CONTENT SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD USING CLASSIFICATION DIAGRAM

Abstract: Content service system and method using a classification diagram which classifies a plurality of folder addresses including similar contents according to predetermined classification criteria, directly accesses a folder requested by a user and searches information without passing its higher directory. The user may simply connect to a Web Site, a folder or a service page in a directory having the desired information while comparing information of each Web Site. Also, the order of the Web Site in the classification diagram is automatically ranked in real time according to a visit number of the user. And the Web Sites are relocated according to ranking of the qualitative priority Site. Hence, the classification diagram may reduce click numbers compared with the conventional method up to now, provides time reducing and economic effects, and leads to more users over the cyber shopping and information search.

Description: CONTENT SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD USING CLASSIFICATION DIAGRAM TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to content information search technique in a computer network. More particularly, the present invention relates to a content service system using a classification diagram which classifies a plurality of folder addresses including similar contents according to predetermined classification criteria, directly accesses a folder requested by a user and searches information without passing its high directory. Also, the present invention relates to a content service method using a classification diagram for registering a plurality of folder information including a similar content according to predetermined classification criteria, classifying a plurality of the registered folder information according to the Web Sites, providing the classified information to a user, accessing the folder requested by the user in order that the user may search the information, and managing comment information of the folder inputted by the user. BACKGROUND ART Generally, WWW(World-Wide-Web) is a global information search system for searching tremendous information spread in Internet using the hyper media technique. WWW employs a client-server model in which one side having information structures server for providing information, while client accesses the server for gaining the information through a browser. The server makes documents with HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). A hypermedia including several media, that is, image, sound as well as hypertext is linked to other such that a user easily moves to a desired server. Web address, so called, URL(Universal Resource Locator) is used for searching the information spread in the WWW. The client specifies the URL in order to access the specific server storing the information. The URL has a format of "protocol: //domain name /directory name/ file name". For example, in a URL "http:// www.modusa.co. kr/tm/tm.gif', "www.modusa.co.kr" means an address of the server including resources, while "tm" means a directory in the server and "tm.gif means the file name in the directory. The directory name is distinguished from others by using "/" symbol in the file system having the hierarchical directory. Following is an Internet Site access process of the client. If the Web browser of the client is drove, the Web browser physically connects to the Internet with a common Internet connection unit. The Web browser is basically interfaced for access to a number of networks and server services. HTML-compatible Web browsers, for example, Explorer and Netscape Navigator are broadly used. After connecting to the Internet, if the user of the Web browser specifies a URL to view a corresponding Web Site, the client requests naming service for mapping a host name of the URL to a specific network IP(Internet Protocol) address in which the server locates. Then the naming service sends back a list of one or more IP addresses that are able to answer the request. Using one of these addresses, the Web browser sets access to the server, and then the accessed server outputs a document or other objects formatted according to the HTML through the Web browser. Besides, many users search the tremendous Web Sites spread on the Internet and get information using a search engine many times in a day. In current, there are two representative search engines, Yahoo and Alta Vista. Yahoo classifies the Web Sites and makes indexes of the classified Web Sites, in a passive way, which generate an appropriate classification of the Web Sites and a high quality index in the directory structure. After members of the edit staff of the Yahoo visit the Web Sites and register the respective Site addresses to the classified directory, the general users search the classified directory, access the desired Site and search a page or a sub folder of the Web Sites. Alta Vista has a different mechanism from the classified directories of the Yahoo. After registering keywords about the Web Sites, general users of Alta Vista may get Web Site lists and news group information having registered information by inputting keywords of the desired information. But, if the user wants to access a specific folder or the sub folder in the directory of the Web Site, the user should move to the specific folder or sub folder through a main page of a homepage (generally, index.html), because these search engines constructs a database by registering only the homepage address of the Web Site. Consequently, if the user accesses a homepage of the desired Web Site through the search engine, the user should access the homepage and then, sequentially move to the sub folder in order to get t e information about goods, because the search is proceeded by a subordinate access, which accesses a subordinate folder after passing the hierarchical directory of the Web Site. Besides, when a user searches a specific item, too many Sites are found and displayed regardless of the priority of credit rating or quality verification of the Web Site (company). Therefore, the user has to check the contents of every Site after accessing corresponding Sites one by one which sacrifices much time and effort of the user. For example, in case of buying goods, a user wants information of the goods such as its kind, quality, cost, etc. Because the goods