JP2008071330A - Method for contributing moving image from cellular phone and system for contributing moving image - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for contributing a moving image stored in a cellular phone to a Web server with a very simple operation, and a contribution system thereof. <P>SOLUTION: A moving image contribution system at least acquires the serial number of a cellular phone of a user accessing a Web site for user registration for performing user registration as a contributor contributing a moving image, and issues a channel number to become a unique identification information having the predetermined number of digits to the acquired serial number of the cellular phone. When the contributor who has performed the user registration contributes a moving image stored in his or her cellular phone, the moving image contribution system associates the moving image with the channel number issued to the serial number of the cellular phone to transmit to a mail server. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention provides a service for posting a video from a user's mobile phone via the Internet, storing the posted video in a Web server, and distributing the video stored in the Web server to a viewer's mobile phone. In particular, the present invention relates to a moving image posting method and a posting system therefor.

  As mobile phone functions have improved in recent years, and in particular, the communication speed of mobile phones has improved, it has become a common practice to attach moving images including audio captured by mobile phones to emails and send them to family members and friends. It has become. In addition, with the development of information distribution technology using the Internet, a system for providing a service for distributing a moving image file (hereinafter referred to as a moving image) stored in a Web server to a viewer's mobile phone has been put into practical use. Yes.

  As a system for distributing moving images to a viewer's mobile phone using the Internet, for example, inventions described in the following patent documents have been proposed.

  JP 2002-190867 A   JP 2004-222124 A

  Patent Document 1 includes a moving image content storage unit that stores moving image content distributed to a mobile phone and an advertising data storage unit that stores moving image or still image advertising data in a service site that distributes moving image content. As a system provided, a moving image distribution service method has been proposed that distributes moving image content and advertising content to a mobile phone that has made a moving image distribution request by accessing a moving image content distribution service site.

  In Patent Document 2, in response to a video file download request from a mobile phone, the video distribution server determines the model of the mobile phone from which the video file is downloaded, and determines video generation parameters such as the screen size and the number of colors. To do. A moving image distribution server has been proposed that generates a moving image file for download based on the moving image generation parameter and distributes it to a mobile phone that has requested distribution.

  The inventions described in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 relate to a system for distributing a moving image stored on a Web site that provides a moving image distribution service to a mobile phone that has requested distribution. Therefore, it is not a system that uploads and stores (stores) a moving image captured by a mobile phone to a Web server and distributes the moving image stored in the Web server to a mobile phone of a viewer who makes a distribution request.

  As described above, in accordance with recent improvements in performance and functions of mobile phones, moving images captured by the mobile phone are uploaded and stored on the Web server by the owner of the mobile phone, and stored in the Web server. Is expected to be developed and put to practical use in the future as a business. There has already been proposed a system for providing a service for posting a moving image captured by a mobile phone, storing it in a Web server, and distributing the moving image stored in the Web server to a viewer's mobile phone.

  In such a video posting / distribution system in which a video captured by a mobile phone is posted (uploaded) from the mobile phone to a Web server, the video is posted from the mobile phone by a simple operation of the mobile phone. It is important to be able to post by a simple operation of the mobile phone when a poster who has registered as a user repeatedly posts a video.

  Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a video posting system that provides a service for posting a video stored in a mobile phone via the Internet. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of posting a moving image from a mobile phone and a posting system thereof.

The present invention uploads a video posted from a mobile phone of a poster who posts a video to a Web server via a mail server, stores the video, and distributes the video stored in the Web server to the viewer's mobile phone. In the video posting method of the system that performs the service,
Obtaining at least the machine number of the mobile phone from the mobile phone of the user who performs the user registration who has accessed the user registration website to perform user registration as the contributor who posts the video; Issuing a channel number serving as unique identification information having a predetermined number of digits for the obtained body number of the mobile phone;
Posting to the mail server in association with the channel number or the machine number corresponding to the mobile phone, the video stored in the mobile phone of the contributor who performed the user registration;
This is a method for posting a moving image from a mobile phone equipped with.

  Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for posting a moving image from a mobile phone, comprising the step of transmitting the channel number issued in the step of issuing the channel number to the mobile phone having a machine number corresponding to the channel number It is.

In addition, the present invention uploads and stores a video posted from a mobile phone of a poster who posts a video to a Web server via a mail server, and stores the video stored in the Web server as a viewer's mobile phone. In the video posting system that provides the service distributed to
A body number acquisition means for acquiring at least a body number of the mobile phone from the mobile phone of the user who performs the user registration who has accessed the user registration Web site for performing user registration as the contributor who posts the video When,
Channel number issuing means for issuing a channel number serving as unique identification information having a predetermined number of digits for the machine number acquired by the machine number acquisition means;
Video posting support means for posting a video stored in the mobile phone of the poster who performed the user registration to the mail server in association with the channel number or the machine number corresponding to the mobile phone;
This is a video posting system from a mobile phone equipped with.

Furthermore, the present invention uploads and stores a video posted from a mobile phone of a poster who posts a video to a Web server via a mail server, and stores the video stored in the Web server as a viewer's mobile phone. In the video posting system that provides the service distributed to
A body number acquisition means for acquiring at least a body number of the mobile phone from the mobile phone that has accessed a user registration website in order to perform user registration as the contributor who posts the video;
Channel number issuing means for issuing a channel number serving as unique identification information having a predetermined number of digits for the machine number acquired by the machine number acquisition means; and the cellular phone of the poster who has performed the user registration A management server having video posting support means for posting the video stored in the mail server in association with the channel number or the machine number corresponding to the mobile phone;
This is a video posting system from a mobile phone equipped with.

  Furthermore, the present invention provides a moving picture from a mobile phone comprising channel number transmitting means for transmitting the channel number issued by the channel number issuing means to the mobile phone having a machine number corresponding to the channel number. Posting system.

Further, according to the present invention, the management server is at least
The machine number obtained from the mobile phone and the channel number issued by the channel number issuing means for the machine number;
In order to post the video from the mobile phone having the machine number, an address of a destination to which the video is attached to a mail and transmitted to the mail server;
This is a video posting system from a mobile phone provided with a database registered in association with.

  The moving picture posted from the mobile phone is a moving image file such as 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) or 3GPP2 (3rd Generation Partnership Project 2) captured by the mobile phone, and includes audio. May be. Of course, it may be a still image file. In addition to the moving image stored in the memory (storage device) of the mobile phone, these moving images may be moving images stored in the memory card of the mobile phone.

  The above-mentioned video contributor (user) refers to a person who has performed user registration for posting a video from a mobile phone using the system of the present invention, and belongs to companies, various organizations, etc. in addition to individuals. May also be included. Note that the posting described above indicates that a moving image file (hereinafter simply referred to as a moving image) stored in the mobile phone is attached to an e-mail and transmitted to a mail server managed by the system.

  The above-mentioned channel number is a unique identification number made up of about 5 to 12 digits or alphanumeric characters. This channel number is an identification number issued to this mobile phone number for the mobile phone in which the mobile phone's mobile phone number used for posting a moving picture is registered in this system. In the present invention, the channel number is information used to identify a moving image posted from the poster's mobile phone.

The present invention has the following effects.
(1) When a contributor who posts a movie accesses a website for user registration, registers the machine number of the mobile phone and receives a channel number, the video stored in the mobile phone is immediately stored. Can be posted with an extremely simple operation.

(2) A unique channel number is issued for each body number of the contributor's mobile phone that has performed user registration, and this channel number is associated with the video posted by the contributor from the mobile phone, and posted to the distribution server. Is stored in a storage area (URL (Uniform Resource Locator)) associated with this channel number. As a result, the contributor who has registered the mobile phone's machine number can post new videos captured by the mobile phone at any time and repeatedly with a simple operation. You will be able to watch the posted videos.
In addition, since the management server controls the video posting control and the distribution control, the management server can control the plurality of video posting systems.

  Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an example of a system configuration for implementing the system of the present invention.

[System configuration]
In FIG. 1, 1a and 1b perform user registration and each poster's mobile terminal (hereinafter referred to as a mobile phone) that posts a moving image, 2 indicates a server (hereinafter referred to as a reception site) of the reception site of the system, 3 Is a management server, 4 is a mail server, 5 is a stock server, 5a is a terminal device for accessing the stock server 5, 6a and 6b are distribution servers, and 7a and 7b are mobile phones of viewers.

  The reception site 2, management server 3, mail server 4, stock server 5, terminal device 5 a and distribution servers 6 a and 6 b described above are connected to the Internet 8. The user's mobile phones 1a and 1b and the viewer's mobile phones 7a and 7b are connected to the Internet 8 via a ground base station 9 and a server 10 of a mobile phone service company.

  The mobile phones 1a and 1b need to have an Internet connection function, a camera function, and a mail transmission / reception function. As this camera function, in order to exhibit the function of this system more, it is more desirable to have specifications and the like formulated by 3GPP, 3GPP2, etc., and to have a function of capturing and reproducing moving images including sound. In the following description, the mobile phone 1a, 1b will be described as a mobile phone 1a.

  The reception site 2 uses the video posting system to register a user for a user who wants to post a video and acquires attribute information related to the user, and a viewer for the posted video. Has a Web page to access when making a distribution request, and is mainly a user registration site for posting videos using this system and a reception site for viewers to make distribution requests .

