JP6217075B2 - Distribution method, distribution apparatus, and distribution program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a web page delivery method, a delivery device, and a delivery program.

  There are services that provide information to users over a network. For example, in a news site, a web page including an article text of a requested news is distributed in response to a news browsing request from a user.

  When a web page to be distributed is generated on a server at a news site, in addition to the news article body requested, content such as links to other articles related to the article and advertisements are added to the web as additional information. May be added within the page. Since related articles and advertisements change from time to time depending on the environment, web pages containing content such as links to related articles and advertisements are often generated after receiving user requests.

  In addition, a technique for changing a web content file in accordance with a performance limitation of the popular computing device for display by the popular computing device is known.

JP 2000-222276 A

  For example, in a website such as a news site, there are cases where requests for news browsing from users suddenly concentrate due to external factors such as incidents. At this time, the load on the server that generates the web page increases, and there is a possibility that the response is slow or the site cannot be connected. Especially for content such as news articles, immediacy is required, and even if the server load suddenly increases, it is desirable to maintain a state where it can be immediately delivered in response to a request from the user. ing.

  In one aspect, an object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of stably delivering a web page even when access to a site is concentrated.

In one aspect, in the distribution method, the computer monitors the load status of the distribution computer that generates the web page, receives a transmission request for a web page including a plurality of contents, and stores user information indicating the type of each user. An importance information storage unit that refers to the user storage unit, acquires the type of the user who has requested transmission, and stores importance level information indicating the importance level divided into a plurality of site types and contents , and a distribution computer The degree of importance corresponding to the load situation monitored from a plurality of contents is shown with reference to the configuration information storage unit for storing the configuration information indicating the degree of importance divided into a plurality corresponding to the load situation and the type of user. The extracted content is extracted, a web page including the extracted content is generated, and a process of transmitting the generated web page is executed.

  In one aspect, stable web page delivery is possible even when web page transmission requests are concentrated.

It is a figure which shows the structural example of the system which delivers the web page by this Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the function structural example of the delivery server by this Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the hardware structural example of the computer which implement | achieves a delivery server provided with the page generation function part by this Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the load condition determination data by this Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the user data by this Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the structure data by this Embodiment. An example of importance data according to the present embodiment is shown. It is a figure explaining the production | generation of the web page by this Embodiment. It is a figure explaining the production | generation of the web page by this Embodiment. It is a delivery processing flowchart by the delivery server of this Embodiment.

  Hereinafter, the present embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. In the following embodiment, description will be made mainly using an example of distributing a web page of a news article on a news site.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a system for delivering a web page according to the present embodiment.

  The system shown in FIG. 1 is an example of a system that delivers a web page of a news article to a client 20 operated by a user. In the system shown in FIG. 1, a distribution server 10 is a computer that distributes web pages of news articles on a news site. The client 20 is a computer operated by a user. The client 20 can access the distribution server 10 via a network 70 such as the Internet. The user can browse the web page of the news article provided by the distribution server 10 using the client 20.

  The distribution server 10 has a function of generating a web page in response to a web page transmission request from the client 20. For example, when the distribution server 10 receives a transmission request for a web page including a news article body from the client 20, the distribution server 10 generates a web page including the requested article body, and uses the generated web page data as the client 20. Send to. Here, the web page including the news article text distributed by the distribution server 10 has a specification having a plurality of contents including the content of the article text. For example, the distribution server 10 generates a web page including content other than the news article text, such as an image related to the article, a link to information related to the article, and an advertisement.

  For example, since news articles are uploaded on the network from time to time by various information providers, related articles that can become link destinations change from time to time. The distribution server 10 according to the present embodiment generates a web page to be distributed every time a transmission request is received from the client 20 in order to present a link to appropriate related information to the user in response to this change.

  The file server 30 is a computer that manages article text included in a web page and image files related to the article. In response to a request from the distribution server 10, the file server 30 passes the requested article body file and an image file related to the article to the distribution server 10.

