Method and apparatus for document information management
First Claim
1. A document information management method for a document information management system storing a plurality of documents with at least their registrant user information and content information as retrieval information, the method comprising the steps of:
- in response to a document registration request to register a new document from a user, extracting content information from the new document;
retrieving from the plurality of documents currently stored in said document information management system a subset of documents whose content information have high similarity with said extracted content information of the new document;
identifying the registrants of said retrieved subset of documents; and
notifying, that the new document has been registered in the document information management system, to said identified registrants, andwherein said step of retrieving generates a seed document from the new document and compares said seed document with the plurality of documents currently stored in said document information management system to retrieve a document of content information having high similarity.
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Abstract
A document information management method includes the steps to be executed by: a document registration program of storing a document in a document storage unit in accordance with a registered document by a user, document properties and a user profile, and forming document query and query structure indices of document properties and the user profile to store these indices in a query data storage unit and to further form several seeds documents; a related document retrieval program of retrieving a query data storage unit by using the seeds documents as query expressions to obtain query results of the document, the document properties and the user profile; and a related information notification program of generating related information of the document for each of the query results, and notifying the related information for each notice destination, including the related information of the document, of the document properties and of the user profile.
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9 Claims
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1. A document information management method for a document information management system storing a plurality of documents with at least their registrant user information and content information as retrieval information, the method comprising the steps of:
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in response to a document registration request to register a new document from a user, extracting content information from the new document; retrieving from the plurality of documents currently stored in said document information management system a subset of documents whose content information have high similarity with said extracted content information of the new document; identifying the registrants of said retrieved subset of documents; and notifying, that the new document has been registered in the document information management system, to said identified registrants, and wherein said step of retrieving generates a seed document from the new document and compares said seed document with the plurality of documents currently stored in said document information management system to retrieve a document of content information having high similarity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A document information management system storing a plurality of documents with at least their registrant user information and content information as retrieval information,
wherein in response to a document registration request to register a new document, extracting content information from the new document, wherein, from the plurality of documents currently stored in said document information management system a subset of documents whose content information have high similarity with said extracted content information of the new document is retrieved, wherein the registrants of said retrieved subset of documents are identified, wherein the identified registrants are notified that the new document has been registered in the document information management system, and wherein said step of retrieving generates a seed document from the new document and compares said seed document with the plurality of documents currently stored in said document information management system to retrieve a document of content information having high similarity.
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7. A computer-readable storage medium for storing thereon a program for performing a document information management method for a document information management system storing a plurality of documents with at least their registrant user information and content information as retrieval information, the method performed by the program being executed by the document information management system and comprising the steps of:
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in response to a document registration request to register a new document from a user I, extracting content information from the new document retrieving from the plurality of documents currently stored in said document information management system a subset of documents whose content information have high similarity with said extracted content information of the new document; identifying the registrants of the retrieved subset of documents; notifying, that the new document has been registered in the document information management system, to the identified registrants, and wherein said step of retrieving generates a seed document from the new document and compares said seed document with the plurality of documents currently stored in said document information management system to retrieve a document of content information having high similarity. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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