KR20000026430A - Method for providing web service on internet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for providing a web service is to provide a user with information satisfying a user's desire and to allow the user to acquire useful information with ease having many times of information inquiry. CONSTITUTION: A method for providing a web service on an internet comprises the steps of: recording accumulated information about the number of times where a specified information stored in a web server is accessed by many users(S1); and discriminating visually items of the specified information against other items thereof, according to the degree of information inquiry based on the accumulated information and displaying them on a web browser(S2). The visual discrimination method includes increasing or decreasing font size of characters about specified items, sorting out the specified items by a priority order, or broadening or narrowing spaces occupied by the specified items.

Description

Web service method on the Internet

The present invention relates to the Internet, and in particular, by visually displaying in real time the user's information lookup for a particular item on the website, it is possible to efficiently search for common interests of users in the Internet space providing a large amount of data A web service method on the Internet.

In general, the Internet refers to a communication network that connects data networks distributed all over the world into one huge communication network so that users can easily obtain the information they want from anywhere. The World Wide Web is a function called hypertext. Wide area information service and software that makes it possible to find all kinds of information distributed on the Internet in a unified way. The World Wide Web, also called the WWW or Web, was proposed by the European Institute of Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland in 1989, and is widely regarded as a key player in making the Internet easier to use. The reason for this is that the web has enabled the multimedia services such as texts, images, and voices to be used for the Internet, which has mostly provided text data (text information) services. The schematic diagram of the Internet as described above is shown in FIG. 1 and as can be seen from the drawing, a web server 10 having information stored therein and a database 11 interoperating with the web server 10 are provided. It is connected to a large number of users 20a to 20n through the Internet.

In the web, various information is created in a hypertext format web document in a computer called a web server 10 and managed in a unit called a home page, and used in conjunction with a database 11 as necessary. ) Is connected to the Internet. Accordingly, users 20a to 20n connected to the Internet can be connected to web servers 10 around the world distributed on the Internet by link information to which each network is connected.

In this case, the service area provided by the specific web server 10 is called a website, and a special grammar language called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is used for creating a hypertext type web document, and a web client and a web The communication protocol of the server 10 uses Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

On the other hand, the application that allows to search the web document written in the hypertext form on the web server 10 is called a web browser (browser), the Netscape Navigator developed by Netscape and Microsoft's Explorer, etc. It is used. Thus, the user retrieves the hypertext web documents of the web server 10 using a web browser. That is, the user can browse the web document of the web server 10 using a web browser and HTTP over the Internet. At this time, the web browser is a web server 10 implementing an HTTP server by implementing an HTTP client. By displaying the web document transmitted from the user graphically, the user acquires the desired information.

An embodiment of accessing a website provided by the Internet as described above is shown in FIG. 2. The site accessed in the embodiment is a site providing information about a model helicopter of the United States, and the web browser used at this time is Netscape. As can be seen from the figure, the web server 10 of the connected website outputs a message welcoming the visit to its homepage, and additionally sets a counter to indicate that it is the 432522th visitor who accessed the website. It provides a service that informs you.

As described above, the web count service provided by web servers in the conventional internet network simply counts each time a new access is made to the web site using a web counter, and displays only the current cumulative number of accesses of the web site. The server operator cannot know what items the user is interested in among the items provided by the website, so it is not easy to provide information that meets the user's needs, and the user cannot know what information is useful. There is a problem that the acquisition of information is not easy.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and by providing a visual real-time display of the corresponding item in the web site according to the degree of the user's information search for a particular item on the website, From the Internet, the web server operator can easily find out what items the user is interested in and provide information that suits the user's needs, and the user can easily obtain useful information with a large amount of information lookup. Its purpose is to provide a web service method.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a web service method in the Internet in which a web server storing specific information on the Internet provides the information to a plurality of users, the specific information stored in the web server. A first step of recording cumulative information of a number of times of access by a plurality of users; After the first process, a second process for displaying the specific item in real time by visually distinguishing it from other items according to the degree of information search based on the accumulated information of the number of times of access by a plurality of users for the particular item. It is characterized by including.

On the other hand, the second process is characterized in that to display in real time by increasing or decreasing the font size of the specific item in accordance with the degree of information lookup based on the cumulative information of the number of times that is accessed by a plurality of users for the particular item.

On the other hand, the second process is characterized in that to display in real-time sorted items with a large amount of inquiry according to the degree of information search based on the cumulative information of the number of times of access by a plurality of users for a particular item .

On the other hand, the second process is characterized in that to display in real time by increasing or decreasing the size of the space occupied by the specific item in accordance with the degree of information lookup based on the cumulative information of the number of times that is accessed by a plurality of users for the particular item .

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of the Internet.

2 is an exemplary diagram of accessing a website providing a web count service on the Internet.

3 is a schematic structural diagram of the Internet according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flow chart illustrating a method of visually reflecting the degree of information access on the web according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a conceptual view of the operation of the present invention.

6 is an exemplary diagram of accessing a daily newspaper website according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 shows font sizes of items corresponding to the number of accesses according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

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8 is a diagram illustrating sorting items according to the number of accesses according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a diagram illustrating output spaces of items corresponding to the number of accesses according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

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Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

10: web server 11: database

12: virtual web counter database 20a to 20n: user terminal

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

A schematic diagram of the Internet in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, FIG. 3, and as can be seen from the drawing, the network is connected to all or part of the network with respect to other computers and resources of the network. A web server 10 that controls access to the web server, a database (DB) 11 and a virtual web counter database 12 interworking with the web server 10 are connected to a plurality of users through the Internet.

