WO2003081441A1 - Mail distribution system, mail distribution method, mail distribution program, recording medium containing the mail distribution program, and a web site creation support device - Google Patents

Abstract

A mail distribution device for distributing to a cellular terminal an electronic mail containing a link to an object to be distributed to the cellular terminal. The device includes object specification means for specifying an object to be distributed to a cellular terminal, transmission destination specification means for specifying a transmission destination of an electronic mail, object transmission means for transmitting data of the object specified by the object specification means to a predetermined server computer, identification information reception means for receiving from the server computer the identification information assigned for the transmitted object data when the object data is registered by the server computer, and mail transmission means for transmitting the electronic mail containing a link to object data specified by the received identification information to the transmission destination specified by the transmission destination specification means.

Description

 Specification

E-mail distribution system, E-mail distribution method, E-mail distribution program, recording medium on which E-mail distribution program is recorded

Technical field

The present invention provides a mail delivery system, a mail delivery method, a mail delivery program, and a mail delivery method suitable for delivering an email containing a link to an object such as an image to a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone. The present invention relates to a recording medium on which a file distribution program is recorded. The present invention also relates to a homepage creation support system for supporting homepage creation.

 Background art

In recent years, with the spread of mobile phones having an e-mail sending / receiving function, it has become common to exchange e-mails with mobile phones. Such e-mails using mobile phones are also used for advertisements to customers, and services are also provided to deliver advertisement e-mails to customers' mobile phones. Advertisement e-mail delivery to mobile phones allows customers on the go to be presented with the necessary advertisements in a timely manner, which is beneficial for both advertisers and customers. Is big.

By the way, in the distribution of advertisements, not only the text of the advertisement but also the distribution of images such as product images will have a greater appeal to customers, and effective advertisements can be performed. However, the image display function of a mobile phone depends on the model, and the data format and data The size is different for each model. For this reason, it has been difficult in the past to distribute advertisement mail with images to various mobile phones owned by customers.

 It is also conceivable to publish advertisements with images on websites for mobile phones, but in the past, creating websites for mobile phones was not always easy. For this reason, the number of advertisers who can create their own home page is limited, and entrusting the creation of a home page to a specialty company is costly.

 The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and is a mail delivery system capable of easily delivering an e-mail including a link to an object such as an image to a portable terminal such as a mobile phone. And to provide a mail delivery method.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a homepage creation support device capable of easily creating a homepage including an image. '' Disclosure of the Invention To achieve the above object, the present invention relates to a mail delivery device for delivering an electronic mail including a link to an object to be delivered to a mobile terminal to the mobile terminal. Object specifying means for specifying an object to be delivered to a mobile terminal; destination specifying means for specifying a destination of an e-mail; and object specified by the object specifying means. Means for transmitting object data to a predetermined server computer; and, when the transmitted object data is registered in the server computer, the object transmitting means. Information receiving means for receiving from the server computer the identification information assigned to the data, and an e-mail containing a link to the object data specified by the received identification information is transmitted to the destination designation means. And e-mail transmission means for transmitting the e-mail to the destination specified in.

 In the present invention, the object may be an image, and the identification information may be URL.

 Also, in the present invention, a homepage image selecting means for selecting an image to be posted on a homepage from the object data registered in the server computer, and a homepage image together with the selected homepage image. Comment input means for inputting a comment to be input, and means for transmitting the selected image and the data relating to the input comment to the server computer as data defining a home page And further comprising:

Further, the present invention is configured by a server computer connected to a network, and distributes an e-mail including a link to an object to be distributed to the mobile terminal to the mobile terminal. Object distribution means for receiving, from a console terminal accessed via the network, the specification of an object to be delivered to a portable terminal, the network distribution device; From the computer terminal that has accessed via the e-mail, the destination specification means for receiving the specification of the e-mail transmission destination, and a link to the data of the object specified by the object specification means. And e-mail transmitting means for transmitting an e-mail to the destination specified by the destination specifying means. Further, the present invention is a mail delivery method for delivering an electronic mail including a link to an object to be delivered to a portable terminal to a portable terminal, wherein an object to be delivered to the portable terminal is specified. A step of specifying a destination of the e-mail; a step of transmitting the data of the specified object to a predetermined server computer; and a step of transmitting the transmitted object data to the server computer. Receiving the identification information assigned to the object data at the time of registration from the server computer, and transmitting an e-mail including a link to the object data specified by the received identification information. And transmitting to the destination specified by the destination specifying means.

The present invention also relates to a mail delivery method for delivering an electronic mail including a link to an object to be delivered to a portable terminal to a portable terminal. The step of specifying the destination of the e-mail, and the step of transmitting the data of the specified object to a predetermined server-computer. The computer executes a step of assigning and registering unique identification information to the transmitted object data and a step of transmitting the identification information to the mail delivery device, and executing the mail. The e-mail containing the link to the object data specified by the identification information received from the server computer Executing the step of transmitting to the designated distribution destination, and in the case where the server computer accesses the object data to which the identification information is assigned from the mobile terminal receiving the e-mail. Transmitting the object data to the portable terminal. It is characterized by executing steps.

 In addition, the present invention provides a server computer connected to a network, which sends an e-mail including a link to an object to be delivered to the portable terminal to the portable terminal. A method of receiving an object to be delivered to a mobile terminal from a computer terminal accessed via the network, and an access method via the network. Receiving a designation of an e-mail transmission destination from the computer terminal that has transmitted the e-mail, and transmitting the e-mail including a link to data of the object specified by the object specification means. Transmitting to the destination specified by the destination specifying means.

 The present invention also provides a device for supporting the creation of a homepage, a candidate image transmitting means for transmitting data of an image serving as a candidate for an image to be posted on the homepage to a predetermined server computer, and the server. A candidate image browsing means for browsing the registered candidate images transmitted to the bar computer, and an image selecting means for selecting an image to be posted on the homepage from the candidate images browsed by the candidate image browsing means; A comment input means for inputting a comment to be posted together with the selected image, and data on the selected image and the input comment as data defining a homepage. Means for transmitting to the server computer.

 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a data configuration of a customer database provided in the advertiser computer.

 FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a data configuration of an image database provided in the advertiser / consumer.

 FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an outline of a processing flow in the present embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the customer information screen.

 FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the customer list screen.

 FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the transaction history screen.

 FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the mail transmission screen.

 FIG. 9 is an enlarged view of a search condition input area and a search result display area provided on the mail transmission screen.

 FIG. 10 is an enlarged view of an image designation area provided on the mail transmission screen.

 FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of the image editing screen during broadcast.

 FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of the image selection screen.

 FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of the image insertion screen.

 FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of the preview screen.

 FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of the transmission history list screen.

 FIG. 16 shows an example of the mail display window.

 FIG. 17 is a diagram showing an example of the homepage creation screen.

 Fig. 18 is a diagram showing the screen transition of a homepage having a credit settlement function. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

<System configuration>

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention. You. As shown in FIG. 1, the system according to the present embodiment includes an image management server 10. The image management server 10 has a computer terminal (hereinafter referred to as an advertiser computer and a reporter) of an advertiser who intends to deliver an advertisement mail by the present system via the internet 12 via the Internet 12. And 4) are connected. The Internet 12 is also connected to a telephone company server 16 operated by a mobile phone company, and a mobile phone server such as a mobile phone 18 having an Internet connection function can be used to connect to the telephone company server. In addition to being able to access the image management server 10 via 16, the advertiser computer 14 can now send e-mail to the mobile phone 18 via the mobile communication server 16. ing.

 The image management server 10 is provided with an image management database 20 and a homepage database 21. In the image management database 20, the image data of the advertisement images uploaded from each advertiser is recorded separately for each advertiser. The home page database 21 records page screen data of a home page created by an advertiser. A unique URL is assigned to each of the data recorded in the image management database 20 and the homepage database 21. The URL can be specified on a terminal such as a mobile phone 18 or the like. As a result, the user can browse the corresponding image or home page.

On the other hand, the advertiser computer 14 is provided with a customer database 22, an image database 24, a master database 26, and a mail database 28. These databases 22 to 28 are constructed on a recording device such as a hard disk device provided in the advertiser computer 14. In addition, this recording device An application program (hereinafter referred to as a mail distribution program) 30 for notification mail distribution is installed.

