JPH09330282A - Emergency news simultaneous broadcasting and user information acquisition system for electronic newspaper - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To immediately generate the information of high emergency and make a user not overlook the information by providing a generation-controlled file and a user information file for emergency news. SOLUTION: When emergency news is generated, emergency information generating functions are actuated on editing terminals 21-23 to input emergency information, provision start time, provision time, and a display frequency upper- limit value and store them in an emergency information file 62. When a user terminal is powered on and an electronic newspaper viewer is actuated, an emergency information storage location on a server is retrieved. When the emergency information file is present, the file of the latest generation date and time is inputted and stored in the terminal, and then displayed. When the user makes an indication to return desire and information on an emergency information display screen, a user information input screen is displayed, and when information, desire, an opnion, etc., are written, information on them is transmitted to the user information file 63 on the server, so that an ordinary electronic newspaper display process is performed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic newspaper system for displaying news on a plurality of terminals, and an emergency system for efficiently displaying irregular information (e.g., natural disasters or major accidents) occurring on all user terminals. The present invention relates to a method for simultaneously reporting news and a method for collecting user information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In electronic newspapers, information is transmitted at a predetermined interval, such as morning / evening editions, and the information is organized and summarized and provided to users. Information is unilaterally provided in the form of being displayed by a person giving an instruction from the screen or always displaying the latest news on the screen like an electronic bulletin board.

[0003]

In the conventional news providing form in the electronic newspaper system, when the user is provided with the information that occurs at any time, the information is acquired by the user's instruction or the user displays the latest information. Since it is necessary to pay attention to the part that is doing, there is a problem that there is a high possibility of missing particularly serious and urgent information in the news that occurs in Irregular.

Further, especially in the case of a natural disaster or a major accident, if the user is at the site, the means (telephone etc.) for notifying the local information to the public is cut off, or if the relative is at the site It was sometimes difficult to confirm.

An object of the present invention is to unconditionally ignore the intention of the user so as to immediately create highly urgent information that is particularly serious such as a natural disaster or the like, and never miss the information to the user. To notify information to the user several times repeatedly and to acquire information and requests from users who have seen the emergency information.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has a generation-managed file for emergency news and a user information file for collecting and organizing reader information on the server side.

When urgent news occurs, the information provider inputs the urgent information contents, the information provision start time, the information provision time, and the upper limit of the number of times of display of each user terminal from the emergency information creation screen. This information is stored together with the creation time in a predetermined location (emergency information storage location) of the server. To change or add a file that has been created once, enter the file with the latest creation time among the files that have already been created and display it on the screen. The information provider changes or adds the contents while watching the contents, and at the end of the work, the information is stored as a new file.

When the power is turned on, the user terminal refers to the emergency information storage location of the server and, if an emergency information file exists, loads the file with the latest creation time into the terminal and displays it. After that, referring to the emergency information storage location of the server at regular intervals, if there is a newer file than the previously imported file, that file is imported and displayed, and if there is no newer file than the previously imported file,
Display previously imported files until the maximum number of display times is reached. Further, when displaying the emergency information, a reply screen is displayed according to a reply instruction so that the user can freely write information therein. The information written by the user is automatically stored in the user information file of the server according to the termination instruction.
D, user ID, and time are transmitted and stored.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an electronic newspaper system to which the present invention is applied. FIG.
, 10 is a server, 21 to 23 are editing terminals, 31
˜33 are user terminals, 41˜43 are communication lines connecting the server 10 and the editing terminals 21, 22, 23, and 51˜53 are communication lines connecting the server 10 and the user terminals 31, 32, 33,
Reference numerals 61 to 63 are files in the storage device connected to the server 10, and 71 to 73 are files in the storage device in the user terminals 31, 32 and 33. In the embodiment of the present invention,
Although only one server, three editing terminals, and three user terminals are shown, it goes without saying that, in reality, more servers and terminals are connected.

The server 10 has an editing function for creating an electronic newspaper and an electronic newspaper server function for transmitting an electronic newspaper to a user. Normally, the electronic newspaper data created using the editing terminals 21 to 23 is stored in the electronic newspaper file 61, and the electronic newspaper server 6 functions by the electronic newspaper server function from the user terminals 31 to 33 through the communication lines 51 to 53.
Receive and display 1. When emergency news occurs, the emergency information creation function is activated on any of the editing terminals 21 to 23, the emergency information, the provision start time, the provision time, and the display count upper limit value are input and stored in the emergency information file 62. To do.

