WO2007100200A1 - System for providing customized information using keyword searching and method thereof - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a system for providing customized information that a user wants through a communication network such as the Internet, and more particularly, to a system for providing customized information using keyword searching in which, in order to most easily get customized information that a user wants, when the user executes searching by inputting a keyword at a search portal site or shopping mall site or the like, customized information corresponding to the input keyword can be provided in real time even after searching is completed, and a method thereof.
- a user In order to get the latest information corresponding to a specific keyword, a user must repeatedly execute a search operation by having an access to a portal site or shopping mall site or the like every time. However, it is very inconvenient to repeatedly execute a search operation by having an access to an Internet site every time whenever the user wants to get the latest information. In particular, since the user does not separately record a keyword to be searched and does not user an identical keyword during searching, different search results may occur every time. In addition, in case of part of Internet sites, additional user authentication is required for a search operation. Thus, there are problems that it is inconvenient and complicated for the user to execute a search operation. Various types of systems for providing customized information have been suggested so as to reduce user's inconveniences.
- Conventional systems for providing customized information are largely classified into two types: one is a system which provides customized information according to users via a web server and provides customized information by having an access to the web server using a web browser, and the other one is a system in which a client program is installed at a user's computer, the client program has an access to a server for providing customized information, customized information corresponding to the user is supplied from the server and thereby provides the customized information to the user.
- the present invention provides a system for providing customized information using keyword searching in which, when a user executes searching by inputting a keyword at a search portal site or shopping mall site or the like, an identifier such as a keyword-related customized information-providing word, an image or a pop-up window or the like is included in part of search results, and when the user clicks a corresponding identifier, operations of installing a client program and selecting customized information are simultaneously performed so that customized information that the user wants can be very easily gotten and in particular, the user can get the latest information continuously without performing an operation of selecting additional information through a series of keyword searching.
- an identifier such as a keyword-related customized information-providing word, an image or a pop-up window or the like is included in part of search results
- a system for providing customized information using keyword searching in which customized information that a user wants is provided to a user computer by including a web server, a manager serer, and a user computer connected to one another via a communication network
- the system comprising: a web server receiving keyword input from a user computer, executing corresponding searching and transmitting a manager server access tag by including the manager server access tag in keyword searching results; a user computer transmitting a keyword searched by having an access to the manager server using the manager server access tag included in the keyword searching results to display a customized information-providing identifier transmitted from the manager server together with the keyword searching results, and if the user selects the customized information-providing identifier, transmitting the information to the manager server to install a client program and/or a searched keyword transmitted from the manager server; and a manager server transmitting a customized information-providing identifier corresponding to the searched keyword transmitted from the user computer, if selection information about the customized information-providing identifier
- a method of providing customized information using keyword searching comprising: (a) having an access to a web server using a user computer to display a web page for keyword searching; (b) if the user computer receives key input and transmits an input keyword to the web server, executing corresponding searching using the web server and including a manager server access tag in keyword searching results to transmit the manager server access tag; (c) if the user computer transmits a keyword searched by having an access to the manager server using the manager server access tag included in the keyword searching results transmitted from the web server, transmitting a customized information-providing identifier to the user computer using the manager server; (d) displaying a customized information-providing identifier together with the keyword searching results using the user computer; (e) if the user receives selection information about the customized information-providing identifier and transmits the input selection information to the manager server, transmitting a client program and/or a searched keyword to the user computer using the manager server; (f) installing
- FIG. 1 illustrates the structure of a system for providing customized information using keyword searching according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2A illustrates a keyword searching result screen on which words are displayed as a customized information-providing identifier.
- FIG. 2B illustrates a keyword searching result screen on which an additional pop-up window is displayed as a customized information-providing identifier.
- FIG. 3 illustrates customized information displayed on a user computer screen.
- FIG. 4 illustrates a user interface of a client program according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5A illustrates a keyword conversion table
- FIG. 5B illustrates a keyword-information table
- FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate a method of providing customized information using keyword searching based on data flow according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7A illustrates part of a HTML source program of a web server in which a customized information-providing identifier is inserted by iframe.