are exhibited in many Internet shopping malls not in one Internet shopping mall, the user desires to compare prices, options and specifications of the goods. Up to now, the user should click the mouse several times in order to access many shopping mall homepages, then move to the sub folder having information of the goods and check the information of the goods. Besides, the user should check tremendous shopping mall Site and then check the information of the goods one by one. It needs many hit numbers, much time and cost. Also, in case that the user searches certain information using the conventional search engine such as Yahoo, it is difficult for the user to ensure where the Web Site managing company locates because the database of the conventional search engine stores only information of registered Web Site managing companies and regional information of the companies are not stored in the database. So, if the user wants to search a company in a specific region, the user should check all home pages of the companies displayed by the search engine for finding out an address of the desired company on the home page. Also, the user may get comment information of the specific Web Site managing company and the goods provided by the company with reference to a guest book or a bulletin board in the Web Site of the corresponding company when visiting the Web Site of the company. But the user may hardly get correct and objective comment information from the guest book or the bulletin board because a manager of the company may modify the comment information inputted by the user. For example, in case that the user inputs a negative opinion about the Web Site managing company or the goods of the company in the guest book while visiting the Web Site of the company, the Web Site manager of the company may remove the negative opinion from the guest book in order that other users can not see the negative opinion or may modify focus of the negative opinion. Consequently, many users may get incorrect comment information modified in a view of the Web Site manager of the corresponding company and join an inefficient commerce. Otherwise, on the conventional Internet network, when the user searches information included in a plurality of the Web Sites by inputting a keyword, the user should visit a specific Web Site considered to support the corresponding information, input the keyword in the search entry box and then check the result. The search result obtained by inputting the keyword in the specific Web Site is detected from a database included in a Web server managing the Web Site. Consequently, if the user wants to check the information included in other Web Sites, the user should repeat the process of visiting other Web Site, inputting the same keyword and then checking the result. For example, if the user wants to search some of articles written in the newspaper, the user should access a specific Web Site of the newspaper publishing company and input the keyword. And then the user may check the result which detected only from the database of the corresponding newspaper publishing company. If the user thinks the result is not enough and wants further information, the user should repeat above course in the Web Site of other newspaper publishing companies. Consequently, in case that the user wants to search the information provided from the several Web Sites and compare the searched information with one searched from other Web Sites, the user should waste much time and endeavor, because the user should visit a plurality of the Web Sites by him/her self and repeatedly input same keyword. DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention is designed to solve the problems in the prior art. An object of the present invention is to provide content service system and method for directly accessing a Web Site or a folder on a classification diagram, in which a plurality of Web Sites or folders included in Site directories are classified according to predetermined items or regions. Other object of the present invention is to provide content service system and method for directly accessing a Web Site or a folder on a classification diagram using the classification diagram which automatically determines a ranking of the Web Sites or the folders included in Site directories which the user wants to access according to a hit number of the Web Site or the folder by the user, rearranges detailed items on the classification and display the rearranged result. In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a content service system for searching content information from a plurality of Web Sites providing the content information on a communications network, comprising: a content service server for classifying a plurality of content items provided from the Web Sites according to a predetermined classification criteria, arranging the classified content items according to a homepage name of the corresponding Web Site, organizing a classification diagram including content select cells corresponding to the Web Sites, directly searching the content information corresponding to the content select cell on the classification diagram from the corresponding Web Site and providing at least one service page including the content information requested by the user. Especially, the content service server, as an embodiment according to the object of the present invention, provides a classification diagram including a ranking item and ranking information cells for displaying visit ranking of the Web Sites according to a hit number of the content items included in the Web Sites, a regional item and regional information cells for providing regional information of a plurality of Web Site managing companies. And the content service server provides the classification diagram including link information on the content select cells for informing whether the Web Site included in the content item is linked or not, having the content select cells and the regional information cells in a button shape, including event information cells for informing event information provided by the corresponding Web Site with a visual expression including any or all of a text, a symbol or a color, and providing a keyword input space for receiving a keyword associated with the content information provided by the Web Sites on the at least one service page, connects the received keyword to variables of a