JP2003288342A - Information processing equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] The present invention is directed to a system in which only a person himself / herself knows what is interesting, but obtains a keyword of interest from the person's home page, searches another user's home page, and hits. Is provided to the user, so that the user can obtain information without omission without setting search conditions such as a push service on his / her own interest, and share it with other users. It is an object to provide an information processing device. SOLUTION: The information processing apparatus according to the present invention has a notifying means for sending to a user by e-mail, a keyword extracting means for extracting a keyword from the contents of each homepage of the owner, and a search engine for extracting a text from the homepage for searching. And

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing device, and more particularly, it provides a client with a W via an electric communication network.
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus that provides WW (World Wide Web) data, and provides the client with WWW data and information related thereto.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art On the conventional Internet or Intranet, the information desired by a viewer is obtained by browsing a homepage by using a browser, which is software for browsing a homepage. In addition, the browsed home page can be viewed by using a favorite that is provided as standard on the browser or by using the function of the user to bookmark after browsing.

[0003]

However, it is troublesome for the viewer to browse his favorite homepage to obtain information unless he / she browses by himself using the browser. Moreover, the home page is always newly created or updated, and thus it is impossible to obtain information without omission.

The present invention is intended to solve these problems, and only the person himself knows what he is interested in. However, the keywords of the person who is interested can be obtained from the person's home page and the websites of other users can be displayed. By searching and providing hits to the person himself, it is possible to obtain information without leakage even if the person does not voluntarily set search conditions such as a push service. An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device that can be shared with each other.

[0005]

In order to solve the above problems, the information processing apparatus of the present invention transmits requested data to a client in response to a download request from a client connected via a network. Has a notification means for sending it to the user by e-mail, a keyword extraction means for extracting a keyword from the contents of each home page of the owner, and a search engine for extracting and searching the text from the home page. Then, the search engine is searched using the keyword extracted by the keyword extracting means, and the URL of the hit page is notified to the user by the notifying means. Therefore, the user can know the URL of the home page of another user who has the same interest only by creating the home page with his own interest.

Further, it has a means for checking the update date and time of the homepage and an update determining means for determining whether the homepage has been updated. Then, when the home page of the user is updated by the update determining means, the keyword is extracted by the keyword extracting means, and the home page of another user is searched by using the search engine with the extracted keyword. Whether or not the updated date and time of the hit page is new is checked, and if the page is judged to be new by the update judgment means, the URL of the page is notified to the user by the notification means. Therefore, when receiving the notification mail, the old information (URL) that has already been notified can be prevented from being notified many times, and new information can always be obtained.

Furthermore, an information processing apparatus as another invention is
A keyword extraction means for extracting a keyword from the contents of each home page of the owner, a search engine for extracting the text from the home page to perform a search, and a search engine using the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction means for a page of the owner from the client When there is a request for downloading, the presentation data generating means for generating the presentation data in a predetermined display format and the presentation data generated by the presentation data generating means are displayed on the client together with the owner home page. Display means. Therefore, it is possible to know the URL of the page of another user who is interested in him / herself without looking at the notification mail. Further, not only the person himself / herself but also other users can obtain the information. Furthermore, homepages that have the same interests will be linked to each other by links, making it easier to build an information network.

An information processing apparatus as another invention is
The keyword extraction means that extracts the keyword from the contents of each homepage of the owner, the search engine that extracts the text from the homepage, and the owner of the page that was hit by the search engine using the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction means When the client requests to download the top page URL of the
It has a presentation data generation means for generating the presentation data in a predetermined display format, and a display means for displaying on the client. Therefore, by presenting only the top page of the related pages, it is possible to avoid the problem that the number of presentations becomes too large when many pages are updated or registered at one time. Also, if each owner has an operation of presenting the updated contents on his / her top page when he / she updates the page, it is operationally easy to inform other users of where the update has been made. .

