JP2011060022A - Content data providing device - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to guide a user to browse a website or the like even if the user is not actively browsing the website or the like.
An RSS registration unit configured to set an RSS site to be watched on an RSS site management database based on information in a user log database storing user behavior history data; and setting of the RSS site management database Usage guidance that acquires RSS data from the corresponding service providing apparatus based on the content, acquires content data from the RSS data, performs data processing to generate usage guidance character information, and transmits the usage guidance character information to the user terminal And a character information providing unit.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for providing content data via a network such as the Internet.

  Various contents are provided on the Internet by various services. However, when providing contents as a business, how many users are taken in is an important theme.

  Targeting advertisements are known as techniques for recommending product advertisements or service usage based on user preference information (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 to 3).

  In this type of targeting advertisement, information including product advertisement or service usage recommendation is provided to a user who browses a page of a website by a banner advertisement or the like.

JP 2009-128498 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2007-4488 JP 2004-220498 A

  As described above, the conventional targeting advertisement can be performed only when the user is browsing a website page even if the user is using a PC (Personal Computer) or a digital television. That is, when a document is created on a PC or a program is viewed on a digital television, a targeting advertisement cannot be performed via a website page. Therefore, there is a problem that the effect of the targeting advertisement is limited.

  The present invention has been proposed in view of the above-described conventional problems, and the purpose of the present invention is to guide users to browse pages of a website or the like even if the user does not actively browse pages of the website or the like. An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for providing content data that can be used.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, in the present invention, as described in claim 1, the setting of the RSS site to be watched is set based on the information of the user log database storing the user's action history data. An RSS registration unit for the RSS site management database, and RSS data is acquired from the corresponding service providing device based on the setting of the RSS site management database, content data is acquired from the RSS data, and data processing is performed. The gist of the present invention is a content data providing apparatus including a usage-inducing character information providing unit that generates usage-inducing character information and transmits the usage-inducing character information to a user terminal.

  In addition, as described in claim 2, in the content data providing device according to claim 1, the usage-guided character information providing unit provides an acquisition source service for each character of text data included in the content data. It is possible to embed the URL link of the device to generate usage guidance character information and to display the character string flowing at the end of the screen.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, the RSS site management database is set for the RSS site management database based on information in a user log database storing user action history data; Based on the settings of the site management database, RSS data is acquired from the corresponding service providing device, content data is acquired from the RSS data, data processing is performed to generate usage guidance character information, and the usage guidance character information is obtained by the user. And a content data provision control method comprising a step of transmitting to a terminal.

  In the content data providing apparatus of the present invention, even if the user is not actively browsing a page such as a website, the user can be guided to browse a page such as a website, and the use of the service is expected to be promoted. .

It is a figure which shows the structural example of the system concerning one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the data structure example of a user log database. It is a figure which shows the example of a data structure of a crawl result holding part. It is a figure which shows the example of a data structure of an RSS site management database. It is a figure which shows the hardware structural example of a utilization guidance character information provision apparatus. It is a sequence diagram (the 1) which shows the process example of embodiment. It is a sequence diagram (the 2) which shows the process example of embodiment. It is FIG. (1) which shows the example of a screen of a user terminal. It is FIG. (2) which shows the example of a screen of a user terminal.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described.

<Configuration>
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 1, a network 1 such as the Internet is connected with a plurality of user terminals 2 such as PCs, digital televisions, mobile phones, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) operated by users. The user terminal 2 includes a general browser (Web browser) 21 and a text reception / display unit 22 realized by a dedicated program.

  The browser 21 performs request / acquisition / display of page data described in a language such as HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), transmission of form data, and the like according to HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) which is a standard protocol of the Internet. It has a function.

  The text reception / display unit 22 receives usage guidance character information (with URL (Uniform Resource Locator) link) from the later-described usage guidance character information providing device 4 via the network 1, and displays a character string of the usage guidance character information on the screen. It has the function to display on the edge part. In addition, when the user selects a displayed character by a mouse click or the like on the displayed character, the text receiving / display unit 22 instructs the connection to the URL according to the URL link embedded in the character and starts the browser 21. It has a function.

  On the other hand, a plurality of service providing apparatuses 3 that provide various services are connected to the network 1. Each service providing device 3 has a function of providing bibliographic information by RSS (RDF (Resource Description Framework) Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, and Really Simple Syndication).

