JPH09204351A - Screen transition method using link information with memory - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To collect, store and retrieve job know-how by storing the using history of a link in a memory to decide importance to vary the display of the link on a screen according to importance to allow a user to select the link according to the changed display on the link. SOLUTION: A history control part 1008 tracks link information 1012 with a memory from link ID of specified link information to read component information and an anchor information. In an anchor control table, a memory showing which link is used in the past is prepared in addition to information irreducibly minimum for anchoring. A document generation part 1009 calls a data object existing on a recording medium 1013 based on an instruction from a link control part 1007 to store in an internal memory and constitutes an anchor on the memory to output the data object and the anchor.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a computer system that is useful in supporting a business that requires a manual or in training and training thereof, and more particularly to a screen transition method of a display screen in the system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As prior arts relating to the present invention, conventional arts of hypertext and hypermedia, structuring of hypertexts, help function as prior art of electronic manual system, and history utilization technology will be described below.

(1) Hypertext, hypermedia: The terms hypertext and hypermedia are often used in a broad concept, but here, as a technique for handling information by a computer, they are used in the following meanings. Jeff Conklin, "Hypertex
t: An Introduction and Sur
vey "IEEE.COMPUTER Sept. 19
87 p. p. 17-40, "Hypertext is a state in which text is managed by a non-linear structure, or its technology or idea," as described in ordinary paper media (books, etc.). However, in many cases hypertext technology is a technology that contrasts with information management with a linear structure. The basic components of hypertext are nodes and links. A node is an information unit in hypertext. A link plays the role of a knot that links nodes to each other. A structure in which information is connected to this non-linear structure is called a hyper structure. One text may correspond to one node, and a plurality of texts including a set of information may correspond to one node. In hypertext, one node and another node are related by a link, and by following the link, other information can be easily referred to. The link is information connecting the "source" node and the "source" node, and the source and the destination are usually one-to-many.
An anchor is arranged at the source node for each destination. The user performs the action of following the link by clicking the anchor with the mouse. Usually, the anchor is expressed in the shape of a button, so this is also called a link button. The link button is the link source (source
De) only exists. Originally, the anchor exists at both the link destination (source node) and the link source (source node), and defines both ends of the link. Therefore, the link button is one implementation of the anchor, and the anchor does not necessarily have to be button-shaped. For example, it is possible to indicate the existence of an anchor by merely drawing an underline on a word, or a transparent anchor for displaying.

A hyperlink is a link in a hyper structure, and is technically equivalent to the above-mentioned one simply called a link. As a node access method other than following a link, you can directly access the node with a browser. Browsing is a method of visually showing a network-like hyperstructure. A typical browsing is realized by graphically representing in a tree structure by a browser. The browser provides a function of accessing a node in the graphically represented hyperstructure by directly selecting the node with a mouse or the like. The hypertext described here is related to character (text) data. The technology for handling multimedia data such as sounds and images in a hyper structure will be called hypermedia technology.

(2) Structuring of hypertext: Hyperstructure is attracting attention in the fields of education, electronic publishing, etc. as a new form of document expression method. However, when a manual or the like is used as an expression target, the reference relationship becomes complicated and a large-scale hyper structure occurs, and the following problems occur. -There are many links, making it difficult to compare their importance. In addition to this, there is a problem that the user becomes “lost” when following a complicated network. Here, the conventional technique will be described focusing on the above problem.
Although the hyper structure is a non-linear structure, when a manual is used as an expression target, the links and nodes that are its constituent elements can be "roughly" linear structures. A manual document, which is conventionally composed of paper, has a text structure such as chapters and sections, and a link that refers to another page is set within each page. That is, among the links, the link representing the chapter structure has a linear structure and can be distinguished from other links. Focusing on this point, there is a technique for structuring a hyper structure according to the importance of links and extracting this linear structure. The document "G. Slton, J. Allan, C. bu.
ckley: “Automatic structure
ing and retrieval of larg
e text files ”, ACM Transac
Tions on Information System
ms, Vol. 11, No. 1 (1993.1) ", a text structure of a document is analyzed, and a chapter structure (tree structure) considering the reference relation is automatically generated from the database of the document by connecting the texts covering the related subject matter. can do. In this system, a reference relation is weighted as a document related to a certain document, and the importance of the relation between documents is calculated by a threshold value. The inclusion relation of words and phrases that represent a document is used for the weighting calculation of the reference relation. By giving a large amount of weight to a phrase that frequently appears in a specific document and rarely appears in other documents, it is possible to distinguish a document group in which the phrase occurs from other document groups. The same technique can be used for automatic generation of links and nodes in consideration of reference relationships in hypertext construction. However, the text data is
Although "meaning" can be configured in "word" units, such a method of automatically generating a document structure cannot be applied to a hypermedia system. The nodes handled by the hypermedia system must handle not only text data but also various media such as image data, voice, and moving images. In addition, it cannot be denied that the analysis result of the text data has a problem in analysis accuracy such as not completely matching the actual text content.

(3) Electronic Manual System: Since a manual document contains various kinds of information, it can be said that representation of manual information by hypermedia technology using multimedia is suitable. The electronic manual system is a system for handling a manual document on a computer, and is similar to the help function of the related art. The help function is a function that supports a manual reference to a single application software system by a computer, and is a function incorporated in a part of the application software system. The electronic manual system covers all business manuals and general manual documents, and is broader than the help function in that it can be a system independent of the business and software system to be described.

The main purpose of the help function is to handle software manual documents on a computer.
Reference "Microsoft Windows Ops
ating-system function guide, Microsoft Corporation, 050-310-903-1, pp. 49-5
As described in "5", the help function supports hypertext function, underlines the keyword, and clicks it with the mouse,
It has a function to jump to the reference item. In addition, the document "Microsoft Windows Opera
Function System Guide, Microsoft Corporation, 050-310-903-1, pp. 49-55 "
As described in (1), the conventional help function has the following functions regarding the history. (A) A function for the computer to retain and list the history of manual pages accessed by the user. (B) A function to insert a "bookmark" on the referenced page. All functions related to these histories are for the referenced node (manual page). It is used as a reference history by being stored, and does not retain information about which link was followed to reach the node, or when it was used. That is, it has a data structure in which history information is simply arranged in time series as an array of nodes, and link information is not handled.