Further, a keyword storage means for storing the automatically extracted keywords, a means for presenting to the user,
By having a means for the user to edit the saved contents, it is possible for the user to change and delete the keywords that have been omitted automatically and the extra keywords, so that the keywords can be changed by the user's preference. Yes, you can receive appropriate information.

The keywords are managed not for each owner but for each page and searched by the search engine,
By presenting the URL of the hit page for each page, the keyword is not for each owner but for each page, so the URL of the search result using that
The list becomes more relevant to the page the user is looking at, and it becomes easier for the user to obtain related pages that are of interest to the user.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The information processing apparatus of the present invention includes a notification means for sending a user an electronic mail, a keyword extraction means for extracting a keyword from the contents of each homepage of the owner, and a text extraction from the homepage for retrieval. And a search engine that does.

[0012]

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present exemplary embodiment includes a control unit 101 that controls each component, a presentation data generation unit 102 that generates a page shaped to present a search result list, and a keyword-based other A search engine 103 for searching the owner's home page, a Web data storage unit 104 for storing the content of the home page owner, a keyword extraction unit 105 for extracting a keyword from each owner's home page, and a keyword storage for storing the extracted keyword. Unit 106, keyword editing unit 107, and notification unit 108 for notifying the owner of the search result list by email.
And a communication function unit 109. The communication function unit 109 includes a control unit 109-1, a display unit 109-2, and an input unit 109-3.

Next, the operation of the information processing apparatus of this embodiment having such a configuration will be described with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 showing the operation flow. First, each keyword word is extracted from the home page of each owner by the keyword extracting unit 105 of FIG. 1 (step S101). In this method, the text is divided into words by morphological analysis, the appearance frequency of each word is examined, and, for example, words with high appearance frequency are extracted as keywords. The content of the home page of each owner is managed on a file and is stored in a file structure having a hierarchy, and a file group under a certain path is regarded as the content of the owner. These contents are stored in the Web data storage unit 104. Here, FIG. 3 shows an example of a keyword list extracted from the home page of the owner “Taro” of FIG.
The numerical value is the frequency of appearance. Search engine 10 of FIG.
3 is a system in which the home page is regularly circulated, the contents of updated pages are collected, and the full text search of the text part can be performed. Next, when the search engine 103 is caused to search using a keyword, as a result, the URL of the page including the keyword is returned. For each home page of each owner, the extracted keyword is selected from the most important keywords (in this case, the most frequently appearing keyword), and the search engine is searched using this as a key to obtain a search result list (step S102). As shown in FIG. 5, the search result list includes the title of the page hit by the search, the owner name of the page, and the URL of the page. If you do not know the owner name, it will be blank. All keywords are not used, but only those that exceed a certain threshold of appearance frequency are targeted. If the search collection range of this system is a home page service on a server limited to a specific range, the owner name is between the character string following "/ people /" in the URL and "/". Is set as the owner ID, the owner ID is taken out, and the user management ledger (owner ID, name,
The owner name can be acquired by searching a DB that stores information about the owner such as a telephone number, an address, a TOP page URL, and an electronic mail address. And
The notification unit 108 of FIG. 1 notifies each owner of this search list by e-mail (step S103). The e-mail address can be obtained from the above user management ledger.

Next, another operation will be described with reference to FIG. 6 which shows an operation flow. This operation generates a page listing only the links to the top page of the home pages of the owners of related pages, and the owner name indicates the page. This is the operation when a link to is embedded. In this operation, as in the operation shown in FIG. 2, after extracting the keyword and searching the home page (steps S201, S202),
Referring to the top page link collection of the related page owner shown in FIG. 7, the presentation data generation unit 102 in FIG. 1 generates a page from the search result list by incorporating an html tag in order to display the content as a WWW page. (Step S203). Referring to the related page link collection shown in FIG. 8, the page title part, the owner name, etc. are generated so that the anchor to the page is embedded, and when the user clicks this from the browser, the page is displayed. It can be skipped (step S204). The "Related Page Links" page of the owner's home page in Fig. 4 is automatically displayed with a link to the page when the top page of the owner's home page is opened using the HTML frame function. It This frame is not created by the owner himself, but is automatically created by this system and automatically included in the owner's page.

