Information providing method, server, and program
First Claim
1. An information providing method for providing information to a browser browsing Web pages, the method including the steps of:
- extracting information of Web contents noticed by a user from a display area of the browser;
creating search keys from the extracted information;
searching for second information to be provided to the browser based on the search keys; and
displaying results of searching for the second information along with the browser'"'"'s Web contents.
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide an information providing system and method for timely providing relevant information matching users'"'"' interests changing momentarily according to users'"'"' access to arbitrary pages. Another object thereof is to make the contents of each page in a list display of relevant information easier to be understood. In an information processing server and a terminal connected with a network, partial information in which a user is considered to be interested is extracted from contents displayed in the terminal, and it is transmitted to the information processing server. Information relevant to the partial information is searched for, and sent back to a browser of the terminal. Thereby, information relevant to the information in which the user is considered to be interested is timely provided to the user, and phrases characterizing each page in a page set of search results are extracted and displayed as a list display.
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16 Claims
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1. An information providing method for providing information to a browser browsing Web pages, the method including the steps of:
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extracting information of Web contents noticed by a user from a display area of the browser;
creating search keys from the extracted information;
searching for second information to be provided to the browser based on the search keys; and
displaying results of searching for the second information along with the browser'"'"'s Web contents. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An information providing server that provides information to a browser of a terminal connected via a network, the information providing server including:
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a search key extracting means that extracts search keys from information of Web contents browsed by the terminal;
an information searching means that searches at least one of a preset database or web site for second information, based on the search keys; and
a second information transmitting means that transmits results of searching for the second information to the browser of the terminal, and displays the second information along with the Web contents. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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12. A program that displays Web contents via a network, and instructs a computer to execute:
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a display means that displays Web contents in a first display area;
a noticed information extracting means that extracts information noticed by a user in the first display area; and
a second display means that displays results of searching with the information as search keys in a preset second display area as second information. - View Dependent Claims (13, 15, 16)
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14. An information providing server that provides information to a browser of a terminal connected via a network, including a third information transmitting means of:
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for each item to be searched for, transmitting an information list containing information for search and a link to third information to the browser, and searching for the information for search within the terminal, and transmitting the third information for display to the browser of the terminal, based on link information appended to search results.
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