TWI605386B - Information collecting method and information collecting system using such method - Google Patents

Description

Data collection method and data collection system using the data collection method

The present invention relates to a method of data collection by a method of collecting data in a workspace and a data collection system applying the data collection method.

In the modern and convenient life, people are accustomed to using electronic devices with computing power to carry out various applications such as work, paperwork, recreation, social communication, etc., and with the gradual development of science and technology, the knowledge is transmitted more quickly, and various types of Various web platforms, operating systems, and software tools have been developed for use by people to bring more efficient lives to people, but they have also produced the following kinds of annoyances that are inconvenient for users.

First, a large number of information tools are spread across different information sources in the same format or in different formats, making it increasingly impossible to integrate information and tools in different formats obtained in a single workspace. After all, different formats of information and tools often have incompatibility problems. Second, the vast array of web platforms, operating systems, and software are mostly developed by different developers, often independent and incompatible with each other. It causes people to perform specific tasks that belong to different web platforms, operating systems, and software only on a single user interface. For example, when a user wants to use the first function of Photoshop software and the first part of Photoimpactk When two images are used to edit an image, you must open the user interface of Photoshop software to perform the first function and open it. The user interface of Photoimpactk performs the second function, which is inconvenient for the user.

Third, because each user has different habits and uses for operating electronic devices, the working environment suitable for each user is mostly created only on personal electronic devices, such as household desks, and once the user leaves. Where a personally used electronic device is placed, the user can only access the information placed on the commonly used electronic device through the network through another electronic device, and since the other electronic device is not the operating environment that the user is accustomed to. If another electronic device does not have a software tool or a specific function that is commonly used by a person, the user cannot work unless the required software tool or a specific function is reloaded in another electronic device.

Fourth, in the era of information explosion, it is more difficult for people to systematically collect data on specific topics. For example, users can use the GOOGLE search engine to search for topics of interest, but the information presented is often diverse and lengthy. It is difficult to filter and integrate one by one; and in order to collect actions more efficiently, a multi-person division mode can be adopted, and the collected data collected by everyone is uploaded to a shared space (such as cloud space, FTP space), and finally An integrator then integrates the data in the shared space to complete the collection; however, the process of integrating the data is usually cumbersome. For example, the format of the data uploaded to the shared space is different, such as the same file, but there are Word files, TXT files, PDF files and other different formats, so the integrator must also unify the files in different formats, thus causing waste of manpower and time.

According to the above description, the user needs a workspace for various webpages, operating systems, and various information and tools in the software to be compatible and executed, and how to make the workspace automatically load the data loaded therein. By performing a specific processing procedure, thereby saving manpower and time, it has become an issue to be studied.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a method for collecting data by transmitting a workspace and a data collection system using the data collection method, thereby saving manpower and time spent by the collector in collecting and integrating data.

In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a data collection method, including: providing a projectable spatial entity for modeling a workspace; wherein The projected spatial entity includes at least a collection management rule of at least one unified element of the workspace, and the at least one unified element is formed by the corresponding at least one original element being unified And providing a path connection information (URI) corresponding to the projectable spatial entity to at least one user and projecting the workspace to the at least one user for the at least one user to operate to enable the at least one user A unified element is provided to a projected workspace, and the projected workspace collects the at least one unified element in accordance with the collection management rule.

In a preferred embodiment, the data collection method further includes: transmitting the path link information (URI) to the at least one user by using at least one platform and/or at least one application channel.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one platform includes at least one of an operating system and a browser.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one application channel includes an email (email), an intranet, a social network, a blog, and a website ( Web site) and at least one of the chat communication channels.

In a preferred embodiment, the path connection information includes at least one of a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) path link information, a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) path link information, and a local file link information. By.

In a preferred embodiment, the projected workspace collects the at least one unified element through at least one unified tool provided thereto.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one unified tool is unified by at least one unified element that is to be transferred to the projected workspace into the at least one unified element. Elements are collected.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one unified tool includes an intelligent agent, and the smart agent is configured to perform a collection of the at least one unified element according to the collection management rule. program.

In a preferred embodiment, the intelligent agent is configured to perform file format conversion on the at least one unified element.

In a preferred embodiment, the projected workspace is provided through At least one of the at least one original element transmitted to the information importer is unified into the at least one unified element.

In a preferred embodiment, the data collecting method further comprises: interpreting the projectable spatial entity by using a projection device and establishing a working environment to carry the projected working space for the at least one use. Interact with the workspace.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one unified element includes at least one unified information unit and/or at least one unified tool.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one original information corresponding to the at least one unified information unit includes a file file, a web page, a data base row, a policy, a rule, a policy of the projected workspace, and at least one of access to a related machine or a server; and/or corresponding to the at least one unified tool At least one of the original tools includes a utility, an interface tool set, an agent, an application, a service, and any access to a related machine or At least one of the executable elements of a server.

In a preferred embodiment, the projectable spatial real system is an object, an extensible markup language (XML) file, or a structured language or a structured protocol. An instance of the generated entity.

In a preferred embodiment, the present invention also provides a data collection system, including: a first machine, including a projectable space; wherein the projectable space entity is used for construction (model a work space, and the projectable spatial entity includes at least one collection management rule of at least one unified element of the work space; wherein the at least one unified element is at least one corresponding The original element is formed by being unified; and at least a second machine is configured to load the projectable spatial entity in the first machine through a path linking information (URI), and the at least one The second machine includes a projection means for projecting the workspace to the at least one second machine after interpreting the projectable spatial entity for at least one user to operate the at least one uniform The element is provided to a projected workspace; wherein the projected workspace is based on the collection tube The at least one unified element is collected by rules.

In a preferred embodiment, the second machine obtains the path connection information through at least one platform and/or at least one application channel.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one platform includes at least one of an operating system and a browser.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one application channel includes an email (email), an intranet, a social network, a blog, At least one of a web site and a chat communication channel.

