JP2000020536A - Internet terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make generable a book mark having a retrieved result sorted for every retrieving condition of retrieval by a retrieving engine by displaying a title and/or URL under every retrieving condition by using link information. SOLUTION: A retrieved result output means 22 acquires a list of titles and URLs of home pages corresponding to a retrieving condition from a retrieving engine 5, stores the acquired list in a retrieved result storage part 32 and outputs the data to an output device 4. A book mark registering means 24 acquires the title and URL of a home page of which book mark registration is specified by a user and stores the acquired contents in a title storage part 33. A keyword to be a retrieving condition is acquired and stored in a keyword storage part 34. At this time, correspondence relation among the keyword, the title and the URL is also stored. A book mark output means 25 obtains a list of titles of corresponding home pages from the title storage part 33 in each stored keyword and outputs the list to the output device 4.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to an Internet terminal, and more particularly to an Internet terminal that generates a bookmark having search results classified according to search conditions of a search by a search engine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventional Internet terminals are provided with a function for adding a bookmark to a visited homepage.
Users can later browse the bookmarked homepage again.

[0003]

Conventionally, when classifying a homepage registered in a bookmark, it is necessary for a user to set a category for classification by himself and allocate the homepage registered therein one by one. There was annoyance. For this reason, when a large number of homepages are registered, they are left unsorted and unsorted because of the inconvenience described above, and there is a problem that a necessary homepage cannot be quickly found when necessary.

[0004] It is an object of the present invention to provide an Internet terminal for generating a bookmark having search results classified for each search condition of a search by a search engine.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided an Internet terminal for generating link information for linking a set of a home page title and a URL obtained by referring to a search engine by a search condition and the search condition. And means for displaying the title or / and URL for each of the search conditions using the connection information.

An Internet terminal according to the present invention provides means for assigning an identification number to a set of a title and a URL of a homepage obtained by referring to a search engine according to a search condition, and associating the identification number with the search condition. Means, first storage means for storing the set of the title and the URL together with the identification number, second storage means for storing the search condition together with the associated identification number,
Means for displaying the title and / or URL for each of the search conditions based on the contents stored in the first and second storage means.

[0007] A computer-readable recording medium according to the present invention is a computer-readable recording medium that stores a title and UR of a homepage obtained by referring to a search engine according to search conditions.
A program for functioning as means for generating linking information for linking the set of L and the search condition and for displaying the title or / and URL for each search condition using the linking information is recorded. It is characterized by the following.

Further, the computer-readable recording medium according to the present invention is a computer-readable recording medium, comprising: means for assigning an identification number to a set of a title and a URL of a homepage obtained by referring to a search engine according to a search condition; Means for associating the identification number with the first, second storage means for storing the set of the title and the URL together with the identification number, and second storage means for storing the search condition together with the associated identification number. According to another aspect of the present invention, there is recorded a program for functioning as a means for displaying the title and / or the URL for each of the search conditions according to stored contents.

Further, a computer-readable recording medium according to the present invention has a structure in which data having a structure in which a title of a homepage, a URL, and an identification number are combined, and a structure in which the search condition and the identification number are combined. And data is recorded.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention
In a bookmark function for registering a homepage required by a user, a means for automatically classifying the registered homepage by using a search result of a search engine is provided.

In FIG. 1, search condition input means 21 comprises:
A search condition including one or a plurality of keywords input by the user from the input device 1 is received and supplied to a search engine 5 on the Internet 6. When the search result is returned from the search engine 5, the search result output unit 22 is activated and outputs a list of titles of the home pages that meet the conditions to the output device 4. When the user finds a homepage he or she needs from this list and executes bookmark registration, the bookmark registration unit stores the title and URL of the homepage in the title storage unit 33 and the keyword used in the search in the keyword storage unit 34. To memorize.
At this time, the keyword storage unit 34 also stores the correspondence between which title and URL correspond to which keyword. After such a search is repeated several times by changing the search conditions, when the user executes the bookmark output, the bookmark output unit 25 stores the title in the title storage unit 33.
While referring to the information in the keyword storage unit 34, the title of the home page is classified and output for each keyword used in the search. Thereby, even when a large number of homepages are registered in the bookmark, the homepages can be classified and arranged without bothering the user.

[First Embodiment] A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, this embodiment includes an input device 1 such as a keyboard, a data processing device 2 operated by program control, a storage device 3 for storing information, and an output device 4 such as a display device. including.

The storage device 3 includes a search condition storage unit 31, a search result storage unit 32, a title storage unit 33, and a keyword storage unit 34.

The search condition storage unit 31 stores search conditions consisting of one or more keywords, and the search result storage unit 32 stores the title and U of the homepage searched by the conditions.
The RL list, the title storage unit 33 stores the title and URL of the bookmark registered homepage, and the keyword storage unit stores one or a plurality of keywords used for searching the bookmark registered homepage.

The data processing device 2 includes a search condition input means 2
1, a search result output unit 22, a homepage output unit 23, a bookmark registration unit 24, and a bookmark output unit 25.

The search condition input means 21 stores a search condition comprising one or a plurality of keywords provided from the input device 1 in the search condition storage unit 31 and further stores the search condition in the search engine 5 on the Internet 6. Supply.

The search result output means 22 obtains a list of titles and URLs of home pages corresponding to the search conditions from the search engine 5 and stores them in the search result storage unit 3.
2 and a list of the titles is output to the output device 4.
Output to

The homepage output means 23 obtains, from the Internet 6, the data of the homepage selected by the user from the list of titles, and outputs the contents to the output device 4.

The user finds a homepage he or she needs while going back and forth between the list of titles and the output result of the homepage.

The bookmark registration means 24 acquires the title and URL of the homepage designated by the user for bookmark registration from the search result storage unit 32 among the searched homepages, and stores it in the title storage unit 33. Further, one or more keywords serving as search conditions are obtained from the search condition storage unit 31 and stored in the keyword storage unit 34. At this time, the keyword storage unit 34 also stores the correspondence between those keywords and which titles and URLs in the title storage unit 32 correspond.

The bookmark output means 25 obtains a list of corresponding homepage titles from the title storage section 33 for each keyword stored in the keyword storage section 34 and outputs the list to the output device 4.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 2 to 4 are flowcharts thereof. FIGS. 5 to 8 are explanatory diagrams showing details of the storage device of the present embodiment, and FIGS. 9 and 10 are explanatory diagrams showing an example of the output screen.

In this embodiment, a search condition consisting of one or a plurality of keywords provided from the input device 1 is supplied to a search condition input means 21 and a search condition storage unit 31 is provided.
(Step A1 in FIG. 2). FIG. 5 is an example of the storage contents of the search condition storage unit 31 when three keywords of “hotel”, “Kanagawa”, and “map” are given as search conditions. The search condition input means 21 supplies the search condition to the search engine 5 on the Internet 6 and causes the search engine 5 to search for a homepage that meets the condition (step A2). The search result output means 22 stores the list of the titles and URLs of the home pages obtained from the search engine 5 in the search result storage unit 32, and further outputs the list of titles to the output device 4 (step A3). FIG. 6 is an example of the storage contents of the search result storage unit 32 when four homepages meeting the search conditions are found.

Here, when the user selects a title of the homepage to be referred from the list (step A).
4) The homepage output means 23 obtains the URL of the homepage from the search result storage unit 32, obtains the data of the homepage from the Internet 6, and outputs the data of the homepage.
(Step A5). Further, the user operates the input device 1
When an operation such as "return" is performed (step A6),
The search result output means 22 is activated again, and outputs the list to the output device 4 again. The user finds the homepage he or she needs by going back and forth between the list of homepage titles thus searched and the output result of the contents of the homepage (steps A3 to A6).

