JP2002092028A - Content collection and distribution system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contents collection and distribution system capable of easily acquiring web site information whose evaluation is high in a community from among information which is unknown by a site manager or a community user in a community site using a network, and activating the information exchange of the mutual users who have the same tastes in the community. SOLUTION: This system is provided with a retrieval executing part 1 for executing keyword retrieval by a terminal connected to the Internet, a retrieved result display part 2, a user evaluated result storing part 4, and a contents extracting part 5 so that it is possible to acquire highly attractive web site information valid for a community site. Then, the retrieval keywords or the like of mutual users are stored and utilized so that the information exchange of those users can be performed in a community.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for activating a community site which is installed on a network and exchanges information and shares information between users having similar kinds of hobbies and preferences.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as content installed on the Internet, a large number of community sites established for the purpose of exchanging information and sharing information between users having similar hobbies and preferences have appeared. The feature of the community site is that information is actively transmitted not only from the community site manager but also from users belonging to the community.

[0003] In order to activate information exchange and information sharing in a community site, it is very important to improve the quality of information provided in the site. As information to be provided, link information to websites scattered on the Internet cannot be neglected. This is because a community with a link to an excellent website can be used as a community portal site so that the community can be activated by browsing and participating by many people.

[0004]

However, the current community site as described above has the following problems when storing other website information.

[0005] First, information to be provided is limited to information known to a site manager or a user.

[0006] The contents of information provided by site administrators and users are dispersed according to the preferences of each user.

[0007] In addition, an enormous number of websites on the Internet are increasing day by day. For this reason, collecting new information widely in the community site is an extremely burdensome operation for the manager and the user.

[0008] Further, website information that is good for many community users is not always displayed on the community site, and even if the community site has the same kind of hobby, each user has different preferences. For this reason, the website information provided at the discretion of the site manager or each user is not always preferable information for everyone.

[0009] Further, if the user groups are further classified in the community with similar preferences, it is effective to activate other website information and other information exchange between the classified user groups. However, at that time, it was necessary to efficiently perform a task of extracting users having similar preferences.

[0010] The present invention has been made in view of these problems, and in a community site using a network, information of a website that is generally highly evaluated in the community among information that the site administrator or the community user did not know is used. It is an object of the present invention to provide a content collection / distribution system that can easily obtain information and activate information exchange between users having the same preference in a community.

[0011]

According to the present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a user who belongs to a community site on a network searches for a desired content on a search site. A collection and distribution system, comprising: a search execution unit capable of searching for content information from the search site using a keyword related to the community site; and a search for displaying and outputting the content information obtained by the search execution unit to a terminal of the user. A result display unit, a user input of the evaluation of the content information by the search result display unit, the user evaluation result extraction unit for extracting the result, and a result extracted and stored by the user evaluation result extraction unit. User evaluation result storage means to perform, and storage contents of the user evaluation result storage means Based extracts Rated content information, and solutions have a content collection and delivery system characterized by having a content extraction means for storing in the community site.

Further, according to the present invention described in claim 2,
On the network, a search word storage unit in which search keywords desired by the user to be searched are stored, and a search word distribution unit for distributing the search keywords are arranged, and before the search execution unit executes the search. And a search word extracting means for extracting the search keyword from the search word storage means.

According to the third aspect of the present invention,
A user similarity calculating unit that calculates a similarity of the preference of each user based on the storage content of the user evaluation result storing unit; and a user similarity calculating unit that has a high similarity to the user based on a result of the user similarity calculating unit. Provided to the search result display means and obtains the content information which is highly evaluated by the user, and the search result display means can display the content information from the provided information distribution means. The content collection and distribution system according to any one of claims 1 and 2 is a solution.

Further, according to the present invention described in claim 4,
An interface character display unit for displaying an interface character for providing guidance to the user on information display and information input based on the results of the search result display unit and the user evaluation result extraction unit; and an operation content of the interface character. 4. The storage device according to claim 1, further comprising: an agent operation storage unit that is stored; and an agent operation control unit that controls an operation of the interface character in accordance with the information input state of the user and information being displayed. The content collection and distribution system according to any one of the above is a solution.

Further, according to the present invention described in claim 5,
A search history storage unit that stores search keywords input by the user, website information obtained by the search keywords, and date and time information at that time as search history information, wherein at least the search is performed in the search result display unit. The content collection / distribution system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein information to be displayed is determined with reference to an output result of the history storage means.

