KR20110129141A

KR20110129141A - Apparatus and method for searching a plurality of web-sites through a web-site in the terminal device

Info

Publication number: KR20110129141A
Application number: KR1020100048603A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 김대중
Original assignee: 김대중
Priority date: 2010-05-25
Filing date: 2010-05-25
Publication date: 2011-12-01
Also published as: KR101175168B1

Abstract

PURPOSE: A web site search apparatus through a website in a terminal apparatus and method thereof are provided to utilize search results by displaying the search result through a web site. CONSTITUTION: A communication unit(210) receives a second search result about other web sites and receives a first search result about a key word through a web site. A processing unit(220) analyzes the construction of the first and second search result and processes the second search result in order to insert into the first search result. A sensing unit(230) senses a inserting point which displays the processed second search result in a display means. A processing unit(240) displays the second search result at the inserting point by inserting the second search result into the first search result through the web site.

Description

Apparatus and method for searching a plurality of web-sites through a web-site in the terminal device}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for searching a plurality of web sites through a single web site in a terminal device. More specifically, the present invention does not display only the results searched through a single web site on another web site. The present invention also relates to an apparatus and a method for displaying the search results included in the search results.

With the development of the Internet, many users have been able to obtain various information from web servers. Through a well-known server-client model structure, various terminal devices, such as a personal computer (PC) and a smart phone, connect to the server as a client and receive information from the server.

Meanwhile, keyword search through a portal site or a search site has been developed in various ways according to the quality, range, and type of a search service provided by each service provider. Some search service providers may provide personal information about the keyword, and another search service provider may provide news articles about the keyword.

However, in traditional server-client architectures, these search services tend to rely heavily on servers. For example, if a person information service is provided only by a search service provider called A, and a news article service is provided only by a search service provider called B, the user may selectively use a search service provider as needed. In this environment, the user cannot be provided with personal information and news article service at the same time. In particular, this inconvenience is inevitably aggravated at this point in time when search service providers provide differentiated services.

Therefore, even when a user is using a single search web site, there is a demand for a technology that performs a keyword query from various search service providers, collects the search results, and displays the information on one web site. However, each search service provider operates a search service through its own server as a separate business entity, and due to a structural limitation that search service providers have no control over mutual information provision and use, server-side ( Server-side search results are difficult to collect.

The technical problem to be solved by at least one embodiment of the present invention is to solve the problem that can not simultaneously obtain the search results provided from a plurality of search Web sites, the unique search results provided by the search Web site is a search service provider The present invention provides a device and a method for overcoming the limitation of relying only on a user, and to solve the inconvenience of having to go to a corresponding search web site in order to use another search service. The technical problem to be solved by this embodiment is not limited to the above-described technical problems, and other technical problems may exist.

In order to solve the above technical problem, a method for searching a plurality of web sites in the terminal device according to the present invention comprises the steps of receiving a first search results for a predetermined keyword through a predetermined web site; Receiving a second search result for the keyword through at least one web site other than the predetermined web site; And inserting the second search result into the first search result to display through the predetermined web site.

In order to solve the technical problem, in the method for searching a plurality of web sites according to the present invention, displaying through a predetermined web site is to interpret the structure of the received first search results and second search results, Processing the second search result to be inserted into the first search result; Detecting an insertion time point for displaying the processed second search result on display means of the terminal device; And inserting the processed second search result into the first search result and displaying it through the predetermined web site at the detected insertion time.

In order to solve the above technical problem, an apparatus for searching a plurality of web sites in the terminal device according to the present invention receives a first search result for a predetermined keyword through a predetermined web site, at least one or more than the predetermined web site A communication unit which receives a second search result for the keyword through a web site; A processing unit for analyzing the structures of the received first and second search results and processing the second search results to be inserted into the first search results; A detector for detecting an insertion time point for displaying the processed second search result on the display means of the terminal device; And a display unit which inserts the processed second search result into the first search result and displays it through the predetermined web site at the detected insertion time.