  As the attribute information related to the user performing the user registration acquired by the reception site 2 from the user's mobile phones 1a and 1b, at least the machine number of the mobile phone 1a owned by the poster is acquired. In addition to the machine number, the name, address, mail address, mobile phone number, etc. of the contributor are acquired as necessary. Among the acquired attribute information related to the user, specific information is registered in a database provided in the reception site 2 and the management server 3.

  Further, as the Web page for the reception site 2 to accept the distribution request from the viewer's mobile phone 7a, for example, a Web page for searching for a moving image for requesting the distribution request is provided. This search Web page outputs, for example, a posting record list searched from the name of the poster (including company name and nickname), the title name of the movie, the posting date, the field (genre) of the movie, and the like. To do. Then, the viewer can make a distribution request from the list displayed on the mobile phone.

  The management server 3 is an indispensable server in the present system, and is provided to control and execute the posting and distribution of moving images. The management server 3 mainly has the functions described in (1) to (4) below.

  (1) When the contributor accesses the reception site 2 from the mobile phone 1a and performs user registration, the reception site 2 programs the machine number of the mobile phone 1a obtained from the poster's mobile phone 1a. A process of issuing a unique channel number is performed by the process. Then, a process for transmitting the issued channel number to the mobile phone 1a having the machine number that issued the channel number is performed. Thereby, the contributor can confirm that the user registration has been completed for the system.

  (2) The management server 3 is a server that is accessed when a poster posts a video from the mobile phone 1a. Then, when the mobile phone 1a accesses the management server 3 and performs an operation of posting a moving image, the management server 3 performs a process of acquiring the machine number of the mobile phone 1a, and this machine number is registered in the database in advance. A process of confirming whether or not there is is performed.

  (3) Support and control for sending (posting) a moving picture posted by the poster from the mobile phone 1a to the mail server 4 is performed. This posting support is mainly performed by the Web page displayed on the mobile phone 1a by the management server 3. Furthermore, the moving image posted from the mobile phone 1a is processed so as to be posted in association with the channel number issued for the machine number of the mobile phone 1a, and a predetermined storage area of the distribution servers 6a and 6b. (URL), that is, control for storing in the URL associated with the channel number.

  (4) When the viewer's mobile phone 7a accesses the reception site 2 and makes a video distribution request, the distribution server 6a, 6b stores the information related to the distribution instruction from the reception site 2. Control for distributing the moving image to the mobile phone 7a.

  Further, the management server 3 includes various programs and a database (data table) in order to execute the above-described functions. These details will be described later.

  The mail server 4 is a server to which the mail is transmitted when a moving image stored in the user's mobile phone 1a is attached to the mail and posted. The mail server 4 includes a program (mail reception processing program) for performing predetermined processing by performing data communication with the management server 3 when receiving a mail attached with a moving image file from the mobile phone 1a. The moving image file received by the mail server 4 is transmitted to the stock server 5 under the control of the management server 3.

  The stock server 5 is a server that temporarily stores the moving image transmitted from the mail server 4 and performs the processes described in the following (1) to (2) for the moving image transmitted from the mail server 4.

  (1) Whether or not harmful videos that are against public order and morals are posted on the video transmitted from the mail server 4 by the administrator (approval manager) of the system operating the terminal device 5a. Determine. Then, when it is determined that a harmful moving image that is contrary to public order and morals is posted, a process of not storing the moving image in the distribution server 6a is performed. That is, a process that does not accept posting of a harmful moving image is performed.

  (2) For the moving image determined not harmful by the above (1), processing is performed to create a moving image file with an advertising video that combines a moving image composed of advertising information of a company or the like or a still image (advertising video). That is, a moving image file with an advertising video is created that is composed of one moving image file in which the advertising video is combined with the head position, the end position, or the head position and the end position of the posted moving image file. The advertisement video is played back on a mobile phone so that the viewing time is, for example, about 5 to 10 seconds.

  The terminal device 5a described above is composed of a personal computer for accessing the stock server 5, and includes a web browser that is software for accessing the website, software for playing back moving images, and the like.

  In this system, the stock server 5 and the terminal device 5a are not necessarily provided, but the administrator of the system watches whether or not harmful videos that are contrary to public order and morals are posted as described above. It is desirable to provide a means for determining. This is because, as described above, as the communication speed of mobile phones increases in the future, various systems that provide services for distributing moving images captured by mobile phones are expected to spread rapidly, which is contrary to public order and morals. This is because a potentially harmful video may be uploaded.

  Further, as described above, when the video with advertisement video obtained by combining the video posted by the contributor with the video composed of the advertisement information of the company or the like is distributed to the viewer's mobile phone 7a, the administrator side of the system It is possible to obtain compensation from the advertiser for distributing the moving image with the advertisement video. As a result, there is an effect that it is possible to make free a fee for a poster to post a moving image and a fee for a viewer to request distribution of a moving image using this system.

  The distribution servers 6a and 6b are servers for storing a moving image file obtained by combining the advertisement video data by the stock server 5 in a predetermined storage area. When a distribution request is generated via the reception site 2 from the viewer's mobile phone 7a, the management server 3 sends the video stored in the distribution servers 6a and 6b to the viewer's mobile phones 7a and 7b. Control delivery. The predetermined storage area (URL) for storing the moving image file in the distribution servers 6a and 6b is, for example, a URL including a channel number as directory information or a file name by a program provided in the distribution servers 6a and 6b. Process to create.

  When the scale of this system is small, only one distribution server is required. However, when the scale of the system is large, it is desirable that a plurality of distribution servers be provided to store the moving image files in a distributed manner. In the following description, when the distribution servers 6a and 6b are described as a representative, they are described as the distribution server 6a.

  Similarly, as the scale of this system increases, a plurality of reception sites 2, mail servers 4, stock servers 5 and terminal devices 5a are also installed, so that the management server 3 performs overall control of the system. Good.

  The viewer's mobile phones 7a and 7b are terminal devices for accessing the reception site 2 and requesting distribution of moving images. The mobile phones 7a and 7b are required to have an Internet connection function and a function of reproducing moving images such as 3GPP or 3GPP2 format. In the following description, the cellular phone 7a, 7b will be described as a cellular phone 7a when representatively described.

[Software and database configuration]
Next, an outline of software (programs) and databases provided in each server in order to operate this system will be described with reference to FIG. Note that FIG. 2 does not describe basic software (server OS), Web browser, and mail software for operating the server.

  The reception site 2 includes a user registration program P21, a machine number acquisition program P22, a moving image posting situation storage program P23, a distribution request reception program P24, and the like as programs. In addition, as a database, a contributor database D1 (hereinafter referred to as a contributor DB (D1)) and a moving image posting situation accumulation database D2 (hereinafter referred to as a moving image posting situation accumulation DB (D2)) are provided. The programs P21 to P24 are programs that operate when, for example, the Web site 2 clicks on the menu of the homepage of the present system that is published on the Internet 8 for mobile phones, a program that describes a Web page, and a Web page It is comprised from the program which performs a predetermined process about the data acquired via.

  The user registration program P21 is a program for registering a user (contributor) who posts a video using this system, and agrees to user registration by displaying a user registration Web page on the mobile phone 1a. This is a program for acquiring attribute information related to the user from the cellular phone 1a. As attribute information related to the poster (user), at least the machine number of the mobile phone 1a that accessed the reception site 2 by the user is obtained by the machine number acquisition program P22 described later, and further, if necessary, Attribute information such as the user's name, address, and mail address is acquired from the telephone 1a.

Note that the above-described mobile phone body number is unique identification information for identifying each mobile phone, and a number consisting of a predetermined number of digits or a body number consisting of alphanumeric characters when the mobile phone is manufactured. It is stored in the storage device of the mobile phone. When an external device such as a personal computer makes a request for transmission of the machine number to the mobile phone, the mobile phone executes a program for performing processing for transmitting the machine number stored in the storage device to the external device. I have. In this system, using this function of the mobile phone, the machine number acquisition program P22 acquires the machine number of the mobile phone 1a owned by the poster, and uses the acquired machine number as an attribute relating to the poster. A process of registering in the poster DB (D1) as one piece of information is performed.
In the present invention, in a mobile phone equipped with an IC card made of an IC chip, the identification number stored in the IC card may be registered as the machine number.

  Moreover, in this system, you may make it recruit the above-mentioned contributors using an advertisement paper surface. Then, for a contributor who has agreed to post a video using this system, the attribute information such as name, address, e-mail address, etc. related to the contributor is obtained in writing and stored in the contributor DB (D1) in advance. You may make it register. Then, the URL of the reception site for acquiring the machine number of the mobile phone is transmitted to the e-mail address of the user's mobile phone 1a registered as a user, and the user's mobile phone 1a who has completed user registration accesses this URL. Then, you may make it acquire a body number by the body number acquisition program P22 mentioned later.

  The body number acquisition program P22 is a program for acquiring the body number of the mobile phone 1a from the mobile phone 1a owned by the poster who has registered as a user by accessing the reception site 2.

