JP2006301683A - Electronic communication processor and electronic communication processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To guide a user to an optimal electronic bulletin board system in consideration of the retrieval of a musical piece. <P>SOLUTION: A sound signal receiving part 201 of a musical piece retrieval system 200 receives a sound signal, and a featured value extracting part 202 extracts a featured value. A musical piece specifying part 203 collates the featured value of the sound signal to the featured value of each musical piece, and specifies the most suitable musical piece. A bulletin board identification information specifying part 205 determines whether or not there is any bulletin board identification information corresponding to the musical piece code in currently valid electronic bulletin boards by referring to a bulletin board basic information database 207, and when the determination result is positive, the bulletin board identification information specifying part 205 transmits the bulletin board identification information through a retrieval result information transmitting part 210 to a client terminal 100. A retrieval result browsing part 104 displays the data of a musical piece hit by retrieval to a user. A bulletin board browsing part 105 performs access to the electronic bulletin board associated with the musical piece by using the bulletin board identification information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a processing technology for electronic communication such as an electronic bulletin board, and in particular, enables communication by paying attention to a search event such as music search based on a sound signal.

  For example, as disclosed in Patent Documents 1 and 2, a system for searching for music by performing sound input is known. Such a music search system extracts a feature amount from a sound and searches for a song from a song database based on the feature amount. The user can easily perform music search even when only the sound is initiated, and can purchase music media and music data based on the search result.

  By the way, the users who search for music from sound are those who are interested in sound, so they exchange opinions with those who are interested in the same sound (music) and develop from such interest to various topics. Is expected to. It would be very useful if the user could be guided to a related communication system such as an electronic bulletin board, starting with the search for music.

The present inventor has come to make the present invention from such a point.
JP-A-11-120198 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-184883

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide an electronic communication processing technique that enables communication by paying attention to an event called music search.

  According to this invention, in order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the configuration as described in the claims is adopted. Here, prior to describing the invention in detail, supplementary explanations of the claims will be given.

  That is, according to one aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the above-described object, the electronic bulletin board processing apparatus: a sound signal input means for inputting a sound signal of a music sent from a terminal; and the sound signal input means Music specifying means for specifying the music corresponding to the sound signal inputted in the above; music correlating means for storing relation information for relating the music and the identification information of the electronic bulletin board corresponding to the music; and the music specifying means Identification information acquisition means for acquiring identification information of the electronic bulletin board corresponding to the specified music from the association means; identification information transmission means for transmitting the identification information of the electronic bulletin board acquired by the identification information acquisition means to the terminal; The post information transmitted using the identification information is received and recorded as post information on the electronic bulletin board, and the recorded post information is based on the browsing request. And in the manner provided in the post processing means for outputting Te.

  In this configuration, the user can be guided to the electronic bulletin board corresponding to the music.

  The association information relates between the music and the electronic bulletin board, but the music and the electronic bulletin board may be directly associated with each other or may be related through a group of music such as a genre. good. That is, the group and the electronic bulletin board may be related, the group of music is specified, and the electronic bulletin board may be determined based on the specified group. A group such as a genre of music can be acquired by referring to a predetermined database as an attribute of the music.

  In this configuration, it is preferable that the association information stored by the association unit has a predetermined validity period. Moreover, it is preferable that the expiration date of the electronic bulletin board is determined in advance. For example, it is determined as several hours or several days from the creation date. In this case, since only a limited machine is provided, it can be expected that the density of communication is increased.

  In addition, when the music specifying means specifies the music, if there is no valid related information corresponding to the music, the new electronic bulletin board identification information is generated, and the related information for associating the music with the identification information The posting information processing means generates electronic bulletin board data (electronic bulletin board object) corresponding to the newly generated identification information, and registers the association information. Using the bulletin board data, post information transmitted using the identification information is received and recorded as post information on the new electronic bulletin board, and the recorded post information is output based on the browsing request. It is preferable.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, the electronic communication processing device: a search request receiving means for receiving a search request sent from a terminal; and receiving by the search request receiving means A search means for executing a search based on the search request made; a correlation means for storing relation information for associating the search result with the identification information of the electronic communication system corresponding to the search result; a search by the search means Identification information acquisition means for acquiring identification information of the electronic communication system corresponding to the result from the association means; identification information transmission means for transmitting the identification information of the electronic communication system acquired by the identification information acquisition means to the terminal; Receives a message sent using the above identification information and performs electronic communication It was recorded as the stem of the message, so that provided a message processing means for outputting the recorded message.

  In this configuration, the user can be guided to the electronic communication system by paying attention to a predetermined search.

  In this configuration, the electronic communication system is typically an electronic bulletin board. Of course, other electronic communication systems may be used, for example, a mailing list system or a chat system.

  The search request is, for example, a music search request, but is not limited to this, and may be a document search or an article / product search.

  The music search request may be accompanied by a sound signal corresponding to the music, or may use a keyword such as an artist name.

  The present invention can be realized not only as an apparatus or a system but also as a method. Of course, a part of the invention can be configured as software. Of course, software products used for causing a computer to execute such software are also included in the technical scope of the present invention.

  These and other aspects of the invention are set forth in the appended claims and will be described in detail below with reference to examples.

  According to the present invention, the user can be guided to the optimum electronic communication system by paying attention to the search.

  Examples of the present invention will be described below.

  FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a music search system as a combination of functional blocks. A specific implementation example is shown in FIG. Each functional block in FIG. 1 is actually realized by a process executed on a server computer or a client terminal (in this example, a mobile phone), and the hardware resources and software resources of the server computer or client terminal are cooperated. Realized.

  1, the client terminal 100 includes a microphone 101, a sound signal transmission unit 102, a search result information receiving unit 103, a search result browsing unit 104, a bulletin board browsing unit 105, a search result information table 106, and the like.

  The client terminal 100 is, for example, a mobile phone 10 as shown in FIG. 3, and the mobile phone 10 includes a display unit 11, an operation unit 12, a microphone 13, a speaker 14, etc. It has a browsing function 15 and a mail transmission / browsing function 16. Of course, the client terminal 100 can be composed of various information terminals such as personal computers and intelligent home appliances.

  The music search system 200 includes a sound signal receiving unit 201, a feature amount extracting unit 202, a music specifying unit 203, a music feature amount database 204, a bulletin board identification information specifying unit 205, a bulletin board basic information registration unit 206, a bulletin board basic information database 207, and posting. A browsing request processing unit 208, a posting information database 209, a search result information transmission unit 210, and the like are included.

  The client terminal 100 and the music search system 200 are connected by a telephone communication network (including a mobile communication network) 301 and a data communication network (including a packet network and the Internet) 302.

  When the client terminal 100 is brought close to a sound source and a sound signal is collected and sent to the music search system 200 via, for example, the telephone communication network 301, the music search system 200 searches for music based on the received sound signal, and the search result Information (including bulletin board identification information described later) is returned to the client terminal 100. The client terminal 100 can browse the music data from the search result information, etc., and uses the bulletin board identification information included in the search result information to, for example, an electronic bulletin board temporarily formed according to the music via the data communication network 302. Accessible.

  Next, each part of the client terminal 100 and the music search system 200 will be described.

  The microphone 101 of the client terminal 100 is, for example, the microphone 13 in FIG. The sound signal transmission unit 102 makes a call connection to the music search system 200 at the time of music search, acquires a sound signal from a sound source (audio / visual equipment, music flowing in a street or a store) by the microphone 13, and uses the telephone communication network 301. To the music search system 200. The transmission time of the sound signal is, for example, 10 seconds to several tens of seconds, and the call connection is disconnected after an appropriate time has elapsed. Call connection or call disconnection may be performed automatically by the sound signal transmission unit 102 or manually by the user.

  The sound signal receiving unit 201 of the music search system 200 receives the sound signal transmitted from the sound signal transmitting unit 102 of the client terminal 100 and supplies it to the feature amount extracting unit 202. Although not shown in the figure, the sound signal receiving unit 201 receives an attached file such as an e-mail or a sound file sent by the HTTP PUT method, converts the sound format as necessary, and extracts a feature quantity as a sound signal. 202 may be supplied.

  The feature amount extraction unit 202 extracts a feature amount related to a melody or a feature amount related to a rhythm.

  The music identification unit 203 receives the feature quantity of the sound signal from the feature quantity extraction unit 202, maps this with the feature quantity of each song stored in the music feature quantity database 204, identifies the most suitable music, for example, Output music code. The music identification unit 203 supplies the music code to the bulletin board identification information identification unit 205 and the search result information transmission unit 210. The music feature quantity database 204 may include music attribute data, for example, genre, artist name, etc. in addition to the feature quantity.

