KR101464044B1 - Apparatus and method for providing interest keyword - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus and method for providing a keyword of interest are disclosed. The interest keyword providing apparatus includes a read unit for reading number information for a first slave terminal from an address book database provided in the master terminal when a request is made in the master terminal, An interface for retrieving browser history information based on the browser history information and for determining a first keyword of interest associated with the master terminal and the first slave terminal based on the browser history information, To the master terminal.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTEREST KEYWORD [0002]

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a technique for obtaining browser history information from a slave terminal associated with a master terminal in cooperation with a request from a master terminal and providing the determined keyword to the master terminal based on browser history information.

A terminal (for example, a mobile phone) can search for information (e.g., an article, a blog, a cafe, etc.) associated with a keyword by accessing a portal site through a browser and inputting a desired keyword into the search field .

At this time, the terminal needs a technique for facilitating searching by recommending customized interest keywords for each terminal at the time of searching.

The present invention can share the interest keyword of the acquaintance terminal by obtaining the browser history information from the slave terminal associated with the master terminal in cooperation with the request from the master terminal and providing the determined interest keyword to the master terminal based on the browser history information The purpose is to make.

The present invention relates to a system and method for acquiring browser history information from a terminal having at least one of user information (for example, sex, age, area, occupation, It is an object of the present invention to provide a master terminal with a keyword of interest to share a keyword of interest of a terminal having a common interest.

An object of the present invention is to enable a user to share interest keywords associated with a plurality of portal sites by determining interest keywords to be provided to a master terminal based on browser history information.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing a keyword of interest, comprising a read unit for reading number information for a first slave terminal from an address book database provided in a master terminal when a request is made in the master terminal, An interface for obtaining browser history information by accessing a first slave terminal that is connected to the first slave terminal and determining a first keyword of interest associated with the master terminal and the first slave terminal based on the browser history information, And a processor for providing the first interest keyword to the master terminal.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a keyword of interest, the method comprising the steps of: reading number information for a first slave terminal from an address book database provided in the master terminal when a request is made in the master terminal; Determining a first interest keyword associated with the master terminal and the first slave terminal on the basis of the browser history information; And, in response, providing the first interest keyword to the master terminal.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, the browser history information is acquired from the slave terminal associated with the master terminal in association with the request from the master terminal, and the interest keyword determined based on the browser history information is provided to the master terminal, Allows you to share keywords.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, browser history information is acquired from a terminal having at least one of user information (for example, sex, age, region, occupation, By providing to the master terminal a keyword of interest determined based on the information, it is possible to share the keyword of interest of the terminal having a common interest.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to share interest keywords associated with a plurality of portal sites by determining interest keywords to be provided to the master terminal based on browser history information.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a keyword providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a keyword providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.
3 is a diagram for explaining an example of providing a keyword of interest in a keyword providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a view for explaining another example of providing a keyword of interest in the apparatus for providing a keyword of interest according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a message flow diagram illustrating a method of providing a keyword of interest according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, an apparatus and method for providing a keyword of interest according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Hereinafter, the master terminal and the slave terminal which communicate with the keyword providing apparatus of interest may be a mobile terminal, for example, a smart phone.

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a keyword providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a system 100 for providing a keyword according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a master terminal 101, a keyword providing apparatus 103 for interest, and a slave terminal 105 .

When the browser is activated, the master terminal 101 can generate interest keyword requests in conjunction with browser activation.

In response to the request, the master terminal 101 receives and displays a keyword of interest (i.e., a first keyword of interest or a second keyword of interest) from the keyword providing apparatus 103 of interest and displays it according to a selection input for the keyword of interest , The interest keyword is automatically inserted into the search field in the activated browser to facilitate searching for interest.

The interest keyword providing device 103 acquires browser history information from the slave terminal 105 associated with the master terminal 101 in association with the request from the master terminal 101 And provides it to the terminal 101.

Specifically, the interest keyword providing device 103 reads the number information for the first slave terminal from the address book database provided in the master terminal 101, accesses the first slave terminal identified by the number information, History information can be obtained. At this time, in response to the terminal identifier input by the master terminal 101, the interest keyword providing device 103 reads the number information registered in the address book database, or reads the number information registered in the group identifier input by the master terminal 101 It is possible to read the number information of each of the plurality of terminal identifiers included in the group registered in the address book database.