(4) History utilization technology: Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 6-10 as a technology utilizing history for the purpose similar to the help function.
There is a 3047 "program creation support device and program execution support device". With this system, "if an unskilled person makes the same mistakes that have occurred in the past, it is easy to recover from the failure." JP-A-6-103
047 has a function of accumulating past failure cases and presenting similar cases from error messages and the like, and coping methods thereof to the user based on the occurrence frequency. In other words, it is trying to provide a "frequency-based information presentation function". However, whether or not the many cases that occurred in the past are necessarily important cases is a case-by-case case, and there is a defect that it is not based on whether or not the history is important for business support. Also, this function is
Since it is a technique for comparing the importance of search items, it cannot be applied to a technique for comparing the importance of hypermedia links.

[0009]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]

(1) The business manual published as a paper manual complicates a general work procedure, definition of terms, exception handling, and other tasks that must be newly remembered by a business operator. In addition to the information necessary for business execution, business know-how possessed by skilled workers is required.
An example of business know-how is to express business know-how as a concrete example. The business case is composed of (a) actual example and (b) search history. An example is a drawing or a design document as a design case in the case of design work, and an entry case or the like in the case of form entry work. The search history is a history of searching and referring to "necessary information related to business execution" arranged in a complicated manner. Especially in the routine repetitive work,
It can be said that the search history itself is an example of one work execution. Such business know-how should be updated with the latest information one by one, and in paper publishing, the response to the update tends to be delayed. Moreover, the conventional help function technology has been unable to collect, store, and retrieve business know-how that is updated daily. In the case of programming business, there are cases where a program example is provided as one of the business cases,
There was no mechanism to immediately reflect the daily update results (added examples, search history).

(2) An electronic manual system using hypermedia has a structure in which information required for business execution is linked and searched. However, it was difficult to insert business know-how when expressing the business manual using the current technology of the help function. This is because the current paper manuals and help functions have an open system configuration. That is, the content of the manual is updated when there is no response from the user of the manual to the information transmitted by the manual creator (content of the manual), or when there is a very delayed response (due to questionnaire collection, etc.). It can be said to be a system configuration. on the other hand,
It has not been possible to construct a practical electronic manual system according to actual work by sequentially reflecting the results of daily updates with a reduction system configuration.
That is, it was not possible to collect, store, and search in real time the feedback information from the user regarding the business know-how. Here, the feedback information refers to the actual examples and the search history as the above-mentioned business cases. Although a function that included "bookmarks" in the search history was provided, it was not possible to distinguish between obsolete information and really important information because it was never used again as it was. Further, when constructing an electronic manual system, the feedback information on the business know-how is effective for the producer as "the evaluation standard for making a good manual" in the electronic manual production.
Using feedback information about business know-how,
It is convenient for users to customize the electronic manual to be easier to use.

(3) In the electronic manual system, it is necessary to indicate the existence of the link, that is, the location of the anchor. However, there are the following problems regarding the expression method. Reference “Pawan R. Vora et al .:“ Com
paring Usability of Graph
ical and Textile Interfac
es in Hypertext ”, Proceedi
According to "ngs of Hypertext '93",
It has been reported that in hypertext systems, the highlighted link button attracts attention, and the user presses the link button without sufficiently reading the context to follow the reference relationship. That is, it has been pointed out that a link originally set to about "reference" is taken as if it is a keyword representing the page. Regardless of whether it links to important information that you really need to refer to, simply ″
It can be said that an anchor display form that is not so emphasized is desirable as long as it is "reference". In conventional paper manuals, pages that are often opened are marked with "tea" to make it easier to open. From the viewpoint of facilitating the search, it can be said that “Teaka” in the paper manual is equivalent to highlighting the anchor in the electronic manual. Although "teaka" is a form of search history, "teaka" once attached cannot be taken in the paper manual. On the computer, there is no function equivalent to this "Tea",
The function of sandwiching the "bookmark" is the conventional technology to be compared. However, the "bookmark" must be specified by the end user, and the stale "bookmark" must be removed by the user. Considering this in the case of the electronic manual system, there is a problem of the anchor expression as to how much the reference to the “page that is easy to open” should be emphasized and hidden. Therefore, the user who refers to the manual is classified into the following three cases when and how to refer to the manual.・ At the time of new employee education (when nothing is understood at all) ・ At the time of technology transfer (when it corresponds to unknown work as a result of personnel rotation etc.) ・ At work familiarity (when it is a known work but forget the details) Electronic manual using hypermedia In the system, the anchor to be emphasized depends on the above three cases. Even for anchors that point to the same information, the importance of the information changes depending on the user. It can be said that all information should be treated equally, since only the information that is originally necessary for work is provided during the education of new employees. However, when transferring technology, just as it is convenient for the page that the previous person in charge often opened to have a "tea mark", the anchor that the previous person in charge often accessed should be emphasized. It can be said that pages that I have seen many times in the past when I was familiar with work, but recently remembered and stopped referencing are less important. In this case, it can be said that the anchor should not be emphasized in the electronic manual system. That is, it is desirable to adjust the display level of the anchor in consideration of the importance of the link as the business know-how.

An object of the present invention is to store and convey past experience regarding screen transitions. Another object of the present invention is to
It is to provide the following three processing methods in a system using screen transition. (1) A link processing method with a memory of a system capable of collecting, accumulating and searching business know-how (2) A linking method with a memory in a system that returns the work know-how feedback information from the user to the user and the creator. (3) A link processing method with a memory in a system that enables an anchor expression considering the importance of links.

