JP2002169835A - Knowledge integration system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a knowledge integration system which enables a user to add his or her knowledge to existent knowledge and makes it easy to visually grasp the relation between logs of non-response electronic mail and multiple response electronic mail to it and multiple-to-multiple relation between a theme proposer and a theme answerer. SOLUTION: This system is connected to a client terminal through the Internet and equipped with a database server. The database server is stored with sheets. The sheets can be integrated as to a high-order subject to form a group, so Tigers sheets 30, Giants sheets 31, etc., are integrated as to a high- order subject, i.e., 'professional baseball' to form a professional baseball group 32. Further, the professional baseball group 32, a football group 33, etc., are further integrated as to a high-order subject, i.e., 'sports' to form a sports group 34. The integration is repeated to a higher-order group.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a knowledge accumulation system that can be provided at sites such as electronic shops and shopping malls.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when an individual tries to acquire knowledge, in order to compensate for the limitations of the individual, for example, a CD-CD of an encyclopedia is used.
It is conceivable to purchase a ROM and gain knowledge from it. However, since the contents of the CD-ROM are not updated as they were at the time of purchase, in recent years the purpose of using a search engine on the Internet has been There is a method of acquiring knowledge by browsing a homepage where knowledge to be found exists. However, there is a problem that the client cannot freely add his / her own knowledge to the knowledge of the home page to be browsed.

On the other hand, as a method of sharing information in a community, there are means such as an electronic mail and an electronic bulletin board.
In recent years, a mailing list capable of displaying the relationship between a responded e-mail and a log of a plurality of response e-mails in response to the e-mail in a tree structure, the opinions of the theme proposers and the opinions of a plurality of respondents to the theme submitter are displayed in a tree structure. Possible electronic bulletin boards are known. By having such a tree structure, for example, in the case of an electronic bulletin board, it is easy to visually grasp the one-to-many relationship between the theme submitter and a plurality of responders to the theme submitter. However, merely displaying a plurality of opinions with respect to one opinion does not indicate that a plurality of opinions have been put together to make one conclusion. Further, it cannot be displayed that a new opinion is created by further adding a new opinion to a plurality of opinions.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and can add own knowledge to existing knowledge, and can respond to an e-mail to be answered. It is an object of the present invention to provide a knowledge accumulation system in which it is easy to visually grasp the relation of logs with a plurality of response mails and the many-to-many relationship between the theme submitter and the theme responder.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention relates to a method for storing knowledge accumulated data which is connected to a client terminal via a telecommunication line such as the Internet, and in which knowledge units are associated with each other. The knowledge unit is a predetermined concept, and the database server provides a knowledge accumulation site for displaying the knowledge accumulation data, and from the client terminal via the knowledge accumulation site, It is an object of the present invention to provide a knowledge accumulation system characterized in that it is possible to modify a knowledge unit of knowledge accumulation data or to associate a new knowledge unit with a knowledge unit of knowledge accumulation data.

According to the present invention, the knowledge unit of the knowledge accumulation data can be corrected or a new knowledge unit can be associated with the knowledge unit of the knowledge accumulation data. The unit representing the many-to-many relationship can be visually displayed on the client terminal. With such a configuration, for example, a client operating a client terminal on an electronic bulletin board
Multiple opinions can be put together to make one conclusion.
In addition, since a new opinion can be created by further adding one's own opinion to the good points of the existing opinion, it can be expected that a new opinion is created by being stimulated by the existing opinion. Therefore, the company that operates the database server can be expected to use the conclusions and new opinions obtained from the electronic bulletin boards for market research and product development. In addition, a client that accesses a knowledge accumulation site via a telecommunication line such as the Internet can obtain knowledge from the site and can also add new knowledge. Note that the “knowledge unit” in this specification refers to one unit of knowledge formed from a still image, text, sound, and the like. In addition, “correction” in this specification is used to mean a concept including addition and deletion of knowledge units of knowledge accumulation data.

[0007] Preferably, the knowledge unit is displayed on a sheet, and the sheet is a collection of knowledge units based on a specific subject that can be simultaneously viewed and updated through a plurality of client terminals.

According to the invention, since a plurality of clients can simultaneously view and update a sheet which is an aggregate of knowledge units based on a specific subject included in the sheet, for example, the subject "game" Clients who browse the sheet, which is an accumulation of knowledge units, can receive various services, such as adding their own opinion as a new knowledge unit to the existing knowledge unit in which opinions about a certain game are written. Has advantages. Therefore, since the client can receive various services in the seat and does not need to access other homepages, the company implementing the present invention increases the access from the client who is the client and fixes and locks the client. You can expect.

