JP2015018487A - Information processing device, system, server device, terminal, and information processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently reuse a frequently used pattern of a document.SOLUTION: A system is provided with a server device and a terminal. The server device includes: mail acquisition means that obtains mails which are transmitted from the terminal; extraction means that extracts common patterns as regular expressions from the obtained plurality of mails; and pattern transmission means that transmits the extracted patterns to the terminal. The terminal includes: pattern storage means that stores the patterns which is received from the server device, as pattern candidates; pattern specification means that specifies a pattern corresponding to provided input, out of the pattern candidates which are stored in the pattern storage means; element acquisition means that sequentially obtains elements in the specified pattern; and candidate display means that displays the elements as input candidates according to an input that corresponds to the obtained elements.

Description

  The present invention relates to character input in an information processing apparatus.

  In recent years, in addition to traditional personal computers, the spread of smart devices (for example, smartphones and tablet PCs) has rapidly increased. A technique for displaying input candidates is known as a device for improving the efficiency of character input of these information processing apparatuses.

  In this technique, when one or two characters at the beginning of a word or phrase are input, a word or phrase that is often input is presented as a conversion candidate. There is also an example in which words that are frequently used in outgoing mail are input candidates (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).

JP2011-209917A JP 2009-258970 A

  However, even with candidates having the same initial character, the frequency of use varies depending on the location in the email and the requirements of the email. For this reason, presentation of candidates based on mere frequency of use without considering the position in the mail has not provided appropriate support. In particular, smart devices are strongly required to improve the efficiency of character input because of the difficulty of character input.

  An object of the present invention is to efficiently reuse frequently used document patterns.

  Based on the above object, an information processing apparatus according to one aspect (1) of the present invention sequentially extracts extraction means for extracting a common pattern as a regular expression from a plurality of documents, and a fixed part in the extracted pattern. It is characterized by comprising element acquisition means for acquiring and candidate display means for displaying the acquired fixed portion as an input candidate in response to an input corresponding to the acquired fixed portion.

  An information processing method according to another aspect (9) of the present invention is a method in which the above aspect is captured by a method category, and an extraction process for extracting a common pattern as a regular expression from a plurality of documents, and the extracted The computer executes element acquisition processing for sequentially acquiring the fixed portions in the pattern and candidate display processing for displaying the acquired fixed portions as input candidates in accordance with the input corresponding to the acquired fixed portions. It is characterized by that.

  According to another aspect (2) of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the pattern storage means for storing a plurality of the extracted patterns as pattern candidates, and the pattern stored in the pattern storage means Pattern specifying means for specifying a pattern corresponding to a given input among the candidates, wherein the element acquisition means sequentially acquires the elements in the specified pattern.

  A server device according to another aspect (3) of the present invention grasps the above aspect as a server device in a client server system, and includes a mail acquisition unit that acquires a mail transmitted from a terminal, An extraction means for extracting a common pattern from the mail as a regular expression and a pattern transmission means for transmitting the extracted pattern to the terminal are provided.

  In another aspect (4) of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the extracting unit extracts the pattern from the mail transmitted by a user having a common email address domain, and the pattern transmitting unit includes: The extracted pattern is transmitted to a terminal of a user having a common email address domain.

  According to another aspect (5) of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the extraction unit extracts the pattern from an email transmitted by a user registered in a group, and the pattern transmission unit extracts the pattern. The pattern is transmitted to a terminal of a user registered in the group.

  According to another aspect (6) of the present invention, a terminal grasps the above aspect as a terminal in a client server system, and stores a pattern received from a server device as a pattern candidate, and the pattern storage means. A pattern specifying unit that specifies a pattern corresponding to a given input, an element acquiring unit that sequentially acquires elements in the specified pattern, and the acquired element Candidate display means for displaying the acquired element as an input candidate in response to an input corresponding to.

  A system according to another aspect (7) of the present invention grasps the above aspect as a client-server system, and includes the server device according to the above aspect and the terminal according to the above aspect.

  According to another aspect (8) of the present invention, in any one of the above aspects, the extraction unit of the server device replaces an individual name included in the pattern related to extraction with a wild card, and the candidate display unit includes: The element including the wild card in the pattern is replaced with a personal name corresponding to the destination address of the mail that is inputting the wild card.

  According to the present invention, a frequently used document pattern can be efficiently reused.

