JP2008158825A - Information processing program, information processor and information processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To acquire information important for a work environment to facilitate smooth operations. <P>SOLUTION: A list information generation part 12 switches an individual list information generation part 12a and a common list information generation part 12b to form list information. When a group ID is of an individual group, the individual list information generation part 12b is enabled to generate list information for the individual group. The generation part 12a comprises an importance calculation part 15 and a list configuration part 16. The common list information generation part 12b comprises an access number calculation part 17 and a list configuration part 18. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing program, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing system.

  Display new information or access ranking (displaying the top number of documents that have been accessed many times in a certain period in the past or the display contents) on the portal page of the document management system, etc. Therefore, there is a function to inform the general condition of the document managed by the entire system. FIG. 1 shows an example of such a portal page. In this example, in addition to “new arrival information” and “access ranking”, “links” (things frequently used by users), “affiliation projects” (users) Link to the project in which is participating), “schedule” (user's schedule), and the like.

  The user can acquire new information using “new arrival information”, and can acquire information on recent topics using “access ranking”. The “access ranking” list has a role of notifying information on recent topics in the entire system.

  By the way, there are cases in which a user uses a document management system to communicate with other users through a document, and work (projects and tasks) is performed in a group composed of a plurality of people.

  As described above, when the “access ranking” of all users is displayed in the entire system, a document that is highly topical for performing a specific job is not ranked for a certain user, and a general problem involving many users Documents may be ranked higher.

In such a background, related technical literature includes the following.

  Patent Document 1 proposes to obtain a similarity between a search result concept (representing a search intention) and a user's own profile concept so far, and rank the search results for information search results. . It is also possible to apply this user profile to a group. A profile is expressed as a word list based on documents accessed by users and group members. This prior art uses the contents of a document.

  Patent Document 2 relates to useful information newly obtained by a user and known information in an information sharing system, so that when other group members access the information, useful information is obtained. It is proposed to be able to refer.

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-228561 proposes that, even in a keyword search, a keyword that is not input by itself is expanded into a keyword used by a group member to which the user belongs in the past. As a means of accessing useful information in the group, the keyword complementing means used by group members is taken.

JP 2004-206305 A JP 2005-222131 A JP 2004-348626 A

  The present invention provides an information processing program, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing system for presenting an electronic document or other electronic information important for a member of a group to which the user belongs to a user's work environment based on information for identifying the group. It is intended to provide.

  In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the invention of claim 1 receives group specifying information for specifying a group corresponding to a work environment of a user who receives at least a part of a list of identifiers of a plurality of electronic information. Means for calculating the importance for each member of the group specified by the group specifying information for each of the plurality of electronic information, and identification names of the plurality of electronic information based on the importance The computer is caused to function as output means for outputting list information describing at least a part of the list so that the list can be viewed on the client terminal to the client terminal of the user.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the importance level calculation means, as the importance level, for each of the plurality of electronic information, a member of the specified group accesses the electronic information. A value representing how much the calculated ratio is deviated from the reference ratio is calculated.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the second aspect of the present invention, the ratio of the reference is a ratio of the entire user accessing the electronic information.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the second aspect of the present invention, the ratio of the reference is a ratio of access to the electronic information by a person who excludes members of the group specified from the entire user. To do.

  The invention of claim 5 is characterized in that, in any of the inventions of claims 1 to 4, the identification information of the electronic information accessed by the specified user is not included in the list information. .

  According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, the identification information of electronic information accessed by all members of the specified group to which the user belongs is not included in the list information. It is characterized by that.

  The invention according to claim 7 is the invention according to any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein the electronic information stored by the specified user is ranked in the order of electronic information having a large positive bias in the importance. Warning information is output when the position is lower than a predetermined position.

  The invention of claim 8 is a receiving means for receiving group specifying information for specifying a group corresponding to a work environment of a user who receives at least a part of a list of identification names of a plurality of electronic information, and the plurality of pieces of information. For each unit, importance calculation means for calculating importance for the members of the group identified by the group identification information, and at least a part of a list of identification names of the plurality of electronic information based on the importance Output means for outputting list information for display on the client terminal so as to be viewable to the client terminal of the user.

