Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsShiro HORIBE, Hideo ITOH, Tetsuya IKEDA, Takuya HIRAOKA
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus is disclosed which determines, based on fitness to a specified condition, an order of displaying multiple to-be-searched information items which are pre-stored. The apparatus includes a specifying-condition information obtaining unit, an index-information obtaining unit, a population-limiting information obtaining unit, an index-information modifying unit, and a fitness calculating unit.
Claims11
An information processing apparatus which determines, based on a fitness to a specified condition, an order of displaying a plurality of to-be-searched information items which are pre-stored, comprising:
- a specifying-condition information obtaining unit which obtains specifying-condition information on the specified condition;
- an index-information obtaining unit which obtains index information which includes information-element inclusion-mode information on to-be-searched information including an information element out of the plurality of to-be-searched information items and the information element included in any of the plurality of to-be-searched information items;
- a population-limiting information obtaining unit which obtains population-limiting information, which population-limiting information is included in the obtained specifying-condition information, which population-limiting information limits information for which the order is determined out of the plurality of to-be-searched information items;
- an index-information modifying unit which modifies the information-element inclusion mode information included in the obtained index information to information on to-be-searched information including the information element out of the plurality of to-be-searched information items limited by the population-limiting information;
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- a fitness calculating unit for calculating the fitness based on the information element inclusion mode information associated with an information element corresponding to a specifying information element in the modified index information and the information element included in the specifying-condition information.
An information processing method which determines, based on a fitness to a specified condition, an order of displaying a plurality of to-be-searched information items which are pre-stored, comprising the steps of:
- specifying-condition information obtaining, index-information obtaining, population-limiting information obtaining, index-information modifying, and fitness calculating, wherein
- the specifying-condition information obtaining step obtains specifying-condition information of the specified condition;
- the index-information obtaining step obtains index information which includes information-element inclusion mode information on to-be-searched information which includes an information element out of the plurality of to-be-searched information items and the information element included in any of the plurality of to-be-searched information items;
- the population-limiting information obtaining step obtains population-limiting information which is included in the obtained specifying-condition information, which population-limiting information limits information for which the order is determined out of the plurality of to-be-searched information items;
- the index-information modifying step modifies the information-element inclusion mode information included in the obtained index information to information on to-be-searched information which includes the information element out of the plurality of to-be-searched information items limited by the population-limiting information;
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- the fitness calculating step calculates the fitness based on the information-element inclusion mode information associated with an information element corresponding to the specifying-information element in the modified index information and the information element included in the specifying-condition information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.