JP4008679B2 - Information management apparatus and information management system - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is an information management apparatus, in particular, for effectively displaying a plurality of electronic documents having similar contents such as electronic manuals and electronic textbooks, and managing user-added information such as bookmarks and notes set therein. It relates to the information management apparatus.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, user additional information (hereinafter simply referred to as additional information) such as a memo, bookmark, or marker can be attached to an electronic document for the convenience of the user. Conventionally, one of the following methods has been used to realize this.
[0003]
1. A method of modifying the original electronic document by inserting a tag indicating the position of the additional information at a position to add the additional information in the electronic document (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-40236).
2. A method of preparing a database for storing the contents of additional information and its set position without modifying the electronic document itself, and displaying the electronic document and the additional information in combination when displaying them (JP-A-5-73543, etc.).
[0004]
2. This method is also used when different additional information for each individual user is set in a shared document published on the Internet using the WWW (World Wide Web) or the like as in JP 2000-339299 A, for example. It's being used.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, the conventional technique has the following problems.
[Problem 1]
The conventional method has a problem in that the additional information is held in combination with a document in which the additional information is set, and therefore cannot be used when displaying another document having similar contents. For example, it is assumed that a user has an electronic manual for an answering machine called A1 of company A and sets additional information on the electronic manual. When this user newly purchases an answering machine called A2, when the user wants to use the additional information given to the electronic manual of A1 also in the electronic manual of A2, the above conventional method is impossible.
[0006]
[Problem 2]
In an existing Internet environment, similar documents are often distributed and arranged at various sites such that electronic manuals exist at the sites of manufacturers. In such an environment, the server can centrally manage the additional information assigned to the document information at each site, and when accessing the site, a method of displaying the document information and the additional information in combination is considered. There was a problem that additional information could not be reused.
[0009]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The present invention employs the following configuration in order to solve the above-described problems.
<Configuration 1>
In an information management apparatus comprising an additional information storage unit storing user additional information having user-created additional information for a used electronic document and position information including a document name of the electronic document and an additional position in the document, Position information including a document name of a new electronic document similar to the copy source document and an additional information addition position relative to the copy source document and its document name, and position information indicating the addition position of the additional information of the copy source document. An interface unit for inputting corresponding similarity relationship information, and user additional information having a document name and position information matching the document name and position information of the input copy source document are extracted from the additional information storage unit An additional information copy unit, a copy prohibited word storage unit storing words dedicated to individual electronic documents as copy prohibited words, and the extracted user additional information and Including additional position of the additional information in the input copy source document In sentence A copy determining unit that determines whether or not a copy prohibition word in the copy prohibition word storage unit exists and outputs a copy prohibition instruction and a copy permission instruction to the additional information copying unit in response to the presence and absence thereof; The additional information copying unit stops copying when receiving the copy prohibition instruction, and receives the copy permission instruction when the additional information copying unit extracts the additional information of the extracted user additional information from the new electronic document in the similarity relation information. A new user additional information is generated in addition to the position information, and the generated user additional information is stored in the additional information storage unit.
[0018]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail using specific examples.
The following specific examples 1 to 5 are specific examples for solving the conventional [Problem 1], and specific examples 6 and 7 are specific examples for solving the conventional [Problem 2]. is there.
[0019]
<< Specific Example 1 >>
Specific example 1 is a method of copying additional information set for a document that has been used so far so as to be compatible with a newly used document.
[0020]
<Constitution>
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a specific example 1 of the information management apparatus of the present invention.
The apparatus shown in FIG. 1 includes an additional information storage unit 1, an additional information copying unit 2, and an interface unit 3. The additional information storage unit 1 is a functional unit that stores user additional information such as memo information, bookmark information, and marker information set by the user in the document.
[0021]
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of data in the additional information storage unit 1.
In this example, the additional information storage unit 1 includes a user name item, a position information item, an additional information type item, and a memo content item, and one additional information corresponds to one record (from the first record to the first record in the figure). (Refer to the third record).
[0022]
The user name item in FIG. 2 represents the name of the user who created the additional information. For example, in the illustrated example, there are two users, user 1 and user 2. The position information item represents information indicating which position in which file the additional information is set. The position information item is expressed by separating the position information with symbols “:”, “@”, and “#” as shown by “” below.
"Document name +": "+ file name +" @ "+ chapter section number or heading +"#"+ anchor tag name
[0023]
Here, the document name represents a unit such as an instruction manual for the product A, for example. The file name represents each file name when the document is composed of a plurality of files. For example, FIG. 3A described later represents one file in a manual document of a certain telephone. The section number is information indicating a number representing a section in the file. However, if no chapter number is assigned, a heading character string may be used. The anchor tag name is a tag indicating a position in the file. For example, in an HTML document, “ <a name="anchor name">"tag, or, for example, a dedicated tag for additional information as disclosed in JP-A-2000-090050.
[0024]
As long as the position can be specified, the position information item may be only the document name and the file name, or may be represented by a line number or the like instead of the anchor tag. Further, if an anchor tag is not set in the file in advance, for example, an anchor tag may be set for each sentence in the file as preprocessing. However, in this case, when displaying the file and additional information, it is necessary to recalculate the position of the anchor tag and specify the position of the additional information.
[0025]
The additional information type item is information indicating whether the additional information is a memo, a bookmark, or a marker. When the additional information type item is a memo, the memo content is stored in the memo content item. For example, the first record in FIG. 2 indicates that “the content of the memo set by the user 1 is“ This description needs to be checked ”and is set in section 2.3 of the file A1 of the document A”. In the case of a marker, the color information of the marker is also stored in the additional information type item. For example, the second record in FIG. 2 indicates that “the user 1 has set a blue marker in the anchor tag“ number of incoming calls ”in section 2.3 of the file A1 of the document A”. However, the marker or memo may hold not only color information but also other font information such as character size. For example, the third record indicates that “user 2 has set a bookmark in file A5 of document A”.
[0026]
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the settings of the file A1 and user additional information.
The document in the figure is an HTML document. When additional information is combined with the file in FIG. 3A, the font size is 2 under the heading in section 2.3 as shown in FIG. 3B. A tag is inserted so that a red memo “This explanation needs to be checked” is displayed, and a portion of “20 incoming histories can be stored” is displayed in blue. However, the display method of the additional information is not limited to this method, and may be displayed in another frame, for example.
[0027]
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a display example of a bookmark.
