JP2003186786A - Internet display system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an Internet display system by which a person who wants to provide information may inexpensively notify the place of the information and also a person who wants to find information may easily perform access to the information. <P>SOLUTION: Data transfer devices 101-1, 102-1, 103-1 and 104-1 are attached to terminal systems such as computers 101 and 102, a PDA 103 and a portable telephone 104 which are connectable to the Internet. A URL recorded in a storage medium such as a card is read by the data transfer device and transferred to the terminal system and, then, a server computer 100 performs access to it. A jump is given to the home page of the URL read from the storage medium in the server computer 100, and the terminal system displays the page. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an internet display system, and more particularly to an internet display system for displaying information such as a home page on a computer connected to the internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, the Internet can be connected by using a terminal device such as a personal computer, a mobile phone or a PDA. When the home page information is displayed by these terminal devices, the URL of the home page is input to the address field of the browser by using, for example, a keyboard. Also, by inputting a keyword to search for a desired home page on the search site or clicking on a banner advertisement registered on the portal site, the target home page is displayed on the information display section of the terminal device.

Further, a person who intends to provide information such as business contents and advertisements of the company through the Internet may be registered in a search site or may issue a banner advertisement in order to inform the existence of his / her homepage. ing.

[0004]

However, for those who want to access the target information, the URL
It is troublesome to enter and search on the search site. In particular, when using an extremely small keyboard such as a mobile phone or PDA, it is difficult to input the URL. Further, when a keyword is input on a search site to search for desired information, a plurality of websites are often searched, and the required
It takes a lot of time to select a site. Furthermore, if the URL of the selected website is registered in a mobile phone, a computer, etc., it is possible to easily access the desired website, but it takes time to register the URL, and the number of registrations on the mobile phone also increases. There is a limit. In addition, it is not certain for the person who wants to provide the information whether or not the information is registered on the search site, and the banner advertisement requires a large cost.

Therefore, the main object of the present invention is that the person who wants to provide information can inform the location of the information at low cost, and the person who seeks the information can easily access the information on the Internet. It is to provide a display system.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to a terminal device capable of connecting to the Internet and having a function of accessing a specific address in response to receiving specific data, and information specific to the terminal device. A data transfer device for transferring data related to the above, and a specific information is displayed on a display device connected to the Internet, which has a specific address and responds to the data related to the specific information sent from the terminal device. Including a server computer for
It is an internet display system. In such an internet display system, the display device can be the same as the above-mentioned terminal device. The display device may be a display device different from the above-mentioned terminal device. Further, the data transfer device may include a reading device for reading the data regarding the specific information from the recording medium on which the data regarding the specific information is recorded. Further, the data transfer device may transfer the data regarding the specific information received by the broadcast receiving device to the terminal device. A business card can be used as the recording medium, and the server computer to which the data regarding the specific information recorded on the business card is sent can manage the data regarding the business card. further,
The server computer may be able to manage data regarding access from the terminal device.

When data relating to specific information is sent from the data transfer device, the terminal device accesses a server computer having a specific address. Further, in the server computer, based on the sent specific data, a jump is made to a specific information source, and the information is displayed on a display device connected to the Internet. Therefore,
The data relating to the specific information transferred from the data transfer device is always processed by the specific server computer. The display device for displaying the specific information may be a terminal device that has sent data to a specific server computer, or may be another display device. Data relating to specific information can be displayed on a business card, card, ticket, etc., as a bar code, magnetically recorded, or recorded on an IC chip or the like. In this case, it is provided in the data transfer device. The data is read by the data reader. Further, the data transfer device may be attached to a broadcast receiving device such as a television and transfer the received data to the terminal device. Further, when data is displayed on a business card, management data may be put in the business card so that when the server computer is accessed, the management can be performed on the server computer based on the data recorded on the business card. . Further, the server computer may be made to be able to manage data such as the number of accesses and the access time zone.

The above objects, other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the embodiments of the invention with reference to the drawings.

[0009]

1 is an illustrative view showing an example of an Internet display system of the present invention. The internet display system 10 includes a server computer 100 having a particular address. Server computer 10
0 is connected to the Internet. Further, the Internet display system 10 includes a desktop computer 101, a notebook computer 102, and a PDA 10.
3, a terminal device such as a mobile phone 104 that can be connected to the Internet and has a display unit such as a display is included. Furthermore, the Internet display system 10 includes
A display device such as the television 106 is also included if it can be connected to the Internet.

A data transfer device is attached to a terminal device connectable to the Internet. For example, desktop computer 101, notebook computer 1
02, PDA 103, and mobile phone 104 have data transfer devices 101-1, 102-1, 103-1, and 1 respectively.
04-1 is attached. As these data transfer devices, for example, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, a mouse type data transfer device can be used. In the data transfer device, a data reading device 2001 is formed by, for example, an LED and a photodiode. The data read by the data reading device 2001 is stored in the amplifier 200.
The signal is amplified by 2 and converted into a digital signal by the A / D converter 2003. The data converted to digital signal is CP
It is processed in U2004 and transferred via the USB terminal of the computer.

