IP Library Granted Patent US 10,496,937
Granted Patent B2
US 10,496,937 · App. 14/779,343 · Granted Dec 3, 2019

Travel service information display system, travel service information display method, travel service information display program, and information recording medium

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Patent No.
US 10,496,937
App. No.
14/779,343
Granted
Dec 3, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a travel service information display system for controlling a display manner for displaying travel service information in consideration of subjective evaluation by a user having used the travel service. A travel service information display system ( 10 ) includes an image attribute information obtaining unit ( 312 ) for obtaining image attribute information on each of a plurality of images relevant to a travel service; a review information obtaining unit ( 320 ) for obtaining review information inputted by a user of the travel service; an evaluation unit ( 330 ) for making evaluation of the travel service with respect to a predetermined evaluation item based on the review information; and a display manner control unit ( 352 ) for controlling a display manner for the plurality of images based on the image attribute information and a result of the evaluation with respect to the evaluation item corresponding to the image attribute information.

Claims (33)

1. A travel service information display system, comprising:

at least one memory configured to store program code; and

at least one processor configured to access said at least one memory, read the program code and operate as instructed by the program code, the program code including:

image attribute information obtaining code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to, in response to a user of a terminal selecting one of a plurality of travel services, the plurality of travel services being displayed on a display screen and requested by the user of the terminal, obtain image attribute information for each of a plurality of images relevant to a first travel service selected by the user from among the plurality of travel services, the image attribute information indicating an evaluation item of a user selected travel service;

review information obtaining code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to obtain review information including one or more review messages submitted by the user with respect to one or more evaluation items of at least one second travel service from among the displayed plurality of travel services the review information being accumulated and stored in a storage;

evaluation code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to execute evaluation processing on the review information accumulated and stored in the storage, with respect to each of the one or more evaluation items, by counting a sum of a number of occurrences of one or more predetermined words in the one or more review messages submitted by the user, the one or more predetermined words being included in a list of words that are set, in advance of execution of the evaluation processing, as correlated to each of the one or more evaluation items;

display manner control code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to determine an order of one or more of the plurality of images displayed on the display screen of the terminal, the order being determined so that an image of the user selected first travel service of which image attribute information indicates an evaluation item having a higher sum of the number of occurrences of one or more predetermined words correlated thereto in the one or more review messages has a higher display order and an image of the user selected first travel service of which image attribute information indicates an evaluation item having a lower sum of the number of occurrences of one or more predetermined words correlated thereto in the one or more review messages has a lower display order; and

sending code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to send the plurality of images to the terminal so that the plurality of images are displayed at the terminal in the order determined by the display manner control code.

2. The travel service information display system according to claim 1 , wherein the program code further comprises:

planned use date information obtaining code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to obtain a planned use date information indicating a planned date of use of the user selected travel service,

wherein the review information is correlated to an actual use date information indicating a date in which the user selected travel service is used, and

wherein the number of evaluations is based on the review information selected based on the planned use date information and the actual use date information.

3. The travel service information display system according to claim 1 , wherein the program code further comprises:

planned use manner information obtaining code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to obtain a planned use manner information indicating a planned manner of use of the user selected travel service,

wherein the review information is correlated to an actual use manner information indicating a manner of use of the user selected travel service, and

wherein the number of evaluations is based on the review information selected based on the planned use manner information and the actual use manner information.

4. The travel service information display system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the display manner control code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to control a display size of each of the plurality of images.

5. The travel service information display system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the display manner control code is further configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to determine whether to execute or restrict display of each of the plurality of images.

6. A travel service information display method, comprising:

in response to a user of a terminal selecting one of a plurality of travel services, the plurality of travel services being displayed on a display screen and requested by the user of the terminal, obtaining image attribute information for each of a plurality of images relevant to a first travel service selected by the user from among the plurality of travel services, the image attribute information indicating an evaluation item of a user selected travel service;

obtaining review information including one or more review messages submitted by the user with respect to one or more evaluation items of at least one second travel service from among the displayed plurality of travel services, the review information being accumulated and stored in a storage;

executing evaluation processing on the review information accumulated and stored in the storage, with respect to each of the one or more evaluation items, by counting a number of occurrences of one or more predetermined words in the one or more review messages submitted by the user, the one or more predetermined words being included in a list of words that are set, in advance of execution of the evaluation processing, as correlated to each of the one or more evaluation items;

determining an order of one or more of the plurality of images displayed on the display screen of the terminal, the order being determined so that an image of the user selected first travel service of which image attribute information indicates an evaluation item having a higher counted number of one or more predetermined words correlated thereto in the one or more review messages has a higher display order and an image of the user selected first travel service of which image attribute information indicates an evaluation item having a lower counted number of one or more predetermined words correlated thereto in the one or more review messages has a lower display order; and

sending the plurality of images to the terminal so that the plurality of images are displayed at the terminal in the order determined.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a travel service information display program which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to:

in response to a user of a terminal selecting one of a plurality of travel services, the plurality of travel services being displayed on a display screen and requested by the user of the terminal, obtain image attribute information for each of a plurality of images relevant to a first travel service selected by the user from among the plurality of travel services, the image attribute information indicating an evaluation item of a user selected travel service;

obtain review information including one or more review messages submitted by the user with respect to one or more evaluation items of at least one second travel service from among the displayed plurality of travel services, the review information being accumulated and stored in a storage;

execute evaluation processing on the review information accumulated and stored in the storage, with respect to each of the one or more evaluation items, by counting a number of occurrences of one or more predetermined words in the one or more review messages submitted by the user, the one or more predetermined words being included in a list of words that are set, in advance of execution of the evaluation processing, as correlated to each of the one or more evaluation items;

determine an order of one or more of the plurality of images displayed on the display screen of the terminal, the order being determined so that an image of the user selected first travel service of which image attribute information indicates an evaluation item having a higher counted number of one or more predetermined words correlated thereto in the one or more review messages has a higher display order and an image of the user selected first travel service of which image attribute information indicates an evaluation item having a lower counted number of one or more predetermined words correlated thereto in the one or more review messages has a lower display order; and

send the plurality of images to the terminal so that the plurality of images are displayed at the terminal in the order determined.

8. The travel service information display system according claim 1 , wherein the evaluation code causes at least one of said at least one processor to determine the higher number of evaluations based on a higher number of occurrences of the one or more predetermined words included in the review information, and determine the lower number of evaluations based on a lower number of occurrences of the one or more predetermined words included in the review information.

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