JP2002108897A - Electronic label device, electronic label attachment method and recording medium with electronic label program recorded therein - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic label device which can display individual label information corresponding to every user and shared label information to be shown to all users on an electronic page while keeping the prototype of electronic page such as an electronic manual as it is, and also to provide an electronic label attachment method and a recording medium where an electronic label program is recorded. SOLUTION: A server is provided with a user registration information storage means 8, an original electronic page storage means 9, confirmation means 5 and 6 which confirm users from user information inputted from the server and a client, an individual label information storage means 10 which stores the label information on every user and a shared label information storage means 11 which stores the label information to be shared by all users. Then an electronic label window showing the shared label information corresponding to the original electronic label and the individual label information are put on each other and shown at a prescribed position on the display screen of the electronic page in response to the users.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic sticky note device, an electronic sticky note sticking method, and an electronic sticky note sticking program for sticking a sticky note on an electronic page displayed on a display screen of a server or a client constituting a communication network. Related to a recording medium on which is recorded.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Documents such as manuals have conventionally been printed on paper. However, in recent years, documents such as manuals have been digitized due to easiness of organization, storage management, search, copying, and the like. In an office or the like, when a plurality of computers are connected by a communication line to form a local area network (hereinafter, referred to as a LAN), an electronic manual (hereinafter, referred to as an electronic manual) is stored in a server computer. Then, a plurality of users can simultaneously browse this electronic manual via a client terminal such as a computer. As a result, there is an advantage that it is not necessary to prepare a plurality of manuals made of paper for each user, and it is possible to easily arrange documents in the office.

[0003]

On the other hand, there is a demand that users want to leave memos necessary only for themselves on each electronic page of the electronic manual. However, if such notes are recorded in an electronic manual stored on the server computer, the notes required only by one user will be seen by all other users, and those who do not need the memo will be It is just in the way. In addition, there is a problem that if a plurality of users rewrite the electronic manual as desired, it becomes impossible to determine what the original of the electronic manual was.

[0004] Therefore, each user records memos necessary only for himself / herself on paper. This is very inconvenient because the display screen of the computer and the notebook must be alternately referred to. Furthermore, when the number of paper memos increases, there is a problem that the organization corresponding to the electronic manual becomes difficult. When another page referred to in a certain page of the electronic manual is always the same, it is more convenient to be able to automatically move than to input and move a reference page every time the user browses. However, since the page to be referred to differs for each user, it is problematic to link to the page of the electronic manual stored on the server computer.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide individual sticky information corresponding to each user while retaining the original electronic page such as an electronic manual. Another object of the present invention is to provide an electronic sticky note device, an electronic sticky note sticking method, and a recording medium on which an electronic sticky note program is recorded, which is capable of displaying, on an electronic page, shared sticky information for showing all users to all users.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic sticky note (hereinafter, referred to as an electronic page) displayed on a display screen of a server or a client constituting a communication network.
This is called an electronic sticky note. The present invention relates to an electronic sticky note device, an electronic sticky note sticking method, and a recording medium on which an electronic sticky note program is recorded.