[0009] Preferably, the sheets are configured such that the sheets are grouped based on the nature of the material of the sheet.

[0010] According to the invention, since the groups can be grouped based on the properties of the sheets, such as reliability, objectivity, and information, the company operating the knowledge accumulation site can, for example, only the client browse. It is possible to separate and operate an area in which sheets that cannot be updated are grouped and an area in which sheets that can be browsed and updated are grouped. Therefore, since the sheets in the area which can be browsed and cannot be updated by being operated separately are not written by the client without permission, it is possible to expect that the knowledge level is kept uniform.

[0011] Preferably, the knowledge accumulation site is configured to also have a portal site such as an electronic shop or a shopping mall.

According to the invention, a company that operates a portal site such as an electronic shop or a shopping mall not only provides sales merchandise, but also displays knowledge accumulation data of contents related to the sales merchandise. It can be performed together. Further, in general, a client accessing an electronic shop is interested in merchandise sold in the shop, and thus is considered to be interested in knowledge accumulation data of contents related to the merchandise. Therefore, a company that operates a portal site of an electronic shop that not only provides sales products but also displays knowledge-aggregated data of contents related to the sales products is required to provide other electronic shops and the like that provide products of the same contents. Therefore, an increase in the number of accesses can be expected, and an increase in the number of sold products can be expected. For example, if an electronic shop specializing in “music” is configured to be able to provide knowledge accumulation data on “music” to clients, it is possible to form a community where clients with a common interest called “music” can discuss each other. Since it is possible and it is possible to purchase products related to "music", the electronic shop to which the present invention is applied can be differentiated from other electronic shops to which the present invention is not applied. You can expect an increase in the number of accesses from clients that have it.

[0013] Preferably, after the knowledge accumulation data is downloaded to the client terminal, the knowledge unit is modified, or after a new knowledge unit is associated with the knowledge unit of the knowledge accumulation data, the knowledge accumulation data is transferred to the database server. It is configured to be able to upload to.

According to the invention, the knowledge accumulation data can be modified after the knowledge unit is downloaded to the client terminal, and can be uploaded after the modification and the like is completed. It has the advantage that it does not need to be connected to the Internet.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a knowledge accumulation system according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the knowledge accumulation system 1 according to the present embodiment is connected to a client terminal 12 via the Internet 11 and includes a database server 13. Further, the database server 13 stores a sheet. Here, the sheet is used to mean an accumulation of knowledge units (hereinafter, referred to as “units”) on a certain subject, which can be simultaneously viewed and updated by a plurality of clients.

FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a relation form between units in a seat. As shown in FIG.
Each unit in the tigers seat 20 includes a key 23 which is the original information (unit) associated with the key 23,
Value 2 which is information (another unit) associated with
4 and 25 are associated via an association point 21 and an association line 22. The relationship between key and value is
a, synonyms, synonyms, part-of, and the like can be considered. Here, the sheet is used to mean an accumulation of units for a certain subject.

FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a related form between sheets. As shown in FIG. 3, the sheets can be integrated with a higher-order material to form a group. The tigers sheet 30, the giants sheet 31, and the like are collected under a higher-ranking subject called "professional baseball" to form a professional baseball group 32. In addition, professional baseball group 32 and soccer group 3
3 and the like are further integrated with a higher-ranked material called “sports” to form a sports group 34. By repeating such integration, a higher order group can be formed.

Hereinafter, the operation of the knowledge accumulation system 1 having such a configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a flow of a process of associating a new unit with a sheet of the knowledge accumulation system according to the present invention. The unit association shown in FIG. 4 includes steps 1 to 6. As shown in FIG. 4, first, a client opens a top page of a knowledge accumulation site provided by a database server 13 from a client terminal 12 such as a PC terminal or a mobile phone capable of accessing the Internet via the Internet 11. (Step 1). An example of a screen displaying the top page in step 1 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 5, on the top page 5, group names such as travel groups are displayed.

Next, the client operating the client terminal can select to open a new sheet or open an existing sheet (step 2). Step 2
Will be described with reference to FIGS. 5, 6, and 7. FIG.

