JPH11184870A - Issued bulletin reference system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize referencing without requiring circulation, to speed up and reduce referencing of an issued bulletin by automatically retrieving related technologies from CD-ROM where public patent bulletin and the like are recorded and referring to them online. SOLUTION: A flash report server 10 of a mail system server is connected to WAN where an individual bulletin system 100 for cumulating bulletins so that they can be retrieved/referred to and a personal use PC201m are connected and constructed. The flash report server 10 periodically requests the retrieval of a bulletin applied to a registered retrieval expression in retrieval DB10d to a reference server 103. A retrieval result returned from it is registered to a flash report DB10d as a PV file, the flash report/bulletin of a list are generated in a mail document system as the result of retrieval and they are distributed to personal use PC201-201c for executing referencing of bulltins. PC201a-201c request the transfer request of the bulletin checked in the flash report/bulletin to be displayed/outputted to the PV 103b of the reference server 103.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a publication publication browsing system and, more particularly, to a publication publication publication which can be easily browsed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, published patent publications and the like have been browsed by related technicians as duties in order to investigate and evaluate the latest technology and trends thereof, and are circulated among related technicians. Things are also being done. In order to view this type of issued gazette, a collection of gazettes (copy book) is purchased and circulated among related engineers. In recent years, published patent publications and the like have also been issued on CD-ROMs. Therefore, the purchaser of a newly issued CD-ROM (storage medium) is notified to a person who requests browsing in advance, and the person concerned is appropriately contacted. Individuals can browse a desired publication by searching for and extracting a publication with a letter, or the person can browse the publication as a circulation within a group.

[0003]

However, when browsing such a conventional publication, when circulating a collection of related publications among related engineers, the related publications must be taken out of a huge number of publications. It is necessary to search for and find a bulletin with a certainty, and the browsing operation is complicated and tends to be delayed. The delay in browsing has a problem that the entire circulation is delayed, and a plurality of circulations accumulate and may be circulated to other persons at once, which further increases the burden of the browsing work. The problem is C
The same applies to the case where a relevant publication is searched and extracted from the D-ROM.

Further, even when a related publication is searched and extracted from the CD-ROM, a search and extraction operation must be performed every time a new CD-ROM is purchased, which is a heavy work load. Also, a newly purchased CD-ROM
In some cases, there is no publication of the technical content to be browsed, and the work may be wasted. In view of the above, the present invention enables individuals to automatically search and extract related technologies issued on a storage medium such as a CD-ROM for recording a gazette from the storage medium and browse them online, thereby enabling individuals to view them. It is an object of the present invention to make it possible for a plurality of persons who do not need to circulate the document to browse the document, to speed up the work of browsing the issued gazette and to reduce the work load.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 comprises a large-capacity publication storing means for storing publication data stored in a storage medium issued regularly or irregularly. One or two to search in the publication storage means
A condition registering means for registering a search formula comprising at least one search condition, and publication viewer information requesting browsing of publication data corresponding to the search formula; Publication search means for searching based on a formula and reading out the corresponding publication data from the publication storage means, document creation means for creating simple document data relating to the searched and read publication data, and condition registration of the created simple document data A simple document transmitting means for transmitting to the publication viewer corresponding to the retrieval formula in the means, and a browsing operation means for designating and inputting the publication data requested to be browsed, comprising an output means capable of outputting at least the simple document data and the publication data And a gazette transmitting means for reading and transmitting gazette data designated by the gazette viewer from within the gazette storage means. That.

