KR20110118484A - Method and apparatus of providing a electronic bulletin board in a client-server environment and computer readable medium having a program embodied therein - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a method for providing a bulletin board of a server device in a client-server environment. The method includes retrieving a user-generated post having a designated search keyword as a subject from a client device; And providing a search result page to the client device including a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device. The search results page includes a post registration interface for registering a user-generated post from a client with the server device. Therefore, users who want to post user-generated posts on a specific internet portal site can easily post their user-generated posts on the corresponding internet portal site through the search result page. Therefore, users are freed from the inconvenience of having to request to open a bulletin board through the Internet portal site.

Description

Method and apparatus of providing a electronic bulletin board in a client-server environment and computer readable medium having a program embodied therein }

The present invention relates to the provision of bulletin boards in a client-server environment. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a bulletin board in a client-server environment, also called a client-sub system, a client-server architecture, and a computer readable medium containing the program of the method.

An electronic bulletin board is generally a system that applies a bulletin board of a university or a local story board of a medieval city to a computer network. An electronic bulletin board is a computer system that usually runs certain electronic bulletin board software and is also called a Bulletin Board System (BBS). This bulletin board system (BBS) is a service system that allows users to connect to and log in to the server device of the system using a terminal program. Users logged into this bulletin board system can upload and download software and posts, read news and posts, exchange messages with other users, and more. The electronic bulletin board has evolved into a web bulletin board due to the spread of the Internet. The Web Bulletin Board System (web BBS) is designed to allow a large number of unspecified users connected to the Internet to exchange information or letters, open questions and answers, share open programs, and search for posts. System.

Internet portal sites such as Yahoo, Naver, Daum and Google provide information retrieval services and community services, and web bulletin boards as part of community services. These Internet portal sites provide a service that displays a list of posts having the search keyword entered under the name "Bulletin board" when a search keyword is entered in a search word input box on a bulletin board page. As such, the web bulletin board has been widely spread and is displayed without being distinguished from the existing bulletin board, that is, the electronic bulletin board is generally referred to as a web bulletin board.

Examples of existing specific technologies for providing bulletin board services include the following.

Korean Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2006-65921 [R1] discloses a bulletin board management system for opening and operating a bulletin board on the Internet. The bulletin board management system provides a user interface for receiving bulletin boards with predetermined data for bulletin board establishment, and includes bulletin board application data including bulletin board subject data and predetermined category information input by the bulletin board founder through the user interface. To the bulletin board operator. The bulletin board operator, an entity that manages the creation and operation of the bulletin board, inspects the bulletin board application data and approves the bulletin board application. If there is approval from the bulletin board operator, an approval response is sent to the bulletin board management system, and the bulletin board management system notifies the bulletin board establisher of the bulletin board opening.

Korean Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2009-0032160 [R2] discloses a method in which a comparative image under one subject is optimized and provided to a viewer. The method includes uploading an image by a user 1 selecting a topic in the UCC site, searching for a user 2 under a specific theme, and uploading an image of the user 2 to an existing theme.

US 2008/0288494 A1 [R3] discloses a system for organizing and distributing information for users and for connecting users to each other. The system connects to a group of users through a network such as the Internet, allowing users to create and maintain lists, share them with other users, and retrieve lists and related information. .

US Patent No. 7,437,353 [R4] discloses a method of unifying search results. According to this method, a search engine running on a client device receives a search query, performs a search with a local index, and receives a first result set, which is related to a query written by a user. Search queries are also performed on global indexes. The search engine receives a second result set based on the global index. When two result sets are received, the search engine combines the result sets to produce a combined result set.

US Patent Publication No. 2009 / 0169178A1 [R5] discloses a method of presenting different types of content to a user related to a subject. According to this method, a computer user can upload or transmit user-generated content to a web server using a computer through a page provided by the web server. Presentation window 700 includes election news 700 related to the topic of election, candidate biographies 704 and speak your mind 706 related to the topic. User-generated content (eg, videos and articles) can be presented to computer users in association with media content. The computer user can upload a video of the computer user dealing with issues and candidates surrounding the election.

These existing techniques of providing bulletin board services do not allow a user to create a bulletin board directly on the search result page of an Internet portal site, and also allow a user to insert a post created by the bulletin on the search result page. I never do that. Therefore, users are inconvenient to search the pages linked to the homepage in order to find a bulletin board where they can post their generated posts.

R1. Korean Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2006-65921 (published: June 15, 200) R2. Korean Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2009-0032160 (published: April 1, 2009) R3. United States Patent Application Publication No. 2008 / 0288494A1 (published: November 20, 2008) R4. United States Patent Application Publication No. 7,437,353 (issued October 14, 2008) R5. United States Patent Application Publication No. 2009 / 0169178A1 (published: July 2, 2009)

Accordingly, the present invention provides a bulletin board providing methods and apparatus that can eliminate the inconvenience of the existing techniques by providing a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts to be registered on the server device, on a search result page for the search keyword. I would like to. In addition, to provide a computer-readable medium containing a program for the bulletin board providing method.

