JP2011227572A - Browsing terminal and method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a browsing terminal and a method that can provide not only information retrieved on the basis of a query that individual users input, but also information that meets the trend of the user's interest and favorite.SOLUTION: A browsing terminal 10 having a browsing page DB31 analyzes a content shown by a URL of a web page that is requested to be browsed by an user operation, creates an index of the analyzed content, and associates the created index with the URL of the web page to store in the browsing page DB31. Then the browsing terminal 10 accepts a query, sends a retrieval request to a retrieval server 50 according to the accepted query, acquires a retrieval result from the retrieval server 50 and retrieves the browsing page DB31 according to the query, acquires the index of the retrieved content and the URL of the web page associated with the index as a retrieval result, and displays the acquired retrieval result.

Description

  The present invention relates to a browsing terminal and method.

  In recent years, with the spread of the Internet and the like, users can easily search various information. For example, the user inputs a query such as a search word from the terminal and makes a search request to the search server. Then, the search server searches a database or the like in response to a request from the terminal, and provides the search result to the terminal.

  By searching for information using such a search server, the user can obtain a new idea. Furthermore, in order to broaden the user's idea, a technique has been proposed in which a word associated with a search word is provided as an associative search result instead of presenting a document including the search word as a search result. For example, a search service device described in Patent Document 1 that improves user association search results by incorporating user feedback on associative search results is known.

  The search service device described in Patent Literature 1 aggregates appearance frequencies of a plurality of keywords for each document data, and relevance data representing relevance based on co-occurrence between keywords calculated using the appearance frequency data Hold. Then, the search service device extracts a predetermined number of keywords as an associative word in descending order of the degree of association with the search word from the plurality of search words input from the user terminal, and the extracted associative word is a character string. Create a page with tags included as and output it to the user terminal as a search result.

JP 2009-86774 A

  However, the search service device described in Patent Literature 1 can extract a predetermined number of keywords as an associative word in descending order of relevance with the input search word. It is not possible to extract information in line with the tendency.

  Therefore, there is a demand for a terminal capable of providing information in accordance with the interests of each user and the tendency of interest for each user search.

  It is an object of the present invention to provide a browsing terminal and a method capable of providing not only information searched based on a query input by an individual user but also information in accordance with the interest and interest tendency of the user. And

  The present invention provides the following solutions.

  (1) A browsing terminal that searches a web page by a query input by a user, and stores a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the web page and a content index indicated by the URL of the web page in association with each other. The browsing page storage means analyzes the content indicated by the URL of the web page requested to be browsed by the user's operation, creates an index of the analyzed content, and associates the created index with the URL of the web page A browsing page registration unit to be stored in the browsing page storage unit, a search query reception unit that receives the query, and a search request that is transmitted to the search server by the query that is received by the search query reception unit. The result A search result acquisition unit that searches the browsing page storage unit with the query and acquires an index of the searched content and a URL of a web page associated with the index as a search result, and the search result acquisition And a search result display means for displaying the search results acquired by the means.

  According to the configuration of (1), the browsing terminal according to the present invention includes browsing page storage means for storing the URL of the web page and the index of the content indicated by the URL of the web page in association with each other, and the user operation The content indicated by the URL of the web page requested to be browsed is analyzed, an index of the analyzed content is created, and the created index is associated with the URL of the web page and stored in the browse page storage means. Then, the browsing terminal according to the present invention receives the query, transmits a search request to the search server by the received query, acquires the search result from the search server, searches the browsing page storage unit by the query, and performs a search. The content index and the URL of the web page associated with the index are acquired as search results, and the acquired search results are displayed.

  That is, the browsing terminal according to the present invention acquires the search result from the search server according to the received query, and also acquires and displays the search result from the browsing page storage unit that stores the web page browsed in the past by the user. . Therefore, the browsing terminal according to the present invention can provide not only information obtained by searching a search server based on a query input by an individual user, but also information in accordance with the user's interest and tendency of interest.

  (2) The browsing terminal according to (1), wherein the search result display unit displays the search result acquired from the browsing page storage unit in preference to the search result acquired from the search server. .

