JP2002149524A - Url information identification system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system capable of accessing a desired URL with a simple operation without inputting the URL to a browser, etc. SOLUTION: This URL information identification system is provided with an identification code inputting means provided on a Web for inputting and acquiring an identification code for identifying the URL that a user tries to access, an identification code transmitting means for transmitting the identification code to a server, an identification code database in which a plurality of URLs and a plurality of identification codes are previously stored to be made correspond to each other, and a file identification/transmission program for referring to a URL corresponding to the identification code and transmitting a file located at a corresponding URL to a user terminal. The user can read his/her desired site by inputting the identification code on a Web.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an identification code such as a numeral in an input form on a Web page accessed by a user by using a server system provided in a computer network to which a computer, a portable information terminal or the like is connected. The present invention relates to a system capable of accessing a desired URL without inputting a URL or the like to a browser or the like by inputting a URL.

[0002]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In recent years, computers and
With the development of networks and communication environments, businesses such as commercial activities represented by the Internet have become active. W for shopping malls and auctions
There are many e-sites, and various technologies, such as settlement methods, have been developed. In addition to information devices such as personal computers, mobile information terminals, mobile phones, PHSs, and information home appliances such as Internet TVs and game devices have become widespread. Some mobile phones and the like have a browser function, and it is possible to browse web pages on the Internet from a mobile phone terminal.

[0003] In such a situation, there is an enormous number and new web sites are being created one after another every day, and the administrator of each web site is troubled by attracting customers on the network. This is the current situation. For example, when a domain name composed of meaningful words such as a simple and easy-to-remember domain name and a company name is obtained, or an easy-to-remember word such as “Japanese + .com” is entered in the input field of the URL of the browser. For example, use of a service that can be accessed after being converted to the original URL.

As a technique for solving such a problem, for example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2000-235541 “System and method for specifying a location on a network” discloses a technique for specifying a location on a computer network.
There is disclosed a technique for enabling a user to be familiar with and use a simple method. According to the present invention, when a user selects an arbitrary symbol on any application of a client computer and copies it to the clipboard, the linker automatically captures the symbol in the clipboard and sends it to the URL server. The URL server has a database in which sets of various symbols and corresponding URLs are stored, searches the URL corresponding to the received symbol, returns the searched URL to the linker, and sends the URL to the WWW browser. This is a network location designating system for accessing and displaying a page existing at a delivery URL.

[0005] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-175471, "UR
In the “L rewriting method and apparatus and medium recording URL rewriting program”, resources specified by a user or a program by a URL are converted to an optimum resource via an appropriate mirror server, cache server, or relay server. There is disclosed a technique for providing a URL rewriting method and a device that allow access to a URL. The present invention relates to a system configured with a single computer, or a system in which a plurality of computers are connected via a network or a system connected to the Internet.
In the information access based on the RL, the rewriting server collects, in advance or when necessary, specific information including an access path to the resource specifier and a transfer speed and a data type related to each access path; A URL rewriting method characterized by comprising a step of rewriting a resource specifier into an access path and a step of the user or the program acquiring a resource through an optimal path according to each information of the access path.

[0006] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-235538 "Internet connection method" discloses a technique for saving time in the operation of connecting to the Internet. The present invention relates to a method for accessing the Internet by specifying a URL from an Internet access means not having a keyboard, wherein the Internet access means is provided with a reading device for a movable recording medium, and the URL data is stored in advance in the movable recording medium; The URL data on the movable recording medium is read by a reading device and supplied to Internet access means to access the Internet.

In the present invention, when accessing the Internet using a personal computer, a portable information terminal such as a mobile phone, or an information home appliance,
A desired URL can be designated by a simple operation without depending on a browser or specific application software, etc., and a URL which is easy for a website provider to remember by a user.
The present invention solves a problem that could not be solved conventionally by providing a code for identifying. Therefore, in order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a server system provided on a computer network to which a computer, a personal digital assistant, and the like are connected, on a Web page accessed by a user. An object of the present invention is to provide a system capable of accessing a desired URL without inputting a URL or the like to a browser or the like by inputting an identification code such as a number in an input form.

