JP2002073685A - Method and device for supplying retrieval result - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a retrieval result supply method/device which displays with emphasis a part coincident with a keyword and can quickly detect a desired sentence part out of a text when a Web page including the keyword is retrieved and then supplied and shown on a display terminal. SOLUTION: This method/device shows a keyword included in a text by applying the emphasized display processing to the data coincident with the keyword included in a Web page, displays the data with emphasis on a screen for showing presence of the keyword included in the text and can quickly understand the meaning of the text concerned in the keyword in a step where the Web page is supplied from a server to a display terminal when the Web page including the keyword is acquired via a retrieval means.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to, for example, www (w
old registered on the old wide web)
A search result providing method for searching a web page in which data corresponding to a desired search condition is described from page b, and providing the search result to a display terminal, and providing a search result operating according to the search result providing method Related to the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, by specifying a search condition such as an arbitrary keyword, a Web page in which a description corresponding to the search condition exists is searched from Web pages registered on the www. 2. Description of the Related Art Search result providing apparatuses that acquire materials to be searched and provide the search results to a display terminal have been put to practical use. FIG. 9 shows a conceptual configuration diagram of a conventional search result providing apparatus. In the figure, reference numeral 10 denotes a display terminal such as a personal computer installed on the user side, and reference numeral 20 denotes a web server connected to a computer network 30 such as the Internet.

[0005] The search result providing device 21 is mounted on the web server 20. The conventional search result providing apparatus 21 mainly includes a search unit 22 called a search engine or the like, and searches for a web page registered in the server 20 according to a search condition sent from the display terminal 10. A URL representing an attribute of a web page on which data matching the conditions is posted is acquired, and a list of the URLs is provided to the display terminal 10. The display terminal 10 includes a browser 11 having a function of displaying a web page on a computer network on the display 13, and the browser 11 displays a URL list (FIG. 10) on the display 13. The search executor selects a URL corresponding to the web page desired to be browsed from the URL list displayed on the display unit 13.
The cursor K shown in FIG. The browser 11 sends the data to the web server designated by the selected URL and acquires the data of the web page desired to be browsed.

[0004] The browser 11 displays the content of the acquired web page on the display 13. Data representing the contents of a web page is generally composed of an HTML format language,
The size, color, arrangement, etc. of the characters are specified by the tag (control code) specified by the ML, and displayed on the display 13 in a format intended by the page creator (FIG. 11).

[0005]

In a conventional search result providing apparatus, data on a Web page obtained by a search is provided to the display terminal 10 as it is. For this reason, the data on which the web page is described is displayed on the display 13 as it is. Therefore, the executor who instructed the search needs to browse the displayed data and search for where the keyword given as a search condition exists, for example. In other words, it is necessary to find out where the part corresponding to the keyword exists in the displayed text, and to grasp the sentence by browsing the part. The task of visually searching for the same character string as the designated keyword from among the character strings of the same font displayed on the display unit 13 requires a large amount of labor, and the w
Finding an eb page takes time and effort.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to propose a search result providing method and apparatus capable of easily finding a target web page in a short time with a small amount of labor.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a web page on which data satisfying a search condition sent from a display terminal is posted, and the searched web page is provided to the display terminal. Search result providing method,
The data that matches the search condition is extracted from the data described in the web page searched by the search means, a specific display process is performed on the data, and the data on which the specific display process has been performed is displayed. We propose a search result providing method characterized by providing it to terminals.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the search result providing method according to the first aspect, the specific display process is a process of adding an emphasis parameter to a portion of data that matches a search condition. We propose a method for providing results. According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the search result providing method according to the first aspect, wherein the specific display process is a process of adding position information to data matching the search condition. I do.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the search result providing method according to the first aspect, the specific display processing is such that data matching a search condition among data strings described in a searched web page is high. The present invention proposes a search result providing method characterized by detecting data areas existing at high density and adding position information to the search condition high density area. According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, a search activation / link destination conversion means comprising: means for activating a search means according to a search condition provided from a display terminal; and means for performing a link destination conversion process on a search result searched by the search means. Receiving the web page acquisition request returned from the display terminal with the converted link destination, acquires the target web page according to the web page acquisition request, and searches the data described in the web page. A search processing unit configured to detect data that matches a condition, perform a specific display process on the data, and provide the display-processed web page information to a display terminal. Suggest a device.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the search result providing apparatus according to the fifth aspect, the display processing means includes a search condition extracting means for extracting data matching the search condition, and We propose a search result providing device constituted by a control code adding unit for adding an emphasis parameter. According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the search result providing device according to the fifth aspect, the display processing means corresponds to a search condition extracting means for extracting data matching the search condition, and the search condition extracted by the search condition extracting means. We propose a search result providing device constituted by control code adding means for adding display position information to data.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the search result providing apparatus according to the fifth aspect, the display processing means is configured to search for the searched w.
search condition high-density area detecting means for extracting data matching the search condition from the data sequence described on the web page and detecting that the search condition exists densely based on the occurrence frequency; The present invention proposes a search result providing device including control code adding means for adding position information to search condition high density areas detected by high density area detecting means.

