WO2014051205A1

WO2014051205A1 - Apparatus for displaying search results for keyword inputted by user

Info

Publication number: WO2014051205A1
Application number: PCT/KR2012/010197
Authority: WO
Inventors: 이우영; 정대수; 천명곤; 박민철
Original assignee: (주)씨이랩
Priority date: 2012-09-27
Filing date: 2012-11-29
Publication date: 2014-04-03
Also published as: KR101378524B1

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for displaying search results for a keyword inputted by a user, which includes: a keyword input unit for enabling a user to input a keyword which is a search target; a keyword search unit which searches for the keyword inputted by the user; a search result DB storing search result data found by the keyword search unit; a relevance-calculating unit calculating the relevance of the search result data found by the keyword search unit according to a preset relevance-determining policy; a screen region calculating unit blocking a screen region which is displayed to the user having inputted the keyword according to the relevance of the search result data, which is calculated by the relevance-calculating unit, and calculating the shape, size, and color of the blocked screen region; and a screen region display unit displaying the shape, size, and color of the blocked screen region calculated by the screen region calculating unit.

Description

Search result display device for keywords entered by the user

The present invention relates to a search result display apparatus for a keyword input by a user. More specifically, the present invention relates to a search result display apparatus that can help the user's intuitive understanding by calculating the importance of each search result in displaying the search results and using a visual display method based on the importance.

Internet search technology has been developed by many portal service providers such as Naver as well as Internet search services such as Google and Yahoo. It is widely known as the majority of Internet users use search technology directly and indirectly. It is one of the technologies.

In the case of direct Internet search, the list and ranking of keyword related words (relative terms) determined by the user's own method of displaying related web pages in the form of a list of keywords (user input keywords) entered by the user in the search box of the corresponding Internet search service. Shows. In the case of an indirect Internet search, the ranking according to the frequency of input keywords of other users in the current or specific time zone or the ranking of the frequency of visits of web pages by other users (popular page ranking) is displayed.

As the recent trend of internet search, the demand for social search is steadily increasing with the development of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc., and the social search shows a difference in services provided according to the characteristics of each social media service. . In particular, the distinction from the existing search service, which is centered on social search, is being developed in the form of detecting opinions on the Internet related to keywords beyond the scope of simple related information extraction.

Most Internet search services, including social search, have adopted a list display method by ranking in order to display search results. The general structure of the display method based on ranking takes the method of calculating the relevance of the search result through its own method and expressing the list of search results in the order of high relevance. This method has a main purpose in showing a large amount of results on a limited size terminal display device (monitor, terminal screen, etc.).

However, the list display method according to the prior art has a limitation in expressing the importance of the actual search result, that is, the quality of the search result by focusing on the quantitative expression of the search result.

In addition, according to the prior art list display method, it is difficult for a user to intuitively understand the importance of a keyword inputted by the user and a search result thereof, and thus there is a problem in that user convenience related to the search is inferior.

The present invention is to display the Internet search results for the user input keywords, by breaking the conventional simple list display method based on the ranking by providing a screen that is displayed visually to the user according to the importance of the search results for the search results It is a technical task to raise the intuitive understanding of a user.

More specifically, the present invention solves the limitations of the display of results in the form of a list by rank, which is a search result presentation method provided by the existing Internet search service, that is, the two-way expression of results and the quality of the results. It is a technical task to provide a method for a user to understand the results of a search more intuitively by presenting an expression method.

In order to solve this problem, a search result display apparatus for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention includes a keyword input unit for inputting a keyword to be searched by a user, a keyword search unit for searching for a keyword input by the user, and A search result DB for storing the search result data searched by the keyword search unit, a importance calculation unit for calculating the importance of the search result data searched by the keyword search unit according to a preset importance determination policy, and calculated by the importance calculation unit The screen area calculation unit and the block area calculated by the screen area calculation unit block the screen area displayed to the user who inputs the keyword according to the importance of the search result data, and calculate the shape, size, and color of the blocked screen area. The shape, size, and color of the screen area It is configured to include a screen area display.

