Information procession apparatus, information processing method, program, history management server, history management method, and information processing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9619566-B2
Application number	US-201213434225-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 29, 2012
Priority date	Apr 6, 2011
Publication date	Apr 11, 2017
Grant date	Apr 11, 2017

Abstract

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a selected information acquisition unit for acquiring, from a history management server managing, for each search string, one or more pieces of selected information selected from one or more pieces of page identification information obtained by using the search string, selected information matching a selected string, and a display control unit for performing control such that information regarding a page identified by the selected information acquired by the selected information acquisition unit is displayed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a selected information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a history management server, selected information matching a selected string; and
a display control unit configured to perform control such that information regarding each page of a plurality of pages identified by the selected information acquired by the selected information acquisition unit is displayed,
wherein the history management server manages, for each search string of a plurality of search strings, one or more pieces of selected information selected from one or more pieces of page identification information obtained by using the respective search string, the one or more pieces of selected information including an image of each identified page,
wherein the selected information acquisition unit acquires, as the selected information matching the selected string, the one or more pieces of selected information managed by the history management server which correlate with a search string of the plurality of search strings matching the selected string,
wherein the management by the history management server of the one or more pieces of selected information for each search string constitutes a pre-mapping that correlates, prior to the acquiring of the selected information by the selected information acquisition unit, the one or more pieces of selected information including the image of each identified page as search results stored in an order according to a rank of each of the one of more pieces of information for respective ones of the plurality of search strings, and
wherein the selected information acquisition unit and the display control unit are each implemented via at least one processor.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a string selection unit configured to select a string included in a page as the selected string,
wherein the string selection unit is implemented via at least one processor.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the history management server is further configured to manage a number of times of selection of each of the one or more pieces of selected information, and
wherein the selected information acquisition unit acquires selected information with a largest number of times of selection, determined among the one or more pieces of selected information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the history management server is further configured to manage an average stay time at a page identified by each of the one or more pieces of selected information, and
wherein the selected information acquisition unit acquires selected information with a longest average stay time, determined among the one or more pieces of selected information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the selected information acquisition unit acquires, together with the one or more pieces of selected information matching the selected string, the rank of each of the one or more pieces of information based on a number of times of selection of each of the one or more pieces of selected information, and
wherein the display control unit performs control such that information regarding each page identified by the one or more pieces of selected information acquired by the selected information acquisition unit is displayed in the stored order according to the rank of each of the one or more pieces of selected information.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the selected information acquisition unit acquires, together with the one or more pieces of selected information matching the selected string, the rank of each of the one of more pieces of information based on an average stay time at a page identified by each of the one or more pieces of selected information, and
wherein the display control unit performs control such that information regarding each page identified by each of the one or more pieces of selected information acquired by the selected information acquisition unit is displayed in an order according to the rank of each of the one or more pieces of selected information.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the selected information acquisition unit acquires, as the selected information, at least one URL that is related to a search string of the plurality of search strings that matches the selected string.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7 ,
wherein the search string that is related to the at least one URL acquired as the selected information matches the selected string by being identical to the selected string.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7 ,
wherein the search string that is related to the at least one URL acquired as the selected information matches the selected string by containing similar term or terms as the selected string.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein each search string of the plurality of search strings comprises a string of characters that is input by a user and used for searching to obtain the selected information from the history management server.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the selected information acquisition unit initiates a search of the pre-mapped search strings that are managed by the history management server, to find a string of characters specified by the search string as input by a user.

12. An information processing method comprising:
acquiring, from a history management server, selected information matching a selected string; and
performing control such that information regarding each page of a plurality of pages identified by the selected information which have been acquired is displayed,
wherein the history management server manages, for each search string of a plurality of search strings, one or more pieces of selected information selected from one or more pieces of page identification information obtained by using the respective search string, the one or more pieces of selected information including an image of each identified page,
wherein the one or more pieces of selected information is managed by the history management server to be correlated with a search string of the plurality of search strings matching the selected string, and is acquired from the history management server as the selected information, and
wherein the management by the history management server of the one or more pieces of selected information for each search string constitutes a pre-mapping that correlates, prior to the acquiring of the selected information, the one or more pieces of selected information including the image of each identified page as search results stored in an order according to a rank of each of the one of more pieces of information for respective ones of the plurality of search strings.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:
acquiring, from a history management server, selected information matching a selected string; and
performing control such that information regarding each page of a plurality of pages identified by the acquired selected information is displayed,
wherein the history management server manages, for each search string of a plurality of search strings, one or more pieces of selected information selected from one or more pieces of page identification information obta

Assignees

• Okayama Takahiro
• Aoki Yuya
• Nishibe Mitsuru
• Kasahara Shunichi
• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Okayama Takahiro
• Aoki Yuya
• Nishibe Mitsuru
• Kasahara Shunichi

Classifications

• G06F17/30867 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30693

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/9535 Primary

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• G06F16/9038 Primary

  Presentation of query results · CPC title

• G06F16/248

  Presentation of query results · CPC title