[0013]

To achieve the above object, the present invention comprises a main memory, a CPU, a disk, an input device and an output device, and a set of data objects constituting a screen on the disk. According to a user's instruction, a screen transition from a screen that includes the link information between the data objects on the main memory, is displayed on the output device, and includes the display of the link based on the link information. A screen transition method in a computer system that controls based on the link information, wherein a memory is added to the link information to make link information with a memory, and a use history of links related to the screen transition at the time of screen transition is stored in the link information of the link. The importance of the link is stored in the memory, the importance of the link is determined based on the contents of the memory, and the display of the link on the screen displayed on the output device is displayed as the importance of the link. Depending varied, so that to enable selection of the link by the user in accordance with the display of the link is changed according to the importance of the link.
Further, the link that is changed according to the importance of the link on the screen displayed on the output device is displayed by the anchor. Also, the memory-attached link information includes a link management table, a component management table, an anchor management table, and a memory added to any one of these tables. Is a table of information indicating the relationship of the data objects, the component management table is a table of information related to a data object output method, and the anchor management table is a user table.
It is a table of information about anchors, which are areas on the screen for receiving the input, and the history of link use is stored in the added memory. Further, as the link usage history stored in the memory of the link information with memory, the number of times the link is used, the time when the link is used, and the evaluation coefficient as the importance of the link are stored. Further, the evaluation coefficient as the importance of the link is determined based on the number of times the link is used and the time when the link is used. Also, the evaluation coefficient is calculated by a mathematical expression consisting of the number of times of use of the link, the time of using the link and a parameter, and the evaluation coefficient is changed for each individual user by changing the parameter according to each individual user. I try to make them different. Further, the degree of highlighting of the display of the link on the screen displayed on the output device is changed according to the evaluation coefficient as the importance of the link. Further, the link information with memory including the usage history of the link is stored in the CD-ROM. Further, the memory-attached link information including the usage history of the links used by the users includes the identification information unique to each user. In addition, the number of times of use of the link is stored as the use history of the link stored in the memory of the link information with memory, and continuous k selections (k ≧ 2) of the link related to the data object displayed on the screen can be selected. The number of times the link is used as the usage history of the selected link is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and the number of times the link is used as the usage history of the (k + 1) th selected link is the predetermined number of times. When the value is smaller than the value, a new link is set between the data object displayed on the screen and the data object connected after the k-th link, and the new link can be selected on the screen. Is displayed. In addition, the number of times the link has been used is stored as the history of use of the link stored in the memory of the link information with memory, and is related to the data object displayed on the screen.
Among the links described above, the display of the link having the largest number of times of use of the link as the history of use of the link and the number of times of use of the link being a predetermined value or more is highlighted. Further, the electronic manual system communicates with a system for creating an electronic manual and sends the link information with memory to the system for creating the electronic manual.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Two embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. The first embodiment is shown in FIGS.
Is used. The first example shows that the present invention can be implemented as an electronic manual system. Moreover, FIGS. 16 to 21 are used in the second embodiment. The second embodiment shows that screen transition control using the present invention can be easily realized.

The device configuration of the first embodiment will be described below with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, the electronic manual system of the present embodiment is a user side system (hereinafter referred to as an electronic manual definition execution system) and a producer side system (hereinafter referred to as an electronic manual construction management system).
And are networked together. The data of the electronic manual produced by the electronic manual construction management system is stored in the CD-ROM using the medium producing device and distributed to the electronic manual definition execution system side. The data of the electronic manual is composed of data objects and information about links. Information regarding links will be described later in detail with reference to FIG.

The electronic manual definition execution system includes (1) a computer 1001 having an internal memory and a central processing unit, (2) a display and a speaker as an output device 1002, and (3) a keyboard and a mouse as an input device 1003. ,
Image scanner, (4) Hard disk drive, CD-ROM drive, and external storage medium 1 as storage medium drive 1004
In addition to a computer system equipped with a hard disk and a CD-ROM as 013, (a) a user input acceptance unit 1005 (b) an output control unit 1006 (c) link management stored in an internal memory in the computer Part 1007 (d) History management unit 1008 (e) Document generation unit 1009 (f) Link processing method with memory 1010 (g) Business case registration unit 1011 (h) Link information with memory 1012 Stored in external storage medium 1013 (i ) It is composed of electronic manual data 1014.

(A) The user input receiving section 1005 is used by the user.
The operation input by the user is received, and output control instructions other than the processing relating to the link, such as scrolling the screen, moving the window, and adjusting the volume of the sound, are sent to the output control unit 1006. (B) The output control unit 1006 executes control based on the output instruction. (C) The link management unit 1007 receives and processes a request for processing relating to a link. The request for the processing related to the link occurs when the user clicks the anchor with the mouse or selects it using the keyboard, and the user receives the linked data object (such as a document). It indicates that the output of multimedia data) is desired. The link management unit 1007 inquires of the history management unit 1008 about the link information, and receives designations of "pointer to data object of link destination" and "anchor expression method". In addition,
The anchor described in this embodiment is technically the same as what is called a link button. That is, the anchors may originally exist at both ends of the link, but this embodiment is an example only for the anchor on the link source (source) side. (H) The link information with memory 1012 is a link management table.
Bull, component management table, anchor management table
It consists of bulls. These pieces of information are normally held on the hard disk as link information with update memory, and are read into the internal memory as needed at the time of execution to be the link information with memory 1012. (F) A link processing method with memory 1010 defines a procedure for accessing the link information with memory 1012 and executing processing for following a link. (D) The history management unit 1008 follows the memory-attached link information 1012 from the link ID of the designated link information, and reads the component information and anchor information. In the anchor management table, in addition to the minimum information required for the anchor, a memory indicating which link has been used in the past is prepared. The memory attached to the link can exhibit the function of achieving the object of the present invention even if it is provided in any of the link management table, the component management table, and the anchor management table. In this example, the anchor management table is used. The history of using links is stored using this memory. The procedure for determining the display attribute of the anchor, that is, the anchor expression method based on this history will be described later in detail. (I) The data 1014 of the electronic manual is the data object and the initial value of the link with memory.
The initial value of the memory-attached link is first read into the hard disk to be updated memory-attached link information. The data object stored in the CD-ROM is used. (E) Based on the instruction from the link management unit 1007, the document generation unit 1009 stores the storage medium 1013 (CD-ROM,
Alternatively, the data object existing on the hard disk) is called and stored in the internal memory. Further, the output control unit 1006 is instructed to configure the anchor on the memory and output the data object and the anchor. (G) The business case registration unit 1011 registers the business case input using the image scanner as the input device 1003 as a new component, and sets a link with an existing component.

On the other hand, the electronic manual construction management system includes (5) a computer 1015 equipped with an internal memory and a central processing unit, (6) a display and a speaker as an output device 1016, and (7) a keyboard as an input device 1017. Mouse and
Image scanner and (8) Media production device 1018 for producing CD-ROM
In addition to the computer system having the following, (j) history research unit 1019 and (k) link setting unit 102 stored in the internal memory of the computer 1015.
It consists of 0. (J) The history research section communicates with the electronic manual definition execution system and carries the business case to the electronic manual construction management system. (K) The link setting unit links the created data object and business case data, and generates an initial value of the memory-attached link as an electronic manual.

In the device configuration of FIG. 1, the above-mentioned (a)
A control method, a usage method, and the like for realizing each unit of (k) to (k) will be described later in detail with reference to the drawings shown below.

(A) ... User input receiving unit 1005
(FIG. 5) (b) ... Output control unit 1006 (FIG. 6) (c) ... Link management unit 1007 (FIG. 7) (d) ... History management unit 1008 (FIG. 9) (e). .. Document generation unit 1009 (FIG. 11) (f) ... Link processing method with memory 1010 (FIG. 8) (g) ... Business case registration unit 1011 (FIG. 12) (h) ... Link with memory Information 1012 (FIGS. 2 to 4) (Equations 1 to 4) (i) ... Electronic manual data 1014 (FIG. 1)
0) (j) ... History investigation unit 1019 (FIG. 13) (k) ... Link setting unit 1020 (FIG. 14) Regarding the memory-attached link information 1012, FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG. A detailed description will be given below using 2, 3, and 4.

Link information 101 with memory will be described with reference to FIG.
The data structure of No. 2 will be described in detail. In the electronic manual system according to the present embodiment, the data object is output using the link information with memory, and the link handling process is performed. The link is information connecting the "source" node and the "destination" node, and an anchor is arranged for each destination at the source node. Since the term node is often conceptually widely interpreted, the term component is used as the output unit of the data object in this embodiment. The original component is a concept technically equivalent to the node described so far, but here, in order to simply express it as an embodiment, it will be described with a simplified data structure. . That is, one component has a one-to-one correspondence with one data object. Link information with memory 10
12 is a link management table 2020, a component management table 2030, and an anchor management table 2010.
It consists of. FIG. 2 shows a link management table 2020, a component management table 2030, and an anchor management table.
The structure of each table of the bull 2010 and an example of the relation of mutual data are shown. The component information has a nuance of "a container for data objects", and has a one-to-one correspondence with the ID number (component) corresponding to the data object.
Content ID: 2031). Information on how to express data such as pictures and sounds (output attribute: 203
3) and information (anchor ID: 2034) indicating which anchor is used to link the data. The component information is stored in the component management table 2030. Link information is link ID 202
As the information corresponding to 1 and indicating which component is linked to which component, a source component ID 2022 and a destination component ID 20
It comprises 24 pairs. Further, it holds an anchor ID 2023 indicating which anchor information of the sender component (ID: 2022) is used to represent the link. Further, as the information indicating the type of the link, a type 2025 indicating whether the link is a structural link or a reference link is stored. The link information is stored in the link management table 2020. The anchor information describes the method of expressing the anchor and the link relationship. Anchor display attribute 2012
As a key word or icon,
It holds information on the types of emphasized expressions such as "drawing a line", "reverse black and white", and "representing shades by gray scale", and the coordinates of the display where the anchor is placed. The anchor information is the anchor management table 2010.
To be stored. The component information, the link information, and the anchor information are indispensable for constructing the link of the hyper media system, but the memory-attached link of the present embodiment is characterized by adding a memory to this link. There is. In FIG. 2, the memory 2014 is attached to the anchor management table 2012 and used for storing the history. The history data structure will be described later with reference to FIG.

Referring to FIG. 3 together with FIG. 2, the reference relationship between the data of the link with memory will be described.

FIG. 3A is a conceptual diagram showing the relationship between the anchor and the display screen. In FIG. 3, a display screen 3001 shows one screen displayed on the computer display. In order to configure this screen, a node layer 30 is provided in the internal memory.
04, part layer 3005, and background layer 3006.
An anchor for receiving a mouse input is arranged in the node layer, and a data object 3002 such as a document or a figure actually outputted as a manual is arranged in the part layer. By displaying the data of three layers together with the background layer 3006, the anchor 3003 can be displayed on the screen. FIG. 3B shows an example of an anchor, a link, and a component, and is a diagram for assisting the description of FIG. 2 from the correspondence with the data structure of FIG.

In FIG. 2, when following (following) the link defined by link ID = LNK001, the corresponding component ID = CNP0 from the link management table.
Get 02. Using this component ID, the file name, output attribute, and anchor ID = ANK-2 of the next component to be output are obtained. An anchor display attribute is obtained from the anchor management table using this anchor ID. If the file name, the output attribute, and the anchor display attribute are clarified, the linked document or multimedia information designated by the link can be output. Documents output via this procedure and anchors (anchor-ID = AN
K-2) holds the next link destination (link ID = 015) in the anchor management table. Therefore, when the user clicks this anchor with the mouse, the link ID indicating the next link destination can be obtained.

FIG. 4 shows the data structure when the memory of the link information with memory is used as the search history. A work case is a concrete example of the work know-how of a skilled person. Business cases are (a) actual example, (b)
It consists of search history. Examples are, for example, drawings and design documents as design examples in the case of design work, and entry examples in the case of form entry work. The search history is a history of searching and referring to "necessary information related to business execution" arranged in a complicated manner. In particular, in the case of routine repetitive work, the search history itself can be said to be an example of one work execution.

In this embodiment, image information is input from an image scanner to generate component information, which will be described in detail later. As shown in FIG. 4, the search history 4001 is the access date 4002 and the access count 4 in the memory of the link with memory.
003 and the evaluation coefficient 4004 are stored. When the user follows the link, (1) the access date and time is automatically added, (2) the access count is incremented,
(3) The evaluation coefficient is calculated. Since the access date and time is information that is added sequentially, it has a data structure such as a list structure that can be added. The calculation of the evaluation coefficient 4004 uses (Equation 1) as a calculation formula for evaluating the importance of the link.
(Equation 1) is composed of two terms using the two parameters A and B. The first term is an evaluation with respect to time, and the second term is an evaluation with respect to the number of accesses. Evaluation coefficient (α): α = A * number of accesses / Σ (access time on history−current time) + b * (number of accesses) …… (Equation 1) In the following three cases of using links as described above , The importance of business links changes.・ At the time of new employee education (when nothing is known at all) ・ At the time of technology transfer (when the job is unknown as a result of personnel rotation, etc.) ・
At the time of business proficiency (known work, but forgetting the details), at the time of new employee education, all links are treated as having the same importance. When transferring technology, the links frequently used by the predecessor are important. When learning the work, the search history that is old in time is less important, and those frequently accessed recently are treated as important links. During new employee education: A≈0 & B≈0 (α≈0: treats all information equally) ……… (Equation 2) Technology transfer: A≈0 (deletion of time element) ……… (Equation 3) During learning: B ≒ 0 (emphasizing the information often seen recently) …… (Equation 4) That is, as shown in (Equation 2), α ≈ during new employee education.
With 0 (A≈0, B≈0), all information should be treated equally and consideration should be given to reading the content without emphasizing links. As shown in (Equation 3), at the time of technology transfer, A≈0 is set to show a large value for those with high access frequency, and the technology transfer is made efficient by reducing the time factor. As shown in (Equation 4), at the time of business proficiency, B≈0 is set, and importance is attached to information that is often viewed recently, and the influence of the total access count is reduced. Also, an intermediate case of these three cases can be dealt with by adjusting the parameters A and B. For links with memory, the importance of the link is evaluated by storing the search history used by the user in the memory for each link. Based on the result, the method of expressing the anchor, that is, whether or not the expression is emphasized, is changed for each user and each business form. One example is grayscale expression. Use dark anchors to represent important links,
On the contrary, a light color is used to express an anchor of low importance. Alternatively, a method of changing the display size of the character font is also possible.

(A) User input receiving unit 1005 The user input receiving unit 1005 receives operations input by the user, scrolls the screen, moves windows, adjusts the volume of sound, and the like. Output control instructions other than the link-related processing are sent to the output control unit 1006, and link-related processing is sent to the link management unit 1007. The process of the user input reception unit will be described in detail with reference to FIG. First, process 500
At 1, pretreatment is performed. The preprocessing is to initialize computer resources (memory, hard disk, etc.) and prepare an environment for operating the electronic manual system. Next, in process 5002, while the waiting for user input is established, the user
A series of processes starting from process 5003 is repeated according to the input instruction from the user. First, in processing 5003, case classification is performed. When the process 5003 ends, the following process is performed.
In process 5004, the end of the infinite loop is performed. Processing 500
At the time of the link processing in 3, the following processing is performed. In process 5005, the subroutine link management unit 1007 is called. The link management unit, which will be described in detail later, executes a process of tracing a link and prepares output of a designated document or the like. In process 5003, the following process is performed when the process is other than the link. Processing 5
At 006, the subroutine output control unit 1008 is called. As will be described later in detail, the output control unit executes scrolling of the screen and volume adjustment of output sound. Next, in process 5007, post-process is performed. In the post-processing, computer resources are released by, for example, clearing created objects from the real memory.

(B) Output Control Unit 1006 The output control unit 1006 executes control based on the output instruction from the user. Using FIG. 6, the output control unit 1006
The process will be described in detail. First, in process 6001, pre-process is performed. Since output processing generally causes a waiting time, it is necessary to inform the user that processing is in progress.
In the preprocessing, it is indicated that the output processing is in progress by changing the shape of the mouse pointer. Next, in process 6002, case classification is performed. In process 6002, the following process is performed when scrolling. In process 6003, scrolling of the display area (window) is performed. Process 600
In step 2, when switching windows, the following processing is performed. In process 6004, a switching process is performed to bring the window that is the focus into front. In process 6002, the following process is performed when adjusting the audio volume. In process 6005, the sound is adjusted. In process 6002, the following process is performed when a component is output. In process 6006, the output process of the component read in the internal memory is performed. In process 6002, the following process is performed in the case of exception processing. In process 6007, for example, a message output process is performed for the exception request. Alternatively, processing other than the above-described processing is performed in processing 6007. Next, in process 6008, post-processing is performed. Post-processing returns the mouse pointer.

(C) Link management unit 1007 The link management unit 1007 receives and processes a request for processing relating to a link. Requests for link-related processing are
This occurs when the user clicks on the anchor with the mouse or selects it using the keyboard, and the user receives linked data objects (multimedia data such as documents).
Output). The link management unit inquires of the history management unit about the link information, and receives the designation of "pointer to data object of link destination" and "anchor expression method". The processing of the link management unit will be described in detail with reference to FIG. For convenience of explanation, here, the case where the link from the component A to the component B is followed is taken as an example. First, in process 7001, pre-process is performed. As preprocessing, it is confirmed that the data object currently being output is the component A. Next, in process 7002, it is checked whether it is a link follow process. Only when called from the link management unit subroutine 5005 in FIG. 5, this determination part is unnecessary, but is necessary as a general module structure. When this condition is satisfied, a series of processes starting from the process 7003 is performed. First, in process 7003, the subroutine history management unit 1008 (update process) is called. Here, since a certain anchor (an anchor linked to the component B) in the component A is selected, the history management unit 10 executes the process of updating the history of this link.
Ask 08. Details of the processing of the history management unit 1008 will be described later with reference to FIG. Next, processing 7004
Then, a link processing method with subroutine memory 1010
Call. A process for tracing a link is executed from the link information held in the component A, and information regarding the component B is obtained. Link processing method with memory 1
010 will be described later in detail with reference to FIG.
Next, in process 7005, a data object output method is determined.

Next, in process 7006, the subroutine is executed.
The history management unit 1008 (anchor inquiry processing) is called. Details of the processing of the history management unit 1008 are shown in FIG.
, Which will be described in detail later, but here, information about how to display the anchor is obtained. Next, in process 7007, the anchor expression method is determined. If the condition is not met in process 7002, exception process such as message output is performed in process 7008. Next, in processing 7009, post-processing is performed. That is, the fact that the object to be output from now on is the component B is stored in the internal memory. The area stored in the process 7001 is updated and the information of the component B is entered.

(F) Memory-equipped link processing method 1010 The memory-equipped link information 1012 handled by the memory-equipped link processing method 1010 includes link management table 2020, component management table 2030, and anchor management table 2010. (See FIG. 2). This information is read into the internal memory at the time of execution as needed. In addition,
(H) Since the link information with memory 1012 has already been described in detail, the description is omitted here. The process of the memory-attached link processing method 1010 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. First, in process 8001, the corresponding link ID is acquired from the anchor management table 2010. Next, in process 8002, the corresponding component ID is acquired from the link management table 2020. Next, in process 8003, corresponding component information is acquired from the component management table 2030. next,
In process 8004, the linked object output method is returned.

(D) History management unit 1008 The history management unit 1008 follows the memory-attached link information 1012 from the link ID of the designated link information, and reads the component information and anchor information. The anchor management table 2010 prepares a memory indicating which link has been used in the past, in addition to the minimum information necessary for the anchor. The memory attached to the link can exhibit the function of achieving the object of the present invention even if it is provided in any of the link management table, the component management table, and the anchor management table. In this example, the anchor management table is used. The history of using links is stored using this memory. The procedure for determining the display attribute of the anchor, that is, the anchor expression method based on this history will be described later in detail. The process of the history management unit will be described in detail with reference to FIG. First, in processing 9001, case classification is performed. In process 9001, the following process is performed during the history update process. First, processing 9
At 002, the current access date / time 4002 is added. Next, in process 9003, the access count 4003 is incremented. Next, in process 9004, the evaluation coefficient 4004 is calculated. The calculation of the evaluation coefficient 4004 is described above with reference to FIG. 4, (Equation 1), (Equation 2), (Equation 3), (Equation 4). In process 9001, the following process is performed when making an anchor inquiry. First, in process 9005, an anchor management table is acquired to obtain anchor information on the link target object. Next, in process 9006, a reply about the anchor display method is sent.

(I) Electronic Manual Data 10001 FIG. 10 is a conceptual diagram showing the structure of electronic manual data and the flow of information. Incidentally, in FIG. 10, a CD-ROM 1000
4, hard disk 10005, image scanner 10
Reference numeral 009 is a component of the electronic manual definition execution system 1001. Electronic manual construction management system 100
08 is an electronic manual construction management system 10 in FIG.
It is the same as 15. That is, FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram in which a part of FIG. 1 is extracted by paying attention to the data of the electronic manual. What is electronic manual data 10001?
Data object 10002 and the initial value 10003 of the link with memory. Initial value of link with memory 100
03 is first read into the hard disk 10005 to obtain updatable link information with memory 10007. Regarding the link information with memory on the hard disk,
Update the link information. Data object 10
As 002, the one stored in the CD-ROM 10004 is used. On the other hand, the update information portion 10006 read by the image scanner 10009 or sent from the electronic manual construction management system 10008 uses the one on the hard disk.

(E) Document Generation Unit 1009 The document generation unit 1009 calls the data object existing on the storage medium 1013 (CD-ROM or hard disk) based on the instruction from the link management unit 1007. , Store in internal memory. Further, the output control unit 1006 is instructed to configure the anchor on the memory and output the data object and the anchor. The process of the document generation unit 1009 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. First, in process 11001, pre-process is performed. Here, the preprocessing is initialization of the memory of the portion for reading the data object. Next, in process 11002, case classification is performed. In process 11002, when the data object exists on the hard disk, the following process is performed.
First, in process 11003, a data object is read. Next, in process 11004, the document generation process is terminated. If it does not exist on the hard disk, it is on the CD-ROM because it is not updated information.
In process 11002, the data object is the CD-ROM.
When it exists above, the following processing is performed. First, in process 11005, a data object is read. In the processing 11002, the following processing is performed at the time of exception processing. In process 11006, exception processing is performed. C
Exceptional processing is that the corresponding data object does not exist on the D-ROM, and a message or the like is output. Next, in processing 11007, post-processing is performed. In this post-processing, the data object and the anchor are sent to the output control unit as a superimposed component as one screen. At that time, the anchor display attribute 2012 is read from the anchor management table 2010, and the display color of the anchor is changed according to the evaluation coefficient. The display color can be determined, for example, by mapping the value of the evaluation coefficient with a gray scale to a density of 0 to 255. The detailed structure of the anchor display attribute 2012 is shown in FIG. The anchor is a rectangular area, and its X coordinate 15001, Y coordinate 15002,
The width 15003 and the height 15004 are basic information of the rectangular area, and together with the anchor display color 15005, the anchor is displayed.
It is a part of the display attribute 15000. In this embodiment, an example of the attribute in the case of changing the display color is shown.
Other attributes that can change the degree of emphasis of the anchor include the thickness of the underline and the transparency of characters.
The same effect can be exerted when know-how is transmitted.

(G) Business case registration unit 1011 The business case registration unit 1011 registers the business case input using the image scanner as a new component and sets a link with an existing component.
The process of the business case registration unit 1011 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. First, in process 12001, pre-process is performed. Here, the preprocessing is to control the image scanner, import the paper case as image data into the computer, and set the file name and attribute. Next, processing 12002
Then, a new component number is assigned and the component management table is updated. Then, the process 1200
In step 3, a link with an existing component is set and the link management table is updated. Next, processing 12004
Then, which anchor is used for linking is set, and the anchor management table is updated. Next, processing 12005
Then, post-processing is performed. In the post-processing, the used internal memory is released at the end of the image scanner.

(J) History investigation unit 1019 The history investigation unit 1019 communicates with the electronic manual definition execution system, and a business case (actual example read from the image scanner, memory-attached link information as a search history).
Carry to the electronic manual construction management system. The process of the history research unit 1019 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. First, in process 13001, the memory-attached link information 1012 is acquired. Next, in process 13002, an access frequency graph is generated.

(K) Link setting unit 1020 The link setting unit 1020 links the created data object, the data of the business case, etc., and generates the initial value of the memory-attached link as an electronic manual. The processing of the link setting unit will be described in detail with reference to FIG. First, in process 14001, the memory-attached link information is acquired. Next, in process 14002, an update data object is produced. Next, in process 14003, the link information with memory is updated while observing the usage history of the user. Distribute the produced media to the electronic manual definition execution system side again and continue operation.

A second embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. A device configuration according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 16, the screen transition system of the present embodiment includes (1) a computer 16001 having an internal memory and a central processing unit, (2) a display as an output device 16002, and (3) a keyboard as an input device 16003. , Mouse, and (4) hard disk device 1604 as a storage medium
In addition to the computer system equipped with
(A) user input acceptance unit 16005 (b) output control unit 16006 (c) link management unit 16007 (d) document generation unit 16008, and stored in the hard disk device (e) ) Link information with memory 16009 (f) Output data 16010.

The user input acceptance unit 16005 first receives an instruction regarding a screen transition input by the user from the input device 16003. Next, the selection of screen transition is transmitted to the link management unit 16007. Finally, the link information with memory 16009 is updated regarding the selection history. Link management unit 16
007 reads the data of the link destination from the link information with memory 16009 for the instructed next screen (link destination). At this time, a process of short-circuiting a frequently used route (short circuit generation) and a process of highlighting a frequently used button are performed using the link information with memory. After that, the document generation unit 1
Reference numeral 6008 denotes output data 160 of the designated document data.
Read from 10. The output control unit 16008 displays the document data.
The user input reception unit 160 initially configures the screen including the data.
The next screen according to the instruction received in 05 is output to the output device 16002.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing the data structure of the memory-attached link in the second embodiment. The link information with memory 17001 is the link ID 17003, the link source (FR
OM) 17004, basic information of link destination (TO) 17005, total number of times of use 17006 indicating how many times the link has been used in the past, and a pointer to a table storing a usage history, -Bull ID 17007
Hold. The data structure of the usage history 17002 in FIG. 17 is the table ID 1 of the link information with memory 17001.
This is data corresponding to 7007, and who (user 170
08) Information on how many times (the number of times of use 17009) the user has used is stored. The memory-attached link information 17001 is used for a process of short-circuiting a frequently used path (short circuit generation process) and a process of more frequently displaying a button used more frequently (button emphasis process).

First, screen output examples of these processes will be illustrated with reference to FIGS. 18 and 19, respectively, and a detailed process flow will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating an example of screen transition output for short circuit generation in the second embodiment. When a screen control in which the screens A to L (or the document to be displayed) transit in the order shown by the arrow in the figure is performed, the result of the use by many users, for example, A
It is assumed that a history of frequently used routes of → B → E → G remains. At this time, the last screen G is the necessary information in the end, and one screen transition button to the screen G is added to the screen A so that the screen A can jump directly to the screen G in a short-circuited manner.

FIG. 19 shows an example of screen transition output for button emphasis in the second embodiment. The case of the same screen transition as in FIG. 18 is taken as an example. In FIG. 19, on screen A, three buttons for screen transition to the next screens B, C, and D are displayed. Of these, B is the most frequently used button in the past history.
If it is, the screen transition button of screen A to screen B is highlighted.

FIG. 20 is a PAD diagram showing the processing of short circuit generation and button highlighting. This processing is performed by the link management unit. In step 20001, the current screen is held in the variable A. In step 20002, the same current screen held in the variable A is stored in the variable B.
In step 20003, the iterative process is repeated until the short circuit generating process and the button emphasizing process are completed. Step 2
At 0004, it is checked whether the same data as the variable B exists in the "FROM" field 17004 of the link information with memory. In step 20005, if the result of the above determination is that there is, the next screen corresponding to the contents of the variable B, that is, the data of the "TO" field 17005 of the link information with memory is acquired. Step 200
In 06, if the result of the above determination is that there is no such link, it means that there is no corresponding link, and the loop processing (step 20003) is exited. In step 20007, the "TO" field 17005 data obtained in step 20005 may exist in plural, but a link having the largest "total usage count" field 17006 of the link information with memory is selected. , Perform the following processing. In step 20008, the value of the "total number of times of use" of the link selected in step 20007 is compared with a predetermined comparison constant. In step 20009, as a result of the above comparison,
The value of the total number of times of use is greater than (or equal to) the comparison constant
Then, the button for reaching the next screen "TO" is highlighted. In step 20010, the value of the "TO" field is stored in the variable B, and the flow returns to step 20003 to generate a short circuit. That is, the processing described above is performed again for the total number of times the link destination has been used. In Step 20011, Step 2000
If the result of the comparison in 8 shows that the total number of times of use is smaller than the comparison constant, the short circuit generation process is performed. That is, the following additional processing is performed on the memory-attached link information 17001.
A link ID 17003 is newly generated. Link source (F
The value of the variable A is stored in the ROM) 17004. The value of the variable B is stored in the link destination (TO) 17005.
“0” is stored in the total number of times of use 17006. A new table that stores the usage history is created and the table ID is created.
17007 is stored. If the combination of FROM and TO is existing, a short circuit is not generated, and therefore the short circuit generation process is not performed. In step 20012,
Processing (step 20003).

FIG. 21 is a diagram for explaining the updating process of the link information with memory, which is performed by the user input receiving unit. In step 21001, the record whose current screen is in the FROM field of the link with memory and whose selected button is in the TO field is extracted. In step 21002, the number of times of use by the user who has used the link is increased by 1, and the "number of times of use" field of the link with memory is updated. In step 21003, a total of only the number of times of use of the record of each user designated in advance out of the "number of times of use" is calculated. Step 21001
In, the value calculated above is stored in the "total number of times of use" field.

If the configuration and method described above are used, the second
The screen transition method described in the embodiment can be easily realized.

