information. When the modified content is stored in the content storage unit 102, the modified content may be added so that the content before modification is not deleted. This is because the content to be corrected and the amount of correction can be determined by comparing the content before correction with the content after correction and obtaining the difference. In addition, when storing the corrected content, when the action information acquisition unit 109 described later acquires information on the difference from the content before correction (information about the correction location, correction amount, etc.), You may make it overwrite the content before correction. In addition, when the corrected content transmitted from the approver terminal 40 has information on the history of correction to the content before correction, the content before correction is overwritten with the corrected content. You may do it. In this way, it is possible to acquire information indicating the correction amount of the corrected content.

  When the content requested by the content request information is an approved content, the content transmission unit 107 reads the content from the content storage unit 102 and transmits the content to the requester terminal 30 that is the transmission source of the content request information. The approved content is, for example, content indicating that the approval result acquired for this content is approval.

  In addition, for example, when the content requested by the content request information is not an approved content (that is, when it is a rejected content), the content transmission unit 107 requests this content to be a transmission source of the content request information. Is not transmitted to the user terminal 30.

  Here, the content storage unit 103, the approval result receiving unit 106, and the combination of the timing at which the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 transmits the transmission instruction and the combination of the content related information stored in the content storage unit 102, The processing of the content transmission unit 107 will be described.

  (1) A case where an approval instruction is transmitted when content request information is received, and the content related information received by the content receiving unit 101 is stored in the content storage unit 102 without being approved.

  For example, the content storage unit 103 described above stores content-related information including the content received by the content reception unit 101 in the content storage unit 102. Then, when the content request information receiving unit 104 receives the content request information, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 outputs an approval instruction for the content indicated by the content request information. Then, it is assumed that the approval result receiving unit 106 receives an approval result for this content.

  For example, if the approval result received by the approval result receiving unit 106 indicates approval, the content transmitting unit 107 reads the content indicated by the content identification information included in the approval result from the content storage unit 102, and stores the content. The requested content request information is transmitted to the requester terminal 30 that has transmitted it. As information specifying the destination of the requester terminal, identification information of the requester terminal included in the content request information may be used. Alternatively, information indicating that the requested content can be transmitted is transmitted to the requester terminal 30, and the requester terminal 30 instructs transmission of the content in response to the transmission of this information. When information is received, the content may be transmitted. The information indicating that the requested content can be transmitted may be, for example, the URL of the requested content, or simply information indicating that the content can be transmitted. good.

  For example, when the approval result received by the approval result receiving unit 106 indicates that the approval result is not approved (that is, rejected), the content transmitting unit 107 requests the content indicated by the content identification information included in the approval result. The content is not transmitted to the requester terminal 30 that has transmitted the content request information. If content is not transmitted, information indicating that the content cannot be transmitted and information indicating the reason (not approved) are transmitted to the requester terminal 30 that transmitted the content request information. May be. The same applies to the following.

  Note that when the approval instruction for the content requested by the content request information is transmitted to two or more approver terminals 40, the content transmission unit 107 determines that all of the approval results transmitted by the two or more approver terminals 40 are: Only when it indicates that the content is approved, the content may be read from the content storage unit 102 and transmitted to the transmission source of the content request information. Then, when at least one or more is not approved (that is, when it is rejected), the content may not be transmitted. For example, in the case where an approval instruction is transmitted to two or more approver terminals 40, etc., only when the approval results transmitted from the two or more approver terminals 40 indicate that all the approvals have been approved. When it is judged that the approval result indicates that it has been approved and the above-described approval result is approval, the processing is performed, and if one or more of the product results are not approved, It may be determined that the approval result indicates that the approval is rejected, and the process in the case where the above-described approval result is rejection may be performed. The same applies to the following.

  (2) The approval instruction is transmitted when the content request information is received, and the content storage unit 102 receives the content related information and approval status information indicating whether or not the content of the content related information is approved. And are stored in association with each other.

  For example, the content storage unit 103 described above stores the content related information received by the content receiving unit 101 in the content storage unit 102 in association with the approval status information. Here, it is assumed that the approval status information to be associated is a value indicating that it is not approved by default. Then, when the content request information receiving unit 104 receives the content request information, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 outputs an approval instruction for the content indicated by the content request information. Then, it is assumed that the approval result receiving unit 106 receives an approval result for this content.

  The approval result receiving unit 106 and the like update the value of the approval status information associated with the content indicated by the approval result in accordance with the approval result received by the approval result receiving unit 106. For example, when the approval status information corresponding to one content is a default value indicating that the content is not approved (for example, “0” or the like), the approval result for the one content is approved. In this case, the approval result receiving unit 106 may change the value of the approval status information to a value indicating approval (for example, “1”). Further, when the approval result indicates rejection, the value of the approval status information is not updated. Thereafter, as in the case of (1) above, when the approval result indicates approval, the content transmission unit 107 reads the content indicated by the content identification information included in the approval result from the content storage unit 102. The content request information for requesting the content is transmitted to the requester terminal 30 that has transmitted it.

  If the approval status information corresponding to the content indicated by the content request information is a value indicating approval, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 does not transmit the approval instruction, The content transmission unit 107 may transmit the content request information to the requester terminal 30 that has transmitted the content request information. As a result, it is possible to prevent duplicate approval processing, to eliminate processing waste, and to shorten the time required for approval.

  Note that the value of the approval status information when the approval is not performed may be different from the value of the approval status information when the approval is denied. Then, when the approval is denied, the value of the approval status information when the approval is not performed may be updated to a value indicating that the approval is denied. In this way, for the content whose value of the approval status information is a value indicating that it has been denied, by not transmitting an approval instruction and not transmitting the content from the content transmitting unit 107, It is possible to prevent duplicate approval processing, reduce processing waste, and shorten the time required for approval. Note that when the content stored in the content storage unit 102 is modified, the value of the approval status information for this content may be reset to a value when the approval is not performed.

  (3) A case where an approval instruction is transmitted when content-related information is received, and the content storage unit 102 stores only content-related information including content indicating that the approval result is approved.

  For example, the content storage unit 103 described above temporarily stores the content related information received by the content receiving unit 101 in a storage medium (not shown) or the like without immediately storing it in the content storage unit 102. Then, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 outputs an approval instruction for the content received by the content receiving unit 101. Then, it is assumed that the approval result receiving unit 106 receives an approval result for this content.