- FIG. 7B illustrates part of a HTML source program of the web server in which a customized information-providing identifier is inserted by an additional pop-up window.
- FIG. 7C illustrates part of a HTML source program to which a keyword is transmitted from a user computer at a manager server and which provides a corresponding customized information-providing identifier.
- FIG. 7D illustrates part of a source program of a manger server 40 for providing client program installation.
- a system 1 for providing customized information comprises a web server 30, a manager server 40, and a user computer 10, which are connected to one another via a communication network 20.
- the system 1 provides customized information that a user wants to the user computer 10.
- the web server 30 is an information processing system which is connected to the user computer 10 via the communication network 20 and provides services such as search portable sites or shopping malls or the like.
- the web server 30 which is an element of the present invention constitutes a web page for keyword searching.
- the web server 30 may provide the web page for keyword searching to the user computer 10 according to the request of the user computer 10, and the user computer 10 may transmit a keyword to be searched, input from the web page for keyword searching to the web server 30.
- the web server 30 executes searching corresponding to the input and transmitted keyword, includes a manager server access tag in keyword searching results and transmits the manager server access tag to the user computer 10.
- the communication network 20 means the Internet as a computer communication network which connects the whole world using a transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP).
- TCP/IP transmission control protocol/Internet protocol
- the communication network 20 is used in a wide meaning including all of wired/wireless communication networks which connect the web server 30, the manager server 40, and the user computer 10 to one another while being linked to the Internet in a narrow meaning.
- the user computer 10 is a terminal which comprises a web browser (not shown) as software for reading a hypertext markup language (HTML) or extensible markup language (XML) document and receiving various contents provided by the web server 30 using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP).
- HTTP hypertext transfer protocol
- the user computer 10 is not limited to this and is used in a general meaning including a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a mobile phone or the like, having a web browser (not shown) for reading a wireless markup language (WML) document and supporting a wireless application protocol (WAP).
- PDA personal digital assistant
- WAP wireless application protocol
- the user computer 10 which is an element of the present invention transmits a keyword searched by having an access to the manager server 40 using the manager server access tag included in the keyword searching results transmitted from the web serer 30 and thereby displays the customized information-providing identifier transmitted from the manager server 40 together with the keyword searching results.
- the keyword searching results displayed by the user computer 10 may be displayed on the searching result screen as one of a word, an image, and a pop-up window.
- FIG. 2A illustrates a keyword searching result screen on which words 5a are displayed as a customized information-providing identifier
- FIG. 2B illustrates a keyword searching result screen on which an additional pop-up window 5b is displayed as a customized information-providing identifier.
- the information is transmitted to the manager server 40 so that a client program (not shown) and/or a searched keyword transmitted from the manager server 40 can be installed. If the client program has been already installed in the user computer 10, only the searched keyword is transmitted from the manager server 40 and is added to a subject keyword list managed by the client program.
- the client program installed in the user computer 10 transmits a request of customized information including subject keyword information to the manager server 40 according to a predetermined period and outputs the customized information transmitted by the manager server 40 to the user through the screen of the user computer 10, as illustrated in FIG. 3.
- the client program manages the subject keyword list and a keyword added to a subject keyword may be transmitted from the manager server 40 or separately, the keyword may be directly input from the user via the user interface, as illustrated in FIG. 4.
- the manager server 40 transmits a customized information-providing identifier corresponding to the searched keyword transmitted from the user computer 10 to the user computer 10.
- the manager server 40 transmits the client program and/or the searched keyword to the user computer 10 when it receives selection information about the customized information-providing identifier from the user computer 10
- the manager server 40 may check whether the client program is installed in the user computer 10 or not and may download the client program to the user computer 10 only when the client program is not installed in the user computer 10.
- the manager server 40 transmits the searched keyword to the user computer 10 so that the client program can add the keyword transmitted to the subject keyword list.
