JP2009059242A - Information processor and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To flexibly handle complicated condition setting, and to efficiently perform processing related with article modification. <P>SOLUTION: Article modification pattern management tables 100, 200, 300 and so on are provided with start condition information in which one or more article categories applied to an article modification pattern and refining conditions for refining the articles to be modified from among the articles corresponding to the article categories are described for every article modification pattern for determining a layout of one or more articles. An article category determination part 22 decides a management table storing the same article category as the article category of the received article among the management tables. A refining condition decision part 23 decides a management table including the refining conditions satisfied by the received articles among one or more decided management tables. An article modification pattern determination part 24 determines the article modification pattern applied to the modification processing based on the decision result of the refining conditions. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and a program capable of determining a start condition for processing processing of a received article.

  The newspaper company's database provides multiple types of article processing patterns that determine how articles should be published. When an article is distributed from a news agency or the like, the newspaper company processes the article using the corresponding article processing pattern. Considering various conditions such as what kind of article processing pattern should be adopted under what conditions and what conditions should be processed in order to properly process the delivered articles There must be.

  Conventionally, when a complicated condition is added or changed, a large-scale operation such as drastically correcting the program has been required. Even if the program is modified, processing such as condition determination cannot be performed efficiently.

On the other hand, a technique for setting conditions according to article types is known. For example, the patent document describes that the message is distributed according to the type of the message to be input.
Japanese Patent No. 2001-14340

  However, the technique of Patent Document 1 is a technique that simplifies the management of output destinations by sorting input messages, and is not a technique that takes into account conditions related to processing of received articles.

  Even using the technique of Patent Document 1, it is not possible to solve problems such as drastic changes in programs when various conditions related to machining processing are added or changed, and problems such as reduction in processing efficiency.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides an information processing apparatus and program that can flexibly cope with complicated condition setting and can efficiently perform processing related to article processing. Objective.

  An information processing apparatus according to the present invention is an information processing apparatus capable of determining a start condition for processing processing of a received article based on information stored in a storage medium. For each article processing pattern that determines whether it should be posted in such a format, one or more article types applied to the article processing pattern, and further processing targets from articles corresponding to the article type Storage means for storing a plurality of article processing pattern management information having start condition information in which narrowing-down conditions for narrowing down articles to be described are stored, and the received article among the plurality of article processing pattern management information Article type determination means for determining which article processing pattern management information describes the same article type as the article type, and one or more of the article types determined by the article type determination means Of the article processing pattern management information, the narrowed condition determining means for determining which article processing pattern management information the received article satisfies the narrowing condition described in the article processing pattern management information, and the determination result by the narrowing condition determining means And an article processing pattern determining means for determining an article processing pattern to be applied to the processing.

  The program according to the present invention is a program for determining activation conditions for processing of received articles based on information stored in a storage medium, and in what form one or more articles should be posted For each article processing pattern that defines the article processing pattern, one or more article types to be applied to the article processing pattern, and a narrowing down to further narrow down the articles to be processed from the articles corresponding to the article type. Including the start condition information describing the inclusion conditions, a function of storing a plurality of article modification pattern management information in a storage medium, and the same article type of the received article among the plurality of article modification pattern management information The function of determining in which article processing pattern management information the article type is described, and the reception of the one or more article processing pattern management information determined A function for determining which article processing pattern management information described in the article processing pattern management information is satisfied, and a function for determining an article processing pattern to be applied to the processing based on the determination result of the screening condition It is characterized by being realized by a computer.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to flexibly cope with complicated condition setting, and it is possible to efficiently perform processing related to article processing.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of an information processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  The information processing system is provided in, for example, a newspaper company, and includes a server system 10, a communication unit 30, and a plurality of terminals 41, 42, 43,. The communication unit 30 receives articles distributed as XML (extensible markup language) messages from individual communication companies, and passes the received articles to the server system 10. The server system 10 includes various servers such as a material management server that manages article materials and an article processing server that processes articles using article materials. Each server executes a requested process by using a corresponding database (DB) in response to a request from the terminals 41, 42, 43. Each of the terminals 41, 42, 43... Can request the server system 10 to execute various processes.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the information processing apparatus 1 provided in the server system 10.

