KR20050112881A - Contents search system through network and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a content retrieval system and method through a network.

In the present invention, when a search word is provided from a user through a network, the contents including information matching the search word are searched among contents provided on the network. In the search, the reliable content is searched in consideration of the utilization of each content. Here, the utilization of the content may be the number of scraps of the corresponding content.

According to the present invention, more reliable content can be searched and provided to the user among contents posted on the network.

Description

Content search system through network and method

The present invention relates to a content retrieval system and method, and more particularly, to a system and method for retrieving content provided on a network.

Recently, with the rapid increase of the Internet, electronic commerce for the whole world is being made through the same medium of the Internet, and the communication function between users is gradually developed, and various forms of communication are being made through the Internet. .

In addition to e-mail or file transfer, which is the most basic form of communication using the Internet, an Internet phone is used instead of a landline phone, and a short message can be transmitted to a mobile phone using the Internet. In addition, there is also a multi-party chat using the Internet, and in the case of a chat, not only using a text, but also a voice chat or a video chat through the Internet. In addition, a community such as a cafe, in which a large number of users gather and exchange data and opinions on the same topic, is being activated.

The community consists of various forms such as cafes, blogs, homepages, clubs and mini homepages, and various contents are posted in each community. In general, each user who is registered as a member in a cafe or club posts content on a bulletin board on a bulletin board and communicates with each other.In blogs and mini homepages, the user who opened it posts his or her opinions or materials. do.

Conventionally, in order to view or receive content posted to such a community, there is a hassle of accessing the community and searching for the content. However, recently, due to the development of a search technology, a user can search for content on a web browser. By simply inputting a predetermined search word, a content search for the search word is performed for each category of web documents, news, images, dictionaries, etc. on the web, and a topic corresponding to the search word from a community such as a cafe or a blog is searched for. A search for a community having a branch, and a process of searching for a content corresponding to the search word among contents (eg, posts) posted in the communities, are performed. Therefore, the user can easily search for predetermined content posted in the community without having to access the community individually, and can easily know the community having a topic about the search word.

However, among the contents searched in this way, there are many contents that do not include information for reference. In particular, there is a lot of unnecessary content in the case of content posted in the community. In addition, due to the nature of the community, users can post content such as thoughts or feelings in the form of "reply," etc. In such posted content, there is almost no information for general reference. Sometimes it is searched and provided. In addition to such community categories, unnecessary information is often included even when searching contents provided in categories such as web documents and news.

In addition, conventionally, when a community search having a topic including a search word is performed, search results are arranged based only on the size of the number of members, the number of posts, and the like among the searched communities.

As such, since conventionally, only the search word is searched and provided to the user regardless of how reliable the content includes the information, there is a high possibility that unnecessary content is searched and provided to the user as illustrated above. There are disadvantages. Therefore, it is very difficult for a user to find reliable content including desired information on a search result page in which unnecessary content is arranged innumerably.

Therefore, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to search for reliable content among the contents provided on the network and provide it to the user in order to solve the conventional disadvantages.

In particular, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to perform a search according to the degree that the content is used by the user, so that the user can easily receive more reliable content.

According to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem, a method of searching for content in communities formed on a network and providing predetermined content, the method comprising: a) providing a search word from a user through the network; If so, searching for contents including information matching the search word; b) determining the number of scraps which is the number of times each content is scraped with respect to the searched contents; c) classifying the searched content for each community and determining the number of community scraps for each classified community; d) processing the retrieved contents according to the number of scraps and providing them to a user; And e) processing information about the community including the searched contents according to the number of community scraps and providing the information to the user.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when a search word is given, a content search including the search word is performed for each category, and in particular, a reliable content is searched in consideration of the utilization of each content.

For example, in the present invention, the content including the information about the input search word is searched and the utilization of each searched content is measured. Then, contents are arranged and provided according to the measured utilization, or only contents having a predetermined value or more are selected and provided.