- the manager server 40 constitutes corresponding customized information and transmits the customized information to the user computer 10 when it receives a request of the customized information together with the subject keyword information from the user computer 10. Since there may be a difference between the keyword selected by the user as a subject to be searched and the keyword managed by the manager server 40 for information collection, the manager server 40 may convert the subject keyword transmitted from the user computer 10 into a self-managed information-providing keyword by including a keyword conversion table illustrated in FIG. 5A. In addition, the manager server 40 may include a keyword-information table including an information-providing keyword, an information provider, and an information-providing period as a field, as illustrated in FIG. 5B, and may collect the latest information from various sources using the keyword-information table.
- FIGS. 6A and 6B A method of providing customized information using keyword searching according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to FIGS. 6A and 6B.
- a user has an access to a web server 30 via a communication network 20 using his/her own computer 10 in operation
- S10 may receive various services provided by the web server 30.
- a keyword searching function may be included in the services provided by the web server 30, and the user computer 10 may display a keyword searching web page provided by the web server 30 on a screen in operation S12.
- the user computer 10 transmits the input "keyword 1" to the web server 30. Then, the web server 30 executes corresponding searching in operation S18 and transmits keyword searching results to the user computer 10 again in operation S20. At this time, a manager server access tag is included in the keyword searching results transmitted by the web server 30 to the user computer 10.
- the manager server 40 transmits a customized information-providing identifier to the user computer 10 accordingly in operation S24.
- the customized information-providing identifier may be displayed on one of a word, an image, and a pop-up window.
- FIG. 7A illustrates part of a HTML source program of a web server 30 in which a customized information-providing identifier is inserted by iframe
- FIG. 7B illustrates part of a HTML source program of the web server 30 in which a customized information-providing identifier is inserted by an additional pop-up window
- FIG. 7C illustrates part of a HTML source program to which a keyword is transmitted from the user computer 10 at the manager server 40 and which provides a corresponding customized information-providing identifier.
- the user computer 10 displays the customized information-providing identifier together with the keyword searching results in operation S26, as illustrated in FIG. 2A or 2B.
- FIG. 7D illustrates part of a source program of the manger server 40 for providing client program installation.
- the user computer 10 to which the client program is downloaded installs the client program automatically and is maintained in an operable state in operation S36.
- the manager server 40 transmits the searched keyword to the user computer 10 in operation S38. Then, the client program of the user computer 10 adds the "keyword 1" transmitted from the manager server 40 to a self-managed subject keyword list in operation S40.
- the client program installed in the user computer 10 transmits a request of customized information including subject keyword information (for example, "keyword 1" and "keyword 2") according to a predetermined period (for example, once a day) to the manager server 40 in operations S42 and S44. Then, the manager server 40 converts a subject keyword included in the request of customized information into an information-providing keyword and constitutes customized information corresponding to the converted information-providing keyword and thereby transmits the customized information to the user computer 10 in operations S46 and S48.
- subject keyword information for example, "keyword 1" and "keyword 2”
- the user computer 10 outputs the customized information to the user, as illustrated in FIG. 3. While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims.
- the system when a system for providing customized information is informed to a user and a client program is installed in a user computer, the system can be naturally informed to the user by inserting an identifier such as a customized information-providing word, an image or a pop-up window or the like into a web page as the results of searching a portal site or shopping mall site, and operations of selecting the client program and information can be simultaneously performed only when the user clicks a corresponding identifier such that user's conveniences can be maximized. Furthermore, since a web server or manager server does not get any user's personal information for providing customized information, the user can wipe out worry about leakage of personal information
- the user can naturally constitute the system for providing customized information through a searching operation on a usually-used web site, and even after searching of contents to be searched is completed, the latest information can be always provided to the user.
Abstract
Provided are a system for providing customized information using keyword searching in which, in order to most easily get customized information that a user wants, when the user executes searching by inputting a keyword at a search portal site or shopping mall site or the like, customized information corresponding to the input keyword can be provided in real time even after searching is completed, and a method thereof.
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SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED INFORMATION USING KEYWORD SEARCHING AND METHOD THEREOF
Technical Field
The present invention relates to a system for providing customized information that a user wants through a communication network such as the Internet, and more particularly, to a system for providing customized information using keyword searching in which, in order to most easily get customized information that a user wants, when the user executes searching by inputting a keyword at a search portal site or shopping mall site or the like, customized information corresponding to the input keyword can be provided in real time even after searching is completed, and a method thereof.
