JP7421282B2 - Information management device and file management method - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a search method for extracting desired information from information stored on a folder tree.

For example, in the folder trees shown in Figures 7 and 8, the classification that is currently performed in a folder tree that combines folders in a tree structure includes {A1, which is a collection of child folders of folder "A". , A2, A3}, which is a unique classification for the upper node name "A", and a collection of child folders of several different folders, such as {2016, 2017, 2018}, and {large, average}. There are common classifications that are not restricted by node names. In information management using a folder tree, such common classifications are incorporated into one tree structure, so the same classification is repeatedly placed in many places within the folder tree, and the entire folder tree is tends to become exponentially larger as more common classifications are incorporated.

In a tree-structured folder tree, exploratory retrieval, which is one of the pillars of information retrieval, is inherently difficult for users. The extent of this will be even greater.

In addition, in a huge folder tree, different notations are often applied to classifications with the same meaning, and different meanings are often applied to the same notation, so information based on condition specification, which is another pillar of information retrieval, is often used. Retrieval of node names cannot be a definitive retrieval method, and currently, a search using a single node name as a keyword is only used as an auxiliary method.

In response to the situation of information management using such a folder tree, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Publication No. 2003-121012 has given different notations to nodes in the folder tree that have different meanings but are given the same notation, and On the tag name string display means, which unifies node names with different notations into one notation and separately displays tag name strings obtained by merging a set of child folder names that share a configuration name, the user can Discloses a method for arranging information icons on a table in which a tag name string structure name specified as a keyword and other tag name string structure names implied by the specified tag name string structure name are arranged as headwords. ing. For example, the tag name strings obtained for the folder trees shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 are displayed as shown in FIG. 9 on the display means.

By using the above method, a multi-faceted search in which keywords belonging to the same tag name string are ORed and specifications between different tag name strings are ANDed can be performed without missing a search and with less search noise. Secondary selections can also be easily made on the table based on the information provided. Multi-facet search covers the practical range of conditional search. On the other hand, exploratory retrieval of information can also be easily performed using this method on a table obtained by inputting keywords with a limited search range.

However, the above method requires the user to separate the notation of categories with different meanings and to unify the notation of categories with the same meaning on a means provided separately from the folder tree to be searched, and it is difficult for the user to specify the search keyword. , because the specification is made on a display means where the hierarchical relationship between node names in the tree structure cannot be seen, resulting in the following problems.

For example, in the folder trees shown in Figures 7 and 8 above, if you want to retrieve information that includes "A1" and "A2" in all of its path names, the input keywords are "A1" and "A2." ”, it also implies the specification of its parent “A”, so there is no need to specify “A”. ", cannot be immediately distinguished as the parent node name of "A2". In a folder tree in which a large number of tag name sequences are created, it becomes more difficult to distinguish parent-child relationships between constituent tag names.

In consideration of these problems, the present invention is an information management method using a tag name tree in which tag names, which are names that characterize information, are related in a tree-like manner. The aim is to provide a method by which information can be efficiently managed in the entire attached tag name tree.

Another object of the present invention is to manage information using a tag name tree in which tag names, which are names characterizing information, are related in a tree-like manner. The aim is to provide a method that allows a user to perform a conditional search that combines the specified tag names as intended by the user without missing anything, by directly and randomly specifying component tag names as keywords.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method that can easily tag information to be searched, in a method that satisfies the above-mentioned problems.

In order to achieve the above object, a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention according to claim 1 includes:
Information is managed in a form that is specified by a path name that is the name of all the folders in which it is stored and its own name concatenated with a specific separator in between, and management operations for information are performed individually for each piece of information. In an information management device, operations are performed on the device screen on icons that are created and determined for each type of information.
This is an information management method using a table in which a headword placement field is provided outside a collection of cells in which rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, in which tag names characterizing information are placed as headwords. There it is,
In a combination tag name tree that combines multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree shape, specify a tag name selected from among the constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree as a keyword. step and
The tag name specified as a keyword, and
A tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which it belongs to the tag name specified as a keyword, and is not the first tag name in the tag name tree, and
For the tag name specified as a keyword, select the parent tag name that is the tag name placed at the parent position in the tag name tree from among the tag names placed at the descendant position in the tag name tree to which it belongs. After specifying the sequence of tag names to be shared as one tag name string ,
Among the specified tag name columns, a specific value is assigned as condition data to the first tag name column, which is a tag name column consisting of child tag names of the first tag name of each tag name tree , and other tag names are For the column, there is a step of assigning its parent tag name as condition data, and a step of assigning the tag name by direction, which is obtained by sorting each tag name tree that makes up the combination tag name tree into horizontal and vertical directions depending on the arrangement direction. In each tree group , one constituent tag name of one tag name string ( first tag name string ) belonging to the corresponding direction is set as the parent tag name , and a tag name tree group by the same direction is created for that parent tag name. Another tag name column ( second tag name column ) that belongs to , is associated as a child tag name column . A directional tag name string tree obtained by recursively repeating starting from
The selection of the second tag name string is a tag name string that is not already included in the tree route ancestor position for the parent tag name of the second tag name string in the tag name string tree for each direction , and
And the tag name column that is the first tag name column of each tag name column tree belonging to the corresponding direction tag name tree group , or its condition data, is the corresponding parent tag name or its parent tag name. Placement in the headword placement field in the corresponding direction of the tag name string tree by direction from the tag name string that is the tag name located at the top of the tree path.
After assigning each tag name column placed in each layer of the corresponding direction tag name column tree to the row or column of the same hierarchical order in the headword placement field, each constituent tag name of each tag name column is
Placement that is the same in the arrangement range and tag name column arrangement direction of the child tag name column whose parent tag name is the corresponding tag name, which is arranged on the row next to the assigned row or on the column next to the assigned column. Place it in the range,
If each constituent tag name does not have a child tag name column, the step is performed by arranging it in the arrangement range determined for the corresponding table;
As an operation of storing the information in the combination tag name tree, for each tag name tree making up the combination tag name tree, a step of assigning one constituent tag name to the information as a storage tag name;
For each cell in the table, specify the tag name placed in the specified positional relationship with the relevant cell in the headword placement column as the related tag name, and then store the tag in the specified relationship with the specified set of related tag names. displaying an information icon to which a set of names is attached in association with the corresponding cell;
It is characterized by having the following.

