JP2022122798A - Information management device and file management method - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a method of performing conditional search for a specified tag name as intended without any omission.SOLUTION: A method includes: specifying keywords on a tag name tree and inputting free keywords; assigning as condition data, a parent tag name to tag name columns formed by specifying, as a set of tag names, the specified keywords and tag names sharing the parent tag name out of tag names arranged at a specified keyword ancestor position and descendant position; making a table on which the tag name columns allocated for every arrangement direction of a headword field are arranged in a headword field in the arrangement direction by a method based on the assigned condition data; assigning a configuration tag name of each combined tag name tree to the information as a storage tag name; and as for each cell of the table, displaying an icon of the information containing the input free keywords in name strings thereof or configuration texts thereof in association with the cell, out of the information to which a set of storage tag names is assigned, the set of storage tag names having a determined relation with the set of tag names arranged in a determined position relation with the cell.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

Description

The present invention relates to a search method for retrieving desired information from information saved on a folder tree.

Classification currently performed in a folder tree that combines folders in the form of a tree structure, for example, in the folder trees shown in FIGS. , A2, A3}, and a group of child folders of several different folders such as {2016, 2017, 2018}, {large, average}. There is a common taxonomy that is not constrained by node names. In information management using a folder tree, since such common classifications are incorporated into one tree structure, the same classifications are repeatedly arranged in many places in the folder tree, and the entire folder tree tends to be exponentially large as it incorporates common classifications.

In a tree-structured folder tree, exploratory retrieval, which is one of the pillars of information retrieval, originally accompanies a great deal of trouble for the user. The extent will be even greater.

In addition, in a huge folder tree, different notations are often assigned to the same classification, and different meanings are assigned to the same notation. cannot be a deterministic retrieval method, and currently, retrieval using a single node name as a keyword is only used as a supplement.

In response to the situation of information management using such a folder tree, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2013-228964 assigns different notations to nodes in a folder tree that have different meanings but are given the same notation, and On the name string display means, the tag name strings obtained by unifying the different notation node names in the tree into one notation and then merging the group of child folder names sharing the configuration name are separately displayed. , a method of arranging information icons on a table in which a tag name string configuration name specified by a user as a keyword and other tag name string configuration names implied by the specified tag name string configuration name are arranged as entry words. is disclosed. For example, the tag name string obtained for the folder trees shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 is displayed as shown in FIG. 9 on the display means.

By the above method, keywords belonging to the same tag name string are ORed, and designations between different tag name strings are ANDed. Secondary selection from the information obtained can also be easily performed on the table. Multifaceted search covers the practical range of conditional search. On the other hand, exploratory retrieval of information is also facilitated by this method on a table obtained by entering keywords with a limited search range.

However, the above method requires the user to perform an operation to unify the notation of the classification of the same meaning with the notation of the classification of the different meaning on the means provided separately from the folder tree to be searched. , the following problem arises because it is specified on a display means in which the hierarchical relationship between node names in the tree structure cannot be seen.

For example, in the folder trees shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 above, if you want to extract information that includes "A1" and "A2" in the entire path name, the input keywords are "A1" and "A2". , the specification of its parent "A" is also implied, so the specification of "A" is not necessary. , “A2” cannot be immediately distinguished as a parent node name. In a folder tree in which a large number of tag name strings are created, it becomes more difficult to discriminate the parent-child relationship between each constituent tag name.

In view of these problems, the present invention provides an information management method using a tag name tree in which tag names, which are names that characterize information, are associated in a tree-like manner. It aims at providing a method that can efficiently manage information in an attached global tag name tree.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an information management method using a tag name tree in which tag names, which are names that characterize information, are associated in a tree-like manner. To provide a method for performing a conditional search by combining designated tag names as intended by a user without omission by directly and randomly designating constituent tag names as keywords.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for easily tagging information to be searched in the method for satisfying the above problems.

In order to achieve the above object, a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 1 comprises:
Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. In an information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a vertical headword column and a horizontal headword column,
In a combined tag name tree obtained by combining multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, a tag name is specified as a keyword from among constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree. and inputting a keyword other than the configuration tag name as a free keyword;
A keyword tag name that is a tag name specified as a keyword, and a tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which the keyword tag name belongs and that is not the top tag name of the tag name tree, is selected from the parent tag names. After specifying a set of tag names that share a tag name and tag names that do not have a shared parent tag name as one tag name string,
a step of creating tag name string data in which the identified tag name string is associated with the parent tag name as condition data;
a step of determining, for each tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tree is arranged on the table from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column;
In each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column, each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree, and its constituent tag names are summarized in one row or one column above the table. form, a step of creating a table arranged by a method that refers to the relevant condition data; In the information where a set of related tag names is given as the information attribute tag name, the input free keyword is the name or the icon of the information found on the text that constitutes the information in the corresponding cell a step of associating and displaying;
characterized by consisting of

A method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 2 is the method recited in claim 1,
By adding one tag name tree as a separate tag name tree to one constituent tag name of another tag name tree, in a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees, a separate tag name tree In the condition data of the tag name column whose parent tag name is the first tag name of , the tag name of the destination tag that is the tag name of the addition destination of the tree is set,
Each tag name string belonging to the separate tree refers to the condition data in the headword column where each tag name string belonging to the separate tag name tree, which is the tag name tree to which it is attached, is placed. It is characterized in that it is arranged as follows.

The method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 3 is the method recited in claims 1 and 2,
A set of tag names arranged in the tree descendant position of the keyword tag name, and a set of tag names constituting a tag name tree in which no keyword tag name is specified and sharing the parent tag name. A table in which a set of tag name strings obtained by adding the identified tag name string to the already obtained tag name string is arranged in the headword column. A set of tag names having a second relationship with a set of names is characterized by displaying an information icon to which an information attribute tag name is assigned in association with the corresponding cell.

The method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 4 is the method recited in claims 1, 2, and 3,
If only one tag name consisting of only one tag name is placed on one row or one column in the headword field, remove the row or column and replace the tag name is displayed at a predetermined position outside the table as a common tag name.

The method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 5 is the method recited in claims 1, 2, and 4,
In response to an open instruction for one cell of the table created as the first table, the tag name column in which the related tag name determined in that cell is registered as condition data, and the keyword tag name is not specified a step of creating a second table obtained by arranging a tag name string obtained from the tag name tree according to a prescribed method as a child table of the first table;
For each cell of the created child table, for the set of related tag names obtained by adding the related tag name determined for the cell given the open instruction in the first table to the related tag name determined for that cell It is characterized in that an information icon to which a set of tag names having a second relationship is given as an information attribute tag name is displayed in association with the corresponding cell.

In the method in the information processing apparatus according to the sixth aspect of the invention, the information is specified by a full path name obtained by concatenating the path name, which is the name of all the folders in which the information is stored, and the name itself with a specific separator. In an information management device in which information is managed in a form that is managed in a way that the
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a horizontal headword column and a vertical headword column,
Receiving a specific instruction for one piece of information associated with one tag name belonging to a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, the corresponding combined tag name identifying a tag name tree that does not include an information attribute tag name attached to information as a tagging supplementary tag name tree from among the tag name trees that constitute the tree;
All of the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, or the tag name tree excluding the tag name tree on which the tag name is selectively specified in the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, is tabulated. identifying as a name tree;
A method in which, for each tag name tree belonging to the table structure tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tag name tree is arranged on the table is determined from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. and a step of creating a table in which each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree is arranged by a predetermined method in each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. Upon receiving a selection instruction for one cell on the table, a set of all related tag names determined for that cell, or a tag name given a selection instruction in a selection tag name tree is added to the set of all related tag names. and adding a set of tag names obtained by the method to the information attribute tag name of the information.

A method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 7 is the method recited in claim 6,
After specifying an annotated tag name tree whose annotated tag name is the tag name located at the upper level of the path route of the tag name associated with the specified information, assign it to the information in the specified annotated tag name tree A tag name tree that does not contain the information attribute tag name that is tagged is identified as a tagging supplemental tag name tree.

The method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 8 is the method recited in claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7,
As the condition data, instead of the parent tag name of the relevant tag name string, or the tag name to which the relevant tag name string is assigned, a path name string representing the path route in the relevant tree of the relevant parent tag name, or A path name string representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding destination tag name is set,
In place of the related tag name, the related full path name obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of the upper path name column representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the corresponding related tag name, or ,
It is characterized in that the relevant related tag name is set.

A method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 9 is the method recited in claim 1,
In the combination tag name tree, create and register a partial tag name tree consisting of a particularly specified tag name, an ancestor tag name of the specified tag name, and a descendant tag name, and then call the registered partial tag name tree It is characterized by extracting information by specifying a keyword.

In order to achieve the above objects, an information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 10 is provided,
Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. An information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. As an information management device using a table provided as a vertical headword column and a horizontal headword column,
In a combined tag name tree obtained by combining multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, a tag name is specified as a keyword from among constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree. a means for inputting a keyword other than a constituent tag name as a free keyword;
A keyword tag name that is a tag name specified as a keyword, and a tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which the keyword tag name belongs and that is not the top tag name of the tag name tree, is selected from the parent tag names. After specifying a set of tag names that share a tag name and tag names that do not have a shared parent tag name as one tag name string,
means for creating tag name string data registered in a form in which the parent tag name is associated with the specified tag name string as condition data;
means for determining, for each tag name tree, an entry word column to which each tag name string belonging to is arranged on the table from the horizontal entry word column and the vertical entry word column;
In each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column, each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree, and its constituent tag names are summarized in one row or one column above the table. form, means for creating a table arranged by a method referring to the relevant condition data; In the information where a set of related tag names is given as the information attribute tag name, the input free keyword is the name or the icon of the information found on the text that constitutes the information in the corresponding cell a step of associating and displaying;
a means in an information processing device consisting of
characterized by consisting of

The information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 11 is characterized in that, in the method recited in claim 10,
By adding one tag name tree as a separate tag name tree to one constituent tag name of another tag name tree, in a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees, a separate tag name tree In the condition data of the tag name column whose parent tag name is the first tag name of , the tag name of the destination tag that is the tag name of the addition destination of the tree is set,
Each tag name string belonging to the separate tree refers to the condition data in the headword column where each tag name string belonging to the separate tag name tree, which is the tag name tree to which it is attached, is placed. It is characterized in that it is arranged as follows.

The information processing apparatus according to the invention of claim 12 is the apparatus according to claim 10 and claim 11,
A set of tag names arranged in the tree descendant position of the keyword tag name, and a set of tag names constituting a tag name tree in which no keyword tag name is specified and sharing the parent tag name. A table in which a set of tag name strings obtained by adding the identified tag name string to the already obtained tag name string is arranged in the headword column. A set of tag names having a second relationship with a set of names is characterized by displaying an information icon to which an information attribute tag name is assigned in association with the corresponding cell.

The information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 13 is the apparatus recited in claims 10, 11, and 12, wherein
If only one tag name consisting of only one tag name is placed on one row or one column in the headword field, remove the row or column and replace the tag name is displayed at a predetermined position outside the table as a common tag name.

The information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 14 is the apparatus recited in claims 10, 11, and 13, wherein
In response to an open instruction for one cell of the table created as the first table, the tag name column in which the related tag name determined in that cell is registered as condition data, and the keyword tag name is not specified means for creating, as a child table of the first table, a second table obtained by arranging the tag name string obtained from the tag name tree by a predetermined method;
For each cell of the created child table, for the set of related tag names obtained by adding the related tag name determined for the cell given the open instruction in the first table to the related tag name determined for that cell It is characterized in that an information icon to which a set of tag names having a second relationship is given as an information attribute tag name is displayed in association with the corresponding cell.

The information processing device according to the invention recited in claim 15,
Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. An information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. As an information management device using a table provided as a horizontal headword column and a vertical headword column,
Receiving a specific instruction for one piece of information associated with one tag name belonging to a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, the corresponding combined tag name a means for identifying a tag name tree that does not include an information attribute tag name attached to information as a tagging supplementary tag name tree from among the tag name trees that constitute the tree;
All of the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, or the tag name tree excluding the tag name tree on which the tag name is selectively specified in the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, is tabulated. means for identifying as name tree;
A method in which, for each tag name tree belonging to the table structure tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tag name tree is arranged on the table is determined from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. and a means for creating a table in which each tag name string belonging to the assigned tag name tree is arranged according to a predetermined method in each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. Upon receiving a selection instruction for one cell on the table, a set of all related tag names determined for that cell, or a tag name given a selection instruction in a selection tag name tree is added to the set of all related tag names. means for adding a set of tag names obtained by adding to the information attribute tag name of information;
characterized by consisting of

The information processing device according to the invention recited in claim 16 is the device recited in claim 15,
After specifying an annotated tag name tree whose annotated tag name is the tag name located at the upper level of the path route of the tag name associated with the specified information, assign it to the information in the specified annotated tag name tree A tag name tree that does not contain the information attribute tag name that is tagged is identified as a tagging supplemental tag name tree.

The information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 17 is the apparatus recited in claims 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, wherein
As the condition data, instead of the parent tag name of the relevant tag name string, or the tag name to which the relevant tag name string is assigned, a path name string representing the path route in the relevant tree of the relevant parent tag name, or A path name string representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding destination tag name is set,
In place of the related tag name, the related full path name obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of the upper path name column representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the corresponding related tag name, or ,
It is characterized in that the relevant related tag name is set.

The information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 18 is the apparatus recited in claims 10, 11, and 12, wherein
In the combination tag name tree, create and register a partial tag name tree consisting of a particularly specified tag name, an ancestor tag name of the specified tag name, and a descendant tag name, and then call the registered partial tag name tree It is characterized by extracting information by specifying a keyword.

In order to achieve the above object, a control program for realizing a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 19 by a computer comprises:
Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. In an information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a vertical headword column and a horizontal headword column,
In a combined tag name tree obtained by combining multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, a tag name is specified as a keyword from among constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree. and inputting a keyword other than the configuration tag name as a free keyword;
A keyword tag name that is a tag name specified as a keyword, and a tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which the keyword tag name belongs and that is not the top tag name of the tag name tree, is selected from the parent tag names. After specifying a set of tag names that share a tag name and tag names that do not have a shared parent tag name as one tag name string,
a step of creating tag name string data in which the identified tag name string is associated with the parent tag name as condition data;
a step of determining, for each tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tree is arranged on the table from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column;
In each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column, each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree, and its constituent tag names are summarized in one row or one column above the table. form, a step of creating a table arranged by a method that refers to the relevant condition data; In the information where a set of related tag names is given as the information attribute tag name, the input free keyword is the name or the icon of the information found on the text that constitutes the information in the corresponding cell a step of associating and displaying;
characterized by consisting of

A control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 20 comprises, in the method recited in claim 19,
By adding one tag name tree as a separate tag name tree to one constituent tag name of another tag name tree, in a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees, a separate tag name tree In the condition data of the tag name column whose parent tag name is the first tag name of , the tag name of the destination tag that is the tag name of the addition destination of the tree is set,
Each tag name string belonging to the separate tree refers to the condition data in the headword column where each tag name string belonging to the separate tag name tree, which is the tag name tree to which it is attached, is placed. It is characterized in that it is arranged as follows.

A control program for realizing a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 21 by a computer is the method recited in claims 19 and 20,
A set of tag names arranged in the tree descendant position of the keyword tag name, and a set of tag names constituting a tag name tree in which no keyword tag name is specified and sharing the parent tag name. A table in which a set of tag name strings obtained by adding the identified tag name string to the already obtained tag name string is arranged in the headword column. A set of tag names having a second relationship with a set of names is characterized by displaying an information icon to which an information attribute tag name is assigned in association with the corresponding cell.

A control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention of claim 22, in the method of claims 19, 20, and 21,
If only one tag name consisting of only one tag name is placed on one row or one column in the headword field, remove the row or column and replace the tag name is displayed at a predetermined position outside the table as a common tag name.

A control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention of claim 23 is the method of claims 19, 20, and 22,
In response to an open instruction for one cell of the table created as the first table, the tag name column in which the related tag name determined in that cell is registered as condition data, and the keyword tag name is not specified a step of creating a second table obtained by arranging a tag name string obtained from the tag name tree according to a prescribed method as a child table of the first table;
For each cell of the created child table, for the set of related tag names obtained by adding the related tag name determined for the cell given the open instruction in the first table to the related tag name determined for that cell It is characterized in that an information icon to which a set of tag names having a second relationship is given as an information attribute tag name is displayed in association with the corresponding cell.

