KR20100117335A - Search relay server requesting search result to search site based on text comprising search word - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A search relay server requesting a search result by specifying a search site based on a text comprising search and a control method thereof are provided to receive a search result of a search site by inputting a search word and a search site on a search window of a communication terminal. CONSTITUTION: A storage unit(170) includes a search site table which matches a search site name with a search site URL(Uniform Resource Locator), and a text separator(130) separates the search word from a search site name according to an identifier from a text of a search request signal. An URL extractor(140) extracts the search site URL corresponding to the search site name from the search site table. A search result request unit(150) uses the search site URL and the search word to request a search result from the search site server.

Description

Search relay server requesting search results by specifying search site based on text including search word and control method thereof {SEARCH RELAY SERVER REQUESTING SEARCH RESULT TO SEARCH SITE BASED ON TEXT COMPRISING SEARCH WORD}

The present invention relates to a search relay server and a method of controlling the same, and more particularly, to a search relay server for requesting a search result by specifying a search site based on text including a search word and a method of controlling the same.

Due to the improvement of the communication environment, the number of people using the Internet is increasing, and among them, the web pages are frequently read.

The reason for reading a web page varies from person to person, but in a modern life where information becomes competitive soon, a web page is being used as a tool for obtaining predetermined information.

To get some information through a web page, you can visit a website you know and browse and find the information you want, but this method is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and most people use search sites. Doing.

The search site has a huge amount of information and website information that contains the information, and when a user requests a certain information search, the search site provides information corresponding to the information, personal web blog or commercial website, etc. It is.

Search sites that provide such a search function include, for example, Google (google), yahoo (yahoo), etc. In Korea, portal sites, for example, naver (naver) provides a search function together.

In particular, Naver provides users with the information they want through knowledge searches, cafes, blogs, and websites.

As well as sites that specialize in search, portal sites also provide search functions, and when users need to search for a certain information, users can access a specific site in advance and enter a search term to be searched in the search box provided by the site. To request a search.

However, the conventional method of inputting a search word only after accessing a specific site every time for information search has a disadvantage in that it takes a long time to receive an information search result.

In particular, when a communication environment such as a mobile communication terminal needs to go through a wireless communication section that is relatively slower than a wired network, it takes much time to access a specific search site and input a search word in a search box provided by the search site.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an object thereof is to provide a search relay server that enables a search result to be received in a corresponding communication terminal more quickly when a user searches for information through a communication terminal. It is to provide a control method.

In order to achieve the above object, a control method of a search relay server that receives a search result at a search site and transmits the search result to the communication terminal according to a search request signal of a communication terminal according to the present invention includes a predetermined search site name and a search site Internet. Storing a search site table whose addresses match each other; Receiving a search request signal including text input in a web search window of the communication terminal; Separating a search word and a search site name according to a predetermined delimiter in the text of the received search request signal; Extracting a search site internet address corresponding to the separated search site name from a previously stored search site table; Requesting a search result from a search site server using the extracted search site internet address and the separated search word; And transmitting the search result received from the search site server requesting the search result to the communication terminal.

In addition, in order to achieve the above object, a control method of a search relay server that receives a search result at a search site and transmits the search result to the communication terminal according to a search request signal of the communication terminal according to the present invention, includes a predetermined search site name and a search. Storing a search site table matched with each other by the site provided search module; Receiving a search request signal including text input in a web search window of the communication terminal; Separating a search word and a search site name according to a predetermined delimiter in the text of the received search request signal; Extracting a search module corresponding to the separated search site name from a previously stored search site table; Executing the extracted search module, delivering the separated search word to the executed search module, and then requesting a search result from a search site server; And transmitting the search result received from the search site server requesting the search result to the communication terminal.

Further, in order to achieve the above object, a search relay server that receives a search result at a search site and transmits the search result to the communication terminal according to a search request signal of a communication terminal according to the present invention includes a predetermined search site name and a search site Internet address. A storage unit including search site tables matched with each other; A search request signal receiving unit which receives a search request signal including text input to a web search window of the communication terminal; A text separator that separates a search word and a search site name according to a predetermined delimiter from text of the search request signal received by the search request signal receiver; An internet address extracting unit for extracting a search site internet address corresponding to a search site name separated by the text separating unit from the search site table of the storage unit; A search result request unit for requesting a search result from a search site server using the search site internet address extracted by the internet address extractor and the separated search word; And a search result transfer unit for transmitting the search result received from the search site server requesting the search result to the communication terminal.

