JP2001109711A - Information management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information management system capable of centralized control on the network of relevant statistical information prepared based on the personal information of clients and the history information of page browsing. SOLUTION: An information management server 2a fetches the history information of the page browsing and the personal information within a prescribed range from client terminals 1a to 1c accessing page A of browsing, prepares the relevant statistical information due to analysis and statistical processing to store the relevant statistical information in a storage device 3 and offers the relevant statistical information corresponding to a request condition by the occurrence of a retrieval request, the terminals 1a to 1c accurately grasp highly reliable relevant statistical information prepared based on the page history information of others and the personal information to be able to acquire the tendency of interest areas, and servers 2b to 2e accurately grasp the tendency of page browsing of the clients according to the relevant statistical information without performing analysis nor statistical processing, correct and replenish the contents of pages controlled by the servers themselves and can prepare a page corresponding to a request of a client.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information management system that analyzes and statistically processes page browsing information of a client terminal on the Internet in association with personal information to create, manage and store related statistical information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The Internet uses TCP / IP (Tr
announcementControlProtocol
/ Internet Protocol) is used as an international standard protocol to form a network around the world and is widely used in information provision services.
It is used for paid news distribution and information disclosure from public institutions. For example, when starting up a database for merchandise sales, paid news distribution, etc., and providing appropriate Internet services to clients, it is necessary to accurately grasp the trends and preferences of clients.

[0003] By the way, web page browsing surveys are used to grasp browsing trend information.
This type of survey primarily focuses on individual pages,
They survey the number of viewers and store the obtained survey data in a large-scale server of the survey company. in this case,
Due to the wide scope of the survey, information on the relevance of the page browsing status among a plurality of webs has hardly been investigated. For this reason, for example, "60% of the viewers of page A
At present, there are few survey data such as "I am browsing." In addition, the ratio of personal information provided by this type of server to survey servers of this type is rather low, and survey data obtained by this type of server is often leaked, and the trend of viewers is determined. To get enough data to do so.

[0004] In this case, as one of the few examples in which the relevance between pages of different webs is investigated, there is a "related site" function incorporated in Netscape Communicator or the like. In this case, if the client desires a related site of the page currently being viewed, the browser, which is an information access program, transmits the URL (Uni) of the current page.
formResourceLocator) to Ale
xaInternet (http: //www.ale
xa. com /) related page information database search service (http://www.alexa.com/)
It is a mechanism that obtains an inquiry-related page from support /).

[0005]

However, the related page information database used for acquiring the related page described above is created by analyzing and classifying page contents collected from all over the world by an agent and extracting data. Therefore, at the time of retrieval, if a keyword or the like in the text does not match, it is not regarded as a related page, and it is difficult to accurately associate the page. In addition, the corresponding server requires a large number of machines and a wide network bandwidth to create and store data based on page contents collected from all over the world in the related page information database, and search and provide necessary data. It is impossible to cover the data of the inside web page at all, and there is also a problem that the response decreases as the number of users increases.

As a proof of this, there is a survey that a search engine of a type in which a search database is created by an agent can cover only 16% of web pages in the whole world (http: // www).
w. neci. nj. nec. com / homepage
es / lawrence /). Also, at present, this service is not used by too many people, so it is possible to obtain information on related pages relatively responsively, but the load on search engines increases with the increase in users. It is clear that the response will drop significantly in the future. Furthermore, even if a page not intended by the original page creator is selected as a related page and the original page creator may be damaged in some way, the page creator sends an e-mail to the server administrator. You can only request changes to the contents of the database.

[0007] The present invention has been made in view of the current situation of the network service for providing related information as described above, and its object is to perform analysis and statistical processing based on client personal information and page viewing history information. Another object of the present invention is to provide an information management system capable of creating related statistical information, centrally storing the information on a network, and providing information.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 comprises a plurality of client terminals,
A plurality of networks including a plurality of servers that provide information to these client terminals and an information management server that fetches and manages information via the plurality of client terminals is an information management system configured to form the Internet. Via the plurality of client terminals, personal information within a preset range of the client terminal, and related information capturing means for capturing access history information to the plurality of servers, and the related information capturing means Analyzing and statistically processing the acquired information, related information analysis storage means for storing as related statistical information, and, when a search request is issued, reading related statistical information corresponding to the request content from the related information analysis report storage means, Related statistical information providing means for providing to the search request source is provided in the information management server. It is intended to.