A control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 24,
Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. In an information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a horizontal headword column and a vertical headword column,
Receiving a specific instruction for one piece of information associated with one tag name belonging to a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, the corresponding combined tag name identifying a tag name tree that does not include an information attribute tag name attached to information as a tagging supplementary tag name tree from among the tag name trees that constitute the tree;
All of the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, or the tag name tree excluding the tag name tree on which the tag name is selectively specified in the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, is tabulated. identifying as a name tree;
A method in which, for each tag name tree belonging to the table structure tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tag name tree is arranged on the table is determined from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. and a step of creating a table in which each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree is arranged by a predetermined method in each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. Upon receiving a selection instruction for one cell on the table, a set of all related tag names determined for that cell, or a tag name given a selection instruction in a selection tag name tree is added to the set of all related tag names. and adding a set of tag names obtained by the method to the information attribute tag name of the information.

A control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 25 is the method recited in claim 24,
After specifying an annotated tag name tree whose annotated tag name is the tag name located at the upper level of the path route of the tag name associated with the specified information, assign it to the information in the specified annotated tag name tree A tag name tree that does not contain the information attribute tag name that is tagged is identified as a tagging supplemental tag name tree.

In order to achieve the above object, a control program for realizing the method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention of claim 26 by a computer is provided in claims 19, 20, 21, 22 and In claims 23, 24 and 25,
As the condition data, instead of the parent tag name of the relevant tag name string, or the tag name to which the relevant tag name string is assigned, a path name string representing the path route in the relevant tree of the relevant parent tag name, or A path name string representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding destination tag name is set,
In place of the related tag name, the related full path name obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of the upper path name column representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the corresponding related tag name, or ,
It is characterized in that the relevant related tag name is set.

In order to achieve the above object, a storage medium storing a control program for realizing a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention of claims 19, 20, and 21 by a computer comprises:
In the combination tag name tree, create and register a partial tag name tree consisting of a particularly specified tag name, an ancestor tag name of the specified tag name, and a descendant tag name, and then call the registered partial tag name tree It is characterized by extracting information by specifying a keyword.

In order to achieve the above object, a storage medium storing a control program for realizing a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention defined in claim 28 by a computer comprises:
Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. In an information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a vertical headword column and a horizontal headword column,
In a combined tag name tree obtained by combining multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, a tag name is specified as a keyword from among constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree. and inputting a keyword other than the configuration tag name as a free keyword;
A keyword tag name that is a tag name specified as a keyword, and a tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which the keyword tag name belongs and that is not the top tag name of the tag name tree, is selected from the parent tag names. After specifying a set of tag names that share a tag name and tag names that do not have a shared parent tag name as one tag name string,
a step of creating tag name string data in which the identified tag name string is associated with the parent tag name as condition data;
a step of determining, for each tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tree is arranged on the table from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column;
In each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column, each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree, and its constituent tag names are summarized in one row or one column above the table. form, a step of creating a table arranged by a method that refers to the relevant condition data; In the information where a set of related tag names is given as the information attribute tag name, the input free keyword is the name or the icon of the information found on the text that constitutes the information in the corresponding cell a step of associating and displaying;
characterized by consisting of

A storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 29 is the method recited in claim 28,
By adding one tag name tree as a separate tag name tree to one constituent tag name of another tag name tree, in a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees, a separate tag name tree In the condition data of the tag name column whose parent tag name is the first tag name of , the tag name of the destination tag that is the tag name of the addition destination of the tree is set,
Each tag name string belonging to the separate tree refers to the condition data in the headword column where each tag name string belonging to the separate tag name tree, which is the tag name tree to which it is attached, is placed. It is characterized in that it is arranged as follows.

A storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention of claim 30 is the method of claims 28 and 29,
A set of tag names arranged in the tree descendant position of the keyword tag name, and a set of tag names constituting a tag name tree in which no keyword tag name is specified and sharing the parent tag name. A table in which a set of tag name strings obtained by adding the identified tag name string to the already obtained tag name string is arranged in the headword column. A set of tag names having a second relationship with a set of names is characterized by displaying an information icon to which an information attribute tag name is assigned in association with the corresponding cell.

A storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention of claim 31 is the method of claims 28, 29 and 30,
If only one tag name consisting of only one tag name is placed on one row or one column in the headword field, remove the row or column and replace the tag name is displayed at a predetermined position outside the table as a common tag name.

A storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 32 is the method recited in claims 28, 29, and 31, wherein:
In response to an open instruction for one cell of the table created as the first table, the tag name column in which the related tag name determined in that cell is registered as condition data, and the keyword tag name is not specified a step of creating a second table obtained by arranging a tag name string obtained from the tag name tree according to a prescribed method as a child table of the first table;
For each cell of the created child table, for the set of related tag names obtained by adding the related tag name determined for the cell given the open instruction in the first table to the related tag name determined for that cell It is characterized in that an information icon to which a set of tag names having a second relationship is given as an information attribute tag name is displayed in association with the corresponding cell.

A storage medium storing a control program for realizing a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 33 by a computer,
Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. In an information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a horizontal headword column and a vertical headword column,
Receiving a specific instruction for one piece of information associated with one tag name belonging to a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, the corresponding combined tag name identifying a tag name tree that does not include an information attribute tag name attached to information as a tagging supplementary tag name tree from among the tag name trees that constitute the tree;
All of the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, or the tag name tree excluding the tag name tree on which the tag name is selectively specified in the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, is tabulated. identifying as a name tree;
A method in which, for each tag name tree belonging to the table structure tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tag name tree is arranged on the table is determined from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. and a step of creating a table in which each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree is arranged by a predetermined method in each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. Upon receiving a selection instruction for one cell on the table, a set of all related tag names determined for that cell, or a tag name given a selection instruction in a selection tag name tree is added to the set of all related tag names. a step of adding a set of tag names obtained by adding to the information attribute tag name of information;
characterized by consisting of

A storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus according to the 34th aspect of the invention is the method according to the 33rd aspect,
After specifying an annotated tag name tree whose annotated tag name is the tag name located at the upper level of the path route of the tag name associated with the specified information, assign it to the information in the specified annotated tag name tree A tag name tree that does not contain the information attribute tag name that is tagged is identified as a tagging supplemental tag name tree.

Claim 28, Claim 29, Claim 30, Claim 31, Claim 32, Claim 28, Claim 29, Claim 30, Claim 31, Claim 32, Claim In the method according to claim 33, claim 34,
As the condition data, instead of the parent tag name of the relevant tag name string, or the tag name to which the relevant tag name string is assigned, a path name string representing the path route in the relevant tree of the relevant parent tag name, or A path name string representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding destination tag name is set,
In place of the related tag name, the related full path name obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of the upper path name column representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the corresponding related tag name, or ,
It is characterized in that the relevant related tag name is set.

A storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention recited in claim 36 is the method recited in claims 28, 29, and 30, wherein:
In the combination tag name tree, create and register a partial tag name tree consisting of a particularly specified tag name, an ancestor tag name of the specified tag name, and a descendant tag name, and then call the registered partial tag name tree It is characterized by extracting information by specifying a keyword.

According to this method, information classified according to a plurality of classification viewpoints (classification dimensions) and a plurality of hierarchical relationships (inclusive relations) on classification is free from overlapping arrangement of the same tag name and classified from the classification viewpoint of constituent tag names. On the combination tag name tree in which the hierarchical relationship between the constituent tag names can be immediately visually recognized, the input keyword can be identified by the user's search intention by simply specifying the keyword tag name in random order without giving the relationship between keywords. It is possible to perform a conditional search for information that is properly combined.

Since the combined tag name tree in this method does not have duplicated arrangement of the same tag name, the size of the entire tree--the number of constituent tag names--is exponentially smaller than that of a normal tree for equivalent classification, Specifying keywords on the tree can be done with better visibility,
Since it is possible to avoid different notations of tag names with the same meaning, it is possible to manage information without omissions in retrieval caused by different notations of tag names.

In addition, according to this method, the hierarchical relationship between all tag names in the tree represents the hierarchical relationship in terms of classification. In addition to preventing useless specification of names,
All tag names under the tree of one specified keyword tag name shall be placed on a table arranged as entry words in conjunction with the specified keyword tag name as meaningful tag names for further discriminating information. , the secondary selection of retrieved information can also be easily performed.

According to this method, addition of a classification based on a new viewpoint can be performed with less effort by adding a tag name tree responsible for classification based on that viewpoint to only one place in the tag name tree as a separate tree,
In particular, when the tag name tree is a folder tree, it is possible for the user to carry out a routine operation of storing the head folder of the added folder tree in the destination folder.

Moreover, according to this method, when a new viewpoint is added to the classification, it is possible to easily add tags corresponding to the added classification viewpoint, which is necessary for the information that has been stored up to that point. . In addition, it is possible to easily attach new tags from the outside to the information stored in the combination tag name tree in the same manner.

According to this method, a partial tag name tree created and registered based on a tag name specifically specified on the tag name tree is called, and a keyword is specified thereon, thereby specifying a keyword on a huge tag name tree. Efficient information retrieval can be performed by avoiding

1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration example on hardware of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a desktop screen displayed by the environment control program in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of data object management data in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the table|surface management application screen in the system of an Example. It is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of the invention in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a folder tree of an explanatory example in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the upper half of a conventional example folder tree. It is a figure which shows the lower half of a conventional example folder tree. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing tag name string display means obtained from a conventional example folder tree; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a separate designation mode subscreen in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of conversion target folder management data in the system of the embodiment; 4 is a diagram showing the format of information management data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the format of storage path name string data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an explanatory example folder tree in which separate designation has been made in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a folder screen on which information icons are displayed in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a conversion target folder list table in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a keyword designation subscreen in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an explanatory example folder tree in which keywords are specified in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the table|surface conversion procedure in the system of an Example. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of table management data in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the conversion table list subscreen in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the procedure of the tag name string data preparation process in the system of an Example. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of tag name string data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of tag name data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of a table in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the tabular data preparation procedure in the system of an Example. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of headword column data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the overall procedure for creating headword column data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the format of leading tag name string management data in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the headword column data preparation procedure in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the format of the cell data in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the format of the character string data in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the format of the icon arrangement|positioning column definition data in the system of an Example. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of "row delimiter position data" or "column delimiter position data" in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of ruled line data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a table of an explanatory example in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a table of a second illustrative example in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of related data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a table of an explanatory example in which information icons are arranged in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an intra-cell information display screen in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the information preservation|saving procedure in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the 2nd folder screen in the system of an Example. FIG. 12 shows a tagging supplement subscreen in the example system; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a conversion target folder tree in which folders storing necessary supplementary information for tagging are specially displayed in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 11 shows a tagging supplement table in the example system; It is a figure which shows the table|surface which specifically arranged the common conditions in the system of an Example. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing partial folder tree management data in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the selection name input screen in the system of an Example. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing selected name designation data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a partial folder tree in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a partial folder tree list table in the system of the embodiment; FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a partial folder tree with keywords specified in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a table created based on keywords specified on a partial folder tree in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a multiple folder display instruction subscreen in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display screen within a plurality of folders in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a parent table and a child table in the system of the embodiment;

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 shows a hardware system configuration of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this system, keyboard 12 and mouse 14 as input devices, internal memory 16 and external memory 18 as storage devices, display device 20 and printing device 22 as output devices, and appropriate interface circuitry (not shown). is connected to the CPU 24 via the . The CPU 24 is also connected to a telephone line or communication line 27 via a communication device 26 . The internal memory 16 and the external memory 18 store various programs that define the processing or control operation of the CPU 24, as well as various electronic dictionaries, character fonts, files, and the like. The communication device 26 has a facsimile communication function.

When the device is powered on, an environment control program for controlling the GUI environment of the device is automatically started. For example, the desktop screen 30 shown in FIG. A GUI environment as described below is provided on the screen 30 .

In this apparatus, the information created by the user is managed in units of file information by an environment control program as a known method. Further, in this device, folders are prepared in addition to file information as data objects that are units for managing information, and the classification management of file information can be performed by storing the file information in folders. It's becoming Folders are managed in the form of a folder hierarchical structure in which a root folder is the top and one folder is accommodated as a child folder in another parent folder as a child folder. It is arranged by forming a folder tree with root.

Data objects consisting of file information and folders are processed by the environment control program into "type information", "name", "full path name", "attribute information", "icon image data pointer information", "icon placement position", " It is managed by pointing from the data object management data consisting of "main body data pointer" (Fig. 3).

"Type information" first distinguishes between file information and folders, and in the case of file information, indicates the type of the application in which it was created. "Name" is a name input by the user, and is uniquely determined for each "type information" in the parent folder that directly stores the information. Here, in this specification, the folder with the name "***" is abbreviated as the folder with the name "***" or the folder "***". In this specification, file information will be abbreviated as information hereinafter.

"Full path name" is a key for the environmental control program to uniquely identify each data object within the system. taken out in order. A character string obtained by connecting folder names in order with a specific delimiter, a separator, is connected to the name character string with the separator in between. Storing a data object in another folder is accomplished in the system by concatenating the name of the data object to be stored with the full path name of the folder in which it is stored.

In addition, the environment control program displays, on the desktop screen 30, an icon, which is a specific type of image determined for each "type information", as a known method for the stored file information or folder, The displayed icon is displayed with a character string representing the "name" information of the corresponding data object management data added.

File information or a folder is opened by a specific pointing operation for the corresponding icon with the mouse 14 on the desktop screen 30 . The environment control program first identifies the corresponding data object by repeatedly matching the "icon display position" information of each icon displayed on the desktop screen 30 with the position where the instruction operation is given.

When the identified data object is file information, the contents of the file information are displayed on a "file information screen" (not shown) newly provided for the corresponding file information by the instruction operation. The environment control program calls the corresponding application program based on the "type information" of the indicated file information, and the called program displays the contents of the corresponding file information.

If the identified data object is a folder, a "folder screen" (not shown) in which icons of stored information in the folder are arranged is displayed at an appropriate position on the desktop screen 30, and , the icon of the data object directly included in the folder is arranged and displayed.

Icons representing file information or folders can be rearranged on the desktop screen 30 by a drag operation, which is a specific operation by the user using the mouse 14. It is registered in the "icon display position" of the object management data. Storing certain information in another folder can be performed in the form of an operation of dragging the icon of the information to be stored onto the icon of the storage destination folder.

When the "Start" button always displayed in the lower left corner of the desktop screen 30 is selected and instructed, a "Main Menu" 31 listing selection buttons such as "Program", "Setting" and "Search" is displayed. When a "program" button 35 is clicked on the "main menu" 31 displayed on the screen 20a, a "program menu" 32 showing a list of application programs installed on the apparatus appears on the display screen. 20a. FIG. 2 shows a state in which the "program" button 35 is clicked and the "program menu" 32 is displayed.

On the "program menu" 32, when the corresponding button of the "table management application program" which is the application program for controlling the functions related to the present invention is clicked, the environment control program loads the source program of this table management application program. Take it out from a predetermined storage location on the external memory 18 of the device, develop it into an executable program on an appropriate area on the internal memory 16, start the program, and first, for example, the table management application screen shown in FIG. 33 is displayed on the display screen 20a.

The table management application is intended to manage information on the desktop screen 30 using a table, and is provided with functions such as table conversion and partial folder tree extraction. The functions described above are realized by a system in which the table management application program operates in cooperation with the environment control program and the hardware that constitutes the apparatus.

The table conversion function outputs information to a table created based on the folder name specified as a keyword in the folder tree created on the device, thereby retrieving unnecessary information and managing information without omissions. The configuration is shown in FIG.

The separate folder designating section 52 designates a separate designated folder tree from among the designated conversion target folder trees. An internal memory 16 that holds management data for the conversion target folder tree and instruction data for the separate folder tree, a display 20a that displays the separate specified folder tree on the conversion target folder tree, a keyboard 12, a mouse 14, etc. and a CPU 24 that executes the corresponding process.

The keyword folder designation unit 53 designates a folder whose name is used as a keyword from among the folders constituting the conversion target folder tree as a keyword designated folder. An internal memory 16 that holds instruction data for a keyword-specified folder, a display 20a that displays the keyword-specified folder on the conversion target folder tree, an input device such as a keyboard 12 and a mouse 14, and a CPU 24 that executes relevant processing. , is composed of

The table data creating unit 55 separates the name of the keyword-specified folder specified by the keyword-folder specifying unit 53 and the names of other folders determined by the keyword-specified folder from the positional relationship between the folders in the conversion target folder tree. Based on the instruction data of the folder tree, table data representing a table arranged as entry words is created, and the information is displayed based on the tagging data added by the information tagging unit 63 for each information. is stored in a form associated with each cell of . It is composed of a CPU 24 that executes relevant processing and an internal memory 16 or an external memory 18 that arranges a work area for processing.

