Method for communication

A communication system, for implementing smooth communication, the communication system comprising:

• a board manager terminal for providing a board including premise information which is a premise of communication;
• a user terminal for proving a card including a comment on the premise information or a comment on the comment;
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• a community management server which includes storage means for storing the board and the card, input/output means, and control means and creates the board to which the card is attached,
• wherein the board manager terminal, the user terminal, and the community management server are connected to one another via a communication network,
• wherein the storage means in the community management server includes a board database for storing the board, associating information for identifying the board with information for identifying a board manager who provides the board, the board database stores a board registration screen for determining a specification of the board and the card,
• wherein the control means in the community management server, upon receiving a request to register the board from the board manager terminal through the input/output means,
• reads the board registration screen from the board database of the storage means and transmits the board registration screen to the board manager terminal,
• receives an instruction for determining a specification of the board and the card attached to the board, including:
• (1) information for identifying a size, a type, and a title of the board and a character inputted to the board,
• (2) information for identifying a file name or a display position of a background image of the board composed of a document, a map, a photograph, and the like,
• (3) information for identifying a font size of a comment including in the card attached to the board, a genre of the card, and a card color corresponding to the genre, and
• (4) information for identifying a board manager of the board manager terminal which has made the request to resister the board, that is, information for identifying a manager name or a mail address of the board manager on the board registration screen from the board manager terminal through the input/output means, and
• creates the board based on the determined specification, assigns information for identifying the board to the created board, and stores the created board in the board database associating information for identifying the created board with information for identifying the board manager who has provided the created board.

A communication method for implementing smooth communication in a communication system, the communication system including a board manager terminal, a user terminal, and a community management server, wherein the board manager terminal, the user terminal and the community management server are connected to one another via a communication network, the method comprising:

• providing, by the board manager terminal, a board including premise information which is a premise of communication;
• proving, by the user terminal, a card including a comment on the premise information or a comment on the comment,
• wherein the community management server includes storage means for storing the board and the card, input/output means, and control means and creates the board to which the card is attached,
• wherein the storage means in the community management server, includes a board database for storing the board, associating information for identifying the board with information for identifying a board manager who provides the board, and a template database for storing a template, associating a purpose and a stage of the communication with the template which corresponds to the purpose and the stage and is a combination of the board and the card, and
• wherein the control means in the community management server executes:
• a step of, upon receiving a request to use a template from the board manager terminal through the input/output means, referring to the purpose and the stage from the template database, creating a template selection screen for selecting the template, and transmitting the created template selection screen to the board manager terminal;
• a step of receiving an instruction for determining the purpose of the communication and the stage according to the purpose on the template selection screen from the board manager terminal through the input/output means;
• a step of referring to the template database, creating a board based on the template corresponding to the determined purpose and stage, and transmitting a board confirmation screen for registering information in the created board through the out/output means to the board manager terminal;
• a step of receiving a request to register the created board including information registered in the created board on the board confirmation screen from the board manager terminal through the input/output means;
• and
• a step of, based on the request to register the created board, storing the created board in the board database associating information for identifying the created board with information for identifying the board manager who has provided the created board.

A communication method for implementing smooth communication in a communication system, the communication system including a board manager terminal, a user terminal, and a community management server, wherein the board manager terminal, the user terminal and the community management server are connected to one another via a communication network, the method comprising:

• providing, by the board manager terminal, a board including premise information which is a premise of communication;
• proving, by the user terminal, a card including a comment on the premise information or a comment on the comment,
• wherein the community management server includes storage means for storing the board and the card, input/output means, and control means and creates the board to which the card is attached,
• wherein the storage means in the community management server includes a board database for storing the board, associating information for identifying the board with information for identifying a board manager who provides the board, and a card database for storing the card, associating information for identifying the card with information for identifying the board to which the card is attached and information for identifying a user who provides the card, and
• wherein the control means in the community management server executes:
• a step of, upon receiving a request to group the card from the board manager terminal through the input/output means, reading the board provided from the board manager by referring to the information for identifying the board manager from the board database, reading the card attached to the board provided from the board manager terminal by referring to the information for identifying the board to which the card is attached from the card database, creating a representative-card input screen for creating a representative card obtained by summarizing the card attached to the board provided from the board manager terminal, and transmitting the created representative-card input screen to the board manager terminal;
• a step of receiving an instruction for determining the representative card including a comment of the grouped card or a comment of the representative card on the representative-card input screen from the board manager terminal through the input/output means;
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• a step of creating the representative card based on the determination and storing the created representative card in the card database associating information for identifying the representative card with information for identifying a board to which the representative card is attached.

