JP2001312450A - Virtual message exchange system using computer network - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To develop and provide a system which provides use effect by solving problems as much as possible generated when 'electronic mail' for exchanging character documents through a communication line of computers concentrate on one place. SOLUTION: This system comprises three parts, i.e., a 'level-1 system' which is ideal, however requires high-level computer processing capability, and a 'level-2 system A' and a 'level-2 system B' which can be actualized even by computers having relatively low processing capability. The 'level-2 system' can provide exactly the same effect with the 'level-1 system' for users of this system and is therefore considered to be a relative system. The means of this invention is solved by a virtual message exchange system constituted by incorporating automatic analyzing function for electronic mail from a user side and an automatic generating and replying function for return mail from a server side in a network system.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a new technique for responding to the simultaneous reception of a large number of inquiries about a computer network system, which has been already published and is a major problem that has not been solved by conventional computer communication techniques. Specifically, one of the major drawbacks of computer network technology to date is that when information required by a very large number of people flows around the world, such as in Internet communications, the source of that information is The present invention relates to a new technical method for solving a problem in Internet communication when a large number of application communications on a communication line are flooded at once. Also,
The present invention relates to a novel means developed to protect the privacy of the parties and others from damages caused by various kinds of so-called hackers as much as possible.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventional computer network systems, such as Internet communications, have become a means of international communication, and in some cases, a very large number of communications can be performed in a relatively short time. You may need to communicate with the user. Nevertheless, with a normal computer, only a very limited narrow range of communication is possible. For example, assuming that the analysis and response creation time per email is 1 minute, a maximum of 60 minutes × 2 per day
4 hours = 1440 mails, only about processing. With this, a general-purpose system that can handle tens of thousands of people a day cannot be realized even if it can handle a small number of people. In addition, conventional systems are not only technically difficult due to various problems, such as hackers easily entering a personal computer system used in a public organization, and in particular, From the ethical point of view such as privacy, or the necessity of national security protection such as defense relations, there are many issues that need to be solved fundamentally from the infrastructure level. Specific prior arts include the following, and a technique closer to the present invention does not exist at the time of filing the present invention.

The first prior art is a work providing system using a network, which can promote secondary use while maintaining the right of preserving the identity of a certain work. A large number of terminal devices are connected to a central network, and work information stored in the work information is transmitted to the terminal device and stored in a temporary storage unit under the control of the central management device. The work is used in three types of usage modes of “reproduction use”, “edit use 1”, and “edit use 2”. "Recycle"
The presentation by the work presentation means is performed as it is based on the work information in the temporary storage means. In "Editing Use 1",
The work is modified by the editing means, but the contents of the modification are lost when the terminal device is turned off. "Editing use 2"
In, the new work after the modification is stored in the work information storage device and made public. This is a technique in which use conditions (whether or not use is possible, value) are set in each piece of work information for each of the three types of use modes. In other words, this network could be, for example, a means for presenting work, a means for editing,
Store multiple disclosure elements in one CPU-like network, have multiple terminals, support multiple inquiries,
This is an Internet sale for one type of work in which the contents and value of the provided work are set.

A second prior art is a virtual store system and a virtual store certification method, which can easily prove that a virtual store is a member store of a specific financial card and guarantee the fairness of the transaction amount. This is a technique for providing a virtual shop certification method that can be performed. Specifically, an image indicating that the computer of the member store contract / card issuer is a member store is encrypted with a secret key and transmitted to the computer of the virtual store, and it is confirmed that the computer is the encrypted member store. Receiving and storing the image to be displayed, transmitting the image indicating that the store is a member store encrypted with the secret key stored in the virtual store computer to the cardholder's central computer, This is a technique of encrypting an image indicating that the computer of the third party is a member store encrypted with the private key with a public key and displaying the encrypted image as a response.

