JP2016139277A - Intellectual property rating system and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a program for providing rating of intellectual properties, properly, based on information determined by an expert.SOLUTION: A system 100 of the present invention comprises: a rating server 110 for receiving an evaluation of intellectual properties by an expert, via a network 101, for determining the rating of the intellectual properties; and a rating provision server 120 for receiving a request from a user terminal that desires determination of rating of the intellectual properties, via the network, and searching rating, according to the request. The rating server 120 uses evaluations of an international property DB 122 for evaluating probability that the intellectual properties are established in multi countries via the network, evaluating market ability of the intellectual properties via the network 101, and storing the international property evaluation, and of a market ability DB 123 for storing market ability, thereby to determine at least multi country establishment property and market ability of the intellectual properties, and registers the respective evaluations in the rating DB 111.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to the rating of intellectual property rights such as patent rights.

  In recent years, intellectual property rights are individually managed in each country, and patent rights holders, trademark right holders, etc. individually set licenses and usage rights for use. Conventionally, since a right holder such as a patent owner or trademark owner individually gives a license to a third party who wants to use an intellectual property right, the procedure is complicated. In addition, there is a disadvantage that the procedure is complicated and technical unless it is a global company that can be used internationally.

  On the other hand, securitization of intellectual property rights has also been carried out. For example, Nikkei Electronic Edition October 25, 2014 “Card Payment and Wireless LAN Spreading in the US“ Listed Patents ”(http: //www.nikkei .com / article / DGXLASGM1500T_V21C14A0MM0000 /: Non-patent document 1) describes that an international intellectual property exchange is established and the right to use is listed in a lump. If such securitization spreads, the usability of intellectual property rights will be improved, and it is expected that intellectual property rights will be used more effectively and easily. For example, taking the United States as an example, in the United States, intellectual property rights are said to be the largest asset class in the United States, with intellectual property having a market value of approximately $ 9.2 trillion. It is one of the leading asset classes in the world, with more than a dollar invested in the creation of intangible assets.

  Also, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-268111 (Patent Document 1) describes an online transaction system and method for patents and licenses, which is efficient and reliable for the sale and licensing of intellectual property rights. An electronic commerce system has been proposed. Patent Document 1 describes that a database for calculating a license consideration proposal amount for an intellectual property right is provided and the liquidity of the intellectual property right is improved by calculating an amount equivalent to the royalty.

JP 2000-268111 A

Nihon Keizai Shimbun electronic edition October 25, 2014 "Card payments and wireless LAN spread in the US" (http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASGM1500T_V21C14A0MM0000/ (downloaded on November 10, 2014)

  As described above, various efforts have been made to improve the usability of intellectual property rights, but the value of the targeted intellectual property rights, such as card payment and wireless LAN Even if it is an important technology, it cannot be judged easily, and despite the huge market size, there is a problem that the validity of the securities price is unclear. Therefore, if ratings can be provided for intellectual property rights, it is possible to more smoothly obtain securities prices in the securities market for intellectual property rights, specifically acquisition, transfer, license, and usage rights. It is thought that it becomes.

That is, according to the present invention, a system for rating intellectual property rights via a network, the system comprising:
A rating server that receives an assessment of intellectual property rights by an expert over the network and determines its rating;
A rating providing server that receives a request from a user terminal that desires to determine a rating of an intellectual property right via a network and searches for a rating in response to the request; and
The rating server is
Internationality Evaluation Department that evaluates information including application number and status regarding the possibility of the establishment of multi-national intellectual property rights via the network,
A marketability evaluation unit that evaluates the marketability of an area in which an intellectual property right is established or may be established via a network;
There is provided an intellectual property rating system including a rating determination unit that determines at least multinationality and marketability of intellectual property rights using evaluations of the internationality evaluation unit and the marketability evaluation unit.

  The rating server of the present invention further includes a technical evaluation unit that evaluates information related to the technical property of the intellectual property right, and the rating determination unit uses the evaluation of the technical evaluation unit to evaluate the technical value. Can be determined. The rating server may include an internationality DB that classifies and registers the possibility of multinational establishment based on whether or not it can be established at least globally, locally, and domestically.