After obtaining the browser history information, the interest keyword providing device determines a first keyword of interest associated with the master terminal and the first slave terminal based on the browser history information, and in response to the request, By providing the keyword to the master terminal 101, it becomes possible to share the keyword of interest of the friendly terminal. At this time, the interest keyword providing device 103 determines the first keyword of interest considering the browser history information acquired from the master terminal 101, so that not only the interest keyword of the acquaintance terminal but also the search of the master terminal 101 It is possible to provide the master terminal 101 with a keyword of interest based on the history.

Also, the keyword-of-interest providing apparatus 103 reads the number information for the second slave terminal satisfying the set condition associated with the master terminal 101 from the terminal database, and transmits the number information to the second slave terminal And determines the second keyword of interest based on the browser history information obtained by accessing the second terminal and provides the second interest keyword to the master terminal 101 in response to the request.

The slave terminal 105 is connected to the first slave terminal and the master terminal 101 associated with the address book database of the master terminal 101 and transmits at least one of the set conditions (for example, at least one of the sex, age, Is the same) in the second slave terminal.

The slave terminal 105 may provide the browser history information to the interest keyword providing device 103 in accordance with the access from the interest keyword providing device 103 (for example, browser history information request).

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a keyword providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.

Referring to FIG. 2, the interest keyword provision apparatus 103 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a lead unit 201, an interface 203, a processor 205, and a terminal database 211.

The interest keyword providing device 103 can obtain browser history information from a slave terminal associated with the master terminal in association with a request from the master terminal and provide the determined keyword of interest to the master terminal based on the browser history information.

I) When using the slave terminal associated with the address book in the master terminal,

The read unit 201 reads the number information of the first slave terminal from the address book database provided in the master terminal when a request is made in the master terminal. Specifically, the read unit 201 reads the number information registered in the address book database, corresponding to the terminal identifier input by the master terminal, or in response to the group identifier input by the master terminal, The number information of each of the plurality of terminal identifiers included in the group registered in the database can be read. That is, the lead unit 201 provides an input field associated with the address book to the master terminal, reads the number information for one first slave terminal designated by the master terminal through the input field, The number information of one or more first slave terminals belonging to the first slave terminal can be read.

For example, when the terminal identifier is 'Hong Kil Dong', the lead unit 201 can read the number information of '010-1234-5678' corresponding to 'Hong Kil Dong'. If the group identifier is 'friend', the lead unit 201 may read the number information of 'Kim Soo-young: 010-4567-8945, Kim Min-woo: 010-1111-2222' included in the 'friend' group .

The interface 203 accesses the first slave terminal identified by the number information to obtain browser history information. That is, the interface 203 may send a browser history information request to the first slave terminal, and may receive browser history information in response to the request. Here, the browser history information may include, for example, history information of a portal site accessed from the terminal, a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the portal site, a search word per portal site, a search time, and the like.

The processor 205 determines a first keyword of interest associated with the master terminal and the first slave terminal based on the browser history information and provides the first interest keyword to the master terminal in response to the request do. At this time, the processor 205 may determine the first keyword of interest by further considering the browser history information acquired from the master terminal.

Ii) When using a slave terminal that meets the conditions set in association with the master terminal,

The read unit 201 can further read, from the terminal database, the number information for the second slave terminal satisfying the condition set in association with the master terminal.

More specifically, the lead unit 201 searches for a terminal having at least one of the user information (for example, sex, age, area, occupation, The second slave terminal can read the number information. At this time, the lead unit 201 can acquire the user information of the master terminal from the customer server.

The lead unit 201 may transmit at least one of sex, age range, region (e.g., current position, specific position), occupation, or area of interest inputted by the master terminal among the terminals registered in the terminal database to user information Can be designated to the second slave terminal satisfying the above condition, and the number information can be read. At this time, the read unit 201 may provide an input field associated with the condition to the master terminal, and may read the number information about the second slave terminal satisfying the user information input through the input field from the terminal database.

The interface 203 accesses the second slave terminal satisfying the above condition to obtain browser history information.

