WO2003077158A1

WO2003077158A1 - Link information output device

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Publication number: WO2003077158A1
Application number: PCT/JP2002/002241
Authority: WO
Inventors: Kohji Nitori
Original assignee: Levi Co.
Priority date: 2002-03-11
Filing date: 2002-03-11
Publication date: 2003-09-18
Also published as: AU2002236284A1

Abstract

Conventionally, a Web site search engine shows a large number of Web sites as a result of search and it is difficult to narrow the information. According to the invention, only words of a language, such as Japanese, Chinese, or Korean, using kanji which is an ideogram and URLs having domain names including such words are used for search result.

Description

Description ^: Link information output device Technical field

The present invention relates to a URL search device used in the Internet and the like. Background art

Generally, a search engine is used to search the homepage on the Internet. When the search engine inputs a search term, it outputs information for linking to a URL such as a homepage containing the search term.

However, as described above, in the conventional search engine, since all the homepages including the input search word are to be output, there is a lot of so-called noise information, and it was difficult to reach the target homepage.

In view of such circumstances, the present invention does not search for words contained in a homepage, even though it is a search device for a homepage or the like. Disclosure of the invention

In particular, the present invention has been made in view of the fact that URLs are written in languages such as Japanese, and outputs only URLs whose search words are included in the domain name. In this way, it is possible to obtain search results with less noise. This is because a domain name created using a language such as Japanese generally indicates the information contained in the domain. This is because it is considered that a jump is used. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram for explaining the first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of an example of the domain link information output device according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a flow of a process according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the concept of the second embodiment.

Figure 5 is a diagram for explaining languages that use ideographic characters.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a flow of a process according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a functional block of the domain link information output device according to the third and fourth embodiments.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a processing flow of the third and fourth embodiments.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a search word generated for “clothing” by the search word generation unit according to the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of functional blocks of a URL acquisition device according to the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a diagram depicting a processing flow of the fifth embodiment; BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Embodiment 1 Embodiment 1 will be described. The first embodiment is a domain link information output device that searches for a domain name including a word using words in a language using ideographic characters. An "ideographic character" is a character whose character itself represents a meaning. A typical ideographic character is a kanji. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the concept of the domain link information output device of this embodiment. As shown in this figure, this domain link information When an ideographic character is input, the output device outputs information for linking to a URL having a domain name including the ideographic character.

For example, in the example in this figure, if you enter an ideogram consisting of the kanji character "clothing", you will get the output "http: // www. Ginza. Clothing. Jp".

<Configuration of First Embodiment> FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a functional block of this embodiment. As shown in this figure, the domain link information output device of this embodiment has a domain URL information storage unit, a word input unit, a URL information acquisition unit, and a URL link information output unit.

The “domain URL information storage unit” stores the domain name in association with URL information that is information indicating URL. For example, as URL information including the domain name “Ginza”, “www. Ginza. Clothing. Jp” is associated. Similarly, “WWW. Ginza. Clothes. Jp” is also associated as URL information including the domain name “Clothing”.

The "word input section" inputs words in a language using ideographic characters. For example, a character “clothing” represented by Japanese kanji, which is a language using ideographic characters, is input from the word input unit. The characters input from the language input unit are not limited to ideographic characters, but may be any language that uses ideographic characters. This is because languages that use ideographs also use phonograms together with ideographs. For example, in Japanese, hiragana and katakana are used as phonograms in addition to ideographic kanji. Therefore, not only kanji, but also hiragana and rikyuu kana words may be input to the word input unit. The reason that non-kanji characters can be entered in the word input section is that the newly recognized Japanese domain is not limited to kanji, but can use any language that is made in Japanese. . And by using such words as domain names, This is because the contents of the domain can be expressed simply and accurately.

The “URL information acquisition unit” acquires URL information associated with a domain name including a word input to the word input unit from the domain URL information storage unit. In the example of this figure, the word input to the word input unit is “clothing”, and the URL containing the word is selected from the domain URL information storage unit. The selected result is “www.Ginza.Clothing.jP” as shown in the figure.