  The bulletin board identification information specifying unit 205 refers to the bulletin board basic information database 207 to determine whether or not there is an electronic bulletin board that is currently valid corresponding to the music code. The information is output to the information transmission unit 210. If there is no currently effective electronic bulletin board corresponding to the music code, the bulletin board identification information specifying unit 205 activates the bulletin board basic information registration unit 206, and the bulletin board basic information registration unit 206 operates on the music code. A new electronic bulletin board (object) is generated, the contents are registered in the bulletin board basic information database 207, and the identification information of the electronic bulletin board is returned to the electronic bulletin board identification information specifying unit 205. The electronic bulletin board identification information specifying unit 205 supplies the bulletin board identification information to the search result information transmission unit 210.

  The search result information transmission unit 210 transmits the search result information (including the music code or the search failure and the bulletin board identification information) to the search result information reception unit 103 of the client terminal 100. The search result information may be transmitted by designating the address and port of the client terminal 100 (the port of the program for browsing the music search) or by mail.

  The search result information receiving unit 103 of the client terminal 100 receives the search result information, supplies the search hit data to the search result browsing unit 104, supplies the bulletin board identification information to the bulletin board browsing unit 105, and searches. Result information is registered in the search result information table 106.

  The search result browsing unit 104 displays the data of the music hit by the search to the user. The user can use this data (music code) to acquire a part or all of the music from an external database, for example, for a fee.

  The bulletin board browsing unit 105 uses the bulletin board identification information to enable access to the electronic bulletin board associated with the music. For example, the bulletin board browsing unit 105 sends a browsing request (GET method) and a posting request (PUT method) to the posting / viewing request processing unit 208 of the music search system 200 via the data communication network 302 using the bulletin board identification information. The posting / browsing request processing unit 208 specifies an electronic bulletin board corresponding to the identification information with reference to the electronic bulletin board basic information database 207, accesses the posting information database 209 with respect to the electronic bulletin board, records posting contents, and articles to be viewed. Acquire. The article to be browsed is returned to the bulletin board browsing unit 105 of the client terminal 100 to allow the user to browse.

If there is no matching music, it is processed as no search result.
The music search system 200 includes a sound signal receiving unit 201, a feature amount extracting unit 202, a music specifying unit 203, a music feature amount database 204, a bulletin board identification information specifying unit 205, a bulletin board basic information registration unit 206, a bulletin board basic information database 207, and posting. A browsing request processing unit 208, a posting information database 209, a search result information transmission unit 210, and the like are included.

  In this example, the music search system 200 is provided with the function of the electronic bulletin board, but it is needless to say that the function of the electronic bulletin board can be provided separately from the music search system 200. In this case, a system (server computer or group of server computers) that realizes the function of the electronic bulletin board from the music search system 200 or from the client terminal 100 with a pair of information specifying the client terminal 100 and information specifying music such as a music code. ) Need to be supplied.

  FIG. 2 shows a mounting configuration of this embodiment, and in this figure, portions corresponding to those in FIG. In the implementation example shown in FIG. 2, the music search system 200 includes a web server (server computer; the same applies hereinafter) 20, an application server 21, a database management system 22, a music search engine 23, a LAN 24, a router 25, a telephone communication network interface 26, and the like. Consists of. Further, the system 200 includes a mail server such as SMTP or POP3 when transmitting / receiving data such as URL and files by electronic mail. An electronic bulletin board function is realized by the web server 20, the application server 21, and the database management system 22. The application server 21 implements a bulletin board identification information specifying unit 205, a bulletin board basic information registration unit 206, a search result transmission unit 210, and the like. The search engine 23 implements a feature amount extraction unit 202 and a music identification unit 203. The search engine 23 may be realized by the application server 21.

  Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

  FIG. 4 shows a music search process of the music search system 200, and the process is as follows.

