SEARCH SERVER

• US 20090276398A1
• Filed: 04/04/2006
• Published: 11/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Naganuma, Takefumi, Kurakake, Shoji
• Application Number:
  US11/910,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20090276398A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3331 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A search server 14 comprises a plurality of search target databases 24, 26 each storing search target information and task IDs to indicate classifications according to the search target information in correspondence to each other; a user action database 22 storing searching information and task IDs in correspondence to each other; a query receiver 20 for receiving a query containing a query character string from a mobile communication terminal 12; a user action determiner 23 for specifying a task ID associated with the query, with reference to the query character string and the information stored in the user action database 22; a facility selector 25 and a Web content selector 28 for acquiring the search target information corresponding to the specified task ID from the plurality of search target databases 24, 26; and a search result information generator 30 for generating search result information to the query from the acquired search target information.

Claims

1. A search server comprising:

a plurality of search target databases each storing search target information and classification information indicating a classification according to the search target information in correspondence to each other;

a classification information database storing searching information and the classification information in correspondence to each other;

search request receiving means for receiving a search request containing searching information, from a terminal;

classification information specifying means for specifying classification information associated with the search request, with reference to the information stored in the classification information database, based on the searching information contained in the search request received by the search request receiving means;

information acquiring means for acquiring the search target information corresponding to the classification information specified by the classification information specifying means, from the search target databases; and

search result information generating means for generating search result information to the search request, based on the search target information acquired by the information acquiring means.

2. The search server according to claim 1,

wherein location information is further stored in correspondence to the search target information stored in at least one of the search target databases,

wherein the search request receiving means further receives location information from the terminal associated with the search request, and

wherein the information acquiring means acquires the search target information corresponding to the classification information specified by the classification specifying means and the location information acquired by the search request receiving means.

3. The search server according to claim 2, further comprising a location information database hierarchically storing the location information,

wherein the information acquiring means acquires the search target information corresponding to the location information with reference to the location information database.

4. The search server according to claim 1, wherein the classification associated with the classification information is achieved based on a user action request.

5. The search server according to claim 2, wherein the classification associated with the classification information is achieved based on a user action request.

6. The search server according to claim 3, wherein the classification associated with the classification information is achieved based on a user action request.