In order to achieve the above object, a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention as set forth in claim 2 determines the arrangement direction of the headword arrangement column in which the tag name to which each tag name tree belongs is arranged. It is characterized by

A method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 3 is the method set forth in claim 1, in which one tag name tree is used as an additional tag name tree and one constituent tag name on another tag name tree is used. In a combination tag name tree obtained by adding a tag name to a certain tag name, the top tag name column obtained from the tag name tree is placed with the tag name as a condition name. For an alternative tag name tree in which no keyword is specified for its component tag name, only if the alternative tag name is an ancestor tag name of a keyword specified elsewhere in the combination tag name tree. , is characterized in that all the affiliated tag names are tabular tag names.

In order to achieve the above object, a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 4 is a method according to the invention set forth in claim 1, in which one tag name tree is used as a separate tag name tree , and another tag name In a combination tag name tree obtained by appending to an alternative destination tag name that is one component tag name on the tree, the first tag name column obtained from the alternative tag name tree includes an alternative destination tag name. For an additional tag name tree in which a tag name is placed as a condition name and no keyword is specified for its component tag name, the additional destination tag name is a keyword specified elsewhere in the combination tag name tree. The feature is that only when the tag name is an ancestor tag name, all the affiliated tag names are set as tabular tag names.

The method in the information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 5 is the method set forth in claim 1, which receives an instruction to save information in a cell of the created table, and stores a related tag name obtained for the instructed cell. It is characterized by being given as a storage tag name.

In order to achieve the above object, a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention as set forth in claim 6 includes a method according to claim 1, which receives a specific instruction for a stored tag name on a tag name column tree and executes the instruction. The icon of the information to which the received storage tag name is attached is displayed on a specific screen.
It is characterized by

In order to achieve the above object, a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 7 includes:
The tag name tree is a tree of folder names of the folders that make up the folder tree in which folders that save information are arranged in a tree-like manner, and additions to the tag names of the separate tag names in the separate tag name tree are added to the separate tag name tree. The step is to store the first folder of
obtaining the tag name sequence as a set of names of child folders stored in the corresponding parent folder excluding the name of the folder designated as the separate destination folder ;
, and converts the condition data of the tag name column into a path name column in which the corresponding ancestor path name column is added to the end of the separate destination ancestor path name column, which is the ancestor path name column determined in the corresponding separate destination tag name tree. , by removing the folder name of the first folder of the corresponding tag name tree.

In order to achieve the above object, a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention as set forth in claim 8 is such that, in the method as set forth in claim 1, the condition data is set in the corresponding tree of the corresponding parent tag name of the corresponding tag name column. a step of assigning a conditional path name column representing a path route to the corresponding tag name column ;
setting, as related data, all related path names obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of a conditional path name column representing the path route in the tree of the parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the related tag name;
assigning to the information a storage path name column representing a path route within the tree corresponding to the storage path name, instead of the storage path name;
It is characterized by arranging information in which a set of stored path name sequences having a predetermined relationship with a set of all related path names obtained is assigned for one cell.

In order to achieve the above object, a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 9 includes the following: In the method set forth in claim 1, in the combination tag name tree , a particularly specified tag name and a specified tag Create a partial tag name tree consisting of the ancestor tag name and descendant tag name of the given name, save the created partial tag name tree in the specified storage device , and then load the corresponding partial tag name tree from the corresponding storage device. The feature is that information is retrieved by specifying a keyword in .

In order to achieve the above object, an information processing device according to the invention according to claim 10,
Information is managed in a form that is specified by a path name that is the name of all the folders in which it is stored and its own name concatenated with a specific separator in between, and management operations for information are performed individually for each piece of information. An information management device in which operations are performed on the device screen on icons that are created and determined for each type of information,
As an information management device using a table in which a headword placement column is provided outside a collection of cells in which rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, in which tag names characterizing information are placed as headwords. ,
In a combination tag name tree that combines multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree shape, specify a tag name selected from among the constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree as a keyword. means and
The tag name specified as a keyword, and
A tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which it belongs to the tag name specified as a keyword, and is not the first tag name in the tag name tree, and
For the tag name specified as a keyword, select the parent tag name that is the tag name placed at the parent position in the tag name tree from among the tag names placed at the descendant position in the tag name tree to which it belongs. After specifying the sequence of tag names to be shared as one tag name string ,
Among the specified tag name columns, a specific value is assigned as condition data to the first tag name column, which is a tag name column consisting of child tag names of the first tag name of each tag name tree , and other tag names are For a column, there is a means to assign its parent tag name as condition data.
In each directional tag name tree group obtained by sorting each tag name tree constituting the combination tag name tree into horizontal and vertical directions according to the arrangement direction, one tag name column (No. 1 tag name column) as a parent tag name, and another tag name column (second tag name column) that belongs to the same directional tag name tree group for that parent tag name. A direction-specific tag name sequence obtained by recursively repeating the mapping of the tag name sequence as a child tag name sequence, starting from the tag name sequence located at the head of the corresponding direction-specific tag name tree group as the first tag name sequence. It is a tree,
The selection of the second tag name string is a tag name string that is not already included in the tree route ancestor position for the parent tag name of the second tag name string in the tag name string tree for each direction, and
And the tag name column that is the first tag name column of each tag name column tree belonging to the corresponding direction tag name tree group, or its condition data, is the corresponding parent tag name or its parent tag name. The placement of the tag names in the headword placement field in the corresponding direction of the tag name string tree by direction from the tag name string that is the tag name located at the top of the tree path.
After assigning each tag name column arranged at each level of the corresponding directional tag name column tree to the row or column of the same hierarchical order in the headword arrangement field, each constituent tag name of each tag name column is
Placement that is the same in the arrangement range and tag name column arrangement direction of the child tag name column whose parent tag name is the corresponding tag name, which is arranged on the row next to the assigned row or on the column next to the assigned column. Place it in the range,
If each of the component tag names does not have a child tag name column, a means for doing so is to place it in a placement range determined for the corresponding table;
As an operation of storing the information in the combination tag name tree, means for adding one constituent tag name to the information as a storage tag name for each tag name tree making up the combination tag name tree;
For each cell in the table, specify the tag name placed in the specified positional relationship with the relevant cell in the headword placement field as the related tag name, and then store the tag in the specified relationship with the specified set of related tag names. means for displaying an information icon to which a set of names is attached in association with a corresponding cell;
It is characterized by consisting of.