Table display unit 57 displays a table in which information icons are arranged and displayed based on the table data created by table data creating unit 55 and the information associated with each cell of the table. It is composed of a CPU 24 that executes processing, an internal memory 16 or an external memory 18 that temporarily stores output data converted for display, and a display device 20 .

On the table displayed by the table display section 57, the table information tagging instructing section 61 assigns a headword defined in the specified cell to the relevant information as a related tag name. It comprises a display 20a for displaying a table, an input device such as a mouse 14, a CPU 24 for executing relevant processing, and an internal memory 16 or an external memory 18 for arranging a work area for processing.

The separate information tagging unit 63 stores information as tagging data specifying information based on a related tag name given to the information or a folder indicated on the folder tree. Generate a pathname column. It is composed of a CPU 24 that executes processing, and an internal memory 16 or an external memory 18 that arranges a work area for processing.

The in-folder information display unit 65 displays the storage information in the designated folder based on the storage path name string attached to the information. A display 20a for displaying information stored in the corresponding folder, an input device such as a mouse 14, a CPU 24 for executing the corresponding process, and an internal memory 16 or an external memory 18 for arranging a work area for performing the process. be.

Details of the table conversion function will be described below by taking the folder tree for classification shown in FIG. 6 as an example. Among the names of the folders that make up the same folder tree, "Year" is not a tag name that characterizes the information to be managed, but the names "2016", "2017", and "2018" of the child folders of that folder. In the same way, "importance" is also grouped by the child folder names "large" and "medium" of the corresponding folder, and "urgency ” is also a group name for grouping the child folder names “Urgent” and “Normal” of the corresponding folder.

The folder tree shown in FIG. 6 is intended to perform classification equivalent to the folder trees separately shown in FIGS. For each of {2016, 2017, 2018}, {Large, Normal} and {A, B, C}, a folder with the composition name as the name of the child folder is especially provided, and the group name as the name is, respectively, It is formed in the form of adding the classification viewpoints of each applicable classification, namely, "fiscal year", "importance", and "creator".

According to this method, even in a tag name tree consisting of a large number of classifications, by grouping and arranging the tag names responsible for classification from different points of view as separate trees, duplicate placement of the same tag name from different points of view is eliminated. As a result, the size of the entire tree--the number of tag names constituting the tree--becomes exponentially smaller, making it possible to specify keywords with good visibility.
Since it is possible to avoid different notations of tag names with the same meaning, it is possible to retrieve information without omissions caused by different notations of tag names.

The folder tree shown in FIG. 6 is further formed so that the range to which the corresponding classification is applied can be understood by the storage destination parent folder of the folder having the group name as the name. 2016, 2017, 2018 and {Large, Normal}, which are the classifications related to all the information saved in the folder tree to be converted, the folder "Year" and the folder "Importance" related to each are shown in the folder tree to be converted. The folder "creator" related to {A, B, C}, which is a classification related to all information stored in the top folder "P" and stored in the folder with the name "A", is the folder "A" stored in

In the folder tree shown in FIG. 6, the classifications that are repeatedly arranged in the folder tree as described above are removed from the main folder tree according to the above rules and arranged in parallel as separate folder trees. It avoids placing folders with the same classification repeatedly in multiple places in the folder tree. is clearly visible. In this specification, a sort of normalized folder tree that prevents duplicate placement of folders classified in the same manner by complying with the above rules is called an organized folder tree.

In this specification, a folder having this group name as its name is called an annotated folder, and a group name, which is the name of an annotated folder, is called an alias. A folder in which an attachment-designated folder is stored is called an annex-designated folder, and a partial folder tree having the attachment-designated folder as its top folder is called an annex-designated folder tree. On the other hand, a partial folder tree obtained by removing the separate folder tree from the entire folder tree is called a main folder tree, and each separate folder tree and main folder tree are collectively called a unit folder tree.

After the user opens the table management application screen 33, when the user designates the "folder tree registration" button 71 on the function menu 70 on the same screen 33, the system registers all the folders held in the system as a known method. Inside, a folder selection screen (not shown) that arranges and displays the folders that the user can access in a tree format is displayed. On the folder selection screen, the user selects the top folder is specified as the conversion target folder. Hereinafter, a folder tree having a conversion target folder as the leading folder will be referred to as a conversion target folder tree.

Upon receipt of this conversion target folder instruction, the system displays the designated folder tree on the table management application screen 33, and also displays the separate designation mode subscreen 91 (FIG. 10) on the device screen. The system also creates conversion target folder management data (Fig. 11) in which the full path name of the designated top folder is registered in the "full path name of top folder" section, and also creates file information stored in the folder tree. Information management data (Fig. 12) is created for each. The created conversion target folder management data are linked by a "link pointer" in order of creation and saved at a specific location in the system.

The information management data is created for each piece of file information sequentially extracted from the corresponding folder tree by a known method, and the "name section" and "total path name section" respectively contain the name and the total of the corresponding file information. A path name is registered.

The system also removes the path name registered in the "name part", which is the path name at the end, from the entire path name of the corresponding file information and the entire path name corresponding to the parent folder of the conversion target folder. The character string is set in the storage path name string data (FIG. 13) as the storage path name string, and the address of the storage path name string data is set in the "storage path name string data pointer" of the corresponding information management data. The storage path name column identifies information as an information attribute tag name.

In this system, the storage path name string for other unit folder trees can be obtained for the corresponding information by the tagging supplementary function described later, so the storage path name string obtained from all path names of the above information is , to be distinguished from the other storage path name sequences, and called the head storage path name sequence.

In the explanation example, for example, for information whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1\Report 1", the name of the corresponding information "Report 1" and "...\P\A\A1\Report 1" are registered, and from the entire path name, "Report 1", which is the last path name, and the full path of the parent folder of the conversion target folder The path name string character string "P\A\A1" obtained by removing the part corresponding to the name "...\" is registered as the first storage path name string.

The information management data created for each piece of information saved in the conversion target folder tree is sequentially linked as an information management data chain by the "link pointer", and the address of the top data is the "information management data chain" of the conversion target folder management data. set in the "data pointer section".

The user designates an additional designated folder on the conversion target folder tree displayed on the table management application screen 33, for example, by repeatedly clicking the icon of the corresponding folder with the mouse 14 as a known method. As a result, the icon of the specified separate designated folder is displayed with a special display indicating that the separate designation has been received (FIG. 14). In the folder tree of the explanatory example, folders whose names are "Year", "Importance", and "Creator" are specified.

The folder clicked by the mouse 14 can be identified by repeatedly comparing the clicked position on the device screen and the display position of each displayed folder on the device screen 20a as a known method. . The display position of each folder on the device screen can be obtained based on the position of the corresponding folder on the table-structured folder designation screen folder management screen and the relative position of the corresponding table-structured folder designation screen with respect to the device screen 20a.

After designating all the separate designated folders, in response to the user's instruction from the "execute" button 93 on the separate designated mode subscreen 91, the system displays the designated separate designated folder in response to the above click instruction. Create separate designation data in which all path names are registered for each. The separate specified data is created in the same format as the storage path name column data described above. data pointer”.

The user can tag the information saved in one folder in one unit folder tree that constitutes a conversion target folder tree that has been specified as another unit folder tree with another unit folder tree. can be done. On the table management application screen 33 on which the conversion target folder tree targeted by this function is displayed, the user instructs the "Add T" button 75 on the function menu 70, and then changes the icon of the corresponding information to another unit. Clicking the mouse 14 to designate a folder having a name to be tagged (tagging destination folder) in each folder tree may be repeated.

Upon receiving this designation operation, the system judges that the click designation of the information icon was performed between different unit folder trees. Create storage path name string data in which the storage path name string is set by removing all the path name corresponding parts of the parent folder. The storage path name string data created for each unit folder tree are sequentially linked by the "link pointer", and the address of the head data is set to the "link pointer" of the head storage path name string data.

That the information icon is specified between different unit folder trees can be determined by checking that the ancestor folder of the specified information storage folder and the specified folder do not share the same separate specified folder. can. Here, an ancestor folder for one folder (first folder) means that all the path names thereof match all the path names of the first folder forward, and the folder tree Refers to a folder located higher in the path path within.

In the explanation example, for example, for the information whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1\Report 1", the full path name is "...\P\A\creator\Otsu ", the storage path name column data set with the storage path name column "P\A\creator\Otsu" is created, and the created storage path name column data is already set. It is pointed from the concatenated pointer of the storage path name string data that set the head storage path name string "P\A\A1". Similarly, if you specify other tagging destination folders, as the corresponding storage path name column data,
"P ¥ year ¥ 2018",
"P\Importance\High"
are added and concatenated to the end of the concatenated storage path name string data, respectively.

In this system, when a folder open operation is performed for one folder, information that has a storage path name string that is included behind all path names of that folder is selected, and then the selected information is displayed on the folder screen as a known method.

Now, if you open a folder for a folder whose full path name is "...\P\A\creator\Otsu", which is one tagging destination folder in the above example, the corresponding storage path name string As the information to which "P\A\creator\Otsu" is added, the information in the above example whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1\Report 1" is specified, and its icon 163 is It will be displayed on the corresponding folder screen 170 (FIG. 15). It is assumed that a second information icon 165 is also displayed on the corresponding folder screen 170 as information to which the same storage path name string "P\A\creator\Otsu" is added. Also, the icon 164 in the figure is not arranged at this stage.

In addition, after instructing the "display inside F" button 77 on the function menu 70, a plurality of folders are clicked and specified using the mouse 14, and then the folders displayed by the instruction of the "display inside F" button 77 are displayed. When the "execute button" 143 on the display instruction subscreen 141 (FIG. 54) is designated, the path name string obtained by removing the full path name "...\P" of the conversion target folder from the designated folder path name is displayed as follows. Information given as a storage path name string is selected, and its icon is displayed on the intra-folder display screen 145 .

For example, in the above example, a folder whose full path name is "...\P\A\creator\Otsu" and a folder whose full path name is "...\P\year\2018" are indicated. Then, the path name column "P\A\creator\Otsu" and the path name column "P\year\2018" are added as storage path name columns, and all the above path names are "... \P\A\A1\Report 1" is specified, and its icon 163 is displayed on the multiple folder display screen 145 (FIG. 55). On the other hand, as for the above-mentioned second information, if the path name string "P\year\2018" obtained from another designated folder is not assigned as the storage path name string, the icon 165 is stored in a plurality of folders. will not be displayed on the internal display screen 145.

The table conversion function is performed on the folder tree for which the user has specified the attachment. If the conversion target folder tree targeted by this function is not displayed on the table management application screen 33, the system receives an instruction from the user by pressing the "folder tree call" button 72 on the function menu 70, and the system 16) is displayed on the device screen based on the conversion target folder management data stored in the . In response to the user's instruction on the displayed conversion target folder list, the corresponding conversion target folder tree is displayed on the table management application screen 33 .

On the conversion target folder list 101, for each conversion target folder, a full path name 103 and an alias name 105 are arranged on one line, and an alias name that designates a folder other than the conversion target folder as an attachment destination folder. is preceded by the name 106 of the corresponding separate destination folder enclosed in parentheses. For the conversion target folder in the explanation example, one line above,
"＊＊＊\P Year Importance (A) Creator"
will be displayed.

On the table management application screen 33 displaying the folder tree targeted by this function, when the user designates the "table conversion" button 73 on the function menu 70, the keyword designation subscreen 95 (FIG. 17) is displayed by the keyword designation unit 53. ) is displayed on the device screen, and the user designates a folder whose folder name is a keyword for selecting information to be managed on the target table as a keyword designation folder on the displayed conversion target folder tree, and If there is a keyword to be entered other than that specified by the keyword specification folder, the keyword is entered in the keyword entry field 96 as a free keyword. The keyword designation folder is designated by clicking the icon of the corresponding folder one by one with the mouse 14, and when entering a plurality of keywords in the keyword input field 96, each keyword is defined by the AND symbol and the OR symbol. A search formula combined by the method is entered.

When specifying a plurality of keyword-specified folders, the order of specification may be arbitrary, and there is no need to specify the relationship between keyword-specified folders. A plurality of keywords specified in one unit folder tree are interpreted by taking their "sum", and keywords specified in different unit folder trees are interpreted by taking their "product". Also, it is not necessary to specify other folders that are automatically determined as described later by specifying one keyword-specified folder.

Also, if no keyword is specified in one unit folder tree for one attachment, only if the folder to which the attachment is placed is an ancestor folder of another specified keyword, all of the folders in the folder tree to which the attachment is attached folder is specified as a keyword specified folder.

Now, on the folder tree of the explanatory example, the child folders of folder "A" include folders "A1" and "A2", and the child folders of folder "B" include folders "B1" and " A folder "2017" and a folder "2018" are specified among the child folders of "year". (Fig. 18). In the above specification, the specification of folder "A1" and folder "A2" omits the specification of folder "A", which is the ancestor folder. and its child folders "B11" and "B12" are omitted.

Keywords are not specified for the child folders of the separate specified folder "Creator" and the separate specified folder "Importance". Since the folder "A", which is the destination folder, is an ancestor folder of the folders "A1", "A2", etc., which are keyword-specified folders, all the child folders thereof are the folder "A", the folder "Otsu", The folder "Hei" is specified as a keyword-specified folder. A2", .

The condition specified by the above keyword specified folder is the following condition (A1 + A2 + B1) x (2017 + 2018)
If the input in the keyword input field 96 is "○○○×△△△", the overall designation condition by the keyword designation subscreen 95 is this keyword The AND of the specified condition by the specified folder and the specified condition in the keyword input field 96 ((A1+A2+B1)×(2017+2018))×(○○○×△△△)
becomes. The order of designating each keyword designation folder may be arbitrary, and it is not necessary to associate keywords with "x" and "+" and grouping with "( )". It shall be done by the entry method.

Here, as a second keyword specification example, when only folder "B1", which is a child folder of folder "B", is specified (not shown) on the folder tree in the explanation example, the alias name is " In both of the annotated folder trees of "Year" and "Importance", the annotated folder is the folder "P" which is the ancestor folder of the keyword specified folder "B1". All folders are designated as keyword-specified folders, while the alternate folder tree whose alternate name is "creator" has an alternate destination folder "A" that is not an ancestor folder of the keyword-specified folder "B1". Therefore, the folders in the separate folder tree are not specified as keyword specified folders.

After specifying all the keyword-designated folders, the system starts the table conversion procedure (FIG. 19) in response to the user's instruction from the "execute" button 97 on the keyword-designated subscreen 95, and converts the table management data (FIG. 20). ) is created, first, as processing by the keyword folder specifying unit 53, keyword specifying data in which all path names are set is created for each folder to which the keyword specifying folder is specified (step L1). The keyword designation data is created in the same format as the all stored path name data described above.

A folder to which a keyword-specified folder has been specified can be specified by repeatedly matching the click-specified position on the screen with the display position of each folder, as in the case of the separate specified folder described above. The keyword-designated data thus obtained are sequentially linked by the "link pointer", and the address of the top data is set to the "keyword-designated data pointer" of the table management data.

The table management data created for one conversion target folder tree is linked by its "link pointer" in the order of creation, and the address of the top data is the "table management data pointer" part of the corresponding conversion target folder management data. is set to When the "table call" button 78 is designated on the function menu 70 on the table management application 33 displaying the corresponding conversion target folder tree, the conversion table list subscreen 110 (FIG. 21) is displayed on the device screen, By instructing on the displayed conversion table list subscreen 110, a table represented by desired table management data can be displayed on the screen. The conversion table list subscreen 110 has a configuration in which all path names 108 of conversion target folders related to one table and specified keywords 109 are arranged on one line. Above "...\P A1 A2 B1 2017 2018"
will be placed.

In the table conversion procedure, next, as processing by the table creation unit 55, tag name string data is created in which a set of folder names determined by the following method is registered as a tag name string based on the specified keyword-designated folder (step L2). At step L2, it is first determined whether or not there is a specified keyword-specified folder, and if there is a specified keyword-specified folder, each folder constituting the folder tree to be converted is sequentially extracted by a known method. The following tag name string generation procedure is performed for the folder (“current folder”) that has been created (FIG. 22). Processing when there is no designated keyword designation folder will be described later.

In the same procedure, first, among the child folders that are directly stored in the current folder, a child folder that is not specified as a separate folder and is specified as a keyword specified folder, or , a set of names of child folders that are ancestor folders of the keyword-specified folder are specified as one tag name string (step S1).