The present invention provides methods for providing a bulletin board of a server device in a client-server environment. In the present invention, the client-server environment is referred to as client-server system, client-server architecture. This client-server environment represents a network architecture divided into a client and a server, and is used as a concept including a web, and therefore, the server device includes a web server device.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing a bulletin board of a server device in a client-server environment is provided, the method comprising: searching for a user-generated post having a designated search keyword as a subject from a client device; And providing a search result page to the client device including a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing a bulletin board of a server device in a client-server environment is provided, the method comprising: searching for a user-generated post having a designated search keyword as a subject from a client device; And providing a user interface to the client device including a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device.

According to still another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a bulletin board providing method of a server device in the Internet, the method comprising: searching for a user-generated post having a designated search keyword as a main word from a client device; And providing a search result page to the client device including a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing a bulletin board of a server device in the Internet is provided, the method comprising: searching a server-generated user-generated post having a search keyword designated as a main word from a client device; ; Searching the Internet for contents including the search keyword; And providing the client device with a search result page that includes bulletin boards and content retrieved from the Internet that allow user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device.

The present invention provides a computer readable medium containing a program for providing bulletin boards of a server device in a client-server environment.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computer readable medium containing a program for causing a server device to provide a bulletin board to a client device in a client-server environment, the program comprising:

Program code for causing a server device to search for a user-generated post having a search keyword specified as a subject word from a client device; And program code for causing the server device to provide the client device with a search results page that includes a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable medium containing a program for the method of providing a bulletin board of a server device in a client-server environment, wherein the program is generated by a user having a search keyword designated as a main keyword from the client device. Program code for causing a server device to retrieve a post; And program code for the server device to provide the client device with a user interface including a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable medium containing a program for providing a bulletin board of a server device in the Internet, the program, the user having a search keyword specified by the client device as the main word Program code for causing the server device to retrieve the generated post; And program code for causing the server device client device to provide a search results page that includes a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable medium containing a program for providing a bulletin board of a server device in the Internet, the program, the user having a search keyword specified by the client device as the main word Program code for causing the server device to retrieve the generated post; Program code for causing a server device to search the Internet for content including a search keyword; And program code for causing the server device to provide the client device with a search result page that includes bulletin boards that allow user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device and contents retrieved from the Internet.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a server device in a client-server environment, the server device comprising: a storage device for storing user generated posts; And a processor coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor retrieves a user-generated post having a designated search keyword as a main keyword from a client device, and allows the user-generated post from the client device to be registered on the server device. Provide a search result page comprising a to the client device.

According to the present invention, a search result page for a designated search keyword from a client device includes a bulletin board that allows registration of a user-generated post to a server device. Therefore, users who want to post user-generated posts on a specific internet portal site can easily post their user-generated posts on the corresponding internet portal site through the search result page. Therefore, users are freed from the inconvenience of having to request to open a bulletin board through the Internet portal site.

In addition, the present invention designates the received search keyword as a subject of the input user generated post when the user generated post is registered in the server device through the bulletin board from the client device. Therefore, a user who wants to post a user-generated post on the bulletin board as the same topic as the main topic of the bulletin board does not need to separately designate the subject word for newly created user-generated content.

In addition, when the user-generated post is registered in the server device through the bulletin board from the client device, the present invention may provide the keyword designation support information for the registered user-generated post to the search result page. The subject designation support information may include subjects allowed in the bulletin board, a subject input method, and the like. Thus, a user can assign an appropriate topic to his user-generated post with the help of topic designation support information.

In addition, if the bulletin board of the search result page does not include any user-generated posts, it is possible to provide the keyword selection support information for the user-generated posts registered through the bulletin board to the search result page. The subject selection support information may include information that allows the user to select whether to use a search keyword of a search result page as a subject in addition to the subjects allowed in the bulletin board and a method of inputting a subject. Therefore, the user can designate or select an appropriate topic in his user-generated post with the help of the topic selection support information.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary environment in which a server device according to an embodiment of the invention may operate.
2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a keyword search result page after a server apparatus according to the present invention performs a search on a homepage provided to a client apparatus.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a page displayed when a new post is posted on a bulletin board in the search result page of FIG. 2.

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

1 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary environment in which a server device according to an embodiment of the invention may operate.

Referring to FIG. 1, a bulletin board providing server device 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention is connected to a network 2 and the network 2 is connected to client devices 3. The network 2 may be any type of communication network connecting the server device 1 and the client devices 3, for example, the Internet, a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), non- It may include a mobile communication network capable of transmitting voice data, for example, a third generation or a later generation mobile communication network. FIG. 1 shows only the server device 1 and the client devices 3 of the devices connected to the network 2. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various server devices that can be connected to the network and provide a web portal can also communicate with the server device 1 via the network of FIG. 1.

The server device 1 can execute a web server program that transmits a document or an image file such as HTML or XML requested by a web browser through HTTP. This server device 1 includes a processor 12 and a memory 14. Programs such as web server programs and web applications reside in the memory 14, and the processor 12 executes web server programs or web applications resident in the memory 14. In the memory 14, a search engine 16 and a bulletin board management application 18 may reside. The search engine 16 may be included in a web server program or implemented as a separate program. The bulletin board management application 18 may also be included in the web server program or implemented as a separate program.

