KR20040017531A - Method of URL conversion in client - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for transforming an URL(Uniform Resource Locator) within a client is provided to make an URL transforming module transform the Korean input into the matched English URL automatically by installing the URL transforming module in the client instead of a language transforming server. CONSTITUTION: The content inputted into an URL input window of a web browser is hooked. After deciding a received keyword, if the received keyword is the English URL, the received keyword is returned to the web browser without a change(S524). If the received keyword is Korean and contains a wrong word, the wrong word is corrected(S525). The corrected word is transformed into the English URL and the English URL is returned to the web browser(S526).

Description

Method of URL conversion in client

The present invention relates to a method for converting a keyword or URL input in Korean into a URL in a web browser URL in a client itself.

The Internet is a network of different kinds of computers, and each computer connected to the Internet is assigned a physical address, that is, an IP (internet protocol) address, to identify each other. However, since these physical addresses consist of four groups of numbers that do not exceed 255 (for example, 134.78.238.99), it is very difficult for users to remember these strings of numbers, and it is difficult to remember a particular computer connected to the Internet. It is very cumbersome for users to enter these IP addresses every time they want to access the network.

Therefore, in general, instead of accessing each computer by using a physical address directly, a one-to-one correspondence with a combination of easy-to-remember IP addresses is provided. The method of making the connection is used. The combination of characters used in place of the IP address is called a domain name.

As such, a domain name represents an address on the Internet of a computer connected to the Internet and generally refers to an English character string in a uniform resource location (URL). For example, "www.dreamwiz.com" becomes the actual domain name among the "http://www.dreamwiz.com" which is a URL (uniform resource location) which is an IP address system.

Therefore, in order to use the domain name instead of the IP address of each computer, a separate device that performs the function of matching the IP address and the domain name of each computer is required. It is associated with a computer system that performs a domain name server (domain name server, also known as "DNS").

In general, when a client requests an IP address resolution for a domain name of that computer, for example, "www.dreamwiz.com", to a specific computer on the Internet, the domain name server manages the IP address. The IP address corresponding to the domain name inputted to the registrar's server is inquired, and the IP address provided from the registrar's server is returned to the client, whereby the client is connected to the computer having the corresponding IP address.

As described above, in order to connect to a particular computer on the Internet, you must know the domain name. However, in general, the domain name is made of a combination of English characters made according to a certain rule, there is a relatively difficult to memorize the domain name. In order to overcome this problem, even if the user inputs only the Korean address (eg 'Dreamwiz') into the web browser window, a method of automatically accessing the corresponding URL (http://www.dreamwiz.com) is presented. It is used. That is, when a domain name service request is made in Korean in addition to a DNS server or database in addition to the DNS server, the requested Korean address is converted into a corresponding URL by the language conversion server (or language conversion database). After that, the domain name server retrieves the IP address corresponding to the converted URL and transmits it to the client, thereby enabling web browsing with the IP address received by the client.

As described above, the language conversion server for converting a domain name for a Korean address and its operation method are described in Korean Patent Registration Nos. 10-0317059 and 10-0338666, but this method has some problems.

First, in addition to the domain name server, a separate language conversion server for Hangul access must be installed, and thus there is a cost problem such as changing the operating system of the existing domain server.

Second, there is an inconvenience that the language conversion server administrator must update and maintain the database for matching the English site matching the Korean site to be searched at regular intervals.

Third, since only a uniform Hangul address matching database is maintained, there is a problem in that the client cannot directly manage the database and therefore cannot have his own Hangul address database.

Fourth, the current language conversion server does not have a function for correcting a typo in a Korean address input because it is not a normal Korean input.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, by placing a URL conversion module in the client instead of a separate language conversion server for the Hangul conversion access English URL automatically matched in the URL conversion module when the user inputs the Hangul The purpose is to enable conversion. In addition, it is an object of the URL conversion module to automatically correct the error when there is an input error in the language from the user.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a URL conversion module for converting a Korean keyword into an English URL when a Korean keyword is input.

2 is a table illustrating a matching between a Hangul address and a URL address stored in a URL conversion module database.

3 is a diagram showing the editing of the Hangul address and URL by the URL conversion program.

4 is a table showing similar words stored in the URL conversion module database.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of converting an English URL when a Korean input is input to a web browser address window.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a flow for a method of searching for similar words.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

110: URL conversion module 111: conversion processing unit

112: built-in matching URL table 113: user input table

114: typo correction table 115: synonym table

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a URL conversion module in the client to convert the input Korean into English URL in the client itself when there is a Korean input. This URL conversion operation includes a keyword receiving step of hooking content input in a URL input window of a web browser to be web-browsed, and a keyword hooked in the web browser URL input window is Hangul and a typo in the received Hangul. If there is a typo correcting step of correcting the error, the English URL conversion step of converting the Hangul that has undergone the error correction step into a matching English URL, and the step of returning the converted English URL back to the web browser.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a URL conversion module for converting a Korean keyword into an English URL when a Korean keyword is input.

When there is a Korean address input in the web browser address window, a URL conversion module 110 for converting the corresponding Korean into an English URL is installed in the client. The URL conversion module includes a conversion processor 111, a built-in matching table 112, a user input table 113, a typo correcting table 114, and a synonym table 115.

