KR20050023308A - Informing system - Google Patents

Abstract

After using cheap e-mail that can be delivered at once, it is possible to reliably reach a contact and confirm attendance. The service server 130 relaying the contact from the contact person 110 to the contact person 120, and the contact person terminals 111 and 112 and the contact person terminals 121 and 122 are connected through the computer network 140. The connection is made, and the service server 130 transmits the contact e-mail 131 including the URL linking to the contact information of the contact person 110 to the contact person 120. In the URL, a technical language document corresponding to the WWW including an answer field corresponding to the contact information is prepared. The service server 130 detects the data 123 related to the reply field transmitted from the terminal 121, 122 of the contact person, and transmits the transmission result to the terminal 111, 112 of the contact person as the report e-mail 132. do.

Description

Contact System {INFORMING SYSTEM}

The present invention relates to a contact system in various human groups.

Background Art Conventionally, a pyramid-shaped or loop-type contact network using a telephone has been adopted as a communication notification method in various groups represented by sports athletic activities, circles, or PTA activities of universities. However, in this pyramid-like or loop-type communication network, it is not delivered to a plurality of group members of the lower layer by the interruption of the transfer operation to the next layer for some reason such as "forgotten" by the relay. The phenomenon arises a lot everyday, and is troubled. Furthermore, since the method relies on human memory transmission, the contents to be delivered may change in sequence.

In recent years, there have been groups that use e-mails that are widely distributed and use a contact network in the form of a mailing list capable of simultaneous notification at the same time. In the mailing list format, the "power supply" remains unstable due to the characteristics of the e-mail without the guarantee of guarantee. In particular, in the e-mail by a mobile phone, the number of characters is transmitted or received or displayed. There are also restrictions, and it is extremely insufficient as a reliable contact network.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-344377 discloses an attendance management system having a host terminal device and a guest terminal device for managing attendance at a meeting where a large number of people are gathered by using an e-mail of a communication network. A confirmation mail sending means for sending a confirmation mail for confirming the attendance to the meeting, and a reply mail receiving means for receiving a reply mail in which a reply of the attendance to the meeting is entered, Judgment classification means for judging and classifying the contents of the answers and storing them as data, and attendance table creating means for creating a attendance table indicating the attendance at the meeting based on the answers classified by the judgment classification means, and A reply mail reception detecting means for detecting the reception of the reply mail, a time detecting means for detecting the elapsed time since the sending of the confirmation mail; Having a confirmation mail resending means for resending the confirmation mail to a guest terminal device when the reception of the reply mail is not detected even after a predetermined time has elapsed, wherein the guest terminal device is sent from the host terminal device. It is described that it has a confirmation mail receiving means for receiving a confirmation mail, and a reply mail sending means for sending the reply mail in which a reply of attendance to the meeting is input.

In the invention described in the above publication, although the confirmation mail includes the form information indicating the format of the reply mail, a rule miss is expected to occur in the reply mail alone, and the judgment classification of the reply content in the host terminal device is provided. Is difficult. In addition, if a non-answeree is automatically sent a confirmation e-mail again, no consideration is given to the non-answeree's situation. In some cases, confirmation of attendance cannot be assured. In the beginning, simply sending and receiving the confirmation mail and the reply mail between the host terminal device and the guest terminal device does not solve the lack of the arrival guarantee, which is the characteristic of the above-mentioned e-mail. do.

Further, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-91872 discloses an invention relating to a communication, confirmation, and response result intensive support system for an event performed using multimedia communication. Since this is used, it cannot be said to be an appropriate method.

1 is a general overview of a communication system of the present invention.

2 is a top screen example of the present contact system service in the mobile telephone.

3 is a flowchart showing a simultaneous mail delivery process directed to the contactee 120 by the contact person 110 via the service server 130.

4 shows an example of the display screen of the contact guide mail in the mobile phone of the contactee 120.

5 is a flowchart relating to a reading confirmation procedure of a contact message.

6 is a check flowchart of a contact unconfirmed person in the service server 130.

7 shows an example of the display screen of the unconfirmed report guide mail in the cellular phone of the contact person 110.

8 is a flowchart showing the subsequent procedure for the unconfirmed person of the contact guide mail.

In light of these circumstances, the present invention is based on the characteristics of an e-mail without a guarantee of guarantee, text restrictions in an e-mail by a mobile phone, etc., and at a low cost, using an e-mail that can be delivered to a large number of recipients at once. In the future, it is to provide a liaison system that makes it possible to reliably reach a contact and confirm attendance.