First, when the client is the client terminal 1
If the group of sports 51 of FIG. 5 is selected through 2, the group of sports which is the subject of the group name can be opened. FIG. 6 shows an example of a screen displaying the sports group.
As shown in FIG. 6, in the sports group 6, a group name such as a soccer group is displayed. The client is the client terminal 12
, When the professional baseball group 61 is selected, it is possible to open the professional baseball group, which is the theme indicated by the group name. FIG. 7 shows an example of a screen displaying a professional baseball group. As shown in FIG. 7, in the professional baseball group 7, a sheet name such as giants and a “new sheet opening” button 72 are displayed.

If the client does not want to open a new sheet but wants to associate a new unit with an existing sheet unit, the client opens the existing sheet (step 3). The client is the client terminal 12
Through the sheet names of the professional baseball group 7 in FIG. 7 (in FIG. 7,
If Tigers 71) is selected, a Tigers sheet, which is the subject matter indicated by the sheet name, can be opened. FIG. 2 shows an example of a screen displaying a tigers sheet. As shown in FIG. 2, the units 23 and the like already associated with the tiger sheet 2 are displayed.

Next, a new unit is associated with the associated unit of the tiger sheet (step 4). FIG. 8 shows an example of a screen when a new unit is associated in step 4. As shown in FIG. 8, by using a mouse or the like, it is possible to associate the unit 23 of the tigers seat 2 as a key and the new unit 26 as a value.

Since such an associated unit generally makes it easy to visually grasp the many-to-many relationship of the contents, a plurality of clients are connected to the client terminal 12.
In the case of operating and discussing, it is possible to display that a plurality of opinions are put together to make one conclusion. In such a sheet, by associating one's own opinion with a unit of the sheet as a new unit, persons having similar interests can form a community and exchange information or chat.

In such a community, it is possible to display a product related to the subject matter indicated by the sheet in a unit and, when the customer clicks the unit, purchase the product displayed in the clicked unit. In addition, the database server displays products related to the subject matter indicated by the sheet in the unit, and when the customer clicks the unit, searches for and selects a product related to the product, and then searches for a product related to the selected product. Is displayed on the client terminal, and commodities can be purchased through the sheet. In addition, the database server displays, in the unit, a product related to the material indicated by the sheet, and when the customer clicks the unit, searches for and selects a product related to the product, and then displays a product related to the selected product. The electronic shop to be operated can be displayed on the client terminal, and the electronic shop moved via the sheet can be used to purchase the product. According to such a sheet, a client can purchase a product by clicking on a unit, while a company displaying the product has a targeted product in a community of persons having common interests. Sales become possible, and new customers can be expected to be acquired efficiently.

On the other hand, in such a community, if the unit is configured to be used as a banner advertisement or the like,
Targeted product advertising is also possible.

As described above, in the unit, the user's opinion is added as a new unit to the existing unit in the sheet and used for exchanging information with another person. There are various uses, such as being used to move to a related electronic shop, and being able to use the unit as a banner advertisement or the like. Furthermore,
The units having these various uses are displayed on a sheet prepared for a specific subject of the unit, so that a client who browses the sheet can receive various services via the unit.

Note that if a configuration is adopted in which writing or browsing of a sheet on which predetermined knowledge is accumulated is restricted, a new unit cannot be associated, and consideration can be given to copyright and privacy. Further, it is also possible to configure so that browsing of a sheet in which predetermined knowledge is accumulated is charged.

Alternatively, when the client opens a new sheet and desires to associate a new unit with the opened sheet, the client may click the “open new sheet” button 72 in FIG. When a new sheet is displayed on the screen by clicking the “open new sheet” button 72, the client sets the name of the sheet (step 5), and replaces the set sheet with the existing sheet or group. (Step 6). In this way, by associating between sheets or groups, a newly opened sheet is automatically displayed from the next time. For example, if a newly opened seat is named "ORIX" and the opened seat is associated with a lower rank of the professional baseball group 7, "ORIX" is assigned to the professional baseball group 6.
Is displayed. The client can associate a new unit with the newly opened sheet by performing the same processing as in step 4 described above. The unit association is completed by the above-described processing.

In this embodiment, the case where the client terminal 12 accesses the database server 13 in real time via the Internet 11 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. After downloading,
It is also possible to perform processing such as associating a new unit and upload the processed sheet to the server.