  The search server 40 is a computer that searches for information related to articles included in a web page. For example, the search server 40 explains other companies or past web pages that contain articles about the same content as the requested article, and terms contained in the article based on keywords in the requested article. Search web pages. The search server 40 passes the information obtained by the search to the distribution server 10 as information related to the requested article.

  The advertisement system 50 is a computer system of an external service that provides advertisement content to be included in a web page. The distribution server 10 and the advertising system 50 can be connected via a network 80 such as the Internet or a dedicated line. The network 70 and the network 80 may be the same network. The advertisement system 50 passes an advertisement file to the distribution server 10 in response to a request from the distribution server 10.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the distribution server according to the present embodiment.

  The distribution server 10 includes a reception unit 11, a transmission unit 12, a load status monitoring unit 110, a determination unit 120, a generation unit 130, a content acquisition unit 140, and an information storage unit 150. In the example of the distribution server 10 illustrated in FIG. 2, a page generation function for generating a web page according to the present embodiment using the load status monitoring unit 110, the determination unit 120, the generation unit 130, the content acquisition unit 140, and the information storage unit 150. The unit 100 is realized.

  The information storage unit 150 is a storage unit that stores various information used for generating a web page according to the present embodiment. The information storage unit 150 includes a load situation determination information storage unit 151, a user information storage unit 152, a configuration information storage unit 153, and an importance level information storage unit 154. The load status determination information storage unit 151 is a storage unit that stores load determination information in which conditions such as a threshold used for determination of the load status of the server that generates the web page are recorded. The user information storage unit 152 is a storage unit that stores user information including the user registration status. The configuration information storage unit 153 is a storage unit that stores configuration information indicating the configuration conditions of the web page in accordance with the member registration status of the user and the load status of the server that generates the web page. The importance level information storage unit 154 is a storage unit that stores importance level information indicating the importance level of each content.

  The receiving unit 11 receives a web page transmission request from the client 20. Here, the web page requested to be transmitted is a web page with specifications having a plurality of contents. As described above, the specification of the web page in the example of the present embodiment is designed to include a plurality of contents such as a news article body, an image related to the article, a link to information related to the article, and an advertisement. Has been. Hereinafter, an image related to an article is referred to as an article image. Information related to articles is called related information.

  At least one of the contents included in the web page is specific content requested from the client 20. In the example of the present embodiment, the specific content is a news article specified by a transmission request. The receiving unit 11 receives a transmission request for a web page including the content of the news article text specified by the transmission request.

  The load status monitoring unit 110 monitors the load status of the server that generates the web page. For example, the load status monitoring unit 110 monitors the load such as the web page generation time and the number of web page transmission requests per unit time, and sets the conditions indicated in the load status determination information of the load status determination information storage unit 151. Used to determine the load status of the server that generates the web page.

  The determining unit 120 determines the content to be included in the generated web page from the plurality of contents in the original web page specifications according to the load situation determined by the load situation monitoring unit 110. Determining the content to be included in the generated web page means determining the content not to be included in the simultaneously generated web page. Note that the content included in the web page includes specific content requested from the client 20.

  For example, the determination unit 120 refers to the configuration information in the configuration information storage unit 153 and acquires the condition of the importance level of the content to be included in the web page according to the load situation. The determination unit 120 refers to the importance level information in the importance level information storage unit 154, and determines the content that satisfies the acquired importance level as the content to be included in the web page.

  Further, when the determination unit 120 further acquires the type of the user who has requested the transmission by operating the client 20 and determines the content to be included in the Web page, the Web page is further determined according to the acquired user type. You may make it determine the content to include. The user type is a type in which users are classified under a predetermined condition. For example, the user type is a type indicating whether or not the user is a member. The determination unit 120 refers to the user information in the user information storage unit 152 and acquires the type of the user who has requested transmission. Thus, depending on the load of the distribution server 10 that generates the web page, the content is not reduced from the web page transmitted to a specific user such as a member, but only from the web page transmitted to a non-member user. Differentiation is possible, such as reducing content.

