JP6423272B2 - Corporate information providing apparatus and server program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to technology for collecting corporate information published on a Web site, generating various corporate information using this information, and providing a Web service for providing to a user terminal. In particular, the present invention relates to a technique for collecting company information from a company website, generating various company information using this information, and providing it to a user terminal.

  Nowadays, many companies open their own websites and disclose various company information. As company information, for example, information on business fields, products, services, etc., as well as company outlines such as name, address, representative, capital, financial information, URL, etc. are provided. Visitors can learn a lot about the company through the Web site.

  However, companies change through business activities. For example, address changes due to relocation, change of representatives, increase in capital due to capital increase, expansion of business fields due to efforts for new business, development of new products and services are common changes seen in companies. Accordingly, the company information posted on the website is also changed.

  As a technique for knowing the change of the Web site, for example, the user terminal registers the address of the homepage of the company that desires the update check in the server device, and when the server device detects the update of the homepage of the designated company, the user terminal A service for notifying that the update has been made is known (see Patent Document 1 as an example).

JP 2002-175213 A

  Such a service for notifying the update of the home page is useful in that the update can be known in a timely manner. However, it is impossible to know how the company information posted on the website has been changed.

  In order to know the change contents of the company information, the contents of the Web site before the update may be compared with the contents of the Web site after the update. However, it is rare for companies to publicly announce the date and time of website update. Even if the update date and time is announced, it takes a lot of time and labor to print all the web pages in advance on paper or save them as data, which is a heavy burden. In order to investigate such changes in corporate information for a large number of companies, it takes much more time and effort, and it is unrealistic to do it manually.

  As a real problem, there are many needs to easily and timely know changes in corporate information of as many companies as possible in the business activities of companies in various industries. For example, when conducting sales activities targeting a large number of companies located in a sales area within a few kilometers of radius centered on a sales base, if the changes of each company are easily and timely, a sales proposal that takes that into account Is possible. Such sales proposals are effective for industries and companies that are trying to engage in community-based businesses.

  Of course, it is not only useful for such industries and companies, but it is also useful for various industries and companies regardless of geographical distances to make new business proposals by taking each change in many companies as a business opportunity. Useful. However, as mentioned above, the technology that responds to the request to easily and timely know the contents of changes in each company's information for many companies located in Japan and many companies located in foreign countries. As far as I know, there is nothing. This applies not only to corporate information, but also to corporate information relating to “corporations”, which are organizations whose rights and capabilities are recognized by non-natural persons under the laws of foundations and incorporated associations.

  The present invention has been made against the background of the prior art as described above. The purpose is to provide a technology that can easily and timely know the contents of changes in corporate information published on corporate websites around the world.

The present invention achieves the above object by the following corporate information providing apparatus and server program.
That is, the present invention relates to a corporate information providing apparatus that provides corporate information to a user terminal, a crawler unit that periodically collects web pages from a corporate website, and a web page holding unit that includes a storage device that accumulates web pages. A set of predetermined information items related to corporate information (hereinafter referred to as corporate outline items) is defined as unified corporate information, and corporate information corresponding to the corporate outline items is extracted from the web page stored by the web page holding unit, A unified corporate information generation unit that creates unified corporate information of the corporation, and a corporate information holding unit that is a storage device that stores the unified corporate information, and the unified corporate information generation unit extracts the latest corporate The information is compared with the corporate information of the past unified corporate information of the corporation that the corporate information holding unit accumulates, so that changes are detected, thereby making the latest corporate information. And the unified corporate information that, by creating the difference display of the latest unified corporate information and the past of a unified corporate information is characterized by the accumulation in the corporate information holding unit.
Further, the present invention is a server program for providing corporate information to a user terminal, wherein a computer control device periodically collects Web pages from a corporate website and a predetermined information item regarding corporate information ( Hereinafter, a set of corporate outline items) is defined as unified corporate information, a process of extracting corporate information corresponding to the corporate outline items from the collected Web pages, and the latest corporate information extracted is stored in a storage device. If a change is detected in comparison with the corporate information of the past unified corporate information of the relevant corporation, create the unified corporate information based on the latest corporate information and the difference display between the latest unified corporate information and the past unified corporate information. And a server program for executing processing to be stored in the storage device.

  According to these aspects of the present invention, unified corporate information that is a comparative format that can easily grasp before and after the change is generated based on corporate information (for example, corporate information) periodically collected from a corporate (for example, corporate) website. . Then, the latest unified corporate information, past unified corporate information, and their difference display are created and provided to the user terminal. Accordingly, it is possible to easily and timely know the contents of changes in corporate information published on the website by corporations all over the world in a comparable format.

The “latest unified corporate information and past unified corporate information” transmitted to the user terminal can be implemented by the following three embodiments, for example.
[1] The form of transmitting all corporate information included in the latest and past unified corporate information [2] All corporate information is transmitted for the latest unified corporate information, and the latest unified for the past unified corporate information Form of transmitting old corporate information different from corporate information [3] Form of transmitting corporate information different from past unified corporate information for the latest unified corporate information, and transmitting all corporate information for past unified corporate information

  The “difference display” can be configured as a highlighted corporate information of the latest unified corporate information changed from the past unified corporate information. Examples of such emphasis display include emphasis display by character decoration (for example, character color change, character size change, underline addition, character frame addition, blank character display, etc.), background decoration emphasis display (for example, within a display frame) Coloring of the background).

The corporate information providing apparatus of the present invention includes a needs holding unit that is a storage device that accumulates business needs that are expected to be generated in a corporate if it changes for each corporate outline item, and the unified corporate information generating unit is When the change is detected, the business needs associated with the changed corporate outline item are extracted from the needs holding unit, and the latest unified corporate information of the corporate is created including the business needs.
Further, the server program accumulates business needs that are expected to occur in a corporation if the storage device changes for each corporate summary item, and when the control device detects the change, The business needs associated with the changed corporate summary item are extracted, and the latest unified corporate information of the corporate is created including them.

  According to these aspects of the present invention, not only can the contents of changes in corporate information be provided in a comparable format, but also business needs corresponding to the changed corporate outline items are included in the unified corporate information. Therefore, the user can know not only the change of the corporation but also the business needs assumed to occur now or in the future through the latest unified corporation information.

In the corporate information providing apparatus of the present invention, the corporate information holding unit accumulates unified corporate information of a plurality of corporations, and when the unified corporate information generating unit detects the change, the corporate information holding unit holds another corporation The unified corporate information is searched, and related corporate information including at least one corporate entity having corporate information related to the changed corporate outline item is created.
In the server program, the storage device stores unified corporate information of a plurality of corporations, and when the control device detects the change, the storage device searches the unified corporation information of other corporations held by the storage device, and has changed. The related corporation information including at least one corporation having corporate information related to the corporate outline item is created.

  According to these aspects of the present invention, not only can the contents of changes in corporate information be provided in a comparable format, but also the corporations associated with the changed corporate summary item can be found from the corporations around the world that have accumulated unified corporate information. be able to. In other words, it is possible to know a corporation, particularly a corporation, that may create a current or future business network.