In order to achieve the above object, an electronic sticky note device according to the present invention has a user registration information storage means provided on a server side and an original electronic page storage means provided on a server side. Confirmation means for confirming a user based on user information input from a server or a client and information stored in the user registration information storage means, and for storing the tag information for each user according to the confirmation. Individual sticky note information storage means provided on the server side, shared sticky note information storage means provided on the server side for storing the sticky information to be shared by all users in accordance with the confirmation, and Individual tag information corresponding to the user and corresponding to the electronic page requested from the server or client side, and corresponding to the electronic page. Reading means for reading the shared sticky information from the individual sticky information storage means and the shared sticky information storage means; and displaying the electronic sticky note window by superimposing an electronic sticky note window on an electronic page display screen in accordance with the read sticky information. And a tag information input unit for inputting information to the tag window.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic sticky note device according to the first aspect, wherein each of the units is a unit that functions according to a program provided on a server. And a first link unit for linking the copied program and the electronic page so that the copied program is activated by a signal input by pointing to the display screen. According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the electronic sticky note device according to the first or second aspect, wherein the server and the client are a WWW server operated by the WWW and a WWW.
The electronic browser is a W browser, and the electronic page is a Web page described in HTML.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the features of the first to third aspects, the electronic sticky note information may be linked to an electronic page on which the electronic sticky note is attached. One or more addresses of the electronic page are included, the electronic tag is linked to the other electronic page based on the tag information, and the electronic tag is moved from the electronic tag to the other electronic page on a display screen. Characterized by further comprising a second link means for enabling the following.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic sticky note sticking method for storing user information input from a server or a client and user registration information provided on a server in order to achieve the above object. A step of confirming the user based on the information stored in the means, a step of storing the tag information for each user in accordance with the confirmation in the individual tag information storage means provided on the server side, and a sharing step provided on the server side Storing the tag information to be shared by all the users in accordance with the confirmation in the tag information storage means, and responding to the user based on the confirmation, and corresponding to the electronic page requested from the server or the client side Individual sticky information,
A reading step of reading the shared sticky information corresponding to the electronic page from the individual sticky information storage means and the shared sticky information storage means; and displaying a window of the electronic sticky note on the display screen of the electronic page in accordance with the sticky information. And an attaching step of attaching an electronic sticky note.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium on which the electronic sticky note program of the present invention is recorded, wherein the user information inputted from a server or a client side and the server side are provided in order to achieve the above object. A procedure for confirming the user based on the information stored in the user registration information storage means, a procedure for storing the tag information for each user according to the confirmation in the individual tag information storage means provided on the server side,
A procedure for storing, in the shared sticky information storage means provided on the server side, the sticky information to be shared by all the users in accordance with the confirmation, and for responding to the user based on the confirmation, and from the server or the client side. A reading step for reading the individual sticky information corresponding to the requested electronic page, and the shared sticky information corresponding to the electronic page from the individual sticky information storage means and the shared sticky information storage means; An electronic sticky note program having an attaching step of attaching an electronic sticky note by superimposing and displaying an electronic sticky note window on a display screen is recorded.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a client terminal such as a computer, 2 denotes a server-side computer,
Reference numeral 3 denotes a server-side storage. The client terminal 1, the server-side computer 2, and the server-side storage 3 are communicably connected to each other by a communication line such as an extension or an outside line or by radio, and a communication network 23 such as a local area network (LAN) or the Internet is constructed. ing.

An electronic sticky note device of the present invention is a device for sticking an electronic sticky note to an electronic page displayed on a display screen of a server or a client constituting a communication network. Means]. Each unit in the electronic sticky note device functions when the server or client-side computer operates according to a sticky note program stored in the server-side or client-side computer. In the present embodiment, it is stored on the server side.

The client-side computer 11 includes an input device 1a such as a keyboard and a mouse, a display device 1b such as a liquid crystal screen, a CPU (Central Processing Unit; the same applies hereinafter) 1c, and a communication device. Similarly, the server-side computer 2 includes an input device 2a such as a keyboard and a mouse, a display device 2b such as a liquid crystal screen, a CPU 2c, and a communication device. The storage 3 is the CPU
2c is an auxiliary storage device. The storage 3 is
It may be provided in the CPU 2c and integrated with the server-side computer 2. The client terminal is not limited to a computer, but may be a mobile phone or the like. In short, any device that has at least a display device for displaying characters and the like and an input device for inputting information and can communicate with the server side may be used.

C of the client computer 11
As shown in FIG. 2, the PU 1c stores an input information storage unit 4 for temporarily storing input information input from the input device 1a and information received from a server, and various programs such as a communication program. Storage area 5, a work area 6 for performing processing by the program temporarily stored in the storage area 5 and the input information storage unit 4, and output information to be sent to the server after the processing is completed. An output information storage unit 7 is provided. Similarly, in the CPU 2c of the server-side computer 2, the input device 2
a input information storage unit 4 for temporarily storing input information input from a, information received from the client computer 1, and information obtained from the storage 3, and various programs such as an electronic sticky note program and a communication program of the present invention. Storage area 5 for storing the information, a work area 6 for performing the processing by the program, and an output information storage unit 7 for storing output information such as information to be sent to the client after the processing. Has been. The server-side storage 3 includes at least a user registration information storage unit 8,
There are provided an original data storage unit 9, an individual sticky information storage unit 10, and a shared sticky information storage unit 11 for an electronic page in which an electronic manual or the like is described.

The user registration information storage unit 8 stores information for identifying a user, such as whether the user is a general user or an administrator. The individual tag information storage unit 10 stores tag information for each user. The individual tag information corresponding to the user identified by the registered information of the user can be viewed only by the identified user. Therefore, the sticky information is stored in the individual sticky information storage unit 10 when the user is confirmed to be a general user and when the administrator wants to be able to view only the self.

