JP2007087361A - Information providing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information providing system capable of simplifying operation for contributing to a web page of a weblog, and provided with an unauthorized access preventing function. <P>SOLUTION: The system is provided with a first Ping site having a database for accumulating contribution information of an information provision client, a Ping proxy site having a database in which a URL of the web page of the information provision client and a URL of the first Ping site, and a terminal device for contributing information to the web page of the weblog of the information provision client. The terminal device of the information provision client transmits the submitted contribution information to the URL of the web page of the information provision client and the Ping proxy site. The Ping proxy site transmits the received contribution information to a URL of the weblog of the information provision client and the first Ping site. At that time, the Ping proxy site and the first Ping site authenticates whether the received URL of the weblog of the information provision client is previously registered or not. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information providing system that provides a user with various information by applying a web log or the like.

  With the spread of the Internet, the user accesses a website such as a portal site that provides information by operating a terminal device, browses a web page published by a company, etc., or is linked to this web page It has become possible to obtain various types of information by accessing the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the Web page. Such information providing systems that have been put into practical use have been aimed at widely disclosing information using Web pages. For this reason, when the creator of the web page needs new information immediately, it is posted on this web page immediately, or a general user who browses the web page writes information such as opinions on this web page, and this information It was extremely difficult to immediately publish on the Internet. In addition, in order to create a Web page including a home page, it is necessary to acquire knowledge such as HTML language in detail. For this reason, it has been impossible to publish information by creating a Web page including a home page in a short time.

  In this way, it is possible to immediately post new information on a Web page, and further, a general user who has browsed this Web page can immediately write an opinion or the like on the browsed Web page. If a system that can immediately update a Web page on which is posted and publish it on the Internet is built, its utility value will be extremely high.

  As one means for solving the above problem, recently, a web page created using a weblog tool has been published on the Internet, and the web page creator side and the general user side who browsed this web page are interactive. Technology related to web logs (Weblog: abbreviated as a blog for short) that has made it possible to communicate with each other has been rapidly spread and put into practical use. In this web log, bi-directional communication between the information provider who is the creator of the web page and the user can be performed via the web page or the like using the functions of “comment” and “trackback”.

When this weblog technology is applied, for example, a web site that provides services such as a web log web page in which information relating to a new product or the like is newly written on the web log (hereinafter referred to as an information update notification). , The information written on the Web page is accumulated in time series in the database of the Ping site. This makes it possible to post information that is accumulated in time series on the web page of the weblog. Then, when a general user or the like browses the web page of the weblog on the Internet, he or she can immediately browse information accumulated in time series.
Thus, for example, if a company or a store posts (posts) information on a new product or a new service on the web page of this weblog every day and publishes it on the Internet, these can be quickly, easily and widely Information can be transmitted, and as a result, profit can be improved and useful marketing information can be obtained.

  The information providing system using the web log described above is generally constructed and operated by the following procedure.

  (1) Various companies, individuals, etc. (hereinafter referred to as “information provider”) who use the Ping site to send information via the web page of the weblog are Internet providers, etc., that they have registered for opening their homepage. The URL of the information transmission destination (Ping transmission destination) of this Ping site, which is the transmission destination of the information posted by the information providing requester by accessing the Web site, is sent to this Web site using the management screen of the weblog tool. sign up.

  (2) The information provision requester accesses the URL of his / her web log registered in the website from the terminal device. As a result, the management page of the web page of the web log can be displayed and information (article) can be posted.

  (3) The information posted by the information provision requester according to (2) above is transmitted from the information provision requester's website to the Ping site, and is recorded (accumulated) in time series in the database of the Ping site. Thereby, a general user can browse these post information accumulated in this database as a web page of a web log by accessing a web page of the Ping site.

  (4) When an ordinary user posts an opinion or the like on a Web page that displays posted information, the Web page is the URL of the Web page of the Web log (hereinafter referred to as Web log URL) on the Web server of the information provider. ), The web log URL can be accessed to display the web page of the web lob, and opinions can be posted on this web page. Information about the posted opinion is accumulated in the Web server of the information provision requester.