Background Art
In order to get the latest information corresponding to a specific keyword, a user must repeatedly execute a search operation by having an access to a portal site or shopping mall site or the like every time. However, it is very inconvenient to repeatedly execute a search operation by having an access to an Internet site every time whenever the user wants to get the latest information. In particular, since the user does not separately record a keyword to be searched and does not user an identical keyword during searching, different search results may occur every time. In addition, in case of part of Internet sites, additional user authentication is required for a search operation. Thus, there are problems that it is inconvenient and complicated for the user to execute a search operation. Various types of systems for providing customized information have been suggested so as to reduce user's inconveniences. Conventional systems for providing customized information are largely classified into two types: one is a system which provides
customized information according to users via a web server and provides customized information by having an access to the web server using a web browser, and the other one is a system in which a client program is installed at a user's computer, the client program has an access to a server for providing customized information, customized information corresponding to the user is supplied from the server and thereby provides the customized information to the user.
In the former case, operations of selecting customized information such as membership for classifying users and information required according to users and keyword input corresponding to a user, need to be performed. In the latter case, a user must install a client program in a user's computer consciously and an operation of selecting customized information such as keyword input corresponding to a user needs to be performed. In addition, in both cases, an operation of informing a web server or client program for providing customized information to a user and explanation that helps the user to easily select customized information are needed. However, since it is somewhat inconvenient for the user to perform membership, client program installation or customized information selection so that the user can use customized information, there is a considerable limitation in activating a system for providing customized information.
Disclosure of the Invention
The present invention provides a system for providing customized information using keyword searching in which, when a user executes searching by inputting a keyword at a search portal site or shopping mall site or the like, an identifier such as a keyword-related customized information-providing word, an image or a pop-up window or the like is included in part of search results, and when the user clicks a corresponding identifier, operations of installing a client program and selecting customized information are simultaneously performed so that
customized information that the user wants can be very easily gotten and in particular, the user can get the latest information continuously without performing an operation of selecting additional information through a series of keyword searching. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for providing customized information using keyword searching in which customized information that a user wants is provided to a user computer by including a web server, a manager serer, and a user computer connected to one another via a communication network, the system comprising: a web server receiving keyword input from a user computer, executing corresponding searching and transmitting a manager server access tag by including the manager server access tag in keyword searching results; a user computer transmitting a keyword searched by having an access to the manager server using the manager server access tag included in the keyword searching results to display a customized information-providing identifier transmitted from the manager server together with the keyword searching results, and if the user selects the customized information-providing identifier, transmitting the information to the manager server to install a client program and/or a searched keyword transmitted from the manager server; and a manager server transmitting a customized information-providing identifier corresponding to the searched keyword transmitted from the user computer, if selection information about the customized information-providing identifier is transmitted from the user computer, transmitting the client program and/or the searched keyword to the user computer, and if customized information is requested from the user computer together with subject keyword information, constituting the corresponding customized information to transmit it to the user computer.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing customized information using keyword searching, the method comprising: (a) having an access to a web server
using a user computer to display a web page for keyword searching; (b) if the user computer receives key input and transmits an input keyword to the web server, executing corresponding searching using the web server and including a manager server access tag in keyword searching results to transmit the manager server access tag; (c) if the user computer transmits a keyword searched by having an access to the manager server using the manager server access tag included in the keyword searching results transmitted from the web server, transmitting a customized information-providing identifier to the user computer using the manager server; (d) displaying a customized information-providing identifier together with the keyword searching results using the user computer; (e) if the user receives selection information about the customized information-providing identifier and transmits the input selection information to the manager server, transmitting a client program and/or a searched keyword to the user computer using the manager server; (f) installing the client program and/or the searched keyword using the user computer and transmitting a request of customized information including subject keyword information according to a predetermined period to the manager server; and (g) if the manager server constitutes customized information according to the request of the customized information to transmit it to the user computer, outputting the transmitted customized information to the user.
