JP2009009410A - Text editing support system and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a plurality of users edit simultaneously a single text file while securing consistency. <P>SOLUTION: A text editing support system supports a plurality of users to edit in parallel a single text file in which a plurality of texts are contained. The text editing support system which is provided includes: a unit split part which splits a plurality of texts in the text file into a plurality of text units; a display control part which sorts a plurality of text units according to the order in the text file and displays them for each of a plurality of users; and an exclusive control part which prohibits, when one text unit of a plurality of text units is edited, other users to edit the text unit concerned. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a text editing support system and program. In particular, the present invention relates to a text editing support system and program for supporting a plurality of users to edit a single text file including a plurality of texts in parallel.

  Patent Document 1 describes an editing system that allows a plurality of users to edit a plurality of objects (edit target data) included in each position in a page in parallel. More specifically, Patent Document 1 describes an editing system that uses an access area map that indicates an area in which each of a plurality of users is working so that the work areas of each user do not overlap. .

  Patent Document 2 describes an exclusive control method in which a single file is simultaneously accessed by a plurality of programs. More specifically, Patent Document 2 discloses an exclusive control that manages the data areas (start position and end position) accessed by each program and controls so that two or more programs do not access the same data area. A method is described.

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  However, the editing system described in Patent Document 1 allows only one user to access one object (for example, one text file). Therefore, according to the editing system described in Patent Document 1, one text file cannot be edited in parallel by a plurality of people.

  In addition, the exclusive control method described in Patent Document 2 performs exclusive management using relative position information of each data in a data file. Therefore, according to the exclusive control method described in Patent Document 2, a text file that does not include relative position information in each sentence file cannot be accessed simultaneously by a plurality of programs.

  Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a text editing support system and program that can solve the above-described problems. This object is achieved by a combination of features described in the independent claims. The dependent claims define further advantageous specific examples of the present invention.

  In order to solve the above problems, in the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sentence editing support system that supports a plurality of users to edit a single sentence file including a plurality of sentences in parallel. A unit dividing unit that divides a plurality of sentences in a sentence file into a plurality of sentence units, a display control unit that arranges a plurality of sentence units according to the order in the sentence file, and displays each of a plurality of users; There is provided a sentence editing support system including an exclusive control unit that prohibits another user from editing one sentence unit when one sentence unit is edited.

  In the second embodiment of the present invention, a program for causing an information processing apparatus to function as a sentence editing support system that supports a plurality of users to edit a single sentence file including a plurality of sentences in parallel. The information processing apparatus includes a unit dividing unit that divides a plurality of sentences in a sentence file into a plurality of sentence units, and arranges the plurality of sentence units according to the order in the sentence file, and displays each of the plurality of users. Provided is a program that causes a display control unit and an exclusive control unit to prohibit other users from editing one sentence unit when one sentence unit of a plurality of sentence units is edited. .

  The above summary of the invention does not enumerate all the necessary features of the present invention, and sub-combinations of these feature groups can also be the invention.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described through embodiments of the invention. However, the following embodiments do not limit the invention according to the scope of claims, and all combinations of features described in the embodiments are included. It is not necessarily essential for the solution of the invention.

  FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a text editing apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment. The text editing device 10 includes a text editing support system 100 and a plurality of terminal devices 200 (200-1, 200-2,..., 200-N (N is a positive integer)). Each of the text editing support system 100 and the plurality of terminal devices 200 is connected via a network 300 or the like.

  Each of the plurality of terminal devices 200 is used by different users. Each of the plurality of terminal devices 200 includes a display unit 210 (210-1 to 210-N) that displays information to the user, and an input unit 220 (220-1 to 220) that inputs information provided by the user. -N).

  According to the text editing apparatus 10, a single text file 400 can be edited in parallel by a plurality of users. That is, according to the text editing support system 100, a single text file 400 can be simultaneously edited by a plurality of users while ensuring consistency. Note that the text editing support system 100 is implemented as a separate device from the plurality of terminal devices 200 (200-1 to 200-N), and instead of being implemented as a plurality of terminal devices 200 (200-1 to 200-N). May be implemented on at least one of the above.

  FIG. 2 shows a configuration of the text editing support system 100 according to the present embodiment. The sentence editing support system 100 supports a plurality of users to edit a single sentence file 400 including a plurality of sentences simultaneously / in parallel.

  The text editing support system 100 includes a first storage unit 112, a second storage unit 114, a unit division unit 116, a database reading unit 118, a flag storage unit 120, a display control unit 122, and an edit request code generation unit. 124, an insertion request code generation unit 126, an upload request code generation unit 128, an input control unit 130, an exclusive control unit 132, a record update unit 134, a new record allocation unit 136, and a display position allocation unit 138. The database extraction unit 140 and the synthesis unit 142 are provided.

