KR101336846B1 - Contents Search Service Providing Method, Search Server and Search System Including that - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a retrieval system and method for providing a content retrieval service for providing a user with high accuracy retrieval results for content having a play time.
The present invention provides a search engine for searching contents corresponding to a query received from a terminal; An effective playback time calculator configured to calculate an effective playback time value of the selected and reproduced content according to a command received from the terminal among at least one searched content; And an order calculating unit for calculating an order of sorting the at least one searched content based on the effective playing time value of the selected content.

Description

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The present invention relates to a method for providing a content search service, a search server, and a search system including the same, and more particularly, to provide a user with a more accurate search result for content having a playing time such as a sound source or a video. A method of providing a content search service, a search server, and a search system including the same.

As User Created Contents (UCC), which is represented by YouTube, is activated, the flow of consumers leading the creation and distribution of multimedia content continues.

As the Web 2.0 era breaks down the walls of information providers and consumers, the number of multimedia data shared online increases exponentially, causing high quality multimedia data to be buried.

Accordingly, a great deal of time is spent searching for multimedia data desired and desired by the user among numerous multimedia data distributed on the Internet.

In particular, the present method of searching multimedia data is a text-based search method using a conventional text search method. Therefore, content attribute information must be input as text to each of a large number of contents. Since the corresponding content cannot be searched, there is a problem in that the accuracy of the search result is low as well as the time and cost of inputting the text information into the content.

As described above, the multimedia data retrieval service currently provided generally does not derive the multimedia data as a search result when information other than the text form information corresponding to the multimedia data is inputted as a query result. There is a problem that is greatly lowered.

In this context, it is an object of the present invention to provide a content retrieval service capable of providing a user with high accuracy search results for content having a playing time.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a content search service that can provide a faster and more accurate search results by providing a content search results based on the search results provided to other users.

In order to achieve the above object, in one aspect, the present invention, a search engine for searching for content corresponding to a query received from the terminal; An effective playback time calculator configured to calculate an effective playback time value of the selected and reproduced content according to a command received from the terminal among at least one searched content; And an order calculating unit for calculating an order of sorting the at least one searched content based on the effective playing time value of the selected content.

In another aspect, the present invention, a web server for providing a query input field to the terminal; And a search server for searching the content corresponding to the query word transmitted from the web server, and providing the searched at least one content information to the web server, wherein the web server includes the searched at least one search server received from the search server. And providing content information to the terminal, and determining an association degree between the query word and the selected reproduced content on the basis of the effective reproduction time of the selected reproduced content from the terminal.

In another aspect, the present invention generates and stores a query-related data table in which a query and an effective play time value are stored for a content actually reproduced by a user input among at least one or more contents found to be similar to a query. It provides a search server for providing a content search service, characterized in that.

In still another aspect, the present invention provides a method for providing a content search service by a search server, the method comprising: searching for content corresponding to a query received from a terminal; Calculating a sorting order of the searched at least one content from the effective playback time, which is a time at which each content is played by an input from the terminal, and providing the searched at least one content to the terminal; Provides a way to provide.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a user with a high accuracy search result for content having a playback time such as a sound source or a video.

In addition, by providing a content search result based on the search results provided to other users, there is an effect that can provide a more user-adapted (user experience) and a reliable search results.

1 is a block diagram showing a search system for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram showing a search system for providing a content search service according to another embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a search server for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing searched content based on a search result provided to another user in the method for providing a content search service shown in FIG. 4.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of collecting user responses from search results provided to a user in the method of providing a content search service shown in FIG. 4.
FIG. 7 is an exemplary view schematically illustrating a method of calculating an effective playback time of each content played by a user in a search system providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is an exemplary view briefly illustrating a method for calculating an association degree between a valid playback time of arbitrary content and a corresponding query in the search system for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
9 is a first exemplary diagram showing the format of query-content data in a search system for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 10 is a second exemplary view showing the format of query-content data as shown in FIG.
11 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a flow of a search service provided to a terminal in a search system for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Before describing the details for carrying out the present invention, the content according to the present invention represents a time-consuming content such as a sound source, a video, multimedia, etc. having a playback time, that is, played over time.

