JP2017027552A - Information collection system and information management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system capable of easily collecting and managing company information as well as business card information or the like.SOLUTION: An information management system 120 acquires company specification information such as the URL, company name and address or the like of a company from business card information or the like, and transmits an information collection request including the company specification information to an information collection system 110. The information collection system 110 specifies a formula Website A of the company by using the URL included in the information collection request, and collects company basic information from the formula Website, and when there exists the company basic information which cannot be collected in the formula Website, acquires uncollected information from predetermined other information Websites B, C. The collected company basic information is transmitted to the information management system 120, and stored and managed in association with information such as the business card.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to an information collection system for collecting information related to a desired business operator (for example, a company), and an information management system for managing information collected by the information collection system.

  Conventionally, a business card management system for managing information acquired from a business card or the like is known (for example, see Patent Document 1 below).

  The business card management system is a system in which character information printed on a business card is converted into electronic data by manual input or optical character recognition technology and managed by a computer. According to such a system, the name, company name, telephone number, mail address, etc. can be managed by computer for each business card distributor (customer, etc.).

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  When managing a business card using the business card management system, it is very useful to manage not only the information of the business card distributor but also the information of the company to which the business card distributor belongs.

  For example, knowing the company's industry, capital, number of employees, major shareholders, etc. is often useful information for subsequent transactions.

  For this reason, conventionally, for example, when a business card of a company with no trading experience is acquired, it is generally performed to search the company name on the Internet and to investigate the outline of the company.

  However, if the number of business card acquisitions is very large, such as when receiving business cards from all visitors at their exhibition, for example, we will investigate the outline of all companies listed on those business cards using an Internet search. Adding the survey result to the management information of the business card management system requires a great work load.

  Also, when searching for company information on the Internet, the search results may contain new information and old information about the same item (for example, capital amount or number of employees), Company information may be mixed. For this reason, it is necessary to perform a human work to accurately select the latest information of a desired company from the search results, which also causes an increase in work load.

  Such a problem may occur not only in the case of business card management, but also in other cases, for example, when the results of questionnaires conducted at exhibitions are stored and managed for each respondent.

  Then, the subject of this invention makes it a subject to provide the information collection system and information management system which can collect and manage a provider's information easily.

  In order to solve such a problem, the invention described in claim 1 receives an information collection request including company specifying information for specifying a website related to a desired company, and uses the company specifying information. An information collection system for collecting predetermined basic information of one or a plurality of business operators from a website, using the business operator identification information, specifying an official website opened by the business operator, An information collection system is provided that automatically executes the first collection process for collecting the carrier basic information from a site.

  The invention according to claim 2 is the first collection process from a predetermined information website other than the official website, which is determined in advance using the provider specifying information, in addition to the configuration according to claim 1. The second collection processing for collecting the basic business operator information that could not be collected in step 2 is automatically executed.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration according to the second aspect, the second collection process includes the basic information on the plurality of types of information websites in order from the information website having the highest priority in order. It is the process which collects.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration according to the second or third aspect, in the first collection process, as the business entity specifying information, a URL of the official website or a unique domain of the email address of the business enterprise In the second collection process, the name and address of the business operator are used as the business operator identification information.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, the business operator specifying information included in the information collection request is obtained from business card information converted into electronic data or other electronic data. It is characterized by being employee information.

  The invention of claim 6 is an operator information management system communicatively connected to the information collection system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the predetermined operator identification information is extracted from employee information. A request generation unit that generates the information collection request including the provider identification information; a communication unit that transmits the information collection request to the information collection system and receives the provider basic information from the information collection system; The information management system includes a management information storage unit that stores the business basic information received from the communication unit in association with the corresponding employee information.

  According to the invention of claim 1, in the first collection process, predetermined basic information of one or a plurality of business operators is automatically collected from the official website opened by the business operator, so that the labor of the user is increased. It is possible to collect accurate business basic information without any trouble.

  According to the invention of claim 2, when there is business basic information that could not be collected by the first collection process, it is automatically collected from another predetermined information website in the second collection process. Further, more accurate operator basic information can be collected without increasing the labor of the user.