The processor 205 determines a second keyword of interest based on the browser history information obtained by accessing the second slave terminal identified by the number information, and in response to the request, To the master terminal. At this time, the processor 205 may further determine the second interest keyword by considering the browser history information acquired from the master terminal.

Specifically, the processor 205 may include an identifying unit 207 and a keyword determining unit 209. [

The confirmation unit 207 may extract a search word from the browser history information, count the number of times of extraction for each extracted search word, or check the search time. At this time, the verification unit 207 parses the retrieval query statement from the browser history information, encodes the parsed retrieval query into a variable-length character encoding scheme (e.g., utf-8, euc-kr) Can be extracted.

The keyword determination unit 209 assigns a ranking to the search terms in consideration of at least one of the number of times of extraction or the search time related to the search time, 1 interest keyword or a second interest keyword) and transmits the determined keyword to the master terminal. Here, the keyword determination unit 209 determines whether or not the first weight (for example, a weight that is set higher as the extraction frequency is increased) is added to the score corresponding to the extraction frequency, and the second weight (for example, A weighted value that is set to a high value), arranges them based on the final score in consideration of the first and second weights, and assigns ranking in the sorting order, thereby making it possible to determine a search keyword that has recently been popular as a keyword of interest.

The terminal database 211 may store information (e.g., number information, user information (sex, age group, area, occupation, area of interest)) of a plurality of slave terminals.

3 is a diagram for explaining an example of providing a keyword of interest in a keyword providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, when a request is generated in a master terminal, the apparatus for providing a keyword of interest reads number information for a first slave terminal from an address book database provided in the master terminal, The browser history information can be obtained by accessing the slave terminal. Thereafter, the interest keyword provision device determines a first keyword of interest associated with the master terminal and the first slave terminal based on the browser history information, and in response to the request, As shown in FIG. At this time, the interest keyword providing apparatus provides an input field associated with the address book to the master terminal, reads the number information registered in the address book database in correspondence with the input terminal identifier through the input field, , It is possible to read the number information of each of the plurality of terminal identifiers included in the group registered in the address book database

For example, when the 'first browser' is activated in the master terminal, the interest keyword providing apparatus provides the input field 301 associated with the address book to the master terminal so as to input the terminal identifier, So that only the term identifier can be selected. When the 'Hong Gil Dong' is inputted through the input field 301, the interested keyword providing device reads the number information of '010-1234-5678' corresponding to 'Hong Gil Dong', and the '010-1234-5678' The browser history information can be obtained by accessing the terminal of 'Hong Kil Dong' that is identified. Then, based on the browser history information obtained from the terminal of 'Hong Kil-dong', the interested keyword providing apparatus generates a 'restaurant, movie, book' 303 as a first keyword of interest associated with the master terminal and the first slave terminal, And in response to the request, provide the first interest keyword to the master terminal.

4 is a view for explaining another example of providing a keyword of interest in the apparatus for providing a keyword of interest according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, when a request is generated in the master terminal, the apparatus for providing a keyword of interest reads number information for a second slave terminal satisfying a condition set in association with the master terminal from the terminal database, The second slave terminal can be accessed to obtain browser history information. Thereafter, the interested keyword provision device may determine a second keyword of interest based on the browser history information, and in response to the request, provide the second keyword of interest to the master terminal. At this time, the keyword providing apparatus of interest may provide an input field associated with the condition to the master terminal, and may read the number information for the second slave terminal satisfying the user information inputted through the input field from the terminal database.

For example, as the 'second browser' is activated in the master terminal, the interested keyword providing apparatus may provide an input field 401 associated with the condition to the master terminal when a request is generated. When the 'Kangnam Station' is inputted through the input field 401, the interest keyword providing apparatus transmits the number information of 'Kangnam: 010-2222-3333, Kim Ji-hye: 010-3333-4444' corresponding to 'Kangnam Station' The terminal of the 'Gyeongnam station' and the terminal of the 'Kim Ji-hye', which are respectively identified by '010-2222-3333' and '010-3333-4444' To obtain browser history information. Then, the interest keyword providing apparatus determines 'Gangnam Station Restaurant, Gangnam Station Coffee' 403 as a second keyword of interest based on the browser history information obtained from each terminal of 'Gangnam Nam' and 'Kim Ji-hye' In response to the request, the second keyword of interest may be provided to the master terminal.