  As a method for obtaining the machine number of the mobile phone 1a, for example, the following method can be employed. The user registration Web page (not shown) of the reception site 2 is linked to a machine number acquisition Web page which is a program for acquiring the machine number of the mobile phone 1a from the accessing mobile phone 1a. To be. The machine number acquisition Web page incorporates a program for reading the machine number stored in the storage device of the accessed mobile phone 1a and transmitting it to the reception site 2. Then, when the machine number is transmitted from the mobile phone 1a, the machine number acquisition program P22 performs a process of registering the acquired machine number in the corresponding column of the contributor DB (D1), and further, the acquired machine body Processing for transmitting the number to the management server 3 is performed. The machine number acquisition Web page and the machine number acquisition program P22 described above serve as a machine number acquisition unit.

  The moving picture posting situation storage program P23 is a program for performing processing for storing history data of a posting of a moving picture in a moving picture posting situation storage database D2 (hereinafter referred to as a moving picture posting situation storage DB (D2)). .

  The distribution request reception program P24 is a program that operates when the viewer's mobile phone 7a accesses the reception site 2 and makes a distribution request for a moving image, and includes various distribution request Web pages. As this distribution request Web page, for example, a search Web page for searching for a moving image for a viewer to request distribution is provided. Then, using this search Web page, if you enter a search term such as the contributor's name (including company name and nickname), video title name, posting date, video field (genre), etc., a distribution request will be accepted. The program P24 performs a process of searching the moving image posting situation accumulation DB (D2) to obtain a channel number related to the corresponding moving image. By transmitting the obtained channel number to the management server 3, the management server 3 performs control to distribute the requested moving image to the mobile phone 7a.

  The contributor DB (D1) is a database in which attribute information related to a contributor who posts a moving image from the mobile phone 1a using this system is registered. FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an example of a data configuration registered in the contributor DB (D1). The contributor DB (D1) is created by the user registration program P21 and is stored in a Web server constituting the reception site 2 or a database dedicated Web server (not shown in FIG. 1).

  As shown in FIG. 3, the contributor DB (D1) includes a contributor name (name or name) a1, a user name a2 serving as the contributor's ID information, a password a3, and the mobile phone 1a owned by the user. The attribute data regarding the number a4, the mail address a5, the channel number a6, the poster's address a7, and the like are registered.

  The moving image posting status accumulation DB (D2) is a database that stores information related to the posted results (history) when a poster posted a moving image from the mobile phone 1a. An example of the data structure of the moving image posting situation storage DB (D2) is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, in the video posting status accumulation DB (D2), in addition to the posting date (including hours and minutes) b1 and the channel number a6, the name of the poster a1 and the video Information on the title name b2, the category b3, etc. is stored.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the management server 3 includes a posting support program P31, a machine number acquisition program P32, a machine number authentication program P33, a channel number issue program P34, a distribution control program P35, a database creation program P36, and the like. . Also, as a database, a post management database D3 (hereinafter referred to as post management DB (D3)), a server management database D4 (hereinafter referred to as server management DB (D4)), a server-specific URL database D5 (hereinafter referred to as server-specific URL DB (D5)). ))), Etc.

  The posting support program P31 is configured by a program for supporting the posting operation of posting a moving picture when the posting person accesses the management server 3 from the mobile phone 1a to post the moving picture. These programs are mainly composed of programs for describing various Web pages to be displayed on the display device of the mobile phone 1a. These various web pages will be described later. With the posting support program P31 and this program, the above-mentioned various Web pages become moving image posting support means.

  The machine number acquisition program P32 is one of the programs included in the posting support program P31, and when the poster accesses the management server 3 from the mobile phone 1a and posts a video, the posting that accessed the management server 3 It is a program for performing the process which acquires the body number of a person's mobile telephone 1a.

  The machine number authentication program P33 is a process for determining whether or not the machine number of the contributor's mobile phone 1a acquired by the machine number acquisition program P32 is registered in advance in the posting management DB (D3), that is, registered as a user. This is a program for authenticating whether or not a legitimate contributor intends to post a moving image using the mobile phone 1 in which the machine number is registered in advance.

The channel number issuing program P34 serving as the channel number issuing means is predetermined for the acquired body number when the body number acquisition program P22 of the receiving site 2 acquires the body number of the poster's cellular phone 1a registered by the user. Is a program for issuing a channel number a6 consisting of a unique identification number having a number of digits.
As described above, this channel number is a unique identification number composed of 5 to 12 digits or alphanumeric characters. The channel number issuing program P34 performs a process of issuing a unique channel number by combining the integer value of the predetermined number of digits generated by the random number generating means and the date and time when the channel number is issued by a logic process. . Further, it is checked whether or not the issued channel number is already registered in the post management DB (D3), and a process of issuing a unique (unique) channel number is always performed.

  When the viewer makes a video distribution request, the viewer accesses the reception site 2 by operating the mobile phone 7a. Then, a search Web page for making a moving image distribution request is operated, and the search result, for example, a list of contributors (user names) is displayed. Subsequently, an operation for designating a contributor who wants to view from the list by key operation is performed. Then, the distribution request reception program P24 of the reception site 2 obtains the channel number a6 stored in the moving image posting situation accumulation DB (D2) for the designated poster and transmits the channel number a6 to the management server 3. To do.

  When the distribution control program P35 of the management server 3 receives the channel number a6 related to the distribution request from the reception site 2, as described above, the distribution server 6a stores the moving image corresponding to the received channel number a6. Control is performed to distribute the moving image to the mobile phone 7a of the viewer who has requested the distribution of the moving image for URL.

  The database creation program P36 is a program for creating a posting management DB (D3), a server management DB (D4), and a server-specific URL DB (D5), which are not shown in FIG. It has a program to do.

  The post management DB (D3) provided in the management server 3 is a database that is referred to when the contributor supports the operation of posting a moving image from the mobile phone 1a and performs processing related to the posting. An example of the data configuration of the post management DB (D3) is shown in FIG.

  The post management DB (D3) has a machine number a4, a channel number a6 issued to the machine number a4, a mail address a5 set in the cellular phone 1a of the poster having the machine number a4, and this machine number. It includes data such as a registration date c1 in which a4 is registered in the posting management DB (D3), and a posting count c2 in which a moving image is posted from the mobile phone 1a having the machine number a4 (or channel number a6). When the contributor performs user registration and acquires the machine number of the mobile phone 1a, a process of storing “0” as the initial value in the posting count c2 is performed.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the server management DB (D4) is a database in which data related to the server classification d2 is registered for each predetermined range d1 of channel numbers issued by the channel number issuing program P34.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the server-specific URL DB (D5) relates to the address (e1) of the mail server 4, the URL (e2) of the stock server 5, and the URL (e3) of the distribution servers 6a and 6b for each server category d2. It is a database that has registered data. The address (e1) of the mail server 4 indicates the address of the mail server 4 that is a mail transmission destination when the poster's mobile phone 1a posts a moving image attached to the mail. The URL (e2) of the stock server 5 indicates a URL serving as a reception window when the mail server 4 transmits data such as a moving image posted to the stock server 5. The URL (e3) of the distribution servers 6a and 6b is a URL that serves as a reception window when the stock server 5 transmits to the distribution server 6a or 6b, for example, a moving image with an advertising video combined with an advertising video. Indicates.

  The data configuration of the above-described post management DB (D3), server management DB (D4), and server-specific URL DB (D5) includes the machine number a4, the channel number a6, the address (e1) of the mail server 4, and the stock server 5 URL (e2), distribution server 6a, 6b URL (e3), and mail address a5 of the contributor's mobile phone are associated (corresponding) with channel number a6 or machine number a4 as a key. There is a special feature.

  The mail server 4 includes a mail reception processing program P4. The mail reception processing program P4 receives the mail received from the contributor's mobile phone 1a, the communication processing with the management server 3, the video file received by mail and the data received from the management server 3 in the stock server 4 It is comprised from the program which performs the process transmitted to.

  The stock server 5 includes programs such as a transmission / reception processing program P51, a posted moving image approval processing program P52, a file conversion program P53, and an advertisement video combining program P54.

  The stock server 5 also includes a distribution approval waiting table DT1, an advertising video database D6 (hereinafter referred to as advertising video DB (D6)) in which various advertising video files are stored in AVI (Audio Video Interleaving) format, and each advertising video file. An advertising video index table D7 (hereinafter referred to as advertising video index DT (D7)) in which is registered a title name of a preset advertising video and a storage location (directory and file name) for storing the advertising video with the title name set. An approval manager database D8 (registered with information related to an approval manager who views the video uploaded to the stock server 5 on the terminal device 5a and inputs approval information related to permission or non-permission of distribution to the viewer) (Approval manager DB (D8)) It is.

  The transmission / reception processing program P51 is a program for performing communication processing with the mail server 4 and the distribution servers 6a and 6b.

  The posted video approval processing program P52 allows the approval manager to view the video uploaded to the stock server 5 via the mail server 4 from the poster's mobile phone 1a and determine whether or not to distribute it to the viewer. This is a program that performs a process of inputting approval information indicating permission or non-permission of distribution shown on the screen in an interactive manner. As described above, the approval processing by the approval manager is performed by the approval manager operating the terminal device 5a to access the stock server 5. When the approval manager operates the terminal device 5a to access the stock server 5, the posted moving image approval processing program P51 of the stock server 5 performs processing for displaying the moving image approval Web page K1 shown in FIG. 8 on the terminal device 5a. . The operations related to the approval process and the contents of the process will be described later.