  When the approval result received by the approval result receiving unit 106 indicates that the content has been approved, the content storage unit 103 reads content-related information including the content corresponding to the approval result from a storage medium (not shown), and the content storage unit Accumulate in 102. When the approval result indicates that the approval is denied, the content related information including the content corresponding to the approval result is deleted from the storage medium (not shown) and is not stored in the content storage unit 102. As a result, only approved content is stored in the content storage unit 102.

  When the content indicated by the content request information received by the content request information receiving unit 104 is stored in the content storage unit 102, the content transmission unit 107 reads the content from the content storage unit 102 and transmits the content request information. To the requester terminal 30. When the content indicated by the content request information is not stored in the content storage unit 102, the content transmission unit 107 does not transmit the content that has transmitted the content request information. As a result, only the approved content of the content received by the content receiving unit 101 is read from the content storage unit 102 and transmitted from the content transmission unit 107.

  (4) A case where an approval instruction is transmitted when content related information is received, and the content storage unit 102 stores the content related information and the approval status information of the content related information in association with each other.

  For example, the content storage unit 103 described above temporarily stores the content related information received by the content receiving unit 101 in a storage medium (not shown) or the like without immediately storing it in the content storage unit 102. Then, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 outputs an approval instruction for the content received by the content receiving unit 101. Then, it is assumed that the approval result receiving unit 106 receives an approval result for this content.

  When the approval result received by the approval result receiving unit 106 indicates that the content has been approved, the content storage unit 103 reads the content related information including the content corresponding to the approval result from a storage medium (not shown) and is approved. The content is stored in the content storage unit 102 in association with approval status information indicating that the content is content. Further, when the approval result received by the approval result receiving unit 106 indicates that the content is rejected, the content-related information including the content corresponding to the approval result is read from a storage medium (not shown) and the content is rejected. Is stored in the content storage unit 102 in association with the approval status information indicating “”.

  If the content indicated by the content request information received by the content request information receiving unit 104 is content associated with status information indicating that the content has been approved, the content transmission unit 107 stores the content in the content storage unit 102. Is transmitted to the requester terminal 30 that has transmitted the content request information. Further, if the content is content associated with status information indicating that the content is denied, the content transmission unit 107 does not transmit the content. As a result, only the approved content of the content received by the content receiving unit 101 is read from the content storage unit 102 and transmitted from the content transmission unit 107. Further, the rejected content is temporarily stored in the content storage unit 102, so that it can be used as content for future reference or correction.

  In the present embodiment, an example in which the processing described in (1) above is performed will be described below.

  When the approval result received by the approval result receiving unit 106 indicates that the content is rejected, the denial information transmitting unit 108 transmits information indicating the approval result to the provider terminal 20 that has transmitted the content. Specifically, the content identification information of the content to be approved is acquired from, for example, the approval result, and the provider identification information associated with the acquired content identification information is acquired from the content related information. Information indicating the approval result is transmitted to the provider terminal 20 indicated by the provider identification information. For example, when the provider identification information is the mail address of the provider terminal 20, information indicating the approval result is transmitted to this mail address. The information indicating the approval result transmitted by the rejection information transmitting unit 108 is, for example, character string or image information indicating that the content has not been approved (rejected). The information indicating the approval result may be an approval result.

  The action information acquisition unit 109 acquires action information that is information indicating an action performed by an approver using the approver terminal 40 at the time of approval. The action information is, for example, information indicating that the content has been corrected at the time of approval. In addition, the action information may be information on what correction has been made in the correction at the time of approval, information on the correction amount (number of corrected characters, etc.), correction time, and the like. The action information acquisition unit 109 may acquire the action information in any way. For example, when action information such as a correction amount is included in the approval result transmitted by the approver terminal 40, the action information may be acquired. When the approval result includes the corrected content, the content information and the content before correction may be compared to obtain a difference, thereby obtaining action information such as the correction amount. In addition, when the content included in the approval result has information indicating the correction history (information indicating where and how the correction is made), the action information such as the correction amount is obtained from the history information indicating the correction. You may get The content before correction is, for example, content when the content receiving unit 101 receives it.

  The action information acquisition unit 109 can usually be realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the action information acquisition unit 109 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded in a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The accounting processing unit 110 performs a process of paying a part of the fee of the content to be approved indicated by the approval result to the approver using the approver terminal 40 that is the transmission source of the approval result. The content fee is a fee associated with the content. The fee may be associated with each content. For example, content-related information stored in the content storage unit 102 may include content fee information. The fee may not be associated with each content. For example, even when a uniform charge is associated with a plurality of contents, there is no substitute for a charge associated with each content. It may be considered as a charge associated with. For example, when all contents have the same charge, information indicating the same charge may be considered as charge information for each content.

  A part of the charge for the content may be a charge at a ratio specified in advance with respect to the charge for the content, or may be a fixed charge specified in advance. Further, it may be a fee that changes step by step according to the amount of the content fee.

  The accounting processing unit 110 may perform a process of paying the approver a different fee depending on the action information out of the fee of the content to be approved. That is, a part of the charge for the content described above may be determined according to the action information. For example, the fee to be paid to the approver may be determined according to the correction amount indicated by the action information. For example, an equation for calculating a fee to be paid with the amount of correction and the fee for the content as a variable is prepared in advance in a storage medium (not shown), for example, and the amount of correction indicated by the action information in this equation, The fee to be paid may be calculated by substituting the content fee. In addition, information that associates the range of the value of the correction amount with the fee to be paid (or the rate of payment with respect to the fee for the content) is accumulated in advance in a storage medium (not shown), and an action is taken from this information. The fee to be paid or the rate associated with the range of the repair amount including the correction amount value indicated by the information may be acquired to determine the fee to be paid. Thereby, a fee corresponding to the amount of work generated when the approver makes corrections can be given to the approver.

  The payment process performed by the accounting processing unit 110 may be a process of transferring a part of the content fee acquired above to the approver. For example, information having the approver's identification information and the approver's transfer destination information (name, account number, etc.) is stored in advance in a storage medium (not shown), and the approval result is obtained from this information. The transfer destination information associated with the identification information of the approver included in the information is acquired, and the transfer fee indicated by the transfer destination information is sent to the transfer destination via the Internet etc. You may make it transfer a part. In addition, instead of transferring a part of the contents fee, a server device such as a bank or a settlement agency service that gives an instruction to transfer a part of the contents fee to be approved to the transfer destination. You may make it transmit to.