The contact system according to the present invention comprises a service server for relaying a contact from a contact person to a contact person, and the contact person and the terminal of the contact person are connected through a computer network, and the service server contacts the contact person. And a contact e-mail including a URL linking the matter to the contactee.

It is preferable that a technical language document corresponding to WWW including an answer field corresponding to the contact information is prepared in the URL. Preferably, the technical language document is screen-divided corresponding to the display capability of the terminal of the contactee.

It is preferable that the service server detects data relating to the answer field transmitted from the terminal of the called party, and transmits the detection result as a report e-mail to the terminal of the contact person. It is preferable that a plurality of options relating to the reconnection method are prepared in the report e-mail.

It is preferable that a WWW-compliant technical language document including the detection result is prepared in the URL including the URL linking the report with the detection result. In the above technical language document, it is preferable that a plurality of options relating to the reconnection method be prepared. The technical language document is preferably screen-divided corresponding to the display capability of the terminal of the contact person.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, preferable embodiment of the communication system which concerns on this invention is described.

Fig. 1 is an overall overview of the communication system, and in Fig. 1, a personal computer 111 or a mobile phone 112 of a contact person 110, which is a party for sending a contact information, and a side for receiving the contact information, The personal computer 121 or the mobile phone 122 of the contacted group (group) 120 and the service server 130 which provides and manages this contact relay service are each computer network (such as the Internet). The state of connection via 140 is shown. The personal computers 111 and 121 and the mobile phones 112 and 122 are not limited to these, and any device may be used as long as the terminal can be connected to a computer network such as the Internet.

In order to receive the service relating to the communication system in advance, the owner of the terminal device registers a member by a predetermined procedure, and each member simultaneously registers the group registration of his / her own group. When the contact person 110 who is a member contacts or confirms the attendance of the group member to which the member belongs, the contact information or the attendance confirmation information is received from the terminal 111 or 112 through the service server 130 (113). The mail is delivered to all members or a plurality of designated group members 131 at the same time.

The contactee 120 who is a member who has received the mail uses the terminals 122 and 122 to view the contact information or the attendance confirmation message, and the requested server contacts the service server 130. Confirmation of the reading of the matter or the willingness to attend the confirmation of attendance is input (123).

The data regarding the confirmation of the reading of the contact information or the willingness of the attendance confirmation item entered is checked by the service server 130 at regular intervals of time, and at that time, the reading confirmation data of the contact information is unconfirmed, or In other words, the non-entrant of the attendance determination data of the attendance confirmation matter is searched, and the report guide mail is automatically sent to the contact person 110 in the form of a schedule or the like.

In addition, as will be described later with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8, the contact person 110 who has received the report guide mail is appropriately linked by the corresponding report guide mail or by various contact functions indicated by the displayed report list screen. You can use the means of communication that you think is possible, and you can surely notify all members of the group or confirm your will.

Subsequently, this contact system will be described in detail. 2 is a display screen 20 of the mobile telephone 112 of the contact person 110, and an example of the top screen of the contact system service is displayed. Although the screen 20 displays two menus of "contact system" and "attendance system", since the basic configuration is the same for both systems, the "contact system" will be described below.

3 shows a process for the contact person 110 who has selected the 'contact system' menu to deliver mail to the contact person 120 through the service server 130 from the terminals 111 and 112 at the same time. It is a flowchart and is comprised by three connection flow diagrams of the contact person 110, the service server 130, and the contact person 120. As shown in FIG.

First, the contact person 110 connects (311) to the designated URL from his / her terminals 111 and 112. At this time, the service server 130 is personally identified by the service server 130 through a general connection procedure such as a password input to identify a group to which it belongs. The service server 130 transmits 322 the first screen according to the identification of the contactor signal connected 321, and displays 312 the terminal of the contactor 110. This screen is an example of the screen of FIG. When the contact person 110 checks this screen and selects (313) the 'contact system', the service server 130 confirming the instruction (323) is a destination for group members registered in the corresponding group. A screen for designating the message is sent (324). At this time, it is preferable that the designation screen of the transmission destination can easily designate the group members individually or plurally, as well as for each specific job in a group or for each small group.

The contact person 110 who displays and confirms the screen 314 designates a transmission destination (315) by the method described above, and transmits and instructs the service server 130. Upon receiving this instruction, the service server 130 temporarily holds 325 the send destination, generates 326 records for each send destination in the confirmation file, and sends 327 a message input screen to the contact person 110. .

The contact person 110 inputs a message on the input screen received and displayed 316 at the terminals 111 and 112 and transmits the message to the service server 130 (317). The service server 130 which has received this mail delivery instruction 328 generates 329 contact information mails from the contents of the message and transmits them 330 at the same time for each transmission destination held by the above-mentioned 325.