5 is a message flow diagram illustrating a method of providing a keyword of interest according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, in step 501, the master terminal 101 can generate a keyword request of interest, in conjunction with browser activation, when the browser is activated.

In step 503, when a request is made in the master terminal, the interested keyword providing device may read the number information about the slave terminal associated with the master terminal and request browser history information from the slave terminal identified by the number information.

At this time, if a request is made in the master terminal, the keyword providing apparatus of interest reads the number information for the first slave terminal from the address book database provided in the master terminal. Specifically, in response to the terminal identifier input by the master terminal, the interest keyword providing device reads the number information registered in the address book database, or corresponds to the group identifier input by the master terminal, The number information of each of the plurality of terminal identifiers included in the group registered in the terminal can be read.

Further, the interest keyword providing apparatus may further read, from the internal terminal database, the number information for the second slave terminal satisfying the condition set in association with the master terminal. That is, the interest keyword providing apparatus satisfies the above-described condition when satisfying at least one of the user information (for example, sex, age group, region, occupation, interest field) of the master terminal among the terminals registered in the terminal database To the second slave terminal, and can read the number information. In addition, the keyword providing apparatus of interest may include at least one of gender, age range, region (e.g., current position, specific position), occupation, or area of interest inputted by the master terminal among the terminals registered in the terminal database as user information Can be designated to the second slave terminal satisfying the above condition, and the number information can be read.

In step 505, the slave terminal transmits browser history information to the interest keyword providing device as a response to the browser history information request.

In step 507, the interest keyword provision device may determine a keyword of interest based on the browser history information, and in response to the request, provide the keyword of interest to the master terminal. At this time, the apparatus for providing a keyword of interest may include at least one of the first interest keyword determined based on the browser history information acquired from the first slave terminal or the second interest keyword determined based on the browser history information acquired from the second slave terminal To the master terminal.

When determining a keyword of interest, the interest keyword providing apparatus extracts a search word from the browser history information, counts the number of times of extraction for each of the extracted search terms, or checks at least one of the extraction times and the search time Ranking is given to the search words, and the search words within the predetermined ranking can be determined as the keyword of interest. Here, the interested keyword providing apparatus may parse a search query statement from the browser history information, and may encode the parsed search query statement using a variable length character encoding method to extract the search term.

In addition, the interest keyword provision device may further include browser history information obtained from the slave terminal (e.g., the first slave terminal or the second slave terminal), and the browser history information acquired from the master terminal, 1 interest keyword, second interest keyword).

In step 509, the master terminal displays the interest keyword received from the interest keyword providing apparatus, and automatically inserts the interest keyword into the search field in the activated browser according to the selection input for the interest keyword to facilitate the interest search .

The apparatus described above may be implemented as a hardware component, a software component, and / or a combination of hardware components and software components. For example, the apparatus and components described in the embodiments may be implemented within a computer system, such as, for example, a processor, a controller, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a digital signal processor, a microcomputer, a field programmable array (FPA) A programmable logic unit (PLU), a microprocessor, or any other device capable of executing and responding to instructions. The processing device may execute an operating system (OS) and one or more software applications running on the operating system. The processing device may also access, store, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to execution of the software. For ease of understanding, the processing apparatus may be described as being used singly, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the processing apparatus may have a plurality of processing elements and / As shown in FIG. For example, the processing unit may comprise a plurality of processors or one processor and one controller. Other processing configurations are also possible, such as a parallel processor.

The software may include a computer program, code, instructions, or a combination of one or more of the foregoing, and may be configured to configure the processing device to operate as desired or to process it collectively or collectively Device can be commanded. The software and / or data may be in the form of any type of machine, component, physical device, virtual equipment, computer storage media, or device , Or may be permanently or temporarily embodied in a transmitted signal wave. The software may be distributed over a networked computer system and stored or executed in a distributed manner. The software and data may be stored on one or more computer readable recording media.

The method according to an embodiment may be implemented in the form of a program command that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions to be recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and configured for the embodiments or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape; optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs; magnetic media such as floppy disks; Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the embodiments, and vice versa.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. For example, it is to be understood that the techniques described may be performed in a different order than the described methods, and / or that components of the described systems, structures, devices, circuits, Lt; / RTI > or equivalents, even if it is replaced or replaced.