  The first storage unit 112 stores a text file 400 to be edited. As an example, the sentence file 400 may be a file storing text data.

  The second storage unit 114 stores the database 500. The database 500 stores one sentence unit and order information of the sentence unit in each of the plurality of records. The sentence unit is a unit obtained by dividing the sentence in the sentence file 400 according to a predetermined rule. As an example, the sentence unit is a unit obtained by dividing a plurality of sentences included in the sentence file 400 for each sentence by dividing each line feed code, etc., one unit divided for each punctuation or reading, or a paragraph, section, or It may be a unit of text divided for each page.

  The order information represents the relative order in the sentence file 400 of the sentence units stored in the record. For example, the database 500 may be data in an XML (Extensible Markup Language) format.

  The unit dividing unit 116 divides a plurality of sentences in the sentence file 400 into a plurality of sentence units. The unit dividing unit 116 may include a search unit 152 and a sentence dividing unit 154 as an example. The search unit 152 searches for a line feed code included in the text file 400. The sentence dividing unit 154 divides a plurality of sentences into different sentence units for each line feed code. Instead, the search unit 152 may search for a punctuation mark or a reading mark included in the text file 400. In this case, the sentence dividing unit 154 divides a plurality of sentences into different sentence units for each punctuation or reading.

  The database reading unit 118 reads each of the plurality of sentence units divided by the unit dividing unit 116 into different records of the same database 500. In this case, the database reading unit 118 generates order information corresponding to each of the plurality of sentence units, and stores the order information corresponding to each of the sentence units in each of the plurality of records.

  The flag storage unit 120 stores an editing flag indicating whether each of the plurality of records is currently being edited by any user. That is, the flag storage unit 120 associates the editing flag indicating the value indicating whether or not the text unit stored in the record is currently being edited by any user with each of the plurality of records. Store. In the present embodiment, the flag storage unit 120 is formed in a partial storage area of the second storage unit 114 separately from the database 500. Instead, the flag storage unit 120 may be provided as a part of the database 500 and may have a configuration in which a corresponding editing flag is provided in each record.

  The display control unit 122 arranges a plurality of sentence units according to the order in the sentence file 400 and causes the display unit 210 of the terminal device 200 used by each of the plurality of users to display it. More specifically, the display control unit 122 arranges the sentence units stored in the plurality of records of the database 500 according to the order in the sentence file 400 and displays them on the display unit 210 of the terminal device 200 used by each of the plurality of users. Let Thereby, according to the display control part 122, the content of the text of the text file 400 can be simultaneously displayed with respect to a some user. Note that the display control unit 122 may scroll or enlarge / reduce the display screen for each terminal device 200, and may display different text units for each terminal device 200.

  In addition, the display control unit 122 associates an edit request button to be operated when a user requests editing of a text unit with each display unit 210 of the plurality of terminal devices 200 in association with each of the plurality of text units. Display. In addition, the display control unit 122 adds a new value to each display unit 210 of the plurality of terminal devices 200 between one of the plurality of sentence units and a sentence unit adjacent above or below the one sentence unit. When requesting insertion of a simple sentence unit, an insertion request button to be operated is displayed in association with each of the plurality of sentence units. In addition, the display control unit 122 displays the upload request button to be operated when the edited sentence unit is uploaded to the corresponding record on the display unit 210 of the terminal device 200 that is permitted to be edited. It is displayed in association with one sentence unit.

  The edit request code generation unit 124 generates a code that causes the terminal device 200 to notify the text edit support system 100 of an edit request for a user to request editing of a text unit, and displays the code as an edit request. Correspond to the operation on the button. Further, the edit request code generation unit 124 includes identification information for identifying the sentence unit associated with the edit request button in the code. Thereby, according to the terminal device 200, when the edit request button is operated by the user, the edit request and the identification information for identifying the text unit associated with the operated insertion request button are used as the text edit support. The system 100 can be notified.

  The insertion request code generation unit 126 generates a code that causes the terminal device 200 to notify the text editing support system 100 of an insertion request for requesting insertion of a text unit, and the insertion request that causes the code to be displayed. Correspond to the operation on the button. Further, the insertion request code generation unit 126 includes identification information for identifying the sentence unit associated with the insertion request button in the code. Thereby, according to the terminal device 200, when the insertion request button is operated by the user, the identification request for identifying the insertion request and the sentence unit associated with the operated insertion request button is used as the sentence editing support. The system 100 can be notified.

