INFORMATION DELIVERING APPARATUS, INFORMATION DELIVERING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION DELIVERING PROGRAM

• US 20090259637A1
• Filed: 04/07/2009
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: ITOH, Hideo
• Granted Patent: US 8,176,090 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/11 Patent retrieval

Abstract

An information delivering apparatus is disclosed. The information delivering apparatus includes a condition information obtaining section which obtains delivering destination information, a conforming information extracting section which extracts new document information stored in an information database based on the delivering destination information obtained by the condition information obtaining section in a profile information generating process which determines whether the new document information stored in the information database is to be delivered to the delivering destination, an information analyzing section which analyzes contents of the newly stored document in the information database and forms characteristic information of the newly stored document, a profile storing section which stores the characteristic information by its being related to the delivering destination information, and a new information delivering section which delivers the newly stored document information which is determined to be delivered to the delivering destination.

Claims

1. An information delivering apparatus which delivers information newly stored in an information storing unit to a client, comprising:

a personal name information obtaining section which obtains personal name relating information of the client;

an information extracting section which extracts personal name conforming information that conforms to the obtained personal name relating information including personal name information from the information storing unit;

a characteristic information forming section which forms characteristic information showing characteristics of the personal name conforming information from the extracted personal name conforming information;

a delivering destination information storing section which stores the characteristic information so that the characteristic information is related to delivering destination information; and

an information delivering section which delivers the newly stored information to a delivering destination shown by the delivering destination information related to the characteristic information based on a conforming degree between the characteristic information of the newly stored information and the characteristic information stored in the delivering destination storing section.

2. The information delivering apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

when the information extracting section extracts the personal name conforming information of a plurality of persons,

the characteristic information forming section forms the characteristic information by extracting characteristic information showing common characteristics among the personal name conforming information of the plural persons.

3. The information delivering apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the characteristic information is literal information showing words which are used in the extracted personal name conforming information.

4. The information delivering apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the characteristic information is classification information for classifying contents disclosed in the extracted personal name conforming information.

5. The information delivering apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

the information stored in the information storing unit is disclosed patent document information, and

the classification information is symbolic information of at least one of IPC (International Patent Classification) information, FI (file index) information, F term information (file forming term information), and Current US Classification information.

6. The information delivering apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the delivering destination information storing section stores at least two different pieces of the characteristic information so that the two different pieces of the characteristic information are related to two different pieces of the delivering destination information; and

the information delivering section delivers the newly stored information to a delivering destination shown by the delivering destination information whose characteristic information has a highest conforming degree with the characteristic information of the newly stored information.

7. The information delivering apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein:

the delivering destination information storing section stores a plurality of different pieces of the characteristic information so that the plural different pieces of the characteristic information are related to a plurality of different pieces of the delivering destination information; and

the information delivering section delivers the newly stored information to a delivering destination shown by the delivering destination information whose characteristic information has a highest conforming degree with the characteristic information of the newly stored information.

8. The information delivering apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

when the conforming degree between the characteristic information of the newly stored information and the characteristic information stored in the delivering destination information storing section is a predetermined threshold value or more,

the information delivering section delivers the newly stored information to a delivering destination shown by the delivering destination information related to the characteristic information stored in the delivering destination information storing section.

9. The information delivering apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the personal name information is information of a person who created contents which disclose the newly stored information in the information storing unit.

10. The information delivering apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein:

the information stored in the information storing unit is disclosed patent document information; and

the personal name information is information of an inventor who has disclosed the newly stored information in the information storing unit.

11. An information delivering method in an information delivering apparatus which delivers information newly stored in an information storing unit to a client, wherein:

the information delivering apparatus includes a personal name information obtaining section, an information extracting section, a characteristic information forming section, a delivering destination information storing section, and an information delivering section; and

the information delivering method includes the steps of;

obtaining a personal name relating information of the client by the personal name information obtaining section;

extracting personal name conforming information that conforms to the obtained personal name relating information including personal name information from the information storing unit by the information extracting section;

forming characteristic information showing characteristics of the personal name conforming information from the extracted personal name conforming information by the characteristic information forming section;

storing the characteristic information so that the characteristic information is related to delivering destination information by the delivering destination information storing section; and

delivering the newly stored information to a delivering destination shown by the delivering destination information related to the characteristic information based on a conforming degree between the characteristic information of the newly stored information and the characteristic information stored in the delivering destination information storing section by the information delivering section.

12. A computer-readable recording medium storing an information delivering program for executing the information delivering method as claimed in claim 11.