[0005] A third prior art is shown in FIG.
This is a general method for implementing e-mail, and is used in general networks such as the Internet. That is,
The e-mail sent from the user 1 is temporarily stored on a host computer called a mail server. When the user 2 obtains the e-mail from the mail server, the one-way communication is completed. The user 2 reads the e-mail from the user 1 and stores the reply in the mail server again. User 1 obtains an e-mail from the mail server, and two-way communication is established with this.
That is.

[0006]

However, in the first prior art, there is a problem that the object referred to in the Internet communication is only a literary work, so that the range is considerably narrow and is not general. Therefore, if the information to be provided is the information that everyone has been asking so far, and if there are numerous inquiries with requests to know the details of the Internet information immediately, The one-system network server described above has a drawback that it cannot be used at all at the same time. Furthermore, there is also a problem that the contents of the inquiry are hardly any necessary measures such as protection of personal privacy, such as a medical problem.

Next, a second prior art is a system for securing the fairness of a transaction amount in a virtual store in a financial transaction, which is performed by encrypting transaction conditions. Because only a small range of customers with a contract are covered, compared to providing general Internet information, the scope is narrow, so it is not intended for a wide range of unspecified people. There is a problem. In addition, although encryption is effective to some degree in protecting secrets, the method of creating encryption itself is not always difficult, so it may be broken by an intruding third party, and therefore, it is not sufficient to protect privacy. There is a problem that cannot be said.

In the third prior art, two-way communication is established, but two-way communication is performed with a mail server having a host computer in the middle. There is a problem that three places are required and the configuration is still inefficient as a whole.

The present invention eliminates the disadvantages of the above-mentioned problems as much as possible, and generally provides information to a very wide range of users with a low waiting time, a minimum of hackers' entry and a high degree of privacy protection. As a trading system, we intend to create and provide a groundbreaking telegram exchange system with great progress.

[0010] The purpose of the present invention is supplemented. In the modern computer software industry, the need for virtual systems is increasing in the entertainment field such as games and the medical field such as counseling. For example, movie image reproduction technology can definitely be said to be a media technology based on "human wisdom", but this is also a virtual technology that "makes it look like it is in front of the user," Although it is not a technology to make the entity exist,
Nevertheless, this imaging technology has been recognized as a significant media for users, and has established itself as an important industry in the 20th century. "Virtual reality", which reproduces virtual space with computer graphic images
The technology is a technology that has been put to practical use in the field of construction and the like, and this technology is also applied to a simulator or the like for learning driving skills of automobiles. Even if the expected virtual system does not exactly resemble the reality, it is sufficiently practical if it is finally regarded as being realized from the user's eyes. It is considered that the utility of the present invention for realizing the same technology by exchanging documents on a network is very high, and the software realized by the present invention has great social significance. Is intended for its original development and delivery.

[0011]

As described above, according to the present invention, the first feature of the means for solving the problem is that a user and a server exchange messages via general communication means. In a computer network, a virtual message exchange system includes a virtual message exchange software incorporating an automatic analysis function of a message created and transmitted by a user and an automatic reply creation response function from a server.
That is, it is a virtual message exchange system using a network.

The second feature is that an automatic analysis function of a message created and transmitted by the user and an automatic reply creation response function from the server are provided on the computer of the server. This is a virtual message exchange system using a computer network incorporated in the system.

A third feature is that an automatic analysis function of a message created and transmitted by the user and an automatic reply creation response function from the server side are provided on the computer side of the user side. It is a virtual message exchange system using a computer network incorporated in the system.

Still further, a fourth feature is that the virtual message exchange software includes a virtual message artificial intelligence processing / encryption transmission function, a virtual message decryption / answer processing function, and a time interval processing transmission function. The function data is a virtual message exchange system using a computer network conforming to a predetermined format and organized by respective headers.

