Method of aiding portal site making and method of providing services

• US 20020029257A1
• Filed: 05/31/2001
• Published: 03/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Ikawa, Yuji, Watanabe, Naoki, Kikuta, Atsushi, Kamada, Eiichi
• Application Number:
  US09/867,618
• Publication Number:
  US 20020029257A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

In a method of aiding portal site making, a plurality of mount files are prepared, one of the plurality of mount files is displayed in accordance with selection by a user, a plurality of image/information files indicative of various services are prepared, and the image/information files are mounted on the displayed mount file in accordance with operation by the user. Each of the image/information files is made by embedding information indicative of the contents of the various services in images for identifying the various services through digital watermarking.

Claims

1. A method of aiding portal site making comprising the steps of:

preparing a plurality of mount files;

displaying one of said plurality of mount files in accordance with selection by a user;

preparing a plurality of image/information files indicative of various services; and

mounting said image/information files on said displayed mount file in accordance with operation by the user.

2. A portal site making aiding method according to claim 1, wherein each of said image/information files is made by embedding information indicative of the contents of various services in images for identifying the various services through digital watermarking.

3. A portal site making aiding method according to claim 2, wherein the information indicative of the contents of the services of said image/information files includes a service menu and URLs corresponding to individual items of the menu.

4. A portal site making aiding method according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of mount files and said image/information files are provided through a network.

5. A portal site making aiding method according to claim 1, wherein said mount file includes information for identifying the mount type.

6. A portal site making aiding method according to claim 1, wherein the operation by said user is drag and drop of said image/information file.

7. A portal site making aiding method according to claim 6, wherein said mount file is of a HTML format and when said image/information file is dragged and dropped, a statement defining dropped coordinates and an image/information file name is inserted into said mount file.

8. A service providing method for providing services on a network comprising the steps of:

displaying a portal site in which image/information files indicative of various services are mounted on a mount; and

providing service items in accordance with selection of said image/information files by a user.

9. A service providing method according to claim 8, wherein each of said image/information files is made by embedding information indicative of the contents of various services in images for identifying the various services through digital watermarking, and when selecting an image/information file, the embedded information is derived from said selected image/information file.

10. A service providing method according to claim 9, wherein said mount includes information for identifying the mount type;

the information indicative of the contents of said image/information files includes a service menu and the mount type and a URL corresponding to each item of the menu; and

in said service item providing step, the mount type included in said mount is compared with the mount type of each item of the menu included in said image/information file to display a coincident menu item.

11. A service providing method according to claim 10 further comprising the step of linking to a URL of the menu item included in said image/information file in accordance with selection of the menu item by the user.

12. A program for aiding portal site making comprising a code for executing the following steps of:

providing a plurality of mount files;

displaying one of said plurality of mount files in accordance with selection by a user;

providing a plurality of image/information files indicative of various services; and

mounting said image/information files on said displayed mount file in accordance with operation by the user.

13. A service providing program for providing services on a network comprising a code for executing the following steps of:

displaying a portal site in which image/information files indicative of various services are mounted on a mount; and

providing a service item in accordance with selection of said image/information file by a user.