  The information processing apparatus 1 is a computer that constitutes an article processing system for performing article processing. For example, the information processing apparatus 1 has a function of determining a start condition of received article processing based on information stored in a storage medium. I have.

  This information processing apparatus 1 has an article processing pattern management table 100 having various pieces of information related to article processing patterns for each individual article processing pattern that defines how one or more articles should be posted. , 200, 300,... These are held on a storage medium such as a hard disk or a memory. Each of the plurality of article processing pattern management tables 100, 200, 300,... Has various types of information using a common tag defined in the XML format. For example, the article processing pattern management table 100 has individual parameters 101 related to the article processing pattern, and has a pattern name 111, processing information 112, start condition information 113, etc. below it, and the start condition information Information such as an article type 121, a narrowing condition 122, a sorting condition 123, a start condition 124, and the like are included in a layer below 113. The article processing pattern management tables 200, 300,... Are also provided with information common to these.

  However, each of the article processing pattern management tables 100, 200, 300,... Is given a unique “pattern name” (described later). This makes it possible to clearly identify which article processing pattern each table handles. Further, the article processing pattern management tables 100, 200, 300,... Have different “starting condition information” (described later). Each “startup condition information” can be individually edited on an editing screen described later. This makes it possible to vary the activation conditions for article processing for each article processing pattern or each article type.

  The pattern name 111 is information indicating the name of the article processing pattern.

  The processing information 112 is information including identification information that identifies a program for the article processing processing unit 13 to execute article processing using the article processing pattern. The processing information 112 may be provided in the article processing processing unit 13 as an independent management table. However, by providing the processing information 112 in the article processing pattern management table 100 as in this example, Since the processing information 112 and the processing information 112 can be centrally managed on one table, management complexity can be eliminated.

  The activation condition information 113 includes information indicating various conditions used for determining the activation condition for the processing of the received article.

  The article type 121 is information indicating one or more article types applied to the article processing pattern.

  The narrowing-down condition 122 is information indicating one or a plurality of narrowing-down conditions for further narrowing down articles to be processed from articles corresponding to the article type 121.

  The sorting condition 123 is information indicating one or more sorting conditions indicating how to sort individual articles corresponding to the article type 121.

  The start condition 124 is information indicating one or a plurality of start conditions indicating conditions for starting processing for individual articles sorted according to the sorting conditions 123.

  In addition, the information processing apparatus 1 includes, as various processing functions, an article analysis unit 21, an article type determination unit 22, and a narrowing down that are included in the reception processing unit 11, the sorting processing unit 12, the article processing unit 13, and the control unit 20. A condition determination unit 23, an article processing pattern determination unit 24, a sorting condition determination unit 25, a start condition determination unit 26, a waiting condition determination unit 27, an article processing instruction unit 28, and the like. All or some of these functions can be realized as a computer program that can be executed by a processor such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit).

  The reception processing unit 11 has a function of sequentially receiving articles distributed as XML messages from individual communication companies.

  The sorting processing unit 12 has a function of performing processing for sorting articles sequentially received by the reception processing unit 11 according to a predetermined rule.

  The article processing processing unit 13 instructs the article processing instruction unit 28 to receive articles sequentially received by the reception processing unit 11 or individual articles sorted by the sorting processing unit 12 after being received by the reception processing unit 11. This is a function for executing processing according to the above.

  The control unit 20 has a function of controlling various processes for determining the activation conditions for the processing of the received article. Further, the control unit 20 edits the information of the article processing pattern management tables 100, 200, 300... (Particularly, the start condition information 113 including the article type 121, the narrowing condition 122, the sorting condition 123, and the start condition 124). An editing screen for performing the editing is displayed on the display device, and the edited setting information is stored in a storage medium.

  The article analysis unit 21 has a function of analyzing the format, article configuration, and the like of the article based on information indicated by XML tags described in articles sequentially received by the reception processing unit 11.

  The article type determination unit 22 refers to the article type 121 which article type pattern table describes the same article type as the article type of the received article among the article type pattern management tables 100, 200, 300,. It is a function to judge.

