KR20010074929A - User-profile-driven mapping of hyperlinks onto URLs - Google Patents

Abstract

An internet service provider has a portal with hyperlinks connected to a first web site and a second web site. When a user activates a hyperlink through the user's browser, depending on the geographic location of the user's client, user access is provided to the first or second web site.

Description

User-profile-driven mapping of hyperlinks onto URLs}

The present invention particularly relates to browsing on the Internet via voice input.

The Internet is a huge source of information represented in web documents. As you can see, 1.5 million web pages are generally growing every day. Web documents typically include hyperlinks that jump from one web document to other web documents indicated by the network address in the hyperlinks. As a result, any document is connected to any other document via an appropriate routine of hyperlinks, and is referred to herein as the name "Web". The importance of allowing user friendly interaction over the Internet to selectively place specific web documents based on the information content of the web documents cannot be overemphasized.

User interaction is facilitated by reliable and accurate search engines, such as Philips Electronics' PlanetSearch, which places user queries in the directed list, for example. PlanetSearch's user interface provides a particular one of each of the query results indicating the relative importance of each of the multiple query terms that contributed to the ranking of that particular result. U.S. Patent No. 08 / 922,825 filed at 09/03/97 (attorny docket PHA 21,935A) and U.S. Patent No. 08 / 371,188 filed at 03/20/98 (Agent PHA 21.935B) By reference, both of which are incorporated herein by reference. U. S. Patent Application Serial No. 09 / 104,491 (substitute litigation PHA 23,422), filed on 6/25/98, is also important, incorporated herein by reference, and discloses information retrieval based on semantic context and user profile.

Another contribution to facilitating web browsing is based on speech recognition. US Patent No. 09 / 174,167 (Agency Suit PHN 16,571) of Philips Electronics, filed on 10/16/98 and incorporated herein by reference, describes a client-server architecture that applies speech recognition to interaction on the Internet. . The browser plug-in records the user's voice and preprocesses it to generate feature vectors. The feature vectors are sent to the speech recognition server via the Internet.

More specifically, US Patent No. 09 / 174,167 describes a method and system for recognizing an input pattern stored in a user station and using a recognition unit of a server station. The server station and user station are connected via a network. The recognition unit is operative to recognize the input pattern using model collection of the at least one recognition model. The initial recognition registration step is executed to transmit model improvement data coupled with the user of the user station from the user station to the recognition unit and to bind the user of the user station to the user identifier. For a recognition session between the user station and the server station, the user station transmits the user identifier to the server station associated with the user of the user station. In addition, the input pattern is transmitted to the server station represented by the time sequential input generated by the user. The recognition unit is used to recognize the input pattern by combining at least one recognition model in model collection reflecting model improvement data combined with the user. The server includes a number of different recognition models of the same type. In the recognition registration step, it relies on model improvement data selected from a number of different recognition models of the same type and associated with the user. In addition, in the registration step, the indication of the selected recognition model is stored in association with the user identifier. Also, in the step of recognizing the input pattern, the recognition model is retrieved in combination with the user identifier sent to the server station, and the retrieved recognition model is combined in the model collection.

By storing a plurality of each type of recognition models, such as each defined multiple language models for at least one different subject, such as photographs, gardening, automobiles, etc., an appropriate recognition model can be selected for a particular user of the system. . This allows for good quality perception. In this way, the user is not limited to one particular type of recognition model, such as a particular language model or vocabulary, but at the same time is obtained by reusable models for users with high flexibility of the system. For example, all users who are interested in photography can use the same language model for handling photography. Results provided using a user-oriented recognition model as flexibility and combined good perception are obtained without storing a specific model for each user. Advantageously, the amount of training data that needs to be supplied by the user may also be substantially smaller than in known systems. Instead of requiring a sufficient amount of data to sufficiently train the model or to adapt an already existing model, according to the invention, the amount of data should be sufficient to select an appropriate model from the available models.

Now, with the voice technique described above, voice activated hyperlinks can be implemented to enable voice-based web browsing. Voice input from the user is eventually processed to function the same as a mouse-clicking hyperlink. Voice input is supplied to the recognizer. The recognizer provides the recognition result and supplies the result to a database of stored words. The database has hyperlinks associated with stored words. For example, a particular word is associated with a particular hyperlink, or set of synonyms, and semantically identical words or similar expressions are all combined with a particular hyperlink. If so, the combined hyperlink is activated and the user is redirected to the new web site whose URL is identified in this hyperlink.