  Note that the accounting processing unit 110 may perform a process of charging the charge for the content transmitted by the content transmission unit 107 to the requester using the requester terminal 30 that is the content transmission destination. In this case, a credit card number included in the content request information, identification information of the requester, or the like may be used as appropriate. Further, the accounting processing unit 110 may perform processing for giving the amount of money obtained from the requester (that is, the content purchaser) to the content provider transmitted from the content transmission unit 107 by charging. Further, an amount obtained by subtracting a fee such as a usage fee for the content management apparatus 10 from this amount may be transmitted to the content provider. Further, when a part of the content fee is paid to the approver, a process of paying the balance of the paid fee to the provider may be performed. Further, an amount obtained by subtracting a charge such as a usage fee for the content management apparatus 10 from the balance may be transmitted to the content provider. Note that the details of the billing process associated with the provision of content are well-known techniques such as, for example, an online store, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted here.

  The accounting processing unit 110 can usually be realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the accounting processing unit 110 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded on a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The provider terminal 20 is an information terminal used by a content provider. The content provider may be a content creator. The information terminal is, for example, a computer, a mobile phone, a smartphone, a PDA, an electronic book reader, or the like. The information terminal here is one that can be connected to the network by radio or wire. The same applies to the following information terminals. One provider terminal 20 may be an information terminal dedicated to one provider, or may be an information terminal that can be used by a plurality of providers. When one provider terminal 20 is used by a plurality of providers, while one provider is logged in to the provider terminal 20, the provider terminal 20 is connected to the logged-in provider. The provider terminal 20 to be used may be considered. The same applies to the requester terminal 30 and the approver terminal 40 described below.

  The provider storage unit 201 stores one or more contents. The content stored in the provider storage unit 201 is, for example, content generated by a provider who uses the provider terminal 20. The provider storage unit 201 further includes information related to the above-described content (title, file name, content price, etc.) and information related to the content provider (identification of the provider terminal 20). Information, provider identification information, etc.) may be stored. Further, content identification information for each content may be stored. That is, the above-described content management information may be stored in the provider storage unit 201.

  The provider transmission unit 202 transmits one or more contents stored in the provider storage unit 201 to the content management apparatus 10. For example, the provider transmission unit 202 transmits content indicated by an instruction received from a provider by a reception unit (not shown) or the like. Moreover, you may transmit the information regarding each content as mentioned above, and the information regarding the provider of a content with a content. Further, content identification information about the content may be transmitted together with the content. Moreover, you may transmit the content relevant information which has a content instead of a content.

  The provider receiving unit 203 receives the denial information transmitted by the denial information transmitting unit 108.

  The provider output unit 204 outputs the denial information received by the provider receiving unit 203. Output here refers to display on a display, projection using a projector, printing to a printer, sound output, transmission to an external device, storage in a recording medium, and output to other processing devices or other programs. It is a concept that includes delivery of processing results. The provider output unit 204 may be considered as including or not including an output device such as a display or a speaker. The provider output unit 204 can be realized by output device driver software, or output device driver software and an output device. The same applies to other output units.

  The requester terminal 30 is an information terminal used by a content requester. The content requester may be a content purchaser.

  The requester input reception unit 301 receives information requesting acquisition of content stored in the content management apparatus 10 from the requester. The information for requesting acquisition of content is information specifying content to be acquired, for example, information including content identification information. The information input means for requesting content acquisition may be anything such as a numeric keypad, keyboard, mouse, or menu screen. The requester input receiving unit 301 can be realized by a device driver for input means such as a numeric keypad or a keyboard, control software for a menu screen, or the like. The same applies to other reception units. The requester input receiving unit 301 may further receive input of information requesting transmission of approved content.

  The requester transmission unit 302 transmits the content request information to the content management apparatus 10. For example, the requester transmission unit 302 transmits content request information for requesting the content indicated by the information specifying the content included in the information for requesting acquisition of the content received by the requester input reception unit 301. For example, content request information including content identification information included in information for requesting content acquisition is transmitted. Further, the requester transmission unit 302 may transmit information requesting approved content to the content management apparatus 10.

  The requester receiving unit 303 receives the content transmitted by the content transmitting unit 107 according to the content request information transmitted by the requester transmitting unit 302. Further, the requester receiving unit 303 causes the content management apparatus 10 to transmit information indicating the content stored in the content storage unit 102, for example, a list of content, and the requester receiving unit 303 receives the content. Information may be received.

  The requester output unit 304 outputs the content received by the requester reception unit 303. Information indicating content stored in the content storage unit 102 such as a list of content received by the requester reception unit 303 may be output.

  The approver terminal 40 is an information terminal used by the approver.

  The approver receiving unit 401 receives the approval instruction transmitted by the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 of the content management apparatus 10. The content indicated by the approval instruction may be received as an approval target. For example, when the approval instruction includes the URL of the content to be approved, information requesting the content indicated by the URL is transmitted from the approver transmission unit 404, which will be described later, to the content management apparatus 10, and according to the requested information. Then, the approver receiving unit 401 may receive the content transmitted by the content transmitting unit 107 or the like of the content management apparatus 10.

  The approver output unit 402 outputs the approval instruction received by the approver receiving unit 401. Further, the content received by the approver receiving unit 401 may be output for use in the approval process.

  The approver input reception unit 403 receives an input of an approval result by the approver and an instruction to transmit the approval result. Further, an input of an instruction for requesting transmission of content to be approved may be accepted. In addition, an instruction to transmit the modified content during the approval process may be received.

  The approver transmission unit 404 transmits the approval result to the content management apparatus 10. In addition, information requesting transmission of content to be approved is transmitted to the content management apparatus 10. Further, the content corrected at the time of approval may be transmitted to the content management apparatus 10.

  Although not shown, the approver terminal 40 may include a processing unit for receiving a correction instruction for the content, a processing unit for correcting the content in accordance with the correction instruction, and the like.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the content management apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment. The operation will be described below with reference to FIG.

  (Step S101) The content receiving unit 101 determines whether or not content has been received. The content receiving unit 101, for example, together with the content, for example, information related to the content provider such as identification information (IP address or email address) of the provider transmitting unit 202, information related to the content such as content genre information and price, Receive. If received, the process proceeds to step S102. If not received, the process proceeds to step S103.

  (Step S102) The content storage unit 103 stores content-related information including the content received in step S101 in the content storage unit 102. For example, the content received in step S101, the information related to the content provider such as the identification information of the provider transmission unit 202 received together with the content, the information related to the content such as genre information and the content personality, Content related information including content identification information is stored. The content identification information may be acquired in accordance with, for example, the order in which content is acquired or the order in which it is stored, or may be information received by the content receiving unit 101 together with the content. Then, the process returns to step S101.