  In the conventional information providing system using the above-mentioned web log, when the information providing requester tries to post information on the web page of his / her web log using the terminal device, as described above, the website is the Ping. This posting information is transmitted by accessing the URL of the ping transmission destination of the site. At present, the majority of Ping sites established in many places receive post information posted by information requesters without authenticating the information requesters and store them in a database.

  If an information providing system using the web log as described above is operated, there is a risk that an unspecified person accesses the Ping site and posts inappropriate information or opinions contrary to public order and morals. In order to prevent such inconveniences, in an information providing system using the Internet that has been put into practical use, for example, inventions relating to authentication means and user registration means described in the following patent documents have been proposed.

  JP 2002-32340 A   JP 2004-326442 A

  Patent Literature 1 proposes a single sign-on system in which a user authentication proxy device is provided between a user terminal device and a Web server for a Web site that requires user authentication. ing. According to Patent Document 1, the user authentication proxy device includes means for storing data necessary for performing user authentication, and the user authentication proxy device performs user authentication for a Web site designated by the user terminal device. Accordingly, it is described that the operation for user authentication in the user terminal device is reduced.

  Furthermore, the user authentication proxy device described in Patent Literature 1 includes a website URL as user authentication data, data acquired by the user terminal device from the website as user authentication data, and the user terminal device to the Web server. It is disclosed that three pieces of transmitted user recognition data are stored in a storage means as a set.

  Patent Document 2 proposes a user registration system for the purpose of simplifying a user registration operation to an information providing server by a user. In Patent Document 2, a management server is provided between the user terminal device and the information providing server, and predetermined personal information input from the user terminal device is stored in the database of the management server to the user from the information providing server. It is registered in comparison with the user identification information assigned to it. When the user terminal device accesses the information providing server to perform user registration, the information providing server receives the user ID and password from the user terminal device, and further registers the personal information of the user registered in the database from the management server. To get. The information providing server displays the personal information acquired from the management server on the terminal device in a predetermined format. Accordingly, it is disclosed that the user can confirm information that is insufficient with respect to the registration information in the information providing server, and therefore, the burden of input work for the user registration operation can be reduced.

  The inventions described in Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2 are required for authentication and user registration between the user terminal device and the information providing server in order to simplify user authentication or user registration operation. This is a system that simplifies an input operation in a user terminal device by providing a relay server or the like in which data is registered. However, these systems are systems in which user registration and authentication operations are simplified for a system in which a user accesses an information providing server that stores various types of information and obtains information. It is not applied to a system that posts information to the information providing server. Further, it is not a system that simplifies user registration and authentication operations for the purpose of improving the quality of information stored in the information providing server.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an information providing system that publishes a web page of a web log on the Internet for an information providing system to which a conventional web log technology is applied, and posts information including new information on the web page. It is another object of the present invention to provide an information providing system capable of remarkably simplifying the operation for making it possible, classifying and posting posted information, and preventing posting of illegal information.

The present invention relates to a web log URL of a web site established by an information provider, and a first ping site having a database for storing post information posted on the web page of the web log by the information provider ,
A Ping proxy site having a database in which the attribute information including the web log URL of the information provider and the URL of the Ping destination set in the first Ping site are registered;
A terminal device for the information providing requester to access the web page of the web log of the information providing requester and post information; and an information providing system comprising:
The Web site includes means for transmitting the posted information posted on the Web page of the Web log and the URL of the Web page of the information providing requester to the Ping proxy site,
When the URL of the information requester's Web page received from the Web site is registered in the database of the Ping proxy site in advance,
Means for obtaining the posted information from the website;
Means for transmitting the acquired posting information and the URL of the information requester's Web page to the first Ping site having the URL of the Ping destination registered in the database;
The first Ping site sends the posting information from the Ping proxy site when the URL of the Web page of the information providing requester acquired from the Ping proxy site is registered in the first Ping site in advance. The information providing system includes means for acquiring and storing the acquired posted information in the database of the first Ping site.