  The invention of claim 9 is a receiving means for receiving group specifying information for specifying a group corresponding to a work environment of a user who receives at least a part of a list of identification names of a plurality of electronic information, and the plurality of electronic information. For each piece of information, importance calculating means for calculating importance for the members of the group specified by the group specifying information, and at least a part of a list of identification names of the plurality of electronic information based on the importance An information processing apparatus having an output unit that outputs list information that can be browsed on a client terminal; and the list information output by the output unit of the information processing apparatus is received to identify identification names of the plurality of electronic information And a client terminal having means for displaying at least a part of the list on a display unit.

  In the inventions of claims 1, 8 and 9, by specifying a group, it is possible to easily present electronic information that is important for the members of the group as compared with the case where the present configuration is not provided.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to accurately select electronic information important for the members of the group as compared with the case where the present configuration is not provided.

  According to the third and fourth aspects of the invention, it is possible to accurately select electronic information important for the members of the group in such a manner that electronic information important for all users is hardly included.

  According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to present electronic information that is important for the members of the group that is not stored, read, or written by the user.

  According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to present electronic information obtained by excluding electronic information that is stored, read, or written by all members of the group from electronic information that is important for the members of the group.

  According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, when the electronic information stored by the user is small in the number of other members who have read out the information, the user can be notified of the fact. .

  Examples of the present invention will be described below.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of the system configuration of the information management system 500 of the embodiment of the present invention as a whole. In this figure, the information management system 500 includes a document file server 101, a web server 102, an application server 103, a DBMS. (Database Management System) The server 104, client terminals 201 to 20N, and the like are connected to the communication network 106. The access log of the document file server 101 is recorded in the access log storage unit 101a. The DBMS server 104 manages various types of information stored in the database 105, such as organization information about users, schedule information, and the like. This system configuration can be typically constructed as a groupware system, and there may be an electronic bulletin board system or a mail system. Various servers and client terminals used here have a computer configuration including a CPU, a main memory, a bus, and various input / output devices, and realize various functions by installing a computer program. The computer program can be provided via various recording media (for example, CD-ROM, DVD, etc.), and can also be provided via a communication network.

  In this example, a plurality of servers are employed, but a single computer system 1000 may be used. The information management system 500 of the embodiment can be constructed by installing the computer program 1001 in the computer system 1000 or other appropriate computer system. Alternatively, the document file server 101 may be a simple external storage device (disk server), and the document management system may be constructed by the web server 102, the application server 103, and the DBMS server 104.

  The client terminals 201 to 20N are typically personal computers, but may be various portable terminals. Browsing units 301 to 30N corresponding to the web server 102 are installed in the client terminals 201 to 20N. The browsing units 301 to 30N are typically web browsers, but may be dedicated software for browsing corresponding to the web server 102.

  The web server 102, the application server 103, and the DBMS server 104 basically realize functional blocks (see FIG. 4) of the information presentation unit 501 of the information management system 500.

  The user can access the document file server 101 using the client terminals 201 to 20N. For example, the user browses the top page provided by the information management system 500 as shown in FIG. 11, clicks on the document display listed in “access ranking” (enumeration of documents based on importance), and the like. The document can be accessed using anchor information (for example, URL) embedded in the URL, and in a “link” (enumeration of frequently accessed services prepared for individual users, groups, or the entire system) You can use the document filing service by specifying the service.

  In this case, access is controlled by an access control list as shown in FIG. In this figure, “text read” is the authority to view the text of the document, “text write” is the authority to rewrite the contents of the document, and “attribute reference” is the attribute of the document, eg, owner, name, etc. This is an authority to refer to, and “access authority change” is an authority to change the access authority. If there is an authority of “reference attribute”, the document list can include the identification name (name) of the document.

  When the user accesses the document, an access log as shown in FIG. 10 is recorded in the access log storage unit 101 a of the document file server server 101.

  FIG. 4 illustrates the information presentation unit 501 of the information management system 500 using an example of functional blocks. The information presentation unit 501 presents, for example, the pages of FIGS. 11 and 12, but the content and aspect of the presentation are not limited to this. 11 and 12 are displayed when the user accesses the information management system 500. By using a pull-down menu on the upper right, a page (FIG. 11) and work (project, project, A page (FIG. 12) unique to a task or the like can be switched. In this example, the information to be presented is “new arrival information”, “access ranking” (hereinafter, a list that lists document identification names based on importance, or simply a list), “link”, “ Schedule ". The work is registered in, for example, the database 105 (FIG. 3) for each user. In this example, a group of users is assigned to the work and is registered in the database 105 as shown in FIG. Groups can be assigned to organizational units in addition to work.

