Information sharing control system

• US 20070299852A1
• Filed: 06/14/2007
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Miyata, Tatsuhiko
• Application Number:
  US11/812,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20070299852A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

An information sharing control system including plural terminals for holding private relevant information containing identification information of other terminals or users, the private relevant information being created on the basis of transmitted/received e-mails or non-disclosed information or on the basis of a medium, and a first server for receiving a request for participation in an application or group from each of the terminals and storing attribute information for associating the identification information of the terminal with the identification information of the application or group, wherein respective terminals belonging to the same application or group temporarily share the private relevant information thereof on the basis of the attribute information.

Claims

1. An information sharing control system comprising:

plural terminals for holding private relevant information containing identification information of other terminals or users, the private relevant information being created on the basis of transmitted/received e-mails or non-disclosed information or non-disclosed medium; and

a first server for receiving a request for participation in an application or a group from each of the terminals and storing attribute information for associating the identification information of the terminal with the identification information of the application or the group,

wherein

respective terminals belonging to the same application or group temporarily share the private relevant information thereof on the basis of the attribute information.

2. The information sharing control system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second sever that has a database for storing identification information of users and information known by the users in association with each other, receives an information search request from a first terminal of the plural terminals, achieves the identification information of an information supply user knowing requested information by referring to the database, and transmits the identification information of the information supply user and the identification information of the first terminal; and

a third server for holding public relevant information in which identification information of mutually relevant terminals or users are associated with one another, the public relevant information being created on the basis of disclosed or disclosure-scheduled information or medium, receiving the identification information of the first terminal and the identification information of the information supply user from the second server, and referring to any one or plural of the private relevant information shared by respective terminals of an application or a group to which the first terminal belongs to, the public relevant information and the identification information of respective terminals of the application or the group to which the first terminal belongs to, thereby determining identification information of one or plural intermediation terminals or users which carry out the intermediation from the first terminal to the information supply user.

3. The information sharing control system according to claim 2, wherein

the third server, according to the identification information of determined intermediation terminals, transmits an intermediation request to one of the intermediation terminals, and

the intermediation terminal, in response to the received intermediation request, transmits an intermediation request to another intermediation terminal, or transmits to the terminal of the information supply user an information supply request indicating that there is an information supply request from the first terminal, or displays it on a display portion of the terminal itself that there is an intermediation request to the information supply user.

4. The information sharing control system according to claim 2, wherein

the third server sets an intermediation identifier, stores the set intermediation identifier in connection with the identification information of the first terminal, the identification information of the determined intermediation terminal and the identification information of the information supply user, and transmits intermediation candidate information containing the intermediation identifier and the identification information of the intermediation terminal to the first terminal;

the first terminal transmits the intermediation request containing the intermediation identifier to the intermediation terminal according to the intermediation candidate information;

the intermediation terminal transmits the intermediation identifier contained in the received intermediation request to the third server to inquiry about an intermediation destination;

the second server reads out the identification information of the information supply user corresponding to the intermediation identifier or identification information of another intermediation terminal for further intermediating in response to the inquiry, and transmits the identification information to the intermediation terminal; and

the intermediation terminal transmits the information supply request to the terminal of the user concerned on the basis of the received identification information of the information supply user, or transmits the intermediation request on the basis of the received identification information of the other intermediation terminal.

5. The information sharing control system according to claim 1, wherein

the first server is a server for managing entrance/exit into/from an electronic conference room, and

the attribute information is information of entrance/exist into/from the electronic conference room.

6. The information sharing control system according to claim 1, wherein

the private relevant information is held in each of the terminals, and each of the terminals and the third server communicate with each other or the terminals communicated with one another, thereby searching an intermediation terminal to the information supply user.

7. The information sharing control system according to claim 1, wherein

each terminal registers the private relevant information into the second server, and

the third server carries out access control on the registered private relevant information on the basis of the attribute information.

8. The information sharing control system according to claim 1, wherein

the terminal identifies a terminal belonging to the same application or group by referring to the attribute information stored in the first server or referring to the attribute information which is received from the first server and stored in advance.

9. The information sharing control system according to claim 1, wherein

the third server identifies a terminal belonging to the same application or group by referring to the attribute information stored in the first server or referring to the attribute information which is received from the first server and stored in advance.

10. The information sharing control system according to claim 1, wherein

a sharing level is defined every application or group,

a disclosure level for the private relevant information is defined for every identification information of another terminal or user, and

a sharing range of the private relevant information is limited in accordance with the sharing level and the disclosure level.

11. The information sharing control system according to claim 1, wherein

the third server sets a common symbol in connection with an intermediation path containing an intermediation terminal and an information supply user, distributes the common symbol to the first terminal, the terminal of the information supply user and/or the intermediation terminal, and returns disclosure-allowed information through each path corresponding to the common symbol in response to an inquiry containing the common symbol, thereby controlling information disclosure of each terminal.