  The generation unit 130 generates a web page including the content determined by the determination unit 120. For example, the generation unit 130 requests the content acquisition unit 140 to acquire content determined to be included in the web page by the determination unit 120. The generation unit 130 generates a web page including the content acquired by the content acquisition unit 140. The web page generated by the generation unit 130 is obtained by excluding the content that is not included in the web page generated by the determination unit 120 from the web page of the original specification.

  The content acquisition unit 140 acquires various contents included in the generated web page. Content that is not included in the generated web page is not acquired. In the example of the present embodiment, the content acquisition unit 140 includes an article file acquisition unit 141, an image file acquisition unit 142, a related information acquisition unit 143, and an advertisement acquisition unit 144. The article file acquisition unit 141 acquires a news article body file from the file server 30. The image file acquisition unit 142 acquires an article image file from the file server 30. The related information acquisition unit 143 acquires link information to the related information from the search server 40. The advertisement acquisition unit 144 acquires an advertisement file from the advertisement system 50.

  The transmission unit 12 transmits the web page generated by the generation unit 130 to the corresponding client 20.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration example of a computer that realizes a distribution server including a page generation function unit according to the present embodiment.

  A computer 1 that realizes the distribution server 10 including the page generation function unit 100 shown in FIG. 2 includes, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 2, a main memory 3, a storage device 4, a communication device 5, a medium reading / writing Including an input device 6, an input device 7, an output device 8, and the like. The storage device 4 is an external storage device such as an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or an auxiliary storage device. The medium reading / writing device 6 is, for example, a CD-R (Compact Disc Recordable) drive or a DVD-R (Digital Versatile Disc Recordable) drive. The input device 7 is an input device such as a keyboard / mouse. The output device 8 is a display device such as a display, for example.

  The distribution server 10 and each functional unit included in the distribution server 10 illustrated in FIG. 2 can be realized by hardware such as the CPU 2 and the memory 3 included in the computer 1 and a software program. A program that can be executed by the computer 1 is stored in the storage device 4, read into the memory 3 at the time of execution, and executed by the CPU 2.

  The computer 1 can also read a program directly from a portable recording medium and execute processing according to the program. The computer 1 can also sequentially execute processing according to the received program every time the program is transferred from the server computer. Further, this program can be recorded on a recording medium readable by the computer 1.

  Hereinafter, a technique for generating and distributing a web page according to the present embodiment will be described using a more specific example.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of load status determination data according to the present embodiment.

  The load situation determination data 191 illustrated in FIG. 4 shows an example of the load situation determination information stored in the load situation determination information storage unit 151. The load status determination data 191 shown in FIG. 4 has information such as the load status, the number of accesses, and the page generation time. The load status is an evaluation value obtained by evaluating the height of the load as a level. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the load status of the distribution server 10 that generates the web page is evaluated in four stages of levels 0 to 3. The number of accesses indicates the condition of the number of page views (PV: page view) per unit time (here 1 second). The page generation time indicates a condition of time (ms: milliseconds) required for generating one web page.

  Each record of the load status determination data 191 shown in FIG. 4 shows the condition of the number of accesses and the condition of page generation time for determining that the load status of the distribution server 10 is the load status of the corresponding record. Yes. For example, if the number of accesses per unit time is 3000 (PV / sec) or more and the page generation time is 300 (ms) or more, the load situation monitoring unit 110 uses the distribution server from the load situation judgment data 191 shown in FIG. It is determined that the load status of 10 is level 3. For example, if the level 3 condition is not satisfied and the number of accesses per unit time is 2000 (PV / sec) or more and the page generation time is 200 (ms) or more, the load status monitoring unit 110 From the load status determination data 191 shown in FIG. 4, it is determined that the load status of the distribution server 10 is level 2. For example, if the level 2 condition is not satisfied and the number of accesses per unit time is 1000 (PV / sec) or more and the page generation time is 100 (ms) or more, the load status monitoring unit 110 From the load status determination data 191 shown in FIG. 4, it is determined that the load status of the distribution server 10 is level 1. If the level 1 condition is not satisfied, the load status monitoring unit 110 determines that the load status of the distribution server 10 is level 0.

