COOKING RECIPE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, COOKING RECIPE INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20150066909A1
• Filed: 04/30/2013
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Uchida, Yuki, Suto, Koichi, Matsumoto, Hitoshi, Ando, Kazutoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,811,593 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0621 Item configuration or customization

Abstract

A cooking recipe information providing device includes: a recipe extracting unit (16) for extracting a prescribed cooking recipe from a recipe information DB (14a) for storing cooking recipes; an evaluation value determining unit (18) for determining an evaluation value of the cooking recipe extracted by the recipe extracting unit (16) based on a place in order of a given ingredient in an ingredient field where ingredients of the cooking recipe are displayed; and a display data generating unit (19) for generating display data which indicates information of the cooking recipe based on the evaluation value determined by the evaluation value determining unit (18).

Claims

1. A cooking recipe information providing device, comprising:

recipe extracting means for extracting a prescribed cooking recipe from storage means for storing cooking recipes;

evaluation value determining means for determining an evaluation value of the prescribed cooking recipe extracted by the recipe extracting means based on a place in order of a given ingredient in an ingredient field where ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed; and

display data generating means for generating display data which indicates information of the prescribed cooking recipe based on the evaluation value determined by the evaluation value determining means.

2. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 1, further comprising keyword obtaining means for obtaining a search keyword which relates to cooking recipes and which is input by a user,

wherein the recipe extracting means extracts from the storage means a cooking recipe that is associated with the search keyword obtained by the keyword obtaining means.

3. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 2, wherein the evaluation value determining means sets a higher evaluation value to the prescribed cooking recipe extracted by the recipe extracting means when an ingredient that is associated with the search keyword obtained by the keyword obtaining means is in a higher place in order in the ingredient field where ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed.

4. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 2, wherein the evaluation value determining means determines the evaluation value of the prescribed cooking recipe extracted by the recipe extracting means based on the place in relative order of an ingredient that is associated with the search keyword obtained by the keyword obtaining means in relation to a plurality of ingredients included in the ingredient field where ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed.

5. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 2, wherein the evaluation value determining means determines the evaluation value for each cooking recipe extracted by the recipe extracting means.

6. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the evaluation value determining means determines the evaluation value of the prescribed cooking recipe extracted by the recipe extracting means based on the place in order of an ingredient that excludes seasonings in the ingredient field where ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed.

7. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 2, wherein the evaluation value determining means determines the evaluation value of the prescribed cooking recipe based on the place in order of an ingredient that is associated with the search keyword obtained by the keyword obtaining means in the ingredient field where ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed while excluding seasonings from the order.

8. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 7, further comprising seasoning extracting means for extracting seasonings from the ingredient field where ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed,

wherein the evaluation value determining means determines the place in order of the ingredient that is associated with the search keyword obtained by the keyword obtaining means by excluding from the ingredient field the seasonings extracted by the seasoning extracting means.

9. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the display data generating means generates the display data which lists pieces of the cooking recipe information in descending order of the evaluation value determined by the evaluation value determining means.

10. A cooking recipe information providing method to be executed by a computer, comprising:

a recipe extracting step for extracting a prescribed cooking recipe from storage means for storing cooking recipes;

an evaluation value determining step for determining an evaluation value of the prescribed cooking recipe extracted by the recipe extracting step based on a place in order of a given ingredient in an ingredient field where ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed; and

a display data generating step for generating display data which indicates information of the prescribed cooking recipe based on the evaluation value determined by the evaluation value determining step.

11. (canceled)

12. An information storage medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a computer to function as:

recipe extracting means for extracting a prescribed cooking recipe from storage means for storing cooking recipes;

evaluation value determining means for determining an evaluation value of the prescribed cooking recipe extracted by the recipe extracting means based on a place in order of a given ingredient in an ingredient field where ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed; and

display data generating means for generating display data which indicates information of the prescribed cooking recipe based on the evaluation value determined by the evaluation value determining means.