USER-CUSTOMIZED CONTENT PROVIDING DEVICE, METHOD AND RECORDED MEDIUM

• US 20090019033A1
• Filed: 02/29/2008
• Published: 01/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sungkyunkwan University Foundation For Corporate Collaboration (SungKyunKwan University)
• Original Assignee: Sungkyunkwan University Foundation For Corporate Collaboration (SungKyunKwan University)
• Inventors: LEE, Seunghwa, Jung, Minchul, Lee, Eunseok
• Granted Patent: US 8,639,687 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/337 Profile generation, learning or modification

Abstract

Disclosed are a user-customized content providing device, a method and a recorded medium. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the user-customized content providing device can include a content searching unit, searching a content set related to user'"'"'s search query word; a user preference information requesting unit, asking an apparatus for user preference information including a user profile and tag information through a network, the user profile including a keyword collected in the apparatus and a point applied with a weight given per keyword; a user preference information collecting unit, receiving the user preference information from the apparatus; a content ranking determining unit, determining a ranking of the content set according to the relation to the user preference information; and a content providing unit, providing the ranked content set to the apparatus.

Claims

1. A user-customized content providing device, comprising:

a content searching unit, searching a content set related to user'"'"'s search query word;

a user preference information requesting unit, asking an apparatus for user preference information including a user profile and tag information through a network, the user profile including a keyword collected in the apparatus and a point applied with a weight given per keyword;

a user preference information collecting unit, receiving the user preference information from the apparatus;

a content ranking determining unit, determining a ranking of the content set according to the relation to the user preference information; and

a content providing unit, providing the ranked content set to the apparatus.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the keyword is detected by using tag information extracted from at least one tag of an anchor tag, a form tag and a combination thereof that are included in a web document outputted to the apparatus.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the tag information comprises:

anchor tag information including an anchor text and an URL connected to the anchor text; and

form tag information including a query word and an URL connected to the query word.

4. The device of claim 2, wherein the keyword is detected by excluding a stop word from words included in a mapping table and query words, all parts or some parts of tag information included in the web document being written in the mapping table.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the weight is added according to an increased frequency in use of the keyword.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein the weight is subtracted for the keyword that is not selected by a user although the keyword is included in the mapping table or the user profile.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the keyword included in the user profile is ranked according to a point in accordance with the weight.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein keywords included in the user profile are limited to the N^th ranking, N being a natural number.

9. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a query word receiving unit, receiving the search query word from the apparatus.

10. A user-customized content providing device, comprising:

a content searching unit, searching a content set related to user'"'"'s search query word;

a user preference information requesting unit, asking an apparatus for user preference information including tag information extracted from at least one tag of an anchor tag, a form tag and a combination thereof through a network;

a user preference information collecting unit, receiving the user preference information from the apparatus;

a user profile generating unit, generating a user profile by using the user preference information, the user profile including a keyword and a point applied with a weight given per keyword;

a content ranking determining unit, determining a ranking of the content set according to the relation to the user preference information including the user profile; and

a content providing unit, providing the ranked content set to the apparatus.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the keyword is detected by using tag information extracted from at least one tag of an anchor tag, a form tag and a combination thereof that are included in a web document outputted to the apparatus.

12. A user-customized content providing method, comprising:

searching a content set related to user'"'"'s search query word;

asking an apparatus for user preference information including a user profile and tag information, the user profile including a keyword collected in the apparatus and a point applied with a weight given per keyword;

receiving the user preference information from the apparatus;

determining a ranking of the content set according to the relation to the user preference information; and

providing the ranked content set to the apparatus.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the keyword is detected by using tag information extracted from at least one tag of an anchor tag, a form tag and a combination thereof that are included in a web document outputted to the apparatus.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the tag information comprises:

anchor tag information including an anchor text and an URL connected to the anchor text; and

form tag information including a query word and an URL connected to the query word.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the keyword is detected by extracting a stop word from and words included in a mapping table and query words, all parts or some parts of tag information included in the web document being written in the mapping table.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the weight is added according to an increased frequency in use of the keyword.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the weight is subtracted for the keyword that is not selected by a user although the keyword is included in the mapping table or the user profile.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the keyword included in the user profile is ranked according to a point in accordance with the weight.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein keywords included in the user profile are limited to the N^th ranking, N being a natural number.

20. A user-customized content providing method, comprising:

searching a content set related to user'"'"'s search query word;

asking an apparatus for user preference information including tag information extracted from at least one tag of an anchor tag, a form tag and a combination thereof through a network;

receiving the user preference information from the apparatus;

generating a user profile by using the user preference information, the user profile including a keyword and a point applied with a weight given per keyword;

determining a ranking of the content set according to the relation to the user preference information including the user profile; and

providing the ranked content set to the apparatus.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the keyword is detected by using tag information extracted from at least one tag of an anchor tag, a form tag and a combination thereof that are included in a web document outputted to the apparatus.

22. A recorded medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a device to providing user-customized contents, the recorded medium being readable by the device, the program comprising:

searching a content set related to user'"'"'s search query word;

asking an apparatus for user preference information including a user profile and tag information, the user profile including a keyword collected in the apparatus and a point applied with a weight given per keyword;

receiving the user preference information from the apparatus;

determining a ranking of the content set according to the relation to the user preference information; and

providing the ranked content set to the apparatus.

23. A recorded medium tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a device to providing user-customized contents, the recorded medium being readable by the device, the program comprising:

searching a content set related to user'"'"'s search query word;

asking for an apparatus user preference information including tag information extracted from at least one tag of an anchor tag, a form tag and a combination thereof through a network;

receiving the user preference information from the apparatus;

generating a user profile by using the user preference information, the user profile including a keyword and a point applied with a weight given per keyword;

determining a ranking of the content set according to the relation to the user preference information including the user profile; and

providing the ranked content set to the apparatus.