JP2007328750A - Compound document preparing method and registering method to blog - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To drastically reduce the communication load of a blog server by directly transferring digital data, such as a moving picture, voices and music associated with an image in a document and a particular part in the document by hyperlink to a data server connected to the Internet and a LAN different from the blog server and transferring only a part of an HTML tag composed of characters, the hyperlink, and the like for blog registration when registering a diary, or the like in the blog or a weblog. <P>SOLUTION: When a document for blog publishing including images and a moving picture is prepared by a document preparation program, the images and the moving picture are automatically transferred to a data server that is preliminarily designated, an HTML document for referring to the document by hyperlink is generated and registered in the blog so that a user may not have to perform complicated work. In addition, in a document including a mathematical expression, the mathematical expression part is made to an image in advance and the above procedures are executed to thereby be able to easily register the document in the blog. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

  The present invention relates to a method for easily registering a compound document composed of images, moving images, and the like in a blog from a personal computer connected to the Internet.

Conventional technology

1. There is known a method for publishing a home page on a blog, which includes a step of transferring digital data such as images, moving images, sounds and music to a server and a step of transferring a document consisting only of characters or a document in HTML format to the server.
2. Also, a document composed of text and images or a document in which a specific part of the document is associated with digital data such as a moving image is converted to a document in HTML format or the like that can be disclosed to the Internet, and the digital data and HTML document are connected to the Internet Programs that can be transferred to and published as homepages are known.
3. There are known means for installing a home server in each home and transmitting a blog to the Internet from there.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention

First of all, the conventional method of registering text and image documents as blogs on a blog consists of transferring images to a blog server connected to the Internet and inputting characters directly on the text entry screen. The transferred image and text can be combined and displayed as a home page. There is also a service called Moblog, a type of blog, that publishes texts, photos, or videos sent from the form phone via the Internet as a home page.
Compared to the transmission of information on a conventional homepage, these users have rapidly increased the number of users because of their ease of use, and are said to be the most powerful personal information transmission system in history.
However, the size of a single image or video that can be transferred to a blog server is quite strict. The increase in users of blogs and moblogs too rapidly seems to be the reason why the size of images that can be transferred must be limited. Currently, the size of a single image that can be sent to a blog server is at most several hundred kilobytes, and digital data such as video, audio, and music can only be transferred with a low quality image of only a few minutes. Can not.
This limitation is necessary to provide the limited resources of the server equally to everyone, but it is too restrictive for some users, and one issue is to remove this size limitation. is there.
Also, response time when browsing diaries on many blog servers is getting longer. This is not just a matter of server performance and capacity. In essence, a large number of users concentrating on a specific blog server is the root cause of response time delays. The solution of the load concentration problem is also an object of the present invention.
Next, it is allowed on a normal homepage to associate a specific part of a sentence with digital data such as video, audio, music, etc. This function is, for example, “This situation can be seen in video. Click here "Please do" is displayed on the homepage, and the video can be displayed by clicking the text "Here" in "Click here" with the mouse. To do the same thing with the current blog, first transfer the digital data to a specific server connected to the Internet, then register the text on the blog registration screen, the specific part of the text and the specific server It is necessary to associate the digital data transferred to the Internet with a URL address on the Internet in accordance with the HTML grammar.
As described above, in order to publish texts and images and the digital data associated therewith in a conventional method on a blog, knowledge of HTML, which is a document description rule on the Internet, is required, and a URL is directly designated according to the HTML grammar. There must be.
Ordinary blog users usually do not have such knowledge about HTML rules and URL networks, and it is difficult for many ordinary blog users to publish the digital data on blogs.
Next, conventionally, programs that can create homepages without knowing HTML syntax have been widely used. Using this program, you can create text composed of characters and images for publication as a homepage without knowing the HTML grammar, and associate specific parts of the text with digital data such as images, videos, sounds, and music. And it can be an HTML document expressed in HTML grammar.
However, when registering the HTML document in a blog, the digital data referred to in the HTML document in advance is transferred separately to the server, and the association with the digital data referenced in the HTML document is the URL of the transferred server. It is necessary to convert to an address that can be referred to on the Internet. After that, the HTML document is copied to a storage area called a clipboard that can be read by other programs such as a browser displaying the blog registration screen, and then pasted to the blog registration screen displayed by the browser. Can be registered. This work requires the user to know the HTML grammar, and the operation is extremely complicated.
Provided is a means by which a user of a blog can register a compound document whose specific part is associated with the digital data in a text composed of characters and images in the blog without knowledge of the HTML or URL address on the Internet. This is one of the problems of the present invention.
Next, in recent document creation programs, mathematical expressions can be described and characters can be transformed into various forms for display. At present, there is no simple method for registering in a blog so that sentences containing these mathematical formulas can be displayed as they are.