The “URL link information output unit” outputs link information that is information for linking to the URL based on the information acquired by the URL information acquisition unit. For example, if URL is “www. Ginza. Clothes. Jp”, then “http: ZZwww. Ginza. Clothes. Jp” and so on. By inputting this information into the address of a browser or the like, you can reach the domain of “www. Ginza. Clothes. JP”. The output format may be electronic output or print output on paper or the like. If the output is electronic, it may be converted to hypertext using the HTML language.

Brief description of the effects of Embodiment 1> As described above, in the present embodiment, with the availability of the Japanese domain, the language of ideographic characters such as Japanese is used. Can be used as a search term, and at the same time, the search term is used only for domain name searches, greatly reducing the noise in search results that could not be eliminated by conventional search engines. . This is because the domain name is the most straightforward description of the domain.

Processing Flow of First Embodiment> The processing flow of the first embodiment is as shown in FIG. That is, the processing of the first embodiment is performed by associating the domain name with the URL information indicating the URL, and accumulating the domain name. Information accumulating step, a word input step for inputting words in a language using ideographic characters, and URL information associated with a domain name including the words input in the word input step. A URL information acquisition step acquired from the information accumulation step; a URL link information output step for outputting link information that is information for linking to the URL based on the information acquired in the URL information acquisition step. This is a domain link information output method having the following.

Second Embodiment Next, a second embodiment will be described. Embodiment 2 is characterized in that the language input to the language input unit is a language of any one of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the concept of the second embodiment. For example, when the word “boutique” is input, domain link information such as URL using a domain name including the word “boutique” is output.

<Configuration of Second Embodiment> The domain link information output device of the second embodiment has the same configuration as the domain link information output device of the first embodiment. That is, it is the same as that shown in FIG. 2 and includes a domain URL information storage unit, in this case, an input unit, a URL information acquisition unit, and a URL link information output unit. The feature point is in the word input section.

<Japanese, Chinese, Korean> Japanese, Chinese, and Korean have a special language system even in the world in terms of using ideographic characters.

Figure 5 summarizes the characters used in these languages. As shown in this figure, Japanese uses Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana characters. In Korean, kanji (Hanja) and Hangul characters are used. In Chinese, vague characters are used, but there are two types of kanji: simplified and traditional. In this embodiment, one of these characters is input to the word input unit. This outputs link information to the URL that has the domain name that contains the word.

<Processing Flow of Second Embodiment> FIG. 6 shows a processing flow of the second embodiment. As shown in this figure, the processing of this embodiment includes a domain URL information storage step of storing a domain name and URL information that is information indicating a URL in association with each other, and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Word input step for inputting a word in any one of the words, and URL information associated with the domain name including the word input in the word input step is obtained from the domain URL information storage step Domain link information comprising: a URL information obtaining step to perform link information output based on the information obtained in the URL information obtaining step; Output method.

Third and fourth embodiments> Next, third and fourth embodiments will be described. In the third embodiment, a search word is generated based on a word input to the word input unit, instead of using only the word input to the word input unit to search for a domain name including the word. This is a domain link information output device that uses the process of searching for the domain name that includes the search term.

In the fourth embodiment, any one or a combination of two or more of synonyms, derivatives, and antonyms of the input word is used as a search word. In a conventional search engine, only home-based link information that includes the input search word as it is is output as a search result. “Include here” means that it was included in every part of the home page, so I could not easily find the information I wanted to know. In this regard, the present invention can greatly reduce such noise because only the words included in the domain name are used as the search range. However, only the domain name is searched. Therefore, if you do not enter the exact word, it may not be possible to obtain the domain URL information even if the domain name uses the same meaning. In particular, the ideographs Japanese, Chinese, and Korean sometimes have multiple words that have the same meaning or almost the same meaning. In such a case, it is difficult to input all the synonyms in the word input.

Also, when it is desired to obtain information represented by a certain word, the information may actually be in a URL having a domain name that includes the word that is an antonym of the word.

Furthermore, for example, the word “word” also has the same meaning as the word “word”, so that search omission itself may occur due to differences in expression, such as whether it is expressed in kanji or hiragana.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, a search word is generated based on the input word, and a domain name including the search word is searched based on the search word.