The contactee 120 receives the contact guide mail 331. 4 shows an example of the display screen 40 of the mobile telephone 122 of the contactee 120, and this contact guide mail 41 shows the following title. '(42),' following URL… ' From the formal message such as '(43)' and the contact message 110, the name of the recipient 44, the subject 45, the input time 46 of the contact message, and the name 44 of the recipient A screen URL 47 or the like corresponding to a record for each transmission destination generated in one service server 130 is included.

In addition, the contact text 48 corresponding to the record for each destination shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the terminal screen 40 by clicking the screen URL 47 corresponding to the record for each destination. The contact 48 is described by HTML, HDML, MML, SGML, XML, and other WWW-adaptive technical language documents. In addition, the capacity (characters) of the file is limited to about 5k bytes, and if there is an input message with a capacity (characters) larger than that, the screen server is further divided so as to have a means for link transmission. It is desirable to.

In this embodiment, the contact information mail 41, including the URL 47, is divided into the standard text of the contact information mail 41 and the contact information 48 which is the contact information. It is a study on the character limit of mail, for example, 64 characters in full size. Unlike this scheme, a method of limiting the number of characters of an input may be considered when sending an input message of the contact person 110, but this may cause a problem in the transmission of the contact message.

The contact 48 includes a 'Confirm!' Button 49 for inputting that the contact 120 has viewed and confirmed this, and by selecting and clicking the button 49, the service server 130 In the above), a specific value is inputted in the confirmation field of the record for each destination in the confirmation file for each corresponding person.

This browsing confirmation procedure will be described with reference to the connection flow diagram of the service server 130 and the contactee 120 shown in FIG.

Subsequent to A of the flowchart shown in FIG. 3, the contact person 120 receives the contact information mail 521 and performs the display operation 522 of the mail, so that the contact information mail 41 carries the message. Displayed on the terminal screen 40 of the telephone 122 (523). Subsequently, after the requestee 120 confirms the contents, when the screen URL 47 is clicked 524 corresponding to the record for each sender at the bottom of the screen, the contactee 120 is connected to the service server 130 (511), and the service server is connected. 130 transmits (512) a contact form 48 such as HTML designated in the URL to the mobile phone 122 which has been connected. The contactee 120 receives the contact 48 and reads the displayed contact information 525, selects and clicks 526 on the OK button 49.

The service server 130, having received the signal 513, inputs a specific value to the confirmation field of the record for each destination in the confirmation file for each corresponding person (514). The confirmation file which inputs this specific value is checked by the confirmation check means in the service server 130 mentioned later, the list of unconfirmed persons is created by the unconfirmed list creation means, and it is made on time to the contact person 110. Reported).

FIG. 6 is a check flowchart of the unconfirmed person, following B of the flowchart shown in FIG. 5.

After inputting the contact message, the confirmation checking means in the service server 130 searches 622 all records in the confirmation file every predetermined elapsed time or designated time (621) to determine whether there is a target person ( 623). If none, the subsequent search is terminated (624). On the other hand, if there is a target person, the non-confirmed list creating means in the service server 130 generates an unconfirmed list (625), and generates an unconfirmed report guide mail including a URL indicating the location of the list to the contact person 110. (626), and this is transmitted (627) to end.

As another means for the service server 130 to terminate the report operation, a 'end of report process (or stop)' button is provided in the display screen of the list of unconfirmed persons (the unconfirmed report 73 described later), It is preferable that the contact person 110 selects (clicks) the button so that subsequent reporting processing is terminated. According to this aspect, in the unacknowledged report 73 which will be described later, the report processing can be prevented from being continued forever despite the confirmation of the person in charge 120 by means other than a telephone contact or other system.

The contact person 110 receives (611) an unconfirmed report guide mail. 7 shows an example of the display screen 70 of the mobile phone 112 of the contact person 110. The entirety of the unconfirmed report guide mail 71 is shown out, and the unconfirmed report 71 is shown in the guide mail 71. As shown in FIG. ), A URL 72 is included. The unidentified report 73 drawn out is composed of WWW-adaptive description language such as HTML.

The report guide of the unconfirmed person, like the contact guide described in FIG. 4, takes into account text restrictions and the like.

Next, from the flowchart shown in FIG. 8, the following procedure about the unconfirmed person of a contact guide mail is demonstrated. 8 is comprised by the connection flow of the contact person 110, the contact person 120, and the service server 130. As shown in FIG.

Subsequent to C of the flowchart shown in FIG. 6, an unconfirmed report guide mail is received 811, and the contact person 110 who has read it clicks on the URL 72 in the report guide mail 71 of FIG. 7 (812). To connect to the service server 130 (step 831). The service server 130 which has received the signal transmits 832 an unidentified report 73 composed of HTML and the like previously prepared.

