Patent ID: 7111042
Filing Date: 2006-09-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An electronic bulletin board system including a server computer with an electronic bulletin board function communicating with at least one user computer via a network for mediating information exchange therebetween, said server computer comprising: a first database as a notable words collection storing a plurality of words that are appropriately selected; a second database storing a plurality of records with text data; a logic device inspecting a message text sent from a user computer of a person who wants to post a message by consulting the notable words collection, wherein the message text is posted on the bulletin board when the message text does not include a notable word in the notable words collection; the second database is searched by using the notable word as a keyword when the message text includes a notable word in the notable words collection, and if no records including the notable word exist in the second database, then the message text is posted on the bulletin board; and when a record including the notable word exists as a result of searching the second database, the word in the message text is converted into a hypertext format having a URL generated properly to which the word is linked as a link destination, and the message text is posted on the bulletin board, the URL being so described as to constitute a start instruction to a search report program, which reports a result of searching the second database by using the notable word as a keyword, and when the URL is sent from a specific user computer, the search report program is executed to return a set of report screen data of the search result to the specific user computer.