According to the first aspect of the invention, publication data in a storage medium to be issued, for example, publication data such as bibliographic items and specifications in a CD-ROM on which a published patent publication is recorded (hereinafter referred to as publication data). , Which will be described as an example of browsing published patent gazettes) is sequentially stored in the gazette storage means,
When the existence of publication data corresponding to a retrieval formula that combines pre-registered search conditions such as IPC (international patent classification) and applicant is searched and confirmed, simple document data (for example, A browsing operation means (hereinafter, referred to as a personal computer (PC) of a gazetteer of a publication is created based on viewer information (such as an address) in which a part of bibliographic items is displayed as a table of contents as a table of contents. The information is transmitted to a PC (which will be described as a PC), and is displayed and output (or may be recorded and output). For this reason, the viewer of the publication refers to the display output of the simplified document data, designates the publication data, requests transmission of the text (bibliographic items, specifications, etc.), and returns the returned publication data to the display of the PC. The gazette can be browsed by displaying and outputting. Therefore, the publication reader can easily browse the publication in which the desired related technology is described online without performing a search formula input operation or the like every time a new CD-ROM is purchased. Despite the absence of a gazette, there is no wasteful browsing work such as a search formula input operation.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first aspect, a message notifying the creation of the simplified document data is read by a journal reader registered in the condition registering means. An e-mail notification unit for displaying and outputting the operation unit is provided, and the browsing operation unit requests return of the simple document data in accordance with selection of a link button on a display screen of the output unit, while the simple document transmission unit includes It is characterized by transmitting simple document data of which creation is notified in response to a return request from a viewer.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when simple document data is newly created, data for displaying and outputting a message notifying the fact is transmitted to the PC of the publication reader and displayed and output. When the publication viewer who sees the message selects the link button on the display screen by clicking or the like, the return of the simple document data is requested, and the created simple document data is transmitted. Therefore, in order to receive the simple document data relating to the newly created publication data, the publication reader does not check for the presence of the simple document data to be appropriately received when the PC is started up. The user is notified that the created simple document data exists, and the viewer of the official gazette simply selects a link button at an arbitrary timing (for example, when his or her hand is available) to display and output the simple document data and perform a browsing operation. It can be done continuously.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first or second aspect of the invention, the condition registration means registers a journal reader as a group and registers a search formula for each group. The simple document transmitting means transmits the simple document data to each publication viewer in the group. According to the third aspect of the present invention, journal readers using the same search formula are registered as a group, and simple document data is transmitted to each journal reader. Therefore, the common publication data is browsed by a plurality of publication viewers in the group.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the third aspect of the present invention, the document creation unit stores the publication data retrieved by the publication retrieval unit in a group registered in the condition registration unit. Alternatively, the divided simple document data is created for each of the divided publication data in accordance with the division condition for dividing each of the two or more publication readers, and the simplified document transmitting unit handles the divided simple document data. It is transmitted to the publication viewer who makes the publication.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, for each of one or two or more publication readers divided within a group using the same search formula, the publication data divided into publication units according to the division condition The divided simplified document data is separately created, and the simplified document data is transmitted. Therefore, the publication data to be browsed in the group is divided and browsed by a plurality of publication viewers in the group.

The invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that the publication storage means and the publication search means provided in an existing related publication acquisition system for retrieving and acquiring publication data corresponding to the retrieval formula, And a simple document transmitting unit or a mail notifying unit connected to the condition registering unit, the document creating unit, the publication transmitting unit, and the browsing operation unit.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, various means necessary for executing the invention according to any one of the first to fourth aspects are connected to the existing related gazette acquisition system. An issue publication browsing system is constructed.
Therefore, the existing related publication acquisition system can be diverted, and can be constructed at a low cost, and can also perform a search operation for acquiring the related publication.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 10 are diagrams showing a first embodiment of a publication publication browsing system according to the present invention. 1 and 2, reference numeral 10 denotes a bulletin browsing system server, 100 denotes an individual publication browsing system (related publication acquisition system), and 201 to n denote client PCs (a set of PCs for each business office). Server 10, Individual publication browsing system 10
0, the client PCs 201 to n are connected to a WAN (Wide Area Network) so that data communication via an external public line is also possible, and the publication publication browsing system of the present embodiment is constructed. In the following description, the client P
The personal PC 201m in C201 will be described as an example.

First, a bulletin browsing system server (hereinafter referred to as a bulletin server) 10 includes a PC 11 as operation control means, and a WAN between client PCs 201 to n.
And a mail system server that centrally manages mail documents transmitted and received via the Internet. This bulletin server 10
Prepares various databases (DB) as a mail system server, and stores ordinary mail documents without genres in the mail DB, and mail documents related to meetings (hereinafter referred to as meeting documents) in the meeting DB, for example. In addition to registering and managing the mail document by genre, a signal (data) for displaying and outputting a message shown in FIG. 3 notifying the presence of a new mail document is sent to the personal PC 201m in the client PC 201 of the destination of the mail document. The personal computer is designed to be displayed on a display (the message data itself may be transmitted and displayed).
The 201m stops the display output when the user clicks the acknowledge button in the message and can continue the operation in progress, while returning the new mail document reception permission command when the user clicks the reception button (link button). By doing so, a new mail document can be received from the bulletin server 10 and displayed on a display to check the contents of the mail document. In addition, the personal PC 201m displays an icon (link button) for displaying a list in the mail DB after continuing the operation during the work by clicking the acknowledge button.
Click to display a list of the types and titles of mail documents so that you can scroll around the unreferenced mail, and click on any of the mail documents from the list, as if you clicked the Receive button. A desired mail document can be displayed and output, and its contents can be checked in the same manner. If the user wants to check the contents of the meeting document again even after referring to it, the meeting D
By clicking on the icon for displaying a list in B, a desired conference document can be displayed and output in the same manner and its contents can be confirmed. The categorization of the mail document can be performed by reading and obtaining a format of a format prepared in advance in the categorized DB, or adding an ID corresponding to the genre to a predetermined location (for example, head data). By doing so, the mail document can be determined as a meeting document or the like, and can be registered and managed in the meeting DB.