The shared sticky information storage section 11 stores shared sticky information for all users to browse. This shared tag information can be input only by the administrator. The sticky information by the general user is stored in the individual sticky information storage 10. The sticky information by the administrator is divided into individual sticky information viewed only by the administrator and shared sticky information viewed by all users. The individual sticky information is stored in the individual sticky information storage 10, and the shared sticky information is stored in the shared sticky information. The information is stored in the information storage 11. The sticky information includes the user of the sticky note, the address of the electronic page on which the sticky note is displayed, the position and size of the sticky note window in the electronic page, notes such as notes, figures, and the like. The information includes a background color, a display form of an electronic sticky note as a mark or a window, an address of an electronic page to be linked, link information thereof, and the like.

CPU 2c of the server-side computer
In the program storage area 5, there are described procedures for controlling operations of the computer, such as confirmation of a user, reading of predetermined sticky information from a storage unit, and sticking of electronic sticky notes on a display screen of an electronic page. An electronic sticky note program is stored. The electronic sticky note program is installed in the CPU 2c of the server-side computer from a recording medium such as a magnetic disk or an optical disk on which the electronic sticky note program is recorded so that the electronic sticky note program can be read by the computer because it is executed by the computer. The electronic sticky note program includes procedures for causing the server-side and client-side computers 1 and 2 having the above-described configurations to function as each unit of the electronic sticky note apparatus of the present invention, and combines each procedure or each procedure appropriately. It is modularized.

The operation steps of the electronic sticky note device of the present invention are shown in the operation flowcharts of FIGS. 3 and 4 and FIGS.
3 will be described with reference to the display screen diagram. The server and the client are a WWW server and a WWW browser operated by the WWW (World Wide Web). An electronic page displayed on a display screen of a computer or the like is a Web page described in HTML.
Each page has an address. 3 and 4, S indicates a step. Further, the display screen diagrams of FIGS. 5 to 13 will be described as client-side display screen diagrams.
When a display device is also provided on the server side, a similar screen can be displayed. In the following description, a signal is input by pointing to a page or window in the display screen in order to display a page linked to the page or window displayed on the display screen, to move to the page, or to start a program. The operation to be performed is described in 'Moving the pointer and clicking the mouse'.

(Case of General User) First, a case where the user is a general user A will be described as an example. In FIG. 3, the client activates a WWW browser and designates an address of a homepage (cover page) of an electronic document such as an electronic manual (S1). A screen for user confirmation as shown in FIG. 5 is transferred from the server side and displayed (S2). The user inputs a user name (user name) and a password on the client side (S3). On the server side, the user is confirmed by checking the user name (user name) and the password with the user registration information stored in the storage 3 (S4). In addition, this confirmation
Once performed, it is not performed again while the client is moving between a series of electronic pages that make up an electronic document, such as an electronic manual.

Then, according to the confirmation, the general user A browsed only by the general user A corresponding to the address
The individual tag information for use, the shared tag information indicated to all users, and the corresponding Web homepage are read from the storage 3 (S5). A module including at least an electronic sticky sticking procedure and a general user sticky information input procedure in the electronic sticky note program in the electronic sticky note program is copied from the storage 3, and the Web
Link to homepage. The module including the electronic sticky note sticking procedure and the general user sticky note information inputting step causes a computer to function as electronic sticky note sticking means and sticky note information input means. The command menu is set so that a module including an electronic sticky sticking procedure and a general user sticky information inputting procedure is started (triggered) by a signal input by pointing the display screen of the Web home page with a pointer and clicking a mouse. It is embedded in the Web homepage. In order for the client to perform the electronic sticky note attaching step and the sticky note information input step from the server, the module including the electronic sticky note attaching procedure and the sticky note information input procedure and the electronic sticky note information are returned to the client together with the Web homepage.

On the client side, as shown in FIG.
The electronic sticky note windows 16 and 15 showing the individual electronic sticky information and the shared electronic sticky information of the general user A are superimposed and displayed on the Web homepage corresponding to the address and at a predetermined position on the display screen according to the pasting procedure ( S
6). At this time, since only the home page and the electronic sticky note are overlapped on the display screen, there is no change in the original data of the home page.

Further, the client turns over an electronic document such as an electronic manual on the display screen until a Web page for which a tag is to be created is displayed, if necessary, and sends a request for a Web page for which a tag is to be created to the server. I do.