In the corporate information providing apparatus of the present invention, the unified corporate information generation unit creates the latest unified corporate information of the corporation including related corporate information.
In the server program, the control device creates the latest unified corporate information of the corporation including the related corporation information.

  According to these present inventions, it is possible to know related corporate information along with the latest unified corporate information.

In the corporate information providing apparatus of the present invention, address information is included in the corporate summary item of the unified corporate information, and a map image holding unit including a storage device that stores a map image to be displayed on the user terminal, and address information A position information holding unit that is a storage device that accumulates position information indicating position coordinates on the corresponding map image, and a display process for arranging a marker image indicating the location of the company at the coordinate position on the map image corresponding to the address information. A display processing unit to be executed.
Further, in the server program, address information is included in the corporate summary item of the unified corporate information, and the storage device displays a map image displayed on the user terminal and a position indicating a position coordinate on the map image corresponding to the address information. The information is stored, and the control device executes a display process of arranging a marker image indicating the location of the corporation at the coordinate position on the map image corresponding to the address information.

  According to these aspects of the present invention, it is possible to know the locations of corporations around the world that have accumulated unified corporation information, in particular, the locations of companies, using marker images arranged on a map image. In the case of a company, the marker image is arranged not only at the head office location but also at business locations such as sales offices, branch offices, and stores.

In the corporate information providing apparatus of the present invention, the corporate information holding unit stores unified corporate information of a plurality of corporations, and creates corporate list information having common address information from the unified corporate information of the corporate information holding unit. And a display processing unit executes a display process for including corporate list information on the map image when a marker image on the map image is selected by the user terminal.
In the server program, the storage device stores unified corporate information of a plurality of corporations and corporate list information having common address information, and when a marker image on a map image is selected by a user terminal. The control device executes a process for displaying the corporate list on the map image.

  According to these aspects of the present invention, it is possible to easily know a corporation, particularly a company, located in a building or facility with a marker image associated with a map image. In the case of a company, what is displayed in the corporate list includes business bases such as sales offices, branches, and stores.

In the corporate information providing apparatus according to the present invention, the display processing unit reads the unified corporate information of the corporate from the corporate information holding unit by selecting the corporate included in the corporate list on the map image by the user terminal, and the user Execute the process to send to the terminal.
The server program executes a process in which the control device transmits the unified corporate information of the corporation to the user terminal when the corporation included in the corporate list on the map image is selected by the user terminal.

  According to these present inventions, it is possible to easily know corporate information of a corporation located in a building or facility with a marker image.

According to the corporate information providing apparatus and the server program of the present invention, it is possible to easily and timely know the contents of changes in corporate information and corporate information that are disclosed by corporations around the world, especially corporations on the website, in a format that can be compared. it can.
In addition, if we can know the business needs and related corporate information of corporations around the world that have changed, it will be possible to analyze not only past changes but also future trends of those corporations.
Therefore, according to the present invention, for example, in a business activity of many companies, it becomes possible to effectively implement a new business proposal that captures changes in many companies as business opportunities.

1 is a configuration diagram of a corporate information providing system including a corporate information providing apparatus according to a first embodiment. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of Web page data held by the Web page holding unit in FIG. 1. Explanatory drawing of the dictionary data which shows the corporate | summary summary item and its synonym / search word which the synonym dictionary holding | maintenance part of FIG. 1 accumulate | stores. Explanatory drawing of unified corporate information data which the corporate information holding part of FIG. 1 accumulates. Explanatory drawing of the corporate list data which the corporate list holding | maintenance part of FIG. 1 accumulate | stores. The flowchart which produces | generates and accumulate | stores unified corporation information by 1st Embodiment. The flowchart of corporate information provision by 1st Embodiment. Explanatory drawing of the corporate information screen by 1st Embodiment. The flowchart of the map display with a marker image by 1st Embodiment. Explanatory drawing of the map screen display by 1st Embodiment. The flowchart which displays the corporation list by a 1st embodiment. Explanatory drawing of the map screen display containing the corporate list by 1st Embodiment. The flowchart which displays a corporate information screen. The block diagram of the corporate information provision system containing the corporate information provision apparatus by 2nd Embodiment. Explanatory drawing of the need data which the needs holding part of FIG. 14 accumulate | stores. The flowchart which produces | generates and accumulate | stores unified corporation information by 2nd Embodiment. Explanatory drawing of the corporate information screen by 2nd Embodiment. The flowchart which produces | generates and accumulate | stores unified corporation information by 3rd Embodiment. Explanatory drawing which shows the relationship between A company and its affiliate. Explanatory drawing of the corporate information screen by 3rd Embodiment.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Components common to the following embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

First Embodiment [FIGS. 1 to 13]
FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a corporate information providing system 1 according to the first embodiment. A corporate information providing apparatus 2 that executes a web service that provides corporate information, a web that publishes a corporate website such as a corporation or foundation. A server 3 (hereinafter, “3” is also used for a website provided by the Web server 3) and a user terminal 4 that uses the Web service, which are connected via an Internet network 5. ing.
The corporate information providing device 2 and the Web site 3 are implemented by a server device, and the user terminal 4 is implemented by a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone, a smartphone, a tablet terminal, and a notebook personal computer, or a stationary personal computer.
In this embodiment, the user terminal 4 connects / disconnects the corporate information providing apparatus 2 with a general login operation that involves authentication with a predetermined user ID and password on a browser screen displayed on the display device of the user terminal 4. Performed by logout operation.

  In this corporate information providing system 1, the corporate information providing apparatus 2 accesses a large number of corporate websites 3 to periodically collect web pages, and arranges corporate information extracted from the web pages in a unified format. Generate “unified corporate information”. For example, it is generated when a change is detected in corporate information extracted from a Web page collected periodically. The corporate information providing apparatus 2 transmits “latest unified corporate information”, “past unified corporate information”, and “difference display” thereof in response to a request from the user terminal 4. The user terminal 4 can view the latest corporate information and past corporate information for each corporate entity that publishes the Web site 3 together with a comparable difference display.

  Until now, for example, when a user wants to know a change of a company from the website 3 of the company he / she is interested in, the user has regularly accessed the website 3 himself / herself and written on the web page. I had to find out where the content I had changed. However, according to the corporate information providing system 1, the user can easily know that the corporation has changed and before and after the change without taking such effort. When the corporate information providing system 1 is most widely used, corporate information can be collected from the web pages of corporations around the world that publish the website 3. It is easy to know while staying.

  The corporate information providing device 2 is implemented by a server device, and includes an input unit 6, a control unit 7 as a “control device”, a storage device 8, a display unit 9, and a communication unit 10.

  The input unit 6 includes an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse.

  The control unit 7 is configured by a central processing unit that executes the server program of the present embodiment. As a specific functional configuration, a crawler unit 11, a unified corporate information generation unit 12, an analysis unit 13, a corporate list creation unit 14, and a display processing unit 15 are provided.