In order to achieve the above object, an information processing apparatus according to the invention as set forth in claim 11 is provided, in the apparatus set forth in claim 10, a method of determining the arrangement direction of the headword arrangement column in which each tag name tree is arranged. It is characterized by being determined by.

The information processing device according to the invention described in claim 12 is the device according to claim 10, in which one tag name tree is used as an additional tag name tree, and another tag name that is one constituent tag name on another tag name tree is provided. In the combination tag name tree obtained by adding to the destination tag name, the top tag name column obtained from the separate tag name tree has the separate destination tag name as a condition name, and its configuration For an alternate tag name tree in which no keyword is specified for a tag name, only if the alternate target tag name is an ancestor tag name of a keyword that is specified elsewhere in the combination tag name tree. The feature is that all affiliated tag names are tabular tag names.

In order to achieve the above object, an information processing device according to the invention according to claim 13 is provided, in the device according to claim 10,
Structure of one tag name tree Upon receiving an instruction for information to which a tag name has been assigned, storage obtained from the corresponding separate folder tree from among the separate destination folders located above the tree path path of the specified information storage folder. means for identifying a separate destination folder whose path name column is not registered in the information management data of the corresponding information;
means for creating a tag name column supplementary table in which tag name columns obtained from the specified separate folder tree are arranged in a predetermined manner based on the condition data;
, and receives instructions from the created table cell, and among the related tag names obtained, a related tag name that is not a condition name of another related tag name is given to information as a storage tag name. shall be.

The information processing device according to the invention set forth in claim 14 is the device set forth in claim 10, which receives an instruction to save information in a cell of the created table and stores a related tag name obtained for the instructed cell. It is characterized by being given as a name.

In order to achieve the above object, the information processing device according to the invention set forth in claim 15 is the device set forth in claim 10, which receives a specific instruction for a stored tag name on a tag name column tree; A feature is that an icon of information to which a storage tag name is attached is displayed on a specific screen.

In order to achieve the above object, an information processing device according to the invention according to claim 16 includes:
The tag name tree is a tree of folder names of the folders that make up the folder tree in which folders that save information are arranged in a tree-like manner, and additions to the tag names of the separate tag names in the separate tag name tree are added to the separate tag name tree. A means of doing this by storing the first folder of the file in a separate destination folder,
means for obtaining the tag name sequence as a set of names of child folders stored in the corresponding parent folder excluding the name of the folder specified as the separate destination folder ;
, and converts the condition data of the tag name column into a path name column in which the corresponding ancestor path name column is added to the end of the separate destination ancestor path name column, which is the ancestor path name column determined in the corresponding separate destination tag name tree. , by removing the folder name of the first folder of the corresponding tag name tree.

In order to achieve the above object, the information processing device according to the invention as set forth in claim 17 provides a path route within the tree of the corresponding parent tag name of the corresponding tag name column as condition data. means for assigning a conditional path name column representing the tag name column to the corresponding tag name column ;
setting, as related data, all related path names obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of a conditional path name column representing the path route in the tree of the parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the related tag name;
assigning to the information a storage path name column representing a path route within the tree corresponding to the storage path name, instead of the storage path name;
It is characterized by arranging information in which a set of stored path name sequences having a predetermined relationship with a set of all related path names obtained is assigned for one cell.

In order to achieve the above object, an information processing device according to the invention as set forth in claim 18 includes:
In the combination tag name tree , create a partial tag name tree consisting of the specified tag name, ancestor tag names, and descendant tag names of the specified tag name, and store the created partial tag name tree in the specified storage device. It is characterized in that information is retrieved by specifying a keyword on the corresponding partial tag name tree that is stored and then recalled from the corresponding storage means .