As a mail system server constructed by the bulletin server 10, the personal computer 201m that transmits and receives the mail document adds the approval (acceptance) and rejection (rejection) of the document content to the contents of the mail document. The bulletin server 10 is, for example, a person in charge of hosting a conference,
Access to the bulletin server 10 from 201m, obtain a meeting notification document (mail document format) in a format prepared in advance in the meeting DB, set (create) necessary items, and respond to whether or not to attend the meeting. The meeting document sent by clicking the button to request
B, and transmits to the personal PC 201m of the attendance candidate set as the transmission destination of the meeting notification document in the same manner as the mail document in the mail system server described above. When the attendance button or absence button to be displayed is clicked, the meeting notification document to which the attendance / absence information is added is returned. Therefore, the meeting notification document is distributed by writing back the meeting notification document in the meeting DB. Personnel can manage attendance at meetings.

On the other hand, the individual publication browsing system 100 is conventionally used for browsing published patent publications and the like, and stores a plurality of CD-ROMs 101 on which purchased published publications and the like are recorded. It is set (registered) in a changer (publication storage means) 102 and corresponds to a retrieval formula created by the individual publication browsing server (hereinafter referred to as a browsing server) 103 from search conditions such as application period and IPC according to an input instruction from the PC 104. Search for the publication (data) to be created (search function), and create table of contents data that lists the bibliographical items (application number, publication number, application date, applicant, title of invention, etc.) of the publication in a table of contents format View (refereed) by displaying and outputting on the display of the PC 104 and displaying and outputting detailed data such as the abstract, specification, and drawings of the specified publication on the display of the PC 104 Rukoto (browsing function, so-called, Patent Viewer) is made to be able to. In addition, the individual publication browsing system 100 can browse the table of contents data and detailed data of the publication by operating in the same manner as the PC 104 by directly accessing from a personal PC 201m or the like of a remote office via a WAN via a WAN. Is built on. That is, the browsing server 103 constitutes a publication search unit. In this embodiment, the CD changer 102 is used as the publication storing means. However, the CD changer 102 may be used as a large-capacity storage device for storing a certain amount of publication data in the newly purchased CD-ROM 101, or may be stored in the CD-ROM 101. The bibliographic items of the published gazette may be extracted and registered to be constructed as a database.

Then, the bulletin server 10 in the present embodiment
The client PCs 201 to n function as a browsing operation unit including a display of an output unit, and include a condition registration unit, a document creation unit, a simple document transmission unit, a publication transmission unit,
By functioning as an e-mail notifying unit and a document storing unit, the client can browse a gazette corresponding to a pre-registered search formula in the CD-ROM 101 newly set in the CD changer 102 of the individual gazette browsing system 100. An issuance publication browsing system that can be performed without interruption from the personal PC 201m in the PCs 201 to n is constructed. Each of the PCs 11, 104, 201 to n, and the servers 10, 103 includes a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, and a network I / O. By transmitting and receiving data via the I / F while using the RAM as a work area in accordance with a control program stored in the ROM and having a built-in F (interface), etc. In addition to executing basic processing, various processing in the present embodiment is executed.

Here, in order to realize smooth operation, the publication publication browsing system according to the present embodiment uses, for example, the latest technology (open patent publication) in which members of each development group shown in FIG. In order to be able to perform the browsing work automatically, easily, easily and quickly without any omission when browsing with the personal PC 201m, it is possible to use it after processing is performed in this publication publication browsing system. Are divided into application registration processing, publication search notification processing, publication browsing processing, and browsing result management processing, as shown in FIG.

