Patent ID: 8903869
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An object linkage apparatus for linking a plurality of objects for causing a user terminal to use linked objects, comprising: a processor; and a storage device configured to store objects, each object including contents and linkage attribute values used for linking objects, and to store a linkage map designating a set of objects to be linked with each other, the contents including content attribute values that are indexing values different from the linkage attribute values; wherein the processor performs as: an object registration unit configured to search for a linkage candidate of a new object by comparing content attribute values of items included in contents of the new object with linkage attribute values of the items of already-registered objects in order to extract an already-registered object to be linked with the new object at the linkage candidate from the already-registered objects based on degree of agreement between the content attribute values and the linkage attribute values in each of the items, and to copy a first linkage attribute value of the already-registered object extracted based on the degree of agreement to the new object as a second linkage attribute value of the new object in order to register the new object in the storage device, the new object including the contents and the second linkage attribute value which is the same as the first linkage attribute value of the already-registered object; an object linkage unit configured to register the new object in the linkage map by associating the new object with an identification value, wherein the identification value identifies an object set which contains objects that are different from each other and that have the second linkage attribute value in common; and an object editing unit configured to receive a linkage request from the user terminal, to obtain the object set from the linkage map, to assign element objects of the object set to display areas designated by a display information table, and to launch creation systems for operating the element objects in order to enable the user terminal to browse the element objects.