  Also, since only the basic business operator information that could not be collected in the first collection process is collected in the second collection process, the processing load of the second collection process can be reduced.

  According to the invention of claim 3, in the second collection process, the basic company information is collected from a plurality of predetermined information websites according to the priority order. It is useful in securing.

  According to the invention of claim 4, in the first collection process, the official website can be simplified by using the URL of the official website of the company or the domain name of the company as the company specifying information. And it can identify reliably. Further, by using the name and address of the business operator as the business operator identification information, it is possible to prevent the information of other business operators having the same name from being collected.

  According to the invention of claim 5, since the employee information acquired from the business card information or the like is used as the business operator identification information, the accurate business operator identification information is acquired without increasing the labor of the user. Can do.

  According to the invention of claim 6, since the business basic information collected by the information collection system of claims 1 to 4 is stored in association with the business card information etc., useful and comprehensive information about the business is managed and It can be saved.

It is a conceptual diagram which shows roughly the network structure of the information collection system and information management system which concern on Embodiment 1 of this invention. 2 is a conceptual diagram schematically showing a functional configuration of the information collection system according to Embodiment 1. FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram schematically showing a functional configuration of the information management system according to the first embodiment. FIG. It is a conceptual diagram for demonstrating operation | movement of the information collection system and information management system which concern on the embodiment. It is a table | surface for demonstrating operation | movement of the information collection system which concerns on the embodiment.

  Hereinafter, Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described by taking as an example the case of collecting information on a company based on specific information acquired from a business card of a company employee.

  FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram schematically showing a network configuration of the information collection system and the information management system according to the first embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the network 100 includes an information collection system 110, one or a plurality of information management systems 120 (only one is shown in FIG. 1), and web servers 131, 132, and 133. These systems 110, 120, and 131 to 133 are connected for communication via a communication network such as the Internet 140, for example.

  The information collection system 110 receives an information collection request from the information management system 120. This information collection request is a request for identifying a company and collecting company basic information of the company (corresponding to “business operator basic information” of the present invention). The information collection request includes company specifying information for specifying a website related to the company.

  FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram schematically showing a functional configuration of the information collection system 110.

  As illustrated in FIG. 2, the information collection system 110 includes a communication processing unit 111, a collection processing unit 112, and a master database 113.

  The communication processing unit 111 receives the above information collection request from the information management system 120. This information collection request can be received using, for example, a web API (Application Program Interface). As described above, this information collection request includes company specifying information. This company specific information is acquired from a business card of an employee belonging to the company (described later). In the first embodiment, a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of an official website established by the company and a combination of the company name and address of the company are used as the company specifying information. If the URL of the official website cannot be obtained (that is, not listed on the business card), the unique domain name used by the company for the email address is used instead of this URL. It is also possible. The communication processing unit 111 sends the received information collection request to the collection processing unit 112.

  Further, the communication processing unit 111 receives company basic information from the master database 113 and sends it to the information management system 120.

  The collection processing unit 112 collects company basic information from a website using the company identification information described above.

  The company basic information can be arbitrarily set by the operator of the information collection system 110, and can be arbitrarily set for each user of the information collection system 110 (here, the manager / operator of the information management system 120). In this case, “Company Name”, “Establishment Date”, “Capital”, “Location”, “Main Products / Services”, “Main Shareholders”, and “Number of Employees” (see FIG. reference).

  In order to collect these basic company information, the collection processing unit 112 performs the following process using, for example, a web crawling technique and a scraping technique.

  First, the collection processing unit 112 performs the collection process A as the “first collection process” of the present invention. In the collection process A, company basic information is collected from an official website opened by the company (for example, the website A provided by the web server 131 in FIG. 1). For this purpose, the collection processing unit 112 reads the URL of the official website from the company identification information described above and accesses this URL. And from this official website, it is checked whether or not each item of the company basic information is published, and if it is published, the information is taken in. The company's official website was first collected because it is likely that the latest accurate information is posted.

  If all items of the company basic information have been collected in the collection process A, the collection processing unit 112 ends the collection of the company basic information.

  On the other hand, if there is an item that could not be collected by the collection process A, the collection processing unit 112 performs the collection process B as the “second collection process” of the present invention. In this collection process B, another predetermined website (for example, the website B provided by the web server 132 in FIG. 1) is accessed and collection is attempted.