A search result display apparatus for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention, wherein the keyword input by the user includes at least one of text, an image, and a video.

In the search result display apparatus for the keyword input by the user according to the present invention, the search method by the keyword search unit is a method for searching the data of the web document existing on the Internet and the data present in the social media And a method of searching a database in which data is stored in advance.

A search result display apparatus for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention, wherein the keyword search unit collects data searched by another search engine preset for the same keyword to obtain the search result data. .

In the search result display apparatus for the keyword input by the user according to the present invention, the search result DB is characterized in that the search result data searched by the keyword search unit is accumulated for later use.

A search result display apparatus for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention, wherein the importance calculation unit searches the keyword based on the correlation between the search result data searched by the keyword search unit and the keyword input by the user. The importance of the search result data retrieved by the unit is calculated.

A search result display apparatus for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention, wherein the correlation between the search result data and the keyword is a frequency at which the keyword exists on a web document at the time when the keyword is input by the user. And calculated based on the frequency searched in association with the search for the keyword and the number and weights explicitly specified by the associated word by another user or search service operator.

In the apparatus for displaying a search result for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention, the importance calculator is configured to search the keyword based on the number of search times and the search time searched for the same keyword by another search engine. It is characterized by calculating the importance of the search result data retrieved by.

In the apparatus for displaying a search result for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention, the importance calculator is configured to search by the other search engine and the keyword by the user as the number of searches by the other search engine increases. The shorter the time difference from the input time point, the higher importance is given to the search result data.

In the device for displaying a search result for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention, the screen area calculation unit groups the search result data searched by the keyword search unit in order of importance, and gives the same color for each group, The main screen may be generated by adjusting the size of the group in proportion to the importance.

In the search result display apparatus for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention, each group constituting the main screen is blocked into subgroups, and the user selects one subgroup among the subgroups. In this case, the main screen may be switched to a sub screen indicating a search result of the selected subgroup.

In a device for displaying a search result for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention, the shape of a blocked screen area calculated and generated by the screen area calculator is determined by an area allocation method using a treemap or a squared treemap or a Voronoi diagram. It is characterized by.

According to the present invention, in displaying an Internet search result for a user input keyword, the screen is displayed visually to the user according to the importance of the search result by breaking the conventional simple list display method by the prior ranking, thereby providing the search result. There is an effect that can increase the user's intuitive understanding of.

More specifically, by presenting the results of Internet search through the area allocation method according to the degree of importance, the method of expressing the quality of the results (importance) is presented beyond the method of expressing the results centered on the results provided by the existing Internet search and opinion detection service. By doing so, the user can understand the results of the search more intuitively.

1 is a view showing a search result display apparatus for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention.

2 is a view for explaining an example of a specific operation of the search result display apparatus for the keyword input by the user according to the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a search screen provided to a user by an area allocation method using a Voronoi diagram according to one embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of various screen area divisions by a screen area calculator, according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of cell-based area division by an area allocation method using a Voronoi diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Referring to FIG. 1, a search result display apparatus for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention includes a keyword input unit 10, a keyword search unit 20, a search result DB 30, an importance calculator 40, And a screen area calculation unit 50 and a screen area display unit 60.

The keyword input unit 10 is a means for the user to input a keyword to be searched. The keyword input unit 10 may be a search box on a web browser that provides an Internet search service. In addition to the search box of the web browser, the keyword search unit 20 may be applied as long as the user on an independent application can express various targets.

For example, a keyword input by a user may be in various formats such as a text or an image or a video in a word or sentence form.

The keyword search unit 20 is a means for searching for a keyword input by a user. The keyword search unit 20 may use various search methods such as a search system through a search engine used by various general Internet search services, a social search function used by various social media services, and a search for a database of pre-stored web documents on the Internet. Can be used. That is, the search method by the keyword search unit 20 may include a method of searching for data of a web document existing on the Internet, a method of searching for data existing in social media, and a method of searching a database in which data is stored in advance. Can be configured.

In addition, the keyword search unit 20 may be configured to collect data searched by another search engine preset for the same keyword to obtain search result data.