In particular, the utilization of the content in the present invention may be calculated based on the number scraped by the user (hereinafter referred to as "number of scraps"). In general, scrap refers to the collection and preservation of fragments, catalogs, pamphlets, and other printed materials cut out from newspaper articles, magazine reference articles, photographs, advertisements, etc. Scraps on the network are part or all of the content posted on the network. To provide (copy, etc.) to a predetermined position. In particular, scrap on the network is primarily performed between communities. Here, the community may include all types of communities that can occur on the network. For example, a public community (e.g., cafes, clubs, etc.) where multiple users join as members and exchange materials or opinions on the same topic, and individuals manage and post their own materials or opinions. Personal communities (blogs, personal homepages, mini homepages, profiles, etc.) may be included.

Content posted to a user's community can be requested to be scraped to another community. That is, the user may request scraps of content posted in a public or private community to another public community in which the user is registered, and may request scraps of content posted in a public or private community to a personal community opened by the user. . This content scraping process will be described in more detail later.

These scraps are performed more frequently as the content contains more reliable or useful information. In other words, when a given content includes information that the user needs or is interested in, the user wants to post the content to a public community such as a cafe where the user is registered so that other users of the public community can use the content. There is also a tendency to post the content to one's personal community so that it is readily available when it is needed and to inform other users visiting its personal community. Therefore, as the number of scraps increases, it can be determined that the content is reliable and contains a lot of useful or interesting information. Therefore, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the degree of reliability of the content is determined according to the number of scraped contents, that is, the number of scraped pieces, to search.

In the following embodiment, for the convenience of description, the content search according to the present invention is described based on the content posted in the community, but the scraps on the network are not only between the community, but all locations on the network (web Or a swap page, etc.), the present invention is not limited to content search posted in the community.

Next, a detailed structure and operation of a content retrieval system through a network according to the present invention having such a feature will be described.

1 illustrates a structure of a content retrieval system (hereinafter, referred to as a content retrieval system) through a network according to an embodiment of the present invention, and specific structures of each server are illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3.

Content retrieval system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is to provide a search service to users through the Internet, wireless communication network, etc., as shown in Figure 1, the network 200, telephone network, Internet, wireless And a plurality of user terminals 310, 320, 330, hereinafter referred to collectively as "300" for convenience).

The user terminal 300 is a communication device that can be connected to the content retrieval system 100 through the network 200. For example, various communication devices such as a wired telephone, a mobile communication terminal, a computer, and a TV with Internet access may be used. Can be. Therefore, the user can conveniently and quickly access the content retrieval system 100 using PC communication, the Internet, the wireless Internet, a telephone network, and the like.

The system 100 connected to the user terminal 300 and providing a content search service to a plurality of users includes an interface server 10, a community server 20, a search server 30, and a mail server 40. It includes.

The interface server 10 allows a plurality of terminals 300 to be connected through the network 200, in particular, the Internet or the wireless Internet. In addition, various information provided through each server 20 to 40 are converted to meet the communication standard and provided to a plurality of terminals 300 or received from the terminal 300 through the network 200. It functions as a kind of web (WEB) server or WAP (WAP) server to perform the function provided to each server (20 to 40).

As shown in FIG. 2, the community server 20 is a server for providing a community-related service. As shown in FIG. 2, the community server 20 provides a first community server 21 for providing and managing a public community, and a second community server for providing and managing a personal community. 22).

Each community server 21 and 22 includes databases for storing information about each community, and a processing unit for forming and managing communities among users based on the information stored therein.

Specifically, the first community server 21 stores the first processing unit 211 that performs public community formation and content management, and the general information indicating what characteristics the corresponding community has for each generated public community is stored. A registration database 212, a member database 213 storing information on users registered as members for each public community, a content database 214 storing contents for each public community, and a content scrap The first scrap processing unit 215 is included.