  The file conversion program P53, for example, performs a program for converting a moving image (3GPP format or 3GPP2 format data) captured by the mobile phone 1a into an AVI format, and a process of converting an AVI format movie into a 3GPP format or a 3GPP2 format, respectively. Programs. As these file conversion programs, commercially available programs can be used.

  The advertisement video combining program P54 combines the video posted by the user and converted into the AVI format by the file conversion program P53 and the AVI format advertisement video into video data with an advertisement in one AVI format. This is a program that performs processing to edit a single file. As this advertisement video combination program P53, a commercially available program or the like can be used.

  The moving image approval Web page K1 will be described. As shown in FIG. 8, the moving image approval Web page K1 is composed of one page having display areas Ka, Kb, Kc, and Kd. Among these, the area Ka includes an area for displaying the title of the Web page, an area Ka1 for displaying a range of channel numbers for which the approval information set in advance in the terminal device 5a is input, and approval information. An area Ka2 for displaying the number of moving images that have not been input (the number of new moving images) is provided. In a system having only one terminal device 5a, it is not necessary to display the channel number range in the area Ka1. When a plurality of terminal devices 5a are installed, the range of channel numbers for which approval information is input is registered in advance in the approval manager DB (D8) or the like for each terminal device or each approval manager. It is good to keep it.

  The area Kb is an area where the approval manager sequentially watches (listen to) the videos uploaded to the stock server 5 and inputs approval information for distribution permission or disapproval. The area Kb includes an area h1 for reproducing and displaying a moving image, an area for clicking the start of viewing (trial listening) with a mouse (trial listening button) Kb1, and an area for specifying and inputting permission for distribution to the viewer (permission button) ) Kb2, similarly, an area (impossible button) Kb3 for designating and inputting the distribution disapproval with the mouse is provided.

  The area Kc includes areas Kc1 and Kc2 for selecting an advertisement video to be combined with a moving image for which distribution permission information has been input by the operation of the region Kb, and an advertising video combining program P54 for performing processing for combining the selected advertising image with a moving image. For example, an area (decision button) Kc3, and an area h2 for reproducing and displaying the advertisement video selected in the areas Kc1 and Kc2.

  The area Kc1 is an area for selecting an advertisement video to be combined with the head position of the moving image. When the right end of the area Kc1 is clicked, for example, the title name of the advertisement video is displayed in a pop-up menu format. When the approval manager clicks on one title name with the mouse, the posted moving image approval processing program P52 performs a process of searching for the advertising video index DT (D7) and stores the advertising video related to the title name. Find the storage area. By this processing, the selected advertisement video can be displayed in the area h2.

  The area Kc2 is an area for selecting an advertisement video to be combined with the end position of the posted moving image file, and the operation is the same as the above-described area Kc1. When the approval manager views the advertisement video displayed in the area h2 and confirms that a predetermined advertisement video is selected, the approval manager clicks the “OK” button in the area Kc3 with the mouse.

  In the area Kd, when the video with advertisement video combined with the advertisement video is stored in a predetermined storage area of the distribution server 6a, the approval manager again views the video with advertisement video and the viewer's viewing terminal device. This is an area for inputting final approval information as to whether or not to distribute to 7a. The purpose of inputting the final approval information is to check whether a predetermined advertisement video is normally combined with the posted moving image.

  In the area Kd, a “trial audition” button Kd1 that starts an audition of a video with an advertisement video and displays the video in the area h3. Based on the audition result, the approval manager views the video with an advertising video as a viewer. An “approval” button Kd2 for inputting information for approving distribution to the viewer, a “return” button Kd3 for inputting information for disallowing distribution to the viewer, and the like. When the approval manager clicks the “return” button Kd3, the posted moving image approval processing program P52, for example, again operates the buttons Kc1 and Kc2 for selecting the advertisement video in the Kc area of the moving image approval Web page K1. The process to return control to is performed.

  When the approval manager clicks the “OK” button Kc3 displayed in the area Kc on the above-described video approval Web page K1, the file conversion program P53 and the advertisement video combining program P54 provided in the stock server 5 are sequentially executed. It operates to perform the processes described in (1) to (4) below.

  (1) First, the file conversion program P53 is operated to perform processing for converting the moving image transmitted from the mail server 4 to the stock server 5 into the AVI format. In this conversion processing, if the moving picture transmitted (posted) from the poster's mobile phone 1a is, for example, in 3GPP format or 3GPP2, the file conversion program P53 converts a file in 3GPP format or 3GPP2 format into AVI format. The program to be converted is converted into the AVI format by operating the program. Note that the data format of the moving image transmitted to the stock server 5 can be determined by performing a process for determining the extension given to the file name of the moving image by a program.

  (2) Subsequently, the advertisement video combining program P54 is operated to combine the image file converted into the AVI format according to (1) and the advertisement video file in the AVI format into a video with an advertisement in one AVI format ( The video is edited into a single moving image file. When this process is executed, the advertisement video file selected in the display area Kc1 of the moving image approval Web page K1 is combined with the head position of the image file, and the advertisement video selected in the display area Kc2 is further added to the end position of the image file. A moving image with advertisement video in the AVI format combined with the file is created and temporarily stored in the storage device of the stock server 5.

  (3) Subsequently, the file conversion program P53 is operated to convert the video file with the advertisement video in the AVI format created in the above (2) into a file of 3GPP format, 3GPP2, etc. Processing for storing the converted moving image file in the storage device of the stock server 5 is performed. Note that the video file with advertisement video converted into the 3GPP format and the 3GPP2 is a data format for viewing on the viewer's mobile phone 7a, and in order to correspond to the specifications of the mobile phone 7a to be viewed, 3GPP Format and 3GPP2 format advertisement video-added moving image file.

  (4) Subsequently, the moving image file with advertisement video in 3GPP format, 3GPP2, etc. created in (3) above and the channel number related to this moving image are transmitted to the distribution server 6a or 6b by the transmission / reception processing program P51.

  The distribution servers 6a and 6b include a transmission / reception processing program P61, a moving image storage processing program P62, a moving image deletion program P63, a moving image distribution program P64, and the like. In addition, as a database, a moving image database D9 (hereinafter referred to as a moving image DB (D9)) that stores (stores) moving images to be distributed to viewers is provided.

  The transmission / reception processing program P61 is a program for receiving data from the stock server 5 and communicating with other servers.

  When the moving image storage processing program P62 receives a moving image file with advertisement video in 3GPP format or 3GPP2 format and a channel number corresponding to these moving images from the stock server 5, the moving image storage processing program P62 temporarily stores these data in an external storage device or the like. Then, a process of creating a storage area (URL) for storing each received file is performed. The moving image storage processing program P62 performs processing for creating a URL for storing the moving image file, for example, a URL having the following configuration (U1).

  (U1) / scheme name / domain name of distribution server / movies / channel number. Extension In the above URL (U1), “/ movies /” indicates the highest-order holder (directory) name, and “/ channel number.extension” indicates the file name. That is, a URL is created with the channel number as the file name.

  Subsequently, the moving image storage processing program P62 performs processing for storing the 3GPP format, 3GPP2 format moving image file with advertisement video stored in the external storage device or the like in the storage area configured by the URL (U1). Thereby, the moving image posted by the poster is stored in the 3GPP format and the 3GPP2 moving image with the channel number as the file name in the directory having the name “movies”.

  When the process of storing the video file with the advertisement video in the URL (U1) is completed as described above, the video storage processing program P62 stores the data of the URL (U1) together with the command information indicating the end of the storage (storage) in the distribution server 6a. To the stock server 5. When the posted moving image approval processing program P52 of the stock server 5 receives the information indicating the end of storage, the posted moving image approval processing program P52 displays information indicating that fact in the display area Kd of the moving image approval Web page K1 (not shown in FIG. 8). Thus, a process for prompting the approval manager to click the “trial listening” button Kd1 in the area Kd is performed.

  When the approval manager clicks the “trial listening” button Kd1 of the video approval Web page K1, the video storage processing program P62 stores the 3GPP format and 3GPP2 format video files with advertisement video stored in the distribution server 6a (U1). ) And the 3GPP format and 3GPP2 format moving images with advertisement video are sequentially displayed in the area h3. Then, when the trial listening of the video with the advertisement video is finished, the approval manager clicks either the “approval” button Kd2 or the “return” button Kd3 described above in order to input the approval information related to the distribution to the viewer. Click with the mouse.

  In order to view the above-mentioned video with advertisement video, the audition button for starting the audition for each of the 3GPP and 3GPP2 formats is provided in the area Kd of the video approving Web page K1, respectively. You may make it input approval information.

  When the approval manager clicks the “approval” button Kd2, the video with advertisement video that has been viewed indicates that the distribution to the viewer's mobile phone 7a has been approved. Processing for transmitting the channel number set in the attached moving image to the management server 3 is performed.

