Patent ID: 6446065
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An assisting execution program comprising a program for arranging and displaying a display area of search results in a list of a set of retrieved documents including information from which an agent identifies the retrieved documents, an area for displaying topic words reflecting the search results in one of a list and a graph reflecting a degree of relevance between the topic words extracted from the set of retrieved documents, wherein said areas are displayed proximate one another, and a communication program, wherein the service comprises sending a retrieval assisting execution program on an agent computer that executes a query from the agent and making the program operable on the agent computer,wherein said retrieval operation comprises: a step of adding or deleting a word display as a topic word to or from search words; a step of designating a selection/no selection state of each word displayed as a topic word; a step of emphasizing each document containing one or more selected topic words with an intensity depending on how many selected topic words are contained; a step of rearranging and displaying the search results in decreasing order of intensity for emphasis; a step of designating a selection/no selection state of each document from the search results; a step of emphasizing topic words contained in the selected documents; a step of carrying out an associative search by using one or more selected documents as a search key; and a prune step of leaving only selected documents and gathering information about topic words only from the selected documents.