In the illustrated example, an HTML document frame is displayed. The left frame is a bookmark display area, and the right frame is a file display area. In FIG. 4, the third record of FIG. 2 is displayed in the bookmark display area. In the bookmark display area, the character string “Abstract Record Setting” is obtained by acquiring the heading character string of the file A5 of the document A from the file A5 and displaying it.
[0028]
Returning to FIG. 1, the additional information copying unit 2 copies the position information stored in the additional information storage unit 1 so as to match a similar document, and adds a new record to the additional information storage unit 1. Part. In the additional information copying unit 2, it is specified by the interface unit 3 which document additional information is copied to match which document.
[0029]
The interface unit 3 is an interface with a user or another device, and receives the following four input contents as inputs.
Input 1: User name that created additional information
Input 2: Document name from which additional information is copied
Input 3: Document name to copy additional information to
Input 4: Similar relationship between files, chapters and sentences between documents
[0030]
For example, if input 1 is “user 1”, input 2 is “document A”, and input 3 is “document B”, then “location information item in additional information storage unit 1 is document A and user name item is user. The additional information “1” should be copied to a position that matches document B ”.
[0031]
The similarity relationship of the input 4 is information representing a relationship between files, chapters, and sentences in which the contents of chapters and headings are similar.
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a similar document.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the similarity relationship.
For example, the file A1 in FIG. 3A is a file in the telephone TEL-A1 manual (document A) of the manufacturer A, and the file B3 in FIG. 5 is a manual (document B) of the telephone TEL-B1 of the manufacturer B. File). FIG. 3A and FIG. 5 can be said to be similar files because both describe a method of displaying an incoming call history. Therefore, in order to express the relationship between the files and chapters, information on the similar relationship shown in FIG. 6 is given. This similarity relationship represents the position information of similar files and chapters in a list format.
[0032]
Individual location information is shown in the following “
“Document name +“: ”+ File name +“ @ ”+ Section number or heading”
And The section number or heading can be omitted, in which case the entire file corresponds to the contents of the other section.
[0033]
The similarity relationship of the input 4 may include relationships other than the copy source and copy destination documents of the additional information. For example, the first record in FIG. 6 is similar to “document A: file A1@2.3”, “document B: file B3 @ incoming call display method”, and “document C: file C1”. Represents.
[0034]
In addition, this similarity relationship creating method may be such that, for a known similar document search system, each chapter section of document A is given to the search text input unit, and the relationship with the chapter section of document B having the highest similarity may be used. The headwords of the chapters of document A and document B may be compared with each other and the relationship with the chapter with the highest similarity may be used. Alternatively, it may be created manually in advance.
[0035]
The information management apparatus of the first specific example is realized by a microcomputer or the like. The additional information storage unit 1 is composed of a storage device such as a hard disk device or a semiconductor memory, and the additional information copying unit 2 is compatible. The interface unit 3 includes an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse, an output device such as a display device and a printing device, or a network interface. .
[0036]
<Operation>
FIG. 7 is an operation flowchart of the first specific example.
Hereinafter, the operation of the specific example 1 will be described with reference to this flowchart. Here, as an example, it is assumed that the user 1 designates copying from the document A to the document B from the interface unit 3 with the additional information storage unit 1 in the state of FIG. However, it is assumed that additional information without an anchor tag is copied to the position information item in the additional information storage unit 1. A copy of the additional information with the anchor tag will be described later in specific example 4. Further, the designated similarity relationship is as shown in FIG. That is, input 1 is user 1, input 2 is document A, input 3 is document B, and input 4 is information shown in FIG.
[0037]
[Step S100]
The additional information copying unit 2 ends when the operations from step S110 to step S140 are executed on all the records in the additional information storage unit 1. Otherwise, go to step S110.
[Step S110]
The additional information copying unit 2 selects one record in the additional information storage unit 1. If the user name item of the record and the document name of the location information item are the same as the user name and the document name specified in the interface unit 3, the process goes to step S120. Otherwise, it is not a process target, so the process returns to step S100 to execute with the next record. If the position information includes an anchor tag, the process returns to step S100 in the same manner, and the next record is executed. For example, the first and second records in FIG. 2 are the user 1 and the document A, which matches the user name and document name specified from the interface unit 3. However, since the second record has an anchor tag, the process returns to step S100. Since the user names of the third record do not match, the process returns to step S100.
[0038]
[Step S120]
It is checked whether the position information item of the record exists in the inputted similarity relationship. If it exists, go to step S130. If it does not exist, the process returns to step S100 to execute with the next record. For example, the first record of FIG. 2 is section 2.3 of the file A1, and it exists in the first record of the similar relationship shown in FIG. 6, so the process goes to step S130.
[0039]
[Step S130]
It is checked whether or not there is the same information as the copy destination document name among all the position information in the relevant record of the similarity relationship detected in step S120. If it exists, go to step S140. If it does not exist, the process returns to step S100 to execute with the next record. For example, in the first record of FIG. 6, “document B: file B3 @ incoming history display method” and “document C: file C1” are similar to “document A: file A1@2.3”. Since the copy destination document is document B, “document B: file B3 @ incoming history display method” is the location information of the copy destination.
[0040]
[Step S140]
A new record is added to the additional information storage unit 1. Each value of the newly added record is copied with the copy source record as it is for the user name, additional information type, and memo content item. The position information item is the position information determined in step S130. As a result, the additional information storage unit 1 is as follows.
[0041]
FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of the additional information storage unit 1 after copying.
As shown in the figure, a record in which the user name, additional information type, and memo content item of the first record are copied is added. Accordingly, the additional information is applied to “the method of displaying the incoming call history of the file B3 of the document B” thereafter.
[0042]
<effect>
As described above, according to the first specific example, the user additional information is copied between similar electronic documents based on the similarity relationship between the documents, so that the memo added to the document used by the user before. By copying user-added information such as a bookmark or a bookmark to another document with similar contents, it is possible to use it without having to input it again.
[0043]
<< Specific Example 2 >>
In the second specific example, the change of the additional information in one document is reflected in the additional information in the other document.
That is, when the previously created additional information is copied in correspondence with another document, for example, even if the content of the copy destination memo is changed, the content of the copy source memo is not changed. However, you may want to change notes to multiple electronic manuals at the same time. Therefore, in the second specific example, such a change in the additional information for one document is also reflected in the additional information for the other document.