The client devices 3 are devices that can serve as clients in a client-server environment. The client devices 3 may be a personal computer (PC), a laptop computer (laptop computer), a PDA, a third generation mobile device such as a smartphone, etc. Such client devices 3 may be They may be different kinds of devices or the same kind of devices The client device 3 is a common component with a processor 32, a storage device 36 and an input / output (I / O) interface 38. The processor 32 executes a program stored in the storage device 36 and cooperates with an input / output (I / O) interface 38 for input and output of signals. In addition to the OS program for operating the client device 3, various applications may be stored in. The web browser program to be used in the embodiment of the present invention may also be stored in the storage device 36. The I / O interface ( 38) display, It may include a keypad, a touch screen, a keyboard, a mouse, and the like.

2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a keyword search result page provided to a client device by a server device according to the present invention. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a page for writing a bulletin board in the search result page of FIG. 2. 2 and 3, a signal processing operation via a network of a server device and a client device having the configuration shown in FIG. 1 will be described.

First, the server device 1 shown in FIG. 1 cooperates with the client device 3 to perform the following four steps: 1) a search keyword designation step; 2) user created post retrieval step; 3) providing a search result page that allows server registration of user-generated posts; And 4) providing an interface for registering a post. The operation of these four steps will be described in detail as follows.

1) Search Keyword Designation Step

This step is a step in which a search keyword is specified from the client device 3. The server device 1 can communicate with the client devices 3 via the network 2. The user of the client device 3 can use the search service provided by the server device 1 via the network 2 via a web browser. The user can designate a search keyword used for searching by the server apparatus 1 through a search word input field of the home page or main page provided by the server apparatus 1 through the I / O interface 38 of the client apparatus 3. Can be. When the entered search word includes a prohibited word, a method of requesting to input another search word may be used. These search methods can be provided by the server apparatus 1 to the user of the client apparatus 3 via the web browser of the client apparatus 3. The search keyword can be specified by one of the following various methods.

The first method is to designate the contents input by the user in the search word input box (201 of FIG. 2) as a search keyword. The second method is to designate a search keyword candidate selected from among search keyword candidates provided by the search keyword presentation function or the search word autocomplete function as a search keyword. In the second method, a user selects a search keyword candidate that can be selected by using a search keyword presentation function or an autocompletion function while the user inputs a desired word or text into a search word input box, and the user selects a desired search keyword candidate from among the displayed search keyword candidates. Is specified as a search keyword. The server device 1 may provide search keyword candidates in the form of a drop-down list in the search word input field 201 displayed on the I / O interface 38 of the client device 3. In this case, the server device 1 may display the stored key words as search keyword candidates in a drop-down list in the search word input field 201 on the web browser of the client device 3. For example, when a user inputs "glass" into the search word input box 201 through the client device 3, the server device 1 may include various search keyword candidates including, for example, the input word "glass". "Glass Girls' Generation Kwon Yuri", "Glass Singer Singer and Actor", "Glass Singer Jeong Yuri", "Glass Glass", "Glass Poet Seong Yuri" and the like may be displayed in the form of a drop down list in the search word input field 201. Thus, the user can designate, for example, "Glass Girls' Generation Wind Glass" as the desired search keyword via the client device 3. The third method is to designate the subject as a search keyword by providing the subjects and descriptions of the subjects by selecting the search keyword presentation function or the search word autocompletion function and selecting the provided subjects with reference to the descriptions of the subject words. In the third method, the server device 1 displays the stored main words and their descriptions in the form of a drop-down list in the search word field 201 displayed on the I / O interface 38 of the client device 3. It is to designate a selected topic among the keywords as a search keyword. In this case, while the user inputs a desired word or text into the search word input box, the key words and descriptions of the key words may be provided using a search keyword presentation function or an autocomplete function. In the third method, when "cuba " is entered as a search keyword in the search word input field 201, the server device 1 is " Cuba Apgujeong Party Attraction "," Cuban North America "," Band formed in Cuba 1998, ""such as the" Cuban company information can be presented multiple main main explanation ", the user can select the Keywords they want to see the main explanation. The selected main word becomes a search keyword and is transmitted from the client device 3 to the server device 1. When the server device 1 receives the search keyword from the client device 3, the server device 2 performs a user generated post search step.

2) User Created Post Search Steps

This step is to retrieve user-generated posts with the specified search keyword as the subject. There may be various embodiments related to the configuration of a user-generated post that is a search target. In one embodiment, the user generated post may include at least one of text, audio, and video. These user generated posts can be stored in the server device 1. Alternatively, user generated posts may be stored on a storage device (not shown) connected to the server device.

In another embodiment relating to the construction of a user product, the user-generated post may include at least one of a snippet describing the user-generated content, an audio content name, and a thumbnail of the video content, and a post link. The post link connects the user-generated post with user-generated content. In this case, the user-generated content may be at least one corresponding to the user-generated post among text, audio, and video contents. For example, when a user-generated post is an excerpt, the user-generated content may consist of text only or audio only or video only, text and audio, text and video, or audio and video. Examples of user-generated content consisting of audio and video are video lectures and MP3 files of the lectures. Video can be used as a concept involving audio as is commonly understood. In this embodiment, user generated posts may be stored in server device 1 or on a storage device (not shown) connected to the server device and user generated content may be stored on another server device (not shown) connected to network 2. have.

