JPH11341106A - Information service system and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information service for executing a prescribed processing according to the priority of supplied information. SOLUTION: An information supply processor 200 for providing information to a user adds priority stored in an information priority/information transmission condition storing means 220 to information to be supplied, and transmits the information by a data communicating means 210. An information reception processor 100 of a user receives this by a data communicating means 110, and a data processing means 121 of an information processor 120 of the reception destination operates a processing stored in an information processing storing means 122 according to the priority of the received information. A network communicating means 123 transmits the information to another information processor 120 connected with a network 130 if there is any designation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information service system in which an information supplier supplies various information to a user who uses information by using communication means, and the user receives the various information. And an information service system for transmitting the information to a target user by adding the priority of the information to the information service system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an information service system of this kind is provided with an information supply processing device for supplying various kinds of information to a general household using the information by using communication means, and a user, especially a general household, for providing the various types of information. And an information reception processing device for receiving and processing the received information. The information supplier has provided a large amount of information to general users using the information supply processing device.
In most cases, the same information is sent to all the destination homes, and the necessity of the information for the user at the destination has not been considered.

[0003]

In recent years, the amount of information supplied has been increasing, and it has become difficult to pick up really necessary information from such a flood of information. In particular, in the above information service system, since only information data is supplied, there is a problem that the importance of the information data can be determined only by looking at the contents of the data.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of such a point, and an object of the present invention is to provide an information service system in which predetermined processing is executed according to the priority of information to be supplied.

[0005]

According to the present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in an information service system for supplying various information to a user by using communication means, the priority of the information arbitrarily set by the user is stored. An information supply processing device comprising: an information priority storage unit that transmits information with the priority added to a target user; and a data communication unit that receives response data from a transmission destination as necessary. A data communication unit for receiving the priority-added information sent by the data communication unit of the device and transmitting a response to the information supply device as necessary, and an information processing storage for storing a process according to the priority And an information reception processing device having means.

[0006] In such an information service system, the information supply side transmits the information with the pre-registered priority added to the information when transmitting the information, and the information reception processing device of the user who receives the information transmits the information in accordance with the priority. Perform a pre-registered process. As described above, the user appropriately deals with information according to the priority of desired information.

In an information service method in which an information supplier supplies various information to a user using an information supply processing device having a communication means and the user receives the various information, the information service method includes a method of receiving information arbitrarily set by the user. A step of notifying the information supply processing device of the priority, a step of adding the priority of the information to the information supplied by the information supply processing device and transmitting the information to a target home, and receiving the information of the target user. A processing device for receiving the transmitted priority-added information, performing a predetermined process according to the priority, and storing the received information. An information service method is provided.

[0008] In the information service method of such a procedure, the information supply processing device transmits the information by adding a pre-registered priority to the information when transmitting the information. Handle information appropriately.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an information service system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The information supply processing device 200 that provides information to the user stores the data communication unit 210 that supplies the information to the user and receives a response from the user as necessary, and stores the priority of the information arbitrarily set by the user. And information priority / information transmission condition storage means 220 for storing information transmission conditions serving as criteria for determining whether to transmit.
When the information to be supplied is generated, the priority of the information stored in the information priority / information transmission condition storage unit 220 is added to the information data, and the information is transmitted to the user's information reception processing device 100 by the data communication unit 210. I do. At this time,
If the information transmission condition is set, it is determined whether the information matches the transmission condition, and if the information is matched, transmission is performed. The information stored in the information priority / information transmission condition storage unit 220 is the priority and transmission condition of the information arbitrarily set by the user, and this information stores the information arbitrarily sent by the user each time. doing. The sending means from the user may be received via the data communication means 210, or may be sent by other means such as mail.

[0010] Further, the information receiving and processing apparatus 100 of the user who uses the information receives the information and transmits a response as necessary, and a data communication means 110 according to the priority. An information processing apparatus 120 that performs predetermined processing to display images or output audio, and a network 13 that connects the information processing apparatuses 120 and enables communication between the information processing apparatuses 120
0 and service condition setting means 140.
The information processing apparatus 120 includes a data processing unit 121 that processes information data transmitted from the data communication unit 110.
And information processing storage means 122 for storing processing according to the priority of the received information data, and network communication means 123 for transmitting data to other information processing apparatuses 120 connected to the network 130 as necessary. Have been.

The data communication means 110 receives the information to which the priority is added, which is transmitted from the external information supply processing device 200, and sends the information to various information processing devices 120. If there is response data from the various information processing apparatuses 120 to the information supply processing apparatus 200, the response data is received from the various information processing apparatuses 120 and transmitted to the information supply processing apparatus 200.

The various information processing devices 120 are connected to any one of the data communication means 110 and the network 130, and are connected to the information processing storage means 122 for storing the processing according to the priority added to the information. Means 1
23 and a data processing unit 121 for executing the processing stored in the information processing storage unit 122 according to the priority of the received information. The data processing unit 121 also controls the network communication unit 123. When the information processing device 120 receives the information to which the priority is added from the data communication unit 110, it performs a predetermined process according to the priority stored in advance. If there is a response to the information supply processing device in this predetermined process, response data is generated and sent to the data communication unit 110. If there is a process of transmitting information to another information processing device 120 connected to the network 130, the information is transmitted to the target information processing device 120 using the network communication unit 123.