plurality of Web servers at the same time, and displays at least one service page activated by the keyword. In order to accomplish other object, the present invention provides a content service method of searching content information from a plurality of Web Sites providing a plurality of content information on a communications network, comprising the steps of (a) classifying a plurality of content items provided from the Web Sites according to a predetermined classification criteria, constructing a database for arranging and registering the classified content items according to a homepage name of the corresponding Web Site, and organizing a classification diagram including content select cells corresponding to a plurality of the content items; and (b) searching at least one service page including content information of the corresponding content select cell on the classification diagram and providing at least one searched service page from the corresponding Web Sites. The step (a) of the present invention further includes the steps of organizing the classification diagram by arranging a plurality of the homepage names of the Web Sites in one direction and arranging the Web Site classification criteria according to the content items in another direction, and arranging the content select cells at a contact point of the homepage names in one direction and the classification criteria according to the content items in another direction. Also, in an embodiment according to the object of the present invention, the step (a) further includes the steps of counting a hit number of the access requested content item through the classification diagram and providing visit ranking information of the Web Sites using the counted hit number; rearranging the content select cells corresponding to the Web Sites according to the counted visit ranking information and displaying the rearranged content select cells; receiving regional information of Web Site managing companies, classifying and registering information of the companies according to the regional information, and providing the regional information of the Web Site managing companies on the classification diagram; and providing a keyword input space for inputting a keyword associated with the content information provided by the Web Sites. In an embodiment according to the object of the present invention, the step (b) further includes the steps of receiving comment information associated with the Web Site managing companies, registering and managing the received comment information, searching the comment information according to the user request and providing the searched comment information; determining whether there is a return request by the user during searching the content information from the accessed Web Site, and displaying the classification diagram again when the return request is detected; receiving the searched and displayed comment information of the corresponding Web Site, storing the received comment information into the database for managing the comment information, and displaying the stored comment information through a predetermined frame when the user requests; and parallel connecting the keyword inputted through the keyword input space to variables of a plurality of Web servers and providing at least one service page activated by the keyword at the same time. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS These and other features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will become better understood with regard to the following description, appended claims, and accompanying drawings, in which like components are referred to by like reference numerals. In the drawings: FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a content service system using a classification diagram in accordance with the present invention; FIG. 2 shows a service page as an embodiment of the classification diagram according to the system block diagram in FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a flow chart for illustrating the step of organizing the classification diagram in FIG. 2; FIG. 4 is a flow chart for illustrating the step of registering folder information in FIG. 3; FIG. 5 is a flow chart for illustrating the step of outputting folder information in FIG. 3; FIG. 6 is a flow chart for illustrating the step of searching a Web Site and comment information of a corresponding Web Site managing company according to a region which the company locates; FIG. 7 is a configuration of a frame displaying a Web Site and comment information of the Web Site managing company searched by a user; FIG. 8 is another embodiment of the service page in FIG. 2; and FIG. 9 is a flow chart for illustrating the step of processing a keyword in accordance with the present invention. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a content service system using a classification diagram in accordance with the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1 , the content service system of the present invention includes a content service server 40, a database server 41, a regional database server 42 and a comment database server 43 on Internet network 10 connecting a plurality of user terminals 20 and a plurality of shopping mall servers 30 providing services. The content service server 40 classifies a plurality of Sites/ folders provided from a plurality of the shopping mall servers 30 according to content items or regional information of Web Site managing companies, registers and manages the classified Sites/folders. The content service server 40 then organizes a classification diagram using the registered Sites/ folders and provides the classification diagram to the user in order that users may access a folder of a desired shopping mall Site. The database server 41 stores and manages information about a plurality of the folders included in the shopping mall server 30. The regional database server 42 manages regional information of the Web Site managing companies. The comment database server 43 manages comment information of the Web Site managing companies inputted from the user. The database server 41, the regional database server 42 and the comment database server 43 are connected to the content service server 40. The content service server 40 gives access to a shopping mall manager to receive the folder information of the corresponding shopping mall Site and regional information of the Web