This data transfer device is used to read information from a storage medium 105-1 in which information indicating the URL of a particular homepage is recorded, as shown at 105 in FIG. In this case, the information indicating the URL is
For example, it is recorded as a barcode. As the storage medium, as shown in FIG. 7, a card, a ticket, a direct mail, an advertisement, a product tag, a business card, a code sticker attached to a can juice, etc. are exemplified, but any code can be optically read. Anything can be recorded.

The bar code recorded on the storage medium is irradiated with light from the LED of the data reader 2001, and the reflected light is detected by the photodiode. In this way, the code recorded in the storage medium is read and transferred from the data transfer device 2001 to, for example, the desktop computer 101. The storage medium may be a magnetically recorded card, an IC card, or the like. In this case, the configuration of the data reading device 2001 may be changed depending on the type of storage medium.

A program for accessing the server computer 100 having a specific address when data relating to specific information is received from the data transfer apparatus 101-1 is installed in advance in the desktop computer 101 which receives the data. Then, in the desktop computer 101 that has received the data from the data transfer device 101-1, the browser is activated and the server computer 100 having a specific address is accessed. Then, the URL indicating the home page transferred from the data transfer device 101-1 is sent to the server computer 100. A flowchart showing the operation of the data transfer device is shown in FIG.

When the terminal device is a mobile phone other than a computer, the data relating to the address of the server computer 101 can be input to the mobile phone 104 by a serial signal from the data transfer device 104-1. Therefore, the CPU 2004 of the data transfer device 104-1
Instructs the mobile phone 104 to input the address of the server computer 100, and then gives the URL read from a card or the like to the mobile phone 104 to give an instruction.
The desired information can be displayed on.

The server computer 100 accessed from the desktop computer 101 includes an input / output control device 5001 such as a CPU as shown in FIG. The server computer 100 also stores necessary programs. For example, the server computer 100 shown in FIG. 5 has a URL program storage unit 5002, an access data program storage unit 5003, a jump program storage unit 5005, a database management program storage unit 5006, and the like.

The URL program is used to process the URL sent from the accessed computer. Further, the access data program is used to manage the number of times of access and the time zone.
Further, the jump program is used to jump to the home page of the URL requested by the accessing computer. The database management program is also used to manage whether or not there is data that meets the request from the computer that has accessed.

Further, in the server computer 100,
Required database storage is provided. For example, the server computer 100 shown in FIG. 5 has an access database 5004 and a URL database 5007. The access database 5004 stores data such as the number of times of access and access time zone. Further, in the URL database 5007, data relating to homepages of companies or the like who intend to provide information such as advertisements using the Internet display system 10 is stored.

In the server computer 100, as shown in step 6001 of FIG. 6, the input / output control device 5001.
It is determined whether or not there was access. When there is an access, as shown in step 6002, the URL-related data sent from the desktop computer 101 is read. And step 600
2, the database management program storage unit 500
The program stored in 6 searches the URL database 5007 for the requested URL.

As a result of the search, if there is no data in step 6004, the fact is sent to the accessing desktop computer 101. Then, in step 6005, the desktop computer 10
It is displayed that there is no data in 1. Step 6004
If data is found at step 6006
Then, the program stored in the access data program storage unit 5003 operates to collect data such as the number of accesses from the desktop computer 101 and the access time zone. Then, in step 6007, the collected data is the access database 500.
Written to 4.

Next, in step 6008, the URL
Information regarding the specified URL is read from the database 5007. Then, in step 6009, the program stored in the jump program storage section 5005 is activated to jump to the home page requested by the desktop computer 101. As a result, the information about the data read from the storage medium 105-1 is displayed on the desktop computer 101.

In this Internet display system 10, for example, the administrator of the server computer 100 distributes the data reading device to the user such as the desktop computer 101. Then, a company that intends to provide information such as advertisements using the Internet display system 10 registers information about its homepage in the server computer 100. The data is stored in the URL database 5007.

Further, the company that has registered the data creates an advertising card, a leaflet, etc., and displays the information such as the URL of its own home page as a code. By distributing these cards and leaflets, the user of the desktop computer 101 etc.
RL is available. Therefore, the user of the desktop computer 101 or the like can automatically access the server computer 100 by using the data transfer device 101-1 to read the barcode from the distributed card or the like.

The server computer 100 searches whether or not there is data corresponding to the requested URL. If there is data, the server computer 100 jumps to the homepage and displays the homepage on the desktop computer 101. At this time, the server computer 100 accumulates data such as the number of times of access from the desktop computer 101 and the time period of access. This data is transferred to a computer such as the company that requested the advertisement and can be used by the company to analyze the effect of the advertisement and the like.

Further, in the case of a homepage for notifying the business contents of the company, the URL of the homepage
Data is encoded and printed on a business card or the like. At this time, the data printed on the business card may include data unique to each business card, such as a serial number.

The person who receives the business card reads the business card data with the data transfer device 101-1 to see the business contents of the company, and the desktop computer 101
The data is sent to the server computer 100 by transferring the data to the server computer 100. In this case, the server computer 1
In 00, a business card management program is installed, a home page is displayed on the desktop computer 101, and which business card is printed is analyzed. Then, which business card data is accessed is sent to the computer of the company that has the home page.

