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AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsTakeshi Ohtani, Toshiro Minami
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A distributed search system that includes a plurality of agents connected on a network that includes an information resource provider. The information resource provider registers information corresponding to information resources to his nearest agent. The agent stores that information in its storage device and transfers it to the neighboring agents as advertisement information. The transferred advertisement information includes cost information. The agents which receive the advertisement information store it in their storage devices and transfer the advertisement information to the neighboring agents repeatedly, in a range determined on the basis of the cost information. The cost information may be included in a search request of an information resource searcher making a search request to search the stored advertisement information. The information resource searcher sends the search request including the cost information to agents in a range of transmission corresponding to the cost information included in the search request.
A distributed search system connecting a plurality of computers on a network, each of the plurality of computers comprising:
A distributed search system connecting a plurality of computers on a network, each of the plurality of computers comprising:
A plurality of searching apparatus, having corresponding information resources, connected to a network that includes an information resource provider, each of the plurality of searching apparatus comprising:
A searching apparatus, from among a plurality of searching apparatus having information resources, that processes a search request from an information resource searcher, comprising:
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