<Structures of Third and Fourth Embodiments> FIG. 7 shows an example of the functional blocks of the third and fourth embodiments. As shown in this figure, these embodiments include a domain URL information storage unit, a word input unit, a search word generation unit, a URL information acquisition unit, and a URL link information output unit. Except for the search word generation unit, this embodiment is common to Embodiments 1 and 2.

The “search word generation unit” generates a search word based on words in any one of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean input to the word input unit. For example, when the word input to the word input unit is “clothing”, the search word generation unit generates “boutique” in addition to “clothing”. This is because there is a deep relationship with the input of “clothing”. This association may be obtained by using a database in which a plurality of words are associated with each other. This associated database may include, for example, past user search trends, dictionaries, etc. 2241

Obtained from a database.

In the fourth embodiment, synonyms, derivatives, and antonyms of input words are used as search words, but words having a similar meaning to `` synonyms '' are derived from specific words A tongue is a word that has the opposite meaning to a particular word.

Figure 9 shows the search terms generated for “clothing” by the search term generator. “Clothing”, “Clothes”, “Clothes”, “Kimono”, “Costumes”,… “Boutiques”, etc. are generated for “Clothing” entered in the word input section.

As an application example of the present embodiment, not all of the search words generated by the search word generation unit are used for acquiring URL information, but some of them may be used. As a method of selecting a part, a list of words generated by the search word generation unit may be output, and a selection may be made to obtain output of domain link information. The choice is to choose what you need or remove what you don't need.

<Processing Flow of Third and Fourth Embodiments> FIG. 8 shows a processing flow of the third and fourth embodiments. As shown in this figure, in the third and fourth embodiments, a domain URL information storage step for storing a domain name and URL information that is information indicating a URL in association with each other, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean A word input step for inputting a word in any one of the words, a search word generation step for generating a search word based on the words input in the word input step, and a search word generation step for generating the search word. A URL information acquisition step of acquiring URL information associated with a domain name including the searched search word from the domain URL information accumulation step, and a URL to the URL based on the information acquired in the URL information acquisition step. A URL link information output step for outputting link information that is information for the link. This is the link information output method. In this method, the search word generated in the search word generation step may be any one or a combination of two or more of a synonym, a derivative word, and antonym of the word input in the word input step.

<Fifth Embodiment> Next, a fifth embodiment will be described. Embodiment 5 is a URL acquisition device using a domain name server. For example, it is used for storing information in the domain URL information storage unit of the domain link information output device described in the first to fourth embodiments.

The “domain name server” holds a domain name and an IP address of the domain name in association with each other. Therefore, a candidate for the domain name is generated using appropriate words, and it is checked whether there is an IP address that includes the relevant domain name. If so, the IP address is associated with the domain name and Obtain and use it.

Fifth Embodiment Configuration> FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a functional block according to a fifth embodiment. As shown in this figure, the URL acquisition device of the present embodiment includes a word storage unit, a search domain name generation unit, and a DNSURL acquisition unit.

The “Koba Accumulator” accumulates words in one of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean languages.

The “search domain name generation unit” uses the words stored in the word storage unit to generate a search domain name described in the domain name format. For example, the word “boutik” stored in the word storage unit is used to generate a domain name “boutik. Jp”.

The “DNSURL acquisition unit” sends the search domain name generated by the search domain name generation unit to the DNS server, and obtains IP address information that is information indicating the IP address corresponding to the domain name. I do. 02241

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<Fifth Embodiment Process Flow> FIG. 11 shows a process flow of the fifth embodiment. As shown in this figure, the fifth embodiment uses a word accumulation step in which words in any one of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean are accumulated, and a word accumulated in the word accumulation step. , A search domain name generation step for generating a search domain name described in the domain name format, and a search domain name generated in the search domain name generation step for a DNS server (domain name server). A DNS IP address acquisition step of acquiring IP address information that is information indicating a corresponding IP address by transmitting the URL to the IP address.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited only to the above-described embodiment, and it is needless to say that various changes can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.

<Other Embodiments> In addition to those described above, there seems to be demand for conventional search engines. In such a case, it is better to be able to select both as described below.

