KR20010009981A - Method for providing web site information - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for providing web site information is provided to offer web site information, as supposed to be useful to a user, based on analytic information for an individual user's bookmark list. CONSTITUTION: A database server receives and stores individual bookmark lists from subscribers(S10). The server judges whether the received individual bookmark lists have been classified(S20). If the individual bookmark lists have been classified item by item, the server converts the individual classification items into integrated classification items(S30). The server judges whether the whole individual classification items have been converted into standardized classification items(S40). If the whole individual classification items have been converted into standardized classification items, the server arrays the items in frequent sequence(S90). If the whole individual classification items have not been converted into standardized classification items, the server searches an identical web site in the lowest item among the converted items(S50) and classifies it into a standardized classification item(S60). The server compares web site information comprised in an individual frequency item and web site information comprised in an identical item of an integrated list(S100) and stores web site information not comprised in the most frequent item in a relevant individual bookmark list as additional information(S110).

Description

How to provide website information {METHOD FOR PROVIDING WEB SITE INFORMATION}

The present invention relates to a method for providing web site information, and more particularly, to a method for providing web site information determined to be useful to a user.

As is well known, recently, as the spread of computer dissemination is accelerated and the importance of information is newly recognized, information exchange is actively being conducted between the institutions, schools, businesses, and individuals through a network. Moreover, in the case of the Internet, which has expanded the scope of information exchange around the world, the number of users has already exploded, exceeding 100 million, and the amount of information provided through the Internet is infinite. This is not it.

In order to obtain necessary information from such a large amount of information, a search engine is generally used.

For example, using a directory type search engine such as Yahoo, Naver, Simmany, etc., you can choose from the hierarchical items that experts categorize Internet sites into fields. As a result, a method of sequentially accessing the upper classification range to the lower classification range and finally finding a desired web site is used.

In another example, a computer called a robot agency, such as altavista, netsearch, iBot (ibot), automatically rotates a web site and includes search terms entered by a user. Using a keyword input type search engine that provides a web site as a uniform resource locator (URL), the entire web site containing the key words (ie search terms) of the desired information is provided as a URL and accessed, respectively. The method of obtaining the desired information is used.

However, using a search engine as described above is useful for searching a website when you do not know the address of a desired website, but it is very inconvenient if you use the search engine every time for a website that you have accessed more than once. will be. That is, it is inconvenient to access an already recognized web site by selecting a plurality of items each time, or to repeat a search until a page containing a desired web site is displayed.

On the other hand, such repeated use of a search engine is inconvenient, and it is inconvenient to record a website address of a predetermined length or more, and it is also very difficult to memorize a predetermined number or more of website addresses of such a length.

In order to alleviate the inconvenience described above, Internet surfers utilize bookmarks provided by Internet access programs such as Netscape and Explorer. That is, the web site address is directly connected to the web site by writing the address of the web site found through a search engine or the web address of the frequently visited web site to the bookmark list, and selecting the web site on the bookmark list when the user wants to access the web site.

However, in the conventional bookmark function, the bookmark that can be utilized as a bookmark by the user is limited to the bookmark created by the user, and thus there is a limitation in using the bookmark. In other words, the web sites that can be experienced by individual users among the entire web sites on the Internet are very small, and only a part of the information that can be used is actually used. For example, some websites that you haven't bookmarked may be more relevant to your needs than websites you've bookmarked, while others may provide information you may not have thought about. However, due to problems such as time, effort, or cost, users may only use information within a limited range.

If an individual user wants to create bookmark information that is more suitable for them, he or she will have to repeat the above-described process (that is, searching a web site using a search engine, etc.), which requires a great deal of effort, time and money. Even so, there are limits to what individual users can do.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object thereof is to provide a method for providing web site information that is determined to be useful to a user on the basis of analysis information on an individual user's bookmark list.

In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, in the method for providing web site information of the Internet corresponding to individual web site connection tendency for each of a plurality of users subscribed to the server, the individual bookmark list created by the user Receiving and storing the data in an individual storage area previously allocated to the user; Converting the categorized items of the individual bookmark lists into categorized items of a pre-written integrated list; Sequentially sorting each classified item of the converted individual bookmark list based on the number of web sites included in each item; Retrieving website information from the unified list for the top one or more items of the sorted items; And storing web site information which is not included in the individual bookmark list among the searched web site information as additional information in the individual storage area.