In a preferred embodiment, the path connection information includes at least one of a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) path link information, a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) path link information, and a local file link information. By.

In a preferred embodiment, the projected personal workspace workspace collects the at least unified elements through at least one unified tool provided thereto.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one unified tool is unified by at least one unified element that is to be transferred to the projected workspace into the at least one unified element. Elements are collected.

In a preferred embodiment, the projected workspace is unified into the at least one unified by the at least one original element transmitted thereto by at least one information importer provided thereto. element.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one unified element includes at least one unified information unit and/or at least one unified tool.

In a preferred embodiment, the at least one original information corresponding to the at least one unified information unit includes a file file, a web page, a data base row, a policy, a rule, a policy of the projected workspace, and at least one of access to a related machine or a server; and/or corresponding to the at least one unified tool At least one of the original tools includes a utility, an interface tool set, an agent, an application, a service, and any access to a related machine or At least one of the executable elements of a server.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the implementation concept of the unified method in one embodiment.

Figure 2: A diagram showing a better concept of a unified script as an intermediate language for implementing a personal workspace.

Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of a preferred configuration of the personal workspace shown in Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a schematic diagram showing the initial state of a method of projecting a workspace in a preferred embodiment.

FIG. 5A is a schematic diagram showing the operation of the method of projecting the workspace shown in FIG. 4. FIG.

FIG. 5B is a schematic diagram showing the operation of the method of projecting the workspace shown in FIG. 4. FIG.

Figure 6 is a schematic diagram showing the relative relationship between the projectable spatial entity shown in Figure 4 and the projected workspace shown in Figure 5B.

Figure 7 is a flow chart of a preferred method of the data collection method of the present invention.

Figure 8 is a schematic diagram showing the use of the data collection method of the present invention in a preferred embodiment.

Figure 9 is a conceptual diagram of the propagation of the projectable spatial entity shown in Figure 8.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram showing the operation concept of the data collection method shown in FIG. 7 applied to the use scenario shown in FIG.

Figure 11 is a schematic illustration of the relative relationship between a projectable spatial entity and a projected workspace in a preferred embodiment.

Figure 12A is a conceptual diagram of the interaction of the first student shown in Figure 10 with the projected workspace of the first machine.

Figure 12B is a schematic diagram showing the state of the storage device of Figure 10 after the first student interacts with the projected workspace of the first machine.

Figure 13A is a conceptual diagram of the interaction of the second student of Figure 12 with the projected workspace of the second machine.

Figure 13B is a schematic diagram showing the state of the storage device of Figure 10 after the second student interacts with the projected workspace of the second machine.

Figure 14A is a conceptual diagram showing the interaction of the third student shown in Figure 10 with the projected workspace of the third machine.

14B is a schematic diagram showing the state of the storage device shown in FIG. 10 after the third student interacts with the projected workspace of the third machine.

Figure 15 is a conceptual diagram of the interaction between the professor shown in Figure 10 and the projected workspace of the fifth machine.

Figure 16: Schematic diagram of the relative relationship between a projectable spatial entity compiled by a preferred travel planner and the projected workspace.

Figure 17A is a conceptual diagram of a process for collecting travel experiences for a preferred projected workspace.

Figure 17B is a conceptual diagram of a preferred travel planner interacting with the projected workspace.

Figure 18 is a block diagram showing a data collection system employing the method of Figure 7 in a preferred embodiment.

The invention will be more fully understood from the following description, including the <RTIgt; For the sake of brevity, the publications cited in this specification, including the disclosure of patents, are hereby incorporated by reference.

The following examples of the invention are non-limiting and represent only a variety of aspects and features of the invention. In the most limited technical sense, the term "information source" as used herein refers to a sequence of symbols that can be interpreted as useful information, and such useful information is used to organize and tag data; wherein the source of information may include : Websites (such as Internet services), internal networks, online communities, software, e-books, databases, and other informational media (such as storage media available for non-transitory computers, mobile device storage media). Also, the "original information" described herein may include files, web pages, databases, policies, rules, or any type of material that can be accessed by related machines and servers. The "original tools" may include utilities, interface toolsets, smart agent tools, applications, service tools, or any executable element that can access related machines and servers. However, the source of information, original information and original tools are not limited to the above.

Moreover, "original information" and "original tools" are one embodiment of the "original elements" described herein, and in the implementation of the present invention, multiple "original elements" from the same or different "information sources" Each can be modeled into multiple "unified elements" through a unified method, so that multiple "unified elements" in the same working environment can be compatible with each other to coordinate specific tasks; "Unified tools" and "unified information units" are all examples of "unified elements." Moreover, the "Matterizer" described herein is a component, device or code for unifying the "original elements".

In an embodiment, the unified method may be: reconstructing original information obtained from at least one information source of the plurality of information sources according to a unified data structure, thereby modeling the original information into unified information. Unit, and/or reorganizing the original tool obtained from at least one information source of the plurality of information sources according to another unified data structure, thereby modeling the original tool into a unified tool; wherein the unified data structure and the Another unified data structure may be the same or different, and the above unified method may be implemented by an element converter (Matterizer).

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a schematic diagram of the implementation concept of the above unified method in an embodiment. 1 illustrates an element converter 992 reforming an attribute and an associated link of the original element 991 in accordance with the unified material structure 993 to model the original element 991 as a unified element 994, such that the basic attributes of the unified element 994 include The type of the original element and the link that indicates where the original element is located.

