Information Retrieving and Displaying Method and Computer-Readable Medium
First Claim
1. An information retrieving and displaying method for extracting from information stored in a computer system, all information associated with a certain keyword and displaying it in a classified and highlighted manner for easy recognition by a user, the method comprising steps of:
- storing a set of contact address records, each of which specifies a name of a person and personal information about the person;
receiving the keyword from the user;
retrieving ones of the contact address records that contain the keyword;
extracting the names from contact address records retrieved by the retrieving step; and
displaying a list of the names extracted by the extracting step.
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Abstract
There is provided a technique for extracting from information stored in a computer system, all information associated with a certain keyword and displaying it in a manner for easy recognition by a user. An information retrieving and displaying method for extracting from information stored in a computer system, all information associated with a certain keyword and displaying it in a classified and highlighted manner for easy recognition by a user, comprises steps of: retrieving information including a keyword specified by the user as the certain keyword; extracting information about contact addresses included in the information retrieved by the retrieving step; and displaying in a list the information about the contact addresses extracted by the extracting step.
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20 Claims
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1. An information retrieving and displaying method for extracting from information stored in a computer system, all information associated with a certain keyword and displaying it in a classified and highlighted manner for easy recognition by a user, the method comprising steps of:
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storing a set of contact address records, each of which specifies a name of a person and personal information about the person; receiving the keyword from the user; retrieving ones of the contact address records that contain the keyword; extracting the names from contact address records retrieved by the retrieving step; and displaying a list of the names extracted by the extracting step. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An information retrieving and displaying method for extracting from information stored in a computer system, all information associated with a certain keyword and displaying it in a classified and highlighted manner for easy recognition by a user, the method comprising steps of:
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storing a set of contact address records that includes a subset of contact address records, wherein each of the contact address records specifies personal information about a person; retrieving information about electronic documents which the user has sent to or received from persons whose personal information is specified by contact address records in the subset of contact address records; and displaying in a list the information about the electronic documents retrieved by the retrieving step. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-readable medium having a program stored thereon, the program causing a computer to execute an information retrieving and displaying method for extracting from information stored in a computer system, all information associated with a certain keyword and displaying it in a classified and highlighted manner for easy recognition by a user, the program comprising the steps of:
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storing a set of contact address records each of which specifies a name of a person and personal information about the person; receiving the keyword from the user; retrieving ones of the contact address records that contain the keyword; extracting the names from the contact address records retrieved by the retrieving step; and displaying a list of the names. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer-readable medium having a program stored thereon, the program causing a computer to execute an information retrieving and displaying method for extracting from information stored in a computer system, all information associated with a certain keyword and displaying it in a classified and highlighted manner for easy recognition by a user, the program comprising the steps of:
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storing, in a database, a set of contact address records, wherein each of the contact address records specifies a name of a person and an e-mail address of the person; storing, in the database, sets of information about electronic documents; storing an e-mail that specifies a first e-mail address and a second e-mail address, wherein the first e-mail address is associated with a first person; in response to displaying the e-mail, receiving, from the first person, input that indicates that the first person wants to view information about documents sent to the first person from a person associated with the second e-mail address and documents received by the first person from the person associated with the second e-mail address; in response to the input, extracting the second e-mail address from the e-mail; querying the database for a contact address record that specifies the e-mail address of the person associated with the second e-mail address; using information in the contact address record that specifies the e-mail address of the person associated with the second e-mail address to retrieve, from the database, information about ones of the electronic documents that were sent to the first person by the person associated with the e-mail address and ones of the electronic documents that were send to the person associated with the e-mail address by the first person; and displaying to the first person a list of the information about the electronic documents retrieved by the retrieving step. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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