  In FIG. 4, the information presentation unit 501 includes a user ID input unit 10, a group ID input unit 11, a list information generation unit 12, a residual information generation unit 13, a web page assembly unit 14, and the like. An example of the overall operation of the information presentation unit 501 will be described later with reference to FIG.

  The user ID input unit 10 acquires a user ID of a user who is accessing the information management system 500, and receives, for example, an input user ID at the time of login. The user ID may be acquired from cookie information. The group ID input unit 11 inputs group information. As the group information, the group IDs of groups formed by all users are initially input when logging into the information management system 500. Thereby, at the beginning of login, for example, list information for a common page as shown in FIG. 11 can be acquired. Moreover, you may input one group ID of the group to which the user which is preset for every user belongs. In this way, list information for a specific group can be acquired by default, and the list display of FIG. 12 is displayed from the beginning of login.

  For example, as illustrated in FIG. 5, the list information generation unit 12 switches the individual list information generation unit 12 a and the common list information generation unit 12 b to generate list information. If the group ID belongs to an individual group, the individual list information generation unit 12a is enabled to generate list information for the individual group. The individual list information generation unit 12a includes an importance level calculation unit 15, a list construction unit 16, and the like. The common list information generation unit 12b includes an access number calculation unit 17, a list construction unit 18, and the like. An example of the operation of the list information generation unit 12 will be described later with reference to FIG.

  Returning to FIG. In FIG. 4, a residual information generation unit 13 generates residual information describing elements other than the list. In the example shown in FIGS. 11 and 12, information describing the display of the user name, the pull-down menu for switching the top page, “new arrival information”, “link”, and “schedule” corresponds to the remaining information. Information describing the display of the user name, “link”, and “schedule” is prepared by acquiring user information from the database 105 (FIG. 3) based on the user ID. Information prepared for the system is used as information describing “new arrival information”.

  The web page assembly unit 14 is prepared by the list information generation unit 12 to display the list information and the user name prepared by the residual information generation unit 13, and uses the information of “link”, “schedule”, and “new arrival information” as a template. For example, a web page displaying an image as shown in FIG. 11 or 13 is assembled.

  Next, an operation example of the information presentation unit 501 will be described with reference to FIG. In this example, when logging into the document management system, for example, the top page shown in FIG. 11 or FIG. 12 is displayed. In addition, the common or top page of each task specified by specifying from the pull-down menu of the top page is displayed. This is realized by a request and response procedure based on HTTP, for example.

  The operation example of FIG. 6 is as follows.

[Step S10]: The user ID input unit 10 and the group ID input unit 11 obtain a user ID and a group ID. The group ID corresponds to the work environment. The work environment corresponds to an environment common to system users and various kinds of work (also called tasks or projects).
[Step S11]: The list information generation unit 12 and the residual information generation unit 13 acquire information describing web page components such as a list. Details thereof will be described later with reference to FIG.
[Step S12]: The web page assembly unit 14 embeds information describing the constituent elements in the web page template.
[Step S13]: The web page assembly unit 14 transmits the generated web page to the client terminal.

  Next, operation examples of the list information generation unit 12 and the residual information generation unit 13 will be described with reference to FIG.