  (Step S103) The content request information receiving unit 104 determines whether content request information has been received. The content request information received here is, for example, content request information having identification information (IP address or mail address) of the requester terminal 30. If received, the content request information is stored in a storage medium (not shown), and the process proceeds to step S104. If not received, the process proceeds to step S105.

  (Step S104) The approval instruction transmission unit 105 acquires the approval destination identification information corresponding to the content indicated by the content request information received in Step S103, and sends the content approval instruction to the approver terminal 40 indicated by the approval destination identification information. Send. Then, the process returns to step S101.

  (Step S105) The approval result receiving unit 106 determines whether an approval result has been received. If the approval result is received, the process proceeds to step S106, and if not received, the process proceeds to step S114.

  (Step S106) The content transmitting unit 107 determines whether or not the approval result indicates that the content is approved. If the content is approved, the process proceeds to step S107. If the content is not approved, the process proceeds to step S113.

  (Step S107) The content storage unit 103 determines whether the approval result receiving unit 106 has received the modified content. If the modified content is received, the process proceeds to step S108, and if not received, the process proceeds to step S109.

  (Step S108) The action information acquisition unit 109 acquires the difference between the corrected content and the content before correction.

  (Step S109) The action information acquisition unit 109 acquires action information. For example, when a difference is acquired in step S108, the action information acquisition unit 109 acquires information on the number of characters corrected by the approver as action information by counting the number of characters corrected for the difference. Further, when the corrected content is not accumulated, action information indicating that the approval process is performed without correcting the content may be acquired.

  (Step S110) The content storage unit 103 updates the content before correction with the content after correction. For example, overwrite. Note that the content before correction may be left without being deleted.

  (Step S111) The accounting processing unit 110 calculates a fee according to the action information and performs a process of paying this fee to the approver. For example, if the action information acquired in step S110 is the number of characters corrected by the approver, the range of character correction amounts stored in a storage medium (not shown) in advance and the ratio of the fee to be paid to the content fee Is obtained from the information that is associated with the number of characters indicated by the action information. Then, the fee to be paid is calculated by multiplying the fee of the content by this ratio. And the process which pays this charge with respect to an approver is performed. In addition, for example, when the action information is a value indicating that the approval process has been performed without correcting the content, the ratio of the fee to be paid with respect to the fee of the content specified in advance is acquired, and this ratio is Multiply the content fee to calculate the fee to be paid, and perform the process of paying the fee to the approver.

  (Step S112) The content transmission unit 107 transmits information indicating that transmission of the content indicated by the approval result is permitted to the requester terminal 30 that has transmitted the content request information for requesting the content. For example, the content transmission unit 107 transmits information such as a URL for requesting transmission of content permitted to be transmitted as information indicating that transmission of content is permitted. Then, the process returns to step S101.

  (Step S113) The denial information transmission unit 108 transmits information indicating the approval result to the provider terminal 20 that has transmitted the content indicated by the approval result received in Step S105. This information is information indicating that the content has not been approved. Then, the process returns to step S101.

  (Step S114) The content request information receiving unit 104 determines whether information requesting transmission of content permitted to be transmitted according to the approval result is received. For example, it is determined whether or not the URL transmitted in step S112 is received. If received, it may be determined that information requesting transmission of content permitted to be transmitted is received. If received, the process proceeds to step S115. If not received, the process returns to step S101.

  (Step S115) The content transmission unit 107 transmits this content to the requester terminal 30 that has transmitted the information requesting transmission of the content received in step S114. Then, the process returns to step S101.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 2, the process is terminated by powering off or a process termination interrupt.

  Next, main operations of the provider terminal 20 will be briefly described.

  The provider transmission unit 202 repeatedly determines whether or not a reception unit (not shown) has received an instruction to transmit the content stored in the provider storage unit 201. If the instruction is received, the content is transmitted to the content management apparatus 10. Send. In addition to this content, for example, information related to the content provider such as identification information (IP address or mail address) of the provider terminal 20 or information related to the content such as content genre information or content price may be transmitted. good. Information regarding these contents and information regarding the contents may be stored in the provider storage unit 201 in association with the contents, or may be received from the provider via a reception unit (not shown). It may be. Further, the provider receiving unit 203 repeatedly determines whether information indicating an approval result indicating that the content has been rejected has been received. And when receiving, the provider output part 204 outputs an approval result.

  Next, an example of main operations of the requester terminal 30 will be briefly described.

  The requester input reception unit 301 repeatedly determines whether or not the content request information has been received, and if so, the requester transmission unit 302 transmits the content request information to the content management apparatus 10. Further, the requester receiving unit 303 determines whether or not the content indicated by the content request information has been received. If received, the requester output unit 304 outputs the received content. The requester receiving unit 303 receives information indicating that the content indicated by the content request information can be transmitted based on the approval result from the content transmitting unit 107 of the content management apparatus 10 and transmits the content. When the requester input reception unit 301 receives an input of a request to be requested from the requester, the requester transmission unit 302 transmits information requesting transmission of the content to the content management apparatus 10 and responds to this information. The requester receiving unit 303 may receive the content transmitted by the content transmitting unit 107.

  Next, an example of main operations of the approver terminal 40 will be briefly described.

  The approver receiving unit 401 repeatedly determines whether or not an approval instruction has been accepted, and if received, the approver output unit 402 outputs an approval instruction. The approver input reception unit 403 repeatedly determines whether or not an approval result and an instruction to transmit the approval result have been received, and when these are received, the approver transmission unit 404 converts the approval result into the content It transmits to the management apparatus 10. In addition, when the approver input reception unit 403 receives an instruction for requesting the content to be approved from the approver, the approver transmission unit 404 transmits information requesting the content to the content management apparatus 10, In accordance with this information, the approver receiving unit 401 may receive the content transmitted from the content management apparatus 10 and the approver output unit 402 may output the content. In addition, when the approver input receiving unit 403 receives an instruction to transmit the content whose content has been corrected to the content management device 10, the approver transmission unit 404 transmits the corrected content to the content management device 10. Anyway.

  Hereinafter, a specific operation of the content management system 1 in the present embodiment will be described. A conceptual diagram of the content management system 1 is shown in FIG. Here, as an example, the content management system 1 includes a content management device 10, two or more provider terminals 20 (20a, 20b, etc.), two or more requester terminals 30 (30a, 30b, etc.), and two or more. It is assumed that the approver terminals 40 (40a, 40b, etc.) are connected to be communicable via the Internet. It is assumed that the content handled by the content management system 1 is a manual in a medical institution.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an interface screen used when transmitting content displayed on a monitor or the like (not shown) of the provider terminal 20.

