Patent ID: 11886520
Assignee: NTT COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 3:
4. The data search apparatus of claim 3, wherein:
the organization includes an organization of a first layer and an organization of a second layer, the first layer includes a plurality of owners of the plurality of devices, and the second layer includes a plurality of the organizations of the first layer;
the storage table is further configured to correlate and store information which identifies the organization of the second layer including the plurality of the organizations of the first layer, and information which identifies the organization of the first layer;
the first menu information transmitted by the first support processing part of the data search operation support part includes a list of the plurality of layers including the first and second layers; and
the second support processing part of the data search operation support part configured to transmit, when the identification information of the second layer includes the received first request, a second menu information including a list of a plurality of the organizations of the first layer included in the second layer represented by the identification information of the second layer, and to receive a second request including identification information of the organization of the first layer selected from the list of the plurality of the organizations of the first layer included in the second menu information.