According to such means, the information management server stores and manages related statistical information of the analyzed and statistically processed page information based on personal information in a predetermined range of a plurality of clients and access history information of page browsing. When a search request is issued, the search request source is provided with relevant statistical information that appropriately corresponds to the request content.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a network including a plurality of client terminals, a plurality of servers for providing information to these client terminals, and an information management server for fetching and managing information via the plurality of client terminals. Is an information management system comprising the Internet, via the plurality of client terminals, personal information within a preset range of the client terminal, and access history information to the plurality of servers Related information capturing means for capturing the information, related information analyzing and storing means for analyzing and statistically processing the information captured by the related information capturing means, and storing the statistical information as related statistical information. The corresponding related statistical information is read from the related information analysis report storage means, and provided to the search request source. The information management server is provided with providing means and related statistic information changing means for changing the related statistic information stored in the related information analysis storage means in response to a request for changing the related statistic information. It is a feature.

According to such a means, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 1, the related statistical information is changed by the related statistical information changing means when a change request is issued.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the second aspect of the present invention, the related statistical information changing means executes the change of the related statistical information after performing personal authentication of a change request source. Is what you do.

According to such means, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 2, the change of the related statistical information by the related statistical information changing means is strictly erroneous after the personal authentication of the rewrite request source is performed. Done without.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of a main part of the present embodiment, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a file of related statistical information stored in the information management server of FIG.

In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of client terminals 1a, 1b, 1c and page B,
A plurality of servers 2b, 2c, 2d, and 2e respectively managing pages C, D, and E, and a page A are managed, and page browsing history information and personal information are transmitted from a plurality of client terminals 1a to 1c. A network including an information management server 2a that fetches and stores and manages is formed, and the information management server 2a stores information that is fetched from a plurality of clients 1a to 1d.
Is connected.

Incidentally, the client terminals 1a to 1c
Accesses the server 2b-2e for page browsing,
The server has a function of browsing pages B to E managed by the servers 2b to 2e, respectively. The client terminals 1a to 1d access the information management server 2a for page browsing, and the information management server 2a Page A to be managed
, And furthermore, in response to a request from the information management server 2a through the protocol P3P of a communication procedure for passing personal information, the personal information of the own
a.

On the other hand, the servers 2b to 2e have a function of providing pages B to E managed by themselves as information in response to page browsing accesses of the client terminals 1a to 1c. The information management server 2a
Is a related information fetching unit that fetches page browsing history information and personal information within predetermined conditions via the protocol P3P from the access source terminal client terminals 1a to 1c when a browsing or search access occurs. And related information analysis storage means for creating related statistical information by analyzing and statistically processing the information taken by the related information taking means, and storing the related statistical information in the storage device 3. .
Further, the information management server 2a has a client terminal 1a
1c or a server 2b to 2e has a related information providing means for providing related statistical information corresponding to the search condition as search information in response to a search access.

The client terminals 1a to 1c or the servers 2b to 2e have a function of requesting a change in related statistical information managed by the information management server 2a.
In response to the request, the information management server 2a has a related statistic information changing unit that performs additional update of the related statistic information or cancels the related statistic information after personal authentication of the requesting terminal.

To avoid complicating the drawing, FIG. 1 shows only the main parts of the present embodiment.
In practice, a plurality of sets of networks as shown in FIG. 1 constitute the Internet.

The operation of the present embodiment having such a configuration is described below.
This will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, the client terminal 1b accesses the server 2b to access the page and browses the page B, then accesses the server 2c to access the page and browses the page C, and furthermore, the server 2e
Browsing to access page E and browse page E to
To the page A managed by the information management server 2a, and accesses the information management server 2a to browse the page A. In this case, in the client terminal 1b, a protocol P3P of a communication procedure for passing personal information by the user is set in advance, and the range of the personal information to be passed to the information management server 2a is limited to, for example, gender information and age information. Conditions have been set.