[Operation] According to the search result providing method and apparatus according to the present invention, a control code for performing a specific display is added to a portion of data matching the search condition, to the web page information provided to the display terminal. Thus, the portion of the data corresponding to the search condition of the web page displayed on the display terminal is highlighted differently from other characters, symbols, figures, and the like. Therefore, since the part corresponding to the search condition can be determined immediately, there is an advantage that the search executor can determine in a short time whether or not it is close to the content requested by the searcher.

[0013]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a search result providing apparatus which operates using the search result providing method according to the present invention. Parts corresponding to those in FIG. 9 are denoted by the same reference numerals.
The search result providing apparatus 21 according to the present invention is characterized in that a search start / link destination conversion means 23 and a highlight display processing means 24 are added in addition to the search means 22. The search start / link destination conversion means 23 delivers search conditions (for example, keywords) sent from the display terminal 10 to the search means 22, and starts the search means 22 according to the specified search conditions. 22 is provided with link destination conversion means for rewriting the link destination information added to the search result.

The rewriting of the link destination information means that the display terminal 10
If you specify the URL that you want to browse, the URL
This refers to rewriting the link destination to link L to the display processing unit 24. Therefore, the search start / link destination conversion unit 23 provides the browser 11 with the URL list in which the link destination is rewritten by the display processing unit 24. The browser 11 displays the URL list on the display unit 13. The searcher wants to browse from the displayed URL list.
Is specified from the input means 12.

The specified URL is inputted as a web page acquisition request signal to the display processing means 24 since the link destination is the display processing means 24. The display processing means 24 acquires a web page desired by the searcher from, for example, a database provided in the web server 20 or a database on another server according to the URL sent from the display terminal. The display processing unit 24 extracts a data portion that matches the search condition from the acquired data sequence on the web page, and performs a display process for performing a specific display on the data portion.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, a search condition extracting means 24A for extracting a data part matching a search condition on a display processing means 24 and a specific display for a data part extracted by the search condition extracting means 24A. A case is shown in which a control code adding means 24B for adding a control code is provided. As a specific display processing method, for example, the following 3
There are different ways. Enhancement parameters for data to be emphasized (coloring characters, displaying thicker than other characters, displaying larger than other characters, using italic characters, underlining, repeating light-dark inversion, repeating light-dark inversion, etc.) Is added.

[0017] Specific position information is added to the data to be emphasized, and the data to be emphasized is displayed at a specific position on the display screen. detecting a region where the density of data corresponding to the search condition is the highest in the data string described on the web page;
The search condition high density area is displayed at a specific position. FIG. 2 shows an example in which a data string described in a web page searched by the search unit 22 and the data string are displayed on the display unit 13 via the browser 11 as they are. FIG. 2A shows a data string described in the searched web page. This example shows an example described in the HTML format. FIG. 2B shows a display screen in which the data string in the HTML format is displayed on the display unit 13 as it is.