In order to solve the technical problem, in the method and apparatus for searching a plurality of web sites in the terminal device according to the present invention, the insertion time point of the terminal device from the time when the control object included in the first search result is generated Preferably, the display means is determined at any point between the time points at which the first search result is to be displayed without the insertion of the second search result.

In addition, the following provides a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing a method for searching a plurality of web sites on the terminal device described above on a computer.

As described above, by simultaneously obtaining search results provided from a plurality of search web sites and displaying them through a single web site, unique search results provided by various search web sites regardless of the search service provider currently used. Can be used, and the search service can be provided without going directly to another search website.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a system structure for displaying a search result through a device for searching a plurality of web sites when a plurality of search results received from a plurality of web servers are displayed on a terminal device as a client.
2 is a diagram illustrating the overall structure of a system for explaining an apparatus for searching a plurality of web sites in a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of searching a plurality of web sites in a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of inserting a second search result into a first search result and displaying the same through a web site in the flowchart of FIG. 3.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a process performed in parallel to process search results searched through a plurality of web sites at a terminal device.
6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of detecting an insertion time for inserting and displaying a second search result in a first search result in the flowchart of FIG. 5 in more detail.
7A to 7B illustrate a method of storing setting values for changing and displaying a search result in response to various search web sites.
FIG. 7C is a diagram illustrating that search results received from various search web sites are inserted and displayed on a web browser according to the setting values stored in FIG. 7B.

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

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a system structure for displaying a search result through a device for searching a plurality of web sites when a plurality of search results received from a plurality of web servers are displayed on a terminal device as a client. It consists of web servers 111, 112, 113 and client 120.

In a traditional server-client architecture, web servers 111, 112, and 113 provide search results in response to keyword queries from client 120. As discussed above, the embodiments of the present invention have been proposed to solve the problem that various search service providers cannot simultaneously use the search results, and sharing and aggregating server-side search results with each other is suggested. In view of the structural difficulty, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for collecting search results at a client-side and providing them through a single web site. That is, the same keyword is queried to different business entities or physically separated search servers, and the search results received from the respective servers are collected by the terminal device as a client and displayed through one web site.

In this case, one web site may be a web site corresponding to any one of the plurality of search servers described above. Therefore, one web site where a search result is displayed is a web site where the user directly touches the screen and inputs a keyword, and other web sites are Web sites which are used for search, although the user does not directly touch the screen. In other words, other web sites are not displayed on a display means such as an actual web browser, but are utilized for keyword search, and the result is inserted into a search result of a web site directly used by the user and displayed. In the following description, for convenience of explanation, one website that is directly displayed to the user through a display screen will be referred to as a main website.

As described above, the web servers 111, 112, and 113 illustrated in FIG. 1 correspond to conventional web servers. In contrast, the client 120 includes a device 125 that collects search results and searches a plurality of web sites displaying the search results through one web site. In a typical web service, the client displays search results or content received through the display means. The web service display means may be a web browser, a specialized widget, or a separate application. There will be. If the received search result is web content, the display means includes an interpreter capable of interpreting the web document. For example, an HTML parser can be a representative parser. The display means renders the content interpreted through the interpreter according to the web protocol and displays the content on the display device of the user device.

The search apparatus 125 for searching a plurality of web sites shown in FIG. 1 does not only perform a role of a client of a typical web service (it means to interpret and display received content as it is). A plurality of search results received from four search servers are collected and displayed through a single web site. Hereinafter, the specific configuration will be described.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an overall structure of a system for describing an apparatus for searching a plurality of web sites in a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The web server 111, 112, 113, and the client are shown in FIG. It consists of 120. In FIG. 2, the configuration thereof will be described focusing on the apparatus 125 for searching a plurality of web sites provided in the client 120.

