JPH10210111A - Network information access repeater - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network information access repeater which selects information to be acquired in accordance with the performance, state, etc., of a network. SOLUTION: A supervisory data storing part 12, a timer part 13, a clock part 14, a supervisory part 15 and a supervisory information storing part 16 periodically supervise and record the performance of a network, a selective extracting part 17 extracts only access information of a level in accordance with the performance of a network at the point of time when a user inputs access information, a selective accessing part 18 executes access to the network through a communication processing part 21 by using the access information, and conformable information access is realized by sending a result that is received by a selective result responding part 19 to the user.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information communication apparatus for providing information using a network called the Internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in an interconnected network called the Internet, performance monitoring cannot be performed, so that there is a disadvantage that information retrieval is slow. Various equipment enhancements have been made so far, but there is a drawback that access is very slow or unpredictable because it is a network architecture that does not allow comprehensive performance management in nature. .
In particular, in the initial stage, when information is provided on the Internet called a homepage, the first page is often displayed in a mischievous manner, so that the user often waits a long time before judging the availability of information.

FIG. 1 shows an outline of a conventional apparatus of this type. A user does not have any knowledge about a network and inputs an access request to an input processing unit 1 without knowing the congestion state of the network. I do. The input processing unit 1 transmits the information to the access processing unit 3 according to an instruction from the control unit 2. After the reception, the access processing unit 3 transmits an information request via the communication processing unit 4 to the computer on the network specified by the information according to the instruction of the control unit 2.
After the transmission, the communication processing unit 4 receives the result according to the instruction of the control unit 2. After receiving, the communication processing unit 4 transmits the received information to the access processing unit 3 according to the instruction of the control unit 2. After receiving, the access processing unit 3 returns the result to the requesting user according to the instruction of the control unit 2.

[0004]

However, in the above-described device, the information provided by the information provider is monitored while monitoring the performance in order to improve the convenience of the user who is frustrated by searching the image information. There was a problem that the function of selecting was not sufficient.

An object of the present invention is to provide a network information access repeater which can select information to be obtained according to the performance and situation of a network and can perform high-speed access.

[0006]

According to the present invention, there is provided a network information access relay apparatus for accessing information specified by a user via a network and providing the information to the user. It is characterized by comprising a network performance monitoring means for periodically monitoring the performance and an information selection means for selecting information to be obtained according to the performance of the network.

According to the above configuration, information such as an image and a commercial is selected by the information selecting means in accordance with the network performance information provided by the network performance monitoring means at that time, and as a result, comfortable information access is achieved. Is achieved.

[0008] Further, in a network information access relay apparatus which accesses information specified by a user via a network and provides the information to the user, a network performance monitoring means for periodically monitoring the performance of the network, and a different load. Registration means for registering a plurality of information access methods corresponding to the above, and information selection means for acquiring information by selecting a method according to network performance from the registered access methods. .

According to the above configuration, an appropriate access method is selected from the access methods registered in the method registration means by the information selection means according to the network performance information provided by the network performance monitoring means at that time. Thus, information such as images and CMs is selected, and as a result, comfortable information access is achieved.

[0010]

FIG. 2 shows an example of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 11 is a user registration unit, 12 is a monitoring data storage unit, 13 is a timer unit, 14 is a time unit, 15 is a monitoring unit, 16 is a monitoring information storage unit, 17 is a selection and extraction unit, 1
8 is a selection access unit, 19 is a selection result response unit, 20 is an input processing unit, 21 is a communication processing unit, and 22 is a control unit.

The user registration unit 11 registers a user who provides a service according to the present invention. Monitoring data storage unit 12
Stores data for monitoring. The timer unit 13
A timing signal for monitoring is periodically generated. The monitoring unit 15 reads out data for monitoring from the monitoring data storage unit 12 every time a timing signal is output from the timer unit 13 and transmits the data to the network, receives the result, and sets the time required from transmission to reception as time. The measurement is performed using the unit 14. The monitoring information storage unit 16 records the time as network performance.

When the access information is received from the user, the selection and extraction unit 17 reads the performance of the corresponding network from the monitoring information storage unit 16 and extracts only the access information of a level corresponding to the performance from the access information. . The selection access unit 18 executes access to the network using the extracted access information. Selection result response unit 1
Numeral 9 receives the access result and sets it as a search result for the user.

The input processing unit 20 receives access information from the user and transmits a search result to the user via the communication processing unit 21. The control unit 22 controls each of these circuits.

In the above configuration, the information of the user is registered in the user registration unit 11 according to an instruction from the control unit 22. Further, in accordance with an instruction from the control unit 22, the timer unit 13 sets an operation interval of a timer for monitoring. Further, according to an instruction from the control unit 22, a signal is transmitted to the monitoring information storage unit 16 to be initialized. Further, according to an instruction from the control unit 22, the time unit 14
Is initialized so that time information can be generated.
Further, in accordance with an instruction from the control unit 22, data to be used for monitoring is stored in the monitoring data storage unit 12 in advance.

The present apparatus selectively provides a user registered in the user registration unit 11 with a high-quality search environment.