After receiving the unidentified report 73 and displaying the number 813 on the mobile phone 112, the contact person 110 recognizes the unidentified person in the contact information mail, and then the plurality of re-contact methods described in the unidentified report 73. By selecting 814 as appropriate, contact can be made. In this re-connection method, ① call the first telephone number 74, ② call the second telephone number 75, ③ send an e-mail to the e-mail address 76, ④ send the service server ( Sending a second contact mail via 130 (77) (5) There are five means of sending a new message mail (78) to the unverified person via the service server (130).

The contact person 110 is notified of the unconfirmed report guide mail in principle until there is no unidentified person at a certain elapsed time or a designated time, but it is the freedom of the contact person 110 at what timing. In addition, it is preferable that the distinction between the e-mail transmission to the e-mail address 76 and the new message mail to the unacknowledged sender 78 be used differently depending on whether the individual transmission is a plural selective transmission.

Among the above five means, ① first telephone number 74 and ② second telephone number 75 are automatically dialed to the corresponding telephone number by reversely clicking the telephone number on the mobile phone 112 or the like. It does not take extra trouble, such as an address book, and is convenient and there is no mistake. The mailer 76 is also automatically started by reversely clicking the e-mail address 76 in the same manner as described above, and this also has the same effect as the telephone number.

Next, the procedure of contacting the unconfirmed person via the service server 130 will be described.

(4) In the procedure of sending (77) a contact mail again via the service server 130, and (5) Sending a new message mail to an unconfirmed person (78). In FIG. In consideration of the character limit, processing (815, 833, 834, 816) including screen division is performed.

On the other hand, as the unidentified report 73 in FIG. 7, a screen without screen division is shown.

In the unconfirmed report 73 of FIG. 7, the operation of selecting the "resend to unconfirmed" button 77 corresponds to the "automatic operation screen" selection 817 of FIG. 8. Upon receiving the selection signal, the service server 130 determines (835) whether to retransmit, send a new mail, or which selection. If it is determined that the retransmission is retransmitted, the service server 130 initially includes a message input as a contact mail, and transmits it to the sender. A retransmission screen is generated 837 together with the selection screen of the group member to be transmitted, and transmitted. Similarly, when the 'mail to unconfirmed person' button 78 is selected, a 'message entered as a contact mail' portion of the retransmission screen is generated 836 as an input item and transmitted.

These screens are displayed (818, 819) on the terminal of the contact person (110). The contact person 110 designates a sending destination 821 when retransmitting, and when sending a new mail, inputs a sending destination and a message 820, and then sends it to the service server 130 (822). Upon receiving this signal, the service server 130 generates 838 e-mails for each destination, and transmits 839 to the recipient 120, which is a recipient. Contact 120 accepts this mail (840).

In the input operations of 'specify a destination 821' and 'enter a destination and a message 820', normally, a person who has been posted in the unacknowledged list 73 is automatically checked as a recipient (radio button or Checklists, etc.), and only those who need to be excluded from this list for any reason will be unchecked.

As described above, according to the communication system of the present invention, the confirmation of the transfer of communication information or the attendance confirmation at various meetings, which are conventionally performed by telephone, facsimile, or e-mail, is performed on personal computers, cellular phones, PDAs, and the like. The terminal connected to the computer network can be quickly, surely, simply and inexpensively.

Claims (8)

A service server for relaying a contact from a contact person to a contact person, and the contact person and the terminal of the contact person are connected through a computer network, and the service server includes a URL linking to the contact information of the contact person. A contact system, characterized by sending a contact electronic mail to the contactee. The communication system according to claim 1, wherein a technical language document corresponding to the WWW is prepared in the URL including a response field corresponding to the communication item. The communication system according to claim 2, wherein the technical language document corresponding to the WWW is screen-divided corresponding to the display capability of the terminal of the contactee. The contact system according to claim 1, wherein said service server detects data relating to said answer field sent from said terminal of said contact, and transmits the detection result as a report e-mail to said contact person's terminal. 5. The communication system according to claim 4, wherein a plurality of options for a reconnection method are prepared in the report e-mail. The communication system according to claim 4, wherein the report e-mail includes a URL linking to the detection result, and a technical language document corresponding to the WWW including the detection result is prepared in the URL. 7. The communication system according to claim 6, wherein a plurality of options for a reconnection method are prepared in the technical language document. The communication system according to claim 6, wherein the technical language document corresponding to the WWW is screen-divided corresponding to the display capability of the terminal of the contact person.