 The customer database 22 stores data on the advertiser's customers. The image database 24 stores the image data of the advertisement image for the advertiser. In the master database 26, various master files are recorded. The mail database 28 records the history of e-mails sent and received by the advertiser computer 14.

 FIG. 2 shows an example of the data configuration of the customer database 22 provided in the advertiser computer 14. As shown in the figure, the customer database 22 contains the customer code, email address, name, address, telephone number, gender, marital status, birth date, and birth date for each customer. , Name of company, date of application, hobbies, etc. are recorded.

 FIG. 3 shows an example of the data configuration of the image database 24. As shown in the figure, the image data of each advertisement image is registered in the image database 24, and the image data file name, image name, and image name of each image are stored as image management information. And the URL of the same image registered in the image management server 10 are recorded.

<Overview of processing>

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an outline of a processing flow in the present embodiment. As shown in the figure, the advertisement image data is uploaded from the advertiser computer 14 to the image management server 110 (S100), and a unique URL is assigned to this image data. Is registered in the image management database 20 (S102). The URL assigned to the image data is notified to the advertiser computer 14 (S104). Advertiser computer 14 displays a link to the notified URL An advertisement mail containing the message is created and transmitted to the customer's mobile phone 18 (S106). When the link display of the URL included in the e-mail is selected on the mobile phone 18 that has received the advertisement e-mail, the access to the URL is performed (S108). In response to this, the image management server 10 converts the relevant image data into a data format corresponding to the model of the mobile phone 18 (S110), and the access source mobile phone 1 8 (S 1 1 2). Thus, according to the system of the present embodiment, the advertiser computer 14 can easily deliver the advertisement mail with the image information to the customer's mobile phone 18. In the following description, an image registered in the image management database 20 of the image management server 10 and made accessible from the mobile phone 18 will be referred to as a “broadcast image”.

 <Processing on the advertiser computer>

 Next, the contents of the processing in the advertiser computer 14 will be described. The processing described below is realized by executing the mail distribution program 30 on the advertiser computer 14.

 When the e-mail distribution program 30 is started on the advertiser computer 14, select the main menu such as the basic registration menu, customer information menu, e-mail transmission menu, simple homepage creation menu, etc. be able to.

 (1) Basic registration menu

In the basic registration menu, master data such as “own company information”, “telephone company”, “communication equipment”, “product”, “product category”, and “selection conditions” can be registered. Master data registered in the basic registration menu is recorded in the master database 26. In addition, "In-house “Information” includes information such as the company name ■ address and information necessary for the mail function such as the mail server address. “Telephone company” includes the name, company code, and domain name of each mobile phone company, and “communication equipment” includes the name of the mobile phone device, the device code, the name of the corresponding telephone company, etc. I have. The “product name” includes the product name, product code, unit price, product category, etc. of the product sold by the advertiser, and the “product category” includes the category code, category name, etc. of each product category. . It should be noted that, in the master database ₂ 6, the advertiser's transaction history (that is, what the customer from the advertiser when one of history was purchased anything) is also data representing the have been registered, "product name" mass metadata Is used in the management of this transaction history. The “selection condition” master data specifies items that can be used as conditions for narrowing down the e-mail destination customers, and includes “selection condition 1” and “selection condition 2”. It is divided into two parts. Of these, condition items related to customer orientation, such as hobbies, are mainly registered as master data of “selection condition 1”, and master data of “selection condition 2” are mainly company employees. Condition items related to the occupation and status of customers such as housewives' students are registered.

 (2) Customer information menu

In the customer information menu, you can view, change, and register customer information. Figure 5 shows an example of the customer information screen. As shown in the figure, the customer information screen is provided with display / input fields such as telephone company, email address, name, address, telephone number, gender, singleness or marriage, birthday, and work location. Have been. When data is entered in these input fields and the "register" button 50 is clicked, the input data is registered in the customer database 22 as customer data. In addition, on the customer information screen, editing operations such as correction and deletion of registered customer data are performed. Business.

 When the “Customer List” button 52 is clicked on the customer information screen, the customer list screen shown in FIG. 6 is displayed. A search condition input area 60 is provided on the customer list screen. When a search condition is input in the search condition input area 60 and the “search start” button 62 is clicked. A list of customers corresponding to the search condition is displayed in a list display area 64 at the top of the screen. Then, when any of the customers in the list is double-clicked, the customer information screen shown in FIG. 5 above, which displays the customer information of the customer, is displayed.

 When the “Transaction” button 54 is clicked on the customer information screen of FIG. 5, the transaction history data of the displayed customer is read from the master database 26 and the content is displayed. The transaction history screen (Figure 7) is displayed. As shown in FIG. 7, the transaction history screen is provided with a search condition input area 66, and in the search condition input area 66, the product, the transaction S, the unit price, the point (for the transacted product). By specifying search conditions such as a point assigned to the customer in response, specific transaction data can be searched from the transaction history.

It is sufficient to register the customer's e-mail address for the purpose of only delivering the advertisement e-mail to the customer. In the present embodiment, the e-mail address of the customer is acquired not only from the screen input but also from the sender address of the e-mail automatically transmitted from the mobile phone 18 of each customer. We can also do it. In order to obtain such a customer's mail address, an empty mail is sent to the mail address stored in the internal memory by being attached to a part of the connector of the mobile phone 18. A device that has the function of sending an email with an empty text (for example, “Mail Stick” manufactured by Primo Sales Co., Ltd. This can be done using “Nore-Ka-kun” (ht tp: // www. Neo.ne.jp/neo/siteStick/maic1/index.asp). The e-mail address of the advertiser is registered in advance in such a device, and installed at, for example, a store or in a suburb of the city, so that general customers can use it freely. By doing so, an empty e-mail is transmitted from the unspecified number of customers' mobile phones 18 to the advertiser's address. By receiving the blank e-mail at the advertiser computer 14, the sender's address of the blank e-mail is acquired, and the address is set to the address of the customer. And automatically register.

 (3) Mail sending menu

 In the e-mail transmission menu, first, a mail body is created, a transmission image is created, and the e-mail is transmitted by designating the customer to whom the e-mail is to be transmitted.

 FIG. 8 shows an example of an e-mail transmission screen displayed when the e-mail transmission menu is selected. As shown in the figure, on the “Send Email” screen, a search condition input area 70 for inputting search conditions for extracting destination customers, a search result display area 72 for displaying search results, an advertisement An image selection area 74 for selecting an image to be delivered by e-mail and an e-mail input area 76 for inputting the contents of an advertisement e-mail are provided.

FIG. 9 is an enlarged view of the search condition input area 70 and the search result display area 72. As shown in the figure, in the search condition input area 70, search conditions can be specified by birthday, age, wedding anniversary, single / married, transaction product, application store, telephone company, etc. You. In the area 70a of “selection condition 2”, items registered as “selection condition 2” master data of the master database 26 are displayed. You. When the “selection condition 1” button 70b is clicked, search conditions can be specified from the condition items registered as “selection condition 1” master data in the master database 26. _{after c} search condition is input are summer Ni Let 's that, "start Search" and is button 7 0 c forehead-click, customers turtles Lumpur send the appropriate from the customer database 2 2 the search criteria It is extracted first and displayed in the search result display area 72. At this time, if a transaction product is specified as a search condition, a customer corresponding to the condition is extracted with reference to the transaction history registered in the master database 26. When the “Add to e-mail transmission” button 56 is clicked on the customer information screen shown in Fig. 5, the customer displayed on the screen is added to the e-mail transmission destination and searched. Result Displayed in the display area 72.

 When the mail destination is specified as described above, an image is selected in the image selection area 74 next.

FIG. 10 is an enlarged view of the image selection area 74. As shown in the figure, the image selection area 74 is provided with an “editing on-air image” button 74 a. When this button 74a is clicked, the broadcast image editing screen shown in FIG. 11 is displayed. The edit screen during broadcast screen has a selection field 78 for selecting the device (hard disk, CD_ROM, M デ ジ タ ル, digital camera, etc.) of the image input source. The image data stored in the device selected in the column 78 is displayed in a list in the image display column 80 in a thumbnail format. Then, the image data displayed in the image display column 80 is double-clicked (or the arrow button 82 in the center of the screen is clicked while any image is selected). Then, the image is selected as a broadcast image and displayed in the broadcast image display field 84. And When the “Update broadcast image information” button 86 is clicked, the image data of the image selected as the image being broadcast is registered in the image database 24 and the image management server 10. Uploaded. As shown in FIG. 11, the image editing screen during broadcast has an image name input field 87 and an image memo input field 88, and the image name and the image name input in these input fields are provided. The image memo is registered in the image database 24 along with the image data and is uploaded to the image management server 10.