Site managing companies. The content service server 40 classifies the received information according to the content items and the regional information and constructs a database used to organize the classification diagram though the database server 41. In the content service system having the configuration described in FIG. 1, the content service server 40 classifies the folders including the content associated with specific service fields (similar service fields, for example, various items provided from a plurality of the service servers which construct the shopping mall) according to predetermined criteria and provides the classification diagram in a manner which may directly access a desired folder considering connecting relation with a plurality of the shopping mall servers 30 through the Internet network and the database server 41, as an embodiment illustrated in FIG. 2. The classification diagram may be transformed as shown in FIG. 8 by the content service server 40 related with the regional database server 42 and the comment database server 43, and other forms, not shown in the figures, are also possible. The regional database server 42 determines whether the Web Site managing company locates within or out of a country. If the Web Site managing company locates out of the country, the regional database server 42 classifies the company according to the country, while if the Web Site managing company locates within the country, the regional database server 42 classifies the company according to a province or a city included in the province. Also, according to a regional selection of the user, the regional database server 42 provides list information of the Web Site managing companies located in the selected region to the user terminal through the content service server 40. The list information of the Web Site managing companies includes regional information cells providing the regional information of the Web Site managing companies, homepage select cells to be connected to the homepage of the Web Site managing companies by clicking, and an explanation part for showing a brief explanation about the companies (not showed in the figure). If the user selects one of the homepage select cells, the content service server 40 connects a corresponding Web Site and displays the homepage of the selected Web Site managing company through a new window. The new window includes at least one frame, a frame connected to the corresponding homepage of the Web Site managing company and a frame for displaying comment information of the corresponding Web Site managing company (see FIG. 8). The comment database server 43 stores and manages the comment information inputted by the user when the user evaluates the Web Site managing company. The comment information includes recommend information that a user recommends a good Web Site managing company to other users and warning information that a user warns about dealing with the Web Site managing company having problems. Also, the comment database server 43 stores the comment information in the comment database using a serial number corresponding to the Web Site managing company. When requested by a user, the comment database server 43 searches the comment information of the corresponding Web site managing company from the comment database with use of the serial number and provides the searched comment information to the user. Hereinafter, embodiments of the classification diagram in FIG. 2 and FIG. 8 are explained. For example, the classification diagram explained below employs the items related with a plurality of shopping mall servers based on the content classification standard and the items for the content classification are formed in a plurality of folders under at least one directory. It may be applied to a diagram employing items related with a plurality of Web Site support servers (other Web Site support servers providing another similar items are possible), which support publishing a newspaper, a magazine or a book, based on the content classification standard. The Web Site support server may also be applied to a diagram organizing the items based the content classification in as at least one Web page in order to service the items like a Web page format. At first, FIG. 2 shows a service page as an embodiment of the classification diagram in FIG. 1. Referring to FIG. 2, the classification diagram 50 includes a plurality of content select cells including regional information cells 80 for showing regional information of Web Site managing companies. The classification diagram also may be implemented with a content service server 40 and a regional database server 42 for classifying and managing information of the Web Site managing companies inputted from a plurality of shopping mall servers 30 according to the regional information. And the classification diagram 50 arranges homepage name parts 51 of cyber shopping mall Sites in one direction and general common classification standard parts 55 of the shopping mall Sites in another direction. A plurality of content select cells 51a, 55a which directly connect to a plurality of classified folders according to the classification standard are sorted for each Web Site in order to react a user's request. Here, the classification standard parts 55 consist of at least one content item for classifying similar contents. For example, the classification standard parts 55 are defined as (electronic home appliances A/V(audio/video)), (office supply, communications supply), (sports, leisure, cars), (home and kitchen), (children, toys), (makeup, accessories), ( apparel, food and beverages), (music, CD, video) and so on. The homepage name parts 51 display a name of the shopping mall and have homepage select cells linked to the homepage address of the corresponding shopping mall in order to directly move to the corresponding shopping mall homepage. A plurality of the content select cells 51a, 55a, which link and connect to the corresponding folder at every contact point of the homepage name parts 51 and the classification standard parts 55, have a button or an icon shape. Besides, a plurality of the content select cells 51a, 55a may display information of the folders with a visual expression having any or all of texts, symbols and colors. For example, the Web Site which was searched one time is marked with 61 in order to prevent the user from accessing the searched Web Site