[0044]
In this specific example, unlike the specific example 1, when the additional information of a certain document is displayed without generating a new record, the additional information is set in the similar document even if the additional information of the document itself is not included. If so, the display is made with reference to it. For example, when there is a similar relationship between the file A1 of the document A and the file B3 of the document B, the memo attached to the file A1 of the document A is displayed when the file B3 of the document B is displayed.
[0045]
<Constitution>
FIG. 9 is a configuration diagram of the second specific example.
The illustrated information management apparatus includes an additional information storage unit 1, an interface unit 3, a reference destination information storage unit 4, a similarity relationship storage unit 5, an additional information reference unit 6, and a document file storage unit 7. That is, the additional information reference unit 6 is used instead of the additional information copying unit 2 of the first specific example, and the reference destination information storage unit 4, the similarity relationship storage unit 5, and the document file storage unit 7 are newly added.
[0046]
The reference destination information storage unit 4 is a reference destination information storage unit indicating which document has additional information to be referred to when a certain document is displayed.
FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of a data example of the reference destination information storage unit 4.
As shown in the figure, the reference destination information refers to referring to the additional information in the reference destination additional information item when displaying the reference source document. For example, the first record in FIG. 10 indicates that when the user 1 displays the document B, the additional information in the document A is referred to.
[0047]
The similarity relationship storage unit 5 is a storage unit that stores in advance the same relationship as the similarity relationship of the input 4 to the interface unit 3 in the first specific example. The similarity relationship is not limited to the documents A and B, and stores relationships between various documents.
[0048]
The additional information reference unit 6 is a functional unit that uses the records in the reference destination information storage unit 4 and the similarity relationship storage unit 5 to select additional information of another similar document suitable for the additional information of a certain document. That is, based on the similarity relationship of the additional information reference unit 6, which user additional information is shared with respect to the target document between similar documents based on the reference destination information in the reference destination information storage unit 4. It is a function part to determine.
[0049]
The document file storage unit 7 is a storage unit that stores, for example, the document file as shown in FIG. Further, in the interface unit 3 of the specific example 2, as input, a user name that has issued a display request and a file name that the user wants to display are specified. Note that the additional information storage unit 1 is the same as that of the first specific example, and thus the description thereof is omitted.
[0050]
Note that the reference destination information storage unit 4, the similarity relationship storage unit 5, and the document file storage unit 7 in the information management apparatus of the specific example 2 include a storage device such as a hard disk device or a semiconductor memory, and the additional information reference unit 6 includes , And corresponding software and hardware that executes the software.
[0051]
<Operation>
Since specific example 2 is executed when a document is displayed, the additional information referred to is different between the case of displaying a bookmark and the case of displaying a file. When the bookmark is displayed as shown in FIG. 4, the additional information type item of the additional information storage unit 1 refers to the record of the bookmark, and when the file is displayed, the record whose additional information type item is a memo or a marker is referred to. To do.
[0052]
FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the second specific example.
Consider a situation in which a bookmark or a specific file is displayed by input from the interface unit 3. As an example, a situation in which the additional information storage unit 1, the reference destination information storage unit 4, and the similarity relationship storage unit 5 display the file B3 of the document B to the user 1 in the states of FIGS. 2, 10, and 6 will be described. To do.
[0053]
[Step S200]
The additional information reference unit 6 refers to the reference destination information storage unit 4 and checks whether or not the specified document exists in the reference source document item for the specified user. That is, in this case, the reference destination information storage unit 4 checks whether the item of the document B as the reference source document exists by the user 1. If it exists, the additional information of the reference destination additional information item is also displayed. For example, since the reference source document of the first record in FIG. 10 is document B, the additional information of the reference destination additional information item “document A” is also displayed.
[0054]
[Step S210]
The additional information reference unit 6 proceeds to step S270 when the operations from step S220 to step S260 are executed for all the records in the additional information storage unit 1. Otherwise, go to step S220.
[0055]
[Step S220]
One record in the additional information storage unit 1 is selected. If the additional type of the record is a bookmark and the current bookmark is displayed, the process goes to step S230. Alternatively, if the additional information type of the record is a memo or a marker and the current file is displayed, the process goes to step S230. Otherwise, the situation does not match the additional information type, so the process returns to step S210 and is executed with the next record. For example, in the situation where the file B3 of the document B is displayed, only the record whose additional information type is a memo or marker is targeted. In FIG. 2, since the first record is a memo, processing is initially performed on this record.
[0056]
[Step S230]
If the user name item of the record and the document name of the position information item are the same as the user name and the document name specified in the interface unit 3, the process goes to step S260 to display it as it is. Designated The document name is determined in step S200. Referrer If it is the same as the document, go to step S240. If not, the process returns to step S210 to execute with the next record. For example, in FIG. User additional information The first record is user 1 and document A, which is the document specified in step S200. Reference document A of B Therefore, the process after step S240 is executed on this record instead of step S260.
[0057]
[Step S240]
Similar to step S120 of specific example 1, Referrer information The position of News It is checked whether or not it exists in the similarity relationship storage unit 5. If it exists, go to step S250. If it does not exist, the process returns to step S210 to execute with the next record. For example, the position information of the first record in FIG. 2 is section 2.3 of the file A1, Corresponding document B position information Exists in FIG. 6, so go to step S250.
[0058]
[Step S250]
It is checked whether or not there is the same display file specified by the interface unit 3 among all the positional information in the record of the similarity storage unit 5 detected in step S240. If it exists, go to step S260. If it does not exist, the process returns to step S210 to execute with the next record. For example, in the first record of FIG. 6, “document B: file B3 @ incoming history display method” and “document C: file C1” are similar to “document A: file A1@2.3”. Of these two pieces of position information, the display file designated by the interface unit 3 is the file B3 of the document B, so the memo of the first record in FIG. 2 is placed at the position of “document B: file B3 @ incoming history display method”. Decide to insert content.
[0059]
On the other hand, in the situation where the bookmark is displayed, whether or not there is a match with the document name specified by the interface unit 3 among all the position information in the record of the similarity storage unit 5 detected in step S240. Check out. For example, in the case of the user 2, since the bookmark is added to the file A5 of the document A in the third record of FIG. 2, the bookmark is also added to the file B7 of the document B due to the similarity of the second record of FIG. It is considered.
[0060]
[Step S260]
The additional information is displayed. Returning to step S210, the next record is executed.