  Further, the marketability evaluation unit determines the marketability as a ratio of the area population to the world population of the area where the intellectual property right is established or may be established as a right, and the ratio is determined as marketability. Marketability DB can be included.

According to the second configuration of the present invention,
An apparatus-executable program for causing an information processing apparatus to function as a system for rating intellectual property rights via a network,
Receiving a search request from a user terminal via a network;
In accordance with the search request, the rating generation server according to any one of claims 1 to 4 generates a search of a rating DB in which evaluation values by experts are accumulated, and the rating evaluation value of the intellectual property right is determined as the user. Displaying on the terminal;
When the search result is not satisfied, a device executable program is provided that executes a step of receiving a search condition from the user terminal and displaying a rating evaluation value of the searched intellectual property right in descending order.

Furthermore, according to the second configuration of the present invention,
In the step of displaying the rating evaluation values of the intellectual property rights in descending order, the intellectual property rights can be displayed in the order of scores calculated by the following equation (1).

(In the above formula (1), i is a variable for designating evaluation items such as technicality, internationality, marketability, etc., N is the number of evaluation items, and Wi is an evaluation item designated by the user. A weighting coefficient in a certain case, E _i is a score for each evaluation item for enabling an evaluation value to be calculated, and Wi is 1 for a specific evaluation item when there is no specific designation by the user. (If specified, a Wi value of 1 or more is set for the specified evaluation item, and 0 is set for the evaluation item not specified.)

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the system and program which provide the rating of a fair intellectual property based on the information judged by the expert can be provided.

The figure which shows schematic structure of the intellectual property rating system 100 of this embodiment. The figure which shows embodiment of the schematic functional block 200 of the rating server 120 of this embodiment. The figure which shows embodiment of the rating table 300 which the rating provision server 110 manages in rating DB111 in this embodiment. The figure which shows embodiment of the technical information table 400 which technical DB121 of this embodiment manages. The figure which shows embodiment of the internationality information table 500 stored in internationality DB122 in this embodiment. The figure which shows embodiment of the marketability table 600 which the marketability DB123 of this embodiment stores. The figure which shows an example of embodiment of the rating information table 700 which the rating determination part 206 of the rating server 120 uses. The figure which shows the flowchart of the process which the rating server 120 of this embodiment performs. A flowchart of processing executed by the rating providing server 110 when a user who wishes to know the rating of a specific patent accesses the rating providing server 110 from a user terminal. The figure which shows the hardware constitutions of the information processing apparatus 1000 for comprising the rating provision server 110 and the rating server 120 of this embodiment.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10: Information processing apparatus 100: Intellectual property rating system 101: Network 102: Computer 103: Smart phone 104: Tablet terminal 110: Rating provision server 120: Rating server 121: Database 200: Function block 201: Network I / F
202: Access unit 203: Technology evaluation unit 204: Internationality evaluation unit 205: Marketability evaluation unit 206: Rating determination unit 207: Access unit 210: Network I / F
300: Rating table 400: Technical information table 500: Internationality information table 600: Marketability table 700: Rating information table 1000: Information processing apparatus 1001: CPU
1002: Memory 1003: Driver 1004: Display 1005: Network device (NIC)
1006: Bridge 1007: Storage device 1008: Input device 1009: I / O bus 1010: Bus

  FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of an intellectual property rating system 100 of the present embodiment. In the system shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of computers 102, smart phones 103, tablet terminals 104, and other user terminals are connected via a network 101 such as the Internet. The network 101 is further connected with a rating providing server 110 and a rating server 120, and performs mutual communication with user terminals.

  The rating providing server 110 manages a rating DB 111, which is a database that ranks intellectual property rights, and provides ratings assigned to intellectual property rights such as patents in response to search requests from user terminals. To do. In the following description, the intellectual property right is described as a patent right for the purpose of concrete description. However, the present embodiment is not limited to the patent right, but a utility model right, a design right, a trademark. Applicable to copyrights and copyrights.

  The access from the user terminal to the rating providing server 110 can be realized using SQL (Structured Query Language) using the HTTP protocol or the like. Correspondingly, the rating providing server 110 has a web server function and an interface capable of processing SQL, such as a relational database and an object-oriented database.

