Mailbox-Based Information Provision System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional information providing systems burden information providers with the need to maintain servers for storing and managing URL-based information, requiring significant resources and effort.
Innovation Solution
An information providing method and system that utilizes a computer and a message transfer agent with mailboxes to acquire and display provision information using identification information from beacons, reducing the burden by allowing information providers to register and manage information through a mail server, eliminating the need for dedicated servers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If each information provider prepares a dedicated server to store and manage URL-based information, then information can be provided and accessed, but the operational burden and resource requirements for information providers increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a message transfer agent with mailboxes as an intermediary system between information providers and information terminals. Instead of each provider maintaining their own server, information is stored in mailboxes managed by the message transfer agent. The terminal acquires information by creating account data and accessing the appropriate mailbox, eliminating the need for providers to maintain dedicated servers while ensuring reliable information delivery.
2Ease of operation
If a conventional URL-based system is used where terminals access information through servers, then information can be retrieved, but the system requires significant resources and operational effort from information providers
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables terminals to autonomously acquire information by creating account data from identification information and directly accessing mailboxes through the message transfer agent. Information providers simply need to register information in mailboxes without maintaining servers or managing URL access. This self-service mechanism improves provider efficiency while maintaining ease of information access for terminals.
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AI summary
An information providing method includes the steps, executed by a computer capable of acquiring provision information, of acquiring identification information that is a trigger for acquiring the provision information, creating account data for accessing a mailbox that stores the provision information, on the basis of the identification information, acquiring the provision information stored in the mailbox by using the created account data and a predetermined code, and displaying the acquired provision information on a display part.