The server receives a request for a Web page for which a tag is to be created (S7). Individual tag information and shared tag information for the general user A corresponding to the Web page are read from the storage 3. A module including at least the electronic sticky sticking procedure and the general user sticky information input procedure in the electronic sticky program from the storage 3 is copied and linked to the corresponding Web page. A command menu is displayed so that a module including an electronic sticky sticking procedure and a general user sticky information inputting procedure is started (triggered) by a signal input by pointing the display screen of the web page with a pointer and clicking a mouse. It is embedded in the web page. In order for the client to perform the electronic sticky note attaching step and the sticky note information input step from the server, the module including the electronic sticky note attaching step and the sticky note information input step and the electronic sticky note information are returned to the client together with the corresponding Web page.

On the client side, as shown in FIG.
An electronic sticky window 1 showing the individual electronic sticky information and the shared electronic sticky information of the general user A at a corresponding Web page corresponding to the address and a predetermined position on the display screen thereof.
8, 17 are superimposed and displayed according to the pasting procedure (S
8). At this time, there is no change in the original data of the relevant web page because only the relevant web page and the electronic sticky note are overlapped on the display screen.

Pointing an arbitrary position on the display screen of the Web page by a pointer, and clicking the mouse once rightward. The sticky note initial menu 12 for general users as shown in FIG. 8 is displayed with the clicked position as a reference position (S9). The general user sticky note menu 12
Executes a module including an electronic sticky note sticking procedure and a general user sticky note information input procedure constituting an electronic sticky note program, and inputs electronic sticky note information to the individual sticky note information storage means or the shared sticky note information storage means. This is one of the command menus for editing and modifying.

In the initial menu 12 for general users, buttons for new creation, all display, all non-display, all mark, and close are displayed. Select Create new. The blank sticky electronic window 13 as shown in FIG. 9 is displayed on the corresponding web page display screen based on the blank electronic sticky information (S10). The blank electronic sticky information is standard information set in advance. For example, the position and the size of the general user sticky note initial menu 12 are set as a reference, the size is set to a predetermined size, no mark is displayed, and there is no memo information such as characters or drawings. When the mouse is clicked once to the left in the blank electronic sticky note window 13 and the mouse is clicked once, it is possible to input a memo such as a caution into the blank electronic sticky note window 13 with characters or figures. A memo such as a caution is input into the blank electronic sticky note window 13 by characters or figures (S11).

After the input, when the user points the electronic sticky note window 14 with the pointer and clicks the mouse once once, a display method menu 19 for selecting a display method of the electronic sticky note as shown in FIG. 10 is displayed (S12). The display method menu 19 is one of command menus for executing a module including an electronic sticky note sticking procedure and a general user sticky note information input procedure constituting an electronic sticky note program. In the display method menu 19, buttons for changing the size, hiding, displaying a marker, deleting, setting, and closing are displayed.

A setting button is selected (S13). FIG.
Is displayed as shown in FIG. The color of characters in the electronic sticky note window 14, the background color in the electronic sticky note window 14, and the setting items of the address (URL) of another electronic page to be linked to the electronic page on which the electronic sticky window 14 is pasted are input. (S14). One or more addresses can be set. When an address (URL) is input on the setting page 20, the electronic sticky note window 14 is linked to the other electronic page, and the display screen can be moved from the electronic sticky note window 14 to the other electronic page. become.

If it is desired to correct the input information,
Clicking the ncel button twice with the mouse to the left cancels the input information. If the information entered is good,
The user clicks the enter button twice to the left to temporarily store the tag information in the output information storage unit 7 on the client side. The setting page 20 and the display method menu 19 are closed (S1).
5). The newly created electronic sticky note window 14 is grasped with a pointer and dragged, and as shown in FIG. 12, the newly created electronic sticky note window 14 is moved to a desired position (S16). Then, when the relevant Web page is closed or further moved to another Web page, the memo information based on the characters and drawings of the newly created electronic sticky window 14 and the setting information and the position information relating to the display of the electronic sticky note are displayed. It is transmitted from the output information storage unit 7 on the client side to the server side. The server receives the tag information and saves the tag information in the individual tag information storage unit 10 for the user A together with the address of the information that can specify the Web page (S17).

To further create a new electronic sticky note on another Web page, a request for another Web page is transmitted to the server side, and the same operation is repeated from step 7 (S7).

The newly created electronic sticky note window 1
Since the electronic sticky note information of No. 4 includes the position information, the next time the corresponding Web page is opened by the user A, as shown in FIG. 12, the electronic sticky note window 14 arranged at the predetermined position will be displayed. Can be seen.