[Step S20]: When the type of the top page corresponds to an individual job (group), the process proceeds to step S22, and when it corresponds to a common environment (indicated by “common” in FIG. 11), the process proceeds to step S21.
[Step S21]: The common list information generation unit 12b refers to the access log in the access log storage unit 101a to calculate the number of accesses to each document (access frequency or the total number of accessors), and increases in descending order of the number of accesses. Prepare information that describes the list of document identification names. That is, the document j is sorted by the number of accesses, and the top M identification names and URLs are extracted to generate list information. The identifier is typically a document name. In this example, a document network address (URL) is embedded in the document identification name, and a corresponding document in the document file server 101 can be accessed by a click operation. Exit when you have prepared the information that describes the list. It should be noted that the list common to all users of the system may be updated at a predetermined interval, and usually, only information created in advance may be read.
[Step S22]: One document j is specified from all the documents (some documents may be stored) stored in the document file server 101.
[Step S23]: The number of persons nG who accessed the document j among the members (NG persons) of the user's work (G) is obtained from the access log. The access log is obtained for the number of persons nA who accessed the document j among all users (NA). Then, importance = (nG / NG) / (nA / NA) is calculated.
[Step S24]: When the importance calculation process is completed for all documents, the process proceeds to step S25. If there are remaining documents, the process returns to step S22 and the process is repeated.
[Step S25]: Sort the documents j by importance, extract the top M identification names and URLs, and generate list information. Exit when you have prepared the information that describes the list.

  This is the end of the description of the embodiment.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

  For example, even when a dedicated page for a predetermined job (also called a task or project) as shown in FIG. 13 is prepared, when the user accesses the page, the importance of the member of the job (group) is important. A list of documents may be displayed according to the degree.

  The present invention provides a user with a list of documents and other information based on criteria suitable for the work environment, and various measures such as an access tendency can be adopted in place of the importance.

  Further, the importance is not limited to the formula used in the embodiment. For example, in the embodiment, importance = (nG / NG) / (nA / NA), but importance = (nG / NG) / {| nA−nG | / (NA−NG)} may be used. However, as described above, NG is the number of members of the user's job (G), nG is the number of members who have accessed the document j, NA is the number of all users, and nA is the number of all users who access the document j. It is the number of people who did. If NA and NG are the same value, {| nA−nG | / (NA−NG)} may be calculated as 1.

  Moreover, you may determine the information unit excluded from a list | wrist from scales, such as a non-importance degree (less important degree) and a non-access tendency (prone not to access).

  In addition, it is preferable that the higher-ranked document names (identification names of information units) are arranged at a higher level, but various arrangements may be made as long as higher-level document names are included in the list. In this case, it is preferable to add an attribute such as a numerical value or a color representing importance or the like together.

  In addition, from the list (conventional “access ranking” result) enumerated in the order based on the conventional number of accesses (access frequency or number of users), the number of accesses in the entire system is n times the number of members of work i. You may employ | adopt as a list reflecting importance the thing except the above document and the document which the member of the work i did not access. An example of this is shown in FIG. In the example of FIG. 14, list information common to all users of the system generated by the common list information generation unit 12b is supplied to the list adjustment unit 20 of the individual list information generation unit 12c, and access from the common list information to the entire system is performed. Except for documents whose number is not less than n times the number of members of job i and excluding documents that are not accessed by members of job i, the list is output as individual list information.

  As another example, from the result of the conventional “access ranking”, a document whose number of accesses in the entire system is not more than m percent of the total number of users, and a document that is not accessed by a member of work i Is a list that reflects the importance. This case can also be dealt with by the list information generation unit 12 of FIG.

  In addition, when a document accessed by another member in the group obtained in this principle configuration example is obtained and displayed, a document that all members do not have the right to read is attached with the mark. As a result, the cause of the hindrance to communication due to the problem of the access right setting may be removed.

  Further, the displayed document may be filtered according to the document reference status of the user browsing the list (for example, the login user). For example, by excluding already referenced documents from the list, it becomes possible to display more unread and important documents. An example of this is shown in FIG. In the individual list information generation unit 12d in FIG. 15, the deletion target determination unit 21 specifies a document that the user has already referred to as a deletion target, and the list construction unit 16 deletes the document from the list.

  Further, when displaying in common to work members (the example in FIG. 13 is premised on display common to work members, but does not prevent adaptation for each user). Good. That is, the order of arrangement in the list may be presented in descending order of importance, but by adding a value indicating how many of the members have been accessed, it is possible to list whether or not everyone has referred to Good. Also, when a list is displayed, documents that have been accessed by all members are removed from the display, so that more documents (useful documents that are not yet referenced by any member) can be listed in a limited area. .

  Further, the number of accesses can be displayed as a list of recent useful documents by limiting the period such as one week from the present, for example.

  In the above-described embodiments, the description has been made on the assumption that the document is accessed. However, the present invention is not limited to the document, and can be widely applied to information units such as video content, audio content, a dictionary, and a database.