The registration database 212 stores rough information about the public community registered by category. For example, the identification code of the registered public community is correspondingly stored for each category code assigned to each category such as broadcasting, entertainment, economy, and politics. For each public community identification code, community information, such as a public community name, a description of what features it has, public community manager information (such as an ID or nickname), the number of members, and a registration date, is stored.

The member database 213 stores information (also known as member information) about users constituting each registered public community. For example, IDs or nicknames of users who are registered as members corresponding to the public community identification code, or member information such as password, age, gender, occupation, and mail address are stored.

The content database 214 stores information about content provided for each public community. For example, information such as a post number of a content, an ID of a content publisher, a content publication date, a content title, and content content corresponding to a public community identification code is stored. In addition, for each content, the number of replies, the number of comments, the number of times sent by mail, the number of recommendations, and the like are stored. In particular, in an embodiment of the present invention, the number of scraps is stored for each content.

The first processor 211 performs public community formation and management based on the databases 212 to 214 in which a plurality of pieces of information are stored. Specifically, a public community is formed and registered, user authentication is performed for each public community, and content posting and management is performed for each public community.

The first scrap processing unit 215 performs a content scrap between the public community according to the user's request, or performs a content scrap between the public community and the personal community in cooperation with the second community server 22.

Meanwhile, the second community server 22 may be referred to as a "blog server" as a server that provides and manages a personal community for each user. As shown in FIG. 2, the second community server 22 may include a second processing unit 221 which performs personal community formation and content management, a registration database 222 that stores information on registered personal communities, and the like. It includes a content database 223, the second scrap processing unit 224 that stores the content posted by the user for each individual community.

The registration database 222 stores the general information about the personal community registered by category. For example, identification codes of individual communities registered for each category are stored in correspondence, and for each individual community identification code, a personal community name, a user ID or nickname established by a personal community, user information such as age, gender, and occupation, and a registration date Community information such as is stored.

The content database 223 stores information about content provided for each individual community. For example, information such as a post number, a content posting date, a content title, and a content content of the content is stored corresponding to the personal community identification code. In addition, the number of replies, the number of comments, the number of e-mails, and the number of recommendations for the corresponding content are stored for each content. In particular, in an embodiment of the present invention, the number of scraps is stored for each content.

The second processing unit 221 forms and registers a personal community, and performs content posting and management for each individual community. The second scrap processing unit 224 performs a content scrap between the public communities according to the user's request, or performs a content scrap between the public community and the personal community in cooperation with the first community server 21.

In the community servers 21 and 22 having such a structure, each processing unit 211 and 221 adds replies or comments to a predetermined content when a user other than the user who posted the content adds replies or comments. Increase. In addition, when another user recommends the content to another user, the number of recommendations for the content is increased.

In addition, the first community server 21 and the second community server 22 may share content by interworking with each other. For example, a user may request to post content posted in a public community to his or her personal community through a scrap menu such as "add content". In this case, the first scrap processing unit of the first community server 21 may be requested. 215 copies and transfers the content to the second community server 22, and the second scrap processing unit 224 of the second community server 22 posts the content to the user's personal community. At this time, when the content is posted on a personal community, source information of the content may be exposed. In addition, even when the content is scrapped, source information may be continuously exposed so that the rights of the original author of the content are respected.

Meanwhile, the mail server 40 transmits predetermined contents of a community to a mail address of a specific user in association with the first or second community server 21 or 22 according to a user's request. The first or second community server 21 or 22 provides a function (for example, "sending a mail") for transmitting the corresponding content to each user's mail address for each content, and the user provides the function. If selected, the mail server 40 is called to request content mail transmission. Accordingly, the mail server 40 transmits the content to the mail address after receiving the mail address from the user, and then notifies the community server where the content is posted, and the community server sends the content when the mail is completed. Increase the number of times sent in the mail.

