Patent ID: 8655982
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An information searching apparatus that searches information in response to a request from a terminal device and transmits search results to be displayed on the terminal device in unit of page to the terminal device via a network, comprising: a search condition receiving unit that receives a search condition transmitted from the terminal device; a searching unit that searches an information group meeting the search condition from a plurality of pieces of information for which data is stored in a data storage unit storing, in correspondence to each piece of the information, the data displayed as data about the information when the information is searched; a first data transmitting unit that transmits, to the terminal device, a first data group constituted of a predetermined number of pieces of the data in a data group which is the data corresponding to the information group searched by the searching unit; a data request receiving unit that receives a transmission request of the data different from the first data group from the terminal device; a second data transmitting unit that transmits, to the terminal device, a second data group different from the first data group in the data group corresponding to the information group searched by the searching unit in response to the transmission request received by the data request receiving unit; and a determining unit that determines a presence of a user interest in the first data group based on contents of a user operation detected by the terminal device after the first data group is transmitted until the transmission request is received, wherein when the determining unit determines that the user is not interested in the first data group, the second data transmitting unit transmits the second data group constituted of a larger number of pieces of the data than the number of pieces of the data constituting the first data group.