The disclosed techniques provide a message communication device comprising: a memory that stores program instructions; and a processor that is configured to execute the program instructions stored in the memory to: accept at least an address and one or more messages to be transmitted to the address from a client, and the messages each possibly including a text; select one communications provider device; select one communication protocol; output a message that complies with the selected communication protocol and is to be transmitted to the address, from the one or more messages; and request the selected communications provider device to transmit the message such that the message that has been outputted is transmitted to the address by the selected communications provider device using the selected communication protocol, and repeat the request until the transmission is successful or there are no more combinations of the communications provider device and the communication protocol.
09 - Appareils et instruments scientifiques et électriques
42 - Services scientifiques, technologiques et industriels, recherche et conception
Produits et services
Laboratory apparatus and instruments; cameras [photography];
measuring or testing machines and instruments; electrical
communication machines and instruments; smartphones;
personal digital assistants [PDAs]; memory cards; personal
digital assistants in the shape of a watch; application
software; computer software; computer programs,
downloadable; downloadable cloud computing software;
software as a medical device [SaMD], downloadable; computer
peripheral devices; tablet computers; electronic components;
downloadable music files; audio and video recordings;
downloadable image files. Design of machines, apparatus and instruments; design of
computer hardware, software and computer peripherals; design
of computer graphics; computer programming; administration
of websites for third parties; creating or maintaining web
sites for others; technological advice relating to
computers, automobiles and industrial machines; testing and
research services in the field of electricity; quality
control of goods and services; testing and research services
relating to machines, apparatus and instruments; providing
online non-downloadable computer software; providing
computer programs on data networks; computer rental; rental
of computer peripheral devices; rental of laboratory
apparatus and instruments.
3.
Message communication method and computer-readable medium
Provided is a message communication method performed by a computer, comprising: receiving information at least a part of which is text-format information from a transmission source; determining whether a section having a specific feature is present in the text-format information; converting, when it is determined that a section having the feature is present, a part or an entirety of the text-format information into a message with a format in accordance with the feature and a communication protocol to be used for communication with a transmission destination; and transmitting the message to the transmission destination.
H04L 51/066 - Adaptation de format, p. ex. conversion de format ou compression
H04L 51/222 - Surveillance ou traitement des messages en utilisant des informations de localisation géographique, p. ex. des messages transmis ou reçus à proximité d'un certain lieu ou d'une certaine zone
H04M 1/72436 - Interfaces utilisateur spécialement adaptées aux téléphones sans fil ou mobiles avec des moyens de soutien local des applications accroissant la fonctionnalité avec des moyens interactifs de gestion interne des messages pour la messagerie textuelle, p. ex. services de messagerie courte [SMS] ou courriels
To provide an environment in which intermediation of payment can be implemented while maintaining the certainty, information security, and the credibility of cashless payment such as credit card payment. The disclosed technology provides a method for intermediating a billing payment process for a trading partner of a customer from the customer, wherein a phone number uniquely allocated to the customer is prepared, comprising: receiving information about billing associated with first identification information for identifying the billing from a device managed by the customer; specifying a payment process from information including the first identification information and the billing information; and transmitting, to the device managed by the customer, a message for causing the payment process to be executed based on a comparison result between the first identification information and second identification information delivered in communication addressed to the phone number from a mobile terminal managed by the trading partner.
G06Q 20/10 - Architectures de paiement spécialement adaptées aux systèmes de transfert électronique de fondsArchitectures de paiement spécialement adaptées aux systèmes de banque à domicile
G06Q 20/14 - Architectures de paiement spécialement adaptées aux systèmes de facturation
G06Q 20/38 - Protocoles de paiementArchitectures, schémas ou protocoles de paiement leurs détails
G06Q 20/40 - Autorisation, p. ex. identification du payeur ou du bénéficiaire, vérification des références du client ou du magasinExamen et approbation des payeurs, p. ex. contrôle des lignes de crédit ou des listes négatives
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Message communication method and storage medium for controlling transmission of messages based on an opt-in or opt-out status
The disclosed technique provides a message communication method comprising: receiving, from a client providing a message delivery service to a user of the client, an address of the user and a message to be transmitted to the address, the address being a phone number of the user or an address equivalent to the phone number; searching a database by using the address and outputting a first search result; associating the address with an opt-in status and storing the address in the database in a case where the first search result indicates that there was no hit for the address; controlling transmission of the message in such a manner as to inhibit the transmission of the message to the address in a case where the first search result indicates that the address has an opt-out status, and to transmit the message to the address in a case where the first search result indicates that the address has an opt-in status or that there was no hit for the address.