According to the present invention described in claim 6,
6. The content collection / distribution system according to claim 5, wherein the search word extracting unit extracts a search word by referring to at least contents of the search history storage unit.

Further, according to the present invention described in claim 7,
7. The user evaluation result extraction unit according to claim 5, wherein the user evaluation result extraction unit outputs content information related to the community site to the user evaluation result accumulation unit by referring to at least contents of the search history accumulation unit. The content collection / distribution system described in any one of them is a solution.

Further, according to the present invention described in claim 8,
A document storage means for storing a document created by the user at the terminal, wherein the search word extraction means can extract a desired search word by referring to at least the contents of the document storage means. The content collection and distribution system according to any one of Items 2 to 7 is a solution.

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS First, an overview of an entire system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 9, the content collection / delivery system of the present invention includes three components: a client terminal, a search site, and a community site. In the following, description will be made assuming an Internet environment as a network.

The client terminal is a terminal with a network connection function for a user to participate in a community site. For example, a personal computer having an Internet connection function can be used.

A search site is a site to which a user can connect and from which content such as a website on the Internet can be searched. For example, a search portal site can be used. If a search site that can extract new content as much as possible is used, it is possible to increase the possibility of presenting new and unknown information to users in the community.

The community site can be constituted by a website created for gathering people with a particular hobby or people of an age group. And this site displays the link information of the website related to the community.

<First Embodiment> An embodiment according to claim 1 constituted by the processing blocks of FIG. 1 will be described.

The search execution unit 1 connects to a search site from a personal computer and performs a search using a keyword related to a community. The search keyword is specified in advance by the user or the community site. For example, in the case of the fishing community site, "Lure", "Spoon", "Fishing pole",
“Reel” or the like can be a keyword. In addition, the number of keywords for performing a search need not always be one. For example, it is also possible to make a search with AND conditions such as “fishing” and “spoon”. If only “spoon” is used as a search keyword, information that is not related to fishing may be extracted. However, if both “fishing” and “spoon” are used as search keywords, it is easy to extract information related to the fishing community. Become.

In the search result display unit 2, the search execution unit 1
One or a plurality of websites are selected from the search results and displayed on the user's personal computer. For display, a WWW browser is used. If there are multiple websites obtained as a result of the search:-Websites with a high match rate in the search results.

[0027] A website that has been randomly extracted.

Is displayed. Hereinafter, the title of the website displayed on the search result display unit 2 is referred to as a website K for explanation.

In the user evaluation result extraction unit 3, the user evaluates the degree of interest in the contents of the website K displayed on the WWW browser by the output of the search result display unit 2. FIG. 10 shows an example of the interface of the evaluation result extraction unit 3. The user expresses his / her interest in the website K in FIG. 10 by moving the slide in FIG.

The user evaluation result accumulating section 4 accumulates the evaluation result of the website K obtained by the processing of the evaluation result extracting section 3 and information related thereto on a hard disk or the like placed on a community site. The information to be stored is, for example, in the database example of FIG. User ID, UR
L and the evaluation result are accumulated. Here, the user ID is
It is assigned to each user in advance to identify a community user. The evaluation result of FIG.
It was expressed by a numerical value when it was evaluated on a five-point scale of 1 (uninteresting), 2 (uninteresting), 3 (ordinary), 4 (interesting), and 5 (interesting). If there is a privacy problem, the user ID may not be stored.

The content extraction unit 5 extracts, from the data statistics of the user evaluation storage unit 4, a website K to which many users are interested. The extraction criteria for website K are:
For example, it can be obtained by using an average value Δ (X) of R (I, K) (I = 1,..., N) as a result of evaluation of the website K by N users.

Δ (X) = ΣR (I, K) / N Δ (X)> Th (Th: threshold) → It is determined that the website has many users interested.

Here, the subscript I represents the index of the user who has evaluated the website K. The website K obtained by the above determination formula is accumulated as useful content for the community site. For example, website K is displayed as web link information on a community site.

According to the above configuration, information which the user of the community site could not know becomes easy to be presented to each user. Therefore, there is a possibility that information that the user did not know becomes a target of the community content.
Also, this information is evaluated by many community users. From the total of the evaluation results, it is possible to provide the user who has visited the community site with the website link information supported by many users. That is, by using the system of the present invention, it is possible to construct a community site that is recognized by many users as having rich website information.

