CHECK SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING A PROGRAM

• US 20100185724A1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Published: 07/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ishii, Kumiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,384,296 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/51 at application loading time, e.g. accepting, rejecting, starting or inhibiting executable software based on integrity or source reliability
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2119 Authenticating web pages, e.g. with suspicious links
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1433 Vulnerability analysis

Abstract

In order to provide an information providing system appropriate for acquiring information associated with text contained in a Web document, a plugin program is executed in a client device (301), and settings in a dispatch unit (305) are modified. Specification of text in a Web document by an input reception unit (304), acquisition of text from the Internet by a document acquisition unit (302), and display on a screen by a document display unit (303) are hooked when required. When a first type instruction specifying a URL is input with the input reception unit (304), a document is acquired by a document acquisition unit (302). When a second type instruction is input, an associated information acquisition unit (811) queries a plurality of server devices with the text, and an associated information display unit (812) displays the associated information provided in a popup. Thus, in addition to the Web document, a user is presented with associated information such as the safety of the URL, translation results of the text into various languages, and ads highly relevant to the text.

Claims

1. A check system, comprising a client device (301) and a server device, wherein

(a) the client device is provided with

a document acquisition unit that acquires a Web document associated with a provided URL from a computer communication network,

a document display unit that, once a Web document is acquired by the document acquisition unit, displays the acquired Web document,

a safety information acquisition unit that acquires safety information with respect to a provided URL from the server device,

a safety information display unit that, once safety information with respect to a URL contained in the Web document displayed on the screen is acquired by the safety information acquisition unit, displays the safety information near the location where the URL is displayed on the screen,

an input reception unit that receives a first type or a second type instruction specifying a URL contained in the Web document displayed on the screen, and

a dispatch unit that, when the first type instruction has been received, provides the URL specified by the first type instruction to the document acquisition unit, and when the second type instruction has been received, provides the URL specified by the second type instruction to the safety information acquisition unit,

and wherein

(b) the server device is provided with

a safety information storage unit that stores a URL and safety information with respect to that URL in association with each other, and

a safety information providing unit that provides the client device with safety information stored in the safety information storage unit in association with a queried URL from the client device.

2. A computer-readable information recording medium storing a program provided with a plugin program executed on a client computer operating a browser program, and a server program executed on a server computer, wherein

(a) the browser program causes the client computer to function as:

a document acquisition unit that acquires a Web document associated with a provided URL from a computer communication network;

a document display unit that displays an acquired Web document on a screen when the Web document is acquired by the document acquisition unit;

an input reception unit that receives a first type or second type instruction specifying a URL contained in the Web document displayed on the screen; and

a dispatch unit that provides the URL specified by the instruction to means associated with the instruction type;

wherein the browser program associates the document acquisition unit with the first type instruction in the dispatch unit,

(b) the plugin program causes the client computer to function as;

a safety information acquisition unit that acquires safety information with respect to a provided URL from a the server device; and

a safety information display unit that displays safety information on the screen near the displayed location of a URL when safety information with respect to that URL contained in the Web document displayed on the screen is acquired by the safety information acquisition unit;

wherein the plugin program associates the safety information acquisition unit with the second type instruction in the dispatch unit, and wherein

(c) the server program causes the server computer to function as;

a safety information storage unit that stores a URL and safety information with respect to that URL in association with each other; and

a safety information providing unit that provides the client computer with safety information stored in the safety information storage unit in association with a queried URL from the client computer.

3. The computer-readable information recording medium storing the program of claim 2, wherein

(d) the plugin program causes the client computer to function as:

a view hook unit that notifies the server device that a provided URL will be viewed, and then provides the URL to the document acquisition unit;

wherein the plugin program associates the view hook unit, rather than the document acquisition unit, with the first type instruction in the dispatch unit, and wherein

(e) the server program additionally causes the server computer to function as;

a notification reception unit that receives a view notification from the client computer; and

a safety information update unit that, for each URL stored in the safety information storage unit, updates the safety information associated with that URL with the number of times that the safety information has been queried, and the number of times that a view notification has been received.

4. An information providing system, comprising a client device and a plurality of server devices, wherein

(a) the client device is provided with

a document acquisition unit that acquires, from a computer communication network, a Web document associated with a URL indicated by given text,

a document display unit that, once a Web document is acquired by the document acquisition unit, displays the acquired Web document on a screen,

an associated information acquisition unit that respectively acquires information associated with given text from the plurality of server devices,

an associated information display unit that, once associated information with respect to the text contained in the Web document displayed on the screen is acquired by the associated information acquisition unit, displays the associated information near the location where the text is displayed on the screen,

an input reception unit that receives a first type or a second type instruction specifying text contained in the Web document displayed on the screen, and

a dispatch unit that, when the first type instruction has been received, provides the text specified by the first type instruction to the document acquisition unit, and when the second type instruction has been received, provides the text specified by the second type instruction to the associated information acquisition unit,

and wherein

(b) each of the plurality of server devices is provided with

an associated information storage unit that stores text and information associated with that text in association with each other, and

an associated information providing unit that provides the client device with associated information stored in the associated information storage unit in association with queried text from the client device.

5. A computer-readable information recording medium storing a program provided with a plugin program executed on a client computer operating a browser program, and a server program respectively executed on a plurality of server computers, wherein

(a) the browser program causes the client computer to function as:

a document acquisition unit that acquires, from a computer communication network, a Web document associated with a URL indicated by given text;

a document display unit that displays an acquired Web document on a screen when the Web document is acquired by the document acquisition unit;

an input reception unit that receives a first type or second type instruction specifying text contained in the Web document displayed on the screen; and

a dispatch unit that provides the text specified by the instruction to means associated with the instruction type;

wherein the browser program associates the document acquisition unit with the first type instruction in the dispatch unit,

(b) the plugin program causes the client computer to function as;

an associated information acquisition unit that respectively acquires information associated with given text from the plurality of server devices; and

an associated information display unit that displays associated information near the displayed location of text on the screen when information associated with that text contained in the Web document displayed on the screen is acquired by the associated information acquisition unit;

wherein the plugin program associates the associated information acquisition unit with the second type instruction in the dispatch unit, and wherein

(c) the server program respectively causes the plurality of server computers to function as;

an associated information storage unit that stores text and information associated with that text in association with each other; and

an associated information providing unit that provides the client computer with associated information stored in the associated information storage unit in association with queried text from the client computer.

6. The computer-readable information recording medium storing the program of claim 5, wherein

(d) the plugin program causes the client computer to function such that

every time associated information is acquired from the plurality of server computers by the associated information acquisition unit, the associated information display unit displays the associated information by adding the associated information as text to be displayed within a predetermined region near the displayed location of the text on the screen.

7. The computer-readable information recording medium storing the program of claim 5, wherein

(d) the plugin program causes the client computer to function such that

every time associated information is acquired from the plurality of server computers by the associated information acquisition unit, the associated information display unit operates such that, if associated information is already being displayed near the displayed location of the text on the screen, the associated information display unit shifts and stacks the acquired associated information behind the associated information already being displayed,

if the text expressing one of the sets of associated information displayed stacked on the screen is specified, then the associated information display unit moves the associated information expressed by that text to the front for display,

the input reception unit additionally receives a third instruction specifying text expressing one of the sets of associated information displayed stacked on the screen, and

in the dispatch unit, the third type instruction is associated with the associated information display unit.