  The narrowing-down condition determination unit 23 satisfies the narrowing-down condition described in which article processing pattern management table in which the received article is one or a plurality of article processing pattern management information determined by the article type determination unit 22. This is a function for determining whether or not by referring to the narrowing-down condition 122. For example, if you want to use a special article processing pattern only for certain conditions, even if the article type is the same, a narrowing condition is set to achieve it (when local newspapers process local team game information) Or when you want to process in a different format). This function is not necessarily used.

  The article processing pattern determination unit 24 is a function that determines an article processing pattern (that is, the pattern name 111 and the processing information 112) to be applied to the processing based on the determination result in the narrowing-down condition determination unit 23.

The sorting condition determination unit 25 is a function that determines the sorting condition corresponding to the article type described in the article processing pattern determined by the article processing pattern determination unit 24 with reference to the sorting condition 123. For example, if you want to generate one article from a soccer game result message and a score message that describes the details of the game, for example, processing the results of the team A, B, C, D game,
“Team A-Team B: Match Results” and “Team A-Team B: Score”
It will be processed in a pair. In order to realize this, it is set as a sorting condition to sort into a group “AB” and a group “CD”. The sorting condition determination unit 25 determines the set sorting condition. Further, the sorting condition determination unit 25 has a function of defining a plurality of sorting names (waiting names) according to the sorting conditions, and performing sorting processing while waiting for reception of articles belonging to each waiting name. This function may be provided in the sorting processing unit 12.

  The start condition determination unit 26 is a function that determines whether or not each article sorted according to the sorting condition determined by the sorting condition determination unit 25 satisfies a corresponding start condition with reference to the start condition 124. In other words, the start condition determination unit 26 determines whether the plurality of classified articles should start processing under the conditions. For example, the above example will be described. When one game result message and one score message are prepared, processing is set to start. As another example, a condition setting “when 10 articles of the same type are prepared” is set, and the processing timing is determined according to this setting.

  The waiting condition determination unit 27 is a function that determines whether or not activation conditions based on combinations of conditions specified between different article types are satisfied. This determination is performed based on setting information of “(11) Article type waiting condition” set on an editing screen described later, for example. For example, the waiting condition determination unit 27 holds this setting information in a predetermined storage area.

  The article processing instructing unit 28 is based on at least one determination result of the narrowing condition determining unit 23, the sorting condition determining unit 25, the start condition determining unit 26, or the waiting condition determining unit 27, when the processing processing start condition is satisfied. The article processing processing unit 13 is instructed to perform article processing using the article processing pattern determined by the article processing pattern determination unit 24.

  FIG. 3 is an example of an editing screen for editing start condition information (article type 121, narrowing condition 122, sorting condition 123, etc.) included in the article processing pattern management table 100, 200, 300.

  In the example of the editing screen in FIG. 3, the areas 51 and 52 are displayed. The area 51 includes a plurality of filtering conditions, a filtering condition expression, a plurality of sorting conditions, a sorting condition expression, a plurality of starting conditions, a starting condition expression corresponding to a certain article type. This is an area that enables editing. The area 52 is an area that enables editing of a conditional expression for sorting conditions, a conditional expression for sorting conditions, a conditional expression for start conditions, and the like corresponding to a certain article type. When the “set” button at the bottom center of the screen is pressed, the edited result is stored in the article processing pattern management table of FIG.

  In the area 51, the following items are displayed. These items correspond to activation condition information (including article type, narrowing condition, sorting condition, and start condition) in the article processing pattern management table in FIG.

(1) Article type This item displays information such as the identification name and name of the article type.

(2) Opening parenthesis This item is used to select the opening parenthesis.

(3) NOT condition presence / absence This item is used to select whether or not the condition is evaluated by NOT.

(4) Comment This item is used to enter a description of the condition.

(5) Discrimination item (function)
This is an item for selecting discrimination items (such as “variable selection”, “XPATH”, “conversion (variable selection)”, “conversion (XPATH)”, “number of articles”, “union designation”, etc.).

    “Variable selection” is used when a result such as an article analysis result (article type, common ID, etc.) is targeted for discrimination.

    “XPATH” is used when data extracted from the body of an article by the XPATH method is to be determined.

    “Conversion (variable selection)” is used to determine an queuing name with an alias by the value of a specified variable.

