Document information management system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsTakashi Yano, Yasuhiro Tabata, Hisashi Ishijima
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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.
Claims66
An information management system, comprising:
- an identification unit that identifies a word displayed in an image on a display device to be a keyword and the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device;
- a transfer unit that transfers the keyword to a search unit;
- and
- a receiver that receives a search result corresponding to the keyword, wherein the display device is configured to display information corresponding to the search result, and to display additional information corresponding to a selection of a portion of the displayed information.
A information management apparatus, comprising:
- at least one database for storing therein at least one file;
- an interface configured to display on a display device a hypertext file prepared by a hypertext description language or a non-hypertext file prepared by a word processing application;
- an extraction unit that extracts a displayed word identified by a cursor on the display device as a keyword;
- a transfer unit that transfers the keyword to a search engine;
- and
- a receiver that receives a search result corresponding to the keyword from the search engine, wherein
- said display device is configured to display additional information upon selecting a portion of a displayed search result.
An information management method, comprising:
- identifying a word of an image displayed on a display device as a keyword and the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device;
- transferring the keyword to a device configured to search;
- receiving, from the device configured to search, a search result corresponding to the keyword;
- displaying information corresponding to the search result;
- and
- displaying additional information corresponding to a selection of a portion of the displayed information.
In an information management system, a method of enabling user-requested information to be associated with information stored in at least one database, the method comprising:
- selecting a word or a character string displayed in a document displayed on a display device;
- recognizing and extracting the selected word or the character string so as to initiate a keyword search wherein the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device or a character string search;
- receiving a search result corresponding to the keyword or the character string;
- creating an association of the selected word or the character string with the search result;
- and
- displaying, within said document, the created association and additional information corresponding to the search result upon selection of a portion of the created association.
In an information management system, a method of enabling user-selected information to be associated with information stored in at least one database having a hypertext file prepared with a hypertext-description language or a non-hypertext file prepared with a word processing application, the method comprising:
- selecting a word displayed in a document displayed on a display device;
- recognizing and extracting the selected word as a keyword for initiating a search wherein the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device;
- enabling a user to invoke a list of actions upon recognizing the selected word by displaying the list of actions in a menu adjacent to the selected word;
- and
- enabling a user to display additional information upon invoking an action from among the list of actions.
A computer program product having a computer-usable medium, comprising:
- instructions for identifying a word displayed in an image on a display device as a keyword wherein the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device;
- instructions for transferring the keyword to a search unit;
- and
- instructions for displaying information corresponding to the search result, and to display additional information corresponding to a selection of a portion of the displayed information.
A computer program product having a computer-usable medium, comprising:
- instructions for storing at least one file in at least one database;
- instructions to display on a display device a hypertext file prepared by a hypertext description language or a non-hypertext file prepared by a word processing application;
- instructions for extracting a displayed word specified by a cursor on the display device as a keyword;
- instructions for transferring the keyword to a search engine;
- and
- instructions for receiving a search result corresponding to the keyword from the search engine, wherein
- said instructions to display include instructions to display additional information upon selecting a portion of displayed search result.
A document information management apparatus, comprising:
- a database unit storing a plurality of documents including at least a non-hypertext document;
- a display operation unit configured to display the non-hypertext document on a display device and to process the non-hypertext document;
- and
- a search unit configured to search in the database unit for a document corresponding to a keyword specified in the non-hypertext document displayed on the display device, wherein the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device,
- a word in the document displayed on the display device is specified by the display operation unit as the keyword to be searched by the search unit, and
- a result of the search is displayed on the display device.
A document information management apparatus, comprising:
- a database unit storing a plurality of document files;
- a display operation unit configured to display a document on a display device and to process the document;
- and
- a search unit configured to search in the database unit for a document corresponding to a keyword specified in the document displayed on the display device, wherein the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device,
- a non-hypertext word in the document displayed on the display device is specified, using the display operation unit, as the keyword to be searched by the search unit, and
- a result of the search is displayed on the display device.
A document information management method, comprising:
- storing a plurality of documents, including at least a non-hypertext document, in a database unit;
- displaying the non-hypertext document on a display device and processing the non-hypertext document using a display operation unit;
- searching in the database unit for a document corresponding to a keyword specified in the non-hypertext document displayed on the display device, wherein the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device,
- a word in the document displayed on the display device is specified by the display operation unit as the keyword to be searched, and
- a result of the search is displayed on the display device.
A document information management method, comprising:
- storing a plurality of document files in a database unit;
- displaying a document on a display device and processing the document using a display operation unit;
- and
- searching in the database unit for a document corresponding to a keyword specified in the document displayed on the display device, wherein the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device,
- a non-hypertext word in the document displayed on the display device is specified, using the display operation unit, as the keyword to be searched, and
- a result of the search is displayed on the display device.
A computer program product storing program instructions for execution on a computer system, which when executed by the computer system, cause the computer system to perform the steps of:
- storing a plurality of documents, including at least a non-hypertext document, in a database unit;
- displaying the non-hypertext document on a display device and processing the non-hypertext document using a display operation unit;
- searching in the database unit for a document corresponding to a keyword specified in the non-hypertext document displayed on the display device, wherein the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device,
- a word in the document displayed on the display device is specified by the display operation unit as the keyword to be searched, and
- a result of the search is displayed on the display device.
A computer program product storing program instructions for execution on a computer system, which when executed by the computer system, cause the computer system to perform the steps of:
- storing a plurality of document files in a database unit;
- displaying a document on a display device and processing the document using a display operation unit;
- and
- searching in the database unit for a document corresponding to a keyword specified in the document displayed on the display device, wherein the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device,
- a non-hypertext word in the document displayed on the display device is specified, using the display operation unit, as the keyword to be searched, and
- a result of the search is displayed on the display device.
An information management apparatus comprising:
- means for selecting a word displayed in a document displayed on a display device;
- means for recognizing and extracting the selected word as a keyword for initiating a search wherein the keyword is specified by a cursor on the display device;
- means for enabling a user to invoke a list of actions upon recognizing the selected word by displaying the list of actions in a menu adjacent the selected word;
- and
- means for enabling a user to display additional information upon invoking an action from among the list of actions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.