Patent ID: 7272595
Filing Date: 2007-09-18
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An information search support system comprising: ontology extracting means for, based on a service selection command from a browser, extracting an ontology, said ontology displaying relationships among metadata and predicate relationships as concepts and properties, vocabularies, and parent-child relationships, said ontology corresponding to a selected service; storing means for analyzing the ontology extracted by said ontology extracting means and storing into a memory a conceptual structure and details of properties corresponding to respective concepts, including the relationships among metadata and predicate relationships as concepts and properties, and parent-child relationships; concept window display means for calling said conceptual structure, including the relationships among metadata and predicate relationships as concepts and properties, and parent-child relationships stored in said storing means and displaying it in a display area of said browser; inference engine means for extending or compressing vocabularies relative to the concepts selected from said concepts; and property window display means for calling from said storing means details of a property corresponding to a concept selected from said conceptual structure displayed by said concept window display means and displaying them in a display area of said browser; a vocabulary information processing mechanism for loading an ontology corresponding to a selected service, said ontology displaying relationships among metadata and predicate relationships as concepts and properties, and parent-child relationships, displayed as trees, said ontology and analyzing the loaded ontology to extract a conceptual structure; a conceptual information display section for displaying said conceptual structure extracted by said vocabulary information processing mechanism on a browser of a user terminal via a network; a property information display section for displaying on said browser property information relative to a concept selected from the conceptual structure displayed on said browser by said conceptual information display means; and a relational information display section for displaying, when a plurality of concepts are selected by said conceptual information display section, relationships between the concepts on the browser.