For this reason, the bulletin browsing system server 10, the individual bulletin browsing system 100, and the client PCs 201 to n will be described below in association with each processing shown in FIG. A case where members of the development group (viewing group) 1 in the client PC 201 perform browsing work on the personal PCs 201a to 201c will be described as an example. <Application registration process> The bulletin server 10 is a CD changer 10
Using the function 103a of the browsing server 103 for searching and extracting a publication corresponding to the retrieval formula from the CD-ROM 101 set in 2 in the request, the browsing server 103 is requested to return the bibliographic items of the retrieved and extracted publication. A search formula 10a for performing this search process and a search request timing are registered in advance in a search DB (condition registration means) 10b secured in a built-in memory. Search conditions such as search formulas and search timings to be registered in the search DB 10b may be directly registered from the PCs 11, 201, etc. In the present embodiment, for example, in order to perform permission registration in advance as described above, for example, A diagram in which the representative of the browsing group 1 (one of the browsing members described later in the present embodiment) accesses the bulletin server 10 from the personal PC 201a and prepares it in the application DB 10c in advance, similarly to the above-described conference notification document. After obtaining the preliminary browsing application document (mail document format) in the format shown in Fig. 6 and setting (creating) the necessary items, the system administrator or supervisor obtains approval to obtain permission registration. By pre-registering the contents of the approved application document as search conditions in the search DB 10b, the browsing group 1 uses the issued publication browsing system on the WAN. Can be Note that the application document can be stored in the application DB1 during or after creation on the personal PC 201a.
It can be stored and held in 0c so that it can be read and referenced. Even after approval, the search condition can be changed by reading from the application DB 10c, changing the settings, and receiving approval again.

This application document is prepared so as to set and display the following various information shown in FIG. Document status: When the application document is read from the application DB 10c by the personal PC 201m, the status information such as the application document is being created, the approval request is being made, the approval is rejected, the approval is completed, or the processing period is completed. Will be displayed.

Application document creator or member: The address number of the personal PC 201m on the WAN registered for each employee registered in advance can be selected from an address book displaying a list, and a kanji name conversion button is clicked with a mouse. By doing so, kanji can be displayed. Search condition: You can enter a search expression that combines applicant and IPC in parentheses and combines them with AND or
By clicking the search condition attaching button, the user can also open and select a file of the search formula temporarily registered in advance using the browsing server 103 on a trial basis.

Bulletin ID: A serial number capable of identifying this application document is automatically added and displayed at the beginning of application document creation. Technical content and theme ID: Displayed by setting and inputting the name of the viewing group and the development theme ID. Distribution period: By inputting the search period of the publication to be browsed according to the development theme, etc., it is possible to set the period for distributing the below-mentioned bulletin publication (mail document) relating to the publication searched and extracted during this period. . This distribution period can be shortened or extended, and can also be canceled by shortening the distribution date to a date earlier than the current date.

Distribution interval: By inputting the search interval of the publication to be browsed according to the number of publications in the technical field of the development theme, the distribution interval of the flash document can be set. Distribution method: Distribute the same bulletin to all three members (normally, without allocation) as shown in FIG. 7, for example, as shown in FIG. However, as shown in FIG. 8, the number of publications retrieved may be divided by the number of members to assign a quota for even browsing. Instead of allocating separate publications to each person, two or more persons may browse the same publication so that there is no difference in the quality of browsing.

Remarks: This is displayed by inputting a memo when creating this application document. Approver destination: The administrator of this system is set in advance as the approver of this application document. For example, when the boss or the like is the approver, it can be selected by the address number on the network. Then, the bulletin server 10 accumulates in the application DB 10c an application document sent by clicking an approval request button (not shown) from the personal PC 201a,
The e-mail is sent to the approver's personal PC 201m in the same manner as the mail document in the mail system server described above. Since the application document with the rejection information is returned, the application document is written back in the application DB 10c with status information such as approved or rejected, stored and stored, and the approval information is added. If there is, the search processing function 10a can be used with the address of the member of the application document, search formula, distribution condition, etc. as a search condition.
Register in B10b. That is, search D of the bulletin server 10
B10b constitutes a condition registering means. The application document registered in the search DB 10b is used for each personal P by using the address of the member registered as the distribution destination of the bulletin.
By sending an e-mail to C201a to 201c, each member can be informed of the contents of the browsing operation. Further, since the search interval of the search condition registered in the search DB 10b is set in a unit of a week, the day of the week to execute the search is set in a distributed manner so that the day of the search is not overlapped. The load is made uniform, and the time for executing this search is set to be executed in the middle of the night after 12:00 pm.