In response to such a browsing request from the client terminal 1b, the related information fetching means of the information management server 2a operates to provide the client terminal 1b with page browsing history information and personal information. Is required. In response to this request, the client terminal 1b provides the information management server 2a with personal information in a range corresponding to the setting conditions of the protocol P3P and history information of page browsing,
The client terminal 1b browses the page A managed by the information management server 2a.

The client terminal 1c accesses the server 2d for page browsing, browses the page D,
Next, the user browses the page E by accessing the server 2e for page browsing, follows a link on the page E, reaches the page A managed by the information management server 2a, and reaches the page A managed by the information management server 2a. Is accessed for browsing page A. In this case, the information management server 2 responds to the browsing request from the client terminal 1c.
The related information fetching means a operates to request the client terminal 1c to provide the page browsing history information and the personal information in the same manner as the client 1b.
In response to this request, the client terminal 1c provides the information management server 2a with personal information and page viewing history information in a range corresponding to the preset setting conditions of the protocol P3P. The user browses the page A managed by the management server 2a.

As described above, the information management server 2a
The page browsing history information and the personal information within a predetermined range fetched from the client terminals 1b and 1c are temporarily stored in the storage device 3 and then read by the related information analysis storage means of the information management server 2a. Analysis and statistical processing are performed based on the history information and personal information of
A file of related statistical information is created in a method set in advance and stored in the storage device 3.

In this case, an example of a file of the related statistical information stored in the storage device 3 is as shown in FIG. 2, and here, a page A corresponding to the personal information within a predetermined range of the client. The page browsing history information until the browsing is reached is presented for each access time. FIG. 2 is merely an example of a file of related statistical information. For example, the access client is analyzed for each region, and as the number of data increases, the frequency of history pages is analyzed as history information of page browsing. It can be page history information.

In such a state, when a search request is accessed from the client terminal 1a to the information management server 2a under a predetermined condition, the client terminal 1a is similarly provided with page browsing history information. Provision of personal information is required. In response to this request, the client terminal 1a provides the information management server 2a with personal information and page viewing history information in a range corresponding to the preset setting conditions of the protocol P3P. And
The related statistical information providing means of the information management server 2a analyzes the content of the search request from the client terminal 1a, and shows that the content of the request is, for example, "providing page information related to page A" in FIG. From the related statistical information file, information on page E being viewed by a plurality of clients who have viewed page A is provided to client terminal 1a.

In this embodiment, the client terminal 1a
1c or the servers 2b to 2e are the information management server 2
When the related page is recommended to a and the current related statistical information is to be updated, the terminal of the billing source accesses the information management server 2a to update the related statistical information. The related statistical information is updated by the related statistical information changing means 2a. Also in this case, the requesting terminal can provide only personal information within a predetermined range via the protocol P3P, and can update related statistical information without violating privacy.

Further, when the pages managed by the servers 2b to 2e are not related information of the information management server 2a but are erroneously included in the related statistical information, By accessing the information management server 2a to cancel the related statistical information, the information management server 2a is accessed.
The servers 2b to 2e by the related statistical information changing means of a
After the individual's approval is made, the related statistical information is canceled. In this case, each of the servers 2b to 2e writes a public key in a page managed by the server in advance, and requests the information management server 2a to cancel the related statistical information by using the secret key of the server. When the information is used for encryption, personal authentication of the servers 2b to 2e is performed by decryption using the public key in the information management server 2a.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the information management server 2a receives, from the client terminal that accesses the page A managed by itself, access history information of page view of the client terminal, Through the protocol P3P, personal information within a predetermined range set by the client is fetched, and related statistical information is created and stored in the storage device 3 by analysis and statistical processing based on the information, and is stored under predetermined conditions. The terminal that accesses the information search request is provided with the relevant statistical information corresponding to the request condition.