In order to achieve the above object, a control program to be realized by a method computer in an information processing apparatus according to the invention as set forth in claim 19 is as follows:
Information is managed in a form that is specified by a path name that is the name of all the folders in which it is stored and its own name concatenated with a specific separator in between, and management operations for information are performed individually for each piece of information. In an information management device, operations are performed on the device screen on icons that are created and determined for each type of information.
This is an information management method using a table in which a headword placement field is provided outside a collection of cells in which rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, in which tag names characterizing information are placed as headwords. There it is,
In a combination tag name tree that combines multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree shape, specify a tag name selected from among the constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree as a keyword. step and
The tag name specified as a keyword, and
A tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which it belongs to the tag name specified as a keyword, and is not the first tag name in the tag name tree, and
For the tag name specified as a keyword, select the parent tag name that is the tag name placed at the parent position in the corresponding tag name tree from among the tag names placed at the descendant position in the tag name tree to which it belongs. After specifying the sequence of tag names to be shared as one tag name sequence ,
Among the specified tag name columns, a specific value is assigned as condition data to the first tag name column, which is a tag name column consisting of child tag names of the first tag name of each tag name tree , and other tag names are For columns, there is a step of assigning its parent tag name as condition data.
In each directional tag name tree group obtained by sorting each tag name tree constituting the combination tag name tree into horizontal and vertical directions according to the arrangement direction, one tag name column (No. 1 tag name column) as a parent tag name, and another tag name column (second tag name column) that belongs to the same directional tag name tree group for that parent tag name. A direction-specific tag name sequence obtained by recursively repeating the mapping of the tag name sequence as a child tag name sequence, starting from the tag name sequence located at the head of the corresponding direction-specific tag name tree group as the first tag name sequence. It is a tree,
The selection of the second tag name string is a tag name string that is not already included in the tree route ancestor position for the parent tag name of the second tag name string in the tag name string tree for each direction, and
And the tag name column that is the first tag name column of each tag name column tree belonging to the corresponding direction tag name tree group, or its condition data, is the corresponding parent tag name or its parent tag name. The placement of the tag names in the headword placement field in the corresponding direction of the tag name string tree by direction from the tag name string that is the tag name located at the top of the tree path.
After assigning each tag name column arranged at each level of the corresponding directional tag name column tree to the row or column of the same hierarchical order in the headword arrangement field, each constituent tag name of each tag name column is
Placement that is the same in the arrangement range and tag name column arrangement direction of the child tag name column whose parent tag name is the corresponding tag name, which is arranged on the row next to the assigned row or on the column next to the assigned column. Place it in the range,
If each constituent tag name does not have a child tag name column, the step is performed by arranging it in the arrangement range determined for the corresponding table;
As an operation of storing the information in the combination tag name tree, for each tag name tree making up the combination tag name tree, a step of assigning one constituent tag name to the information as a storage tag name;
For each cell in the table, specify the tag name placed in the specified positional relationship with the relevant cell in the headword placement field as the related tag name, and then store the tag in the specified relationship with the specified set of related tag names. displaying an information icon to which a set of names is attached in association with the corresponding cell;
A method for an information processing apparatus consisting of the following is realized by a computer.

In order to achieve the above object, a control program for causing a computer to implement a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 20 is provided, in which each tag name tree is arranged in the method set forth in claim 19. It is characterized in that the arrangement direction of the headword arrangement column is determined by a predetermined method.

A control program for causing a computer to implement a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention according to claim 21 includes:
In a combination tag name tree obtained by appending one tag name tree as an alternate tag name tree to an alternate target tag name that is one constituent tag name on another tag name tree, In the first tag name column obtained from the tag name tree, the alias destination tag name is placed as a condition name, and for the alias tag name tree where no keyword is specified for its component tag name, the alias tag name is placed as a condition name. Only when the preceding tag name is an ancestor tag name of another keyword specified in the combination tag name tree, all the affiliated tag names are made into table-structured tag names.

In order to achieve the above object, a control program for causing a computer to implement a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 22 includes, in the method set forth in claim 19,
Structure of one tag name tree Upon receiving an instruction for information to which a tag name has been assigned, storage obtained from the corresponding separate folder tree from among the separate destination folders located above the tree path path of the specified information storage folder. a step of identifying a separate destination folder whose path name column is not registered in the information management data of the corresponding information;
creating a tag name column supplementary table in which tag name columns obtained from the identified separate folder tree are arranged in a predetermined manner based on the condition data;
, and receives instructions from the created table cell, and among the related tag names obtained, a related tag name that is not a condition name of another related tag name is given to information as a storage tag name. shall be.

A control program for causing a computer to implement the method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention according to claim 23, in the method according to claim 19,
It is characterized in that it receives an instruction to save information in a cell of a created table, and gives a related tag name obtained for the instructed cell as a storage tag name.

In order to achieve the above object, a control program for causing a computer to implement a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 24 includes: The present invention is characterized in that upon receiving a specific instruction for a name , an icon of information to which the specified stored tag name is attached is displayed on a specific screen.

In order to achieve the above object, a control program for causing a computer to implement a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 25 is provided, in which a tag name tree stores information in a method set forth in claim 21. This is a tree of folder names of the folders that make up the folder tree in which folders are arranged in a tree.Additions to the separate destination tag names in the separate tag name tree are made by adding the first folder of the separate tag name tree to the separate destination folder. a step carried out by storing;
obtaining the tag name sequence as a set of names of child folders stored in the corresponding parent folder excluding the name of the folder designated as the separate destination folder ;
, and converts the condition data of the tag name column into a path name column in which the corresponding ancestor path name column is added to the end of the separate destination ancestor path name column, which is the ancestor path name column determined in the corresponding separate destination tag name tree. , by removing the folder name of the first folder of the corresponding tag name tree.

In order to achieve the above object, a control program for causing a computer to implement a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 26 includes a control program that uses a corresponding tag name string as condition data in the method set forth in claim 19. a step of assigning a conditional path name column representing a path route in the corresponding tree of the corresponding parent tag name to the corresponding tag name column ;
setting, as related data, all related path names obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of a conditional path name column representing the path route in the tree of the parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the related tag name;
assigning to the information a storage path name column representing a path route within the tree corresponding to the storage path name, instead of the storage path name;
It is characterized by arranging information in which a set of stored path name sequences having a predetermined relationship with a set of all related path names obtained is assigned for one cell.