When a search keyword is specified from the client device 3, the server device 1 searches for a user-generated post having the received search keyword as a subject. Here, the subject is a subject specified by the user who created the user-generated post for the user-generated post. User-generated posts used in the present invention may include the main word therein. For example, the topic may be included in the text composing the user-generated post. Alternatively, user-generated posts may have a subject as metadata. The invention is not limited to these examples, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various ways of expressing its subject matter for user generated posts may be used within the scope of the invention. A tag may be used to identify the subject. Specific examples in which a user specifies a subject in a user-generated post will be described later with reference to FIG. 3.

In addition, user-generated posts and subjects are stored in different storage devices, and in the storage device where the subjects are stored, the user first searches for the same subject as the search keyword, and uses the user as index information of the subject in the search result to generate corresponding user-generated posts. You can also store posts and topics.

The server device 1 searches for user-generated posts having the designated search keyword as the subject. Search from a storage device of the server device 1 and / or a storage device external to the server device 1. Search results pages can be designed to include news, blogs, knowledge, cafe articles, and the like. In this case, the server device 1 may use an internal search engine or an external search engine to search for contents excluding user-generated posts, for example, news, blogs, knowledge, cafe articles, and the like. Examples of external search engines include Google, Naver (www.naver.com), and Daum (www.daum.net). If the search results page is designed to include news, blogs, knowledge, cafe articles, etc., the server device 1 not only searches for content such as news, blogs, knowledge, cafe articles, etc. within its storage device, but also searches outside. The search results of content such as news, blogs, knowledge, cafe articles, etc., which have the subject as a search keyword, may be requested to the engine or the search portal site.

3) Providing a search result page that allows server registration of user-generated posts

This step is a step of providing the client device 3 with a search result page having a bulletin board allowing registration of the user generated post from the client device, which is the search result page obtained by the user generated post search step. If a user-generated post is retrieved from within server device 1 or from a storage device (not shown) connected to server device 1, the result may be shown on the search results page as shown in FIG. 2. Fig. 2 shows a search result page after “Guild War 2” is entered in the search word input field 201 as a search keyword and the search button 203 is pressed. As shown in FIG. 2, the server device 1 may provide a news search result list 211, a site search result list 221, and a bulletin board search result list 231 as shown in FIG. 2. As another example, a search results page may contain only the content "Bulletin search results list" 231 as a search result and "No posts found" or "No registered posts" as its items. The situation in this example may occur when a search keyword received from the client device 3 is a main word that has never been used through the server device 1. In addition, the situation in this example may also occur when the server apparatus 1 is configured to provide only a bulletin board search result list for the search keyword.

Due to the development of internet technology, search term input fields are provided in addition to the homepage of the internet portal. As an example, Google provides a "quick search box" that can be used by installing a toolbar. This quick search box allows you to perform keyword searches without launching a web browser and opening a web page. Specifically, in a PC environment, when a search keyword is entered in a quick search box and an enter key is pressed, a search for the input search keyword is performed. In view of these various circumstances, the present invention may be implemented in various embodiments in which a search result page includes a bulletin board search result list satisfying a condition of allowing registration of a user-generated post. These various embodiments are described as follows. Referring to FIG. 2, the search result page of the first embodiment includes only the bulletin board search result list 231 which satisfies the condition of allowing the registration of the user-generated post. The search result page of the second embodiment may include the news search result list 211 together with the bulletin board search result list 231 of the first embodiment. In a third embodiment, the search result page may include a bulletin board search result list, a news search result list, and a site search result list 221 of the first embodiment. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the embodiments described with reference to FIG. 2 are also not used to limit the present invention. Therefore, various embodiments in which various contents other than user-generated posts such as a cafe article, a blog, a video, a web document, knowledge, an image, a book introduction, a specialized document, and the like are provided together with a bulletin board search result list 231, is the scope of the present invention. It can be implemented within.

In FIG. 2, the news search result list 211 includes three news items 213, the site search result list 221 includes two items 223, and the bulletin board search result list 231. Includes two items 233. The number of items in each list shown in FIG. 2 may be appropriately selected, and it is apparent that the number of items does not limit the present invention. Following items 213, 223, 233 are continued search buttons 215, 225, and 235 for showing other items. When button 215 is pressed, a search is made for other news items that are not in items 213 of the news search result list. The same search is performed for the other buttons 225 and 235 as well. The use of the terms news search results list, site search results list, and bulletin board search results list are not intended to limit the invention. Thus, instead of these, the expressions "news", "site", "bulletin board" may also be used.

The search result page shown in FIG. 2 has a write button 237 on the right side of the bulletin board search result list 231. This writing button 237 is an item 233 in which the user configures the bulletin board search result list 231 on the search result page as shown in FIG. 2 and "registers" a new user-generated post to the server device 1. Is to start the operation. In other words, the write button 237 is used by the server device 1 to provide the client device 3 with an "posting registration interface" for the user-generated post to register with the server device 1. Here, "registering" a user-generated post to the server apparatus 1 means storing a user-generated post having a main word in the server apparatus 1 or in a storage device (not shown) connected to the server apparatus 1. I mean. This not only means adding a new user-generated post when the bulletin board search result list has items 233, but also adds the item 233 to the bulletin board search result when the bulletin board search result list 231 does not have any items. It is used to include the meaning of creating or writing for the first time in the list 231. In terms of user convenience, instead of the expression of the writing button 237, the text of the writing button may be changed to have text such as creation, post creation, and user creation post creation.