[0015]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In general, an electronic mail exchanges text via a communication line of a computer, a so-called "network". The embodiment of the invention is specifically as follows.
That is, the gist of the present invention is to automatically send and receive the electronic mail, analyze the contents of the exchanged document, and then prepare the reply document by a computer, and obtain various utilization effects. The present invention relates to a new technology 1 (referred to as a level 1 system) which is ideal but requires a high degree of computer processing capability, and a new technology which can be realized even with a computer having a relatively low processing capability. Technology 2 (referred to as Level 2 system A; Claim 3), and a new technology 3 (Level 2 System B; a further extension thereof);
It consists of three.

The technical details of the present invention will be described as follows.
With these new technologies, the system of the present invention makes it possible or possible for a user to see the following technologies. In the present invention, "level 2 system"
In VMAC, the system name for automatically analyzing and creating a reply mail on the user side is designated by VMAC (Virtual Mai).
l Airistic Int-teligen
nt Client: virtual message artificial intelligence processing requester). On the other hand, a system that receives a predetermined message on the server side, creates a reply mail, and returns the reply message is a VMAS (VMS).
actual Mail Answer Server:
Virtual message answer processor). VMAS divides one hour into ten-minute units and performs the following processing. Incoming call processing-10 minutes, 30 minutes, 50 minutes Processing to disassemble incoming messages, divide them into transmission times, and store them separately. Outgoing call processing-00 minutes, 20 minutes, 40 minutes Processing of transmitting a pre-stored message whose transmission time has elapsed.

The details of the incoming call processing procedure are as follows. The mail arriving at the server is subjected to the following division processing every 20 minutes. (1) Separate for each case. The original message sent at this point is deleted. (2) Decrypt and create a reply e-mail. Those not in the prescribed format are deleted as unauthorized mails. If possible, reply as unauthorized mail. (3) 24 folders (TIME00
To TIME 23). The reason for classifying by time is that since the number of days differs depending on the month, if the data is divided into 24-hour units that are always repeated, the reply time of the electronic message surely comes twice. In the time-divided folders, those that are returned at the same time of another month are collected.

The details of the transmission procedure are as follows. (1) Among the mails sorted into folders for 24 hours in advance,
Reply after the reply time. After the reply, the file name is recorded in the history file. The file after reply is deleted. (2) If the reply fails, it is recorded in an error log file. The history contents of 24 hours or less are reported to the administrator at a designated time every day (at 4:00 am by default) every day.

At the time when the present invention was first carried out, the above-mentioned "level 1 system" was used only by users having some high-performance computer systems due to the sophistication of the processing contents. Can not. On the other hand, "Level 2
A "system" is a computer having a very general capability, in that from the point of view of the user of the present invention, the same effect as the "level 1 system" can be obtained.
It can be said that the present invention is a much more inventive step. In addition, the present invention has many parts utilizing the "illusion" and "conjecture" of the user, but these are not necessarily those in which the movie or television image is actually in front of the user. However, just as it seems like it produces various effects, it is a new computer worthy of being fully applied to the entertainment field using psychological effects and medical counseling in the future. It can be said that it is a processing technology.

(Embodiment 1) In the "level 1 system" of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, processing of a message and an e-mail transmitted from the user 1 is performed in the following order. Bar
The second computer acts on behalf of the second computer. 1) The electronic mail transmitted from the user 1 is temporarily stored in a computer called a mail server-2. 2) The computer of the mail server-2 receives the incoming electronic mail.
Automatically analyze files. 3) Next, the computer 2 of the mail server automatically creates a response to it and sends it back to the user 1. 4) The user 1 acquires the electronic mail returned from the mail server-2, and gives or does not give an illusion effect as if the other party is a real person. it can.

(Embodiment 2) The above "Level 1 system"
Although this is an ideal type of the present invention, this implementation requires a computer with extremely high processing capability, so that not all users can use it in terms of cost. For example, assuming that the analysis and response creation time per email is one minute, only a maximum of approximately 1440 messages per day can be processed for 60 minutes × 24 hours = 1 day. As described above, a general-purpose computer that can handle tens of thousands of people a day cannot be realized with a computer having normal capacity even if it can handle a small number of people. Therefore, even if the mail server does not have high processing capability,
The “level 1 system” is configured so as to provide a system that can be seen by the user in exactly the same usage environment. In other words, the most important thing for a virtual message exchange system is "to make a virtual reply by a computer to the message sent by the user". In order to solve this proposition, There is no necessity for the server to take any action.

