JP3470861B2 - Reference access information acquisition system - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a reference access information acquisition system, and in particular, it can be effectively used when collecting and analyzing information relating to homepage reference of homepages on the Internet or an intranet.
Homepage reference Access statistics acquisition system
(Hereinafter, also simply referred to as “statistical information acquisition system”).

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The HTML (Hy
It has been widely practiced to display a per-text make-up language) document from another client machine on a screen via a network. A server machine having an HTML document is used as a means for transmitting information because it can be easily connected from an unspecified number of client machines, and there are several means for measuring how much the information is referenced. Or have been proposed. By using an access counter as one of such means, it is possible to measure the number of times the client machine has connected to the HTML document. The access counter is a variable having a mechanism such that the value is incremented by 1 each time the client machine connects to the HTML document. By referring to the value of the access counter, the access counter indicates the number of times of connection to the HTML document. You can know. However, with this method, although it is possible to know the number of connections, it is not possible to obtain information on the connection time. In addition, the machine that can acquire information is the HTM
It is limited to the server machine having the L document, and the document to be acquired is also limited to the HTML document.

On the other hand, a browser is used to display a document (stream-type document) including a moving image and a sound. When connecting to a stream type document, the connection end timing can be detected by the server machine, so the connection time should be measured by taking the difference between the time acquired at that time and the time acquired at the start of connection. Is possible. However, the machine that can acquire the connection time information by this method is limited to the server machine having the above-mentioned stream type document, and the acquisition target document is also limited to the stream type document. Furthermore, for non-stream type documents,
The server machine cannot measure the connection time itself.
Recently, a service has been provided that provides statistical information on the number of times an HTML document has been connected. This service stores the HTML document connected by the client machine and the number of times of connection as connection information on the client machine side, and transfers the connection information from the client machine to the tally server machine by user operation when the specified time comes. Then, the data is aggregated by the aggregation server machine, analyzed, and the result is provided to the contractor. However, this method can measure the entire HTML document to which the client machine can connect, but can only acquire information on the number of connections.

[0004]

The owner of the HTML document is required to know how much the HTML document created by the user is referred to by the user on the client machine side, that is, how much interest he / she has. is there. There are several methods to deal with this, but with the method that uses the access counter and the method that uses the service that provides statistical information on the number of connections described above, you can know the number of connections, but the connection time is acquired. Because users can't do it,
There is a problem that it is not possible to distinguish whether it has just passed. Also, with the method of acquiring connection time using a stream type document, it is possible to acquire the connection time, but since the communication line is occupied during connection, the cost of connection is expensive and it can not be realized unless it is a stream type. There's a problem. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to solve the above-described problems in the conventional technique and to easily know how much interest an HTML document has to a user. It is to provide an acquisition system of possible statistical information.

[0005]

The above object of the present invention is to provide H
A server machine having TML document data and the HTML
Document data is displayed on the screen in document units via the network.
Reference having client machine 10, ... to display
In the access information acquisition system, each of the client machines uses a keyboard or mouse to display on the screen.
When the change request of the access destination URL of the document to be displayed is, connect time is connected to the URL of the time and the document that initiated the connection to the URL of the document information 12
It is achieved by a reference access information acquisition system characterized by having a means for accumulating as.

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION In the present invention, Uniform Resource L of an HTML document connected by a client machine is used.
The ocator (URL), connection time, and connection time are accumulated as connection information, and when the specified time comes, or when the accumulated number reaches a certain number, the accumulated information is automatically collected server Send to machine. On the summary server machine,
Accumulates information sent from client machines and aggregates as needed. Generally, it is appropriate to consider that an HTML document with a long connection time is a document that the user is interested in. Therefore, by looking at the connection time of the stored information, the HTML document that the user is interested in can be known. Further, if the connection time is known, it is possible to know the connection tendency of the HTML document for each time. In addition, as for the present technology, the present applicant first applied for Japanese Patent Application No. 9-
69719 "Data display method using history information"
The technology proposed in Section 1 is applied to the acquisition of statistical information in server / client systems.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in more detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a system to which a statistical information acquisition method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied. In FIG. 1, 1, ...
... is a client, 20 is an aggregation server, and
Reference numeral 11 indicates connection information management, 12 indicates connection information, 13 indicates transmission information, 21 indicates accumulation processing, 22 indicates accumulation information, and 23 indicates aggregation processing.

The connection information management 11 is performed by the client (1) 1
This is a process that is called when the connection HTML document of the browser of 0 is changed or when the scheduled time comes, and the history information of the browser display is the connection information 1
2. A process of accumulating in the transmission information 13 and a process of transmitting the accumulated information to the aggregation server machine are performed. Accumulation process 21
Is called when the connection information is transmitted from the client machine, and performs a process of accumulating the information in the accumulated information 22. The tally process 23 performs a process of tallying the data of the accumulated information 22.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data structure of the connection information 12. As shown in FIG. 2, the connection information 12 includes a URL 31 indicating the name of the HTML document connected so far,
The HTML document stores a connection time 32 that represents the time when the connection is started and a connection time 33 that represents the time from the start to the end of the connection.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data structure of the transmission information 13. In the transmission information 13, as shown in FIG. 3, the total server identification information 41 indicating the destination when transmitting the connection information 12 to the total server machine, the client name 42 indicating the transmission source, and the current connection information 12 are stored. The currently stored number 43 that represents the number of stored messages and the transmission trigger number 44 that represents a certain number when the transmission starts when the number of items currently stored in the connection information 12 reaches a certain number are stored. .