In this embodiment, the original element 991 includes at least the original information (not shown) or the original tool (not shown), but is not limited thereto. Secondly, in the above unified method, when the attributes obtainable from the original information correspond to the attributes to be unified in the unified information unit, the unified information unit can be directly generated via the element converter 992; When the attributes obtained by the original information cannot correspond to the attributes that are to be unified in the unified information unit, the original information must be redefined by logically reorganizing the attributes and related links of the original information, so that the original information is converted into The new original information corresponding to the attributes that are to be unified in the unified information unit, thereby indirectly generating a unified information unit.

Moreover, when the original tool is compatible with the working environment of the workspace, the unified tool can be directly generated via the element converter 992; and when the original tool is incompatible with the working environment of the workspace, The unified tool is indirectly generated by a software development kit (SDK) driven by an adapter and/or original tool; the adapter is used to provide a workspace compatible interface Interface implementation.

For a specific implementation manner of the unified method described in the embodiment, a specific manner of obtaining the unified element, and a specific operation mode of the element converter, refer to US Patent Application No. 14/324069, entitled " A METHOD OF UNIFYING INFORMATION AND TOOL FROM A PLURALITY OF INFORMATION SOURCES", and the Chinese Patent Application No. 201410768564.X, which is based on the priority of the United States Patent Application No. 14/324,069, entitled "will be from the plural information" The method of unifying the information and tools of the source and the computer program products and devices using the method are not repeated here.

In particular, the above unified method is only one embodiment of the unified method adopted in the present case, and the method for unifying multiple original elements from different information sources is not limited to the above, and those skilled in the art can Make any equal change design based on actual application needs.

The following is an example of a unified method different from the above description. The first unified method is applied to the information unification method in Garmin satellite navigation. The Point of Interest (POI) function of Garmin satellite navigation is the original landmark information input through the information unification method (original Information) to achieve a unified program to obtain the corresponding unified landmark information (unified information unit); the second method is a unified tool for Android (Android) system, Android (Android) system is a Linux The basic open source mobile device operating system, but the applications (original tools) in the Android system are mostly written by Java, so the application (original tool) written by Java can be unified through the tool. It is modeled as a unified application (unified tool) that is compatible with Android, and can be executed in Android.

Furthermore, "workspace" as used herein refers to a work space that allows at least one element converter and/or at least one tool and/or at least one piece of information to interact to perform a particular task. And at least one piece of information and/or at least one tool may be input into the workspace by at least one element converter, but the manner in which information and/or tools are input into the workspace is not limited thereto; secondly, the following The information importer (such as the information input devices 9881, 9882, 9883 in FIG. 2 and the PDF file input device 831 in FIG. 11, FIG. 12A, FIG. 13A, FIG. 14A, FIG. 15 and FIG. The post input device 861 and the like in FIGS. 17A and 17B are all an embodiment of the element converter. Furthermore, the "unified script" described herein refers to an intermediate language that can be used as a workspace, and at least one element converter and/or at least one information and/or at least one tool can be made through a "unified script". Is provided (such as built-in or plug-in) to the workspace.

In one embodiment, the at least one information is at least one unified information unit formed by the at least one original information obtained from the at least one information source, and the at least one tool is from at least one information. At least one original tool obtained by the source is formed by at least one unified tool formed by being unified; wherein the user can select the required unified information unit and/or the unified tool according to different tasks. The information source is added (such as built-in or plug-in) to the personal workspace, so the "workspace" can be a user-oriented "personal workspace."

Further, please refer to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 . FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a better concept of a unified script as an intermediate language for implementing a personal workspace, and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a preferred configuration of the personal workspace shown in FIG. 2 . . 2 and FIG. 3 illustrate the unified information unit 985' corresponding to the original information 985 in the Dropbox 982, corresponding to the compatible original tool 986 in the cloud hard disk 983 according to the requirements of the task. The first unified tool 986' and the second unified tool 987' corresponding to the incompatible original tool 987 in the server 984 are combined into the personal workspace 981; in detail, the user can edit one for the first time. As a unified script 980 for realizing the intermediate language of the personal workspace 981, the information input device 9881 of the Dropbox 982, the information input device 9882 of the cloud hard disk 983, and the information of the server 984 are configured by the unified script 980. The input device 9883; wherein the information input device 9881 can unify the original information 985 in the Dropbox 982 into the unified information unit 985' and input to the personal workspace 981.

Moreover, Figures 2 and 3 also illustrate that the original tool stored in the cloud hard drive 983 is a compatible original tool 986 (i.e., the compatible original tool 986 can be unified with the personal workspace 981). The component is compatible with the component architecture, and through the unified script 980 (using it) The information importer 9882) can provide the first unified tool 986' corresponding to the compatible original tool 986 directly to the personal workspace 981.

Moreover, Figures 2 and 3 also illustrate that the original tool stored in the server 984 is an incompatible original tool 987 (i.e., the incompatible original tool 987 is used in the personal workspace 981 for the unified tool). The component architecture is incompatible, and the second unification of the incompatible original tool 987 is achieved through the unified script 980 (using the compatible converter 989 and the information input device 9883). Tool 987' is provided to personal workspace 981.

In addition, FIG. 3 also illustrates that the user configures the arrangement (eg, grouping or placing) unified information unit 985', the first unified tool 986', and the second unified tool 987 according to actual application requirements. 'In a specific area of the personal workspace 981; finally, the user can save by using the unified tool in response to the unified tool and the operational relationship between the unified information units (such as click actions or drag actions between the two) Take or control the corresponding unified information unit to perform the required tasks.

Regarding the "unified script as a specific implementation of the intermediate language of the personal workspace" described in the embodiment, "the user unifies the required unified information unit and/or the required unit according to the actual application requirements. A specific implementation of a tool that can be freely combined into a personal workspace to perform a task. Reference is made to US Patent Application No. 14/325,466 entitled "METHOD FOR PERFORMING TASK ON UNIFIED INFORMATION UNITS IN A PERSONAL WORKSPACE" And the Chinese Patent Application No. 201410796528.4, which is based on the priority of the United States Patent Application No. 114/324,069, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. The computer program product and system of the method" will not be repeated here.