<Second Embodiment> An embodiment according to claim 2 constituted by the processing blocks of FIG. 2 will be described. According to the second aspect of the present invention, a search word storage unit 6, a search word distribution unit 7, and a search word extraction unit 8 are connected to the first aspect of the invention.

The processing of the search execution unit 1 is slightly different from the processing of the first embodiment due to the above connection.

Except for the above, the operation is the same as that of the first embodiment. Hereinafter, the search word storage unit 6, the search word distribution unit 7,
The search word extraction unit 8 and the search execution unit 1 will be described.

The search word storage section 6 stores words related to the community. For example, in the case of a fishing community, it is assumed that words as shown in FIG. 12 are accumulated. In this figure, if the keyword "black bass" is included only during the breeding season of black bass (early spring to early summer) and the time of black bass release at a well-known fishing spot such as Lake Kawaguchi (for example, September), the fishing community It is possible to have the user evaluate information that is in fashion.

The search word distribution unit 7 receives a request from the search word extraction unit 8 configured on the user's personal computer, and transmits the keywords stored in the search word storage unit 6. The number of keywords transmitted is not limited to one.
For example, a plurality of keywords may be transmitted, and the search word extracting unit 8 may select them from among them. The selection method at that time may be the following method, and some or all of them may be used depending on the convenience of the community site.

-Choose casually.

Selection is made by reflecting the search history of the user.

A keyword in consideration of the timing, in the above example, "black bus" is preferentially selected.

Select the same keyword for all users.

Select different keywords for each user.

A method for extracting a keyword using a search history will be described later. Search execution unit 1
Causes the search based on the keyword output from the search word extraction unit 8.

With the above configuration, it is possible to make a configuration in which websites reflecting the trend of the world are easily gathered on the community site. Also, by concentrating websites evaluated by users on information extracted from certain keywords, it is possible to obtain many evaluation results for certain contents from many users. Alternatively, it is possible to distribute websites evaluated by users by distributing different keywords to each user.

<Third Embodiment> An embodiment according to claim 3 constituted by the processing blocks of FIG. 3 will be described. According to the third aspect of the present invention, a user similarity calculation unit 9 and a provided information distribution unit 10 are connected to the second aspect of the invention.

According to the connection described above, the processing of the search result display unit 2 is slightly different from the processing of the second embodiment.

Except for this point, the operation is the same as that of the first embodiment.

Hereinafter, the functions of the user similarity calculation unit 9, the provided information distribution unit 10, and the search result display unit 2 will be described.

The user similarity calculation unit 9 calculates the similarity between users based on the data stored in the user evaluation storage unit 4. An example of the calculation method will be described using a database example 2 of the user evaluation result accumulation unit 4 in FIG. Note that FIG.
Is a modification of the database expression of FIG. 11 and has the same contents. As shown in FIG. 13, user (I): user whose user ID is I R (I, K): evaluation result of user (I) for website K At this time, the similarity (J, K) between the user (I) and the user (J) can be calculated by the following equation.

C (I, J) = Σ | R (I, K) -R
(J, K) | / M Here, M is the number of websites evaluated for both the user (I) and the user (J). Sum Σ is a website K (K = 1, K = 1, rated by both user (I) and user (J)).
.., M). In this indicator, C
It is considered that the closer the value of (I, J) is to 0, the higher the similarity of the preference between the users. For example, when calculating C (1,2) from FIG. 13, C (1,2) = (| R (1,1) -R (2,1) | + |
R (1,1) -R (2,1) | + | R (1,1) -R
(3,1) |) / 3 = (| 3-5 | + | 1-4 | + | 2
-3 |) / 3 = 2 Similarly, C (1,3) = 0.333 ... C (2,3) = 1.666 ... Therefore, in this case, the user (1) and the user (3) can be regarded as having a high degree of similarity in taste.

The provided information distribution unit 10 provides information of a website to which another user who has a similar preference gives a certain user a high evaluation. To do this,
It is necessary to search for another user who has a similar preference to one user. For example, when trying to find a user similar to the user (I), the following discriminant may be used.

C (I, J) <CTh → User (J)
Determines that the preference is similar to the user (I).

CTh is a threshold value set from the outside. In FIG. 13, if CTh = 1, C (1,
3) = 0.333..., It can be determined that the user (1) and the user (3) have similar preferences. Then, the user (1) transmits a website 5 (a website corresponding to R (I, 5)) that the user (1) has not seen himself and has been highly evaluated by the user (3) to the information distribution unit 10, Search result display part 2
Can be browsed through. In addition, in order to realize the above operation, the search result display unit 2 can display not only the result of the search execution unit 1 but also the output result of the provided information distribution unit 10.

