US 12,282,519 B2
Recipe search support apparatus, and recipe search support method
Kenta Hashimoto, Kanagawa (JP); Yu Uno, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroto Igarashi, Kanagawa (JP); Yuji Fujisaka, Kanagawa (JP); and Shintaro Morikawa, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to COOKPAD, INC., Yokohama (JP)
Filed by Cookpad Inc., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Jul. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/219,730.
Application 18/219,730 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/041679, filed on Nov. 12, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-030633 (JP), filed on Feb. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0367830 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06Q 50/10 (2012.01)
CPC G06F 16/9538 (2019.01) [G06Q 50/10 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recipe search support apparatus, comprising:
a memory with instructions thereon, the memory holding recipe information published on a recipe site; and
a processor configured to execute the instructions to:
receive a use report of a recipe published on the recipe site from a user in response to use of the recipe;
receive an input of feature information including a hash tag related to the recipe;
store the recipe, the use report, and the feature information in the memory in association with each other;
receive a recipe search request including a search keyword;
search the memory for particular feature information including a particular hash tag matching the search keyword;
when the search identifies at least one recipe and use report stored in the memory as being associated with the particular feature information including the particular hash tag matching the search keyword, generate and output a first list including the at least one recipe and use report; and
when the search does not identify at least one recipe and use report stored in the memory as being associated with the particular feature information including the particular hash tag matching the search keyword:
further search the memory with a morphological analysis algorithm for feature information including a hash tag morphologically related to the search keyword, and
generate and output a second list including at least one of a recipe and a use report associated with the feature information including the hash tag morphologically related to the search keyword.