  For example, the load status monitoring unit 110 monitors the number of accesses from the client 20 to the distribution server 10 and the generation time of the web page by the distribution server 10. As the generation time of the web page, for example, the generation time of the web page by the generation unit 130 may be monitored, or the web page is transmitted by the transmission unit 12 after receiving the transmission request of the web page by the reception unit 11. You may make it monitor the time until. The load status monitoring unit 110 determines the number of accesses of the distribution server 10 and the generation time of the web page using the conditions of the load status determination data 191, and determines the load status of the distribution server 10 that generates the web page. Note that the load on the distribution server monitored by the load status monitoring unit 110 may be a resource load such as a CPU usage rate or a memory usage amount.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of user data according to the present embodiment.

  User data 192 shown in FIG. 5 shows an example of user information stored in the user information storage unit 152. The user data 192 shown in FIG. 5 has user ID and user type information. The user ID is identification information that identifies a user who operates the client 20. The user type is a type for classifying users. In the example of the present embodiment, the user type indicates whether or not the user with the corresponding user ID is a member of the corresponding site. The member may be a paid member or a free member. Further, even for the same member, a general member and a VIP member may be distinguished. In the user type of the user data 192 shown in FIG. 5, information on whether or not each of the two sites of the site α and the site β is a member is recorded.

  For example, when receiving a web page transmission request from the client 20, the determination unit 120 searches the user data 192 with the user ID input in the login process by the client 20 and searches for the user operating the client 20. Get user type. For example, when the client 20 is a mobile phone terminal or the like, the determination unit 120 searches the user data 192 using the identification information transmitted from the client 20 as a user ID, and the user of the user who operates the client 20 Get the type. When the user ID existing in the user data 192 cannot be obtained from the client 20, the determination unit 120 determines that the user who operates the client 20 is a nonmember.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of configuration data according to the present embodiment.

  The configuration data 193 illustrated in FIG. 6 illustrates an example of configuration information stored in the configuration information storage unit 153. The configuration data 193 shown in FIG. 6 has information on site type, user type, load status, and page configuration conditions. The site type indicates a site accessed by the client 20. The user type indicates whether the user who operates the client 20 is a member. The load status indicates the load status of the distribution server 10 that generates the web page. The page configuration condition indicates a condition of content to be included in a web page corresponding to a combination of site type, user type, and load status.

  The determination unit 120 includes a combination of a web page site that the client 20 requests to transmit, a user who operates the client 20 obtained by referring to the user data, and the load status determined by the load status monitoring unit 110. The data 193 is searched and the page composition condition is acquired. For example, if the site accessed by the client 20 is the site α, the user type of the user operating the client 20 is a non-member, and the load status of the distribution server 10 is level 2, the configuration data 193 shown in FIG. The obtained page composition condition is “importance 3 or higher”.

  FIG. 7 shows an example of importance data according to the present embodiment.

  The importance level data 194 shown in FIG. 7 shows an example of importance level information stored in the importance level information storage unit 154. The importance level data 194 shown in FIG. 7 has information on the site type, constituent elements, and importance level. The site type indicates a site accessed by the client 20. The component indicates the content included in the web page of the corresponding site. The importance is an evaluation value indicating the importance of the content of the corresponding component in the web page of the corresponding site. In the example of the importance level data 194 shown in FIG. 7, the higher the importance level, the more important the content on the corresponding web page.

  The determination unit 120 extracts content satisfying the page configuration condition obtained by searching the configuration data 193 from the importance data 194, and determines the extracted content as content to be included in the web page. For example, when the site accessed by the client 20 is the site α and the page configuration condition is “importance 3 or higher”, the part #a and the part #b are extracted from the importance data 194 shown in FIG. And determined as content to be included in the web page.

  The generation unit 130 generates a web page including the content determined by the determination unit 120. At this time, the content acquisition unit 140 acquires the content determined by the determination unit 120 and does not acquire other content. The generation unit 130 generates a web page including the content acquired by the content acquisition unit 140.

  8 and 9 are diagrams for explaining generation of a web page according to the present embodiment.