When the user A opens the closed web page again by repeating the same process as the above-mentioned steps 1 to 8, as shown in FIG. 12, one shared electronic sticky note window 17 and two shared The individual electronic sticky note windows 18 and 14 are displayed so as to be superimposed on a predetermined position on the display screen of the Web page. When the electronic sticky note windows 14, 17, 18 are pointed by a pointer and clicked once with a mouse to the left, the contents of the documents in the electronic sticky note windows 14, 17, 18 can be edited. When the electronic sticky note windows 14, 17, 18 are pointed by a pointer and clicked once with the right of the mouse, a sticky note display method menu as shown in FIG. 10 is displayed, and items related to the display of the electronic sticky note windows 14, 17, 18 can be changed. .

In FIG. 12, when the electronic sticky note windows 14, 17, and 18 are pointed by a pointer and clicked twice with the mouse to the left, the electronic sticky note window 1 is displayed.
The display screen moves to another Web page linked to 4, 17, 18. For example, when one of the two individual electronic sticky note windows 18 and 14 is pointed to by a pointer and the mouse is clicked twice to the left, a link to the electronic sticky note window 14 as shown in FIG. The display screen moves to another Web page.

Next, a case where the user is a manager will be described. FIG. 3 illustrating the case of a general user
The difference between the operation flowchart of FIG. 4 and that of FIG. 4 is that when it is confirmed in step 4 that the user is the administrator, the initial tag menu for the administrator as shown in FIG. Menu 21
Is displayed. The manager sticky note initial menu 21 is one of command menus for executing a module including an electronic sticky note information input procedure and a sticking procedure in the electronic sticky note program.

In the initial menu 21 for the manager's tag, buttons for new creation for individual, new creation for all, all display, all non-display, all mark, and close are displayed. Here, when the personal new creation is selected, an individual electronic sticky note that can be viewed only by the administrator is created by following the same procedure as that of the general user A. Here, when the new creation for all members is selected, the input tag information is stored in the shared tag information storage 11. Except for this point, a shared electronic tag that can be viewed by all users is created by following the same procedure as for the general user A.

Next, items displayed on the initial sticky menu 12 for the general user shown in FIG. 8 and the initial sticky menu 21 for the manager shown in FIG. explain. "All marks" means that all electronic sticky note windows, whether individually or shared, are displayed with marks 14, 17, 18 as shown in FIG. "Hide all" means temporarily hiding all electronic sticky note windows on the screen and not displaying them. 'Display all' means displaying all the hidden electronic sticky note windows. 'Close' means closing the window of the sticky initial menu and exiting the menu.

Next, the items displayed on the tag display method menu 19 shown in FIG. 10 and other than the setting will be described. The sticky note display method menu 19 is shown in FIG.
As described in step 12 above, in addition to being displayed for setting the details of the electronic sticky note window at the time of new creation, it is also possible to change the setting items of the already created electronic sticky note window. Is displayed. Pointing the electronic sticky note window 14 displayed in FIG. 10 with a pointer and clicking the mouse once once to the right displays a sticky note display method menu 19. 'Resize' means
Electronic sticky note window 14 displaying the menu
Is to change the size of “Non-display” means that the electronic sticky note window 14 on which the menu is displayed is temporarily hidden and is not displayed. 'Marker display'
This means that the electronic sticky note window 14 displaying the menu is displayed with the mark 14 as shown in FIG. “Delete” means deleting the electronic sticky note window 14 on which the menu is displayed.
'Close' means closing the menu window and exiting the menu.

As described above, the electronic sticky note device of the present invention
An electronic sticky note to be attached to a predetermined electronic page constituting an electronic manual or the like, wherein an individual electronic sticky note window corresponding to a confirmed user and a shared electronic sticky note window shown to all users are displayed on the predetermined electronic page. The information is superimposed on a predetermined position on the display screen. Therefore, even for the same electronic page, different screens are displayed for each user as shown in FIGS. FIG. 12 shows the case where the user is A, and FIG. 16 shows the case where the user is B.
Although the shared electronic sticky note window 17 is displayed at the same position and the same content in FIGS. 12 and 16, the individual electronic sticky note windows 14, 18, and 22 display different contents at different positions. Furthermore, the electronic sticky note device of the present invention, when only displaying an electronic page on a display screen of a computer or the like, displays an individual electronic sticky note window corresponding to a confirmed user and a shared electronic sticky note window shown to all users. Since the electronic pages constituting the electronic manual or the like are superimposed and displayed at a predetermined position, the electronic pages constituting the electronic manual or the like are stored in the original data storage unit 9 as original data as they are.