again. Also, if one Web Site has no content corresponding to the common classification standard, x 62 is marked for informing that the user does not need to move to this Web Site. On the other hand, in case of each Internet Site, especially, the cyber shopping mall, various events are executed for sale strategy. Consequently, the classification diagram has an event information cell for displaying the event executed in each shopping mall. The event information cell is displayed with specific symbol (" ) which may inform the event information executed in the corresponding shopping mall. For example, a bargain sale for each item of sale event is marked with " 62 or more powerful bargain sale event is marked withi faiZ 64 in order to drive user's visit, as shown in FIG.2. Therefore, the user can access and search each folder simply by clicking a content select cell 59 of the desired folder as checking the information of each folder of the Web Site displayed on the content select cell in a button shape with use of the classification diagram 50 which is categorized obviously according to the classification standard of the contents as shown in FIG.2 In another embodiment, content item names of the classification standard may be different from each other in accordance with the Web Sites, though the folders of the Web Sites are classified by the predetermined classification standard. In this case, when the user's mouse locates on the content select cell 59c, displaying text or pronouncing sound of the exact content item name 65 ("electronic home appliances A/V(audio/video) ") can give convenience to the user's selection. Besides, in case that one content select cell has two items, the content select cell may be divided into two content select cells 59a, 59b and connect the content select cells 59a, 59b to corresponding Web addresses (URL2-(M-1L), URL2-(M-1R) such that more content items can be managed in one classification diagram 50. In this case, if the user locates a mouse over one content select cell 59a, the content select cell 59a shows the corresponding item name (e.g., apparel). Consequently, the content select cell may include several content items. Besides, by adding the mouse over function and a function of announcing the information of the corresponding classified content item with a sound explanation about the classified content items or sub folders will be more persuasive and drive user's access powerfully. In case that the classified content select cell is made of an image icon, the classification diagram including languages of all countries can be produced. Though not shown in the classification diagram 50 of FIG. 2, it is possible to decorate the event items with colors as well as images for distinguishing the event item s easily, in case that various event items exist on the classification diagram. If linking the homepage of each Web Site and address of the sub folder to the content select cells of the classification diagram 50, the user can move to, for example, over 350 sub folders freely in one screen. Up to now, only subordinate movement was possible. That is, it is possible to move to 350 sub folders freely without passing through higher folders (corresponding homepage) in one screen. On the other hand, even though the classification standard parts 55 arranged lengthwise appears on a top of the screen in FIG. 2, a scroll bar which is located in the right side can scroll down the classification diagram 50 with the mouse if many Web Sites are accumulated in the classification diagram 50. Therefore, further expressing the classification standard parts 55 in middle or bottom parts of the screen may prevent dropping access frequency of the Internet Site in the below part of the classification diagram. The Site in the upper part (about 20 lines) of the classification diagram may refer to the upper classification standard parts 55, the other Sites in a lower part of the classification diagram may refer to the middle or bottom classification standard parts 55. When classifying about 40 Internet Sites to the left side in one page, more sub folder can be added. Moreover, as the content select cell is divided into more content items, more Internet Sites are accumulated. In another preferred embodiment, the classification diagram 50 may include a ranking section 70 for sequentially sorting the Sites according to the quality priority. Also, the classification diagram 50 may sort the Site orderly according to hit numbers and relocate the Site by calculating the hit numbers of the Site in real time. When the user accesses a desired Site through the Internet, the classification diagram 50 is provided in a manner that may compare and analyze many folders included in similar Sites by moving the mouse and clicking the content select cell in one screen. And, the user may buy goods having best quality and price without accessing the subordinate folders of homepage or the subordinate folders provided by a search engine. As described above, the classification diagram 50 has an advantage that enables the user to compare and search the desired folder while reducing the hit number because the classification diagram is provided in a manner which ensures direct access of the desired folder without passing the homepage. FIG. 3 is a flow chart for illustrating the step of organizing a classification diagram in FIG. 2. FIG. 4 is a flow chart for illustrating the step of registering folder information in FIG. 3. And FIG. 5 is a flow chart for illustrating the step of outputting folder information in FIG. 3. Referring to FIG. 3, a content service server 40 for providing the classification diagram is connected to a shopping mall manager. The content service server 40 receives and registers folder information of a corresponding shopping mall Site S210, and stores the folder information into a database S230. FIG. 4 explains the step S210 more detail. At first, the content service server 40 provides a register screen which includes a space for receiving a Site name and a homepage address (URL) according to a register request of the shopping mall manager, and a space for displaying the predetermined classification standard and receiving the folder information having the contents corresponding to the classification standard S211. The shopping mall Site manager registers his or her own Site name and homepage address S212 and then determines whether a folder/ Site