  First, the provider A who uses the provider terminal 20a tries to transmit (upload) the content, which is a manual on the blood glucose level measurement procedure, to the content management apparatus 10 to the provider terminal 20a as shown in FIG. The interface screen is displayed, and among the contents stored in the provider storage unit 201, the content to be transmitted is designated using the file name “blood01” and the content title “blood glucose level measurement manual” And “1000 yen” that is the selling price of the content and “internal medicine” that is the genre of the content. Assume that the send button 41 is pressed by operating a mouse or the like. For example, it is assumed that the provider A is a nurse.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of content whose file name is “blood01”.

  The provider transmission unit 202 of the provider terminal 20a reads the content whose file name is “blood01” (hereinafter, referred to as content “blood01”) from the provider storage unit 201, and stores the content in the provider storage unit 201 in advance. The mail address “userA @ hospital ...”, the title “blood glucose measurement manual” received above, the sales price “1000 yen”, and the genre information “internal medicine” are transmitted to the content management apparatus 10. . Here, it is assumed that the provider's e-mail address is a combination of the identification information of the provider terminal 20a and the identification information of the provider.

  The content receiving unit 101 transmits the content “blood01” transmitted from the provider terminal 20a, the email address “userA @ hospital ...” of the provider, the title “blood glucose measurement manual” received above, and the selling price “1000”. "Yen" and genre information "Internal Medicine" are received.

  The content storage unit 103 acquires content identification information for the content received by the content receiving unit 101 in accordance with a rule specified in advance. For example, it is assumed that the rule designated in advance is the content reception order, and here, content identification information “000125” is acquired. The content storage unit 103 includes the content identification information “000125”, the mail address of the provider “userA @ hospital ...”, the content “blood01” received by the content reception unit 101, the title “blood glucose level measurement manual”, Content-related information having a selling price “1000 yen” and genre information “internal medicine” is stored in the content storage unit 102.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a content related information management table for managing content related information stored in the content storage unit 102. The content related information management table has items of “content ID”, “content”, “title”, “price”, “genre”, and “provider ID”. “Content ID” is content identification information. “Content” is content, and here, the content is indicated by a file name. “Title” is the title of the content, and “price” is the price of the content. “Genre” is genre information of content, and here, genre information indicates a medical department name (for example, internal medicine, surgery, etc.) related to the content of a manual that is content. The “provider ID” is the identification information of the provider, and is also used as the identification information of the provider terminal 20. Here, “provider ID” is a mail address of the provider.

  The requester B who uses the requester terminal 30a wants to know what content is managed by the content management apparatus 10, and uses the input device or the like (not shown) for the requester terminal 30a. When an operation for requesting a list of contents from the management apparatus 10 is performed, the requester input receiving unit 301 receives an instruction for requesting transmission of the list of contents, and the requester transmitting unit 302 responds to the reception of this instruction. Then, an instruction to send a list of contents is transmitted to the content management apparatus 10. Assume that the requester B is a nurse here.

  When the content request information receiving unit 104 of the content management apparatus 10 receives an instruction to request transmission of the content list, the content transmission unit 107 displays a list of content stored in the content storage unit 102. Information (such as an HTML file) is generated and transmitted to the requester terminal 30a.

  The requester receiving unit 303 of the requester terminal 30a receives information for displaying a list of contents, and the requester output unit 304 uses this information to display a list of contents on a monitor (not shown).

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a list of contents stored in the content storage unit 102 of the content management apparatus 10.

  Here, the requester B who has seen the display screen shown in FIG. 7 has a manual whose “content ID” is “000125”, “title” is “blood glucose level measurement manual”, and “price” is “1000 yen”. If the user wishes to purchase (content) and presses the “Purchase” button 71 by operating the mouse or the like, a screen for entering the e-mail address of the purchaser and the credit card number used for the purchase (not shown) Is displayed on this screen, the requester B's mail address “userB @ hospital ...” and the information required for purchasing the product with a credit card such as the requester B's credit number are entered. Accepts an instruction to purchase content whose “content ID” is “000125”. The requester transmission unit 302 associates the instruction to purchase the content whose “content ID” is “000125” with the email address “userB @ hospital... It transmits to the content management apparatus 10. This mail address may be considered as identification information of the requester B, or may be considered as identification information of the requester terminal 30a used by the requester B. Here, it is assumed that the content request information includes the instruction to purchase the content with “content ID” “000125” transmitted from the requester transmission unit 302, the mail address of the requester B, the credit card number, and the like. .

  When the content request information receiving unit 104 of the content management apparatus 10 receives the content request information requesting the purchase of the content with the content ID “000125” transmitted from the requester terminal 30a, the content request information is not illustrated. Accumulate on a storage medium.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram showing approval destination management information for managing approval destination identification information stored in advance in an approval destination storage unit (not shown) of the content management apparatus 10. The approval destination management information has a “genre” and an “approval destination ID”. “Genre” is genre information. “Approval destination ID” is approval destination identification information, and here, it is assumed that it is the mail address of the approver terminal 40 that is the transmission destination of the approval instruction. Note that the approval destination identification information may be considered as identification information of an approver as a transmission destination of the approval instruction.

  The approval instruction transmission unit 105 acquires the content ID “000125” included in the content request information, and indicates an approval terminal 40 that is a transmission destination of an approval instruction that instructs the approval of the content with the content ID “000125”. Get the previous identification information. Specifically, the approval instruction transmission unit 105 detects a record whose content ID is “000125” in the content related information management table shown in FIG. 6 and acquires the “genre” value “internal medicine” of the record. To do. That is, “internal medicine” that is genre information of content related information including content identification information “000125” is acquired. Then, “doctor01 @ hospital...” That is “approval destination ID” of the record whose “genre” is “internal medicine” is acquired in the approval destination management information shown in FIG. And the approval instruction | indication which instruct | indicates approval of the content whose content ID is "000125" is transmitted with respect to the approval destination which this approval destination ID "doctor01 @ hospital ..." shows. Here, the approval destination ID is the mail address of the approver terminal 40 serving as the approval destination, and the approval instruction transmission unit 105 transmits an approval instruction to the mail address. Here, this mail address is the mail address of the approver terminal 40a, and the approver using the approver terminal 40a is the approver C here. It is assumed that the approval instruction transmitted here has a URL for the content whose content ID is “000125” stored in the content storage unit 102. Here, it is assumed that the approver is a person in charge of a doctor in the medical department indicated by each genre information.