As shown in FIG. 3, the search server 30 that searches the content posted in the community according to the search word provided from the user terminal 300, the search unit 31 searching for the content including the search word, A determination unit 32 for determining the number of scraps of contents, a search control unit 33 for controlling a search and determination operation, and a search result providing unit 34 for providing the content searched by the search unit to the user.

The search control unit 33 transmits the searched content output from the search unit 31 and the determination unit 32 and the number of scraps for each content to the search result providing unit 34, and the search result providing unit 34 may perform the search. The search results are provided to the user according to the number of scraps. The search result providing unit 34 arranges the searched contents according to the number of pieces of fists, and provides the first providing module 331 to provide the user with only the content having a predetermined number of scraps or more among the searched contents. Providing module 332.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the first and second community servers 21 and 22 are implemented in one system, but may be implemented separately in different systems. For example, the first system may include a first community server to provide a public community service, and the second system may include a second community server to provide a personal community service. In addition, in the above embodiment, the database, the processing unit 211 and 221 and the scrap processing unit 215 and 224 in each server 21 and 22 may be implemented as independent servers to process corresponding functions, and each database may be stored in one server. It may be integrated. Incidentally, in the present invention, the database is classified as described above for convenience of description, but is not limited thereto.

Next, a content retrieval method through a network according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described based on such a structure.

First, the content scraping process will be described.

4 illustrates a process for treating scrap according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As illustrated in FIG. 4, for example, when a public community called "cafe" and a personal community called "blog" are formed on a network, users may access contents posted by accessing a predetermined cafe, blog, or the like. There is a number. In this case, users may request scraps of contents posted to each community to a public community such as a cafe where they are registered or to a personal community such as a blog that they open.

Meanwhile, a user who posts content may set whether to allow scrap for the content posted by the user. When scrap permission is set for the content posted by the user, the scrap processing unit 215 or 224 of the corresponding community server 21 or 22 may layer ("blog to", "add to cafe" or "print") the content. Function ", and the like. 5 illustrates an example of predetermined content in which a scrap function is displayed according to the layer generation.

As illustrated in FIG. 5, when a user who displays a scrap function displays another user, that is, a second user other than the first user who posted the content, selects "add to cafe" or "add to blog," each community The scrap processing units 215 and 224 of the servers 21 and 22 perform content scraps as follows. It is assumed here that the content is posted in a public community such as a cafe.

6A and 6B sequentially illustrate a processing flow between components according to the scrap process illustrated in FIG. 4.

First, when "add to cafe" is selected (S100 to S120), the first scrap processing unit 215 of the first community server 21 searches the registration database 212 based on the ID of the second user, 2 Create and display a list of public communities registered by the user, that is, cafe (S130). Accordingly, when the second user selects a cafe to be scraped from the list, the first scrap processor 215 displays a list of bulletin boards formed in the selected cafe and asks which bulletin board to register with (S140 to S). S150). When the second user selects a predetermined bulletin board, the first scrap processing unit 215 registers the content with the bulletin board of another cafe selected by the second user (S160 to S170).

In this case, as illustrated in FIG. 4, the second user may add a description (reply) to the content, set whether or not to disclose the content, and record whether to record the content. You can set whether or not. The trace for the content is that the scraping user can set whether or not to leave the fact that I am scraping.

Next, when the scrap to the cafe or blog is completed, the first scrap processing unit 215 of the first community server 21 increases the number of scraps for the content of the first user (S180). That is, the number of scraps is increased for the corresponding content in the content database 214 and recorded. In addition, according to whether the trace of the content is set, information (ID, etc.) about the scraped second user may be additionally recorded so that the first user may know which second user has scraped his content.