Further, according to the electronic sticky note device of the present invention, there are the following advantages. Since the user can display the electronic sticky note window for himself on the display screen of the electronic page, the user does not need to use a paper memo. Regardless of the client terminal used, the user can view the electronic sticky note window set by himself / herself, regardless of the client terminal used. The user can create an electronic sticky note window for each electronic page to be displayed, and can change the display of the electronic sticky note window. Important electronic sticky note windows can be shared by all users.

When the electronic sticky note window is displayed with a marker,
The display screen can be organized and complexity can be reduced. It is possible to quickly move to the reference electronic page linked to the electronic sticky note window. If the electronic sticky note program is installed on the server side,
It is only necessary to have a program (browser) for accessing the server and reading the data, and there is no need to install an electronic sticky note program for each client terminal.
However, the present invention does not exclude a form in which an electronic sticky note program is installed for each client terminal. The electronic sticky note program is installed by appropriately selecting the server side or the client side according to the constructed network environment. When an electronic sticky note program is provided for each client terminal, it is preferable to link to a browser.

In the first embodiment, a module including at least the electronic sticky sticking procedure and the general user sticky information input procedure in the electronic sticky note program from the storage 3 is copied and linked to the corresponding Web page. Then, the corresponding Web page is transmitted to the client.
Then, the input tag information is made to wait for one page of the electronic page on the client side, and the input information is transmitted to the server together with the switching of the electronic page.
At any time, the input information may be sent to the server.

(Second Embodiment) An embodiment in which the electronic tag device of the present invention is provided with a tag information input unit by voice will be described. If a recording and playback program and a speaker and microphone are provided to make the client and server computers function as voice recording and playback means,
A voice memo can be added as one of the tag information. In this case, the sticky note display method menu 19 and the setting page 20 shown in FIG. 11 are changed to the menus shown in FIG. 17 and FIG. When the pointer is moved into the electronic sticky note window 13 displayed over the electronic Web page as shown in FIG. 9 and the mouse is clicked once once, the electronic sticky note display menu 24 shown in FIG. It is displayed over the window 13. And
Point the setting button with the pointer and click the mouse twice left. The setting page 25 shown in FIG. 18 is displayed. Point the voice recording start button with the pointer and click the mouse once to the left. A voice recording / playback window shown in FIG. 19 is displayed over the setting page 25. In the voice recording / playback window, a recording start button and a recording end button are shown. Point the recording start button with the pointer and click the mouse once to the left to start recording.

After recording, the recording end button is pointed by the pointer and the mouse is clicked once to the left to end the recording, and the voice is stored in the client side output information storage unit 7. And
The voice recording / playback window is closed by pointing the X at the upper right end of the voice recording / playback window with a pointer and clicking the mouse once to the left to close the voice recording / playback window.
Return to After setting other necessary setting items and storing them in the client-side output information storage unit 7, the setting page 25 and the tag display method menu 24 are closed. And the W
When the user closes the web page or moves to another web page, the memo information of the newly created electronic sticky window, such as characters, figures, and voices, and the setting information and position information related to the display of the electronic sticky window are stored on the server side. Sent to.

The server receives the tag information.
If the user is a general user, or if the user is an administrator and has selected to create a new personal file, the tag information can be specified in the individual tag information storage unit 10 for the user. Store with the address of the information. If the user is an administrator and has chosen to create a new one for everyone,
The information is stored in the shared tag information storage unit 11 together with the address of the information that can specify the Web page. Next time, in order to reproduce the sound of the electronic sticky note having the sound information, an electronic Web page to which the electronic sticky note window with sound information is attached is displayed. Then, the user moves the pointer into the electronic tag window and clicks the mouse once once to display the tag display method menu 24 shown in FIG. The sound reproduction button indicated at the lower end of the tag display method menu 24 is pointed by the pointer, and the mouse is clicked twice to the left to reproduce the sound.

(Third Embodiment) An embodiment in which the electronic sticky note device of the present invention is provided with an electronic sticky note search means will be described.
If a category is entered in the category field displayed at the lower end of the setting page shown in FIG. 18 and the electronic sticky note window is associated with the input category, it is possible to search the electronic sticky note window for each category. Become. In this case, the general user sticky note initial menu 12 shown in FIG. 8 is the general user sticky note initial menu shown in FIG. 20A, and the manager sticky note initial menu 21 shown in FIG. 20B becomes the initial menu of the sticky note for the administrator shown in FIG. The search button shown at the lower end of the general user sticky note initial menu shown in FIG. 20A or the manager sticky note initial menu shown in FIG. When clicked twice, the search window shown in FIG. 21 is displayed over the tag initial menu. Move the pointer into the rectangle next to the category character and click once to the left to enter the tag category to search for. If the category is left blank on the tag setting page, enter "all categories".

