JP2008090566A - Retrieval system, retrieval method and its program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a retrieval system for enabling a user to easily select his or her desired object by easily grasping the occupancy position of the object as a whole. <P>SOLUTION: This retrieval system is provided with: an information recording means for storing information constituted of a plurality of items relating to each object in a plurality of objects; a retrieving means for receiving the input of retrieval conditions constituted of two types of items among the information when a retrieval request is made from the outside, and for retrieving information in the information recording means on the basis of retrieval conditions, and for outputting the pertinent object; a display means for displaying the position information of each object like dots on a two-dimensional plane with the two types of items as axes; and a retrieval result display means for displaying the list of information of the objects belonging to partially designated positions on the basis of the partial designation instruction of the two-dimensional plane from the outside. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a search system, a search method, and a program thereof that allow a user to easily select a desired target from a number of search targets.

  Due to recent improvements in search technology using computer systems, search for stock price information, product information, and the like via a network is routinely performed. However, the stock price information / commodity information obtained via the network is enormous, and it is not easy to obtain target information desired by the user. For example, as a search result, usually, a result of rearranging single or plural numerical data or rank data in ascending order or descending order is displayed. In this case, when the user wants to see the search result at a specific position in the search result, it is necessary to turn the page many times and search for a desired target. In addition, since the search results are only listed, the entire distribution of the search results cannot be seen. For this reason, the specifications and price ranges required by the user in the search results are not intuitively understood. In addition, it is not easy to determine whether the target that the user is seeking is common or unique.

In order to solve such a problem, for example, attempts have been made to obtain stock information using numerical information and selection conditions / weightings input by a user (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2). In providing product information, attempts have been made to input priority information of product providers (see, for example, Patent Document 3).
JP 2002-140524 A JP 2001-92898 A JP 2006-12144 A

  In the system described in Patent Document 1, a selection condition is entered for each factor, and a list of corresponding stocks is output based on the selected condition. Moreover, in the system described in Patent Document 2, a list in which investment information is ranked based on the weight set by the client is displayed. However, in the systems described in Patent Documents 1 and 2, the user needs to input selection conditions, weights, and the like. For this reason, it is necessary to know the meaning of factor values and numerical values for evaluating stock prices. In addition, since only a list of corresponding issues is displayed, the user cannot easily understand to what extent the numerical information is spread in the market. Moreover, the brand information obtained by one operation with the systems of Patent Documents 1 and 2 is often too many or too few. For this reason, it is necessary to repeat the same operation until an appropriate number of brand information is obtained.

  In the system described in Patent Document 3, product information of a product provider with a high priority designated by the product provider is obtained first, and product information is obtained from another product provider when there is no corresponding product. However, usually, when a user selects a product, the product is not selected based on a product provider. In addition, as the product requested by the user, a product having a certain level of performance is selected. Such products cannot be narrowed down only by combining the minimum conditions. Further, when the products are arranged in ascending order and descending order, the necessary products are located in the middle. For this reason, it is necessary to perform page breaks many times until a necessary product is found.

  When performing a web search, the ordering method differs depending on the search engine. For example, a famous company or a site with a large number of linked links is ranked higher. However, with this, it is not easy to search for a Web page that the user wants.

  That is, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and the object thereof is to easily grasp the position occupied by the target desired by the user in the whole, so that the search system and search method can easily select the target. And providing the program.

The search system according to the present invention includes an information recording means for accumulating information consisting of a plurality of items related to individual objects in a plurality of objects, and receiving a search condition consisting of two items of the information when a search request is received from the outside. Search means for searching the information in the information recording means based on the search condition and outputting the corresponding target, and position information of each target on a two-dimensional plane with the two items as axes Display means for displaying in the form of dots, and search result display means for displaying a list of target information belonging to the partially designated position based on a part designation instruction on the two-dimensional plane from the outside.

  In the present invention, a large number of search targets having information consisting of a plurality of items are searched by selecting two types of items from the plurality of information, and these targets are displayed on a two-dimensional plane with the two types of items as axes. Are displayed as dots. Thereby, the user can grasp how the search target is distributed as a whole. In addition, all objects are classified and arranged using two types of items. Thereby, the correlation between two types of items can be easily grasped visually. Furthermore, if a part of the displayed display screen is selected, a list of targets such as stocks and products belonging to the section is displayed, so that target information required by the user can be easily obtained.