  According to the configuration of (2), the browsing terminal displays the search result acquired from the browsing page storage unit in preference to the search result acquired from the search server when displaying. Accordingly, the browsing terminal according to (2) provides information that is in line with the user's interests and interests more preferentially than information obtained by searching the search server based on a query input by each user. Can do.

  (3) A crawling unit that periodically crawls a web page according to the URL of the web page stored in the browsing page storage unit and acquires a URL of a new web page, and the browsing page registration unit includes: Analyzing the content indicated by the URL of the new web page acquired by the crawling means, creating an index of the analyzed content, and associating the created index with the URL of the new web page in the browsing page storage means The browsing terminal according to (1) or (2), which is stored.

  According to the configuration of (3), the browsing terminal periodically crawls the web page by the URL of the web page stored in the browse page storage unit, further acquires the URL of the new web page, and acquires the acquired new page. The content indicated by the URL of the web page is analyzed, an index of the analyzed content is created, and the created index is stored in the browsing page storage unit in association with the URL of the new web page. Therefore, the browsing terminal according to (3) provides information further related to the interest and interest tendency of each user based on the web page acquired based on the information according to the interest and interest tendency of each user. Can be acquired and provided.

  (4) A browsing terminal for searching a web page from a search server by a query input by a user, analyzing the content indicated by the URL of the web page requested to be browsed by the user's operation, and an index of the analyzed content , And a method executed by a browsing terminal that associates the created index with the URL of the web page and stores the URL in the browsing page storage unit, the step of receiving the query, and the search by the received query A search request is transmitted to the server, the search result is acquired from the search server, the browsing page storage unit is searched by the query, the index of the searched content, and the URL of the web page associated with the index, To get as search results, The method comprising the step of displaying the resulting search result.

  According to the configuration of (4), the method according to the present invention includes not only information obtained by searching the search server based on a query input by each user, but also information in accordance with the user's interest and tendency of interest. Can be provided.

  The present invention can provide not only information obtained by searching a search server based on a query input by an individual user, but also information according to the user's interest and tendency of interest. Furthermore, the present invention can preferentially display the URL of a web page browsed by the user in the past as a search result. Moreover, this invention can display the web page around the web page which the user browsed as a related page of a search result.

It is a functional block diagram which shows the function structure of the browsing terminal which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of browsing page DB of the browsing terminal which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the search process of the browsing terminal which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the crawling process of the browsing terminal which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the search result by the browsing terminal which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  This embodiment is applied to a computer and its peripheral devices. Each unit in the present embodiment is configured by hardware included in a computer and its peripheral devices, and software that controls the hardware.

  The hardware includes a storage unit, a communication device, a display device, and an input device in addition to a CPU (Central Processing Unit) as a control unit. Examples of the storage unit include a memory (RAM: Random Access Memory, ROM: Read Only Memory, etc.), a hard disk drive (HDD: Hard Disk Drive), and an optical disk (CD: Compact Disc, DVD: Digital Versatile Drive, etc.). It is done. Examples of the communication device include various wired and wireless interface devices. Examples of the display device include various displays such as a liquid crystal display and a plasma display. Examples of the input device include a keyboard and a pointing device (mouse, tracking ball, etc.).

  The software includes a computer program and data for controlling the hardware. The computer program and data are stored in the storage unit, and are appropriately executed and referenced by the control unit. The computer program and data can be distributed via a communication line, or can be recorded on a computer-readable medium such as a CD-ROM and distributed.

  FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration of a browsing terminal 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The browsing terminal 10 is a browsing page DB 31 (DB: database) as a browsing page storage unit, a browsing page registration unit 11 as a browsing page registration unit, a search query receiving unit 12 as a search query receiving unit, and a search as a search result acquiring unit. The result acquisition unit 13 includes a search result display unit 14 as a search result display unit, and a crawling unit 15 as a crawling unit. The function of the browsing terminal 10 will be described in detail for each part.

  The browsing page DB 31 stores the URL of the web page and the content index indicated by the URL of the web page in association with each other (see FIG. 2 described later). The index of the content indicated by the URL of the web page is obtained by analyzing the content indicated by the URL of the web page, and includes, for example, the title and summary of the web page.

