Service server and voice message collecting method

• US 20050190894A1
• Filed: 02/22/2005
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Tadashi, Suzuki, Ryo, Shimomura, Takuya, Fukunaga, Yoshitsugu
• Granted Patent: US 7,634,065 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/88.13
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/38 Graded-service arrangements, i.e. some subscribers prevented from establishing certain connections queuing arrangements H04Q3/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/533 Voice mail systems

Abstract

A service server comprising: a database for registering a voice message; an access information issuing device which issues access information required for inputting the voice message from a user terminal through a network; a print instructing device which sends the access information to a printer along with a given picture to cause the printer to print the access information and the picture on the same print medium; an access information input device in which access information obtained on a user terminal is inputted from the user terminal through the network on the basis of the print medium; a voice message input device in which a voice message is inputted through the network from a user terminal sending the access information; a voice message registration device which registers the voice message inputted from the user terminal sending the access information in the database in association with the access information; and a voice message output device which outputs the voice message registered in the data base in association with the access information.

Claims

1. A service server comprising:

a database for registering a voice message;

an access information issuing device which issues access information required for inputting the voice message from a user terminal through a network;

a print instructing device which sends the access information to a printer along with a given picture to cause the printer to print the access information and the picture on the same print medium;

an access information input device in which access information obtained on a user terminal is inputted from the user terminal through the network on the basis of the print medium;

a voice message input device in which a voice message is inputted through the network from a user terminal sending the access information;

a voice message registration device which registers the voice message inputted from the user terminal sending the access information in the database in association with the access information; and

a voice message output device which outputs the voice message registered in the data base in association with the access information.

2. The service server according to claim 1, wherein:

if a voice message associated with access information obtained on the user terminal is already registered in the database, the voice message registration device registers the voice message inputted from the user terminal in the database in addition to the already registered voice message; and

if a plurality of voice messages are registered in the database in association with the access information, the voice message output device outputs the plurality of voice messages associated with the access information.

3. The service server according to claim 1, wherein:

the access information issuing device can issue first access information which permits input of the voice message and second access information which allows only output of the voice message;

the print instructing device instructs the printer as to which of the first and second access information should be recorded on a print medium;

if the first access information is inputted in the access information input device, a voice message inputted from the user terminal sending the first access information can be registered in the database in association with the first and second access information by the voice message registration device, and if the second access information is inputted in the access information input device, input of a voice message from the user terminal sending the second access information is rejected but the voice message registered in the database in association with the second access information is outputted by the voice message output device to the user terminal sending the access information through the network.

4. The service server according to claim 3, wherein:

if a voice message associated with the first access information obtained on the user terminal is already registered in the database, the voice message registration device registers in the database the voice message inputted from the user terminal, in association with the first and second access information in addition to the already registered voice message; and

if a plurality of voice messages are registered in the data base in association with the second information, the voice message output device outputs the plurality of voice messages associated with the second access information.

5. The service server according to claim 3, further comprising:

a print specification information input device in which specification information specifying which of the first access information and the second access information should be recorded on a print medium is inputted for each picture.

6. The service server according to claim 4, further comprising:

a print specification information input device in which specification information specifying which of the first access information and the second access information should be recorded on a print medium is inputted for each picture.

7. The service server according to claim 3, further comprising:

a print specification information input device in which specification information indicating the number of print medium to be generated on which the first access information is recorded and the number of print medium to be generated on which the second access information is recorded are inputted.

8. The service server according to claim 4, further comprising:

a print specification information input device in which specification information indicating the number of print medium to be generated on which the first access information is recorded and the number of print medium to be generated on which the second access information is recorded are inputted.

9. The service server according to claim 1, wherein the print instructing device sends a user'"'"'s picture from whom a print order received to the printer along with the access information and causes the printer to record the access information on the same print medium along with the user'"'"'s picture.

10. The service server according to claim 1, wherein the voice message output device retrieves from the database the voice message registered in the database in association with the access information and records the voice message in a removable recording medium.

11. A voice message collecting method comprising the steps of:

issuing access information required for inputting a voice message from a user terminal through a network;

sending the access information to a printer along with a given picture and causes the printer to record the access information and the picture on the same print medium;

inputting the access information from a user terminal through the network, the access information being obtained on the user terminal from the print medium;

inputting a voice message from the user terminal sending the access information through the network;

registering the voice message inputted from the user terminal sending the access information in a predetermined database in association with the access information; and

outputting the voice message registered in the database in association with the access information.

12. The voice message collecting method according to claim 11, wherein, in registering the voice message, if a voice message associated with access information obtained on the user terminal is already registered in the database, a voice message inputted from the user terminal is registered in the database in addition to the already registered voice message;

and

in outputting the voice message, if a plurality of voice messages are registered in the database in association with the access information, the plurality of voice messages associated with the access information is outputted.