Further, according to the present invention, the information providing system includes one or a plurality of the first Ping sites,
The information providing system includes one or a plurality of second Ping sites that arbitrarily acquire the posted information transmitted from the Ping proxy site and accumulate the acquired posted information in the database.

  Furthermore, the present invention includes a database in which a pre-selected key word is registered, and the posted information acquired when the posted information acquired from the Ping proxy site includes the keyword registered in the database. Is an information providing system provided with a third Ping site having means for storing the information in a database for storing posted information.

  In the present invention, the Ping proxy site includes a database in which URLs of Ping destinations set in the first, second, and third Ping sites are registered, and the posting received from the Web site The information providing system is configured to transmit information to all URLs of the Ping transmission destinations registered in the database.

  The above information provider requests registration of a homepage on an Internet provider's website, etc., holds the URL of the homepage (Web page), publishes a web page of the web log on the Internet, An information provider who posts (publishes) new information on this Web page every day or whenever necessary and accumulates the posted information in the Ping site is shown. For example, the information provision requester is a general company, various organizations, various stores, individuals, and the like.

  In addition to the web page created by the web log tool, the above-mentioned web page of the web log includes new information by using file transfer software such as FTP (File Transfer Protocol) on a conventionally used web page. Web pages that can be arbitrarily displayed when necessary are also included.

  Furthermore, the Ping site described above collects and accumulates post information including new information (update information) posted on the web page of the weblog via the Internet by the information provider, and anyone can accumulate this post information. Refers to a service site that allows users to browse through the Internet.

  Further, the above URL of the Ping transmission destination is a URL serving as a window for receiving and processing post information transmitted from various Web servers among URLs set in the Ping site.

The present invention has the following effects.
(1) When the Web server on the information providing requester side sends the web log URL set in the information providing requester's Web server together with the posted information to the Ping proxy site, the Ping proxy site stores the Web log URL in advance as the Ping proxy. A process of determining whether or not it is registered on the site is performed. And only when it is registered, this posting information is received, and the received posting information and the web log URL are transmitted to the first Ping site. Similarly, when the first Ping site receives the posting permission determination information such as the web log URL, whether the posting permission determination information such as the web log URL of the information provider is registered in the first Ping site in advance. A process for determining whether or not the post information is registered is received only when registered, and the received post information is stored in the database. As described above, when both the Ping proxy site and the first Ping site receive post information, authentication processing of the information providing requester who posted the information is set in the Web server on the information providing requester side. Since it is performed using the posting permission / inhibition information such as the web log URL, it is possible to prevent posting of unauthorized information by a third party and to store posting information only related information.

  (2) The URLs of the ping transmission destinations of the first ping site, the second ping site, and the third ping site that transmit information such as new information posted by the information providing requester side are stored in advance in the database of the ping proxy site Therefore, when the information providing requester posts information such as new information, an operation for inputting the URL of the Ping transmission destination set in the first, second and third Ping sites is performed. It becomes unnecessary.

  (3) The first Ping site constituting the system of the present invention is, for example, a Ping site set in an area where information requesters such as a shopping street and a store are active, and the second Ping site is in each place. The existing Ping site is established, and the third Ping site can be composed of a Ping site that stores posting information including keywords such as specific proper nouns. With such a system, it is possible to provide an information providing system that can contribute to the activation of local shopping streets.

  (4) Furthermore, a plurality of first and third Ping sites are provided, and each Ping site is a Ping site where the information requester is a restaurant and accumulates post information from these restaurants, for example, retail. It can be dedicated for each field of posted information, such as a Ping site that stores post information from stores or people interested in sports. As a result, it is possible to provide an information providing system that includes a plurality of first Ping sites each having a feature regarding the posted information and is easy for general users to collect information.

  Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a system configuration for carrying out the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numerals 1a, 1b, and 1c are information requesting client terminal devices composed of personal computers. Reference numeral 2 is a Web site on which the information providing requester registers and opens a homepage. A site operated by a service provider. Reference numeral 3 is a Ping proxy site, 4a and 4b are first Ping sites, 5a and 5b are second Ping sites, and 6a and 6b are general user terminal devices composed of personal computers. Note that the Web site 2, the Ping proxy site 3, the first Ping sites 4a and 4b, and the second Ping sites 5a and 5b are configured by a computer on which an OS for a server is installed.

  In the present invention, among the first Ping site and the second Ping site described above, the second Ping site is not necessarily provided, but in order to distribute posted information over a wide range, Or it is desirable to provide a plurality of Ping sites.

  Further, the first Ping site is a Ping site having the features of the present invention described later, and a plurality of first Ping sites are provided when the necessity of expanding the scale of the system arises. Good. The second Ping sites 5a and 5b are, for example, existing Ping sites established in various places, and the Ping sites used by the system according to the request of the information provider or the judgment of the administrator of the Ping proxy site. To participate.

  In addition, the terminal devices 1a, 1b, and 1c of the information provision requester shown in FIG. 1, the Web server 2, the Ping proxy site 3, the first Ping sites 4a and 4b, the second Ping sites 5a and 5b, and the terminals of general users The devices 6a and 6b are connected to the Internet 7.

  The information providing requester's terminal devices 1a, 1b, and 1c each include a browser that is software for browsing a Web page. Then, the information requester accesses the Web site 2 using the terminal device 1a and the like, displays the Web page of the web log on the screen, posts information on the Web page, and further pings the posted information. An operation such as transmission to the proxy site 3 is performed. Further, the terminal device 1a or the like is used as a device that performs an operation of inputting attribute information relating to an information providing requester who is a member who uses this system in advance and transmitting it to the Ping proxy site 3.

  The Web site 2 is a WEB site operated by an Internet service provider that stores various Web pages including the Web page of the web log of the information provider. In addition, the Web server 2 performs a process of transmitting post information posted from the terminal device 1 a or the like to the Ping proxy site 3.

  The Ping proxy site 3 is a site operated by an administrator who manages and operates this system. The Ping proxy site 3 receives the attribute information related to the information provider who uses this system in advance in the database, and the posted information posted by the information provider using the terminal devices 1a, 1b, and 1c. The received posting information is provided with software for performing processing for transmitting the received information to the first Ping sites 4a and 4b or the second Ping sites 5a and 5b. The Ping proxy site 3 includes means for authenticating the information provision requester when receiving the posted information. The procedure of this authentication process will be described later.

  The first Ping sites 4a and 4b are managed and operated by a Ping site managed and operated by an administrator who manages and operates this system (an administrator of the Ping proxy site 3), or a person commissioned by this administrator. It is a Ping site. In the present invention, the Ping sites 4a and 4b constituting the first Ping site are means for authenticating the information provision requester when post information posted by the information provision requester is transmitted from the Ping proxy site 3. It is characterized by having. The procedure of this authentication process will be described later. Further, the first Ping sites 4a and 4b perform processing for accumulating post information posted by the information providing requester received from the Ping proxy site 3 in a database in time series, and storing the accumulated post information on the web. It has a function of publishing on the Internet 7 via a blog web.

  The second Ping sites 5a and 5b are Ping sites that do not have means for authenticating the information providing requester when posting information posted by the information providing requester is transmitted from the Ping proxy site 3, that is, Ping. This is a site that receives post information transmitted from the proxy site 3 arbitrarily and stores the received post information in a database in time series. The second Ping site 5a and the like also have a function of publishing posted information accumulated in the database in time series on the Internet 7 through a web page of a web log.

  Note that the Ping sites 5a and 5b constituting the second Ping site are Ping sites managed and operated by a person other than the administrator of the system described above, for example, existing Ping sites established in various places. .