The content search service provided according to the present invention collects a response to a search result of previous users with respect to at least one or more contents provided to a terminal as a search result, and the content determined to be highly relevant based on the collected response is a search result. Place it at the top of the screen.

In addition, as a method of collecting the response to the search results of previous users, by using the play time data of the content selected and played by the user, it is determined that the longer the content is more relevant to the query. Can be.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to exemplary drawings. It should be noted that, in adding reference numerals to the constituent elements of the drawings, the same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference symbols as possible even if they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

In describing the components of the present invention, terms such as first, second, A, B, (a), and (b) may be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. When a component is described as being "connected", "coupled", or "connected" to another component, the component may be directly connected to or connected to the other component, It should be understood that an element may be "connected,""coupled," or "connected."

1 is a block diagram showing a search system for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a search system for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a search server 10 connected to at least one terminal 1 through a wired or wireless network N. FIG. It includes.

When the search server 10 receives a search request command for a certain query word from the terminal 1, the search server 10 searches for the content corresponding to the received query word and provides it to the terminal 1.

The search server 10 may include content including text information having similar attributes or similar to the input query word in response to the input query word for a plurality of contents distributed through an open network such as the Internet or a closed network such as an intranet. You can search by center.

The search server 10 provides the searched at least one content or content information to the terminal 1 and collects play time information on the content played by the play or stop command input from the terminal 1. .

In addition, the search server 10 determines the degree of association between the reproduced content and the inputted query word from the collected play time information, and when receiving a search request command for the same query in the future, the degree of association according to the degree of relevance of the respective content. The sort order for the retrieved content is determined so that the search results can be provided in the order of the high content.

The search server 10 is generally connected to an unspecified number of clients (including terminals) and / or other servers through an open computer network such as the Internet, and receives and executes requests for performing tasks of the client or other web server. It refers to a computer system that derives and provides work results and computer software (server program) installed therefor.

In addition to the above-described server program, the search server 10 should be understood as a concept that includes a series of application programs running on the search server 10 and, in some cases, various databases built therein. something to do.

In addition, the search server 10 may be implemented using a server program that is variously provided according to operating systems such as DOS, Windows, Linux, Unix, Macintosh, and the like for general server hardware.

Search server according to an embodiment of the present invention as shown in Figure 1 can be connected to a separate server to provide a faster and more efficient content search service by transmitting and receiving data.

2 is a block diagram showing a search system for providing a content search service according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, a search system for providing a content search service according to another embodiment of the present invention includes a web server 20 and a search server 10 'connected to a terminal 1' through a network N. FIG. It is configured to include).

The web server 20 provides a web screen for providing a content search service to the terminal 1 ', and a user who uses the terminal 1' can input a query to search for on the web screen. You can implement query entry fields to make them work.

The web server 20 transmits the received query to the search server 10 'when the content search command for the query entered with the query 1 is input from the terminal 1', and from the web server 20. Upon receiving the query data, the search server 10 'searches for content corresponding to the received query data.

The search server 10 'transfers the retrieved at least one content information to the web server 20, and the web server 20 provides the received content information to the terminal 1' as a search result.

The web server 20 counts a time at which a play start signal according to a user's command is played for content input among at least one or more contents provided to the terminal 1 'as a search result, and when the play is completed, the content is completed. Reproduced time data may be generated and transferred to the search server 10 '.

When the search server 10 ′ receives the reproduced time data of the predetermined content from the web server 20, the search server 10 ′ may calculate and store an effective reproduction time value therefrom. In addition, it is possible to calculate an association degree between the query word received through the web server 20 and the reproduced content from the effective play time value, and the calculated value is stored.

The web server 20 calculates a sorting order of each content derived as a search result to be provided to the terminal according to the effective playing time value or the degree of association, and sorts the contents in the calculated order to determine the order of the terminal 1 '. The search result screen may be provided to be displayed on the screen.

In the search service providing system according to FIG. 2, the search server 10 'performs a content search for the received query word, calculates an effective playback time, or determines the association degree between the content and the query accordingly, and arranges the content. Calculation is performed by the web server 20 as an example, but each function according to the present invention for providing a content search service is considered in consideration of the efficient operation of the search service providing system and the web server 20 and the search server. It can be implemented separately at (10 ').

Meanwhile, a search server that provides a content search service as shown in FIG. 1 may be configured as follows.

3 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a search server for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Each component shown in FIG. 3 is not limited to being included in a search server that provides a content search service as shown in FIG. 1, and a web server and a search that provide a content search service as shown in FIG. 2. The content search service providing function may be performed by being included in the server.

Referring to FIG. 3, a search server providing a content search service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention basically calculates an effective playback time of a content and a search engine 100 for searching a corresponding content for query data. It is configured to include an effective reproduction time calculation unit 110.

In addition, a search screen providing unit 140 for receiving a query from the terminal and the corresponding search result is output on the terminal screen, a search result control unit for calculating the sort order for at least one or more contents derived as a search result ( 130), a query-content data generation unit 120 for generating and storing a query related to each content and an effective playback time value for the query in the form of a data table, and storing data generated according to operations in each unit. It is configured to include a data storage unit 150.

The search engine 100 searches for similar content data in relation to the query data input with the search command. The content including the information matching the query may be searched by searching for the attribute information or the content content information of the content.

For example, in the case of sound recording content for a song, the attribute information may be target information for determining whether the song title, release date, singer, album title, publisher, singer's agency, genre, etc. match the query word. The content content information may be target information for determining whether the lyrics included in the sound source, the pattern of pitch change, the tone of the singer, the tempo, and the like match the query word.

The effective play time calculation unit 110 indicates a content play time that is selected by the user among at least one or more contents provided to the terminal as a search result and is performed in the terminal. The reproduction time of the content performed by the terminal may be generated as reproduced time data from the start of reproduction to the reproduction stop or reproduction completion, and the reproduced time data may be used as an effective reproduction time as it is.

In addition, in the case of content that can be partially played back, such as a video, the relative value of time data played in the actual terminal may vary according to the total playing time of the content performed in the terminal, that is, the time taken from the start of the play to the end of the play. . Therefore, the effective playback time calculator 110 may calculate how long the terminal has been played in comparison with the total playback time of the corresponding content, and the time data derived therefrom may be used as the effective playback time.

In addition, in the case of a search system providing a search service according to the present invention, a plurality of terminals may be connected through a network, and thus at least one or more of the reproduced time data may be generated for the same content and the same query word.

When a plurality of reproduced time data are generated, the effective reproducing time calculation unit 110 may calculate an average value of the values of the generated reproduced time data and use them as the effective reproducing time. When data is generated, a new valid reproduction time value may be calculated by reflecting the reproduced time data in the existing effective reproduction time value.

The operation of calculating the effective reproduction time by using the total reproduction time and the reproduced time of the corresponding content in the effective reproduction time calculation unit 110 will be described in detail later with reference to FIG. 7.

The query-content data generator 120 generates query-content data including an arbitrary query, a content corresponding thereto, and a valid play time value. In a search system for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention, if a search result for any query is provided and an effective play time is calculated, at least one or more derived as a search result for one query is provided. Content may correspond, and each corresponding content may have a valid playback time value.

Similarly, for one piece of content, there may be at least one or more query terms in which the content is provided as a search result, and have a valid duration value of the corresponding content for each query.

The query-content data will be described later with reference to FIGS. 9 and 10.

The search result controller 130 is for calculating a sort order for at least one or more contents derived as a search result, and is based on the effective playback time value calculated by the effective playback time calculation unit 110 or an association degree calculated therefrom. Determine the order of each content. The sort order indicates an output order of at least one or more contents output as a search result on the terminal screen, and the faster the sort order, the higher the sort order may be placed first on the top of the terminal screen.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, a query input field is provided to the terminal. (S10) The query input field is provided after a search screen request signal for searching for content is received from the terminal or can be used to input a query without a separate request. Input fields can be implemented on the screen.

When a predetermined query is input through the provided query input field and a search request command for the input query is input, the server receives the query data and the search request command input from the terminal and performs a content search on the received query data. (S20)

When at least one or more contents are derived as a result of the content search, the sorting order of the searched contents is calculated in order of having a long valid duration or a high degree of correlation for each of the derived contents according to the effective playback time or the degree of association (S30).

At least one content derived as a result of the search and data storing the sort order for each content may be provided to the terminal to be output through the screen of the terminal.

