JP2002007272A - Communication service system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system which mediates in specifying and selecting of a person concerned by a bulletin board and contacting method, having area, real-time, anonymousness, and purpose properties between an unspecified person who wishes to make contact and an unspecified person to be contacted. SOLUTION: When a user terminal accesses a service server to write a message, the service server requests the user terminal to select a contact means of at least mail, a real-time chat, or a voice message, set the terms of the validity of the message, and selects a desired genre and also requests the terminal to send a message body; and the message text received from the user terminal is classified into the corresponding genre and recorded in a bulletin board database together with the term of validity and contacting means. When the user terminal gains access for message browsing, the user terminal is requested to select a desired genre, and all messages corresponding to the desired genre received from the user terminal are extracted from the bulletin board database to generate bulletin board information, which is displayed on the user terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bulletin board having a locality, real-timeness, anonymity, and purpose using an information communication network to communicate between a person who wants to be contacted and a person who wants to be contacted. Related to a system for performing this.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the rapid and remarkable development of communication networks such as bulletin boards, e-mails, and i-mode (trademark) type mobile phones on Internet homepages, it has become easy and smooth for people to communicate with each other. It has come to be. However, even in these uses,
It was still an old-fashioned way of meeting, and it was not possible for acquaintances to communicate with each other.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been conceived in view of the above circumstances, and it is desirable to receive an unspecified communication with a person who wants to make an unspecified communication depending on the region, time zone, purpose, and the like. It provides a mediation system that identifies and selects parties by using bulletin boards and contact methods that have regional characteristics, real-time characteristics, anonymity, and purpose, standing between people, and simply meet people Not only that, but it also works as an extremely effective means for effectively utilizing tickets such as concert tickets on the day of the day suddenly being unable to go or a game of a sailor.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A communication service system according to the present invention has a bulletin board database having a mail unit, a real chat unit, and a voice message unit, and includes a service server connected to a user terminal via a communication network. Have. The service server, when there is access to write a message from the user terminal, selects at least one of mail, real chat, and voice message, sets an expiration date of the message, and selects a genre for which posting is desired. Requesting the user terminal and requesting transmission of the message body as described above, the message body received from the user terminal is classified into a corresponding genre together with its expiration date and communication means, and recorded in the bulletin board database. When the user terminal accesses the message browsing, the user terminal is requested to select a desired genre, and all messages corresponding to the desired genre received from the user terminal are extracted from the bulletin board database to obtain bulletin board information. Is created and displayed on the user terminal.

[0005] Since the communication means can be selected by the user on the writing side, it is possible to select the communication means according to the device in hand or according to the preference. Further, since the expiration date of the message is set, for example, as in the case of a ticket for a concert or a sporting event, it becomes unnecessary for the user who writes and the user who reads to use it if time passes. It is possible to eliminate waste such as contacting a special message.

In the communication service system according to the present invention, the service server may further request the inputting user to input a telephone number when the communication means of the message to be written is a real chat. When a contact to the message to be made is desired, the user who browses is further requested to input a telephone number, or a telephone number is obtained by a caller ID notification service. Then, while connecting to the telephone of the user who wrote the message, it is also possible to connect the telephone of the user who wrote to the telephone of the user who wrote the browsing as desired by the user who wrote the message. As a result, neither the user on the writing side nor the user on the browsing side obtains the telephone number of the other party, and it is possible to avoid the occurrence of unnecessary troubles such as mischief telephones.

[0007] The communication service system of the present invention can also be configured so that messages are classified into genres according to region and / or purpose and recorded in a bulletin board database, whereby a user who writes and a user who browses can be configured. Will be able to more quickly communicate with the wishes.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A communication service system according to an embodiment of the present invention integrates voice and text information via a communication network N as shown in FIG. 1, and is roughly divided into a network service function A and a CTI service. A function B is provided, and the registrant (who wants to contact) and the viewer according to the region, time zone, purpose, etc.
This is a contact system that mediates (who wants to be contacted) with locality, real-timeness, anonymity, and purpose, not only meeting many people but also slowly selling your own unwanted goods. This is an extremely effective means for urgently finding a person who wants to find or obtain a ticket for a music concert or a soccer match on the day when the person suddenly cannot go to the place.