In order to achieve the above object, in the method according to claim 19, a control program to be realized by a computer in an information processing apparatus according to the invention according to claim 27 includes a control program that specifically specifies in the combination tag name tree. Create a partial tag name tree consisting of the tag name, ancestor tag names, and descendant tag names of the specified tag name, save the created partial tag name tree in the specified storage device , and then save it from the corresponding storage device. The feature is that information is retrieved by specifying a keyword on the called relevant partial tag name tree .

In order to achieve the above object, a storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention as set forth in claim 28 is provided.
Information is managed in a form that is specified by a path name that is the name of all the folders in which it is stored and its own name concatenated with a specific separator in between, and management operations for information are performed individually for each piece of information. In an information management device, operations are performed on the device screen on icons that are created and determined for each type of information.
This is an information management method using a table in which a headword placement field is provided outside a collection of cells in which rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, in which tag names characterizing information are placed as headwords. There it is,
In a combination tag name tree that combines multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree shape, specify a tag name selected from among the constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree as a keyword. step and
The tag name specified as a keyword, and
A tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which it belongs to the tag name specified as a keyword, and is not the first tag name in the tag name tree, and
For the tag name specified as a keyword, select the parent tag name that is the tag name placed at the parent position in the tag name tree from among the tag names placed at the descendant position in the tag name tree to which it belongs. After specifying the sequence of tag names to be shared as one tag name string ,
Among the specified tag name columns, a specific value is assigned as condition data to the first tag name column, which is a tag name column consisting of child tag names of the first tag name of each tag name tree , and other tag names are For columns, there is a step of assigning its parent tag name as condition data.
In each directional tag name tree group obtained by sorting each tag name tree constituting the combination tag name tree into horizontal and vertical directions according to the arrangement direction, one tag name column (No. 1 tag name column) as a parent tag name, and another tag name column (second tag name column) that belongs to the same directional tag name tree group for that parent tag name. A direction-specific tag name sequence obtained by recursively repeating the mapping of the tag name sequence as a child tag name sequence, starting from the tag name sequence located at the head of the corresponding direction-specific tag name tree group as the first tag name sequence. It is a tree,
The selection of the second tag name string is a tag name string that is not already included in the tree route ancestor position for the parent tag name of the second tag name string in the tag name string tree for each direction, and
And the tag name column that is the first tag name column of each tag name column tree belonging to the corresponding direction tag name tree group, or its condition data, is the corresponding parent tag name or its parent tag name. The placement of the tag names in the headword placement field in the corresponding direction of the tag name string tree by direction from the tag name string that is the tag name located at the top of the tree path.
After assigning each tag name column arranged at each level of the corresponding directional tag name column tree to the row or column of the same hierarchical order in the headword arrangement field, each constituent tag name of each tag name column is
Placement that is the same in the arrangement range and tag name column arrangement direction of the child tag name column whose parent tag name is the corresponding tag name, which is arranged on the row next to the assigned row or on the column next to the assigned column. Place it in the range,
If each constituent tag name does not have a child tag name column, the step is performed by arranging it in the arrangement range determined for the corresponding table;
As an operation of storing the information in the combination tag name tree, for each tag name tree making up the combination tag name tree, a step of assigning one constituent tag name to the information as a storage tag name;
For each cell in the table, specify the tag name placed in the specified positional relationship with the relevant cell in the headword placement field as the related tag name, and then store the tag in the specified relationship with the specified set of related tag names. displaying an information icon to which a set of names is attached in association with the corresponding cell;
It is characterized by consisting of.

In order to achieve the above object, a storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention as set forth in claim 29 is provided, in which each tag name is It is characterized in that the arrangement direction of the headword arrangement column in which the tree is arranged is determined by a predetermined method.

In the method according to claim 28, a storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention according to claim 30 includes:
In a combination tag name tree obtained by appending one tag name tree as an alternate tag name tree to an alternate target tag name that is one constituent tag name on another tag name tree, In the first tag name column obtained from the tag name tree, the alias destination tag name is placed as a condition name, and for the alias tag name tree where no keyword is specified for its component tag name, the alias tag name is placed as a condition name. Only when the preceding tag name is an ancestor tag name of another keyword specified in the combination tag name tree, all the affiliated tag names are made into table-structured tag names.

In order to achieve the above object, a storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement a method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 31 is provided in the invention set forth in claim 28.
Structure of one tag name tree Upon receiving an instruction for information to which a tag name has been assigned, storage obtained from the corresponding separate folder tree from among the separate destination folders located above the tree path path of the specified information storage folder. a step of identifying a separate destination folder whose path name column is not registered in the information management data of the corresponding information;
creating a tag name column supplementary table in which tag name columns obtained from the identified separate folder tree are arranged in a predetermined manner based on the condition data;
Claim 28: receiving an instruction from a cell of the created table, and assigning a related tag name, which is not a condition name of another related tag name, to the information as a storage tag name among the obtained related tag names. It is characterized by the following.

In the method according to claim 28, a storage medium storing a control program for realizing by a computer the method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention according to claim 33,
It is characterized in that it receives an instruction to save information in a cell of a created table, and gives a related tag name obtained for the instructed cell as a storage tag name.

In order to achieve the above object, a storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 33 is provided in the method set forth in claim 28.
The present invention is characterized in that upon receiving a specific instruction for a stored tag name on the tag name string tree, an icon of information to which the instructed stored tag name is attached is displayed on a specific screen.