 The image management server 10 assigns a unique URL to the image data provided by the advertiser computer 14 and records it in the image management database 20. The image management server 10 also stores the URL in the advertiser computer 1 Send to 4. In the advertiser computer 14, the transmitted URL is recorded in the image database 24 in association with the corresponding image data. In this way, the image data selected as the image being broadcast is managed by a common URL in both the image management server 10 and the advertiser computer 14.

 In the broadcast image editing screen shown in Fig. 11, the broadcast image registered in the image management server 110 can be edited, such as adding or deleting, or changing the image name or image memo. And can be.

After the on-air image is registered, if the “setting completed” button 89 is clicked on the on-air image editing screen shown in FIG. 11, the image selection screen shown in FIG. 12 is displayed. As shown in the figure, the image selection screen is provided with a broadcast image column 90 and a selected image column 92. In the broadcast image column 90, a list of image data registered in the image management server 10 is displayed as a thumbnail. In this broadcast image column 90, the thumbnail images of the images to be delivered by the advertisement mail are doubled. When the image is clicked (or an arrow button 94 at the center of the screen is clicked while any image is selected), the image is displayed in the selected image column 92.

 After one or a plurality of distribution images are selected in this way, when the “selection completed” button 96 is clicked, the image input screen shown in FIG. 13 is displayed. As shown in the figure, the image input screen is provided with a guidance text input field 98, an image information display field 100, and a memo input field 102. The guidance text to be displayed at the beginning of the advertisement mail is input in the guidance text input field 98. In the image information display column 100, the file name, image name, image memo, and the like of the image selected as the distribution image on the image selection screen in FIG. 12 are displayed. In the memo input field 102, a memo to be displayed at the end of the main body of the advertisement mail is input. However, it is not necessary to enter the guidance text input field 98 and the memo input field 102.

 When the “Setting completed” button 104 is clicked on the image insertion screen shown in Fig. 13, the screen returns to the mail transmission screen shown in Fig. 8 and the text of the advertisement mail is input in the mail input area 76. Is performed. As shown in FIG. 8, an e-mail input area 76 is provided with an e-mail input box 76 a, and the main body of the advertisement e-mail is input in the e-mail input box 76 a. At that time, the standard text (macro) registered in the standard text master can be entered using the corresponding macro symbol. For example, by writing macro symbols in the body of the email that represent customer-specific information (customer code, name, gender, age, etc.), the wording (eg, customer name and (Customer code, etc.) in the body of the email.

Also, a state in which any customer is selected in the destination customer display column 7 2 When the “confirmation” button 76 b of the mail input area 76 is clicked, a preview screen (FIG. 10) displaying the mail display image of the customer's mobile phone 18 is displayed. 1 4) is displayed. That is, when the “confirm” button 76 b is clicked, the model information of the mobile phone owned by the customer is acquired by referring to the customer database 22, and the model corresponding to the model information is obtained. The display screen of is displayed. Note that the contents entered in the macro are words according to the destination customer (in the example of Fig. 14, the customer name is “Tanaka-sama” and the customer code is “1 3 0 1 2 6 0 2 7” ) Is displayed.

 Then, when the "send" button 76c is clicked on the mail sending screen, the customer database 22 is referred to, and each customer selected as the destination customer is referred to. The e-mail address is obtained, and an advertisement e-mail with a link to the URL of the selected image inserted in the e-mail text entered in the e-mail input field 76a is sent to each e-mail address obtained. Sent to.