In the example shown in FIG. 2A, data matching the keyword "professional baseball" specified by the search condition exists in the text between tags <BODY>... </ BODY> which are control codes TG. Show the case. FIG. 3 shows an example of a display process when a specific display is performed by the method described above (FIG. 3A).
And a display example displayed by the display processing (FIG. 3
B) is shown. In other words, data that matches a keyword existing in the text In this example, “Professional baseball” is used as the control code TG.
><BIG><BOLD><U> Professional baseball </ U><//
BOLD></BIG></I> is shown. The operation of adding the control code TG is executed by the control code adding means 24B constituting the display processing means 24.

By sending the web page information to which the control code TG is added to the display terminal 10, the data “professional baseball” that matches the search condition is displayed by the display function of the browser 11 in the tag used as the control code TG in this example. It is oblique according to the definition, and is underlined and highlighted with characters larger than other characters. In the HTML format language, there are other emphasis parameters such as coloring characters, shading, inverting light and dark, and blinking characters, underlines, and the like. Any of these can be selected and used. Can be configured.

FIG. 4 shows a case where a control code for position information is added to data corresponding to a keyword, data corresponding to the keyword is displayed at a specified position on the screen according to the control code, and a display location is specified. An example of the description of the control code TG in the case of highlighting with the control code TG and an example of highlighting with the control code TG are shown. In order to perform the highlighting process, in the search result providing device 21, the search start / link destination conversion unit 23 performs link destination conversion using the display processing unit 24 as a link destination for the URL attached to the search result sent to the browser 11, and A request sentence for requesting the browser 11 to display data matching the search result in the upper part of the screen with respect to the URL of the content to be displayed (for example, http: //
URL of highlighting means / URL of target content # 1)
Is created and sent to the browser 11.

The browser 11 sends back a request to the display processing means 24 to display the target page at the top of the screen based on the received request sentence. The display processing means 24 which has received the request from the browser 11
As shown in A, if the data “pro baseball” that matches the search condition exists in the text enclosed by <BODY>... </ </ BODY>, the control code T is assigned to the data “pro baseball”.
<A name=“1”> meaning location information as G
Browser 1 with web page to which professional baseball </A> is added
1 to provide. The data "professional baseball" that matches the search condition by adding the control code TG is displayed on the first line on the screen as shown in FIG. 4B. That is, a line including “professional baseball” in the text is displayed at the top position (first line) of the screen. Note that, in order to browse a sentence earlier than the data that matches the search condition, the sentence before the line containing “professional baseball” may be called up on the screen by scrolling means.

FIG. 5 shows an embodiment of a search result providing apparatus used when a search condition is present at a plurality of places in a sentence and an area where the search conditions are concentrated is displayed at the top position of the screen. In the embodiment shown in FIG.
Is constituted by the search condition high density area detecting means 24C and the control code adding means 24B. The search condition high-density area detecting means 24C divides a sentence surrounded by a control code <BODY> by a certain number of characters (number of data) as shown in FIG. 6A, for example, and divides the sentence into a plurality of data areas J1 to J4. It can be constituted by counting means for counting how many pieces of data "professional baseball" having the same search condition exist in each of the divided data areas J1 to J4. FIG. 6B shows the data “Professional baseball” corresponding to the search condition.
Are counted in each of the regions J1 to J4, and a result is obtained. KW indicates the number of data that matches the search condition.

As a result of the counting, the example of FIG. 6 shows a case where the area J2 has the largest number. Therefore, the data area J2 is determined as a high-density area, and
2, a control code for giving a display position is added, and the web page information is provided to the display terminal 10. The display terminal 10 displays the data described in the transmitted web page on the display 13 in a predetermined format according to the control code. In this embodiment, since a control code for displaying the high-density area J2 detected by the search condition high-density area detection means 24C is added to the top of the display screen, the high-density area J2 is displayed on the display screen as shown in FIG. The part that is displayed at the top of the screen and emphasized by this display and contains many keywords can be browsed first.