<Publication search notification processing>
10, when the date and time measured by the built-in timer function has elapsed from the start date of the distribution period or the previous search date by the number of days of the distribution interval registered in the search DB 10b, the search processing function 10a performs After the date, etc., a request is made to request a search / extraction of a publication corresponding to the retrieval formula in the retrieval DB 10b from the CD-ROM 101 newly set in the CD changer 102, and the bibliographic items of the corresponding publication are returned. If the search results have been searched, the search results
iew) A file is accumulated as a file in the preliminary report DB 10d in the memory for a predetermined period of time, for example, six months, and a preliminary report publication (simple document data) shown in FIG. It is transmitted to the personal computers 201a to 201c of the browsing members registered in the same manner as the mail document in the mail system server described above. In this bulletin publication, bibliographic items (search results) of the publication, such as the publication number of the publication, the title of the invention, the applicant, and the like, which are set in advance, are listed together with the search contents. Required check columns (indicated by circles in the figure), bookmark columns (indicated by squares in the figure) indicating the results of reading, such as unread (before viewing) / read (viewed) and multiple levels of importance for each publication,
A comment column (indicated by a triangle in the figure) indicating the presence or absence of a comment for each publication is added. Therefore, personal PC 20
Automatically search and extract the publications in the CD-ROM 101 set in the CD changer 102 periodically from 1a to 201c (perform an operation in which each person requests retrieval and extraction of the publications corresponding to the retrieval formula) No), the personal computers 201a to 201c can know the presence or absence of the publications that need to be browsed, and easily browse the publications listed at the timing when the browsing work can be performed, as described below. Can be.

At this time, if it is specified at the time of application to assign the browsing of the retrieved publications to members, the preliminary report server 10 creates a different preliminary publication for each member listing the publications equally divided. And personal PC 201a-2
For transmission to 01c, the bulletin DB 10d stores and holds the PV file for the group and the PVfile for the individual in association with the bulletin ID, and when the allocation is not instructed at the time of application, P for group
The Vfile and the personal PVfile are operated so as to have the same contents. However, when the allocation is instructed, the personal computer 201a to 201c is sent by e-mail a bulletin created from the personal PVfile, and thereafter, An operation on the personal computers 201a to 201c to be explained will cause a P
This is reflected in Vfile.

<Publication browsing process> On the other hand, personal computer 201a
201 to 201c output the message shown in FIG. 3 on the display as in the case of a new mail document, so that the existence of the bulletin from the bulletin server 10 is displayed and output. The publication to be viewed can be confirmed by clicking on one or more check boxes in the list, followed by the PV
When the start button is clicked, P which is a browsing function of the browsing server 103 in the individual publication browsing system 100 is displayed.
Using the V (PatentViewer) 103b, a request is made to view the publication specified in the check box.
Publication data such as abstracts, specifications, drawings, and the like, which are read from the CD-ROM 101 of the D changer 102 and transferred, can be displayed on a display in a scrollable manner for browsing. Also, when an icon for displaying a list in the mail DB or an icon for displaying a list in the bulletin DB 10d is clicked after the selection (click) of the acknowledge button, the list in the mail DB is displayed in the same manner as a normal mail document. Clicking the latest bulletin bulletin, etc. from the list displayed by clicking the icon that displays the list in the bulletin DB 10d, performs the same browsing operation (business) as when clicking the receive button. Can be. Therefore, it is notified by a commonly used e-mail document that it is necessary to perform browsing work with reference to a new bulletin bulletin, and browsing members can quickly browse by clicking the receive button when they are not available Work can be started, and when other work is being performed, browsing work can be started by simply clicking an icon for displaying a list in the DB later.

After the end button is clicked to terminate the display output of the bulletin data, the personal PCs 201a to 201c display and output the bulletin bulletin again, inputting the importance in the bookmark column and commenting in the comment column. When the bulletin column corresponding to the gazette is clicked at the time of display output of the bulletin, the input column for displaying the input example of the importance is opened and the input browsing is performed. The importance of a gazette can be associated with the gazette along with read (reading end) information and attached to the bulletin gazette,
When the comment column is clicked, an input column in which a comment can be input in a free format is opened, and a comment on the viewed publication can be attached to the bulletin publication.