FIG. 9 shows an example of a screen when the knowledge accumulation site also has a portal site of an electronic shop. As shown in FIG. 9, when the client accesses the shop 9 for exclusive use of Tigers goods via the client terminal 12, the display screen of the terminal displays the Tigers sheet 2 together with the sales product. Here, the site of the electronic shop is configured to display knowledge accumulation data (in FIG. 9, the Tigers sheet 2 for the Tigers goods specialty shop 9) related to the merchandise sold in the shop in the shop. . Further, in general, a client accessing an electronic shop is interested in merchandise sold in the shop, and thus is considered to be interested in knowledge accumulation data of contents related to the merchandise.
Therefore, the company that operates the e-shop can differentiate itself from other e-shops and the like that provide the same product, so that it is possible to expect an increase in the number of accesses and, consequently, an increase in sales of the product. it can.

Furthermore, in the present embodiment, when the units are displayed in association with each other, the related points and the associated lines are interposed. However, the present invention is not limited to this. It is also possible to configure so as to be displayed in association only with.

Also, in the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 8, when associating a new unit with an existing unit, the association is not defined, that is, the case of a "weak structure" has been described as an example. The present invention is not limited to this, and as shown in FIG. 10, for example, a "strong structure" 101 and a "weak structure" 102 which define the association in a template format.
Can be combined. This allows
Knowledge collection with high flexibility becomes possible. Also,
It is also possible to configure so as to associate units only with “strong structure”.

FIG. 11 shows an example of operation using areas grouped based on sheet properties. Public area, common area 1 on the top page 11 of the seat
11, area names of a community area, a commercial area, and a personal area 112 are listed. Here, the public area is a set of knowledge grouped based on the public properties of the sheet, and the common area is grouped based on the common, professional, common sense, encyclopedia, and dictionary properties of the sheet. The set of sheets and the commercial area are the set of sheets grouped based on the advertisement and the gazette properties of the sheet, and the community area is the set of knowledge grouped based on the property of being shared within a certain community. The personal area is a collection of sheets grouped based on the personal opinion of the sheet.

As shown in FIG. 11, when the client accessing the top page 11 desires to acquire common knowledge, the sports group 113 can be opened by clicking an item in the common area 111 with a mouse or the like. A public knowledge unit (eg, “Yesterday, the Giants won”) giants seat 114 can be opened via the sports group 113. When personal information is desired to be obtained, a sports group 115 can be opened by clicking the personal area 112 with a mouse or the like, and a knowledge unit (for example, a personal opinion) via the sports group 115 can be opened. A giant sheet 116 displaying "I like the director" can be opened. As described above, even if sheets having the same name exist in different areas, the same unit is not necessarily displayed because the properties of the material of the sheets are different. Further, for example, the client can personally own a sheet created by filtering a sheet in the common area or overlapping another sheet in the personal area. On the other hand, the company that operates the server can also configure the sheets in the common area so that clients without specific access authority cannot add knowledge (for example, in the case of a politics sheet, only politicians Has the authority to add knowledge to the sheet and can be configured to have no authority to add knowledge to anyone other than the politician), and is expected to keep the knowledge level of sheets in the common area uniform it can.

In the present embodiment, a case has been described as an example where a client can purchase a product in an electronic shop moved by clicking a unit in a seat and a unit of a seat in a community. However, the present invention is not limited to this. Instead, based on a unit in which opinions are displayed in a community where people with common interests gather, a travel agency or the like provides a new plan or rents application software such as games.
Service Providers) can provide targeted services. Also,
The client has a ticket reservation service in the seat,
It is also possible to configure so that services such as bank debit and transfer can be provided. Further, if the client can monitor and control home electric appliances at home via a sheet unit, the client can monitor home electric appliances at home from outside the home.

In this embodiment, the database server is described as being physically one server. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the database server can be composed of a plurality of database servers. In such a case, even if the knowledge accumulation data is stored in a plurality of database servers, a client accessing the knowledge accumulation site can browse a certain material as one sheet. Therefore, more data can be stored and the load can be distributed as compared with the case where the knowledge accumulation data is provided in only one database server.

Further, in the present embodiment, an example has been described in which a group is divided into a common area, a public area, a community area, a commercial area, and a personal area for operation based on the properties of a sheet. It can be realized even if it is subdivided into a plurality of spaces. For example, a community area may be a privacy space where only users in the community have access,
It is also conceivable that users outside the community can be divided into open spaces that they have access to. In the case of having such a configuration, users who can access the area can be limited depending on the presence or absence of the access right, so that highly secure operation can be expected.