  The upload request code generation unit 128 generates a code that causes the terminal device 200 to notify the text editing support system 100 of an upload request that requests the user to upload to the corresponding record of the edited text unit. Associate the code with the operation for the displayed upload request button. Furthermore, the upload request code generation unit 128 includes identification information for identifying the sentence unit associated with the upload request button in the code. Thereby, according to the terminal device 200, when the upload request button is operated by the user, the upload request and the identification information for identifying the text unit associated with the operated upload request button are displayed in the text editing support system. 100 can be notified. Furthermore, according to the terminal device 200, the edited content of the text unit can be uploaded to the text editing support system 100.

  The input control unit 130 receives a notification from the terminal device 200 used by each of a plurality of users. More specifically, when an operation is performed on the edit request button, the insert request button, and the upload request button displayed on the display unit 210 of the terminal device 200, the input control unit 130 performs editing from the operated terminal device 200. Receive a notification to request, a notification to request insertion, and a notification to request upload. Furthermore, the input control unit 130 receives the edited content of the text unit from the terminal device 200 when an operation is performed on the upload request button.

  The exclusive control unit 132 edits one sentence unit by the terminal device 200 used by another user when one sentence unit of the plurality of sentence units is edited by the terminal device 200 used by one user. It is prohibited to be done. For example, the exclusive control unit 132 uses the editing flag of the corresponding record stored in the flag storage unit 120 to perform exclusive control so that one sentence unit is not edited simultaneously by the plurality of terminal devices 200. . For example, the exclusive control unit 132 may execute exclusive control by disabling editing when there is a request for editing the document unit from the terminal device 200 used by another user. The exclusive control may be executed by deleting the display of the edit request button of the corresponding record of the terminal device 200 used by the user.

  The record update unit 134 receives an upload request from the terminal device 200 that is permitted to edit, and when one edited sentence unit is uploaded from the terminal device 200, the record update unit 134 edits the content of the one sentence unit. Change to the contents of. When receiving an insertion request and identification information from the terminal device 200, the new record assigning unit 136 assigns a new record in the database 500 to a new sentence unit. In this case, the new record assigning unit 136 stores new order information in a new record to which a new sentence unit is assigned.

  The display position assigning unit 138 displays a record in which a new sentence unit is stored on the display unit 210 of the terminal device 200 used by each of a plurality of users. In this case, the display position assignment unit 138 displays the display position on the terminal device 200 where the new record assigned by the new record assignment unit 136 is to be displayed, and the sentence unit identified by the identification information and the adjacent sentence unit. And between.

  The database extraction unit 140 reads a plurality of sentence units stored in each record of the database 500. As an example, the database extraction unit 140 may include a plurality of data stored in each record of the database 500 when an instruction to end editing is given by the user, or when an instruction to close the text file 400 is given by the user. You may read the sentence unit.

  The synthesizing unit 142 synthesizes a plurality of sentence units read by the database extracting unit 140 as a plurality of sentences. The synthesizing unit 142 arranges the sentence units according to the order information and synthesizes them as a plurality of sentences. The synthesizing unit 142 stores the plurality of synthesized sentences in the sentence file 400.

  According to the text editing support system 100 having such a configuration, it is possible to support a work in which a single text file 400 is edited in parallel by a plurality of users via a plurality of terminal devices 200. That is, according to the text editing support system 100, a single text file 400 can be simultaneously edited by a plurality of users while ensuring consistency.

  FIG. 3 shows a processing flow at the start of editing in the text editing support system 100 according to the present embodiment. First, when an instruction to start editing is given by any user, the unit dividing unit 116 divides a plurality of sentences in the sentence file 400 into a plurality of sentence units (S11). For example, the unit dividing unit 116 determines that an instruction to start editing is given when any user gives an instruction to open the text file 400, and a plurality of the text files 400 in the text file 400 are given. A sentence may be divided into a plurality of sentence units.

  Next, the database reading unit 118 reads each of the plurality of sentence units divided in step S11 into different records of the same database 500 (S12). In this case, the database reading unit 118 stores corresponding order information together with the sentence unit in each of the plurality of records. Further, the database reading unit 118 sets each editing flag stored corresponding to each of the plurality of records in the database 500 to indicate that the corresponding sentence unit is not currently being edited by any user. Initialize to.

  Next, the display control unit 122 displays the sentence unit stored in each of the plurality of records of the database 500 on the display unit 210 of the terminal device 200 used by each of the plurality of users (S13). With the above processing, according to the text editing support system 100, the text content of the text file 400 can be displayed to a plurality of users at the same time.