  The network 1 is connected to a user-guided character information providing device 4 that provides user-guided character information to the user terminal 2. The usage guide character information providing device 4 includes an RSS registration unit 41 and a usage guide character information providing unit 42 as functional units. These functional units are computer programs that are executed on hardware resources such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), and a RAM (Random Access Memory) of the computer that constitutes the usage guide character information providing apparatus 4. Is realized. These functional units do not need to be arranged on a single computer, and may be distributed as necessary.

  In addition, a user log database 5 is provided as an external database referred to by the usage guide character information providing apparatus 4. A crawl result holding unit 43 and an RSS site management database 44 are provided inside the usage guide character information providing apparatus 4. These databases systematically hold predetermined data on a storage medium such as an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) in a computer that holds the database.

  The RSS registration unit 41 sets the RSS site to be watched on the RSS site management database 44 based on the information in the user log database 5 storing the user search history (query log) and page browsing history (page browsing log). It has a function to perform.

  The RSS registration unit 41 includes a log information acquisition unit 411, a log information analysis unit 412, a crawler unit 413, and an RSS site setting unit 414.

  The log information acquisition unit 411 has a function of acquiring log information from the user log database 5.

  The log information analysis unit 412 has a function of analyzing the log information acquired from the user log database 5 by the log information acquisition unit 411 and extracting feature word (s).

  The crawler unit 413 circulates each page of a plurality of target service providing apparatuses 3 by a predetermined cycle or batch processing, acquires content data (mainly text data), and stores it in the crawl result holding unit 43 have.

  The RSS site setting unit 414 compares the feature word extracted by the log information analysis unit 412 with the crawl result stored in the crawl result holding unit 43 and selects the service providing apparatus 3 that includes the feature word frequently. The RSS site management database 44 has a function of setting the RSS acquisition URL of the service providing apparatus 3 as the RSS site URL in association with the user.

  The usage guidance character information providing unit 42 acquires RSS data from the corresponding service providing device 3 based on the setting of the RSS site management database 44, acquires content data from the RSS data, performs data processing, and uses the usage guidance characters. It has a function of generating information and transmitting it to the user terminal 2.

  The usage guidance character information provision unit 42 includes an RSS data reception unit 421, a content acquisition unit 422, a text extraction unit 423, a link embedding unit 424, and a usage guidance character transmission unit 425.

  The RSS data receiving unit 421 has a function of accessing the service providing apparatus 3 and receiving RSS data based on the RSS site URL set in the RSS site management database 44.

  The content acquisition unit 422 has a function of acquiring content data as a main body from the service providing apparatus 3 based on the RSS data acquired by the RSS data receiving unit 421.

  The text extraction unit 423 has a function of extracting text data from the content data (page data) acquired by the content acquisition unit 422.

  The link embedding unit 424 has a function of generating usage guide character information by embedding the URL link of the service providing apparatus 3 that is the acquisition source in one character unit of the text data extracted by the text extraction unit 423. The reason why the URL link is embedded in the character unit of the text data is to make the link function effectively when a character string is displayed on the user terminal 2 and a displayed fragment remains even at one character.

  The usage guide character transmission unit 425 has a function of transmitting the usage guide character information generated by the link embedding unit 424 to the user terminal 2 of the corresponding user.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure of the user log database 5 and includes items such as “user ID”, “date and time”, “query, browsing URL,...”. “User ID” is an identifier for identifying a user. “Date and time” is the date and time when the log event was recorded. “Query, browsing URL,...” Is information indicating the content of the search expression or the URL of the browsing page.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of the crawl result holding unit 43, and includes items such as “URL”, “date / time”, and “content content”. “URL” is the URL of the page to be collected. “Date and time” is the date and time of collection. “Content content” is collected content data (mainly text data).

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the data structure of the RSS site management database 44, and has items such as “user ID” and “RSS site URL”. “User ID” is an identifier for identifying a user. “RSS site URL” is the URL of the service providing apparatus 3 to be watched for acquiring RSS data.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration example of the usage guide character information providing apparatus 4.

  In FIG. 5, the usage guidance character information providing apparatus 4 includes a CPU 4002, a ROM 4003, a RAM 4004, an NVRAM (Non-Volatile Random Access Memory) 4005, an I / F (Interface) 4006, and an I / F 4006 connected to a system bus 4001. A keyboard, mouse, monitor, I / O (Input / Output Device) 4007 such as a CD / DVD (Compact Disk / Digital Versatile Disk) drive, HDD 4008, NIC (Network Interface Card) 4009, etc. are provided. M is a medium (recording medium) such as a CD / DVD in which a program or data is stored.

