JPH10293737A - Fusion and display method of information on distributed db - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method which fetches information of plural WWW(world wide web) servers on an inter/intra-network onto one WWW browser, synthesizes information and display it. SOLUTION: A function providing WWW server 10 is placed on an inter/ intra-network, and a user uses a WWW browser 20, links to an HTML (hypertext markup language) file 11 of the function providing WWW server and loads each applet. The existence place of information he wants to fetch is delivered to an information relay program 16 which operates in the function providing WWW server by using function of an information acquisition applet 13 which designates that existence place of information of the information providing WWW server he wants to fetch. The information relay program requests the information providing WWW server to transfer corresponding information, fetches the information to the function providing WWW server and fetches it on the WWW browser.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a plurality of WWW (World) distributed on an internet / intranet.
Wide Web) This method belongs to a method of extracting information from a server, and integrating and displaying the information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, information of a WWW server on an internet / intranet is generally referred to as HTML (Hyper Text).
t Markup Language) format. Then, using a WWW browser on the terminal side, a URL (Uniform Res) in which the information is described is described.
(Source Locator: location where information exists and its transfer protocol), fetches information in HTML format, and allows the WWW browser to display the layout according to HTML grammar. For example, if an HTML format file and a map image file are placed on a WWW server, and a description is given that the map image file is to be inserted into the HTML format file based on grammar, the HTML format file can be written on a WWW browser. Is linked, the image of the map can be viewed on a WWW browser.

[0003] There are many WWW servers on the internet / intranet, but different WWW servers for one terminal.
In order to simultaneously view W server information, several WWW browsers can be started on the terminal side, and individual browsers can specify different URLs. For example, 1
One browser can display a road map image, and another browser can display a weather map image.

[0004] On the other hand, a program (hereinafter, referred to as an applet) loaded on a WWW browser and operated is provided on a WWW server, and the applet can be loaded on the WWW browser and executed on the terminal side. For example, a vector data of a map and an applet for displaying the vector data are placed on a WWW server, and the data and the applet are loaded by a WWW browser, and the applet is executed.
Can be viewed in a browser.

[0005]

A first object of the present invention is to integrate information of a plurality of WWW servers on an internet / intranet and display the information in one window of a terminal having a WWW browser. To provide a function of a WWW server.

[0006] A second object of the present invention is to provide a WWW browser which is linked to a certain WWW server and is linked to another WWW server.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a mechanism of a function for taking in server information.

[0007] A third object of the present invention is to provide a method for fusing and displaying information when the information formats provided by the plurality of WWW servers are not always the same data format and the data formats of the captured information are different. Is to provide.

[0008]

In order to solve the first problem, a function providing WWW server which provides a function to a WWW browser is provided on an internet / intranet.
This server is an HT for linking WWW browsers
A file in the ML format, a menu applet showing a function menu for providing a function to the WWW browser when the WWW browser links to the file in the HTML format, an information acquisition utility applet having a function of importing information from the WWW server, An information processing utility applet having a function of processing information fetched from a plurality of WWW servers into one piece of information, an information display applet for displaying processed or fetched information, and an information providing WWW operated by a function providing WWW server Server and WW
An information relay program having a function of relaying information transfer with the W browser.

[0009] Then, the menu applet is loaded by linking to the HTML file of the function providing WWW server by the WWW browser, and each utility applet is loaded by using the menu applet.

The information acquisition utility applet has a function of taking in information from an information providing WWW server.

The information processing utility applet has a function of processing a plurality of pieces of taken-in information into one piece of information.

The information display utility applet has a function of displaying information.

Using each of these utility applets, information is fetched from a plurality of information providing WWW servers onto one browser, and the fetched information is processed into one piece of information and displayed.

[0014] In order to solve the second problem, the information acquisition utility applet is provided with an information providing WW to be captured.
It has a function to specify the location of W server information,
When the information acquisition utility applet loaded in the W browser is started and the location of the information is specified, the information acquisition utility applet determines the location of the information to be captured by the information relay program running on the function providing WWW server. The information relay program requests the information providing WWW server to transfer the corresponding information, captures the information into the function providing WWW server, and the information acquisition utility applet transmits the information captured by the function providing WWW server to the WWW browser. Take it on.
The above process is also performed when the location of the information of another information providing WWW server is specified.

In order to solve the third problem, an information display utility applet has a function of displaying vector data of a certain data format S. The data format S has a layer, and the information display utility applet allows an arbitrary layer of the vector data to be combined and displayed in an overlapping manner.

The information processing utility applet has a function of identifying the type of information taken in, a function of converting vector data of a format different from S into vector data of format S, and a function of converting raster data into vector data of format S. It has a function of vectorizing, a message function of notifying that the captured information cannot be combined with other information, and a function of combining a plurality of vector data of the data format S into data of one data format S.

Based on the identification information by the information identification function,
The information is classified, and the acquired information is converted into information of the data format S using the data conversion function and the vectorization function. If the data format cannot be converted to S, the user is notified by a message function. Further, a plurality of vector data of the data format S are combined into one vector data by using a combining function. The synthesized vector data is also in the data format S, and is displayed by the information display utility applet.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 2 shows the relationship of a system for extracting information from a plurality of WWW servers distributed on an internet / intranet, fusing and displaying the information.

The user uses the WWW browser 20 of the terminal 21 to fetch information provided by the information providing servers 23 and 24 via the inter / intranet 22. For this purpose, a function providing WWW server 10 is provided on the internet / intranet.

FIG. 1 shows functions of a function providing WWW server provided on an internet / intranet according to the present invention.

The function providing WWW server 10 stores an HTML file 1 for the WWW browser 20 to link to.
1, a menu applet 12 showing a function menu for providing a function to the WWW browser when the WWW browser links to a file in the HTML format,
An information acquisition utility applet 13 having a function of importing from a WWW server, an information processing utility applet 14 having a function of processing a plurality of WWW server information imported into a WWW browser into one information, and processing by a WWW browser, or a WWW browser Display utility applet 15 for displaying information imported to
And an information relay program 16 which operates on the function providing WWW server and has a function of relaying information transfer between the information providing WWW server and the WWW browser. Each applet 12, 13, 14, 15 is loaded into the WWW browser 20 and executed.

FIGS. 3 and 4 illustrate a mechanism for taking in information from a WWW server other than the WWW server loading the applet of the present invention.

First, at this stage, the WW of the user terminal
The W browser 20 provides the function providing WW by specifying the URL.
Accessing the W server 10, and furthermore, this WWW
Utility applet 13 for obtaining information from server 10
Is loaded on the WWW browser 20. When the user activates the information acquisition utility applet 13 (block 31), and further designates its location 41 to take in information 43 from the information providing server 23 using the applet 13 (block 32), The applet 13 stores the location 41 of the information to be imported into the information relay program 16 running on the function providing WWW server 10.
(Block 33), the information relay program 16 requests 42 to transfer the information 43 to the information providing server 23 (block 34), and the information relay program 16 takes the information 43 into the function providing WWW server 10 (block 34). Block 35), the applet 13 takes the information 43 taken into the function providing WWW server 10 into the WWW browser 20 (block 36).

By using this mechanism, it is possible to take in information on one WWW browser 20 from a plurality of WWW servers.

FIG. 5 illustrates a mechanism for integrating and displaying information of a plurality of WWW information providing servers taken into a WWW browser according to the present invention.

Information display utility applet 15
Can display the data 50 of the vector S in the data format.

Information processing utility applet 14
Is a function 61 for identifying the type of the acquired information, a function 62 for converting the data file 51 of the data format of the vector A into the data 50 of the vector S, and
A function 63 for vectorizing the data file 52 into the data 50 of the vector S; a message function 64 for notifying the user that the information cannot be combined with other information when the information cannot be converted to the data of the vector S; And a function 65 that combines a plurality of data of the vector S into one data. Note, however, that vector A and raster I do not represent one particular type, but rather all that applet 16 can be vector S.

The information identification function 61 classifies the information to be taken into the following, and transfers the processing to each function.

Data file 51 having data format of vector S (case 1) is used as it is.

Data file 52 of data format of vector A (Case 2) Using data conversion function 62, data format of vector S
Is converted into the data 50.

Data file 53 of data format of vector B (Case 3) The message function 64 is used to inform the user that the information cannot be displayed in an integrated manner.

Data file 54 of data format of raster I (Case 4) Using vectorization function 63, data format of vector S
Is converted to vector data.

The data format of the data file 51 of the vector S and the S corresponding display applet 55 (case 5) are used.

A data file 52 having a vector A and a display applet 56 corresponding to A (case 6).
Is converted into the data 50.

Data file 53 of vector B and display applet 57 corresponding to B (case 7) The data file 53 of vector B is converted to data of raster I using the display applet 57 corresponding to B, Using the conversion function 63, the data format is vectorized into the data 50 of the vector S.

Using the information identification function 61, the data conversion function 62, and the vectorization function 63, all the information except for the case where the fetched information is only the data file 52 having the data format of the vector B is used. Data 5
Can be treated as 0. Note that the data conversion function 62 and the vectorization function 63 do not necessarily need to be incorporated in the information processing utility applet 14, and the following conversion into A1> S, conversion into A2> S,. . . Vectorization to I1> S, vectorization to I2> S,. . . . As described above, a utility applet may be finely formed for each data format and placed in the function providing WWW server, and a necessary utility applet may be loaded based on the identification of the information identification function 61.

The synthesizing function 65 has a data format of a vector S
Are combined with the data of one vector S. The data of the vector S is composed of several layers.

Information display utility applet 15
Can be combined with any layer of the data 47 of the synthesized vector S and displayed in a superimposed manner.

FIG. 6 shows a case where information is extracted from a plurality of WWW servers distributed on an internet / intranet,
WWW by the user for fusing and displaying the information
This is for explaining the operation procedure of the browser.

The user starts the WWW browser 20 at the terminal (block 71), and a predetermined H of the function providing server 10
When linking to the file 11 in the TML format (block 7
2), a menu screen 80 as shown in FIG. 7 appears. The menu screen of this description is an example, and a display such as an icon may be used. Next, when a menu 83 for activating the information acquisition utility applet 13 is selected from the menu screen (block 73), a screen 91 for inputting the location 41 of the information as shown in FIG. 8 appears. When the location 41 of the information is input (block 74),
If the fetched information can be converted into the data 50 of the vector S, all information 81 of the data is displayed.
At this time, if the user selects the iconized menu 84 (block 75), all information is displayed in the iconized display 82. When the user selects the layer detail menu 85 (block 76), the meaning of each layer of the vector S data is displayed in a list 101 as shown in FIG. Has become. The display mode of each layer can be set to the non-display 103 by the user. If the user selects the redisplay menu 86 (block 77), the current display 81 or the iconified display 82 is redisplayed reflecting the display mode of each layer.

By repeating the operations of the blocks 73 and 74, data of a plurality of vectors S can be stored. At this time, if a menu 87 for synthesizing data is selected (block 78) and a plurality of data is selected from a list of the fetched data (block 79), the selected data is synthesized into one data, and the data is synthesized. A new information is added to the list, and the synthesized information is displayed reflecting the display mode.

At this time, the layer details are the layers of the synthesized data.

FIGS. 10 and 11 show examples of synthesizing specific information. In the following description, it is assumed that information has already been taken into the WWW browser from the information providing WWW server.

Information 111 and information 112 shown in FIG. 10 represent vector data in the data format S, and both pieces of information have time-series data in one layer. However, the variable range of each time series data is different. The data synthesizing function 65 stores these two time-series data in separate layers and synthesizes them into one vector data 113 of the data format S. The information display utility applet 15 automatically determines the variable area of the time-series data and sets the display area when displaying the time-series data over the two layers in a superimposed manner. Display data with different linetypes.

FIG. 11 shows information 121 which is time-series information of the total number of shipments of all the goods shipped by Company A provided by Company A, and information 122 provided by Company B and which is shipped by Company B. This is information obtained by integrating the number of shipments for each of x, y, and z. The information 121 is vector data of the data format S. The information 122 is obtained by importing from the company B vector data of the data format A and an applet corresponding to the vector data and displayed in a bar graph. At this time, for the information 122, one layer is assigned to each item using the data conversion function 62, the time-series data is converted into the data format S, and the information of the two companies is synthesized. At this time,
Attribute data calculation function 12 from function providing WWW server 10
3 is also loaded, the sum of the number of shipped items x, y, and z is calculated, and the number of shipped items is stored in a new layer. And
Information 1 comparing the number of shipments of Company A and the sum of the number of shipments of Company B using the information display utility applet 15
24 is displayed.

[0046]

According to the present invention, a plurality of information providing WWWs
Even if the information provided by the server is provided in different formats, it can be integrated and displayed on one WWW browser. This is particularly effective when comparing a plurality of pieces of information.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows a function and a file configuration of a function providing WWW server of the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows a relationship between a function providing WWW server, an information providing WWW server, a WWW browser, and an inter / intranet.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining a mechanism of importing information from a plurality of information providing WWW servers into one WWW browser according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a mechanism for importing information from a plurality of information providing WWW servers into one WWW browser according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a view for explaining a mechanism for processing and displaying a plurality of pieces of information taken in according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 shows an operation procedure of a user on a WWW browser.

FIG. 7 is an example of a display screen of a WWW browser.

FIG. 8 is an example of a display screen of a WWW browser.

FIG. 9 is an example of a display screen of a WWW browser.

FIG. 10 is an example of combining and displaying a plurality of pieces of information.

FIG. 11 is an example of combining and displaying a plurality of pieces of information.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An information providing WWW server for providing information on an internet / intranet, and a WWW capable of executing an applet provided by the WWW server.
A method of acquiring, processing, and displaying information on a terminal having a browser is as follows. A function providing WWW server that provides a function to a WWW browser is provided on an internet / intranet, and the function providing WWW server is linked to the WWW browser. File for HTML and a WWW browser when the WWW browser links to the file in HTML format.
A menu applet showing a function menu for providing a function to a W browser, an information acquisition utility applet having a function of acquiring information from a WWW server, and a function of processing information acquired from a plurality of WWW servers into one piece of information. An information processing utility applet, an information display utility applet for displaying processed or imported information, and information having a function of relaying information transfer between the information providing WWW server and the WWW browser operating on the function providing WWW server A WWW browser linked to a file in HTML format of the function providing WWW server, loading the menu applet, loading each of the utility applets using the menu applet, and loading information. Get you Use the utility applet to import information from multiple information providing servers, use the loaded information processing utility applet to process the multiple information taken into one piece of information, and use the loaded information display utility applet to process or A method for acquiring, processing, and displaying information characterized by displaying captured information. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of WWW servers are
The information acquisition utility applet has a function of designating the location of the information providing WWW server information to be acquired, and the information acquisition utility applet loaded by the user into the WWW browser is provided. When the program is started and the location of the information is specified, the information acquisition utility applet passes the location of the information to be captured to the information relay program running on the function providing WWW server. Requesting that the corresponding information be transferred to the function providing WWW server,
A process in which the information acquisition utility applet takes in the information taken in by the function providing WWW server into the WWW browser, and performs the process even when the user specifies the location of the information in another information providing WWW server. And loading the corresponding information on a WWW browser. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information display utility applet has a function of displaying vector data of a certain data format S. The information processing utility applet has a function of identifying the type of the acquired information, a function of converting vector data of a format different from S into vector data of format S, and a function of converting raster data into vector data of format S. And a function to notify that the captured information cannot be combined with other information, and a function to combine a plurality of vector data of the data format S into data of one data format S. Based on the identification information by the information identification function, the captured information is converted into data using the data conversion function and vectorization function. The information is converted into information of formula S, a plurality of vector data of data format S are combined into one vector data by a combining function, and an arbitrary layer of the combined vector data is combined and superimposed by an information display utility applet. And displaying it.