1 is an exemplary diagram of a network system in which a method for providing website information according to the present invention is implemented;

2 is a detailed flowchart illustrating a method of providing website information according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;

3 is an exemplary diagram of an individual bookmark list and a database according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

4 is an exemplary view illustrating a result of converting an individual bookmark list shown in FIG. 3 into a consolidated classification item according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is an exemplary diagram showing a result of sorting of individual bookmark lists shown in FIG. 4 by frequency; FIG.

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110: PC1 120: PC2

210: server 220: storage block

Hereinafter, a method of providing web site information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5. At this time, the focusing point and core technical idea of the present invention are as follows, the following description will be understood by such a core technical idea.

In the present invention, the areas that individual users frequently access according to their tastes and access purposes are limited, and since the bookmark list is composed of web sites that the user considers useful or frequently accessed, The invention was conceived by analyzing the web site to know the user's connection tendency. The core technical idea is' to provide useful web site information to individual users. By comparing the entire database that has been built, the information related to the website information contained in the individual bookmark list can be retrieved from the entire database and provided to the user, thereby increasing the utilization of information of the Internet users.

First, referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 5 to be referred to in the following description, FIG. 1 is an exemplary diagram of a network system in which a method for providing web site information according to the present invention is implemented, and FIG. 2 is a preferred embodiment of the present invention. 3 is a detailed flowchart illustrating a method of providing website information according to an example, and FIG. 3 is an exemplary diagram of an individual bookmark list and a database according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. 4 is an exemplary view illustrating a result of converting an individual bookmark list shown in FIG. 3 into an integrated classification item according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 shows that the individual bookmark list shown in FIG. It is an exemplary figure which shows the result sorted by.

Referring to FIG. 1, one example of a network system in which a method for providing website information according to the present invention is implemented is two PCs 110 and 120, that is, PC1 110 and PC2 each operating as a client. It consists of a client side consisting of 120 and a server side consisting of a server 210 and a storage block 220. At this time, in the present embodiment is set to two clients, since the respective operations of the client for the server 210 is the same, it is easily applicable to one or more clients without a number limitation.

Each client (ie, PC1 and PC2) stores a list of individual bookmarks created individually by the user in a predetermined storage area (e.g., a hard disk), and periodically or irregularly stores such individual list of bookmarks individually created. Send to server 210.

The server 210 stores a list of individual bookmarks provided from each client in a corresponding storage area in the storage block 220, and then analyzes the stored list of individual bookmarks to determine the website information necessary for the user, and the web. The site information is selectively fetched from the entire list stored in other storage areas in storage block 220, and then the retrieved web site information is added to the individual bookmark list stored in the respective storage area. In another embodiment, when a client subscribed to the server 210 requests a connection, a message indicating that an individual bookmark list has been added to the initial connection screen of the client is displayed, or the added website information is uploaded to the client. )You may.

In the storage block 220, user information of users subscribed to the server 210 (for example, a user ID, a password, whether or not to upload additional web information when connected), a previously written database, that is, each web of the Internet The entire list of sites organized into hierarchical classification items (hereinafter referred to as an integrated classification item), and an individual bookmark list corresponding to each of a plurality of users are stored. In this case, each list may be separately stored in a plurality of storage blocks according to capacity or type, and the individual bookmark list may be stored for each individual storage area allocated for each individual user.

Hereinafter, a process of implementing the web service information providing method according to the present invention in the above-described network system will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 3 with reference to FIG. 2.

First, the server 200 receives an individual bookmark list from each subscriber subscribed to the server 200. At this time, the server 200 receives a list of individual bookmarks provided from each of the individual clients, that is, PC1 110 and PC2 12 via a network (indicated by an arrow in FIG. 1) and stores them in the respective allocated storage areas. Save it. A detailed description thereof is disclosed in detail in Korean Patent Application No. 99-21307 filed by the applicant of the Korean Patent Office on June 9, 1999 under the title of 'How to create an online bookmark list'. Reference will be made to a reference, and description thereof will be omitted (S 10).