Brief Description of the Drawings FIG. 1 illustrates the structure of a system for providing customized information using keyword searching according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2A illustrates a keyword searching result screen on which words are displayed as a customized information-providing identifier.
FIG. 2B illustrates a keyword searching result screen on which an additional pop-up window is displayed as a customized information-providing identifier.
FIG. 3 illustrates customized information displayed on a user computer screen.
FIG. 4 illustrates a user interface of a client program according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5A illustrates a keyword conversion table and FIG. 5B illustrates a keyword-information table. FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate a method of providing customized information using keyword searching based on data flow according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7A illustrates part of a HTML source program of a web server in which a customized information-providing identifier is inserted by iframe.
FIG. 7B illustrates part of a HTML source program of the web server in which a customized information-providing identifier is inserted by an additional pop-up window.
FIG. 7C illustrates part of a HTML source program to which a keyword is transmitted from a user computer at a manager server and which provides a corresponding customized information-providing identifier.
FIG. 7D illustrates part of a source program of a manger server 40 for providing client program installation.
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The present invention will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments of the invention are shown. Referring to FIG. 1 , a system 1 for providing customized information according to the present invention comprises a web server 30,
a manager server 40, and a user computer 10, which are connected to one another via a communication network 20. The system 1 provides customized information that a user wants to the user computer 10.
Firstly, the web server 30 is an information processing system which is connected to the user computer 10 via the communication network 20 and provides services such as search portable sites or shopping malls or the like. In particular, the web server 30 which is an element of the present invention constitutes a web page for keyword searching. Thus, the web server 30 may provide the web page for keyword searching to the user computer 10 according to the request of the user computer 10, and the user computer 10 may transmit a keyword to be searched, input from the web page for keyword searching to the web server 30. In this case, the web server 30 executes searching corresponding to the input and transmitted keyword, includes a manager server access tag in keyword searching results and transmits the manager server access tag to the user computer 10.
The communication network 20 means the Internet as a computer communication network which connects the whole world using a transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP). However, in the present specification, the communication network 20 is used in a wide meaning including all of wired/wireless communication networks which connect the web server 30, the manager server 40, and the user computer 10 to one another while being linked to the Internet in a narrow meaning. The user computer 10 is a terminal which comprises a web browser (not shown) as software for reading a hypertext markup language (HTML) or extensible markup language (XML) document and receiving various contents provided by the web server 30 using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). However, the user computer 10 according to the present invention is not limited to this and is used in a general meaning including a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a
mobile phone or the like, having a web browser (not shown) for reading a wireless markup language (WML) document and supporting a wireless application protocol (WAP).
In particular, the user computer 10 which is an element of the present invention transmits a keyword searched by having an access to the manager server 40 using the manager server access tag included in the keyword searching results transmitted from the web serer 30 and thereby displays the customized information-providing identifier transmitted from the manager server 40 together with the keyword searching results. The keyword searching results displayed by the user computer 10 may be displayed on the searching result screen as one of a word, an image, and a pop-up window.
FIG. 2A illustrates a keyword searching result screen on which words 5a are displayed as a customized information-providing identifier, and FIG. 2B illustrates a keyword searching result screen on which an additional pop-up window 5b is displayed as a customized information-providing identifier.
In addition, when the user selects the customized information-providing identifier by clicking it using a mouse on the screen of the displayed user computer 10, the information is transmitted to the manager server 40 so that a client program (not shown) and/or a searched keyword transmitted from the manager server 40 can be installed. If the client program has been already installed in the user computer 10, only the searched keyword is transmitted from the manager server 40 and is added to a subject keyword list managed by the client program.
The client program installed in the user computer 10 transmits a request of customized information including subject keyword information to the manager server 40 according to a predetermined period and outputs the customized information transmitted by the manager server 40 to the user through the screen of the user computer 10, as illustrated in
FIG. 3. In addition, the client program manages the subject keyword list and a keyword added to a subject keyword may be transmitted from the manager server 40 or separately, the keyword may be directly input from the user via the user interface, as illustrated in FIG. 4. The manager server 40 transmits a customized information-providing identifier corresponding to the searched keyword transmitted from the user computer 10 to the user computer 10. In addition, the manager server 40 transmits the client program and/or the searched keyword to the user computer 10 when it receives selection information about the customized information-providing identifier from the user computer 10 In this case, the manager server 40 may check whether the client program is installed in the user computer 10 or not and may download the client program to the user computer 10 only when the client program is not installed in the user computer 10. When it is checked that the client program is installed in the user computer 10, the manager server 40 transmits the searched keyword to the user computer 10 so that the client program can add the keyword transmitted to the subject keyword list.