  The approver receiving unit 401 of the approver terminal 40a receives an instruction to approve a content whose content identification information is “000125”. The approver output unit 402 outputs the approval instruction received by the approver receiving unit 401, and displays it on a monitor (not shown) here.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of an approval instruction displayed on a monitor (not shown) of the approver terminal 40a.

  Here, the approver C acquires (downloads) content whose “content ID” is “000125” and “file name” is “blood01” from the URL of FIG. 9 and displays the content on a monitor or the like. Then, suppose that it is determined that the corrected content can be approved by checking the contents and partially correcting the description that is incomplete from the viewpoint of the medical-related law.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of an approval result transmission screen for transmitting a content approval result.

  The approver C displays an approval result transmission screen as shown in FIG. 10 on the approver terminal 40a, checks the check box for approval, and enters the “content ID” input field 12 of the content to be approved, Assume that “000125” is input, the file name “block01” of the corrected content is specified in the column for specifying the file name of the corrected content, and the “Send” button 14 is pressed. The file name of the corrected content may be the same as or different from the file name of the content before correction.

  When the “Send” button 14 is pressed, a screen (not shown) for inputting the identification information (here, the e-mail address) of the approver (or the approver terminal 40) is displayed. Here, the e-mail address “doctor01 @” is displayed. When "hospital ..." is input, the approver input reception unit 403 of the approver terminal 40a displays an approval result indicating that the content having the "content ID" of "000125" is approved, and the approved corrected content. The file “blood01” is accepted. This approval result has the approver C's mail address as the approver's identification information. Then, the approver transmission unit 404 transmits the received approval result and the corrected content file to the content management apparatus 10. Assume that the approval result to be transmitted is information such as “content ID: 000125; approval result: approval; approver ID: doctor01 @ hospital ...”.

  The approval result receiving unit 106 of the content management apparatus 10 receives the approval result for the content whose “content ID” is “000125” transmitted from the approver terminal 40a and the corrected content. The content transmission unit 107 determines from the received approval result that the content whose “content ID” is “000125” has been approved. The content storage unit 103 determines whether the approval result receiving unit 106 has received the modified content. Here, it is determined that the modified content has been received. For this reason, the action information acquisition unit 109 acquires “000125”, which is the “content ID” that is the object of approval, from the approval result, and reads this content before correction from the content storage unit 102. Then, the difference between the content before correction and the received content after correction is obtained. Here, as an example, only the character difference is acquired. For example, the increased / decreased character string is detected and acquired. Since a technique for obtaining a difference between contents is a known technique, description thereof is omitted here. For example, here, if some character strings are added or deleted, the action information acquisition unit 109 acquires the deleted part and the added part. The approval result receiving unit 106 acquires action information using the acquired difference. Specifically, a value obtained by counting the number of added characters, the number of deleted characters, and the like is acquired as action information. For example, if the total of the number of added characters and the number of deleted characters is 50 characters, action information indicating that 50 characters have been corrected to “50” is acquired. When the modified content has not been received, the difference is not acquired as described above, and action information “0” indicating that only the approval process has been performed is acquired.

  After acquiring the difference, the content storage unit 103 overwrites the content before correction with the corrected content. When the file name after modification is changed, the value of “content” of the record whose “content ID” of the content related information shown in FIG. 4 is “000125” becomes the file name after modification. However, since the file names are the same here, the value of “content” does not change. Note that, when the modified content is not received, the content accumulation processing described above is not performed.

  FIG. 11 is an action ratio management table for managing the action information and the ratio of the fee paid to the approver. The action ratio management table includes an item “action” indicating a range of values of the action information and an item “ratio” which is a ratio of a fee paid to the approver for the price of the content.

  The accounting processing unit 110 performs a process of paying the approver a fee corresponding to the action information “50 character correction” acquired by the action information acquiring unit 109. First, from the approval result received by the approval result receiving unit 106, the mail address “doctor01 @ hospital...” Of the approver C, which is the approver identification information, is read. Also, “1000 yen”, which is the value of “price”, is acquired from the content related information in which the value of “content ID” is the same as the content ID “000125” of the approval result. Since the value indicated by the action information is “50”, the “ratio” associated with the “action” indicating the range of values in which the value falls is acquired from the action ratio management table. Since “50” is included in the range “31 to 60” indicated by “act” in the fourth record from the top in the action ratio management table, the accounting processing unit 110 uses the “ratio” corresponding to this “act”. A certain “20%” is acquired. Then, by multiplying the price “1000 yen” acquired above by this ratio “20%”, “200 yen” that is the amount to be paid is acquired.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram showing transfer destination management information for managing information on the transfer destination of the approver stored in advance in a storage medium (not shown). The transfer destination management information includes items of “authorizer ID”, “transfer bank”, “branch”, “type”, “account number”, and “name holder”. “Approver ID” corresponds to “Approver ID” in FIG. The “transfer bank”, “branch”, “type”, “account number”, and “name holder” indicate the bank name, branch name, type, account number, and name of the payee.

  The accounting processing unit 110 detects the record whose “approver ID” matches the mail address of the approver C “doctor01 @ hospital ...” from the transfer destination management information shown in FIG. 12, and includes it in the detected record Using the information of the “transfer bank”, “branch”, “type”, “account number”, and “name holder”, the transfer process of “200 yen”, which is the payment amount acquired above, is performed. This transfer process is possible by so-called online banking or the like.

  Next, the content transmission unit 107 acquires the content ID “000125” included in the correction result. Then, from the content request information received by the content request information receiving unit 104 and stored in a storage medium (not shown), the content request information that matches “000125” is detected. The e-mail address “userB @ hospital ...”, which is the identification information of the included requester terminal 30a, is acquired, and the content whose purchased “content ID” is “000125” can be acquired for this e-mail address. Send information to inform you. For example, a character string notifying that the content can be acquired and link information having a URL for the content with the content ID “000125” stored in the content storage unit 102 are transmitted.

  The requester receiving unit 303 of the requester terminal 30a corresponding to the mail address “userB @ hospital ...” receives information indicating that the content transmitted by the content transmitting unit 107 can be transmitted, and the requester output unit 304 Displays the received information on a monitor (not shown) or the like.

  FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a display example of information indicating that purchased content can be transmitted by the requester output unit 304 of the requester terminal 30b.

  When the requester C clicks on the link information having the URL of the purchased content on the screen shown in FIG. 13 with a mouse or the like, the content whose purchased content “content ID” is “000125” is transmitted. The requested information is transmitted from the requester transmission unit 302 to the content management information, and the content transmission unit 107 reads out the content having the “content ID” of “000125” from the content storage unit 102 and transmits it to the requester terminal. To 30a. Thereby, the requester terminal 30a can acquire the purchased content.