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data structure of the accumulated information 22. As shown in FIG. 4, the accumulated information 22 includes a client name 51 indicating a sender and a URL 5 indicating the name of an HTML document to which the sender client has connected in the past.
2, connection time 53, and connection time 54 are stored.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a data structure of a table formed when the totaling process 23 is performed from the accumulated information 22. In this table, as shown in FIG.
A URL 61 that represents the name of the ML document and a total connection time 62 that represents the total connection time are stored.

The operation of the present embodiment configured as described above will be described below with reference to the flow charts shown in FIGS. The client 1 operates as follows. In addition,
As described above, it is assumed that the connection information management 11 is set to be invoked when the HTML document connected by the browser is changed or when the scheduled time comes. When the HTML document connected by the browser on the client 1 is changed, or
When the scheduled time comes, the connection information management 11 is called. First, it is checked whether the call is triggered by a change in the HTML document or because the scheduled time has come.
(Step 101).

If the HTML document is changed, the process of accumulating information in the connection information 12 is started. That is,
The current time is acquired from the system, and the URL of the HTML document to which the browser is currently connected is acquired from the browser (step 102). Next, the value obtained by subtracting the current time from the connection time 32 is written in the connection time 33 of the line regarding the URL that was viewed immediately before (step 103). Then, to write to a new line, 1 is added to the current accumulated number (step 104), and the URL 31 and connection time 32 of the corresponding line are added (step 102).
Write the current URL and current time obtained in step 10
5).

Finally, it is checked whether or not the number of items stored in the connection information has reached a certain number (step 106).
If the number has reached a certain number, or step 1
If it is determined that the call was made because the scheduled time came at 01, the contents of the connection information 12 are transmitted to the total server machine (step 107). Since the sent information is unnecessary,
Delete the contents of the connection information 12 and return the current accumulated number 43 to 0
(Step 108).

The total server (a) 20 operates as follows. The accumulation process 21 is called when the content of the connection information 12 transmitted from the connection information management 11 is received. First, the client name of the sent information is written in the client name 51 for the number of lines to be sent (step 20).
1). Further, the URL, the connection time, and the connection time of the sent information are written to the URL 52, the connection information 53, and the connection time 54 of the storage information 22 for the number of lines sent (step 202).

If, after this, another connection information is received, the accumulation process 21 is called again, but the previously written amount in the accumulated information 22 is left as it is, and the new information is added from a new line. To do. In this way, the information of the client name, URL, connection time, and connection time connected to the HTML document connected in the past is stored information 2
2 will be stored. It is possible to obtain necessary information by subjecting the accumulated information 22 to various kinds of aggregation processing 23. For example, by summing up the connection times relating to the connection information of the same URL and arranging the times aggregated for each URL in descending order, the most frequently referenced document can be cited.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the example. First, the total connection time is calculated in steps 301 to 307.
Done in. That is, the URL 5 is stored line by line from the accumulated information 22.
2 and connection time 54 are read (step 302), URL
If is already written in the URL 61, the connection time is added to the total connection time 62 of the line (step 304),
If it is not in the URL 61, it is written in the URL 62 of the new line and the total connection time 62 (step 305). This is repeated until there are no more rows to read from the accumulated information 22. Finally,
Rearrange the rows so that the total time is the largest
(Step 308).

It is needless to say that the above embodiment shows an example of the present invention, and the present invention should not be limited to this. For example, the server
The number of servers and clients constituting the client system can be arbitrarily selected, and the timing of totaling can be different from that in the above embodiment.

[0020]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, it is possible to realize a statistical information acquisition system which makes it possible to easily know how much interest an HTML document has to a user. It has a great effect. More specifically, (1) the time when the HTML document is connected and the connection time information is H
Since the information can be stored in units of TML documents, it becomes possible to know from the connection time information in the totaling server machine whether the user has simply passed the HTML document or read it with interest. In addition, the time zone often referred to in the HTML document can be known from the connection time information. (2) Furthermore, by applying the technology according to the present invention to a plurality of client machines, it becomes possible to accumulate the time referred to by a large number of users. It becomes feasible to conduct a survey that requires a certain number of samples. (3) In addition, it is possible to easily display the 10 best monthly access times and aggregate the average monthly access times (total connection time / number of accesses). (4) Information requested by the client focusing on the URL
It becomes possible to know what (reference purpose) is, and to grasp the number of fixed customers from the URL that is repeatedly accessed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a system to which a statistical information acquisition method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data structure of connection information 12 according to an embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data structure of transmission information 13 according to an embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data structure of accumulated information 22 according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a data structure of a tabulation result storage table according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an operation flowchart of connection information management 11.

FIG. 7 is an operation flowchart of a storage process 21.

FIG. 8 is an operation flowchart of accumulation processing 23.

[Explanation of symbols]

1, ... Server 10, ... Client 11 Connection information management 12 Connection information 13 Transmission information 20 aggregation server 21 Accumulation processing 22 Accumulated information 23 Aggregation processing

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A reference access information acquisition system comprising: a server machine having HTML document data; and a client machine for displaying the HTML document data on a screen in document units via a network. , When the request to change the access destination URL of the document to be displayed on the screen is made with the keyboard or mouse, the time when the connection to the URL of the document is started and the time when the URL of the document is connected are used as the connection information. A reference access information acquisition system comprising means for accumulating. 2. The accumulated connection information is transferred from each of the client machines to a predetermined aggregation server machine periodically or when the accumulated number of connection information reaches a certain number, and the aggregation server. 2. The reference access information acquisition system according to claim 1, wherein the machine has means for receiving and storing the sent connection information. 3. The reference access according to claim 1, wherein the totaling server machine has means for editing, as statistical information, information about a connection time when the HTML document was referred to by the user. Information acquisition system.