[Step S270]
If the file is displayed, the interface unit 3 refers to the document file storage unit 7 and simultaneously displays the display file specified in the interface unit 3 and the additional information specified in step S260. The results are as follows.
[0061]
FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of a document in which additional information is combined.
As shown in the figure, the memory contents are inserted at the position of the display method of the incoming history of the file B3 of the document B which is the reference source document. If the bookmark is being displayed, the bookmark to be displayed is displayed.
[0062]
<effect>
As described above, according to the specific example 2, since the additional information common to similar documents is used, when the additional information is changed from one document, the additional information of the other document is also changed. Can be reflected.
[0063]
<< Specific Example 3 >>
In the third specific example, conditions are set when additional information is copied. That is, depending on the additional information, it may not be useful in another document. In such a case, it is desirable not to copy.
[0064]
FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram of an example of a file having an anchor tag.
FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of additional information for such a file.
For example, as shown in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-90050, when an anchor tag is inserted in advance at a position where a memo or the like can be added to a document, it is possible to specify position information finely in units of sentences. For example, as shown in FIG. In a document in which an anchor tag is set such as <A name="Supplementary explanation 1">", as in the second record of the additional information in FIG. A memo or the like can be specified in the <A name="Supplemental explanation 5"> tag. Although this second record describes Step.2 of file A1 in FIG. 13, this information is limited to document A and is not useful even if copied.
[0065]
Therefore, in specific example 3, it is determined whether or not to copy each memo under the following conditions (1) and (2), for example.
● Condition (1)
When the memo content does not include a word indicating the content in the text (for example, “Step” is a word indicating the content, as in memo content “No confirmation message is issued in step 2, so deletion is necessary”) And
[0066]
● Condition (2)
Copy when the memo is attached to the headline, or copy when the sentence head including the anchor tag with the memo is not a word representing an operation such as “step”.
[0067]
<Constitution>
FIG. 15 is a configuration diagram of the third specific example.
The apparatus shown in FIG. 1 includes an additional information storage unit 1, an additional information copying unit 2, an interface unit 3, a copy determination unit 8, and a copy prohibition word storage unit 9. Here, since the additional information storage unit 1 to the interface unit 3 are the same as the configuration of the first specific example, the description thereof is omitted here.
[0068]
The copy determination unit 8 is a functional unit that determines whether or not to copy the memo information by checking the contents of the memo and the position where the memo is attached in accordance with the above conditions (1) and (2). The copy prohibition word storage unit 9 is a storage unit for storing such a word (copy prohibition word) so as not to copy a memo including a word indicating the contents in the text like the character string “step”. is there.
[0069]
FIG. 16 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the copy prohibition word storage unit 9.
Here, “step” and “this operation” are stored as character strings for which copying is prohibited. Accordingly, the copy determination unit 8 does not copy a memo including these character strings.
[0070]
The interface unit 3 is the same interface unit 3 as in the specific example 1, but the input 2 in the specific example 3 is the document itself as a copy source of the additional information. This is because the copy determination unit 8 needs to check the contents of the document in order to check the contents and position of the memo.
[0071]
The copy prohibition word storage unit 9 in the information management apparatus of the specific example 3 is composed of a storage device such as a hard disk device or a semiconductor memory, and the copy determination unit 8 is composed of corresponding software and hardware for executing the same. Has been.
[0072]
<Operation>
FIG. 17 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the third specific example.
Hereinafter, the operation will be described with reference to this flowchart. First, it is assumed that a user name, a copy source document, and a copy destination document name are specified from the interface unit 3. As an example, it is assumed that the user 1 copies additional information from the document A to the document B in the state shown in FIGS. 14 and 6 when the input 4 to the additional information storage unit 1 and the interface unit 3 respectively.
[0073]
In FIG. 17, the processing in step S100 and the processing after step S120 are the same as those in specific example 1. In specific example 3, the following processing is added between steps S100 and S120.
[0074]
[Step S300]
The additional information copying unit 2 selects one record in the additional information storage unit 1. If the user name item of the record and the document name of the position information item are the same as the user name and document name specified in the interface unit 3, the process proceeds to step S310. Otherwise, it is not a process target, so the process returns to step S100 and is executed with the next record.
[0075]
[Step S310]
The additional information copying unit 2 checks whether the additional information item of the additional information is a memo. If it is a memo, go to step S320. Otherwise, go to step S120 and perform the same processing as in the first specific example.
[0076]
[Step S320]
The copy determination unit 8 checks the memo content item of the additional information. If the memo content item includes a character string stored in the copy prohibition word storage unit 9, the process returns to step S100 to execute with the next record. Otherwise, go to step S330. For example, in FIG. 14, the first and third records do not include the character string “step” or “this operation” in the copy prohibition word storage unit 9, so the process goes to step S 330. On the other hand, since the second record includes the copy prohibition word “step”, the process returns to step S100.
[0077]
[Step S330]
The copy determination unit 8 checks whether the position information of the memo is added to the heading. Whether it is a headline is determined as follows.
For the location information, as in “Document A: File A1@2.3” or “File B3 incoming call history display method”, “@” is added after the file name. is there.
If it is determined that the heading, the process proceeds to step S120. Otherwise, go to step S340. For example, since there is no “#” in the first record in FIG. 14, the process goes to step S120. Since there is “#” in the third record, the process goes to step S340.
[0078]
[Step S340]
The copy determining unit 8 examines the copy source document and examines whether a word representing an operation such as “step” or “Step” exists at the head of the sentence including the anchor tag to which the memo is attached. If it exists, the process returns to step S100 to execute with the next record. Otherwise, go to step S120. For example, the third record in FIG. In FIG. 13 corresponding to Is “[Step.3] <A name=“Supplementary explanation 6”> Take the receiver. </A>”, and since there is a word “Step” at the head, it is not copied.
[0079]
<effect>
As described above, according to the third specific example, when copying additional information, a character string that is not to be copied is specified, and if the character string is included, the additional information is not copied. Depending on the content, only necessary memos can be copied.
[0080]
<< Specific Example 4 >>
Specific example 4 is such that a correspondence relationship is detected between sentences of similar documents, and the additional information specified by the anchor tag can be copied to the correct position.