The web server 10 prepares a variety of data to be provided to the users 20a to 20n in a hypertext format web document and is managed in units of home pages.

The database 11 interoperates with the web server 10 as necessary to store a large amount of data and to manage personal data of the connected users 20a to 20n.

The virtual web counter database 12, when the user 20a to 20n clicks a mouse to search for a specific item, searches for each item, search time, search trend, etc. to determine an item having a large number of search times. Save the data.

In addition, how the web document is used on the Internet has been described in the prior art and thus will be omitted.

The operation of the present invention configured as described above will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4 as follows.

For example, the accompanying drawings, FIG. 6 is a list of all articles connected to the JoongAng Ilbo website at 21:30 as of August 18, 1998. As can be seen in the figure, this simply did not provide information such as visually indicating which article was most read, in addition to the fact that the information was provided in chronological order. Therefore, the users 20a to 20n cannot understand which articles are of interest, and the web operator cannot know which articles have been read most by the users 20a to 20n. Cannot provide effective services for

Accordingly, the present invention provides a plurality of specific information stored by a web server, such as a method used in a conventional web counter for a text-based item among various link items provided by a web site for access to information. Cumulative information on the number of accesses accessed by the users is recorded (step S1).

Thereafter, the specific item is displayed in real time by visually distinguishing it from other items according to the degree of information inquiry based on the cumulative information of the number of times accessed by a plurality of users for the particular item (step S2).

That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the user 20a to 20n attempts to access a resource in the web server 10 to the virtual web counter database 12 by the processing of the web server 10. The virtual web counter database 12 records the accumulated number of attempts to access the corresponding resource to the web server 10. Through this, the web server 10 can reprocess the form of real-time information and show it to the users 20a to 20n again, and provide a new type of information reflecting the curiosity and interest of the users 20a to 20n. In other words, a website providing newspaper information, as in the above embodiment, increases the font size of a newspaper article heading according to the number of accesses of each article, or sorts the items so that the items for articles that are frequently accessed are first displayed. Or, you can think of how to increase the clarity by adjusting the space occupied by the heading of the article according to the number of accesses to increase the space for articles with frequent access.

Then, in the first step 2, a method of displaying the specific item to display the visual distinction from other items, Figure 7 attached to Figure 7 after a certain period of time Internet users nationwide stored in the virtual web counter database 12 ( The web server 10 reorganizes the title font size of the output item according to the degree of interest (access times) of the article read by 20a to 20n). As can be seen from the figure, the size of the title font of the item corresponding to the list of articles of high interest was increased. The reason why the size of the title font of the item is enlarged is that the number of times the user (20a to 20n) of the whole country reads the article more often than other articles.

In addition, referring to the second method of displaying the specific item in a visual distinction from other items in step 2, the accompanying drawings, FIG. 8 shows a method of sorting the titles of articles read many times by priority order for the specific item. According to the degree of information retrieval based on the cumulative information of the number of times that are accessed by a plurality of users, the items with high retrieval volume are sorted by priority and displayed in real time. If this sorting function is added, the trend of public opinion can be seen at a glance.

In the third step, the method of displaying the specific item visually distinguishing it from other items is shown in FIG. 2. In the accompanying drawings, FIG. 9 shows a space occupied by the article without increasing the size of the title font for articles of high interest. Expand to show that the article is of high interest. Also, articles that have been searched for a certain number of times (or more than a certain size) no longer increase in size, but can be given information about interest and importance by adjusting the color and sharpness of the item corresponding to the article.

Meanwhile, for users 20a to 20n who simply click on a specific item and do not read the article, the minimum time until returning to the previous article is set according to the amount of the article so as to block meaningless hits in advance.

Therefore, when the present invention is applied, it can be applied to homepages that should provide real-time information such as newspaper articles, travel information, weather information, and new product introductions, and users 20a to 20n can grasp what is currently in vogue. The homepage manager can increase his homepage search rate by actively providing a service in a field of interest to the users 20a to 20n.

As described above, the present invention allows the user to display the item in real time by visually distinguishing it from other items according to the degree of the user's information search for a particular item on the website. The web server operator can easily grasp what the item is and provide information that meets the user's needs, and the user can easily obtain useful information having a large amount of information lookup.

Claims (4)

A web service method in the Internet in which a web server storing specific information on the Internet provides information to a plurality of users, the cumulative information of a number of times of accessing the specific information stored by the web server by a plurality of users. The first step of recording the; After the first process, a second process for displaying the specific item in real time by visually distinguishing it from other items according to the degree of information search based on the accumulated information of the number of times of access by a plurality of users for the particular item. Web service method on the Internet comprising a. The method of claim 1, In the second process, the font size of the specific item is increased or decreased in real time according to the degree of information search based on the accumulated information of the number of times of access by a plurality of users for the specific item. Web service method. The method of claim 1, The second process is characterized in that the Internet, characterized in that to display in real-time sorted items with a lot of priority according to the degree of information search based on the cumulative information of the number of times that is accessed by a plurality of users for a particular item Web service method. The method of claim 1, In the second process, the size of the space occupied by the specific item increases or decreases according to the degree of information search based on the cumulative information of the number of times accessed by a plurality of users for the specific item. Web service method.