Cooking recipe information providing device, cooking recipe information providing method, program, and information storage medium

• US 9,811,593 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2013
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Uchida, Yuki, Suto, Koichi, Matsumoto, Hitoshi, Ando, Kazutoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Meng, Jau-Shya
• Application Number:
  US14/372,556
• Publication Number:
  US 20150066909A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,652 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0621 Item configuration or customization

Abstract

A cooking recipe information providing device includes: a recipe extracting unit (16) for extracting a prescribed cooking recipe from a recipe information DB (14a) for storing cooking recipes; an evaluation value determining unit (18) for determining an evaluation value of the cooking recipe extracted by the recipe extracting unit (16) based on a place in order of a given ingredient in an ingredient field where ingredients of the cooking recipe are displayed; and a display data generating unit (19) for generating display data which indicates information of the cooking recipe based on the evaluation value determined by the evaluation value determining unit (18).

Claims

1. A cooking recipe information providing device, comprising:

at least one memory that stores program code; and

at least one processor that executes the program code to perform;

extracting a prescribed cooking recipe including ingredients, from a storage that stores cooking recipes registered thereto, wherein a relative display order is assigned to each ingredient when the prescribed cooking recipe and the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are registered, and the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed according to respective relative display orders in an ingredient field of the prescribed cooking recipe;

determining an evaluation value of the extracted prescribed cooking recipe based on a place in the relative display order of a given ingredient in the ingredient field where the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed; and

generating display data which indicates information of the prescribed cooking recipe based on the evaluation value.

2. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor executes the program code to further perform obtaining a search keyword which relates to cooking recipes and which is input by a user,

wherein a cooking recipe that is associated with the obtained search keyword obtained is extracted from the storage.

3. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 2, wherein a higher evaluation value is set to the extracted prescribed cooking recipe when an ingredient that is associated with the obtained search keyword is in a higher place in the relative display order in the ingredient field where the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed.

4. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 2, wherein the evaluation value of the extracted prescribed cooking recipe is determined based on the place in the relative display order of an ingredient that is associated with the obtained search keyword in relation to a plurality of ingredients included in the ingredient field where the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed.

5. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 2, wherein the evaluation value is determined for each cooking recipe that is extracted.

6. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 2, wherein the evaluation value of the prescribed cooking recipe is determined based on the place in the relative display order of an ingredient that is associated with the obtained search keyword in the ingredient field where the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed while excluding seasonings from the order.

7. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 6, wherein the at least one processor executes the program code to further perform extracting seasonings from the ingredient field where the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed,

wherein the place in the relative display order of the ingredient that is associated with the obtained search keyword is determined by excluding from the ingredient field the extracted seasonings.

8. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the evaluation value of the extracted prescribed cooking recipe is determined based on the place in the relative display order of an ingredient that excludes seasonings in the ingredient field where the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed.

9. The cooking recipe information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the display data lists pieces of the cooking recipe information in descending order of the evaluation value.

10. A cooking recipe information providing method, comprising:

extracting, by a hardware processor, a prescribed cooking recipe including ingredients, from a storage that stores cooking recipes registered thereto, wherein a relative display order is assigned to each ingredient when the prescribed cooking recipe and the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are registered, and the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed according to respective relative display orders in an ingredient field of the prescribed cooking recipe;

determining, by the hardware processor, an evaluation value of the extracted prescribed cooking recipe based on a place in the relative display order of a given ingredient in the ingredient field where the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed; and

generating, by the hardware processor, display data which indicates information of the prescribed cooking recipe based on the determined evaluation value.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having recorded thereon a program which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to:

extract a prescribed cooking recipe including ingredients, from a storage that stores cooking recipes registered thereto, wherein a relative display order is assigned to each ingredient when the prescribed cooking recipe and the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are registered, and the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed according to respective relative display orders in an ingredient field of the prescribed cooking recipe;

determine an evaluation value of the extracted prescribed cooking recipe based on a place in the relative display order of a given ingredient in the ingredient field where the ingredients of the prescribed cooking recipe are displayed; and

generate display data which indicates information of the prescribed cooking recipe based on the evaluation value.