For example, even if the position is specified by the anchor tag as in the second record in FIG. 14, the corresponding sentence is not known in the copy destination document, so that all can be copied to the headline position. However, if a corresponding sentence can be found between the copy source document and the copy destination document, the memory can be copied to an accurate location. For example, “20 incoming call histories can be stored” in FIG. 3 and “up to 30 incoming phone numbers can be stored” in FIG. 5 have similar contents. If these sentences are associated, they can be copied to desired positions. Therefore, in the fourth specific example, a correspondence relationship is detected between sentences of similar documents so that the additional information specified by the anchor tag can be copied to the correct position.
[0081]
<Constitution>
FIG. 18 is a configuration diagram of the fourth specific example.
The apparatus shown in the figure includes an additional information storage unit 1, an additional information copying unit 2, an interface unit 3, a copy determination unit 8, a copy prohibition word storage unit 9, a similar sentence determination unit 10, a synonym dictionary storage unit 11, and an anchor addition unit 12. Become. Here, since the additional information storage unit 1 to the copy prohibition word storage unit 9 have the same configuration as that of the third specific example, description thereof is omitted here.
[0082]
The similar sentence determination unit 10 is a functional unit that finds a similar sentence between the copy source document and the copy destination document when the position of the memo or marker is specified by the anchor tag. The synonym dictionary storage unit 11 is a storage unit that stores synonyms between documents for determining whether or not a synonym exists between a copy source document and a copy destination document.
[0083]
FIG. 19 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of the synonym dictionary storage unit 11.
In this example, the difference between words for each manufacturer that created the document is stored. For example, the first record includes the word “incoming” in the document of manufacturer A and the word “incoming” in the document of manufacturer B. "Telephone" is synonymous. The synonym dictionary storage unit 11 may store a word difference for each document instead of for each manufacturer.
[0084]
The anchor adding unit 12 has a function of appropriately adding an anchor tag such as, for example, performing sentence separation on a copy destination document and adding an anchor tag for each sentence when the copy destination document does not have an anchor tag. Part.
[0085]
The interface unit 3 is the same interface unit 3 as in the specific example 1, but the input 2 and the input 3 in the specific example 4 are the copy source document itself and the copy destination document itself of the additional information, respectively. This is because the similar sentence determination unit 10 needs to detect the correspondence between sentences. Further, when the synonym dictionary storage unit 11 stores a difference in word for each manufacturer that created the document, a document attribute indicating which manufacturer's document the copy source document and the copy destination document are. Is also necessary.
[0086]
The synonym dictionary storage unit 11 in the information management apparatus of the specific example 4 includes a storage device such as a hard disk device or a semiconductor memory, and the similar sentence determination unit 10 and the anchor addition unit 12 execute corresponding software and this. Configured with hardware.
[0087]
<Operation>
Hereinafter, the operation of the specific example 4 will be described.
FIG. 20 is an operation flowchart of the fourth specific example.
In the fourth specific example, unlike the first specific example, even if the record includes the anchor tag in the position information, the copy process is performed so as to maintain the anchor position. Therefore, the step S400 is executed instead of the step S110 in the first specific example. To do. In the specific example 4, it is assumed that the additional information storage unit 1 stores the following additional information.
FIG. 21 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of the additional information storage unit 1 according to the fourth specific example.
[0088]
[Step S400]
The additional information copying unit 2 selects one record in the additional information storage unit 1. If the user name item of the record and the document name of the position information item are the same as the user name and document name specified in the interface unit 3, the process goes to step S120. Otherwise, it is not a process target, so the process returns to step S100 and is executed with the next record.
[0089]
Moreover, in the specific example 4, instead of step S140 in the specific example 1, steps S410 to S450 described below are executed. In the following description, as an example, a case where the additional information of the file A1 of the manufacturer A (see FIG. 13) is copied to the file B3 of the manufacturer B (see FIG. 5) will be described.
[0090]
[Step S410]
If the position information item of the additional information is designated by the anchor tag, the additional information copying unit 2 goes to step S420. Otherwise, the process for determining the position corresponding to the anchor tag is unnecessary, and the process goes to step S450.
[0091]
[Step S420]
The similar sentence determination unit 10 refers to the copy source document input from the interface unit 3 and acquires a sentence surrounded by anchor tags. For example, in the second record in FIG. 21, supplementary explanation 1 “20 incoming call histories can be stored” in FIG. 13 is acquired.
[0092]
[Step S430]
The similar sentence determination unit 10 calculates the similarity between each sentence of the copy destination document and the sentence acquired in step S420. First, the anchor adding unit 12 performs sentence separation on the copy destination document and attaches an anchor tag to each sentence. For example, the file B3 is delimited as follows.
[0093]
FIG. 22 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a processing example of the similar sentence determination unit 10.
As shown in (a) sentence delimiter result of file B3 in the figure, file B3 is delimited into the first sentence to the fifth sentence.
[0094]
[Step S440]
The similar sentence determination unit 10 compares the degree of similarity between the sentence acquired in step S420 and each sentence in step S430. The sentence obtained in step S420 and each sentence in step S430 are morphologically analyzed to find a sentence with the largest number of matched words. If the number of matched words exceeds a threshold value, the sentence is regarded as a similar sentence. At that time, the synonyms in the synonym dictionary storage unit 11 are regarded as matching. For example, each sentence is divided into words as shown in FIG. Of these, the first sentence includes words in the synonym dictionary storage unit 11 shown in FIG. 19, so these are also counted as matched words. Among all the sentences, the first sentence has the most words that match the result of FIG. 22 (c). Therefore, the first sentence is a similar sentence (however, the threshold value is the number of words × 0.5 ≦ number of matched words). And). In (b), the underlined word matches the word extraction result of the file A1.
[0095]
[Step S450]
The additional information copying unit 2 adds a new record to the additional information storage unit 1. Each value of the newly added record is copied with the copy source record as it is for the user name, additional information type, and memo content item. The position information item is the position information determined in step S130. Further, when the position information is designated by an anchor tag, the anchor is a similar sentence determined in step S430. As a result, the location information item of the record to be added is “File B3 @ Incoming History Display Method #” <a name="file B3-1">"
[0096]
Note that the determination process for determining whether or not to perform copying by the copy determination unit 8 and the copy prohibition word storage unit 9 is the same as in the third specific example, and thus description thereof is omitted here.
[0097]
<effect>
As described above, according to the fourth specific example, even when additional information is set using an anchor tag, the additional information can be copied.
[0098]
<< Specific Example 5 >>
In each of the above specific examples, only the bookmark registered in the additional information storage unit 1 is copied, but it is not necessarily limited thereto. A file that has been bookmarked for a certain period in the past contains an explanation that interests the user, and it can be regarded that the bookmark has been deleted because the user has understood the explanation. Since these bookmarks are functions with high user interest, it is effective to bookmark in advance when a new product is newly purchased.
Therefore, in the fifth specific example, a bookmark registered for a certain period in the past is copied to enable automatic setting of a bookmark for a function that is highly interested by the user.
[0099]
<Constitution>
FIG. 23 is a configuration diagram of the fifth specific example.
The apparatus shown in the figure includes an additional information storage unit 1a, an additional information copying unit 2, an interface unit 3, a copy determining unit 8a, and a bookmark history storage unit 13. Here, the basic configuration of the additional information copying unit 2 and the interface unit 3 is the same as in the first specific example. Further, the additional information storage unit 1a is the same as that of the specific example 1 except that the bookmark information is not stored. Further, the copy determination unit 8a is configured to find a bookmark that is set for a certain period (for example, six months) or more, or that is currently set, and set that bookmark as a copy target.
[0100]
The bookmark history storage unit 13 includes a storage device such as a hard disk device or a semiconductor memory, and is a storage unit for storing bookmarks assigned in the past.
FIG. 24 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of the bookmark history storage unit 13.
As shown in the figure, the bookmark history storage unit 13 includes items of a user name, position information, a set date, and a delete date, and is configured to store bookmark information set or deleted by the user in the past. In FIG. 24, the user name and position information have the same meaning as the items in the additional information storage unit 1. The set date and the delete date represent the date when the bookmark is set and the date when the bookmark is deleted. A record whose deletion date is blank indicates that it is still valid. In this specific example, the bookmark information is not stored in the additional information storage unit 1 in order to prevent the bookmark information from being redundantly stored in the additional information storage unit 1.
[0101]
<Operation>
FIG. 25 is an operation flowchart of the fifth specific example.
Specific example 5 is a subroutine executed immediately before the end of specific example 1. As an example, assume that the bookmark shown in FIG. 24 is copied.
[0102]
[Step S500]
The additional information copying unit 2 ends when the following operation is performed on all the records in the bookmark history storage unit 13. Otherwise, go to step S510.
[0103]
[Step S510]
Processing similar to that in step S110 is performed. However, it goes to step S520 instead of going to step S120.
[0104]
[Step S520]
The copy determination unit 8 checks whether the bookmark is still valid or has been registered for a certain period in the past. If it is in the bookmark history storage unit 13 and the deletion date is blank or the deletion date-setting date is 6 months or more, the process goes to step S530. If not, the process returns to step S500 to execute with the next record. For example, in FIG. 24, the process goes to step S530 for the second record and the third record.
[0105]
[Step S530 to Step S550]
Since these steps perform the same processing as steps S120 to S140 in the first specific example, description thereof is omitted here.
[0106]
<effect>
As described above, according to the fifth specific example, it is possible to set a bookmark at a position where the user will be interested from information in which a bookmark has been set for a certain period in the past.
[0107]
<< Specific Example 6 >>
In specific example 6, the same copy function as in specific example 1 is applied to a document published on the network.
As a usage situation of this technology, it is first assumed that there is a site that centrally manages links to electronic manual documents that are distributed in various manufacturers and publisher sites. The user can select only the manual he / she wants to see from the links managed on this site, and can add a memo or bookmark to the manual document. Then, when the user newly wants to refer to another manual document, the memo and bookmark information are copied using the technique of the first specific example.
[0108]
<Constitution>
FIG. 26 is a configuration diagram of the sixth specific example.
The illustrated system includes a server 100, a network 200, a client 300, and manufacturer sites 400 and 401.
[0109]
The server 100 is a server computer that manages additional information for various similar documents. As an information management device, the server 100 includes an additional information storage unit 101, a similarity relationship storage unit 102, an additional information copying unit 103, a site list storage unit 104, a user menu. An information storage unit 105, a user authentication information storage unit 106, a control unit 107, a document shaping unit 108, and a communication unit 109 are provided.
[0110]
The contents of the additional information storage unit 101 and the similarity relationship storage unit 102 have the same structure as that of the additional information storage unit 1 and the similarity relationship storage unit 5 of Example 2 except that the file position information is a URL.
27 and 28 are explanatory diagrams illustrating examples of the additional information storage unit 101 and the similarity relationship storage unit 102, respectively.
As shown in FIG. 27, the location information of the additional information storage unit 101 is a URL. As shown in FIG. 28, the similarity relationship storage unit 102 represents the list format shown in FIG.
[0111]
The additional information copying unit 103 has the same function as the additional information copying unit 2 in the first specific example. That is, it is a functional unit that refers to the site list storage unit 104 based on information in the similarity relationship storage unit 102 or information in the user menu information storage unit 105 and copies user additional information between similar documents.
[0112]
The site list storage unit 104 is a storage unit for managing addresses of top pages such as manuals and electronic textbooks in various manufacturers and publisher sites.
FIG. 29 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of the site list storage unit 104.
As shown in the figure, the site list storage unit 104 includes items of ID, manufacturer name, type, product, and top page of the document. For example, the first record is “Manual document of telephone TEL-A1 of company A” http://a.com/tla1/index.html ”.
[0113]
The user menu information storage unit 105 manages product names registered in advance by the user in order to display a menu that can select only the products that the user is interested in among the products managed by the site list storage unit 104. It is a storage part.
FIG. 30 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of the user menu information storage unit 105.
In this example, among the five records in FIG. 29, two records “TEL-A1” and “TV-C1” are selected for the user 1. The menu display to the user 1 in FIG. 30 is as shown in FIG.
[0114]
The user authentication information storage unit 106 is a storage unit that manages a user ID and a password in order to authenticate a logged-in user.
The control unit 107 is a functional unit that controls the entire server such as user authentication and determining contents to be displayed to the user.
The document shaping unit 108 is a functional unit that creates a menu page, acquires a file from another site, and creates a file combined with additional information. In addition, the partner terminal has a function of changing documents of other manufacturer sites 400 and 401 according to the display capability of a page such as a PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) or a personal computer.
The communication unit 109 is an interface for communicating with the client 300 and other manufacturer sites 400 and 401 via the network 200.
[0115]
Specific examples 6 The additional information storage unit 101, the similarity relationship storage unit 102, the site list storage unit 104, the user menu information storage unit 105, and the user authentication information storage unit 106 in the server of FIG. The additional information copying unit 103, the control unit 107, and the document shaping unit 108 are configured by corresponding software and hardware for executing the software.
[0116]
The network 200 is, for example, the Internet, but any type of protocol, topology, transmission medium, etc. may be used.
The client 300 is an information terminal such as a personal computer, a PDA, or a mobile phone owned by the user, and has a communication function that enables communication via the network 200. The client 300 includes a communication unit 301 and a user interface unit 302. The communication unit 301 is a network interface for communicating with the server 100 and other manufacturer sites 400 and 401 via the network 200. The user interface unit 302 is, for example, a display device for various files such as a WWW browser, a dedicated document, and an image.
[0117]
The manufacturer sites 400 and 401 are sites configured to manage documents such as electronic manuals and transmit records of documents to the server 100 and the client 300 via the network 200 in response to requests.
[0118]
<Operation>
First, when there is a login request from the user, the control unit 107 requests the user to input a user ID and a password, and refers to the user authentication information storage unit 106 to perform user authentication. If the authentication is successful, the document shaping unit 108 creates a menu page suitable for the logged-in user. At that time, the user menu information storage unit 105 and the site list storage unit 104 are referred to. For user 1, the following menu page is created.
[0119]
FIG. 31 is an explanatory diagram showing a display example of a page.
Here, (a) shows a menu page, (b) shows a menu registration page, and (c) shows a menu registration page after the confirmation button is pressed.
As described above, the menu page when the document shaping unit 108 creates a menu page suitable for the logged-in user is as shown in FIG. In FIG. 31A, the underlined portion is a link. The link is made so that the server 100 can request the top page “http://a.com/tla1/index.html” of the product and its additional information. When “TEL-A1 (Company A)” is pressed, the control unit 107 first acquires the top page “http://a.com/tla1/index.html” of “TEL-A1” from the manufacturer site A. . Next, the additional information storage unit 101 is referred to, and if a bookmark is set for the product, it is also displayed. If there is additional information such as a memo or marker on the page, it is also displayed.
[0120]
FIG. 32 is an explanatory diagram showing a display example of the top page of the product TEL-A1.
As shown in the figure, a bookmark is set for the product, such as the third record in FIG. A memo as shown in the second record is set.
In addition, when “when changing menu” in FIG. 31 is pressed, the document shaping unit 108 displays all products with reference to the site list storage unit 104, and products registered in the user menu information storage unit 105. Create a file to add a check to. When the site list storage unit 104 and the user menu information storage unit 105 have contents as shown in FIGS. 29 and 30, respectively, a menu registration page shown in FIG. 31B is created.
[0121]
The copy function of additional information is executed when a new product name is added to the menu from the menu registration page of FIG. When the user newly checks “TEL-B1 (Company B)” and presses the confirm button as shown in FIG. 31C, the control unit 107 adds additional information. Copy unit 103 Start up. Additional information Copy unit 103 The operation of is as follows.
[0122]
<Step 1>
For example, since additional information may be attached to a plurality of products even on a television alone, it is determined which product additional information is to be copied. As a condition for determining the copy source additional information, at least the type items in the site list storage unit 104 must be the same. On that basis, for example, one that meets any of the following conditions is selected.
[0123]
[Condition 1] A product document recently accessed by the user among items registered in the user menu information storage unit 105. For example, when the user has registered two telephones TEL-A1 and TEL-B2, it is assumed that TEL-B1 is newly registered. In this case, TEL-A1 and TEL-B 2 Of those who recently accessed Electronic document user Additional information Choice To do.
[0124]
[Condition 2] Documents from the same manufacturer. For example, when the user has registered two telephones TEL-A1 and TEL-B2, it is assumed that TEL-B1 is newly registered. In this case, TEL-B1 and TEL-B2 are the same manufacturer. Electronic document user Additional information Choice To do.
[0125]
[Condition 3] Since it can be determined that the similarity between documents having the most similar relationships stored in the similar relationship storage unit 102 is high, such seven documents. For example, when the user has registered two telephones TEL-A1 and TEL-B2, it is assumed that TEL-B1 is additionally registered. Here, it is assumed that the similar relationship storage unit 102 stores the following similar relationship information.
FIG. 33 is an explanatory diagram of an example of the similarity relationship storage unit 102.
When there is such a similar relationship, there are four similar relationships between TEL-A1 and TEL-B1, and there are seven similar relationships between TEL-B1 and TEL-B2. Electronic document user Additional information Choice To do.
[0126]
As shown in FIG. 31C, when the user newly checks “TEL-B1 (Company B)”, the type item in FIG. phone "" Is only "TEL-A1", so that is the copy source product.
[0127]
<Step 2>
Using the product name determined by the above operation as the copy source, the processing from step S100 of the first specific example is executed. That is, the user name is user 1, the copy source is “TEL-A1”, the copy destination is “TEL-B1 (Company B)”, and the similar relationship is input to each information in the similar relationship storage unit 102, and the additional information storage unit 101 is input. For each record, it is determined whether or not the additional information is to be copied, and a copy process is performed if applicable. Then, the control unit 107 outputs the result to the network 200 via the communication unit 109, and the client 300 receives the result.
[0128]
<effect>
As described above, according to the specific example 6, it is possible to copy additional information for similar documents published on the network.
[0129]
<< Specific Example 7 >>
In specific example 7, the same function as in specific example 2 is applied to a document published on the network.
[0130]
<Constitution>
FIG. 34 is a configuration diagram of the seventh specific example.
In the seventh specific example, a reference destination information storage unit 110 is added to the components of the sixth specific example, and the additional information copying unit 103 is replaced with the additional information reference unit 111. The reference destination information storage unit 110 has the same configuration as the reference destination information storage unit 4 in the second specific example.
FIG. 35 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of the reference destination information storage unit 110.
As shown in the drawing, the reference source document item and the reference destination additional information item are the same as those in the reference destination information storage unit 4 in the specific example 2 except that the product name is used as the product name. Further, the additional information reference unit 111 has the same function as the additional information reference unit 6 of the second specific example. That is, the additional information reference unit 111 of the specific example 7 is based on the information in the similarity relationship storage unit 102 or the information in the user menu information storage unit 105 and refers to the reference destination information in the reference destination information storage unit 110 to It is configured to determine which user additional information is shared for the document designated by.