Therefore, other implementations, other embodiments, and equivalents to the claims are also within the scope of the following claims.

100: Interested keyword provisioning system
101: Master terminal
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105: Slave terminal

Claims (16)

When a request is generated in a master terminal in which a browser is activated and a word input through an input field provided to the master terminal is related to a 'condition'
A read unit for reading, from the terminal database, the number information for the slave terminal satisfying the condition;
An interface for obtaining browser history information for each of the plurality of slave terminals identified by the number information; And
Determining, based on the plurality of browser history information, a keyword to be shared with the master terminal and the slave terminal, the keyword including at least the word and associated with the input field to be displayed on the browser, In response, the processor for providing the interest keyword to the master terminal
And the like. The method according to claim 1,
The processor comprising:
A confirmation unit for extracting a search word from each of the plurality of browser history information, counting an extraction frequency for each of the extracted search words, or checking a search time; And
A keyword determination unit that assigns a ranking to the search terms in consideration of at least one of the number of times of extraction and the search time,
And the like. 3. The method of claim 2,
The checking unit,
Parsing the retrieval query statement from each of the plurality of browser history information, encoding the parsed retrieval query statement in a variable length character encoding scheme, and extracting the retrieval word
A device for providing a keyword of interest. The method according to claim 1,
The interface comprises:
Acquires browser history information of a slave terminal identified by each of a plurality of terminal identifiers included in a group corresponding to a group identifier input by the master terminal
A device for providing a keyword of interest. delete The method according to claim 1,
The lead portion
Wherein a terminal having at least one of the user information of the master terminal registered in the terminal database is designated as a slave terminal satisfying the condition and the number information is read out. The method according to claim 1,
The lead portion
Designating a terminal having at least one of gender, age range, region, or occupation as user information inputted by the master terminal among the terminals registered in the terminal database as a slave terminal satisfying the condition, The keyword providing device of interest. The method according to claim 1,
The processor comprising:
And determines the interest keyword by further considering browser history information acquired from the master terminal. A method of providing a keyword of interest implemented by a keyword providing apparatus of interest,
When a request is generated in a master terminal in which a browser is activated and a word input through an input field provided to the master terminal is related to a 'condition'
Reading the number information for the slave terminal satisfying the condition from the terminal database in the interest keyword providing device;
Obtaining browser history information for each of the plurality of slave terminals identified by the number information, in the interest keyword providing apparatus;
The interest keyword providing apparatus may further include a keyword storage unit that stores at least a keyword to be shared with the master terminal and the slave terminal based on the plurality of browser history information, Determining; And
In the interest keyword provision apparatus, in response to the request, providing the keyword of interest to the master terminal
/ RTI > 10. The method of claim 9,
The method of claim 1,
Extracting a search term from each of the plurality of browser history information;
Counting the number of times of extraction for each of the extracted search words, or checking the search time;
Assigning a ranking to the search terms in consideration of at least one of the extraction times or the search times; And
Determining a search word within a predetermined ranking as the keyword of interest
/ RTI > 11. The method of claim 10,
Wherein the step of extracting a search term from each of the plurality of browser history information comprises:
Parsing a search query statement from each of the plurality of browser history information; And
Extracting the search word by encoding the parsed search query statement in a variable length character encoding scheme,
/ RTI > 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the obtaining of the browser history information comprises:
Acquiring browser history information of a slave terminal identified by each of a plurality of terminal identifiers included in a group corresponding to a group identifier input by the master terminal
/ RTI > delete 10. The method of claim 9,
Designating a terminal having at least one of the user information of the master terminal among the terminals registered in the terminal database as a slave terminal satisfying the condition in the interest keyword providing device and reading the number information
The method comprising the steps of: 10. The method of claim 9,
In the interest keyword provision apparatus, a terminal having at least one of gender, age range, region, or occupation inputted by the master terminal among the terminals registered in the terminal database as user information is connected to a slave terminal , And the step of reading the number information
The method comprising the steps of: 10. The method of claim 9,
The method of claim 1,
Determining the keyword of interest further considering browser history information obtained from the master terminal
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