Further, in order to achieve the above object, a search relay server that receives a search result at a search site and transmits the search result to the communication terminal according to a search request signal of a communication terminal according to the present invention, provides a predetermined search site name and a search site providing search. A storage unit including a search site table in which modules are matched with each other; A search request signal receiving unit which receives a search request signal including text input to a web search window of the communication terminal; A text separator that separates a search word and a search site name according to a predetermined delimiter from text of the search request signal received by the search request signal receiver; A search module extracting unit which extracts a search module corresponding to a search site name separated by the text separator from the search site table of the storage unit; A search result request unit which executes a search module extracted by the search module extracting unit, delivers the separated search word to the executed search module, and then requests a search result from a search site server; And a search result transfer unit configured to transmit a search result received from a search site server requesting the search result to the communication terminal.

As described above, according to the present invention, when a user having a communication terminal inputs and transmits a specific search site together with a search word in a search box provided by the corresponding communication terminal, the user has entered the search box by the operation of the search relay server. Search results from the search site can be transmitted, and the cumbersome process, that is, the process of first connecting to a specific search site for information retrieval can be omitted, thereby reducing the overall information retrieval time.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The overall search system including a search relay server according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. 1.

That is, the search system includes a mobile communication terminal 200, a search relay server 100, and a search site server 300.

The search site server 300 performs a function of calculating and providing a search result corresponding to the search term in response to a search request including a predetermined search term. For example, the search site server 300 or the Yahoo! yahoo.co.kr), or naver (naver.com).

The mobile communication terminal 200 refers to a portable wireless communication device such as a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant (PDA). In particular, the mobile communication terminal 200 may perform a web page browsing function.

That is, the user may request and receive a web page using the mobile communication terminal 200 of the present embodiment and read the received web page.

The web page is a page written in a markup language and includes a markup tag, and the mobile communication terminal 200 may perform web browsing by directly parsing and rendering the markup tag. Web browsing may be performed in a manner that the web page transformed into an image by the operation of the relay server 100 is processed by image processing processing.

The mobile communication terminal 200 provides a user with an information search window (for example, a web search window) for searching for a predetermined information. That is, the information search window is not a information search page provided by a specific web site, but is a window that is stored in the mobile communication terminal 200 and receives a user's search word input.

The mobile communication terminal 200 may detect an operation of a user's predetermined menu button or hot key operation to display an information search window.

An example of the information search window is shown in FIG. 3 (a). When the information search window as shown in the figure is displayed, the user inputs a search word and a search site name to search in the information search window as shown in FIG. 3 (b) and transmits a search request. In this embodiment, the search word is "cell phone" and the search site name is "naver" as an example.

On the other hand, the search relay server 100 is provided between the communication path of the mobile communication terminal 200 and the search site server 300, the search site server 300 in accordance with the search request signal of the mobile communication terminal 200 A search request for a search word is performed and the search result received according to the search request is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 200 again.

In detail, when the search request signal is received from the mobile communication terminal 200, the search relay server 100 separates the search word and the search site name according to a predetermined delimiter from the search request signal and corresponds to the separated search site name. Extracts a search site internet address, and requests a search result from the search site using the extracted search site internet address and the separated search term.

As another example, the search relay server 100 extracts a search module corresponding to the separated search site name, executes and executes the extracted search module instead of extracting the search site internet address corresponding to the separated search site name. After delivering the separated search word to the search module, the search site server 300 may be configured to request a search result according to the operation of the search module. The search module may correspond to a module dedicated to each search site provided by each search site.

In this embodiment, the search relay server 100 is provided in the mobile communication network 400, the mobile communication network 400 and the mobile communication terminal 200 communicate through the base station 410, and the mobile communication network 400 and the Internet network. The 500 is connected through the router 420 so that the search relay server 100 can communicate with the mobile terminal 200 and the search site server 300. The search relay server 100 may be provided in the internet network 500 instead of the mobile communication network 400.