corresponding to the classification standard exists or not S213. If the shopping mall manager includes the folder/ Site corresponding to the classification standard, the shopping mall manager inputs information about the folder/ Site (e.g., explanation, URL, etc.) S214. If the shopping mall manager does not include the corresponding folder/ Site, the shopping mall manager inputs nothing S215. And then the shopping mall manager transmits the registered folder information to the content service server 40. Now, the content service server 40 receives the registered folder information and transfers the received folder information to a database server 41 in order to construct a database S230. After the step of S230, the content service server 40 inquires the registered folder information and determines whether the registered folder information is true or not S240. FIG. 5 explains the step S240 more detail. Referring to the figure, the content service server 40 according to the registered folder information visits the corresponding folder and determines whether the information corresponding to the classification standard exists S241. If there is desired information, the content service server 40 creates a content select cell and links the created content select cell to an address of the corresponding folder S242. If the desired information does not exist, the content service server 40 creates a content select cell displaying that there is no desired folder on the content select cell S243. Of course, the content select cell may display various events or information about the folder (see FIG. 2). Now, the content service server 40 implements the classification diagram 50 such as FIG. 2, transmits and displays the classification diagram on a user terminal S250. In addition, when implementing the classification diagram, Site arranging order may further includes the step of locating the Site according to the visit ranking considering the hit number S244. Back to FIG. 3, after the step of S250, the user, who received the classification diagram, clicks a desired content select cell in order to send a folder connect request to the content service server 40. The content service server 40 determines whether the folder connect request exist S260. The content service server then increases the visit number of a corresponding folder according to the folder connect request S270, increases the visit number of the Site including the corresponding folder which has the increased visit number, and changes the visit ranking of the whole Sites S280. The changed visit number and visit ranking information are updated as information of each folder/ Site included in database server 41. If the ranks are changed, an arrangement of the content items and the homepage names in the classification diagram is also changed in real time and the changed classification diagram may be provided to the users. Now, the user terminal, hyper-linked to URL of the connect requested folder in the classification diagram 50, displays a corresponding service page or folder through a Web browser S290. In the preferred embodiment, when the user inputs a return key while searching the corresponding folder, the content service server 40 instantly provides the classification diagram on screen. On the other hand, the database structured in the step S230 may be managed by the database server 41. That is, the manager may modify data S231and check click situation S232. At this time, it is preferable to provide ID and password to the manager for giving data modification authority only to the specific manager. It is explained that the shopping mall provider inputs data by hand using the register screen according to the classification standard and the content service server constructs a database with the inputted data. In another preferred embodiment, the content service server 40 constructs the database by structuring an automatic search system. The content service server 40 periodically searches information about the folders of Internet Sites and information about the event of the each Site, stores the searched information into the database, and then automatically implements the classification diagram. Using such classification diagram, the user may search and compare same kind of items with dramatically reduced hit number because it is possible for the user to move to the sub folder or the service page in one screen without passing the homepage. As a result, the user may preview the folder (service page) with a reduced hit number at least 2 times. The user may enjoy 4 times hit number reducing effect because the visited service pages are notified. Considering the changes of the ranks according to the qualitative priority, the user has over 8 times hit number reducing effect. FIG. 6 is a flow chart for illustrating the step of searching a Web Site and comment information of a corresponding Web Site managing company according to a region selected by the user. FIG. 7 is a configuration of a frame displaying a Web Site and comment information of the Web Site managing company. Referring to FIG. 6, the content service server 40 receives information about the Web Site managing company from the shopping mall server 30, S610, classifies the received information according to a region where the Web Site managing company locates, and stores the classified information into a regional database S611. If the user selects a desired region through a user terminal 20 and requests information about the Web Site managing company which locates in the selected region, the content service server 40 detects Web Site managing companies included in the selected region from the regional database, and displays a list of the detected Web Site managing companies S612. If the user selects one Web Site managing company from the displayed list, the content service server 40 opens a new window in order to connect a Site of the selected Web Site managing company. The new window includes at least one frame. A frame is for connecting a Web Site of the selected Web Site managing company, and other frame is for providing comment information of the connected Web Site managing company S613. FIG. 7 is showing a configuration of the new windows displaying the connected Web Site and comment information of the corresponding Web Site managing company searched by the user. Referring to the figure, the new window consists of three frames. An upper frame