  Then, the collection processing unit 112 includes the company name and address included in the above-described company identification information (the company name and address written on the business card, as information different from “company name” and “location” of the company basic information) Search for information pages about the company. If there is a page of information related to this company, an attempt is made to collect information on items that could not be collected by the collection process A among the items of company basic information.

  If there is an item that could not be collected by the collection process B, the collection processing unit 112 performs the collection process C as the “second collection process” of the present invention. In the collection process C, a website different from the collection process B (for example, the website C provided by the web server 133 in FIG. 1) is accessed, and the company name and address included in the company identification information described above Find a page of information about the company using a combination of. If there is an information page related to this company, an attempt is made to collect information on items that could not be collected by the collection process B among the items of company basic information. If there is an item that cannot be collected by this collection process C, the collection processing unit 112 gives up collecting the item.

  Here, the second collection process is performed twice, but may be performed only once, or may be performed three times or more.

  As described above, in the first embodiment, priorities are set for websites to be accessed, and collection processing is performed in order from the highest priority. By accessing from the website with the highest priority in order and trying to collect only the items that could not be collected on the next-order web side, the efficiency of the collection process can be improved.

  The website used in the collection processes B and C can be arbitrarily set by the operator of the information collection system 110 and can be arbitrarily set for each user of the information collection system 110. For example, Facebook ( SNS (Social Networking Service) such as registered trademark, Wikipedia (registered trademark), etc. can be adopted. This is because an official page of a company or the like may be opened in SNS, and a page of a part of a company is provided in Wikipedia (registered trademark).

  Furthermore, for example, a paid service provided by Nikkei Telecon (registered trademark) or the like may be adopted as a website used in the collection processes B and C.

  In addition, as a website used in the collection processes B and C, a website that can check whether the company belongs to an anti-social force (search using the company name or representative name as a keyword) may be used. Is possible.

  Note that when selecting a website to be used in the collection processes B and C, traffic on the website is excessively set by limiting the access frequency of the collection processing unit 112 and the amount of information collected per time. It is desirable to avoid the misunderstanding that the access is malicious, such as a site attack.

  As a website used in the collection processes B and C, it is desirable to select a website whose reliability of the provided information is sufficiently high. In addition, it is desirable that the priority order of the websites used in the collection processes B and C is determined according to the order in which the updates are likely to occur quickly when the company basic information is changed.

  The master database 113 stores each item of company basic information collected by the collection processes A, B, and C. Each item stored in the master database 113 is transmitted to the information management system 120 by the communication processing unit 111.

  FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram schematically showing a functional configuration of the information management system 120 shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the information management system 120 includes a communication unit 121, a request generation unit 122, and a management information database 123.

  The communication unit 121 transmits the information collection request generated by the request generation unit 122 to the information collection system 110. In addition, the communication unit 121 stores the company basic information received from the information collection system 110 in the management information database 123.

  The request generation unit 122 receives business card information converted into electronic data from the outside via, for example, the Internet 140 or a memory device. The business card information includes, for example, “name”, “company name”, “address”, “department name”, “title”, “phone number”, “fax number”, “company official website URL”, “ Email address "etc. This business card information may be digitized by hand input, digitized using optical character recognition technology, etc., or obtained by other methods. There may be. The request generation unit 122 extracts company identification information (here, a combination of the company URL and the company name and address) from the business card information, generates an information collection request including the company identification information, and performs communication. Send to section 121. In addition, the request generator 122 stores this business card information in the management information database 123.

  The management information database 123 corresponds to the “management information storage unit” of the present invention. As described above, the management information database 123 receives and stores the company basic information from the communication unit 121 and also receives and stores the business card information from the request generation unit 122. . These company basic information and business card information are stored in association with each other.

Next, operations of the information collection system and the information management system according to this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. First, the request generation unit 122 of the information management system 120 converts electronic data from the outside. The obtained business card information is acquired (see (1) in FIG. 4). Then, the request generation unit 122 extracts company identification information (here, a combination of the company URL and the company name and address) from the business card information, and generates an information collection request including the company identification information. To the communication unit 121. In addition, the request generation unit 122 stores the business card information in the management information database 123.

  The communication unit 121 of the information management system 120 sends the information collection request received from the request generation unit 122 to the information collection system 110 via the Internet 140 (see (2) in FIG. 4). As described above, this information collection request can be sent using a web API.

  The communication processing unit 111 of the information collection system 110 receives this information collection request and sends it to the collection processing unit 112.

  Upon receiving this information collection request, the collection processing unit 112 performs the above-described collection process A using, for example, a web crawling technique (see (3) in FIG. 4). In this collection process A, company basic information is collected from an official website opened by the company.

  FIG. 5 is a table showing an example of collection results of company basic information in the first embodiment. As shown in FIG. 5, in this collection process A, “company name”, “date of establishment”, “capital”, “location” and “main products / services” are the items of the company basic information. It is assumed that “Major shareholders” and “Number of employees” could not be collected.

  Therefore, the collection processing unit 112 performs the collection process B after the collection process A ends. As shown in FIG. 5, in this collection process B, it is assumed that only “major shareholders” among the items that could not be collected in the collection process A could be collected.

  Therefore, the collection processing unit 112 performs the collection process C after the collection process B ends. As shown in FIG. 5, it is assumed that in this collection process C, the “number of employees” that could not be collected in the collection processes A and B could be collected.

  Each collected item is sequentially stored in the master database 113.

  When the collection processes A, B, and C are completed, the communication processing unit 111 reads the company basic information stored in the master database 113 and sends it to the information management system 120 via the Internet 140 (see (4) in FIG. 4). ).

  Upon receiving this company basic information, the communication unit 121 of the information management system 120 stores it in the management information database 123. As described above, the company basic information is stored in association with the business card information.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, in the collection process A, the company basic information is automatically collected from the official website of the company, and further, the company basic information that cannot be collected in the collection process A In the case where there is an item, the collection processing B and C are to be automatically collected sequentially from other websites. Therefore, according to the first embodiment, accurate company basic information is collected without increasing the labor of the user of the information management system 120 (here, the manager / operator of the information management system 120). be able to.

  In addition, since the websites with higher priorities are accessed in order and only the items that could not be collected are tried to be collected on the next-order web side, the processing load of the collection process can be reduced.

  Furthermore, by using the URL of the company's official website or the company's domain name as the company identification information, the official website can be identified easily and reliably. In addition, by using the name and address of the company as the company specifying information, it is possible to prevent the information of other companies having the same name from being collected.

  In addition, by using information acquired from a business card or the like as company identification information, accurate company identification information can be acquired without increasing the user's labor.

  Further, according to the information management system 120 according to the first embodiment, the company basic information collected by the information collection system 110 can be stored in association with the business card information and the like, so that it is useful and comprehensive about the company. Information can be managed and stored.

  In the first embodiment, the case where the “business” of the present invention is “company” is taken as an example, but “business” is described on the business card as the business affiliation of the business card distributor. Any organization may be used, and it may be an individual business owner. For this reason, in this application, “business” is not limited to corporations and commercial organizations, but includes all non-profit organizations, voluntary organizations, individual business owners, etc. Shall be included.

  Moreover, in this Embodiment 1, the case where company specific information was acquired from the business card was taken as an example. However, for example, the company specific information is extracted from information described on things other than the business card such as a questionnaire form and a material request application form. It is good to do.

100 Network 110 Information Collection System 120 Information Management System 131, 132, 133 Web Server 140 Internet

In order to solve such a problem, the invention described in claim 1 receives an information collection request including company specifying information for specifying a website related to a desired company, and uses the company specifying information. Te, the time to collect a predetermined plurality of the business's basic information from the web site, before using the article of skill in the art specific information, to identify the official website that the company has established, from the above patent formula web site, of the predetermined by using the first collection process attempting to collect a plurality of carriers basic information, previous articles skill specific information, other than the official website, from a predetermined one or a plurality of information website, the predetermined plurality of business Information collection system that automatically executes a second collection process that attempts to collect information that could not be collected in the first collection process among the basic information of the person, wherein the second collection process includes: Priorities set for one or a plurality of predetermined information websites, the businesses that have been accessed in order from the information website with the highest priority, and have not been collected before the access to the information website It is a process that attempts to collect basic information .