The communication unit 210 receives a first search result for a specific keyword through a main web site, and receives a second search result for the keyword through at least one web site other than the main web site. In this case, the second search result is a search result collected through at least one web site, and thus may be a set of a plurality of search results. Since the communication unit 210 needs to interact with a server for a keyword query, the communication unit 210 corresponds to a general network device capable of bidirectional communication. That is, the communication unit 210 requests a search by transmitting keywords to the plurality of search web servers 111, 112, and 113, respectively, and receives search results as a result.

The communication unit 210 may be implemented with various wired communication means or wireless communication means such as Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) and a communication interface, including a conventional TCP / IP-based network. The means for implementing the communication unit 210 is not limited to the above-described examples, and various communication hardware and software technologies that already exist as such communication means may be utilized by those skilled in the art. Self-explanatory

The processing unit 220 analyzes the structures of the received first search result and the second search result and processes the second search result to be inserted into the first search result. In this case, the processing means modifying and modifying the content so that the second search result is naturally inserted in the first search result so that one search result can be displayed on the main web site. To this end, it is preferable that a layout or a design in which a search result is displayed is preset by the user.

The setting values for the provided design 225 are stored in a specific space of the terminal device in the form of a standardized template, and are combined with a plurality of search results provided by users from various search websites. Whether or not to display may be preset. For example, instead of using all of the search results provided by the three search web sites, it may be possible to generate one new search result by extracting and collecting only some of the search results from each of these three search results. . In this case, the user decides whether to include specific search results received from respective search web sites in the processed one search result, and store the corresponding setting value. When the search results are received from the search web server 110, the setting value may be used to extract and process a specific search result set by the user from each search result.

In terms of physical configuration, the processor 220 may be implemented as a processor for data operation in a typical computing environment and a memory capable of loading and processing data necessary for a task. A recording medium may store various design setting values 225. In addition, since the processing unit 220 should analyze the received search results, extract specific search results from the search results according to a set value, and generate the processed search results, various markup languages including HTML. It includes an interpreter that can interpret. Such an interpreter may be implemented in software code that operates based on the physical hardware described above.

The detector 230 detects an insertion time point for displaying the second search result processed by the processing unit 220 on the display means of the terminal device. In the server-client structure, the client 120 attempts to interpret and display the search results received from the server 110 without processing, so that the sensing unit 230 collects a plurality of search results and the newly processed search results are terminal devices. It is necessary to detect the most appropriate insertion point for being displayed on the display means of. The insertion point of the detector 230 will be described in more detail later with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.

The sensing unit 230 may also be implemented as a processor and a memory required for a task in a typical computing environment, and includes software code for performing a series of tasks for detecting an insertion time.

The display unit 240 inserts the processed second search result at the insertion time detected by the detector 230 into the first search result and displays it through the main web site. In order to display the processed search results, at least one web site is required. For this, the main web site is used. Accordingly, the user may feel as if they are searching or surfing the web using only one main web site, and the search results are displayed on the display screen through only the main web site. As described above, the web servers 110 also serve only in response to a query result of a user in a typical server-client structure. The plurality of received search results are collected and processed by the client 120 to be a main web site. Is displayed through.

As described with reference to FIG. 1, the display unit 240 may be a web browser, a specialized widget, or a separate application program. Accordingly, the display unit 240 may include software code for interpreting and rendering search results to display a specific configuration object on a screen, and may be implemented as a processor and a memory for performing such software code in terms of physical configuration. have. When the physical configuration of the display unit 240 is further expanded and interpreted, a typical display device may be included.

Meanwhile, the apparatus 125 for searching a plurality of web sites of FIG. 2 may receive information about web sites for searching from a search service provider and store the information in a separate space. Information on these web sites can be increased or decreased by user settings, and can be continuously updated from various search service providers. For example, if five search websites were initially available to the search device 125 for searching a plurality of web sites, an API (application programming) could be used by other search service providers in the future. By providing an interface, the available search sites can be expanded. This extension can be achieved either by providing a specific API for the development of an application or by a simple method such as a really simple syndication (RSS) subscription.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for searching a plurality of web sites in a terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and includes the following steps corresponding to the configuration of the search apparatus of FIG.