is for banner advertisement 710. A middle frame 720 is for displaying the Web Site of the selected Web Site managing company. A lower frame 730 is for receiving and displaying the comment information corresponding to the Web Site managing company displayed in the middle frame. With such configuration of the frame, the lower frame for the comment information is not included in the Web Site of a specific Web Site managing company. Consequently, a manager of the Web Site managing company displayed in the middle frame may not modify or delete the comment information inputted by the user. And, the user may check even objective comment against the corresponding Web Site managing company. If the user wants to visit a Site of the selected Web Site managing company S 614, the user may check the Site in the middle frame S615. If the user wants to input the comment information about the Web Site managing company, the content service server 40 receives the inputted comment information and stores the received information into the comment database S616-S620. At this step, if the user recommends a Web Site managing company when inputting the comment information S618, the content service server 40 stores the recommended comment information into a regional database with use of a serial number of the corresponding Web Site managing company S620. If the comment information inputted by the user does not include the recommendation, the content service server stores the comment information into a comment database with use of the serial number of the corresponding Web Site managing company S619. Hence, in case that other user checks the list of the Web Site managing company in the step S612, the comment information (recommendation) is displayed together with the list of the corresponding Web Site managing company. Also, if the user wants to check the comment information inputted by other user S621, the content service server 40 outputs the corresponding comment information from the comment database using the serial number S622. Access to information of a specific Web Site managing company stored in the database is proceeded with use of the serial number given at time of registering the information of the Web Site managing company. Consequently, the content service server 40 provides only the information corresponding to the specific Web Site managing. On the other hands, FIG. 8 is another embodiment of the service page in FIG. 2 and FIG. 9 is a flow chart for illustrating the step of processing a keyword in accordance with the present invention. Referring to FIG. 8, the service page provides a keyword input space 90 at a separate place in addition to the classification diagram described in FIG. 2. The keyword input space 90 is provided by the content service server 40. The content service server 40 may directly receive a keyword about the content information provided on at least one service page by a plurality of Web Site. Hence, the content service server 40 simultaneously connects the inputted keyword to corresponding variables of a plurality of Web servers (shopping mall servers). And the content service server 40 provides at least one service page activated by the one keyword through a corresponding Web browser included in the Web server. Referring to FIG. 9, if the user inputs a keyword including the desired content information through the keyword input space from the user terminal 20, S900, the content service server 40 simultaneously connects a plurality of the shopping mall servers 30, S910. And then, the content service server 40 delivers and combines the keyword inputted by the user to variables of the corresponding search engines included in a plurality of connected shopping mall servers 30. The content service server 40 then detects information corresponding to the inputted keyword from the database 31 of a plurality of the shopping mall servers 30, S920. The content service server 40 provides at least one service page displaying a search result associated with the inputted keyword through the keyword input space 90 at a time S930. The classification diagram according to the present invention provides the classification diagram sorting Web Sites obviously. Therefore, the user may be connected simply to a Web Site, a folder or a service page in a directory having the desired information while comparing information of each Web Site. Also, the order of the Web Site in the classification diagram is automatically ranked in real time according to a visit number of the user. And the Web Sites are relocated according to ranking of the qualitative priority Site. Hence, the classification diagram may reduce click numbers compared with the conventional method up to now, provides time reducing and economic effects, and leads to more users over the cyber shopping and information search. In addition, only by clicking the content select cell of the classification diagram, the user may access Internet. Also, a beginner or elder can use Internet easily and a manager may sale up and get a commission per the hit number from the registered company. When receiving the information associated with the Web Site managing companies, the present invention classifies the information according to a region, stores the classified information into a database and then provides the information of the Web Site managing company which locates in the desired region. And the present invention provides an opportunity for referring to the objective comment information, about the Web Site managing companies, inputted by other users in order to be a help of the efficient consuming life of the user. Also, in case that the user wants to search information in Internet by inputting a keyword, the present invention provides a method for automatically checking the desired information stored in databases of a plurality of Web servers without repeating the steps of selecting some of the plurality of Web Sites, visiting the selected Web Sites, inputting the keyword associated with the content information wanted by the user, and then checking searched information. It provides a time reducing and economic effect to the user. The content service system and method using the classification diagram according to the present invention have been described in detail. However, it should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the invention, are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.

