Patent ID: 9189562
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A web browsing purpose classification apparatus, comprising: a display unit which displays a webpage; a document retrieval unit which retrieves document data from the displayed webpage; a keyword extraction knowledge unit which stores knowledge necessary for keyword extraction; a keyword extraction unit which extracts keywords from the document data based on the knowledge stored in the keyword extraction knowledge unit; a webpage format determination knowledge unit which stores knowledge necessary for the determination of webpage formats; a webpage format determination unit which determines webpage format based on the knowledge in the webpage format determination knowledge unit; a web browsing history storage unit which stores the keywords, webpages and webpage formats as web browsing history; a browsing purpose classification knowledge unit which stores browsing purposes classification knowledge including the keywords extracted from the document data and a browsing path pattern that is utilized to select one or more of the webpages associated with the web browsing history based on a comparison of a defined set of content-unrelated character strings to character strings included in web addresses associated with the webpages; and a browsing purpose classification unit which classifies, using at least one processor, browsing purposes based on the web browsing history and the browsing purposes classification knowledge including the browsing path pattern and the keywords stored in the browsing purpose classification knowledge unit, wherein the browsing purposes include an information collection mode for gathering of specific information and a web surfing mode which has no specific information gathering aim, wherein the information collection mode includes an in-depth research mode which gathers detailed information associated with a particular keyword among the keywords stored in the web browsing history and a comparison mode which gathers related information for comparison purposes, and wherein the browsing purposes are determined to be in the in-depth research mode, which gathers the detailed information associated with the particular keyword among the keywords stored in the web browsing history, when the browsing path pattern of the browsing purposes corresponds to the in-depth research mode and the particular keyword among the keywords stored in the web browsing history matches another keyword stored in the web browsing history.