In order to achieve the above object, in the method according to claim 30, a storage medium storing a control program for realizing the method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention according to claim 34 by a computer is provided.
The tag name tree is a tree of folder names of the folders that make up the folder tree in which folders that save information are arranged in a tree-like manner, and additions to the tag names of the separate tag names in the separate tag name tree are added to the separate tag name tree. The step is to store the first folder of
obtaining the tag name sequence as a set of names of child folders stored in the corresponding parent folder excluding the name of the folder designated as the separate destination folder ;
, and converts the condition data of the tag name column into a path name column in which the corresponding ancestor path name column is added to the end of the separate destination ancestor path name column, which is the ancestor path name column determined in the corresponding separate destination tag name tree. , by removing the folder name of the first folder of the corresponding tag name tree.

In order to achieve the above object, a storage medium storing a control program for causing a computer to implement the method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 35 is provided in the method set forth in claim 28.
a step of assigning a condition path name column representing a path route within the tree of the parent tag name of the tag name column as condition data to the tag name column ;
setting, as related data, all related path names obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of a conditional path name column representing the path route in the tree of the parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the related tag name;
assigning to the information a storage path name column representing a path route within the tree corresponding to the storage path name, instead of the storage path name;
It is characterized by arranging information in which a set of stored path name sequences having a predetermined relationship with a set of all related path names obtained is assigned for one cell.

In order to achieve the above object, a storage medium storing a control program for realizing the method in an information processing apparatus according to the invention set forth in claim 36 by a computer is used in the method set forth in claim 28. , create a partial tag name tree consisting of the specified tag name, ancestor tag names, and descendant tag names of the specified tag name , and save the created partial tag name tree in the specified storage means , The present invention is characterized in that information is retrieved by specifying a keyword on the corresponding partial tag name tree called up from the corresponding storage means .

According to this method, it is possible to add a classification based on a new viewpoint with less effort by adding it only to one place in the destination tag name tree.

According to this method, by simply specifying keywords in random order without giving relationships between keywords on a tag name tree where the relationships between categories can be immediately recognized, the input keywords can be used to match the user's search intent. You can narrow down your search for information that is combined exactly as you like.

According to this method, when the tag name tree is a folder tree, adding a classification based on a new perspective can be done by a user's daily operation of storing the first folder of the folder tree to be added to the destination folder. .

According to this method, even a tag name tree consisting of many classifications can be searched by specifying keywords in the tag name tree, which avoids tag names with the same meaning from being spelled differently because there is no overlapping arrangement of the same classification. Information can be retrieved without omission.

According to this method, desired information is output on a table in which, in addition to the specified keyword, descendant tag names implied by the specification are also arranged as headwords, so secondary selection of information can be easily performed. be able to.

According to this method, an exploratory search for information can be easily performed on a table created by specifying keywords that limit the search range.

According to this method, supplementary tagging of information, which is necessary when adding classification from a new perspective, can be easily done by specifying cells on a table in which the constituent tag names of tagging candidates are arranged as headwords. .

According to this method, tagging required for saving external information to a tag name tree can be easily performed by dragging the icon to a cell on the table.

According to this method, information that has undergone necessary tagging can be efficiently accessed from the folder tree by specifying the folder corresponding to the tagging.

According to this method, by calling up a partial tag name tree created and registered based on a tag name specifically specified on a tag name tree and specifying keywords thereon, keywords can be specified on a huge tag name tree. This allows efficient information retrieval that avoids problems.

1 is a block diagram showing an example of a hardware system configuration of an information processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a desktop screen displayed by an environmental control program in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a format of data object management data in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a table management application screen in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of the invention in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the folder tree of the explanatory example in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the upper half of a conventional example folder tree. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the lower half of a conventional example folder tree. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing tag name string display means obtained from a conventional example folder tree. It is a figure which shows the separate specification mode subscreen in the system of an Example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a format of conversion target folder management data in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure showing the format of information management data in the system of an example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the format of storage path name string data in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an explanatory example folder tree in which separate designation has been performed in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a folder screen on which information icons are displayed in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a list of conversion target folders in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a keyword specification sub-screen in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an explanatory example folder tree in which keywords are specified in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the table conversion procedure in the system of an Example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the format of table management data in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the conversion table list subscreen in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the procedure of tag name string data creation processing in the system of an Example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the format of tag name string data in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure showing the format of tag name data in a system of an example. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the format of a table in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the table data creation procedure in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the format of headword field data in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the whole procedure of creating headword column data in the system of an Example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the format of head tag name string management data in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the headword field data creation procedure in the system of an Example. It is a figure showing the format of cell data in a system of an example. It is a figure showing the format of character string data in the system of an example. It is a figure showing the format of icon arrangement field definition data in the system of an example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the format of "row break position data" or "column break position data" in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the format of ruled line data in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the table of the explanatory example in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the table of the 2nd explanatory example in the system of an Example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the format of related data in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the table of the explanatory example in which the icon of the information in the system of an Example is arrange|positioned. It is a figure showing the in-cell information display screen in the system of an example. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an information storage procedure in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the 2nd folder screen in the system of an Example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a tagging supplementary sub-screen in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a conversion target folder tree in which folders storing tagging supplementary information in the system of the embodiment are specially displayed. It is a figure which shows the tagging supplementary table in the system of an Example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a table in which common conditions in the system of the embodiment are specially arranged. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing partial folder tree management data in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the selection name input screen in the system of an Example. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing selection name designation data in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a partial folder tree in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a list of partial folder trees in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a partial folder tree in which keywords are specified in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a table created based on keywords specified on a partial folder tree in the system of the embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a sub-screen for instructing display in multiple folders in the system of the embodiment. It is a figure which shows the display screen in multiple folders in the system of an Example. It is a figure which shows the 3rd folder screen in the system of an Example.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 shows a hardware system configuration of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this system, a keyboard 12 and a mouse 14 are used as input devices, an internal memory 16 and an external memory 18 are used as storage devices, and a display device 20 and a stamp device 22 are used as output devices, each using a suitable interface circuit (not shown). It is connected to the CPU 24 via. Further, the CPU 24 is also connected to a telephone line or communication line 27 via a communication device 26 . The internal memory 16 and the external memory 18 store various programs that define processing or control operations of the CPU 24, as well as various electronic dictionaries, character fonts, files, and the like. The communication device 26 has a facsimile communication function.

When this device is powered on, an environment control program that controls the GUI environment in this device is automatically started, and for example, the desktop screen 30 shown in FIG. 2 is displayed on the display screen 20a of the display device 20, and the desktop The screen 30 provides a GUI environment as described below.

In this device, the information created by the user is managed in units of file information by an environmental control program as a known method. In addition, in this device, folders are prepared in addition to file information as data objects that are units for managing information, and file information can be classified and managed by storing file information in folders. It has become. Folders are managed in the form of a folder hierarchy structure in which one folder is repeatedly housed as a child folder within another parent folder, starting from the root folder, and one external memory 18 is used within the system. They are arranged forming a folder tree with the root as the root.

Data objects consisting of file information and folders are configured by the environment control program to include "type information", "name", "full path name", "attribute information", "icon image data pointer information", "icon placement position", " It is managed by being pointed to by data object management data consisting of "main body data pointer" (Figure 3).

The "type information" first distinguishes between file information and folders, and in the case of file information, indicates the type of application for which the information was created. The "name" is a name input by the user, and is uniquely determined for each "type information" in the parent folder that directly stores the information. Here, in this specification, the folder with the name "***" is abbreviated as the folder with the name "***" or the folder "****". Note that in this specification, file information will be abbreviated as information hereinafter.

"Full path name" is a key for the environment control program to uniquely identify each data object within the system.The "full path name" is the key for the environment control program to uniquely identify each data object within the system. taken out in order. This is a character string obtained by sequentially connecting folder names with a separator between them, which is a specific delimiter, and the own name character string, with the separator between them. Storing one data object in another folder is achieved within the system by connecting the name of the data object to be stored to the full path name of the folder in which it is stored.

In addition, the environment control program displays an icon, which is a specific type of image determined for each of the above-mentioned "type information", on the desktop screen 30 as a known method for the saved file information or folder, and The displayed icon is displayed with a character string representing "name" information of the corresponding data object management data added thereto.

File information or a folder is opened by a specific instruction operation on a corresponding icon using the mouse 14 on the desktop screen 30. The environment control program first identifies the corresponding data object by repeatedly comparing the "icon display position" information of each icon displayed on the desktop screen 30 with the position where the instruction operation is given.

If the identified data object is file information, the content of the file information is displayed on a newly created "file information screen" (not shown) for the file information by the instruction operation. The environment control program calls the corresponding application program based on the "type information" of the specified file information, and the called program displays the contents of the corresponding file information.

If the identified data object is a folder, a "folder screen" (not shown) on which icons of information stored in the folder are arranged is displayed at an appropriate position on the desktop screen 30, and icons of data objects directly included in the corresponding folder are displayed.

The position of an icon representing file information or a folder can be changed on the desktop screen 30 by a drag operation, which is a specific operation using the mouse 14 by the user, and the position on the desktop screen 30 is determined by the corresponding data. Registered in "icon display position" of object management data. Further, storing certain information in another folder can be performed by dragging the icon of the information to be stored onto the icon of the storage destination folder.

When you select and instruct the "Start" button that is always displayed in the lower left corner of the desktop screen 30, a "main menu" 31 that lists selection buttons such as "Programs", "Settings", "Search", etc. is displayed. If you click the "Program" button 35 on the "main menu" 31 that appears on the screen 20a, a "program menu" 32 showing a list of application programs installed on this device will appear on the display screen. 20a. FIG. 2 shows a state in which the "program" button 35 is clicked and the "program menu" 32 is displayed.

When you click the corresponding button of the "Table management application program" which is an application program that controls functions related to the present invention on the "Program menu" 32, the environment control program executes the source program of this table management application program. The program is retrieved from a predetermined storage location on the external memory 18 of the device, developed into an executable program in an appropriate area on the internal memory 16, and then started. First, for example, the table management application screen shown in FIG. 4 is displayed. 33 is displayed on the display screen 20a.

The table management application is intended to manage information using tables on the desktop screen 30, and is provided with functions such as table conversion and partial folder tree extraction. The above functions are realized by a system in which a table management application program operates in cooperation with the environment control program and the hardware that constitutes this device.

The table conversion function outputs information on a table created on the folder tree created on the device based on the folder name specified as a keyword, thereby enabling information management without retrieving unnecessary information or missing any searches. The configuration is shown in FIG. 5.

The separate folder designation unit 52 designates a separate designated folder tree from among the designated conversion target folder trees. An internal memory 16 that holds management data for the conversion target folder tree and instruction data for the separate folder tree, a display 20a that displays the separate specified folder tree on the conversion target folder tree, a keyboard 12, a mouse 14, etc. The CPU 24 is configured to include an input device and a CPU 24 that executes the corresponding processing.

The keyword folder designation unit 53 designates a folder whose name is a keyword from among the folders constituting the conversion target folder tree as a keyword specified folder. An internal memory 16 that holds the instruction data of the keyword specified folder, a display 20a that displays the keyword specified folder on the conversion target folder tree, input devices such as a keyboard 12 and a mouse 14, and a CPU 24 that executes the corresponding processing. , composed of.

