JPH11316757A - Method and device for reusing data and storage medium stored with data reusing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the method and device for data reuse which allows other application programs to reuse information provided at a user's request mainly through text-oriented request response type service represented by WWW service on the internet without using any human machine interface such as a keyboard and a mouse and the storage medium stored with the data reusing program. SOLUTION: Algorithm is generated (S3) which extracts a part that a user requires by repeating the retrial (S2) that other requests are issued (S1) as to response information complying with a user's request and the user specifies response information the part that the user in the response information, data structuring algorithm is generated by analyzing the data structure of the extracted part extracted by the said algorithm, and those two algorithm means are used to generate a component program which can reuse data for the existent applications.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data reuse method and apparatus and a storage medium storing a data reuse program, and more particularly to information provided by a request response type service on the Internet represented by a WWW service. A data reuse method and apparatus and a data reuse program for allowing a user to reuse the information with an application program mounted on a personal computer or the like, which is a terminal, instead of utilizing only the reception terminal display. It relates to the stored storage medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a method of using data provided by a request response type service such as a WWW service on a receiving terminal side is not to provide information to a user by displaying the data on a screen. I have. For example, when writing a letter to someone using a word processor or the like, consider the case of using a WWW service on the Internet, which is provided with a postal code search service by the administrative government or the like, for the purpose of searching for the address from a postal code. .

[0003] In the current Internet usage method, a postal code to be searched is set on a homepage provided by the executive branch, a search request is executed, the search result is obtained, the content is read, and a keyboard operation or A necessary part is copied to an application such as a word processor by a mouse operation.

[0004]

However, in the above conventional method, in order to reuse information obtained using a request response type service such as a WWW service, a user sends a keyboard to another application such as a word processor. Alternatively, when it is necessary to re-input data using a mouse or the like, and a large amount of information obtained from a text-oriented request-response service on the Internet typified by a WWW service is reused in another application. However, it is difficult to use the Internet rationally due to a problem such as an operation error that occurs during copying to another application.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and provides information obtained in response to a user request provided mainly in a text-oriented request response service represented by a WWW service on the Internet. It is an object of the present invention to provide a data reuse method and apparatus for reusing in another application program without using a human-machine interface such as a keyboard or a mouse, and a storage medium storing the data reuse program.

[0006]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the principle of the present invention. The present invention (claim 1) relates to a data reuse method for reusing data provided by a request response type system typified by a WWW service on the Internet, and further relates to response information based on a user request. Are issued (step 1), and the user repeats an attempt to specify the response information and a part required by the user in the response information (step 2). An algorithm for extracting a necessary part is generated (step 3), and it is determined that the first extracted part is determined to contain the contents required by the user and is used as a template of the response information. Then, a second extracted part is determined (step 4).

The present invention (Claim 2) analyzes a data structure of a first extraction part determined to describe information required by a user and generates a data structuring algorithm. The first extraction portion is reconstructed into a database or an interface format capable of providing information to an existing application program.

The present invention (claim 3) generates an algorithm for extracting a necessary part from response information based on request information from a user and a data structuring algorithm, and reuses data for an existing application. Create possible component programs. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention.

[0009] The present invention (claim 4) is a data reuse apparatus for reusing data provided by a request response type system typified by a WWW service on the Internet, wherein a response based on a user request is provided. With respect to the information, another plurality of requests are issued, and the response information and an attempt by the user to specify a part required by the user in the response information are repeated. Algorithm for extracting a part required by the user for determining a first extracted part determined to be described and a second extracted part determined to be used as a template of response information Extraction algorithm generating means 13 for generating
Having.

[0010] The present invention (claim 5) analyzes the data structure of the first extraction site determined to contain the information required by the user, and analyzes the data structure of the database or the existing application program. The information processing apparatus further includes a data structuring algorithm generating means for generating a data structuring algorithm for reconstructing the first extraction part in an interface format capable of providing information.