A communication method for implementing smooth communication in a communication system, the communication system including a board manager terminal, a user terminal, and a community management server, wherein the board manager terminal, the user terminal, and the community management server are connected to one another via a communication network, the method comprising:

• providing, by the board manager terminal, a board including premise information which is a premise of communication;
• proving, by the user terminal, a card including a comment on the premise information or a comment on the comment,
• wherein the community storage management server includes storage means for storing the board and the card, input/output means, and control means and creates the board to which the card is attached,
• wherein the storage means in the community management server includes a board database for storing the board, associating information for identifying the board with information for identifying a board manager who provides the board,
• wherein the control means in the community management server executes:
• a step of, upon receiving a request to ally the board from the board manager terminal through the input/output means, reading the board provided from the board manager by referring to the information for identifying the board manager from the board database, creating a board alliance registration screen for creating an alliance board obtained by allying the board, and transmitting the created board alliance registration screen to the board manager terminal;
• a step of receiving an instruction for determining the alliance board including information for identifying the board provided from the board manager terminal which has made the request to ally the board or information for identifying a board which is provided from a board manager terminal other than the board manager terminal which has made the ally the board and allied with the board provided from the board manager terminal which has made the request to ally the board on the board alliance registration screen from the board manager terminal through the input/output means;
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• a step of creating the alliance board based on the determination and storing the created alliance board in the board database associating information for identifying the alliance board with information for identifying a board constituting the alliance board.

A communication method for implementing smooth communication in a communication system, the communication system including a board manager terminal, a user terminal, and a community management server, wherein the board manager terminal, the user terminal, and the community management server are connected to one another via a communication network, the method comprising:

• providing, by the board manager terminal, a board including premise information which is a premise of communication;
• proving, by the user terminal, a card including a comment on the premise information or a comment on the comment,
• wherein the community management server includes storage means for storing the board and the card, input/output means, and control means, and creates the board to which the card is attached,
• wherein the storage means in the community management server includes a board database for storing the board, associating information for identifying the board with information for identifying a board manager who provides the board, and a card database for storing the card, associating information for identifying the card with information for identifying the board to which the card is attached and information for identifying a user who provides the card,
• wherein the control means in the community management server executes:
• a step of, upon receiving a request to divide the board from the board manager terminal through the input/output means, reading the board provided from the board manager by referring to the information for identifying the board manager from the board database, reading the card attached to the board provided from the board manager terminal by referring to the information for identifying the board to which the card is attached from the card database, creating a board management screen for determining a division board, and transmitting the created board management screen to the board manager terminal;
• a step of receiving an instruction for determining the division board and a card attached to the division board on the board management screen from the board manager terminal through the input/output means;
• a step of, upon receiving the instruction for determining the division board and the card attached to the division board from the board manager terminal through the input/output means, creating a post-division board to which the card specified at the board manager terminal is attached from a pre-division board which is divided by copying based on the determination;
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• a step of storing the created post-division board in the board database associating information for identifying the post-division board with information for identifying the board manager, and storing the card specified at the board manager terminal in the card database associating information for identifying the card determined at the board manager terminal with information for identifying the post-division board to which the card specified at the board manager terminal is attached and information for identifying a user who provides the determined card.

