INFORMATION REFERENCE FREQUENCY COUNTING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM EMBODIED ON COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR COUNTING REFERENCE FREQUENCY IN AN INTERACTIVE HYPERTEXT DOCUMENT REFERENCE SYSTEM

• US 6,823,339 B2
• Filed: 12/01/1997
• Issued: 11/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Furusawa, Toyoaki, Yoshida, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Millin, Vincent
• Assistant Examiner(s): Colbert, Ella
• Application Number:
  US08/982,934
• Publication Number:
  US 20020002556A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,549 Days
• Field of Search: 707/50, 707/1, 707/2, 707/10, 707/5, 707/501.1, 709/224, 395/200.54, 395/704, 715/500, 715/501, 715/501.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access

Abstract

An information reference frequency counting apparatus, in an interactive hypertext information reference system, having a server managing hypertext information, a client processor making reference to the hypertext information while mutually communicating with the server and a count program counting and accumulating a reference frequency total of the referred hypertext information. The count program counts and accumulates a reference frequency total for each reference path of the referred hypertext information.

Claims

1. An information reference frequency counting apparatus in an interactive hypertext document reference system, comprising:

a server managing hypertext documents, each hypertext document including at least one hyperlink;

a client processor requesting a hypertext document, through a requesting program, and receiving from said server the requested hypertext document; and

a count program counting and accumulating a reference total for a reference path based on the reference path including a reference start and a reference destination, concerned with an activated hyperlink of the received hypertext document, provided by an informing program at the client processor.

2. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein said count program counts and accumulates reference totals of the requested hypertext document for each predetermined time interval of a series of a predetermined number of successive time intervals.

3. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 2, further comprising:

a count condition setting program setting count conditions including at least a predetermined duration of each time interval and a predetermined number of the successive time intervals of each series.

4. An information reference frequency counting apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a selection program setting count conditions by selecting the count conditions as being common to the apparatus, as being independent for each hypertext document, or as being independent for each reference path of the requested hypertext document.

5. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 1, said informing program informing of the reference path, and said count program counting and accumulating a respective reference total of the requested hypertext document for each reference path, as informed by said client processor.

6. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 5, wherein said informing program is transferred together with the requested hypertext document when said client processor requests the received hypertext document.

7. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 5, wherein said informing program is previously incorporated in said client processor.

8. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 5, wherein said count program counts and accumulates respective reference totals for at least one reference path, of the hypertext document, for a series of successive, predetermined time intervals.

9. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 8, further comprising:

a count condition setting program for setting count conditions including, at least, a predetermined duration of each time interval and a predetermined number of the successive time intervals of each series.

10. An information reference frequency counting apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

a selection program setting count conditions by selecting the count conditions as being common to the apparatus, as being independent for each hypertext document, or as being independent for each reference path of the requested hypertext document.

11. An information reference frequency counting apparatus in an interactive hypertext document reference system, comprising:

a server managing hypertext documents, each hypertext document including at least one hyperlink, and responding to a document request by a client processor, through a requesting program, by forwarding a managed hypertext document to the client processor; and

a count program counting and accumulating a reference total, of requested hypertext documents, for a reference path based on the reference path including a reference start and a reference destination, concerned with an activated hyperlink of the forwarded hypertext document, provided by an informing program at the client processor.

12. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 11, wherein said count program counts and accumulates respective reference totals of the hypertext document for a series of successive predetermined time intervals.

13. An information reference frequency counting apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising:

a count condition setting program for setting count conditions including, at least, a predetermined duration of each time interval and a predetermined number of the successive time intervals of each series.

14. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 13, further comprising:

a selection program setting count conditions by selecting the count conditions as being common to the apparatus, as being independent for each hypertext document, or as being independent for each reference path of the requested hypertext document.

15. An information reference frequency counting apparatus in an interactive hypertext document reference system, comprising:

a client processor requesting at least one hypertext document, through a requesting program, each hypertext document including at least one hyperlink, with respect to a data base storing the hypertext documents, and including an informing program informing of a reference path including a reference start and a reference destination, concerned with an activated hyperlink of the requested hypertext document; and

a count program counting and accumulating a reference total, of the requested hypertext document, for each reference path activated, taken within the requested hypertext document, as informed by said client processor.

16. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein said informing program is transferred together with the requested hypertext document when said client processor requests the hypertext document.

17. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein said informing program is previously incorporated in said client processor.

18. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein said count program counts and accumulates respective reference totals of the hypertext document for a series of successive, predetermined time intervals.

19. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 18, further comprising:

a count condition setting program for setting count conditions including, at least, a predetermined duration of each time interval and a predetermined number of the successive time intervals of each series.

20. The information reference frequency counting apparatus as recited in claim 19, further comprising:

a selection program setting count conditions by selecting the count conditions as being common to the apparatus, as being independent for each hypertext document, or as being independent for each reference path of the requested hypertext document.

21. An information reference frequency counting method in an interactive hypertext document reference system, comprising:

a management process managing hypertext documents, each hypertext document including at least one hyperlink;

requesting process requesting a hypertext document and including an informing process, separate from said requesting process, informing of a reference path including a reference start and a reference destination, concerned with an activated hyperlink of the requested hypertext document; and

a count process counting and accumulating a reference total of the requested hypertext document for each reference path activated, as informed by said requesting process.

22. The information reference frequency counting method as recited in claim 21, wherein said count process counts and accumulates respective reference totals of the hypertext document for a series of successive, predetermined time intervals.

23. The information reference frequency counting method as recited in claim 22, further comprising:

a count condition setting process setting count conditions including, at least, a predetermined duration of each time interval and a predetermined number of the successive time intervals of each series.

24. The information reference frequency counting method as recited in claim 23, further comprising:

a selection process setting count conditions by selecting the count conditions as being common to the method, as being independent for each hypertext document, or as being independent for each reference path of the requested hypertext document.

25. The information reference frequency counting method as recited in claim 21, wherein said informing process is transferred together with the requested hypertext document when said requesting process requests the hypertext document.

26. The information reference frequency counting method as recited in claim 21, wherein said informing process is a program which is previously incorporated in said requesting process.

27. A computer program, embodied in a computer-readable medium, counting reference totals in an interactive hypertext document reference system, comprising:

a server function managing hypertext documents, each hypertext document including at least one hyperlink;

a client function requesting a hypertext document, through a requesting program, while mutually communicating with said server function; and

a count function counting and accumulating a reference total of the requested hypertext document for a reference path based on the reference path including a reference start and a reference destination, concerned with an activated hyperlink of the requested hypertext document, provided by an informing program at the client processor.

28. The computer program as recited in claim 27, wherein said count function counts and accumulates reference totals of the hypertext document for each predetermined time interval of a series of a predetermined number of successive time intervals.

29. The computer program as recited in claim 28, further comprises:

a count condition setting function setting count conditions including, at least, a predetermined duration of each time interval and a predetermined number of the successive time intervals of each series.

30. The computer program as recited in claim 29, further comprising:

a selection function setting count conditions by selecting the count conditions as being common to the program for counting reference totals as being independent for each hypertext document, or as being independent for each reference path of the requested hypertext document.

31. A computer program, embodied in a computer-readable medium, counting reference totals in an interactive hypertext document reference system, comprising:

a server function managing hypertext documents, each hypertext document including at least one hyperlink;

a client function requesting a hypertext document, through a requesting function, while mutually communicating with said server function and including an informing function for informing of a reference path including a reference start and a reference destination, concerned with an activated hyperlink of the requested hypertext document; and

a count function counting and accumulating a reference total of the requested hypertext document for each reference path, on the basis of the reference path informed by said client function.

32. The computer program as recited in claim 31, wherein said count function counts and accumulates the reference totals of the hypertext document for each predetermined time interval of a series of a predetermined number of successive time intervals.

33. The computer program as recited in claim 32, further comprises:

a count condition setting function setting count conditions including, at least, a predetermined duration of each time interval and a predetermined number of successive time intervals of each series.

34. The computer program as recited in claim 33, further comprising:

a selection function setting count conditions by selecting the count conditions as being common to the program for counting the reference totals, as being independent for each hypertext document, or as being independent for each reference path of the requested hypertext document.

35. The computer program as recited in claim 31, wherein said informing function is transferred together with the requested hypertext document when said client function requests the hypertext document.

36. The computer program as recited in claim 31, wherein said informing function is previously incorporated in said client function.

37. A frequency counting apparatus, comprising:

a server managing a plurality of hypertext objects, each of the objects including at least one hyperlink;

a client processor referencing to at least one of said hypertext objects, through a referencing program, while communicating with said server; and

a count program counting and accumulating a frequency total indicating a frequency of a reference path based on the reference path including a reference start and a reference destination, concerned with an activated hyperlink of the referred hypertext object, provided by an informing program at the client processor.