Means for solving the problem

In order to solve the above-described problem, in the invention described in claim 1, an image in a document displayed on a terminal connected to the Internet, an image associated with a specific part in the document, a moving image, sound, music The step of transferring digital data such as a blog server connected to the Internet to a server connected to the Internet or a server connected to a local area network to which the terminal is connected is provided.
Further, when the created document is converted into HTML, the reference to the digital data is described using an address called URL for calling the digital data transferred to the server. The document converted into HTML is written in a storage area called a clipboard that can be read by another program operating in parallel on the terminal.
The HTML document written on the clipboard can be pasted on the blog registration screen displayed on the browser by a simple operation, and can be published on the Internet as a blog by transferring it to the blog server.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, the step of inputting the user identification ID into the terminal in advance, the identification ID and the password are transferred to the management server connected on the Internet, and the digital data is transferred to the data server. With permission and obtaining its address.
In the invention described in claim 3, in order to solve the above-described problem that the load is concentrated on the blog server or the like, users are grouped into a certain number in the management server, and different data servers are provided for each group. When the user ID is transferred from the terminal, information such as the allocated data server address and password is returned to the terminal.
In the invention described in claim 4, a stage for converting an area including a mathematical expression or a deformed character in a document into an image format that can be disclosed on the Internet such as JEPG or GIF is waited.
In the invention described in claim 5, when the terminal does not receive a response from the management server described in claim 2 etc. for a certain period of time, the identification ID and password of the terminal user are transferred to the alternative management server. The data server has a step of obtaining permission to transfer the digital data, an address of the data server, and the like.
In the invention according to claim 6, the digital data transferred to the certain data server in the terminal is stored in the external storage device of the terminal in association with the transferred data server, and a failure occurs in the data server. When the digital data transferred from the terminal disappears, the digital data stored in the external storage device of the terminal is retransmitted after the data server is restored.