12. The information sharing control system according to claim 11, wherein

the disclosure-allowed information is the name of each user or disclosed user'"'"'s identification information.

13. The information sharing control system according to claim 2, wherein

the third server transmits the identification information of plural determined intermediation terminals to the first terminal, and

the first terminal selects one of the identification information of the plural intermediation terminals and transmits an intermediation request to the intermediation terminal concerned.

14. The information sharing control system according to claim 2, wherein

the third server automatically selects one of the identification information of determined plural intermediation terminals and transmits an intermediation request to the intermediation terminal.

15. The information sharing control system according to claim 2, wherein

the third server transmits an intermediation request to the first server, and

the first server transmits to the terminal of the information supply user the information supply request containing the identification information of the intermediation terminal and the identification information of the first terminal, or the request for participation in the application or the group to which the first terminal belongs.

16. An information sharing control system comprising:

plural terminals for holding private relevant information containing identification information of other terminals or users, the private relevant information being created on the basis of transmitted/received e-mails or non-disclosed information or non-disclosed medium;

a first server for receiving a request for participation in an application or a group from each of the terminals and storing attribute information for associating the identification information of the terminal with the identification information of the application or the group;

a second sever that has a database for storing identification information of users and information known by the users in association with each other, receives an information search request from a first terminal of the plural terminals, achieves the identification information of an information supply user knowing requested information by referring to the database, and transmits the identification information of the information supply user and the identification information of the first terminal; and

a third server for holding public relevant information in which identification information of mutually relevant terminals or users are associated with one another, the public relevant information being created on the basis of disclosed or disclosure-scheduled information or medium,

wherein the third server

receives the identification of the information supply user and the identification information of the first terminal from the second server,

determines identification information of each terminal belonging to the application or the group corresponding to the received identification information of the first terminal,

determines the identification information of the second intermediation terminal corresponding to the identification information of the first intermediation terminal corresponding to the received identification information of the information supply user or the identification information of the information supply user which is determined on the basis of the public relevant information, on the basis of the private relevant information of the terminal concerned, and

transmits an intermediation request to a second terminal according to the identification information of the determined second intermediation terminal;

the second intermediation terminal transmits an information supply request containing the identification information of the first terminal to the terminal of the information supply user directly or through the first intermediation terminal; and

the terminal of the information supply user displays the identification information of the first terminal on a display portion thereof and

according to the displayed identification information of the first terminal, the information supply user supplies the requested information to the user of the first terminal, whereby the requested information is supplied to the first terminal without disclosing the identification information of the intermediation terminal and the information supply user to the first terminal.

17. An information sharing control system comprising:

a fourth server for storing dynamically varying attribute information containing the position information and/or present state of each user for each identification information of the users;

a registering unit for registering the attribute information of each user into the fourth server; and

a terminal of each user or a third server for holding private relevant information containing identification information of other users, the private relevant information being created on the basis of transmitted/received e-mails or non-disclosed information or medium,

wherein

with respect to users having the same position information or predetermined presence information on the basis of the attribute information, the terminals of the users or the third server temporarily shares the private relevant information of the users respectively.

18. The information sharing control system according to claim 17, wherein

the registering unit has

plural wireless tags, and

a receiver for receiving wireless tag identification information from the wireless tag when a user having the wireless tag approaches to the receiver, and transmitting the identification information of the receiver and the received identification information of the wireless tag to the fourth server,

wherein

the fourth server specifies position information about the set-up position of the receiver on the basis of the identification information of the receiver which is received from the receiver, specifies the identification information of the user on the basis of the identification information of the wireless tag, and stores the identification information of the user and the position information in association with each other.

19. The information sharing control system according to claim 17, further comprising

a second server that has a database in which identification information of users and information known by the users are stored in association with each other, receives an information search request from the first terminal, achieves the identification information of an information supply user knowing requested information by referring to the database, and transmits the identification information of the information supply user and the identification information of the first terminal,

wherein the third server

holds public relevant information which is created on the basis of disclosed or disclosure-scheduled information or medium and in which identification information of mutually-relevant terminals or users are stored in association with one another,

receives the identification information of the information supply user and the identification information of the first terminal from the second server, and

determines identification information of one or plural intermediation terminals or users who carry out intermediation from the first terminal to the information supply user by referring to any one or a plurality of the private relevant information shared by respective users who have the same position information or presence information as the first terminal, the public relevant information and the identification information of the respective users who have the same position information or presence information as the first terminal.

20. The information sharing control system according to claim 17, wherein

a sharing level is defined in connection with each information contained in attribute information,

a disclosure level is defined with respect to private relevant information between users for every user'"'"'s identification information,

the sharing level is determined on the basis of the attribute information, and a sharing range of the private relevant information is limited in accordance with the sharing level and the disclosure level.

21. The information sharing control system according to claim 17, wherein

the attribute information further contains static information representing a feature of each user containing any one or a plurality of an affiliated department, age and sexuality of each user.