[0008]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the first aspect of the present invention, in a computer network, a user tries to access
Web to enter an identification code to identify RL
An identification code input means provided above, an identification code transmission means for transmitting the identification code to a server, an identification code database for storing a plurality of URLs and identification codes in advance in correspondence with each other, and A file identification / transmission program that refers to the URL and transmits a file located at the URL to the user terminal;
The URL information identification system is characterized in that a user can browse a desired site by inputting an identification code on the Web.

Further, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem, a second aspect is provided.
The invention according to claim 1, wherein the identification code is an alphanumeric character,
A URL information identification system according to claim 1.

[0010] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a third aspect is provided.
The invention according to claim 1 is the URL information identification system according to claim 1, wherein in the invention according to claim 1, the identification code is a symbol.

[0011] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a fourth aspect of the present invention is provided.
The invention according to claim 1 is the URL information identification system according to claim 1, wherein the identification code is a Japanese character.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor device comprising:
The invention according to claim 1, wherein the identification code is a combination of alphanumeric characters, symbols, Japanese characters, and other identification codes. It is a URL information identification system.

[0013] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a sixth aspect of the present invention is provided.
The invention according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the user terminal is a portable information terminal including a mobile phone and a PHS. It is a URL information identification system described in the above.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer system comprising:
The URL information identification system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the user terminal is an information home appliance. It is characterized by having.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing a basic configuration of a system according to the present invention. The basic hardware configuration of the system of the present invention includes a large-scale database server, an image storage / distribution server, and a WEB.
It is composed of a server, a mail server, an application server, a search server and the like, and it is desirable that the various servers be multiplexed as necessary to ensure security. The system of the present invention is generally realized in a system having a Web server, an application server, a database server, and the like on a network to which computers, portable information terminals, and the like are connected. The configuration of the server of the system of the present invention is shown in FIG.
Are typical in the basic system configuration diagram, but this is an example, and the present invention is not limited to this. Different configurations may be adopted as long as the systems have similar functions. For example, a web server,
Either the application server, the database server, or the like, or each may reside in a different location, or may reside in the same location.

The URL information identification system of the present invention includes an identification code input means for inputting an identification code for identifying a URL to be accessed by a user in a computer network. The identification information input means usually includes an HTML file, a C-file, as shown in FIG.
This is an input form provided on a Web page composed of an HTML file, an XHTML file, and the like.
When an identification code such as a number is input in an input field of an input form and a transmission button (“GO” button) is pressed, the input information is transmitted.

Here, the identification code is an alphanumeric character as in the second aspect of the invention, or a third aspect of the invention.
, Or a Japanese character as in the invention of claim 4, or an alphanumeric character, a symbol, a Japanese character as in the invention of claim 5, This includes the case of a combination of other identification codes or the case of another identification code.

The identification information input means is, as described above,
b, and the user
The Web page is accessed from a terminal such as a computer or a mobile phone. Here, the user terminals for connecting to the network include not only terminals such as computers, but also various types of computer terminals such as wireless communication terminals such as mobile phones and PHSs, and portable information terminals incorporating these functions. Is included. Further, it may be an electric device with a built-in computer, for example, a so-called information home appliance such as a game device or a television.

Further, the URL information identification system of the present invention includes an identification code transmitting means for transmitting the identification code to a server. When the identification code transmission means inputs an identification code such as a number in the input field of the input form and presses a transmission button ([GO] button), the input information is transmitted. The input information is received by a server provided with an identification code database and a file identification / transmission program described later, and is set so that the file identification / transmission program is started.

For example, H provided with the above-mentioned input form
An example of the HTML source of the TML file is as follows.

