JP2002351827A - Web control method and its execution system, and its processing program and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] To provide a technology capable of effectively using user information input at the time of user registration for each service on a portal site. SOLUTION: A Web that realizes a portal site integrating a plurality of individually operated services by a link function.
In the control method, a step of registering required user information indicating user information required for each service in a portal site, a step of receiving an input of the required user information from the user for the service selected by the user, and The method includes a step of storing user information as integrated user information in a portal site, and a step of notifying the accepted user information to a service site that provides the selected service and performing user registration.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention mainly relates to a portal site in which a plurality of services operated individually are integrated using a link function on the Internet, and various services can be used by accessing the site. In particular, the present invention relates to a technology effective when applied to a Web control system that realizes a portal site when each service to be integrated is a service that requires user registration.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, free community services such as free mail and free BBS (bulletin board) have been attracting attention on the Internet. These services have a feature that requires user registration, and are often registered at the time of user registration, including user preferences. This is because the service provider performs marketing business such as direct electronic mail based on the user information.

On the other hand, a portal site that incorporates many services in one site has been receiving attention. The company attracts customers by establishing a brand that accesses the site to provide all relevant information, and conducts various businesses, including marketing to the gathered users.

[0004] From these two backgrounds, a portal site that collects a plurality of free community services is likely to become popular in the future. There are the following conventional techniques for implementing such a portal site.

[0005] First, as a method of realizing a portal site, there is a method of connecting services of other companies using a link function of WWW instead of providing all services independently. As a result, the service menu can be increased relatively easily, and the attractiveness of the site can be maintained by adding new services as needed.

[0006] Next, as a method for simplifying user registration when using a plurality of programs that require user registration, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-285077 entitled "User Information Management Apparatus, Management Method, and Storage Medium" is there. This is a technology that allows a user to register only once in an information processing system in which each user can use a plurality of programs.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Using the prior art,
When trying to realize a portal site integrating services that require user registration, there are the following issues.

First, in the conventional Web control method using the link function of the WWW, there is a problem that the portal site server cannot acquire the user information input at the time of user registration for each service. Such user information is important information for the marketing business including the user's taste and the like, and the inability to use the input information is a great loss for the portal site operator.

[0009] Secondly, in the present method, when a user registers for a plurality of services, if each service requires the same user information, the user needs to input the same information many times. .

Thirdly, in the conventional method for simplifying user registration, it is necessary for the user to input in advance all user information required for each service, which poses a problem. The information that needs to be input includes individual information required for each service, user categorization information required for each service operator to transmit direct mail, and the like,
The user information for all services is very large, and it takes a lot of trouble to input all the user information.

Fourthly, in the present method, since the items of the user information are fixed in the system, there is also a problem that a service requiring the new item of user information cannot be added to the system.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and to provide a technique capable of effectively utilizing user information input when a user registers for each service on a portal site. It is another object of the present invention to provide a technique capable of improving the efficiency of user registration for a plurality of services.

[0013]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, in a Web control system for realizing a portal site integrating a plurality of services operated individually by a link function, necessary user information of a selected service is used as integrated user information. After storing the information in the portal site, the service site is notified to perform user registration.

In the Web control system of the present invention, first, necessary user information indicating user information required for each service is received from a service site and registered in a portal site.

Next, a service selection is received from a user who intends to use the service, the necessary user information of the service is notified to the user from the registered required user information, and the required user information is notified. Accept input from the user.

After storing the received user information as integrated user information in a portal site, after notifying the received user information to a service site providing the selected service and performing user registration of the user, Then, the service is provided from the service site to the user.

In addition, when the necessary user information of the service selected by the user is input at the time of user registration to another service and is stored in the integrated user information, the user information is stored in the integrated user information. Inquires the user whether to use the user information in the user registration of the service, and when the user understands the use of the user information, reads the service information from the integrated user information and performs the user registration of the service. .

As described above, according to the Web control system of the present invention, the necessary user information of the selected service is stored as integrated user information in the portal site and then notified to the service site to perform user registration. It is possible to effectively use the user information entered at the time of user registration on the portal site.