  The browse page registration unit 11 analyzes the content indicated by the URL of the web page requested to be browsed by the user's operation, creates an index of the analyzed content, and associates the created index with the URL of the web page And stored in the browsing page DB 31. The URL of the web page requested to be browsed includes, for example, the URL of the web page requested to be browsed by directly inputting the URL of the web page by a user operation. Further, the URL of the web page requested to be browsed includes the URL of the web page requested to be browsed by being selected and clicked from the list of URLs of the web pages displayed by the search. Then, the browsing page registration unit 11 analyzes the content indicated by the URL of the web page requested to be browsed, creates an index (for example, a title, a summary, etc.) of the analyzed content, and uses the created index as the index of the web page. It is stored in the browsing page DB 31 in association with the URL.

  The search query receiving unit 12 receives a query. For example, the search query receiving unit 12 receives a keyword for searching, a search condition for the search server 50 or the browsing page DB 31 to be searched, and the like.

  The search result acquisition unit 13 transmits a search request to the search server 50 by the query received by the search query reception unit 12, acquires the search result from the search server 50, and searches the browsing page DB 31 by the query. The index of the searched content and the URL of the web page associated with the index are acquired as search results. For example, the search result acquisition unit 13 transmits a search request to the search server 50 via the computer network 70 according to the keyword received by the search query receiving unit 12, the search condition, and the like, and the search searched by the transmitted search request A search result is acquired from the server 50. At the same time, the search result acquisition unit 13 searches the index (for example, title, summary, etc.) of the content stored in the browsing page DB 31 based on the keyword received by the search query receiving unit 12, the search condition, and the like. The index of the obtained content and the URL of the web page associated with the index are acquired as search results.

  The search result display unit 14 displays the search result acquired by the search result acquisition unit 13. For example, the search result display unit 14 includes the search result acquired from the search server 50 by the search result acquisition unit 13 and the search result acquired from the browsing page DB 31 by the search result acquisition unit 13 (for example, the URL and content of the web page) Index). The search result display unit 14 includes the degree of coincidence when the search result is acquired by the search result acquisition unit 13 (for example, the number including keywords or the number including similar words of keywords acquired from a similar word dictionary (not shown)). Etc.), a search result with a high degree of matching is displayed with priority. Furthermore, the search result display unit 14 displays the search result acquired from the browsing page DB 31 with priority over the search result acquired from the search server 50 when displaying the search result acquired by the search result acquisition unit 13. To do. The search result display unit 14 may determine and display the priority order of the search results by other methods. Then, the browse page registration unit 11 selects, for example, a web page URL that is displayed by being selected from a list of search results displayed by the search result display unit 14 and clicked. And the index of the content indicated by the URL of the web page are stored in the browsing page DB 31 in association with each other.

  The crawling unit 15 periodically crawls the web page with the URL of the web page stored in the browsing page DB 31 and acquires the URL of the new web page. For example, the crawling unit 15 follows the content linked from the content indicated by the URL of the web page stored in the browse page DB 31 and acquires the URL of the new web page. Then, the browsing page registration unit 11 analyzes the content indicated by the URL of the new web page with respect to the URL of the new web page acquired by the crawling unit 15, and analyzes the index of the analyzed content (for example, title or summary) Etc.) and the created index is stored in the browsing page DB 31 in association with the URL of the new web page.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the browsing page DB 31 of the browsing terminal 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention. The browsing page DB 31 stores the URL of the web page and the content index indicated by the URL of the web page in association with each other. The content index includes, for example, a content title and a summary. Further, the browsing page DB 31 stores information (for example, browsing date) indicating whether or not the content indicated by the URL of the web page has been browsed in association with the URL of the web page. The browsing terminal 10 determines the display order of the search results acquired from the browsing page DB 31 according to the degree of coincidence with the keyword and information indicating whether or not the content indicated by the URL of the web page has been browsed. Then, the browsing terminal 10 may display the URL of the web page browsed in the past with emphasis. Moreover, the browsing terminal 10 may search among the URLs of web pages browsed by the user among the URLs of web pages stored in the browse page DB 31. Thereby, the browsing terminal 10 can display not only the current search results acquired from the search server 50 but also the search results acquired from the URLs of web pages actually browsed in the past. Note that the browsing page DB 31 may also store the content indicated by the URL of the linked web page. By storing the content indicated by the URL of the web page, the browsing terminal 10 can display the content browsed in the past offline even if the content does not exist.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing search processing of the browsing terminal 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention. This process starts in response to a program start command.