Thereafter, when the save reflection button is clicked, the personal PCs 201a to 201c transmit the bulletin gazette to which the bookmark or the comment is attached to the bulletin server 10 and write it back to the PV file in the bulletin DB 10d for storage management. When the bulletin is read again from the bulletin DB 10d, a color indicating read or importance is displayed in the bookmark column, and when a comment is attached, the comment column indicates that there is a comment. By displaying the color and clicking this comment field, the attached comment is displayed and output. Therefore, the members of the browsing group 1 can grasp the read / unread gazettes from the bulletin gazette, and display the important gazettes in a superimposed manner so that each member can browse the gazettes that are important at a certain level or more. You can also give instructions,
The browsing operation can be performed by referring to the attached comments as appropriate. The color indicating read or importance displayed in the bookmark column may be set arbitrarily, for example,
There is no color display when unread, green when read but there is no input of importance, blue, light blue, yellow, light blue, red as the importance becomes higher as a result of read, all members need to read In some cases, the value may be pink, etc., and when the browsing results of the other browsing members have different degrees of importance, a value with a higher degree of priority may be prioritized, and comments may be accumulated.

Here, when it is specified that the browsing of the publication searched at the time of application is assigned to the members, the breaking server 10 provides a different bulletin publication for each member that lists the equally divided publications. Since the browsing result is attached to the PVfile, when the save reflection button is clicked on the personal computers 201a to 201c, the transmitted PVf
The ile writes back to the personal PV file in the bulletin DB 10d so as to be readable again, and adds and rewrites (reflects) the browsing result attached to the PV file to the group PV file in the bulletin DB 10d and stores and manages the result. I do.

<Browsing result management process> The bulletin server 10
When the group information button is clicked when the bulletin bulletin is displayed again on the personal computers 201a to 201c, the group and personal PVfiles associated with the same bulletin ID from the bulletin DB 10d as shown in FIG. An edited document (simple document data) that displays bookmark information attached to each publication in a corresponding position in a matrix with the patent publication number of the publication retrieved and retrieved on the vertical axis and the viewing members on the horizontal axis The personal computer 201a of the representative of the browsing group 1 is created and sent back in a mail document format.
When the attention patent button is clicked, the bulletin DB10
(d) deletes the publications from the group and personal PVfiles in (d) to which only the read information is attached but does not have the importance value attached (or is low), and only the remarkable patents are released.
B10d can be stored and held, and only the search results necessary before the storage period in the preliminary announcement DB 10d elapses can be easily stored in a hard disk of the personal PC 201m with a small capacity by each viewing group independently. It has become.

When the PV start button is clicked together with a column in the edited document, the personal PCs 201a to 201c can execute the same processing as clicking the check column in the bulletin. For example, a browsing member who has finished browsing an allocated publication may browse the unread publication on behalf of the unread publication by referring to the browsing result (evaluation) of each member together with the unread publication in a blank space in the edited document. It is also possible to perform a browsing operation such as browsing through various publications.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the bulletin server 10 retrieves a gazette corresponding to a search formula registered in advance by a browsing group or the like from the CD-ROM 101 sequentially set in the CD changer 102 of the individual publication browsing system 100. The browsing member is periodically searched to create a bulletin gazette composed of a list of the bibliographic items and transmitted to each of the browsing members' personal PCs 201a to 201c. By selecting a gazette to be viewed and sending the gazette data to the individual gazette viewing system 100, the gazette to be viewed in the browsing group previously circulated can be viewed online, The retrieved publications can be browsed separately or simultaneously at the same time. Therefore, it is possible to automatically search and extract the publications that need to be browsed in business or the like and browse them easily and quickly on-line, thereby reducing the burden of the browsing business.

At this time, the newly created bulletin bulletin is simply notified that it exists as a mail document, and the personal computers 201a to 201c are used when the reading member becomes available.
Can be displayed and output without having to check the presence or absence of a mail document when starting up the PC (without worrying about the necessity of browsing work), and freeing up hands without disturbing other work. In such a case, the browsing operation can be continued and performed appropriately.

Further, a bulletin bulletin in which a bulletin to be browsed is divided for each browsing member is created, and the personal computers 201a to 2a are prepared.
01c can also be sent to each of them, so you can set the browsing group to browse the bulletins to be browsed separately and set them to be viewed at the same time, imposing a quota on each browsing member to ensure promptness and reduced burden You can also perform browsing work while doing.

The bulletin server 10 and the personal computer 201
m merely requests search and browsing of gazettes that can be performed by the browsing server 103 of the existing individual gazette browsing system 100. The prepared bulletin gazette is also used as a mail document that has been exchanged on WANs. 10 and the personal computer 201m, the publication publication browsing system of the present embodiment can be constructed at a low cost, and the browsing member can easily perform the browsing work by the bulletin gazette with the same handling as a normal mail document. Can do it.