An example of a functional block of the search relay server 100 that performs this function is illustrated in FIG. 2.

As shown in the figure, the search relay server 100 may include a communication interface 110, a search request receiver 120, a text separator 130, an internet address extractor 140, and a search result requester 150. The search result storage unit 170 and the storage unit 170 are configured to include.

The communication interface 110 communicates with the mobile communication terminal 200 through the base station 410 and with the search site server 300 through the Internet network 500.

The storage unit 170 includes a search site table in which a predetermined search site name and a search site internet address match each other. An example of the search site table stored in the storage unit 170 is illustrated in FIG. 4. As shown in the figure, the search site name and the search site internet address are matched with each other and stored in the search site table.

The search request signal receiving unit performs a function of receiving a search request signal from the mobile communication terminal 200. In this case, the user of the mobile communication terminal 200 inputs the search request signal to the web search window of the mobile communication terminal 200. One text is included.

The text separator 130 separates the search word and the search site name according to a predetermined delimiter from the text of the search request signal received from the search request signal receiver.

For example, when the predetermined separator is 'last space', the text separator 130 separates the search word and the search site name based on the space used last in the text of the search request signal.

For example, if the text is "cell phone neighbor", the last space between "cell phone" and "naver" is used, so the text separator 130 separates "cell phone" as a search term and "naver" as a search site name. will be. As another example, when the text is "cell phone price neighbor", "cell phone price" is separated into a search word and "naver" is separated into a search site name.

Separators can be set in various ways such as character, tab space, space space.

The internet address extractor 140 extracts a search site internet address corresponding to the search site name separated by the text separator 130 from the search site table of the storage unit 170.

That is, when the separated search site name is "Naver", the Internet address extractor 140 may search for "http: //www.naver.", Which is a search site Internet address corresponding to "Naver" in the search site table shown in FIG. Extract com / search.naver? query = "

The search result request unit 150 requests a search result from the search site server 300 using the search site internet address extracted by the internet address extractor 140 and the separated search term. You can request a search result by combining the address with the search term.

The search result delivery unit 160 transmits a search result received from the search site server 300 requesting the search result to the mobile communication terminal 200. Accordingly, the search result may be displayed on the mobile communication terminal 200 as shown in FIG.

Here, the search result transfer unit 160 may convert the search result into an image form and transmit the search result to the mobile communication terminal 200. When transmitting in the form of an image, the mobile communication terminal 200 may display a search result by performing only image processing without parsing and rendering markup tags.

Hereinafter, the signal flow of the entire search system including the search relay server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.

When there is a text input by the user while the search window is displayed according to the operation of the user's key button (not shown) or the like, the mobile communication terminal 200 relays the search request signal 210 including the input text. Send to server 100.

When the search request signal 210 is received in the search request signal receiver of the search relay server 100, the text separator 130 separates the search word 391 and the search site name 392 from the search request signal 210. In this case, the separation method may be performed by a predetermined delimiter.

The internet address extractor 140 extracts a search site internet address 393 corresponding to the search site name 392 separated by the text separator 130 from the search site table of the storage unit 170.

The search result request unit 150 transmits a search request signal 394 that combines a search site 391 extracted from the search site internet address 393 extracted by the internet address extractor 140 to the search site server 300. send. The search site server 300 transmitting the search request signal 394 is determined by an Internet address included in the search request signal 394, that is, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

The search result delivery unit 160 converts the search result received from the search site server 300 requesting the search result into an image and transmits the converted search result to the mobile communication terminal 200.

The search result is displayed on the mobile communication terminal 200.

In this embodiment, the Internet address extractor 140 extracts a search site Internet address corresponding to the search site name separated by the text separator 130 from the search site table of the storage unit 170 as an example. The search relay server 100 includes a search module extracting unit, and the search module extracting unit extracts a search module corresponding to the search site name separated by the text separator 130 from the search site table of the storage unit 170. It may be.

In this case, the search result request unit 150 executes the search module extracted by the search module extracting unit and delivers the separated search word to the executed search module, and according to the operation of the search module, the search result request unit 150 The search result may be requested to the search site server 300.

The search module is provided by each search site and may be, for example, a module including an OPEN application program interface (API).

In the above-described embodiments, the mobile communication terminal 200 is used as an example. However, the mobile communication terminal 200 is not necessarily limited to the mobile communication terminal 200 using a wireless communication section. The present invention can be applied to all cases in which a search request is input by entering a search site name together with a search word in a displayed search box and the search relay server 100 receives a search request signal of a corresponding wired communication terminal.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the invention. It is to be understood that such variations and modifications are intended to be included in the scope of the appended claims.

1 is an overall schematic configuration diagram of a search system including a search relay server according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a functional block diagram of the search relay server of FIG. 1,

3 is a diagram illustrating examples of a screen displayed on the mobile communication terminal of FIG. 1;

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a search site table stored in a storage unit of FIG. 2;

5 is a signal flow diagram of a search system including a search relay server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a text form used or separated in the process of FIG. 5.

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

100: search relay server 200: mobile communication terminal

300: search site server 400: mobile communication network

410: base station 420: router

500: Internet network 110: communication interface unit

120: search request receiving unit 130: text separation unit

140: Internet address extraction unit 150: search result request unit

160: search result delivery unit 170: storage unit

Claims (5)

In the control method of the search relay server for receiving a search result at the search site in accordance with a search request signal of the communication terminal and transmitting to the communication terminal, Storing a search site table in which a predetermined search site name and a search site internet address match each other; Receiving a search request signal including text input in a web search window of the communication terminal; Separating a search word and a search site name according to a predetermined delimiter in the text of the received search request signal; Extracting a search site internet address corresponding to the separated search site name from a previously stored search site table; Requesting a search result from a search site server using the extracted search site internet address and the separated search word; Transmitting a search result received from a search site server requesting the search result to the communication terminal, wherein the search relay server requests the search result by specifying the search site based on the text including the search word. Control method. In the control method of the search relay server for receiving a search result from the search site in accordance with a search request signal of the communication terminal and transmitting to the communication terminal, Storing a search site table matched with each other by a predetermined search site name and a search site providing search module; Receiving a search request signal including text input in a web search window of the communication terminal; Separating a search word and a search site name according to a predetermined delimiter in the text of the received search request signal; Extracting a search module corresponding to the separated search site name from a previously stored search site table; Executing the extracted search module, delivering the separated search word to the executed search module, and then requesting a search result from a search site server; Transmitting a search result received from a search site server requesting the search result to the communication terminal, wherein the search relay server requests the search result by specifying the search site based on the text including the search word. Control method. A search relay server for receiving a search result at a search site according to a search request signal of a communication terminal and transmitting the result to the communication terminal, A storage unit including a search site table in which a predetermined search site name and a search site internet address match each other; A search request signal receiving unit which receives a search request signal including text input to a web search window of the communication terminal; A text separator that separates a search word and a search site name according to a predetermined delimiter from text of the search request signal received by the search request signal receiver; An internet address extracting unit for extracting a search site internet address corresponding to a search site name separated by the text separating unit from the search site table of the storage unit; A search result request unit for requesting a search result from a search site server using the search site internet address extracted by the internet address extractor and the separated search word; A search result request by specifying a search site based on text including a search word, wherein the search result transfer unit transmits a search result received from a search site server requesting the search result to the communication terminal. Search relay server. A search relay server for receiving a search result at a search site according to a search request signal of a communication terminal and transmitting the result to the communication terminal, A storage unit including a search site table in which a predetermined search site name and a search site providing search module match each other; A search request signal receiving unit which receives a search request signal including text input in a web search window of the communication terminal; A text separator that separates a search word and a search site name according to a predetermined delimiter from text of the search request signal received by the search request signal receiver; A search module extracting unit which extracts a search module corresponding to a search site name separated by the text separator from the search site table of the storage unit; A search result request unit which executes a search module extracted by the search module extracting unit, delivers the separated search word to the executed search module, and then requests a search result from a search site server; A search result request by specifying a search site based on text including a search word, wherein the search result transfer unit transmits a search result received from a search site server requesting the search result to the communication terminal. Search relay server. The method according to claim 3 or 4, The search result transfer unit requests the search result by specifying a search site based on the text containing the search word, characterized in that for converting the received search result into an image and forwarding to the communication terminal.

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