In the example of explanation, when the current folder is folder "P", its child folder "A" is an ancestor folder of keyword-specified folders "A1" and "A2", and its child folder "B" is also a keyword-specified folder. Since it is an ancestor folder of "B1", the names "A" and "B" are tag names of the tag name string that specifies the folder "P" as the base folder.

On the other hand, since the folder ``Year'' and the folder ``Importance'', which are other child folders of the current folder ``P'', are group-specified folders, they are excluded from the tag name string with the folder ``P'' as the base. For "P", the tag name string {A, B} will be specified.

As for the current folder "A", since its child folders "A1" and "A2" are keyword-designated folders, the names "A1" and "A2" are the tag name strings with the folder "A" as the base. However, since the folder "creator", which is another child folder, is a group-designated folder, the folder name "creator" is excluded from the tag name column related to folder "A". As for the folder "A", the tag name string {A1, A2} is identified.

As for the folder "B", since its child folder "B1" is a keyword-designated folder, the tag name string {B1} is similarly specified. Since "2018" is a keyword-designated folder, the tag name string {2017, 2018} is specified.

The tag name string generation procedure next determines that the current folder is a keyword-designated folder (step S2), and if the determination is obtained, the current folder and all descendant folders of the current folder , specifies a set of names of the set of child folders as a tag name string. However, if there is an extra designated folder in the set of child folders, the name is removed (step S3).

In this example, the tag name string {B11, B12} is specified as a set of names of all child folders of the current folder "B1" because the folder is a keyword-designated folder.

In step L2, after completing the tag name string generation procedure for all the folders constituting the folder tree to be converted, the separate designated folders are sequentially taken out, and the extracted separate designated folders are added to the descendant folders as keyword designated folders. and the destination folder is an ancestor folder of the keyword-specified folder, the tag name is the set of names of the child folders of the tag-specified folder and all its descendant folders. Identifies as a column.

In the case of the explanation example, the folders "Importance" and "Creator", which are the separate specified folders, do not have a keyword specified folder in their descendant folders, and the separate specified folder "Importance" is the separate destination Folder "P", which is a folder, is an ancestor folder of keyword-specified folders "A1", "A2", and "B1", and folder "A" is an annotate folder of an annotate-designated folder "creator". is an ancestor folder of the keyword-specified folders "A1" and "A2". B, C} are specified. On the other hand, in the case of the above-mentioned second keyword designation, since the separately designated folder "creator" does not have the keyword designated folder "B1" in its descendant folders, the tag name string is formed from the descendant folders. never

Next, the system creates tag name string data (Fig. 23) for each identified tag name string, and tag name data (Fig. 24) in which the tag names, which are the folder names that make up the corresponding tag name string, are set. is set to the "tag name data pointer" of the corresponding tag name string data. The created tag name string data are linked by the "link pointer", and the top data address is set to the "tag name string data pointer" of the table management data.

In this specification, a folder obtained by obtaining a tag name string from the name of its child folder is called a parent folder of the corresponding tag name string or a mother folder, and its entire path name is referred to as "all parent folders" of the tag name string data. path name". Also, in the "parent folder hierarchy rank part" of the tag name string data, the hierarchy rank in the conversion target folder tree of the corresponding parent folder is set. The hierarchical rank of a folder in the folder tree can be obtained from the number of path names forming all path names of the same folder tree and all path names of the corresponding folder.

In addition, for the tag name string whose parent folder is the designated folder, the alias name, which is the folder name of the designated folder, is set in the "alternate name part" of the tag name string data. In the explanation example, "Year", "Importance", and "Author" are set for each of the tag name columns {2017, 2018}, {Large, Medium}, {A, B, C}. Become.

In the table conversion procedure, next, as processing by the table data creation unit 55, for each tag name string obtained, conditional path name string is set based on the full path name of the corresponding parent folder (step L3).

In step L3, first, after identifying an annotation-designated folder whose full path name is included in the corresponding parent folder full path name, the folder name of the identified annotation-designated folder and all parent folders of the conversion target folder A sequence of path names obtained by removing the part matching the path name from the corresponding parent folder all path names is obtained as a conditional path name string.

For example, in the explanation example, in the case of the tag name string {A, B, C} obtained for the separate specified folder "creator", it is included in the corresponding parent folder full path name "...\P\A\creator" A folder whose full path name is "...\P\A\creator" is specified as an annotated folder having a full path name that is specified by the parent folder. Removed from the path name, and from the remaining removed path name string "...\P\A", the part that matches the full path name "...\" of the parent folder of the conversion target folder "P" is removed, the ordered sequence "P\A" of the path names is obtained as the conditional path name sequence. The obtained conditional path name string is given as a character string in which each component path name is concatenated with the symbol "\", and is set in the "conditional path name string data section" of the corresponding tag name string data.

In the case of the explanation example, as other conditional path name strings, "P" is set for the tag name string {A, B}, and the tag name string {2017, 2018} obtained for the separate specified folder "year". 'P' is also set for the tag name string {large, medium} obtained for the separate designated folder 'importance'. On the other hand, "P¥A" and "P¥B" are set for the tag name string {A1, A2} and {B1}, respectively, and "P \B\B1" is set.

At the beginning of step L2, if it is determined that there is no specified keyword-specified folder, a tag name string consisting of the names of child folders is created for all the extracted current folders. The condition data added to the tag name string is created in the same manner as in the case where there is the specified keyword specified folder as described above. A specific example will be described later.

In the table conversion procedure, next, a table in which the tag name strings registered in the tag name string data are arranged as headwords based on the tag name string data created as described above is processed by the table creation unit 55. is created (step L4).

A table handled by the table management application is created according to the format shown in FIG. That is, the table consists of an icon arrangement column 41, a horizontal headword arrangement column region 42, and a vertical headword arrangement column region 43. The horizontal headword arrangement column region 42 is arranged outside the upper end of the icon arrangement column 41. , the vertical headword arrangement column area 43 is arranged outside the left end of the icon arrangement column 41 . The horizontal headword placement column area 42 and the vertical headword placement column area 43 are collectively referred to as a headword placement column area. In the headword arrangement column area, a headword arrangement column in which one tag name string is arranged is arranged one row or one column above.

In the icon arrangement column 41, cells, which are rectangular areas for arranging icons of information to be managed, are arranged in a matrix. 41 are arranged on the same row or same column as the corresponding cell as headwords that characterize the information in each cell.

The headword placement column is also divided into cells that are rectangular areas in which one tag name is entered, and the icon placement column 41 is divided by extending the ruled lines that separate the cells in each headword placement column, and the above-described cells are divided. form a matrix. Tables handled by the table management application can be freely created as long as they conform to this format.

Step L4 is carried out according to the procedure shown in FIG. 26. First, headword column data is created for each headword column on the table (step A1). FIG. 27 shows the format of headword column data. In the "corresponding tag name string data pointer" of the entry word column data, the address of the corresponding tag name string data, which is the tag name string data in which the corresponding tag name string to be placed in the corresponding entry word column is registered, is set. The "alternative name section" is set with an alternate name attached to the corresponding tag name string, and the "direction section" is set with a direction code indicating the direction in which the corresponding headword column is arranged. "0" is set when the arrangement direction is "horizontal direction", and "1" is set when the arrangement direction is "vertical direction".

In addition, the row position or column position where the corresponding headword placement column is arranged is set in the "row/column position part" in the "whole position part" of the headword column data. The row position is entered when the relevant headword arrangement column is horizontal, and the column position is entered when it is vertical. The row position here is the row position counted from the upper end of the table in the corresponding row, and the column position is the column position counted from the left end of the table in the corresponding column. In the horizontal headword arrangement column area 42 and the vertical headword arrangement column area 43, cells in which individual headwords are written may extend over a plurality of rows or a plurality of columns.

In addition, in the ``starting position'' and ``end position'' in the ``whole position'', the row positions of both ends of the layout direction of the headword placement column to be determined in the subsequent processing are set. The column position is set for the vertical direction, and the row position is set for the vertical direction.

Creation of headword column data (step A1) is carried out according to the overall procedure shown in FIG. In this procedure, first, the registered tag name string of the tag name string data in which the name "P" of the first folder in the conversion target folder tree is set in the conditional path name string is specified as the first tag name string, and then specified. Head tag name string management data (FIG. 29) is created for each head tag name string (step B1). The address of the registration data of the corresponding head tag name string is registered in the "tag name string data pointer" section of the head tag name string management data.

Each head tag name string management data created is first of all the head tags created for the main body head tag name string, which is the head tag name string that does not include the separate specified folder in the ancestor folder in the head tag name string. With the name string management data at the top, the other top tag name string management data are linked in sequence by the "link pointer" in the order in which the corresponding separate specified folder is located near the main body top tag name string. "to manage.

In the explanation example, the tag name string {A, B}, the tag name string {2017, 2018}, and the tag name string {Large, Regular} are used as the first tag name string, and the condition data is the full path name of the folder to be converted. A tag name string that is the same as "...\P" is identified, and the corresponding top tag name string management data are linked in the order described above.

Step A1 then determines the arrangement direction and arrangement order for each leading tag name string (step B2). In the conversion target folder trees shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the tag name string specified as the top tag name It is a tag name string whose base folder is the first folder "Year" and "Importance" of the separate folder tree with the folder "P" as the separate destination folder.

In this conversion target folder tree, in order to obtain visibility, the separate folder tree that uses the conversion target folder as the separate destination folder is arranged on one side of the main folder tree. The tag name column whose main folder is the top folder of the "horizontal direction", and the tag name column whose parent folder is the top folder of the separate folder tree whose conversion target folder is the destination folder is "vertical direction". shall be assigned to Further, among the leading tag name strings related to the separate folder tree, the leading tag name string related to the separate folder tree arranged closer to the main folder tree shall be arranged at a higher order,

After the head tag name string arrangement direction and arrangement order are determined as described above, the head tag name string management data is re-linked by the link pointer according to the arrangement order determined for each arrangement direction, and the address of the head data is is set in the "horizontal head tag name string management data pointer" and "vertical head tag name string management data pointer" of the table management data of .

In the explanation example, first, the leading tag name string {A, B} is arranged horizontally, the leading tag name string {2017, 2018} and the tag name string {Large, Regular} are arranged vertically. Between the leading tag name string {2017, 2018} and the leading tag name string {Large, Regular} arranged in the direction corresponds to the placement order of the parent folder with respect to the main folder tree on the conversion target folder tree. , the leading tag name string {2017, 2018} is followed by the leading tag name string {large, regular}.

In step A1, next, for each arrangement direction, the registered tag name string of the leading data in the leading tag name string management data chain (referred to as "leading tag name string for each direction") and the tag names arranged below it A headword column data creation procedure for creating headword column data is performed for the headword column for storing and arranging columns (step B3). FIG. 30 shows the procedure for creating headword column data. For each arrangement direction, a headword column storing and arranging the first tag name string and the tag name string arranged below it for each direction is also created as a tree. Call it a column tree.

At the start of this procedure, as an input variable to be replaced for each recursive process call performed in the same procedure, the input variable "current tag name string" corresponds to the first tag name string management data chain head data in the arrangement direction Sets the registration tag name string. In addition, set "0" to the input variables "current headword column start position" and "current row/column position", and set "0" to "maximum number of rows/columns" as the final return value of the entire procedure. ” is set.

Here, the "current headword column start position" refers to the column position at the left end of the corresponding headword column if the "arrangement direction" of the corresponding headword column is "horizontal". If the "arrangement direction" of is "vertical direction", it indicates the line position of the upper end of the corresponding headword column.

In addition, "current row/column position" refers to the line position where the relevant headword column is arranged if the "arrangement direction" of the corresponding headword column is "horizontal". If the "arrangement direction" is "vertical direction", it indicates the column position where the corresponding headword column is arranged. The "maximum number of rows/columns" refers to the number of rows or columns that the entire headword column obtained by the entire headword column creation procedure occupies in the direction perpendicular to the "arrangement direction".

In the procedure of FIG. 30, first, headword column data representing the headword column in which the "current tag name string" is to be arranged is created, and then the set input argument is set in the corresponding part of the same data (step P1 ). Set the address of the "current tag name column" registration data in the "corresponding tag name column data address section" of the same data, and set the "current row/column position" parameter in the "row/column position section" of the same data. At the same time, the set value of the "current headword column start position" parameter is set in the "start position part" of the same data.

Also, in step P1, a comparison is made between the "current row/column position" parameter and the "maximum number of rows/columns" parameter, and the "current row/column position" parameter is greater than the "maximum number of rows/columns" parameter. If so, update the "maximum number of rows/columns" parameter with the "current row/column position" parameter.

The headword column data to be created are linked by the "connection pointer" in the order of creation for each arrangement direction, and the top data are respectively the "horizontal headword column data pointer" and the "vertical headline data pointer" of the table management data. is set to "word column data pointer".

This procedure then sets the first tag name in the current tag name column as the "current tag name" parameter, which is a variable that is replaced each time the processing described below is repeated, and then sets the "cell horizontal start position" parameter to " The set value of the "starting position part" of the "current headword column data" is set (step P2).

Next, create cell data (Fig. 31) representing the cell in which the set "current tag name" is placed, and then set the "cell horizontal start position parameter" to the "horizontal start position" of the created cell data. At the same time, the "row/column position" set values of the "current headword column data" are set in the "vertical start position" and "vertical end position" of the cell data (step P3).

In step P3, a specific value indicating that the cell is in the headword column is set in the "partition section" of the created cell data, and character string data (FIG. 32) representing the current tag name is set. After creating, point from the character string pointer of the corresponding cell data.

The cell data created in one headword column are linked in the order of creation in the corresponding headword column by the "link pointer" to form a cell data chain, and the address of the leading data is the headword. It is set in the "cell data pointer" of the column data. Each time the cell data is created, the address of the head data is also set in the "cell data pointer" of the table management data, and is linked to the end of the linked cell data chain by the "link pointer 2". .

Next, a tag name column that is different from the current tag name column, and whose condition path name column is the "current tag name" added to the end of the condition path name column of the current tag name column. A tag name string contained therein is specified as a child tag name string (step P4).

A step P4 sequentially retrieves the top tag name string management data linked to the top tag name string management data chain for each arrangement direction, and for each of the retrieved top tag name string management data, starts from the registered tag name string. , the tag name string whose parent folder is the descendant folder of the parent folder is sequentially taken out in order of its hierarchical position, and it is determined whether the tag name string taken out satisfies the above conditions. The tag name string for which the judgment is obtained first is specified as the child tag name string. Here, the tag name string whose parent folder is the descendant folder of the parent folder of the first tag name string is specified as a tag name string having the parent folder full path name including the parent folder full path name of the first tag name string at the front. be able to.

In creating the horizontal headword column in the explanation example, first, if the first tag name column {A, B} is the current tag name column and the current tag name is "A", the conditional path name of the current tag name column The current conditional path name column "P\A" obtained by adding the current tag name "A" to the column "P" contains the conditional path name column as a tag name column in which the conditional path name column is {P\ A}, the tag name string {A1, A2} and the tag name string {A, B, C} are selected in this order according to their hierarchical order, and the tag name string {A1, A2} is selected as the child tag name string. identified.

In the explanation example, if the current tag name column is {A1, A2} and the current tag name is "A1", then for the conditional path name column "P¥A" of the current tag name column, The current conditional path name string {P\A\A1} obtained by adding the current tag name "A1" to the current conditional path name string "P\ A" is identified, and similarly, when the current tag name sequence is {A1, A2} and the current tag name is "A2", the child tag name A tag name sequence {A, B, C} is specified as a column.

In the explanation example, if the current tag name column is {A, B} and the current tag name is "B", the current tag name "B" , the tag name string { B1, B2} is identified, and the current tag is specified in the conditional path name string "P\B" of the current tag name string as a child tag name string for the current tag name "B1" in the current tag name string {B1, B2}. For the current conditional path name string "P\B\B1" obtained by adding the name "B1", the tag name string {B11, B12} that includes the conditional path name string {P\B\B1} will be identified.

In the creation of the vertical headword column in the explanatory example, first, the leading tag name column {2017, 2018} registered in the leading data of the leading tag name column management data is used as the current tag name column, and the current tag name is set to " 2018", since there is no tag name string whose parent folder is the descendant folder of the parent folder of the leading tag name string, the leading tag name string registered in the leading data of the following leading tag name string management data {Large, Medium} is extracted, and its conditional path name string {P} is the current conditional path name string " P\2018", it is specified as a child tag name string.