FIG. 2 shows a method of creating an emergency information file. Here is an example in which emergency information is created nine times from the editing terminal. Reference numerals 204 to 208 in FIG. 2 are items input using the emergency information creation function from the editing terminal, and these are stored as an emergency information file. The file to be created is created in the location of the creation location (201) (20)
It is stored with the file name of the emergency information file name (202) together with 3). In the example of FIG. 2, the first emergency information is “23:55:05 on February 15, 1996” (21
3) is registered with the file name "0001" (212),
The content is urgent information "earthquake occurred in the region. The epicenter is ...
"..." (217), "23:55" for the user (21
Providing information from 4), "10 minutes (600 seconds)"
(215) Continue to provide. During this time, maximum 5
Display up to "times" (216). Next, as a follow-up report, "1
“February 16, 996, 00:05:48” (223), the second information has a content of 224 to 228 and a file name “0.
002 ”(222). In the case of immediate provision without specifying the start time, it is possible to deal with it by designating a code (“*” of 224, 294 in this example) other than a numerical value. Similarly, "00:43 on February 16, 1996.
A total of 9 pieces of emergency information are created at any time up to "21 minutes" (293). The created files are all "KINKY
U ”(211, 221, 291). The destination (218, 228, 298) is usually designated as "*" because it is notified to all users. However, by designating the terminal name or group name here, It is also possible to display information in the group.

FIG. 3 shows a method of notifying the user terminal of the stored emergency information. The user turns on the power of the user terminal (301) and activates the electronic newspaper viewer (302). Then, the emergency information storage location (“KINKYU” (211) in the example of FIG. 2) of the server is searched (303). If the emergency information file does not exist (304), the normal electronic newspaper display process (314) is performed, but if the emergency information file exists (305).
Inputs the file with the latest creation date, stores it in the storage device of the terminal (306), and displays emergency information on the user terminal (307). When the user gives an instruction to reply a request or information on the emergency information display screen (30
9) The user information input screen is displayed (310), and the user freely writes information, requests, opinions, etc. in the user information input screen. When the writing is completed (311), the written user information is sent to the user information file of the server (3
13) and the normal electronic newspaper display process (314) is performed. Figure 4 shows the format of the user information file
Shown in When a certain period of time has passed during the electronic newspaper display process (316), the emergency information file on the server is searched (31).
7) If the emergency information file does not exist (318)
Continues the electronic newspaper display process, but if the emergency information file exists (319) and the emergency information file of the server with the latest creation time is the same as that already stored in the user terminal (320), If the display count upper limit of the emergency information has not been reached (322), the emergency information is displayed (32).
4) If the emergency information file of the server having the latest creation time is newer than the file existing in the user terminal (3
21), the emergency information file of the server having the latest creation time is input, accumulated (306), and displayed (307).

It should be noted that although the emergency information is normally notified to all terminals, when notifying only a specific terminal or group, check the destination (208 in FIG. 2) in the emergency information file before displaying. The display can be controlled by.
Regarding the electronic newspaper display process (314) in FIG. 3,
It is outside the scope of the present invention.

The user information file storage system is shown in FIG. User information input screen (3 in Fig. 3) on the user terminal
When the user information is input from 10) and the user information is transmitted (313 in FIG. 3), a record is added to the user information file shown in FIG. Of these, the reception date (401), reception time (402), terminal ID (403), user ID (4
Regarding 04), it is automatically acquired when transmitting from the user terminal, and the user information input by the user is stored in the user information (405). The user information file is one record per case, and is stored in a table format in the order of received date and received time.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention,
With the electronic newspaper system, it becomes possible to reliably convey particularly important and urgent information to the user, and since the opinions and information of the user can be collected, the user information can be used as a reference for further detailed information and use. It is possible to provide the information desired by the person.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows a method of creating emergency information and a schematic format.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an emergency information notification process and a user information acquisition process.

FIG. 4 is a schematic format of a user information file.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Server, 21, 22, 23 ... Editing terminal, 31, 32, 33 ... User terminal, 41, 42,
43, 51, 52, 53 ... Communication line, 61, 62, 63
... files in storage device, 201 to 208 ... items of emergency file, 211 to 218 ... example of first emergency file, 221-228 ... example of second emergency file, 29
1-298 ... Example of ninth emergency file, 301-32
4 ... User terminal processing, 401-405 ... User information file format.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An electronic device that connects a server computer storing news created by a news agency or the like with a plurality of user terminals via a communication line, and transmits the relevant news from the server according to an instruction from the user terminals to display on the screen. In a newspaper system, in order to notify a user of urgent news immediately and ignoring the user's intention unconditionally, the server provides emergency information content, information providing service start time, information providing service time, and use. The maximum number of times that each user terminal can be displayed is stored in the server file, and it is checked from the user terminal whether or not emergency information exists in the server at regular intervals. Emergency information is unconditionally displayed on the terminal if it is within the service time provided, and once the emergency information is not updated, it is captured by the user terminal once. Repeatedly displayed until it reaches the sudden news to display the number of times the upper limit, emergency information of the server when it is updated, to capture display a new emergency information from the server. Further, when notifying the emergency information, a reply column which the user can freely write is provided, and information required by the user or information that the user knows in more detail is collected in the server.