Claims: What is claimed is: 1. A content service system for searching content information from a plurality of Web Sites providing the content information on a communications network, comprising: a content service server for classifying a plurality of content items provided from the Web Sites according to a predetermined classification criteria, arranging the classified content items according to a homepage name of the corresponding Web Site, organizing a classification diagram including content select cells corresponding to the Web Sites, directly searching the content information corresponding to the content select cell on the classification diagram from the corresponding Web Site and providing at least one service page including the content information requested by the user. 2. The content service system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the classification diagram further includes a ranking item and ranking information cells for displaying visit ranking of the Web Sites according to a hit number of the content items included in the Web Sites. 3. The content service system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the classification diagram further includes a regional item and regional information cells for providing regional information of a plurality of Web Site managing companies. 4. The content service system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the classification diagram provides link information on the content select cells for informing whether the Web Site included in the content item is linked or not. 5. The content service system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the classification diagram has the content select cells and the regional information cells in a button shape. 6. The content service system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the classification diagram includes event information cells for informing event information provided by the corresponding Web Site with a visual expression including any or all of a text, a symbol or a color. 7. The content service system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the content service server provides a keyword input space for receiving a keyword associated with the content information provided by the Web Sites on the at least one service page, connects the received keyword to variables of a plurality of Web servers at the same time, and displays at least one service page activated by the keyword. 8. The content service system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the content service server provides information of the content item with any or all of a text and a sound while a mouse pointer locates on the corresponding content item. 9. The content service system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the information of the content item includes at least one of an item name, a folder name, brief explanation of the content and URL(Uniform Resource Locator) of the folder. 10. The content service system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the classification diagram further includes homepage select cells for linking the homepage of the corresponding Web Site. 11. The content service system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the classification diagram rearranges the content items of the Web Sites according to the visit ranking information of the Web Sites. 12. The content service system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the classification diagram changes form or color of the content select cells in order to display whether the Web Site is visited or not. 13. A content service method of searching content information from a plurality of Web Sites providing a plurality of content information on a communications network, comprising the steps of : (a) classifying a plurality of content items provided from the Web Sites according to a predetermined classification criteria, constructing a database for arranging and registering the classified content items according to a homepage name of the corresponding Web Site, and organizing a classification diagram including content select cells corresponding to a plurality of the content items; and (b) searching at least one service page including content information of the corresponding content select cell on the classification diagram and providing at least one searched service page from the corresponding Web Sites. 14. The content service method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the step (a) further including the steps of: organizing the classification diagram by arranging a plurality of the homepage names of the Web Sites in one direction and arranging the Web Site classification criteria according to the content items in another direction; and arranging the content select cells at a contact point of the homepage names in one direction and the classification criteria according to the content items in another direction. 15. The content service method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the step (a) further includes the step of counting a hit number of the access requested content item through the classification diagram and providing visit ranking information of the Web Sites using the counted hit number. 16. The content service method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the step (a) further includes the step of rearranging the content select cells corresponding to the Web Sites according to the counted visit ranking information and displaying the rearranged content select cells. 17. The content service method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the step (a) further includes the step of receiving regional information of Web Site managing companies, classifying and registering information of the companies according to the regional information, and providing the regional information of the Web Site managing companies on the classification diagram. 18. The content service method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the step (a) further includes the step of providing a keyword input space for inputting a keyword associated with the content information provided by the Web Sites. 19. The content service method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the step (b) further includes the step of receiving comment information associated with the Web Site managing companies, registering and managing the received comment information, searching the comment information according to the user request and providing the searched comment information. 20. The content service method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the step (b) further includes the step of determining whether there is a return request by the user during searching the content information from the accessed Web Site, and displaying the classification diagram again when the return request is detected. 21. The content service method as claimed in claim 19, wherein the step (b) further includes the step of receiving the searched and displayed comment information of the corresponding Web Site, storing the received comment information into the database for managing the comment information, and displaying the stored comment information through a predetermined frame when the user requests. 22. The content service method as claimed in claim 21, wherein the comment information includes recommend information of the Web Site managing companies by the user. 23. The content service method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the step (a) further includes the step of parallel connecting the keyword inputted through the keyword input space to variables of a plurality of Web servers and providing at least one service page activated by the keyword at the same time.

Inventors: JOO SEUNG CHUL, JOO, SEUNG, CHUL
Applicants: JOO SEUNG CHUL, JOO, SEUNG, CHUL
Application year: 2000
Main classification: G06F
IPC codes: G06F17