The network 130 is a network connecting the information processing device 120 of the user, and is a medium for carrying data transmitted by the network communication means 123 of the information processing device 120.

The service condition setting means 140 is a means for setting the priority of information to be sent to the information supplier. The setting method may be any method. Even if the setting method is completely new, a predetermined standard pattern may be downloaded from the information provider. The sending method is also arbitrary, but the details are omitted since they have been described above.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a specific configuration example of a user information reception processing device 100 on the information receiving side of the information service system according to one embodiment of the present invention. The users are assumed to be ordinary households. Data communication means 1
Reference numeral 10 denotes communication means corresponding to various communication media such as terrestrial communication means 110a, satellite communication means 110b, CATV communication means 110c, and telephone line communication means (for example, B-ISDN) 110d. Of course, the data communication means 110 is not limited to this, and includes other line communication means corresponding to other communication media. The type of the data communication means 110 used for reception and the data communication means 11 used for transmission
The types of 0 need not be the same.

The information processing apparatus 120 includes a television 120a, a telephone 120b, a personal computer (PC) 120c, a stereo 120d, and the like. Of course, the information processing device 120 is not limited to this.

For example, the television 120a which receives the information with the priority added via the CATV communication means 110c
Displays the information on the screen and
This information is transmitted to the telephone 120b using 0, and the telephone outputs an audio.

Next, the operation of the information service system according to the embodiment of the present invention and the procedure of the information service method will be described. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an execution procedure of the information service system.

The user who receives the information service notifies the information provider of the contents of the information service in advance using the service condition setting means 140. Contact is data communication means 11
It may be performed by a method such as telephone or e-mail using 0, or by a method such as a postcard.
The contents of the registered information service include the type of information to be supplied, its priority, the period of supply, and the transmission conditions for transmitting the information. In this way, the information provider
When the content of the information to be supplied, its priority, and the transmission condition are obtained, the content is stored in the storage means of the information supply processing device.

When information to be supplied occurs, the information supply processing device adds the priority stored by the storage means to the information and transmits information data to the user (310).
At this time, if the transmission condition is set, it is determined whether or not the transmission condition is matched, and if it is, the transmission process is continued. The information data to which the priority is added is received by the data communication unit 110 of the information reception processing device of the user (320), and is sent to various information processing devices 120.
The various information processing devices 120 sort the received information according to the added priority (321), and perform a predetermined process according to the priority (322). For the prescribed processing,
It will be described later. Subsequently, if it is necessary to return a reception completion response to the information supply processing device, the reception completion response is sent to the transmission source (323). Next, the received information data is stored (3
24). The storage of this information data is not essential, and the data having a low priority need not be stored. Further, the stored information data is erased after being held for a certain period of time or after waiting for a user's confirmation.

Next, application of the information service of the present invention will be described with a specific example. The types of information supplied from the information supplier include, for example, communication in the event of a disaster or the issuance of a warning such as photochemical smog or tsunami, or information on a product or ticket to be obtained. Also, personal information,
For example, it is possible to register so that information such as information on transportation means used, pass / fail of the test, and information from family members or acquaintances may be supplied. Furthermore, if you set transmission conditions,
For example, if you plan to board an airplane, the user can obtain information by contacting the service company in advance about the flight to be taken, or by having the airline company automatically send flight and seat information to the service company. In addition, if an airplane is canceled or an accident occurs, the information can be transmitted. No information will be sent if the flight is completed successfully.

As described above, the type of information to be supplied may be any content as long as the information is necessary for the user. Also, necessary conditions such as transmission conditions can be set arbitrarily.

Table 1 shows the priority of information. The priority is registered in several stages. In the case of the example in Table 1, the priority is divided into seven levels. Priority registration is basically set based on user needs, but for important information such as disasters and alerts,
The highest priority may be automatically assigned without the user's designation. The supply period can be set only to a necessary period according to the user's circumstances. Also, if the transmission conditions are set, no information is sent when it is not necessary. Of course, the content of registration is not limited to this, and other information may be registered. Also, not all of the above-mentioned contents are necessary registration contents. For example, if you specify the content you want to supply, even if priority is automatically assigned, information such as disasters and warnings,
The case of supplying without registering is also included in the embodiment.
Further, the registered contents can be changed at any time by the user.

[0024]

[Table 1]

As described above, the priority according to the type of information is registered in advance, and the information supply processing device adds this priority when transmitting information, so that the information reception processing device on the user side can store the priority in the priority. A corresponding process can be performed.
That is, important information can be conveyed with the highest priority and can be processed so as to be surely conveyed to the user.