  The rating server 120 provides a function for rating a patent. In order to provide this function, the rating server 120 uses a technical DB 121 that stores technical information on patent rights, an international DB 122 that stores information on rights between multiple countries, and a technology related to the patent. A marketability DB 123 for storing market scale information is provided.

  The rating server 120 receives technical information, internationality information, and marketability information sent from an expert selected by the system operator among the user terminals shown in FIG. 1, and corresponds to each information. A function of storing in the databases 121 to 123 is provided. The rating server 120 provides a function for generating a patent rating based on each stored information. The generated rating is provided to the rating providing server 110 using inter-server communication, and is stored in the rating DB 111 as the rating of the corresponding patent.

  Note that the user terminal and the rating server 120 are interconnected by a secure communication protocol such as SSL, VPN, virtual tunneling, etc., and by removing access by a third party, rating information Openness is ensured. Furthermore, server-to-server communication between the rating providing server 110 and the rating server 120 is similarly connected by VPN, virtual tunneling, or the like, and is configured to be able to exclude third party access.

  FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a schematic functional block 200 of the rating server 120 of the present embodiment. The functional blocks of the rating server 120 shown in FIG. 2 are configured by causing a computer (function) to function as a corresponding functional unit when a processor (CPU) executes a program. The rating server 120 includes a network I / F 210, a user access unit 202, and a database access unit 207.

  The network I / F 201 is configured by a network interface card (NIC) and software for transmitting information to and from the network 101, and provides functions from the first layer to the fourth layer in the OSI basic reference model. To do. The user access unit 202 provides the function of the fourth layer in the OSI basic reference model, and can be provided as a web server that can process the HTTP protocol. Furthermore, the database access unit 207 provides a function that enables access to the databases 121 to 123 managed by the rating server 120, and can be implemented as an SQL processing unit, for example.

  The rating server 120 further includes a technology evaluation unit 203, an internationality evaluation unit 204, a marketability evaluation unit 205, and a rating determination unit 206. Each of these function units can be configured by a server program such as JAVA (registered trademark), PHP, PERL, PYTHON, etc., and receives the data extracted by the user access unit and executes each process.

  The technology evaluation unit 203 provides a function of extracting technology level determination information sent from an expert and storing it in a database. The technical level determination information may include technical field classification information, such as IPC, in addition to information indicating whether the patented technology is basic or applied. If the intellectual property right is a design, a trademark, a copyright, or the like, there may not be an item called “technical evaluation”. In this case, the technical evaluation unit 203 sets null as the technical DB 121 with no item. Can be registered.

  Similarly, the internationality evaluation unit 204 receives multinational information on patents sent from experts together with the application number, status, and other information. And whether or not the applicable patent can be granted as a worldwide right, such as the European Community, African Community, ASEAN, East Asia-India Region, TPP, Eurasian Economic Alliance effective January 1, 2015, etc. A function is provided for storing international information, such as whether there is regional validity or whether there is a possibility that only domestic rights are established, in a database.

  The marketability evaluation unit 205 provides a function of determining the marketability of an area in which a patent is granted or possibly established as a right as a ratio of the area population to the world population and registering the ratio in the database. Furthermore, the rating determination unit 206 provides a function of generating patent rating information from information registered in each database and sending it to the rating providing server 110. If there are multiple experts in each of the technical, international, and marketable evaluations, it is possible to determine the optimal evaluation by applying statistical processing known so far, such as adopting the most evaluations. it can.

  FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a rating table 300 managed by the rating providing server 110 in the rating DB 111 in this embodiment. The rating table 300 manages patent identification values such as patent numbers, application numbers, and international application numbers in association with technical evaluation values, international evaluation values, marketability evaluation values, and rating evaluation values. Upon receiving each rating information from the rating server 120, the rating providing server 110 combines the information, generates a rating evaluation to be presented to the user terminal, and registers it in the rating DB 111.

  In the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, each evaluation value is generated by a combination of alphabets and + or − signs, and A +, A, A−, and the like are given in descending order of evaluation. Further, the rating providing server 110 includes a rating evaluation unit that generates a rating evaluation value by simply combining a technical evaluation value, an international evaluation value, and a marketability evaluation value on the right side in the order of registration. Shows that the rating evaluation value is generated for the right of patent identification value = 1, for example, as “ABB”.

FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of the technical information table 400 managed by the technical DB 121 of this embodiment. From the expert, the technical level determined by the examination of each technology by the expert is, for example, “Principal 1”, “Principal 2”, “Principal 3” “Application”, “Improvement”, “DMS (Domestic)”, etc. Will be sent as For example, backbone 1, the evaluation value A ⁺ is assigned, the backbone 2, the evaluation value A is assigned to the "core 3", A ^- is allocated. Details of the allocation process will be described later.

  FIG. 5 is an embodiment of the international information table 500 stored in the international DB 122 in this embodiment. As shown in FIG. 5, the internationality evaluation is given as “EAS-CN”, “G”, “AS-IN”, “JP”. For example, a rating “G” indicates that rights may or may arise in major international countries. The rating “EAS-CN” indicates that there is a possibility of rights generation or rights generation in the East Asia-China region including Southeast Asia. In addition, the evaluation “AS-IN” indicates that a right may be generated or a right may be generated in a region including Southeast Asia and India. Other evaluations “JP” indicate that only domestic rights may or may not be generated. In addition to JP, abbreviations such as US AM, Germany DE, UK GB, Australia AU, and China CN should be used. Can do.

  FIG. 6 shows an embodiment of the marketability table 600 stored in the marketability DB 123 of this embodiment. The marketability DB 123 of FIG. 6 can be sent from an expert, or by using the internationality information of FIG. 5 sent from an expert, the rating server 120 calculates the ratio of the population of a region or country to the world population. It can be calculated and registered in the marketability table 600. For example, “EAS-CN” has the possibility of generating rights in the East Asia-China region including Southeast Asia, so the approximate total population of the region is 2 billion, and is determined as a ratio to the world population. . In addition, when there is a possibility of the occurrence of rights or the occurrence of rights in major international countries, the sum of the populations in the areas where the rights are generated can be divided by the world population to obtain a ratio.

  FIG. 7 shows an example of an embodiment of the rating information table 700 used by the rating determination unit 206 of the rating server 120. As shown in FIG. 7, an evaluation value is assigned to each evaluation, and the rating server 120 generates an evaluation value while referring to the values of the DBs 121 to 123. The generated evaluation value is sent to the rating providing server 110 and used to generate the rating table 300 shown in FIG.

  FIG. 8 shows a flowchart of processing executed by the rating server 120 of this embodiment. The process of FIG. 8 starts from step S800, and in step S801, patent information of each country is acquired for the patent identification value. In step S802, the patent identification value is sent to the expert terminal via the network. In step S803, technical, international, and marketability (in a specific embodiment) evaluation is obtained from an expert and registered in each database. In step S804, the rating determination unit 206 refers to the evaluation of each DB, determines an evaluation value, and sends the evaluation value to the rating DB 111, thereby accumulating information by experts in the rating DB 111. Thereafter, a series of evaluations of the subject patent is completed in step S805.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart of processing executed by the rating providing server 110 when a user who wishes to know the rating for a specific patent accesses the rating providing server 110 from a user terminal. The rating providing server 110 starts the process in step S900, and in step S901, the user accesses the rating DB 111 through the network. In step S <b> 902, the user sends a patent identification value, international information, marketability information, etc. to the rating providing server 110.

  In step S903, the rating providing server 110 displays, for example, the rating evaluation value of the corresponding patent if the patent identification value is sent from the user. In step S904, whether or not the user is satisfied with the search result is determined based on, for example, whether or not a re-search command has been received. If the user is satisfied (yes), the process branches to step S908 to Access to, and purchase the securities of the desired embodiment, and the process ends in step S909.

  If the user is not satisfied with the search result in step S904 (no), other desired search conditions or a combination thereof is designated in step S905. In step S906, the patent is searched under the specified search condition, and the rating evaluation value is displayed in descending order together with the patent identification value. The display order of the ratings in step S906 can be performed by the following equation (1), for example. The displayed patent identification value can be redirected to the technical DB 121 of the rating generation server 120, for example, and the user can immediately refer to the detailed information of the searched intellectual property right. Also good.