In the following step P5, it is determined that the corresponding child tag name string has been specified in the above determination, and if the determination is obtained, the headword column data creation procedure is recursively performed in the following step P6 ( Step P6). In step P6, the child tag name string identified in step P4 is set as the "current tag name string" as an argument input to the same procedure, and the "row of the current headword column data" The number obtained by adding "1" to the "/column position" set value is set as the new "current row/column position", and the "horizontal start position" of the corresponding cell is set as the new "current entry column start position". be.

In the subsequent step P7, the "end position" of the child entry word column, which is the return value of the recursive execution of the procedure for creating the entry word column data in step P6, is set as the "horizontal end position" of the corresponding cell data.

In step P5, if it is determined that the corresponding child tag name string has not been specified, the "horizontal start position" set value of the same cell data is set to the "horizontal end position" of the corresponding cell data. is set (step P8).

In step P7 or step P9 subsequent to step P8, it is determined that there is a "next position tag name" following the current tag name in the corresponding tag name string. Set the number obtained by adding "1" to the "horizontal end position" of the cell data corresponding to the tag name in the "cell horizontal start position parameter", and update the "current tag name" with the next position tag name. After that (step P10), the process returns to step P3.

If the judgment in step P9 is not obtained, in step P11, the set value of the "horizontal end position" of the last created cell data is used as the "horizontal end position" of the headword column data. Set and finish the whole procedure.

In step B3, finally, the "maximum number of rows/columns" and the "total layout width number" obtained for the two headword column trees synthesized for each layout direction are stored in specific storage locations of the table data creation unit 55. The total layout width number is the length occupied by all headword columns that make up the corresponding headword column tree in one "layout direction". It is represented by the number of bottom cells included, and can be obtained as the "horizontal end position" of the headword column data created last. Here, the bottom cell refers to a cell forming each headword column positioned at the bottom of the headword column tree.

The "maximum number of rows/columns" for each layout direction is set in the "horizontal headword column number of rows" and "vertical headword column column number", and the "total layout width number" for each layout direction are respectively set in the ``vertical headword column total width number part'' and the ``horizontal headword column total width number part''.

In the following step B4, arrangement direction information is set in the created headword column data. First, "0" is set in the "direction part" of headword column data set to "horizontal direction", "1" is set to headword column data set to "vertical direction", and then "arrangement direction" is set. " is set as "vertical direction", the "horizontal direction" position information and the "vertical direction" position information of each cell data pointed by the "cell data pointer" are exchanged with each other. The previous "vertical start position" and "vertical end position" are set as new "horizontal start position" and "horizontal end position" respectively, and the previous "horizontal start position" and "horizontal end position" "Longitudinal end position" may be reset as new "vertical start position" and "longitudinal end position" respectively.

The arrangement direction of each leading tag name string in step B2 can be determined by, for example, the following processing as a method that does not cause a large difference between the horizontal dimension and the vertical dimension of the target table. In this process, for each head tag name string, the total arrangement width number of the headword column tree in which the tag name strings arranged below it are arranged is obtained in advance as the partial arrangement total width number. In step P4, the number of partial arrangement total widths of the entry word column tree created for each head tag name string is determined by the number of tag name strings whose parent folder is the descendant folder of the parent folder for the corresponding head tag name string in step P4. If it can no longer be identified, the next head tag name string in the head tag name string management data chain is not taken out, but can be obtained by immediately performing step P5 and then step P8.

In this method, the top tag name column of the top tag name column management data chain and the registered tag name column of the next position data are set to the top tag name column in the horizontal direction and the top tag name column in the vertical direction, respectively. Above, the part determined by the "horizontal total width number" and "vertical total width number", which are parameters in the repetition of the following processing, and the horizontal top row tag name row and vertical top row tag name row, respectively After setting the total arrangement width number, the "horizontal direction total width number" and " After comparing the "vertical total width number" and selecting the corresponding direction with the smaller value as the arrangement direction of the corresponding top tag name row, the "total width number" ("horizontal total width or "vertical total width number") by the number obtained by multiplying the partial placement total width number corresponding to the extracted first tag name column management data and updating the current "total width number". repeat.

In the case of the explanation example, after the first tag name string {A, B} and the first tag name string {2017, 2018} are selected as the horizontal and vertical uppermost tag name strings in the table, respectively, Since the "horizontal direction total width number" and the "vertical total width number" when extracting the leading tag name string {large, regular} are respectively "6" and "2", the leading tag The arrangement direction of the name column {large, parallel} is determined as "vertical direction".

Further, in the case of the second keyword instruction example described above, the top tag name string {B1} and the top tag name string {2016, 2017, 2018} are the top tag names in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction on the table, respectively. After being selected as a column, the "horizontal total width number" and the "vertical total width number" when the top tag name row {large, normal} is extracted next are "2" and "3", respectively. , the arrangement direction of the first tag name string {large, parallel} to be extracted next is determined as "horizontal direction".

Step L2 next creates icon layout column data (FIG. 33). (Step A2). The row position of the upper end and the column position of the left end of the icon arrangement column 41 are respectively the "horizontal headword column row number part" and the "vertical direction row number part" previously provided in the specific storage position of the table data creation unit 55 in step A1. The positions are determined by adding "1" to the number set in the "headword column column number section", and are respectively defined as the "top position section" and "left end position section" in the "whole position section" of the icon arrangement column data. is set to

Further, the row position of the lower end of the icon arrangement column 41 is obtained by adding the above-mentioned "vertical headword column total width number part" set value to the above-mentioned "horizontal headword column row number part" set value. , is set to the "lower end position section" in the "whole position section". Further, the column position of the right end of the icon arrangement column 41 is obtained as a number obtained by adding the above-mentioned "horizontal headword column total width number" set value to the above-mentioned "vertical headword column row number" set value. , is set to the "right end position" in the "whole position".

In the icon arrangement column 41, cells having both horizontal and vertical dimensions of "1" are arranged as a matrix, and cell data is created in which the position information of each cell is set in the "position information part". be. A specific value indicating that the cell is in the icon arrangement column is set in the created cell data "partition". The created cell data are linked by the "link pointer", the address of the top data is set to the "cell data pointer" of the icon layout column data, and the address of the icon layout column data is set to the icon layout of the table management data. Set in the column data pointer. The created cell data is linked to the end of the linked cell data chain by the "link pointer 2" with the address of the head data pointed to by the "cell data pointer" of the table management data.

All the cells that make up the icon arrangement column 41 can be specified by, for example, specifying the cells on one row in the order of arrangement starting from the leftmost cell, starting from the top row and repeating for all rows. can. The column position and row position of the leftmost cell on the top row of the icon layout column 41 are set values of the "top position" and "leftmost position" in the "whole position" of the icon layout column data, respectively, The column position of the cell located to the right of one cell on one row is the column position of the previous cell plus "1", and the row of the cell located on the next row of one row The position is obtained by adding “1” to the line position of the previous line on the icon layout column 41 .

In step L2, the icon arrangement column 41, the headword arrangement column, and the "row position" and "column position" used to express the position information of each cell, which constitute the table, are displayed at logical positions on the display screen. "row delimiter position data" and "column delimiter position data" to be associated with are created (step A3). A logical position on the display screen is represented by a pair of a rightward position and a downward position with the upper left corner position of the table management application screen 33 displaying the management table as the origin.

FIG. 34 shows the format of "row delimiter position data" or "column delimiter position data". The "line delimiter position data" is the position of dividing each column of headwords in the vertical direction in the horizontal direction and the position of dividing each constituent cell in the icon arrangement column 41 in the horizontal direction in order from the left. "Column delimiter position data" is obtained by arranging the positions of vertically delimiting the horizontal headword column areas 42 and the vertically delimiting positions of the constituent cells in the icon arrangement column 41 in order from the top.

"Row delimiter position data" or "Column delimiter position data" consists of the predetermined "left edge position" and "top edge position" of the entire table, and the "horizontal headword column width dimension" and "vertical headline It can be obtained based on the "word column width dimension" and the predetermined "horizontal direction width" and "vertical direction width" for the constituent cells of the icon arrangement column 41. FIG. Here, the "horizontal headword column width dimension" is the vertical dimension of the horizontal headword column, and the "vertical headword column width dimension" is the horizontal dimension of the vertical headword column. .

In the case of column delimiter position data, after setting the leftmost position of the table as its top configuration data,
First, create column delimiter position data that sets the position obtained by adding the "vertical headword column width dimension" to the set value of the previous configuration data. After repeating for the number of times, create column delimiter position data that sets the position obtained by adding the "horizontal width" defined for the icon placement column cell to the set value of the previous configuration data. Repeat as many times as the number in the horizontal direction. The number of icon arrangement column cells in the horizontal direction is obtained by subtracting the "left end position" from the "right end position" of the icon arrangement column data.

"Line delimiter position data" can be created in the same manner. Addresses of the created "row delimiter position data" or "column delimiter position data" are respectively set in the "row delimiter position data pointer" and "column delimiter position data pointer" of the table management data.

The horizontal width and vertical width of the entire table obtained by the above processing are determined in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, respectively, based on the "logical position/physical position correspondence ratio" described later and the physical dimensions of the display screen 20a. If it is much smaller than the appropriate value, the width and height of the icon arrangement column cell may be enlarged according to the ratio of the width and height of the entire table to the appropriate value.

Step L4 then sets position information to all character string data representing character strings on the corresponding table (step A4). From the cell data chain pointed by the cell data pointer of each headword column data and icon arrangement column data, the constituent cell data is sequentially extracted, and the character string data pointed by the character string data pointer in the extracted cell data is extracted. , perform the following processing.

First, the rectangular boundary position of the cell represented by the relevant cell data is obtained based on the position information in the cell data and the "row delimiter position data" or "column delimiter position data" created earlier. The left end position of the cell is the configuration data set value located in the order of the "starting column position" in the corresponding cell data in the "column delimiter position data", and the right end position of the cell is, in the "column delimiter position data", It is a configuration data set value located in the order obtained by adding '1' to the number of 'end column positions' in the corresponding cell data.

The upper end position and lower end position of the cell can also be obtained in the same manner based on the "line delimiter position data" and the "start line position" and "end line position" in the corresponding cell data. The character string entry position in the cell is determined based on the border position of the cell and the predetermined "character string entry margin", and the character string entry position in the cell obtained is the character string data You can set it to the character string position information.

Finally, in step L4, the ruled lines represent the boundary lines that separate the icon arrangement column 41 and the entry word arrangement columns, and the boundary lines that separate the cells provided in the icon arrangement column 41 and the entry word arrangement columns. Create data (step A5). FIG. 35 shows the format of ruled line data.

The icon arrangement column 41, the entry word arrangement column, and the positions of both ends of each ruled line that separates the boundaries of each cell are respectively Also, it can be obtained based on the upper end position and the lower end position.

The left end position and the right end position of the icon layout column 41 are the column position set in the "left end position part" and the "right end position part" in the "whole position part" of the icon layout field definition data and the "column delimiter position data", respectively. , and the upper end position and the lower end position of the icon arrangement column 41 are respectively set in the "upper end position section" and the "lower end position section" in the "whole position section" of the icon arrangement column definition data. It can be obtained based on the line position and the "line delimiter position data".

The left end position and right end position of the horizontal headword placement field are the column position and the "column The top position and bottom position of the horizontal headword placement field are each in the "row/column position part" in the "whole position part" of the headword field definition data. It can be obtained based on the set column position and the "row delimiter position data".

Similarly, the left edge position and right edge position and the top edge position and bottom edge position of the vertical headword placement field are also set to the "row/column position part" and "start It can be obtained based on the "position part" and the "end position part", as well as the "row delimiter position data" and the "column delimiter position data".

The left and right positions, as well as the top and bottom positions of each cell that make up the headword placement column, are determined by the position information of the cell data and the "row delimiter position data" and "column delimiter position data" as described above. can be determined based on

The ruled line end positions obtained as described above are set as the position information of the ruled line data of each boundary ruled line separating the icon arrangement column 41, each entry word arrangement column, and each cell. Further, as the modification information of the ruled line data, a predetermined specific value is set for each of the icon arrangement column 41, the entry word arrangement column and the cell. The created ruled line data are sequentially connected to each other by a "connection pointer", and the leading data thereof is set in the "ruled line data pointer" of the table management data.

By the above processing, table data representing the table shown in FIG. 36 is created in the case of the explanation example. The created table data is managed by the table data creating section 55 in such a manner that the address of the corresponding table management data is set in the "table management data pointer section" of the folder tree management data to be converted. Further, in the case of the above-described second keyword designation example, table data representing the table shown in FIG. 37 is created.

Next, the system specifies the information in which the icon is arranged and displayed for each cell in the icon placement column 41 on the conversion table, and registers the specified information in the corresponding cell data (step L5). In this step, first, for each cell in the icon arrangement column 41, headwords arranged on the same row and same column as the corresponding cell are specified as related tag names for each headword arrangement column. , create related data (FIG. 38) registered in association with the tag name column identification name specifying the corresponding tag name column of the headword arrangement column in which the specified related tag name is arranged.

Headwords arranged on the same row and on the same column as the relevant cell can be found by repeatedly comparing the position information determined for the cell storing each headword against the position information of the relevant cell. Each headword arranged on the table can be extracted by sequentially tracing the cell data attached to the corresponding headword column data for the cells constituting each headword arrangement column arranged on the table. can be done.

In the "tag name string identification name part" of the related data, the full path name of the parent folder of the top folder of the conversion target folder tree is removed from the full path name of the corresponding parent folder as the data that identifies the relevant tag name string. Set the path name string, and set the corresponding related tag name in the "tag name part" of the related data. The related data created for the cell in question are sequentially linked by a "link pointer" as a related data chain, and the address of the top data is set in the "related data pointer" of the cell data in question.

In step L5, information to be arranged in each cell in the icon arrangement column 41 on the table is selected, and the selected information is registered in the corresponding cell. In this step, first, for each cell, all related tag names are obtained by concatenating the tag name column identification name and the related tag name registered in each related data obtained through "\", and then, for each cell, From the set of all related tag names obtained in , find an effective set of all related tag names, which is a set excluding all related tag names that are included as character strings in other all related tag names in the set. is specified as information in which the same set of storage path name strings as the relevant effective related all tag name set is registered.

Cells corresponding to the entry word "A", the entry word "A1", the entry word "Otsu", the entry word "2018", and the entry word "large" on the conversion table (Fig. 36) created in the above explanation example about,
Tag name column identifier "P" for tag name "A",
The tag name "A1" for the tag name column identification name "P\A",
Tag name column identifier "P\A\creator", tag name "Otsu",
The tag name "2018" for the tag name column identification name "P\year",
The tag name "large" for the tag name column identification name "P\importance",
Related data associated with is obtained, and the following related all tag names obtained from the obtained related data,
"P\A",
"P\A\A1",
"P\A\creator\Otsu"
"P ¥ year ¥ 2018",
"P\Importance\High"
``P\A\A1'' and ``P\A\A1'' except for ``P\A'' included in ``P\A\creator\Otsu'',
"P\A\creator\Otsu"
"P ¥ year ¥ 2018",
"P\Importance\High"
is obtained, and the above information whose all path names to which the same set of storage path name columns as the obtained set is given are "...\P\A\B\A1\Report 1" is specified. become.

Next, for each cell, from the selected information, the name or the information whose text part contains the input keyword of the keyword input field 96 so as to satisfy the search formula is selected. For example, if two keywords are concatenated with an "x" symbol, information containing both keywords is selected. The information management data created for the selected information are linked in order by the "connection pointer 2" as an in-cell information management data chain, and the address of the top data is the "in-cell information management data pointer part" of the corresponding cell data. ” is set.

In the conversion procedure, finally, as processing by the table display unit 57, the table represented by the table data created as described above is displayed on the table management application screen 33 (step L6). In step L6, character strings and ruled lines, which are components of the table, are displayed based on the created table data, and arranged on the table based on the created table data and the designated conversion target folder tree. Display an icon for the information you want.

The character strings that make up the table are displayed based on the following character string data.
(1) Character string data pointed by cell data pointers of each headword column data and table management data (2) Characters pointed to by alternate name character string data pointers of each headword column data column data

Also, the ruled lines forming the table are displayed based on the ruled line data extracted from the "ruled line data pointer" of the table management data. Character strings and ruled lines are displayed at the corresponding physical positions on the display screen 20a after their position information is converted into physical positions on the display screen 20a. The position information that constitutes the character string data and the ruled line data is first converted into a physical position with respect to the table management application screen 33 based on the predetermined "logical position/physical position correspondence ratio" in the system, and then , and the layout position of the entire table management application screen 33 stored in the system as "relative position of table management application screen" on the display screen 20a.

