METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR SUPPORTING INPUT OF EXECUTION PARAMETER OF PREDETERMINED SOFTWARE TO INPUT FIELD

• US 20110078617A1
• Filed: 09/30/2010
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Shima, Kotaro, Kumagai, Ken
• Granted Patent: US 8,522,156 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/780
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus

Abstract

To provide a method, a program and a system for supporting the input of one or more execution parameters of predetermined software in an input field. The method includes: receiving input of a text character string including one or more execution parameters in the input field displayed on a display device; displaying one the display device one or more execution options of the predetermined software in such a manner that a user can select the options in response to selection of a part of the text character string by the user; and transforming the text character string so as to include at least one of the one or more execution options selected and displaying the transformed text character string on the display device. The one or more execution options displayed can vary with the type of selection of the part of the text character string.

Claims

1. A method for supporting input of one or more execution parameters of predetermined software in an input field, comprising:

receiving input of a text character string including one or more execution parameters in the input field displayed on a display device;

displaying on the display device one or more execution options of said predetermined software in such a manner that a user can select the options in response to selection of a part of said text character string by the user, said one or more execution options displayed varying with the type of selection of the part of said text character string; and

transforming said text character string so as to include at least one of said one or more execution options selected and displaying the transformed text character string on the display device.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining the selection type corresponding to the range of the selected part of said text character string,

wherein said display of said execution options include identifying a set of execution options of said predetermined software corresponding to said selection type.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting the one or more parameters and execution options included in said transformed text character string to a server that executes said predetermined software.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where said text character string includes a plurality of input parameters, the input parameters are separated by a delimiter.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein said delimiter is a space (a blank character).

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein said selection type is determined by considering a delimiter that is included in and/or adjacent to said selected part of said text character string.

7. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

calculating the number of parameters associated with said selected part of said text character string based on the delimiter included in said selected part of said text character string.

8. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

determining said selection type based on whether said selected part of said text character string is adjacent to a delimiter or not.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining an item ID corresponding to said selection type from an option item table; and

presenting the execution option corresponding to the obtained item ID on an interface.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining an item ID of a sub item from a table in a case where the item selected on said interface includes the sub item; and

presenting an item corresponding to the obtained item ID of said sub item.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the execution options that can be selected are displayed on the display device in the form of a menu.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein labels of said one or more execution options that can be selected are displayed on the display device.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein said selection type includes at least one of “

a plurality of parameters”

, “

a single parameter” and

“

a part of a parameter”

.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined software is a search engine, said text character string represents a search condition, and said execution options are search options for said search engine.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein said search options include any of search field specification, wild card, fuzzy search, proximity search, range search, search term boosting, Boolean operator, grouping and field grouping.

16. A computer program product for supporting input of one or more execution parameters of predetermined software in an input field, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer program code that when executed by at least one processor of a computer makes the computer:

receive input of a text character string including one or more execution parameters in the input field displayed on a display device;

display on the display device one or more execution options of said predetermined software in such a manner that a user can select the options in response to selection of a part of said text character string by the user, said one or more execution options displayed varying with the type of selection of the part of said text character string; and

transform said text character string so as to include at least one of said one or more execution options selected and display the transformed text character string on the display device.

17. A system for supporting input of one or more execution parameters of predetermined software in an input field, comprising:

a computer with a display;

means of receiving input in the computer of a text character string including one or more execution parameters in the input field;

means of displaying in the display one or more execution options of said predetermined software in such a manner that a user can select the options in response to selection of a part of said text character string by the user, said one or more execution options displayed varying with the type of selection of the part of said text character string; and

means of transforming said text character string to include at least one of said one or more execution options selected and displaying the transformed text character string.