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A web control system according to an embodiment for realizing a portal site in which a plurality of individually operated services are integrated by a link function will be described below.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the concept of the Web control system of the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the portal site 100 according to the present embodiment includes a required user information registration
, A service information input reception processing unit 112, an integrated user information storage processing unit 113, and a user registration processing unit 114.

The required user information registration processing section 111 is a processing section for registering required user information 101 indicating user information required for each service in the portal site 100. The service information input reception processing unit 112 obtains the necessary user information 1 for the service selected by the user.
01 is a processing unit that receives an input of 01 from a user.

The integrated user information storage processing unit 113 is a processing unit that stores the received user information as integrated user information 102 in the portal site 100. The user registration processing unit 114 is a processing unit that performs user registration by notifying the accepted user information to a service site that provides the selected service.

The portal site 100 is provided with a necessary user information registration processing unit 111, a service information input reception processing unit 112,
A program for functioning as the integrated user information storage processing unit 113 and the user registration processing unit 114 is a CD-RO
After being recorded on a recording medium such as M and stored on a magnetic disk or the like, it is assumed to be loaded into a memory and executed. The recording medium for recording the program may be a recording medium other than the CD-ROM. The program may be installed from the recording medium to the information processing apparatus and used, or the recording medium may be accessed through a network to use the program.

The portal site 100 of this embodiment is a site that integrates a plurality of other companies' services 104 and presents it to the user 103.

In this embodiment, the portal site 100
First, the required user information registration processing unit 111 registers the required user information 101 required for each other company's service 104 in the portal site 100 (step 105). The necessary user information 101 includes information used directly by the service, such as an e-mail address, and information used by the operator of the service for marketing, such as user preferences. The portal site 100 stores necessary user information 101 required for each service registered in this way, and integrated user information 102 for storing user information actually input by the user.

Next, the operation in the case where the user selects a service to be used from the service list of the portal site 100 (step 106) and performs user registration will be described.

First, the service information input reception processing section 112 of the portal site 100 confirms user information necessary for the service 104 to be registered as a user. If there is any user information already stored in the integrated user information 102, the user confirms that the user information is also used for the current user registration (step 10).
7). Previously, when you registered for another service 104,
If the service required the same user information as this time, that information is stored in the integrated user information 102.

Next, the service information input reception processing section 112
Prompts the user for information that is not stored in the integrated user information 102 among the user information necessary for the service 104 to be registered (step 108). The user information newly entered by the user is
The integrated user information storage processing unit 113 adds the information to the integrated user information 102.

Finally, the user registration processing unit 114 of the portal site 100 notifies the service 104 of the user information necessary for the service 104 to be registered, including the newly input user information, and registers the user. (Step 109).

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of the Web control system of the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 2, the client machine 200, the portal site 202, and each service site 209 are connected by a network 213.

The client machine 200 has a general web browser 201, and the portal site 202 and the service site 209 have general web servers 204 and 211.

The service site 209 further includes a service site application 2 that actually provides a service function.
10 and user information 212 for storing information of registered users
It has.

The portal site 202 further includes a portal site application 203 that actually provides portal site functions such as links to services, a service list 205, a necessary user information list 206, a used service list 207, and integrated user information. 208.

The portal site 202 is a site where the service sites 209 are integrated and presented to the user. The user first accesses the web server 204 of the portal site 202 using the function of the web browser 201,
The service provided by the portal site application 203 is used.

When a user selects a service from the portal site and tries to use the service, the user uses the function of the web browser 201 to access the service site 2.
09 to access the web server 211 and use the service provided by the service site application 210.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a processing flow of the Web control system of the present embodiment. First when registering the service 300
Required user information registration processing unit 1 of portal site 202
11 registers user information items and the like required by the service to be registered on the service registration screen (step 30).
1).

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the service registration screen of the present embodiment. The information to be input includes a service name 401 such as "car navigation", user information 402 and 403 required by services such as "name" and "owned car", and "htt".
User registration address 40 such as "p: //regist.kuruma ..."
4. Login address 405 such as "http: //login.kuruma ...".