According to the present invention (claim 6), the extraction algorithm generating means 13 and the data structuring algorithm generating means 14 are based on response information based on request information from a user.
And a component generation algorithm generating means 15 for generating a component program capable of reusing data with respect to an existing application by using.

[0012] The present invention (claim 7) is a storage medium storing a data reuse program for reusing data provided by a request response type system typified by a WWW service on the Internet. Regarding response information based on the request, issue another plurality of requests,
A first extraction in which it is determined that the content required by the user is described by repeating the trial in which the user specifies the response information and a part required by the user in the response information. There is an extraction algorithm generation process for generating an algorithm for extracting a part required by the user for determining a second extraction part determined to be used as a part and a template of response information.

[0013] The present invention (claim 8) analyzes the data structure of the first extraction site determined to contain the information required by the user, and executes the analysis on the database or the existing application program. The information processing apparatus further includes a data structuring algorithm generation process for generating a data structuring algorithm for reconstructing the first extraction part in an interface format capable of providing information.

The present invention (claim 9) reuses data for an existing application by using an extraction algorithm generation process and a data structuring algorithm generation process from response information based on request information from a user. It further has a component generation algorithm generation process for generating a possible component program. As described above, the present invention receives response information corresponding to a user's request condition from a request response type service such as a WWW service on the Internet, extracts a part of the information required by the user, and An algorithm that extracts a part where the information requested by the user exists by analyzing the request, changing the request condition as necessary, receiving different response information by transmitting, and repeating this operation, and its algorithm The gist of the present invention is to clarify an algorithm for performing structuring and to reconstruct the data structure and the interface in a form that can be reused by another application program having a specific interface.

[0015]

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a data reuse apparatus provided by a request response type service on the Internet according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, a data reuse device 10 provided for a request response type service on the Internet is:
It comprises an access control unit 12, an effective part extraction unit 13, a data structure analysis unit 14, an application interface construction unit 15, an effective part extraction routine 16, a data structuring routine 17, and an application interface 18.

The access control unit 12 controls access to a system that provides a request response type service on the Internet. The effective part extraction unit 13 extracts a part required by the user from data received from the system 30 that provides a request response type service on the Internet, and constructs an effective part extraction routine 16.

The data structure analysis unit 14 analyzes the structure of the data extracted by the effective site extraction unit 13,
The data structuring routine 17 is constructed. The application interface construction unit 15
Then, an application interface for using the data extracted and structured by the data structure analysis unit 14 with another application program having a specific interface is constructed.

Application interface 18
Is constructed by the application interface construction unit 15. Next, the data reuse device 10 provided by the request response type service on the Internet having the above configuration
Will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the operation of the data reuse device of the present invention.

Step 110) First, information for designating a system implementing a request response type service on the Internet, which provides information required by the user, and addition of search conditions to the system. Information is set. Step 120) Next, the access control unit 12 of the device 10 receives data from the request response type service on the Internet based on the parameters set by the user.

Step 130) The user selects a part in which the required data is described from the received data. Step 140) According to the selection from the user, the device 1
An effective site extraction algorithm is generated by the 0 effective site extraction unit 113, and an effective site extraction routine 16 is constructed.

Step 150) Next, the data structure described in the part required by the user is stored in the data structure analysis unit 1.
4, a data structuring algorithm is generated, and a data structuring routine 17 is constructed. Step 160) The user evaluates the validity of the effective part extraction routine and the data structuring routine constructed as described above. If the validity does not match the user's request, the process proceeds to step 110, where the user enters the same system. Set different additional information to access the same system.

Step 170) After the effective part extraction routine 16 and the data structuring routine 17 that match the user's request are constructed by the above repetition, an application interface 18 which is an interface with another application program is constructed. Effective part extraction routine 1 constructed by the above operation
6, the data structuring routine 17, the application interface 18, and the access control unit 12
As shown in (1), data provided by the request response type service on the Internet can be structurally reused by another application program 50. FIG.
Shows the relationship between this apparatus and the user 40, other applications 50, the Internet, and a system for providing a request response type service when the data is actually used in another application program.