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According to the present invention, past experience can be reflected in screen transitions by accumulating the usage history of links. Further, by attaching a memory to the link information and storing the usage history of the link in the memory, it is possible to efficiently perform the process related to the link selection. An anchor expression that considers the importance of the link based on the usage history of the link becomes possible. The usage history of the user's link can be reflected in the user's screen selection and can be reflected in the manual production by the manual producer. It is possible to change the method of reflecting the usage history of the link in the screen transition according to the business form of the user.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a device configuration of a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data structure of a memory-attached link in the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a reference relation between data of a memory-attached link in the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a search history structure in the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a PAD diagram showing processing of a user input acceptance unit in the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a PAD diagram showing processing of an output control unit in the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a PAD diagram showing processing of a link management unit in the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a PAD diagram showing a link processing method with a memory in the first embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a PAD diagram showing processing of a history management unit in the first embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram of an electronic manual in the first embodiment.
It is a conceptual diagram which shows the flow of data.

FIG. 11 is a PAD diagram showing processing of a document generation unit in the first embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a PAD diagram showing a process of a business case registration unit in the first embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a PAD diagram showing processing of a history research unit in the first embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a PAD diagram showing a process of a link setting unit in the first embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a data structure of anchor display attributes in the first embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a device configuration of a second embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a link with memory in the second embodiment.
It is a figure which shows a data structure.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of screen transition when a short circuit is generated in the second embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an example of screen transition when a button is emphasized in the second embodiment.

FIG. 20 is a PAD diagram showing a short circuit generation process and a button emphasizing process in the second embodiment.

FIG. 21 is a PAD diagram showing a process for updating a memory-attached link in the second embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1001, 1015, 16001 Computer 1002, 1016, 16002 Output device 1003, 1017, 16003 Input device 1004 Storage medium drive device 1005, 16005 User input unit 1006, 16006 Output control unit 1007, 16007 Link management unit 1008 History management unit 1009, 16008 Document generation unit 1010 Link processing method with memory 1011 Business case registration unit 1012, 16009 Link information with memory 1013 External storage medium 1014 Electronic manual data 1018 Media production device 1019 History research unit 1020 Link setting unit 16010 Output data

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Claims (12)

[Claims] 1. A main memory, a CPU, a disk, an input device, an output device, a set of data objects constituting a screen on the disk, and link information between the data objects on the main memory. A screen transition method in a computer system, comprising: a screen displayed on an output device and including a display of a link based on the link information and controlling a screen transition from a screen to a next screen based on the link information according to a user's instruction. Then, a memory is added to the link information as link information with memory, and when a screen transitions, the usage history of the link related to the screen transition is stored in the memory of the link information of the link, and the importance of the link based on the contents of the memory is stored. The degree of the link is changed, and the display of the link on the screen displayed on the output device is changed according to the importance of the link. Screen transition method using the memory with link information, characterized in that to allow selection of the link by the user in accordance with the display of the reduction links. 2. The screen transition method using the link information with memory according to claim 1, wherein the anchor displays the link changed according to the importance of the link on the screen displayed on the output device. A screen transition method using link information with memory, which is characterized in that 3. The screen transition method using the memory-attached link information according to claim 1, wherein the memory-attached link information is one of a link management table, a component management table, an anchor management table, and these tables. The link management table is a table of information indicating the relationship between the data objects, and the component management table is a table of information on the output method of the data object. The anchor management table is a table of information related to anchors, which are areas on the screen for accepting user input, and link history information with a memory characterized in that a usage history of links is stored in the added memory. Screen transition method using. 4. The screen transition method using the link information with memory according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the number of times the link is used and the link are used as a usage history of the link stored in the memory of the link information with memory. A screen transition method using memory-attached link information, characterized in that the evaluation coefficient as the importance of the link and the elapsed time are stored. 5. The screen transition method using the link information with memory according to claim 4, wherein the evaluation coefficient as the importance of the link is determined based on the number of times the link is used and the time when the link is used. Screen transition method using link information with memory. 6. The screen transition method using the link information with memory according to claim 5, wherein the evaluation coefficient is calculated by a mathematical expression consisting of the number of times of use of the link, a time for using the link, and a parameter, and each user A screen transition method using memory-attached link information, characterized in that the evaluation coefficient is made different for each user by changing the parameter according to the above. 7. Claim 4 or claim 5 or claim 6.
In the screen transition method using the memory-attached link information described above, the degree of emphasized expression of the link display on the screen displayed on the output device is changed according to the evaluation coefficient as the importance of the link. Screen transition method using link information with memory. 8. The screen transition method using the link information with memory according to claim 3, wherein the link information with memory including the usage history of the link is C
A screen transition method using a link with a memory, which is stored in a D-ROM. 9. The screen transition method using the link information with memory according to claim 1, wherein the link information with memory including the usage history of the link used by the user includes identification information unique to each user. A screen transition method using a featured link with memory. 10. The screen transition method using the link information with memory according to claim 1, wherein the number of times the link has been used is stored and displayed on the screen as a usage history of the link stored in the memory of the link information with memory. The links are selected k times (k ≧ 2) consecutively related to the selected data object, and the number of times the links are used as the usage history of the selected links is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, and (k + 1 ) When the number of times of using the link as the usage history of the link selected for the sixth time is smaller than the predetermined value, a new data object is displayed between the data object displayed on the screen and the data object connected after the kth link. A link using a memory is characterized in that a new link is set and a link enabling selection of the new link is displayed on the screen. Transition method. 11. The screen transition method using the link information with memory according to claim 1, wherein the number of times of link usage is stored as a link usage history stored in the memory of the link information with memory, and displayed on the screen. Highlighting the display of the link of the link having the largest number of times of use of the link as the usage history of the link among the one or more links related to the data object and the number of times of use of the link is equal to or more than a predetermined value. A screen transition method using a featured link with memory. 12. The screen transition method using the link information with memory according to claim 1, wherein the electronic manual system communicates with a system for creating an electronic manual, and the system for creating link information with memory for creating the electronic manual. A screen transition method using a link with a memory, which is characterized in that it is transmitted to a screen.