H04L 51/48 - Adressage des messages, p. ex. format des adresses ou messages anonymes, alias
H04L 51/58 - Adaptation des messages pour la communication sans fil
H04L 61/106 - Correspondance entre adresses de types différents à travers les réseaux, p. ex. correspondance entre numéros de téléphone et adresses de réseaux de données
[Problem] To allow a transmission channel and transmission timing with which a message is sent to an intended recipient to be adapted to information related to the content of the message. [Solution] According to the disclosed technology, there is provided a message transmission scenario generation device (100), etc., comprising: a message reception unit (104) that receives information including a message from an originator (102); a recipient information acquisition unit (106) that acquires information pertaining to the intended recipient of the message; a message type identification unit (108) that identifies a message type on the basis of information including information related to the content of the message; and a message transmission scenario generation unit (112) that outputs information including a transmission channel and transmission timing with which the message is sent to the recipient in accordance with input of information including information related to the message type and the recipient to a trained model (114).
The disclosed techniques provide a message communication device comprising: a memory that stores program instructions; and a processor that is configured to execute the program instructions stored in the memory to: accept at least an address and one or more messages to be transmitted to the address from a client, and the messages each possibly including a text; select one communications provider device; select one communication protocol; output a message that complies with the selected communication protocol and is to be transmitted to the address, from the one or more messages; and request the selected communications provider device to transmit the message such that the message that has been outputted is transmitted to the address by the selected communications provider device using the selected communication protocol, and repeat the request until the transmission is successful or there are no more combinations of the communications provider device and the communication protocol.
[Problem] To make it possible to transmit a message which conforms to the form of communication with the transmission destination and the characteristics of text-format information when using a message communication program for causing a computer to execute processing for receiving said text-format information from a transmission source. [Solution] The disclosed message communication program causes a computer to execute processing which involves: receiving information, at least part of which is text-format information, from a transmission source (S102); determining whether or not there is a section having specific characteristics in the text-format information (S104); converting some or all of the text-format information into a message provided with said characteristics and with a format which conforms to the communication protocol to be used in communication with the transmission destination when it is determined that a section having said characteristics is present (S106); and transmitting said message to the transmission destination (S108).
Provided is a message communication method including: a step for receiving, from a client providing a message delivery service to a user of the client, the user's address and a message to be transmitted to the address, which is the user's phone number or an address equivalent to a phone number; a step for searching a database by using the address, and outputting a first search result; a step for associating the address with an opt-in status and storing the address in the database if the first search result indicates that there were no hits for the address; and a step for controlling transmission of the message so as to inhibit the message from being transmitted to the address if the first search result indicates that the address has an opt-out status, and to transmit the message to the address if the first search result indicates that the address has an opt-in status or that there were no hits for the address.
The present invention addresses the problem of providing an environment in which intermediation of payment can be implemented while maintaining the certainty, information security, and the credibility of cashless payment such as credit card payment or the like. Provided is a method for intermediating a billing payment process for a trading partner of a customer from the customer, wherein the method comprises: a step in which a phone number uniquely allocated to the customer is prepared and information about billing associated with first identification information for identifying the billing is received from a device managed by the customer; a step for specifying a payment process from information including the first identification information and the billing information; and a step for transmitting, to the device managed by the customer, a message for causing the payment process to be executed on the basis of a comparison result between the first identification information and second identification information delivered in communication addressed to the phone number from a mobile terminal managed by the trading partner.
A message transfer apparatus is provided which comprises: an acceptance unit that accepts a client ID identifying one of a plurality of clients, a transmitted message from the client to be transmitted to a terminal, and a terminal ID identifying the terminal, the plurality of clients each belonging to one of groups each identified by a group ID; a database in which a correspondence among the group ID, the client ID, a sender ID, and the terminal ID is registered and a plurality of the sender IDs are associated with one of a plurality of the group IDs; a database control unit that updates and searches the database; a transmission unit that transmits, to the terminal identified by the terminal ID, the transmitted message to which is attached one of the plurality of sender IDs in the database associated with the group ID corresponding to the client ID; a reception unit that receives a reply message from the terminal having received the transmitted message, the reply message being a message in which the sender ID attached to the transmitted message is designated as a return destination and to which the terminal ID of the terminal is attached; and a delivery unit that delivers the reply message to the client identified by the client ID corresponding to a pair of the sender ID and the terminal ID registered in the database.