The user 40 provides a request response type service on the Internet 20 by adding additional information such as a search condition requested by the user 40 to the system designation information input based on the flowchart of FIG. System 30
Make a data request to The response data from the system 30 passes through the access control unit 11, and the information of the parts required by the user 40 is extracted and structured by the already constructed effective part extraction routine 16 and the data structuring routine 17. Thereafter, the application interface 18 is used as a contact point to be linked to another application program and reused.

[0024]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 6 shows an example of setting of an effective part by a user according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 shows an example of the present apparatus 1 using WWW.
This is an example of the setting of the effective part by the user using the user interface assumed to be 0, and specifies the part where the data required by the user is described in the displayed information. Here, an example of setting two responses by changing additional information (search conditions) when accessing the WWW service is shown. The upper part of the figure shows a search result list by searching from a part of the address ("Yokosuka City Hikarinooka"), and the lower part of the figure shows a search result list by searching from a part of the address ("Yokosuka Mayor"). Show.

FIGS. 7 and 8 show an example of extracting a description position corresponding to an effective part according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the HTML description corresponding to each example in FIG. An example in which a description position is extracted will be described. In the example of FIG. 7 in which the description position corresponding to the effective part in the search condition “Hikarinooka, Yokosuka” in the upper part of FIG. 6 is extracted, <TD> Kanagawa </ TD><TD> Yokosuka </ TD><TD> Hill of light </ TD><TD> 239 </ TD><TD> 239-0847 </ TD></TD></TR> is extracted as an effective part. In the example of FIG. 8 in which the effective part is extracted under the search condition “Mayor Yokosuka” in the lower part of FIG. 6, five parts are repeatedly executed, and the part shown in FIG. 8A is extracted as the effective part. Effective part extraction unit 13 in FIG.
When the user 40 sets the valid part for the response of the WWW service, the necessary information is
An algorithm for extracting which position in the description exists is generated, and an effective site extraction routine 16 in FIG. 3 is constructed.

FIG. 9 is a conceptual example relating to an effective part extracting method according to one embodiment of the present invention. In the example of FIGS. 7 and 8, how an effective part is extracted is conceptually shown. This is the example shown. In FIG. 9, the former part of b is an unnecessary prefix part, and the latter part is an unnecessary suffix part. In this example, in addition to the syntax analysis of the HTML description shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, difference information is analyzed from response information to the different request conditions, and "prefecture", " From the existence of the item name such as "city", a routine for extracting a part in which "Kanagawa" or "Yokosuka" is described as an effective part is generated by using a knowledge processing technique.

FIG. 10 shows an example of structural analysis and structuring of an effective site according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which structural analysis is performed on an effective site to perform structuring. The data structure analysis unit 14 in FIG. 3 analyzes the structure of the effective part, generates a structuring algorithm, and constructs the data structuring routine 17 in FIG. In the example of FIG. 10, the repeated structure of the corresponding portion in FIGS. 7 and 8 determined to be an effective portion by the previously generated effective portion extraction routine 16 and “prefecture” and “city” immediately before the effective portion And the semantic relationship between the description of item names such as "Kanagawa" or "Yokosuka City", syntax rules in HTML description, and tag information such as <TH>, <TD> or </ TR> The data structuring routine 17 is generated in knowledge processing from the semantic interpretation of.

By using the effective part extraction routine 16 and the data structuring routine 17 constructed by the above processing, another interface provided with a specific interface 18 for data provided by any request response type service on the Internet. It can be reused by the application program 50. Although the above embodiment has been described based on the structure of FIG. 3, the present invention is not limited to this example. Alternatively, the present invention can be easily realized by storing the program in a portable storage medium such as a floppy disk, a CD-ROM, or the like, and installing the program when implementing the present invention.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but can be variously modified and applied within the scope of the claims.

