Information processing device, information processing method, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium

• US 8,898,135 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2011
• Issued: 11/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Masuko, Soh
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Baoquoc N
• Application Number:
  US13/700,477
• Publication Number:
  US 20130091127A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,275 Days
• Field of Search: 707/705, 707/706, 707/707, 715/382, 715/800
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results

Abstract

Search keywords are acquired (S3), a first item and a second item displayable by scale axes are set in accordance with the search keywords (S4, S5), a search is made by the search keywords and the scale axis values of the items and a presence of search hits is found (S5), and display data for displaying a 2D distribution of the presence of search hits is generated by the scale axis values of the items in a plane with two axes including the scale axis of the first item and the scale axis of the second item (S11).

Claims

1. An information processing device, including at least one processor, comprising:

a search keyword acquiring unit, within said processor, that acquires search keywords from a terminal device;

an item setting unit, within said processor, that sets a first item and a second item displayable by scale axes in accordance with the search keywords;

a searching unit, within said processor, that makes a search by the search keywords;

a first display data generating unit, within said processor, that generates first display data for displaying a 2D distribution indicating more than or equal to a predetermined number of search hits by the searching on a Web page in accordance with the scale axis values of the items in a plane with two axes including the scale axis of the first item and the scale axis of the second item;

a transmitting unit, within said processor, that transmits the generated first display data to the terminal device;

a designated region acquiring unit, within said processor, that acquires information on a designated region designated by a user of the terminal device from the terminal device for the displayed 2D distribution;

a search result transmitting unit, within said processor, that transmits, to the terminal device, second display data as a list of search results for displaying search results by the search belonging to the designated region on the terminal device; and

a scale axis value acquiring unit, within said processor, that acquires the scale axis values of the first item and the second item in order to set three or more points in the plane, wherein the designated region acquiring unit acquires information on a designated region defined in the plane by the points set by the acquired scale axis values from the terminal device.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the scale axis value acquiring unit moves on the scale axes by an operation of the user of the terminal device, and acquires the scale axis values of the first item and the second item from positions indicated by knobs designating the scale axis values.

3. An information processing method of processing information in an information processing device, comprising:

a search keyword acquiring step of acquiring search keywords from a terminal device;

an item setting step of setting a first item and a second item displayable by scale axes in accordance with the search keywords;

a searching step of making a search by the search keywords;

a first display data generating step of generating first display data for displaying a 2D distribution indicating more than or equal to a predetermined number of search hits by the searching on a Web page in accordance with the scale axis values of the items in a plane with two axes including the scale axis of the first item and the scale axis of the second item;

a transmitting step of transmitting the generated first display data to the terminal device;

a designated region acquiring step of acquiring information on a designated region designated by a user of the terminal device from the terminal device for the displayed 2D distribution;

a search result transmitting step of transmitting, to the terminal device, second display data as a list of search results for displaying search results by the search belonging to the designated region on the terminal device; and

a scale axis value acquiring step of acquiring the scale axis values of the first item and the second item in order to set three or more points in the plane, wherein in the designated region acquiring step, information on a designated region defined in the plane by the points set by the acquired scale axis values is acquired from the terminal device.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording an information processing program causing a computer to function as:

a search keyword acquiring unit that acquires search keywords from a terminal device;

an item setting unit that sets a first item and a second item displayable by scale axes in accordance with the search keywords;

a searching unit that makes a search by the search keywords;

a first display data generating unit that generates first display data for displaying a 2D distribution indicating more than or equal to a predetermined number of search hits by the searching on a Web page in accordance with the scale axis values of the items in a plane with two axes including the scale axis of the first item and the scale axis of the second item;

a transmitting unit that transmits the generated first display data to the terminal device;

a designated region acquiring unit that acquires information on a designated region designated by a user of the terminal device from the terminal device for the displayed 2D distribution;

a search result transmitting unit that transmits, to the terminal device, second display data as a list of search results for displaying search results by the search belonging to the designated region on the terminal device; and

a scale axis value acquiring unit that acquires the scale axis values of the first item and the second item in order to set three or more points in the plane, wherein the designated region acquiring unit acquires information on a designated region defined in the plane by the points set by the acquired scale axis values from the terminal device.