UNIT HAVING INTERNET CONNECTION MECHANISM FACILITATING HOME PAGE BROWSING, AND HOME PAGE RETRIEVAL METHOD AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING HOME PAGE RETRIEVAL SUPPORT SYSTEM USED IN THE UNIT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a home page retrieving method, a device therefor and a guide server, which can easily retrieve a desired Internet home page with a simple operation in an Internet connection unit having a simple input/output mechanism.;SOLUTION: The unit is provided with voice response parts (311, 312 and 311), a browser (314), a retrieval control part (3141) for controlling the changeover between the transmission/reception mode of voice data and transmission/ reception mode of home page reference data, a mode changeover part (318) for changing over the transmission/reception mode of voice data to/from the transmission/reception mode of home page reference data, an access point changeover part (322) for changing over the connection destination of the unit (31) between the home page guide server and an Internet provider server, and a URL reception part (3141) for receiving URL address data which is transmitted from the home page reference server by voice or digital data and deals with an inquiry. Thus, the home page can efficiently be retrieved.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO