Information acquiring device and information providing device
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Abstract
An information acquiring device and an information providing device used for a pull-type data distribution service is connected to an e-mail server and an information server on a network to receive an e-mail from the e-mail server through the network to acquire data, analyzes the data of the acquired received mail, acquires a definition file and contents in the information server to causes the contents to be displayed in a format defined by the definition file and, when it is recognized that the location information is present in the data of the received mail acquired through analysis, stores the recognized location information on the network for use in acquiring the definition file and the contents.
37 Citations
46 Claims
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26. In an information exchanging system which is interconnected via a network to an e-mail server and an information server having stored therein contents data for exchanging information including an e-mail, an information acquiring device which acquires the contents data, comprising:
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e-mail reception protocol processing means for receiving an e-mail from the e-mail server;
data acquiring means which acquires data from the e-mail;
first analyzing means which analyzes the acquired data to detect location information indicative of an address of the contents data on the network; and
a location information memory storing the detected location information, wherein the first analyzing means detects, in the acquired data a character string following a predetermined character string as a URL, and the location information is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). - View Dependent Claims (27, 46)
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28. In an information exchanging system which is interconnected via a network to an e-mail server and an information server having stored therein contents data for exchanging information including an e-mail, an information acquiring device which acquires the contents data, comprising:
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e-mail reception protocol processing means for receiving an e-mail from the e-mail server;
data acquiring means which acquires data from the e-mail;
first analyzing means which analyzes the acquired data to detect location information indicative of an address of the contents data on the network;
a location information memory storing the detected location information;
an ID memory which stores user identification information indicative of at least a user itself;
second analyzing means which analyzes the acquired data to detect user identification information indicative of a sender of the e-mail; and
mail sender authenticating means which authenticates the sender of the e-mail when the detected user identification information coincides with the user identification information stored in the ID memory. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. In an information exchanging system which is interconnected via a network to an e-mail server and an information server having stored therein contents data for exchanging information including an e-mail, an information acquiring device which acquires the contents data, comprising:
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e-mail reception protocol processing means for receiving an e-mail from the e-mail server;
data acquiring means which acquires data from the e-mail;
first analyzing means which analyzes the acquired data to detect location information indicative of an address of the contents data on the network; and
a location information memory storing the detected location information;
instruction accepting means which accepts an externally-provided instruction;
a title memory which stores title information indicative of a title of contents associated with the location information; and
title display means which displays the title information stored in the title memory as a list, wherein location information of contents and title information registered by a user using the instruction accepting means are stored in the location information memory and the title memory in association with each other. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36)
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37. In an information exchanging system which is interconnected via a network to an e-mail server and an information server having stored therein contents data for exchanging information including an e-mail, an information acquiring device which acquires the contents data, comprising:
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e-mail reception protocol processing means for receiving an e-mail from the e-mail server;
data acquiring means which acquires data from the e-mail;
first analyzing means which analyzes the acquired data to detect location information indicative of an address of the contents data on the network; and
a location information memory storing the detected location information;
instruction accepting means which accepts an externally-provided instruction;
means which displays an OSD (On Screen Display) including a button which can be pressed through instruction accepting means; and
control means which causes the location information to be displayed as a button on the OSD and detects the button pressed through the instruction accepting means as location information selected by a user.
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38. In an information exchanging system which is interconnected via a network to an e-mail server and an information server having stored therein contents data for exchanging information including an e-mail, an information providing device which provides address information of the contents data on the network, comprising:
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e-mail transmission protocol processing means for transmitting the e-mail;
URL information acquiring means which receives a broadcast signal and acquires URL information superposed on the broadcast signal;
a URL transmission-destination memory which stores an address of a transmission destination of an e-mail containing the URL information;
first e-mail creating means which creates, upon reception of the URL information, e-mail data containing the acquired URL information with the address stored in the URL transmission-destination memory as a destination address; and
control means which causes the e-mail transmission protocol processing means to transmit the created e-mail to the e-mail server. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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