In a company having a home page, by inputting to a computer which business card was given to whom, it is possible to know from the data from the server computer 100 who was accessed.
Therefore, by using this system, the home page can be easily introduced to the customer and the customer can be managed.

Further, if there is any agreement between the operator of the server computer 100 and the owner of the television 106 or the like connected to the Internet, the sender who sent the data from the desktop computer 101 and the data. TV 10 with information displayed by
The owner of 6 may be different. For example, the operator of the server computer 100 is a cable television company, and the owner of the television 106 is a customer who contracts with the cable television company.

In this case, as shown in FIG. 8, a company that wants to display information such as advertisements on the customer's television 106 purchases an advertising ticket from the cable television company.
Then, the data displayed on the advertisement ticket is read by the data transfer device 101-1 and the data is sent from the desktop computer 101 to the server computer 100, whereby the information can be displayed on the television 106 of the customer.

Further, the data transfer device may be a device which is built in or externally attached to a television, a radio or the like and transfers data to a device such as a mobile phone connectable to the Internet. As a data transfer method, for example, as shown in FIG. 9, a transmitter can be built in the data transfer device side, a receiver can be connected to a mobile phone or the like, and data can be transferred by radio waves. Of course, you may transfer data using infrared rays etc.

In this case, the radio wave transmitted from the broadcasting station contains information. For example, if the data of the home page including the information about the product introduced in the television broadcast is included in the radio wave, the data is transferred to the mobile phone or the like, and the server computer 100 can be displayed only by pressing the switch of the mobile phone. Can be accessed. Then, the server computer 100 jumps to the home page of the requested data and displays the home page information on the mobile phone that has accessed.

As described above, when detailed information about a product broadcast on television or radio is required or when it is desired to order the product, the information can be easily obtained by using this system. it can.

As described above, if this Internet display system is used, a person who wants to obtain information does not need to input the URL of the target homepage, and does not need to search for it on the search site. In addition, a person who wants to provide information does not need to put out a banner advertisement or the like, and data such as a home page can be inexpensively distributed by using a card, a leaflet or the like. In this case, not only the data on the card or the like but also what kind of information is included in the home page to be accessed is displayed by means of figures or characters. Therefore, a person who wants to obtain information can know what kind of information can be obtained by looking at the card.

Further, if this system is used, even when the homepages of different companies are viewed, the particular server computer will be accessed without fail. Therefore, the server computer can manage the data about the accessing person. Therefore,
A person who wants to provide information using this Internet display system can receive various information from the administrator of the server computer, such as access management and business card management. Moreover, the server computer administrator distributes the data transfer device, so that many other information providers can notify the location of the information only by distributing the card, the leaflet or the like.

[0034]

According to the present invention, a person who wants to obtain information through the Internet does not need to input a URL using a keyboard or the like, and a person who wants to provide information can obtain the information at an inexpensive cost. Can inform you of a certain place. Further, a person who wants to obtain information by using this system always accesses a specific server computer, so that various data can be easily managed. Furthermore, if this system is used, information can be obtained only by the person who owns the storage medium on which the data is displayed, so a simple closed network where only a specific person can obtain the information can be formed. You can

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an illustrative view showing one example of an internet display system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an illustrative view showing one example of a data transfer device used in the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flow diagram when data is transferred by the data transfer device.

FIG. 4 is an illustrative view showing one example of an external appearance of the data transfer device shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is an illustrative view showing one example of a configuration of a server computer.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the server computer.

FIG. 7 is an illustrative view showing one example of a storage medium used in the data transfer system of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an illustrative view showing one example of a system for displaying information on a plurality of televisions.

FIG. 9 is an illustrative view showing one example of a system for accessing information based on data received by a broadcast receiving device.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Internet display system 101 desktop computer 101-1 Data transfer device 102 notebook computer 102-1 Data transfer device 103 PDA 103-1 Data transfer device 104 mobile phone 104-1 data transfer device 105 Storage medium and data transfer device 105-1 storage medium 106 TV

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A terminal device that is connectable to the Internet and has a function of accessing a specific address in response to receiving data related to the specific information, and transferring the data related to the specific information to the terminal device. A data transfer device for displaying the specific information on a display device having the specific address and connected to the Internet in response to the transmission of the data related to the specific information from the terminal device. Internet display system, including a server computer for. 2. The Internet display system according to claim 1, wherein the display device is the same as the terminal device. 3. The Internet display system according to claim 1, wherein the display device is a display device different from the terminal device. 4. The data transfer device according to claim 1, further comprising a reading device for reading data regarding the specific information from a recording medium on which data regarding the specific information is recorded. Internet display system described. 5. The Internet display system according to claim 1, wherein the data transfer device transfers data regarding the specific information received by a broadcast receiving device to the terminal device. 6. The data regarding the business card is managed in the server computer to which the recording medium is a business card, and the data regarding the specific information recorded on the business card is sent. Internet display system. 7. The Internet display system according to claim 1, wherein data relating to access from the device is managed in the server computer.