  FIG. 4 shows an example of the text file 400, an example of the database 500, and an example of an editing flag stored in the flag storage unit 120. For example, the unit dividing unit 116 may generate a plurality of sentence units by dividing a plurality of sentences in the sentence file 400 for each line feed code. The synthesizing unit 142 synthesizes a plurality of sentence units of each record in the database 500 to generate one sentence.

  For example, the database reading unit 118 generates, as order information, a value that monotonously increases or decreases when a plurality of sentence units are arranged in order in the sentence file 400, and the order corresponding to each of the plurality of records together with the sentence unit. Information may be stored. As an example, the database reading unit 118 may set the order information of the first sentence unit to “1” and store the order information incremented by 1 in each record.

  Instead, the database reading unit 118 may generate a combination of identification information and next sentence identification information corresponding to each of the plurality of sentence units divided by the unit dividing unit 116 as order information. In this case, the identification information is a value for identifying the corresponding sentence unit from other sentence units. The next sentence identification information is a value indicating identification information of a sentence unit to be arranged next when a plurality of sentence units are arranged in order in the sentence file 400. That is, the database reading unit 118 may store the order information in a linked list format in which the identification information of the next document unit is stored in each record.

  For example, the flag storage unit 120 uses “1” when a sentence unit stored in the record is currently being edited by any user, and uses a sentence unit stored in the record. An editing flag representing “0” (or vice versa) may be stored in association with each of the plurality of records when the editor is not currently editing. The flag storage unit 120 may be formed in some fields of each record in the database 500.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of a reference screen 240 displayed on each display unit 210 of the plurality of terminal devices 200. As an example, the display control unit 122 may display the reference screen 240 that represents the contents of the record in a tabular format on each of the plurality of terminal devices 200. In the reference screen 240, a line corresponds to a record in the database 500. Each of the plurality of rows of the reference screen 240 includes a first cell 242 that displays a sentence unit stored in the corresponding record, a second cell 244 that displays order information stored in the corresponding record, and an edit request button. 248 and a third cell 246 displaying an insertion request button 250.

  When the order information that increases or decreases in order in the sentence file 400 of the plurality of sentence units is stored in association with each of the plurality of records, the display control unit 122 displays the plurality of records in the order of the size of the order information. Sorting is performed, and the contents of each record are displayed on the reference screen 240. When the identification information and the next sentence identification information are included in each record as the order information, the display control unit 122 searches the next sentence identification information in order from the top record, arranges a plurality of records in the search order, The contents are displayed on the reference screen 240. In this way, the display control unit 122 can display a plurality of sentence units arranged in the order in the sentence file 400 on each of the plurality of terminal devices 200.

  The edit request button 248 is operated by the user when requesting editing of the sentence unit displayed in the first cell 242 included in the same row as the edit request button 248. In this way, the display control unit 122 can display the edit request button 248 on each of the plurality of terminal devices 200 in association with each of the plurality of sentence units.

  The insertion request button 250 is used to request insertion of a new sentence unit between adjacent units above or below the sentence unit displayed in the first cell 242 included in the same row as the edit request button 248. Operated by the user. In this way, the display control unit 122 can display the insertion request button 250 on each of the plurality of terminal devices 200 in association with each of the plurality of sentence units.

  FIG. 6 shows a processing flow of the text editing support system 100 according to the present embodiment when the edit request button 248 is operated by an arbitrary user. First, when an edit request button 248 corresponding to a certain sentence unit is operated by one user, the terminal device 200 used by the one user displays an edit request and an operated edit request button. Identification information for identifying the sentence unit associated with H.248 is notified to the sentence editing support system 100.

  When the exclusive control unit 132 receives from the terminal device 200 used by one user a notification requesting editing of one of the plurality of sentence units, the one sentence unit is already being edited. Whether or not there is is determined by examining the editing flag of the corresponding record stored in the flag storage unit 120 (S21). When the one sentence unit is already being edited (Yes in S21), the exclusive control unit 132 executes a process that does not permit the terminal device 200 that has requested editing to edit the one sentence unit. (S22). As an example, the exclusive control unit 132 may cause the terminal device 200 that has requested editing to display a notification to the user that editing cannot be permitted.

  When the one sentence unit is not already being edited (No in S21), the exclusive control unit 132 is currently editing the value of the editing flag of one sentence unit stored in the flag storage unit 120. The value is changed to a value indicating that there is (S23). At the same time, the exclusive control unit 132 executes a process of permitting the terminal device 200 that has requested editing to edit the one sentence unit (S24). For example, the exclusive control unit 132 may display an editing screen for editing the one sentence unit requested to be edited on the terminal device 200 that has requested editing.