In this embodiment, the case where the database server is connected to the client terminal via the Internet has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The present invention can be implemented as long as an electric communication line such as a connection to a client terminal via a dedicated line is used.

In the present invention, if only the clients registered as members in the database server are configured to be able to access the database server, the clients are limited and the anonymity is eliminated.
It can be expected that unspecified persons can prevent slander of others or addition of slanderous units. In addition, if the access right can be set only to the sheets that make up a certain community, the clients who can access the sheets are limited, so that further knowledge of the sheets can be prevented from leaking, unspecified persons can be slandered or slandered by others. It can be expected that addition of a unit or the like is prevented.

The present invention is not limited to use in a mailbox or an electronic bulletin board, but can be applied to a chat, a DB service, and the like. In a chat having such a configuration, opinions can be displayed in a many-to-many relationship, so that the client has an advantage that it is easy to grasp. Further, in a DB service having such a configuration, a conventional DB service, such as having no knowledge required for a search result, is used.
If there is no problem with the service and you search for a certain sheet, there is knowledge from the searched sheet regardless of whether it is paid or not,
By writing a question, it is possible to expect an answer from another person, so that there is an advantage that it is not impossible to obtain the required knowledge at all.

[0041]

As described above, according to the knowledge accumulation system according to the present invention, a knowledge unit of knowledge accumulation data can be corrected, or a new knowledge unit can be associated with a knowledge unit of knowledge accumulation data. Therefore, a unit representing the many-to-many relationship between the theme presenter and the theme responder can be visually displayed on the client terminal.
With such a configuration, for example, a client operating a client terminal on an electronic bulletin board can collect a plurality of opinions and make one conclusion.

Since it is possible to create a new opinion by further adding one's own opinion to the good points of the existing opinion, it is expected that the new opinion will be created by being stimulated by the existing opinion. it can. Therefore, the company that operates the database server can be expected to use the conclusions and new opinions obtained from the electronic bulletin board for market research and product development. In addition, a client that accesses a knowledge accumulation site via a telecommunication line such as the Internet can obtain knowledge from the site and can add new knowledge of itself.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a knowledge accumulation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a related form between units in a seat.

FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a related form between sheets.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a flow of a process of associating a new unit with a sheet of the knowledge accumulation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an example of a screen displaying a top page of a knowledge accumulation site.

FIG. 6 is an example of a screen displaying a sport group of a knowledge accumulation site.

FIG. 7 is an example of a screen displaying a professional baseball group of a knowledge accumulation site.

FIG. 8 is an example of a screen displaying a case where a new unit is associated with a unit in an existing sheet of a knowledge accumulation site.

FIG. 9 shows an example of a screen when the knowledge accumulation site also has a portal site of an electronic shop.

FIG. 10 is an example of a display screen displaying a unit in which “weak structure” and “strong structure” are integrated and integrated.

FIG. 11 is an example of an operation divided into areas based on sheet properties;

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Knowledge accumulation system 21 Connection point 11 Internet 22 Connection line 12 Client terminal 23 Key 13 Database server 24-26 Value

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A database server connected to a client terminal via a telecommunication line and further comprising knowledge accumulation data in which knowledge units are associated with each other, wherein the database server displays the knowledge accumulation data. It is possible to provide a knowledge accumulation site and to modify a knowledge unit of knowledge accumulation data or associate a new knowledge unit with a knowledge unit of knowledge accumulation data from the client terminal via the knowledge accumulation site. A knowledge accumulation system characterized by the following. 2. The knowledge unit is displayed on a sheet, and the sheet is a collection of knowledge units based on a specific subject that can be simultaneously browsed and updated through a plurality of the client terminals. 1. The knowledge accumulation system according to 1. 3. The knowledge accumulation system according to claim 2, wherein the sheets are grouped based on the properties of the material of the sheet. 4. The knowledge accumulation system according to claim 1, wherein the knowledge accumulation site also has a portal site such as an electronic shop or a shopping mall. 5. The knowledge accumulation data is modified to a knowledge unit after being downloaded to the client terminal, or after associating a new knowledge unit with a knowledge unit of the knowledge accumulation data, the knowledge accumulation data is transmitted to the database server. The knowledge accumulation system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the knowledge accumulation system can be uploaded.