<Operation>
FIG. 6 is a sequence diagram illustrating a processing example of the above-described embodiment, and mainly illustrates a processing example of the RSS registration unit 41 of the usage guide character information providing device 4.

  In FIG. 6, the crawler unit 413 in the RSS registration unit 41 of the usage guide character information providing device 4 performs crawling processing periodically or batchwise (step S101). In the process, a page acquisition request is sent to the service providing device 3. In step S102, page data is acquired (step S103). The page acquisition request is performed by transmitting a message including a GET method according to HTTP, which is a standard protocol of the Internet, a request URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), and the like from the crawler unit 413 to the service providing apparatus 3. The page data is transmitted from the service providing apparatus 3 to the crawler unit 413 according to an HTTP response or the like. The crawler unit 413 stores the acquired page data in the crawl result holding unit 43 (step S104).

  On the other hand, the log information acquisition unit 411 in the RSS registration unit 41 of the usage guide character information providing device 4 starts processing periodically or batchwise.

  First, the log information acquisition unit 411 acquires log information from the user log database 5 (step S201), and delivers the acquired log information to the log information analysis unit 412 (step S202). Since communication between the log information acquisition unit 411 and the log information analysis unit 412 is communication within the RSS registration unit 41, it can be in any format.

  Upon receiving the log information, the log information analysis unit 412 analyzes the log information by a natural language analysis method such as morphological analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis, and extracts feature words (step S203). That is, if the log information is a query log, a keyword that is often used by the user for the search is extracted as a feature word. Further, if the log information is a page browsing log, words included in pages often browsed by the user are extracted as feature words. The log information analysis unit 412 delivers the extracted feature word to the RSS site setting unit 414 (step S204). Since the communication between the log information analysis unit 412 and the RSS site setting unit 414 is communication within the RSS registration unit 41, it can be in any format.

  The RSS site setting unit 414 that has received the feature word compares the received feature word with the crawl result stored in the crawl result holding unit 43 (step S205). That is, character strings are compared to determine whether or not a characteristic word is included in the crawl result. Then, the service providing apparatus 3 that provides high-frequency content including feature words is selected, and the RSS acquisition URL of the service providing apparatus 3 is set in the RSS site management database 44 in association with the user (step S206).

  FIG. 7 is a sequence diagram showing another processing example of the above-described embodiment, and mainly shows a processing example of the usage guidance character information providing unit 42 of the usage guidance character information providing device 4.

  In FIG. 7, the RSS data receiving unit 421 in the usage-guided character information providing unit 42 of the usage-guided character information providing device 4 starts processing periodically or batchwise.

  First, the RSS data receiving unit 421 acquires the RSS site URL set in the RSS site management database 44 (step S301). Then, an RSS acquisition request is made to the service providing apparatus 3 pointed to by the RSS site URL (step S302), and RSS data is acquired (step S303). The RSS acquisition request is made by transmitting a message including a GET method according to HTTP, a standard protocol of the Internet, a request URI, and the like from the RSS data receiving unit 421 to the service providing apparatus 3. The RSS data is transmitted from the service providing apparatus 3 to the RSS data receiving unit 421 according to an HTTP response or the like.

  Next, the RSS data receiving unit 421 determines the update status of the content based on the acquired RSS data (step S304), and hands over the URL of the content being updated to the content acquisition unit 422 (step S305). Since the communication between the RSS data receiving unit 421 and the content acquisition unit 422 is communication within the usage guide character information providing unit 42, it can be in any format.

  The content acquisition unit 422 that has received the URL makes a page acquisition request to the service providing apparatus 3 pointed to by the URL (step S306), and acquires page data (step S307). The page acquisition request is made by transmitting a message including a GET method according to HTTP, a standard protocol of the Internet, a request URI, and the like from the content acquisition unit 422 to the service providing apparatus 3. The page data is transmitted from the service providing apparatus 3 to the content acquisition unit 422 according to an HTTP response or the like. The content acquisition unit 422 delivers the acquired page data to the text extraction unit 423 (step S308). Since the communication between the content acquisition unit 422 and the text extraction unit 423 is communication within the usage guide character information providing unit 42, it can be in any format.