With the above system configuration, it is possible to distribute to a user (I) website information that is highly evaluated by a user (I) who has similar preferences to a user (I).

Further, by inputting information on the user similarity to the word search and distribution section 7, for example, a search word used when the user (I) searches for a website with a high evaluation can be used to search for a similarity in taste. Distribution to the user (J). (However, in this case, the search keyword also needs to be stored in the user evaluation result storage unit 4.) This makes it possible to provide a website similar to the website that the user (J) gave a high evaluation. Becomes

<Fourth Embodiment> An embodiment according to claim 4 constituted by the processing blocks of FIG. 4 will be described. According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the third aspect, the agent operation storage unit 11 and the agent operation control unit 12 are connected to each other.

Except for the above, the operation is the same as that of the third embodiment. Hereinafter, the agent operation storage unit 11 and the agent operation control unit 12 will be described.

FIG. 14 is an image diagram of a client terminal using an agent character. The agent action storage unit 11 stores action patterns of characters resident on the user's personal computer screen. The operation of the agent is controlled by the agent operation control unit 12. For example, when the user is interested in the website displayed for the agent, the agent operation control unit 12 requests the agent operation storage unit 11 for data indicating a joyful operation.
Then, the agent can show an expression of joy via the agent operation control unit 12. When operating a computer, such as when a user evaluates information, a voice command can be used.

With the above system configuration, it is possible for the user to enhance the entertainment property for browsing and evaluating the website information brought by the present system.

<Fifth Embodiment> The fifth embodiment constituted by the processing blocks of FIG. 5 will be described. According to the fifth aspect of the present invention: ・ In the fourth aspect of the present invention, the search history accumulation unit 13 is connected.

With the above connection, the processing of the search result display unit 2 is slightly different from the processing of the fourth embodiment.

Except for this point, the operation is the same as that of the fourth embodiment. Hereinafter, the search history storage unit 13 and the search result display unit 2
Will be described.

FIG. 15 is an example of a database of the search history storage unit 13. The information stored in this database is
A search keyword, an index S indicating whether the search keyword is the user's own search or a search by the present system, the URL of a website viewed by the user by the search, and the date and time when the website was displayed are displayed. Here, the index S is defined as follows.

S = 1: Search in which the user himself / herself has input a search keyword S = 0: Search by the system of the present invention The search result display unit 2 is connected to the search history storage unit 13, Websites that are the same as websites that users visit
Even when input from the provided information distribution unit 7 or the result of the search site, it is not displayed to the user.

With the system configuration described above, it is possible to prevent the user from displaying a known website recently viewed by the user, thereby improving the user's convenience.

<Sixth Embodiment> An embodiment according to claim 6 constituted by the processing blocks of FIG. 6 will be described. According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, the operation is the same as that of the fifth embodiment except that the processing of the search word extracting unit 8 is slightly different from the processing of the fifth embodiment. Hereinafter, the search word extraction unit 8 will be described.

In the search word extracting section 8, the search word distribution section 7
The search word is determined with reference to the data of the search history storage unit 13 in addition to the output of the search word. For example, a word searched within a certain number of days is not output from the search word extracting unit 8.

As an example, the processing of the search word extraction unit 8 when there is the database shown in FIG. 15 will be described. When the current date is April 30, 2000, and the search execution unit 1 is to be started from now on, “fishing & reel” and “fishing”, which are recently used as search words, are extracted as search keywords. The output from the unit 8 is prevented. In addition, if there are words that are searched intensively at a certain time, for example, a keyword that appears as a search keyword many times in the same time zone on the same day and does not appear at other dates and times Is stored in the search history storage unit 13, the keyword is regarded as information that the user wanted to know temporarily, and this keyword can not be used as a search keyword.

With the system configuration described above, it is possible to reduce the provision of information that is already known to the user and information that the user may temporarily want to know.

<Seventh Embodiment> An embodiment according to claim 6 constituted by the processing blocks of FIG. 7 will be described. According to the seventh aspect of the invention, the operation is the same as that of the sixth embodiment except that the processing of the user evaluation result extraction unit 3 is slightly different from the processing of the sixth embodiment. Hereinafter, the user evaluation result extraction unit 3 will be described.