A communication method for implementing smooth communication in a communication system, the communication system including a board manager terminal, a user terminal, and a community management server, wherein the board manager terminal, the user terminal, and the community management server are connected to one another via a communication network, the method comprising:

• providing, by the board manager terminal, a board including premise information which is a premise of communication;
• proving, by the user terminal, a card including a comment on the premise information or a comment on the comment,
• wherein the community storage management server includes storage means for storing the board and the card, input/output means, and control means and creates the board to which the card is attached,
• wherein the storage means in the community management server includes a board database for storing the board, associating information for identifying the board with information for identifying a board manager who provides the board, and a card database for storing the card, associating information for identifying the card with information for identifying the board to which the card is attached and information for identifying a user who provides the card, and an aggregation database for storing an aggregation result obtained by aggregating card information and board information,
• wherein the control means in the community management server executes:
• a step of receiving, through the input/output means, an aggregation unit in which at least one of the board and the card is an aggregation object and an aggregation axis indicative of aggregation information for each aggregation unit, determined at the user terminal;
• a step of referring to the board and the card from the board database and the card database, aggregating the board information and the card information based on the aggregation unit and the aggregation axis, and storing the aggregation result into the aggregation database;
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• a step of transmitting the aggregation result stored in the aggregation database through out/output means to the user terminal that has determined the aggregation unit and the aggregation axis.

A communication system, for implementing smooth communication, the communication system comprising:

• a board manager terminal for providing a board including premise information which is a premise of communication;
• a user terminal for proving a card including a comment on the premise information or a comment on the comment;
• and
• a community management server which includes storage means for storing the board and the card, input/output means, and control means and creates the board to which the card is attached,
• wherein the board manager terminal, the user terminal, and the community management terminal are connected to one another via a communication network,
• wherein the storage means in the community management server includes a board database for storing the board, associating information for identifying the board with information for identifying a board manager who provides the board, and a template database for storing a template, associating a purpose and a stage of the communication with the template which corresponds to the purpose and the stage and is a combination of the board and the card,
• wherein the control means in the community management server, upon receiving a request to use a template from the board manager terminal through the input/output means,
• refers to the purpose and the stage from the template database,
• creates a template selection screen for selecting the template, and transmits the created template selection screen to the board manager terminal,
• receives an instruction for determining the purpose of the communication and the stage according to the purpose the template selection screen from the board manager terminal through the input/output means,
• refers to the template database, creates a board based on the template corresponding to the determined purpose and stage, and transmits a board confirmation screen for registering information in the created board through the input/output means to the board manager terminal,
• receives a request to register the created board including information registered in the created board on the board confirmation screen from the board manager terminal through the input/output means, and
• based on the request to register the created board, stores the created board in the board database associating information for identifying the created board with information for identifying the board manager who has provided the created board.

A communication system, for implementing smooth communication, the communication system including:

• a board manager terminal for providing a board including premise information which is a premise of communication;
• a user terminal for proving a card including a comment on the premise information or a comment on the comment;
• and
• a community management server which includes storage means for storing the board and the card, input/output means, and control means and creates the board to which the card is attached are connected to one another via a communication network,
• wherein the storage means in the community management server includes a board database for storing the board, associating information for identifying the board with information for identifying a board manager who provides the board, and a card database for storing the card, associating information for identifying the card with information for identifying the board to which the card is attached and information for identifying a user who provides the card,
• wherein the control means in the community management server, upon receiving a request to group the card from the board manager terminal through the input/output means,
• reads the board provided from the board manager by referring to the information for identifying the board manager from the board database,
• reads the card attached to the board provided from the board manager terminal by referring to the information for identifying the board to which the card is attached from the card database,
• creates a representative-card input screen for crating are representative card obtained by summarizing the card attached to the board provided from the board manager terminal, and transmits the created representative-card input screen to the board manager terminal,
• receives an instruction for determining the representative card including a comment of the grouped card or a comment of the representative card on the representative-card input screen from the board manager terminal through the input/output means, and
• creates the representative card based on the determination and stores the created representative card in the card database associating information for identifying the representative card with information for identifying a board to which the representative card is attached.