 (4) Transmission history menu

The history of the advertising mail sent as described above is registered in the mail database 28. Then, when the transmission history menu is selected, the transmission history list screen shown in Fig. 15 is displayed. As shown in the figure, on the transmission history list screen, the transmission date, transmission time, subject, contents, etc. of the advertisement mail are displayed in a list, and the display of any advertisement mail is clicked. Then, a list of the destination customers is displayed. Further, when the display of any advertisement mail is double-clicked, a transmission information screen displaying the entire advertisement mail is displayed as shown in FIG. When the “Copy sent contents to send screen” button 110 is clicked on this sent information screen, the contents of the advertising mail will be displayed. Is copied, and when the screen returns to the e-mail transmission screen shown in FIG. 8, the contents are displayed in the e-mail input box 76a. As a result, it is possible to reuse an advertisement mail transmitted in the past and send it as a new advertisement mail.

 The mail received by the advertiser computer 14 is also recorded in the mail database 28, and when the reception history menu is selected, the history of the received mail is displayed in a list. By displaying the history of received e-mails in this way, for example, it is possible to manage undeliverable e-mails that are returned when sent advertisement e-mails are undeliverable.

 (5) Simple homepage creation menu

 In the simple homepage creation menu, a simple homepage is constructed on the image management server 10 by selecting one or more images and inputting a comment. Can be done. An advertiser who intends to go to the homepage using the simple homepage creation menu has previously contracted with the administrator of the image management server 10, and a unique URL has been issued to the advertiser. The created URL is assigned the published URL. The advertiser can access the homepage by informing the customer of the URL, for example, by printing the URL on a pamphlet or the like. In the simple homepage creation menu, as in the case of the advertisement mail distribution described above, the homepage is created using the broadcast image registered by uploading to the image management server 10. U. In the following description, it is assumed that the image being broadcast used for creating the homepage has been registered in the image management server 10.

When the simple homepage creation menu is selected, the menu shown in Figure 17 is displayed. The homepage creation screen is displayed. Remind as in the figure, the home page creation screen, broadcast in the image selection area 1 ² 0, door Ppupeji creation area 1 2 2, and that have each page creation area 1 2 4 is provided. The top page creation area 1 2 ² creates the contents of the top page that is displayed first when accessing the home page, and each page creation area 1 2 2 allows each page to be accessed via the top page. Create page content.

 In the broadcast image selection area 120, thumbnails of images registered as broadcast images are displayed in a list, from which a broadcast image to be posted on the homepage can be selected. One of the broadcast images is selected in the broadcast image selection area 12 0, and the “>>” button 12 6 corresponding to the top page or the “>>” button 12 8 corresponding to each page is clicked. When clicked, the selected images are displayed in the top page creation area 122 or each page creation area 124, respectively.

The top page creation area 122 and each page creation area 124 have comment input fields 126 and 128, respectively. The comments entered in these comment input fields 126 and 128 are displayed in the created homepage. Note that when the comment entry fields 126 and 128 are double-clicked, the text is left-justified, centered, and right-aligned and underlined. A list is displayed, and by specifying the macro from this list, you can input the macro. The comment input field 1 26 in the top page creation area 1 2 2 is divided into an upper comment input field 1 26 a and a lower comment input field 1 26 b. You can specify the comment text that appears at the top and bottom of the page separately. Also, the top page creation area 1 2 2 and each page creation area In the composition area 124, a background color button 130, 132 and a character color button 134, 136 are provided, respectively. Background color and comment text color can be specified.

 As described above, after selecting an image in the top page creation area 1 2 2 and each page creation area 1 2 4 on the home page creation screen and inputting a comment, the “home page ONAIR” button 140 4 is clicked. When it is checked, the data about the selected image and the input comment are transmitted to the image management server 10, and the image management server 10 displays the homepage screen based on the transmitted data. Data is created. Then, the homepage screen data is recorded in the homepage database 21 and the URL issued to the advertiser is assigned. The above website can be browsed by the customer accessing the URL from a terminal such as a mobile phone.

 Thus, according to the simple homepage creation menu, it is possible to create a homepage for a mobile phone only by simple operations such as selecting an image and inputting a comment.

The simple homepage creation menu may be used to create a homepage that has a function that can perform everything from product purchase to payment by credit card (hereinafter, mobile credit function). To create a homepage with a mobile credit function, the product name, part number, price, etc. of the product sold on the homepage must be registered as product information in advance. If the creation of a home page with a mobile bin credit function is selected in the simple home page creation menu, the registered product information is also stored in the image management service. The image is sent to the bar 10, and the image management server 10 creates a homepage screen including the “shopping” button.