For example, when registering as a service provider, a user can freely associate a URL with any word or expression (eg, "myPictures", "myFamily", ...) on the user's home page. The service provider provides some HTML code that the user enters into the user's web (home) page. Each time such a page is downloaded by another user, the code causes the voice button to be displayed in the browser. The user can press a button and enter a word or a series of words by voice. When the recognizer returns a word for which the button owner specifies a URL, the user is moved to the corresponding new web page. If the URL addresses the (cgi) script, the home page can also be created dynamically. The vocabulary of the recognizer also includes words that the service provider itself can associate with the link. If such (inclusive) words such as "book" are entered by voice input, the system may, for example, refer the user to a category page that has links to the (designated) advertising banners as well as related articles. Will move. Alternatively, words or expressions may be sold to customers. For example, when a user enters the word "book" via voice, the user is directed to a website of a company that sells the book over the Internet.

Among other objects, an object of the present invention is to provide a user friendly method of browsing a web site. Among other purposes, another object is to use additional degrees of freedom that enable hyperlinked web sites, for example, to increase user friendliness interacting with the Internet.

The present invention relates to a method for enabling a user to navigate on the Internet. User interaction with hyperlinks is enabled through the user's client. When the user activates the hyperlink, the first web site or the second web site is presented to the user according to the user's profile. The first and second web sites have different URLs or web addresses. The user profile depends, for example, on the user's IP address or the user's client's hardware and / or software profile. The IP address typically includes an indication of the geographic location of the user's client. This location is also used to selectively link to the first or second web site.

If the browser is voice-controllable or voice-acceptable, the hyperlink is voice-activated to the browser through certain voice input. For mouse clicks, the voice input adds another dimension or degree of freedom for the selection of the web address associated with the hyperlink. The mapping of voice input on the web address to the same hyperlink representation on the user's display monitor depends on the user's geographic location as well as such recognized and used language.

The present invention also provides an internet service. The service may enable the first party to specify voice input specific to a voice permission browser for user access of the first web site having the first web address through control of a voice permission hyperlink on the portal. The service may also allow the second party to direct the same specific voice input to the browser for user access of the second web site with the second web address through the control of the portal's hyperlink. When the user activates the hyperlink via voice input, user access is provided to the first website or the second website, depending on the user's profile. The profile may depend on the IP address of the user from which the geographic area of the user's client is derived.

The present invention also provides a new business model for Internet services based on tenancy, licensing or sales associations between web addresses and user profiles. The service makes it possible to provide user access to portals with hyperlinks. The first web address of the first party is assigned to the hyperlink. The second web site address of the second party is also assigned to the same hyperlink. When the user activates the hyperlink, the user's access to the first web address or the second web address depends on the user's profile. The profile also depends, for example, on the geographic area of the user's client.

The inventor proposes to consider the user's profile, for example the geographical area of the user's client device. This geographic area of the user can be derived from the user's IP address and path from the user's client to the server. The database described above has entries for geographic locations or regions, and also for stored words, hyperlinks, and combinations thereof. The particular hyperlink activated is a function of one or more query words and the geographic location of the user's client. Such keyword location combinations enable, for example, to activate certain hyperlinks associated with geographic regions. When you enter "restaurant", "CD" or "bicycle road" through the keyboard or using the voice, for example, the user enters a local restaurant, record store or bike path, a place for the user's geographic area, respectively. Return to site

The present invention provides a new business model for sales or lease hyperlinks, in particular voice activated hyperlinks, to companies or organizations per geographic area. Instead of always searching the same website through the planet or through the voice-enabled hyperlink, regardless of the user's location on the planet, the user searches for a hyperlink related to the user's location. To do it. This geographic option is an important advantage for businesses and organizations with local importance, such as cinemas, restaurants, shops, and Internet service providers. Language differences or dialects may be considered in determining the geographic location of the user.