FIG. 8 shows another embodiment of the high-density area detecting method shown in FIG. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 8, a window WIN is provided for capturing only a predetermined number of lines (four lines in the example in the figure) among a large number of lines in a sentence, and data matching the search condition existing in the window WIN is provided. Is counted, and the position of the window WIN is shifted by a predetermined line, for example, one line at a time, and the window WIN is shifted at each position.
The present invention proposes a high-density area detection method in which the number of data that matches the search condition in N is counted, and the position of the window WIN having the largest count value is determined as a high-density area.

By adopting this detection method, the distribution of data that matches the search conditions scattered in the text can be continuously counted at a high resolution, and the advantage is that the high-density area can be detected with high accuracy. can get.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a web page including a search condition is searched, this web page information is provided to the display terminal 10, and when this web page is displayed on the display terminal, Data that matches the search criteria set by the searcher is highlighted on the screen,
The searcher can immediately read the text of the portion including the search condition on the screen. As a result, we can easily do it in a short time.
You can capture the context related to the search condition on page b,
The advantage is obtained that it can be determined in a short time whether or not the material is truly desired. In the above description, a keyword has been described as an example of a search condition. However, the present invention is not limited to a keyword, and a graphic or the like can be specified as a search condition.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining a search result display method and a search result display device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the operation of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an example of a highlighting method used in the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining another example of the highlighting method used in the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram for explaining a modified embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a view for explaining the operation of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a view for explaining an example of display of the embodiment shown in FIG. 5;

FIG. 8 is a view for explaining another embodiment of the high-density area detection method shown in FIG. 6;

FIG. 9 is a block diagram for explaining a conventional technique.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the conventional technique.

FIG. 11 is a view similar to FIG. 10;

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 10 display terminal 11 browser 12 input means 13 display 20 web server 21 search result providing device 22 search means 23 search start / link destination conversion means 24 highlight display processing means 24A search condition extraction means 24B control code addition means 24C search condition high density Area detection means

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A search result providing method for searching a web page on which data satisfying a search condition sent from a display terminal is posted and providing the searched web page to the display terminal, wherein the search means is configured to search for the web page. Data that matches the above search condition is extracted from the data described on the web page, and a specific display process is performed on the data, and the data on which the specific display process is performed is transmitted to the display terminal. A search result providing method characterized by providing. 2. The search result providing method according to claim 1, wherein said specific display process is a process of adding an emphasis parameter to a portion of data that matches a search condition. 3. The search result providing method according to claim 1, wherein the specific display process is a process of adding position information to data that matches a search condition. 4. The search result providing method according to claim 1, wherein the specific display processing is a process in which data matching a search condition exists at a high density from data strings described in a searched web page. A search result providing method, wherein an area is detected and position information is added to the search condition high density area. 5. A. B. a search activation / link destination conversion means comprising: means for activating the search means in accordance with a search condition provided from the display terminal; and means for performing link destination conversion processing on the search result searched by the search means; Receiving a web page acquisition request in which the link destination returned from the display terminal is converted, and acquiring a target web page according to the web page acquisition request;
Data that matches the above search condition in the data described on the web page is detected, a specific display process is performed on the data, and web page information that has been subjected to the specific display process is provided to the display terminal. And a display processing means for performing the search. 6. The search result providing device according to claim 5, wherein the display processing means extracts search data that matches the search condition, and adds an emphasis parameter to the data extracted by the search condition extraction means. And a control code adding unit. 7. The search result providing device according to claim 5, wherein said display processing means is a search condition extracting means for extracting data matching the search condition, and data corresponding to the search condition extracted by said search condition extracting means. And a control code adding means for adding display position information to the search result providing device. 8. The search result providing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the display processing means extracts data matching the search condition from a data string described in the searched web page, and determines the data according to the occurrence frequency. A search condition high-density area detecting means for detecting that search conditions are densely arranged, and a control code adding means for adding position information to the search condition high-density area detected by the search condition high-density area detecting means A search result providing device, characterized in that: