Patent ID: 7386794
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for performing the management of operation history, comprising: a detecting section configured to, at each performance of a human input operation upon execution of a plurality of programs, detect a conceptual meaning of the respective operation; a memory section configured to store a respective result of detection as operation history information; an extracting section configured to extract, from the respective operation history information in the memory section, a linking pattern characteristic of a plurality of mutually associated operations; and a create section which extracts the conceptual meaning referring to a plural-operation linking pattern of a plurality of operations extracted from the extracting section, and creates a concept conversion rule with a plurality of operations as a target, based on extracted meaning information, wherein the detecting section comprises detecting the conceptual meaning of the respective operation by being collated with a summary of the respective operations and a plurality of initially registered concept conversion rules, and wherein the concept conversion rule includes a conversion rule of an application name, command, type, name, context, operation type, and operation contents.