Figure 18 shows the transition of the screen when making a settlement from the homepage screen with this mobile credit function. As shown in the figure, the “Shopping” button is linked to a purchase screen that displays the product name-product number and price based on the above product information ((a) to (b) in the figure). The "Purchase" button included in this purchase screen is linked with an input screen for inputting the purchase quantity, destination, name, etc. ((b) to (c) in the same figure). In addition, the server screen of the intermediary company to the credit company is linked to the “OK” button included in the above input screen ((c) to (d) in the same figure). When necessary information such as credit card number and credit card number are entered on this server screen and the "Execute" button is clicked, those input items are entered into the server of the corresponding credit card company. The authentication is sent to the server _c . After the authentication result is displayed, the screen returns to the home page. <Example in ASP mode>

In the above description, the mail distribution program 30 is installed on the advertiser computer 14 and the mail distribution program 30 is executed. Each function, such as creating a simple home page, was realized. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be implemented in the form of an ASP (Application Service Provider) in which the above functions are provided by a server accessed from the advertiser computer 14. is there. That is, the advertiser computer 1 accessing the ASP server (for example, the image management server 10) via the Internet 12 displays the screens shown in FIGS. 5 to 17 above. 4 according to the request from The image is transmitted from the image management server 10 to the advertiser computer 14. Then, the image management server 110 performs mail creation and transmission processing according to operations such as image selection and mail text input performed on each screen of the advertiser computer 14.

 When the ASP format is adopted in this way, an ID and a password are issued to each advertiser who has contracted with the operator of the image management server 10, and authentication is performed based on these IDs and passwords. Read. Alternatively, authentication may be performed using a personal authentication device that can be attached to a computer. This personal authentication device stores the URL, ID, password, etc., of the server to be connected to internally, and is attached to the USB terminal of the computer, so that the URL stored internally is It has a function to automatically perform authentication by accessing the ID “No” and “ID”. For example, Γieyj sold by SoftBank-Commerce Co., Ltd., and Nippon Techno 'Lab Co., Ltd. "PCGUARD" etc. are commercially available. By registering the URL, ID, and password of the ASP server in advance on such personal authentication devices and distributing them to advertisers, only the advertiser contracted with the server operator can access the ASP server. You will be able to receive services.

 By adopting the ASP form, it is not necessary to individually upgrade the program or fix bugs for each advertiser, as compared with the case where the distribution program 30 is executed in each advertiser computer 14. The advantage is that customer support such as maintenance is simplified. '

<Processing on the image management server accessed from the mobile phone> In the mobile phone 18 of the customer who received the above advertisement mail, When the link display of the URL included in the e-mail is clicked (selected), the hyperlink function of the browser sends the image data specified by the URL to the image management server 10. Is accessed. The image management server 10 receiving the access from the mobile phone 18 recognizes the header portion and the browser information of the access log, and identifies the model and the telephone company of the mobile phone 18 of the access source. The mobile phone 18 reads the image data specified by the URL from the image management database 20 and converts it into a data format that matches the identified model and telephone company. Distribute to As a result, the mobile phone 18 can properly view the advertisement image regardless of the model and the telephone company.

 In addition, even when the homepage created by the above simple homepage creation function is accessed, the image management server 10 identifies the mobile phone 18 model and the telephone company from which the access is made. Then, each page screen is converted into an appropriate data format and transmitted to the mobile phone 18.