Meanwhile, when the second user selects "add to blog", as illustrated in FIG. 6B, the first scrap processing unit 215 of the first community server 21 stores the ID of the second user in the second community server ( 22) to request scrap processing. Accordingly, the second scrap processing unit 224 of the second community server 22 searches the registration database 222 based on the transmitted ID of the second user, checks the personal community established by the second user, that is, the blog. A list of categories formed on the blog is displayed to inquire which cafe ring to register the contents (S190 to S200). In general, blogs can post content of different topics in multiple categories, such as a bulletin board in a cafe. Subsequently, when a second user selects a predetermined category, the first scrap processing unit 215 of the first community server 21 delivers the content to the second community server 22 and the second community server 22 of the second community server 22. The second scrap processing unit 224 registers the delivered content to the selected category of the blog of the second user (S210 to S230).

Next, when the scrap to the cafe or blog is completed, the first scrap processing unit 215 of the first community server 21 increases and records the number of scraps for the content of the first user (S240).

In the above scrap process, the content posted in a public community such as a cafe has been described as an example. However, in the case of scrapping content posted in a private community such as a blog, scrap may be performed based on the method described above. have.

Next, a search method for the scraped content will be described.

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

As shown in FIG. 7, a plurality of users directly access the search server 30 by executing a user program provided by the interface server 10 to search for desired content using the terminal 300. Or directly access the interface server 10 through a web browser and input a search word corresponding to the content to be found. At this time, the user may access the initial web page of the system through the interface server 10, access the predetermined web page providing the community service, and then input a search word on the community service web page (S300 to S310). ).

The search word input by the user is transferred to the search server 30, and the search server 30 performs a content search based on the input search word.

Specifically, when a search word is provided, the search control unit 33 of the search server 30 first drives the search unit 31 to search for contents including information corresponding to the search word. The search unit 31 searches the content databases 214 and 223 of each community server 21 and 22 to find contents including the search word (S320). At this time, the content may be selectively searched according to the word frequency indicating how many words matching the search word are included or the degree of matching with the search word.

Next, the search control unit 33 drives the determination unit 32 to measure the content utilization of the searched content. That is, the determination unit 32 measures the number of scraps of the retrieved contents. For example, the determination unit 32 refers to the content databases 214 and 223 based on the IDs of the retrieved contents and finds the number of scraps stored corresponding to the retrieved contents (S330).

The contents retrieved and determined by the searching unit 31 and the determining unit 32 and the number of scraps thereof are transmitted to the search result providing unit 34, and the search result providing unit 34 retrieves the retrieved contents. Process according to the number and provide it to the user.

In detail, the first providing module 341 of the search result providing unit 34 arranges the searched content according to the number of scraps, and generates a search result page in which the content is arranged in the order of the highest number of scraps. This is provided to the user terminal 300. Alternatively, the second providing module 342 of the search result providing unit 34 selects only the content having the number of scraps more than a predetermined value from the searched content, generates a search result page, and provides the search result page to the user terminal 300 (S340 to S). S350).

On the search results page, the title, part of the content, author, date of creation, number of scraps, source, etc. of the content may be displayed. In addition, when a file such as an image is attached to the content, a separate icon may be used. You can indicate whether a file is attached.

Therefore, the user can easily select and use the most reliable contents including the search word.

Meanwhile, in the above embodiment, only the number of scraps is considered as the content utilization, but in contrast, the content as described above in consideration of the number of replies, comments, and the number of times the corresponding content has been sent by mail. You can also perform a search. When a large number of variables are considered as described above, weights may be added to the number of scraps, so that the importance of the number of scraps may be more considered.

In addition, even when searching for a community in which content including a search word is posted, the search may be performed in consideration of the number of scraps of the content.

If you are searching for a community, you can search for all content posted to the community to determine whether the search term entered is included, or to determine if the search term contains a description or community name that indicates what the community has. It may be.

8 and 9 are flowcharts illustrating a content searching method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 8, when a user connects to the system 100 and inputs a search word, the search unit 31 registers databases 212 and 222 of each community server 21 and 22. ) To find communities with features that include the search term. That is, a description of a community, a name, and the search word are compared to find a community including a word that matches the search word (S400 to S420).