First, the present apparatus periodically monitors the status of the network in advance. In response to an instruction from the control unit 22, the timer unit 13 periodically generates a signal and transmits the signal to the monitoring unit 15. After receiving the signal, the monitoring unit 15 reads data for monitoring network performance measurement from the monitoring data storage unit 12 according to an instruction from the control unit 22, and thereafter, according to an instruction from the control unit 22,
The data is transmitted to the communication processing unit 21, and at the same time, a signal is transmitted to read and store the time information from the time unit 14.

After receiving the data, the communication processing unit 21 accesses a node of another network specified by the data via a network according to an instruction from the control unit 22.
Receive the search result. After the reception, the communication processing unit 21 transmits the received data to the monitoring unit 15 according to an instruction from the control unit 22. After receiving, the monitoring unit 15 receives an instruction from the control unit 22
The time information is read from the time unit 14 and compared with the stored operation start time to calculate the elapsed time. The monitoring unit 15 stores the elapsed time and the information of the network of the other party as the monitoring result in the monitoring information storage unit 16 according to the instruction of the control unit 22.

In this way, the performance of the network is periodically monitored.

Next, an access command (U
RL) is received by the communication processing unit 21 via the network, and the communication processing unit 21 transmits this to the input processing unit 20. After receiving, the input processing unit 20 transmits the access command to the selection and extraction unit 17 according to an instruction from the control unit 22. After the reception, the selection and extraction unit 17 reads the network performance state of the other party's network from the monitoring information storage unit 16 according to the instruction of the control unit 22, and sets the access level.

After the setting, the selection / extraction section 17 determines whether or not the set level is not suitable for reading information having a large load such as an image and a sound.
In accordance with the instruction of 2, a portion having a small load is extracted from the access command by removing a portion having a large load such as image information and audio information. After the extraction, the selection and extraction unit 17 transmits the extracted information to the selection access unit 18 according to an instruction from the control unit 22.

After the reception, the selective access unit 18
In accordance with the instruction, the extracted information is transmitted to the communication processing unit 21. After receiving, the communication processing unit 21 reads the received information via the network according to the instruction of the control unit 22, and after receiving the access (search) result, transmits the information to the selection result response unit 19 according to the instruction of the control unit 22. .

After receiving the selection result response section 19, the control section 22
Is transmitted to the input processing unit 20 according to the instruction. After receiving, the input processing unit 20 transmits a reception result to the user via the communication processing unit 21 according to an instruction of the control unit 22.

Information on the Internet, for example, a homepage is often provided in a language called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).
(Image by JPEG encoding), .gif (image by GIF encoding), .tif (image by TIFF encoding), .xbm (image by X bitmap encoding), .ua (ULAW encoding) Method), .mpe
Image information in a form with a suffix such as (video by the MPEG encoding method), .rgb (video by the RGB method) or the like is displayed.

By registering an access level corresponding to the load of the information indicated by such a suffix and automatically selecting the access level based on the registered information, a service corresponding to the load can be received. .

In a conventional network, the load increases due to information that the user does not want to see once, such as the face image of the representative on the home page or the whole view of the building,
As a result, there has been no sufficient method for increasing the speed from the user side in a state where access takes a long time.

According to the present invention, it is possible to increase the speed by automatically selecting such high-load audio, image, and video information under a heavy load.

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of the present invention.

It can be easily analogized that the present invention can be realized by software. Furthermore, when the present invention uses a secure network processing language such as Java which is transferred on the Internet, if the user terminal has a function of executing Java, predetermined processing is performed from the server side to the network. It can be easily inferred that the data can be transferred and used.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The information to be acquired is selected according to the network situation, and even if the performance is deteriorated, there is an effect that high-speed access can be made to minimum text information and the like excluding high-load audio, image, and video information.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows an example of a conventional device.

FIG. 2 illustrates an example of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 user registration unit 12 monitoring data storage unit 13
Timer section, 14 time section, 15 monitoring section, 16 monitoring information storage section, 17 selection extraction section, 18 selection access section,
19: selection result response unit, 20: input processing unit, 21: communication processing unit, 22: control unit.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A network information access relay device for accessing information designated by a user via a network and providing the information to the user, a network performance monitoring means for periodically monitoring the performance of the network, An information selection unit for selecting information to be obtained according to the performance. 2. A network information access relay device for accessing information specified by a user via a network and providing the information to the user, wherein a network performance monitoring means for periodically monitoring the performance of the network; And a method registering means for registering a plurality of information access methods corresponding to the above, and an information selecting means for acquiring information by selecting a method according to network performance from the registered access methods. Network information access relay device. 3. A network information access relay device for accessing information specified by a user via a network and providing the information to the user, a monitoring data storage unit for storing data for monitoring, A timer unit that periodically generates a timing signal of the following. Each time a timing signal is output from the timer unit, data for monitoring is read from the monitoring data storage unit and transmitted to the network, and the result is received and received from transmission. A monitoring unit that measures the time required for the network, a monitoring information storage unit that records the time as network performance, and when receiving access information from a user, reads out the performance of the corresponding network from the monitoring information storage unit, A selection extraction unit that extracts only access information of a level corresponding to the performance from the access information; 1. A network information access relay device comprising: a selection access unit that executes access to a network using a report; and a selection result response unit that receives an access result and sets the result as a search result for a user.