  Here, it is assumed that the web page requested to be transmitted from the client 20 is a web page of a news article of the site α which is a news site. In addition, it is assumed that the user of the client 20 who has requested transmission of the web page is a non-member of the site α. Regarding the components of the web page, part #a indicates the content of the article text, part #b indicates the content of the article image, part #c indicates the content of the link to the related information, part #d and part # e represents the content of the advertisement.

  When the load status of the distribution server 10 is level 0, all the contents included in the original specifications of the web page are determined as the contents included in the generated web page from the configuration data 193 shown in FIG. At this time, the content acquisition unit 140 acquires all the contents of the parts #a to #e, that is, the article text, article images, links to related information, and advertisement contents.

  The generation unit 130 generates a web page including the acquired article body, article image, link to related information, and advertisement content. The web page generated at this time has a configuration shown in FIG. 8A, for example. The web page having the configuration shown in FIG. 8A is a web page with an original specification, and is a web page including all contents in the specification.

  When the load status of the distribution server 10 is level 1, content having an importance level of 2 or higher is determined as content included in the generated web page from the configuration data 193 shown in FIG. From the importance level data 194 shown in FIG. 7, contents of importance level 2 or higher, that is, contents of part #a, part #b, part #d, and part #e are determined as contents included in the generated web page. Conversely, the content of the part #c having an importance level of 1 is determined as content not included in the generated web page. At this time, the content acquisition unit 140 removes the content of the part #c (link to related information), the part #a (article text), the part #b (article image), the parts #d, and #e (advertisement). Get content. In this case, since related information is not searched, time can be reduced.

  The generation unit 130 generates a web page including the acquired article text, article image, and advertisement content. The web page generated at this time has a configuration shown in FIG. 8B, for example. The web page having the configuration shown in FIG. 8B includes a web page in which the content of part #c (link to related information) is excluded from the content in the original web page specification shown in FIG. It has become.

  When the load status of the distribution server 10 is level 2, content of importance 3 or higher is determined as content included in the generated web page from the configuration data 193 shown in FIG. From the importance level data 194 shown in FIG. 7, contents of importance level 3 or higher, that is, contents of part #a and part #b are determined as contents included in the generated web page. In other words, the contents of parts #c to #e having importance levels 1 and 2 are determined as contents not included in the generated web page. At this time, the content acquisition unit 140 excludes the content of the part #c (link to related information) and the parts #d and #e (advertisement), and the part #a (article text) and the part #b (article image). Get content. In this case, the search for related information and the acquisition of advertisements from the external advertisement system 50 are not performed, so that time can be reduced.

  The generation unit 130 generates a web page including the content of the acquired article text and article image. The web page generated at this time has a configuration shown in FIG. 9A, for example. The web page having the configuration shown in FIG. 9A is obtained from the content in the specifications of the original web page shown in FIG. 8A from the part #c (link to related information) and the parts #d, #e (advertisement). ) Content is excluded.

  When the load status of the distribution server 10 is level 3, content having an importance level of 4 or higher is determined as content included in the generated web page from the configuration data 193 shown in FIG. From the importance level data 194 shown in FIG. 7, the content of importance level 4 or higher, that is, the content of part #a is determined as the content included in the generated web page. Conversely, the contents of parts #b to #e having importance levels 1 to 3 are determined as contents not included in the generated web page. At this time, the content acquisition unit 140 excludes the content of part #b (article image), part #c (link to related information), part #d, #e (advertisement), and part #a (article text). Get content. In this case, the acquisition of the article image file, the retrieval of the related information, and the acquisition of the advertisement from the external advertising system 50 are not performed, so that the time can be shortened.

  The production | generation part 130 produces | generates the web page containing the content of the acquired article text. The web page generated at this time has a configuration shown in FIG. 9B, for example. The web page having the configuration shown in FIG. 9B is obtained from the content in the original web page specification shown in FIG. 8A from the part #b (article image), part #c (link to related information), This is a web page from which the contents of parts #d and #e (advertisement) are excluded.

