INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20130073549A1
• Filed: 02/09/2012
• Published: 03/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: FUSE, Tohru, REN, Beili
• Granted Patent: US 9,176,954 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a presenting unit, an information extracting unit, a characteristics extracting unit, and a limiting unit. The presenting unit presents information. The information extracting unit extracts, in a case where the information presented by the presenting unit is selected, information associated with the selected information from a storing unit that stores plural pieces of information and association between the plural pieces of information. The characteristics extracting unit extracts characteristics relating to the plural pieces of information and the association between the plural pieces of information. The limiting unit limits, in a case where the presenting unit presents the information extracted by the information extracting unit and the number of pieces of information to be presented is greater than or equal to or greater than a predetermined number, information to be presented on the basis of the characteristics extracted by the characteristics extracting unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a presenting unit that presents information;

an information extracting unit that extracts, in a case where the information presented by the presenting unit is selected, information associated with the selected information from a storing unit that stores a plurality of pieces of information and association between the plurality of pieces of information;

a characteristics extracting unit that extracts characteristics relating to the plurality of pieces of information and the association between the plurality of pieces of information; and

a limiting unit that limits, in a case where the presenting unit presents the information extracted by the information extracting unit and the number of pieces of information to be presented is greater than or equal to or greater than a predetermined number, information to be presented on the basis of the characteristics extracted by the characteristics extracting unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the characteristics extracting unit extracts, as characteristics relating to information, the time at which the information was selected or the time at which information associated with the information was selected.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the characteristics extracting unit extracts, as characteristics relating to information, in a case where the information is selected, the number of pieces of information associated with the selected information or the number of times information associated with the selected information has been selected.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the characteristics extracting unit extracts, as characteristics relating to association between a plurality of pieces of information, a value based on the number of times one of selected information and target information that are associated with each other in a path has been selected.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the limiting unit limits information to be presented by selecting information to be presented by the presenting unit or selecting, in a case where information has already been presented by the presenting unit, information for which presentation by the presenting unit is to be deleted, in accordance with comparison between a value based on the characteristics extracted by characteristics extracting unit and a predetermined threshold.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the presenting unit presents information indicating that the information for which presentation is deleted by the limiting unit was previously presented.

7. An information processing method comprising:

presenting information;

extracting, in a case where the presented information is selected, information associated with the selected information;

extracting characteristics relating to a plurality of pieces of information and association between the plurality of pieces of information; and

limiting, in a case where the extracted information is presented and the number of pieces of information to be presented is greater than or equal to or greater than a predetermined number, information to be presented on the basis of the extracted characteristics.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for performing information processing, the process comprising:

presenting information;

extracting, in a case where the presented information is selected, information associated with the selected information;

extracting characteristics relating to a plurality of pieces of information and association between the plurality of pieces of information; and

limiting, in a case where the extracted information is presented and the number of pieces of information to be presented is greater than or equal to or greater than a predetermined number, information to be presented on the basis of the extracted characteristics.