Thus, if users pronounce or type the word "flower shop", they will be able to find an adjacent shop. The present invention is intended to satisfy the response of the recognition system to all user positions and stored preferences. As mentioned above, the user's location can be easily retrieved from the user's IP address. Instructions for keyword position combinations are stored in the database. The location may be indicated by, for example, a postal code. The user's category page can be dynamically constructed and includes links to local stores as well as links to global companies, such as mail order stores or online service providers that operate nationally or globally. In addition, predetermined advertising banners may be located. Alternatively, if a word is sold to a company, different companies can be combined into different locations. For example, a company may buy or rent a word for a set of postal codes. A mixed approach is also possible. For some users, a word can be a (localized) category page and others can be moved to the appropriate company's site.

The user's preferences can be used to determine the action to take when any word is recognized. Because of this, it is necessary for the user's plugin to have a specific identifier. Also, cookies can be used, or if the speaker's confirmation is accurate enough, this confirmation can be used as another alternative. The user can register the user's preferences as a service provider and the user profile can also be configured to track the user's most popular words and web surfing behavior. The preference and profile information includes gender, age and hobbies, nationality, and the like. See also, for example, U.S. Patent No. 09 / 104,491 (Agency Litigation PHA 23,422), supra. Similar to the location information, this information can be used to determine a new page to be taken by the user by recognizing any word.

As mentioned above, the IP address is described as an example of user profile information that can be used to dynamically adapt the selection of the hyperlink. Additionally or additionally, for IP address information, the user's client's settings (eg, browser type and version, operating system, connection type) may likewise be used for dynamic orders. User client interaction allows the server to extract this kind of configuration information. Alternatively, the setting information is stored at the server, which is obtained through a user registering as a service provider, for example. Within this context, A METHOD FOR PERSONALIZING HOSPITAL INTRANET WEB SITES, filed 1/11/97 by Mehran Moshfeghi, Jun Wang, Stephen Wong and Yuan-Pin Yu, US Patent No. 08/785, 459 (representative litigation number PHA 23,217), incorporated herein by this reference. Such documents may include such estimates from stored information about the user's job, occupation, or purpose in the hospital, and logged usage profiles, the user's level of access to confidential patient information, and the user's physical environment and computer, According to stored information indicative of a user's needs or preferences, the server includes a layer for dynamically generating web pages and other data objects using scripts such as graphics, audio and video files. In particular, content is generated according to the lowest bandwidth link and display resolution between the server and the browser to limit latency and server load for download. In addition, when the user enters the word "software" as typed text or voice input, the server system determines whether the client is retrieved, for example MacIntosh, if the selection of software related sites relates to the MacIntosh client. When the server determines that the client is an IBM compatible PC, another selection of document-related software is retrieved.

The invention is described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, and in addition, Figure 1 is a block diagram illustrating the business model of the invention.

The present invention allows parties on the Internet to direct users to specific web sites. The portal is provided with multiple voice controllable hyperlinks. Interaction with hyperlinks is possible through a voice-enabled browser. In a commercial transaction, a right is assigned to a party that at least temporarily has at least one particular natural language representation that activates a particular one of the voice control hyperlinks on a particular web site. The web address of the particular web site retrieved via the hyperlink depends on the Internet Protocol (IP) of the user's client. The geographic location of the user's client may be extracted from the user's IP address. An IP address typically consists of four numbers A.B.C.D. Typically, at least the last one (D) is the highest differentiated / regional and the first is the most general. Companies like "Doubleclick", which collects IP addresses, store relationships A; A. B .; A. B. C. or even A. B. C. D. in the database. Some computers have static IP addresses, and those do not change. Some clients (mostly individuals) connect to the Internet as soon as a request is made. They dial their service provider and are assigned an IP address. They typically dial the nearest service provider to make local calls only. These access points dynamically assign IP addresses to such clients. They will have the same prefix A.B or A.B.C and each of the last number C.D or D is dynamically assigned. By identifying where the access point with the prefix A.B or A.B.C is located, assumptions can be made about where the client is located. Such prefixes are stable and can therefore be stored in a database. The geographical area location of the client can be determined dynamically and in real time. Thus, the representation may be sold, leased, or authorized per geographical area for a commercial entity or for each entity having a discovered significance within that area. For example, the representation may be used as a portal or gateway, i.e., a web site, a voice-permissive hyperlink, which provides a gateway for the rest of the Internet to direct users to a web site about a geographic area.