  The search system may further include a change display unit that receives an input of an additional condition, adds the added condition, and changes and displays the dotted display on the two-dimensional plane.

  According to this configuration, (1) a specific region is selected from the dotted display object on the two-dimensional plane obtained above, and (2) the scale of the axis indicating the above two types of items is changed. (3) It is possible to obtain target information obtained by further adding a search condition to a dot-like display object on the two-dimensional plane obtained above. As a result, the search result requested by the user can be easily obtained.

  Further, the search method of the present invention includes an information recording step for accumulating a plurality of items related to individual objects in a plurality of objects, and an input of search conditions consisting of two items of the information at the time of an external search request. And a search step for searching the information in the information recording means based on the search condition and outputting the corresponding target, and the position information of each target as a two-dimensional plane with the two items as axes. The display step includes a display step for displaying the image in a dotted shape, and a search result display step for displaying a list of target information belonging to the partially designated position based on a partial designation instruction for the two-dimensional plane from the outside.

  The search method may further include a change display step of receiving an input of an additional condition, adding the added condition, and changing and displaying the dotted display on the two-dimensional plane.

  The computer program of the present invention is a computer program used in a computer for searching for a specific target from a plurality of targets, and includes an information recording process for storing information consisting of a plurality of items related to individual targets in the plurality of targets, and an external A search process that receives an input of a search condition comprising two types of items of the information at the time of a search request, searches information in the information recording means based on the search condition, and outputs a corresponding target; The position information of the object belongs to the position specified by the part based on the display processing for displaying the point information on the two-dimensional plane with the two types of axes as an axis and the part specifying instruction of the two-dimensional plane from the outside. It may be a computer program for causing a computer to execute search result display processing for displaying a list of target information.

  The present invention provides a search system, a search method, and a program thereof that can easily grasp the position occupied by a target in a user and easily specify a search target, so that selection of the target can be easily performed.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
[Constitution]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a search system according to the present invention. As is clear from FIG. 1, this processing apparatus is connected to a network 1 through which computer-processable data is communicated, and collects target information such as stock prices from the host 2 via this network 1. The user terminal 4 can access the processing device via the network 1. This embodiment is realized by controlling a computer with a predetermined program, and can be grasped as an entire system including a method, a program, a client system, and a communication network.

  As the network 1 in the present invention, the so-called Internet can be cited, but besides this, as long as information can be transmitted and received remotely by communication using an appropriate communication protocol such as optical communication or LAN / WAN, Any network can be used. As a communication protocol that can be used for this communication, for example, a communication protocol such as TCP / IP can be used, but is not limited thereto.

  The user terminal 4 is a personal computer, a mobile computer, a mobile phone that can access the Internet, an interactive TV, a home-use game machine that can connect to the Internet, or the like. The user terminal 4 transmits a signal for requesting provision of information to the search system via appropriate browser software. Each user terminal 4 is, for example, a personal computer (personal computer), a PDA, or the like, and includes software such as a wired or wireless Internet connection function, a browser for browsing web pages, and a mailer for mail transmission / reception.

  The processing device 3 includes a communication unit such as a router connected to the network 1, a processing unit including a personal computer, a workstation, or a general-purpose large computer, and a storage unit including a memory, an HDD, a register, and the like.

  In the network 1, one or more hosts 2 that distribute information related to search targets are connected to the network 1. For example, when the information related to the search target is a stock price, the host 2 obtains stock price information of a predetermined one or more issues from a predetermined one or more stock exchanges, and distributes the stock price information on the network 1. . Each host on the network can obtain information from the host at any time via the network. Price information includes date, opening price, closing price, trading volume, market capitalization, highest price, lowest price, current price, etc. of all stocks.

  When the search target is a product, it is used for the standard of the product, and a numerical value can be used. For example, if the product is a personal computer, the price, CPU, HDD, memory, battery, weight, etc.

