Method for processing information, apparatus therefor and program therefor

• US 20070022110A1
• Filed: 05/19/2004
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Saora Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Saora Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Jeyachandran, Suresh, Joseph, Prem, Suda, Aruna
• Application Number:
  US10/557,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20070022110A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/355 Class or cluster creation or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/81 Indexing, e.g. XML tags; Data structures therefor; Storage structures

Abstract

A system obtains and classifies tag data such as a title or keyword embedded in each of the plurality of documents and the keywords are displayed in a tree based on a result of the classification. A view is displayed in the tree with placing the titles at the end of the tree and a selection of a title with following a keyword in the view makes a corresponding document display, thereby an objective document can be easily find out from the plurality of documents.

Claims

1. An information processing method comprising:

an obtaining step of obtaining a predetermined type of tag data including respective titles corresponding to a plurality of documents;

a classification step of classifying the tag data; and

a menu displaying step of displaying a menu in which the tag data are displayed in a tree with placing the titles at the end of the tree and each document can be displayed in response to selection of the respective title.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of documents are described in a markup language and the predetermined type of tag data is extracted from respective documents in the obtaining step.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined type of tag data includes a keyword.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the menu displays the keyword in a tree with placing the title at the end of the tree.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein if a plurality of keywords which belong to different branches are obtained from the same page, the title of the page is displayed corresponding to respective keywords.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein in the menu, a keyword corresponding to each document is displayed under a title of the document.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of documents represents an FAQ.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a specifying step of specifying a file or a folder, and wherein documents belong to the file or the folder are set as the plurality of documents.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising a format specifying step of specifying a file format to be specified in the file or the folder specified at the specifying step.

10. The method according to claim 8, further comprising an exception format specifying step of specifying a file format to be excluded in the file or the folder specified at the specifying step.

11. The method according to claim 8, further comprising a layer specifying step of specifying a layer to be specified in the file or the folder specified at the specifying step.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a designation step of designating an address in a network and wherein documents in the designated address set as the plurality of documents.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein if a document in the designated address has an external link, a linked document is included in the plurality of documents.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising an exception link designation step of designating a link excluded from the plurality of documents.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein if a document in the designated address has an external link, a linked document is excluded from the plurality of documents.

16. The method according to claim 12, further comprising a layer designation step of designating a depth of layer of a file to be designated in the designated address.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined type of tag data includes user type and the menu displays other tag data under the user type.

18. The method according to claim 1, further comprising an editing step of editing the menu.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein tag data can be edited in the editing step.

20. The method according to claim 18, wherein node data can be edited in the editing step.

21. The method according to claim 20, wherein a position of node data can be moved in the editing step.

22. The method according to claim 1, wherein tag data are stored in database in correspondence with each of the plurality of documents and the predetermined type of tag data is obtained form the database.

23. The method according to claim 22, further comprising a tag data setting step of setting the tag data in correspondence with a file by referencing with a tag knowledge base which stores knowledge of tag data.

24. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is carried out in response to a request from a client through a server.

25. The method according to claim 1, wherein the tag data includes a type of public or private, and further comprising an access restriction step of restricting an access to private tag data.

26. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of documents are documents to be administrated in document management system.

27. The method according to claim 26, wherein the system administrates documents in the internet displayed by a browser.

28. An information processing apparatus comprising:

obtaining means for obtaining a predetermined type of tag data including respective titles corresponding to a plurality of documents;

classification means for classifying the tag data; and

menu displaying means for displaying a menu in which the tag data are displayed in a tree with placing the titles at the end of the tree and each document can be displayed in response to selection of the respective title.

29. An information processing program executable by a computer comprising:

an obtaining step of obtaining a predetermined type of tag data including respective titles corresponding to a plurality of documents;

a classification step of classifying the tag data; and

a menu displaying step of displaying a menu in which the tag data are displayed in a tree with placing the titles at the end of the tree and each document can be displayed in response to selection of the respective title.