JP2001243148A - System for access to internet by portable phone and portable phone accessable to internet - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology accessible to internet by input only a short number corresponding to URL without being conscious of a long, complex character string on a portable phone. SOLUTION: On a screen for input of URL as shown figure 5, '*' and four figures for example, '1376' is input instead of a long, complex character string. And then URL is equivalent to four figures on a prescribed corresponding dictionary shown in figure 8. According to this method, 9999 pieces of URLs can be registered. This prescribed corresponding dictionary can be set up on a base station or be held by an internet provider. On the other hand, also portable phone can keep it with memorizing ROM(Read.Only.Memory). It is naturally possible to use five figures further. When five figures is used, 99999 pieces of URLs can be registered.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a connection to the Internet by a mobile phone, and more particularly, to a URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
Related to the technology of easily inputting to a mobile phone.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, portable telephones have come to be used at an astonishing rate due to their convenience and reduced charges. This mobile phone system includes a base station installed in the service area,
It is composed of a plurality of terminal devices that are telephone bodies. The mechanism by which a user makes a call and converts the voice into an electric signal is similar to a normal subscriber telephone, except that the electric signal is carried on the radio wave and reaches the nearest base station. It is. When a normal mobile phone is used, radio waves are exchanged with a mobile phone as a terminal within an area of one base called a cell. Here, although the frequency used for each cell is different, a plurality of terminals share the same frequency in the same cell. This method is called multiple access and is called FDM.
A, TDMA, and CDMA systems are known. By the way, since 1999, each mobile phone company has started a service that allows not only voice communication but also connection to the Internet from a mobile phone. This service has received overwhelming instructions, especially for young people, and has greatly contributed to the further spread of mobile phones. The main contents of this service are the display of a homepage on the Internet (although there are various restrictions), the e-mail function, and the display of information contents such as news and weather forecast.

[0003] A service that can use the Internet with this mobile phone is an HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
Some use e). An advantage of using HTML is that existing HTML content already existing in the whole world can be used as it is. Therefore, there is no burden on the homepage provider to create the homepage twice.

[0004]

By the way, when accessing a homepage using the Internet via a mobile phone, the user must input a URL from the mobile phone terminal. When accessing the Internet using a personal computer, inputting a URL from a keyboard is a bit troublesome, but inputting is not difficult. On the other hand, when inputting a URL from a mobile phone, the operation must be performed with one hand and also with the thumb, which is a rather troublesome operation. Generally, the URL is often notified in media such as magazines, newspapers, and televisions, and may be printed on business cards and the like. This U
RL is alphabetic character data that is long and complex (colon, slash, uppercase, lowercase). On the other hand, at present, a provider of contents via the Internet is working hard to announce such complicated URLs with advertisements or the like so that users can recognize the URLs widely. In this environment, mobile phone users can
There is a situation in which the user has to memorize a long and complicated URL or enter the information into a mobile phone with one hand while watching a magazine or the like. Therefore, when accessing the Internet from a mobile phone, a mechanism capable of easily inputting a complicated URL has been desired.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a portable telephone which can access the Internet only by inputting a relatively short number corresponding to the URL without being conscious of the URL of a long and complicated character string. Access technology.

[0006]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a portable telephone having a display unit for displaying information,
In a system in which a predetermined server is connected to a network and an Internet is accessed using a URL for accessing an information resource held by a server existing on the network, a predetermined URL may be assigned to an arbitrary digit in advance. Input means for assigning a number to the number and inputting the assigned number from the mobile phone; search means for searching for a URL corresponding to the number input from the input means; The object is achieved by providing an acquisition unit for acquiring an information resource to be acquired and a display unit for displaying the information resource acquired by the acquisition unit on a display unit of the mobile phone.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, an arbitrary number of digits is assigned to a predetermined URL in advance by * and a four-digit number.
The above objective is achieved.