In particular, the above personal workspace is only an embodiment of the workspace, and the workspace applied to the present case is not limited to the above; for example, a unified script that implements the intermediate language of the workspace can be edited in advance. Make the workspace a workspace with built-in preset element converters and/or preset information and/or preset tools. Such workspaces are not limited to individual operations, but can also be used for multiple applications. The user operates simultaneously or separately.

Furthermore, the "workspace" described in this article can be accessed through a "projection workspace". The method is projected onto any computing device, so that any user can operate the "projected workspace" on any computing device.

In an embodiment, the method for projecting a workspace includes: first, obtaining a projectable space instance that is instantiated by a unified script via a path link information (URI); wherein, unified The script is defined to configure at least one of an element converter, information, and tools to build a workspace (as previously explained), and the projectable spatial entity is used to create a projected workspace corresponding to the workspace, Providing an interface for operating at least one of an element converter, information, and a tool to perform a task; then, using a projector to interpret the projectable spatial entity and establishing an element converter, information, and tools At least one of the ones are disposed in the work environment of the projectable spatial entity to thereby perform the projected workspace, whereby at least one user interacts with the projected workspace.

The projection means can be obtained from a remote data station, a projectable space entity or a preloaded application, and loaded into an engine for providing a compatible environment to perform projection means, and the engine can be Including the Javascript engine, the Windows application, or the Linux application, but not limited to the above; in addition, the unified script can be defined by a file type (DTD), an extensibility markup language schema (XML schema), a structured language or a structured protocol, etc., but not limited to the above; and the space entity that can be projected can be an object, an extensibility indicator A language (XML) file, or an instance generated by a structured language or a structured protocol, etc., but not limited to the above.

Further, please refer to FIG. 4, FIG. 5A to FIG. 5B and FIG. 6. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an initial state of the method for projecting the workspace in a preferred embodiment, and FIG. 5A and FIG. Schematic diagram of the operational concept of the spatial method. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing the relative relationship between the projectable spatial entity shown in FIG. 4 and the projected workspace shown in FIG. 5B. In the initial state shown in FIG. 4, there are a first electronic device 971 and a second electronic device 972 that are connectable to each other (eg, connected through a network), and the first electronic device 971 stores a space that can be projected. Entity 973, and a projection means 974 is built in the second electronic device 972.

Moreover, the unified script 9731 is declared by a file type definition (DTD), and is defined to configure at least one information input device (which is an implementation aspect of the element converter) and/or at least one Unifying the information unit and/or at least one unified tool to model a workspace, and the projectable object 973 is an entity generated by an Extensible Markup Language (XML), as shown in FIG. , is used to build a projected workspace 976 corresponding to the workspace, and is allowed to be added to or removed from the information importer and/or the unified information unit and/or the unified tool.

Moreover, the projection means 974 of the second electronic device 972 establishes a working environment 975 for the projected workspace 976 on the second electronic device 972 and provides a micro core 977 (see FIG. 6) to the operating environment 975. Equiring at least one information input device and/or at least one unified information unit and/or at least one unified tool to be added to the projected workspace 976; wherein, when the second electronic device 972 is connected through a path When the information captures the projectable spatial entity 973 in the first electronic device 971, the projection means 974 in the second electronic device 972 begins to interpret the projectable spatial entity 973, as shown in FIG. 5A; After the projectable spatial entity 973 is interpreted by the projection means 974, the projected workspace 976 is created on the work environment 975 in accordance with the content interpreted by the projectable spatial entity 973, as shown in Figure 5B. The user at the end of the second electronic device 972 can interact with the projected workspace 976 via the second electronic device 972 to perform related tasks.

The relationship between the above-described unified script 9731, the projectable spatial entity 973, and the projected workspace 976 will be further described below using the usage scenarios shown in FIG. 6. The usage scenario shown in FIG. 6 is: creating a workspace that can be projected and can read the jpg image files and gif image files stored in the specified network space for the user to view, and in the context of the use, unified The script 9731 is declared with a file type definition (DTD), and the projectable space entity 973 is generated in an extensibility markup language (XML).

Moreover, a data input device and a unified tool are added to the projectable space entity 973, and the information input device is configured to input at least one unified information unit corresponding to the at least one original information to the projected work. In the space 976, in the context of use, the information input device is a Dropbox input device (ie, the dashed box 9761 is shown), and the original information is the jpg image file 9791, 9792 and the gif image file 9793 in the Dropbox 979 information source. The unified information unit is The unified jpg image file 9791', 9792' and the unified gif image file 9793' are described later, and the unified tool is a picture reader (ie, the dotted line box 9762 is shown) for reading input to The image file in the projected workspace 976.

Moreover, the projected workspace 976 is created after the projectable spatial entity 973 is interpreted by the projection means 974 in the second electronic device 972 such that the projected workspace 976 is provided with a Dropbox input 9761'. (corresponding to the dashed box 9761 shown) and a picture reader 9762' (corresponding to the dashed box 9762 shown), the Dropbox input unit 9761' will then use the jpg picture files 9791 and 9792 in the Dropbox 979 information source. The gif image file 9793 is unified and input to the projected workspace 976, so that the unified jpg image files 9791', 9792' and the unified gif image file corresponding to the jpg image file 9791, 9792 and the gif image file 9793, respectively. 9793' is presented on the projected workspace 976; then, when the user of the second electronic device 972 is in a unified operation mode, the unified jpg image file 9791', 9792' and the unified gif image file 9793' When one is operating (such as clicking on the unified jpg image file 9791', 9792' and unified gif image file 9793', or will unify jpg image files 9791', 9792' and unified gif pictures File 979 If any of the 3's is dragged to the picture reader 9762'), the picture reader 9762' will read any of the unified jpg picture files 9791', 9792' and the unified gif picture file 9793'. The content is rendered for the user to watch. Further, the above-described Dropbox input device 9761' and picture reader 9762' are equivated by the micro core 977.