  On the other hand, when the approval manager clicks the “return” button Kd3, the posted moving image approval processing program P52 of the stock server 4 transmits the received URL (U1) to the distribution server 6a or 6b. Thereby, the moving image deletion program P63 of the distribution server 6a or 6b performs processing for deleting the moving image file stored in the received URL (U1). On the other hand, the posted moving image approval processing program P52 of the stock server 5 performs, for example, a process of returning control so that the button Kc1 for selecting the advertisement video in the Kc area of the moving image approval Web page K1 is re-operated.

[System Operation]
(User registration procedure)
Next, the operation of the system of the present invention will be described. First, a procedure for a user who posts a moving image using this system to perform user registration as a contributor will be described. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a procedure for performing user registration for posting a moving image using the present system and a flow of the processing. Hereinafter, the steps will be described in the order shown in FIG.

(Step S1) (Step S2)
A user who performs user registration operates the mobile phone 1a to access the home page of the reception site 2 that provides various services related to the system, and subsequently performs an operation of accessing the user registration Web page from this home page. By this operation, the user registration program P21 of the reception site 2 displays the user registration Web page G1 as shown in FIG. 10 on the mobile phone 1a, acquires attribute information related to the user, and registers it in the present system. To do.

(Step S3)
The user inputs attribute information related to the user into the user registration Web page G1 displayed on the screen of the mobile phone 1a and clicks the [Send] button g1e. As the attribute information related to the user, for example, the user's name g1a, the mail address g1b and telephone number g1c of the user's mobile phone 1a, the user's address g1d, and the like are acquired.

(Step S4)
When the user registration program P21 of the reception site 2 acquires attribute information related to the user in step S3, the user registration program P21 temporarily stores the acquired information in the storage device.

(Step S5)
The user registration program P21 of the reception site 2 performs a process of displaying the machine number registration Web page G2 as shown in FIG. 11 on the mobile phone 1a of the user who is going to perform user registration.

  The machine number registration Web page G2 has a function of obtaining an agreement for acquiring the machine number of the mobile phone 1a owned by the user and registering it in the system from the user who is going to perform user registration, If the user clicks the [Agree] button g2a and agrees, it has a function for acquiring the machine number of the cellular phone 1a. The program for performing the process of acquiring the machine number of the mobile phone 1a is incorporated in the program that describes the machine number registration Web page G2. Then, when the user clicks the [Agree] button g2a, the machine number acquisition program P22 operates to read the machine number stored in the storage device of the mobile phone 1a and transmit it to the reception site 2.

(Step S6) (Step S7)
When the user who is going to perform user registration clicks the [Agree] button g2a displayed on the machine number registration Web page G2 and agrees, the reception site 2 acquires the machine number of the mobile phone 1a as described above. And the process which memorize | stores the acquired body number once in a memory | storage device is performed.

(Step S8)
The user registration program P21 of the reception site 2 transmits the acquired machine number and the user's e-mail address to the management server 3 in order to make a channel number issuance request for the machine number acquired in step S7.

(Step S9)
When the management server 3 receives the machine number from the reception site 2, the management server 3 performs the following processing.
(1) The channel number issuance program P34 is operated to issue (create) a channel number corresponding to the received machine number, and the issued channel number is temporarily stored in the storage device.

  (2) The database creation program P36 is operated to associate the machine number and user's mail address received from the Web site 2 with the channel number issued as described above for this machine number, and the post management DB (D3 ) Is registered. Further, the registration date when these data are registered in the post management DB (D3) is registered in the machine number registration date c1 column of the post management DB (D3). In addition, processing for storing the initial value “0” in the posting count c2 column of the posting management DB (D3) is performed.

(Step S10)
The channel number issuing program P34 of the management server 3 performs processing for transmitting the issued channel number to the Web site 2.

(Step S11)
When receiving the channel number issued by the management server 3 from the management server 3, the Web site 2 performs the following processing by the user registration program P21.
(1) The user attribute information acquired in steps S3 to S4, the machine number acquired in steps S6 to S7, and the channel number issued by the management server 3 for this machine number are associated with each other and the contributor DB. The process of registering in (D1) is performed.

  (2) Processing for transmitting the channel number transmitted from the management server 3 to the mobile phone 1a of the user who is accessing the reception site 2 in order to perform user registration.

  (3) A mobile phone 1a of a video contributor who has performed user registration uses a URL (hereinafter referred to as a video posting URL) for accessing a video poster who has registered as a user to post a video from the mobile phone 1a. Process to send to.

  In the process of step S11, the above-described processes (2) and (3) are performed by applying a Web page (aircraft number registration completion notification Web page) G3 as shown in FIG. 12 to the mobile phone 1a accessing the reception site 2. This is displayed to notify the user that the user registration operation has been completed.

  On the machine number registration completion notification Web page G3, the channel number issued for the machine number of the cellular phone 1a of the contributor who performed user registration is displayed in the display area g3a. In addition, in the display area g3b, a moving image posting URL accessed by the moving image poster for posting a moving image from the mobile phone 1a is displayed. In the present invention, the URL for moving image posting is a URL set in the management server 3, and when the mobile phone 1a accesses the URL for moving image posting, the posting support program P31 of the management server 3 operates.

  As shown in FIG. 12, a [Movie Posting] button g <b> 3 c is further displayed on the machine number registration completion notification Web page G <b> 3. When the user who has completed the user registration operation clicks the [Video Posting] button g3c, the mobile phone 1a accesses the video posting URL. Thereby, the user who has completed the user registration operation can immediately post the moving image stored in the mobile phone 1a.

(Step S12)
The user who has completed the user registration operation can confirm that the user registration has been completed as a contributor using the system by browsing the machine number registration completion notification Web page G3 displayed on the mobile phone 1a. . In addition, since the moving image posting URL is displayed in the display area g3b of the machine number registration completion notification Web page G3, this URL is registered as a bookmark in the mobile phone 1a. Thereby, the contributor can post the moving image stored in the mobile phone 1a at any time with a simple operation.

  Note that, as described above, the process of acquiring user attribute information in the above-described steps S3 to S4 may employ means for taking in using a document or the like, and at least the machine number of the mobile phone is a reception site. 2 is obtained directly from the accessed mobile phone.

(Video submission procedure)
Subsequently, a contributor who has registered as a user for the use of this system posts a procedure for posting a video from the mobile phone 1a and a procedure for storing (storing) the posted video in the distribution server 6a or 6b. This will be described with reference to FIGS.

  In FIG. 13, the poster sends the moving image stored in the mobile phone 1 a to the mail server 4, and the mail server 4 transmits the posted moving image to the stock server 5 based on the control of the management server 3. The server 5 shows a flow of processing procedures after performing predetermined processing on the posted moving image and then transmitting it to the distribution management servers 6a and 6b. Hereinafter, the steps will be described in the order shown in FIG.

(Step S21)
A contributor who has taken a moving image to be posted by the mobile phone 1a and stored the moving image in the storage device of the mobile phone 1a operates the mobile phone 1a to access the moving image posting URL of the management server 3. This URL for moving image posting is accessed by the method described in (1) or (2) below.

(1) Click the [Movie Posting] button g3c on the machine number registration completion notification Web page G3 shown in FIG. 12 to access the video posting URL.
(2) Similarly, the moving image posting URL displayed in the display area g3b of the machine number registration completion notification Web page G3 shown in FIG. 12 is registered in advance in the mobile phone 1a as a bookmark, and the moving image registered as the bookmark is registered. Access the URL for posting.

  The access method (1) is a method that can be used when a moving image is posted using the machine number registration completion notification Web page G3 immediately after the user registration operation is completed. The access method (2) is a method used after the user registration is completed and when the poster repeatedly posts a new video.

(Step S22)
When the mobile phone 1a accesses the posting URL, the posting support program P31 of the management server 3 performs a process of displaying the moving image posting Web page G4 shown in FIG. 15 on the mobile phone 1a. In the program language describing the moving image posting Web page G4, a machine number acquisition program P32 for performing a process of acquiring the machine number of the mobile phone 1a accessing the management server 3 is incorporated.

(Step S23) (Step S24)
When the contributor clicks the [Video Posting] button g4a displayed on the video posting Web page G4, the program incorporated in the video posting Web page G4 is the machine number of the mobile phone 1a accessing the management server 3. Is acquired and transmitted to the management server 3.

(Step S25)
When the management server 3 acquires the machine number of the mobile phone 1a in step S24, the management server 3 operates the machine number authentication program P33 to check whether the acquired machine number is registered in the post management DB (D3). Determines whether or not the mobile phone 1a having the machine number obtained when the user registration is performed is going to post a moving image. As a result of the determination process, if it is determined that the poster is going to post a moving image with the mobile phone 1a having the previously registered machine number, the process proceeds to step S26. On the other hand, when it is determined that the mobile phone 1a having the machine number that is not registered in advance is about to post a video, the management server 3 displays “the machine number is not registered” on the video posting Web page G4. End the processing for the poster's video posting.

(Step S26)
The posting support program P31 of the management server 3 performs processing for displaying the Web page G5 shown in FIG. 16 on the mobile phone 1a. The moving image posting destination contact Web page G5 shown in FIG. 16 is for notifying the contributor of an address that is a transmission destination to which this moving image is attached to an e-mail in order to post the moving image from the mobile phone 1a. Web page. The address of the transmission destination for transmitting the mail with the moving image attached is the address (e1) of the mail server 4.