The user evaluation result extracting unit 3 refers to the database of the search history storage unit 13 and refers not only to the website information having the high user evaluation, but also to the website information estimated to have the high user evaluation. The result is stored in the result storage unit 4. For example, a website that satisfies both of the following conditions is regarded as a website designated as having a high user rating.

A website obtained by a user's own search (S = 1) A website searched for a keyword related to a community A user has seen more than U times within a certain period T Website Here, the keyword related to the community may be determined based on, for example, whether or not the same word is included in the search word storage unit 6.

According to the above reference judgment, for example, T = 3
If U = 3 times on day 0, htt in FIG.
It can be estimated that p: //www.hhh.com is highly rated by users.
This website uses the keyword "fishing". Then, the website information is stored in the evaluation result storage unit 4 as a website (R (I, K) = 5) with a high user evaluation.

With the above system configuration, it is possible to extract website information having a high user evaluation without receiving the information evaluation of the user. As a result, it becomes possible to collect more website information of the community site, and the activation of the community site can be expected. Further, the user similarity calculation unit 9 also increases the user similarity calculation data, and can expect an effect of increasing the accuracy of the calculation data.

<Eighth Embodiment> An eighth embodiment comprising the processing blocks of FIG. 8 will be described. According to the eighth aspect of the present invention: ・ In the invention of the eighth aspect, the electronic document storage section 14 is connected. ・ According to the above connection, the processing of the search word extracting section 8 is the processing of the seventh embodiment. The operation is the same as that of the seventh embodiment except that the operation is slightly different from that of the seventh embodiment. Hereinafter, the electronic document storage unit 14,
The search word extraction unit 8 will be described.

The electronic document storage unit 14 targets electronic documents that are stored daily in the personal computer by the user. In the search word extraction unit 8, first, the document extracted from the electronic document storage unit 14 is divided into words by the morphological analysis unit. Then, by comparing the divided words with the words in the search word storage unit 6, it becomes possible to perform a search using a keyword related to the community site and reflecting the electronic document content of the user.

For example, consider a mail document recently received by a user and not deleted as an electronic document. This mail document contains information necessary for the user, and may contain information about a recent user topic. Therefore, the words extracted from the mail document by the above method can be extracted as keywords that are related to the community and have recently been talked about by the user.

With the system configuration described above, it is possible to increase the accuracy of presenting a user with a website searched using a keyword that has recently been talked about by the user.

In the inventions of the first to eighth embodiments, a part or all of the part from the search execution part 1 to the electronic document storage part 14 can be configured on the community site side. It is. With such an apparatus configuration, it is possible to control the website information to be transmitted to the user in detail on the community site side. For example, when it is desired that all users evaluate a website obtained from a certain search word, the website can be distributed to all users.

As described above, according to the present invention, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a community site arranged on a network, a search site capable of searching for contents on the network, and a network connectable to the network In an environment consisting of users belonging to the community who own the device, connect to a search site on the network,
An information search based on a keyword related to a community site is executed by a search execution unit, and the content information obtained by the search execution unit is output to a screen of a network connection device held by a user by a search result display unit; The user evaluates the degree of interest in the information output by the user, extracts the evaluation result by the user evaluation result extracting unit, and outputs the output of the user evaluation result extracting unit to the user evaluation result in the device arranged on the network. The content is stored by a storage unit, and the content evaluated as having a high degree of interest by a large number of users is extracted from the user evaluation result storage unit according to a predetermined criterion, and is stored in the content database by the content extraction unit as community site information. I do.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, a keyword arranged on a network and desired to be searched by a user is stored in a search word storing means, and the search is performed. The search keyword in the word storage means is distributed by the search word distribution means, and the search keyword is requested and extracted on the network by the search word extraction means before execution of the search execution means.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, similarity between preferences among users is determined based on information stored in the user evaluation result storage means on a predetermined basis. Is calculated by the user similarity calculating means, and from the output result of the user attribute calculating means, a content which is given a high evaluation by another user having a similar preference to a certain user is found, and provided information distribution means. The search result display means displays the output of the provided information distribution means.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first, second, or third aspect of the present invention, the search result display means and the user evaluation result extraction means provide information to a user. An interface character is used as an interface for displaying and accepting information input, and the action content of the character is stored in the agent action storage means, and the action of the character is changed to an agent action according to the information input state of the user and the displayed information. Controlled by control means.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, in the first, second, third, or fourth aspect of the present invention, the search-related information in which the user inputs the search keyword by himself and the book The search related information by the invention system is accumulated by a search history landfall means, and the search result display means:
With reference to at least the output result of the search history accumulation means,
The information to be displayed to the user is determined according to a predetermined standard.