[Step S10]: The signal receiving unit 201 receives a sound signal transmitted from the client terminal 100 via the telephone communication network 301 or the like.
[Step S11]: The feature quantity extraction unit 202 analyzes the sound signal and extracts feature quantities such as melodic features and rhythm features. A sound data file may be used. When the sound format for feature extraction is fixed, the sound format is appropriately converted.
[Step S12]: The music specifying unit 203 maps the feature quantity of the sound signal and the feature quantity of each music piece in the music feature quantity database 204, specifies the optimum music piece, and outputs a music code, for example.
[Step S13]: The bulletin board identification information specifying unit 205 refers to the bulletin board basic information database 207 based on the music identification information, for example, the music code, and acquires the bulletin board identification information. The bulletin board basic information managed in the bulletin board basic information database 207 is not limited to this, but for example, as shown in FIG. Name), creation time, post article retention period, and other attributes. The electronic bulletin board is set to be invalid after a predetermined time, for example, 24 hours from the creation time. Alternatively, the electronic bulletin board data may be deleted after a predetermined time has elapsed from the creation time. The identification information of the electronic bulletin board may be any information as long as it can be uniquely specified. For example, a GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) may be used. The music identification information is, for example, a music code managed by a predetermined management organization. However, the music identification information is not limited to this, and any information can be used as long as the music can be uniquely specified. If there is no valid electronic bulletin board, the bulletin board basic information registration unit 206 creates the bulletin board basic information to generate the electronic bulletin board. The bulletin board identification information specifying unit 205 acquires identification information of newly generated bulletin board basic information.
[Step S <b> 14]: The search result information transmission unit 210 transmits search result information including the music identification information (music code) and bulletin board identification information that have been searched for to the client terminal 100. The transmission is performed, for example, by designating the port number of the process corresponding to the search result information receiving unit 103 of the client terminal 100 and addressing to the address of the client terminal 100. The address of the client terminal 100 can be determined based on sender notification information and user registration information.

  The bulletin board basic information may include identification information of a music group such as a genre in addition to or instead of the music identification information. Or an artist name etc. may be included. In this case, an electronic bulletin board may be prepared for each genre group or artist. The bulletin board identification information specifying unit 205 acquires, for example, the genre and artist name of the specified music from the music feature database 204 or other music database, and corresponds to the music genre or artist based on this. Electronic bulletin board identification information may be output.

  The search result browsing unit 104 of the client terminal 100 enables the purchase processing of the sound data of the music by browsing the music data using the music identification information included in the search result information of the client terminal 100 that has received the search result information. To do. Further, the bulletin board browsing unit 105 enables posting / viewing on the bulletin board using the bulletin board identification information included in the search result information.

  In addition, the search result information receiving unit 103 of the client terminal 100 registers the search result information in the search result information table 106 so that it can be used later for obtaining sound data of the music, browsing the bulletin board, and the like. The search result information in the search result information table 106 is, for example, as shown in FIG. For example, entries in the search result information table 106 that have passed a predetermined time from the bulletin board creation time (or entry registration time) can be invalidated or deleted.

  FIG. 5 shows the operation of the post request process of the music search system 200, and the process is as follows.

[Step S20]: The posting / browsing request processing unit 208 receives a posting request including bulletin board identification information and a posted article. The bulletin board identification information may be handled as an argument or may be specified as a path such as a URL.
[Step S21]: The posting / browsing request processing unit 208 refers to the bulletin board basic information database 207 on the basis of the bulletin board identification information to identify the electronic bulletin board corresponding to the music.
[Step S22]: An article is recorded on the specified electronic bulletin board. The record of the posted article is, for example, as shown in FIG. The life of an article can be defined based on the posting time in this record. Of course, the lifetime may be indefinite by specifying no valid time. However, if the electronic bulletin board is set to be invalidated for a predetermined time (basic setting in this embodiment), the article itself is invalidated.

  FIG. 6 shows the operation of the browsing request process of the music search system 200, and the process is as follows.

[Step S30]: Posting / browsing request processing unit 208 receives a browsing request including bulletin board identification information.
[Step S31]: The posting / browsing request processing unit 208 refers to the bulletin board basic information database 207 on the basis of the bulletin board identification information to identify the electronic bulletin board corresponding to the music.
[Step S32]: The posting / browsing request processing unit 208 transmits an article to the client terminal 100 from the identified bulletin board.

  According to this embodiment, the user can be guided to the electronic bulletin board at the timing of music search.

  Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In this embodiment, a mailing list system is used instead of an electronic bulletin board system as a communication system.

