Information search system, information search method and program

• US 20020198870A1
• Filed: 11/19/2001
• Published: 12/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ea-Plus Company Limited, Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nakajima, Mitsuru, Umebachi, Akira
• Granted Patent: US 7,107,256 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/334 Query execution G06F16/335 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99937 Sorting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99938 Concurrency, e.g. lock management in shared database
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure

Abstract

An information search system enabling an information searcher to easily surely judge whether each piece of search target information searched is important to the searcher himself or herself, is disclosed. The information search system implements a function of calculating, when searching for property information on a real estate property that satisfies a search condition specified by a certain user, a degree of fitness indicating how much each piece of property information satisfies the search condition on the basis of a degree-of-fitness calculation function for that user, and a function of enabling each user to change a configuration of the degree-of-fitness calculation function for the user himself or herself.

Claims

1. An information search system comprising:

a searching unit which searches, when a desire-for-search party specifies a search condition, for a piece of search target information satisfying the search condition from plural pieces of search target information;

a calculating unit which calculates a fitting value indicating how much the search target information satisfies the search condition about the respective pieces of search target information searched by said searching unit in accordance with a fitting value calculation procedure specified by the desire-for-search party; and

a result-of-search presenting unit which presents, to the desire-for-search party, at least a part of information that forms each piece of search target information searched by said searching unit together with the fitting value calculated by said calculating unit with respect to that piece of search target information.

2. An information search system comprising:

a calculating unit which calculates, when a desire-for-search party specifies a search condition, a fitting value indicating how much search target information satisfies the search condition about the respective pieces of search target information in accordance with a fitting value calculation procedure specified by the desire-for-search party;

an extracting unit for extracting the search target information of which the fitting value calculated by said calculating unit satisfies a predetermined condition, out of the plural pieces of search target information; and

a result-of-search presenting unit which presents, to the desire-for-search party, at least a part of information that forms each piece of search target information extracted by said extracting unit together with the fitting value calculated by said calculating unit with respect to that piece of search target information.

3. An information search system comprising:

a defining information storage module stored with search condition defining information for defining a search condition with respect to each of a plurality of search permission parties, and fitting value calculation procedure defining information for defining a procedure for calculating a fitting value indicating how much the information searched under the search condition defined by the search condition defining information satisfies the search condition;

a searching unit which searches, when a predetermined indication is given from any one of the plurality of search permission parties, for the search target information that satisfies the search condition defined by the search condition defining information stored in said defining information storage module with respect to the search permission party having given the predetermined indication out of the plural pieces of search target information;

a calculating unit which calculates the fitting value indicating how much each piece of search target information searched by said searching unit satisfies the search condition used for searching for the search target information in the procedure defined by the fitting value calculation procedure defining information stored in said search condition storage module with respect to the search permission party having given the predetermined indication; and

a result-of-search presenting unit which presents, to the search permission party, at least a part of information that forms each piece of search target information searched by said searching unit together with the fitting value calculated by said calculating unit with respect to that piece of search target information.

4. An information search system according to claim 3, further comprising:

a second calculating unit which calculates, when the search target information to be processed is given, the fitting value indicating how much the search target information to be processed satisfies the search condition stored in said defining information storage module about the search permission party with respect to each of the plurality of search permission parties in the procedure defined by the fitting value calculation procedure stored in said defining information storage module with respect to that search permission party; and

a result-of-search output unit for outputting, to each of the plurality of the search permission parties, the information on this search permission party and the fitting value calculated by said second calculating unit with respect to this search permission party.

5. An information search system according to claim 3, wherein the plural pieces of search target information contain first type search target information permitted to be browsed by the search permission party, and second type search target information inhibited to be browsed by the search permission party,

said searching unit searches for the search target information from the first type search target information contained in the plural pieces of search target information, and

said information search system further comprises:

a second calculating unit which calculates, when the search target information to be processed is given, the fitting value indicating how much the second type search target information to be processed satisfies the search condition stored in said defining information storage module about the search permission party with respect to each of the plurality of search permission parties in the procedure defined by the fitting value calculation procedure stored in said defining information storage module with respect to that search permission party; and

a result-of-search output unit for outputting, to each of the plurality of the search permission parties, the information on this search permission party and the fitting value calculated by said second calculating unit with respect to this search permission party.

6. An information search method comprising:

a searching step of searching, when a desire-for-search party specifies a search condition, for a piece of search target information satisfying the search condition from plural pieces of search target information;

a calculating step of calculating a fitting value indicating how much the search target information satisfies the search condition about the respective pieces of search target information searched in said searching step in accordance with a fitting value calculation procedure specified by the desire-for-search party; and

a result-of-search presenting step of presenting, to the desire-for-search party, at least a part of information that forms each piece of search target information searched in said searching step together with the fitting value calculated by said calculating unit with respect to that piece of search target information.

7. An information search method comprising:

a calculating step of calculating, when a desire-for-search party specifies a search condition, a fitting value indicating how much search target information satisfies the search condition about the respective pieces of search target information in accordance with a fitting value calculation procedure specified by the desire-for-search party;

an extracting step of extracting the search target information of which the fitting value calculated in said calculating step satisfies a predetermined condition, out of the plural pieces of search target information; and

a result-of-search presenting step of for presenting, to the desire-for-search party, at least a part of information that forms each piece of search target information extracted in said extracting step together with the fitting value calculated in said calculating step with respect to that piece of search target information.

8. A program for making a computer execute:

a searching step of searching, when a desire-for-search party specifies a search condition, for a piece of search target information satisfying the search condition from plural pieces of search target information;

a calculating step of calculating a fitting value indicating how much the search target information satisfies the search condition about the respective pieces of search target information searched in said searching step in accordance with a fitting value calculation procedure specified by the desire-for-search party; and

a result-of-search presenting step of presenting, to the desire-for-search party, at least a part of information that forms each piece of search target information searched in said searching step together with the fitting value calculated by said calculating unit with respect to that piece of search target information.

9. A program for making a computer execute:

a calculating step of calculating, when a desire-for-search party specifies a search condition, a fitting value indicating how much search target information satisfies the search condition about the respective pieces of search target information in accordance with a fitting value calculation procedure specified by the desire-for-search party;

an extracting step of extracting the search target information of which the fitting value calculated in said calculating step satisfies a predetermined condition, out of the plural pieces of search target information; and

a result-of-search presenting step of for presenting, to the desire-for-search party, at least a part of information that forms each piece of search target information extracted in said extracting step together with the fitting value calculated in said calculating step with respect to that piece of search target information.

10. A program for making a computer function as an information search system comprising:

a defining information storage module stored with search condition defining information for defining a search condition with respect to each of a plurality of search permission parties, and fitting value calculation procedure defining information for defining a procedure for calculating a fitting value indicating how much the information searched under the search condition defined by the search condition defining information satisfies the search condition;

a searching unit which searches, when a predetermined indication is given from any one of the plurality of search permission parties, for the search target information that satisfies the search condition defined by the search condition defining information stored in said defining information storage module with respect to the search permission party having given the predetermined indication out of the plural pieces of search target information;

a calculating unit which calculates the fitting value indicating how much the search target information satisfies the search condition used for the search with respect to each piece of search target information searched by said searching unit in the procedure defined by the fitting value calculation procedure defining information stored ins aid search condition storage module with respect to the search permission party having given the predetermined indication; and

a result-of-search presenting unit which presents, to the search permission party, at least a part of information that forms each piece of search target information searched by said searching unit together with the fitting value calculated by said calculating unit with respect to that piece of search target information.