  In step S101, the CPU (search query receiving unit 12) receives a query. More specifically, the CPU receives an input of a query (for example, a keyword or a search condition) from an input device (for example, a keyboard). Thereafter, the CPU moves the process to step S102.

  In step S102, the CPU (search result acquisition unit 13) acquires a search result from the search server 50 based on the accepted query. More specifically, the CPU transmits a search request to the search server 50 using the accepted query, and receives and acquires the search result from the search server 50 searched using the transmitted search request. Thereafter, the CPU moves the process to step S103.

  In step S103, the CPU (search result acquisition unit 13) acquires a search result from the browse page DB 31 based on the accepted query. More specifically, the CPU searches the index (for example, title, summary, etc.) of the content stored in the browsing page DB 31 by the received query, and the index of the searched content is associated with the index. The URL of the web page is acquired as a search result. Thereafter, the CPU moves the process to step S104.

  In step S104, the CPU (search result display unit 14) preferentially displays the search results acquired from the browse page DB 31 among the acquired search results. More specifically, when displaying the search result acquired from the search server 50 and the search result acquired from the browsing page DB 31 in step S103, the CPU gives priority to the search result acquired from the browsing page DB 31. indicate. Thereafter, the CPU moves the process to step S105.

  In step S <b> 105, the CPU (browsing page registration unit 11) stores the URL and content index of the selected web page among the displayed search results in the browsing page DB 31. More specifically, the CPU analyzes the content indicated by the URL of the web page selected by the input from the input device (keyboard, mouse, etc.) from the displayed search results, and creates an index of the analyzed content. Then, the created index is stored in the browsing page DB 31 in association with the URL of the web page. Thereafter, the CPU ends the process.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the crawling process of the viewing terminal 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention. This process starts periodically.

  In step S <b> 201, the CPU (crawling unit 15) acquires the URL of the web page from the browsing page DB 31. Thereafter, the CPU moves the process to step S202.

  In step S202, the CPU (crawling unit 15) determines whether there is a link destination in the content indicated by the URL of the acquired web page. If this determination is YES, the CPU moves the process to step S203, and if NO, the CPU moves the process to step S205.

  In step S203, the CPU (crawling unit 15) determines whether or not it is a new link destination. That is, the CPU searches the browsing page DB 31 with the URL of the web page indicating the link destination, and determines whether the URL of the web page indicating the link destination is not stored. If this determination is YES, the CPU moves the process to step S204, and if NO, the CPU moves the process to step S202.

  In step S <b> 204, the CPU (crawling unit 15) associates the URL of the web page that is the link destination with the content index indicated by the URL of the web page and stores them in the browsing page DB 31. More specifically, the CPU analyzes the content indicated by the URL of the web page that is the link destination, creates an index of the analyzed content, and associates the created index with the URL of the web page in the browsing page DB 31. Remember me. Thereafter, the CPU moves the process to step S202.

  In step S205, the CPU (crawling unit 15) determines whether there is a URL of a web page to be crawled next. That is, the CPU determines whether a URL to be crawled next is stored among the URLs of the web pages stored in the browsing page DB 31. If this determination is YES, the CPU moves the process to step S201, and if NO, the CPU ends the process.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of search results by the browsing terminal 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The example of FIG. 5 is an example showing that the browsing terminal 10 displays the search result acquired based on the query input in the query input field 111 of the display device in the search result field 121. In the example of FIG. 5, the mark 122 indicates a search result acquired from the browsing page DB 31, and the date displayed together with the URL indicates the browsing date. In addition, a URL that is a search result acquired from the browsing page DB 31 and has no browsing date is stored in the browsing page DB 31 by the crawling process, but indicates a content that has not been browsed. That is, the example of FIG. 5 displays the search result acquired from the search server 50 based on the input query by the browsing terminal 10 and the search result acquired from the browse page DB 31, and the search acquired from the browse page DB 31. It is an example showing that the results are displayed with priority over the search results acquired from the search server 50. Further, in the example of FIG. 5, the browsing terminal 10 displays and browses the web page by selecting and clicking the URL of the web page from the displayed search result list with the mouse pointer 201. Then, the URL of the web page and the index of the content indicated by the URL of the web page are stored in the browsing page DB 31 in association with each other.