In the database of each of the first and second Ping sites, for example, posted information (article title) for each title name (for example, store name) of the weblog given to the web page of the weblog by the information provider. , Article information, etc.) are stored in chronological order with the posting date. Further, these Ping sites display the title name of the weblog, the title of the article, and the weblog URL based on the category given to the web page of the weblog by the information provider, for example. When the URL is clicked, a web page showing a list linked to the web page of the web log is provided.
A general user or the like accesses the web page showing the list of the terminal devices 6a and 6b, displays the web page of the information provider's web log, and is stored in the Ping site database in time series. Post information can be viewed from this Web page. It is also possible to post an opinion on the web page of this weblog.

Subsequently, preparation items for operating the present system, operation procedures of the system, and processing contents thereof will be described based on the following (procedure 1) to (procedure 9). It is assumed that the information provision requester who is a user member who uses the system of the present invention opens a Web site capable of Ping transmission on the Web site 2 and holds the web log URL.
FIG. 2 shows an outline of information transmitted between the terminal device 1a of the information providing requester, the Web site 2, the first Ping site 4a, and the second Ping site 5a.

(Procedure 1): Items to be Prepared by Information Providing Requester The information providing requester who uses the system of the present invention first operates the terminal device 1a or the like to access the Ping Piroxy site 2, and then the Ping proxy site. 2 for user registration ((A) in FIG. 2).
This user registration is performed, for example, by accessing a web page of the Ping proxy site 3 and using the user registration web page, the name (or company name), address, and information provider web log of the information provider Attribute information such as the URL, the title name of the web log (for example, the name of the store), and the mail address of the information provider is registered. FIG. 3 shows an example of the user registration Web page. When the necessary data is input to the user registration Web page shown in FIG. 3 and the transmission button is clicked with the mouse, the input data is transmitted to the Ping proxy site 3.

  When the Ping proxy site 3 receives the attribute information of the information provision requester from the terminal device 1a or the like, the Ping proxy site 3 registers the received information in the information provision requester database D1 shown in FIG. 2 by software processing. FIG. 4 shows an example of the data configuration of this information provider client database D1. In the information provision requester database D1, for example, for each name of the information provision requester, the web log URL of the information provision requester, the title name of the web log, the mail address of the requester, the address of the requester, etc. are registered. The Of these attribute information, the web log URL of the information provider is data for the Ping Piroxy site 2 to authenticate the information provider by software processing.

(Procedure 2): Items to be Prepared by Information Provision Requester The information provision requester accesses any one of the first Ping sites 4a, 4b, etc. for which he / she wants to accumulate information posted, and registers the web log URL. The web page to be displayed is displayed, and an operation for registering one's web log URL is performed. The web log URL becomes data for authenticating the information providing requester when the first Ping sites 4a and 4b receive posting information posted by the information providing requester.

  When the first Ping sites 4a and 4b receive the web log URL of the information provider from the terminal device 1a or the like, the received web log URLs of the Ping sites 4a and 4b shown in FIG. Register in the web log URL database D2.

(Procedure 3): Preparation Items of Information Providing Requester The information providing requester accesses the management page of his / her web blog on the Web site 2 from the terminal device 1a and the like, and sets the URL of the Ping transmission destination of the Ping proxy site 3 Then, an operation for registration in the Web site 2 is performed. An example of a Web page for registering the URL of the Ping transmission destination is shown in FIG. In the Web page G1 shown in FIG. 5, the information provision requester performs an operation of inputting the URL of the Ping transmission destination of the Ping proxy site 3 in the input field G1A.

  The order in which the preparation items implemented in the above (procedure 1 to procedure 3) are performed may be any order. In addition, as a preparation matter for the information providing client, it is necessary to access the Web site 2 and activate the Web log tool to create a Web log that becomes its own Web page.