If there is a Hangul or URL input in the web browser URL input window, the conversion processing unit 111 performs an operation of hooking the input content and converting the input content, and when the conversion is completed, return the converted URL back to the web browser. Giving functions. If the hooked content is Korean, the basic URL table 112 and the user input table 113 are searched to convert the Korean into an English URL. In addition, when there is no English URL matching the input Korean, the corresponding Korean URL is converted into an English URL for searching the page. Furthermore, when there is a typo in the inputted Hangul, the typo correcting table 114 is searched to correctly correct the corresponding typo. The description of the English conversion method and the error correction method will be described in detail with the flowchart in FIG.

The built-in matching URL table 112 is a database that is generated by itself when the URL conversion module is installed. As shown in the table shown in FIG. 2, the corresponding English URL is matched to a specific Korean address. This built-in matching URL table becomes the database included in the URL conversion module installer by default. However, since the URL is newly created or disappeared every day, when the URL conversion module is executed for the corresponding database, the relevant site is automatically accessed and updated.

The user input table 113 is a database in which a Korean address and an English URL directly input by a user are stored. It is a storage space for the user to register the Korean address for web browsing in their own URL matching table and directly manage the Korean address and the English URL. If you want to edit (register / modify / delete) such a database, as shown in Fig. 3, the user input table editing program can be driven to directly register / modify / delete the desired Hangul address and the corresponding URL. .

For example, if "My Home Page" is written in Korean in the web browsing URL input window, it is not possible to access the desired page by the conventional Korean conversion method through an external language conversion server. This is a natural result because the Korean address 'My Home Page' does not exist in the language conversion server. However, by applying the present invention, a user input table editing program as shown in FIG. 3 is run on the user input table in the client, and the Korean address' My Home Page 'and the corresponding' http://www.dreamwiz.com/ If you register the ~ myhome 'URL, the domain name server (DNS) is converted to the actual URL' http://www.dreamwiz.com/~myhome 'when there is a Korean address input of "MyHomepage" in the web browser window. The converted English URL can be sent to the web browser.

The typo correction table 114 is a place where data for automatically converting Korean to English is stored when a user mistakenly inputs an English URL to a Korean keyboard. Frequent typos, such as entering an English URL in Korean mode or a user's habitual mistyped text, are stored in the typo correction table for use in typo correction. This conversion operation is performed in the converted language mode for the remaining characters after the conversion for the corresponding character, which will be described in detail in the typo correcting step of FIG. 5.

The synonym table 115 is a table that stores letters that are corrected for Korean keywords that a user may incorrectly input. For example, when the user incorrectly inputs 'Naver', the conversion processor 111 searches for a table of similar words and converts the word to 'Naver', which is a correct expression for 'Naver'.

To this end, several similar words are managed in a similar word table corresponding to the correct Hangul keywords as shown in FIG. 4. For example, similar to the Korean keyword 'naver', 'naver', 'naiva', and 'naiva' are stored.

The process of using the synonym table will be described in detail with a flowchart in FIG. 6.

The built-in URL table 112, the user input table 113, the typo correction table 114, and the synonym table 115 may be edited by a user directly using an editing program, but may be accessed from a specific server. You can also download a database or share clients' databases with each other. Data sharing between clients can be done through LAN type internal network or wireless network. In this way, a user can download a database that has already been edited without directly editing the data, thereby providing a database table.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a process of converting an English URL when a Korean input is input to a web browser address window.

When the user enters the URL in the URL input window of the web browser (S510), the URL conversion module hooks it (S520). In other words, before sending the input contents of the web browser to the domain name server, the URL conversion module interrupts the process of the web browser and hooks the input contents. When such hooking is made, the web browser process waits without proceeding to the next web browser step until the converted URL is returned.

Thereafter, the URL conversion module determines whether the hooked content is Korean or English based on the code value of the corresponding character (S521). If the URL is in English, the conversion is terminated by transmitting the corresponding URL (S524) to the web browser as it is (S530).

If the input keyword is Korean instead of the English URL, it is determined whether the input Korean is an input due to a typo (S522). In the case of a typo, the input typo is corrected (S525). If the input is a typo, there are two ways to correct it. First, there is a correction method when the input text consists only of a set of Korean consonants or vowels, not the completed text. For example, if there is an input of 'ㄴ ㄷㅁㄱㅊ ㅗ. ㅁ ㅎㅊ. ㅊ ㅐ ㅡ', it is not a completed Korean form, so it is determined to be a typo, and automatically converted to the English mode input of the corresponding Hangul and the URL of 'search.abc.com' Convert to an address.