  FIG. 10 shows the configuration of the second embodiment. In this figure, portions corresponding to those in FIG.

  In FIG. 2, the client terminal 100 includes an ML posting browsing unit 105a. The ML posting browsing unit 105a is a mail agent, for example, the mail transmission / viewing function 16 of FIG.

  The music search system 200 includes an ML identification information specifying unit 205a, an ML basic information registration unit 206a, an ML basic information database 207a, a mail processing unit 208a, and an ML log database 209a. Basically, it handles mailing list information instead of an electronic bulletin board, and is processed in the same manner. The mail processing unit 208a is an SMTP server or a POP3 server.

  Also in this embodiment, the user can be guided to the mailing list at the timing of music search.

  This is the end of the description of the embodiment.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. For example, in the above-described example, an electronic bulletin board or a mailing system is taken as an example of the communication system, but the present invention can be widely applied to communication systems. For example, it may be applied to a chat system. In addition, the music search may be performed using an artist name or the like instead of using a sound signal.

  When a plurality of artists cover the same song, a communication system (for example, a bulletin board) may be assigned for each artist, or a communication system may be assigned for each song. A communication system may be assigned for each genre.

  Furthermore, the present invention is not limited to music search, and may be applied to document search and search for articles, services, products, and knowledge. In this case, the search result may be expected to include a plurality of entries. In this case, however, the electronic bulletin board is associated with attention to the top-most hit entry, or attention is paid to a predetermined number of upper-order hit entries. Can be associated with an electronic bulletin board under an AND condition (the same electronic bulletin board is obtained if all entries match) or an OR condition (the same electronic bulletin board is obtained if only one entry matches). Based on all of the above, it is possible to identify and associate with each other strictly, and it is possible to associate with various other correspondences. Further, the search processing may be classified and a communication system may be assigned for each classification.

  FIG. 11 shows a modified example of the above-described embodiment. The search system 400 is a predetermined type of search target, for example, a predetermined type of search target such as a document, an article, a service, a person, an organization, or knowledge. Is to search.

  In FIG. 11, parts corresponding to those in FIG. The functions of the communication system provided by the search system 400 include a message posting / browsing request processing unit 208b, a communication system basic information database 207b, a message database 209b, and the like. The message database 209b stores messages distributed by the communication system.

  The user database 211 holds user attributes. As shown by a broken line, the user database 211 can be used to make the communication system function available only to users who have registered a specific option. Good. Further, the use of the communication system may be designated by an option accompanying the search request. On the client terminal 100 side, the search request input unit 101b inputs a search request, for example, a search request with a song attribute, such as an artist name, an important phrase in a document, a person name, an organization name, and the like, and a search request transmission unit For example, the transmission request is transmitted to the search request unit 201b of the search system 400 by the HTTP PUT method.

  The search unit 203b refers to a search target database (for example, search index or relational database) 204b to search for music, documents, and the like. The communication system identification information specifying unit 205b specifies the identification information of the corresponding communication system with reference to the communication system basic information database 207b based on the search result. When there is no corresponding communication system or when the communication system is not valid, the communication system basic information registration unit 206b registers the basic information.

  As described above, even in this modified example, the user can be guided to the optimum communication system by focusing on the search. In this example, guidance to the communication system can be made optional.

It is a block diagram which shows Example 1 of this invention using a functional block. It is a figure explaining the example of mounting of the said Example 1. FIG. It is a figure explaining the example of the client terminal of the said Example 1. FIG. It is a flowchart explaining the example of the process at the time of the music search of the said Example 1. FIG. It is a flowchart explaining the example of the process at the time of article posting of the said Example 1. FIG. It is a flowchart explaining the example of the process at the time of the article browsing of the said Example 1. FIG. It is a figure explaining the example of the basic information of the bulletin board system of the said Example 1. FIG. It is a figure explaining the example of the information of the contribution article of the above-mentioned Example 1. FIG. It is a figure explaining the example of the bulletin board identification information table of the said Example 1. FIG. It is a block diagram explaining Example 2 of this invention. It is a block diagram explaining the modification of the said Example 1 and Example 2. FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Mobile telephone 11 Display part 12 Operation part 13 Microphone 14 Speaker 15 Web browsing function 16 Mail transmission / browsing function 20 Web server 21 Application server 22 Database management system 23 Music search engine 24 LAN
25 router 26 telephone communication network interface 100 client terminal 101 microphone 102 sound signal transmission unit 103 search result information reception unit 104 search result browsing unit 105 bulletin board browsing unit 105a ML post browsing unit 106 search result information table 200 music search system 201 sound signal reception Unit 202 feature amount extraction unit 203 music identification unit 204 music feature amount database 205 bulletin board identification information identification unit 205a ML identification information identification unit 205 electronic bulletin board identification information identification unit 206a ML basic information registration unit 206 bulletin board basic information registration unit 207 bulletin board basic information Database 207a ML basic information database 208 Posting / browsing request processing unit 208a Mail processing unit 209 Posting information database 209a Log database 210 Search result information transmission unit 210 Search Result transmission unit 301 Telephone communication network 302 Data communication network

Claims (10)

Sound signal input means for inputting the sound signal of the music sent from the terminal;
Music specifying means for specifying music corresponding to the sound signal input by the sound signal input means;
An association means for storing association information relating the music and the identification information of the electronic bulletin board corresponding to the music;
Identification information acquisition means for acquiring identification information of an electronic bulletin board corresponding to the music specified by the music specification means from the association means;
Identification information transmitting means for transmitting the identification information of the electronic bulletin board acquired by the identification information acquiring means to the terminal;
An electronic system comprising: post information processing means for receiving post information transmitted using the identification information and recording it as post information on an electronic bulletin board and outputting the recorded post information based on a browsing request Bulletin board processing equipment.   2. The bulletin board processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the association information stored by the association means has a predetermined validity period.   When the music specifying means specifies a music, if there is no valid correlation information corresponding to the music, a new electronic bulletin board identification information is generated, and the correlation information relating the music with the identification information is generated. A registration unit configured to generate and register the association information in the association unit; and the posting information processing unit generates electronic bulletin board data corresponding to the newly generated identification information, and the bulletin board The post information transmitted using the identification information is received using data, recorded as post information on the new electronic bulletin board, and the recorded post information is output based on the browsing request. Electronic bulletin board processing equipment. A step in which the sound signal input means inputs the sound signal of the music sent from the terminal;
A step of specifying a song corresponding to the sound signal input by the sound signal input unit;
A step of storing association information for associating the music with the identification information of the electronic bulletin board corresponding to the music;
An identification information obtaining unit obtaining identification information of an electronic bulletin board corresponding to the music specified by the music specifying unit from the association unit;
An identification information transmitting unit transmitting the electronic bulletin board identification information acquired by the identification information acquiring unit to the terminal;
Posting information processing means has a step of receiving posting information transmitted using the identification information, recording it as posting information on an electronic bulletin board, and outputting the recorded posting information based on a browsing request. An electronic bulletin board processing method. A search request receiving means for receiving a search request sent from a terminal;
Search means for executing a search based on the search request received by the search request receiving means;
An association means for storing association information for associating the search result with the identification information of the electronic communication system corresponding to the search result;
Identification information acquisition means for acquiring identification information of the electronic communication system corresponding to the search result by the search means from the association means;
Identification information transmitting means for transmitting the identification information of the electronic communication system acquired by the identification information acquiring means to the terminal;
An electronic communication processing apparatus, comprising: message processing means for receiving a message transmitted using the identification information, recording it as a message of an electronic communication system, and outputting the recorded message.   6. The electronic communication processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the electronic communication system is an electronic bulletin board.   7. The electronic communication system according to claim 5, wherein the search request is a music search request.   8. The electronic communication processing device according to claim 7, wherein the search means searches for music based on a sound signal corresponding to the music.   8. The communication processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the search means searches for music by designating a keyword for the music attribute information. A search request receiving means for receiving a search request sent from the terminal;
A search means for performing a search based on the search request received by the search request receiving means;
A step of storing association information for associating the retrieval result with the identification information of the electronic communication system corresponding to the retrieval result;
An identification information obtaining unit obtaining identification information of the electronic communication system corresponding to the search result by the search unit from the association unit;
An identification information transmitting unit transmitting the identification information of the electronic communication system acquired by the identification information acquiring unit to the terminal;
An electronic communication processing method, comprising: a step of receiving a message transmitted using the identification information, recording the message as a message of the electronic communication system, and outputting the recorded message.