Furthermore, the manager server 40 constitutes corresponding customized information and transmits the customized information to the user computer 10 when it receives a request of the customized information together with the subject keyword information from the user computer 10. Since there may be a difference between the keyword selected by the user as a subject to be searched and the keyword managed by the manager server 40 for information collection, the manager server 40 may convert the subject keyword transmitted from the user computer 10 into a self-managed information-providing keyword by including a keyword conversion table illustrated in FIG. 5A. In addition, the manager server 40 may include a keyword-information table including an information-providing keyword, an information provider, and an information-providing period as a field, as illustrated in FIG. 5B, and may
collect the latest information from various sources using the keyword-information table.
Meanwhile, a method of collecting the latest information by the manager server 40 and an operation thereof escape from the scope of the present invention and are well known. Thus, although a detailed description thereof is omitted, the present invention could have been easily made by those of ordinary skill in the art.
A method of providing customized information using keyword searching according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to FIGS. 6A and 6B.
Firstly, a user has an access to a web server 30 via a communication network 20 using his/her own computer 10 in operation
S10 and may receive various services provided by the web server 30.
At this time, a keyword searching function may be included in the services provided by the web server 30, and the user computer 10 may display a keyword searching web page provided by the web server 30 on a screen in operation S12.
When the user inputs a keyword to be searched (assumed as
"keyword 1") in operation S14, the user computer 10 transmits the input "keyword 1" to the web server 30. Then, the web server 30 executes corresponding searching in operation S18 and transmits keyword searching results to the user computer 10 again in operation S20. At this time, a manager server access tag is included in the keyword searching results transmitted by the web server 30 to the user computer 10.
Subsequently, when the user computer 10 has an access to the manager server 40 using the manager server access tag included in the keyword searching results transmitted from the web server 30 to transmit the "keyword 1" in operation S22, the manager server 40 transmits a customized information-providing identifier to the user computer 10 accordingly in operation S24. At this time, the customized
information-providing identifier may be displayed on one of a word, an image, and a pop-up window.
FIG. 7A illustrates part of a HTML source program of a web server 30 in which a customized information-providing identifier is inserted by iframe, FIG. 7B illustrates part of a HTML source program of the web server 30 in which a customized information-providing identifier is inserted by an additional pop-up window. Meanwhile, FIG. 7C illustrates part of a HTML source program to which a keyword is transmitted from the user computer 10 at the manager server 40 and which provides a corresponding customized information-providing identifier.
Subsequently, the user computer 10 displays the customized information-providing identifier together with the keyword searching results in operation S26, as illustrated in FIG. 2A or 2B.
When the user clicks the customized information-providing identifier on a displayed screen as the keyword searching results using a mouse or the like in operation S28, the user computer 10 transits customized information-providing identifier selection information to the manager server 40 in operation S30. Then, the manager server 40 checks whether the client program is installed in the user computer 10 or not in operation S32 and only when the client program is not installed in the user computer 10, the manager server 40 downloads the client program to the user computer 10 in operation S34. FIG. 7D illustrates part of a source program of the manger server 40 for providing client program installation. The user computer 10 to which the client program is downloaded installs the client program automatically and is maintained in an operable state in operation S36.
In addition, when it is checked that the client program is installed in the user computer 10, the manager server 40 transmits the searched keyword to the user computer 10 in operation S38. Then, the client program of the user computer 10 adds the "keyword 1" transmitted from
the manager server 40 to a self-managed subject keyword list in operation S40.