  The storage device 8 is configured by an external storage device such as a hard disk. As a specific functional configuration, a web page holding unit 16, a synonym dictionary holding unit 17, a corporate information holding unit 18, a corporate list holding unit 19, a map image holding unit 20, and a position information holding unit 21 are provided.

  The display unit 9 includes a display device such as a display.

  The communication unit 10 includes a network modem and a network adapter for connecting the corporate information providing apparatus 2 to the Web server 3 and the user terminal 4 via the Internet network 5.

Next, details of the control unit 7 will be described.
The crawler unit 11 periodically collects web pages from a “corporate” website 3 such as a company, a foundation, or an association, and executes a process of storing the web pages in the web page holding unit 16 of the storage device 8. The Web site 3 to be accessed is a Web site 3 of corporations around the world that is open to the Internet 5. Whether or not it is a corporate website 3 is searched for whether the corporate name included in the web page includes a term indicating a legal personality, and if it is included, it is determined that the corporate website 3 is included. Otherwise, it is not determined as a corporate website 3. Accordingly, the language used for the website 3 is not limited to Japanese, and any website 3 in any language can be used as long as it is a corporate website 3.
However, in addition to the corporate websites 3 around the world, geography such as country (Japan, USA, France, etc.), region (Kanto, Kyushu, etc.), city (Osaka, Tokyo, etc.) It is possible to target the Web site 3 of a corporation located there with specific conditions. When determining the corporations to be collected based on these geographical conditions, whether the address information posted on the web page of each corporation is extracted and collected depending on whether it corresponds to the name of the area to be collected Is decided.
The frequency of collection can be set in an arbitrary period. For example, a predetermined number of days such as every day, the 15th, the 30th, and the 60th, the number of months, the beginning of the month, and the end of the month can be set. The collection frequency can be set high for the Web site 3 with high update frequency, and the collection frequency can be set low for the Web site 3 with low update frequency.

The unified corporate information generating unit 12 detects predetermined corporate information from the web page of the corporate website 3 stored in the web page holding unit 16 to generate “universal corporate information”, and generates the corporate information in the storage device 8. Processing to be stored in the holding unit 18 is executed.
Corporate information is disclosed in various display forms for each corporate website 3. For example, when “company name” is extracted from a Web page, the official company name is generally described in “company profile”. However, even if “Company Name” is written in “Company Profile”, it is listed in the “Company Name” item column in Company A, or in the “Name” item column in Company B. Moreover, it may be described without providing a specific item column. These inconveniences are the same for other corporate information. If the item fields for describing the company information are unified in the Web sites 3 of all companies, the corporate information to be obtained can be collected relatively easily from the Web page 3, but this is not done.
The unified corporate information generation unit 12 executes an analysis process for organizing corporate information published in various item fields for each corporate website 3 into a unified format.

The unified corporate information generation unit 12 includes an update processing unit 13. The update processing unit 13 first determines whether the corporate information extracted from the web page 3 by the unified corporate information generating unit 12 matches the past corporate information stored in the corporate information holding unit 18 of the storage device 8. Execute the process of determining.
If all the extracted corporate information matches the past corporate information, the past corporate information is retained as it is.
On the other hand, if the extracted corporate information does not match the past corporate information, the latest unified corporate information is newly generated and stored in the corporate information holding unit 18 without overwriting the past unified corporate information. Execute the accumulation process. At the same time, the update processing unit 13 generates a “difference display” for visualizing the latest corporate information changed from the past corporate information. The “difference display” according to the present embodiment executes a process necessary for emphasizing the character decoration that underlines the latest changed corporate information among the latest unified corporate information displayed on the user terminal 4.

  The corporate list creating unit 14 creates a “corporate list” having a common address from the “unified corporate information” held by the corporate information holding unit 19 and stores the corporate list in the corporate list holding unit 19.

The display processing unit 15 reads out the map image stored in the map image holding unit 20 in response to a request from the user terminal 4 and uses the position information corresponding to the position coordinates on the map image as address information from the position information holding unit 21. Read out to generate a map image.
At this time, the display processing unit 15 performs display processing for arranging a marker image indicating that the corporation that created the unified corporate information is located at the coordinate position on the map image corresponding to the address information stored in the corporate list holding unit 19. Run. The user terminal 4 displays a map image to which the marker image is added.
When the marker image is selected by the user terminal 4, the display processing unit 15 extracts the “corporate list” stored in the corporate list holding unit 19 and transmits the display screen to the user terminal 4. Run. Thereby, the corporate list is displayed on the user terminal 4.

The corporate information providing apparatus 2 transmits position information corresponding to the position coordinates of the map image to the Web browser of the user terminal 4 as cookie information each time the display area of the map image on the user terminal 4 is changed. The control device of the user terminal 4 stores it in the web browser. Therefore, when the user terminal 4 logs out from the corporate information providing device 2 and logs in again, the control device of the user terminal 4 transmits the position information, and the display processing unit 15 responds to the request with the same display area as when logging out. The map image with the marker image is sent.
In this way, when logging in, when the user wants to see the same map image as the previous time, it is convenient that the user does not need to adjust the display area each time. If the unified corporate information of the corporation included in the display area of the map image is updated before the user terminal 4 logs in again, the display of the marker image changes as will be described later. There is an advantage that changes in corporate information within the range of can be immediately grasped.

Next, details of the storage device 8 will be described.
The web page holding unit 16 accumulates web pages of the web site 3 collected by the crawler unit 11. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, the Web page data 16a held by the Web page holding unit 16 is assigned a common “identifier” 16b for each Web site 3, that is, the same domain name, and identifies a corporation for each identifier 16b. To do. Further, “URL” 16c and “Web page number” 16d are assigned to each Web page having the same domain name, and the page data 16e of each Web page is held.

The synonym dictionary holding unit 17 accumulates synonym dictionary data 17 a for the unified corporate information generating unit 12 to collect specific corporate information from the Web page of the Web site 3. In the synonym dictionary data 17a of the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, "corporate outline item" 17b constituting unified corporate information is defined.
Specifically, “corporate name” “establishment” “representative” “capital” “address” “TEL” “business” “products / services” “business partners” “banks” “shareholders” “stock market” “number of employees” “Sales” “URL”. In each of these corporate outline items, for example, “synonyms / search words” as exemplified in FIG. 3 are set. In FIG. 3, only Japanese is shown as a synonym / search word. However, not only Japanese but also other languages may be included. It is also possible not to include Japanese as only English or other languages.
The unified corporate information generation unit 12 searches the web page of the corporate website 3 stored in the web page holding unit 16 for data including any of the “synonyms / search words” of the “corporate overview item”. By extracting the content (corporate information) whose item name is “synonyms” detected by the above, it is stored in the corporate information holding unit 18 as the content (corporate information) of the corporate outline item.

  The corporate information holding unit 18 stores the unified corporate information generated by the unified corporate information generating unit 12. This unified corporate information is composed of unified corporate information data 18a as shown in FIG. 4, for example. The unified corporate information data 18a is given a new data number 18b for each identifier 16b of the web page data 16a every time the unified corporate information 18c is updated, and each content (corporate) of the corporate outline item of the unified corporate information 18c. Information) is also updated.

  The corporate list holding unit 19 holds corporate list data 19a. In this embodiment, the corporate list data 19a includes a “list number” 19b, “address information” 19c, “position coordinates” 19d, “identifier” 16b, “corporate name” 19e, and “URL” 19f as shown in FIG. Composed. Among them, the address information 19c, the corporate name 19d, and the URL 19e are those obtained by transcription of the unified corporate information data 18a. As described above, the corporate list data 19a includes a “corporate list” 19g in which corporates having common address information are listed.

The map image holding unit 20 accumulates map images. The corporate information providing apparatus 2 acquires a map image from an external map server via the Internet network 5 and holds it in the map image holding unit 20.
This map image is an area provided by the corporate information providing apparatus 2 to the user terminal 4. Therefore, if the region to be provided is the world, it is a map image of the world, if it is a specific country, it is a map image of that country, and if it is a specific region of a specific country, it is a map image of that region. If it is a city, it becomes a map image of the city. The map image has a real space coordinate system, for example, coordinates of latitude and longitude, and each point on the map image is given position information indicating the position of the real world, specifically, a latitude and longitude value. ing.

  The position information holding unit 21 stores correspondence between address information and position information indicating the position on the map image indicated by the address information. The address information is a set of addresses existing in the real world, and each address holds position information on the map image, specifically, latitude and longitude values in association with each other. The range of the address information held by the position information holding unit 21 corresponds to the area provided by the corporate information providing apparatus 2 to the user terminal 4, similarly to the map image holding unit 20. Further, the address information 19c of the unified corporate information data 18a and the corporate list data 19a is attached based on the address information held by the position information holding unit 21.

Provision of corporate information by corporate information providing apparatus 2 [FIGS. 6 to 13]
Next, the flow of provision of corporate information by the corporate information providing apparatus 2 will be described.

Collection and accumulation of Web pages [Fig. 6]
The crawler unit 11 of the corporate information providing apparatus 2 acquires a Web page 3 by visiting a corporate website 3 such as a company published on the Internet 5 by so-called robot search, and the acquired Web page 3 is a Web page. The web page data 16a is stored in the holding unit 16 (S11).
The page data 16a may be stored as a whole including the image and text of the Web page 3, but may be a part of the data because the amount of data becomes enormous. In some cases, for example, to create unified corporate information to be provided to the user terminal, such as a web page 3 of a company overview, a web page 3 of a business overview, a web page 3 of product introduction, and a service introduction as described later. The web page 3 on which necessary content is posted is specified by URL and stored.

Generation and storage of unified corporate information [Figure 6]
When new data is accumulated in the web page data 16 a of the web page holding unit 16, the unified corporation information generating unit 12 generates a synonym for each corporate outline item 17 b of the synonym dictionary data 17 a stored in the synonym dictionary holding unit 17. A search is performed for page data 16e using as a search word (S13).
Specifically, it is determined whether there is an item field corresponding to “corporate name” in the page data 16e, and whether or not there is text data corresponding to any of the search words set as synonyms. (S15). The other corporate outline item 17b is searched in the same manner.

As a result, if there is an item column corresponding to each corporation summary item 17b, text data corresponding to the item column is extracted (S17). Thus, the text data of the corporate information extracted for each corporate outline item 17b becomes unified corporate information.
On the other hand, if the item field does not exist, the text data corresponding to the item column is not extracted and the process ends. In this way, information is collected for the website 3 of a corporation such as a company, and unified corporate information for the corporation is generated and provided to the user terminal 4.

  Next, the update processing unit 13 of the unified corporate information generation unit 12 detects whether the unified corporate information of the corporate from which the text data has been extracted is already stored in the corporate information holding unit 18 (S19). This detection is executed, for example, by searching for a corporation having data that matches the URL, company name, and address included in the extracted corporation summary item 17b.

As a result, if not yet stored, the corporate information extracted for each corporate outline item 17b is stored in the unified corporate information data 18a as the unified corporate information 18c of the newly registered corporation.
On the other hand, if already stored, the update processing unit 13 executes a data update process. Specifically, it is detected whether there is a difference between the contents of each corporate outline item 17b extracted this time and the contents of past corporate outline items 17b stored as unified corporate information (S21).

As a result, when there is no difference, the update processing unit 13 does not generate the unified corporate information 18c. That is, the process for creating the unified corporate information 18c by assigning a new data number 18b to the unified corporate information data 18a is not executed.
On the other hand, when there is a difference, the update processing unit 13 generates new unified corporate information 18c (S25). That is, the update processing unit 13 assigns a new data number 18b to the unified corporate information data 18a, and text data of the corporate information extracted for each current corporate summary item 17b as new unified corporate information 18c along with the update date and time. accumulate.

  And the update process part 13 also performs the process for displaying a difference easily in the user terminal 4 about the corporate information with a difference before the data storage (S23). In the present embodiment, the information that has changed as the difference display is underlined and the item column is colored. Therefore, after performing the necessary processing, the corporate information holding unit 18 is obtained as unified corporate information 18c. To accumulate. Note that such difference display processing may be performed after data storage of the new unified corporate information 18c.

  By executing the steps as described above for the website 3 of each corporation, the unified corporation information 18c is generated and stored for each corporation. In this case, in the above description, the corporate information providing apparatus 2 generates unified corporate information 18c of corporations around the world that publish the Web site 3.

  On the other hand, as a corporation that generates the unified corporation information 18c, it is possible to limit geographical conditions such as a specific country, region, and city. In this case, for example, when searching for the synonym of “address” in the corporate summary item 17b as a search word in step 15, the search is executed on the condition that a specific country name, region name, and city name are included. To do.

  As a result, if there is an item field corresponding to the “address” of the corporate outline item 17b and a specific country name or the like is included, text data is extracted (S17), and unified corporate information 18c is generated. Proceed to the above processing steps. On the other hand, if a specific country name or the like is not included, the text data is not extracted and the process ends.

  As described above, when providing information on a corporation located in one or more specific countries, the corporation information providing apparatus 2 generates unified corporate information 18c for all corporations having address information of the country. Can be accumulated. Further, when providing information on a corporation located in a specific region or city in a specific country, it is possible to generate and store unified corporate information 18c of all the corporations having address information of that region or city.

Flow of providing corporate information to the user terminal 4 (FIGS. 7 to 13)
Next, a flow in which the corporate information providing apparatus 2 provides corporate information to the user terminal 4 will be described. Below, two provision forms are demonstrated.

(1) 1st provision form [FIGS. 7-8]
The user terminal 4 requests the corporate information providing apparatus 2 to distribute the unified corporate information 18c of a specific corporation after logging on the corporate information providing apparatus 2 (S31). This distribution request is made, for example, on a display screen of a predetermined Web page that transmits a corporate selection provided by the corporate information providing apparatus 2 via the Internet network 5, an information selection for distribution, and a distribution request.

  The control unit 7 of the corporate information providing apparatus 2 determines whether the distribution request from the user terminal 4 is only the latest unified corporate information 18c stored in the corporate information holding unit 18, or the distribution request for the latest and past unified corporate information 18c. Is determined (S33).

As a result, when only the latest unified corporate information 18c is obtained, the control unit 7 reads the latest unified corporate information 18c from the corporate information holding unit 18 and transmits screen data for displaying it in a table format to the user terminal 4. (S35).
In this case, the latest unified corporate information 18c transmitted to the user terminal 4 and displayed on the screen of the display device includes (1) corporate information regarding all corporate summary items 17b, and (2) a specific corporate summary selected by the user. This is performed by any one of corporate information related to the item 17b and (3) corporate information related to the corporate summary item 17b that has changed since the past. Which one is selected is selected on a display screen for selecting information to be distributed by the user terminal 4, but can also be determined by initial setting of the corporate information providing apparatus 2.

  Return to step 33. When the distribution request of the user terminal 4 is the past and latest unified corporate information 18c in step 33, the control unit 7 reads the latest unified corporate information 18c and the past unified corporate information 18c of the corporation from the corporate information holding unit 18. Then, screen data for displaying it in a table format is transmitted to the user terminal 4 (S37).

  As a result, on the user terminal 4, a corporate information screen 22 as shown in FIG. 8, for example, is displayed. The corporate information screen 22 is configured in a table format, which corresponds to the unified corporate information frame 22a corresponding to the "latest information" with the latest update date and "past information (3)" updated before that. Under the unified corporate information frame 22b, a unified corporate information frame corresponding to “past information (2)” and “past information (1)” updated before that is displayed.

The corporate information screen 22 shown in FIG. 8 includes “difference display”.
For example, “Past Information (3)” (22b) is different from “Past Information (2)” in that “Kenya (Kenya)” and “Blue Mountain (Jamaica)” are added to “Product / Service”. It has changed. Similarly, “Past Information (4)” (22a) has “Crystal Mountain (Cuba)” and “Kona (Hawaii Island)” as “Product / Service” as compared to “Past Information (3)” (22b). The number of employees and sales have changed.
In the present embodiment, the update processing unit 13 performs display processing for adding an underline and coloring the item column as “difference display” indicating such a change. Therefore, the user can grasp the changed corporate outline item 17b and the contents immediately by looking at the corporate information screen 22.

(2) Second provision form [FIGS. 9 to 13]
The first form of provision is to display the unified corporate information 18c (corporate information screen 22) on the user terminal 4, but in this form of provision, corporate information is provided in association with a map image.

  The user terminal 4 requests the corporate information providing apparatus 2 to display a map image (S51). The display processing unit 15 of the control unit 7 reads a map image corresponding to the display area requested from the user terminal 4 from the map image holding unit 20 (S53). The display area is specified by the range of position coordinates (for example, latitude and longitude values) associated with the map image.

  Next, the control unit 7 searches the corporate list data 19a of the corporate list holding unit 19 and extracts the list numbers 19b of all corporate lists 19g having address information 19c and position coordinates 19d in the coordinate range of the display area. (S55). Then, after executing a display process of arranging the marker image at the coordinate position on the map image corresponding to the address information 19c and the position coordinate 19d for each corporation list 19g (S57), the display screen is transmitted to the user terminal 4 (S57). S59). An example of the map display screen 23 displayed on the user terminal 4 as described above is shown in FIG.

  The map display screen 23 displays an operation unit 23a for performing various operations such as file operation, editing operation, display operation, a search unit 23b for inputting and executing arbitrary search text, a new arrival information display unit 23c, and a map image 24. It is configured to include a map display unit 23d, and is displayed by a browser that browses the Web site 3.

  Among the above, when an arbitrary search word such as a specific corporate name, business name, product name, or service name is input to the search unit 23b and the search is executed, the control unit 7 searches the corporate information holding unit 18, A corresponding corporation is extracted from the list, a search result list screen is generated, and transmitted to the user terminal 4. When a corporation is selected on the user terminal 4, the control unit 7 transmits a corporate information screen described later to the user terminal 4.

  The newly arrived information display unit 23c displays a list of corporations whose unified corporation information 18c is updated among the corporations stored in the corporation information holding unit 18. When the corporation is selected on the user terminal 4, the control unit 7 transmits a corporation information screen 22 to the user terminal 4.

For example, the following method can be used to select a corporation to be displayed on the new arrival information display unit 23c.
(1) All corporations stored in the corporation information holding unit 18 are targeted.
According to this, it is possible to easily know new arrival information of all corporations stored in the corporation information holding unit 18 such as the world, a country, a region, and a city without omission.
(2) Target only specific corporations that the user is interested in in user settings.
According to this, it is possible to efficiently know only new arrival information of a specific corporation that the user is interested in.
(3) Only corporations included in the display area of the map image 24 displayed on the screen of the user terminal 4 are targeted.
According to this, it is possible to know new arrival information by focusing on a corporation located in a specific area.

  The marker image 25 described above is superimposed on the map image 24 displayed on the map display unit 23d (S71), and the buildings and facilities located there are the corporate headquarters and corporate business bases included in the corporate list 19g. This means the location of a company (for example, a company sales office, branch, or store).

As described above, a corporation is associated with the marker image 25, and “update display” indicating that the unified corporation information 18c of any of the corporations has been updated can be attached. As this “update display”, for example, the marker image 25 can be displayed in a different color, the marker image 25 can be blinked, or a character display such as “NEW!” Can be attached to the marker image 25.
Note that the map image 24 can be enlarged and reduced at an arbitrary magnification. When the display area is changed accordingly, the processing in steps 51 to 59 is repeated, the display area of the map image 24 is changed, and the display number of the marker images 25 is changed accordingly.

  When the user terminal 4 performs an operation of selecting the marker image 25 of the map image 24 (S73), a request for transmission of the corporate list 19g corresponding to the marker image 25 is transmitted to the corporate information providing apparatus 2. The display processing unit 15 of the corporate information providing apparatus 2 reads the data from the corporate list holding unit 19 (S75) and displays the corporate list 26 from the marker image 25 in a balloon. An example of the screen display is shown in FIG. In the corporate list 26, corporate names are listed under the address information.

From such a map display screen 23, it is possible to display the corporate information screen 22 (FIG. 8) including the unified corporate information 18c and the difference display on the user terminal 4 by the three methods shown in FIG.
In the first method, the corporate names listed in the corporate list 26 are selected (S91).
In the second method, the corporate names listed in the new arrival information display unit 23c are selected (S93).
In the third method, a corporate name is input to the search unit 23b, search is performed, and corporate names listed as search results are selected (S95).

  By performing any of the above operations, a distribution request for the corporate information screen 22 of the corporate is transmitted from the user terminal 4 to the corporate information providing apparatus 2 (S97), and the display processing unit 15 is unified from the corporate information holding unit 18. The corporate information 18 c is read out and screen data for displaying the corporate information screen 22 is generated and transmitted to the user terminal 4. Accordingly, the corporate information screen 22 can be displayed on the user terminal 4 (S99).

  As described above, in the second form of provision, the marker image 25 in which the corporation is located in the building / facility of the map image 24 is displayed in a superimposed manner, and the corporation list 26 is displayed in a balloon from there. By doing so, the corporate information is provided on the corporate information screen 22. This has the following advantages.

(1) The user is located in a building / facility with the marker image 25 in any country, region, or city without being restricted by geographical movement by the marker image 25. Can be easily known.
Therefore, for example, when a company conducts business activities, it is possible to easily select an activity area by examining an area where the marker image 25 is large.
(2) The user can easily know the corporation located in the building / facility with the marker image 25 from the corporation list 26.
Therefore, for example, when a company conducts sales activities, it is possible to check in advance buildings and facilities that can be visited by a large number of destinations, so that business activities can be performed efficiently.
(3) The user can know the corporate outline of the corporation through the corporation information screen 22 developed from the corporation list 26.
Therefore, for example, when a company selects a building / facility for business activities, an overview of a plurality of corporations included in the corporation list 26 can be obtained easily and seamlessly by developing the outline from the corporation list 26.
(4) The user knows the change of the corporation through the latest unified corporate information frame 22a and the past unified corporate information frame 22b of the corporate information screen 22 developed in the order of the map image 24, the marker image 25, and the corporate list 26. Can do.
Therefore, for example, when a company conducts business activities, it is possible to make an effective business proposal suitable for the change after grasping the changed matters in advance.
(5) The user can immediately grasp the contents of the change of the corporation by the difference display attached to the unified corporate information frames 22a and 22b of the corporate information screen 22.
(6) The user knows through the common format of unified corporate information 18c corporate summary information, which is often displayed differently on the website 3 of each corporation, through the unified corporate information frames 22a and 22b on the corporate information screen 22. it can. Therefore, even corporations around the world can be easily compared.
(7) By updating the marker image 25, the user selects only the marker image 25 with the updated display from the many marker images 25 displayed on the map image, and the updated latest unified corporate information frame 22a is displayed. You can know the contents.

Second Embodiment [FIGS. 14 to 17]
FIG. 14 shows a corporate information providing system 1 according to the second embodiment. The difference from the first embodiment is the corporate information providing apparatus 2. That is, in the present embodiment, the storage device 8 includes the need holding unit 27. Since other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment, a duplicate description is omitted.

  Needs data 27a as shown in FIG. The needs data 27a stores predetermined corporate outline items 17b and business needs 27b corresponding to the respective corporate outline items 17b. The business needs 27b is needs information that is expected to be generated in a corporation if it changes for each corporate outline item 17b. Of course, if the corporate information providing apparatus 2 is operated, the content to be posted as the business needs 27b corresponding to the corporate outline item 17b can be freely added / deleted / changed. A feature of the present embodiment is to provide the user with the business needs 27a as unified corporate information 18c.

Generation and accumulation of unified corporate information 18c [Fig. 16]
The process from the generation of the unified corporate information 18c by the control unit 7 to the storage of the unified corporate information 18c in the corporate information holding unit 18 is different from the first embodiment in that the update processing unit 13 performs a difference display process in step 23. After.

That is, in the present embodiment, the update processing unit 13 extracts the business needs 27b corresponding to the changed corporate summary item 17b from the needs holding unit 27 (S24). In the unified corporate information data 18a of this embodiment, an item “Business Needs” is set to the right of the “URL” item in the unified corporate information 18c shown in FIG. Therefore, the update processing unit 13 executes a process of writing the business needs 27b extracted there. When there are a plurality of changed corporate outline items 17b, items corresponding to “business needs” are added by the corresponding number such as “business needs (1)”, “business needs (2)”. The
The unified corporate information 18c is generated as described above, and the update processing unit 13 stores it in the corporate information holding unit 18.
The item of the business needs 27b may be written after the new unified corporate information 18c is stored.

Provision of corporate information to the user terminal 4 [FIG. 17]
The difference between the present embodiment and the first embodiment is the configuration of the corporate information screen 22. That is, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 17, items of “business needs (1) products / services” and “business needs (2) number of employees” are displayed in the bottom column of the unified corporate information frame 22a of the corporate information screen 22. It is added and each business needs are displayed. Note that the corporate information screen 22 in FIG. 17 is obtained by extracting only the latest unified corporate information frame 22a of the corporate information screen 22 in FIG. 8 for convenience of explanation.

  According to the second embodiment, the user can use the latest unified corporate information frame 22a and the past unified corporate information frame 22b on the corporate information screen 22 developed in the order of the map image 24, the marker image 25, and the corporate list 26 in order. Can know the changes. In addition to this change, it is possible to know what business needs 27b are currently occurring in the corporation and are likely to occur in the future.

Third Embodiment [FIGS. 18 to 20]
The corporate information providing apparatus 2 according to the third embodiment differs from the first embodiment in that related corporate information is provided to the user terminal 4. Since the structures of the corporate information providing system 1 and the corporate information providing apparatus 2 are the same as those in the first embodiment, a duplicate description is omitted.

Generation and accumulation of unified corporate information 18c (FIGS. 18 and 19)
The process from the generation of the unified corporate information 18c by the control unit 7 to the storage of the unified corporate information 18c in the corporate information holding unit 18 is different from the first embodiment in that the update processing unit 13 performs a difference display process in step 23. After.

That is, in the present embodiment, the update processing unit 13 searches the corporate information holding unit 18 and extracts a corporate having corporate information related to the changed corporate outline item 17b (S26 in FIG. 18).
Therefore, in the unified corporate information data 18a of the present embodiment, a plurality of types of “related corporate information” are set on the right side of the “URL” item of the unified corporate information 18c shown in FIG. In this embodiment, for example, items of “seller”, “vendor”, and “other companies in the same industry” are set in order.

  Then, for example, when a new business is added to the “business” of the corporate outline item 17b of the company A or a new product is added to the “product / service”, related corporation information is generated and unified corporate information is created. The process included in 18c will be described (see FIG. 19).

Extraction and writing of “other companies in the same industry” : The update processing unit 13 searches the corporate information holding unit 18 using the product as a search word, and extracts other corporations including it in the item “product / service”.
Here, it is assumed that company X is extracted as a company including the same product. The update processing unit 13 regards Company X as “a competitor in the same industry” that handles the same product as Company A, and executes a process of writing in the item “Company other company” in the unified corporate information 18c of Company A.

Extraction and writing of “sales partner” : Here, the unified company information 18c of company X includes an item of “customer”, and company Y listed therein is new to company A in the same industry as company X. Potential “sales” candidates. Accordingly, the update processing unit 13 regards the company Y described in the “customer” of the company X as a new “sales party” of the company A, and sets the item “sales destination” in the unified corporation information 18c of the company A. Execute the writing process.

Extraction and Writing of “Supplier” : Assume that Company X includes Company Z in the item “Business Partner” of unified corporate information 18c. In this case, Company Z may sell some production equipment and materials to Company X. Therefore, the update processing unit 13 regards Company Z, which includes Company X as a “business partner”, as a new “supplier” for Company A in the same industry as Company X, and “Supplier” in unified corporate information 18c of Company A. Execute the process of writing in the “destination” item.

The above relationship is illustrated in FIG. In this way, the company related to each item of “seller”, “vendor”, and “other companies in the same industry” is written in the unified company information data 18a (FIG. 4) of the company A, and “related company information” 22e is generated. .
In the above example, Company X, a company in the same industry that shares products with Company A, is set as the first layer, Company Y, which is related to Company X, and Company Z, as the second layer. Although an example of providing certain network information has been shown, of course, related corporation information can also be generated by searching for the third and subsequent layers following the second layer.
In the above example, in order to simplify the explanation, only company X is extracted as a company that handles products common to company A's new products, but there are other companies such as company L shown in FIG. Performs the same writing process as Company X in the same manner as described above.

Provision of corporate information to the user terminal 4 [FIG. 20]
The difference between the present embodiment and the first embodiment is the configuration of the corporate information screen 22. That is, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 20, items of “sales destination”, “vendor”, and “other companies in the same industry” are added to the bottom column of the unified corporate information frame 22a of the corporate information screen 22 as related corporate information 22e. Each corporation name is displayed. Note that the company information screen 22 in FIG. 20 is obtained by extracting only the latest unified company information frame 22a of the company information screen 22 in FIG. 8 for convenience of explanation. In the same way as the corporate information screen 22 is expanded from the corporate list 26, the corporate information screen 22 can be displayed by selecting the corporate name of the related corporate information 22e.

  According to the third embodiment, the user can not only know the change of the corporation by the latest unified corporate information frame 22a and the past unified corporate information frame 22b of the corporate information screen 22, but also the current or It is possible to know and analyze what kind of corporation with which a new business network can be built in the future. The corporations extracted as related corporation information 22e include not only domestic corporations but also corporations in various foreign countries. Therefore, it may be possible to find related corporations that had never been anticipated.

In the above embodiment, various storage devices 8 (Web page holding unit 16, synonym dictionary holding unit 17, corporate information holding unit 18, corporate list holding unit 19, map image holding unit are used as the corporate information providing device 2. 20, the position information holding unit 21 and the need holding unit 27) have been described. However, the control unit 7 may be configured as one or more server apparatuses connected to the control unit 7 via WAN or LAN.

  In the above embodiment, an example in which the control unit 7 of the corporate information providing apparatus 2 executes all the functions of the crawler unit 11, the unified corporate information generation unit 12, the update processing unit 13, the corporate list creation unit 14, and the display processing unit 15. However, you may comprise as a separate server apparatus which each performs each function.

  In the above embodiment, the example in which the user terminal 4 performs the login operation and the logout operation with the user ID and the password in order to connect to the corporate information providing apparatus 2 and release the connection is shown, but this is not essential. Therefore, the user terminal 4 may be configured to receive corporate information provided by the corporate information providing apparatus 2 without performing a login operation or a logout operation.

  The corporate information providing apparatus 2 of the second embodiment can combine and generate and store related corporate information, which is a feature of the corporate information providing apparatus 2 of the third embodiment, and provide it to the user terminal 4.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Corporate information provision system 2 Corporate information provision apparatus 3 Web server (Web site)
4 User terminal 5 Internet network 6 Input unit 7 Control unit (control device)
8 Storage Device 9 Display Unit 10 Communication Unit 11 Crawler Unit 12 Unified Corporate Information Generation Unit 13 Analysis Unit 14 Corporate List Creation Unit 15 Display Processing Unit 16 Web Page Holding Unit 16a Web Page Data 16b Identifier 16c URL
16d Web page number 16e Page data 17 Synonym dictionary holding unit 17a Synonym dictionary data 17b Corporate summary item 18 Corporate information holding unit 18a Unified corporate information data 18b Data number 18c Unified corporate information 19 Corporate list holding unit 19a Corporate list data 19b List number 19c Address information 19d Position coordinates 19e Corporate name 19f URL
19g Corporate List 20 Map Image Holding Unit 21 Location Information Holding Unit 22 Corporate Information Screens 22a and 22b Unified Corporate Information Frame 22d Business Needs 22e Related Corporate Information 23 Map Display Screen 23a Operation Unit 23b Search Unit 23c New Information Display Unit 23d Map Display Unit 24 Map image 25 Marker image 26 Corporate list 27 Needs holding unit 27a Needs data 27b Business needs information

Claims (18)