Then, move the pointer to a character or character string included in the character information such as a memo included in the tag information in a rectangle located below the character called the search character string, and click once to the left. Enter Move the pointer over the search button at the bottom of the search window and click twice left. Then, the server sends the tag category to be searched and the characters and character strings to be searched to the server. The server which has received the category of the tag to be searched and the character or character string to be searched reads the tag information from the tag information storage unit and searches for the tag information having the corresponding category, character or character string. As a result of the search,
Then, the electronic page associated with the tag information is transmitted to the client side, and displayed over the search window on the display screen.

[0048]

According to the electronic sticky note device and the electronic sticky note sticking method of the present invention, the user is confirmed by the confirmation means, and the electronic means requested from the server or the client side by the reading means. Individual sticky note information storage means provided on a server, wherein a personal sticky note information corresponding to the user according to the user's confirmation and corresponding to the electronic page, and a shared sticky note information corresponding to the electronic page are provided on a server. And read from the shared tag information storage means provided in the server. The electronic sticky note is attached by superimposing and displaying a window of the electronic sticky note on the display screen of the electronic page based on the sticky information obtained by the reading means. As a result, the following effects are obtained. Since the user can display the electronic sticky note for the user by superimposing the electronic sticky note on the display screen of the electronic page, the user does not need to use the paper memo. The user
Regardless of which client terminal is used, the user can view the electronic sticky note set by him or her. The user can create an electronic sticky note for each electronic page to be displayed, and can change the display of the electronic sticky note. Important electronic sticky notes can be shared by all users.

According to the electronic sticky note device of the present invention described in claim 2 or 3, each of the units is a unit that functions according to a program provided on the server side, and is input by pointing to the display screen of the electronic page. And the first link means for linking the duplicated program and the electronic page so that the duplicated program is started by a signal transmitted from the server. In addition to the effects described in claim 1, there is an effect that there is no need to provide a program for functioning as each of the means in each terminal.

According to the electronic sticky note apparatus of the present invention, the sticky note information includes one or more addresses of another electronic page to be linked to the electronic page to which the electronic sticky note is pasted. And further comprising second link means for linking the electronic sticky note with the other electronic page based on the sticky information and enabling movement from the electronic sticky note to the other electronic page on a display screen. Therefore, it is possible to easily move from an arbitrary electronic page to another electronic page desired to be associated with the electronic page without changing the original data of the electronic page.

According to the recording medium in which the electronic sticky note program described in claim 6 is described, since the electronic sticky note program is recorded so that it can be read by the computer because it is executed by the computer, the server side Alternatively, the electronic sticky note program can be easily installed on the client computer. As a result, the electronic tag device of the present invention can be easily provided in a communication network.

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FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a communication network provided with an electronic tag device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the inside of a CPU and the like of a server-side computer constituting the electronic tag device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an operation flowchart of the electronic sticky note device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an operation flowchart of the electronic sticky note device of the present invention, which is a continuation of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a view showing a user confirmation screen displayed by the electronic sticky note device of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a homepage screen on which an electronic sticky note is pasted by the electronic sticky note device of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a view showing an arbitrary electronic page screen to which an electronic sticky note is attached by the electronic sticky note device of the present invention.

8 is a diagram showing a screen on which a command menu by the electronic tag device of the present invention is superimposed on the electronic page shown in FIG. 7;

9 is a diagram showing a screen in which a blank electronic sticky note by the electronic sticky note device of the present invention is displayed over the electronic page shown in FIG. 7;

10 is a diagram showing a screen on which another command menu by the electronic sticky note device of the present invention is superimposed and displayed after inputting a blank electronic sticky note on the electronic page shown in FIG. 9;

11 is a diagram showing a screen in which a setting page by the electronic sticky note device of the present invention is further superimposed on the electronic page, the electronic sticky note, and another command menu shown in FIG.

12 is a diagram showing a screen on which input to an electronic tag on the electronic page shown in FIG. 11 has been completed;

13 is a diagram showing an electronic page screen linked to an electronic tag on the electronic page shown in FIG.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing still another command menu by the electronic sticky note device of the present invention.

15 is a diagram showing a screen on which electronic sticky notes on the electronic page shown in FIG. 12 are displayed with marks.