When the step S 10 is completed, the server 210 determines whether the provided individual bookmark list is classified. That is, referring to FIG. 3, which shows an example of an individual bookmark list, as shown in FIG. 3A according to an individual user, the individual bookmarks may be divided and written for each item, or as shown in FIG. 3B. Internet address) can be integrated without classification, so it is determined whether such classification. In this case, the lowest item of each individual bookmark list shown in FIG. 3 is labeled as 'coma' for convenience, but indicates an Internet address, and a, b, c... The back means that each Internet address is different (S 20).

As a result of the determination in step S20, when the individual bookmark list is classified by item as shown in FIG. 3A, the server 210 converts the classified item (hereinafter referred to as 'individual classified item') into a unified sorted item. That is, since the individual bookmark list is created by each of the users, the individual category items are 'Computer', 'Com', 'PC', 'computer',... It can be written in various ways. Therefore, in order to compare the integrated list with the individual classification list, a process of converting the individual classification items into the integrated classification items is performed. For example, 'PC' in FIG. 3A will be converted to 'Computer' and 'Game' or 'Utility' will be used as is. At this time, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is preferable that the process of converting the individual classification items into the integrated classification items is performed including an abbreviation, synonyms and synonym standard search (S 30).

When the step S30 is completed, the server 210 determines whether each individual classification item has been converted into an integrated classification item. That is, referring to FIG. 3A, it is determined whether the entire 'PC', 'general', 'game' and 'utility' items are converted to match the integrated classification item (S 40).

As a result of the determination in step S40, when all of the individual classification items have been converted to the integrated classification items, the server 210 sorts each item in frequency order. In other words, the items are sorted in descending order starting from the number of web sites included in each item. For example, on the premise that all the individual categorization items included in FIG. 3A have been converted into integrated categorization items, the 'PC' item includes six websites, and the 'music' item includes one website. , PC → music is sorted in order, again within the 'PC' item is sorted in the order of game → utility → normal (S 90).

On the other hand, if the determination result of step S40 indicates that the entire individual classification item is converted into the integrated classification item, that is, any one of the individual classification items is not converted, the server 210 determines the maximum of the items converted into the integrated classification item. Search the union list for a consolidated categorization item that contains the same website as the sub-item. For example, in the case of the web site 'coma' illustrated in FIG. 3c, the 'PC' item is converted to 'computer' among the 'coma' category 'PC / general /', but the 'general' item is If it is not converted, the lowest item among the items converted to the integrated classification item is 'Computer' (ie, in step S 30, the PC item is converted to the computer item which is the integrated classification item). A web site, i.e., a web site identical to 'coma', is searched from the 'computer' item in the entire list (S 50).

As a result of the search of step S 50, as shown in FIG. 3C, since the 'coma' is included in the 'hardware' item in the 'computer' item, the server 210 selects 'coma' as the 'computer / hardware' item. Classify as As a result of performing the above steps S 30 to S 50, FIG. 3A will be converted as shown in FIG. 4A (S 60).

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S20 that the individual bookmark list is not categorized by item as shown in FIG. 3C, the server 210 displays the same web in the unified list for each website included in the individual bookmark list. Search for a categorization that includes the site. That is, in step S50, the search is performed within the converted lowest item, but in this step, the search is performed for the entire integrated list. For example, 'jazzb' shown in FIG. 3B is searched in the unified list shown in FIG. 3C. As a result, it will be possible to search the same website as the website 'jazz' in FIG. 3B in the 'music / pop / jazz' path of the entire list. In this case, as a result of the determination in step S40, the individual bookmark items are classified based on the individual classification items, and this step is also performed for each website of the individual bookmark list in which none of the individual classification items are converted into the integrated classification items. It will be preferable to carry out. In addition, although the present embodiment includes a process of converting individual classified items into a unified sorted item, in another embodiment, the individual bookmarked list is included in the individual bookmark list without accompanying the conversion process for the individual classified items in the individual bookmark list. For each web site information, relevant web site information may be retrieved directly from the server's database (S 70).

As a result of the search of step S70, the websites in which the same web site is searched in the unified list are classified according to the path of the unified list in which the web site is searched, that is, the path composed of hierarchical unified classification items. In the example of 'jazz b' of FIG. 3b, 'jazz', which is the same web site, is included in the 'jazz' item through the 'music / pop / jazz' path in the entire list, and thus 'jazz' included in FIG. 3b. b 'is classified as' Music / Pop / Jazz'. By repeating such a process, FIG. 3B will be converted as shown in FIG. 4B (S 80).