  Through the above processing, according to the sentence editing support system 100, while one sentence unit 200 is editing one sentence unit, the other terminal apparatus 200 is prohibited from editing the one sentence unit. be able to. Thereby, according to the text editing support system 100, the consistency of the text file 400 to be edited can be maintained. The text editing support system 100 can cause another terminal device 200 to edit another text unit even while one terminal device 200 is editing a text unit.

  FIG. 7 shows an example of an edit screen 260 displayed on the display unit 210 of the terminal device 200 that is permitted to be edited. As an example of processing for permitting editing, the exclusive control unit 132 may cause the terminal device 200 that permits editing to display an editing screen 260 that represents the contents of the record in a tabular format.

  In the edit screen 260, a row corresponds to each record in the database 500, as in the reference screen 240. Each of the plurality of rows of the edit screen 260 includes a first cell 242, a second cell 244, and a third cell 246.

  The first cell 242 in each of the plurality of rows displays the sentence unit stored in the corresponding record, the second cell 244 displays the order information stored in the corresponding record, and the third cell 246 displays Display blanks. Further, the first cell 242 of the row corresponding to the record storing one sentence unit permitted to be edited displays an edit box 262, and the second cell 244 displays the order information stored in the corresponding record. The third cell 246 displays an upload request button 264.

  The edit box 262 allows the user to edit the contents of the displayed sentence unit displayed in the initial state. As an example, the edit box 262 accepts a change of a sentence unit made using a keyboard and a mouse. In this way, the exclusive control unit 132 can cause the user who has requested editing to edit one sentence unit.

  The upload request button 264 is operated by the user when the edited text unit displayed in the edit box 262 included in the same row as the upload request button 264 is uploaded to the text editing support system 100. In this way, when one edited sentence unit is uploaded, the record update unit 134 can change the contents of the one sentence unit to the edited contents.

  FIG. 8 shows a processing flow of the text editing support system 100 according to the present embodiment when the upload request button 264 is operated by the user of the terminal device 200 permitted to edit. First, when the upload request button 264 is operated by a user of the terminal device 200 permitted to edit, the terminal device 200 identifies the upload request and the sentence unit associated with the operated upload request button. The identification information is notified to the text editing support system 100. At the same time, the terminal device 200 uploads the edited content of the text unit to the text editing support system 100.

  When an upload request is made from the terminal device 200 permitted to edit, the record update unit 134 changes the content of the record corresponding to one sentence unit for which the upload request has been made to the uploaded edited content ( S31). Furthermore, the exclusive control unit 132 prohibits further editing of one sentence unit permitted to be edited on the terminal device 200 permitted to be edited (S32). For example, the exclusive control unit 132 may prohibit the display of the edit box 262 from being displayed and editing again after the upload request button 264 is operated.

  Next, the exclusive control unit 132 changes the value of the editing flag of one sentence unit permitted to be edited to a value indicating that editing is not currently being performed (S33). Thereby, the exclusive control unit 132 can permit the other terminal device 200 to edit when the other terminal device 200 receives a request to edit the one sentence unit.

  And the display control part 122 displays the text unit stored in each of the some record of the database 500 on the display part 210 of the terminal device 200 which each of a some user uses (S34). Thereby, the display control part 122 can display the some record after the change by edit was reflected on the display part 210 of each terminal device 200 of a some user.

  Note that the text editing support system 100 may store the ID of the terminal device 200 as the editing flag. In this case, the record update unit 134 accepts the upload request on condition that the ID of the terminal device 200 that requested the upload matches the ID stored as the editing flag, and accepts the upload request on condition that the ID does not match. Can not be. Thereby, according to the text editing support system 100, even if there is an upload request by mistake from a user having a different ID or the terminal device 200, the change of the contents of the record can be prohibited.

  FIG. 9 shows a processing flow of the text editing support system 100 according to the present embodiment when the insertion request button 250 is operated by an arbitrary user. First, when an insertion request button 250 corresponding to a certain sentence unit is operated by one user, the terminal device 200 used by the one user displays the insertion request and the operated insertion request button. Identification information for identifying the sentence unit associated with 250 is notified to the sentence editing support system 100.

  When receiving a request for insertion and notification of identification information from the terminal device 200, the new record allocation unit 136 allocates a new record in the database 500 to a new sentence unit (S41). Further, the new record allocation unit 136 stores new order information in a new record.

