Electronic bulletin board and bulletin board system
First Claim
1. An electronic bulletin board comprising:
- an icon message generating portion for receiving a message and generating an icon message;
a bulletin board screen generating portion for placing the generated icon message at a designated location;
a display portion for receiving the output from said bulletin board screen generating portion and displaying the bulletin board on the screen; and
a transmitting/receiving portion for communicating with a mobile information terminal, wherein said icon message generating portion receives a message from said mobile information terminal and converts the message to an icon, receives a request for reading said icon message and restores said icon message, and transmits the restored message to said mobile information terminal.
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Abstract
The present invention provides an electronic bulletin board. Communication between people having an appointment to meet (i.e., message sender and receiver) is possible by using a common electronic bulletin board placed at the meeting place, requiring no knowledge of the e-mail address of the other party. The present invention has a plurality of electronic bulletin boards and a central server which, upon receiving a request from a mobile information terminal to access any one of the plurality of electronic bulletin boards, sends access information to said mobile information terminal. The electronic bulletin board receives a message, converts it to an icon message, and displays the icon on a display portion. The central server receives, together with said access request, identification information for specifying the radio base station site used for communication by said mobile information terminal, retrieves a database based on said identification information and extracts the most preferred electronic bulletin board among said plurality of electronic bulletin boards, and transmits information on access to this electronic bulletin board to said mobile information terminal. The mobile information terminal access the electronic bulletin board based on this access information.
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12 Claims
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1. An electronic bulletin board comprising:
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an icon message generating portion for receiving a message and generating an icon message;
a bulletin board screen generating portion for placing the generated icon message at a designated location;
a display portion for receiving the output from said bulletin board screen generating portion and displaying the bulletin board on the screen; and
a transmitting/receiving portion for communicating with a mobile information terminal, wherein said icon message generating portion receives a message from said mobile information terminal and converts the message to an icon, receives a request for reading said icon message and restores said icon message, and transmits the restored message to said mobile information terminal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An electronic bulletin board system comprising:
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a plurality of electronic bulletin boards; and
a central server which, upon receiving a request from a mobile information terminal to access any one of the plurality of electronic bulletin boards, sends access information to said mobile information terminal, wherein said electronic bulletin board comprises an icon message generating portion for receiving a message and generating an icon message, a bulletin board screen generating portion for placing the generated icon message at a designated location, a display portion for receiving the output from said bulletin board screen generating portion and displaying the bulletin board on the screen, and a transmitting/receiving portion for communicating with a mobile information terminal, wherein said icon message generating portion receives a message from said mobile information terminal and converts the message to an icon, receives a request for reading said icon message and restores said icon message, and transmits the restored message to said mobile information terminal, said central server comprises a database for pre-storing the relationship between the locations of the plurality of electronic bulletin boards and the zones of a plurality of radio base station sites of said mobile information terminal, and said central server receives, together said access request, identification information for specifying the radio base station site used for communication by said mobile information terminal, retrieves said database based on said identification information and extracts the most preferred electronic bulletin board from among said plurality of electronic bulletin boards, and transmits access information on the extracted electronic bulletin board to said mobile information terminal. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. An electronic bulletin board system comprising:
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a plurality of electronic bulletin boards; and
a central server which, upon receiving a request from a mobile information terminal to access any one of the plurality of electronic bulletin boards, sends access information to said mobile information terminal, wherein said electronic bulletin board comprises an icon message generating portion for receiving a message and generating an icon message, a bulletin board screen generating portion for placing the generated icon message at a designated location, a display portion for receiving the output from said bulletin board screen generating portion and displaying the bulletin board on the screen, and a transmitting/receiving portion for communicating with a mobile information terminal, wherein said icon message generating portion receives a message from said mobile information terminal and converts the message to an icon, receives a request for reading said icon message and restores said icon message, and transmits the restored message to said mobile information terminal, said central server comprises a database for pre-storing the relationship between the locations of the plurality of electronic bulletin boards and the zones of a plurality of radio base station sites of said mobile information terminal, and said central server receives, together said access request, identification information for specifying the radio base station site used for communication by said mobile information terminal, retrieves said database based on said identification information and extracts the most preferred electronic bulletin board from among said plurality of electronic bulletin boards, accesses the most preferred electronic bulletin board and acquires the restored message of said icon message, and transmits the restored message to said mobile information terminal. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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