Information ranking system, information ranking method, and computer-readable recording medium recorded with information ranking program

• US 6,920,426 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2001
• Issued: 07/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Takechi, Mineki
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosen, Nicholas D.
• Application Number:
  US09/834,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20020004758A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,555 Days
• Field of Search: 705/1, 705/26, 705/4, 707/3, 709/217, 14/73, 14/731, 14/771, 523/34, 523/35, 522/203
• US Class Current: 705/346
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0281 Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

An information ranking system and an information ranking method as well as a computer readable recording medium recorded with an information ranking program, capable of ranking information resources on the Internet to thereby allow information users to estimate the factuality and reliability of the information.

Claims

1. An information ranking system comprising:

information analyzing means for analyzing contents-information concerning an investigation target page on the Internet, said investigation target page being designated by a user;

ranked value calculating means for calculating a ranked value indicating the factuality and reliability of said investigation target page, based on the analysis result of said information analyzing means;

guarantee data preparing means for preparing ranking guarantee data of said investigation target page, based on the ranked value calculated by said ranked value calculating means; and

guarantee data sending means for sending the ranking guarantee data prepared by said guarantee data preparing means to the user who has designated said investigation target page.

2. An information ranking system of claim 1, further comprising:

guarantee fee determining means for determining a guarantee fee to be imposed on the user who has designated said investigation target page; and

fee imposition detail sending means for sending fee imposition details determined by said guarantee fee determining means, to the user who has designated said investigation target page.

3. An information ranking system of claim 1, further comprising:

information offer receiving means for receiving an information offer concerning a page on the Internet;

information offer reward determining means for determining an information offer reward corresponding to the information received by said information offer receiving means; and

information offer reward paying means for paying the information offer reward determined by said information offer reward determining means to an information provider.

4. An information ranking system of claim 1, further comprising:

a database for storing the ranked value calculated by said ranked value calculating means; and

information disclosing means for disclosing the ranked value stored in said database.

5. A computer-implemented information ranking method comprising:

analyzing contents-information concerning an investigation target page on the Internet, the investigation target page being designated by a user; and

calculating a ranked value indicating the factuality and reliability of said investigation target page, based on the analysis result of said analyzing;

preparing ranking guarantee data of the investigation target page, based on the ranked value calculated by said calculating; and

sending the ranking guarantee data prepared by said preparing to the user who has designated the investigation target page;

wherein at least one of said analyzing, said calculating, and said preparing is carried out by a computer.

6. A computer-readable recording medium recorded with an information ranking program for causing a computer to execute:

analyzing contents-information concerning an investigation target page on the Internet, the investigation target page being designated by a user;

calculating a ranked value indicating the factuality and reliability of said investigation target page, based on the analysis result of said analyzing;

preparing ranking guarantee data of the investigation target page, based on the ranked value calculated by said calculating; and

sending the ranking guarantee data prepared by said preparing to the user who has designated the investigation target page.