16 is a diagram showing a screen of an electronic page displayed by a user different from the user of the electronic page shown in FIG.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing another sticky note display method menu by the electronic sticky note device of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing another setting page by the electronic sticky note device of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a voice input hand in the electronic sticky note device of the present invention.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing another sticky note initial menu by the electronic sticky note device of the present invention.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing search means in the electronic sticky note device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Client side computer 2 Server side computer 2c CPU 3 Server side storage 5 Program storage area of sticky note programs etc. 6 Work area 8 User registration information storage means 9 Electronic page storage means 10 Individual sticky information storage means 11 Shared sticky information storage means 23 Communication network

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification symbol FI Theme coat ゛ (Reference) G06F 12/00 535 G06F 12/00 535Z (72) Inventor Katsuhiro Kusune 2-chome, Wakihama-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. No. 11-14 F-term in Kobelco System Co., Ltd. (reference) FA47 FB33

Claims (6)

[Claims] An electronic sticky note device for sticking an electronic sticky note on an electronic page displayed on a display screen of a server or a client constituting a communication network, wherein user registration information provided on the server side Storage means, original electronic page storage means provided on the server side, and confirmation means for confirming a user based on user information input from a server or a client and information stored in the user registration information storage means Individual sticky note information storage means provided on the server side for storing the sticky information for each user according to the confirmation; and on the server side for storing the sticky information to be shared by all users according to the confirmation. Provided shared tag information storage means, corresponding to the user based on the confirmation, and from the server or client side Reading means for reading the individual sticky note information corresponding to the requested electronic page, and the shared sticky information corresponding to the electronic page from the individual sticky information storage means and the shared sticky information storage means, and according to the read sticky information An electronic sticky note device comprising: a sticking means for sticking an electronic sticky note by superimposing and displaying an electronic sticky note window on a display screen of an electronic page; and a sticky note information inputting means for inputting information into the sticky note window. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein each of the units is a unit that functions according to a program provided on a server side, and the copied program is activated so that a signal input by pointing to a display screen of the electronic page activates the copied program. The electronic sticky note device according to claim 1, further comprising first link means for linking the program and the electronic page. 3. The server and the client are World
3. The electronic sticky note device according to claim 1, wherein the electronic tag is a WWW server and a WWW browser that are operated by a Wide Web (hereinafter, referred to as WWW), and the electronic page is a Web page described in HTML. 4. The sticky information includes one or more addresses of another electronic page to be linked to the electronic page on which the electronic sticky is pasted, and the electronic sticky note and the other based on the sticky information. 4. The electronic sticky note device according to claim 1, further comprising a second link unit that links the electronic sticky page with the electronic page and enables the electronic sticky note to move to the other electronic page on a display screen. 5. 5. An electronic sticky note attaching method for attaching an electronic sticky note to an electronic page displayed on a display screen of a server or a client constituting a communication network, wherein the electronic sticky note is used by a server or a client. Information,
And a step of confirming the user based on the information stored in the user registration information storage means provided on the server side, and storing the tag information for each user in the individual tag information storage means provided on the server side according to the confirmation. Storing the tag information to be shared by all users according to the confirmation in a shared tag information storage means provided on the server side; and responding to the user based on the confirmation, and And reading individual sticky information corresponding to an electronic page requested from the client side and shared sticky information corresponding to the electronic page from the individual sticky information storage means and the shared sticky information storage means; and the sticky information. And pasting the electronic sticky note by superimposing and displaying the window of the electronic sticky note on the display screen of the electronic page according to the following. Electronic sticky sticking method. 6. An electronic sticky note program for attaching an electronic sticky note to an electronic page displayed on a display screen of a server or a client constituting a communication network is executed by a computer, so that the computer can read the electronic sticky note. Is a recording medium recorded in such a way that user information entered from the server or client side,
And a procedure for confirming the user based on the information stored in the user registration information storage means provided on the server side, and storing the tag information for each user in the individual tag information storage means provided on the server side according to the confirmation. Storing the tag information to be shared by all users in accordance with the confirmation in a shared tag information storage unit provided on the server side; and responding to the user based on the confirmation, and A reading step of reading the individual sticky information corresponding to the electronic page requested from the server or the client side, and the shared sticky information corresponding to the electronic page from the individual sticky information storage means and the shared sticky information storage means; A sticking procedure for sticking the electronic sticky note by superimposing the electronic sticky note window on the display screen of the electronic page according to the information. Recording medium on which an electronic sticky note program to be executed is recorded.