(Procedure 4): Preparations for the administrator of the Ping proxy site 3 When the administrator of the Ping proxy site 3 receives the posted information posted by the information providing requester from the Web site 2, the received posted information An operation for registering the URLs of the Ping destinations of the first Ping sites 4a and 4b and the second Ping sites 5a and 5b constituting the first and second Ping sites in the Ping destination URL database D3 shown in FIG. Do. Although not shown in FIG. 1, this registration operation is performed using a personal computer that can access the Ping proxy site 3.

  An example of the data structure of the Ping site transmission destination URL database D3 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 6, in the Ping destination URL database D3, for each Ping destination URL of each Ping site, there is classification information of this Ping site, that is, the first Ping site or the second Ping site. Information (for example, “1” or “2”) for distinguishing these may be registered. When the Ping site classification information is registered, when a large number of first Ping sites that do not perform authentication processing of information requesters and a second Ping site that does not perform authentication processing of information requesters participate in this system, the database D3 Maintenance and management operations and software processing are facilitated.

(Procedure 5): Posting Information of Information Providing Requester The information providing requester posts information on the Web page of his or her web log. For posting this information, the management page of the web page of the web log is displayed on the terminal device 1a or the like, and the posting information is input. FIG. 7 shows an example of a screen on which information is posted on this Web page. The screen example G2 shown in FIG. 7 includes an area g1 for displaying the title name of the web log, a field g2 for displaying the title of information (article) to be input, a field g3 for selecting an information category, and information to be posted (article). Are set as fields such as a field g4 for inputting the number, a save button g5, and the like.

  The information provision requester posts (inputs) appropriate information in the column g2, the column g3, and the column g4 of the Web page G2. For example, when the information requester is a restaurant, the timing for posting these pieces of information is to post, for example, daily information out of daily menus to send PR information for attracting customers to general users. To. When the posting of new daily information (new information) on the web page G2 is completed, the “save button” is clicked with the mouse. Then, the posted information is transmitted to the Web site 2, stored in the external storage device D5 of the Web site 2, and transmitted to the Ping proxy site 3 ((B) and (C) shown in FIG. 2).

  The software that transmits the posting information acquired by the Web site 2 from the Web page G2 to the Ping proxy site 3 and receives the Ping proxy site 3 executes the following processing.

(Process 1) First, the web log URL of the information provider and the title name g1 of the web log are transmitted.

(Process 2) The Ping proxy site 3 performs an authentication process as to whether or not the received web log URL is registered in the information provider client database D1. If registered, the web log URL of the information provision requester is accessed, the URL of the page on which the article is posted, and the title g2 of the article posted by the information provision requester using the management page , Processing for obtaining posted information such as the content g4a of the article. The acquired post information is temporarily stored in an external storage device.

(Process 3) On the other hand, if the received web log URL is not registered in the information provider client database D1, the process of acquiring post information from the Web site 2 is not performed.
The above (Process 2) is a method by which the Ping proxy site 3 authenticates the information providing requester based on the data related to the information providing requester's web log URL, and is a feature of the present invention. The data related to the information provider's weblog URL is unique identification information for authenticating the information provider, that is, one piece of information on whether to post posted information on a web page. Therefore, it is possible to prevent transmission of unauthorized information from a person who has another weblog URL.

(Procedure 6): Ping transmission process to the Ping site of the Ping proxy site 3 The Ping proxy site 3 transmits post information of the information providing requester once stored in the external storage device to each Ping site by software processing. Edit the format. Subsequently, referring to the Ping site URL database D3, a process of transmitting the post-format edited post information to the URL of the Ping transmission destination of each Ping site registered in advance in the database D3 is performed. At this time, the Ping proxy site 3 performs processing for transmitting the data of the information provision requester's weblog URL together with the posted information to the Ping site ((D) shown in FIG. 2).

(Procedure 7): Receiving Process for Posting Information on Ping Site When the Ping site currently established in various places receives posting information including new posting information posted by the information providing requester, this information providing requester There are a Ping site (first Ping site) that performs processing for authenticating whether or not the user is registered in advance as a user of the Ping site, and a Ping site (second Ping site) that does not perform authentication processing of the information provider. Existing.