In the present embodiment, a browsing request for a bulletin from among those listed in the bulletin bulletin is issued to the personal computer 201.
m, the publication data is returned from the PV 103b to the individual publication browsing system 100. However, it goes without saying that the bulletin server 10 may relay the browsing request and the transmission of the publication data. Next, FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a second embodiment of the publication publication browsing system according to the present invention. Since this embodiment is configured substantially in the same manner as the above-described embodiment, FIG. 1 to FIG. The same components will be described using the same reference numerals.

In FIG. 1 and FIG.
Is a groupware with a rich user interface function as a mail system server, for example, LotusN
In order to operate on Otes, it has a function that can effectively send and receive documents created independently or ordinary mail documents in which numerical values and addresses are written in existing formats. The system does not have a function of converting bibliographic items (data) of a gazette sent from the system 100 into a mail document format.

Therefore, the bulletin server 10 accumulates the bibliographic items of the bulletin sent from the individual bulletin browsing system 100 in the bulletin search notification process as the PV file of the retrieval result in the bulletin DB 10d as in the above-described embodiment. , Each personal computer 201 of the reading member registered in the search DB 10b
a to 201c include a search content, a comment on a gazette entered by a browsing member who can be mail-documented other than the bibliographic matter of the gazette, and a search, which can be similarly transmitted by the mail document in the mail system server. Peer reviewing showing that results were received (viewing started)
Alternatively, a preliminary browsing document shown in FIG. 10 including a bookmark field indicating that the peer review has been completed (all publications have been browsed) is created, and FIG.
The bulletin browsing document described below is displayed by displaying a sheet mark icon in the search content column and using a PVfile in the bulletin DB 10d. Create so that processing can be performed. Then, in the bulletin browsing process, the bulletin browsing document is displayed and output on the personal PC 201m in the same manner as a normal mail document, and the PV activation button is clicked after clicking the sheet mark icon. Thus, the PV file in the bulletin DB 10d corresponding to the bulletin browsing document is sent to the launched PV 103b, and the title of the bulletin bulletin shown in FIG. A list similar to that at the time of the request) is created on the PV 103b and returned to the personal PC 201a.
In the same manner as in the above-described embodiment, the personal PC 201m that displays and outputs the search result list displays the bulletin with the bulletin server 10 together with the bulletin browsing process with the PV 103b of the browsing server 103 in the individual bulletin browsing system 100. Result management processing can be performed. In this embodiment, since the bulletin server 10 cannot process bibliographic items, it is not possible to create the edited document shown in FIG. 10 from the PV file during the publication browsing process.

In other words, the PV 103b is directly requested to search and browse the official gazette, and receives, from the outside, data attached with bookmarks and comment browsing results to be used when creating a search result list, as shown in FIG. Create a search result list with the same contents as the bulletin
The function of returning to C201m has been added. As described above, in the present embodiment, even if the bulletin server 10 is not the mail system server having the function of creating the bulletin of the mail document shown in FIG. 9 described in the above embodiment, the bulletin browsing document shown in FIG. Create a personal computer for browsing members
Since the same search result list as the bulletin bulletin is transmitted to 201m so that it can be displayed and output, the publication search notification processing, the publication browsing processing, and the browsing result management processing in the above embodiment can be performed in the same manner, and the same operation and effect can be obtained. be able to.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where a group is used is described. However, it is needless to say that an individual can be used without inputting a member.

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According to the first aspect of the present invention, for example, bibliographic items and publication data such as a specification of a publication relating to a related technology are browsed from a CD-ROM in which a published patent publication is recorded. In this case, from the publication data in the CD-ROM that is newly purchased and stored, a search corresponding to a search formula such as an IPC or an applicant registered in advance is automatically searched, and a simplified list created as a table of contents relating to the publication data is automatically created. Since the document data is transmitted to the PC of the bulletin viewer who registers in advance and displayed and output, the bulletin viewer requests the return of the desired bulletin data from the simple document data, so that it is displayed on the display of the PC used. Publications can be viewed. Therefore, the publication viewer can automatically search and extract the publication that needs to be browsed and browse it easily online, and can reduce the burden of the browsing work.