In other words, a search engine on the Internet that searches only the domain name using search terms when searching the homepage, or the content of information disclosed on the homepage A search engine using the domain link information output device according to any one of Embodiments 1 to 4, wherein the search engine can also select whether or not to use the information. Industrial applicability

ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to the domain link information output apparatus of this invention, since a domain name can be searched directly using ideographic characters, for example, the language of a language using a kanji as a search word, the homepage which provides the target information is provided. It is possible to obtain an excellent effect that it is possible to access the information efficiently.

Claims

The scope of the claims

1. A domain URL information storage unit that stores a domain name and URL information that is information indicating a URL in association with each other, a word input unit for inputting a language using ideographic characters, A URL information acquisition unit for acquiring URL information associated with the domain name including the word entered in the word input unit from the domain URL information storage unit, and a URL based on the information acquired by the URL information acquisition unit. A URL link information output unit that outputs link information that is information for linking to a domain link information output device.

2. Enter the domain URL information storage unit that stores the domain name and URL information that is the information indicating the URL in association with each other, and enter the language in one of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. A URL information acquisition unit for acquiring from the domain URL information storage unit URL information associated with the domain name including the words entered in the language input unit, and a URL information acquisition unit. A domain link information output device, comprising: a URL link information output unit that outputs link information that is information for linking to the URL based on the acquired information.

3. A domain URL information storage unit that stores the domain name and URL information that is information indicating the URL in association with each other, and for inputting words in one of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Word input part, a search word generation part that generates a search word based on the word input in the word input part, and a URL associated with a domain name including the search word generated by the search word generation part A URL information acquisition unit that acquires information from the domain URL information storage unit; and a URL resource that outputs link information that is information for linking to the URL based on the information acquired by the URL information acquisition unit. Link information output section A domain link information output device having a.

4. The domain library according to claim 2, wherein the search word generated by the search word generation unit is any one or a combination of two or more of synonyms, derivatives, and antonyms of words input to the word input unit. Link information output device.

5. Word storage using words stored in one of the languages Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, and a search written in the domain name format using words stored in the word storage Search domain name generation section The search domain name generation section and the search domain name generated by the search domain name generation section are sent to a DNS server (domain 'name' server), and the corresponding IP A URL acquisition device comprising: a DNS IP address acquisition unit that acquires IP address information that is information indicating an address;

6. A domain URL information storage step in which the domain name is associated with URL information that is information indicating a URL and stored, and a word input step for inputting a language word using ideographic characters. A URL information acquisition step of acquiring URL information associated with a domain name including a word entered in the word input step from the domain URL information accumulation step, and a URL information acquisition step of acquiring A URL link information output step of outputting link information, which is information for linking to the URL, and a domain link information output method comprising:

7. Domain URL information storage step that stores the domain name and URL information that is the information indicating the URL in association with each other, and for inputting the language in any one of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean A URL input step for obtaining the URL information associated with the domain name including the words entered in the word input step from the domain URL information accumulating step; Outputs link information that is information for linking to the URL based on the information A URL link information output step, and a method of outputting domain link information.

8. Domain URL information storage step that stores the domain name and URL information that is the information indicating the URL in association with each other, and for inputting the language in one of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean The word input step and the search word generation step that generates a search word based on the words entered in the word input step, and the URL associated with the domain name that includes the search word generated in the search word generation step URL information obtaining step of obtaining information from the domain URL information storage step, and outputting link information that is information for linking to the URL based on the information obtained in the URL information obtaining step. A URL link information output method, comprising: a URL link information output step.

9. The search word according to claim 2, wherein the search word generated in the search word generation step is one or a combination of synonyms, derivatives, and antonyms of words input in the word input step. Output method of domain link information.

10. Using the words stored in one of the languages of Japanese, Chinese, or Korean, and the words stored in the word storage step, the domain name is used. A search domain name generation step for generating a search domain name described in the format, and the search domain name generated in the search domain name generation step are transmitted to a DNS server (domain 'name' server). A DNS IP address obtaining step of obtaining IP address information which is information indicating a corresponding IP address, and a URL obtaining method comprising:

1 1. A search engine on the Internet that searches for websites using search terms to search only domain names or the content of information disclosed on the website. Domain link information according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the domain link information can be targeted or selected. Search engine using output device.