    “Transformation (XPATH)” is used when the queuing name is determined by an alias using the value of the designated variable.

    The “number of articles” is used when the number of articles is a discrimination target.

    The “union designation” is used when a divided telegram in the form of “complete △ (◯ | Δ)” is to be discriminated.

(6) Discrimination item (extraction)
This is an item for inputting the variable name and XPATH expression used in the condition evaluation.

(7) (Filtering, sorting, start) conditions These are items for inputting extraction conditions from the “Extraction” item.

(8) Closed parentheses This item is used to select the presence of closed parentheses.

(9) Condition symbol This is an item for inputting the relation symbol between conditions (selector is “and” or “or”).

(10) (Filter, Sort, Start) Conditional Expression An item (automatic setting) for displaying the result set by the condition symbol.

  In the area 52, the following buttons are displayed.

[1] Setting This button is used to display the input screen specified for each discrimination item.

[2] Replacement This button is used to change the order of conditions.

[3] Delete This button is used to delete a condition.

[4] Add This button is used to add a condition.

  The reason why the two article types are displayed on the editing screen of FIG. 3 is that a plurality of article types are linked to one article processing pattern and collectively one article processing pattern management table (for example, article processing pattern). This is because it is managed by the management table 100).

  FIG. 4 is an example of an editing screen different from FIG.

  In the example of the editing screen in FIG. 4, areas 61, 62, and 63 are displayed. Each of the area 61 and the area 62 is an area that enables editing of one narrowing conditional expression, one sorting conditional expression, one start conditional expression, and the like corresponding to a certain article type. The area 63 is an area for editing information used for determining whether or not the above-described waiting condition determination unit 27 determines whether or not the activation condition based on the combination of conditions specified between different article types is satisfied. .

  In the area 63, the following items are displayed.

(11) Article type waiting condition type This is an item for selecting an evaluation condition between article types, and selects either “all OR”, “all AND”, or “custom”.

(12) Article type waiting condition This is an item for selecting the article type when customizing. This item is displayed when “Custom” is selected in (11) Article type waiting condition type.

    The “custom” mode is a mode in which condition settings between a plurality of article types can be arbitrarily set by a plurality of combinations. A combination between article types can be set by using an “add” button. Moreover, the selection of the article type within one combination is realized by selecting the target article type with a check box.

    In the evaluation of setting contents, all the relationships between article types are evaluated as AND conditions within one combination setting. Further, all the relationships between the combination settings are evaluated as OR conditions. In addition, the combination setting is evaluated in the order of the condition 1 to the condition n, and is determined by the combination setting established first.

[5] Delete This button is used to delete a condition.

[6] Add Button for adding conditions.

[7] Setting Button for saving conditions.

[8] Close Button to close the self-view.

  Next, a basic operation related to article processing by the information processing apparatus 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

  When the reception processing unit 11 receives an article (step S1), the article analysis unit 21 analyzes the article (step S2).

  The article type determination unit 22 determines the type of the article based on the analysis result obtained from the article analysis unit 21 (step S3). Further, the article type determination unit 22 determines in which article processing pattern table the same article type as the article type of the received article is described in the article processing pattern management tables 100, 200, 300,.

  Next, the narrowing-down condition determination unit 23 narrows down the article processing pattern management table in which the received article is described among the one or more article processing pattern management information determined by the article type determination unit 22. It is determined whether the condition is satisfied (step S4).

  Next, the article processing pattern determination unit 24 determines an article processing pattern to be applied to the processing based on the determination result in the narrowing-down condition determination unit 23 (step S5).

  Next, the sorting condition determination unit 25 determines the sorting condition corresponding to the article type described in the article processing pattern determined by the article processing pattern determination unit 24 (step S6).

  Next, the start condition determining unit 26 determines whether or not each article sorted according to the sorting condition determined by the sorting condition determining unit 25 satisfies a corresponding start condition (step S7).

  The article processing instruction unit 28 is determined by the article processing pattern determination unit 24 when the start conditions of the processing process are satisfied based on the determination results of the narrowing condition determination unit 23, the sorting condition determination unit 25, and the start condition determination unit 26. The article processing unit 13 is instructed to perform article processing using the article processing pattern.