[Search system and search method]
In the following explanation, explanation will be made based on the case of searching for stock issues. As shown in FIG. 1, the processing device 3 captures stock price information of each brand distributed from each host in real time via the network 1 as computer-processable data (hereinafter referred to as “stock price data”). And a signal for requesting information retrieval from the user terminal 4 and data of the retrieval system, a data communication unit 11 for transmitting / receiving the retrieval condition, and numerical data for each stock brand are continuously stored, and the retrieval condition is determined. The storage unit 13 is stored, and the processing unit 12 is configured to perform a search process from the input search condition and numerical data. The user terminal 4 includes a conversion unit 15 that converts a search result into a format for display on the display unit 16 and a display unit 16 such as a monitor. The processing device 3 and the user terminal 4 are configured by a general-purpose computer system, for example. Each component or function in the processing device 3 and the user terminal 4 shown in FIG. 1 is realized by executing a computer program, for example. Further, the function of the processing device 3 and the function of the user terminal 4 may be the same computer system or different computer systems.

  As a general tendency, various program modules are prepared as a part of a computer operating system, and an application program generally calls a module in a predetermined arrangement and advances the processing when necessary. In such a case, the software itself for realizing the multivariate numerical information display system of the present invention does not include such a module, and the multivariate numerical information display system is realized only when the computer cooperates with the operating system. . However, as long as a general platform is used, it is not necessary to distribute software including such modules, and the software itself not including these modules and the recording medium storing the software (and the software distributes on the network). Data signal) can be considered to constitute the embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for displaying search results using the search method of the present invention. The process of displaying numerical information in the search method of the present invention is to indicate the start of the search method of the present invention to the user terminal on the display screen of the user terminal 4 via appropriate browser software in step S1. Display the top page of. Then, the process proceeds to step S2, and an item of data (start data) instructing start of search is displayed. Next, in step S3, the user inputs start data. The input creation disclosure data is transmitted from the user terminal 2 to the processing means, and the processing means that has received the start data analyzes the search data in step S4 using predetermined information. In step S5, the two-dimensional information is returned to the user terminal based on the analysis data, and the two-dimensional position information of each target is displayed on the user terminal. Next, in step S6, when the user designates a part of the two-dimensional plane by a mouse operation or the like, the part designation information is transmitted to the processing means. In step S8, the processing means returns a list of target information belonging to the part-specified area to the user terminal, and the target information belonging to the part-specified position is returned to the user terminal. A list of target information belonging to the area is displayed on a screen different from the screen of the two-dimensional position information.

  When obtaining the location information of stock information, for example, from the start data items, price / earnings ratio (PER), price / net asset ratio (PBR), dividend yield, return on equity (ROE), market capitalization, current fiscal year Profit change rate, past 3 years average sales growth rate, performance forecast revision rate, deviation from stock price 25 day moving average, stock price 25 week moving average, equity ratio, stock price fluctuation rate, daily average trading value, etc. , Two types of items are selected as search conditions from items that can be ordered by numerical values.

  Further, the list of information may be linked by hyperlinks to more detailed stock price data of each brand, or a market by brand or a web page of a company of individual brand. Easily obtain more detailed information about each brand by performing a predetermined action on each brand (for example, by left-clicking the mouse with the cursor positioned on the frame of a given group on the monitor). It is configured to be able to.

  Further, after obtaining more detailed information such as individual stocks, it may be further linked to so-called Internet securities. According to this configuration, the user who has obtained information can easily buy and sell stocks.

  Next, when the processing device 3 receives the start data, the processing device 3 starts a search process. Based on the selected start data, the processing unit 12 extracts information on the brand necessary for displaying the position information of each target from the storage unit 13 side. In addition, the memory | storage part 13 and the process part 12 are connected so that data communication is possible. The storage unit 13 stores processable brand names.

  The storage unit 13 stores stock price information obtained from the network 1 in a CSV (Comma Separated Value) file, a multi-user / multi-thread SQL database, or the like. Stock price information obtained from Network 1 includes updated stock price, date, opening price, closing price, trading volume, market capitalization, stock price index, trading volume, price / earnings ratio, price / net asset ratio, price increase rate, relative power index, etc. Can be mentioned.