The keywords extracted by the keyword extraction unit 105 in FIG. 1 and stored in the keyword storage unit 106 can be edited by the keyword editing unit 107 by operating the input unit of the user client.
In addition, the URL of each result in the search result list of FIG.
From "http://www.a.co.jp/people/owner ID /"
Up to, and the same thing is extracted only once. In this case, the URLs of the owner "John" and the owner "Hanako" are shown twice, but they may be combined once. The owner's top page is "http://www.ac
o.jp/people/owner ID / ”, or obtain the owner ID from the URL,
The user management ledger is searched and the TOP stored in the ledger is searched.
The page URL can be acquired. Further, when the home page of the user is updated by checking the update date and time of the home page and determining whether or not the home page is updated, the keyword is extracted by the keyword extracting means, and the extracted keyword is used by the search engine. The home page of another user is searched to check whether the updated date and time of the hit page is new, and if the page is determined to be new, the URL of the page is notified to the user by the notification means. Therefore, the old information (URL) that has already been notified can be prevented from being notified many times, and new information (URL) can always be obtained.

Next, FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of the present invention. That is, this figure shows hardware constructed from a microprocessor or the like that executes software according to the information processing method in the above-described embodiment. In the figure, the information processing system includes an interface (hereinafter abbreviated as I / F) 91, a CPU 92, and a ROM 9.
3, RAM 94, display device 95, hard disk 96,
The keyboard 97 and the CD-ROM drive 98 are included. In addition, a general-purpose processing device is prepared, and a CD
A program that executes the information processing method of the present invention is stored in a readable storage medium such as the ROM 99.
Further, a control signal is input from an external device via the I / F 91, and the keyboard 97 activates a command of an operator or the program of the present invention automatically. And CP
The U92 performs information processing according to the above-described information processing method according to the program, stores the processing result in a storage device such as the RAM 94 or the hard disk 96, and outputs it to the display device 95 or the like as necessary. As described above, by using the medium in which the program for executing the information processing method of the present invention is stored, the information processing system can be constructed for general purpose without changing the existing system.

It is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications and substitutions can be made within the scope of the claims.

[0018]

As described above, the requested data is transmitted to the client in response to the download request from the client connected via the network.
The information processing apparatus of the present invention has a notification means for sending to the user by e-mail, a keyword extraction means for extracting a keyword from the contents of each home page of the owner, and a search engine for extracting and searching the text from the home page. ing. Then, the search engine is searched using the keyword extracted by the keyword extracting means, and the URL of the hit page is notified to the user by the notifying means. Therefore, the user only creates the home page with his own interest, and the U of the home pages of other users who have the same interest is created.
You can know the RL.

Further, it has a means for checking the update date and time of the home page and an update judging means for judging whether or not the home page has been updated. Then, when the home page of the user is updated by the update determining means, the keyword is extracted by the keyword extracting means, and the home page of another user is searched by using the search engine with the extracted keyword. Whether or not the updated date and time of the hit page is new is checked, and if the page is judged to be new by the update judgment means, the URL of the page is notified to the user by the notification means. Therefore, when receiving the notification mail, the old information (URL) that has already been notified can be prevented from being notified many times, and new information can always be obtained.

Further, an information processing apparatus as another invention is
A keyword extraction means for extracting a keyword from the contents of each home page of the owner, a search engine for extracting the text from the home page to perform a search, and a search engine using the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction means for a page of the owner from the client When there is a request for downloading, the presentation data generating means for generating the presentation data in a predetermined display format and the presentation data generated by the presentation data generating means are displayed on the client together with the owner home page. Display means. Therefore, it is possible to know the URL of the page of another user who is interested in him / herself without looking at the notification mail. Further, not only the person himself / herself but also other users can obtain the information. Furthermore, homepages that have the same interests will be linked to each other by links, making it easier to build an information network.

An information processing apparatus as another invention is
The keyword extraction means that extracts the keyword from the contents of each homepage of the owner, the search engine that extracts the text from the homepage, and the owner of the page that was hit by the search engine using the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction means When the client requests to download the top page URL of the
It has a presentation data generation means for generating the presentation data in a predetermined display format, and a display means for displaying on the client. Therefore, by presenting only the top page of the related pages, it is possible to avoid the problem that the number of presentations becomes too large when many pages are updated or registered at one time. Also, if each owner has an operation of presenting the updated contents on his / her top page when he / she updates the page, it is operationally easy to inform other users of where the update has been made. .

Furthermore, keyword storage means for storing the automatically extracted keywords, means for presenting to the user,
By having a means for the user to edit the saved contents, it is possible for the user to change and delete the keywords that have been omitted automatically and the extra keywords, so that the keywords can be changed by the user's preference. Yes, you can receive appropriate information.

Keywords are managed not for each owner but for each page, and are searched by the search engine,
By presenting the URL of the hit page for each page, the keyword is not for each owner but for each page, so the URL of the search result using that
The list becomes more relevant to the page the user is looking at, and it becomes easier for the user to obtain related pages that are of interest to the user.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the information processing apparatus of this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a keyword list extracted from the owner's home page.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an owner's home page.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a search result list.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing another operation of the information processing apparatus of this embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a top page link collection of a related page owner.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a related page link collection.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of the present invention.

[Explanation of Codes] 100; Information Processing Device, 101; Control Unit, 102; Presentation Data Generation Unit, 103; Search Engine, 104; Web
Data storage unit 105; keyword extraction unit 106; keyword storage unit 107; keyword editing unit 108;
Notification unit, 109; communication function unit.

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus for transmitting requested data to a client in response to a download request from a client connected via a network, a notification means for transmitting the electronic data to a user, and each of the owners. A page that has a keyword extraction unit that extracts a keyword from the contents of the home page and a search engine that extracts the text from the home page and that is searched by the search engine using the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction unit U
An information processing apparatus, characterized in that the notification means notifies the user of the RL. 2. A means for checking the update date and time of the homepage and an update determining means for determining whether the homepage has been updated, and when the update determining means has updated the homepage of the user, the keyword extracting means. A keyword is extracted by using the extracted keyword, the home page of another user is searched using the search engine, it is checked whether the updated date and time of the hit page is new, and the page determined to be new by the update determination means. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the URL of the page is notified to the user by the notification means when the above is true. 3. An information processing apparatus for transmitting requested data to the client in response to a download request from a client connected through a network, and a keyword extracting means for extracting a keyword from the contents of each home page of the owner. A search engine for extracting text from a home page and searching, and a search engine using the keyword extracted by the keyword extracting means, and when there is a download request of the owner's page from the client,
Along with the owner homepage, the hit page U
An information processing apparatus comprising: a presentation data generation unit that generates presentation data in a predetermined display format; and a display unit that displays the presentation data generated by the presentation data generation unit on the client. 4. A keyword extracting means for extracting a keyword from the contents of each home page of an owner in an information processing device for transmitting requested data to the client in response to a download request from a client connected via a network. A search engine for extracting text from a home page and searching, and a URL for the top page of the home page of the owner of the hit page from the client, which is searched by the search engine using the keyword extracted by the keyword extracting means. An information processing apparatus comprising: an owner homepage, a presentation data generation unit that generates presentation data in a predetermined display format when a download request is made, and a display unit that is displayed on the client. 5. The information processing according to claim 1, further comprising a keyword storage unit for storing the automatically extracted keyword, a unit for presenting to the user, and a unit for editing the stored contents by the user. apparatus. 6. The keyword is not for each owner, but for each owner.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the management of each page, the search by the search engine, and the presentation of the URL of the hit page are performed for each page.