The invention's effect

According to the invention described in claim 1, claim 2 and claim 3, when creating a document associated with an image or digital data in a terminal and registering a diary or the like in a blog or weblog, Digital data such as video, audio, music, etc. associated with images in a document or specific parts in a document by hyperlinks is sent to a data server connected to the Internet connected to the blog server or a LAN connected to the terminal. It is only necessary to transfer directly, and it is only necessary to transfer the part of the HTML tag composed of characters and hyperlinks to the data server, and the communication load of the blog server is greatly reduced. Here, a rental server that can be easily rented may be used as the data server. If it is about 100 megabytes, it is free, and if it is about several gigabytes, it can be rented for 2-3 thousand yen per month.
At present, most home personal computers are connected to a home LAN, and are connected to the Internet via a route control device and a telephone line or optical line. In addition, a technology has been established in which a home server is connected to a home LAN and a homepage is opened to the Internet from there. This is called a home server, and its users are increasing. Therefore, if the home server is used as the data server shown in claims 1 and 2, etc., it becomes a digital data distribution type system such as images and moving images, and a large amount of data such as images and moving images is transferred between the blog user and the blog server. There is no need to communicate.
There is a concern that the home server is not necessarily suitable for publishing a large amount of data such as images and videos because it is connected to the Internet via a telephone line or a public optical line. However, the number of personal diaries registered on a blog server is usually at most a few hundreds per day, apart from diaries such as special talents. Even if a home server is used as a data server, it can withstand enough. .
There is a server program for publishing a blog that can be used on the home server, and if this is used, the concentration of load on a specific popular blog server can be eliminated. However, if a diary or the like is placed on a popular blog server, there is a merit that more people can see it. Therefore, in the inventions described in claims 1, 2, and 3, the diary itself is a specific item. The digital data communication that occupies most of the communication load of the blog server by placing it on a popular blog server and using digital data such as images and videos from a data server other than the blog server such as a home server The load can be distributed.
Furthermore, for terminal users, digital images such as images, videos, sounds, music, etc. that are associated with hyperlinks with images in documents or specific parts of documents are transferred to the server or transferred to the server. An operation for creating a hyperlink tag for referring to digital data becomes unnecessary, and a document in which a specific part of the document is associated with the digital data can be registered in the blog by an operation equivalent to a document creation by a normal word processor.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, use of the data server can be limited to registered users, and an increase in load and deterioration of responsiveness caused by illegally copying and using the program can be prevented.
According to the invention described in claim 4, even if there is a part that cannot be disclosed to the Internet, such as mathematical formulas and deformed characters in the document, the step of converting the part into an image is provided. With this invention, the image part is sent to the data server, and the document converted into the HTML tag can be registered in the blog.
According to the invention described in claim 5, even when the management server becomes a failure, the operation can be continued by the alternative management server.
According to the invention described in claim 6, even when the digital data transferred due to the failure of the data server is lost, the digital data stored in the external storage device of each terminal is retransmitted after the failure is recovered. Recover lost data server digital data.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a terminal according to the present embodiment.
An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a network configuration diagram according to the present invention.
Reference numerals 100, 200,... Are terminals such as personal computers, which are connected to the Internet NET via telephone lines or optical lines.
Reference numerals 10 and 11 denote user management servers, that is, management servers, which are connected to the Internet NET via telephone lines or optical lines.
Reference numerals 20, 21,... Are data storage servers, that is, data servers, which are connected to the Internet NET via telephone lines or optical lines.
A blog server 30 provides a blog or blog service, and is connected to the Internet NET via a telephone line or an optical line.
FIG. 2 shows another connection method of the terminal shown in FIG. 1 and various servers to the Internet.
That is, reference numeral 100 denotes a terminal, which is connected to the Internet NET via a LAN, a route control device, and a telephone line or an optical line.
Reference numeral 101 is also a terminal, which is also connected to the Internet NET via a LAN, a route control device, and a telephone line or an optical line.
Reference numerals 10 and 20 denote servers, which are connected to the Internet NET via a LAN, a route control device, and a telephone line or an optical line.
Here, the terminal 101 and the data server 20 are connected to the same LAN. As described above, in the present invention, various servers may be connected to the same LAN and connected to the Internet via a path control device.
In this way, in FIG. 2, the terminal and various servers are connected to the Internet NET via a LAN, a route control device, and a telephone line or an optical line, and the terminal and the server may be connected to the same LAN. However, in the present invention, even if such a configuration is used, if the terminal or server uses Windows, Unix, and Kinux as basic software, and the present invention is implemented based on that, the configuration as shown in FIG. It can be implemented with the configuration shown.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the terminal 100.
In this figure, reference numeral 101 denotes a control means, which is composed of a CPU or the like, and controls each part, transfers data, performs various calculations, temporarily stores data, and the like.
Reference numeral 1002 denotes input control means for controlling data input from a server connected via the Internet NET.
Reference numeral 1003 denotes output control means for controlling data transferred to the server.
Reference numeral 1004 denotes a clipboard, which is temporary storage means for delivering a document or HTML tag from the control means 1001 to a browser such as an Internet Explorer that is operating in parallel in the terminal.
Reference numeral 1005 denotes a storage means that stores a main program. This main program is used by the control means 1001. For example, a document is created, an image is displayed on the document, a specific part of the document is associated with various digital data such as a moving image, and the digital data is output. The data is transferred to the server via the control unit 1003, or data is received from the server via the input control unit.
Reference numeral 1006 denotes a storage unit that stores various digital data such as an image displayed on a document and a moving image associated with a specific portion of the document.