In step 310, a first search result for a specific keyword is received through the main web site. In operation 320, a second search result for the keyword is received through at least one or more other web sites other than the main web site. These processes correspond to the contents described above through the communication unit 210 of FIG. 2, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In step 330, the second search result received in step 320 is inserted into the first search result received in step 310 and displayed on the main web site. A more specific method will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

In operation 431 of FIG. 4, the structures of the received first and second search results are interpreted, and the second search result is processed to be inserted into the first search result. As described above, processing means extracting, modifying, and modifying content so that a second search result is naturally inserted in the first search result so that one search result can be displayed on the main web site. This process corresponds to the contents described above through the processing unit 220 of FIG. 2, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In operation 432, an insertion time point for displaying the processed second search result on the display means of the terminal device is detected in operation 431. The above process corresponds to the contents described above by the sensing unit 230 of FIG. 2, and specific contents of the insertion time will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6.

In operation 433, the processed second search result is inserted into the first search result and displayed through the main web site at the insertion time detected in step 432. This process corresponds to the contents previously described through the display unit 240 of FIG. 2, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Meanwhile, the embodiments of FIGS. 3 and 4 may receive information about web sites for searching from search service providers and store them in a separate space before step 320. Information on these websites can be increased or decreased by user settings, and can be continuously updated from various search service providers. The information about the stored web sites may be used to perform keyword queries through at least one or more other web sites. In this case, it is natural that all of the stored web sites or only some web sites selected by the user can be utilized in the keyword query.

According to the above embodiments, regardless of the search service provider currently used by the user (corresponding to the main web site), it is possible to simultaneously use unique search results provided by various search web sites, and to search other web sites. The search service can be provided through the main web site without the inconvenience of going directly to the web site. Furthermore, data sharing or processing between additional servers (meaning server-side search result processing) is also unnecessary when receiving such a search service.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process performed in parallel to process search results searched through a plurality of web sites at a terminal device, and includes a detection process of an insertion point, which has been briefly described above.

In step 510, the terminal device (corresponding to the client) queries the main web site (corresponding to the search server) for a specific keyword. In this case, in step 515, the terminal device inquires the same keyword to other web sites. Of course, other web sites to be used for search should be set in advance by the user. That is, when a list of web sites stored by a user's setting is read from a storage medium and loaded into a memory, a keyword query is performed on these web sites using a processor.

If there are many web sites to be used for searching, it is desirable to use multiple threads in terms of software code implementation, but both single and multiple may be used if necessary, and the process is not a thread. You can also use If you are using a single thread or a single process, you will repeatedly perform sequential keyword queries on the list of read Web sites.

Subsequently, the terminal device receives the first search result and the second search result through steps 520 and 525, respectively, and loads the result into a memory and interprets the structure thereof. At this time, the structural analysis of the content means parsing a markup language such as HTML.

Next, in step 530, the terminal device generates a control target object included in the first search result. At this time, the terminal device detects a starting point of the insertion time. In embodiments of the present invention, the insertion time point is any time between the time point at which the control object included in the first search result is generated and the time point at which the display means of the terminal device attempts to display the first search result without inserting the second search result. One point in time. That is, any one time point between the viewpoint A and the viewpoint B of FIG. 5 is an insertion time. The reason for specifying the insertion point as described above is as follows.

In a typical server-client structure, search result display means (e.g., a web browser) attempts to interpret and display the search results received from the web server without processing. Therefore, if you want to display on the screen a search result in which the search results received from other web sites are inserted, instead of displaying only the search results received from the main web site, the point of time (named insertion time) is displayed. It is important to decide.