The invention described in claim 6 is the same as that in claim 5
In the invention described above, the search word extracting unit refers to at least contents of the search history storage unit and extracts a search word based on a predetermined criterion.

The invention described in claim 7 is the same as the claim 5
Alternatively, in the invention according to claim 6, the user evaluation result extracting means refers to at least contents of the search history storing means and outputs content information related to a community site to the user evaluation result storing means according to a predetermined criterion. .

The invention according to claim 8 is the invention according to claims 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in which the network connection device owned by the user is provided. The created electronic document is stored in an electronic document storage unit, and the search word extraction unit extracts a search word based on a predetermined criterion by referring to at least the contents of the electronic document storage unit.

According to the present invention described above, first, in the invention according to claim 1, web site information which is on the Internet, is not originally known in the community, and is supported by many community users is stored in the community. It becomes possible to take in. This allows
Community contents are enriched and the community can be activated.

Further, in the invention according to the second aspect, the invention according to the first aspect has means for distributing a search word intended by the community site to the community user. This makes it easier to collect information that is in line with community trends. Further, it is possible to have the user execute the intended information evaluation work on the server side. Thereby, it is also possible to extract website information intended by the community management side. In addition, it is expected that the user can improve convenience such that a recent topic can be easily extracted.

[0092] According to the third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a means for setting a predetermined criterion for a result of daily evaluation by a user and comparing the result with other users. As a result, the website information that has been highly evaluated by a certain user can be presented to another user having a similar preference. Then, an effect that it becomes easy to provide favorite website information to the user can be expected.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first, second, or third aspect of the invention, an interface for providing website information to a user and evaluating the website information is displayed. It has means for performing through characters resident in the device. By changing the action of the character in accordance with the information appearing on the display device, it is possible for the user to enhance the entertainment of viewing and evaluating the information, and it is hoped that the user will have more opportunities to use the system.

In the invention according to claim 5, the invention according to claim 1, 2, 3, or 4 further comprises means for accumulating search histories of the user and the system of the present invention. This makes it possible to reduce, for example, providing website information known to the user by referring to the history before displaying the search result to the user. As a result, it is possible to prevent the presentation of website information that the user does not need to see beforehand, and it is possible to improve the accuracy of providing appropriate information to the user.

In the invention according to claim 6, claim 5
In the described invention, it is possible to extract a search keyword with reference to search history information. As a result, it is possible to prevent a search for information already known to the user or information that the user may temporarily want to know beforehand, thereby improving the accuracy of providing appropriate information to the user.

[0096] According to the invention described in claim 7, in the invention described in claim 5 or 6, there is provided a means for referring to the search history information to find a website having a high evaluation by the user. For example, a website that a user searches and browses by using a word related to a community and frequently views the content is regarded as content information with a high user evaluation. As a result, it is possible to extract website information with a high user evaluation without receiving the user's information evaluation, thereby increasing the website information gathered at the community site and expecting the community site to be activated.

Further, according to the invention of claim 8, in the invention of claims 2 to 7, there is provided a means for storing an electronic document which a user saves daily in the information input / output device. For example, words that are obtained by subjecting a user's recent mail document to morphological analysis and that are related to the community are extracted. Considering this word as a search keyword of recent interest can increase the likelihood of presenting website information that is of recent interest to the user,
An improvement in the accuracy of information provision that meets the user's preferences can be expected.

In the present invention, some or all of the processing blocks from the search execution unit 1 to the electronic document storage unit 14 can be configured on the community site side. For example, it is possible to consider an apparatus configuration in consideration of the apparatus scale in the community site and the load on the user's terminal. Further, distributing the processing blocks of the apparatus on the client side and the network side also leads to finely controlling the website information to be transmitted to the user on the community site side. For example, search execution unit 1
Is placed on the community site side, and the website obtained by the search result is evaluated by all users in the community, so that the website can be distributed to all users.

The embodiments described above are described for facilitating the understanding of the present invention, and are not described for limiting the present invention. Therefore, the content collection and distribution system disclosed in the above embodiment is intended to include all design changes and equivalents belonging to the technical scope of the present invention.

[0100]

According to the present invention, it is possible to easily obtain, in a community site using a network, information on a website which is generally highly evaluated in a community among information unknown by a site manager or a community user. Further, it is possible to provide a content collection / distribution system capable of activating information exchange between users having the same preference in a community.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a processing block according to claim 1 of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a processing block according to claim 2 of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a processing block according to claim 3 of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a processing block according to claim 4 of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a processing block according to claim 5 of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a processing block according to claim 6 of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a processing block according to claim 7 of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a processing block according to claim 8 of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a system configuration according to first to eighth embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is an example of an interface of the user evaluation result extraction unit 3 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is an example of a database of the user evaluation result accumulation unit 4 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 shows a search word storage unit 6 according to the embodiment of the present invention.
Is one example of the keyword.

FIG. 13 is an example of a database of the user evaluation result storage unit 4 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is an example of an interface of a client terminal using an agent character according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is an example of a database of a search history accumulation unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Search execution part, 2 ... Search result display part, 3 ... User evaluation result extraction part, 4 ... User evaluation result storage part, 5 ... Content extraction part, 6 ... Search word storage part, 7 ... Search word distribution part,
8 ... search word extraction unit, 9 ... user similarity calculation unit, 10 ...
Provided information distribution unit, 11 ... agent operation storage unit, 12
... Agent operation control unit, 13 ... Search history storage unit, 1
4: Electronic document storage unit

──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification symbol FI Theme coat ゛ (Reference) G06F 17/60 504 G06F 17/60 504 (72) Inventor Yasuto Kawano 3-19 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo No. 2 Tohoku Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Mio Hosoya 3-19-2 Nishi Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Intra-Tokyo Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Tomoya Kosaka Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Nishi Shinjuku 3-chome 19-2 Tohoku Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation F-term (reference) 5B049 AA06 EE05 GG09 5B075 NK02 PP22 PQ02 PQ05 PR06 PR08 QM08

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A content collection / distribution system for a user belonging to a community site on a network to search for a desired content on a search site, wherein content information is searched from the search site using a keyword related to the community site. A search execution unit capable of performing, a search result display unit for displaying and outputting the content information obtained by the search execution unit to a terminal of the user, and the user inputting an evaluation of the content information by the search result display unit. A user evaluation result extracting means for extracting the result, a user evaluation result storing means for storing and accumulating the result extracted by the user evaluation result extracting means, and an evaluation based on the storage contents of the user evaluation result storing means. Extract high content information and store it on the community site Content collection and delivery system, comprising a that content extraction means. 2. A search word storage unit in which search keywords desired by the user for search are stored on the network, and a search word distribution unit for distributing the search keywords are arranged, and the search execution unit is provided. 2. The content collection and distribution system according to claim 1, further comprising: a search word extracting unit configured to extract the search keyword from the search word storage unit before executing the search by the search word. 3. A user similarity calculating means for calculating the similarity of each user's preference based on the contents stored in the user evaluation result storing means; and a user similarity calculating means for the user based on a result of the user similarity calculating means. And providing information distributing means for obtaining content information which another user having a high degree of similarity is giving high evaluation and distributing to the search result displaying means, wherein the content from the providing information distributing means is provided in the search result displaying means. The content collection and distribution system according to claim 1, wherein information can be displayed. 4. An interface character display means for displaying an interface character for providing guidance to the user on information display and information input based on the results of the search result display means and the user evaluation result extraction means, and the interface An agent operation storage unit that stores the operation contents of the character, and an agent operation control unit that controls the operation of the interface character according to the information input state of the user and the information being displayed. Item 1
The content collection / distribution system according to any one of claims 1 to 3. 5. A search result storage means for storing search keyword input by the user, website information obtained by the search keyword, and date and time information at that time as search history information, and displaying the search result. The content collection and distribution system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein information to be displayed is determined by referring to at least an output result of the search history storage means. 6. The content collection and distribution system according to claim 5, wherein said search word extracting means extracts a search word by referring to at least contents of said search history storage means. 7. The user evaluation result extracting unit outputs content information related to the community site to the user evaluation result storing unit by referring to at least contents of the search history storing unit. 5. The content collection and distribution system according to any one of 5 or 6. 8. A document storage means for storing a document created by the user at the terminal, wherein the search word extraction means can extract a desired search word by referring to at least the contents of the document storage means. 8. The method according to claim 2, wherein
The content collection and distribution system according to any one of claims 1 to 4.