When a reproduction operation according to a user's selection is performed on one of at least one content provided to the terminal, an effective reproduction time value is calculated from the reproduced time data of the selected reproduced content.

An association degree of the corresponding content according to the query word may be calculated according to the calculated effective reproduction time value, and the calculated effective reproduction time value and the association degree are stored. (S60) In this case, the association degree is calculated from the effective reproduction time value. How to do this will be described later with reference to FIG.

Meanwhile, in the case of the content search service providing method operating as described above, the method can be divided into calculating the effective play time data and calculating the sort order of the search result content according to the calculated effective play time data. Describes in more detail each of these two steps.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing searched content based on a search result provided to another user in the method for providing a content search service shown in FIG. 4.

First, the query word is received from the terminal. [0050] Since the process of receiving the query data from the terminal has been described above with reference to FIG. 4, a redundant description thereof will be omitted.

Search for the corresponding content for the received query. Content to be searched may include sound sources, videos, multimedia data, etc. that exist on an open network, such as the Internet, as well as an accessible closed network, and are determined to be similar to a query input from an attribute of the content or content content information. Searched content can be searched (S110).

It is checked whether there is data holding valid play time data with respect to the retrieved at least one content, and screens the contents with the valid play time data.

Contents selected as having valid play time data may calculate the sort order of the content according to the order of the effective play time value corresponding to each content and a predetermined criterion, for example, the effective play time value. )

In addition, the correlation between the query word and each content may be calculated and stored from the effective reproduction time data of each content, and the sorting order of the content may be calculated according to the calculated correlation and a predetermined criterion. That is, the number or the degree of relevance of the content to be derived as a search result may be set in advance, and the filtering may be filtered in order of high relevance according to the set number of content, or the relevance value may be filtered.

In addition, the sorting order may be calculated based on a predetermined criterion such as similarity determined by itself for the remaining contents after the selected contents having valid play time data among the at least one searched contents are selected (S140).

Next, the terminal provides the terminal with at least one or more contents derived from a search result and sort order data of the respective contents so that the respective contents are sorted and output according to the calculated sort order.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of collecting user responses from search results provided to a user in the method of providing a content search service shown in FIG. 4.

First, the query word is received from the terminal. (S200) As described above, the step of receiving the query word from the terminal has been described with reference to FIG.

Searches for content corresponding to the received query. (S210) Searches for content that includes contents that match or are similar to the query among the contents or properties of each content, among a plurality of contents distributed and accessible through the Internet or an intranet. Derived into the search results.

Content or content information derived as a search result is provided to the terminal to be output on the screen (S220).

Next, when a playback start signal is received for any one of the contents provided to the terminal as a search result, the playback time starts counting (S230, S240).

The content information provided as a search result includes a play command that automatically executes the content play module when the user selects the content, or a play button is implemented for each content so that any play button is used for an operation such as a mouse click. If selected, the content corresponding to the selected play button can be played.

When a play completion signal or a play stop command is received from the terminal while the play time is counted, time data reproduced from the counted time is generated (S250 to S270). Since playback may be possible, it is determined whether the received playback stop command is a stop command for partial playback or a command to stop playback of the content.

Therefore, when the playback stop command is received, the count operation of the time to be played back may be paused. When the playback start command is received for the same content, the count operation may be paused from the received time point.

The effective play time value is calculated and stored through the generated time data (S280).

FIG. 7 is an exemplary view schematically illustrating a method of calculating an effective playback time of each content played by a user in a search system providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As described above, the effective reproduction time may be utilized as the time data selected and reproduced by the user as it is, but the effective reproduction time may be calculated differently for the same reproduced time data according to the type of content.

This is based on the total playback time from the start of playback of the content to the completion of playback. When the effective playback time is calculated for the contents A, B, and C played for the same time of 1 minute as shown in FIG. The effective playback time is 0.33 since one minute of the total playback time of the total three minutes is actually played, and the effective playback time is 0.2 because the content B is actually played one minute of the total playback time of the five minutes. In addition, since the content C is actually reproduced for 1 minute out of the total reproduction time of 10 minutes, the effective reproduction time becomes 0.1.