Meanwhile, the client program installed in the user computer 10 transmits a request of customized information including subject keyword information (for example, "keyword 1" and "keyword 2") according to a predetermined period (for example, once a day) to the manager server 40 in operations S42 and S44. Then, the manager server 40 converts a subject keyword included in the request of customized information into an information-providing keyword and constitutes customized information corresponding to the converted information-providing keyword and thereby transmits the customized information to the user computer 10 in operations S46 and S48.
Subsequently, the user computer 10 outputs the customized information to the user, as illustrated in FIG. 3. While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims.
Industrial Applicability
As described above, according to the present invention, when a system for providing customized information is informed to a user and a client program is installed in a user computer, the system can be naturally informed to the user by inserting an identifier such as a customized information-providing word, an image or a pop-up window or the like into a web page as the results of searching a portal site or shopping mall site, and operations of selecting the client program and information can be simultaneously performed only when the user clicks a corresponding identifier such that user's conveniences can be maximized.
Furthermore, since a web server or manager server does not get any user's personal information for providing customized information, the user can wipe out worry about leakage of personal information
As a result, according to the present invention, the user can naturally constitute the system for providing customized information through a searching operation on a usually-used web site, and even after searching of contents to be searched is completed, the latest information can be always provided to the user.
Claims
1. A system for providing customized information using keyword searching in which customized information that a user wants is provided to a user computer by including a web server, a manager serer, and a user computer connected to one another via a communication network, the system comprising: a web server receiving keyword input from a user computer, executing corresponding searching and transmitting a manager server access tag by including the manager server access tag in keyword searching results; a user computer transmitting a keyword searched by having an access to the manager server using the manager server access tag included in the keyword searching results to display a customized information-providing identifier transmitted from the manager server together with the keyword searching results, and if the user selects the customized information-providing identifier, transmitting the information to the manager server to install a client program and/or a searched keyword transmitted from the manager server; and a manager server transmitting a customized information-providing identifier corresponding to the searched keyword transmitted from the user computer, if selection information about the customized information-providing identifier is transmitted from the user computer, transmitting the client program and/or the searched keyword to the user computer, and if customized information is requested from the user computer together with subject keyword information, constituting the corresponding customized information to transmit it to the user computer.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the customized information-providing identifier is displayed as one of a word, an image, and a pop-up window.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the manager server checks whether the client program is installed in the user computer and only when the client program is not installed in the user computer, the manager server downloads the client program to the user computer.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the client program comprises a user interface to which a keyword is directly input from the user in the state where the client program is installed in the user computer.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the manager server constitutes customized information according to information-providing keywords by comprising a keyword-information table including an information-providing keyword, an information provider, and an information-providing period as a field.
6. The system of claim 5, wherein the manager server comprises a keyword conversion table which matches a subject keyword and an information-providing keyword.
7. A method of providing customized information using keyword searching, the method comprising:
(a) having an access to a web server using a user computer to display a web page for keyword searching; (b) if the user computer receives key input and transmits an input keyword to the web server, executing corresponding searching using the web server and including a manager server access tag in keyword searching results to transmit the manager server access tag;
(c) if the user computer transmits a keyword searched by having an access to the manager server using the manager server access tag included in the keyword searching results transmitted from the web server, transmitting a customized information-providing identifier to the user computer using the manager server;
(d) displaying a customized information-providing identifier together with the keyword searching results using the user computer; (e) if the user receives selection information about the customized information-providing identifier and transmits the input selection information to the manager server, transmitting a client program and/or a searched keyword to the user computer using the manager server;
(f) installing the client program and/or the searched keyword using the user computer and transmitting a request of customized information including subject keyword information according to a predetermined period to the manager server; and
(g) if the manager server constitutes customized information according to the request of the customized information to transmit it to the user computer, outputting the transmitted customized information to the user.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the customized information-providing identifier is displayed as one of a word, an image, and a pop-up window.
9. The method of claim 7, wherein operation (e) comprises checking whether the client program is installed in the user computer and only when the client program is not installed in the user computer, downloading the client program to the user computer using the manager server.
10. The method of claim 7, wherein operation (g) comprises converting a subject keyword include in a request of customized information into an information-providing keyword and constituting customized information corresponding to the converted information-providing keyword to transmit it to the user computer.
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