When the user finds a necessary homepage and designates a bookmark registration by the input device 1 (step A7), the bookmark registration means 24 is started, and the information of the homepage and the keyword used for the search are registered in the bookmark. (Step A8).

In the following, using the flowchart of FIG.
The process “bookmark registration” in step A8 will be described. First, the title and URL of the home page specified by the user are obtained from the search result storage unit 32, and it is checked whether the information has already been stored in the title storage unit 33 (step B1). If not, the title and URL are stored in the title. It is stored in the unit 33 (step B2). Next, the title storage unit 33 stores the stored title and URL.
"# 1", "# 2", to uniquely identify them within
.. And the like (step B3). Reference numeral 71 in FIG. 7 is an example of the storage content of the title storage unit 33.
Here, as an example of the result of the user registering “Park Plaza Yokohama” in the search results of FIG. 6, the information is stored in the title storage unit 33, and the identification number “# 1” is given. When the storage of the information in the title storage unit 33 is completed, the first keyword from the search condition storage unit 31 is obtained from the one or more keywords that have become the search conditions (step B4). Storage unit 3
4 (step B5), and if not, the keyword is stored in the keyword storage unit 34 (step B6). Next, in order to associate the keyword with the registered homepage, a keyword storage unit 34 is provided.
Of the home page is added to the list of identification numbers corresponding to the keyword (step B).
7). The storage of the keyword and the addition of the identification number are repeated until the last keyword in the search condition storage unit 31 is reached (steps B8 and B9). 8 is an example of the contents stored in the keyword storage unit 34. In this example, the keywords "hotel", "map", and "Kanagawa" in FIG. 5 are newly stored, and the identification number "# 1" of "Park Plaza Yokohama" is added to the identification number list. Is shown.

When registration to the bookmark has been completed and the user has designated the output of the bookmark using the input device 1 (step A9), the bookmark output means is activated and a list of corresponding titles is stored for each keyword stored in the keyword storage unit 34. Output device 4 obtained from title storage unit 33
(Step A10).

The "bookmark output" process of step A10 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, the first keyword is obtained from the keyword storage unit 34 (step C1), and is output to the output device 4 (step C2). Next, a list of identification numbers corresponding to the keyword is obtained from the keyword storage unit 34, and the first identification number is extracted (step C3). Further, a title corresponding to the identification number is obtained from the title storage unit 33 (step C4), and is output to the output device 4 (step C4).
5). The output of the title is repeated until the end of the list of the identification numbers is reached (steps C6 and C7).
The next keyword is obtained from the title storage unit 33, and the output of the keyword and the corresponding title is repeated until the last keyword is reached (steps C8 and C9).

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described using a specific example.

As shown in a screen 91 in FIG. 9, a user searches for a home page of a hotel with a map in Kanagawa Prefecture, so that three keywords of “hotel”, “map”, and “Kanagawa” are used as search conditions. Take a case where the Internet 6 is searched. The search result at this time is as shown in a screen 92, and the search condition storage unit 31 at that time is as shown in FIG. 5, and the search result storage unit is as shown in FIG. Here, when the user selects "Park Plaza Yokohama" and performs bookmark registration, the title and URL of the home page are stored in the title storage unit 33 as shown at 71 in FIG. # 1 "is assigned. 8 of FIG.
As shown in FIG. 1, "hotel", "
The above-mentioned identification number "# 1" is added to the list of identification numbers corresponding to the three keywords of "map" and "Kanagawa."
, The titles of the registered homepages are classified and output by keyword.

Screens 101 to 103 in FIG. 10 are examples in which the user has performed search and registration under further changed conditions.
First, new search conditions such as "restaurant" and "Kanagawa" are input on the screen 101, and a screen 102 is obtained as a search result. When "Copenhagen" is selected and a bookmark is registered and a bookmark is further output, as shown in a screen 103, "restaurant" used for the first time this time is added as a new keyword. Is added to the above "Copenhagen". At this time, the contents of the title storage unit 33 are as shown by 72 in FIG. 7, and the title and URL of “Copenhagen” are stored, and the identification number “# 2” is assigned. The contents of the keyword storage unit 34 are as shown at 82 in FIG. 8, and "restaurant" is newly added as a keyword, and the identification number of "Copenhagen" is added to the list of identification numbers corresponding to "Kanagawa". # 2 "is added.

