JPH10171818A - Communication control device and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Problem] To provide a communication control device and a storage medium that can easily edit and save data when data is received via a communication network. SOLUTION: A CPU 2 executes a data search process to execute an HT including a URL address of a designated homepage.
When the ML text data is received via the communication port 5, the names (character data) included in the received HTML text data are displayed on the display screen of the display device 6 as a list of homepages. When specified, the URL address is extracted from the HTML text data including the specified name, a URL collection file in which the specified name is associated with the extracted URL address is created, and stored in the RAM 4. , URL
A genre-specific database in which the URL addresses and names of the collection files are classified by genre is created and stored in the RAM 4.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication control device and a storage medium, and more particularly, to a communication control device and a storage medium for receiving data via a communication network and editing received data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, communication networks such as the Internet using the TCP / IP protocol have become widespread. The Internet is a computer network capable of freely transmitting and receiving data between computers.

[0003] In the Internet, a server that provides information provides a homepage that provides a brief introduction of the information, and the Internet users browse the homepage widely. This homepage is the cover of the whole information as a book.

[0004]

However, Internet users have to use a viewer such as a WWW (World Wide Web) browser to extract the address (URL) of a homepage they like and save / edit the data as data. Has to access the page once, and must edit and register one by one, so that there is a problem that the operation is troublesome.

In other words, if the Internet user does not access the page, the URL (Uniform Resource
urce Locator) There is a problem that data cannot be determined. In addition, since individual pages are edited, in the Internet, etc., where charging by connection time is mainstream,
There is a problem that if a large amount of time is required for editing, the fee increases.

An object of the present invention is to provide a communication control device and a storage medium that can easily edit and save data when receiving the data via a communication network.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication control apparatus for receiving data including address data via a communication network. Display control means for displaying on a display screen, designating means for designating arbitrary information in information displayed on the display screen, and address data for extracting address data from received data corresponding to the designated information The object is achieved by providing extraction means and control means for storing the address data extracted by the address data extraction means in a storage means.

That is, according to the first aspect of the present invention, in a communication control device for receiving data including address data via a communication network, the display control means displays information corresponding to the received data on a display screen. Display, the specifying means specifies any information in the information displayed on the display screen, and the address data extracting means extracts the address data from the received data corresponding to the specified information,
The control means is configured to store the address data extracted by the address data extraction means in the storage means.

Therefore, when data including address data is received, the address data is extracted by designating it on the display screen. Therefore, when data including address data is received, a plurality of address data are transmitted at one time. Registration becomes possible, so that the time and fee required for data communication can be saved, and the usability of the operator is improved.

In this case, the control means stores the address data extracted by the address data extraction means in the storage means as a database classified according to attributes. It is good.

Therefore, since the database is created by classifying the extracted address data according to the attribute, it is possible to edit a plurality of address data at a time in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 1. This has the effect of being possible.

[0012] In this case, as in the invention according to claim 3, the specifying means specifies an arbitrary display range for information corresponding to the received data displayed on the display screen, and specifies the display range. The address data included in the reception data corresponding to the information included in the display range may be collectively designated.

Therefore, in addition to the effect of the first or second aspect of the present invention, since the display range is specified and the address data is collectively specified, the address data to be extracted can be easily specified. It becomes possible.

[0014] In this case, the communication network may be the Internet. Therefore, in addition to the effect of the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 3, it becomes possible to register the address data of the data received via the Internet at one time.

In this case, the received data may be HTML text data, and the address data may be URL data.

Therefore, in addition to the effects of the invention described in any one of claims 1 to 4, it becomes possible to extract URL data from the received HTML text data.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable program code for displaying information corresponding to received data on a display screen in a storage medium storing a computer-executable program;
Among the information displayed on the display screen, a computer-readable program code for designating arbitrary information and a computer-readable program for extracting address data from received data corresponding to the designated information are provided. The object is achieved by providing a program code that can be used and a computer-readable program code for storing the address data extracted by the address data extracting means in a storage means.

That is, according to the invention of claim 6, by executing a program stored in a storage medium by a computer, when data including address data is received, a plurality of address data are registered at once. This makes it possible to save time and charges required for data communication, thereby improving the usability of the operator.

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a main configuration of a computer system to which a communication control device according to the present invention is applied.

The computer system 1 shown in FIG.
For example, it comprises a CPU 2, an input device 3, a RAM 4, a communication port 5, a display device 6, a printing device 7, a storage device 8, and a storage medium 9.