For this reason, the client can accurately grasp the high-precision related information based on the page history information and the personal information of the page viewer and know the trend of the field of interest. , The servers 2b to 2e use the related statistical information analyzed and statistically processed based on the page browsing history information and the personal information of the client who browses the pages, without performing the analysis and statistical processing by itself, It is possible to accurately grasp the tendency of page browsing, correct and supplement the content of the page managed by itself, and create a page corresponding to the client's request.

Further, the client browsing the page of interest in the information management server 2a supplies the history information and personal information of the page browsing relatively smoothly to the information management server 2a. The content becomes abundant, and new information is added by updating the related statistical information of the information management server 2a to add a recommended page in response to a change request from the billing source, and the information is canceled from the servers 2b to 2e that manage the own page. Is changed, the page erroneously included in the related statistical information is canceled, so that the contents of the related statistical information are always updated without error.

[0031]

According to the information management system of the present invention, a plurality of client terminals, a plurality of database servers for providing information to these client terminals,
Through a plurality of client terminals, a plurality of sets of networks including an information management server that captures and manages information constitute the Internet, and related information capturing means, related information analysis storage means, and related statistical information providing means, Provided in the information management server, by the related information capturing means, via a plurality of client terminals, personal information within a preset range of the client terminal, and access history information to a plurality of database servers are captured, The fetched information is analyzed and statistically processed by the related information analysis storage means and stored as related statistical information. When a search request is issued, related statistical information corresponding to the request content is read out by the related statistical information providing means. Provided to the search request source.

For this purpose, the information management server stores and manages related statistical information of the analyzed and statistically processed page information based on personal information in a predetermined range of a plurality of clients and access history information of page browsing. The occurrence of the request makes it possible to provide the search request source with relevant statistical information that appropriately corresponds to the content of the request.
Efficiently obtains relevant statistical information corresponding to a search request without complicated statistical processing, and enables a client to grasp information of a field of interest in consideration of the trends of other clients, and a server. Will be able to enhance the content of the pages it manages in response to client trends.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the effect of the first aspect, when a request for changing the related statistical information is issued, the related statistical information changing means changes the related statistical information. Therefore, the contents of the related statistical information can be always updated and changed without error.

According to the third aspect of the invention, in addition to the effect of the second aspect, the change of the related statistical information by the related statistical information changing means is executed after the personal authentication of the rewrite request source is performed. Therefore, the related statistical information can be changed strictly without erroneous processing.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a configuration of a main part of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a file of related statistical information stored in the database server of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

1a-1c client terminal, 2a information management server, 2b-2e server, storage device.

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Claims (3)

[Claims] A plurality of sets of networks including a plurality of client terminals, a plurality of servers for providing information to these client terminals, and an information management server for capturing and managing information via the plurality of client terminals are provided by the Internet. An information management system comprising: via the plurality of client terminals, personal information within a preset range of the client terminal, and related information capture that captures access history information to the plurality of servers. Means, related information analysis storage means for analyzing and statistically processing the information fetched by the related information fetching means, and storing the information as related statistic information; A related statistical information providing unit that reads from the related information analysis report storage unit and provides the related statistical information to the search request source; Information management system characterized in that it is provided in the information management server. 2. A network comprising a plurality of client terminals, a plurality of servers for providing information to these client terminals, and an information management server for taking in and managing information via the plurality of client terminals, comprises: An information management system comprising: via the plurality of client terminals, personal information within a preset range of the client terminal, and related information capture that captures access history information to the plurality of servers. Means, related information analysis storage means for analyzing and statistically processing the information fetched by the related information fetching means, and storing the information as related statistic information; A related statistical information providing unit that reads from the related information analysis report storage unit and provides the related statistical information to the search request source; Related information change means for changing related statistical information stored in the related information analysis storage means in response to generation of a total information change request, wherein the information management server is provided with: Management system. 3. The information management system according to claim 2, wherein the related statistical information change unit executes the change of the related statistical information after performing personal authentication of a change request source.