In the above formula (1), i is a variable that designates evaluation items such as technicality, internationality, and marketability, N is the number of evaluation items, and Wi is an evaluation item designated by the user. E _i is an evaluation value assigned as A + = 10, A = 9, A− = 8, B + = 5, B = 4, B− = 3, C = 2, D = 1, and the like. This is a score for enabling calculation.

  In addition, Wi is 1 when there is no specific designation by the user, and when there is designation for a specific evaluation item, a Wi value of 1 or more is set for the designated evaluation item. It can be a function in which 0 is set. At this time, in order to enable normalization of the Score value, the normalization constant can be multiplied to the equation (1).

  In step S907, it is determined by the instruction sent from the user whether there is a patent with a rating desired by the user. If no patent is sent (no), the process branches to step S909 and the process is terminated. On the other hand, if there is a desired patent (yes), it is possible to purchase a security specifying the desired implementation format by accessing the patent market in step S908. Since the technology provided on the market is not the gist of the present invention, detailed description thereof is omitted. Through the above processing, according to the present embodiment, a system and program for providing a fair intellectual property rating based on information determined by an expert can be provided.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the information processing apparatus 1000 for configuring the rating providing server 110 and the rating server 120 according to the present embodiment. An information processing apparatus 1000 according to the present invention includes a central processing unit (CPU) 1001 and a memory 1002 formed from a solid-state memory element such as a RAM or a DRAM that enables processing by the CPU 1001. The CUP 1001 and the memory 1002 are connected to other devices or drivers of the information processing apparatus 1000, such as a graphics driver 1003 and a network device (NIC) 1005, via a system bus 1010. The graphics driver 1003 is connected to the display 1004 via an appropriate bus, and displays the processing result by the CPU 1001 on the display screen.

  The network device 1005 establishes a session with the user terminal by connecting the information processing apparatus 1000 to the network at the transport layer level and the physical layer level.

  An I / O bus bridge 1006 is further connected to the system bus 1010. A storage device 1007 such as a hard disk is connected to the downstream side of the I / O bus bridge 1006 by an IDE, ATA, ATAPI, serial ATA, SCSI, USB, etc. via an I / O bus 1009 such as PCI. Yes. An input device 1008 such as a keyboard and a pointing device such as a mouse is connected to the I / O bus 1009 via a bus such as a USB, and receives inputs and commands from an operator such as a system administrator.

  More specifically, as the CPU 1001 used by the information processing apparatus 10, for example, PENTIUM (registered trademark) to PENTIUM (registered trademark) IV, PENTIUM (registered trademark) compatible CPU, CORE2DUO (registered trademark), COREi3 to i7 ( Registered trademark), POWER PC (registered trademark), MIPS, and the like.

  As an operating system (OS) to be used, MacOS (trademark), Windows (registered trademark), Windows (registered trademark) 20XX Server, UNIX (registered trademark), AIX (registered trademark), LINUX (registered trademark) or Other suitable OS can be mentioned. Furthermore, the information processing apparatus 10 stores application programs written in an object-oriented programming language such as C ++, Visual C ++, Visual Basic, Java (registered trademark), Perl, Ruby, etc., which operate on the OS described above. Run.

  The functions of this embodiment are described in an object-oriented programming language such as C ++, Java (registered trademark), Java (registered trademark) Beans, Java (registered trademark) Applet, Java (registered trademark) Script, Perl, and Ruby. It can be realized by a program executable by the apparatus, and can be stored in a device-readable recording medium and distributed.

<Specific embodiments assumed by the applicant>
By including at least one patent attorney as the expert who judges each technology, it is possible to give certainty by judging the technology and patentability and to improve the social importance of the patent attorney. Further, for example, when ranking intellectual property rights, the rank can be assigned according to the following criteria, with the highest rank being 8. In addition, the display in parenthesis shows the aspect at the time of assigning sumo numbering.
Technical level aspect represented by the index 1, minimum level achieved (starting with sumo numbering)
2, an invention that feels something shiny (addition)
3. Inventions with basic level (ten cars)
4. The most numerous inventions, the largest number. (In the curtain)
5. Average invention (Ozeki)
6, a little better, another amazing invention (Yokozuna)
7. Very good invention, rarely added (Oyokozuna)
8. Excellent invention, level of appearance rate (Raiden or Futabayama)

  Other gambling characteristics can also be displayed, but the system of the present invention basically does not assign a low risk or high return rank. In other embodiments, an expert (subjective) comment may be annotated, for example, “no hands without this technology”.

