Patent ID: 8041688
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data search device to extract relevant data matching a specified requirement from multiple pieces of data to be searched stored in a database, the data search device comprising: a specified requirement data acquisition unit to acquire specified requirement data including the specified requirement; a data extraction unit to extract the relevant data based on the specified requirement data acquired by the specified requirement data acquisition unit; an extracted data counter to count a number of pieces of the relevant data extracted by the data extraction unit for each piece of classification data provided for the data to be searched for classifying the data to be searched based on contents thereof; a display data generation unit to generate data to display the number of pieces of the relevant data counted for each piece of classification data on a coordinate space based on the classification data; and a positional data storage unit to store positional data including coordinates for specifying a position in the coordinate space and the classification data associated with the coordinates, wherein the positional data is generated based on data specified by a number of pieces of the data to be searched counted for each piece of classification data and the classification data to determine a position for each piece of classification data in the coordinate space such that pieces of classification data having similar content are displayed near each other, and the display data generation unit generates the data such that the number of pieces of the relevant data is displayed at a position specified by the coordinates associated with the classification data included in the positional data.