Next, the basic operation of this embodiment will be described.
Here, for convenience, the following description will be made assuming that the terminal 100 is connected to the management server 10 and the blog server 30, and the data servers 20, 21,... Are connected to the Internet NET.
It is assumed that the terminal connects to the blog server 30 in advance using a browser 1007 such as an Internet Explorer and displays the blog registration screen. In this state, the user first instructs the control means 1001 to start the main program from the storage means 1005 using a mouse or the like.
Next, the user creates a blog registration document using the control means 1001 that operates according to the activated main program.
At this time, a blog registration document is created by associating a part of the document with a file such as a moving image or sound stored in the storage unit 1006 using the control unit 1001.
Here, the procedure of the association will be specifically shown.
First, a part of characters of the created document is highlighted and selected with a mouse or the like, and a list of files such as videos and sounds stored in the storage unit 1006 is displayed while maintaining the selected state. Select the file you want to associate with the mouse. The correspondence between a part of the characters of the selected document and the moving image or sound stored in the selected storage unit 1006 is stored in a table as shown in FIG.
Next, when the creation of the blog registration document is completed, the terminal user instructs the control means 1001 to create a blog registration tag. In response to this instruction, the control unit 1001 performs the following operation.
First, the control means 1001 transfers the user ID and terminal No. to the management server 10 through the output control means 1003, and asks for usage permission.
Next, when use permission is obtained from the management server 10 through the input control means 1002, the management server 10 is requested for information such as an address and a password necessary for transferring digital data such as moving images and audio to the data server. .
At this time, the management server 10 responds with the address, password, etc. of the data server corresponding to the requesting terminal No. according to the table shown in FIG.
Next, when the information necessary for transferring the digital data from the management server 10 to the data server is obtained through the input control means 1002, the control means 1001 displays the image displayed in the document, as shown in FIG. The digital data associated with a specific part of the document is transferred from the management server 10 to the designated data server.
Next, the digital data transferred to the data server and the URL of the destination data server are associated with each other as shown in FIG.
Next, the control means 1001 converts the document being displayed into an HTML document. At that time, as shown in FIG. 7, before transferring to the data server, the image, the moving image, etc. are changed from the format referring to the digital data stored in the storage means 1006 to the format referred to by the hyperlink tag using the URL of the data server. Convert.
Next, the control unit 1001 sets the document converted into the HTML format on the clipboard 1004.
In the case where the data server 20 is a rental server rented by the user or a home server prepared by the user, the operation of inquiring the address of the data server to the management server may be omitted.
Next, the terminal user pastes an HTML document stored in the clipboard 1004 in the blog registration area of the browser 1007 that has been activated in advance, fills in a title, and transfers it to the blog server.
As described above, a document in which a specific part of the document is associated with an image and digital data such as a moving image or sound is registered in the blog and can be published.

Next, in the present embodiment, an operation when there is a portion that cannot be displayed in the HTML format, such as a mathematical expression, in the text will be described below.
First, the control unit 1001 searches for a portion that cannot be displayed in HTML, such as a mathematical formula, and specifies the smallest rectangle that includes the portion. Next, the specified rectangular portion is converted into an image, and an image file is given a name different from that of other files and stored in the storage unit 1006. Then, the specified rectangular portion and the image file name are associated with each other, and thereafter, the operation shown in the above [0007] is performed, so that sentences including mathematical formulas can be posted on the blog.

