JPH06332820A - Electronic bulletin board system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically retrieve an article read by many other users without setting a keyword or the like by adding statistic information to information for retrieving an article DB. CONSTITUTION:The respective users register the article read by more than how many people is to be received in a bulletin board article retrieval condition storage DB 106 and a bulletin board server 102 retrieves a bulletin board article DB 107 based on the retrieval conditions, starts a bulletin board article mail exchange unit 104 when the matching one is present and transmits it to the user as a mail. Also, the bulletin board server 102 uses a statistic information write device 105 and registers the accumulated total of receiving article selection in the bulletin board article DB 107 as retrieval information when the article is selected by a normal means.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic bulletin board system having means for converting an article written on an electronic bulletin board into an electronic mail.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional electronic bulletin board system, when a user sees a list of articles and finds an interesting headline, the user requests the electronic bulletin board server section for the text of the article and reads the text. In addition, regarding the retrieval of articles, the user registers a keyword so that the article matching the keyword added to the article is presented to the user when the retrieval is performed.

[0003]

However, for a busy user, the work of looking at the article list and selecting an article to read is a burden. Further, when there is a request such as "I want to read an article that many people are reading," it is impossible to deal with the conventional article search based on keywords or importance.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional problems, and by sending an article hit by a search by mail, the user can omit the work of obtaining the article from the server. In addition, the electronic bulletin board system is provided in which the statistical information of article acquisition is added to the search information in the article DB to automatically search articles read by many other users without setting keywords.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the electronic bulletin board system of the present invention comprises means for converting bulletin board articles into a mail format and transmitting them as mail.

[0006] Further, a means for writing statistical information to the bulletin board DB, an article DB capable of storing the statistical information as a part of article information, a DB storing information registered by the user as a search condition, and which article the user has It has a DB that stores what it has already read.

[0007]

With the above-described structure, the user can omit the work of obtaining the article from the server by sending the article hit in the search by mail. Also, by adding the statistical information of article acquisition to the search information in the article DB, it becomes possible to provide an electronic bulletin board system that enables automatic retrieval of articles read by many other users without setting keywords.

[0008]

【Example】

(Embodiment 1) An electronic bulletin board system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, 101 is a bulletin board client unit, 102 is a bulletin board server unit, 103 is a bulletin board DB search unit that searches the bulletin board article DB, 104 is a bulletin board article mail conversion unit that converts bulletin board articles into mails, and 105 is statistical information articles. A statistical information writing unit to be written in the DB, 106 is a user search condition storage DB for storing search conditions registered by the user, 107
Is a bulletin board article DB, 108 is a user bulletin board article unread / read memory DB that stores whether or not the user has already read each bulletin board article, 109 is an electronic mail system client unit, 110 is an email reception spool, and 111 is electronic mail transmission It is a spool.

The operation of the electronic bulletin board system configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3. First, the user makes a request that he or she also wants to read articles read by more than one person.
01 to write in the user search condition storage DB 106.

As a result, the table shown in FIG. 3 is registered in the DB. FIG. 3 shows, for example, a table in which the user Yamada has registered a search condition that "articles read by 20 or more people also want to read".

Next, it is assumed that each user accesses the electronic bulletin board and selects and reads an article. At this time, the bulletin board server unit 102 adds 1 to the cumulative total number of article requests of the requested articles in the bulletin board article DB 107 through the statistical information writing unit 105. That is, if there is a user who has read the article ID 001 in FIG. 2 showing the table of the bulletin board article DB, article I
The value of 5 in the article request cumulative field of D001 is counted as 1 and rewritten to 6.

The bulletin board article search unit 103 spontaneously searches the bulletin board article DB 107 based on the information in the user search condition storage DB at regular intervals. At this time, if there is an article that matches the conditions registered by the user, the bulletin board server unit 102 is notified.

That is, in the example of FIGS. 2 and 3, the user Yamad
Since a has registered a search formula for requesting articles with a total number of article requests of 20 or more, 002,0 in the articles in FIG. 2 is registered.
Those having an article ID of 04 match the condition, and the bulletin board server 102 is notified of that.

Next, the bulletin board server refers to the user bulletin board article unread / read memory DB to find the corresponding article 002,004.
See if user Yamada has already read. If it is confirmed that the corresponding article has not been read yet, the bulletin board article mail converting unit 104 is activated, the corresponding article is converted into the mail format, and the article is placed in the mail receiving spool 110 of the user Yamada. At the same time, the bulletin board server 102 stores the user bulletin board article Yamada in the unread / read memory DB.
Records that he has already read articles 002 and 004.

Next, the user Yamada knows that he has received the mail through the mail reception notification function of the electronic mail client unit 109, and can read the requested article through the mail client unit 109.

(Embodiment 2) Next, an example in the case where the mail is not received will be described. At the time when there is an article that matches the search condition and the bulletin board server unit 102 is notified of that, the bulletin board server unit refers to the user bulletin board article unread / read memory DB and the corresponding articles 002 and 004 have already been posted by the user Yamada. Check if you have read it.

When it is confirmed that the corresponding article has not been read yet, when the user Yamada requests a list of bulletin board articles from the bulletin board server to the bulletin board server,
The bulletin board server uses the corresponding article 00 in the bulletin board article list.
A mark indicating that the search condition is met is attached to the 2,004 and the mark is passed to the bulletin board client.

With this, when the user Yamada sees the article list, the user Yamada can easily recognize which article has been requested by 20 or more people.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to omit the work for the user to obtain the article from the server by sending the article hit in the search by mail. Further, by adding the statistical information of article acquisition to the search information in the article DB, it is possible to provide an electronic bulletin board system that enables automatic retrieval of articles read by many other users without setting keywords. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an electronic bulletin board system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a bulletin board article DB content diagram in one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a user search condition storage DB diagram in one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 bulletin board client section 102 bulletin board server section 103 bulletin board DB search section 104 bulletin board article mail conversion section 105 statistical information writing section 106 user search condition storage DB 107 bulletin board article DB 108 user bulletin board article unread / read memory DB 109 electronic mail client section 110 Mail reception spool 111 Mail transmission spool

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An electronic bulletin board system comprising means for converting an article written on an electronic bulletin board into an electronic mail. 2. The electronic bulletin board system according to claim 1, wherein the statistical information is stored as a bulletin board database and the article to be converted into an electronic mail is selected based on the statistical information. 3. An electronic bulletin board system, wherein statistical information is stored as a bulletin board database, and the list of articles is marked based on the statistical information. 4. A user bulletin board article unread / read storage means for storing data for identifying an article that the user has already read, and the data stored in the user bulletin board article unread / read storage means is referred to and unread. The electronic bulletin board system according to claim 1, wherein the article is converted into an electronic mail.