[0030]

As described above, according to the present invention, for information that can be obtained via the Internet, the extraction of effective parts required by the user and the structuring of the data are performed in accordance with the reception of the data. Then, by constructing an interface for performing communication with an application program having a specific interface, information resources scattered on the Internet can be reused by another application program.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a principle configuration diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a data reuse device provided by a request response type service of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the operation of the data reuse device of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram at the time of data reuse according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an example of setting of an effective part by a user according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an example (part 1) of extracting a description position corresponding to an effective part according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an example (part 2) of extracting a description position corresponding to an effective part according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a conceptual example regarding an effective site extraction method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is an example of structural analysis and structuring of an effective site according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Data reuse apparatus 12 Access control part 13 Effective part extraction part, extraction algorithm generation means 14 Data structure analysis part, data structuring algorithm generation means 15 Application interface construction part, component generation program generation means 16 Effective part extraction routine 17 Data structure Routine 18 Application Interface 20 Internet 30 System for Providing Request-Response Service Represented by WWW Service 40 User 50 Other Application

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A data reuse method for reusing data provided by a request response type system typified by a WWW service on the Internet, further comprising a plurality of requests for response information based on a user request. Issue, and repeat the trial that the user specifies the part required by the user in the response information and the response information,
An algorithm for extracting a part required by the user is generated, and a first extracted part determined to describe the contents required by the user is described as being used as a template of the response information. A data reuse method characterized by determining a second extraction site to be determined. 2. Analyzing the data structure of the first extraction site determined to contain the information required by the user and generating a data structuring algorithm, the database or the existing The interface format that can provide information to the application program
2. The data reuse method according to claim 1, wherein the extraction part is reconstructed. 3. A component capable of reusing data for the existing application by generating an algorithm for extracting a necessary part from the response information based on the request information from the user and a data structuring algorithm. 3. A program is created.
Data reuse method described. 4. A data reuse apparatus for reusing data provided by a request response type system typified by a WWW service on the Internet, wherein a plurality of response information based on a request from a user are provided. Is repeated, and the response information and the portion required by the user in the response information are repeatedly specified by the user, and the content required by the user is described. Extraction for generating an algorithm for extracting a part required by the user to determine a first extracted part to be determined and a second extracted part to be used as a template of the response information A data reuse device comprising an algorithm generating means. 5. Analyzing a data structure of the first extraction part determined that information required by the user is described, and providing information to a database or an existing application program. 5. The data reuse apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a data structuring algorithm generating means for generating a data structuring algorithm for reconstructing the first extraction part in an interface format. 6. A component program capable of reusing data for said existing application by said extraction algorithm generating means and said data structuring algorithm generating means from said response information based on request information from said user. 6. The data reuse apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising: a component generation algorithm generating unit configured to generate an algorithm for extracting a part required by the user and a data structuring algorithm for creating the data. 7. A storage medium storing a data reuse program for reusing data provided by a request response type system typified by a WWW service on the Internet, wherein response information based on a user request is stored. Issue another plurality of requests, repeat the trial for the user to specify the response information and the part required by the user in the response information, and check the contents required by the user. Extract a part required by the user to determine a first extracted part determined to be described and a second extracted part determined to be used as a template of the response information. A storage medium storing a data reuse program having an extraction algorithm generation process for generating an algorithm. 8. Analyzing the data structure of the first extraction site determined to contain information required by the user, and providing information to a database or an existing application program The storage medium according to claim 7, further comprising a data structuring algorithm generation process for generating a data structuring algorithm for reconstructing the first extraction part in an interface format. 9. Using the extraction algorithm generation process and the data structuring algorithm generation process from the response information based on the request information from the user,
9. The storage medium according to claim 7, further comprising a component generation algorithm generation process for generating a component program capable of reusing data for an existing application.