Specifically, the path connection information of the projectable space entity 973 may be Hyper File Transfer Protocol (HTTP) path link information or File Transfer Protocol (FTP) path link information, and if the first electronic device 971 and the second electronic device are When the 972 is a common device, the path connection information of the space entity 973 that can be projected may also be linked to the local file, but the type of the path connection information is not limited to the above.

For a specific manner of obtaining a method for projecting a workspace as described in this embodiment, reference is made to US Patent Application No. 14/577,772, entitled "METHOD OF PROJECTING A WORKSPACE AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME", and a US patent can be referred to. Application No. 14/324069, No. 14/325,466, and No. 14/577,772, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire entire That is, it will not be repeated.

In particular, the above method of projecting the workspace is only a projection method for projecting the workspace to any computing device, but the projection method of projecting the workspace to any computing device is not To the above, it is well known to those skilled in the art that any equal change design can be made according to actual application requirements. Second, since any workspace can be projected onto any computing-capable electronic device, any workspace can be considered to be delivered to any workspace with computing power.

Please refer to FIG. 7, which is a flow chart of a preferred method for collecting data according to the present invention. The data collection method includes: Step P1, providing a projectable spatial entity for modeling a workspace; wherein the projectable spatial entity includes at least a collection of at least one unified element of the workspace Managing a rule, and the at least one unified element is formed by the corresponding at least one original element being unified; and step P2 is provided to provide a path connection information corresponding to the projectable spatial entity (URI) to at least one user and projecting the workspace to at least one user for at least one user to operate to provide at least one unified element to a projected workspace, and the projected workspace At least one unified element is collected according to the collection management rules.

The data collection method shown in Fig. 7 will be further explained by the following examples. Please refer to FIG. 8 to FIG. 15. FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a usage scenario of a data collection method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram of propagating a projectionable spatial entity shown in FIG. 8, and FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of FIG. FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram showing the relative relationship between the projectable spatial entity and the projected workspace in a preferred embodiment, and FIG. FIG. 12B is a schematic diagram showing a state in which a student interacts with a projected workspace of a first machine, and FIG. 12B is a schematic diagram of a state in which the storage device shown in FIG. 10 interacts with a projected workspace of the first machine, FIG. 13A. FIG. 13B is a conceptual diagram of interaction between the second student and the projected workspace of the second machine shown in FIG. 10, and FIG. 13B is the storage device shown in FIG. 10 after the second student interacts with the projected workspace of the second machine. FIG. 14A is a conceptual diagram of the interaction between the third student and the projected workspace of the third machine shown in FIG. 10, and FIG. 14B is a storage device shown in FIG. The projected workspace of the third machine is interacting with each other Schematic diagram of the state after the movement, FIG. 15 is a conceptual diagram of the interaction between the professor shown in FIG. 10 and the projected workspace of the fifth machine.

First of all, the usage scenario exemplified in the preferred embodiment is "the professor wants to collect the student's homework, and the professor wants the file format of the collected job to be a PDF file." Therefore, in such a use situation, corresponding to the data collection method shown in FIG. 7, the student's homework is an implementation aspect of the original element, and the student's homework is unified as shown in FIG. The unified elements to be collected in the data collection method; wherein at least one of the data collection methods shown in FIG. 7 can be regarded as a professor and a plurality of students in the context of use.

Please refer to step P1, FIG. 8 and FIG. 11 shown in FIG. 7. When the professor 54 collects the jobs 961~963 of the students 51-53, a projectable space entity 60 can be set in the fourth machine 41, and The projectable spatial entity 60 is for modeling a workspace; wherein the projectable spatial entity 60 is compiled in advance by the professor 54 or any of the licensors and has a collection management rule 92 for the student job. For example, only a single format file is collected, and the projectable spatial entity 60 can set the required unified tool 81 (described in detail later) and the information input device 83 in response to the compilation of the professor 54 or any of the authorizers (later) Detailed) is provided to the projected workspace.

In the preferred embodiment, the unified script 61 is declared by a file type definition (DTD), and the projectable spatial entity 60 is instantiated by an extensible markup language (XML). An object, as shown in FIG. 11, and FIG. 11 also illustrates the compiled content of the projectable spatial entity 60 and its correspondence with the unified tool 81 and the information inputter 83 in the projected workspace 8. In addition, in the preferred embodiment, the collection management rule 82 is "If the collected job conforms to the single file format of the PDF file, the collected job will be Directly transferred to the storage device 43 for storage, and if the collected job does not conform to the file format of the PDF file, it will be automatically transferred to the file format conforming to the PDF file and then transferred to the storage device 43 for storage, and the unified tool 81 A collection tool 811 (which may be a smart agent) for transferring the file format and transferring the converted file format to the storage device 43 and a PDF file reader 812 for reading the job content are included. Information input device 83 includes Input to the work space is projected PDF of the input device 8318 to the job in the storage device 43 to be unified, using FIG 12A ~ FIG. 15 is further described later.

Furthermore, FIG. 8 also illustrates that there are storage devices 43 and points in the usage scenario. The first machine 1, the second machine 2, the third machine 3, and the fifth machine 42 used by the first student 51, the second student 52, the third student 53, and the professor 54, and the first machine 1, the second machine 2. A projector 7 is disposed in each of the third machine 3 and the fifth machine 42. The projection means 7 can be at least from a remote data station (not shown), the storage device 43, and the fourth machine 41. The projectable space entity 60 or an application (not shown) preloaded in the first machine 1, the second machine 2 or the third machine 3 is obtained.