[0008] According to the third aspect of the present invention, the predetermined UR
L is provided with dictionary data in which a predetermined number of digits are assigned, and by inputting the predetermined number of digits, the URL input operation is performed by referring to the dictionary data. To achieve. In the invention according to claim 4,
According to the third aspect of the present invention, the object is achieved by downloading, via the Internet, dictionary data in which a predetermined number of digits are assigned to a predetermined URL in advance. According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the third or fourth aspect of the invention, when creating dictionary data in which a predetermined number of digits are assigned to a predetermined URL in advance, when the dictionary data is created, The object is achieved by assigning the same four digits as the last four digits of the telephone number.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a basic mechanism of an Internet service using a mobile phone. In this service, various services are provided in addition to a normal voice call. Specifically, various online services such as bank account balance inquiry, transfer, restaurant guide, etc., transmission and reception of e-mail via the Internet, and access to a homepage are possible. Since the data communication method of this system uses the packet communication method,
The user is charged based on the amount of transmitted / received data, not on the communication time, so that the user can access the information over a long time without worrying about the communication time.

[0010] In this service, the screen of the mobile phone corresponds to a CRT or a liquid crystal screen connected to a personal computer. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the appearance of such a mobile phone. As shown in this figure, the mobile phone 50 includes a display unit 52, various keys 54, and an antenna 56. The mobile phone 50 is provided with a dedicated key 58 for accessing the Internet.
By pressing this key, a service for accessing the Internet can be received.

Then, when the dedicated key 58 is pressed,
The mode menu screen shown in FIG. 3 is displayed. On this screen, various menus that can be used by users other than the Internet are displayed. When the user selects the Internet 5 in this screen, the screen shown in FIG. 4 is displayed,
This is a screen for selecting a URL input or a URL history. Here, when one URL input is selected, a screen for requesting the input of the URL shown in FIG. 5 is displayed. Here, the user enters the URL
The URL is entered on this screen using the various keys 54 shown in FIG. For example, the URL of the JPO is "http: //www.j
po-miti.go.jp/indexj.htm ”
Enter using 4. When the user completes the input and selects OK, the screen shown in FIG. 6 is displayed, and the URL is edited. Then, when the URL editing is completed, the input UR
L is edited and displayed. The screen shown in FIG. 7 is displayed, and finally, permission for accessing the homepage is requested.
Here, when the user selects “OK”, the mobile phone accesses the Internet and acquires the data of the specified homepage. Then, the acquired home page is displayed on the display surface 52 of the mobile phone 50.

By the way, in general, a URL is composed of European characters, numbers, colons, etc., as described above, and it is troublesome to input from a keyboard of a personal computer. The reality is that we have to. In particular, when inputting from a mobile phone, inputting is difficult. Therefore, in the present embodiment, it is made possible to input by * and a 4-digit number. Specifically, U of FIG.
On the RL input screen, for example, a four-digit number such as “*” and “1376” is input instead of a complicated URL character array.

Here, the correspondence between the URL and the four-digit number is determined by a predetermined correspondence dictionary as shown in FIG. According to this method, 9999 URLs can be registered. This correspondence dictionary may be installed in the base station, or may be held by the Internet provider. Alternatively, the information may be stored in a ROM (read only memory) and stored in the mobile phone itself. In this embodiment, an example using a four-digit number has been described, but a five-digit number can naturally be used. If you use 5 digits, you get 999
99 URLs can be registered.

Next, a method of notifying a four-digit number corresponding to a URL will be described. In order to input a URL by this system, it is a prerequisite that the user recognizes a corresponding four-digit number. Therefore, it is important to widely notify the user of the four-digit number. As a method of this notification, companies, schools, government offices, hospitals, etc. have established homepages, and if you want to announce this, you will be able to advertise in magazines, newspapers, signs on trains and trains, advertisements in cars, TV commercials, etc. At the same time as displaying the URL, a four-digit number is also posted. In addition, a mobile phone usually has a memory function for storing a telephone number.
By matching the 4-digit number corresponding to RL,
It is possible to obtain a four-digit number without having to bother searching or taking notes in a notebook or the like.

