Patent ID: 7177869
Filing Date: 2007-02-13
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A document service retrieving system for a data network, comprising: a plurality of document service providing apparatus for providing document-related services; and a document service retrieving apparatus comprising: wherein the retrieving range setting section sets the retrieving range based on one or more document service retrieve conditions provided by the document service retrieving section and geographical information retrieved by the document service retrieving section from the plurality of document service providing apparatus, the data network has a plurality of regions, the document service retrieving apparatus is a plurality of document service retrieving apparatus. at least one document service retrieving apparatus is disposed in each of the regions, the retrieving range setting section sets at least a part of at least one of the regions as the retrieving region, each of the document service retrieving apparatus further comprises a document service acquiring section for acquiring document service information of each of the document service providing apparatus disposed in the same region as each of the document service retrieving apparatus, and the document service retrieving section requests one or more document service retrieving apparatus within the plurality of document service retrieving apparatus to retrieve the document services and receives a retrieved result from the one or more document service retrieving apparatus.