In each cell in the icon arrangement column 41 on the table, icons of information registered in the previously related intra-cell information management data chain are placed in the corresponding cell at intervals determined in the order of connection in the same chain. The name of the information is displayed as a well-known method below the displayed icons. The information icon is displayed based on the icon image data registered in the data object management data in which the "full path name" registered in the corresponding information management data is set. Information that satisfies the conditions determined by the specified keyword is output on the displayed table. Also, exploratory retrieval of information can be easily performed on a table created by designating a keyword with a limited search range.

In the above example, in the cells corresponding to the entry word "A1", the entry word "Otsu", the entry word "2018", and the entry word "Dai" in the table, all the above path names are "**** *\P\A\A1”, and the icon 163 of the information with the name “report 1” to which the tag names “Otsu”, “2018”, and “Large” are added is the name of the information. It will be displayed in the appropriate cell with "Report 1" (Fig. 39).

Now, when an open operation is performed on an icon of information displayed in the same cell, first, the cell containing the information for which the open operation has been performed is specified based on the open indication position. The cell containing the information given the open operation can be specified by repeatedly comparing the position information of each cell data constituting the cell data chain created for the relevant table and the open instruction position.

Next, the information management data registered in the intra-cell information management data chain of the identified cell are sequentially extracted, and the arrangement position of the corresponding information is obtained. The information management data that gave the open operation is identified by repeating the matching between the arrangement position and the open instruction position. Subsequently, the file information screen of the corresponding information is opened on the device screen by the data object management data in which all the path names set in the specified information management data are set.

In the above process, the open instruction position on the display screen 20a is converted into a physical position on the table management application screen 33 based on the position of the entire table management application screen 33 relative to the display screen 20a. It is converted into a logical position on the table management application screen 33 based on the "logical position/physical position correspondence ratio" stored therein, and then collated with the position information of each cell or each piece of information.

If the information associated with one cell cannot be arranged in the cell, for example, as a known method, after arranging the information in the order of registration of the intra-cell information management data chain, at the end of the arranged information , an icon of a predetermined image representing that "there is associated information other than the arrangement information" is displayed (not shown), and the user performs a specific action such as double-clicking on the icon. In response to the instruction, an intra-cell information display screen 160 (FIG. 40) is displayed on which icons of all information associated with the cell are arranged and displayed. On the cell information display screen 160, the information icons 155 registered in each information management data linked to the cell information management data chain of the relevant cell data are arranged in the order of connection in the cell information management data chain. Is displayed.

When the user performs an open instruction operation on the information icon displayed on the cell information display screen 160, the cell information display screen is first opened by the same method as in the case of the information arranged in the cell described above. Based on the open instruction position in the system, the system identifies the relevant information to which the open operation has been added from the relevant intra-cell information management data chain, and displays the relevant file information screen by the full path name of the identified information. Open on screen.

In addition to imposing a constraint on the user not to provide folder names with the same notation but different meanings in the conversion target folder tree, the processing by the system can be simplified as follows. First, as the condition data for each tag name string, the parent folder name located at the end of the conditional path name string is set as the condition name instead of the above-described conditional path name string.

The same procedure starts by setting the folder name of the folder to be converted as a condition name. Select the tag name column containing the condition name as a child tag name column in the path name column where the current tag name is added to the condition name.

In the case of the explanation example, for example b, first, for the current tag name "A" constituting the current tag name string {A, B}, the current tag name For the path name string {P, A} obtained by adding "A", {A1, A2} as the tag name string containing the condition name and {A, B} are selected as child tag name strings. be.

Next, the current tag name "A1" that constitutes the tag name string {A1, A2} preferentially selected according to the above-described criteria from among the selected tag name strings {A1, A2} and {A, B} is the tag name string containing the condition data for the path name string {A, A1} obtained by adding the current tag name "A1" to the condition name "A" of the tag name string {A1, A2}. {A, B} is selected as the child tag name string.

In addition, the effective related tag name is a set of related tag names obtained for each cell, excluding the related tag names that are the names of the parent folders of the belonging tag name columns of the other related tag names in the set. While obtaining the set, the storage path name column given to the information management data is replaced by the storage folder name, which is the path name at the end of the data management data, and the information placed in the cell is the effective relationship obtained for that cell. A set of storage folder names that are the same as the tag name set is selected as given information.

In the cell corresponding to the headword "A1", the headword "Otsu", the headword "2018", and the headword "Dai" in the above example, the obtained related tag name set {A, A1, Otsu, 2018, Dai} , the effective related tag name set {A1, B, 2018, large, } is set,
All of the above path names are saved in a folder with "****\****\P\A\A1", and the tag names "Otsu", "2018", and "Large" are added, The information with the name "report 1" from which the set of storage folder names {A1, Otsu, 2018, Dai,} is obtained is placed in the corresponding cell.

If the created table is too large compared to the display screen 20a and it is inconvenient to refer to it, the tag names arranged in the tree descendant position of the keyword tag name and the tags for which the keyword tag name is not specified A tag name string that is a set of tag names that constitute a name tree and that is specified as a tag name string that is a set of tag names that share the parent tag name, excluding the tag name string that has already been obtained You may create a table by placing only in the headword column. Each cell of the table displays an information icon to which a set of information attribute data (storage path name) including a set of related tag names determined by the cell is added. For example, when "A", "B", "2017", and "2018" are specified as keywords in the folder tree shown in FIG. 6, a table shown in FIG. 57(a) is created and displayed.

Also, if there is a large amount of information to be placed in one cell on the table created as described above, the child table display instruction can be given, for example, by clicking 14, a table is created as a child table in which a tag name column whose condition data is the related tag name determined in the cell and a tag name column whose condition data is the head tag name of the tag name tree are arranged. and an icon of the corresponding information may be placed on each cell. A related tag name determined for the corresponding cell is displayed in the common tag name display portion outside the child table.

In the table shown in FIG. 57(a), when an open instruction is given to a cell in which "A" and "2017" are specified as related tag names, "A" and "2017" are displayed in the common tag name display area. is displayed as the related tag name determined in the corresponding cell, and the tag name column {A1, A2} and the tag name column {A, B, C} is identified, while the tag name string {Large}, Regular} is identified as the tag name string whose condition data is the first tag name in the tag name tree, and the child table shown in FIG. 57(b) is created. be done. In the cells corresponding to the related tag names "A1", "Otsu", and "Normal" in the created child table, information attribute tag names are created by adding the common tag names "A" and "2017" to the related tag names. The assigned information field icon 155 is displayed.

For each cell of the child table, a set of tag names having a second relationship to a set of related tag names obtained by adding a common tag name to the related tag name determined for that cell is given as an information attribute tag name. An icon for the information that is available is displayed in association with the corresponding cell.

Information can also be stored on the conversion target folder tree by dragging the information icon to the corresponding cell in the icon arrangement column 41 on the conversion table on the table management application screen 33 . Now, an information icon that is provided outside the conversion target folder tree, is saved in a folder whose full path name is "****\****\report folder", and whose name is "report 2" corresponds to the entry word "A", the entry word "A1", the entry word "ko", the entry word "2018", and the entry word "large" in the conversion table (Fig. 36) created in the above explanation example. When dragged onto a cell, the system performs the information saving procedure shown in FIG.

In the same procedure, first, the full path name of the information to be saved "****\****\ report folder\ report 2" and the name "report 2" are changed to "full path name" and "name After creating the information management data set in "part", the created information management data is added to the end of the information management data chain pointed to by the conversion target folder management data, and the end of the information management data chain in the drag destination cell. Concatenate to the end (step Z1).

This procedure then creates related data based on the headwords arranged on the same row and column as the drag destination cell on the table (step Z2). The created related data are sequentially linked by the "link pointer", and the head address thereof is set in the "related data pointer part" of the corresponding information management data.

The same procedure then obtains all associated tag names by concatenating the corresponding tag name column identification name and tag name for each associated data obtained, and then, from the obtained set of all associated tag names, Stored path name string data (FIG. 13) in which all related tag names other than all related tag names included as character strings in other related all tag names are registered as a stored path name sequence are created (step Z3).

In the case of the explanation example, for the above drag destination cell,
Tag name column identifier "P" for tag name "A",
The tag name "A1" for the tag name column identification name "P\A",
The tag name "A" for the tag name column identification name "P\A\creator",
The tag name "2018" for the tag name column identification name "P\year",
The tag name "large" for the tag name column identification name "P\importance",
, and among the obtained all-tag names, the all-related tag name "P\A" is the all-related tag name "P\A\A1" and the all-related tag name "P\ Since it is included as a character string in "A\creator\A", "P\A\A1", which is the name of all the remaining related tags,
"P\A\Creator\A",
"P ¥ year ¥ 2018",
"P\Importance\High"
are respectively registered as a storage path name string.

In the same procedure, subsequently, from among the obtained storage path name columns, a storage path name column that does not include a path name specified as an attachment in its configuration path name is selected as the main body storage path name column. Above, the storage path name column data in which the main body storage path name column is registered is registered as the first storage path name column data, and the storage path name column data in which each storage path name column obtained is registered is registered in the corresponding information management data (step Z4). In the case of the explanation example, each of the above storage path name columns is registered with the storage path name column "P\A\A1" as the main body storage path name column.

In the same procedure, after identifying the corresponding data object management data by all the path names registered in the corresponding information management data, all the path names of the parent folder of the conversion target folder are added to the end of the symbol "\" The new full path name obtained by adding the main storage path name string to the added name string via the symbol "\" is used as the "all path name part" of the corresponding information management data. Set to "all path name part" of the specified data object management data. (Step Z5).

In the case of the explanation example, the name string "**** New full path name "****\*****\P\A\A1\report2" obtained by adding the information name "report2" to \＊＊＊\P\A\A1" is set in the "all path name part" of the information management data and the "all path name part" of the corresponding object data.

The procedure then redisplays the table including the information in each cell (step Z6). , the entry word "A1", the entry word "ko", the entry word "2018", and the entry word "large" (FIG. 39).

On the other hand, on the conversion target folder tree in the explanation example, if an open instruction is given to the folder 172 whose full path name is "...\P\year\2018", the storage path name string "P\year\2018 ” is added to the information icon 163 or the like that has all the already saved path names of “...\P\A\A1\Report 1”, and now the save operation on the conversion table The icon 164 of the information whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1\Report 2" is displayed on the corresponding folder screen 172 (FIG. 42).

In this system, the tagging supplementary function described above can be efficiently performed by the method described below. When the user designates the "add all button" 76 on the function menu 70, the system displays the tagging supplementary subscreen 131 (FIG. 43), and then places the conversion target folder tree in the constituent folders for tagging. A folder storing information that needs to be supplemented (hereinafter referred to as tagging supplementary information) is displayed in a special display form on the table management application screen 33 (FIG. 44).

When the user opens the specially displayed folder, only the icon of the supplementary necessary information for tagging is selected and displayed on the displayed folder screen. If information is tagging supplementary necessary information, it means that even one storage path name column that should be created for the folder tree related to all the separate destination folders located above the folder tree path exists for that information. can decide to do.

For one folder, the separate folder tree whose ancestor folder is the separate destination folder is the full path name of the separate specified folder registered in the separate specified data and the full path of each ancestor folder of the corresponding display target folder. It can be identified by repeated matching with the first name.

In the above explanation example, for example, for the information whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1\Report 1", the full path name is "...\P\A\Create The storage path name column data is created with the storage path name column "P\A\creator\Otsu" set by specifying the tagging destination folder, but it is a different destination folder. Since the storage path name column data has not been created and registered for the separate folder tree added to the folder "P", it is determined as supplementary necessary information for tagging, and its storage folder "A1" is specially displayed (Fig. 44), the icon 163 will be displayed on the folder screen 171 obtained by opening the storage folder "A1" (FIG. 56).

The user clicks the mouse 14 to open the specially displayed folders one by one on the folder tree to be converted, and then opens each piece of information arranged on the displayed folder screen one by one. Click and instruct the "execute button" 133 on the tagging supplement subscreen 131 repeatedly.

Upon receipt of an instruction from the "execute button" 133, the system specifies an attachment destination folder located at a higher position in the path path of the designated folder, and obtains from the attachment folder tree from among the identified attachment destination folders. Identify the destination folder whose storage path name string is not registered in the information management data of the corresponding information, and create a table in which the tag name string obtained from the identified separate folder tree is arranged according to the overall procedure for creating headword column data. Create a tagging supplement table and display it on the device screen.

The information "report 1" stored in the folder whose full path name in the explanation example is "...\P\A\A1" is tagged according to the instruction of the "Add T" button 75 described above. If not, the folder "...\P\year" and the folder "...\P\importance" are specified with the ancestor folder "...\P" of the storage folder as the folder to be attached. Furthermore, the folder "...\A\creator" is identified as an annotated folder having another ancestor folder "...\P\A" of the corresponding folder as an annotated destination folder, and the specified annotated A tagging supplementary table shown in FIG. 45 is obtained in which the tag name strings {A, B, C}, {2016, 2017, 2018} and {Large, Regular} obtained from the folder tree are arranged.

When the user designates a cell having the target tag name as the related tag name on the displayed tagging supplement table with the mouse 14, the cell is determined by the method of steps Z2 and Z3 of the information storage procedure described above. A necessary storage path name string is created from the related data and assigned to the corresponding information management data. In the above example, for example, when a cell corresponding to the entry word "Otsu", the entry word "2018", and the entry word "Dai" in the table of FIG. As
"...¥P¥A¥creator¥Otsu"
"... ¥ P ¥ fiscal year ¥ 2018",
"...\P\importance\high",
is obtained, and all effective associated tag names obtained are added to the corresponding information as a storage path name string.

Now, when a folder open operation is performed on the folder 172 whose full path name is "...\P\year\2018" on the conversion target folder tree, the corresponding storage path name string "P\year\2018 ” is added, the above information whose full path name is “...\P\A\A1\Report 1” is specified, and its icon 163 is displayed on the corresponding folder screen. becomes (Fig. 42).

If the above tagging supplementary table becomes large and it is rather difficult to select cells for the purpose of tagging, the corresponding separate folder tree is displayed together in a form that distinguishes it from other folder trees. Alternatively, the user may be allowed to perform an operation of selecting a tag name in a part of the separately displayed folder trees. The system appends to the information the tag names for which the selection was made, while creating a tagging supplement table with the separate folder tree for which the selection was not made, and on that table, displays the tag names specified by the user. The associated tag name determined for the cell is additionally added to the information.

By using the tagging supplementary table, the above-described display function in F can also be performed with good visibility. First, the system displays the above-described separate folder tree in which the folder located higher in the path path than the specified folder is the separate folder as the separate destination folder, and displays the tag name thereon by the user. If not specified, a table is created from all the displayed separate folder trees, and for each cell on the table, a set of tag names obtained by adding the name of the specified folder to the related tag name determined corresponds. Display attached information.

On the other hand, if there is a tag name specified by the user on the separate folder tree that is displayed differently, a table is created using the separate folder tree that was not specified, and each cell on the table is determined. Information in which the name of the specified folder and the set of tag names specified by the user and added tag names on the separate folder tree are associated with the associated tag name is displayed.

If one row or one column on the table is occupied by one headword column and there is one headword placed in it, that headword column is removed from the table, and instead In addition, the headword may be placed at an appropriate position outside the table as a common tag name that commonly characterizes all information on the table.

For example, when the table conversion function is performed with "B1" as the specified keyword as the second keyword instruction example, instead of the table created as described above (in the case of the second keyword instruction example, the table shown in FIG. 37) , a table in which the headwords "B" 201 and "B1" 202 in the first row of the horizontal headword column are arranged outside the table (FIG. 46 is created.

A row or column to be deleted, which is a row or column in which common tag names are arranged, is identified as follows. The row or column of the headword column of the table created by the table creation procedure is taken out sequentially from the top row or the leftmost column, starting from the top row or the leftmost column. Alternatively, the number of headword columns located in a column is specified by referring to the "row/column position part" of each headword column data, and if the number of specified headword columns is 1, it is arranged inside it. The number of tag names registered in each headword column data is specified by referring to the tag name column registered in each headword column data.

Next, create common tag name data that associates the headword placed above the identified deletion target row or deletion target column with the tag name column identifier in the corresponding tag name column in the form of related data. Then, the created common tag name data are linked in the order of creation by the "link pointer", and the address of the top data is set to the "common condition data pointer" of the corresponding table management data.