In the case of content with a relatively long total playing time, the effective playing time may be calculated as a ratio of the actual playing time to the total playing time because the correlation with the query word felt by the actual user may be low even if the playing time is long. .

However, the effective playback time calculation method is based on using the reproduced time data of the content as the user's response. As described above, the effective playback time may be used as the effective playback time regardless of the total playback time of the content. In addition, the effective reproduction time can be calculated from the reproduced time data through various criteria that can be easily applied by those skilled in the art.

As described above, the search system for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention may calculate a degree of association between the played content and the reproduced content from which the reproduced content is derived as a search result. .

FIG. 8 is an exemplary view briefly showing a method of calculating an association degree between a valid playback time of arbitrary content and a corresponding query in a search system for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention. An example of a method of calculating a degree of association by dividing a plurality of sections with respect to the total playback time is shown. In this case, the effective playback time is a value calculated according to the ratio of the played time to the total playback time of the content.

8 (a) and 8 (b), when the total reproduction time is set to 1 and divided into two sections, 0 is assigned to a section close to 0, and 1 is assigned to a section close to 1, If the effective playback time (M) of the arbitrary content retrieved corresponding to the arbitrary query has a value less than 0.5, the content may be determined to be unrelated to the query and the association may be calculated as 0.

Similarly, if the effective playback time (N) of the arbitrary content retrieved corresponding to the arbitrary query has a value greater than 0, 5, the corresponding content may be determined to be related to the query, and the association degree may be calculated as 1.

When the total reproduction time is divided into five sections, as shown in FIGS. 8 (c) and 8 (d), 1,2,3, You can assign a value of 4,5.

Therefore, when the effective playing time (O) of the arbitrary content retrieved corresponding to the arbitrary query word falls within a section of 0.2 to 0.4, the corresponding content may be calculated as having a degree of association with the corresponding query word, and the effective reproduction of the arbitrary content is similarly performed. If the time P falls within a range of 0.8 to 1, the content may be calculated as having a degree of association with the corresponding query word.

This degree of association may be performed in a step prior to the step of calculating the sort order for the retrieved content or in a step immediately following the step in which the effective play time is calculated. Since it can be estimated, the step of calculating the degree of association may be omitted.

In addition, the method of calculating the degree of association according to an embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the above-described example and can be easily modified by those skilled in the art.

On the other hand, the effective playback time may vary depending on the degree of association between the query and the content, the effective playback time of each content provided as a search result for the same query may be different, and even for the same query even for the same content The effective reproduction time may be calculated differently depending on whether the search result is provided.

That is, since there may be at least one query word having an effective playback time value for one content, in each case, the effective playback time data and / or the association information may be stored together and generated as query-content data.

FIG. 9 is a first exemplary view showing the format of query-content data in a search system for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 10 is a format of query-content data as shown in FIG. This is a second exemplary view shown.

Referring to FIG. 9, in the retrieval system according to an embodiment of the present invention, the query-content data may include at least one or more contents having an effective playing time for each query and a corresponding playing time value. T2).

When the query-content data is generated with the data structure as shown in FIG. 9, since the content and the effective playback time value for the query are included, the query-content data is included in another query or after the predetermined time has elapsed. When a search request command is received, the content corresponding to the query word and the effective playing time value of each content are extracted from the query-content data, and the contents are sorted according to the effective playing time value for each content or the corresponding degree of association. Can be provided as a search result.

Therefore, in addition to providing an accurate content search result to the terminal that issued the search request command, there is an effect that can provide a faster content search results.

In addition, the query-content data is composed of a plurality of data fields, as shown in Figure 10, the unique information (f1) indicating an arbitrary content, the query (f2) that the content is derived as a search result and the query The effective playback time f3 of the content for the may be stored in each data field.

FIG. 11 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a flow of a search service provided to a terminal in a search system for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 11 (a) shows effective reproduction according to a user's selection. 11 is a diagram illustrating a time calculation process, and FIG. 11 (b) is a diagram illustrating a process of changing the sorting order of contents according to the effective playback time calculated in FIG.

First, when a query of 'AAA' is input into the query input field I1 of the content search screen D provided to the terminal, any query including 'AAA' and text including the same or similar keywords, attributes, and contents may be included. Many contents are retrieved.

The plurality of contents derived as a search result is output in a predetermined order in the search result display area I2 of the web screen provided to the terminal.

As the playback buttons provided in contents1 and contents3 of the playback buttons implemented in each content are pressed in turn according to the user's input, contents1 and contents3 are played and stopped according to the user's stop playback command.

Among the plurality of contents derived as a result of the search, contents1 to contents3 can obtain effective playback times Q and R as shown on the right side of Fig. 11A.

Thereafter, when a query of the same 'AAA' is input in the content search screen D provided by another user or the same user as shown in FIG. 11 (b), the search server performs a search on the input query and accordingly Many contents are retrieved.

In the case of contents1 to contents3 which are identically provided in FIG. 11A among the plurality of searched contents, the effective playback time R of contents3 is sorted based on the effective playback time information generated according to a previous user's command. Since is the longest, it is placed at the top of the contents provided as a search result, and then contents1 (Q) having the longest effective playback time is placed after contents3. In addition, contents2 having an effective playback time of 0 may be arranged after content1 and in some cases, may be arranged according to the similarity determined by the search server together with other contents searched besides contents1 to contents3.

Data on the sorting order calculated as described above is provided to the terminal together with the respective content information, and each content according to the calculated order is output on the search result display area I2 'on the terminal screen.

The method for providing a content retrieval service according to an embodiment of the present invention described above is executed by an application basically installed in a terminal (which may include a program included in a platform or an operating system, which is basically installed in the terminal). It may also be executed by an application (ie, a program) that the user directly installs on the terminal through an application providing server such as an application store server, an application, or a web server associated with the corresponding service.

In this sense, the method for providing a content retrieval service according to the embodiment of the present invention described above is implemented as an application (ie, a program) that is basically installed in a terminal or directly installed by a user, and can be read by a computer such as a terminal. Can be recorded on the medium.

A program implementing the method for providing a content search service according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a function for providing a query input field and transmitting an input query to a search server or a web server, and content received from the search server or a web server. A function of displaying a list and executing a selected content according to a user's input, and generating and transmitting time data from a start of playback to a stop of playback or a time point at which playback is completed is transmitted to the search server or the web server.

In addition, when receiving valid play time data of at least one or more contents or association information between the content and the input query word from the search server or the web server, sorting of the corresponding content according to the valid play time data or the association information. A function of calculating the order and displaying each received content according to the calculated order can be executed.

Such a program may be recorded on a recording medium that can be read by a computer and executed by a computer so that the above-described functions can be executed.

As described above, in order to execute a method in which a computer reads a program recorded on a recording medium and provides a content retrieval service implemented as a program, the above-described program may be read by C, C ++, JAVA, Code may be coded in a computer language such as machine language.

The code may include a function code related to a function or the like that defines the functions described above and may include an execution procedure related control code necessary for the processor of the computer to execute the functions described above according to a predetermined procedure.

In addition, such code may further include memory reference related code as to what additional information or media needed to cause the processor of the computer to execute the aforementioned functions should be referenced at any location (address) of the internal or external memory of the computer .

In addition, when a processor of a computer needs to communicate with any other computer or server, etc., to perform the above-described functions, the code may be stored in a computer's communication module (e.g., a wired and / ) May be used to further include communication related codes such as how to communicate with any other computer or server in the remote, and what information or media should be transmitted or received during communication.

The functional program for implementing the present invention and the related code and code segment may be implemented by programmers of the technical field of the present invention in consideration of the system environment of the computer that reads the recording medium and executes the program, Or may be easily modified or modified by the user.

Examples of the computer-readable recording medium on which the above-described program is recorded include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical media storage, and the like.

Also, the computer-readable recording medium on which the above-described program is recorded may be distributed to a computer system connected via a network so that computer-readable codes can be stored and executed in a distributed manner. In this case, one or more of the plurality of distributed computers may execute some of the functions presented above and send the results of the execution to one or more of the other distributed computers, The computer may also perform some of the functions described above and provide the results to other distributed computers as well.

In particular, a computer-readable recording medium recording an application, which is a program for executing a method of providing a content retrieval service according to an embodiment of the present invention, includes an application store server, an application, or a web associated with the service. It may be a storage medium (eg, a hard disk, etc.) included in an application provider server such as a server, or the application providing server itself.