The functional block diagram which shows a structure about embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the example of the data in embodiment of this invention. The flowchart which shows the process sequence in embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the example of the process in embodiment of this invention.

  Next, a mode for carrying out the present invention (referred to as “embodiment”) will be illustrated along the drawings. In addition, the assumptions common to the contents already described in the background art and problems are omitted as appropriate.

[1. Constitution〕
FIG. 1 shows the configuration of this embodiment. The present embodiment is a system including an analysis server 1 and a terminal T, and is used in cooperation with a mail server M. The mail server M is a server device that provides a so-called mail service that transmits and receives electronic mail (also simply referred to as “mail”) via a communication network N (Internet, mobile phone network, etc.).

  The analysis server 1 is a server device that supports labor saving of mail input by acquiring and analyzing a copy of the mail transmitted by the user by the mail server M in cooperation with the mail server M based on the prior consent of the user. . The analysis server 1 includes a computer configuration, that is, an arithmetic control unit 6 such as a CPU, a storage device 7 such as a main memory and an auxiliary storage device, a communication device 8 (such as a communication device and a communication adapter) with the communication network N, Is provided.

  Further, the terminal T includes a screen G having a touch panel function, a built-in charge in addition to the computer configuration (the calculation control unit 6, the storage device 7, and the communication device 8) (however, the specification is different from that of the analysis server 1). A rechargeable battery control unit 3 that controls a battery, a call control unit 4 that controls a call, a positioning unit 5 that performs a positioning process using GPS or the like, and basic software 9 that controls each unit.

  In the analysis server 1, each element shown in FIG. 1 is realized by the arithmetic control unit 6 executing a computer program (not shown) stored in the storage device 7.

  Among the realized elements, the information storage means is not limited to the so-called local storage in the analysis server 1 but may be remote storage by network computing (cloud) or the like. Further, the storage means shown in the present application is a unit that is convenient for explanation and is a main one. The actual storage means may include functions such as input / output and management associated with information storage, the unit of the configuration may be divided or integrated, and other storage means such as a work area may be used as appropriate. Good.

  Of the storage means, the mail storage means 25 of the analysis server 1 stores mail as a basis for pattern extraction. The pattern storage means 35 and 50 store the pattern extracted from the mail (for example, FIG. 2).

  Note that the arrows in FIG. 1 and other drawings are examples of main directions of data or control and other flows, and do not mean the denial of other flows or limitation of directions. In addition, each means other than the storage means is a processing means for realizing or executing the following information processing functions or operations, but these functions or operations are exclusively units for explanation and are configured by hardware and software. It is not intended to limit.

[2. Action)
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing operations of the terminal T and the analysis server 1. FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of reusing a pattern extracted from an email in the present embodiment. In the terminal T (FIG. 1), the mail transmission means 80 is means for a user to send and receive mail, and is, for example, an application program for mail transmission and reception (also called a mailer or mail client).

  The character input means 75 is a means for inputting hiragana, katakana, kanji, Hangul characters, and the like using an alphabet key array in Asia and other so-called double-byte character language areas. .

  For example, when the user transmits a mail via the mail server M using the character input means 75 and the mail transmission means 80 (step S11: “YES” in FIG. 3), the transmitted mail (also referred to as “transmission mail”). The mail server M also transmits a copy of this to the analysis server 1 (step S12).

[2-1. Server processing)
In the analysis server 1, the mail acquisition unit 20 acquires the mail (in practice, a copy of the transmitted mail) transmitted from the terminal T as described above (step S51). The extraction unit 30 extracts, as a regular expression, a common pattern in which the same fixed parts (for example, character strings) appear in the same order from a plurality of emails acquired so far (step S52). The extracted pattern is transmitted to the terminal T (step S53).

  When a user identified by the same mail account or user ID uses a plurality of terminals T, the extracted pattern is transmitted to all terminals T in which the user has introduced the reuse function according to the present invention. Sent.

  Extraction as a regular expression uses dynamic programming or other known algorithms. Consideration of editing distance between strings, alignment, and other methods, strings that are common between emails that appear in the same order are not limited to exact string matches, Extract as

  The e-mail to be extracted is typically an e-mail transmitted by the user who uses the extracted pattern, but can also be an e-mail of another user related to the user. An example of a subject is an outgoing mail of a user having a common email address domain, and the user is, for example, a member of a company or other organization.