  Thereby, the article processing process executes an article processing process with the specified article processing pattern for the article (step S8). The processing result of the article is transmitted from the communication unit 30 to the outside, for example.

  As described above in detail, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to flexibly cope with complicated condition settings and to efficiently perform processing related to article processing.

  The various processing procedures according to the present invention described in the above-described embodiments are stored in a storage medium (for example, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, or a semiconductor memory) that can be read by a computer (information processing apparatus) as a computer program. If necessary, it may be read and executed by the processor. Such a computer program can also be distributed by transmitting from one computer to another computer via a communication medium.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments as they are, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. In addition, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of components disclosed in the embodiment. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, constituent elements over different embodiments may be appropriately combined.

The figure which shows an example of a structure of the information processing system which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. The block diagram which shows the function structure of the information processing apparatus with which the server system shown in FIG. 1 is equipped. The figure which shows an example of the edit screen for editing the starting condition information (Article type, narrowing conditions, sorting conditions, etc.) which the article process pattern management table shown in FIG. 2 has. The figure which shows the example of the edit screen different from FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing basic operations related to article processing by the information processing apparatus shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Server system, 30 ... Communication part, 11 ... Reception process part, 12 ... Sorting process part, 13 ... Article processing process part, 20 ... Control part, 21 ... Article analysis part, 22 ... Article classification determination part, 23 ... Narrowing Inclusion condition determination unit, 24 ... article processing pattern determination unit, 25 ... sorting condition determination unit, 26 ... start condition determination unit, 27 ... waiting condition determination unit, 28 ... article processing instruction unit, 41, 42, 43 ... terminal, 100 , 200, 300 ... article processing pattern management table, 101 ... individual parameter, 111 ... pattern name, 112 ... processing information, 113 ... start condition information, 121 ... article type, 122 ... narrowing condition, 123 ... sorting condition, 124 …Initiation condition.

Claims (5)

Based on information stored in a storage medium, an information processing apparatus capable of determining activation conditions for processing of received articles,
For each article processing pattern that defines how one or more articles should be published, one or more article types applied to the article processing pattern, and articles corresponding to the article type Storage means for storing a plurality of article processing pattern management information, having start condition information in which narrowing-down conditions for narrowing down articles to be processed are selected from
Article type determining means for determining which article processing pattern management information describes the same article type as the received article type among the plurality of article processing pattern management information;
Of one or more article modification pattern management information determined by the article type determination means, a narrowing condition determination that determines which article modification pattern management information the received article satisfies the narrowing condition described in which article modification pattern management information Means,
An article processing pattern determining means for determining an article processing pattern to be applied to the processing based on a determination result by the narrowing-down condition determining means. The start condition information further includes a sorting condition indicating how to sort individual articles corresponding to the article type, and a start condition indicating a condition for starting processing for each article sorted according to the sorting conditions. Listed,
Sorting determination means for determining sorting conditions corresponding to the article type described in the article processing pattern determined by the article processing pattern determination means;
2. The information processing according to claim 1, further comprising: start condition determining means for determining whether or not each article sorted according to the sorting condition determined by the sorting determining means satisfies a corresponding start condition. apparatus.   Each of the plurality of article processing pattern management information includes processing information including identification information for specifying a program for executing article processing using an article processing pattern in addition to the activation condition information. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2.   4. The waiting condition determining means for determining whether or not an activation condition based on a combination of conditions specified between different article types is satisfied, according to any one of claims 1 to 3. Information processing device. A program for determining activation conditions for processing of received articles based on information stored in a storage medium,
For each article processing pattern that defines how one or more articles should be published, one or more article types applied to the article processing pattern, and articles corresponding to the article type A function of storing a plurality of article processing pattern management information in a storage medium having start condition information in which a narrowing-down condition for narrowing down articles to be processed is selected from
A function of determining which article processing pattern management information describes the same article type as the received article type among the plurality of article processing pattern management information;
Among the one or more article processing pattern management information to be determined, a function of determining which article processing pattern management information the received article satisfies a narrowing condition described in which article processing pattern management information;
A program for causing a computer to realize a function of determining an article processing pattern to be applied to the processing based on the determination result of the narrowing-down condition.

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