Then, the following processing method technology, which is a further inventive step of the present invention, has been devised. This is named "Level 2 system A mode". In particular,
In this mode, a message created and transmitted by the user is immediately analyzed in the user's computer, and a message for reply is created. In fact, this reply message is sent to the mail server, but since the user receives it as a normal e-mail, it is as if the reply was received from "a virtual person". Can be given. FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the "level 2 system A mode", and the operation sequence will be described below. 1) User 1 creates and sends an e-mail. 2) Before the e-mail is sent, the user's computer
Is immediately analyzed on the screen. 3) The contents of the e-mail replying to the user himself / herself are automatically created on the user's computer. 4) Send an e-mail from the user's computer to the user himself. 5) The user obtains the electronic mail from the mail server-2, and the two-way communication is established.

(Embodiment 3) The above "Level 2 system
The "Level 2 system / B mode" is a revolutionary development of the "A mode" and realizes an automatic environment closer to electronic mail transmitted by humans. "Level 2 system
In the B mode, electronic mail transmitted from the user's computer has processing information called a header added thereto.
Here, "the date and time when the mail should be returned and the other party" are described. As a result, the electronic mail can reply to the user after a certain time interval. FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the order of operation of the “level 2 system B mode”. 1) User 1 creates and sends an e-mail. 2) The electronic mail is immediately analyzed on the computer of the user 1 before being transmitted. 3) The contents of the e-mail to be returned are automatically created on the computer of the user 1. 4) Send an e-mail from the computer of the user 1 to the mail server-2. 5) After a certain period of time described in the header e-mail server-2
Automatically creates a reply mail to the user 1. 6) The user 1 obtains an electronic mail from the mail server 2, and two-way communication is established.

[0024]

According to the virtual message exchange system of the present invention, the following completely novel effects can be obtained by eliminating the drawbacks in the current Internet system. 1) From the user's point of view, it looks just like the server has performed the processing, so that a sense of relief can be given as if the user were exchanging messages with humans on the network system. . 2) By performing electronic message analysis processing on the server, which is difficult in practice, on the user's computer, the computer for the server has general capabilities and is sufficiently practical. Can withstand. 3) Since what is actually transmitted is a "prepared reply", as a result, the transmission contents of the user do not pass through a network line or a server, so that privacy is transmitted.
Can be protected. The use of encryption can also protect privacy in two stages. 4) The server-side processing system can be operated irrespective of the type of computer sending the electronic mail or the operating system. 5) Even if it is desired to provide a correspondence system with different contents, it is not necessary to change the server of the main body only by changing the reply creation program provided to the user. It is possible to provide a virtual correspondence service of the above pattern.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a “level 1 system” of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a “level 2 system A mode” of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a “level 2 system / B mode” of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional network system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1. User 2. Mail server 3. User

Claims (4)

[Claims] In a computer network in which a user and a server exchange messages via a general communication means, an automatic analysis function of a message created and transmitted by a user in a virtual message exchange system; -A virtual message exchange system using a computer network, comprising virtual message exchange software incorporating an automatic reply creation response function from the server side. 2. A function of automatically analyzing a message created and transmitted by the user and a function of automatically responding to a reply from a server are incorporated in a computer on the server. A virtual message exchange system using a computer network according to claim 1. 3. An automatic analysis function of a message created and transmitted by the user and an automatic reply creation response function from a server are incorporated in a computer on the user side. A virtual message exchange system using a computer network according to claim 1. 4. The virtual message exchange software includes a virtual message artificial intelligence processing / encryption transmission function, a virtual message encryption / decryption / answer processing function, and a time interval processing transmission function. A virtual message exchange system using a computer network according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the virtual message exchange system conforms to the following format and is organized by respective headers.