  In order to display the position information of each target, the user selects two search conditions from the above stock price information. Hereinafter, how the position information of each target can be obtained will be described as an example when the first condition is market capitalization and the second condition is the stock price fluctuation rate. The processing unit 12 classifies the plurality of brands using the first condition. Next, the processing unit 12 classifies the classification target according to the second condition according to the first condition. The plurality of conditions are stored in the storage unit 13. The index is selected by the user selecting from the display unit 16. These indicators are not particularly limited as long as the stocks are ordered.

  The search method of the present invention can also be used when searching for Web pages. For example, when searching with three or more keywords, two keywords selected from a plurality of keywords may be classified and displayed as the first condition and the second condition, respectively. In addition, when a search is performed using three or more keywords, a result obtained using the first search engine and a result obtained using the second search engine are expressed by the first condition and the second It is classified and displayed according to conditions.

  The processing unit 12 receives pattern data necessary for graph creation from the storage unit 13 and creates display data indicating where each object belongs on the entire plane. The created display data is sent to the data communication unit 11. Display data sent from the data communication unit 11 to the user terminal 4 is received by the communication unit 14 and sent to the conversion unit 15. The conversion unit 15 creates a graph based on the display data. The created graph is displayed in the form of dots on a two-dimensional plane having two types of items as axes on the display unit 16. That is, at this time, each object is represented by a dot, and the specific content of each object is not known. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of position information of each target obtained by the above processing. In the example of FIG. 3, one target is indicated by one dot, but a plurality of targets may be combined into one dot by changing the color of the dots. In the example of this figure, each object is shown only as a dot, but a graph showing an average value may be shown at the same time.

  As described above, the first condition and the second condition for searching for information can be arbitrarily selected by the user.

  Next, when a user searches for a stock having a medium-sized stock whose rate of change from the previous day has increased by about 10%, as shown in FIG. 4, a part of the dimension plane is partially designated as described above. Information on the partially specified range is sent to the processing device. The processing unit of the processing device extracts target information included in the partially specified range from the storage unit, creates a target list, and transmits the target list to the user terminal. As shown in FIG. 5, the user terminal displays the transmitted target list on another screen.

(Second Embodiment)
In this embodiment, the search is further narrowed down from the state in which each object is displayed on the two-dimensional plane. This is particularly effective when a search is desired in consideration of other search conditions, such as a product search or a Web page search. In the following description, the contents described in the first embodiment are omitted.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart in a case where the search is further narrowed down from the state where each target is displayed on the two-dimensional plane. Steps S11 to S15 are the same as steps S1 to S5 in FIG. On the display screen of the user terminal 4, a two-dimensional plane for searching for a notebook computer is displayed as shown in FIG. 7 (step S15). Such a display screen displays a screen for selective search such as a pull-down menu of selection conditions for additional search, a scale conversion key bar, or a list of target providers such as manufacturers. . It should be noted that the two-dimensional flat display screen is different depending on the target product or the like without depending on the example of this figure. The user selects a condition for performing a narrow search from this screen (step S16). In the example of this figure, the X axis indicates the processing capacity of the CPU, and the Y axis indicates the capacity of the HDD. By adding other conditions such as weight and battery usage time, it is possible to easily select a product to which conditions other than the processing capacity of the CPU and the capacity of the HDD are added. Further, by changing the scales of the X-axis and the Y-axis, it is possible to obtain information on a target at a desired scale position by enlarging or reducing it. Furthermore, the X axis and the Y axis can be reversed. Further, in the example of this figure, since the names of the product providing manufacturers are listed, the user can select and search for the desired manufacturer. FIG. 8 is an example in which a part of the manufacturer is selected from the example of FIG. By listing manufacturers and the like in this way, it is possible to perform searches other than numerical information.
FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a display example of position information of each target with conditions narrowed down by another method. In this figure, a pull-down menu of selection conditions for inputting the third condition is displayed on the screen. The example of FIG. 9 shows an example in which a search is performed by adding the weight condition of the notebook computer to the processing capacity of the CPU and the capacity of the HDD of FIG.
As described above, by using the method of the present embodiment, the user can narrow down and search while checking the entire distribution.

