Check system, information providing system, and computer-readable information recording medium containing a program

• US 9,384,296 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ishii, Kumiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Woolcock, Madhu
• Application Number:
  US12/666,263
• Publication Number:
  US 20100185724A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,930 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219, 709/228, 715/711, 715/714, 715/717, 715/735, 715738-739, 715/748, 715764-769, 715/783, 715/788, 715/790, 715793-797, 715/802, 715/808, 715/856
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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, and settings in a dispatch unit are modified. Specification of text in a Web document by an input reception unit, acquisition of text from the Internet by a document acquisition unit, and display on a screen by a document display unit are hooked when required. When a first type instruction specifying a URL is input with the input reception unit, a document is acquired by a document acquisition unit. When a second type instruction is input, an associated information acquisition unit queries a plurality of server devices with the text, and an associated information display unit 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 non-transitory computer-readable information recording medium comprising a plugin program that when read by a client device, causes the client device to:

extract, from a Web document being displayed within a browser display window on a screen, text contained within a region of the Web document which is specified by a user moving a mouse cursor over the text;

in response to the extracting, send queries having said text to at least three servers previously registered by the user in the plugin program;

receive, in response to the queries, information from each of the at least three servers;

generate a popup window for each of the received information, wherein the information from each respective server of the at least three servers is associated with a different popup window;

display one of the generated popup windows corresponding to first arrived information of the information received from the at least three servers on the screen in front of a portion of said Web document;

display each of the generated popup windows corresponding to later arriving information from the at least three servers on the screen so that each said generated popup window is displayed shifted and stacked behind any of the generated popup windows already displayed on the screen, wherein a title portion of each of said generated popup windows is visible on the screen;

receive user input that specifies the title portion of one of the displayed popup windows which is shifted and stacked behind other displayed popup windows; and

responsive to the user input, move the displayed popup window associated with the specified title portion in front of all of the other popup windows already displayed on the screen.