Next, an operation for performing a recovery when an image transferred as a result of a failure of the data server and a file such as a moving image or an audio file in this embodiment is destroyed will be described below.
Since the file name of the digital data stored in the storage unit 1006 is stored in association with the file name of the data server that sent the digital data, the control unit 1001 controls the data server that sent the digital data. I can know.
Therefore, the control means 1001 provides a list of file names of digital data stored therein to the data server to which the digital data has been sent from the terminal 100 periodically or according to the instruction of the user of the terminal. If the request is to be transferred, the control unit 1001 matches the list of digital data file names stored in the storage unit 1006 with the list of digital data file names transferred from the data server on the terminal side. If the file name that should have been sent to is not found in the file name list on the data server side, the digital data of that file name is lost, and the digital data is transferred to the data server again.

Today, blogs have become the most powerful personal information transmission tools in history. Not only that, blogs have also been used for word-of-mouth sales promotion in the sale of products in companies. According to the present invention, a blog can be registered in a blog by easily associating a part of the blog with a multimedia file such as a moving picture, sound, music, etc., not just a text or image.
Therefore, the blog viewer can display the associated video by clicking the associated part, etc., and can play voice and music, so it will become a more impressive blog and increase the number of viewers of the blog Can do.

  It is a block diagram which shows the structure of embodiment in this invention.   It is a block diagram which shows the connection method to the internet of the terminal and server in the embodiment.   It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the terminal in the same embodiment.   5 is a correspondence table between a specific part of a document and a file in the embodiment.   4 is a correspondence table of terminal groups and servers assigned thereto in the embodiment.   4 is a correspondence table between data transfer destinations and transferred files in the embodiment.   It is the conversion method of the relation between the specific part of the document and the file in the embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

10, 11 ... Management server 20, 21 ... Data server 30 ... Blog server 100, 101, 200 ... Terminal 1002 ... Input means 1003 ... Output means 1004 ... Clipboard 1005, 1006 ... Memory means 1007 ... Browser

Claims (6)

  Create a sentence on a terminal such as a personal computer connected to the Internet, capture an image in a document, display it, and associate digital data such as images, videos, sounds, and music with specific parts of the sentence. Data that connects the digital data associated with the image displayed in the document or a specific part in the document to a data server on the Internet designated in advance or a local area net to which the terminal is connected in a composite document creation program And transferring the digital data transferred to the data server to the terminal via the Internet, and holding an address called URL associated with the digital data in the sentence, and further storing the document. HT available on the Internet Converted into an HTML document of a format determined by a standard such as L, and the digital data associated with an image displayed in the document and a specific part of the document is defined in HTML using the URL from the data server A step of directly referencing with a hyperlink, and writing the HTML document into a storage area called a clipboard which can be read by another program operating in parallel on the terminal. And registering the HTML document written in the blog by pasting the HTML document written on the blog registration screen displayed on the Internet browser operating in parallel with the compound document creating program. And how to register on the blog.   When the user ID is input to the terminal in advance, and when the digital data is transferred to the data server, first, the user identification ID is transferred to a management server connected to the Internet storing user management information. The compound document creation method and the blog registration method according to claim 1, further comprising: obtaining permission to transfer the digital data to the data server.   In the management server, users are grouped into a certain number, and different data servers are allocated to each group, and when the identification ID of the user is transferred from the terminal, the address of the allocated data server and 3. The compound document creating method and the blog registration method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of returning information such as a password to the terminal.   In the compound document creation program, when the created document includes a part that cannot be expressed in an HTML document, such as a mathematical expression or a deformed character, the part has a step of converting the part into an image format such as JPEG or GIF that can be disclosed to the Internet. The composite document creation method and the blog registration method according to claim 1, claim 2, and claim 3.   If there is no response from the management server for a certain period of time after inquiring the permission to transfer the digital data such as the moving image to the data server and its address and password to the management server, an alternative management server 5. A method for creating a compound document and a method for registering in a blog according to claim 1, 2, 3, 4 and 4, further comprising the step of inquiring permission, address, etc.   When transferring the digital data such as the moving image to the data server, the digital data is associated with a transfer destination server and stored in an external storage device of the terminal. The digital data associated with the failed server stored in the external storage device of the terminal after the server recovery is transferred to the server when the stored digital data is lost. The compound document creation method and the blog registration method according to claim 1, claim 2, claim 3, claim 4, and claim 5.

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