  Next, when the communication unit 11 of the processing device receives the selection condition, the processing unit 12 extracts the target two-dimensional display data to which the condition is added from the storage unit 13, and the two-dimensional display data is transmitted to the user terminal 4. Sent. Next, the display unit 16 of the user terminal 4 displays the received two-dimensional display data (step S18). Steps S18 to S19 for target selection / list display are the same as steps S6 to S7 in FIG. When the user designates a specific range from the search results obtained as described above, as shown in FIG. 10, a list of products can be displayed in a separate window as in the first embodiment.

2 and 6 is recorded on a computer-readable recording medium, and the program recorded on the recording medium is read into the computer system and executed to monitor the table. Processing may be performed. Here, the “computer system” may include an OS and hardware such as peripheral devices.
Further, the “computer system” includes a homepage providing environment (or display environment) if a WWW system is used.
The “computer-readable recording medium” means a flexible disk, a magneto-optical disk, a ROM, a writable nonvolatile memory such as a flash memory, a portable medium such as a CD-ROM, a hard disk built in a computer system, etc. This is a storage device.

Further, the “computer-readable recording medium” refers to a volatile memory (for example, DRAM (Dynamic) in a computer system serving as a server or a client when a program is transmitted via a network such as the Internet or a communication line such as a telephone line. Random Access Memory)) that holds a program for a certain period of time is also included.
The program may be transmitted from a computer system storing the program in a storage device or the like to another computer system via a transmission medium or by a transmission wave in the transmission medium. Here, the “transmission medium” for transmitting the program refers to a medium having a function of transmitting information, such as a network (communication network) such as the Internet or a communication line (communication line) such as a telephone line.
The program may be for realizing a part of the functions described above. Furthermore, what can implement | achieve the function mentioned above in combination with the program already recorded on the computer system, and what is called a difference file (difference program) may be sufficient.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a multivariate numerical information display system according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart when the search system of the present invention is performed. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of position information of each target obtained by the above processing. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a part of the position information of each target obtained by the above process is partially specified. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example in which a list of objects in a partially designated range is displayed. FIG. 6 is a flowchart in a case where the search is further narrowed down from the state where each target is displayed on the two-dimensional plane. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing another display example of the position information of each object obtained by the search system of the present invention. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a display example of position information of each target obtained by narrowing down the screen displayed in FIG. 7 under still another condition. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a display example of position information of each target with conditions narrowed down by another method. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a list of objects within a partially specified range is displayed.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Network 2 Host 3 Processing apparatus 4 User terminal 11 Data communication part 12 Processing part 13 Storage part

Claims (5)

Information recording means for accumulating information consisting of a plurality of items relating to individual objects in a plurality of objects;
Search means for receiving a search condition comprising two types of items of the information at the time of an external search request, searching for information in the information recording means based on the search condition, and outputting a corresponding target;
Display means for displaying the position information of each object in a dotted manner on a two-dimensional plane with the two items as axes;
A search system comprising search result display means for displaying a list of information of objects belonging to a partially designated area based on an externally designated part designation instruction for a two-dimensional plane.   The search system according to claim 1, further comprising change display means for receiving an input of an additional condition, adding the added condition, and changing and displaying the dotted display on the two-dimensional plane. An information recording step for accumulating information consisting of a plurality of items related to individual objects in a plurality of objects;
A search step of receiving an input of a search condition comprising two types of items of the information at the time of an external search request, searching for information in the information recording means based on the search condition, and outputting a corresponding target;
A display step of displaying the position information of each object in a dotted manner on a two-dimensional plane with the two items as axes;
A search method comprising: a search result display step for displaying a list of target information belonging to a partially designated position based on a part designation instruction for a two-dimensional plane from the outside.   The search method according to claim 3, further comprising a change display step of receiving an input of an additional condition, adding the added condition, and changing and displaying the dotted display on the two-dimensional plane. A computer program used in a computer for searching for a specific target from a plurality of targets,
An information recording process for accumulating information consisting of a plurality of items related to individual objects in a plurality of objects;
A search process for receiving an input of a search condition comprising two types of items of the information at the time of an external search request, searching for information in the information recording means based on the search condition, and outputting a corresponding target;
Display processing for displaying the position information of each object in a dotted manner on a two-dimensional plane with the two types of items as axes;
A computer program for causing a computer to execute search result display processing for displaying a list of target information belonging to a partially designated position based on an externally designated part designation of a two-dimensional plane.

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