A pair of the tag name column identifier registered in the first common tag name data and the common tag name is placed on a row at an appropriate position outside the table, and the tag name registered in the subsequent common tag name data The pair of column identification name and common tag name is arranged in order on the subsequent row at the same horizontal position as the pair of tag name column identification name and common tag name registered in the leading common tag name data. In the case of the explanation example, in FIG. will be placed on one line at an appropriate position outside the .

For the tag name column identifier and common tag name registered in the common tag name data, character string data is created that gives a fixed position outside the table, and the address of the created character string data is ” is set. On the other hand, the headword column data and cell data related to the common tag name and the character string data pointed to by the cell data are deleted.

In addition, the set values of the "upper end position" and "left end position" of the icon arrangement column data, the position information of the cell data of the cells provided inside the icon arrangement column 41, and the header related to the common tag name data The position information of the headword column data other than the word column and the position information of the cell data of the cells provided therein are reduced by the number of rows to be deleted or the number of columns to be deleted.

In addition, after deleting the row delimiter position data corresponding to the row to be deleted and the column delimiter column position data corresponding to the column to be deleted, the set values of all the remaining row delimiter position data and column delimiter position data are is updated by subtracting the difference between the first data set value and the first data set value after deletion. recreated based on

The related data related to each cell in the icon arrangement column 41 of the table in which the common tag names are arranged as described above is obtained by adding the common tag name data to the related data created for the cell in the table. Desired. It will be.

In this apparatus, as a partial folder tree extracting function, by designating a constituent folder as a selected folder on a folder tree designated as an extracting source folder tree, a designated selected folder and a designated selected folder, which will be described later. Information can be retrieved by extracting a partial folder tree consisting of related folders as a retrieval partial folder tree and specifying a keyword on the retrieval partial folder tree.

When the user instructs the "partial registration" button 85 on the function menu 70 on the table management application screen 33, the system receives the instruction and performs the above-described conversion based on the conversion target folder management data stored in the system. A list of folders to be converted is displayed on the device screen, and when the user designates a folder tree to be used as a source folder tree on the list of folders to be converted, the system creates partial folder tree management data (Fig. 47). After that, the selected name input screen 121 (FIG. 48) is displayed.

The address of the conversion target folder management data that manages the specified extraction source folder tree is registered in the "extraction source management data address" of the partial folder tree management data, and the created partial folder tree management data is stored in the system. stored in the area,

The user inputs the name of the selected folder in the selected name input field 123 on the displayed selected name input screen 121, and selects the destination folder for storing the retrieved partial folder tree in the destination folder full path name input field 125. Enter the full pathname. The order of input of the selected folder name in the selected name input field 123 may be random.

After inputting the selected folder name, in response to the user's instruction from the "execute" button 127 on the selected name input screen 121, the system has the name input in the selected name input field 123 in the specified extraction source folder tree. Identifies a folder as the selected folder. If there are multiple folders with the input name as the folder name, display a selection screen (not shown) in which all path names of the corresponding multiple folders are associated with each input name, The user is prompted to select a corresponding folder for each input name on the displayed screen.

Selected name specification data (FIG. 49) is created for the specified selected folder, all path names of the specified selected folder are registered in the "all path names", and "1" is set in the "partition section". If there are multiple selection name specification data created, each selection name specification data is linked by a link pointer as a selection name specification data chain, and the address of the top data is the "selection name" of the partial folder tree management data. specified data pointer section".

Next, the system creates selection name designation data for the ancestor folder and descendant folder of the selected folder, the destination folder that is the ancestor folder of the selected folder, and all folders contained in the destination folder. Create additional. The additionally created selected name designating data is added to the selected name designating data chain after setting "0" in the division part thereof. In creating the selection name specifying data described above, it is determined that selection name specifying data has already been created for the same folder, and redundant creation for the same folder is avoided.

Next, from among the created selection name specification data, register the selection name specification data created for the folder specified as the destination folder in the conversion target folder management data related to the corresponding partial folder tree management data. After specifying by referring to the separate management data that has been specified, separate designation data is created again for the registered folder of the specified selection name designation data, and the separate designation data chain that connects the created separate designation data is created. The address of the top data is set in the "separately designated data pointer" of the partial folder tree management data.

Next, the system replaces all the registered path names of each selection name specification data created and attachment specification data with the part corresponding to the full path name of the parent folder of the first folder in the extraction source folder tree, Update by replacing with the full path name of the specified extraction destination folder, create the data object management data by copying the corresponding data object management data, and copy the updated corresponding registered all path names of the data object management data Register in "All pathnames". Subsequently, based on the created data object management data, a retrieval partial folder tree composed of registration folders for each selected name designation data and stored in the retrieval destination folder is displayed on the table management application screen 33 .

For example, if "A1", "A2", "B1", "2017", and "2018" are specified as selection names on the table, a partial folder tree shown in FIG. Is displayed. In the displayed partial folder tree, the name of the separate folder "importance" related to "A1", "A2", and "B1" specified as the selected folder, "2017" specified as the selected folder, It is displayed in a form that receives a special indication determined by the name "year" of the separate folder related to "2018" and the name "creator" of the folder that has the above relationship with the selected folders "A1" and "A2". will be

Now, when the user designates "partial call" 86 on the function menu 70 on the table management application screen 33, a conversion target folder list table 101 representing folder tree management data created in the system is displayed. Above, when the user designates one conversion target folder, the system displays a partial folder tree list table 311 displaying a partial folder tree created from the conversion target folder (FIG. 51). Above the partial folder tree list table 311 is a partial folder tree in which a specified conversion target folder is registered in the "extraction source management data address" from the partial folder tree management data created in the system. is selected and displayed.

On the partial folder tree list table 311, for each partial folder tree, the full path name 111 and the selected name 113 are arranged on one line of the table. The name 115 of the folder to which the file is to be attached is prefixed. One line "A1, A2, B1, B2, (fiscal year) 2017, 2018" illustrated in FIG.
is the part that specifies folders "A", "A1", "A2", "B1", "B2" and folders "2017" and "2018" placed in the separate destination folder "Year" as selected folders. It shows a folder tree.

When the user selects and instructs one partial folder tree on the displayed partial folder tree list, the corresponding partial folder tree is displayed on the table management application screen 33, and the user selects "convert table". When the button 73 is designated, a keyword selection subscreen 95 is displayed in the same manner as in the conversion target folder tree. When the user designates a keyword on the displayed folder tree and instructs the execution button 97, the table conversion function is executed and the created conversion table is displayed on the table management application screen 33.

On the partial folder tree shown in FIG. 50, specifying folder "A", folder "Otsu", and folder "Large" as keyword specified folders (FIG. 52) yields tag name strings {A}, {A1, A2. }, {B}, {2016, 2017, 2018}, {Large} were created,
Condition data "P" determined for the tag name string {A}
Tag name string {A1, A2} Determined condition data "P¥A"
Condition data "P\A" determined for the tag name string {B}
Condition data "P" determined for the tag name string {2016, 2017, 2018}
Tag name string {Large} Determined condition data "P"
, the table shown in FIG. 53 is obtained.

In addition, in this apparatus, if the execution button 97 on the keyword designation subscreen 95 is designated without designating a keyword after the "table conversion" button 72 is designated, the constituent folders of the target folder tree are displayed. is considered to have been instructed, the table conversion function is performed.

Since the designation of the selected folder for retrieving the partial folder tree shown in FIG. 50 is the same as the selection of the keyword designated folder for the folder tree shown in FIG. If the "convert table" button 73 is designated without designating a keyword for the partial folder tree shown in FIG. 50, the same table as the table shown in FIG. 36 is created.

Next, the system determines whether the folder tree displayed on the table management application screen 33 is a conversion target folder tree or a partial folder tree. For each cell on the table, select the information management data to which the same related data as the determined related data is added from the information management data registered in the conversion target folder management data that manages the extraction source folder tree, The selected information management data are sequentially linked by the linkage pointer 3, and the address of the leading data is set to the information management data pointer of the cell data. The created table is then displayed with an icon for the relevant information associated with each cell.

In the table shown in FIG. 36 created for the extraction source folder tree, in the cells corresponding to the entry word "A", the entry word "A1", the entry word "Otsu", the entry word "2018", and the entry word "large" The set of storage path name columns described above is given to the information arranged and named "report 1", while on the table shown in FIG. , the cells corresponding to the headword "A1", the headword "Otsu", and the headword "2018" include the related tag names arranged as common conditions, and the same effective all related tag name set "P\A\A1",
"P\A\creator\Otsu"
"P ¥ year ¥ 2018",
"P\Importance\High"
is determined, the icon 163 of the information is arranged in the same cell (FIG. 53).

The partial folder tree extraction function can also be performed by dividing functions between the server side that manages the extraction source folder tree and the terminal side that manages the extraction folder tree. When the user inputs a selected folder name on the selected name input screen 121 displayed by instructing the "partial registration" button 85 on the activated table management application screen 33 in the terminal-side device, the input selected name is linked. to the server side as a selected name data chain.

The server side receives this transmission, creates a partial folder tree consisting of folders selected from the extraction source folder tree based on the received selected name data chain, and returns the created partial folder tree to the terminal side.

The terminal side displays the received partial folder tree on the screen, creates a corresponding table based on the instruction of the keyword-specified folder following the user's instruction of the "convert table" button 72, and converts each cell of the created table. The resulting related data is sent to the server side as a concatenated related data chain.

The server that receives the related data chain selects information management data that matches the received related data chain from among the information stored in association with the source folder tree, and manages information by concatenating the selected information management data. Reply to the terminal side as a data chain. The terminal side arranges the returned information on the corresponding cell based on collation between the returned information management data and the related data obtained for each cell on the table.

The present invention uses a program or software for realizing the functions of the present invention described above. Such software can be installed in the system of the present invention via any medium, such as a storage medium or online. Therefore, the act of transferring the storage medium storing the software for carrying out the present invention as a business, the act of installing the software in the system on-line, etc. are one embodiment of the present invention.

12 keyboard 14 mouse 16 internal memory 18 external memory 20 display device 20a display screen 24 CPU
26 communication device 27 communication line 30 desktop screen 31 main menu 32 program menu 33 table management application screen 35 program button 36 data object icon 41 icon arrangement column 42 horizontal entry column area 43 vertical entry column area 52 Attached folder designating section 53 Keyword designating section 55 Table data creating section
57 Table display section 61 Table top information tagging instruction section 63 Separate information tagging section 65 In-folder information display section 70 Function menu 71 FT registration button 72 FT call button 73 Table conversion button 75 T-attaching button 76 Overall T-attaching button 78 Table call button 81 Setting button 85 Partial registration button 86 Partial call button 90 Name column 91 Separate designation subscreen 93 "Execute" button 95 Keyword designation subscreen 96 Keyword input field 97 Execute button 101 Conversion target folder list table 103 Conversion target Full path name of folder 105 Alternative name 106 Alternative destination folder name 110 Conversion table list subscreen 108 Full path name of conversion target folder 109 Specified keyword 111 Total path name of partial folder tree 113 Selected name 115 Alternative destination folder Name 121 Selected name input screen 123 Selected name input field 123
125 Extraction destination folder full path name input field 127 "Execute" button 131 Tagging supplementary subscreen 133 "Execute" button 141 Display instruction subscreen within multiple folders 143 "Execute" button 145 Display within multiple folders screen 155 Information icon 160 cell Internal information display screen 163 Information “report 1” icon 164 Information “report 2” icon 165 Second information icon 170 Folder screen 171 Folder screen 172 of a folder whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1" Folder screen 201 of a folder whose full path name is "...\P\Year\2018" Tag name column Pair 202 of identification name "P" and common tag name "B" Tag name string Pair 301 of identification name "P\B" and common tag name "B1" First partial folder tree of conversion target folder tree 302 Conversion target folder Partial folder tree 305 included in the first partial folder tree of the tree Second partial folder tree 306 of the folder tree to be converted Third partial folder tree 311 of the folder tree to be converted List of partial folder trees

1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration example on hardware of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a desktop screen displayed by the environment control program in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of data object management data in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the table|surface management application screen in the system of an Example. It is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of the invention in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a folder tree of an explanatory example in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the upper half of a conventional example folder tree. It is a figure which shows the lower half of a conventional example folder tree. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing tag name string display means obtained from a conventional example folder tree; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a separate designation mode subscreen in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of conversion target folder management data in the system of the embodiment; 4 is a diagram showing the format of information management data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the format of storage path name string data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an explanatory example folder tree in which separate designation has been made in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a folder screen on which information icons are displayed in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a conversion target folder list table in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a keyword designation subscreen in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an explanatory example folder tree in which keywords are specified in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the table|surface conversion procedure in the system of an Example. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of table management data in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the conversion table list subscreen in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the procedure of the tag name string data preparation process in the system of an Example. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of tag name string data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of tag name data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of a table in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the tabular data preparation procedure in the system of an Example. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of headword column data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the overall procedure for creating headword column data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the format of leading tag name string management data in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the headword column data preparation procedure in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the format of the cell data in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the format of the character string data in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the format of the icon arrangement|positioning column definition data in the system of an Example. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of "row delimiter position data" or "column delimiter position data" in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of ruled line data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a table of an explanatory example in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a table of a second illustrative example in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the format of related data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a table of an explanatory example in which information icons are arranged in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an intra-cell information display screen in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the information preservation|saving procedure in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the 2nd folder screen in the system of an Example. FIG. 12 shows a tagging supplement subscreen in the example system; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a conversion target folder tree in which folders storing necessary supplementary information for tagging are specially displayed in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 11 shows a tagging supplement table in the example system; It is a figure which shows the table|surface which specifically arranged the common conditions in the system of an Example. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing partial folder tree management data in the system of the embodiment; It is a figure which shows the selection name input screen in the system of an Example. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing selected name designation data in the system of the embodiment; FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a partial folder tree in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a partial folder tree list table in the system of the embodiment; FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a partial folder tree with keywords specified in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a table created based on keywords specified on a partial folder tree in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a multiple folder display instruction subscreen in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display screen within a plurality of folders in the system of the embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a third folder screen in the system of the embodiment; FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a parent table and a child table in the system of the embodiment;

Claims (36)

Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. In an information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a vertical headword column and a horizontal headword column,
In a combined tag name tree obtained by combining multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, a tag name is specified as a keyword from among constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree. and inputting a keyword other than the configuration tag name as a free keyword;
A keyword tag name that is a tag name specified as a keyword, and a tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which the keyword tag name belongs and that is not the top tag name of the tag name tree, is selected from the parent tag names. After specifying a set of tag names that share a tag name and tag names that do not have a shared parent tag name as one tag name string,
a step of creating tag name string data in which the identified tag name string is associated with the parent tag name as condition data;
a step of determining, for each tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tree is arranged on the table from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column;
In each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column, each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree, and its constituent tag names are summarized in one row or one column above the table. form, a step of creating a table arranged by a method that refers to the relevant condition data; In the information where a set of related tag names is given as the information attribute tag name, the input free keyword is the name or the icon of the information found on the text that constitutes the information in the corresponding cell a step of associating and displaying;
A method in an information processing device comprising: By adding one tag name tree as a separate tag name tree to one constituent tag name of another tag name tree, in a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees, a separate tag name tree In the condition data of the tag name column whose parent tag name is the first tag name of , the tag name of the destination tag that is the tag name of the addition destination of the tree is set,
Each tag name string belonging to the separate tree refers to the condition data in the headword column where each tag name string belonging to the separate tag name tree, which is the tag name tree to which it is attached, is placed. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein a A set of tag names arranged in the tree descendant position of the keyword tag name, and a set of tag names constituting a tag name tree in which no keyword tag name is specified and sharing the parent tag name. A table in which a set of tag name strings obtained by adding the identified tag name string to the already obtained tag name string is arranged in the headword column. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the set of tag names having a second relationship with the set of names displays an information icon to which the information attribute tag name is assigned in association with the corresponding cell. If only one tag name consisting of only one tag name is placed on one row or one column in the headword field, remove the row or column and replace the tag name is displayed at a predetermined position outside the table as a common tag name. In response to an open instruction for one cell of the table created as the first table, the tag name column in which the related tag name determined in that cell is registered as condition data, and the keyword tag name is not specified a step of creating a second table obtained by arranging a tag name string obtained from the tag name tree according to a prescribed method as a child table of the first table;
For each cell of the created child table, for the set of related tag names obtained by adding the related tag name determined for the cell given the open instruction in the first table to the related tag name determined for that cell 5. The method according to claim 1, claim 2, and claim 4, wherein an information icon to which a set of tag names having a second relationship is given as an information attribute tag name is displayed in association with the corresponding cell. Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. In an information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a horizontal headword column and a vertical headword column,
Receiving a specific instruction for one piece of information associated with one tag name belonging to a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, the corresponding combined tag name identifying a tag name tree that does not include an information attribute tag name attached to information as a tagging supplementary tag name tree from among the tag name trees that constitute the tree;
All of the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, or the tag name tree excluding the tag name tree on which the tag name is selectively specified in the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, is tabulated. identifying as a name tree;
A method in which, for each tag name tree belonging to the table structure tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tag name tree is arranged on the table is determined from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. and a step of creating a table in which each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree is arranged by a predetermined method in each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. Upon receiving a selection instruction for one cell on the table, a set of all related tag names determined for that cell, or a tag name given a selection instruction in a selection tag name tree is added to the set of all related tag names. and adding a set of tag names obtained by the method to the information attribute tag name of the information. After specifying an annotated tag name tree whose annotated tag name is the tag name located at the upper level of the path route of the tag name associated with the specified information, assign it to the information in the specified annotated tag name tree 7. The method of claim 6, wherein a tag name tree that does not contain information attribute tag names that have been tagged is identified as a tagging supplemental tag name tree. As the condition data, instead of the parent tag name of the relevant tag name string, or the tag name to which the relevant tag name string is assigned, a path name string representing the path route in the relevant tree of the relevant parent tag name, or A path name string representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding destination tag name is set,
In place of the related tag name, the related full path name obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of the upper path name column representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the corresponding related tag name, or ,
8. The method of claim 1, claim 2, claim 3, claim 4, claim 5, claim 6, claim 7, wherein the relevant associated tag name is set. In the combination tag name tree, create and register a partial tag name tree consisting of a particularly specified tag name, an ancestor tag name of the specified tag name, and a descendant tag name, and then call the registered partial tag name tree 4. The method according to claim 1, claim 2, or claim 3, wherein information is retrieved by specifying a keyword. Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. An information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. As an information management device using a table provided as a vertical headword column and a horizontal headword column,
In a combined tag name tree obtained by combining multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, a tag name is specified as a keyword from among constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree. a means for inputting a keyword other than a constituent tag name as a free keyword;
A keyword tag name that is a tag name specified as a keyword, and a tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which the keyword tag name belongs and that is not the top tag name of the tag name tree, is selected from the parent tag names. After specifying a set of tag names that share a tag name and tag names that do not have a shared parent tag name as one tag name string,
means for creating tag name string data registered in a form in which the parent tag name is associated with the specified tag name string as condition data;
means for determining, for each tag name tree, an entry word column to which each tag name string belonging to is arranged on the table from the horizontal entry word column and the vertical entry word column;
In each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column, each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree, and its constituent tag names are summarized in one row or one column above the table. form, means for creating a table arranged by a method referring to the relevant condition data; In the information where a set of related tag names is given as the information attribute tag name, the input free keyword is the name or the icon of the information found on the text that constitutes the information in the corresponding cell means for displaying in association;
Information processing device consisting of. By adding one tag name tree as a separate tag name tree to one constituent tag name of another tag name tree, in a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees, a separate tag name tree In the condition data of the tag name column whose parent tag name is the first tag name of , the tag name of the destination tag that is the tag name of the addition destination of the tree is set,
Each tag name string belonging to the separate tree refers to the condition data in the headword column where each tag name string belonging to the separate tag name tree, which is the tag name tree to which it is attached, is placed. 11. Apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the apparatus is arranged at a A set of tag names arranged in the tree descendant position of the keyword tag name, and a set of tag names constituting a tag name tree in which no keyword tag name is specified and sharing the parent tag name. A table in which a set of tag name strings obtained by adding the identified tag name string to the already obtained tag name string is arranged in the headword column. 12. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the set of tag names having a second relationship with the set of names displays an information icon to which an information attribute tag name is assigned, in association with the corresponding cell. If only one tag name consisting of only one tag name is placed on one row or one column in the headword field, remove the row or column and replace the tag name as a common tag name at a predetermined position outside the table. In response to an open instruction for one cell of the table created as the first table, the tag name column in which the related tag name determined in that cell is registered as condition data, and the keyword tag name is not specified means for creating, as a child table of the first table, a second table obtained by arranging the tag name string obtained from the tag name tree by a predetermined method;
For each cell of the created child table, for the set of related tag names obtained by adding the related tag name determined for the cell given the open instruction in the first table to the related tag name determined for that cell 14. The apparatus according to claim 10, claim 11, and claim 13, wherein an information icon to which a set of tag names having a second relationship is given as an information attribute tag name is displayed in association with the corresponding cell. Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. An information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. As an information management device using a table provided as a horizontal headword column and a vertical headword column,
Receiving a specific instruction for one piece of information associated with one tag name belonging to a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, the corresponding combined tag name a means for identifying a tag name tree that does not include an information attribute tag name attached to information as a tagging supplementary tag name tree from among the tag name trees that constitute the tree;
All of the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, or the tag name tree excluding the tag name tree on which the tag name is selectively specified in the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, is tabulated. means for identifying as name tree;
A method in which, for each tag name tree belonging to the table structure tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tag name tree is arranged on the table is determined from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. and a means for creating a table in which each tag name string belonging to the assigned tag name tree is arranged according to a predetermined method in each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. Upon receiving a selection instruction for one cell on the table, a set of all related tag names determined for that cell, or a tag name given a selection instruction in a selection tag name tree is added to the set of all related tag names. means for adding a set of tag names obtained by adding to the information attribute tag name of information;
Information processing device consisting of. After specifying an annotated tag name tree whose annotated tag name is the tag name located at the upper level of the path route of the tag name associated with the specified information, assign it to the information in the specified annotated tag name tree 16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein a tag name tree that does not contain an information attribute tag name that has been tagged is identified as a tagging supplemental tag name tree. As the condition data, instead of the parent tag name of the relevant tag name string, or the tag name to which the relevant tag name string is assigned, a path name string representing the path route in the relevant tree of the relevant parent tag name, or A path name string representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding destination tag name is set,
In place of the related tag name, the related full path name obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of the upper path name column representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the corresponding related tag name, or ,
17. Apparatus according to claim 10, claim 11, claim 12, claim 13, claim 14, claim 15, claim 16, wherein the relevant associated tag name is set. In the combination tag name tree, create and register a partial tag name tree consisting of a particularly specified tag name, an ancestor tag name of the specified tag name, and a descendant tag name, and then call the registered partial tag name tree 13. The apparatus according to claim 10, claim 11, or claim 12, wherein information is retrieved by specifying a keyword. Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. In an information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a vertical headword column and a horizontal headword column,
A management method comprising:
In a combined tag name tree obtained by combining multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, a tag name is specified as a keyword from among constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree. and inputting a keyword other than the configuration tag name as a free keyword;
A keyword tag name that is a tag name specified as a keyword, and a tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which the keyword tag name belongs and that is not the top tag name of the tag name tree, is selected from the parent tag names. After specifying a set of tag names that share a tag name and tag names that do not have a shared parent tag name as one tag name string,
a step of creating tag name string data in which the identified tag name string is associated with the parent tag name as condition data;
a step of determining, for each tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tree is arranged on the table from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column;
In each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column, each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree, and its constituent tag names are summarized in one row or one column above the table. form, a step of creating a table arranged by a method that refers to the relevant condition data; In the information where a set of related tag names is given as the information attribute tag name, the input free keyword is the name or the icon of the information found on the text that constitutes the information in the corresponding cell a step of associating and displaying;
A control program for realizing a method in an information processing apparatus consisting of a computer. By adding one tag name tree as a separate tag name tree to one constituent tag name of another tag name tree, in a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees, a separate tag name tree In the condition data of the tag name column whose parent tag name is the first tag name of , the tag name of the destination tag that is the tag name of the addition destination of the tree is set,
Each tag name string belonging to the separate tree refers to the condition data in the headword column where each tag name string belonging to the separate tag name tree, which is the tag name tree to which it is attached, is placed. 20. A control program for computer implementation of the method of claim 19, located in a control program. A set of tag names arranged in the tree descendant position of the keyword tag name, and a set of tag names constituting a tag name tree in which no keyword tag name is specified and sharing the parent tag name. A table in which a set of tag name strings obtained by adding the identified tag name string to the already obtained tag name string is arranged in the headword column. A computer implements the method according to claim 19 or 20, wherein the set of tag names having a second relationship with the set of names displays an information icon to which an information attribute tag name is assigned in association with the corresponding cell. control program to let If only one tag name consisting of only one tag name is placed on one row or one column in the headword field, remove the row or column and replace the tag name as a common tag name at a predetermined position outside the table. In response to an open instruction for one cell of the table created as the first table, the tag name column in which the related tag name determined in that cell is registered as condition data, and the keyword tag name is not specified a step of creating a second table obtained by arranging a tag name string obtained from the tag name tree according to a prescribed method as a child table of the first table;
For each cell of the created child table, for the set of related tag names obtained by adding the related tag name determined for the cell given the open instruction in the first table to the related tag name determined for that cell The method according to claim 19, claim 20, or claim 22 is performed by a computer, wherein an information icon having a set of tag names having a second relationship as an information attribute tag name is displayed in association with the corresponding cell. A control program to make it happen. Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. In an information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a horizontal headword column and a vertical headword column,
Receiving a specific instruction for one piece of information associated with one tag name belonging to a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, the corresponding combined tag name identifying a tag name tree that does not include an information attribute tag name attached to information as a tagging supplementary tag name tree from among the tag name trees that constitute the tree;
All of the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, or the tag name tree excluding the tag name tree on which the tag name is selectively specified in the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, is tabulated. identifying as a name tree;
A method in which, for each tag name tree belonging to the table structure tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tag name tree is arranged on the table is determined from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. and a step of creating a table in which each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree is arranged by a predetermined method in each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. Upon receiving a selection instruction for one cell on the table, a set of all related tag names determined for that cell, or a tag name given a selection instruction in a selection tag name tree is added to the set of all related tag names. A control program for realizing, by a computer, a method in an information processing apparatus, comprising a step of adding a set of tag names obtained by the above to an information attribute tag name of information. After specifying an annotated tag name tree whose annotated tag name is the tag name located at the upper level of the path route of the tag name associated with the specified information, assign it to the information in the specified annotated tag name tree 25. A control program for computer implementation of the method of claim 24, wherein a tag name tree that does not contain an information attribute tag name that has been tagged is identified as a tagging supplemental tag name tree. As the condition data, instead of the parent tag name of the relevant tag name string, or the tag name to which the relevant tag name string is assigned, a path name string representing the path route in the relevant tree of the relevant parent tag name, or A path name string representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding destination tag name is set,
In place of the related tag name, the related full path name obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of the upper path name column representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the corresponding related tag name, or ,
26. A control program for implementing the method according to claim 19, claim 20, claim 21, claim 22, claim 23, claim 24 and claim 25 by a computer, wherein the relevant associated tag name is set. In the combination tag name tree, create and register a partial tag name tree consisting of a particularly specified tag name, an ancestor tag name of the specified tag name, and a descendant tag name, and then call the registered partial tag name tree 22. A control program for realizing by a computer the method according to claim 19, 20, or 21, wherein information is retrieved by designating a keyword. Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. In an information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a vertical headword column and a horizontal headword column,
In a combined tag name tree obtained by combining multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, a tag name is specified as a keyword from among constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree. and inputting a keyword other than the configuration tag name as a free keyword;
A keyword tag name that is a tag name specified as a keyword, and a tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which the keyword tag name belongs and that is not the top tag name of the tag name tree, is selected from the parent tag names. After specifying a set of tag names that share a tag name and tag names that do not have a shared parent tag name as one tag name string,
a step of creating tag name string data in which the identified tag name string is associated with the parent tag name as condition data;
a step of determining, for each tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tree is arranged on the table from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column;
In each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column, each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree, and its constituent tag names are summarized in one row or one column above the table. form, a step of creating a table arranged by a method that refers to the relevant condition data; In the information where a set of related tag names is given as the information attribute tag name, the input free keyword is the name or the icon of the information found on the text that constitutes the information in the corresponding cell a step of associating and displaying;
A storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the method in the information processing apparatus consisting of: By adding one tag name tree as a separate tag name tree to one constituent tag name of another tag name tree, in a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees, a separate tag name tree In the condition data of the tag name column whose parent tag name is the first tag name of , the tag name of the destination tag that is the tag name of the addition destination of the tree is set,
Each tag name string belonging to the separate tree refers to the condition data in the headword column where each tag name string belonging to the separate tag name tree, which is the tag name tree to which it is attached, is placed. 29. A storage medium storing a control program for implementing the method according to claim 28 by a computer. A set of tag names arranged in the tree descendant position of the keyword tag name, and a set of tag names constituting a tag name tree in which no keyword tag name is specified, and sharing the parent tag name. A table in which a set of tag name strings obtained by adding the identified tag name string to the already obtained tag name string is placed in the headword column. A computer implements the method according to claim 28 or 29, wherein the set of tag names having a second relationship with the set of names displays an information icon to which an information attribute tag name is assigned in association with the corresponding cell. A storage medium storing a control program for If only one tag name consisting of only one tag name is placed on one row or one column in the headword field, remove the row or column and replace the tag name is displayed at a predetermined position outside the table as a common tag name. In response to an open instruction for one cell of the table created as the first table, the tag name column in which the related tag name determined in that cell is registered as condition data, and the keyword tag name is not specified a step of creating a second table obtained by arranging a tag name string obtained from the tag name tree according to a prescribed method as a child table of the first table;
For each cell of the created child table, for the set of related tag names obtained by adding the related tag name determined for the cell given the open instruction in the first table to the related tag name determined for that cell The method according to claim 28, claim 29, or claim 31, wherein an information icon having a set of tag names having a second relationship as information attribute tag names is displayed in association with the corresponding cell. A storage medium storing a control program for implementation. Information is managed in a manner specified by a path name, which is the name of all folders in which the information is stored, and the name of the folder itself with a specific separator, and is specified by a path name. In an information management device that is created and performed as an operation on the device screen for an icon that is an image image determined for each type of information,
Rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, and headword columns in which tag names characterizing information are arranged as headwords are arranged in the laterally adjacent outside and the vertically adjacent outside, respectively. An information management method using a table provided as a horizontal headword column and a vertical headword column,
Receiving a specific instruction for one piece of information associated with one tag name belonging to a combined tag name tree obtained by combining a plurality of tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree, the corresponding combined tag name identifying a tag name tree that does not include an information attribute tag name attached to information as a tagging supplementary tag name tree from among the tag name trees that constitute the tree;
All of the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, or the tag name tree excluding the tag name tree on which the tag name is selectively specified in the specified tagging supplementary tag name tree, is tabulated. identifying as a name tree;
A method in which, for each tag name tree belonging to the table structure tag name tree, a headword column in which each tag name column belonging to the tag name tree is arranged on the table is determined from the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. and a step of creating a table in which each tag name column belonging to the assigned tag name tree is arranged by a predetermined method in each of the horizontal headword column and the vertical headword column. Upon receiving a selection instruction for one cell on the table, a set of all related tag names determined for that cell, or a tag name given a selection instruction in a selection tag name tree is added to the set of all related tag names. A storage medium storing a control program for implementing a method in an information processing apparatus by a computer, comprising a step of adding a set of tag names obtained by the above to an information attribute tag name of information. After specifying an annotated tag name tree whose annotated tag name is the tag name located at the upper level of the path route of the tag name associated with the specified information, assign it to the information in the specified annotated tag name tree 34. A storage medium storing a control program for computer-implementing the method of claim 33, wherein a tag name tree that does not contain an information attribute tag name that has been tagged is identified as a tagged supplemental tag name tree. As the condition data, instead of the parent tag name of the relevant tag name string, or the tag name to which the relevant tag name string is assigned, a path name string representing the path route in the relevant tree of the relevant parent tag name, or A path name string representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding destination tag name is set,
In place of the related tag name, the related full path name obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of the upper path name column representing the path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the corresponding related tag name, or ,
Storing a control program for implementing the method according to claim 28, claim 29, claim 30, claim 31, claim 32, claim 33, and claim 34 in which the corresponding associated tag name is set by a computer storage medium. In the combination tag name tree, create and register a partial tag name tree consisting of a particularly specified tag name, an ancestor tag name of the specified tag name, and a descendant tag name, and then call the registered partial tag name tree 31. A storage medium storing a control program for realizing the method according to claim 28, claim 29, or claim 30, wherein information is extracted by designating a keyword.

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