  Here, it is assumed that order information that monotonously increases or decreases in order in the sentence file 400 of a plurality of sentence units is stored in association with each of the plurality of records. In this case, the new record assigning unit 136 obtains order information having a size between the order information assigned to the sentence unit identified by the identification information and the order information associated with the adjacent sentence unit. Assign to the new sentence unit inserted. Further, it is assumed that identification information and next sentence identification information are included in each record as order information. In this case, the new record allocation unit 136 stores the identification information of the record to be displayed next to the new record as the next sentence identification information of the new record, and should be displayed before the new record. The next sentence identification information stored in association with the record is changed to the identification information of the new record.

  Next, the display position assigning unit 138 displays a record in which a new sentence unit is stored on the terminal device 200 used by each of a plurality of users (S42). In this case, the display position assignment unit 138 displays the display position on the terminal device 200 where the new record assigned by the new record assignment unit 136 is to be displayed, and the sentence unit identified by the identification information and the adjacent sentence unit. (S43).

  For example, the display position assigning unit 138 may include a plurality of pieces of order information that monotonously increase or decrease in order in the sentence file 400 of a plurality of sentence units in association with each of the plurality of records. The records are sorted in the order of the size of the order information, and the contents of each record are displayed on the reference screen 240. Further, if the identification information and the next sentence identification information are included in each record as the order information, the display control unit 122 searches the next sentence identification information in order from the first record, and arranges a plurality of records in the search order. The contents of each record are displayed on the reference screen 240.

  Next, the exclusive control unit 132 changes the value of the flag being edited corresponding to the new record stored in the flag storage unit 120 to a value indicating that editing is currently being performed (S43). Next, the exclusive control unit 132 executes processing for permitting the terminal device 200 that has requested insertion to edit the text unit stored in the new record (S44). For example, the exclusive control unit 132 may display an editing screen for editing one sentence unit stored in a new record on the terminal device 200 that has requested insertion.

  With the above processing, according to the sentence editing support system 100, a new sentence unit can be added after one sentence unit. Thereby, according to the text editing support system 100, in addition to changing the existing text, a plurality of users can add new text to the existing text.

  FIG. 10 shows an example of the edit screen 260 displayed on the display unit 210 of the terminal device 200 that has requested insertion. The exclusive control unit 132 sends a new record between the line displaying the sentence unit identified by the identification information and the line displaying the adjacent sentence unit to the terminal device 200 that has requested insertion. An editing screen 260 including the displayed line may be displayed. Then, as an example, the new record allocating unit 136 displays the order information (for example, “3”) of the immediately preceding sentence unit and the order information (for example, “3”) of the immediately following sentence unit in the second cell 244 of the row displaying the new record. , “4”), order information of values (for example, “3.5”) may be displayed. Thereby, according to the exclusive control part 132, the user can edit one sentence unit stored in the new record.

  FIG. 11 shows an example of a hardware configuration of a computer 1900 according to this embodiment. A computer 1900 according to this embodiment is connected to a CPU peripheral unit having a CPU 2000, a RAM 2020, a graphic controller 2075, and a display device 2080 that are connected to each other by a host controller 2082, and to the host controller 2082 by an input / output controller 2084. Input / output unit having communication interface 2030, hard disk drive 2040, and CD-ROM drive 2060, and legacy input / output unit having ROM 2010, flexible disk drive 2050, and input / output chip 2070 connected to input / output controller 2084 With.

  The host controller 2082 connects the RAM 2020 to the CPU 2000 and the graphic controller 2075 that access the RAM 2020 at a high transfer rate. The CPU 2000 operates based on programs stored in the ROM 2010 and the RAM 2020 and controls each unit. The graphic controller 2075 acquires image data generated by the CPU 2000 or the like on a frame buffer provided in the RAM 2020 and displays it on the display device 2080. Instead of this, the graphic controller 2075 may include a frame buffer for storing image data generated by the CPU 2000 or the like.

  The input / output controller 2084 connects the host controller 2082 to the communication interface 2030, the hard disk drive 2040, and the CD-ROM drive 2060, which are relatively high-speed input / output devices. The communication interface 2030 communicates with other devices via a network. The hard disk drive 2040 stores programs and data used by the CPU 2000 in the computer 1900. The CD-ROM drive 2060 reads a program or data from the CD-ROM 2095 and provides it to the hard disk drive 2040 via the RAM 2020.

