Community-based collaborative knowledge system, and message moving method in that system
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsMayo Toyota, Hitoshi Tanigawa, Masaaki Iwata, Kazunori Shimakawa
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Abstract
A community server categorizes and accumulates messages exchanged by users on a virtual community for respective topics. Since the community server includes a thread moving unit, i.e., a mechanism that allows an administrator to move a thread as a set of messages posted to a given virtual community to another virtual community, each user can utilize collected and accumulated knowledge via his or her desired interface. Since the administrator can move a thread between communities, virtual communities can be combined or divided.
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A community-based collaborative knowledge system which can be connected to a plurality of client terminals via a network, and supports knowledge accumulation by categorizing and accumulating messages posted from each client terminal to a virtual community, comprising:
- access control means for making user authentication of a client terminal as an access request source so as to permit the client terminal to post a message;
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- community processing means for managing a plurality of virtual communities in each of which a plurality of client terminals can participate, and categorizing and accumulating messages posted, to each virtual community, from the client terminals, which are granted access permission by said access control means, for respective topics, said community processing means including message moving means for moving the categorized and accumulated messages between the virtual communities in accordance with an instruction from an administrator.
A message moving method in a community-based collaborative knowledge system which can be connected to a plurality of client terminals via a network, and supports knowledge accumulation by categorizing and accumulating messages posted from each client terminal to a virtual community, comprising:
- the access control step of making user authentication of a client terminal as an access request source so as to permit the client terminal to post a message;
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- the community processing step of managing a plurality of virtual communities in each of which a plurality of client terminals can participate, and categorizing and accumulating messages posted, to each virtual community, from the client terminals, which are granted access permission in the access control step, for respective topics;
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- the message moving step of moving the categorized and accumulated messages between the virtual communities in accordance with an instruction from an administrator.
A program used in a community-based collaborative knowledge system which can be connected to a plurality of client terminals via a network, and supports knowledge accumulation by categorizing and accumulating messages posted from each client terminal to a virtual community, said program making a computer execute:
- the access control step of making user authentication of a client terminal as an access request source so as to permit the client terminal to post a message;
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- the community processing step of managing a plurality of virtual communities in each of which a plurality of client terminals can participate, and categorizing and accumulating messages posted, to each virtual community, from the client terminals, which are granted access permission in the access control step, for respective topics;
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- the message moving step of moving the categorized and accumulated messages between the virtual communities in accordance with an instruction from an administrator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.