In the second method, if there is a typo, a correction using a typo correction table can be performed. For example, if 'www' is inputted as 'ㅈ', the URL conversion module causes the 'correction' to be entered in the typo correction table. If there is a matching value to correct the input to 'www', the correct operation is to correct 'ㅈ' to 'www'. Likewise, when the 'http' input is incorrectly entered as 'ㅗ ㅅㅅ ㅔ', the Korean keyboard, it searches for a correction table and converts '변환 ㅅㅅ ㅔ' to 'http'. The conversion using the error correction table performs conversion based on special characters in the URL address. In other words, after the input of 'ㅈ' in Hangul mode, the special character '.' If there is an input, the URL conversion module converts 'ㅈ' to 'www.' And the characters entered afterwards are input in the English mode. Likewise, if there is 'ㅗ ㅅㅅ ㅔ: //' input, 'http: //' is converted and the remaining characters are input in English mode. Therefore, after the conversion to www or http without a separate language mode conversion by the client, the URL is automatically entered in the English mode.

If it is determined that the typo is not a typo, it is determined whether an English URL matching the input Korean is present in the basic URL table or the user input table (S523). That is, if there is a matching English URL address in the built-in matching URL table, and if there is no matching English URL here, the user input table is searched again to search for an English URL address matching the entered Korean address. do. As a result of the search, when an English URL matching the input Korean is found, the corresponding Korean is converted into an English URL (S526). However, if no English URL matching the search result is found, the input Hangul is converted into a URL of a search result page capable of searching (S527). For example, if the word "computer" does not exist in any table, convert it to the URL of a search results page such as "http://search.dreamwiz.com/cgi-bin/irs.cgi?so=2&q=computer" do.

By sending the keyword hooked from the web browser to the web browser again through the above method (S530), the URL conversion module ends the URL conversion operation.

As such, in addition to the URL conversion method described with reference to FIG. 5, the similar word search function may be an optional function. That is, as described with reference to FIG. 5, if it is determined whether there is a corresponding URL for the input keyword (S523), and if there is no corresponding URL, the search result page URL conversion (S527) is performed. Before, the conversion processor determines whether the similarity search function is activated, and if so, converts the input keyword to Korean designated in the similarity table of FIG. 4.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a flow for the method of searching for similar words. As described above, the difference from FIG. 5 includes a function for determining whether to activate a similar word search function and determining whether a similar word exists.

Prior to converting the search result page URL for the keyword because there is no corresponding URL, the conversion processing unit 111 of FIG. 1 determines whether the synonym search function is activated (S628a). If the search function is not activated, the conversion is performed to the search result page URL for the input keyword (S627). If the search function is activated, the conversion processing unit 111 searches for a table of similar words to search for the letters corresponding to the input keyword. It is determined whether it is stored in the table (S628b). If the determined keyword is stored in the table as a similar word, it is converted into a character to be corrected accordingly and then converted into a corresponding URL (S628c). This synonym search function allows a user to enable / disable the search function in the URL conversion program of the present invention so that the user can select the available option.

Although the technical spirit of the present invention has been described in detail according to the above-described preferred embodiment, the above-described embodiment is for the purpose of description, and various ordinary embodiments of the present invention may be made by those skilled in the art. I can understand.

As described above, the present invention enables direct language conversion within the client application itself without the need for a separate language conversion server, and thus has an advantage of using an existing domain name server operating system as it is. In addition, by allowing the client to edit and store the desired Hangul address and the corresponding URL, it is possible to convert the Hangul address into a URL for each client to the web browsing, which enables efficient URL language conversion.

Claims (9)

A keyword receiving step of hooking the contents entered in the URL input box of the web browser, Determining the received keyword and if the received keyword is an English URL, returning the received keyword to the web browser as it is; A typo correcting step of correcting the typo when the received keyword is Korean and a typo in the received Korean is determined as a result of the determination of the received keywords; English URL conversion step of converting the Hangul, which has undergone the typo correction step, into a matching English URL and returning it back to the web browser URL conversion method comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein the error correction step, If the received Hangul is not a Hangul sentence consisting of consonant and vowel combination, the received Hangul conversion method characterized in that converted to English. The method of claim 1, wherein the error correction step, And searching for a typo correction table in which a specific typo character and a corresponding correct character are stored and correcting the correct typo character when there is a typo character. The method of claim 1, wherein the error correction step, When the character before the input of the special characters in the URL address is converted from Korean to English, the input of the characters after the special characters are input in the English mode. The method of claim 1, wherein the English URL conversion step, Search for a predetermined database and convert it to the corresponding English URL in the first case where there is an English URL that matches the input Hangul, and convert it to the search result page URL of the corresponding Korean in the second case where the matching English URL does not exist. URL conversion method characterized in that. The method of claim 5, wherein the database, And a built-in matching URL table in which a Korean address and a corresponding English URL are already stored in a URL conversion module setting program, and a user input table stored by a user. The method of claim 6, wherein the user input table, A method of converting a URL, wherein a user directly adds, deletes, or modifies a Korean address and a corresponding English URL using a user input table editing program. The method of claim 5, wherein in the second case where the English URL does not exist, A search result page URL conversion step of converting a search result page URL when the similarity search function is not activated, When the similarity search function is activated, it is determined whether similar words exist in a predetermined database. If the similar words do not exist, the input keyword is converted into a search result page URL, and if similar words exist, the corrected URL is converted. Steps to URL conversion method comprising a. The method of claim 8, wherein the predetermined database stores characters having similar shapes in correspondence with each other.