Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
1999-01-25
2001-11-20
Alam, Hosain T. (Department: 2172)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C709S218000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06321227
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the field of information processing system organization, and more particularly to internet search engines.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventional web search servers have their own search robots periodically circulating among web servers providing web services all over the world and visiting various web pages. The web search servers analyze the contents of the web pages and build the indexes or the references and store them. The indexes or the references include the summary and the URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) of the web information.
In case of utilizing the web search servers, the web searchers contact the web search server sites through the web browsers. When the web searcher inputs the keywords for the desired information, the web search engine searches the previously built-in indexes or the references and transmits the URLs of the desired information to the web searcher.
When searching using some search engines, such as the Altavista (TM) search engine, the method of ordering the obtained information is not displayed to the user, and the goodness of fit to the keywords of each obtained web page is not shown. In other search engines, such as the Lycos (TM) search engine, the display shows a contents approaching method in which the display order is prioritized starting from the web page of closest match to the keywords.
But, because of the large number of search results, due to the heavy amount of information on the internet, it is not easy for the web searcher to find desired information in a short time. In particular, when displaying the searched information to the web searcher in the conventional methods, the locations of the information are not displayed. For example, the information about which countries, universities, or companies the searched information belongs is not displayed or automatically obtained. If the web searcher wants to find the information belonging to a specific university, the web searcher will often re-analyze the URLs that resulted from the information search results. Because unnecessary information is also transmitted, the amount of use of the network and the time to receive the information increase.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an improved method for searching for information on the internet.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a method for searching and providing the information from a specific location.
It is also an object of the present invention to provide a method for searching and providing the information from a specific university or company.
To achieve these objects, a web search function to search information from a specific location includes the steps of: inputting the keywords and the locations of the desired information on the web browser by the web searcher; searching the indexes according to the keywords and the locations by the web search server; finding the URLs(Uniform Resource Locator) of the searched indexes by the web search server; comparing the URLs with the inputted locations; and transmitting the compared results to the web searcher.
The URLs and the inputted locations are compared by utilizing the URL location mapping table(ULMT). If the comparison fails, that is, if the location cannot be obtained from the URL, the IP(Internet Protocol) addresses of the URLs and the inputted locations are compared by utilizing the IP location mapping table(ILMT).
The step of the comparing the URLs with the inputted locations includes the steps of: checking whether or not respective searched URLs are identical with the location inputted by the web searcher by utilizing the ULMT; finding the respective IP addresses corresponding to the URLs, in case the searched URLs are not identical with the location inputted by the web searcher; checking whether or not the respective IP addresses are identical with the location inputted by the web searcher by utilizing the ILMT; regarding as an exceptional case, in case the IP address is not identical with the location inputted by the web searcher; checking whether or not the checked URLs, IP addresses, and exceptional cases correspond to the information requested by the web searcher; and not displaying the checked information, in case the checked information does not correspond to the information requested by the web searcher; and checking whether or not the URLs, IP addresses, and exceptional cases are all sorted.
In the step of inputting the keywords, the logical arithmetic command is utilized for the inputting method. In the step of inputting the locations, the logical arithmetic command and/or the hierarchical structure is utilized for the inputting method.
The ULMT matching the URLs and the corresponding locations by the search server is previously built. The ILMT matching the IP addresses and the corresponding locations by the search server is previously built. In the step of regarding as an exceptional case, the step of transmitting the result of the exceptional cases to the web searcher is further included.
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Alam Hosain T.
Bushnell, E Robert E.
Ly Anh
Samsung Electronics Co,. Ltd.
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