  It is also possible to envisage technical assets that can be added to intellectual property rights. For example, after a specialist verifies the validity of a patent that has been paid in advance for reasons of refusal in a particular country even though it is patented in the place where the product is consumed, It is excavation and introduction. In this case, it is true that the technology and referrals that the rights granting institution's view does not rank.

  In addition, it is said that 40% of the in-house inventions have not been filed because of know-how, but the intellectual property rights to be evaluated are not subject to confidential disclosure of the company. Inclusion in the subject, the number of cases handled can be tripled in Japan compared to the number of patents alone. Further, the present invention is a technique that is different from the “patent trial result”, such as creating a technology map, in that the new technology itself is rated. Furthermore, even if it is rejected, the applied patent can be considered, but if there is a predetermined rank, for example, 5-8 in the above ranking, it can also be ranked.

  In addition, it can be rated as a separate dream technology, for example, nuclear fusion, space elevator, STAP cells, space solar light blocking device, magnesium circulation system, etc. can be rated and published as dream technology. In addition, it is possible to standardize evaluation specialists, evaluation methods, rankings, etc., and make it a standard such as ISO, and function as a private or public rating agency. In addition, the system of the present invention (named GXP) can be used for the evaluation and compensation calculation when paying an appropriate invention value for an inventor in a company, a university, a government office or the like.

Although the present invention has been described above by the embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments shown in the drawings, and those skilled in the art may conceive other embodiments, additions, changes, deletions, and the like. It can be changed within the range that can be done, and any embodiment is included in the scope of the present invention as long as the effects of the present invention are exhibited.

Claims (6)

A system for rating intellectual property rights over a network, the system comprising:
A rating server that receives an assessment of intellectual property rights by an expert over the network and determines its rating;
A rating providing server that receives a request from a user terminal that desires to determine a rating of an intellectual property right via a network and searches for a rating in response to the request; and
The rating server is
Internationality Evaluation Department that evaluates information including application number and status regarding the possibility of the establishment of multi-national intellectual property rights via the network,
A marketability evaluation unit that evaluates the marketability of an area in which an intellectual property right is established or may be established via a network;
An intellectual property rating system comprising: a rating determination unit that determines at least multinational feasibility and marketability of intellectual property rights using the evaluations of the internationality evaluation unit and the marketability evaluation unit.   The rating server further includes a technical evaluation unit that evaluates information related to the technical property of the intellectual property right, and the rating determination unit determines an evaluation value related to the technical property using the evaluation of the technical evaluation unit. The intellectual property rating system according to claim 1.   The rating server includes an internationality DB that classifies and registers the possibility of multinational establishment based on whether or not it can be established at least worldwide, regionally, and domestically. Intellectual property rating system.   The marketability evaluation unit judges the marketability as a ratio of an area population to a world population of an area where the intellectual property right is established or may be established as a right, and registers the ratio as marketability The intellectual property rating system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, including a marketability DB. An apparatus-executable program for causing an information processing apparatus to function as a system for rating intellectual property rights via a network,
Receiving a search request from a user terminal via a network;
In accordance with the search request, the rating generation server according to any one of claims 1 to 4 generates a search of a rating DB in which evaluation values by experts are accumulated, and the rating evaluation value of the intellectual property right is determined as the user. Displaying on the terminal;
An apparatus-executable program for executing a step of receiving a search condition from the user terminal and displaying a rating evaluation value of the searched intellectual property right in descending order when the search result is not satisfied. The program according to claim 5, wherein the step of displaying the rating evaluation values of the intellectual property rights in the descending order displays the intellectual property rights in the order of scores calculated by the following equation (1).
(In the above formula (1), i is a variable for designating evaluation items such as technicality, internationality, marketability, etc., N is the number of evaluation items, and Wi is an evaluation item designated by the user. A weighting coefficient in a certain case, E _i is a score for each evaluation item for enabling an evaluation value to be calculated, and Wi is 1 for a specific evaluation item when there is no specific designation by the user. (If specified, a Wi value of 1 or more is set for the specified evaluation item, and 0 is set for the evaluation item not specified.)