In the above embodiment, the electronic mail is delivered with the link to the image data, and the image data is delivered to the mobile phone 18 accessing the image management server 10. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and when the mobile phone 18 has a playback function of voice, video, and the like, other types of object data such as audio data, music data, video data, etc. It is also possible to distribute to. That is, object data such as audio data and video data is registered on the server, and an e-mail including a link to the URL of the object data is transmitted to the mobile phone 18. To deliver

Claims

The scope of the claims 1. An e-mail delivery device for delivering an e-mail containing a link to an object to be delivered to a portable terminal to a portable terminal, in which an object to be delivered to the portable terminal is specified. Object designation means, a destination designation means for designating an e-mail destination, and an object transmission means for transmitting data of the object designated by the object designation means to a prescribed server computer. When the transmitted object data is registered in the server computer, the identification information assigned to the object data is transmitted by the identification information receiving means for receiving from the server computer and the received identification information. An e-mail containing a link to the specified object data is sent to the destination specified by the destination specification means. Mail delivery device characterized by and a mail transmission unit for transmitting to.  2. The e-mail delivery device according to claim 1, wherein the object is an image. ,  3. The mail delivery device according to claim 1, wherein the identification information is URL. 4. The mail delivery device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a home page for selecting an image to be posted on the home page from the object data registered on the server computer. Image selecting means, comment input means for inputting a comment to be posted together with the selected homepage image, and data on the selected image and the input comment. Server definition as data defining the homepage Means for transmitting to a mail delivery device. 5. An e-mail delivery device that is configured by a server computer connected to a network, and that delivers e-mail containing a link to an object to be delivered to the portable terminal to the portable terminal. Object designation means for receiving designation of an object to be delivered to a portable terminal from a computer terminal accessed via the network, and a core device accessed via the network. A destination designation means for receiving a designation of an e-mail destination from a computer terminal; and an e-mail including a link to data of the object designated by the object designation means. And a mail transmitting means for transmitting the mail to the destination specified in (1).  6. An e-mail delivery method for delivering an e-mail including a link to an object to be delivered to a mobile terminal to a mobile terminal, in which an object to be delivered to the mobile terminal is specified. A step in which the destination of the e-mail is specified; a step in which the data of the specified object is transmitted to a predetermined server computer; and a step in which the transmitted object data is transmitted by the server computer. Receiving from the server computer the identification information assigned to the object data at the time of registration; and transmitting an e-mail including a link to the object data specified by the received identification information. Sending to a destination specified by the destination specifying means. Law. 7. An email delivery method that delivers an email containing a link to the object to be delivered to the mobile terminal to the mobile terminal, A step of specifying an object to be delivered to the portable terminal, a step of specifying an e-mail transmission destination, and a step of transmitting data of the specified object to a predetermined server computer in the communication device Executing, at the server computer, a step of assigning and registering unique identification information to the transmitted object data, and a step of transmitting the identification information to the mail distribution device; Executing, at the mail distribution device, a step of transmitting an e-mail including a link to the object data specified by the identification information received from the sub-computer to the specified distribution destination; In the server computer, the mobile terminal that has received the e-mail receives the identification information. When there is access to object data that broadcast was assigned, mail delivery method that the stearyl-up to send the Obujeku Todeta to the portable terminal, wherein the real line child.  8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of transmitting the object data comprises: a step of recognizing a type of a mobile terminal of an access source; and a step of converting the object data into a data format according to the recognized type. Performing the converted object data to the portable terminal.  9. The mail delivery method according to any one of claims 6 to 8, wherein the object is an image. 10. The mail distribution method according to any one of claims ⁶ to 9, wherein the identification information is a URL. 1 1. This is an e-mail delivery method that uses a server computer connected to the network to deliver e-mail containing a link to an object to be delivered to the portable terminal to the portable terminal. And A step in which an object to be delivered to a mobile terminal is specified from a computer terminal accessed through a network, and a step in which the object is accessed through the network described above. Receiving a designation of a destination of the e-mail from the computer terminal; and transmitting the e-mail including a link to the data of the object designated by the object designation means to the destination designation means. A step of transmitting to the destination specified in the step (a).  12. An e-mail distribution program for causing a computer to execute the method according to claim 6.  13. A recording medium on which the mail distribution program according to claim 12 is recorded.  14. A device for supporting the creation of a home page, which is an image capturing means for transmitting image data which is a candidate for an image to be posted on the home page to a predetermined server computer; A candidate image browsing unit for browsing the transmitted and registered candidate images, an image selecting unit for selecting an image to be posted on a homepage from the candidate images browsed by the candidate image browsing unit, A comment input means for inputting a comment to be posted together with the image, and data on the selected image and the input comment to the server computer as data defining a homepage. And a means for transmitting the information.