[0009] The network service function A is provided by an e-mail or W
A system part that provides an EB service. The software is composed of a WEB server program, a mail server program, a DB system, an original development program for providing the service (hereinafter referred to as a “service program”), and a voice message service. All services other than are provided by the net service function A. The hardware configuration includes a router 1 for connecting to a communication network, a hub 2, a communication network service server 3 for storing and operating various programs, and a file server 4 for storing mail spool data and DB data. However, the router 1 is unnecessary when a communication network connection environment can be already prepared.

The CTI service function B is a function for providing a voice message service. In terms of software, a telephone line switching control program, a net service function A
Communication program with voice recording and playback of voice messages
It is composed of a service providing program for controlling suspension and the like (hereinafter, these programs are collectively referred to as a "CTI program").

[0011] As a hardware configuration, it is connected to the telephone network T,
It is composed of a circuit switching device 5 for performing circuit switching and a CTI server 6 on which a CTI program operates. The CTI server is an Ethernet (E) such as 10BASET.
The connection is made to a hub 2 of a communication network by a Ethernet (registered trademark) cable.

FIG. 2 is a registrant service screen transition diagram for a registrant who wants to be contacted to write and register, and FIG. 3 shows a registrant browsing the registration and contacting the registrant. FIG. 7 is a transition diagram of a service screen for a viewer.

First, in the registrant service screen transition diagram of FIG. 2, the registrant uses a service menu P according to a program using an Internet homepage or the like.
1 and selecting a registration menu, a login screen P2 appears.

If the user disagrees with the login rule, the access is terminated. If the user agrees with the rules, the process proceeds to bulletin board genre setting P3. Here, the genre refers to, for example, the purpose of applying for karaoke or ramen, and the genre items 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 have prepared purpose items and desired region items, respectively. Genre items include, for example, "karaoke", "club",
"Drinking party", "conversation", "Gasen", "other",
Also, the desired area of the person you want to contact, such as "Shibuya", "Shinjuku", "Ueno", "Omiya", "Ikebukuro", "Funabashi", "Namba", "Sendai", "Utsunomiya", etc. In addition to the town and "others", there are items such as "no hope" and a desired genre is selected from those items. When the genre is selected, the screen moves to the screen P4 for writing on the bulletin board, and the title, the effective contact time (expiration date of the publication information), and the text are written. The title serves as a headline when information is registered in the database, where the registrant can freely enter sentences, for example,
A condition of text data with a certain limit on the number of characters can be added.

The expiration date of the information is the expiration date of posting the registered information on the bulletin board. If the date and time is exceeded, the registered information is automatically deleted from the bulletin board. This input is, for example,
Enter a two-digit number, select a unit, and select "minutes, hours, days,
Valid for up to three days. " Further, if the expiration date is not entered, a program may be set so that it is automatically valid only for XX minutes or valid only for 3 days. Although text such as a small "message" can be freely entered in the body text, the text may be limited to only text data and the number of characters may be limited.

When the writing of the bulletin board entry 4 is completed, the screen moves to a contact method screen P5, and a desired contact means for the registrant to receive a contact from the viewer is selected. For example, items such as e-mail, chat, voice message, message dial, and the like are provided and the registrant makes a selection. When the registrant selects a real-time chat, the procedure for setting the next post-office box (P6) is not necessary, and the procedure proceeds directly to the explanation of the contact method (P7), but other mails and voice messages are selected. Then, the screen moves to a post office box setting screen P6, in which an ID number and a password are registered and a post office box is set. When the setting is completed, the screen moves to a screen P7 for explaining a contact method. In the explanation of the contact method, the registrant can freely describe his / her nickname, characteristics, wishes, etc., to the person who will be the viewer. If you are hesitant to write your real name, you can enter "nickname" and freely enter text about the contact method, such as "in front of Hachiko", but here you can also set text data and character limit .

After selecting the items to be registered on each of the above screens, the process proceeds to a screen P8 for confirming the registered contents, and all the registered contents are confirmed. If there is a correction portion, etc., the user can proceed to the correction screen (not displayed), correct the necessary portion, and return to the registration content confirmation screen P8 again. After confirming all registration contents, if there is no problem, by performing registration, all registration procedures are completed,
The registered content in which the message is written is displayed on the bulletin board (P9), and the user can confirm his / her own message.

Next, FIG. 3 will be described. FIG. 3 is a transition diagram of a service screen for a viewer on the side of browsing the registered contents registered by the above procedure.