The user information required by the service is designated by two types, a designation method of selecting from already registered items like the user information 402 and a designation method of inputting a new item name like the user information 403. it can. Note that the newly input item name becomes a registered item the next time another service is registered, so that the item name can be specified by a method of selecting an item.

The user registration address 404 is the service site 2 at the time of user registration to the service site 209.
09 and the login address 405
Is an access destination in the service site 209 when the user logs in to the service site 209. Here, it is specified in a general URL format. After all the information is input, the service is registered with a registration button 406.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of data manipulation at the time of service registration according to the present embodiment. The registration information of each service is registered in a necessary user information list 206 and a service list 205.

In the “service” columns 601 and 605, the service name 401 input on the service registration screen 400
However, in the “necessary user information” column 602, the user information 402 and 4 selected and input on the service registration screen 400 are displayed.
03 is the service registration screen 4 in the “user registration address” column 606 and the “login address” column 607.
The URL of the user registration address 404 and the login address 405 input at 00 are stored.

When one service is registered, lines are added to the necessary user information list 206 by the number of items of user information required by the service and one line is added to the service list 205 (603 and 608). The list of registered user information 402 on the service registration screen 400 is generated from all the names registered in the “necessary user information” column 602.

Next, the processing flow at the time of user registration 302 for a service will be described. First, the user selects a service to be used from the service site list, that is, the service site 20.
Select 9. The screen at this time is shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a view showing an example of the service list screen of the embodiment. The user selects a service to be used from a list 501 such as "free mail" or "free chat" at the center of the screen (step 303).

When the user selects a service, the service information input reception processing section 112 checks whether or not the user has been registered for the service in a list of used services (step 304).

If the user has already been registered, the login processing of the service site 209 is immediately called. The call destination at this time is the URL stored in the “login address” column 607 of the service list 205. if,
If the user has not been registered, the user information required by the service and the already input user information are confirmed (step 305). Specifically, the confirmation is performed with reference to the necessary user information list 206 in FIG. 6 and the integrated user information 208 in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a list of services used according to the present embodiment. The user information required by the service is obtained by searching the necessary user information list 206 in FIG. Further, the input user information is obtained by searching the integrated user information 208 of FIG. 7 by the user ID 701. Then, the user information required by the service is classified into two types, that is, already-input user information and insufficient user information, depending on whether the user information is already input user information.

Next, the service information input reception processing section 112
Confirms whether the user can register the already input user information in the service site 209 and requests the user to input the insufficient user information (step 306).

At this time, the user registration screen 50 shown in FIG.
It is shown in FIG. A part 503 for displaying the already input user information on the screen and confirming whether to register the user information on the service site 209.
And a portion 504 for inputting missing user information.
These display portions are generated based on the result of classifying the user information into two pieces of the input user information and the insufficient user information in step 305. The user understands the registration of the already input user information, inputs the insufficient user information, and then presses a registration button 505.
push.

When the user presses the registration button 505, first, the integrated user information storage processing unit 113 adds the input insufficient user information to the integrated user information 208 (step 308).

The data operation at this time is shown in integrated user information 208 (a) and (b) of FIG. One line is added for each piece of input user information (704). In this example, the user information item “owned car” is “CRV”
The value is added.

Next, the user registration processing unit 114 calls up the user registration processing of the service site 209 by combining the already input user information with the input insufficient user information and using the user information required by the service as an argument (step 30).
9). The call destination at this time is the UR stored in the “user registration address” column 606 of the service list 205.
L. Further, the use service is added as shown in the use service list 207 (a) and (b) of FIG.

When the user registration process of the service site 209 is called, a general user registration process is performed in the service site 209, and the user information received as an argument is stored in the user information 212 of the service site 209 (step 310). .

The data operation at this time is shown in service site user information 212 (a) and (b) of FIG. Actually, the structure of the user information is different for each service site 209, but here, the user ID “akira”
Is added (711).

Thereafter, general login processing is performed (step 311), and the service is used (step 31).
2) Perform general logout processing (step 31)
3) End a series of processing.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the user information input at the time of user registration for each service is stored in the portal site, so that the portal site operator can utilize the user information. Become.