A computer capable of reading a recording medium recording an application, which is a program for executing a method of providing a content retrieval service according to an embodiment of the present invention, may be a smart phone, a tablet PC, It may include mobile terminals, such as PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and mobile communication terminals, as well as to be interpreted as any device capable of computing.

A computer capable of reading a recording medium recording an application, which is a program for executing a method of providing a content retrieval service according to an embodiment of the present invention, is a mobile device such as a smart phone, a tablet PC, a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a mobile communication terminal. In the case of a terminal, the application may be downloaded from the application providing server to a general PC and installed on the mobile terminal through a synchronization program.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. That is, within the scope of the present invention, all of the components may be selectively coupled to one or more of them. In addition, although all of the components may be implemented as one independent hardware, some or all of the components may be selectively combined to perform a part or all of the functions in one or a plurality of hardware. As shown in FIG. Codes and code segments constituting the computer program may be easily inferred by those skilled in the art. Such a computer program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, readable and executed by a computer, thereby realizing an embodiment of the present invention. As a storage medium of the computer program, a magnetic recording medium, an optical recording medium, or the like can be included.

It is also to be understood that the terms such as " comprises, "" comprising," or "having ", as used herein, mean that a component can be implanted unless specifically stated to the contrary. But should be construed as including other elements. All terms, including technical and scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Commonly used terms, such as predefined terms, should be interpreted to be consistent with the contextual meanings of the related art, and are not to be construed as ideal or overly formal, unless expressly defined to the contrary.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The protection scope of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas within the equivalent scope should be interpreted as being included in the scope of the present invention.

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A search engine for receiving a search request including a query from a terminal, searching for contents corresponding to the query, and providing a search result to the terminal;
An effective playback time calculator configured to calculate an effective playback time of the selected and reproduced content according to a command received from the terminal among at least one searched content; And
And a search result controller for calculating a content sorting order based on the effective playback time of the selected and reproduced content so that the search results are provided in order of highly relevant content for the query word when another search request including the query word is included. Search server that provides content search services. Claim 2 has been abandoned due to the setting registration fee. The method of claim 1,
The effective playback time is,
Search server for providing a content search service, characterized in that the actual playback time according to the playback or stop command received from the terminal for the selected content. The method of claim 1,
And a query-content data generation unit for generating query-content data in which the query word, the selected reproduced content, and the effective reproduction time of the selected reproduced content are linked. Claim 4 has been abandoned due to the setting registration fee. The method of claim 1,
The effective reproduction time calculation unit,
When a new valid playback time is calculated for the same query and the same content, the content search service for updating the query and the effective playback time for the corresponding content based on the previously stored valid playback time and the newly calculated valid playback time. Providing a search server. Claim 5 was abandoned upon payment of a set-up fee. The method of claim 1,
The search result control unit,
The longer the effective playback time of the selected playback content or the higher the ratio of the effective playback time to the total playback time, the content sorting service is calculated based on the effective playback time of the selected playback content. Providing search server. The method of claim 1,
And calculating an order of arranging at least one or more contents to be displayed in the terminal according to the degree of association between the query word and the selected and reproduced contents. Claim 7 has been abandoned due to the setting registration fee. The method according to claim 6,
The relevance is a search for providing a content searching service, characterized in that the time from when the searched content is started to completion is divided into a predetermined number of sections and corresponds to a section to which the effective playback time belongs. server. delete In the method for the search server to provide a content search service,
Searching for content corresponding to a query received from the terminal;
Calculating a sorting order of the searched at least one content from the effective playback time, which is the time at which each content is played by the input from the terminal, and providing the searched at least one content to the terminal;
Method for providing a content search service comprising a. 10. The method of claim 9,
Providing to the terminal,
And determining the degree of association of the corresponding content with respect to the query from the effective playing time, and calculating the sort order of the at least one searched content in the order of high relevance. A recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing a content retrieval method,
Providing a query entry field and sending the entered query to a search server or a web server;
Displaying a list of content received from a search server or a web server; And
A function of causing the content selected by the input to be executed and generating time data from the start of playback to the time of stopping playback or the completion of playback and transmitting the generated time data to the search server or the web server.
Readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program embodying the invention.

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