First, access is made from the service menu S1 using the Internet homepage or the like, and proceeds to the log-in screen S2, where an ID number and a password are entered, and a bulletin board genre selection screen S3 is displayed. When the viewer selects a genre to browse, that is, a desired purpose or area, a message corresponding to the genre is extracted and displayed on the bulletin board S4. After browsing them, select the desired message.

In this case, for example, when the desired contact means is an e-mail, the process proceeds to a post office box setting screen (see screen P6 in FIG. 2), sets "ID" and "password", and proceeds to a mail transmission screen S5. . A title, a nickname, and a text can be freely input, but the input may be limited to the number of characters as text data. After registering the above items, the registration content confirmation screen (screen P in FIG. 2)
8)), check all the registered contents, and if there are any corrections, etc., go to the correction screen (not shown), correct the relevant parts,
Proceed to the confirmation screen again and send if there is no problem.

If the desired contact means is a real chat, the process proceeds to a chat application screen S6, where application or cancellation is selected. When the application is selected, the screen is shifted to a telephone number input screen (not shown), the telephone number for contacting the viewer is input, and the process is temporarily terminated. Here, the telephone number of the viewer can be configured to be obtained by the caller number notification service. The registrant of the message is then called and, if the registrant wishes to contact the viewer, a call is made to the viewer and a telephone connection between the registrant and the viewer is established. Contact to the registrant can also be made by e-mail. In this case, a call is made to the viewer after waiting for a call from the registrant, and a telephone connection between the two is established.

If the desired communication means is a voice message, the process proceeds to a voice message recording screen S7 and when "#" is pressed, a message for starting recording flows and recording is started.
In this case, a recording time limit is set. "End recording"
Later, a message prompting confirmation is played. For re-recording,
Press "#" to start re-recording. If there is no problem with the recorded content, press "##" and the message is registered.

A method in which a person registered in the database receives a message from a person who browsed the database and contacted him / her using the desired contact means is as follows.

In the case of "e-mail", the e-mail stored in the "post-office box" is browsed. The "P.O. Box" can be browsed using the "ID" and "Password" set at the time of opening. In the case of "real chat", it is notified by phone or e-mail that the viewer wants to contact, so if the registered person also wants contact, press "#" to open And if you do n’t want to,
It is possible to reject by pressing "##" (if notified by e-mail, the registered person needs to call the service server). If the call is rejected, the other party will receive a message that the message was rejected. In the case of "voice message", listen to the messages stored in the "P.O. Box". "P.O. Box" is the "ID" set at the time of opening,
It is possible to listen by "password". Each message can be “Saved” and “Deleted”.
“#” And “deletion” can be performed by “2 #”.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a communication service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a transition diagram of a registrant service screen for a registrant who wants to be contacted in the system shown in FIG. 1 to write and register.

FIG. 3 is a transition diagram of a service screen for a viewer in which the viewer in the system shown in FIG. 1 browses the registration and contacts the registrant.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 1 router 2 hub 3 net service server 4 file server 5 circuit switching device 6 CTI server A net service function B CTI service function

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A service server having a bulletin board database having a mail unit, a real chat unit and a voice message unit and connected to a user terminal via a communication network, wherein the service server writes a message from the user terminal. Requesting the user terminal to select at least one of mail, real chat or voice message and setting the expiration date of the message, and requesting transmission of the message body, The message body received from the terminal is classified into the corresponding genre together with the expiration date and the communication means and recorded in the bulletin board database, and when the user terminal accesses the message, the desired genre is selected by the user terminal. Request to you A communication service system wherein all messages corresponding to a desired genre received from the terminal are extracted from a bulletin board database to create bulletin board information and displayed on a user terminal. 2. The service server according to claim 1, wherein, when the contact means of the message to be written is a real chat, the service server further requests the input user to input a telephone number, and is requested to contact the message using the real chat as the contact means. Requesting the reading user to enter a telephone number further or obtaining a telephone number with the caller ID notification service, and then connecting to the telephone of the user who wrote the message while requesting the user who wrote the message. 2. The communication service system according to claim 1, wherein the telephone of the user who wrote the message is connected to the telephone of the user who browsed in response to the request. 3. The communication service system according to claim 1, wherein the messages are classified into genres according to region and / or purpose and recorded in a bulletin board database.