1 is a block diagram illustrating the concept of a business model of the present invention. The first party 102 has importance in the area of commercial activity for the first geographic area and informs the public through its website. Similarly, the second party 104 has importance in similar commercial activities except for an area for a second geographic area that is different from the first area. Internet service provider 106 typically controls portals or gateways that have a general interest of a wide audience, variations of hyperlinks 108. The portal is graphically displayed on the visitor's client's display in the same way, regardless of the client's geographic location. It is important for the parties 102 and 104 to draw attention through this portal. The service provider 106 does this commercially using the portal's screen real volume and through the attention relay based on the local foundation. The parties 102 and 104 are both associated with a particular one of the portal's hyperlinks 108 and associated with each table area 114 to provide a lease unit for having the web addresses 112 of respective registered web sites. 110). Now, the first client 116 belonging to the first table area accesses the portal via the Internet, and the second client 120 belonging to the second area accesses the same portal via the Internet 118. In their respective display monitors 117 and 119, users can know the same graphical representation 121 of the portal. Both client devices activate the same graphical representation 123 of hyperlinks where parties 102 and 104 register their leases. Based on the IP addresses of the clients 116 and 120, as described above, the geographic area to which they belong can be determined. Based on the determined area, the service provider 106 only causes the client 116 of the party 104 to automatically access the website 102 when the user clicks on the hyperlink, and the client 120 sends the party 104 to it. Automatically access the web site.

Now, clients 116 and 120 have voice controllable browsers 122 and 124, respectively. The portal's hyperlink 108 is voice enabled through the structure of a system, a speech recognition system, for example, as disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 09 / 174,167 described above (substitute litigation PHN 16,571). Voice input of the same or different words may be used to access different web sites depending on the geographical area of the requesting client. The service provider 106 registers the words 126 assigned to the parties 102 and 104 that lease the voice input and associate with their web addresses. Now, the service provider 106 can be leased in various combinations with the parties 102 and 104 concerned: portal actual volume (divided) in the form of hyperlinks, different geographic regions, and different or identical words, as such, portals. Through 121, the possibility of attention relaying can be improved.

The standard consists of an international patent publication published in PCT as International Publication No. WO 99/12104 "Method and Apparatus for Discovering Information". This publication discloses a communication system for a mobile station that makes a web page searchable with control of the geographic location of the mobile communication user. This location configuration is supplied by the mobile telephone system. Geographic information is transmitted from the telephone system to the mobile station. The user of the mobile station establishes a connection to the Internet and sends a request for documents. The request includes location information. The content of the web documents returned upon request is combined with the geographic location of the mobile communication user as determined by the mobile telephone system. Implementation of this known method involves the steps of a user executed Domain Name System (DNS) query. DNS is a service that translates domain names (eg www.philips.com) into IP addresses. The user writes some text in the browser window. The text is sent to an Access Node that provides access to the Internet. The access node requests and receives the geographic location of the mobile communication user from the mobile telephone system. The access node combines DNS queries and geographic information, maps the binding to an IP address according to the translation table, and sends the IP address, which is then retrieved back to the user. Thereafter, the user can launch a browser for the query based on the retrieved IP address.

Claims (7)

In a way to enable a user to navigate on the Internet, Enabling user-interaction with hyperlink 123 via browser 122; 124 at user's client 116; 120, When the user activates the hyperlink, enabling the user to provide the first or second web site to the user according to the user's profile. The method of claim 1, And wherein said user profile enables navigation on the Internet depending on said user's IP address. The method of claim 1, Said profile enabling navigation on the Internet including an indication of the geographical location of said user's client. The method of claim 1, The user profile enables navigation on the Internet depending on the hardware profile or software profile of the user's client. The method of claim 1, And the user profile enables navigation on the internet that depends on the history of user-interaction with the internet. In the method of providing the Internet service, Providing user access to portal 121 with hyperlink 123, Assigning a first web address of a first party 102 to the hyperlink, Assigning a second web address of a second party 104 to the hyperlink, When the user activates the hyperlink, providing an Internet service that enables the user to access the first web address or the second web address according to the user's profile. A user profile controllable hyperlink on a web site for use in the method according to any one of the preceding claims.