[0131]
<Operation>
Hereinafter, the operation of the specific example 7 will be described. In addition, it demonstrates centering on difference with the specific example 6. FIG.
The operation of the specific example 7 is different from the operation of the specific example 6 when the menu is changed and when the file is displayed.
[0132]
[When changing menus]
In FIG. 31C described above, when a new product is checked and the confirm button is pressed, the additional information reference unit 111 adds a record to the reference destination information storage unit 110. The reference source document in the reference destination information storage unit 110 is a newly checked product. The reference destination additional information item is a product name determined by the same method as in <Step 1> of specific example 6.
[0133]
[When displaying a file]
As shown in FIG. 31A, assume that the user presses “TEL-B1” on the menu page for selecting a product. The control unit 107 acquires the top page “http://b.com/tlb1/index.html” of “TEL-B1” from the manufacturer site B. Next, the additional information reference unit 111 refers to the reference destination information storage unit 110 and determines which additional information is combined. When the reference destination information storage unit 110 is shown in FIG. 35, the additional information “TEL-A1” is used as the additional information “TEL-B1”. The subsequent processing is the same as that after step S200 in the second specific example. That is, the user name is user 1 and the display file name is “TEL-B1”, and the additional information reference unit 111 determines whether or not to refer to the additional information for each record in the additional information storage unit 101. judge. Then, the control unit 107 acquires the corresponding file from the manufacturer sites 400 and 401, copies the additional information, and outputs it to the client 300 via the communication unit 109 on the network 200.
[0134]
<effect>
As described above, according to Specific Example 7, it is possible to share additional information between similar documents published on the network.
[0135]
<< Usage form >>
(1) Specific examples 3 to 5 are modifications to specific example 1, but in these cases, the method for determining whether or not to copy each memo, and the position of additional information are specified by tags. The present invention relates to a copying method when the bookmark has been copied and a determination method for determining whether or not to copy a bookmark. Accordingly, in combination with the specific example 2, a method for determining whether or not to refer to a memo, a method for referring to additional information when the position of the additional information is specified by a tag, and a method for determining whether or not to refer to a bookmark, respectively. Can be replaced. In this case, the additional information copying unit 2 in the specific examples 3 to 5 is replaced with the additional information reference unit, and the copy determination units 8 and 8a determine whether or not to refer to the additional information.
[0136]
(2) The specific examples 3 to 5 can be applied in combination with the specific examples 6 and 7 even when a network is used.
(3) In the specific example 4, the method for determining the similarity between sentences uses the word matching rate, but another method is also possible. For example, syntax analysis may be performed, and a similar sentence may be determined when the subject and the predicate match.
(4) In specific examples 6 and 7, document files such as electronic manuals and electronic textbooks are managed at the maker sites 400 and 401. However, the server 100 may manage these document files.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a specific example 1 of an information management apparatus of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of data stored in an additional information storage unit;
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing setting contents of a file A1 and user additional information.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a display example of a bookmark.
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a similar document.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a similarity relationship.
FIG. 7 is an operation flowchart of specific example 1;
FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of an additional information storage unit after copying.
FIG. 9 is a block diagram of a specific example 2;
FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of a data example of a reference destination information storage unit.
FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the operation of the specific example 2;
FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of a document in which additional information is combined.
FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram of an example of a file having an anchor tag.
FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram of additional information for a file with an anchor tag.
FIG. 15 is a configuration diagram of specific example 3;
FIG. 16 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a copy prohibited word storage unit;
FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing the operation of the specific example 3;
FIG. 18 is a configuration diagram of specific example 4;
FIG. 19 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a synonym dictionary storage unit;
FIG. 20 is an operation flowchart of specific example 4;
FIG. 21 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of an additional information storage unit according to specific example 4;
FIG. 22 is an explanatory diagram showing a processing example of the similar sentence determination unit 10;
FIG. 23 is a block diagram of a specific example 5;
FIG. 24 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a bookmark history storage unit;
FIG. 25 is an operation flowchart of specific example 5;
FIG. 26 is a configuration diagram of specific example 6;
FIG. 27 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of an additional information storage unit;
FIG. 28 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a similarity relationship storage unit;
FIG. 29 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a site list storage unit;
FIG. 30 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a user menu information storage unit;
FIG. 31 is an explanatory diagram of a display example of a page.
FIG. 32 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a display example of a top page of a manual.
FIG. 33 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a similarity relationship storage unit;
FIG. 34 is a configuration diagram of specific example 7;
FIG. 35 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a reference destination information storage unit;
[Explanation of symbols]
1, 1a, 101 Additional information storage unit
2,103 Additional information copy section
3 Interface section
4,110 Reference information storage unit
5, 102 Similarity relationship storage unit
6, 111 Additional information reference section
7 Document file storage
8, 8a Copy judgment section
9 Copy prohibited word storage
10 Similar sentence judgment part
11 Thesaurus dictionary storage
12 Anchor addition part
13 Bookmark history storage
100 servers
104 Site list storage
105 User menu information storage unit
107 Control unit
200 network
300 clients
400, 401 Manufacturer site

Claims (1)

In an information management apparatus comprising an additional information storage unit storing user additional information having user-created additional information for a used electronic document and position information including a document name of the electronic document and an additional position in the document,
Position information including a document name of a new electronic document similar to the copy source document and an additional information addition position relative to the copy source document and its document name, and position information indicating the addition position of the additional information of the copy source document. An interface unit for inputting corresponding similarity information;
An additional information copying unit that extracts user additional information having a document name and position information that matches the document name and position information of the input copy source document from the additional information storage unit;
A copy prohibition word storage unit storing words dedicated to individual electronic documents as copy prohibition words;
Determines whether copy inhibition words of the copy inhibit word storing unit against the sentence containing the additional position of the additional information in the extracted user additional information and the input copy source document exists, the presence and absence A copy determining unit that outputs a copy prohibition instruction and a copy permission instruction to the additional information copying unit in correspondence with
When the copy prohibition instruction is received, the additional information copying unit stops copying. When the copy permission instruction is received, the additional information copying unit converts the additional information of the extracted user additional information into position information of the new electronic document in the similarity relation information. In addition to generating new user additional information, the generated user additional information is stored in the additional information storage unit.
An information management apparatus characterized by that.

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