  According to this embodiment, the browsing terminal 10 includes a browsing page DB 31 that stores a URL of a web page and an index of content indicated by the URL of the web page in association with each other, and a browsing request is made by a user operation. The content indicated by the URL of the web page is analyzed, an index of the analyzed content is created, and the created index is associated with the URL of the web page and stored in the browsing page DB 31. The browsing terminal 10 receives the query, transmits a search request to the search server 50 by the received query, acquires the search result from the search server 50, searches the browsing page DB 31 by the query, and searches the content. And the URL of the web page associated with the index are acquired as search results, and the acquired search results are displayed. And the browsing terminal 10 displays the search result acquired from the browsing page DB31 with priority over the search result acquired from the search server 50 when displaying. Further, the browsing terminal 10 periodically crawls the web page with the URL of the web page stored in the browse page DB 31, further acquires the URL of the new web page, and the content indicated by the URL of the acquired new web page Is analyzed, an index of the analyzed content is created, and the created index is stored in the browsing page DB 31 in association with the URL of the new web page. Therefore, the browsing terminal 10 can provide not only information searched for a search server based on a query input by an individual user, but also information in accordance with the user's interest and tendency of interest. Information related to interests and trends in interest can also be provided.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not restricted to embodiment mentioned above. The effects described in the embodiments of the present invention are only the most preferable effects resulting from the present invention, and the effects of the present invention are limited to those described in the embodiments of the present invention. is not.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Browse terminal 11 Browse page registration part 12 Search query reception part 13 Search result acquisition part 14 Search result display part 15 Crawling part 31 Browse page DB
50 search server 70 computer network

Claims (4)

A browsing terminal that searches a web page by a query input by a user,
Browsing page storage means for storing the URL of the web page and the index of the content indicated by the URL of the web page in association with each other;
Analyzing the content indicated by the URL of the web page requested to be browsed by the user's operation, creating an index of the analyzed content, and associating the created index with the URL of the web page, the browse page storage means Browsing page registration means to be stored in,
Search query receiving means for receiving the query;
Sending a search request to the search server by the query received by the search query receiving means, obtaining a search result from the search server, searching the browsing page storage means by the query, and an index of the searched content, Search result acquisition means for acquiring the URL of the web page associated with the index as a search result;
Search result display means for displaying the search results acquired by the search result acquisition means;
A browsing terminal comprising:   The browsing terminal according to claim 1, wherein the search result display unit displays the search result acquired from the browsing page storage unit in preference to the search result acquired from the search server. Crawling means for periodically crawling the web page with the URL of the web page stored in the browsing page storage means to obtain the URL of a new web page;
The browsing page registration unit analyzes the content indicated by the URL of the new web page acquired by the crawling unit, creates an index of the analyzed content, and corresponds the created index to the URL of the new web page The browsing terminal according to claim 1, wherein the browsing terminal is further stored in the browsing page storage unit. A browsing terminal for searching a web page from a search server by a query input by a user, analyzing the content indicated by the URL of the web page requested to be browsed by the user's operation, and creating an index of the analyzed content A method executed by a browsing terminal that associates the created index with the URL of the web page and stores it in the browsing page storage means,
Receiving the query;
A search request is transmitted to the search server by the accepted query, a search result is acquired from the search server, the browsing page storage unit is searched by the query, and the index of the searched content is associated with the index. Obtaining a URL of the web page as a search result;
Displaying the retrieved search results;
A method comprising:

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