In addition, in the preferred embodiment, the first machine 1, the second machine 2, the third machine 3, and the fifth machine 42 are directly or indirectly connected to the storage device 43 and the fourth machine 41, respectively. Linked, shown by the dashed line in FIG. 10, so any unified element can be transmitted between the first machine 1 and the storage device 43, between the second machine 2 and the storage device 43, the third machine 3 and the storage device 43 Between the fifth machine and the storage device 43, and the projectable space entity 60 in the fourth machine 41 can be transferred to the first machine 1, the second machine 2, the third machine 3, and the fifth machine 42.

Further, please refer to step P2 shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 9, the projectable space entity 60 has a path connection information (URI) corresponding thereto, when the professor 54 wants to collect the student's work (and the fourth machine 41) In the premise that there is a projectable space entity 60, the professor 54 can transmit the path link information of the projectable space entity 60 to the first student 51 by using a platform and/or an application channel. The second student 52 and the third student 53, so that the first student 51, the second student 52, and the third student 53 can respectively load the projectable space entity 60 into the first machine by the path linking information. The second machine 2 and the third machine 3 are.

The platform used to propagate the path link information may be an operating system or a browser, and the application channel used to propagate the path link information may be an email (email), an intranet, or a social network (social network). ), blog, web site or chat communication channel, etc.; however, the above is only an embodiment, and the form of the platform and the form of the application channel are not limited to the above.

Next, please refer to the step P2 shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 10, the projection means 7 of the first machine 1, the second machine 2, the third machine 3 and the fifth machine 42 will be respectively in the first machine 1 and the second machine 2 The working environment 71 for the projected working spaces 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D is established on the third machine 3 and the fifth machine 42, and the micro core 72 (see FIG. 11) is provided to the working environment 71 for loading. The information input unit 83 and the unified tool 81 are compiled in the projectable space entity 60, and the first machine 1, the second machine 2, the third machine 3, and the fifth machine 42 respectively obtain the fourth machine through the path connection information. When the projectable spatial entity 60 in 41, the projection means 7 begins to interpret the projectable spatial entity 60, and when the projectable spatial entity 60 is interpreted by the projection means 7, the projected workspace 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D are established on the work environment 71 according to the content of the interpretable space entity 60 being interpreted, such that the first student 51 of the first machine 1 and the second student 52 of the second machine 2 end 52, The third student 53 of the third machine 3 end and the professor 54 of the fifth machine 42 end can pass through the first machine 1, the second machine 2, the third machine 3, and the fifth machine 42 and the projected work spaces 8A, 8B, respectively. 8C, 8D interact, that is, the first student 51, the second student 52, and the third student 53 can respectively transfer their respective assignments to the projected workspaces 8A, 8B, 8C, and the professor 54 can work from the projection. Get the first student 51~third in space 8D Students work 53.

For example, in the usage scenario of the preferred embodiment, the projected workspaces 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D are sequentially created on the first machine 1, the second machine 2, the third machine 3, and the fifth. On the work environment 71 of the machine 42, the first student 51, the second student 52, and the third student 53 sequentially transfer the work to the projected work spaces 8A, 8B, 8C; first, please refer to FIG. 12A and FIG. 12B. When the projected workspace 8A is built on the first machine 1, the projected workspace 8A does not present any job, at which time the first student 51 can transmit his or her own job 961 to the projected through the first machine 1. The work space 8A is as shown in FIG. 12A, and since the job 961 of the first student 51 is a file conforming to the file format of the PDF file in the use scenario, the job 961 is directly collected by the collection management rule 82. 811 is transferred to storage device 43 for storage as shown in Figure 12B.

Next, referring to FIG. 13A and FIG. 13B, in the process in which the projected workspace 8B is established in the second machine 2, the PDF input device 831 unifies the job 961 stored in the storage device 43 and inputs it to the The projected workspace 8B, so when the projected workspace 8B is built on the second machine 2, the second student 52 can see that the projected workspace 8B has the job 961', and the second student 52 can The second job 2 transmits its own job 962 to the projected workspace 8B as shown in FIG. 13A, and since the usage scenario, the second student 52's job 962 is a file conforming to the PDF file format. Therefore, according to the collection management rule 82, the job 962 is directly transferred by the collection tool 811 to the storage device 43 for storage, as shown in FIG. 13B.

Furthermore, referring to FIG. 14A and FIG. 14B, in the process in which the projected workspace 8C is established in the third machine 3, the PDF input device 831 unifies the jobs 961, 962 stored in the storage device 43. Input to the projected workspace 8C, so when the projected workspace 8C is built on the third machine 3, the third student 53 can see that the projected workspace 8C has jobs 961', 962', at this time The third student 53 can transmit his or her own job 963 to the projected work space 8C through the third machine 3, as shown in FIG. 14A, and because of the use scenario, the work 963 of the third student 53 is not in compliance with the PDF file. According to the collection management rule 82, the collection tool 811 first automatically converts the file format of the third student 53 to the job 963, and converts the job 963 into a file conforming to the file format of the PDF file, and then converts the file. The formatted job 963' is transferred to the storage device 43 for storage as shown in Fig. 14B.

Finally, in the process in which the projected workspace 8D is established in the fifth machine 42, the PDF input device 831 unifies the jobs 961, 962, 963' stored in the storage device 43 and inputs them to the projected work. The space 8D, so when the projected workspace 8D is built on the fifth machine 42, the professor 54 can see that the projected workspace 8D has jobs 961', 962', 963", at this time Professor 54 completes the task of collecting the job, as shown in FIG. 15; therefore, the professor 54 can then go through a specific operation mode (such as clicking a target or dragging the target to the PDF file reader 812), and the PDF file reader 812 will The contents of the jobs 961', 962', 963" are read and presented for viewing by the professor 54. Moreover, in the preferred embodiment, the collection management rule 82 can be set by the professor 54 or the authorizer to not allow the student to see it, so it is represented by a dashed box, but is not limited to the above.