Next, the determination unit 32 determines the sum of the number of scraps of the corresponding community stored in correspondence with the searched community in the registration database 212, 222, that is, the sum of the number of scraps of the contents posted in the community (S430). In addition, the search result providing unit 34 arranges the searched communities in the order of the highest number of scraps of the community as in the above embodiment, or selects and provides only the communities whose number of scraps of the community is greater than or equal to a predetermined value (S440). ). On the search results page, link information (eg, community homepage, etc.) that provides direct access to the community is displayed in association with the community's name. In addition, the description of the community, moderator nickname (or ID), number of members, creation date, Information such as a directory to which a community belongs may be displayed.

In this case, since the number of scraps of the community may also include the number of scraps of content not including the information corresponding to the search word, the community may be searched based on a method as described below.

That is, when a search word is input, as shown in FIG. 9, the search unit 31 searches the registration databases 212 and 222 to find communities having information including the search word, and then searches the content databases 214 and 223. Contents having information including the search word are searched for among contents registered in the searched community (S500 to S530). In this searching process, step S520 may be omitted.

Then, the determination unit 32 determines the number of scraps of the retrieved contents, respectively. Next, the determination unit 32 classifies the searched content for each corresponding community, and calculates the number of scraps of the corresponding community by adding up the number of scraps of the searched content for each classified community (S540 to S550).

In addition, the search result providing unit 34 arranges the searched communities in the order of the highest number of scraps of the community as in the above embodiment, or selects and provides only the communities whose number of scraps of the community is greater than or equal to a predetermined value (S560). ). In this case, the number of scraps of the community is made up of only the number of scraps of contents including the information corresponding to the search word, so that a search for a community providing more reliable content may be performed.

Meanwhile, the search may be performed in consideration of other variables such as the number of scraps, the number of recent visitors, the number of recently posted contents, the number of members, and the total number of posts. In this case, the ranking of the community may be given based on the obtained values for each variable, and the community may be arranged or selected according to the ranking and displayed on the search result page.

In addition, in the above-described embodiment, the content search is performed for the content posted in the community, but the content is not limited thereto, and the content is posted in other categories that can be classified on the network (for example, web documents, news, etc.). ) Can be searched for reliable contents by applying a search method as described above. The searching method for such a content can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments described above, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In addition, by combining the above-described embodiments, while processing and providing the content containing the information about the search word according to the number of scrap, at the same time, having the information including the search word or posting the content including the search word Information on the community can be processed and provided according to the number of community scraps.

Meanwhile, the above-described retrieval method may be implemented in the form of a program stored in a computer-readable recording medium. The recording medium may include any kind of recording device that stores data that can be read by a computer. For example, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disk, and the like may be used. Included is implemented in the form of).

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the most practical and preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above disclosed embodiments, but also includes various modifications and equivalents within the scope of the following claims.

As described above, reliable content may be searched among contents posted on a network according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

In addition, since the searched contents may be arranged in a high order, users can easily select and use reliable contents.

1 is a structural diagram of a content retrieval system through a network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 and 3 are detailed structural diagrams of each server constituting the content retrieval system shown in FIG.

4 is an example illustrating a content scraping process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is an exemplary view of a screen of scrapable content according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6A and 6B are flowcharts illustrating a content scraping process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a flowchart illustrating a search method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8 and 9 are flowcharts of a search method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (1)

A method of searching for content in communities formed on a network and providing predetermined content, the method comprising: a) searching for contents including information matching the search word if a search word is provided from a user through the network; b) determining the number of scraps which is the number of times each content is scraped with respect to the searched contents; c) classifying the searched content for each community and determining the number of community scraps for each classified community; d) processing the retrieved contents according to the number of scraps and providing them to a user; And e) processing information about the community including the searched contents according to the number of community scraps and providing the information to a user Content search method comprising a.