  Further, the accounting processing unit 110 of the content management apparatus 10 charges the price “1000 yen” of the transmitted content by using the credit card number included in the content request information whose “content ID” matches “000125”. Perform the process. Details of the billing process are omitted.

  Note that, in the above, when the approval result received by the approval result receiving unit 106 indicates that the approval has not been made (that is, when the content has been rejected), the content transmission unit 107 displays the content that has not been approved. Transmission is not performed, and information indicating that the content can be output is not transmitted. In this case, the rejection information transmission unit 108 acquires the “content ID” of the rejected content from the approval result indicating that it has been rejected. In the above case, the content ID “000125” is acquired. Then, the “provider ID” “userA @ hospital...” Corresponding to the content ID “000125” is acquired from the content related information management table shown in FIG. 6, and the provider indicated by the “provider ID” Information indicating the approval result is transmitted. Here, since the provider ID “userA @ hospital...” Is the mail address of the provider terminal 20a used by the provider A, information indicating the approval result is transmitted to the mail address. For example, the denial information transmission unit 108 reads the content file name “blood01” and the title “blood glucose level measurement manual” from the content related information whose “content ID” is “000125”, and uses this information to obtain an approval result. Is generated and transmitted. For example, “Content with file name“ blood01 ”and title“ blood glucose level measurement manual ”was not approved. ] Indicating the approval result is transmitted. Thereby, the provider can know the content that has not been approved. The information indicating the approval result may include information on the approver (for example, identification information of the approver).

  Further, when it is desired to set a plurality of approvers for one content, for example, a plurality of approval destination identification information corresponding to one genre information may be prepared in the approval destination management information shown in FIG. When the content request information receiving unit 104 receives the content request information, the approval instruction transmitting unit 105 acquires a plurality of approval destination identification information according to the genre information corresponding to the requested content, and each approval request is received. An approval instruction may be transmitted to the destination identification information. Also, in this case, the approval result receiving unit 106 acquires information on the number of transmission destinations of the approval instruction transmitted by the approval instruction transmitting unit 105, and when receiving the same number of approval results as the number of transmission destinations. It may be determined whether or not all the approval results indicate that the content is approved, and it is determined that the content is approved only when all of the approval results are approved. In this way, content approval is performed by a plurality of approvers, so that it is possible to prevent a check omission of content at the time of approval.

  In this case, when the content request information receiving unit 104 receives the modified content, each time the modified content is received, the behavior information is acquired from the difference between the content, and the fee corresponding to the acquired behavior information This payment process may be performed for each approver whose content has been corrected.

  In the above specific example, the content request information, the approval instruction, the approval result, and the like are associated with each other by “content ID”, but these associations may be performed in any manner. For example, content request information is added to the content request information, the content request information is used instead of the content ID, or the content ID and the content request information are used together. It goes without saying that information, approval instructions, approval results, and the like may be associated.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the received content can be approved, and only the approved content can be transmitted to the requester terminal that requests the content. Can be managed appropriately.

  In each of the above embodiments, each process (each function) may be realized by centralized processing by a single device (system), or by distributed processing by a plurality of devices. May be.

  In each of the above embodiments, it goes without saying that two or more communication means (such as a content receiving unit and an approval instruction transmitting unit) existing in one device may be physically realized by one medium.

  The software that realizes the content management apparatus in each of the above embodiments is a program as described below. That is, this program provides a computer that can access a content storage unit in which content-related information, which is information including content received by the content receiving unit and content identification information that is content identification information, is stored. A content receiving unit that receives content transmitted by one or more provider terminals that are information terminals used by a user, and a content storage unit that stores content-related information including content received by the content receiving unit in a content storage unit; A transmission request that is information transmitted by one or more requester terminals that are information terminals used by the content requester and that requests transmission of the content identification information and the content associated with the content identification information Content request information that is information including information. Information transmitted from the content request information receiving unit and one or more approver terminals that are information terminals used by the content approver and indicating the result of the approval process for the content received by the content receiving unit. When the approval result receiving unit that receives the approval result and the content requested by the content request information are approved content, the content is read from the content storage unit and transmitted to the requester terminal that is the transmission source of the content request information This is a program for functioning as a content transmission unit.

  In the program, the functions realized by the program do not include functions that can be realized only by hardware. For example, a function that can be realized only by hardware such as a modem or an interface card in an acquisition unit that acquires information or an output unit that outputs information is not included in the function realized by the program.

  Further, the computer that executes this program may be singular or plural. That is, centralized processing may be performed, or distributed processing may be performed.

  FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of an external appearance of a computer that executes the above-described program to realize the content management apparatus, the provider terminal 20, the requester terminal 30, and the approver terminal 40 according to the above-described embodiment. The above-described embodiment can be realized by computer hardware and a computer program executed on the computer hardware.

  14, a computer system 900 includes a computer 901 including a CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory) drive 905 and an FD (Floppy (registered trademark) Disk) drive 906, a keyboard 902, a mouse 903, a monitor 904, and the like. Is provided.

  FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of the computer system 900. In FIG. 15, in addition to the CD-ROM drive 905 and the FD drive 906, a computer 901 is connected to an MPU (Micro Processing Unit) 911, a ROM 912 for storing a program such as a bootup program, and the MPU 911. A RAM (Random Access Memory) 913 that temporarily stores program instructions and provides a temporary storage space, a hard disk 914 that stores application programs, system programs, and data, and an MPU 911 and a ROM 912 are interconnected. And a bus 915. The computer 901 may include a network card (not shown) that provides connection to the LAN.

  A program that causes the computer system 900 to execute the functions of the content management apparatus and the like according to the above-described embodiment is stored in the CD-ROM 921 or FD 922, inserted into the CD-ROM drive 905 or FD drive 906, and stored in the hard disk 914. May be forwarded. Instead, the program may be transmitted to the computer 901 via a network (not shown) and stored in the hard disk 914. The program is loaded into the RAM 913 when executed. The program may be loaded directly from the CD-ROM 921, the FD 922, or the network.

  The program does not necessarily include an operating system (OS) or a third-party program that causes the computer 901 to execute the functions of the content management apparatus according to the above-described embodiment. The program may include only a part of an instruction that calls an appropriate function (module) in a controlled manner and obtains a desired result. How the computer system 900 operates is well known and will not be described in detail.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications are possible, and it goes without saying that these are also included in the scope of the present invention.