  The input / output controller 2084 is connected to the ROM 2010, the flexible disk drive 2050, and the relatively low-speed input / output device of the input / output chip 2070. The ROM 2010 stores a boot program that the computer 1900 executes at startup, a program that depends on the hardware of the computer 1900, and the like. The flexible disk drive 2050 reads a program or data from the flexible disk 2090 and provides it to the hard disk drive 2040 via the RAM 2020. The input / output chip 2070 connects various input / output devices via a flexible disk drive 2050 and, for example, a parallel port, a serial port, a keyboard port, a mouse port, and the like.

  A program provided to the hard disk drive 2040 via the RAM 2020 is stored in a recording medium such as the flexible disk 2090, the CD-ROM 2095, or an IC card and provided by the user. The program is read from the recording medium, installed in the hard disk drive 2040 in the computer 1900 via the RAM 2020, and executed by the CPU 2000.

  A program installed in the computer 1900 and causing the computer 1900 to function as the text editing support system 100 includes a first storage module, a second storage module, a unit division module, a database reading module, a flag storage module, and a display control module. An edit request code generation module, an insertion request code generation module, an upload request code generation module, an input control module, an exclusive control module, a record update module, a new record allocation module, a display position allocation module, A database retrieval module and a synthesis module are provided. These programs or modules work on the CPU 2000 or the like to change the computer 1900 into the first storage unit 112, the second storage unit 114, the unit dividing unit 116, the database reading unit 118, the flag storage unit 120, the display control unit 122, and the editing. Request code generation unit 124, insertion request code generation unit 126, upload request code generation unit 128, input control unit 130, exclusive control unit 132, record update unit 134, new record allocation unit 136, display position allocation unit 138, and database extraction unit 140 each function.

  A program that is installed in the computer 1900 and causes the computer 1900 to function as the terminal device 200 includes a display module and an input module. These programs or modules work on the CPU 2000 or the like to cause the computer 1900 to function as the display unit 210 and the input unit 220, respectively.

  The program or module shown above may be stored in an external storage medium. As the storage medium, in addition to the flexible disk 2090 and the CD-ROM 2095, an optical recording medium such as DVD or CD, a magneto-optical recording medium such as MO, a tape medium, a semiconductor memory such as an IC card, or the like can be used. Further, a storage device such as a hard disk or a RAM provided in a server system connected to a dedicated communication network or the Internet may be used as a recording medium, and the program may be provided to the computer 1900 via the network.

  As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated using embodiment, the technical scope of this invention is not limited to the range as described in the said embodiment. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications or improvements can be added to the above-described embodiment. It is apparent from the scope of the claims that the embodiments added with such changes or improvements can be included in the technical scope of the present invention.

1 shows a configuration of a text editing apparatus 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 shows a configuration of a text editing support system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The processing flow at the time of the start of the text editing apparatus 10 which concerns on embodiment of this invention is shown. An example of the editing flag stored in the text file 400, the database 500, and the flag storage unit 120 is shown. An example of 240 displayed on each display unit 210 of a plurality of terminal devices 200 is shown. The processing flow of the text editing support system 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention when the edit request button 248 is operated by an arbitrary user is shown. An example of the edit screen 260 displayed on the display unit 210 of the terminal device 200 permitted to be edited is shown. The processing flow of the text editing support system 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention when the upload request button 264 is operated by the user of the terminal device 200 permitted to edit is shown. The processing flow of the text editing support system 100 according to the present embodiment when the insertion request button 250 is operated by an arbitrary user is shown. An example of the edit screen 260 displayed on the display unit 210 of the terminal device 200 that has requested insertion is shown. 2 shows an exemplary hardware configuration of a computer 1900 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Text editing apparatus 100 Text editing support system 112 1st memory | storage part 114 2nd memory | storage part 116 Unit division part 118 Database reading part 120 Flag storage part 122 Display control part 124 Edit request code generation part 126 Insertion request code generation part 128 Upload request Code generation unit 130 Input control unit 132 Exclusive control unit 134 Record update unit 136 New record allocation unit 138 Display position allocation unit 140 Database extraction unit 142 Composition unit 152 Search unit 154 Text division unit 200 Terminal device 210 Display unit 220 Input unit 240 Screen 242 First cell 244 Second cell 246 Third cell 248 Edit request button 250 Insert request button 260 Edit screen 262 Edit box 264 Upload request button 300 Network 400 Text file 500 Database Scan 1900 computer 2000 CPU
2010 ROM
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2030 Communication interface 2040 Hard disk drive 2050 Flexible disk drive 2060 CD-ROM drive 2070 Input / output chip 2075 Graphic controller 2080 Display device 2082 Host controller 2084 Input / output controller 2090 Flexible disk 2095 CD-ROM

Claims (12)

A sentence editing support system for supporting a plurality of users to edit a single sentence file including a plurality of sentences in parallel,
A unit divider for dividing the plurality of sentences in the sentence file into a plurality of sentence units;
Arranging the plurality of sentence units according to the order in the sentence file, and displaying each of the plurality of users;
A sentence editing support system comprising: an exclusive control unit that prohibits another user from editing one sentence unit when one sentence unit of the plurality of sentence units is being edited. The sentence editing support system according to claim 1, further comprising a database reading unit that reads each of the plurality of sentence units divided by the unit dividing unit into different records of the same database. A flag storage unit for storing an editing flag indicating whether each of the plurality of records is currently being edited by any user;
The display control unit displays the sentence unit stored in each of the plurality of records on the terminal device used by each of the plurality of users,
The exclusive control unit includes:
When the notification requesting the editing of the one sentence unit is received from the terminal device, whether or not the one sentence unit is already being edited is stored in the flag storage unit. Judging by checking the flag,
If the one sentence unit is already being edited, the terminal device is not allowed to edit the one sentence unit,
If the one sentence unit is not already being edited, the value of the editing flag of the one sentence unit is changed and the one sentence unit is allowed to be edited on the terminal device. Item 3. The text editing support system according to Item 2. When the one sentence unit edited on the terminal device is uploaded from the terminal device, further comprising a record update unit for changing the content of the one sentence unit,
The exclusive control unit prohibits the one sentence unit from being further edited on the terminal device, and changes the value of the editing flag of the one sentence unit to a value indicating that editing is not currently being performed. The sentence editing support system according to claim 3. The unit dividing unit is
A search unit for searching for a line feed code included in the sentence file;
The sentence editing support system according to claim 1, further comprising: a sentence dividing unit that divides the plurality of sentences into different sentence units for each line feed code. The unit dividing unit is
A search unit for searching for a punctuation or punctuation included in the sentence file;
The sentence editing support system according to claim 1, further comprising: a sentence dividing unit that divides the plurality of sentences into different sentence units for each of the punctuation marks or reading points. The display control unit displays an edit request button to be operated when the user requests editing of the sentence unit in association with each of the plurality of sentence units,
An edit request code generation unit that generates a code for notifying the sentence editing support system from the terminal device of an edit request for the user to request editing of the sentence unit, and associates the code with an operation of the edit request button The sentence editing support system according to claim 3. The display control unit is operated when the user requests to insert a new sentence unit between one of the plurality of sentence units and a sentence unit adjacent above or below the one sentence unit. The insertion request button to be displayed is displayed in association with each of the plurality of sentence units,
The terminal device notifies the sentence editing support system of identification information for identifying the sentence unit associated with the insertion request for the insertion of the sentence unit and the operated insertion request button. The text editing support system according to claim 3, further comprising: an insertion request code generation unit that generates a code to be generated and associates the code with an operation of the insertion request button. A new record allocation unit that allocates a new record in the database to the new sentence unit when the insertion request and the identification information are received from the terminal device;
A display position assigning unit that sets a display position for displaying the new record assigned by the new record assigning unit between the sentence unit identified by the identification information and the adjacent sentence unit; The text editing support system according to claim 8. The database reading unit stores, in association with each of the plurality of records, order information that monotonously increases or decreases in order in the sentence file of the plurality of sentence units,
The display control unit sorts and displays the plurality of records in the order of the size of the order information,
The display position allocating unit includes order information having a size between the order information assigned to the sentence unit identified by the identification information and the order information associated with the adjacent sentence unit. The sentence editing support system according to claim 9, wherein the sentence editing support system is assigned to the inserted new sentence unit. The database reading unit stores the identification information of the plurality of sentence units and next sentence identification information indicating a sentence unit to be displayed next to the sentence unit in association with each of the plurality of records,
The display position assignment unit stores identification information of a record to be displayed next to the new record as the next sentence identification information of the new record, and should be displayed before the new record. The sentence editing support system according to claim 9, wherein the next sentence identification information stored in association with a record is changed to identification information of the new record. A program that causes an information processing apparatus to function as a text editing support system that supports a plurality of users to edit a single text file including a plurality of texts in parallel,
The information processing apparatus;
A unit divider for dividing the plurality of sentences in the sentence file into a plurality of sentence units;
Arranging the plurality of sentence units according to the order in the sentence file, and displaying each of the plurality of users;
A program that functions as an exclusive control unit that prohibits other users from editing one sentence unit when one sentence unit of the plurality of sentence units is being edited.

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