Search processing system, search server, client, search processing method, program, and recording medium

Abstract

Metadata wherein characteristics descriptions for respective contents are performed is stored. A search server does not send back the whole metadata for each relevant metadata responding to a search request for the metadata from the client, but sends back part thereof. Thereby, a communications volume between the search server and the client is reduced. Further, it is possible to perform browsing wherein the metadata is sequentially obtained little by little.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a search processing system that makes a search request from a client to a search server via a network, and transmits a search result based on the search request to the client via a network, its search server, client, search processing method, program, recording medium, etc. . Background technique [0002] There is a huge amount of text data and image data connected to content servers on the Internet, and a system such as that shown in FIG. 33 that can perform keyword searches on such data is known. In FIG. 33, 101 denotes a database (DB), 102 denotes a retrieval server, 103 denotes a content server, 104 denotes a network, 105 denotes a client, 106-1 to 106-n denotes metadata stored in the database, 107-1 ˜107-m represent the content data stored in the database or the link, and 108 represents an example of the content of the response from the search server to the client. [0003] It has the following system configurati...

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Therefore, there is a problem that the communication traffic for the user's retrieval request increases between the retrieval server and the client.

[0011] In addition, although in the existing retrieval device proposed by the above-mentioned publication, etc., the representative image can be browsed by dividing the animation, but even if it is described as a layered structure, there is still an increase in the communication traffic between the retrieval server and the client. The problem

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