  In this case, the extraction unit 30 extracts a pattern from mail transmitted by a user having a common email address domain, and the pattern transmission unit 40 extracts the extracted pattern from a user terminal T having a common email address domain. Send to.

  Another example of the target is a transmission mail of a user registered in an arbitrary group. The group is, for example, a workplace SNS for defining the scope of information communication, a community in a cyber space such as an electronic bulletin board or a blog, or any other group or the like.

  In this case, the extraction unit 30 extracts a pattern from the mail transmitted by the user registered in the group, and the pattern transmission unit 40 transmits the extracted pattern to the terminal of the user registered in the group. .

[2-2. (Processing on the terminal)
In the terminal T, the receiving unit 45 receives one or more patterns transmitted from the analysis server 1, and the pattern received from the analysis server 1 is newly registered or stored in the pattern storage unit 50 as a pattern candidate. It is memorized by the update of the existing pattern and other forms

  As illustrated in FIG. 2, the pattern is composed of a fixed part that is a character string and a wild card (here, an asterisk “*”) expressed in a specific symbol or data or other format. The initial character that triggers the display of the fixed part as an input candidate, that is, a conversion candidate, is associated.

  For example, at the beginning of the pattern P1 shown in FIG. 2, waiting for input that it is the beginning character "child", which means "Hello. You have helped me." That should be displayed as a conversion candidate the fixed part. The initial character is not limited to one character.

  Then, the pattern specifying unit 55 specifies a pattern corresponding to the given input among the pattern candidates stored in the pattern storage unit 50 (steps S20 and S15). The identification of the corresponding pattern is, for example, a pattern that includes elements such as a fixed part having the common beginning with the given input in the same order as the given input. The identification is performed by comparing the beginning of the fixed part with the input.

  In addition, the element acquisition unit 60 sequentially acquires elements (more specifically, the fixed part and the initial character) in the specified pattern (step S15), and the candidate display unit 70 corresponds to the acquired element. In response to the input (step S17: “YES”), the acquired element is displayed as an input candidate (step S18). The corresponding input may be, for example, input of one or more characters at the beginning of the acquired element, or may be selection of an image when the beginning of the fixed part is an image to be inserted into the character string.

  For example, consider a case where the user creates a new mail at the terminal T in which the pattern P1 (FIG. 2) shown in FIG. 4 and another pattern P2 are stored in the pattern storage means 50. When the mail is created and input is started (step S14: "YES"), the element acquisition unit 60 acquires the initial character string corresponding to the unprocessed fixed part of the possible patterns based on the input. (Step S15).

  However, immediately after the start of mail creation (step S14: “YES”), nothing has been entered yet, so the pattern cannot be specified. For this reason, the element acquisition unit 60 acquires unprocessed (first) fixed parts and initial characters for all patterns stored in the pattern storage unit 50 as possible patterns (step S15).

[2-3. Example)
For example, when the candidate of the patterns P1 and P2, 1 second of the fixed part and the beginning character of untreated both, snippets "Hello. You have helped me." Because the beginning is a character "child", mail creation immediately after the start (step S14: "YES"), when there is a character input cursor at the beginning of the text field, if you type "child", ".. Hello, you have taken care" that the fixed part is displayed as a conversion candidate, A predetermined confirmation operation enters the text field deterministically (for example, screen G1 in FIG. 4).

  When the first character corresponding to the first fixed part is different among a plurality of candidates, the pattern can be specified for one of the candidates when one character is input. In addition, when the fixed characters are different even if the initial characters are the same among the candidates, the pattern can be specified when one of the two fixed characters displayed with the initial characters is selected and confirmed.

  However, as described above, when the first fixed part and the corresponding initial character are common among a plurality of candidates, even if the candidate is determined (step S19: “YES”), any one is selected. Since it cannot be determined that the pattern has been detected, the pattern cannot be specified for any candidate (the state of the screen G1).

  In such a case, even if the first candidate is confirmed, neither the pattern P1 nor the pattern P2 is excluded, and the next fixed part and the initial character that are different from each other are acquired (the fixed part “inquiry is also available from the web for the pattern P1). ”And the first letter“ O ”, and the pattern P2 is fixed, the pattern P1 or P2 is identified The

  In the example of FIG. 4, based on the patterns P1 and P2, in the state of the screen G1, snippets "Hello that are common in both the patterns P1 and P2 on the basis of the input of the beginning letter" U ". Has become indebted. "Is displayed.