When the above-described step S80 is completed, the server 210 performs the above-described step S90. At this time, for convenience of description, step S 90 has been mentioned in advance, but according to the present invention, after the above-described steps of converting the remaining items of S 50 and 60, individual web site classification steps of S 70 and S 80, and the like, are described above. It would be desirable to perform step S 90.

As a result of the alignment of step S 90, FIG. 4A will be aligned as shown in FIG. 5A and FIG. 4B will be converted as shown in FIG. 5B.

Meanwhile, in another embodiment of the present invention, instead of the above-described step S90, the lowest item having the highest frequency (that is, the lowest item having the highest number of web sites included in the item, hereinafter referred to as 'highest frequency item') It could be replaced by searching.

When the above-described step S 90 is completed, the server 210 compares the website information included in the individual frequency item with the website information included in the same item of the integrated list, and displays the website information (not included in the highest frequency item). Hereinafter, 'additional information' is stored as additional information in the individual bookmark list (S 110). As a result, as disclosed in the aforementioned Korean Patent Application No. 99-21307, when the client downloads the individual bookmark list from the individual storage area in the storage block 220 to use the online bookmark, additional information is provided to the user. do.

On the other hand, in another embodiment of the present invention, in addition to the embodiment described in step S 110 described above, when the client connects to the server, additional information to the user is uploaded to the user through the steps S 120 to S 140 described later You could do it.

Hereinafter, the PC1 110 will be described with reference to the process as follows.

When the PC1 110 is connected to the server 210 in the state where the step S 110 is completed (S 120), the server 210 determines that the PC1 110 is additional information from the user information stored in a predetermined area of the storage block 220. Verify that the upload requester requested the upload for. In this case, whether to upload or not will be pre-stored as user information through user setting or initial user change upon initial registration (S 130).

As a result of checking in step S 130, if PC1 110 is the upload requester, server 210 reads additional information from the individual storage area corresponding to PC1 110 in storage block 220 and transmits it to the user. At this time, referring to Figures 5a and 3c, Web site information (ie, Internet address) of the 'game d' and 'game f' will be provided to the PC1 (110) as additional information (S 220)

In the above-described embodiment, the additional information is provided only for the highest frequency item as an example. However, according to the user's selection, the additional information items such as the entire individual classification items and some of the highest frequency items (for example, three) are variously changed. You can change it.

In addition, for the same category, it is said that the website information is provided as additional information, which is included in the integrated bookmark list but not included in the individual bookmark list, and the number of websites provided as the additional information is based on the frequency, etc. It may be limited to the number preset by the user (for example, three, five, ..., etc.).

According to the present invention described above, by providing the web site information corresponding to the user's connection tendency in the server, there is an effect that can improve the efficiency of the user's utilization of the Internet information.

Claims (4)

In the method for providing web site information of the Internet corresponding to individual web site access tendency for each of a plurality of users subscribed to the server, Receiving a list of individual bookmarks created by the user and storing the list of individual bookmarks in an individual storage area previously allocated to the user; Converting the categorized items of the individual bookmark lists into categorized items of a pre-written integrated list; Sequentially sorting each classified item of the converted individual bookmark list based on the number of web sites included in each item; Retrieving website information from the same item in the unified list, for the top one or more items of the sorted item; And storing website information, which is not included in the same item of the individual bookmark list, among the searched website information in the individual storage area as additional information. The method of claim 1, wherein the converting the categorized items of the individual bookmark lists into the categorized items of the unified list. In the case where only a part of the individual classification items are converted into the integrated classification items, for each web site included in the lowest item among the items converted into the integrated classification items, the lowest item of the same integrated bookmark list as the lowest item Searching the same web site as the web site in a range, and classifying the searched web site according to a classification item of the integrated list; If the individual bookmark list is not categorized into individual categorized items, or none of the individual categorized items is categorized as an integrated categorized item, for each web site included in the individual bookmark list, the same web as the web site is provided. Searching for a site from the integrated list, and classifying the searched web site into a category of the integrated list. The method of claim 2, wherein the web site information providing method comprises: When the user accesses the server, retrieving additionally added additional information from an individual storage area corresponding to the user, and transmitting the retrieved additional information to the user. Way. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the additional information, Web site information providing method characterized in that the user consists of a predetermined number of website information.