Method of providing search service and display device applying the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9286401-B2
Application number	US-201113275371-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 18, 2011
Priority date	Oct 18, 2010
Publication date	Mar 15, 2016
Grant date	Mar 15, 2016

Abstract

A method of providing a search service and a display device applying the same are provided. According to the method of providing a search service, a web page that is searched by a specified keyword is accessed, at least one keyword is extracted from text included in the web page being accessed, and the at least one extracted keyword is displayed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of providing a search service, the method comprising:
accessing, according to a user input, a web page from among a plurality of web pages that are searched by a specified keyword; wherein the accessing comprises selecting, according to the user input, one web page among the plurality of web pages and accessing the selected web page;
extracting at least one keyword in text included in the accessed web page, the at least one keyword being different from the specified keyword; and
displaying the at least one extracted keyword independently of the specified keyword,
wherein the displaying the at least one keyword comprises:
displaying a diagram adjacent to the accessed web page; and
displaying the at least one keyword in the diagram, wherein a horizontal position and a vertical position of the at least one keyword in the diagram respectively correspond to a horizontal position and a vertical position of the at least one keyword in the accessed web page.

2. The method of providing the search service as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the accessing the web page comprises:
requesting a search for the specified keyword from a search engine;
receiving a search result from the search engine and displaying the received search result on a screen; and
accessing one web page among web pages that are included in the search result.

3. The method of providing the search service as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the extracting the at least one keyword comprises extracting a word based on a distance between the word and the specified keyword within the accessed web page.

4. The method of providing a search service as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the extracting the at least one keyword comprises extracting the at least one keyword among the text included in an area that is displayed on the screen of the web page.

5. The method of providing the search service as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the extracting the at least one keyword comprises extracting the at least one keyword in an order of a number of repetitions of words included in the web page.

6. The method of providing the search service as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the displaying the at least one extracted keyword comprises displaying the at least one keyword in a list.

7. The method of providing the search service as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
selecting a keyword of the at least one keyword; and
performing the search by setting the selected keyword as one of an additional keyword, an excluded keyword, and a unique keyword.

8. The method of providing the search service as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
selecting a keyword of the at least one keyword; and
moving a screen to an area in which the selected keyword is displayed.

9. The method of providing the search service as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the moving the screen comprises moving the screen so that the selected keyword is displayed on an upper end or an intermediate area of the screen.

10. The method of providing the search service as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the displaying comprises displaying the accessed web page in a first area of a screen and the at least one extracted keyword in a second area of the screen that is separate from the first area.

11. The method of providing the search service as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the diagram has an aspect ratio that corresponds to that of an entire web page that is currently accessed.

12. The method of providing the search service as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the displaying the diagram comprises displaying, on the diagram, an indicator indicating an area that corresponds to a currently displayed portion of the accessed web page.

13. A display device comprising:
a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device and a network;
a display unit configured to display an image; and
a control unit configured to control the communication unit to access, according to a user input, a web page from among a plurality of web pages that are searched by a specified keyword, extract at least one keyword in text included in the accessed web page, and control the display unit to display the at least one extracted keyword independently of the specified keyword, wherein the at least one keyword is different from the specified keyword,
wherein the control unit selects, according to the user input, one web page among the plurality of web pages and access the selected web page,
wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display a diagram adjacent to the accessed web page, and
wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display the at least one keyword in the diagram, wherein a horizontal position and a vertical position of the at least one keyword in the diagram respectively correspond to a horizontal position and a vertical position of the at least one keyword in the accessed web page.

14. The display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the control unit requests a search for the specified keyword from a search engine, receives a search result from the search engine, controls the display unit to receive search result on a screen, and accesses one web page from among web pages that are included in the search result.

15. The display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the control unit extracts a word based on a distance between the word and the specified keyword within the accessed web page.

16. The display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the control unit extracts the at least one keyword among the text included in an area that is displayed on a screen of the web page.

17. The display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the control unit extracts the at least one keyword in order of a number of repetitions of the at least one keyword in the web page.

18. The display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display the at least one keyword in the form of a list.

19. The display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the control unit selects a keyword of the at least one keyword, and performs a search by setting the selected keyword as one of an additional keyword, an excluded keyword, and a unique keyword.

20. The display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the control unit selects a keyword of the at least one keyword and moves a screen to an area in which the selected keyword is displayed.

21. The display device as claimed in claim 20 , wherein the control unit moves the screen so that the selected keyword is displayed on an upper end or an intermediate area of the screen.

22. The display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display the accessed web page in a first area of a screen and the at least one extracted keyword in a second area of the screen that is separate from the first area.

23. A method of providing a search service comprising:
searching for a specified keyword using a search engine;
displaying a plurality of web pages containing the specified keyword;
selecting, according to a user input, a web page of the plurality of web pages;
extracting at least one keyword from text included in the selected web page; the at least one keyword being different from the specified keyword; and
displaying the specified keyword and the at least one extracted keyword independently of each other,
wherein the displaying the at least one keyword comprises:
displaying a diagram adjacent to the selected

Assignees

• Lee Bo-Ra
• Chung Ji-Hye
• Lee Hye-Jeong
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Bo-Ra
• Chung Ji-Hye
• Lee Hye-Jeong

Classifications

• G06F3/0483 Primary

  Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor · CPC title

• G06F16/00

  Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor · CPC title

• G06F3/147

  using display panels · CPC title

• G06F16/50

  of still image data · CPC title

• G06F16/951 Primary

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title