A communication system, for implementing smooth communication, the communication system comprising:

• a board manager terminal for providing a board including premise information which is a premise of communication
• a user terminal for proving a card including a comment on the premise information or a comment on the comment;
• and
• a community management server which includes storage means for storing the board and the card, input/output means, and control means and creates the board to which the card is attached,
• wherein the board manager terminal, the user terminal and the community management server are connected to one another via a communication network,
• wherein the storage means in the community management server includes a board database for storing the board, associating information for identifying the board with information for identifying a board manager who provides the board,
• wherein the control means in the community management server, upon receiving a request to ally the board from the board manager terminal through the input/output means,
• reads the board provided from the board manager by referring to the information for identifying the board manager from the board database,
• creates aboard alliance registration screen for creating an alliance board obtained by allying the board, and transmits the created board alliance registration screen to the board manager terminal,
• receives an instruction for determining the alliance board including information for identifying the board provided from the board manager terminal which has made the request to ally the board or information for identifying a board which is provided from a board manager terminal other than the board manager terminal which has made the request to all the board and allied with the board provided from the board manager terminal which has made the request to ally the board on the board alliance registration screen from the board manager terminal through the input/output means, and
• creates the alliance board based on the determination and stores the created alliance board in the board database associating information for identifying the alliance board with information for identifying a board constituting the alliance board.

A communication system, for implementing smooth communication, the communication system comprising:

• a board manager terminal for providing a board including premise information which is a premise of communication;
• a user terminal for proving a card including a comment on the remise information or a comment on the comment;
• and
• a community management server which includes storage means for storing the board and the card, input/output means, and control means and creates the board to which the card is attached are connected to one another via a communication network,
• wherein the storage means in the community management server includes a board database for storing the board, associating information for identifying the board with information for identifying a board manager who provides the board, and a card database for storing the card, associating information for identifying the card with information for identifying the board to which the card is attached and information for identifying a user who provides the card,
• wherein the control means in the community management server, upon receiving a request to divide the board from the board manager terminal through the input/output means,
• reads the board provided from the board manager by referring to the information for identifying the board manager from the board database,
• reads the card attached to the board provided from the board manager terminal by referring to the information for identifying the board to which the card is attached from the card database, creates a board management screen for determining a division board, and transmits the created board management screen to the board manager terminal,
• receives an instruction for determining the division board and a card attached to the division board on the board management screen from the board manager terminal through the input/output means,
• upon receiving the instruction for determining the division board and the card attached to the division board from the board manager terminal through the input/output means, creates a post-division board to which the card specified at the board manager terminal is attached from a pre-division board which is divided by copying based on the determination, and
• stores the created post-division board in the board database associating information for identifying the post-division board with information for identifying the board manager, and stores the card specified at the board manager terminal in the card database associating information for identifying the card determined at the board manager terminal with information for identifying the post-division board to which the card specified at the board manager terminal is attached and information for identifying a user who provides the determined card.

A communication system, for implementing smooth communication, the communication system comprising:

• a board including premise information which is a premise of communication;
• a user terminal for proving a card including a comment on the premise information or a comment on the comment;
• and
• a community management server which includes storage means for storing the board and the card, input/output means, and control means and creates the board to which the card is attached are connected to one another via a communication network,
• wherein the storage means in the community management server includes a board database for storing the board, associating information for identifying the board with information for identifying a board manager who provides the board, and a card database for storing the card, associating information for identifying the card with information for identifying the board to which the card is attached and information for identifying a user who provides the card, and an aggregation database for storing an aggregation result obtained by aggregating card information and board information,
• wherein the control means in the community management server,
• receives, through the in out/output means, an aggregation unit in which at least one of the board and the card is an aggregation object and an aggregation axis indicative of aggregation information for each aggregation unit, determined at the user terminal,
• refers to the board and the card from the board database and the card database, aggregates the board information and the card information based on the aggregation unit and the aggregation axis, and stores the aggregation result into the aggregation database, and
• transmits the aggregation result stored in the aggregation database through the input/output means to the user terminal that has determined the aggregation unit and the aggregation axis.