In particular, the collection workflow of the usage scenario described above may also be modified such that when any job is transferred to the projected workspace 8, the PDF collection tool 811 first transfers the job to the projected workspace 8. It will be unified, and then the collection process will be carried out on the unified page (the collection procedure can be converted into a PDF file format page for the file format that conforms to the WORD file).

It should be noted that the collection tool 811 configured to be disposed in the projected workspace 8 may be a format conversion tool installed on a remote computing device (such as a remote server), so when the projected workspace 8 receives If the file does not meet the specified file format, the file that does not conform to the specified file format will be transferred to the remote computing device. After the remote computing device converts the file that does not conform to the specified file format, the remote computing device converts the file to the specified file format. Transfer the converted file to The specified storage device, but not limited to the above, for example, the collection tool 811 configured to be disposed in the projected workspace 8 may also be originally built in the first machine 1, the second machine 2, the third machine The format conversion tool in the third or fifth machine 42; in addition, although the storage device is an independently operated machine in the preferred embodiment, it is not limited thereto, and it may be disposed on any machine (such as The storage unit in the fourth machine); further, although the fourth machine 41 and the fifth machine 42 are two independently operated machines in the preferred embodiment, but not limited thereto, such as the fourth machine 41 and The fifth machine 42 can also be a co-operating device; of course, the above is merely an embodiment, and any person skilled in the art can make any equal change design according to actual application requirements.

The present invention is described below in another preferred embodiment. The use case of the preferred embodiment is "a travel planner collects travel experiences of friends (such as trip planning, photos, etc.), and the travel experiences of the friends are originally posted or recorded differently. On social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. In such a use situation, the travel planner can first compile the projectable space entity used to establish the workspace according to the collection purpose, and transmit the path link information of the projectable space entity to the friends, so that The projected workspace can be built on the friends' respective machines, so that the friends can add their travel experience from the original online social platform (such as dragging) to being projected. In the workspace, the final travel planner can see the travel experience added to the projected workspace from the projected workspace.

Please refer to FIG. 16A, FIG. 16B, FIG. 17A and FIG. 17B. FIG. 16A and FIG. 16B are schematic diagrams showing the relative relationship between the projectable spatial entity compiled by the preferred travel planner and the projected workspace, and FIG. 17A is a comparison. A conceptual diagram of the process of collecting the travel experience of the projected workspace, FIG. 17B is a conceptual diagram of a better travel planner interacting with the projected work space, and FIG. 17B also illustrates the first friend of the travel planner 58. 55. The second friend 56 and the third friend 57 will add their respective travel experiences 964, 965, and 966 to the projected work space 8E from the originally posted online social platform, and the travel planner 58 can see the Projected workspace 8E.

In particular, in the preferred embodiment, the unified script 63 is declared by a file type definition (DTD), and the projectable spatial entity 62 is an extensible markup language (XML). The object is formed as shown in FIGS. 16A and 16B, and FIGS. 16A and 16B also illustrate the compiled content of the projectable spatial entity 62 and its unification in the projected workspace 8'. The correspondence between the tool 84 and the information input device 86 is as shown in the two corresponding ends of either of the broken lines in FIGS. 16A and 16B. Moreover, in the preferred embodiment, the collection management rule 85 is "send the collected travel experience to the storage device 43 for storage", and the unified tool 84 includes a collection of stickers for transmitting the travel experience to the storage device 43. The tool 841 and a post viewer 842 for reading the content of the travel experience, and the information input device 86 includes a function for unifying the travel experience in the storage device 43 and inputting it to the projected work space 8E. Post-input 861.

FIG. 17A illustrates a tour in which a first friend 55, a second friend 56, and a third friend 57 will be posted on the Facebook 101 on a respective machine (not shown), and posted on Twitter 102. When the experience 965 and the travel experience 966 posted on Instagram 103 join (eg, dragged) the projected work space 8E, the post collection tool 841 transmits the travel experience 964, 965, 966 to the storage device according to the collection management rule 85. 43. Next, as shown in FIG. 17B, in the process in which the projected work space 8E is built in the machine (not shown) of the travel planner 58, the post input device 861 will be stored in the storage device 43. The travel experience 964, 965, 966 is unified and input to the projected work space 8E, so when the projected work space 8 E is built on the machine of the travel planner 58, the travel planner 58 can see the projected The work space 8 E has a travel experience 964', 965', 966', at which point the travel planner 58 completes the task of collecting travel experience; therefore, the travel planner 58 can then go through a specific operation mode (such as clicking on a target or Drag target to post The reader 842), attached to the document reader 842 reads the travel experience 964 ', 965' content, 966 'while it presented for travel planners 58 watch.

Please refer to FIG. 18 , which is a block diagram of a data collection system using the method shown in FIG. 7 in a preferred embodiment. The data collection system 95 includes a first machine 951 and a plurality of second machines 952 (only one second machine 952 is shown), and the first machine 951 includes a projectable spatial entity 953; wherein the projectable spatial entity 953 is A space entity 953 for constructing a workspace and projectable includes a collection management rule for the unified elements in the workspace, and each unified element is formed by the corresponding original element being unified .

Moreover, the second machines 952 are configured to load the projectable space entities 953 in the first machine through a path connection information, and each of the second machines 952 includes a projection means 954, and the projection means 954 After interpreting the projectable space entity 953, the workspace is projected onto the second machine 952 for the user of each second machine to operate, and the unified element is raised. The workspace 955 is projected, and the projected workspace 955 collects unified elements that are provided to the projected workspace 955 in accordance with collection management rules. Wherein, the specific embodiment of loading the projectable space entity 953 in the first machine 951 into the second machine 952 through the path linking information and about causing the projected workspace 955 to be performed on the second machines 952 The specific implementation manner of collecting the unified elements is the same as the foregoing description, and will not be further described herein.

