Information management apparatus, information management method, and information management program

• US 20060195426A1
• Filed: 09/27/2005
• Published: 08/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishii, Daisuke, Suzuki, Masaru, Ishitani, Yasuto
• Application Number:
  US11/235,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20060195426A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline

Abstract

A plurality of events are generated, each of which includes work information of a work having a work type and time information indicating at least when the work was done. The plurality of generated events is stored in an event storage device. The plurality of stored events is also arranged in an order corresponding to their time information, and is displayed in different display forms in accordance with the work type. When one of events is selected from the plurality of displayed events, the information associated with the work which the selected event has is displayed.

Claims

1. An information management apparatus that manages information for displaying on a display device, comprising:

an event generation device configured to generate a plurality of events each including work information of a work having a work type and time information indicating at least when the work was done;

an event storage device to store the plurality of events generated by the event generation device;

an event display control device connectable to the display device, and configured to arrange the plurality of events in an order corresponding to their time information, and to control the display device to display the events in different display forms in accordance with the work type;

an event selection device configured to select an event from the plurality of events displayed by the display device controlled by the event display control device; and

an information display control device connectable to the display device and configured to control the display device to display the work information which the selected event has.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the work information includes at least one of:

a search query for a search for a document,

a location of a search result document,

a location of a display document,

a componentized document formed from part of a document, and

a scrap sheet comprising a componentized document.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the event display control device controls the display device to display, together with the event, at least one of the work information, the time information, and the work type.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an extraction device configured to extract some of the plurality of events stored in the event storage device, and wherein the event display control device controls the display device to display some events extracted by the extraction device.

5. An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the event display control device comprises an event display control object including at least one of a scroll bar for adjusting a time interval of an event, a button for adjusting a granularity of event display, and a context menu for selecting a prepared extraction condition.

6. An apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the extraction device extracts an event corresponding to a time interval specified by the scroll bar, an event which is simplified in accordance with a granularity designated by the granularity adjustment button, and an event which satisfies the extraction condition of the context menu, in accordance with an instruction from the event display control object.

7. An apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the event display control object is displayed while being superimposed on an event or work information.

8. An apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the extraction device extracts information associated with past work so as to satisfy one or a combination of an extraction condition for information associated with the work and an extraction condition for meta-information of the work which comprises the time information indicating when the work was done and the work type.

9. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information display control device includes at least one of:

a search query input device configured to input a search query for a document search,

a document search device configured to execute a document search on the basis of a search query,

a search result display device to display a list of retrieved documents,

a document display device to display a content of a retrieved document,

a componentization device configured to componentized part of a content of a document, and

a scrap sheet device configured to perform scrap processing of a componentized document.

10. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the event generation device generates at least one of search-type event information representing a record of searches executed by the document search device, display-type event information representing a record of document content display performed by the document display device, componentization-type event information representing a record of componentization processing by the componentization device, and scrap-type event information representing a record of scrap processing by the scrap sheet device.

11. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the event display control device controls the display device to perform one of operations of giving the search query input device a search query for a document search, making the search result display device display a list of search result documents, making the document display device display a content of a retrieved document, and making the scrap sheet device read in a componentized document which forms a scrap sheet.

12. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the event storage device includes a relational database management system.

13. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the extraction device sets, as an event filtering condition, at least one of a time interval of an event as a display target, a granularity of event display, a type of event, a reference to a document which an event has, and a reference to a componentized document which an event has.

14. An information management method comprising:

generating a plurality of events each including work information of a work having a work type and time information indicating at least when the work was done;

storing the generated plurality of events;

arranging the plurality of events in an order corresponding to their time information, and displaying the events in different display forms in accordance with the work type;

selecting an event from the displayed plurality of events; and

displaying the work information which the selected event has.

15. An information management program stored in a computer readable medium for managing information for displaying on a display device, the program comprising:

means for instructing a computer to generate a plurality of events each including work information of a work having a work type and time information indicating at least when the work was done;

means for instructing the computer to store the generated plurality of events;

means for instructing the computer to arrange the plurality of events in an order corresponding to their time information, and display the events in different display forms in accordance with the work type;

means for instructing the computer to select an event from the displayed plurality of events; and

means for instructing the computer to display the work information which the selected event has.