Information search system, information search method, and program

• US 8,560,540 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2010
• Issued: 10/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Humming Heads, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Humming Heads, Inc.
• Inventors: Oe, Naoyuki, Shima, Takahiro, Mae, Kazuki, Saito, Hiroshi, Minamii, Yusuke, Soneta, Ryo
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoliel, Jr., Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALLEN, NICHOLAS E
• Application Number:
  US12/718,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20100161606A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,320 Days
• Field of Search: 707/736, 707/802
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24561 Intermediate data storage techniques for performance improvement
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 15/00 Digital stores in which information comprising one or more characteristic parts is written into the store and in which information is read-out by searching for one or more of these characteristic parts, i.e. associative or content-addressed stores

Abstract

This invention provides an information search system including a management table which stores a name of a memory area and memory area information indicating the memory area in association with each other. When received source information search destination information indicates that source information to be searched is stored in a memory, the information search system searches the management table for a name of a memory area which matches a received source information name of the source information to be searched. When the name of the memory area which matches the received source information name of the source information to be searched is retrieved, the system acquires information which matches the received search target condition information from memory area information associated with the retrieved name of the memory area.

Claims

1. An information search system comprising:

reception means for receiving parameters including search target condition information indicating a condition to be searched, search destination information indicating a file which is to be accessed by using a disk I/O or a memory, which is a search destination of a source information to be searched, and a source information name of the source information to be searched, wherein the source information to be searched is stored in either the file which is to be accessed by using the disk I/O or the memory;

a management table which stores a name of a memory area and memory area information indicating the memory area in association with each other;

search means for searching the management table for a name of a memory area which matches the received source information name of the source information to be searched when the received search destination information indicates the memory as the search destination; and

acquisition means for acquiring information which matches the received search target condition information from a memory area indicated by memory area information associated with the retrieved name of the memory area when the search means retrieves the name of the memory area which matches the received source information name of the source information to be searched.

2. The information search system according to claim 1, wherein the reception means further receives storage destination information indicating which of a file and a memory is used to store retrieved information, and a search result information name of the retrieved information to be written, and the system further comprises storage means for, when the received storage destination information indicates that the memory is used to store information, writing the information acquired by the acquisition means in the memory, and storing the received search result information name of the retrieved information to be written in the management table together with memory area information indicating a memory area in which the information written in the memory is written.

3. The information search system according to claim 2, wherein the memory area information includes a start address, a maximum size, and a use size of the memory in which the acquired information is stored.

4. The information search system according to claim 1, wherein the search target condition information, the search destination information, and the source information name are output from an instruction program, and the search means and the acquisition means are included in a search program different from the instruction program.

5. The information search system according to claim 4, wherein the instruction program is stored in a first terminal, and the search program is stored in a second terminal.

6. The information search system according to claim 2, wherein the search means, the acquisition means, and the storage means are respectively assigned to a plurality of threads, and the system further comprises:

measurement means for measuring a processing load of each thread on a CPU which performs processes of the plurality of threads; and

change means for changing the numbers of threads assigned to the search means, the acquisition means, and the storage means based on the processing loads of the threads measured by the measurement means.

7. The information search system according to claim 1, wherein the reception means further receives storage destination information indicating which of a file and a memory is used to store retrieved information, and a search result information name of the retrieved information to be written, and the system further comprises storage means for, when the received storage destination information indicates that the memory is used to store information and memory area information corresponding to the received search result information name is stored on the management table, writing the information acquired by the acquisition means in a memory area indicated by the memory area information corresponding to the search result information name.

8. An information search method in an information search system, which comprises a management table which stores a name of a memory area and memory area information indicating the memory area in association with each other, comprising:

receiving parameters including search target condition information indicating a condition to be searched, search destination information indicating a file which is to be accessed by using a disk I/O or a memory, which is a search destination of a source information to be searched, and a source information name of the source information to be searched, wherein the source information to be searched is stored in either the file which is to be accessed by using the disk I/O or the memory;

searching the management table for a name of a memory area which matches the received source information name of the source information to be searched when the received search destination information indicates the memory as the search destination; and

acquiring information which matches the received search target condition information from a memory area indicated by memory area information associated with the retrieved name of the memory area when the name of the memory area matches the received source information name of the source information to be searched.

9. A computer-readable medium in which a program used in an information search system is stored, wherein the information search system comprises a management table which stores a name of a memory area and memory area information indicating the memory area in association with each other, the program making the information search system execute:

receiving parameters including search target condition information indicating a condition to be searched, search destination information indicating a file which is to be accessed by using a disk I/O or a memory, which is a search destination of a source information to be searched, and a source information name of the source information to be searched, wherein the source information to be searched is stored in either the file which is to be accessed by using the disk I/O or the memory;

searching the management table for a name of a memory area which matches the received source information name of the source information to be searched when the received search destination information indicates the memory as the search destination; and

acquiring information which matches the received search target condition information from a memory area indicated by memory area information associated with the retrieved name of the memory area when the name of the memory area matches the received source information name of the source information to be searched.