  As described above, the content management device according to the present invention is suitable as a device for managing content, and is particularly useful as a device for providing approved content.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Content management system 10 Content management apparatus 20, 20a, 20b Provider terminal 30, 30a, 30b Requester terminal 40, 40a, 40b Approver terminal 101 Content receiving part 102 Content storage part 103 Content storage part 104 Content request information receiving part 105 approval instruction transmission unit 106 approval result reception unit 107 content transmission unit 108 denial information transmission unit 109 action information acquisition unit 110 accounting processing unit 201 provider storage unit 202 provider transmission unit 203 provider reception unit 204 provider output unit 301 request Requester transmission unit 302 Requester transmission unit 303 Requester reception unit 304 Requester output unit 401 Approver reception unit 402 Approver output unit 403 Approver input reception unit 404 Approver transmission unit

Claims (12)

A content receiving unit that receives content transmitted by one or more provider terminals that are information terminals used by the content provider;
A content storage unit that stores content-related information that is information including content received by the content receiving unit and content identification information that is identification information of the content;
A content storage unit that stores content-related information including content received by the content receiving unit in the content storage unit;
A transmission request that is information transmitted by one or more requester terminals that are information terminals used by a content requester, and that requests transmission of content identification information and content associated with the content identification information. A content request information receiving unit that receives content request information that is information having information;
An approval instruction transmitting unit that transmits an approval instruction, which is an instruction for requesting approval of the content received by the content receiving unit, to one or more approver terminals that are information terminals used by the approver of the content;
Approval result reception for receiving an approval result, which is information transmitted by one or more approver terminals, and is information indicating the result of the approval process for the content received by the content receiving unit requested for approval by the approval instruction. And
A content transmission unit that, when the content requested by the content request information is an approved content, reads the content from the content storage unit and transmits it to the requester terminal that is the transmission source of the content request information; Prepared ,
The content receiving unit receives genre information that is information indicating the genre of the content in addition to the content,
The approval instruction transmitting unit transmits an approval instruction to an approver terminal corresponding to a genre indicated by genre information for the content. The authorization instruction transmission unit, when the content request information receiving unit receives the content request information, the content management apparatus of claim 1, wherein transmitting the authorization indication about the content to which the content request information indicates. The authorization instruction transmission unit, when the content receiving unit receives the content, the content management apparatus according to claim 1 for transmitting an approval indication for the content. The approval instruction transmission unit transmits an approval instruction to two or more approver terminals designated in advance,
When the content transmission unit indicates that all of the approval results transmitted by two or more approver terminals for the content requested by the content request information are approved content, the content storage unit stores the content in the content storage unit. from the read content management apparatus according to any one claims 1 to 3, to be sent to the sender of the content request information. When the approval result received by the approval result receiving unit indicates that the content has been rejected, a denial information transmitting unit is further provided that transmits information indicating the approval result to the provider terminal that has transmitted the content. The content management apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4 . The content is associated with content fee information indicating a fee for the content,
An accounting processing unit that performs processing for paying a part of a fee of content to be approved indicated by the approval result to an approver using an approver terminal that is a transmission source of the approval result. The content management apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5 . An action information acquisition unit that acquires action information that is information indicating an action performed by an approver using the approver terminal at the time of approval;
The content management apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the accounting processing unit performs a process of paying the approver a different fee according to the action information out of the fee of the content to be approved. The content, the content management device according to any one of claims 1 to 7 which is a medical institution documentation. And content, a content storage unit for content-related information is stored is information having the content identification information which is identification information of the content, the content receiving unit, a content storage unit, a content request information receiving unit, approval A content management method performed using an instruction transmission unit, an approval result reception unit, and a content transmission unit,
A content receiving step in which the content receiving unit receives content transmitted by one or more provider terminals which are information terminals used by the content provider;
A content storage step in which the content storage unit stores content-related information including the content received in the content reception step in the content storage unit;
The content request information receiving unit is information transmitted by one or more requester terminals that are information terminals used by a content requester, and transmits content identification information and content associated with the content identification information. A content request information receiving step for receiving content request information that is information including transmission request information that is information for requesting;
The approval instruction transmission unit transmits an approval instruction that is an instruction for requesting approval of the content received in the content receiving step to one or more approver terminals that are information terminals used by the content approver. Steps,
The approval result receiving unit is information transmitted by one or more approver terminals, and is information indicating the result of the approval process for the content received in the content receiving step requested for approval by the approval instruction. An approval result receiving step for receiving the result;
When the content requested by the content request information is an approved content, the content transmission unit reads the content from the content storage unit and transmits it to the requester terminal that is the transmission source of the content request information. A content transmission step ,
In the content receiving step, in addition to the content, genre information that is information indicating the genre of the content is received,
The approval instruction transmitting step is a content management method for transmitting an approval instruction to an approver terminal corresponding to a genre indicated by genre information for the content. Prior Symbol approved instruction transmission step, the authorization instruction transmission unit, when receiving the content request information by the content request information receiving step, according to claim 9, wherein transmitting an approval indication for the content of the content request information indicating Content management method . And content, the content identification information and is content identification information and the information in which content-related information that can be accessed in the content storage unit which is stored a computer having,
A content receiving unit that receives content transmitted by one or more provider terminals that are information terminals used by the content provider;
A content storage unit that stores content-related information including content received by the content receiving unit in the content storage unit;
A transmission request that is information transmitted by one or more requester terminals that are information terminals used by a content requester, and that requests transmission of content identification information and content associated with the content identification information. A content request information receiving unit that receives content request information that is information having information;
An approval instruction transmitting unit that transmits an approval instruction, which is an instruction for requesting approval of the content received by the content receiving unit, to one or more approver terminals that are information terminals used by the approver of the content;
An approval result reception for receiving an approval result, which is information transmitted by one or more approver terminals and is information indicating an approval process result for the content received by the content receiving unit requested to approve by the approval instruction. And
A content transmission unit that, when the content requested by the content request information is an approved content, reads the content from the content storage unit and transmits it to the requester terminal that is the transmission source of the content request information; to function Te,
The content receiving unit receives genre information that is information indicating the genre of the content in addition to the content,
The approval instruction transmitting unit is a program for transmitting an approval instruction to an approver terminal corresponding to a genre indicated by genre information for the content . Computer
Before Symbol authorization instruction transmission unit, when the content request information receiving unit receives the content request information, according to claim 11 wherein the program that sends an approval indication for the content indicated by the content request information.

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