The search result DB 30 performs a function of storing the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20, and the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 is later used in the search result DB 30. Accumulate continuously for

The importance calculator 40 calculates the importance of the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 according to a preset importance determination policy.

As an example, the importance calculator 40 may calculate the importance of the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 based on the correlation between the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 and the keyword input by the user. It can be configured to calculate the.

In this case, the association between the search result data and the keyword is specified by the frequency with which the keyword is present in the web document and the frequency with which the keyword is searched in conjunction with the search for the keyword at the time the keyword is entered by the user and by another user or search service operator. In general, it may be configured to be calculated based on the number of times and the weight specified as the association word.

As another example, the importance calculation unit 40 is configured to calculate the importance of the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 based on the number of searches and the search time searched for the same keyword by another search engine. Can be.

In this case, the importance calculation unit 40 may have a higher importance for the search result data as the time difference between the search time by another search engine and the time when the keyword is input by the user is shorter as the number of searches by other search engines increases. Can be configured to impart.

The screen area calculator 50 blocks the screen area displayed to the user who inputs a keyword according to the importance of the search result data calculated by the importance calculator 40 and changes the shape, size, and color of the blocked screen area. Perform the function of calculating.

For example, the screen area calculator 50 groups the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 in the order of importance calculated by the importance calculator 40, and gives the same color for each group. It may be configured to generate a main screen by adjusting the size of the group in proportion to the importance. 3 illustrates an example of a search screen provided to a user by an area allocation method using a Voronoi diagram.

Also, for example, each group constituting the main screen is blocked into subgroups, and when the user selects one of the subgroups displayed through the main screen, the main screen is selected by the user. The display may be configured to switch to a sub screen indicating a search result of the group. The search results for keywords entered by the user are primarily provided to the user through the main screen, and when the user selects one of the subgroups displayed through the main screen, the main screen is displayed by the user. The sub screen indicating the search result of the selected subgroup is switched.

Meanwhile, for example, the shape of the blocked screen area calculated and generated by the screen area calculator 50 may be determined by an area allocation method using a treemap, a squared treemap, or a Voronoi diagram. An example of various screen area divisions by the screen area calculation unit 50 is shown in FIG. 4, and an example of cell unit area division by an area allocation method using a Voronoi diagram is shown in FIG. 5.

The screen area display unit 60 is a means for visually displaying the shape, size and color of the blocked screen area calculated by the screen area calculator 50 to the user.

Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 2, an example of a specific operation of a search result display apparatus for a keyword input by a user according to the present invention will be described.

2, first, in step S10, a user inputs a keyword to be searched through the keyword input unit 10 such as a search box on a web browser. The keyword input by the user may be in various formats such as a text or an image or a video in a word or sentence form.

Next, in step S20, the keyword search unit 20 searches for the keyword input by the user according to a preset search method on the Internet. The search method by the keyword search unit 20 may include a method of searching for data of a web document existing on the Internet, a method of searching for data existing in social media, and a method of searching a database in which data is stored in advance. .

In step S30, a process of storing the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 in the search result DB 30 is performed. In this search result DB 30, the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 is continuously accumulated for later use.

In step S40, the importance calculator 40 calculates the importance of the search result data according to a preset importance determination policy.

An example of the importance determination policy applied in step S40 is as follows.

As an example, the importance calculator 40 may calculate the importance of the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 based on the correlation between the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 and the keyword input by the user. Calculate In this case, the association between the search result data and the keyword is specified by the frequency with which the keyword is present in the web document and the frequency with which the keyword is searched in conjunction with the search for the keyword at the time the keyword is entered by the user and by another user or search service operator. In general, it is calculated based on the number and weights of the associated words.

As another example, the importance calculator 40 calculates the importance of the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 based on the number of searches and the search time searched for the same keyword by another search engine. In this case, the importance calculation unit 40 may have a higher importance for the search result data as the time difference between the search time by another search engine and the time when the keyword is input by the user is shorter as the number of searches by other search engines increases. Grant.

