Document information management system

• US 9,111,008 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2013
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Yano, Takashi, Tabata, Yasuhiro, Ishijima, Hisashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ahn, Sangwoo
• Application Number:
  US14/024,093
• Publication Number:
  US 20140052709A1
• Time in Patent Office: 706 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/332 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/968 interface for database querying and retrieval

Abstract

A document information management system in which a search-engine-compatible interface unit makes a word in a document displayed on the screen to be specified, transfers the specified word to a search engine as a keyword to be used in the search engine, receives a search result from the search engine, and displays the search result on the screen, while a browser-compatible interface unit performs a search (a keyword search and/or global search) by using the keyword transferred from a browser and transfers a search result to the browser.

Claims

1. A search support system that is connectable to a user terminal through a network and supports a search when the user terminal causes a search engine to search a large indefinite number of documents on the network, the search support system comprising:

a processing circuit configured to prepare a dummy button in which designation information designating a particular search engine and a search key to be used in the particular search engine are set, so that the search key is transmitted to the particular search engine, and the particular search engine is caused to perform a search, and to add the prepared dummy button to a predetermined document prior to performing the search using the search key;

a memory to store therein the document to which the dummy button is added; and

a transmitter to transmit the document to the user terminal by retrieving the document from the memory in response to a transmission request from the user terminal.

2. The search support system according to claim 1, wherein

the processing circuit is further configured to prepare a plurality of dummy buttons in which common designation information is set, and to add the prepared dummy buttons to the predetermined document.

3. The search support system according to claim 1, wherein

the processor is further configured to prepare the dummy button in which a uniform resource locator (URL) of the search engine is set as the designation information.

4. A method performed by a search support system that is connectable to a user terminal through a network and supports a search when the user terminal causes a search engine to search a large indefinite number of documents on the network, the search support method comprising:

preparing a dummy button in which designation information designating a particular search engine and a search key to be used in the particular search engine are set prior to performing the search using the search key, so that the search key is transmitted to the particular search engine, and the particular search engine is caused to perform a search;

adding the prepared dummy button to a predetermined document;

storing, in a memory, the document to which the dummy button is added; and

transmitting the document to the user terminal by retrieving the document from the memory in response to a transmission request from the user terminal.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by a processing circuit that is connectable to a user terminal through a network and supports a search when the user terminal causes a search engine to search a large indefinite number of documents on the network, causes the processing circuit to perform a method, comprising:

preparing a dummy button in which designation information designating a particular search engine and a search key to be used in the particular search engine are set prior to performing the search using the search key, so that the search key is transmitted to the particular search engine, and the particular search engine is caused to perform a search;

adding the prepared dummy button to a predetermined document;

storing, in a memory, the document to which the dummy button is added; and

transmitting the document to the user terminal by retrieving the document from the memory in response to a transmission request from the user terminal.