  In the present embodiment, the fixed part is displayed based on the position or order of the fixed part in the pattern. Therefore, even if the initial character “ko” is input at the beginning of the mail, the end of the pattern as in the prior art is used. “Thank you in the future.” Will not be displayed as a candidate.

  Thereafter, “Thank you for contacting me this time” illustrated on the screen G2 is a sentence that the user can freely input (indicated by an underline), and corresponds to the first wild card (asterisk “*”) of the pattern P1. After that, when the user inputs the initial character “O”, the standard part “Inquiry is also possible from the web” is displayed as a candidate (Step S18) and when it is confirmed (Step S19: “YES”) The pattern is narrowed down to the pattern P1 (step S20).

  Thereafter, the combination of the underlined portion corresponding to the asterisk and the fixed portion displayed in accordance with the first character indicates that, for example, the mail text on the screen G2 corresponds to the pattern P1, and the screen G3 corresponds to the pattern P2, for example. Is completed. In either case, only the underlined part is entered by the user, and for the standard part excluding the underlined part, candidates are displayed in the correct order just by entering the first letter, and the mail text can be created simply by confirming it. .

[2-4. (Replacement of personal name)
In the extraction and reuse of patterns as described above, the personal name in the extracted pattern may be replaced according to the destination of the reuse destination mail. In this case, the extraction means 30 of the analysis server 1 converts the personal name included in the pattern related to the extraction into a title (“Mr. XX”, “Mr. Δ △”, “XX section manager”, “Mr.”, “Dr.”, “Esq”). Etc.), and is replaced with a wild card ("asterisk" or "*" or other specific information different from asterisk).

  Then, the candidate display means 70 of the terminal T replaces the element including the wild card in the pattern with the personal name corresponding to the destination address of the mail that has input the wild card.

  For example, replace the standard part “I will contact XX upon completion” with a wild card (here, “*”), such as “I will contact * upon completion”, and send it to a new email. When entering, if the destination address of the mail is associated with the person name “Yamada” in the electronic phone book, for example, the wild card (“*”) is replaced with “Yamada”. Will be replaced with "".

[3. effect〕
(1) As described above, in the present embodiment, the fixed portions in the patterns (for example, the patterns P1 and P2 in FIG. 4) extracted as regular expressions from a plurality of documents are sequentially converted into characters according to the input position. Displayed as input candidates for conversion (for example, screen G1 in FIG. 4). This ensures that frequently used document patterns follow the order regardless of the length of elements (typically represented by an asterisk whose length is not specified in regular expressions) between the standard parts in the pattern. Can be reused efficiently.

  In particular, in the present embodiment, in addition to the effect of the present invention that a frequently used document pattern can be efficiently reused, a configuration of a client server system that performs pattern extraction with an analysis server (FIG. 1) allows the same user to Emails sent from any of a plurality of terminals (for example, smartphones, tablet PCs, personal computers, etc.) used by the can be collected in the analysis server, patterns are extracted and transmitted to each terminal, and any terminal can be crossed. Common learning contents and usability can be utilized.

  Further, in the present embodiment, by specifying and using a plurality of pattern candidates (for example, patterns P1 and 2 in FIG. 4) according to a given input (for example, step S20 in FIG. 3). It can be applied to the case where the pattern to be used is not uniquely determined from the beginning, including the case where there are a plurality of corresponding patterns at the beginning of the input.

  Further, in the present embodiment, by reusing and utilizing patterns from sent mail within the range of users having a common email address domain, pattern reuse in the range of organizations such as workplaces is facilitated.

  Also, in this embodiment, patterns can be easily reused in any organization regardless of the domain of email addresses used by individuals by extracting and utilizing patterns from sent emails within the scope of group members. become.

  In the present embodiment, the personal name in the pattern is used as a wild card and replaced with a personal name corresponding to the mail destination when used for mail input, thereby protecting privacy and further improving the efficiency of input.

[4. Other embodiments]
In addition, the content of the said embodiment and figure is only an illustration, and the presence or absence and arrangement | positioning of each element, the order and content of a process, etc. can be changed suitably. For this reason, this invention also includes the modification illustrated below and other embodiment other than that.

  For example, the basis for extracting a pattern and the target for reusing a pattern are not limited to electronic mail, but may be other types of character strings and documents such as various articles. In addition, the present invention is realized as an information processing apparatus in which the analysis server 1 that is a pattern extraction place and the terminal T that is a pattern reuse place are integrated without adopting the configuration of the client server system as in the above embodiment. You can also.

  The information processing apparatus in this case corresponds to an extraction unit that extracts a common pattern as a regular expression from a plurality of documents, an element acquisition unit that sequentially acquires a fixed part in the extracted pattern, and the acquired fixed part Candidate display means for displaying the fixed portion as input candidates in accordance with the input to be performed.

  The information processing apparatus in this case particularly preferably corresponds to a given input among pattern storage means for storing a plurality of extracted patterns as pattern candidates and pattern candidates stored in the pattern storage means. Pattern specifying means for specifying a pattern, and the element acquisition means sequentially acquires the elements in the specified pattern.

  Moreover, each aspect of the present invention can be understood as other categories (methods, programs, systems including terminals, etc.) that are not specified. In the category of method or program, “means” shown in the category of apparatus is appropriately read as “process” or “step”. In addition, all or any part of “means” can be read as “part” (unit, section, module, etc.).

  Also, the processes and steps shown in the embodiment can be changed by changing the order, executing some of them collectively, or executing them part by part. In addition, hardware elements that implement and execute individual means, processes, and steps may be common, or may differ for each means, process, step, or timing.

  The individual means shown in the present application may be realized by calling a function provided by an external server by an API (Application Program Interface) or network computing (so-called cloud or the like). Furthermore, elements such as means are not limited to computers, and may be realized by other information processing mechanisms that appear now or in the future.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Analysis server 3 Rechargeable battery control part 4 Call control part 5 Positioning part 6 Operation control part 7 Storage device 8 Communication apparatus 9 Basic software 20 Mail acquisition means 30 Extraction means 40 Pattern transmission means 45 Reception means 50 Pattern storage means 55 Pattern specification means 60 Element acquisition means 70 Candidate display means 75 Character input means 80 Mail transmission means G, G1-G3 Screen M Mail server N Communication network P1, P2 Pattern T Terminal

Claims (9)

Extraction means for extracting a common pattern as a regular expression from a plurality of documents;
Element acquisition means for sequentially acquiring fixed portions in the extracted pattern;
Candidate display means for displaying the acquired fixed part as an input candidate in response to an input corresponding to the acquired fixed part;
An information processing apparatus comprising: Pattern storage means for storing a plurality of extracted patterns as pattern candidates;
Pattern specifying means for specifying a pattern corresponding to a given input among the pattern candidates stored in the pattern storage means,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the element acquisition unit sequentially acquires elements in the identified pattern. An email retrieval means for retrieving emails sent from the device;
Extraction means for extracting a common pattern as a regular expression from the plurality of acquired emails;
Pattern transmission means for transmitting the extracted pattern to the terminal;
A server device comprising: The extraction means extracts the pattern from the email sent by a user with a common email address domain,
4. The server apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the transmission unit transmits the extracted pattern to a terminal of a user having a common email address domain. The extraction means extracts the pattern from an email sent by a user registered in a group,
5. The server device according to claim 3, wherein the pattern transmission unit transmits the extracted pattern to a terminal of a user registered in the group. Pattern storage means for storing the pattern received from the server device as a pattern candidate;
Pattern specifying means for specifying a pattern corresponding to a given input among the pattern candidates stored in the pattern storage means;
Element acquisition means for sequentially acquiring elements in the identified pattern;
Candidate display means for displaying the acquired element as an input candidate in response to an input corresponding to the acquired element;
A terminal comprising:   A system comprising the server device according to any one of claims 3 to 5 and the terminal according to claim 6. The extraction means of the server device replaces a personal name included in the pattern related to extraction with a wild card,
The candidate display means replaces the element including the wild card in the pattern with a personal name corresponding to a destination address of an email in which the wild card is input. system. An extraction process that extracts a common pattern as a regular expression from multiple documents;
An element acquisition process for sequentially acquiring the fixed portions in the extracted pattern;
A candidate display process for displaying the acquired fixed part as an input candidate in response to an input corresponding to the acquired fixed part;
An information processing method characterized in that a computer executes.

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