Patent ID: 6847967
Filing Date: 2005-01-25
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An information set importance determination system, comprising: page information management means for managing an attribute of page information constituting a hypermedia information, link information management means for holding and managing linkage between said page information, page information registration means for registering said hyper-media information in said page information management means and said link information management means, page analysis means for determining an importance of each said page, link analysis means for determining a weight of each link based on said link information, page set sorting means for sorting said page set based on said page importance of each said page, representative page determination means for determining a representative page of an information set, and means for collecting pages existing on each server from said hyper-media information on a network to obtain a link reference state of each said page over each said server, wherein the representative page determination means determines a page to be a representative page of the information set from among pages stored in the page information management means using the page analysis means and the link analysis means wherein said representative page determination means, when a plurality of pages exist whose said number of links from a page outside said information set is the largest, determines that a page whose said number of links from a page within said information set is the largest is a representative page of the information set, and further comprising: