JP6815922B2 - Business collaboration system and business collaboration method - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a business collaboration system and a business collaboration method. Specifically, when implementing business collaboration processing with a cloud-based branch office terminal function, each event on the host corresponding to the business to be linked It relates to a technology that makes the output destination control of the derived information accurate and efficient.

At each branch of a financial institution, various devices such as branch office terminals (so-called BTS), scanners, teller machines, and ATMs that can handle new business such as accounting business transactions and cooperation with information business are installed. Each business process is executed in cooperation with the core system of the financial institution.

On the other hand, regarding such business cooperation, various measures are being considered for improving business efficiency and service quality. For example, in the conventional technology, an individual system operated by the company and providing one or more services is used. Providing business services by linking software running on multiple system environments, including a common system that provides services that are commonly used by one or more services, and an external system that provides services outside the company. An integrated access control system that controls or authenticates access to the functions of each layer of the application program in an information processing system having an application program composed of a hierarchical model, and presents in the application program in the individual system and the external system. An authentication processing unit that performs authentication processing based on the user and at least one of the channels that the user is using for access to the screen provided by the layer, and user authentication in the authentication processing unit. An authentication control unit having a login control unit that restricts the login of new users according to the number of users logged in through the system, and the individual system when accessing a screen provided by the external system. An integrated access control system (see Patent Document 1), which is characterized by having an authentication linkage interface unit for linking the authentication result when accessed to the external system, has been proposed.

In addition, an information processing device that is communicably connected to each of a client device operated by a user and a plurality of server devices that provide an information processing service is a series of the above-mentioned information processing devices required for the business. For each of the information processing, the server specific information that identifies the server device that provides the information processing is stored in the memory, and a message that includes the business specific information that identifies the business is received from the client device. The business is specified from the business specific information included in the received message, the server specific information corresponding to the specified business is read from the memory, and each of the server devices specified by the read server specific information. On the other hand, an information processing method (see Patent Document 2), which is characterized by transmitting an information processing request requesting the information processing, has also been proposed.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2013-190971 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2007-183793

The above-mentioned branch office terminal is a dedicated terminal specialized for the business. Therefore, in order to achieve business collaboration with other systems, it was necessary to incorporate dedicated software. On the other hand, there is also a need to utilize a tablet terminal, which has become widespread in recent years, as one of the above-mentioned sales office terminals. However, the performance and specifications of tablet terminals are limited, and it is difficult to replace all the functions of branch office terminals, which are dedicated terminals.

Therefore, it is conceivable that the function of the branch office terminal is made into a cloud on a predetermined server (hereinafter, channel server) and the function is provided to the tablet terminal via the network. In this case, the tablet terminal accesses the above-mentioned channel server and receives the provision of the branch office terminal function via the installed browser.

In the case of shifting to the above-mentioned form, the tablet terminal cannot adopt the communication method used for business cooperation with other systems in the conventional branch office terminal. Further, in the case of business cooperation via the above-mentioned channel server, it is necessary to appropriately distribute the notifications of events and screen updates on the host or the like corresponding to the business to be linked for each browser, but a configuration for realizing this has not been proposed.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to accurately and efficiently control the output destination of information derived from each event on the host according to the business to be linked when implementing the business cooperation processing with the cloud-based branch office terminal function. The purpose is to provide the technology.

The business cooperation system of the present invention that solves the above problems is a server that provides a branch office terminal function to a predetermined terminal via a network, and includes a storage device that stores a request received from the predetermined terminal regarding business cooperation processing, and the above. The request is referred to in the storage device according to the predetermined attribute of the response from the host obtained by transmitting the request to the host corresponding to the business to be linked indicated by the request, and the address of the predetermined terminal indicated by the request. And, based on the information about the business system to be the target of the business cooperation process, the operation of specifying the session information with the predetermined terminal, designating the browser on the predetermined terminal based on the session information, and transmitting the display information of the response. It is characterized by including a device and a channel server including.

Further, in the business cooperation method of the present invention, a server that provides a branch office terminal function to a predetermined terminal via a network stores a request received from the predetermined terminal regarding business cooperation processing, and corresponds to the cooperation target business indicated by the request. The request is referred to in the storage device according to the predetermined attribute of the response from the host obtained by transmitting the request to the host, and the address of the predetermined terminal indicated by the request and the target of the business cooperation processing based on the information about the business system consisting identifies the session information of the predetermined terminal, and transmits the display information of the response by the session information specifying the browser in the predetermined terminal, and wherein the.

According to the present invention, when implementing business cooperation processing with the cloud-based branch office terminal function, it is possible to accurately and efficiently control the output destination of information derived from each event on the host according to the business to be linked. it can.

It is a network configuration diagram including the business cooperation system of this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the hardware configuration example of the channel server of this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the hardware configuration example of the tablet terminal of this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the data structure example of the session table of this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the flow example of the business cooperation method in this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the conceptual example of the business cooperation method in this embodiment.

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Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a network configuration diagram including the business cooperation system 10 of the present embodiment. The business collaboration system 10 shown in FIG. 1 accurately and efficiently controls the output destination of information derived from each event on the host according to the business to be linked when implementing the business collaboration processing with the cloud-based branch office terminal function. It is a computer system to be a target.

The business cooperation system 10 shown in FIG. 1 includes a channel server 100 that provides the functions of a branch office terminal in the cloud, a tablet terminal 200 that receives the branch office terminal function via the channel server 100 and network 1, a financing business, and the like. Of the business system 300 that executes the processing related to each business, the host 400 such as the accounting system (hereinafter referred to as the accounting system host), and the GW server 450 that controls access to the accounting system host 400, at least the channel server. It includes 100.

Among the above, the channel server 100 is a server system including a Servlet 110, a J2EE server 111, and a WebSocket server 112 in its configuration. It should be noted that each function of the J2EE server 111 and the WebSocket server 112 may be implemented as software and provided by the single channel server 100.

Further, the tablet terminal 200 is a terminal operated by a teller or the like at each branch office of a financial institution (of course, it may be an officer, and the range of the target person at the branch office is not limited). For example, the tellers perform operations related to account transactions on the tablet terminal 200 in response to an instruction from a customer who is responding to a window.

Further, the business system 300 is a system that is responsible for processing related to each business in a financial institution such as a loan business. In this embodiment, it will be described as an example of a business system for loan business.

Further, the core banking host 400 is a system that executes various processes such as management of a customer's account balance, deposit / withdrawal, transfer, and settlement at a financial institution that operates the channel server 100. The processing on the accounting host 400 in the present embodiment is particularly performed with respect to the request for business cooperation from the tablet terminal 200 described above, and the processing result in response to the request is channeled via the GW server (gateway server). It will be returned to the tablet terminal 200 (browser) via the server 100.
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In addition, each device constituting the business improvement support system 10 in the present embodiment has the following hardware configuration. FIG. 2 shows a hardware configuration example of the channel server 100 of the present embodiment, and FIG. 3 shows a hardware configuration example of the tablet terminal 200 of the present embodiment.

Of these, the channel server 100 is composed of a storage device 101 composed of an appropriate non-volatile storage element such as an SSD (Solid State Drive) or a hard disk drive, and a volatile storage element such as a RAM, as illustrated in FIG. The program 102 held in the memory 103 and the storage device 101 is read into the memory 103 and executed to perform overall control of the device itself, and is connected to the arithmetic device 104 such as a CPU and the network 1 that perform various determinations, calculations and control processes. A communication device 105 that handles communication processing with other devices such as a tablet terminal 200, a business system 300, a GW server 450, and a host 400 is provided.

In addition to the program 102, which is a function required as the channel server 100 in the business cooperation system 100 of the present embodiment, the storage device 101 stores at least the Servlet 110 and the session table 125 (described later). In FIG. 2, for simplification of the description, only the hardware that implements the function of the channel server 100 is illustrated. As described above, the channel server 100 as a server system also includes each server device of the J2EE server 111 and the WebSocket server 112.

Further, as illustrated in FIG. 3, the tablet terminal 200 according to the present embodiment is a storage device 201 composed of an appropriate non-volatile storage element such as an SSD (Solid State Drive) or a hard disk drive, and a volatile storage element such as a RAM. A computing device 204 such as a CPU that performs integrated control of the device itself by reading the program 202 held in the memory 203 and the storage device 201 into the memory 203, and performing various determinations, calculations, and control processes. It includes an input / output device 205 such as a touch panel that receives input from a user and displays processing data, and a communication device 206 that is connected to network 1 and is responsible for communication processing with other devices such as a channel server 100 and a business system 300.

In the storage device 201, at least the browser 210 and the business cooperation API 211 are stored in addition to the program 202 for implementing the functions required for the tablet terminal 200 of the present embodiment. However, the business cooperation API 211 is downloaded from the business system 300 and stored in the storage device 201 when the browser 210 is activated and accesses the business system 300 in the business cooperation.
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Subsequently, the tables used by the channel server 100 constituting the business cooperation system 10 of the present embodiment will be described. FIG. 4 shows an example of the session table 125 in this embodiment.

The session table 125 is a table in which information regarding a request received from the tablet terminal 200 regarding the business cooperation process is stored. The data structure is, for example, a record for each session established between the browser 210200 of the tablet terminal and the channel server 100 for the corresponding request, and the record #, the IP address of the tablet terminal 200 that is the target of the session. , A collection of records consisting of data such as the type of business cooperation API of the business cooperation target business system 300 in the request and the ID of the session (which can be said to be the identification information of the browser using the business cooperation API). ..

The above-mentioned business cooperation API is provided by the business system 300, and functions corresponding to various commands such as cooperation start / end, field value acquisition on the screen, PBPR status acquisition, and transaction authority check at the time of business cooperation. It also provides a notification function for events that occur on the host, such as error display, failure occurrence, and logoff.

The API type of the session table 125 described above corresponds to the business cooperation API in which it is necessary to wait for the processing on the host and respond after receiving the business cooperation once, among the various business cooperation APIs. Regardless of whether the business cooperation API is a screen control API related to screen control or a business cooperation API such as transaction authority check, the session between the Servlet 110 of the channel server 100 and the browser 210 of the tablet terminal 200 is not maintained. That is, the business cooperation that notifies the corresponding browser 210 of the response from the account system host 400, which is the result of the business cooperation process, is applicable.
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Hereinafter, the actual procedure of the business cooperation method in this embodiment will be described with reference to the figure. Various operations corresponding to the business cooperation method described below are realized by programs that are read into a memory or the like and executed by each device constituting the business cooperation system 10. The program is composed of code for performing various operations described below.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a flow example of the business cooperation method in the present embodiment, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a conceptual example of the business cooperation method in the present embodiment.

Here, it is assumed that the tablet terminal 200, which is the “tablet 1”, among the plurality of tablet terminals 200 connected to the network 1, requests business cooperation with the business system 300 of the loan business. Further, it is assumed that the tablet terminal 200 called "tablet 1" activates the browser 210 to access the above-mentioned business system 300, downloads the business cooperation API 211, and holds it in the storage device 201.
Therefore, the tablet terminal 200 called “tablet 1” transmits an http request to the Servlet 110 of the channel server 100 (s100).

This http request is a request related to business cooperation processing, and is established between the corresponding browser 210 and the channel server 100 based on the IP address of the tablet terminal 200 called "tablet 1", the business cooperation API call flag, and the http request. It contains at least a value such as the session ID of the session to be used.

Of these, the IP address is a fixed value held in advance by the tablet terminal 200, or a value assigned when the network 1 is accessed at the next http request. Further, the business cooperation API call flag receives a response from the accounting host 400 as a result of the business cooperation processing without maintaining a session between the Servlet 110 of the channel server 100 and the browser 210 of the tablet terminal 200, that is, asynchronously. A flag given to the business cooperation to be notified to the corresponding browser 210 (in this embodiment, the value before the grant is "off" and the value after the grant is "on"), and the business cooperation API 210 holds it in advance. To do.

On the other hand, the Servlet 110 of the channel server 100 that has received the above-mentioned http request checks the business cooperation API call flag included in the http request (s101).

As a result of the above check, when the business cooperation API call flag is "off" (s102: off), the Servlet 110 of the channel server 100 is the cooperation target business indicated by the http request from the J2EE server 111 (described above). In response to the execution of the business logic related to the financing business), the processing result or response related to the screen control API indicated by the http request obtained from the corresponding accounting host 400 is received, and this is synchronized communication, that is, the session. It is sent to the "browser 2" of the "session B" that has been maintained (s103), and the process is terminated. So to speak, normal screen transfer control is performed between the channel server 100 and the tablet terminal 200.

On the other hand, as a result of the above check, when the business cooperation API call flag is "on" (s102: on), the Servlet 110 of the channel server 100 asynchronously obtains the response obtained from the account system host 400 regarding the business cooperation. Recognize that you should reply to the corresponding browser by communication with, generate a record for the session accompanying the relevant http request, register this in the session table 125, and enter "Tablet 1" (corresponding to "Tablet 1") in the IP address field of the relevant record. IP address value), set a value such as "business cooperation API" or "screen control API" in the API type column, and, for example, "session A" or "session B" in the session ID column (s104), and perform processing. finish.

After executing the above-mentioned s104, the J2EE server 111 of the channel server 100 executes the business logic related to the cooperation target business indicated by the http request, that is, the loan business in the above-mentioned case, and makes the http request to the corresponding accounting host 400. The processing request related to the business cooperation API or the screen control API indicated by is transmitted (s105). In this case, the core banking host 400 returns the processing request acceptance notification of the processing request to the channel server 100 with respect to the target business of the processing request. The J2EE server 111 of the channel server 100 may be the corresponding browser of the above-mentioned "tablet 1" in which the session is still maintained (if the processing request is related to the business cooperation API, "browser 1" or the screen control API. For example, the above-mentioned reception notification shall be transmitted to the "browser 2") via the Servlet 110. At this point, the request and response of the relevant session are completed, and the relevant session is temporarily terminated.

After that, the core banking host 400 executes the processing of the screen control API or the business cooperation API, and returns the response as the processing result to the J2EE server 111. The GW server 450 of the core banking host 400 described above has performed processing on the screen control API or the business cooperation API that received the processing request on the core banking host 400, that is, the fact that an event has occurred is a channel server. Notify 100 J2EE servers 111.

In this case, the J2EE server 111 receives the notification regarding the occurrence of the above-mentioned event via the GW server 450 (s106), and sends an event notification instruction to the WebSocket server 112 by RMI (Remote Method Invocation) communication (s107). ). This event notification instruction includes at least information about the above-mentioned tablet terminal 200 and its browser 210 and a screen control API or a business cooperation API.

Subsequently, the WebSocket server 112 of the channel server 100 receives the above-mentioned event notification instruction and acquires the value of the IP address of the tablet terminal 200 indicated by the event notification instruction (s108). In the above example, the IP address obtained by s108 is the value of "tablet 1".

Next, the WebSocket server 112 of the channel server 100 collates the value of the IP address obtained in s108 with the session table 125, and among the records related to the "tablet 1", the API type is "business cooperation API". , Acquire the value of the session ID (s109). In the above example, the session ID obtained in s109 is the value of "session A". Of course, as a result of s109, there is a case where the value of the session ID cannot be acquired in the session table 125, that is, the corresponding record does not exist, but in that case, the process is shifted to s111.

Further, the WebSocket server 112 of the channel server 100 notifies the processing event related to the business cooperation API in the above-mentioned accounting host 400 to the "browser 1" which was the target of the session ID "session A" obtained in s109. (S110).

This notification is performed by push communication by WebSocket communication, and may include display information for displaying the response as the processing result of the business cooperation API on the browser 210 of the tablet terminal 200.

Further, the WebSocket server 112 of the channel server 100 collates the value of the IP address obtained in s108 with the session table 125, and among the records related to the "tablet 1", the API type is "screen control API". The value of the session ID is acquired (s111). In the above example, the session ID obtained in s111 is the value of "session B". Of course, as a result of s111, there is a case where the value of the session ID cannot be acquired in the session table 125, that is, the corresponding record does not exist, but in that case, the process ends.

Further, the WebSocket server 112 of the channel server 100 notifies the "browser 2" that was the target of the session ID "session B" obtained in s111 of the processing event related to the screen control API in the above-mentioned accounting host 400. (S112), and the process is terminated. This notification is performed by push communication by WebSocket communication, and may include display information for displaying a response as a processing result of the corresponding screen control API on the browser 210 of the tablet terminal 200.

Although the best mode for carrying out the present invention has been specifically described above, the present invention is not limited to this, and various modifications can be made without departing from the gist thereof.

According to this embodiment, when implementing business cooperation processing with the cloud-based branch office terminal function, it is accurate and efficient to control the output destination of information derived from each event on the host according to the business to be linked. Can be.

The description herein reveals at least the following: That is, in the business cooperation system of the present embodiment, when the predetermined attribute of the response corresponds to a response related to a predetermined process other than the result response of the business cooperation process, the arithmetic unit of the server is stored in the storage device. It may be said that the information for displaying the response is transmitted to the browser in the predetermined terminal while maintaining the communication session without referring to the request.

According to this, as the above-mentioned response, the session with the browser is maintained, such as when a notification indicating that the corresponding request has been accepted (only) by the relevant host or a response indicating that the information inquiry result at the relevant host is returned. It is possible to display the response to the corresponding browser as it is without performing the reference operation in the session table in the present embodiment for the response in the state where the synchronous communication is possible.

Further, in the business cooperation method of the present embodiment, when the server has a predetermined attribute of the response corresponding to a response related to a predetermined process other than the result response of the business cooperation process, the storage device makes the request. Information for displaying the response may be transmitted to the browser on the predetermined terminal while maintaining the communication session without reference.

1 Network 10 Business cooperation system 100 Channel server 101 Storage device 102 Program 103 Memory 104 Computing device 105 Communication device 110 Servlet 111 J2EE server 112 WebSocket server 125 Session table 200 Tablet terminal 201 Storage device 202 Program 203 Memory 204 Computing device 205 Input / output device 206 Communication device 210 Browser 211 Business cooperation API
300 Business system 400 Core banking host (host)
450 GW server

Claims (4)

A server that provides branch office terminal functions to predetermined terminals via a network.
A storage device that stores requests received from the predetermined terminal regarding business cooperation processing, and
The request is referred to in the storage device according to the predetermined attribute of the response from the host obtained by transmitting the request to the host corresponding to the business to be linked indicated by the request, and the predetermined terminal indicated by the request is used. An arithmetic unit that specifies session information with the predetermined terminal based on the address and information about the business system , specifies a browser on the predetermined terminal based on the session information, and transmits information for displaying the response.
A business alliance system characterized by including a channel server equipped with. The arithmetic unit
When the predetermined attribute of the response corresponds to a response related to a predetermined process other than the result response of the business cooperation process, the predetermined terminal does not refer to the request in the storage device and maintains the communication session. Information for displaying the response is sent to the browser.
The business collaboration system according to claim 1, wherein the business cooperation system is characterized in that. The server that provides the branch office terminal function to the specified terminal via the network
The request received from the predetermined terminal regarding the business cooperation process is stored in the storage device of the server.
Refer to the request in the storage device according to the predetermined attribute of the response from the host obtained by transmitting the request to the host corresponding to the business to be linked indicated by the request.
Based on the address of the predetermined terminal and the information about the business system indicated by the request, the session information with the predetermined terminal is specified, the browser in the predetermined terminal is specified by the session information, and the information for displaying the response is transmitted. ,
A business alliance method characterized by this. The server
When the predetermined attribute of the response corresponds to a response related to a predetermined process other than the result response of the business cooperation process, the predetermined terminal does not refer to the request in the storage device and maintains the communication session. Send the display information of the response to the browser,
The business alliance method according to claim 3, characterized in that.

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