  The address (e1) of the mail server 4 that transmits the moving image is displayed in the display area g5a of the moving image posting destination contact Web page G5. In addition, in the display area g5b of the display Web page G5, a time limit until the poster posts a moving image is displayed. This time limit is, for example, that no information related to reception of moving images is transmitted from the mail server 4 to the management server 3 within 20 minutes after displaying the moving image posting destination contact Web page G5 on the mobile phone 1a. In this case, the post support program P31 has a time value for performing processing for invalidating the transmission of the moving image.

  In the process of step S26, the address (e1) of the mail server 4 displayed in the display area g5a of the moving picture posting destination contact Web page G5 is processed by the posting support program P31 according to the processes described in (1) to (4) below. Can be sought.

(1) Refer to the posting management DB (D3) for the machine number acquired in the processes of steps S24 to S25.
(2) The channel number a6 registered in the post management DB (D3) corresponding to the acquired machine number is obtained by the processing of (1) above.

(3) The server classification d2 corresponding to the channel number range d1 of the channel number a6 is obtained with reference to the server management DB (D4) for the channel number a6 obtained by the processing of (2).
(4) For the server classification d2 obtained by the processing of (3) above, referring to the server-specific URL DB (D5), the mail registered in the server-specific URL DB (D5) corresponding to the value of the server classification d2 Ask for server posting address. The address registered in the posting address e1 column becomes the address of the mail server 4 displayed in the display area g5a of the moving image posting destination contact Web page G5.

  In the process of step S26, the posting support program P31 of the management server 3 performs a process of automatically generating a mail subject (mail subject) for the mobile phone 1a to send a mail with a moving image attached thereto to the mail server 4. When the mobile phone 1a transmits a mail with a moving image attached thereto to the mail server 4, the mail subject can be acquired from a program describing the moving image posting destination contact Web page G5. The mail subject is composed of, for example, numbers or alphanumeric characters having a specific predetermined number of digits, and the posting support program P31 sets the mail subject to the machine number of the mobile phone 1a or the channel number corresponding to the machine number. A process of temporarily storing them in the storage device in association with each other is performed. In addition, you may enable it to link | relate with the channel number by the moving image posted by including the body number or this body number in the subject of the said mail.

  As described above, when a mail with a moving image attached thereto is transmitted from the mobile phone 1a to the mail server 4, the reason for associating the mail subject of this mail with the machine number of the mobile phone 1a or the channel number corresponding to this machine number is as follows. This is because the moving picture posted from the mobile phone 1a is associated with the unique channel number set for the mobile phone 1a. As a result, the process of storing the posted moving image in the distribution server 6a and the like and the program control for the distribution request from the viewer's mobile phone 7a and the like are simplified.

(Step S27)
The contributor clicks the display area g5a of the moving image posting destination contact web page G5 and performs an operation for transmitting the moving image stored in the mobile phone 1a to the mail server 4. When this operation is performed, the mail transmission program of the mobile phone 1a is operated by the program describing the Web page G5 for posting the moving image posting destination, and for example, a screen G6 for creating a mail as shown in FIG. Is displayed on the mobile phone 1a.

  The contents displayed on the mail creation screen G6 shown in FIG. 17 are slightly different depending on the model of the mobile phone, but basically, a field g6a for inputting the address of the mail destination, a field g6b for inputting the mail subject, A field g6c for inputting a file name to be attached and transmitted and a field g6d for inputting a message are displayed. In the language describing the video posting destination contact Web page G5, a program for causing the mail transmission program of the mobile phone 1a to perform the processes described in the following (1) to (2) is incorporated. Yes.

(1) The moving image posting address (e1) of the mail server 4 displayed in the display area g5a of the moving image posting destination contact Web page G5 is displayed in the column g6a for inputting the mail transmission destination address.
(2) In the field g6b for inputting the mail subject, the mail subject created by the posting support program P31 in step S26 is displayed.
As a result, in the mail creation screen G6 shown in FIG. 17, information is automatically input to the field g6a for inputting an address and the field g6b for inputting a mail subject by program processing.

  Therefore, the contributor performs an operation of inputting information in the attached file input field g6c and the message input field g6d on the mail creation screen G6. In the attached file input field g6c, an operation for inputting a file name of a moving image to be posted and stored in the mobile phone 1a is performed. In the message input field g6d, for example, the title name, category, message, etc. of the moving image to be posted are input. The input format for these message input fields g6d may be determined in advance by a predetermined format and the maximum number of input characters, and contacted by a registered user by e-mail. When the contributor finishes inputting necessary items on the mail creation screen G6, the contributor operates the mobile phone 1a to transmit the mail.

(Step S28)
When the mail server 4 receives a mail from the mobile phone 1a, the mail server 4 performs the following processes (1) to (3) by the mail reception processing program P4.
(1) The text data described in the message input field g6d of the received mail is analyzed, and for example, the title name and category are extracted and associated with the mail subject and stored in the storage device.
(2) The received moving image is associated with the mail subject and temporarily stored in the external storage device.

  (3) The mail subject, title name, and category contents stored in the storage device in the process (1) are transmitted to the management server 3. In this transmission process, a transmission request for the channel number related to the moving image received from the mobile phone 1a and various information registered in the database with respect to the channel number is sent to the management server 3. The various types of information include the URL (e2) of the stock server and the URL (e3) of the distribution server registered in the server-specific URL DB (D5).

(Step S29)
When the posting support program P31 of the management server 3 receives the mail subject and the message content of the mail from the mail server 4, the post processing is temporarily stored in the storage device, and then the following processes (1) to (3) are performed. .

(1) With respect to the received mail subject, a channel number associated with the mail subject stored in the storage device by the process of step S26 is obtained.
(2) With respect to the channel number obtained in the process (1), the server management DB (D4) is referred to and a process for obtaining the value of the server classification d2 corresponding to this channel number is performed.
(3) Subsequently, corresponding to the value of the server classification d2 obtained in the processing of (2) above, the URL (e2) of the stock server registered in the server-specific URL DB (D5) and the URL of the distribution server ( e3) is obtained, and the URL information is transmitted to the mail server 4 together with the channel number as information on the channel number corresponding to the posted moving image. At this time, the received mail subject is also sent.

(Step S30)
When the mail reception processing program P4 of the mail server 4 receives the channel number, the stock server URL (e2), and the distribution server URL (e3) from the management server 3, the received stock server URL (e2) Processing for transmitting the moving image transmitted from the mobile phone 1a, the channel number received from the management server 3, and the URL (e3) of the distribution server is performed.

(Step S31)
When the transmission / reception processing program P51 of the stock server 5 receives information such as a moving image, a channel number, and a distribution server URL (e3) from the mail server 4, the stock server 5 performs the following processing (1) to (5). .
(1) A process of temporarily storing the moving image received from the mail server 4 in the storage area of the external storage device of the stock server 5 associated with the channel number corresponding to the moving image is performed.
(2) A process of associating the channel number corresponding to the moving image received from the mail server 4 with the URL (e3) of the distribution server and storing it in the distribution approval waiting table (DT1) is performed. An example of the data structure of this distribution approval waiting table (DT1) is shown in FIG.

  The distribution approval waiting data table (DT1) is a distribution approval-waiting video for which distribution judgment (approval information) is not given for distribution of the video transmitted to the stock server 5 to the viewer's mobile phones 7a and 7b. It is a data table which memorize | stores the information regarding. As shown in FIG. 18, the distribution approval waiting data table (DT1) stores, for each channel number a6, information relating to the URL (e3) of the distribution server, the reception date and time f1 of the moving image to the stock server, etc. in a first-in first-out manner. . That is, the process of storing the information regarding the channel number from the head of the distribution approval waiting data table (DT1) is performed in order of the reception date and time f1.

(3) The approval manager views the moving image transmitted to the stock server 5 by operating the terminal device 5a in advance, and determines whether to permit or not permit distribution of the viewed moving image to the viewer's mobile phone 7a. The process of inputting approval information is performed.
(4) For a moving image file whose distribution permission has been obtained by viewing by the approval manager, a process for combining an advertisement video of a company or the like is performed.
(5) A process of transmitting a file of an advertisement-attached video obtained by combining an advertisement video to the moving picture posted by the poster to the distribution server 6a or 6b is performed.
The processing flow diagram shown in FIG. 14 shows the processing for the approval manager to determine the delivery approval for the moving image transmitted to the stock server 5 in (3) above, the flow of processing thereafter, and the processing content. Will be described in the order of the steps.

(Processing for distribution approval of posted videos)
(Step S41)
The approval manager operates the terminal device 5a to access a URL for performing processing for inputting approval information for the moving image transmitted to the stock server 5. This URL is a URL set in the stock server 5. At this time, the approval manager inputs the approval manager ID and password to access the stock server 5.