  The text extraction unit 423 that has received the page data extracts the text data from the page data (step S309). The text extraction unit 423 delivers the extracted text data to the link embedding unit 424 (step S310). Since the communication between the text extraction unit 423 and the link embedding unit 424 is communication within the usage guide character information providing unit 42, it can be in any format.

  The link embedding unit 424 that has received the text data embeds the URL link of the page of the service providing apparatus 3 that is the acquisition source in one character unit of the text data to generate usage guide character information (step S311). The link embedding unit 424 delivers the generated usage guide character information to the usage guide character transmission unit 425 (step S312). Since the communication between the link embedding unit 424 and the usage guide character transmission unit 425 is communication within the usage guide character information providing unit 42, it can be in any format.

  The usage guide character transmission unit 425 that has received the usage guide character information transmits the usage guide character information to the text reception / display unit 22 of the user terminal 2 (step S313). The communication between the usage guidance character transmission unit 425 and the text reception / display unit 22 is preferably compliant with HTTP or the like. The usage guidance character transmission unit 425 receives access from the text reception / display unit 22 when the user terminal 2 is activated, and stores the IP address of the text reception / display unit 22 in association with the user ID. It is assumed that usage guide character information is transmitted based on the address.

  The text reception / display unit 22 that has received the usage guidance character information displays the usage guidance character information on the screen of the user terminal 2 (step S314). FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of the screen of the user terminal 2. At the lower end that does not interfere with the main area of the screen, “△△. XXX is on sale! "X is a super special price!" Is displayed to flow from right to left. Note that the upper end portion, the right end portion, or the left end portion of the screen may be used as long as it does not interfere with the main area of the screen.

  Returning to FIG. 7, when the user of the user terminal 2 clicks the character string of the usage guidance character information on the screen with the mouse and the text reception / display unit 22 detects this (step S315), the text reception / display unit 22 Then, the browser 21 is activated by designating the URL embedded in the clicked character (step S316).

  The activated browser 21 makes a page acquisition request to the service providing apparatus 3 indicated by the designated URL (step S317), and acquires page data (step S318). The page acquisition request is made by transmitting a message including a GET method according to HTTP, a standard protocol of the Internet, a request URI, and the like from the browser 21 to the service providing apparatus 3. The page data is transmitted from the service providing apparatus 3 to the browser 21 according to an HTTP response or the like.

  The browser 21 that has received the page data displays the page on the screen (step S319). FIG. 9 shows a state in which a Web page corresponding to “XXXXX Sale Now!” Clicked by the user is displayed in the display area of the browser 21 on the screen of the user terminal 2.

<Summary>
As described above, according to the present embodiment, even if the user is not actively browsing a page such as a website, the user can be guided to browse the page of the website and the like, and the use of the service is expected to be promoted. The

  The present invention has been described above by the preferred embodiments of the present invention. While the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, various modifications and changes may be made to the embodiments without departing from the broad spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the claims. Obviously you can. In other words, the present invention should not be construed as being limited by the details of the specific examples and the accompanying drawings.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Network 2 User terminal 21 Browser 22 Text reception / display part 3 Service provision apparatus 4 Usage guidance character information provision apparatus 41 RSS registration part 411 Log information acquisition part 412 Log information analysis part 413 Crawler part 414 RSS site setting part 42 Usage guidance character Information providing unit 421 RSS data receiving unit 422 Content acquisition unit 423 Text extraction unit 424 Link embedding unit 425 Usage guide character transmission unit 43 Crawl result holding unit 44 RSS site management database 5 User log database

Claims (3)

An RSS registration unit configured to set an RSS site as a watch target for the RSS site management database based on information in a user log database storing user behavior history data;
Based on the setting of the RSS site management database, RSS data is acquired from the corresponding service providing device, content data is acquired from the RSS data, data processing is performed to generate usage guide character information, and the usage guide character information A content data providing apparatus comprising: a user-guided character information providing unit that transmits a message to a user terminal. The content data providing apparatus according to claim 1,
The usage guidance character information providing unit generates usage guidance character information by embedding the URL link of the service providing apparatus from which the data is acquired in one character unit of text data included in the content data, and a character string is displayed at the end of the screen. The content data providing apparatus characterized by performing. Based on the information in the user log database storing user behavior history data, setting the RSS site to be watched for the RSS site management database;
Based on the setting of the RSS site management database, RSS data is acquired from the corresponding service providing device, content data is acquired from the RSS data, data processing is performed to generate usage guide character information, and the usage guide character information The content data provision control method characterized by including the process of transmitting to a user terminal.

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