  The second Ping site (Ping sites 5a and 5b in FIG. 1) that does not perform the above-described information provider request process receives the information provider's weblog URL and post information unconditionally (optionally). Then, the received post information is accumulated in the post information database D4 in time series.

  On the other hand, the first Ping site that performs authentication processing of the information provider, that is, the Ping sites 4a and 4b shown in FIG. When the URL of the information provider's blog is received, an authentication process is performed to determine whether or not the received web log URL is registered in advance in the web log URL database D2 of the first Ping site 3a or the like. If the web log URL of the information providing requester received by this authentication process is registered in the web log URL database D2 in advance, the posted information transmitted from the Ping proxy site 3 is received and the received posted information is displayed. Processing for accumulating in the posting information database D4 in time series is performed. On the other hand, if the received web log URL of the information providing requester is not registered in the web log URL database D2, it is determined that the user registration has not been performed, and the posting information is not received (acquired). This reception process is terminated. This processing is a feature of the present invention.

(Procedure 8)
The Ping sites 4a and 4b constituting the first Ping site publish a Web page linked to the blog URL of each information provider, and provide information by a general user operating the terminal devices 6a and 6b. The Web page of the requester's weblog can be browsed. A display example of this Web page is shown in FIG. In the central part of the display example G3 of the web page of the web log shown in FIG. 8, the title name g1 of the web log and the posted article information are chronologically, that is, the posting date g6 in order of the latest posting date, Article title g2 and article information g4b are displayed. In addition, link information g7 is displayed at the left end.

(Procedure 9)
Further, each Ping site 4a, 4b opens a web page G4 as shown in FIG. 9 in order to access the web page G3 of the web log shown in FIG. The web page G4 shown in FIG. 9 is a list showing data relating to the title name g1 of the web log, the title g2 of the article, the URL g8 of the web page of the information provider who discloses the title g2 of the article, and the like. A general user or the like accesses this Web page G4 and displays it on the screen, and then clicks the display area of URLg8 of the Web page to be browsed with the mouse, and a link is taken to display the Web page G3 shown in FIG. Will be able to.

  When a general user or the like browses the web page G3 of the web log and posts an opinion or the like to this information provider, for example, a web page for posting an opinion is accessed from the web page G3. An opinion is posted on this opinion posting Web page.

  Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 10 shows an example in which a Ping site 8a constituting a third Ping site is provided in the system configuration of the present invention shown in FIG. One or a plurality of sites can be provided as the Ping site 8a constituting the third Ping site. The Ping sites 8a and the like constituting the third Ping site each include a web log URL database D2 and a posting information storage database D4 similar to the first Ping site described above, and further include a keyword registration database D6. ing.

  A keyword selected in advance is registered in the keyword registration database D6. The keyword indicates, for example, a name of a famous person, a place name, a country name, or a noun such as “election”. Then, an administrator who manages and operates each third Ping site selects these keywords in advance and registers them in the keyword registration database D6. Then, when the software installed in the third Ping site acquires the posting information from the Ping proxy site 3, it determines whether or not the keyword registered in the keyword registration database D6 is included in the acquired posting information. The process to do is performed. If a pre-registered keyword is included, the acquired post information is stored in the post information database D4.

  In addition, the process which determines whether the keyword registered into keyword registration database D6 is contained in the acquired posting information is the title g2 of an article among the posting information, for example, or the posted article. Appropriate processing is performed, for example, processing is performed in which post information included in any of the contents g4a is selected and stored in the post information storage database D4.

  When the third Ping site receives the web log URL of the information provision requester from the Ping proxy site 3, the received web log URL of the information provision requester is the same as the first PING site. Then, authentication processing is performed to determine whether or not the web log URL database D2 is registered in advance. When the third ping site of this system is provided, the ping site having the function of the third ping site is added to the database D3 of the ping destination URL provided in the ping proxy site 3 described above. The Ping transmission destination URL set in 8a or the like is registered.

  In the present invention, by providing the above-described third Ping site, each Ping site 8a constituting the third Ping site automatically provides characteristic information by collecting post information related to a specific keyword. A system can be constructed.

  In addition to the means for authenticating the information provision requester by the web log URL of the information provision requester performed by the Ping proxy site 3, the first and third Ping sites, the following check means is provided. A means can be adopted so as not to accept transmission of unauthorized post information.

That is, an illegal word contrary to public order and morals is registered in advance in the database of the Ping proxy site 3 and the first and third Ping sites. If it is determined by software processing that an illegal word registered in advance is included in the data of the article title g2 and article information g4a, the following processing is performed.
(1) The Ping proxy site 3 performs a process of not sending the posted information received from the Web site 2 to the Ping site.
(2) The first and third Ping sites perform processing that does not store the received posting information in the posting information database.

  It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the system configuration | structure of this invention.   It is a figure which shows the flow of the information between a terminal device of an information provision requester shown in FIG. 1, a Web site, a Ping proxy site, and a Ping site.   It is a figure which shows an example of the web page for user registration with which the Ping proxy site shown in FIG. 1 is provided.   Similarly, it is a figure which shows an example of the data structure about the information provision requester database with which the Ping proxy site is equipped.   Similarly, it is a figure which shows the example of a web page for setting the Ping transmission destination with which a web site is provided.   Similarly, it is a figure which shows an example of the data structure about the database of Ping transmission destination URL with which a Ping proxy site is equipped.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the web page of the weblog for an information provision requester to post information.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the web page of the web log which the information provision requester's website publishes.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the web page which the Ping site shown in FIG. 1 publishes.   It is a figure for demonstrating the other system configuration example of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1a, 1b, 1c: Information providing requester's terminal device 2: Web server 3: Ping proxy site 4a, 4b: First Ping site 5a, 5b: Second Ping site 6a, 6b: General user terminal device 7 : Internet 8a: Third Ping site D1: Information provider database D2: Weblog URL database D3: Ping destination URL database D4: Posting information database D6: Keyword registration database

Claims (4)

A web log URL of a website established by an information provider, and a first Ping site having a database for storing post information posted by the information provider on the web page of the web log;
A Ping proxy site having a database in which the attribute information including the web log URL of the information provider and the URL of the Ping destination set in the first Ping site are registered;
A terminal device for the information providing requester to access the web page of the web log of the information providing requester and post information; and an information providing system comprising:
The Web site includes means for transmitting the posted information posted on the Web page of the Web log and the URL of the Web page of the information providing requester to the Ping proxy site,
When the URL of the information requester's Web page received from the Web site is registered in the database of the Ping proxy site in advance,
Means for obtaining the posted information from the website;
Means for transmitting the acquired posting information and the URL of the information requester's Web page to the first Ping site having the URL of the Ping destination registered in the database;
The first Ping site sends the posting information from the Ping proxy site when the URL of the Web page of the information providing requester acquired from the Ping proxy site is registered in the first Ping site in advance. An information providing system comprising: means for acquiring and storing the acquired posted information in the database of the first Ping site. The information providing system includes one or a plurality of the first Ping sites,
Further, the present invention further comprises one or a plurality of second Ping sites for arbitrarily acquiring the posted information transmitted from the Ping proxy site and storing the acquired posted information in the database. The information providing system according to claim 1.   A database in which pre-selected keywords are registered is provided, and when the keyword registered in the database is included in the posting information acquired from the Ping proxy site, the acquired posting information is accumulated. 3. The information providing system according to claim 1, further comprising a third ping site having means for storing in a database to be stored.   The Ping proxy site includes a database in which URLs of Ping transmission destinations set in the first, second, and third Ping sites are registered, and the posting information received from the Web site, The information providing system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the information is transmitted to all URLs of the Ping transmission destinations registered in the database.