On the other hand, there is also a method of notifying the four-digit number and the establishment entity of the homepage by word matching or using a well-known number. For example, if it is a hot spring homepage, "412
6 (good bath) "or" 0119 "for a fire station. In addition, if you have a lot of inquiries from users and general consumers, you can announce this 4-digit number along with a message that you should use this number when accessing the answering machine from the URL of the homepage and mobile phone . Also, the four-digit number may be displayed on the homepage itself, and a message indicating that the four-digit number will be used when accessing the homepage again. When linking to homepage, URL of link destination
And these four digits are preferably displayed. By placing the mouse over the URL of the link destination, the URL may be converted into a four-digit number.

As another method of notifying, URL and 4
It is also possible to store only the digits or these four digits, and to display the URL of the company existing there or these four digits by any method, for example, by clicking a building on the map with a mouse. Good. For example, if you click on a parking lot while using a car navigation system, the four-digit number will be displayed on the car navigation screen and you can access the parking lot from within the car by accessing it with a mobile phone. it can.

Although the method of announcing the four-digit number has been described above, this number may be preinstalled in the memory when the mobile phone is sold. In addition, using the mobile phone, data may be downloaded via the Internet to obtain a number. Furthermore, a specific trader may install a memory storing data in an existing mobile phone so that these numbers can be obtained. If this four-digit number is installed at the time of selling a mobile phone, a considerable number of users can be expected to gain access and a considerable advertising effect can be obtained.

Such a simple access service of a mobile phone to the Internet is possible not only for a provider providing a mobile phone service but also for other providers. That is, a specific homepage may be set up, and a user who accesses the homepage may input a four-digit number to access the corresponding homepage.

[0019]

According to the present invention, it is possible to easily access the Internet via a portable telephone by inputting a simple numeral without inputting a complicated URL.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a system for connecting to the Internet using a mobile phone.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an appearance of a mobile phone.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a menu screen of a mobile phone.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an Internet access screen of a mobile phone.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a URL input screen.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a URL editing screen.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen for obtaining permission to access the Internet.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a screen showing a state in which data is acquired by accessing the Internet.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a dictionary showing correspondence between numbers and URLs.

[Explanation of symbols]

 50 Mobile phone 52 Display screen 54 Various keys 56 Antenna 58 Selection key

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Claims (5)

[Claims] A mobile phone having a display unit for displaying information and a predetermined server are connected on a network, and a URL for accessing an information resource held by a server on the network is provided. In the system for accessing the Internet used, an arbitrary number of digits is assigned to a predetermined URL in advance, and input means for inputting the allocated numbers from the mobile phone; and numbers input from the input means Search means for searching for a URL corresponding to the URL, obtaining means for obtaining an information resource existing on a server corresponding to the URL, and displaying the information resource obtained by the obtaining means on a display unit on the mobile phone. An access system to the Internet using a mobile phone, comprising: a display unit. 2. The system for accessing the Internet by a mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein a predetermined number of digits assigned to a predetermined URL is * and a four-digit number. 3. A dictionary data in which a predetermined number of digits are assigned to a predetermined URL in advance, and by inputting the predetermined number of digits, the URL input operation is performed by referring to the dictionary data. A mobile phone that can access the Internet, on behalf of 4. The mobile phone according to claim 3, wherein the mobile phone downloads dictionary data in which a predetermined number of digits are assigned to a predetermined URL in advance via the Internet. phone. 5. When creating dictionary data in which a predetermined number of digits are assigned to a predetermined URL in advance, the URL
5. The mobile phone capable of accessing the Internet according to claim 3, wherein the same four-digit number as the last four digits of the telephone number of the holding subject is assigned.