The CPU 2 is input from the input device 3, an application program designated from a window system program as a GUI stored in the storage medium 9 of the storage device 8 and various application programs corresponding to the window system. Various instructions or data are stored in a work memory in the RAM 4, various processes are executed in accordance with the application programs stored in the RAM 4 in accordance with the input instructions and the input data, and the processing results are stored in the work memory in the RAM 4. , On the display device 6. Then, the processing result stored in the work memory is stored in the storage destination of the storage medium 9 in the storage device 8 which is instructed to be input from the input device 3.

Further, the CPU 2 executes a data search process (see FIGS. 8 and 9), which will be described later, and receives HTML text data including the URL address of the specified homepage via the communication port 5, and receives the received HTML. The names (character data) included in the text data (see FIG. 4) are displayed on the display screen of the display device 6 as a homepage list (see FIG. 3). When the name displayed on the display screen is designated by a mouse or the like (see FIG. 5), the CPU 2 extracts a URL address from the HTML text data including the designated name, and extracts the URL address as the designated name. URL collection file (FIG. 6
) And store it in the RAM 4. Further, a genre-specific database (see FIG. 7) in which URL addresses and names of URL collection files are categorized by genre is created and R
Store it in AM4.

The input device 3 includes a keyboard having cursor keys, numeric input keys, various function keys, and the like, and a mouse as a pointing device. The input device 3 outputs a key press signal of the keyboard to the CPU 2. And outputs an operation signal from the mouse to the CPU 2.

The RAM (Random Access Memory) 4
It is used as a work area for storing designated application programs, input instructions, input data, processing results, and the like, and has a memory configuration as shown in FIG. 2, for example.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a memory configuration example of the RAM 4. FIG.
As shown in the figure, the RAM 4 stores HTML (Hyper Text Marku).
HTML text data memory A for storing HTML text data created in
orm Resource Locator) UR that stores text data
L text data memory 4B, text memory 4C for storing text data, U for storing URL file
RL collection file storage area 4D, genre database storage area 4E for storing genre database, and the like.

FIG. 4 shows the HT in the RAM 4 shown in FIG.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a data configuration example of HTML text data stored in an ML text data memory 4A. In the example shown in FIG. 4, <A HR is used as HTML text data.
EF = “http://www.suzuki.co.
jp "> Suzuki Shoten </A> etc. Here, http is Hypertext Transfer Protocol
l: Indicates the hypertext transfer protocol.

FIG. 6 shows the UR in the RAM 4 shown in FIG.
It is a figure showing the example of data composition of the URL collection file stored in L collection file storage area 4D. The URL collection file is configured by associating a name with a URL address, and in the example shown in FIG. 6, “Suzuki Shoten”, “Sato Construction”,. "" Http: // www. suzuki. co.
jp / "," http: // www. satou. c
o. jp / "... correspond.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure of a genre-specific database stored in the genre-specific database storage area 4E in the RAM 4 shown in FIG. The genre database contains the URL collection file name and UR
In the example shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B, L addresses are classified into genres and compiled into a database.
The URL collection file shown in FIG. 1 is classified into a store genre and a construction genre.

The communication port 5 is connected to the Internet and connects to a telephone line via a modem to transmit and receive data.

The display device 6 is a CRT (Cathode Ray Tub).
e) and the like, and displays the display data input from the CPU 2 in a designated color. The printing device 7 has a CPU
The print data input from step 2 is printed out in a designated color.

The storage device 8 has a storage medium 9 in which programs, data and the like are stored in advance, and this storage medium 9 is constituted by a magnetic or optical recording medium or a semiconductor memory. The storage medium 9 is fixedly provided in the storage device 8 or is removably mounted. The storage medium 9 includes a window system program as the GUI and various application programs ( WWW browser), a print processing program, and data processed by each processing program.

The program, data, and the like stored in the storage medium 9 may be configured to be received and stored from another device connected through a communication line or the like. The storage medium 9 is stored in another connected device.
May be provided, and a program and data stored in the storage medium may be used via a communication line.

Next, the operation will be described. FIG. 8 shows the CP
It is a flowchart for demonstrating the data search process performed by control of U2. FIG. 9 shows the U
It is a flowchart for demonstrating RL collection creation processing (step S10) in detail. The program for realizing each function described in the flowcharts of FIGS.
Are stored in the storage medium 9 in the form of readable program codes.