According to the above description, the data collection method of the present invention and the data collection system using the data collection method can not only collect data on different platforms, but also automatically collect the collected data to perform specific integration procedures, thereby saving data collection. The manpower and time are actually an invention of great industrial value.

The above description is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the patent application of the present invention. Therefore, any equivalent changes or modifications made without departing from the spirit of the present invention should be included in the present case. Within the scope of the patent application.

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A data collection method includes: providing a projectable spatial entity for modeling a workspace; wherein the projectable spatial entity includes at least one unified tool and at least one of the workspaces a collection management rule (rule) of the unified element, and the at least one unified element is formed by the corresponding at least one original element being unified; and providing corresponding to the projectable a path linking information (URI) of the spatial entity to at least one user to load the projected spatial entity to at least one machine, and each of the machines of the machine interprets the projectable space by using a projection means Entity and establishing a working environment to carry a workspace corresponding to one of the workspaces for further operation by the user for the at least one unified element to be provided to the projected a workspace, and the projected workspace collects the at least one unified element through the at least one unified tool according to the collection management rule Wherein the engine provides a compatible environment to perform the projection means, and the projection means provides a microkernel to the operating environment established thereby to equip the at least a unified tool into the projected workspace, and the projection means and the created working environment, the projected workspace, and the micro-core are executed in the same provided by the engine This compatible environment. The data collection method of claim 1, further comprising: transmitting the path connection information to the at least one user by using at least one platform and/or at least one application channel. The data collection method of claim 2, wherein the at least one platform comprises at least one of an operating system and a browser. The method for collecting data according to claim 2, wherein the at least one application channel comprises an email (email), an intranet, and a social network (social). At least one of a network, a blog, a web site, and a chat communication channel. The method for collecting data according to claim 1, wherein the path link information includes a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) path link information, a file transfer protocol (FTP) path link information, and a local file (local file) ) at least one of the links. The data collection method of claim 1, wherein the at least one unified tool unifies the at least one original element to be transferred to the projected workspace into the at least one unified element The at least one unified element is then collected. The method of collecting data according to claim 1, wherein the at least one unified tool comprises an intelligent agent, and the smart agent is configured to use the at least A unified element performs a collection procedure. The method for collecting data according to claim 7, wherein the intelligent agent is configured to perform file format conversion on the at least one unified element. The data collection method of claim 1, wherein the projected workspace is unified by the at least one original element to which the information importer is provided by at least one information importer provided thereto Turn into at least one unified element. The method for collecting data according to claim 1, wherein the at least one unified element comprises at least one unified information unit and/or at least one unified tool. The method for collecting data according to claim 10, wherein the at least one original information corresponding to the at least one unified information unit comprises a file, a web page, and a database. Base row), a strategy, a rule, an operation of the projected workspace At least one of a policy and any data accessible to a related machine or a server; and/or at least one of the original tools corresponding to the at least one unified tool includes a utility (utility ), an interface tool set, an agent, an application, a service, and any executable element accessible to a related machine or a server . The method for collecting data according to claim 1, wherein the projectable spatial real system is an object, an extensible markup language (XML) file, or a structured language. Or an instance generated by a structured protocol. The method for collecting data according to claim 1, wherein the collection management rule is provided by the at least one unified tool. A data collection system includes: a first machine including a projectable space; wherein the projectable space entity is used to model a workspace, and the projectable space entity a collection management rule including at least one unified tool and at least one unified element of the workspace; wherein the at least one unified element is corresponding to at least one original element via Formed by the unified; and at least a second machine for loading the projectable spatial entity in the first machine through a path linking information (URI), and the at least one second machine includes An engine that utilizes a projector to interpret the projectable spatial entity and establish a working environment to carry a workspace corresponding to one of the workspaces for projection At least one user operation causes the at least one unified element to be provided to the projected workspace, and the projected workspace is based on the collection management rule And the unified through the at least one tool element at least a unified collected; wherein the system provides an engine environmental compatibility (compatible environment) to execute the projection means and the projection means to provide a a microkernel in the working environment established by the microkernel to equip the at least one unified tool into the projected workspace, and the projection means and the working environment established thereby, the The projected workspace and the microcore are executed in the same compatible environment provided by the engine. The data collection system of claim 14, wherein the second machine obtains the path connection information through at least one platform and/or at least one application channel. The data collection system of claim 15, wherein the at least one platform comprises at least one of an operating system and a browser. The data collection system of claim 15, wherein the at least one application channel comprises an email (email), an intranet, a social network, At least one of a blog, a web site, and a chat communication channel. The data collection system of claim 14, wherein the path connection information comprises a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) path link information, a file transfer protocol (FTP) path link information, and a local file (local file) ) at least one of the links. The data collection system of claim 14, wherein the at least one unified tool unifies the at least one original element to be transferred to the projected workspace into the at least one unified element The at least one unified element is then collected. The data collection system of claim 14, wherein the projected workspace is unified by the at least one original element to which the information importer is provided by at least one information importer provided thereto Turn into at least one unified element. The data collection system of claim 14, wherein the at least one unified element The system includes at least one unified information unit and/or at least one unified tool. The data collection system of claim 21, wherein the at least one original information corresponding to the at least one unified information unit comprises a file, a web page, and a database. Base row), a policy, a rule, a policy of the projected workspace, and at least one of access to a related machine or a server; and/or corresponding At least one original tool of the at least one unified tool includes a utility, an interface tool, an agent, an application, a service, and any Accessing at least one of an associated machine or an executable element of a server. The data collection system of claim 14, wherein the collection management rule is provided by the at least one unified tool.