As described above, when the present invention is used, a user can register a large number of homepages in a bookmark and use it quickly without being bothered by sorting and organizing the bookmark.

[Embodiment 2] Next, Embodiment 2 of the present invention.
Will be described with reference to the drawings. In the first embodiment, homepages registered as bookmarks are classified by using input keywords as individual categories. In the second embodiment of the present invention, the classification is performed by treating the input keywords as one group and using this group as a category. In this case, the example of FIG.
And three keywords are stored as one group. Further, 8 in FIG.
1 is like 121 in FIG. 12, and 82 is like 122, and the identification numbers of the home pages are classified by groups instead of individual keywords. Also, the output screen at this time is as shown in FIG. 13 in FIG. 9 and as in FIG. 14 in FIG.
Is output. Note that the above-mentioned groups are identified only by their configurations, regardless of the order of the keywords. For example, a homepage searched and registered under search conditions of "restaurant" and "Kanagawa" and a homepage searched and registered under conditions of "Kanagawa" and "restaurant" belong to the same group.

In the present invention, the keyword, the title of the home page, and the set of the URL are associated using the identification number, but the URL may be used directly without using the identification number.

[0037]

As described above, the effect of the present invention is as follows.
By using the search results of the search engine, even when a user registers a large number of homepages in a bookmark, the homepage is automatically classified and arranged, so that the user does not need to take any trouble.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an Internet terminal according to the present invention and the Internet connected thereto.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the Internet according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a detailed operation of bookmark registration in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a detailed operation of bookmark output in FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of contents stored in a search condition storage unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of contents stored in a search result storage unit of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of contents stored in a title storage unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of contents stored in a keyword storage unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displayed on the output device by the Internet terminal of FIG. 1;

10 is an example of a screen displayed on the output device by the Internet terminal of FIG. 1 when a search is further advanced from the display state of FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing another example of the storage contents of the search condition storage unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing another example of the contents stored in the keyword storage unit of FIG. 1;

13 is a diagram illustrating another example of a screen displayed on the output device by the Internet terminal of FIG. 1;

14 is an example of a screen displayed on the output device by the Internet terminal of FIG. 1 when a search is further advanced from the display state of FIG. 13;

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 input device 2 data processing device 3 storage device 4 output device

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. means for generating connection information for connecting a set of a title and a URL of a homepage obtained by referring to a search engine according to a search condition and the search condition, and using the connection information to generate the search condition Means for displaying the title or / and URL for each of the Internet terminals. 2. A means for assigning an identification number to a set of a title and a URL of a homepage obtained by referring to a search engine according to a search condition, a means for associating the identification number with the search condition, the title and a URL A first storage unit that stores a set of the search conditions together with the identification number, a second storage unit that stores the search condition together with the associated identification number, and storage of the first and second storage units. Means for displaying the title and / or the URL for each of the search conditions depending on the content. 3. A homepage title and a U which are obtained by referring to a search engine by a search condition according to a search condition.
A program for generating link information for linking a set of RL and the search condition and a program for functioning as a means for displaying the title or / and URL for each search condition using the link information are recorded. A computer-readable recording medium characterized by the above-mentioned. 4. A homepage title and U obtained by referring a computer to a search engine according to search conditions.
Means for assigning an identification number to a set of RLs; means for associating the identification number with the search condition;
The first and / or second storage means for storing a set of L together with the identification number and the second storage means for storing the search condition together with the associated identification number. A computer-readable recording medium on which is recorded a program for functioning as a means for displaying a URL. 5. A computer which records data having a structure in which a homepage title, a URL, and an identification number are paired, and data having a structure in which the search condition and the identification number are paired. A readable recording medium.