KR100834172B1 - Search portal server system which can perform automatic search category selection using a double-enter key function - Google Patents

Abstract

A search portal server system for selecting a search category automatically by pressing an enter key twice is provided to select and search the preset search category such as a dictionary or an image automatically without manipulating a mouse by pressing an enter key twice after a search term is inputted. A receiver receives a search term and a key stroke after input of the search term from a user PC(120). A key stroke determiner determines a type, count, and a time interval of the received key strokes. An output part transmits and outputs a search result to the user PC. A search portal web server(100) determines a search condition for the received search term depending on a determination result of the key stroke determiner, and transfers the received search term and the determined search condition to a search server(110). The key stroke determiner determines the search condition as a command for searching a preset search category when both first and second key stroke continuously inputted after the search term are an enter key, and the time interval between the first and second key stroke is shorter than a predetermined time interval.

Description

Search Portal Server System which can perform Automatic Search Category Selection using a double-enter key function}

1 is a keycode example of Internet Explorer

2 is a view illustrating an operation structure of a search service through a continuous press of an enter key

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of detecting a continuous press of an enter key.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100: search portal web server 101: HTML document

110: search server, 120: user PC

The search portal (Naver, Empas, etc.) supports the search function for various search categories (Web, Knowledge, Cafe / Blog, Dictionary, Image, Video, Music, News, My PC, etc.). As a result, the "integrated search" function of searching all the various search categories is operated to provide search results for the search categories most relevant to the corresponding search word by default. However, if a user is only interested in a particular search category (for example, "dictionary" or "image"), they should also look at irrelevant categories and search for multiple categories to find the category they actually want to see. It takes unnecessary effort to keep track of. In addition, there is also the inconvenience to see the advertising information, such as "sponsored links."

On the other hand, if the user wants to search only for a specific search category such as "dictionary" or "image", the user can select a separate search category selection menu. However, in this case, the user can move the mouse separately before or after the search term. Through the hassle of having to make additional selection in the search category selection menu.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention, after inputting a search word in the search portal only by successive pressing (two or three times) of the input key (referred to as enter key, return key, etc., hereinafter referred to as "enter key") It automatically selects a specific search category, such as "dictionary" or "image", so that the search can be performed. The desired search can be performed quickly and easily without moving the hand or finger separately.

To this end, the present invention,

It consists of a search portal web server connected to the user terminal, and a search server connected to the search portal web server to perform a search according to the search term and the search conditions requested by the search portal web server, and deliver the search results to the search portal web server. A search portal server system for performing a search corresponding to a search word input from a user terminal connected through a communication network and providing the search result to the user terminal,

The search portal web server includes a receiving unit for receiving a search word input by the user and a key stroke after the search word input from the user terminal;

A key stroke determination unit for determining the type, number of times of received key strokes, and a time interval between key strokes;

An output unit which transmits and displays the search result to a user terminal;

Determine a search condition according to a determination result of the key stroke determination unit and transmit the search word received by the search reception unit to a search server;

If the first and second key strokes immediately following the search word correspond to the enter key and the time interval between the two key strokes is smaller than a predetermined time interval, the search condition is a search command of a predetermined category. It is composed of a search portal server system characterized in that determining.

Hereinafter, a specific method for implementing the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

First, when an event occurs when a user presses a key or releases a key when the user presses a key on the keyboard, the event occurs when the user presses a key in the web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.). (onKeyDown, onKeyUp, onKeyPress) are generated, and which key is pressed is transmitted as the keycode or charcode attribute value of the event (for example, the Internet Explorer's keycode is shown in FIG. 1). If you keep holding down the key, onkeydown and onkeypress occur continuously, and the onkeyup event only fires once when you release the key.

An example of a search category mapping for a key combination is as follows.

(Example 1)

RETURN + RETURN: dictionary

RETURN + RETURN + RETURN: image

RETURN + RETURN + RETURN + RETURN: Knowledge Search

…

The implementation of this function is to read the keycode (or charcode) on the event of key input through the built-in scripting language (ASP, JSP, PHP, etc.) in the HTML document of the web page that receives the input of the search term, and corresponds to the continuous press of the enter key. (Or in the case of a pre-defined key combination), it is possible to implement by performing a search execution operation with a corresponding search category such as "pre-search", "image search" as a parameter.

Figure 2 shows the operation structure of the search service through the continuous pressing of the enter key, the search portal Web server 100 that general users are connected through a terminal such as a PC, a search server 110 that performs the actual search and the user's PC 120 and the like. The search portal web server 100 includes an HTML document 101 for receiving a user's search word, a search category, and the like, and processes a user input through a <FORM> tag of the corresponding HTML document. This HTML document contains a script to detect the user's press of the Enter key and execute the corresponding search function. When the user accesses the HTML document 101 of the search portal web server 100 through the browser on the user PC 120, 121 search browsers appear.

To describe the procedure in more detail, when a user enters a search term in the search browser 121 and executes the continuous key press (①), the enter key sequence embedded in the HTML document 101 of the search portal web server 100 is executed. The pressing process script detects this and requests a search based on the search term entered in the search server and the search condition corresponding to the continuous key press (②). The search server executes the search under the corresponding condition and returns the result to the web server 100 (③), and the web server returns it back to the user PC (④).

Figure 3 is an illustration of a flow chart for the process of detecting the enter key continuous press. First, a keycode (or charcode) is obtained from an event through the keyboard input 200 to check whether it is a general character (200). If it is a normal character, the character is output to the search box, and if it is not checked, it is checked whether the enter key is entered (202). If it is the enter key, the enter key counter value is incremented (203), and a timer for waiting for the next enter key input is started (204). At this time, the waiting time for determining whether the next enter key is pressed is set to 200 ms (0.2 second) in this embodiment. Thereafter enters the enter key continuous check check (210). The Enter key continuous press check process checks if the timer has expired or 200 times after 200 ms has passed (211), and if it is a condition, the Enter key input counter value up to that time is determined as the last consecutive input key input count. (212). Result of continuous key press detection of FIG. 3 The enter key counter value (enter key consecutive input count) is 1, " integrated search ", 2, " pre search ", 3, " image search " Ask on condition.

As described above, according to the present invention, "dictionary", "image", " "Search" is automatically selected by selecting only a predetermined search category such as "map". Alternatively, other menus may allow other searches to be performed, such as entering a "detailed search" from the integrated search or opening a new search box, all of which can be done without moving the hand or finger.

According to the present invention, since a search is performed by automatically selecting a predetermined search category by pressing a continuous key of the enter key without inputting a mouse after inputting a search word in a search portal, a remarkable search can be performed quickly and easily without moving a hand or a finger. It works.

Claims (1)

It consists of a search portal web server connected to the user terminal, and a search server connected to the search portal web server to perform a search according to the search term and the search conditions requested by the search portal web server, and deliver the search results to the search portal web server. A search portal server system for performing a search corresponding to a search word input from a user terminal connected through a communication network and providing the search result to the user terminal, The search portal web server includes a receiving unit for receiving a search word input by the user and a key stroke after the search word input from the user terminal; A key stroke determination unit for determining the type, number of times of received key strokes, and a time interval between key strokes; An output unit which transmits and displays the search result to a user terminal; The search word received by the receiving unit of the search portal web server determines a search condition according to a determination result of the key stroke determining unit and is transmitted to the search server; If the first and second key strokes immediately following the search term correspond to the enter key, and the time interval between the key strokes of the two enter keys is smaller than a predetermined time interval, the search condition is determined in another category. Search portal server system, characterized in that determined by the search command.

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