If an object that needs to change its configuration or property (hereinafter referred to as a controlled object) in order to insert the second search result in the first search result has not yet been created, the property of the controlled object is changed. Substantially impossible to change. In addition, if too much time elapses since the object to be controlled is created, the search result display means has already displayed such contents on the display screen, so that the second search result is inserted into the first search result and newly processed. It is difficult to display the results on the screen. In this case, although the search result displayed on the screen without inserting the search result exists (meaning that only the first search result is displayed on the main web site as it is), the changed content can be inserted into the screen. In this case, flickering may occur on the screen or inconvenience of the insertion of the second search result may be revealed to the user. Therefore, the detection of the insertion time described in the embodiments of the present invention refers to the calculation of the time when the second search result is inserted in the first search result so that the newly processed search result can be displayed most naturally on the screen.

In operation 535, a basic layout or design setting value for including the second search result in the first search result is read. These setting values are used to extract only the parts necessary for insertion through the parsed mark-up language to include individual search results in one web page, and to combine and arrange the extracted search results. Therefore, the setting value includes information about a specific element to be extracted from a search result received from a specific search web site and information about how to combine and arrange the extracted search results.

To this end, a step of pre-storing setting values for a specific design or layout for displaying a plurality of search results may be prepared in advance of step 535, and the search result screen displayed through the main web site is the stored design setting values. The search result corresponds to a newly processed search result by inserting the second search result into the first search result.

In operation 540, the second search result is inserted into the first search result according to the set value read in operation 535. In other words, the actual search results are extracted, combined and placed. This process can be accomplished by the processor performing the corresponding operation on each of the data loaded on the memory (controlled objects generated from the parsed search results). Although not shown in FIG. 5, it is natural that control objects included in the second search result should also be created for the insertion of the search result.

Finally, after the time point B, the terminal device displays the inserted and processed search result on the main web site in step 540.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of detecting an insertion time for inserting and displaying a second search result in a first search result in the flowchart of FIG. 5. For convenience, the process focuses on A and B views. I'll explain.

After the point in time A, in step 610, it is checked whether a control object is created.

If the object to be controlled is created, the process proceeds to step 620 to determine the insertion time, and changes the attributes of the object to be controlled to insert the second search result into the first search result to generate a newly processed search result. Of course, as described above, the insertion time may be determined at any time between the time point at which the control object is created and the display means of the terminal device attempts to display the control object without changing the design, for convenience of implementation. If it is determined that the object to be controlled is created, the corresponding time point may be determined as the insertion time point. For example, the search result display means is described based on Internet Explorer, a web browser provided by Microsoft, and after a DocumentComplete event, which is a kind of web browser work event, occurs, a specific tag ( tag) to determine whether or not the control target object in the search result is generated. This series of operations can be performed using a browser helper object (BHO) application designed to extend Internet Explorer's functionality with external plug-ins.

As described above, if the control target object is effectively detected, the newly processed search result is generated in step 620, and the inserted search result is displayed through the main web site in step 550 at the time point B.

On the other hand, if the object to be controlled is not created, optionally proceeds to step 615. Step 615 is a step provided to check whether the target object is generated again after a predetermined time when the control target object has not been created yet. To this end, in step 615, the test of step 610 is preferably repeated a predetermined number of times after a slight delay. In the case of Internet Explorer again, the inspection is repeatedly performed by calling PostMessage, which is a window message, and reentering to step 610 to determine whether a specific tag is valid (meaning whether a control object is created or not). Can be done. In this case, the process can be terminated if it is determined that the tag is still invalid through five iterations for convenience.

Through the above-described embodiments of the present invention, a plurality of search results may be collected, extracted, and combined to determine an optimal insertion point at which newly processed search results may be naturally displayed on the display means. The specific implementation method of the software illustrated above is only one example of an implementation method for detecting an insertion point, and is not limited to a specific web browser or a specific operating system, and may determine a natural insertion point of an inserted search result. It is possible to apply to various implementation environments by those skilled in the art using the idea.

7A to 7B illustrate a method of storing setting values for changing and displaying a search result in response to various search web sites.

FIG. 7A illustrates a setting window for freely modifying and placing various search contents included in search results of Naver, Daum, Nate, and Google, which are widely used in Korea. The right side of the screen lists the search contents provided by Naver, Daum, Nate, Google, Bing, and other search websites, and adds or deletes these contents as a selection on the left side to search on the main website used by the user. It is possible to set search contents to be included in the results.

7B illustrates that Naver is selected as the main web site to be used for the search, and a user may select content of a search result to be displayed through Naver, which is the main web site. Referring to 710 of FIG. 7B, the person information content provided by Naver, the news content provided by the following, the best web document content provided by Google, and the video content provided by Bing are set to be displayed in order in the search result. You can check it.

FIG. 7C is a diagram illustrating that search results received from various search web sites are inserted and displayed on a web browser according to the setting values stored in FIG. 7B. As a search keyword, 'Kim Yu-na' was used as an example, and it can be seen that the search results of the four search contents set in advance in response to the keyword 'Kim Yu-na' are displayed in order through the main web site, Naver. That is, the person information search result 721 provided by Naver, the news search result 722 provided by Daum, the best web document search result 723 provided by Google, and the video search result 724 provided by Bing are in order. It is displayed on one screen as it is.

According to the above embodiments, regardless of the type of the main web site currently used by the user, it is possible to selectively use unique search results provided by various search web sites at the same time, and inconvenience of moving directly to another search web site. You can freely receive this search service through the main website.

Meanwhile, the present invention can be embodied as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored.

Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disks, optical data storage devices, and the like, which may also be implemented in the form of carrier waves (for example, transmission over the Internet). Include. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion. In addition, functional programs, codes, and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily deduced by programmers skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs.

The present invention has been described above with reference to various embodiments thereof. Those skilled in the art will understand that the present invention can be implemented in a modified form without departing from the essential features of the present invention. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. The scope of the present invention is shown in the claims rather than the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope will be construed as being included in the present invention.

111, 112, 113: search web server 120: client, terminal device
125: Device for Searching Multiple Websites
210: communication unit
220: processing unit 225: stored design setting value
230: detector
240: display unit

Claims

In the method for searching a plurality of web sites on the terminal device,
Receiving a first search result for a predetermined keyword through a predetermined web site;
Receiving a second search result for the keyword through at least one web site other than the predetermined web site; And
Inserting the second search result into the first search result to display through the predetermined web site.

The method of claim 1,
Displaying through the predetermined web site,
Interpreting the structures of the received first and second search results and processing the second search results to be inserted into the first search results;
Detecting an insertion time point for displaying the processed second search result on display means of the terminal device; And
And inserting the processed second search result into the first search result and displaying it through the predetermined web site at the detected insertion time point.

The method of claim 2,
The insertion time point is any time between when the control object included in the first search result is generated and when the display means of the terminal device attempts to display the first search result without inserting the second search result. Which method is determined.

The method of claim 2,
And if it is determined that the control object is created as a result of checking whether the control object included in the first search result is generated, the corresponding time point is determined as the insertion time point.

The method of claim 1,
Pre-storing setting values for a predetermined design for displaying a plurality of search results,
The displaying through the predetermined web site may include inserting the second search result into the first search result according to the stored design setting value.

The method of claim 1,
Receiving and storing information about the web sites for searching from a search service provider;
The information on the web site can be increased or decreased by user setting.

The method of claim 1,
And the second search result is the search results received as a result of transmitting the keyword in parallel to the one or more web sites.

A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

In the device for searching a plurality of web sites on the terminal device,
A communication unit configured to receive a first search result for a predetermined keyword through a predetermined web site and to receive a second search result for the keyword through at least one or more web sites other than the predetermined web site;
A processing unit for analyzing the structures of the received first and second search results and processing the second search results to be inserted into the first search results;
A detector for detecting an insertion time point for displaying the processed second search result on the display means of the terminal device; And
And a display unit for inserting the processed second search result into the first search result and displaying it through the predetermined web site at the detected insertion time.

The method of claim 9,
The insertion time point is any time between when the control object included in the first search result is generated and when the display means of the terminal device attempts to display the first search result without inserting the second search result. Device determined.