Home page creating systems apparatuses and program recording mediums, and home page displaying systems and program recording mediums

• US 6,085,219 A
• Filed: 03/16/1998
• Issued: 07/04/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hyper Search LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Moriya, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Asta, Frank J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Farahi, Farzaneh
• Application Number:
  US09/039,886
• Time in Patent Office: 841 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/217, 709/223, 709/200
• US Class Current: 709/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

A home page creating system, apparatus, and program recording medium, capable of creating a home page easily without requiring any special knowledge, wherein, when a WWW server confirms a terminal'"'"'s request to create a home page, the terminal'"'"'s type code is set in a predetermined register based on the terminal'"'"'s ID. The server sends terminal user'"'"'s preference inquiry data to the terminal and receives user'"'"'s preference data entered from the terminal by the user. When the server receives all user'"'"'s preference data about predetermined items, it creates a home page by pasting information corresponding to the user'"'"'s preference data to a predetermined template. The created home page is stored along with data on the date and time when the home page was created in a predetermined data file, and is then sent to the terminal.

Claims

1. A server providing a home page for a plurality of clients connected via a network, comprising:

personal information storage means for storing personal information on respective users of the plurality of clients;

inquiry data sending means, responsive to a request from any one of the plurality of clients, for sending inquiry data to the requesting client with respect to an idea of a user of the requesting client;

home page creating means, responsive to receiving answer data to the inquiry data, for reading from said personal information storage means personal information on the user of the requesting client, and for creating a home page peculiar to the user which reflects the user'"'"'s idea and contains the personal information, based on the answer data and the read personal information and without requiring that said user have any special knowledge of the home page creation process; and

home page storage means for storing the home page created by said home page creating means so as to be accessible freely by each of the plurality of clients via the network.

2. The server according to claim 1, wherein said inquiry data sending means reads from said personal information storage means personal information on the user of the requesting client, produces inquiry data peculiar to the user based on the read personal information, and sends the inquiry data to the requesting client.

3. The server according to claim 1, wherein said home page creating means creates a home page peculiar to the user of the requesting client which contains a name of the user.

4. The server according to claim 1, wherein said home page creating means creates a home page peculiar to the user of the requesting client which contains a face of the user.

5. A server providing a home page for plurality of clients connected via a network, comprising:

template storage means for storing a plurality of templates for creating home pages corresponding to respective types of the plurality of clients;

home page creating means for reading a template corresponding to a type of a requesting client from said template storage means based on type information received from the requesting client, and for creating a home page based on the template and without requiring that said user have any special knowledge of the template creation process; and

home page storage means for storing the home page created by said home page creating means so as to be freely accessible by the plurality of clients via the network.

6. The server according to claim 5, wherein said home page creating means creates a home page whose display format is dependent on the type of the requesting client.

7. A server for providing a home page for a plurality of clients connected via a network, comprising:

storage means for storing a home page and update information indicating an update status of the home page;

comparing means, responsive to a client'"'"'s access, for comparing update information on a home page stored in the client and the update information on the home page stored in said storage means; and

sending means, responsive to said comparing means indicating that the two update information coincide, for displaying to the client the home page stored in the client, and responsive to said comparing means indicating that the two update information do not coincide, for sending the client the home page and update information stored in said storage means and for displaying the home page and update information to the client.

8. A recording medium having stored thereon a computer readable program for enabling a computer to operate as a server for providing a home page for a plurality of clients connected via a network, said program comprising:

personal information storage code means for enabling the computer to store personal information on respective users of the plurality of clients;

inquiry data sending code means for enabling the computer to, responsive to a request from any of the plurality of clients, send inquiry data to the requesting client with respect to an idea of a user of the requesting client;

home page creating code means for enabling the computer to, responsive to receiving answer data to the inquiry data, read personal information on the user of the requesting client from said stored personal information, and create a home page peculiar to the user which reflects the user'"'"'s idea and contains the personal information, based on the answer data and the read personal information and without requiring that said user have any special knowledge of the home page creation process; and

home page storage code means for enabling the computer to store the created home page so as to be accessible freely by each of the plurality of clients via the network.

9. The recording medium according to claim 8, wherein said inquiry data sending code means enables the computer to read personal information on the user of the requesting client from the stored personal information, produce inquiry data peculiar to the user based on the read personal information, and send the inquiry data to the requesting client.

10. The recording medium according to claim 8, wherein said home page creating code means enables the computer to create a home page peculiar to the user of the requesting client which contains a name of the user.

11. The recording medium according to claim 8, wherein said home page creating code means enables the computer to create a home page peculiar to the user of the requesting client which contains a face of the user.

12. A recording medium having stored thereon a computer readable program for enabling a computer to operate as a server for providing a home page for plurality of clients connected via a network, said program comprising:

template storage code means for enabling the computer to store a plurality of templates for creating home pages corresponding to respective types of the plurality of clients;

home page creating code means for enabling the computer to retrieve a stored template corresponding to a type of a requesting client based on type information received from the requesting client, and create a home page based on the retrieved template and without requiring that said user have any special knowledge of the template creation process; and

home page storage code means for enabling the computer to store the created home page so as to be freely accessible by the plurality of clients via the network.

13. The recording medium according to claim 12, wherein said home page creating code means enables the computer to create a home page whose display format is dependent on the type of the requesting client.

14. A method of providing a home page for a plurality of clients connected via a network comprising:

storing personal information on respective users of the plurality of clients;

sending, responsive to a request from any one of the plurality of clients, inquiry data to the requesting client with respect to an idea of a user of the requesting client;

reading from the stored personal information, responsive to receiving answer data to the inquiry data, personal information on the user of the requesting client, and creating a home page peculiar to the user which reflects the user'"'"'s idea and contains the personal information and without requiring that said user have any special knowledge of the home page creation process;

based on the answer data and the read personal information; and

storing the created home page so as to be accessible freely by each of the plurality of clients via the network.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the inquiry data sent to the requesting client is peculiar to the user and is produced based on the read personal information.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the created home page is peculiar to the user of the requesting client and contains a name of the user.

17. The method according to claim 14, wherein the created home page is peculiar to the user of the requesting client and contains a face of the user.

18. A method of providing a home page for a plurality of clients connected via a network comprising:

storing a plurality of templates for creating home pages corresponding to respective types of the plurality of clients;

retrieving a stored template corresponding to a type of a requesting client based type information received from the requesting client, and creating a home page based on the retrieved template and without requiring that said user have any special knowledge of the template creation process; and

storing the created home page so as to be freely accessible by the plurality of clients via the network.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the home page is created to have a display format which is dependent on the type of the requesting client.