(Step S42)
When accessed from the terminal device 5a in step S41, the stock server 4 performs processing for displaying the moving image approval Web page K1 shown in FIG. 8 on the terminal device 5a by the posted moving image approval processing program P52. When the posted video approval processing program P52 displays the video approval Web page K1, the posted video approval processing program P52 searches the distribution approval waiting table DT1, and inputs approval information to the distribution approval waiting table DT1 for the video uploaded to the stock server 5. It is determined whether or not the channel number of the unmoved video is stored. If the channel number of the moving image for which approval information is not input is stored in the distribution approval waiting table DT1 by this determination processing, the number is displayed as the number of new moving images in the display area ka2 of the moving image approval Web page K1. If it is determined that the number of newly arrived moving images is “0”, the processing of the posted moving image approval program P52 ends. If the number of new videos is “1” or more, the process proceeds to the next step S43.

(Step S43)
The approval manager clicks the “trial listening” button Kb1 on the moving image approval Web page K1. Then, the posted moving image approval processing program P52 displays the oldest channel number of the moving image reception date / time f1 among the channel numbers stored in the distribution approval waiting table DT1 in the display area Ke of the moving image approval Web page K1. Do. In addition, in the programming language describing the Web page K1 for video approval, this post is linked to the video file stored in the predetermined storage area of the stock server 4 in association with the displayed channel number. A program for reproducing and displaying a moving image in the display area h1 is incorporated. Thus, when the approval manager clicks the “trial listening” button Kb1, a moving image in which the channel number displayed in the display area Ke is set is reproduced and displayed in the display area h1.

(Step S44)
The approval manager views the moving image displayed in the display area h1. If it is determined that this moving image includes harmful moving images or the like and distribution to the viewer's mobile phone 7a is not preferable, the user clicks on the “impossible” button Kb3 on the moving image approval Web page K1 with the mouse.

(Step S45)
When the approval manager clicks the “impossible” button Kb3 with the mouse, the stock server 5 can acquire the “impossible” information. When the stock server 5 acquires this “impossible” information, the posted moving image approval processing program P52 relates to the channel number stored in the distribution approval waiting table DT1 corresponding to the channel number to which this “impossible” information is input. A process of deleting the data regarding the channel number a6, the URL (e3) of the distribution server associated with the channel number a6, and the reception date / time f1 of the moving image is performed. Furthermore, the posted moving image approval processing program P52 performs a process of deleting the moving image in which the channel number for which the approval information related to “impossibility” has been set is set from the storage area of the stock server 5. Subsequently, along with the control command related to “impossible”, the channel number of the moving image determined to be impossible is transmitted to the management server 3.

(Step S46)
When the posting support program P31 of the management server 3 receives the information related to the impossibility at step S45, the posting support program P31 performs a process of transmitting a mail related to “rejection of moving image posting” to the poster's mobile phone 1a.
In the present invention, by the processes in steps S44 to S46, it is possible to prevent a moving image including harmful moving images from being uploaded to the stock server 5 from being transmitted to the viewer's mobile phone 7a. .

(Step S47) (Step S48)
On the other hand, when the approval manager clicks the “permission” button Kb2 on the video approval Web page K1 with the mouse as a result of viewing the video, the stock server 5 can acquire information related to “permission”. The processing program P52 shifts the control to the advertisement video combining program P54 and sets it in a state of waiting for the click of the advertisement video selection buttons Kc1 and Kc2 displayed on the moving image approval Web page K1.

(Step S49) (Step 50)
As described above, when the approval manager selects the advertisement video to be combined with the moving image by clicking the advertisement video selection button Kc1 or Kc2 with the mouse, the advertisement video combining program P54 refers to the advertisement video index DT (D8). Then, the selected advertisement video is reproduced and displayed in the display area h2. As a result, the approval manager can check whether or not the selected advertisement video has been selected incorrectly.

  In order to select an advertisement video by the approval manager, a criterion for selection is created in advance, and the approval manager selects based on this criterion. For example, an appropriate advertisement video is selected according to the content of the moving image displayed in the display area h1.

(Step S51)
When the approval manager clicks the “decision” button Kc3 on the moving image approval Web page K1 with the mouse, the stock server 5 can acquire information related to this “decision”. When the stock server 5 obtains the information related to “Decision”, it activates the advertisement video combining program P54, and adds the advertisement video selected in Step S49 to the video file that has obtained the approval information of “Permitted” in Step S47. Execute the process to be combined.

(Step S52)
When the approval manager clicks “OK” button Kc3 with the mouse, advertisement video combining program P54 executes the processes described in (1) to (3) below.

(1) First, the file conversion program P53 is activated to convert a moving image file posted to an AVI format file.
(2) Subsequently, the file combination processing program included in the advertisement image combination program P54 operates, and the advertisement images selected by the approval manager at the start position and the end position of the moving image file converted into the AVI format, respectively. Perform processing to combine. With this process, a moving image file with an advertising video composed of one AVI format in which the advertising video is combined is created at the start position and the end position of the moving image in the AVI format.

  (3) Subsequently, the moving image file with the advertisement video in the AVI format is converted into, for example, two types of data formats, that is, the advertisement in the 3GPP format and 3GPP-2 format that can be played back by the mobile phone by the file conversion program P42. Processing for creating a moving image file with video is performed and stored in a predetermined storage area of the stock server 5. Subsequently, the URL (e3) of the distribution server 6a or 6b obtained from the mail server 4 corresponding to the two types of the moving image file with advertisement video and the channel number corresponding to the moving image file with the advertisement video. ) Is transmitted.

(Step S53)
When the distribution server 6a receives the moving image file with the advertisement video and the channel numbers related to these moving images from the stock server 5 in step S52, the distribution server 6a performs the following processes (1) to (3).

(1) First, the moving image storage processing program P62 is operated to perform processing for creating a storage area (URL) for storing these two types of received moving image files with advertisement images. As the URL for storing the moving image file with advertisement video, etc., a URL composed of the (UI) is created.
(2) Subsequently, the moving image storage processing program P62 performs a process of storing these two types of moving image files with advertisement video in URLs configured by the (UI).
(3) Subsequently, the moving image storage processing program P62 transmits to the stock server 5 a control command for ending the storage processing such as a moving image file with advertisement video.

(Step S54)
When the posted moving image approval processing program P52 of the stock server 5 receives the control command for ending the storage processing from the distribution server 6a according to (3) above, the [Preview] button on the moving image approval Web page K1 displayed on the terminal device 5a. For example, the display of Kd1 is performed by blinking. This blinking display is a process for prompting the approval manager to click the [trial listening] button Kd1.

(Step S55)
When the approval manager clicks the “trial listening” button Kd1 on the video approval web page K1 with a mouse, the link is made to the URL (U1) of the video with advertisement video stored in the distribution server 6a in step S53, and this video is displayed. It is reproduced and displayed in the display area h3 of the movie approval web page K1. Then, the approval manager views the video with the advertisement video displayed in the display area h3, and “approves” final approval information as to whether or not the video with the advertisement video should be distributed to the viewer's mobile phone 7a. Input is performed by clicking the button Kd2 or the "return" button Kd3.

(Step S56) (Step S57) (Step S58)
When the posted moving image approval processing program P52 obtains the approval information associated with the click of the “approval” button Kd2 from the moving image approval Web page K1 displayed on the terminal device 5a, the distribution to the viewing terminal device 7a is approved. A control command indicating this is transmitted to the management server 3 together with the channel number of the approved moving image. Further, the posted moving image approval processing program P52 deletes the information regarding the channel number for which the approval information accompanying the “approval” has been acquired from the distribution approval waiting table DT1, and deletes the moving image file in which the channel number is set. To do.
On the other hand, when the approval information associated with the click of the “return” button Kd3 is acquired, the channel number of the moving image determined as “return” is transmitted to the distribution server 6a together with the control command related to “return”.

(Step S59)
When the posting support program P31 of the management server 3 receives the channel number of the moving image approved from the stock server 5 in step S58, the posting support program P31 performs the following processing.
(1) The process stores “+1” as the value stored in the posting count c2 column of the posting management DB (D3) corresponding to the received channel number. This process is for counting the number of times a moving image is posted from the poster's mobile phone 1a.

(2) Referring to the post management DB (D3), the mail address a5 of the poster's cellular phone 1a corresponding to the received channel number is obtained, and a mail indicating “completion of video posting process” is sent to the mail address a5. Process to send. By this mail, the contributor can confirm that the posted video has been normally accepted.
(3) The channel number of the video received from the stock server 5 and the message information (video title name, category, etc.) received from the mail server 4 and stored in the storage device in the process of step S29 2 is transmitted.

(Step S60)
When receiving the channel number related to the “return” control command from the stock server 5 based on the operation of step S57 by the approval manager, the moving image deletion program P63 of the distribution server 6a includes an advertisement video corresponding to this channel number. Processing for deleting the moving image file from the storage area of the distribution server 6a is performed. Then, the program control is returned to step S49 so that the approval manager can perform an operation for selecting the advertisement video again.

  When the stock server 5 finishes the process of step S45 or step S58, the posted moving image approval processing program P52 searches the distribution approval waiting table DT1 and stores the approval information from the approval manager. Determine presence or absence. If there is still a video to which no approval information has been assigned, the display (number of new videos) of the display area Ka2 of the Web page for video approval K1 is displayed as “−1”. The display of the channel number in the area Ke is updated, and the program control is returned to step S43. As a result, the approval manager views the video corresponding to the channel number waiting for approval registered in the distribution approval wait table DT1, and continues the operation of inputting the approval information to the video approval web page K1 according to the above procedure. Can be done.