In this embodiment, when the user performs user registration, the user information stored in the portal site is used. Therefore, the user information that was input when the user registered in another service in the past is input again. Saves time. This has the effect of facilitating registration of services for each service operator.

In this embodiment, when the service is registered,
Of the items of user information required for the service, items that have already been entered when registering another service are displayed as an item list, so registered service information and new user items The distinction becomes clear, and new items can be efficiently added as user information required by the service in addition to the user information items required by the already registered service. Thereby, there is also an effect that the items of the user information accumulated in the portal site gradually increase.

As described above, according to the Web control system of the present embodiment, the necessary user information of the selected service is stored in the portal site as integrated user information and then notified to the service site to perform user registration. It is possible to effectively use the user information input at the time of user registration for each service on the portal site.

Further, according to the Web control system of this embodiment, the user information stored in the integrated user information is used for the user registration to another service, so that the user registration to a plurality of services can be made more efficient. Is possible.

[0061]

According to the present invention, the necessary user information of the selected service is stored as integrated user information in the portal site and then notified to the service site to perform user registration. It is possible to effectively use the obtained user information on the portal site.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a concept of a Web control system according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an overall configuration of a Web control system according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a processing flow of the Web control system of the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a service registration screen according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a service list screen according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of data operation at the time of service registration according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a use service list according to the embodiment;

[Explanation of symbols]

100: Portal site, 101: Required user information, 1
02: integrated user information, 103: user, 104: service, 111: required user information registration processing unit, 112: service information input reception processing unit, 113: integrated user information storage processing unit, 114: user registration processing unit, 200 ... Client machine, 201: Web browser, 202: Portal site, 203: Portal site application, 204: Web server, 205: Service list, 2
06: required user information list, 207: used service list, 208: integrated user information, 209: service site, 210: service site application, 211
... Web server, 212 ... User information, 213 ... Network, 300 ... Service registration, 400 ... Service registration screen, 401 ... Service name, 402 and 403 ... User information, 404 ... User registration address, 405 ... Login address, 406 ... Register button, 601 and 602 ...
Column, 605 to 607: column, 500: service list screen, 501: list, 502: user registration screen, 5
03 ... part, 504 ... part, 505 ... Registration button, 70
1: User ID.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A Web site that realizes a portal site that integrates a plurality of individually operated services by a link function.
In the control method, a step of registering required user information indicating user information required for each service in a portal site; a step of receiving an input of the required user information from the user for the service selected by the user; Storing the user information as integrated user information in a portal site; and performing user registration by notifying the accepted user information to a service site that provides the selected service.
eb control method. 2. When the required user information of the selected service is stored in the integrated user information, the necessary user information is read from the integrated user information and the user of the service is registered. The web control method according to claim 1. 3. A Web site that realizes a portal site that integrates a plurality of individually operated services by a link function.
In the control system, a required user information registration processing unit for registering required user information indicating user information required for each service in a portal site, and a service for receiving an input of the required user information from the user for the service selected by the user An information input reception processing unit, an integrated user information storage processing unit that stores the received user information as integrated user information in a portal site, and a notification of the received user information to a service site that provides the selected service. A web control system comprising: a user registration processing unit for performing user registration. 4. A Web site that realizes a portal site that integrates a plurality of individually operated services by a link function.
In a program for causing a computer to function as a control system, a necessary user information registration processing unit for registering necessary user information indicating user information required for each service in a portal site, and a user required for a service selected by a user. A service information input reception processing unit that receives information input from a user, an integrated user information storage processing unit that stores the received user information as integrated user information in a portal site, and a service site that provides the selected service. A program that causes a computer to function as a user registration processing unit that performs user registration by notifying received user information. 5. A Web that realizes a portal site that integrates a plurality of individually operated services by a link function.
A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as a control system, a required user information registration processing unit for registering required user information indicating user information required for each service in a portal site; A service information input reception processing unit that receives input of necessary user information from the user for the service selected by the user; an integrated user information storage processing unit that stores the received user information as integrated user information in a portal site; A computer-readable recording medium on which a program for causing a computer to function as a user registration processing unit for notifying the accepted user information to a service site that provides the service and performing user registration is recorded.