Next, the priority and the setting of the receiving process according to the priority will be described with reference to Tables 1 and 2. Table 1 shows an example of the priority and the setting of the receiving process according to the priority. Table 2 shows the specific contents of the receiving process shown in Table 1 for a certain user. The setting of the receiving process is performed by the information reception processing device on the user side, and the setting can be arbitrarily set for each user. Further, there may be some items that cannot be set by the user. In the example of Table 1, when super-priority information occurs, the processing A is to be performed in the information receiving apparatuses of all users, and the user cannot set the information. As for the items that can be set by the user, the processing is selected according to the circumstances of the user as shown in Table 1.

[0027]

[Table 2]

The contents of the processing set for each priority can be set for each user. In the example of Table 2, process A is
The user performs the process of canceling, that is, continuing the contact until the information is transmitted to the target user.

In the process B, a process of contacting another room through a connected device is performed. That is, the information processing apparatus 120 of the user who has received the information of the priority for which the process B has been selected is connected to the home network 13.
The received data is transmitted to another information processing apparatus 120 connected via the “0”. Specifically, the living room TV 120
After displaying on the screen a, it is possible to make the sound flow from the telephone 120b in the bedroom.

Further, it is also possible to make an external telephone call as in process C. In this case, information is transmitted to the information processing apparatus 120 having an external interface, and the information processing apparatus 120 transmits information to the outside using its own external interface.

The timing of stopping the information service can also be determined according to the priority. For example, high priority items may be repeatedly displayed or output until the user confirms them, while low priority items may be processed only once. In the case of a low priority, the data can be stored only by the storage means, and the information can be read out at an arbitrary time by the user.

Such a process is an example, and can be set as a process for each user such as a more detailed setting. In the above description, each information processing apparatus 120 checks the priority and deals with it, but a specific one of these information processing apparatuses 120 manages the priority,
Other devices may perform predetermined processing under the management.

The above processing functions can be realized by a computer. In this case, the information supply processing device that supplies various information to the general home in the information service system and the information reception processing device that receives and processes the various information in the general home should have the processing contents of the computer. It is described in a program recorded on a readable recording medium. Then, by executing this program on a computer, the above processing is realized on the computer. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include a magnetic recording device and a semiconductor memory. When distributing in the market, CD-ROM (Compact
Disk Read Only Memory) or store and distribute the program on a portable recording medium such as a floppy disk, or store it on a storage device of a computer connected via a network and transfer it to another computer via the network. Can also. When the program is executed by the computer, the program is stored in a hard disk device or the like in the computer, and is loaded into the main memory and executed.

[0034]

As described above, according to the present invention, the information supplied by the information supplying side is added with the priority of the information registered by the user in advance, and the information is transmitted to the user. When the information to which the degree is added is received, a predetermined process corresponding to the priority is executed, so that necessary information is not overlooked.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a specific configuration example of an information service system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an execution procedure of the information service system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

100: User (information reception processing device), 110: Data communication means, 110a: Terrestrial communication means, 110b: Satellite communication means, 110c: CATV communication means, 110d ...
Telephone line (B-ISDN) communication means, 120: information processing device, 120a: television, 120b: telephone, 120c ...
Personal computer (PC), 120d: stereo, 121: data processing means, 122: information processing storage means, 123: network communication means, 130: network, 140: service condition setting means, 200: information supply processing device, 210: Data communication means, 220 ... information priority / information transmission condition storage means

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. An information service system for supplying various information to a user using a communication means, wherein: an information priority storage means for storing a priority of information arbitrarily set by the user; A data communication means for transmitting the information with the added information and receiving response data from the transmission destination as necessary; and an information supply processing device having: a priority transmitted by the data communication means of the information supply processing device is added. A data communication unit that receives the information and sends a response to the information supply device as necessary; and an information processing storage unit that stores a process corresponding to the priority. Information service system characterized by the following. 2. The information service system according to claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus further includes a home network communication unit that enables communication between devices connected to a network owned by the user. . 3. The information priority storage means further includes means for storing information transmission conditions, and the data communication means of the information supply device further determines whether or not the information matches the information transmission conditions. 2. The information service system according to claim 1, further comprising a determination unit that performs the determination. 4. An information service method in which an information supplier supplies various information to a user using an information supply processing device having communication means and the user receives the various information, wherein the information set by the user is arbitrarily set. A procedure for notifying the information supply processing apparatus of the priority of the information, a procedure of adding the priority of the information to the information supplied by the information supply processing apparatus and transmitting the information to a target user, and the target home information. The reception processing device comprises: a step of receiving the transmitted information with the added priority; a step of performing a predetermined process according to the priority; and a step of storing the received information. Information service method. 5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the step of performing the predetermined processing according to the priority includes a step of transmitting the received information to a device connected to a network owned by the user. Information service method described. 6. The method according to claim 4, wherein in the step of performing the predetermined processing according to the priority, the predetermined processing is continued until it is confirmed that the received information is transmitted to a target. Information service method. 7. The step of notifying the information supply processing device of the priority of the information arbitrarily set by the user further includes the step of notifying the information supply processing device of information transmission conditions. The procedure of transmitting the information to the intended user by adding the priority of the information to the information to be supplied,
5. The information service method according to claim 4, further comprising: a determination step of determining whether the information matches the transmission condition; and a step of transmitting the information to the user when the transmission condition matches.