According to the second aspect of the invention, a message notifying the creation of the simple document data is sent to the PC of the bulletin viewer instead of having the newly created simple document data directly received by the gazetteer. After the display output to
Since the simple document data is transmitted in response to the selection of the link button or the like by the publication viewer, the publication viewer can continue the work on the way and perform the browsing operation while viewing the simple document data. Can also.
For this reason, the gazetteer does not needlessly check the presence or absence of the simple document data at the time of starting up or working on the PC. The browsing work can be performed only by selecting the link button inside. Therefore, it is possible to easily perform the browsing work as needed when the necessity arises, without having to worry about the necessity of the browsing work.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, for example,
By registering a group of journal readers who conduct research and development on the same theme with multiple people, simple document data related to the journal data common to the group corresponding to the search formula is transmitted to individual journal readers. Can be browsed simultaneously without being circulated by a plurality of publication readers in the group. Therefore, the issued gazette can be browsed quickly.

According to the fourth aspect of the invention, the retrieved publication data is divided into publication units for each publication viewer in the group, and simplified document data relating to the publication data that differs for each division is obtained. Since each document is transmitted separately, a plurality of common publications can be browsed separately in the group. Therefore, the burden of the browsing operation can be reduced, and the browsing operation of all the retrieved publications can be completed quickly.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to construct the issued publication browsing system by using the existing related publication acquisition system. Can be built. Therefore, an inexpensive system that can effectively perform the search operation of the publication can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a first embodiment of an issued publication browsing system according to the present invention, and is a conceptual connection diagram of the entire system.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual connection diagram showing the system in a format different from that of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a display example for explaining a mail notification in the system.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a person who uses the system.

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram showing data transmission and reception and various functions in the system.

FIG. 6 is a display example of a document transmitted and received in the system.

FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram illustrating document distribution in the system.

FIG. 8 is a conceptual diagram illustrating distribution of a document different from that in FIG. 7 in the system.

FIG. 9 is a display example of a document different from FIG. 6 transmitted and received in the system.

FIG. 10 is a display example of a document different from FIGS. 6 and 9 transmitted and received in the system.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a second embodiment of an issued publication browsing system according to the present invention, and is a display example of a document transmitted and received in the system.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Flash report browsing system server (condition registration means, document creation means, simple document transmission means, publication transmission means, mail notification means) 10a Search processing function 10b Search DB (condition registration means) 10c Application DB 10d Flash report DB 11 PC 100 Individual publication Browsing system 201-n Client PC 201m, 202m Personal PC (browsing operation means) 101 CD-ROM 102 CD changer (publication storage means) 103 Individual publication browsing server (publication search means) 103a Search / extraction function 103b PV (Patent Viewer) ) 104 PC

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A large-capacity publication storing means for storing publication data stored in a storage medium issued periodically or irregularly, and one or more search conditions for searching the publication storage means. A condition registering means for registering a search formula and publication viewer information requesting browsing of publication data corresponding to the search formula, and a search in the publication storage means based on a search formula registered in advance in the condition registering means. Publication search means for reading out the publication data to be read from the publication storage means, document creation means for creating simple document data relating to the retrieved and read publication data, and the created simple document data to the search expression in the condition registration means. A simple document transmitting means for transmitting to the corresponding publication viewer, and an output means capable of outputting at least the simple document data and the publication data, and designating the publication data requested to be browsed. Issuing publications viewing system characterized in that it comprises a browse operation means for force, and publications transmitting means for transmitting reads the publication data specified in Japanese viewers from the publication storage means. 2. A mail notification means for displaying and outputting a message for notifying the creation of the simplified document data to the browsing operation means of a publication viewer registered in the condition registration means, wherein the browsing operation means is output means Requesting the return of the simple document data in response to the selection of the link button on the display screen of the above, while the simple document transmitting means transmits the simple document data of which creation has been notified in response to the return request from the publication reader 2. The publication publication browsing system according to claim 1, wherein: 3. The condition registering means registers a publication viewer as a group and registers a search formula for each group, while the simplified document transmitting means transmits simplified document data to each publication viewer in the group. The publication publication browsing system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein: 4. The document creating means divides the publication data retrieved by the publication retrieval means into publication units in accordance with a division condition for dividing the publication data into one or more publication readers registered in the condition registration means as a group. 4. The publication according to claim 3, wherein the divided simple document data is created for each of the divided publication data, and the simple document transmission unit transmits the divided simple document data to a corresponding publication reader. Publication browsing system. 5. The condition according to claim 1, wherein said publication storage means and publication search means provided in an existing related publication acquisition system for retrieving and acquiring publication data corresponding to said search formula, Registration means,
An issue publication browsing system characterized by connecting a simple document transmission means or an e-mail notification means together with a document creation means, a publication transmission means and a browsing operation means.