Hereinafter, FIGS. 3 to 7 will be described with reference to FIGS.
The data search process executed under the control of the CPU 2 will be described with reference to FIG. In the data search processing described below, an operation of searching for URL data (address data) when HTML text data of the Internet, which is performed using the TCP / IP protocol, is received will be described.

It is assumed that power-on and initialization have already been completed before the data search process shown in FIG. 8 is executed. In FIG. 8, first, in step S1, the CPU 2 receives HTML text data including a plurality of URL address data of a designated homepage via the communication port 5, and receives the HTML text data including the plurality of received URL data. WWW is displayed on the display screen of the display device 6 by using a plurality of names as “homepage list”.
The information is displayed according to the browser (step S1). here,
For example, as shown in FIG. 3, "Suzuki Shoten", "Sato Construction", "Takahashi Cosmetic Store", "Inoue Liquor Store", and "Ikeda Shoten" are displayed in the "homepage list".

Next, in order to designate a plurality of URL data, the name of the “homepage list” is selected by designating a range by operating the mouse or keyboard of the input device 3. Here, for example, in the example shown in FIG.
Among them, "Suzuki Shoten", "Sato Construction", "Takahashi Cosmetic Store", "Inoue Liquor Store", and "Ikeda Shoten" are selected.
FIG. 5 shows that the inside of the dashed line is selected.

Next, the specified HTML text data is stored in the HTML text data memory 4 in the RAM 4.
A is stored (step S3).

Then, the tag "<A" in the HTML text data is searched to find out where the URL data starts (step S4). As a result of the search (step S5), if there is no tag data “<A”, the process proceeds to step S4, while the tag data “<A”.
If there is, the process proceeds to step S6. Step S
In step 6, "HREF =""in the tag data"<A"is searched. As a result of the search (step S7), the tag data “<
If “HREF =” ”does not exist in“ A ”, step S
4 while “HREF” is included in the tag data “<A”.
If it is detected that there is == "", the process proceeds to step S8. In step S8, the URL data enclosed by "" is stored in the URL text data memory 4B in the RAM 4, and the character data (name) enclosed by the <A> tag is used as editing data in the text storage memory in the RAM 4. 4C.

Subsequently, it is determined whether or not the HTML text data has been completed (step S9). If it is determined that the HTML text data has not been completed, the process proceeds to step S4 to repeat the same processing. , When the HTML data is completed, the process proceeds to step S10,
In detail, a URL collection creation process described later with reference to FIG. 9 is executed, a URL collection is created using the URL text data stored in the URL text data memory 4B in the RAM 4, and the URL collection file storage area 4D is created. Stored in
The reception data editing process ends.

Next, the URL collection creation processing (step S10) in FIG. 8 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 9, the character data stored in the text storage memory 4C in the RAM 4 is transferred to the UR in the RAM 4.
It is stored in the name area of the L collection file storage area 4D (step S11). Next, the URL data stored in the URL text data memory 4B is stored in the URL address area of the URL collection file storage area 4D (step S).
12). Here, for example, as shown in FIG. 6, in the name area of the URL file, "Suzuki Shoten", "Sato Construction",
.. Are stored in the URL address area in association with the name, “http: //www.suzuk”.
i. co. jp / "," http: // www. sat
ou. co. jp / "... are stored.

Then, it is determined whether or not the creation of the URL collection has been completed (step S13). If the creation of the URL collection file has not been completed, the process proceeds to step S11.
When the same processing is repeatedly executed and the creation of the URL collection file is completed, the process proceeds to step S14, and the URL
The name of the collection file and the URL address are classified by genre, a genre-specific database is created, and stored in the genre-specific database storage area 4E in the RAM 4. Specifically, for example, the URL collection file shown in FIG. 6 is classified into a store genre and a construction genre, and
A database of a shop genre and a construction genre as shown in (A) and (B) is created and stored in the genre database storage area 4E in the RAM 4. More specifically, the database of the store genre shown in FIG.
The URL address “http: //www.s
uzuki. co. jp / "," http: // www
w. kondo. co. .. are stored in association with each other, and the database of the construction genre shown in FIG. The address "http: //
/ Www. sato. co. jp / "," http: //
/ Www. maeda. co. jp / "... are stored in association with each other.