When the reception site 2 receives the video channel number and message information (video title name, category, etc.) from the stock server 5 based on the processing of step S59, the reception site 2 stores the received data in the video posting status storage DB ( D2) is registered. The poster name a1 registered in the moving image posting status accumulation DB (D2) performs processing for obtaining the channel number received from the stock server 5 with reference to the poster DB (D1).
Through the processing described above, the moving image posted by the poster from the mobile phone 1 a can be stored in the storage area of the distribution server 6 a or 6 b based on the control of the management server 3.

(Video distribution request)
Next, a procedure for making a moving image distribution request by the viewer operating the viewing terminal device 7a using the system of the present invention will be described. This procedure can be performed, for example, according to the procedures described in (1) to (7) below. The administrator side of the system publishes the above distribution request Web page on the Internet 8 by using the moving image posting situation storage DB (D2) provided in the reception site 2. This distribution request Web page is desirably registered as an official site of a mobile phone service company. Then, a link is pasted from this distribution request Web page to a search Web page for searching for a moving image for a viewer to request distribution.

  (1) This Web page for search refers to the video posting status accumulation DB (D2), and for example, displays the latest video posting list for the past several days for each poster name a1, video title name b2, or category b3. Display it.

  (2) The viewer clicks, for example, the name of the contributor who wants to view from the video posting list regarding the contributor name a1 displayed on the mobile phone 7a according to (1) above.

  (3) According to the above (2), when the viewer clicks on the name of the contributor who wants to view, the distribution request receiving program P24 performs processing for searching for information registered in the moving image posting situation accumulation DB (D2). This search process performs, for example, a process for obtaining the clicked contributor name and the latest channel number a6 having the latest posting date b1.

(4) The distribution request receiving program P24 transmits the channel number obtained in (3) to the management server 3.
(5) When receiving the channel number from the reception site 2, the distribution control program P35 of the management server 3 refers to the server management DB (D4) and obtains the value of the server classification d2 corresponding to the received channel number. Subsequently, a process for obtaining the URL (e3) of the distribution server registered corresponding to the obtained server classification d2 is performed with reference to the server-specific URL DB (D5).

  (6) The distribution control program P35 of the management server 3 transmits the URL (e3) of the distribution server obtained in the process (5) to the reception site 2. When the receiving site 2 receives the URL (e3) of the distribution server from the management server 3, the reception site 2 receives the video requested by the viewer from the received URL (e3) and the channel number a6 obtained in the process (3). Processing for obtaining the URL of the distribution server 6a or 6b to be stored as the URL (U1) described above is performed.

  (7) The reception site 2 performs processing for transmitting the URL of the distribution server 6a or 6b obtained in (6) above to the mobile phone 7a that has requested distribution. When the viewer's mobile phone 7a receives the URL of the distribution server 6a or 6b that stores the moving image, the web browser accesses the URL to download the moving image file, and displays the moving image on the screen of the mobile phone 7a. Performs playback and display processing. As a result, the viewer can view the moving image requested for distribution. Further, when viewing this moving image, the advertisement video is displayed for several seconds at the beginning and end of the moving image, so that the advertiser can obtain an advertising effect of a company or the like.

  In the processing for the above distribution request, when the reception site 2 receives the distribution request from the mobile phone 7a of the viewer, the telephone service company of the mobile phone 7 can be specified from the received information. Accordingly, the reception site 2 displays a moving image suitable for the mobile phone 7a that requested the distribution based on the information relating to the telephone service company and the distribution server URL (e3) received from the management server according to (7). The URL (e3) of the distribution server to be stored can be obtained.

  In the embodiment of the present invention described above, the number of postings stored in the number of postings c2 column of the posting management DB (D3) is, for example, from the user registration date (registration date c1 of the machine number) by the user who registered as a user. It can be used to set a limit on the number of posts that can be posted in 6 months. When the number of postings exceeds a preset limit value, the contributor performs user registration again.

  In addition, when the poster changes the model of the mobile phone used for posting a video, the reception site 2 provides a model change Web page, and the model of the mobile phone whose model is changed from this Web page. It is better to get a number.

  It is a figure which shows an example of the system configuration | structure for implementing the system of this invention.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of a structure of the program and database with which the server shown in FIG. 1 is provided.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the data structure of the contributor database with which the reception site shown in FIG. 1 is provided.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the data structure of the moving image contribution condition accumulation database with which the reception site shown in FIG. 1 is provided.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of a data structure of the posting management database with which the management server shown in FIG. 1 is provided.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of a data structure of the server management database with which the management server shown in FIG. 1 is provided.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of a data structure of URL database classified by server with which the management server shown in FIG. 1 is provided.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the web page for moving image approval displayed on the terminal device shown in FIG.   In the system of this invention, it is a figure for demonstrating the procedure when the user who contributes a moving image performs user registration.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the web page for user registration which a reception site displays on a user's mobile telephone when the user who posts a moving image performs user registration.   Similarly, when user registration is performed, in order for the reception site to acquire the machine number of the user's mobile phone, it is a diagram for explaining an example of a machine number registration Web page displayed on the mobile phone.   Similarly, it is a figure for demonstrating an example of the web page which a reception site notifies the acquisition completion of the body number of a user's mobile telephone when performing user registration.   In the system of this invention, it is a figure for demonstrating the procedure in which a contributor posts a moving image.   Similarly, in the system of the present invention, it is a diagram for explaining a procedure for a poster to post a moving image.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the web page which a management server displays on a contributor's mobile telephone when a contributor contributes a moving image.   Similarly, it is a figure for explaining an example of a Web page that the management server displays on a poster's mobile phone when a poster posts a video.   Similarly, it is a diagram for explaining an example of a mail creation screen displayed on a mobile phone when a contributor posts a moving image attached to an email from the mobile phone.   It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the data structure of the distribution approval waiting table with which the stock server shown in FIG. 1 is provided.

Explanation of symbols

1a, 1b: Contributor's mobile phone 2: Reception site 3: Management server 4: Mail server 5: Stock server 5a: Terminal device 6a, 6b: Distribution server 7a, 7b: Viewer mobile phone 7c: Viewer terminal Device (viewing terminal device)
8: Internet D1: Contributor database D2: Video submission status storage database D3: Post management database D5: URL database for each server K1: Web page for video approval P21: User registration program P22: Machine number acquisition program P31: Posting support program P32 : Airframe number acquisition program P34: Channel number issuance program P4: Mail reception processing program P52: Posting video approval processing program P62: Video storage processing program

Claims (6)

A video posted from a poster's mobile phone that posts a video is uploaded to and stored in a Web server via a mail server, and the video stored in the Web server is delivered to the viewer's mobile phone. In the video submission method of the system,
Obtaining at least the machine number of the mobile phone from the mobile phone of the user who performs the user registration who has accessed the user registration website to perform user registration as the contributor who posts the video; Issuing a channel number serving as unique identification information having a predetermined number of digits for the obtained body number of the mobile phone;
Posting to the mail server in association with the channel number or the machine number corresponding to the mobile phone, the video stored in the mobile phone of the contributor who performed the user registration;
A method for posting a video from a mobile phone, comprising:   The mobile phone according to claim 1, further comprising a step of transmitting the channel number issued in the step of issuing the channel number to the mobile phone having a machine number corresponding to the channel number. How to post videos. A video posted from a poster's mobile phone that posts a video is uploaded to and stored in a Web server via a mail server, and the video stored in the Web server is delivered to the viewer's mobile phone. In the video posting system,
A body number acquisition means for acquiring at least a body number of the mobile phone from the mobile phone of the user who performs the user registration who has accessed the user registration Web site for performing user registration as the contributor who posts the video When,
Channel number issuing means for issuing a channel number serving as unique identification information having a predetermined number of digits for the machine number acquired by the machine number acquisition means;
Video posting support means for posting a video stored in the mobile phone of the poster who performed the user registration to the mail server in association with the channel number or the machine number corresponding to the mobile phone;
A video posting system from a mobile phone, comprising: A video posted from a poster's mobile phone that posts a video is uploaded to and stored in a Web server via a mail server, and the video stored in the Web server is delivered to the viewer's mobile phone. In the video posting system,
A body number acquisition means for acquiring at least a body number of the mobile phone from the mobile phone that has accessed a user registration website in order to perform user registration as the contributor who posts the video;
Channel number issuing means for issuing a channel number serving as unique identification information having a predetermined number of digits for the machine number acquired by the machine number acquisition means; and the cellular phone of the poster who has performed the user registration A management server having video posting support means for posting the video stored in the mail server in association with the channel number or the machine number corresponding to the mobile phone;
A video posting system from a mobile phone, comprising:   4. A channel number transmitting means for transmitting the channel number issued by the channel number issuing means to the mobile phone having a machine number corresponding to the channel number. 4. A video posting system from the mobile phone according to 4; The management server is at least
The machine number obtained from the mobile phone and the channel number issued by the channel number issuing means for the machine number;
In order to post the video from the mobile phone having the machine number, an address of a destination to which the video is attached to a mail and transmitted to the mail server;
The moving image posting system from a mobile phone according to claim 4, further comprising a database registered in association with each other.

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