In a corporate information providing apparatus that provides corporate information to a user terminal,
A crawler unit that periodically collects web pages from multiple corporate websites;
A web page holding unit comprising a storage device for storing web pages;
A set of predetermined information items related to corporate information (hereinafter referred to as corporate outline items) is defined as unified corporate information, and corporate information corresponding to the corporate outline items is retrieved from a web page stored by the web page holding unit for each corporation. A unified corporate information generation unit that extracts and creates unified corporate information of the corporation;
A corporate information holding unit comprising a storage device for storing unified corporate information for each corporate entity,
For each corporation, the unified corporation information generation unit detects a change by comparing the latest extracted corporate information with the corporation information of the past unified corporate information of the corporation that the corporation information holding unit accumulates. The unified corporate information based on the corporate information of the company, and the latest unified corporate information and the difference display between the past unified corporate information are created and stored in the corporate information holding unit.
The difference display is highlighted by character decoration attached to the corporate information in which the change has been detected in the latest unified corporate information of the legal entity displayed on the screen together with the past unified corporate information of the corporation in which the change has been detected or the change. It is highlighted with a background decoration attached to the display frame of the corporate information that detected
Further, the corporation information providing device displays, for each corporation, the latest unified corporation information that displays the latest unified corporation information having the plurality of corporation summary items and the latest corporation information corresponding to the plurality of corporation summary items. Past unified display of the past unified corporate information having an information frame, the plurality of corporate summary items in the latest unified corporate information frame and past corporate information corresponding to the plurality of corporate summary items A corporate information providing apparatus comprising: a control unit that generates a corporate information screen that displays a corporate information frame side by side.
Provided with a needs holding unit consisting of a storage device that accumulates business needs that are expected to occur in a corporation if it changes for each corporate outline item,
The unified corporation information generation unit, when detecting the change, extracts a business need associated with the changed corporate summary item from the needs holding unit and creates the latest unified corporate information of the corporation including the extracted business need. The corporate information providing apparatus described.
In a corporate information providing apparatus that provides corporate information to a user terminal,
A crawler unit that periodically collects web pages from multiple corporate websites;
A web page holding unit comprising a storage device for storing web pages;
A set of predetermined information items related to corporate information (hereinafter referred to as corporate outline items) is defined as unified corporate information, and corporate information corresponding to the corporate outline items is retrieved from a web page stored by the web page holding unit for each corporation. A unified corporate information generation unit that extracts and creates unified corporate information of the corporation;
A corporate information holding unit comprising a storage device for storing unified corporate information for each corporate entity,
For each corporation, the unified corporation information generation unit detects a change by comparing the latest extracted corporate information with the corporation information of the past unified corporate information of the corporation that the corporation information holding unit accumulates. The unified corporate information based on the corporate information of the company, and the latest unified corporate information and the difference display between the past unified corporate information are created and stored in the corporate information holding unit.
The corporate information holding unit stores unified corporate information of a plurality of legal entities,
When the change is detected, the unified corporation information generation unit searches for unified corporation information of another corporation held by the corporation information holding section, and the corporation name of the other corporation including common corporation information is changed to the corporation that has detected the change. It is created as related corporate information of unified corporate information of
Further, the corporation information providing device displays, for each corporation, the latest unified corporation information that displays the latest unified corporation information having the plurality of corporation summary items and the latest corporation information corresponding to the plurality of corporation summary items. Past unified display of the past unified corporate information having an information frame, the plurality of corporate summary items in the latest unified corporate information frame and past corporate information corresponding to the plurality of corporate summary items A corporate information providing apparatus comprising: a control unit that generates a corporate information screen that displays a corporate information frame side by side.
The common corporate information is a common product or service,
4. The corporate information providing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the unified corporate information generation unit regards the other corporation including the common product or service as a competitor in the same industry and creates the related corporate information including a corporate name of the other corporation. .
5. The corporate information according to claim 4, wherein the unified corporate information generation unit extracts a further corporate name included in the unified corporate information of the other corporation regarded as the other company in the same industry and creates the related corporate information including the extracted corporate name. Providing device.
The corporate information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 3 to 5, wherein the unified corporation information generation unit creates the latest unified corporate information of the corporation including related corporation information.
The corporate summary item in the unified corporate information includes address information.
A map image holding unit comprising a storage device for storing map images to be displayed on the user terminal;
A position information holding unit composed of a storage device that stores position information indicating position coordinates on a map image corresponding to address information;
The corporation information providing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising a display processing unit that executes a display process of arranging a marker image indicating the location of a corporation at a coordinate position on a map image corresponding to address information. .
The Corporate Information Holding Department has accumulated unified corporate information for multiple corporations,
It has a corporate list creation unit that creates corporate list information with common address information from the unified corporate information of the corporate information holding unit,
8. The corporate information providing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the display processing unit executes a display process of including corporate list information on the map image when a marker image on the map image is selected by the user terminal.
The display processing unit executes a process of reading out the unified corporate information of the corporation from the corporate information holding unit and transmitting it to the user terminal when a corporation included in the corporate list on the map image is selected by the user terminal. 8. The corporate information providing apparatus according to 8.
A server program for providing corporate information to a user terminal,
In the computer control device,
Processing to periodically collect web pages from multiple corporate websites;
A set of predetermined information items related to corporate information (hereinafter referred to as corporate outline items) is defined as unified corporate information, and for each corporation, a process of extracting corporate information corresponding to the corporate outline items from the collected web pages; ,
For each of the corporations, if a change is detected in comparison with the corporate information of the past unified corporate information of the corporation that stores the latest corporate information extracted in the storage device, the unified corporate information by the latest corporate information, A process for creating a difference display between the latest unified corporate information and past unified corporate information and storing it in a storage device is executed.
The difference display is highlighted by character decoration attached to the corporate information in which the change has been detected in the latest unified corporate information of the legal entity displayed on the screen together with the past unified corporate information of the corporation in which the change has been detected or the change. It is highlighted with a background decoration attached to the display frame of the corporate information that detected
Further, the latest unified corporate information frame for displaying the latest unified corporate information having the plurality of corporate outline items and the latest corporate information corresponding to the plurality of corporate outline items for each of the corporations on the control device. Past unified corporate information that displays the past unified corporate information having the plurality of corporate summary items in the latest unified corporate information frame and past corporate information corresponding to the plurality of corporate summary items A server program that executes a process of generating a corporate information screen that displays a frame side by side.
If the storage device changes for each corporate summary item, it accumulates business needs that are expected to occur in the corporation,
11. The server program according to claim 10, wherein when the change is detected, the control program extracts the business needs associated with the changed corporate outline item from the storage device and creates the latest unified corporate information of the legal entity including the extracted business needs. .
A server program for providing corporate information to a user terminal,
In the computer control device,
Processing to periodically collect web pages from multiple corporate websites;
A set of predetermined information items related to corporate information (hereinafter referred to as corporate outline items) is defined as unified corporate information, and for each corporation, a process of extracting corporate information corresponding to the corporate outline items from the collected web pages; ,
For each of the corporations, if a change is detected in comparison with the corporate information of the past unified corporate information of the corporation that stores the latest corporate information extracted in the storage device, the unified corporate information by the latest corporate information, A process for creating a difference display between the latest unified corporate information and past unified corporate information and storing it in a storage device;
When the change is detected for each corporation, the unified corporation information of the other corporation held in the storage device is searched, and the corporation name of the other corporation including the common corporation information is changed to the unified corporation information of the corporation that has detected the change. Processing to create as related corporation information;
For each of the corporations, the latest unified corporate information frame displaying the latest unified corporate information having the plurality of corporate outline items and the latest corporate information corresponding to the plurality of corporate outline items, and the latest unified The past unified corporate information frame for displaying the past unified corporate information having the plurality of corporate summary items in the corporate information frame and the past corporate information corresponding to the plurality of corporate summary items is displayed side by side. A server program that executes processing for generating a corporate information screen.
The common corporate information is a common product or service,
13. The server program according to claim 12, wherein the control device executes the process of creating the related corporation information including a corporation name of the other corporation, regarding the other corporation including the common product or service as a competitor in the same industry.
The server according to claim 13, wherein the control device extracts a further corporate name included in the unified corporate information of the other corporation regarded as the other company in the same industry, and executes processing for creating the related corporate information including the same. program.
The server program according to any one of claims 12 to 14, wherein the control device creates the latest unified corporate information of the corporation including the related corporation information.
Address information is included in the corporate summary item of the unified corporate information.
The storage device stores a map image displayed on the user terminal and position information indicating position coordinates on the map image corresponding to the address information,
The server program according to any one of claims 10 to 15, wherein the control device executes a display process of arranging a marker image indicating the location of a corporation at a coordinate position on a map image corresponding to address information.
The storage device stores unified corporate information of a plurality of corporations and corporate list information having common address information,
The server program according to claim 16, wherein when a marker image on a map image is selected by a user terminal, the control device executes a process of displaying a corporation list on the map image.
18. The server program according to claim 17, wherein the control device executes a process of transmitting unified corporate information of the corporation to the user terminal when a corporation included in the corporation list on the map image is selected by the user terminal.

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