  The work environment is typically specified by a group, but it is specified by the language used (eg, English, Japanese, Chinese, etc.), work area, work place, available computer resources, database, etc. Also good.

It is a figure explaining a prior art example. It is a figure explaining the example of access of the document used in order to explain the fundamental composition of this invention. It is a figure explaining an example of the mounting structure of the document management system of the Example of this invention as a whole. It is a block diagram explaining the structural example of the information presentation part of the document management system of the Example of this invention. It is a block diagram explaining the structural example of the list information generation part of the information presentation part of FIG. It is a flowchart explaining the operation example of the information presentation part of FIG. It is a flowchart explaining the operation example of the list information generation part of FIG. It is a figure explaining the example of the access control list of the document file server of the document management system of FIG. It is a figure explaining the example of the group information of the document management system of FIG. It is a figure explaining the example of the access log utilized with the document management system of FIG. It is a figure explaining the example of a display of the top page displayed with the client terminal of the document management system of FIG. It is a figure explaining the example of a display of the other top page displayed with the client terminal of the document management system of FIG. It is a figure explaining the modification of the above-mentioned Example. It is a figure explaining the other modification of the above-mentioned Example. It is a figure explaining the further another modification of the above-mentioned Example.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 User ID input part 11 Group ID input part 12 List information generation part 12a, 12c, 12d Individual list information generation part 12b Common list information generation part 13 Residual information generation part 14 Web page assembly part 15 Importance calculation part 16, 18 List Construction unit 17 Access count calculation unit 20 List adjustment unit 21 Deletion target determination unit 101 Document file server 101a Access log storage unit 102 Web server 103 Application server 104 DBMS server 105 Database 106 Communication networks 201 to 20N Client terminal 301 Viewing unit 500 Information management System 501 Information presentation unit 1000 Computer system 1001 Computer program

Claims (9)

Receiving means for receiving group specifying information for specifying a group corresponding to a work environment of a user who receives at least a part of a list of identification names of a plurality of electronic information;
Importance calculating means for calculating importance for the members of the group specified by the group specifying information for each of the plurality of electronic information;
Information for causing a computer to function as output means for outputting to the client terminal of the user list information describing at least a part of the list of identification names of the plurality of electronic information based on the importance so as to be viewable on the client terminal Processing program.   The importance calculation means determines, as the importance, how much the ratio of the specified group members accessing the electronic information is biased with respect to the reference ratio for each of the plurality of electronic information. The information processing program according to claim 1, wherein a value to be expressed is calculated.   The information processing program according to claim 2, wherein the ratio of the reference is a ratio of the entire user accessing the electronic information.   The information processing program according to claim 2, wherein the ratio of the reference is a ratio of access to the electronic information by a person who excludes members of the group specified from the entire user.   The information processing program according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein an identification name of electronic information accessed by the specified user is not included in the list information.   The information processing program according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein an identification name of electronic information accessed by all members of the specified group to which the user belongs is not included in the list information.   5. The warning information is output when the rank of the electronic information stored by the identified user in the order of the electronic information having a large positive bias in the importance is lower than a predetermined position. The information processing program according to claim 1. Receiving means for receiving group specifying information for specifying a group corresponding to a work environment of a user who receives at least a part of a list of identification names of a plurality of electronic information;
Importance calculating means for calculating importance for the members of the group specified by the group specifying information for each of the plurality of information units;
Output means for outputting, to the user terminal of the user, list information for displaying at least a part of the list of identification names of the plurality of electronic information based on the degree of importance so as to be viewable on the client terminal. Information processing apparatus. Receiving means for receiving group specifying information for specifying a group corresponding to a work environment of a user who receives at least a part of a list of identification names of a plurality of electronic information;
Importance calculating means for calculating importance for the members of the group specified by the group specifying information for each of the plurality of electronic information;
An information processing apparatus comprising: output means for outputting list information for expressing at least a part of a list of identification names of the plurality of electronic information based on the importance so as to be viewable on a client terminal;
A client terminal having means for receiving the list information output by the output means of the information processing apparatus and displaying at least a part of a list of identification names of the plurality of electronic information on a display unit; Information processing system.