The search result page shown in FIG. 2 is used for the detailed description of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention. Therefore, the search result page may be provided in any form as long as the condition of including user-generated posts retrieved from the server device 1 or from a storage device (not shown) connected to the server device 1 is satisfied. As an example, if the designated search keyword is "Cuba", the search result page containing the search results in the server device 1 or from a storage device (not shown) connected to the server device 1 may include user-generated posts. If the specified search keyword is not the content of the topic you want, you can include a phrase that says you can create a user-generated post in a new topic, such as "If you don't have Cuba , you can create a new one" and a create button. User-generated posts may be represented by search keywords (main control), related images, related keywords, and a brief description. For example, a user-created post may be sent from Cuba (KOOBAR) with "Related Image", "Cuba" (= Search Keyword), "Apgujeong Party Spot" (= Associated Keyword), and "JJ KOO". Blog party "(= short description) was fun. Where only "Cuba" is used as the subject, Cuba in North America and Cuba, a band formed in 1998, are not distinguished by the subject alone. However, this problem can be solved by having the main word designated in the "search keyword designation step" have a separate identification code. One method is to configure the I / O interface 38 of the client device 3 as a pair of 'keyword displayed' and 'main control identification code' of the 'search keyword' provided to the user. For example, "Glass Girls' Generation Wind Glass" is referred to as (Glass 0001) and "Glass Singer Jeong Glass" is referred to as (Glass 0003). This method has the advantage that the administrator of the server device 1 does not have to worry about determining the expression of the main word. Another method is to use one of the search keyword candidates selected from among the search keyword candidates of the second method described in the "search keyword designation step", for example, "glass girl's generation kwon yuri" as the main word. This method has the advantage of not having to use a separate identification code because it can be distinguished only by the main word.

4) Steps to Provide Interface for Post Registration

When the writing button 237 of FIG. 2 is clicked, various types of "interface for posting a post" for registering a user-generated post to the server device 1 may be provided. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example page of a post registration interface provided when a writing button 237 of FIG. 2 is pressed. In FIG. 3, the search word “Guild War 2” is maintained in the search word input field 201 as in the search result page of FIG. 2. The user-created post writing page of FIG. 3 includes buttons 303 for selecting a writing method such as a title input box 301, text writing, editor use, and html direct writing, a content input box 305, a list button 307, and A confirmation button 309 is included. The title input field 301 and the content input field 305 constitute a post input unit used for registering a user-generated post to the server apparatus 1. 3 shows that the text write button is selected. The confirmation button 309 is a button for registering the user-generated post to the server device 1 via upload in a situation where the creation or writing of a user-generated post to be registered on the server device 1 is completed through the user-generated post creation page. Can be used as. Information to help a user specify a subject may also be provided through a user-generated post registration page as shown in FIG. 3. In the page of FIG. 3, there are the following methods for registering a user-generated post and a topic in the server device 1: A) a method for providing subject designation support information, and B) a method for automatically designating a topic; C) It is a method of selecting a keyword. These methods are described in detail.

A) How to Provide Topic Assignment Support Information

This method provides information to help a user specify a subject through a user-generated post registration page as shown in FIG. 3. In the page of FIG. 3, "main control designation support information" for assisting in the creation or designation of a main word may be provided in a text form including a tag. "Main control designation support information" may be provided at an appropriate position in the page shown in FIG. This " main control designation support information " may be a help to help in what manner should be written in the content input box 305 in order to specify the main word. 3 shows an example in which the subject specification support information includes a <subject> tag. <Subject> Guild Wars 2 </ subject> in the content field 305 is used to indicate that "Guild Wars 2" is the subject of a user-generated post. For example, the subject specification support information may be provided in the form of the phrase “<subject> enter a subject here </ subject> enter a content to be used as a user-generated post”. An example of inputting the main control word specifying information in the content input field 305 is for ease of description and is not intended to limit the present invention. The keyword designation support information may be provided in the title field 301. In this case, the phrase "<subject> enter a subject here </ subject> enter a subject of the user-generated post" may be provided in the subject input box.

B) How to automatically assign keywords

This method automatically designates a search keyword written in the search word input field 201 as a main word. For example, " Guild War 2 " written in the search word input field 201 of FIG. 3 is automatically designated as a subject word of a user-generated post registered in the server apparatus 1 using the page of FIG. In this case, help indicating that "Guild War 2" written in the search word input field 201 is a main word of a user-generated post registered in the server device 1 using the page of FIG. 3 may be provided on the page of FIG. have.

C) How to Support Topic Selection

This method may be configured by combining A) a method for providing the keyword designation support information and B) a method for automatically designating the keyword. Specifically, in <subject> Guild Wars 2 </ subject>, with "Help" indicating that "Guild Wars 2" entered in the search word input field 201 is temporarily designated as a topic word, and that it will be used as a topic word of a user-generated post. You can provide help to change your "Guild Wars 2" to another topic. Information to assist in the designation or selection of the topic for the user-generated posts to be entered may be provided through a different page than the search results page. As such, when the subject specification support information is provided to the user through the page of FIG. 3, the user may register the user-generated post to the server device 1 through the page of FIG. 3 together with the subject word different from the search keyword specified by the user. have.

The page of FIG. 3 may be configured to enable internet search using the subject as a search keyword, search for user generated posts written by the same user, and search for user generated posts of the same subject. The search word input field 201 and the search button 203 may be used to search the Internet using the main word as a search keyword. A confirmation button 309 can be used to retrieve user generated posts written by the same user. For example, while the user is logged in to the "Playforum" site, which provides the page of FIG. 3, the confirmation button 309 is registered with the server device 1 of the new user-created post, and the user is connected to the Playforum. User-generated posts registered on the server device 1 of the can be used to be displayed through a search result page in the form of a post search result list 231 shown in FIG. 2. On the other hand, in the state where the user has not logged in to the "Play Forum", the confirmation button 309 can be used only for registration of the new user-generated post into the server device 1. The list button 307 may be used to search for user-generated posts having the same topic as the search keyword described in the search word input box 201. In this case, when the list button 307 is pressed, the subject “Guild War 2” may be displayed through the search result page in the form of the post search result list 231 of user-generated posts of various users. For example, if the user is logged in to the server device 1 in a situation where the method for providing the subject specifying support information is used, when the confirmation button 309 is pressed, a new user-created post is registered in the server device 1. In addition, the user-generated posts registered by the user on the server device 1 of the play forum will be displayed through the search result page in the form of the post search result list 231 shown in FIG. And, if the user is not logged in to the server device 1, when the confirmation button 309 is pressed, the user-generated post will only be performed to register with the server device 1.

User-generated content includes text, audio or video content, and when a user-generated post includes a snippet describing the user-generated content, an audio content name, or a thumbnail of the video content, the user-generated content is There may be a case where it is stored in a storage device of sites different from that of the server device 1. In this case, in the content input field 305 of FIG. 3, only the user-generated post and the link are described, and this link is used to indicate the site where the user-generated content is actually located.

3 illustrates a user-generated post registration page having a title input field 301 and a content input field 305 as an example of an interface for registering a post. However, those skilled in the art will understand that the example shown in FIG. 3 is not intended to limit the invention. In addition, it is obvious that it is also within the scope of the present invention to register the user-generated post in the server device 1 through one input field instead of providing the title input field 301 and the content input field 305 separately. Therefore, registering a user-generated post to the server device 1 through one of the various user interfaces provided based on clicking on a writing button 237 related to the bulletin board search result list 231 is referred to as "Posting Registration Interface." Through "" to create a user-created post to the server device (1).

In addition, in the above description, when the writing button 237 is clicked on the page of FIG. 2, the page for registering a user-generated post shown in FIG. 3 is separately provided. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the provision of such a user-generated post registration page is for clarity of description rather than for limiting the invention. Accordingly, various interfaces may be provided within the scope of the present invention that allow user generated posts to be registered with the server device 1. For example, when the writing button 237 is pressed in the page of FIG. 2, a page for registering a user-generated post as shown in FIG. 3 may be provided at the bottom of the page of FIG. 2. Alternatively, when the writing button 237 is pressed on the page of FIG. 2, one input field may be provided to allow input of a new item 233 of the bulletin board search result list 231 of FIG. 2. Even in this case, the list button 307 and the confirmation button 309 shown in Fig. 3 are provided, and these buttons 307 and 309 will perform the same functions as described above.

In addition, the example in which the post registration interface is provided by pressing the writing button 237 has been described so far. However, various modifications may be provided within the scope of the present invention. One variation is that when a search result page including a bulletin board search result list 231 is provided, the search result page is not provided with a write button 237, and the bulletin board search result list 231 is a post input section and a list button. And a confirmation button. In this variant, the post input unit used for the entry of user-generated posts to be registered in the server device 1 is provided to allow entry of the user-generated posts only by selection by clicking, and the list button and confirmation button are provided. It is used for the same function as the list button 307 and the confirm button 309 described in connection with 3. Another variant is to replace the write button 237 with a toggle or option button. In this case, the button of this modification selects whether the post input unit of the bulletin board search result list allows entry of user-generated posts to be registered in the server apparatus 1.

So far, in the description of the apparatus of FIG. 1 with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3, the internal configurations of the server apparatus 1 and the client apparatus 3 have not been described. This is to clarify the purpose of showing examples of the respective internal components of the server apparatus 1 and the client apparatus 3, but not to limit the present invention.

The overall operation of the system of FIG. 1 will now be described with respect to the internal components of the server device 1 and the client device 3 shown in FIG. 1.

Although the network device 2 is connected with server devices operating at various portal sites, including the server device 1, only the server device 1 is shown for simplicity of the drawings. In addition, various client devices 3 such as mobile terminal computers are also connected to the network 2. In this situation, the user of one client device 3 instructs the processor 32 via the I / O interface 38 of his client device 3 to execute a web browser stored in the storage device 36. In turn, the web browser will display a blank page or the main page of the particular site on the display of the I / O interface 38. Thereafter, the user can access the main page of the server apparatus 1 and designate a search keyword through the search word input box of the main page. The above description of "1) search keyword designation step" may be used for designation of the search keyword. If a search keyword is specified, the server device 1 executes a search for a user-generated post having a search keyword designated as a keyword through a search word input box.

User generated posts may be stored only in memory 14 of server device 1. In addition, user-generated posts may be stored only in storage device (s) external to server device 1. Alternatively, user-generated posts may be stored in both server device 1 and external storage device (s) (not shown) with a large amount of data. When executing a search, processor 12 retrieves user-generated posts from memory 14 and / or external storage (s) having the specified search keyword as the subject. In addition, if the search results page is designed to include news, blogs, knowledge, cafe articles, etc., the processor 12 may be configured to include news, blogs, knowledge, cafe articles from external portal sites or storage devices for the server device 1. Search for etc. In addition, the processor 12 not only retrieves content such as news, blogs, knowledge, cafe articles, etc. from the storage device of the server device 1, but also has news as a search keyword having a keyword as an external search engine or a search portal site, Request search results for content such as blogs, knowledge, and cafe articles. The search engine 16 residing in the memory 14 may be used to retrieve content such as news, blogs, knowledge, cafe articles and user generated posts from the storage of the server device 1. In addition, the search engine 16 may be used to request a search result of content such as news, blogs, knowledge, cafe articles, etc. having a subject keyword as a search keyword from an external search engine or a search portal site. To this end, the search engine 16 executes a search for the designated search keyword. By executing such a search, "2) user-generated post search step" can be performed. The bulletin board management app (application) 18 may be used for "3) providing a search result page that allows server registration of user generated posts" and "4) providing an interface for posting a post". The bulletin board management app 18 also includes: A) a method for providing subject designation support information; B) automatic assignment of the subject; And C) a method for supporting keyword selection. In response to the writing button 237 being pressed on the search result page of FIG. 2, the bulletin board management app 18 performs operations for executing the content described with reference to FIG. 3. For example, the bulletin board management app 18 causes the processing described above to be performed in response to the pressing of the buttons 203, 303, 307 and 309 of FIG. 3.

In the foregoing description, a method of providing a bulletin board of a server device in a client-server environment has been described. This is intended to illustrate specific examples of the invention and is not intended to limit the invention. Therefore, the method of the present invention can be implemented in various networks such as client-server environment, Internet, wired or wireless LAN, wired or WAN.

In a client-server environment, a computer-readable medium containing a program for causing the server apparatus 1 of FIG. 1 to perform the above-described operation may be provided by the present invention. The program contained in the computer readable medium includes: program code for causing the server apparatus to search for a user-generated post having a search keyword designated as a subject from the client apparatus; And program code for causing the server device to provide the client device with a search results page that includes a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device. The program also provides a search result page with a post registration interface for registering user-generated posts from clients with the server device. The program may include program code for causing the server device to provide a post registration interface to the client device in response to the click of the write button after providing the search result page to the client device. In addition, the program is configured to, in response to the click of the confirmation button in the post registration interface, designate a search keyword of a search result page as a subject of a user-generated post to be registered on the server device through the post input field in the post registration interface. May contain code. The program also provides program code for providing subject specification support information that assists in user-generated post creation by the user for the user-generated post that is entered when the user-generated post is entered through the post field from the client device. It may include. In addition, when the user-generated post is input from the client device through the post field, the program temporarily sets the search keyword of the search result page as the subject of the user-generated post to be registered on the server device through the post field and selects the topic. It may further include a program code for providing the support information, wherein the topic selection support information is information to help change the temporarily designated subject to another subject.

Another computer readable medium containing a program for a bulletin board providing method of a server device in a client-server environment may be provided by the present invention. The program contained in the computer readable medium includes: program code for causing the server apparatus to search for a user-generated post having a search keyword designated as a main keyword from the client apparatus; And program code for the server device to provide the client device with a user interface including a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device.

Another computer readable medium containing a program for providing a bulletin board of a server device in the Internet can be provided by the present invention. The program contained in the computer readable medium includes: program code for causing the server apparatus to search for a user-generated post having a search keyword designated as a main keyword from the client apparatus; And program code for causing the server device client device to provide a search results page that includes a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device.

Another computer readable medium containing a program for providing a bulletin board of a server device in the Internet can be provided by the present invention. The program contained in the computer readable medium includes: program code for causing the server apparatus to search for a user-generated post having a search keyword designated as a main keyword from the client apparatus; Program code for causing a server device to search the Internet for content including a search keyword; And program code for causing the server device to provide the client device with a search result page that includes bulletin boards that allow user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device and contents retrieved from the Internet.

In the description so far, clicks, presses, etc. have been used as various expressions in the sense of selecting the same object, and therefore it is clear that the use of such expressions does not limit the invention. In addition, in the foregoing description, even though it is directly related to the present invention, description that does not prevent the understanding and implementation of the present invention at the level of those skilled in the art has been omitted or briefly described, but the omitted or briefly described content realizes the present invention. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that they do not interfere with doing so.

1: server device 2: network
3: client device 12, 32: processor
14: Memory 16: Search Engine
18: bulletin board management app 36: storage device
38: I / O Interface 201: Query Field
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Claims (25)

In the method of providing a bulletin board of a server device in a client-server environment,
Retrieving, from the client device, a user-generated post having the specified search keyword as the subject word; And
And providing a search result page to the client device, the search result page including a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device. The method of claim 1, wherein the search results page,
And a post registration interface for registering a user-generated post from the client to the server device. The method of claim 1, wherein the search results page,
And a writing button for providing the client with a post registration interface for registering a user-generated post to the server device. 4. The method of claim 3, further comprising providing the search results page to the client device.
And in response to a click of the writing button, providing the post registration interface to the client device. The method of claim 3, wherein the post registration interface is provided in the search result page. The method of claim 4, wherein the post registration interface is provided as a separate page from the search result page. According to any one of claims 3 to 6, The post registration interface,
A post field for inputting a user-generated post to be registered on the server device;
And a confirmation button for registering the user-generated post inputted in the post input box to the server device. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the search result page comprises: a search word input field; And a search button for executing a search of the search keyword input in the search word input box.
The bulletin board providing method further comprises a list button for searching for user-generated posts having the same subject as the search keyword described in the search word input box. The board of claim 8, wherein the confirmation button is further used as a button for searching for user-generated posts registered in the server device by a user who inputs a user-generated post in the post input box after logging in to the server device. Way. The method of claim 7, further comprising, in response to the clicking of the confirmation button, designating a search keyword of the search result page as a main word of a user-generated post to be registered in the server device through the post input box. How to provide a bulletin board. The method of claim 6, further comprising providing subject designation support information for the user generated post that is input when the user generated post is input from the client device through the post input box. How to provide a bulletin board comprising information to help designate the topic of the generated post. The method of claim 6, wherein when a user-generated post is input from the client device through the post input box, a search keyword of the search result page is temporarily used as a main word of a user-generated post to be registered in the server device through the post input box. Specifying and providing the topic selection support information, wherein the topic selection support information Method for providing a bulletin board comprising information that helps to temporarily change the designated topic to another topic. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-generated post includes at least one of text, audio, and video. The method of claim 13, wherein the user-generated post comprises at least one of a snippet describing user-generated content, an audio content name, a thumbnail of video content, and the user-generated post and the user-generated content. Contains a link to the post,
And the user-generated content comprises at least one of text, audio and video content corresponding to the user-generated post. 15. The method of claim 14, wherein the user-generated content is stored in a storage device different from the post storage device. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the search result page is a main page provided to the client device by the server device.
The searching step
Searching the Internet for contents including the received search keyword,
The providing step,
And providing a search result page including the contents retrieved from the Internet and the bulletin board to the client device. The method of claim 16, wherein the contents searched on the Internet include at least one kind of content among news, blogs, sites, images, cafe articles, videos, cafe names, knowledge, books, and specialized materials having keywords as designated keywords. Bulletin board providing method, characterized in that. In the method of providing a bulletin board of a server device in a client-server environment,
Retrieving, from the client device, a user-generated post having the specified search keyword as the subject word; And
Providing a user interface to the client device, the user interface including a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device. In the method of providing a bulletin board of the server device in the Internet,
Retrieving, from the client device, a user-generated post having the specified search keyword as the subject word; And
And providing a search result page to the client device, the search result page including a bulletin board allowing a user-generated post from the client device to be registered on a server device. In the method of providing a bulletin board of the server device in the Internet,
Retrieving, at the server device, a user-generated post having a search keyword designated as a subject from a client device;
Searching the Internet for contents including the search keyword; And
And providing a search result page to the client device that includes a bulletin board allowing user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on a server device and contents retrieved from the Internet. A computer-readable medium containing a program for causing a server device to provide a bulletin board to a client device in a client-server environment, the program comprising:
Program code for causing a server device to search for a user-generated post having a search keyword specified as a subject word from a client device; And
And program code for causing the server device to provide the client device with a search results page that includes a bulletin board allowing user generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device. A computer-readable medium containing a program for providing a bulletin board of a server device in a client-server environment, the program comprising:
Program code for causing a server device to search for a user-generated post having a search keyword designated as a subject from the client device; And
And program code for the server device to provide the client device with a user interface including a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered with the server device. In a computer-readable medium containing a program for providing a bulletin board of a server device in the Internet, the program comprises:
Program code for causing a server device to search for a user-generated post having a search keyword designated as a subject from the client device; And
And program code for causing a server device client device to provide a search results page that includes a bulletin board that allows user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device. In a computer-readable medium containing a program for providing a bulletin board of a server device in the Internet, the program comprises:
Program code for causing a server device to search for a user-generated post having a search keyword designated as a subject from the client device;
Program code for causing a server device to search the Internet for content including a search keyword; And
And program code for causing the server device to provide the client device with a search results page that includes bulletin boards that allow user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device and content retrieved from the Internet. In a server device in a client-server environment,
A storage device for storing user-generated posts; And
A processor coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor includes:
Retrieve user-generated posts with the specified search keyword as a subject from the client device,
Providing a search results page to the client device, the search result page including a bulletin board allowing user-generated posts from the client device to be registered on the server device.

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