In the invention of claim 2 , in addition to the configuration of claim 1 , in the first collection process, the URL of the official website or the unique domain name of the mail address of the company is used as the company specifying information. In the second collection process, the name and address of the business operator are used as the business operator identification information.

In addition to the configuration of claim 1 or 2 , the business-specific information included in the information collection request is obtained from business card information converted into electronic data or other electronic data. It is a member information.

The invention of claim 4 is an operator information management system communicatively connected to the information collection system according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , wherein the predetermined operator identification information is extracted from employee information. A request generation unit that generates the information collection request including the provider identification information; a communication unit that transmits the information collection request to the information collection system and receives the provider basic information from the information collection system; The information management system includes a management information storage unit that stores the business basic information received from the communication unit in association with the corresponding employee information.

Further, according to the invention of claim 1 , when there is business basic information that could not be collected by the first collection process, the second collection process automatically collects information from another predetermined information website. Therefore, more accurate business basic information can be collected without increasing the labor of the user.

In addition , according to the first aspect of the present invention, since the basic information is collected from the plurality of types of information websites determined in advance in the second collection process according to the priority order, It is useful for securing the safety.

According to the invention of claim 2 , in the first collection process, the official website is simplified by using the URL of the company's official website or the domain name of the company as the company identification information. And it can identify reliably. Further, by using the name and address of the business operator as the business operator identification information, it is possible to prevent the information of other business operators having the same name from being collected.

According to invention of Claim 3 , since employee information acquired from business card information etc. is used as company identification information, accurate company identification information can be acquired without increasing the labor of the user. Can do.

According to the invention of claim 4 , since the business basic information collected by the information collection system of claims 1 to 3 is stored in association with the business card information, etc., useful and comprehensive information about the business is managed and managed. It can be saved.

In order to solve such a problem, the invention described in claim 1 receives an information collection request including company specifying information for specifying a website related to a desired company, and uses the company specifying information. When collecting a plurality of predetermined business basic information from the website, the official website established by the business operator is identified using the business operator specifying information , and all the above-mentioned official websites are identified from the official website. Using the first collection process that attempts to collect a plurality of predetermined business basic information and the business operator specifying information, from the predetermined one or a plurality of different information websites other than the official website, the predetermined An information collection system that automatically executes a second collection process that attempts to collect information that could not be collected in the first collection process among the plurality of business entity basic information. The second collection process, the every predetermined one or a plurality of information website, advance prioritize based on the reliability and / or updated early as expectations previous article skilled basic information and the priority ranking accessed from the high the information web site in order, in each of the information web site you visit, the information for all of the information before could not be collected until the access to the web site article trader basic information, which is the access It is a process that attempts to collect from a website .

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Receives an information collection request including company identification information for identifying a website related to a desired company, and collects one or a plurality of company basic information from the website using the company identification information An information collection system,
A first collection process for identifying an official website opened by the company using the company identification information and collecting the company basic information from the official website is automatically executed. Information collection system.   A second collection that collects the basic business operator information that could not be collected in the first collection process from a predetermined information website other than the official website using the business operator specific information. The information collection system according to claim 1, wherein the process is automatically executed.   The second collection process is a process of collecting the operator basic information in order from the information website having a higher priority for the plurality of types of information websites. Information collection system described in 1. In the first collection process, as the operator specifying information, the URL of the official website or the unique domain name of the email address of the operator is used, and
In the second collection process, the name and address of the company are used as the company identification information.
The information collection system according to claim 2 or 3,   5. The business operator identification information included in the information collection request is business card information converted into electronic data or employee information acquired from other electronic data. Information collection system. An operator information management system that is communicatively connected to the information collection system according to claim 1,
A request generation unit that extracts the predetermined operator identification information from employee information and generates the information collection request including the operator identification information;
A communication unit that transmits the information collection request to the information collection system and receives the operator basic information from the information collection system;
A management information storage unit for storing the business entity basic information received from the communication unit in association with the corresponding employee information;
An information management system comprising:

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