H04W 4/14 - Services d'envoi de messages courts, p. ex. SMS ou données peu structurées de services supplémentaires [USSD]
H04L 51/02 - Messagerie d'utilisateur à utilisateur dans des réseaux à commutation de paquets, transmise selon des protocoles de stockage et de retransmission ou en temps réel, p. ex. courriel en utilisant des réactions automatiques ou la délégation par l’utilisateur, p. ex. des réponses automatiques ou des messages générés par un agent conversationnel
H04L 51/48 - Adressage des messages, p. ex. format des adresses ou messages anonymes, alias
12.
MESSAGE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND MESSAGE COMMUNICATION PROGRAM
[Problem] To provide message communication in an environment in which various communication modes relating to message communication, possibly including text, exist, the message communication being adapted to communication environments of a client and a user of the client, and being more convenient to the client and the user of the client. [Solution] According to techniques of the disclosure, there is provided a message communication device comprising: an accepting unit which accepts from a client at least an address and one or more messages transmitted to the address, the address corresponding to a telephone number of the user of the client or associated with the telephone number, and the message possibly including text; a communications operator device selecting unit which selects one of a plurality of communications operator devices; a communication protocol selecting unit which selects one of a plurality of communication protocols used in the plurality of communications operator devices; a message output unit which outputs a message from among the one or more messages that matches the selected communication protocol to the address; and a transmit request unit which requests the selected communications operator device to transmit the message so that the message that has been output is transmitted to the address by the selected communications operator device using the selected communication protocol, the transmit request unit repeating the request until the transmission is successful or until there is no more combinations of the communications operator device and the communication protocol.
Provided is a participant information collection device comprising: a reception control unit that controls reception of inbound communication addressed to a predetermined phone number from a communication device managed by a participant in an event; a communication device information acquisition unit that acquires, from the communication device, the transmission source phone number of the inbound communication and other information about the communication device; a response unit that makes a response inclusive of, in a reply addressed to the transmission source phone number, secret information to be used by the participant for acquiring a privilege by satisfying a predetermined condition; a determination result acquisition unit that acquires a determination result as to whether or not the predetermined condition is satisfied; an information collection accumulation unit that collects and accumulates information about the participants in which information about the event, information about the communication device, and the determination result are associated; and an information extraction provision unit that extracts information related to the event from the information about the participants and provides the information to a device of the event manager. Of the extracted information about the participants, the information extraction provision unit converts at least the transmission source phone number into another form of information and provides the converted information.
[Problem] To provide a more easily accessible environment for SMS and other communications having features such as high message transferability and high identity verification ability, without compromising the convenience of these features. [Solution] A message transfer device having: a reception unit that receives client IDs identifying each of a plurality of clients belonging to one group identified using a group ID, transmission messages transmitted from clients to a terminal, and a terminal ID identifying the terminal; a database that records the relationship between the group ID, the client ID, a sender ID, and the terminal ID, a plurality of sender IDs being associated to one of the plurality of group IDs; a database control unit that updates and searches the database; a transmission unit that sends the transmission message having one of the plurality of sender IDs added thereto, to the terminal identified by the terminal ID, said sender ID being associated to the group ID corresponding to the client ID in the database; a reception unit that receives a response message from the terminal that received the transmission message, said response message having the sender ID that was added to the transmission message specified as the response destination therefor and also having the terminal ID for said terminal added thereto; and a transfer unit that transfers the response message to a client identified by the client ID corresponding to a pair of sender and terminal IDs registered in the database.
[Problem] To provide a more easily accessible environment for SMS and other communications that have features such as high message transferability and high identity verification ability, without compromising the convenience of these features. [Solution] A message transfer device having: a reception unit that receives client IDs identifying each of a plurality of clients belonging to one group identified using a group ID, transmission messages transmitted from clients to a terminal, and a terminal ID identifying the terminal; a database that records the relationship between the group ID, the client ID, a sender ID, and the terminal ID, each different sender ID being associated to one of the plurality of group IDs; a database control unit that updates and searches the database; a transmission unit that sends the transmission message having the sender ID added thereto, to the terminal identified by the terminal ID, said sender ID being associated to the group ID corresponding to the client ID in the database; a reception unit that receives a response message from the terminal that received the transmission message, said response message having the sender ID that was added to the transmission message specified as the response destination therefor and also having the terminal ID for said terminal added thereto; and a transfer unit that transfers the response message to a client identified by the uniquely specified client ID corresponding to a pair of sender and terminal IDs registered in the database.
