Patent ID: 6336123
Filing Date: 2002-01-01
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A hyper-text document preparing apparatus, comprising:receiving means for receiving pieces of character information respectively indicating characters for a hyper-text document indicated by a node, pieces of connection information respectively indicating a connection of a node or a group of nodes with another node or another group of nodes and an information selecting instruction from a user; node managing means for preparing or revising each of a plurality of nodes according to the pieces of character information received by the receiving means to produce pieces of node information respectively indicating contents of each node; hierarchy structure managing means for establishing or revising a connection-relationship between a node or a group of nodes and another node or another group of nodes according to one piece of connection information received by the receiving means for each of the nodes of which the pieces of node information are produced by the node managing means and producing hierarchy structure information indicating a hierarchy structure in which the nodes having the connection-relationships with each other are arranged, one node ranked to a level higher than that of another or other nodes in the hierarchy structure being classified as a parent node, and one or more nodes ranked to a level lower than the parent node being classified as child nodes; link automatic production information storing means for storing pieces of link automatic production information which each are composed of connection type information indicating a connection-relationship between one parent node and one child node or one group of child nodes corresponding to the parent node, a function button template indicating a list of function buttons respectively denoting a one-directional link from one child node to one parent node of the child node or another child node, and a function button producing rule indicating one or more types of function buttons allocated to each child node, wherein the function button producing rule indicates to allocate one type of function button, denoting a one-directional link from one child node to one parent node, to each child node in cases where the connection type information indicates a headline type connection; link information automatic producing means for selecting a particular piece of link automatic production information from the pieces of link automatic production information stored in the link automatic production information storing means according to the information selecting instruction received by the receiving means for each set of one parent node and one group of child nodes arranged in the hierarchy structure, allocating one or more types of function buttons obtained from the particular piece of link automatic production information to each child node according to the function button producing rule of the particular piece of link automatic production information to automatically produce link information indicating a linking relationship among one parent node and one child node or one group of child nodes corresponding to the parent node for each parent node arranged in the hierarchy structure; and hyper-text document preparing means for preparing a group of hyper-text documents, in which a plurality of hyper-text documents are arranged in the hierarchy structure according to the hierarchy structure information produced by the hierarchy structure managing means and are linked to each other in the linking relationships according to the link information transferred from the link information automatic producing means, from the node information produced by the node managing means and the hierarchy structure information produced by the hierarchy structure managing means to perform a referential movement from one hyper-text document corresponding to one parent node to another hyper-text document corresponding to one child node and another referential movement from the hyper-text document corresponding to the child node to another hyper-text document corresponding to another child node or the hyper-text document corresponding to the parent node according to each one-dimensional link.