Here, the description of the input form is as follows: When the identification code is input and the "Go-" button is pressed (clicked or the like), the information is transmitted, and "http: //
www. ○○○. com / cgi-bin / nodia
l. The file identification / transmission program existing in cgi ″ is activated, and the transmitted data of the identification code is passed to this program.

Further, the URL information identification system of the present invention includes an identification code database for storing a plurality of URLs and identification codes in advance in association with each other. FIG.
FIG. 4 is a data configuration diagram illustrating an example of a data configuration stored in an identification code database.

Also, the URL information identification system of the present invention refers to the URL corresponding to the identification code and
A file identification / transmission program for transmitting a file located in the RL to the user terminal is provided. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a basic processing flow of the file identification / transmission program. Note that the processing flow shown here is an example, and the present invention is not limited to this.

First, a user accesses a site provided with an identification code input means in a network, and inputs an identification code in the above-mentioned input form or the like (S1). After input,
A button for transmitting the data of the identification code, for example, "G
By pressing the "o-" button (S2), information is transmitted (S3).

On the server side, the data is received by the act of transmitting the data from the user terminal, and the file identification / transmission program is started (S4). The transmitted identification code data is received by the file identification / transmission program (S5), and is collated with the identification code database (S6). As a result of the collation, it is determined whether or not the input / transmitted identification code exists in the identification code database (S7). If not, an error display or the like is performed. As a result of the collation, it is determined whether or not the input / transmitted identification code is present in the identification code database (S7). If there is, the corresponding URL is extracted from the identification code database (S8), and the relevant URL is determined.
Request transmission of the file existing in the user terminal to the user terminal (S
9). As a result, the file existing in the URL is transmitted to the user terminal and displayed on the user terminal (S1).
0).

These processes are realized by, for example, the following application programs. Simple programs include CGI (Common Gateway I) using Perl and C language.
This is realized, for example, by using an interface program. However, when the number of users, the access frequency, the capacity of the database, and the like become large, it is desirable to construct a system corresponding to this.

Today, server software for generating the contents of an html file is also realized. Such software has a query function to the database server in advance, and if you embed the contents of the database query using SQL in an HTML file with its own extension, the server can send back the page when it returns. , Replace the contents of the HTML file with the contents of the result of the inquiry. Since the contents of the database query and the appearance of the displayed page can be described in one file, C
Service development is easier than with GI programs. Also, a script environment operating on a server can be used. Microsoft's ASP (Act
live Server Page) is scripted on the server side (described in VBScript or JScript)
And a platform for running Active X controls (including Java applets).

According to another embodiment of the present invention, as in the sixth aspect, in the first to fifth aspects, the user terminal includes a mobile phone or a PHS. 6. An information terminal, characterized in that it is an information terminal.
The URL information identification system described in any of the above. For example, Internet services using mobile phones typified by NTT DOCOMO's i-mode show a rapid expansion, and similar services of various specifications such as J-SkyWeb provided by J-PHONE and Ezweb provided by KDDI. Is also spreading. When accessing a Web site with a mobile phone, access the dedicated server of the telecommunications carrier using a telephone with a built-in browser yesterday, and specify the URL from the mobile phone through the server to WWW.
The user browses a mobile phone-compatible Web page on the server. However, in such a portable terminal, it is impossible to physically mount only a limited number of operation buttons such as numeric keys (buttons). In particular, by using the system using the identification code of the present invention, The URL can be specified by a simple operation.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, as in the invention of the seventh aspect, in the invention of the first to fifth aspects, the user terminal is an information home appliance. The URL information identification system according to any one of claims 1 to 5. Today, Internet T
So-called information appliances, such as Vs, game machines, and various other home appliances with computer control functions, are being developed one after another. In order to provide information transmission and reception functions using the Internet by connecting to a network, there are cases where URLs are specified and accessed. is assumed. Also in this case, the URL can be specified by a simple operation, particularly by using the system using the identification code of the present invention due to restrictions such as operation buttons.

Further, as another embodiment of the present invention, as in the case of the eighth aspect, the U-type
In the RL information identification system, a Web site administrator or the like wishes to obtain as an identification code for identifying the URL of the site.
a desired identification code input means provided on the web server, a desired identification code transmitting means for transmitting the desired identification code to the server, an identification code database for storing a plurality of URLs and identification codes in advance in association with each other; Determine whether the identification code has been stored in the identification code database,
An identification code issuing program for transmitting the result to a terminal of a Web site administrator or the like when the information is stored, and receiving an application for acquiring a desired identification code when the information is not stored. A URL information identification code issuing system capable of issuing an identification code used in the URL information identification system according to any one of 1 to 7 above. In the URL information identification system of the present invention, the system administrator of the present invention which manages a system such as an identification code database can issue an identification code (permission of use) to each Web site. In this case, usually, it is expected that each Web site administrator has a desire to obtain an easily memorable identification code. Therefore, by using a desired identification code input unit and a desired identification code transmission unit such as an input / transmission form on the Web, an inquiry is made to the identification code database as to whether or not a desired identification code is available. If it is vacant, the system can be used to apply for the acquisition of an identification code. FIG.
5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of basic processing according to the present embodiment.

[0031]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, a Web page accessed by a user using a server system provided in a computer network to which a computer, a portable information terminal, or the like is connected. By inputting an identification code such as a number in the input form, a system capable of accessing a desired URL without inputting the URL or the like to a browser or the like can be provided. As a result, the user can browse the information of the desired URL by a simple input operation.
It is possible to use an identification code that can be easily remembered even by a side that provides information or the like at the site b. In particular, the present invention is effective in fields such as a portable information terminal such as a mobile phone in which it is difficult to input a long URL or the like, and information home appliances. According to the invention described in claim 8, it becomes possible for the system administrator of the present invention to accept and issue an application for acquiring an identification code.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing a basic configuration of a system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a screen image diagram showing an example of an input form provided on a Web page.

FIG. 3 is a data configuration diagram showing an example of a data configuration stored in a database.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a basic processing flow of a file identification / transmission program.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a basic process of an embodiment when an identification code is issued.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 User Terminal 2 User Terminal 3 Internet Network 4 Web Server 5 Database Server 6 Application Server

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. An identification code input means provided on a Web for inputting an identification code for identifying a URL to be accessed by a user in a computer network, and an identification code for transmitting the identification code to a server. By referring to a code transmitting unit, an identification code database that stores a plurality of URLs and identification codes in advance in association with each other, and a URL corresponding to the identification codes, a file located at the corresponding URL is transmitted to the user terminal. A URL information identification system, comprising: a file identification / transmission program, wherein a user can browse a desired site by inputting an identification code on the Web. 2. The URL information identification system according to claim 1, wherein the identification code is an alphanumeric character. 3. The URL information identification system according to claim 1, wherein the identification code is a symbol. 4. The URL information identification system according to claim 1, wherein the identification code is a Japanese character. 5. The URL information according to claim 1, wherein the identification code is a combination of alphanumeric characters, symbols, Japanese characters, and other identification codes. Identification system. 6. The invention according to claim 1, wherein said user terminal is a portable information terminal including a mobile phone and a PHS. URL information identification system. 7. The URL information identification system according to claim 1, wherein said user terminal is an information home appliance. 8. The URL information identification system according to claim 1, wherein a Web site administrator or the like operates a URL of the site.
A desired identification code input means provided on the Web for inputting a desired identification code, which is desired to be obtained as an identification code for identifying L, and a desired identification code transmission for transmitting the desired identification code to a server Means, an identification code database for storing a plurality of URLs and identification codes in association with each other in advance, and determining whether or not the desired identification code has been stored in the identification code database. 8. An identification code issuing program for transmitting the result to a terminal of a Web site administrator or the like, and receiving an application for acquiring a desired identification code when the result is not stored, the identification code issuance program. Characterized by being able to issue an identification code used in a URL information identification system of the present invention.
L information identification code issuing system.