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart of distribution processing by the distribution server of this embodiment.

  In distribution server 10, receiving unit 11 receives a web page transmission request from client 20 (step S10). The load status monitoring unit 110 determines the load status of the distribution server 10 that generates the web page using the condition of the load status determination data 191 (step S11).

  The determination unit 120 refers to the user data 192 and acquires the user type of the user who operates the client 20 that has requested transmission of the web page (step S12). The determining unit 120 refers to the configuration data 193 and the importance data 194, and determines the content to be included in the web page from the determined load status and the acquired user type (step S13).

  The content acquisition unit 140 acquires the content determined by the determination unit 120 (step S14). The generation unit 130 generates a web page including the content acquired by the content acquisition unit 140 (step S15). The transmission unit 12 transmits the generated web page to the corresponding client 20 (step S16).

  Since the web page generation technology according to the present embodiment described above can reduce the content to be included in the generated web page according to the load status of the distribution server 10 that generates the web page, Time and processing load can be reduced. As a result, response delays and access restrictions are suppressed, and stable web page delivery can be performed even when access to the site is concentrated.

  Although the present embodiment has been described above, the present invention can naturally be modified in various ways within the scope of the gist thereof.

  For example, in the example of the present embodiment, the distribution server 10 that receives a transmission request from the client 20 generates a web page, but the web page may be generated by another server.

  Further, for example, in the present embodiment, the description has been given mainly using the example of the web page in the news site, but the web page according to the present embodiment is also applied to the web page of another site having a plurality of contents. Generation techniques can be applied.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Distribution server 11 Reception part 12 Transmission part 100 Page generation function part 110 Load condition monitoring part 120 Determination part 130 Generation part 140 Content acquisition part 141 Article file acquisition part 142 Image file acquisition part 143 Related information acquisition part 144 Advertisement acquisition part 150 Information Storage unit 151 Load situation determination information storage unit 152 User information storage unit 153 Configuration information storage unit 154 Importance information storage unit 20 Client 30 File server 40 Search server 50 Advertising system 70, 80 Network

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Computer
Monitor the load status of the distribution computer that generates web pages,
Receive a request to send a web page containing multiple contents,
Referring to a user storage unit that stores user information indicating the type of each user, the type of the user who made the transmission request is acquired,
An importance level information storage unit for storing importance level information indicating importance level divided into a plurality for each site type and content, and the importance level divided into a plurality corresponding to the load status of the distribution computer and the user type With reference to a configuration information storage unit that stores configuration information , the content indicating the importance corresponding to the monitored load status is extracted from the plurality of contents,
Generating a web page containing the extracted content;
The delivery method characterized by performing the process which transmits the said produced | generated web page. An importance level information storage unit for storing importance level information indicating the importance level divided into a plurality for each site type and content;
A configuration information storage unit for storing configuration information indicating the degree of importance divided into a plurality corresponding to the load status of the distribution computer and the type of user;
A load status monitoring unit for monitoring the load status of the distribution computer that generates the web page;
A receiving unit for receiving a transmission request for a web page including a plurality of contents;
Referring to a user storage unit that stores user information indicating the type of each user, obtains the type of the user who made the transmission request,
A determination unit that refers to the importance level information storage unit and the configuration information storage unit, and extracts a content indicating an importance level corresponding to the monitored load status from the plurality of contents;
A generating unit for generating a web page including the extracted content;
And a transmission unit that transmits the generated web page. Computer
Monitor the load status of the distribution computer that generates web pages,
Receive a request to send a web page containing multiple contents,
Referring to a user storage unit that stores user information indicating the type of each user, the type of the user who made the transmission request is acquired,
An importance level information storage unit for storing importance level information indicating importance level divided into a plurality for each site type and content, and the importance level divided into a plurality corresponding to the load status of the distribution computer and the user type With reference to a configuration information storage unit that stores configuration information , the content indicating the importance corresponding to the monitored load status is extracted from the plurality of contents,
Generating a web page containing the extracted content;
A distribution program for executing a process of transmitting the generated web page.

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