In step S50, the screen area calculation unit 50 blocks the screen area displayed to the user who inputs a keyword according to the importance of the search result data calculated by the importance calculation unit 40, and displays the shape of the blocked screen area. The process of calculating the size and color is performed. More specifically, the screen area calculator 50 groups the search result data searched by the keyword search unit 20 in the order of importance calculated by the importance calculator 40, and gives the same color for each group. The main screen is created by adjusting the size of the group in proportion to the importance. In addition, each group constituting the main screen is blocked into subgroups, and when the user selects one subgroup among the subgroups displayed through the main screen, the main screen is divided into subgroups selected by the user. The sub screen showing the search results is switched.

In operation S60, a process of displaying the shape, size, and color of the blocked screen region calculated by the screen region calculator 50 to the user through the screen region display unit 60 is performed.

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, in displaying an Internet search result for a user input keyword, a screen which is visually displayed to the user according to the importance of the search result by avoiding the simple list display method based on the conventional ranking is displayed. By providing a block, the user can intuitively understand the search results.

Although the technical spirit of the present invention has been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, the present invention has been described by way of example and is not intended to limit the present invention. In addition, it is obvious that any person skilled in the art may make various modifications and imitations without departing from the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

Claims

A search result display apparatus for a keyword input by a user,

A keyword input unit for inputting a keyword to be searched by a user;

A keyword search unit for searching for a keyword input by the user;

A search result DB for storing search result data searched by the keyword search unit;

An importance calculation unit for calculating the importance of the search result data searched by the keyword search unit according to a predetermined importance determination policy;

A screen area calculator configured to block the screen area displayed to the user who inputs the keyword according to the importance of the search result data calculated by the importance calculator, and calculate the shape, size, and color of the blocked screen area; And

And a screen area display unit displaying the shape, size, and color of the blocked screen area calculated by the screen area calculator.
The method of claim 1,

The keyword input by the user includes at least one of a text, an image, and a video, the search result display apparatus for the keyword input by the user.
The method of claim 1,

The search method by the keyword search unit

A method for retrieving data of a web document existing on the Internet, a method for retrieving data existing in social media, and a method for retrieving a database in which the data is pre-stored. Search result display device.
The method of claim 1,

And the keyword search unit collects data searched by another search engine preset for the same keyword to obtain the search result data.
The method of claim 1,

And the search result data searched by the keyword search unit is stored for later use in the search result DB.
The method of claim 1,

The importance calculator calculates the importance of the search result data searched by the keyword searcher based on the correlation between the search result data searched by the keyword searcher and the keyword input by the user. Search result display device for the keyword entered by.
The method of claim 6,

The correlation between the search result data and the keyword is related to the frequency at which the keyword exists in a web document at the time when the keyword is input by the user, the frequency searched in association with the search for the keyword, and other users or search service operators. The search result display apparatus for the keyword input by the user, characterized in that calculated based on the number and weight explicitly specified by the associated word.
The method of claim 1,

The importance calculator calculates the importance of the search result data searched by the keyword search unit based on the number of searches and the time point of searching the same keyword by another preset search engine. Device for displaying search results for generated keywords.
The method of claim 8,

The importance calculation unit assigns higher importance to the search result data as the number of searches by the other search engine increases, and as the time difference between the search point by the other search engine and the time point when the keyword is input by the user is shorter. The search result display apparatus for the keyword input by the user, characterized by the above-mentioned.
The method of claim 1,

The screen area calculator may generate the main screen by grouping the search result data searched by the keyword search unit in the order of importance, assigning the same color to each group, and adjusting the size of the group in proportion to the importance. , Search result display device for the keyword entered by the user.
The method of claim 10,

Each group constituting the main screen is divided into sub groups,

And when the user selects one of the subgroups, the main screen is switched to a sub screen indicating a search result of the selected subgroup. The search result display apparatus for the keyword input by the user.
The method of claim 10,

The shape of the blocked screen area calculated and generated by the screen area calculation unit is determined by an area allocation method using a treemap or a squared treemap or a Voronoi diagram, and displays a search result for a keyword input by a user. Device.