As described above, in the above-described embodiment, the H including the URL address is transmitted via the Internet.
The display device 6 receives the TML text data and displays a list of names (character data) in the received HTML text data.
When the name displayed on the display screen is designated by a mouse or the like, the HTML including the designated name is displayed.
A URL that extracts a URL address from text data and associates the specified name with the extracted URL address
Since the configuration is such that a collection file is created and stored in the RAM 4, it is possible to create a URL address list by a simple method and in a short time.

In the above-described embodiment, a genre-based database in which URL collection files are categorized by genre is created and stored in the RAM 4.
It is possible to edit and save data.

In the names displayed on the display screen,
Since a desired display range is specified and URL addresses corresponding to names included in the specified display range are collectively specified and extracted, the URL address can be efficiently extracted by a simple method. It is possible to do.

In the above embodiment, the U to be edited
The RL data is only text data surrounded by <A> tags, but the present invention is not limited to this.
*. gif, *. image data such as jpeg and *. wa
v, *. A similar process may be performed on audio data such as aug.

Although a mouse, a keyboard and the like are used as the means for specifying the range of the URL data, a touch panel type pointing device may be used.

When searching for URL data, <A
> After searching for a tag, "HREF =""
Although the processing has been described using the order of searching for “.”, The character code of “HREF =“ ”may be searched first, and it may be configured to check whether an <A> tag exists before and after the character code.

Also, a method is used in which a range in which a plurality of pieces of URL data in HTML text data is described is specified and edited. However, even if the range is not specified, all of the URL data in the page can be used. May be automatically extracted and a similar process may be executed.

Also, HTML text data including a URL address is received via the Internet,
Although the process of extracting the L address has been described, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, E-mal
If you receive an email containing your e-mail address,
The present invention can also be applied to the case where an address is extracted. Further, the communication network to be used is not limited to the Internet, and another network service may be used.

[0050]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when data including address data is received, the address data is specified and extracted on the display screen, so that the data including address data is received. In this case, a plurality of address data can be registered at a time, so that the time and charge required for data communication can be saved, and the usability of the operator is improved.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the extracted address data is classified according to the attribute and the database is created, a plurality of address data are added in addition to the effect of the first aspect of the invention. Can be edited at once.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the effects of the first or second aspect of the present invention, a display range is specified,
Since the configuration is such that the address data is collectively specified, it is possible to easily specify the address data to be extracted.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the effects of the first to third aspects, it is also possible to register address data of data received via the Internet at one time. Becomes possible.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the effects of the first to fourth aspects, the HT
It becomes possible to extract URL data from ML text data.

According to the invention of claim 6, according to the invention of claim 6, by executing a program stored in a storage medium by a computer, when data including address data is received, , A plurality of address data can be registered at one time, so that the time and fee required for data communication can be saved, and the usability of the operator is improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a computer system showing an embodiment of a communication control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a memory configuration example of a RAM 4 in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of a homepage list.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a data configuration example of received HTML text data.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example in which a name is selected in a homepage list.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a data configuration example of a URL collection file.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a data configuration example of a genre database.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a data search process executed under the control of the CPU in FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating a URL collection file creation process in the data search process of FIG. 8;

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 computer system 2 CPU 3 input device 4 RAM 4A HTML text data memory 4B URL text data memory 4C text storage memory 4D URL collection file storage area 4E Genre-specific database storage area 5 communication port 6 display device 7 printing device 8 storage device 9 storage Medium

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A communication control device for receiving data including address data via a communication network, comprising: display control means for displaying information corresponding to the received data on a display screen; and information displayed on the display screen. A designation unit for designating arbitrary information; an address data extraction unit for extracting address data from received data corresponding to the designated information; and a storage unit for storing the address data extracted by the address data extraction unit. A communication control device, comprising: control means for storing in a communication device. 2. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein said control means stores the address data extracted by said address data extraction means in said storage means as a database classified according to attributes. . 3. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said designation means designates an arbitrary display range for the information corresponding to the reception data displayed on said display screen, and receives the reception data corresponding to the information included in said designated display range. 3. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein the address data included in the communication control device is collectively specified. 4. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein said communication network is the Internet. 5. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein said received data is HTML data, and said address data is URL data. 6. A storage medium storing a computer-executable program, comprising: a computer-readable program code for displaying information corresponding to received data on a display screen; and displaying the program code on the display screen. Computer-readable program code for specifying any information in the specified information; and computer-readable program code for extracting address data from received data corresponding to the specified information. And a computer readable program code for storing the address data extracted by the address data extracting means in a storage means.