The table data creation unit 55 separates the name of the keyword specified folder specified by the keyword folder instruction unit 53 and the names of other folders determined by the keyword specified folder from the positional relationship between the folders in the conversion target folder tree. Table data representing a table arranged as a headword is created based on the instruction data of the folder tree, and information is displayed based on the tagging data assigned by the separate information tagging unit 63 for each piece of information. The information is stored in association with each cell. It is composed of a CPU 24 that executes the corresponding process, and an internal memory 16 or external memory 18 in which a work area for the process is arranged.

The table display section 57 displays a table in which information icons are arranged and displayed based on the table data created by the table data creation section 55 and information associated with each cell of the table. It is composed of a CPU 24 that executes processing, an internal memory 16 or external memory 18 that temporarily stores output data converted for display, and a display device 20.

On the table displayed by the table display section 57, the table information tagging instruction section 61 assigns the headword determined in the designated cell to the relevant information as a related tag name. It is composed of a display 20a that displays a table, an input device such as a mouse 14, a CPU 24 that executes the corresponding process, and an internal memory 16 or external memory 18 that arranges a work area where the process is executed.

The separate information tagging unit 63 stores information indicating a folder in which information is stored as tagging data that specifies information based on a related tag name given to the information or a designated folder on the folder tree. Generate a pathname column. It is composed of a CPU 24 that executes processing, and an internal memory 16 or external memory 18 in which a work area for processing is arranged.

The in-folder information display section 65 displays the storage information in the designated folder based on the storage path name string assigned to the information. The folder also includes a display 20a that displays stored information, an input device such as a mouse 14, a CPU 24 that executes the process, and an internal memory 16 or external memory 18 that arranges a work area for the process. Ru.

The details of the table conversion function will be explained below, taking as an example the folder tree that performs the classification shown in FIG. Among the names of the folders that make up the same folder tree, "Year" is not a tag name that characterizes the information to be managed, but the names of the child folders of the corresponding folder "2016", "2017", and "2018". Similarly, "Importance" is a group name created to group from a single point of view, and "Importance" is also used to group the child folder names "Large" and "Normal" of the corresponding folder. " is also a group name that groups the child folder names "Urgent" and "Normal" of the corresponding folder.

The folder tree shown in Figure 6 is intended to perform classifications equivalent to the folder trees shown separately in Figures 7 and 8, and the categories that are repeatedly arranged in the folder trees shown in Figures 7 and 8. For each of {2016, 2017, 2018}, {Large, Average} and {A, O, C}, create a folder whose child folder name is the composition name, and use the group name as the name, respectively. It is formed by adding the ``year'', ``importance'', and ``author'' which are the classification viewpoints of each applicable classification.

The folder tree shown in FIG. 6 is further formed so that the range to which the corresponding classification is applied can be determined by the storage destination parent folder of the folder named after this group name. The classifications related to all the information saved in the conversion target folder tree are {2016, 2017, 2018} and {large, average}, respectively, and the folder "year" and folder "importance" are related to the conversion target folder tree. The folder "creator" related to {A, B, C}, which is a classification related to all the information stored in the first folder "P" and saved in the folder named "A", is the folder "A". is stored in

In the folder tree shown in FIG. 6, the categories that are repeatedly arranged in the folder tree as described above are removed from the main folder tree according to the above rules and arranged in parallel as separate folder trees. This prevents folders that perform the same classification from being repeatedly placed in multiple locations in the folder tree, and as a result, the number of folders that make up the entire folder tree decreases exponentially, and the structure of the entire classification is clearly visible. In this specification, a folder tree that has been subjected to a kind of normalization that prevents duplicate placement of folders that perform the same classification by complying with the above rules is referred to as an organized folder tree.

In this specification, a folder whose name is this group name is called a separate designated folder, and a group name that is the name of the separate designated folder is called a separate name. Further, the folder in which the separate designated folder is stored is called a separate destination folder, and the partial folder tree whose top folder is the separate designated folder is called a separate folder tree. On the other hand, the partial folder tree obtained by removing the separate folder tree from the entire folder tree is called the main folder tree, and the unit folder tree is created by combining each separate folder tree and the main folder tree. It is called.

When the user, after opening the table management application screen 33, instructs the "Folder Tree Registration" button 71 on the function menu 70 on the same screen 33, the system registers all folders held in the system as a known method. A folder selection screen (not shown) is displayed in which the folders that the user can access are arranged and displayed in a tree format. Specify as the folder to be converted. Hereinafter, a folder tree whose top folder is the conversion target folder will be referred to as a conversion target folder tree.

In response to this instruction of the conversion target folder, the system displays the specified folder tree on the table management application screen 33 and displays the separate designation mode sub-screen 91 (FIG. 10) on the device screen. The system also creates conversion target folder management data (Figure 11) in which all path names of the specified first folder are registered in its "Full path names of first folder" section, and also creates file information stored in the folder tree. Information management data (Figure 12) is created for each. The created conversion target folder management data are connected by a "connection pointer" in the order in which they are created, and are saved at a specific location within the system.

Information management data is created for each file information that is sequentially extracted from the corresponding folder tree using a known method, and the "name part" and "all path name part" respectively contain the name and complete information of the corresponding file information. The path name is registered.

The system also generates a path name string by removing the path name registered in the "name part", which is the path name at the end, and the part equivalent to the entire path name of the parent folder of the conversion target folder, from all the path names of the relevant file information. The character string is set in the storage path name string data (FIG. 13) as a storage path name string, and the address of the storage path name string data is set in the "storage path name string data pointer" of the corresponding information management data.

In this system, the storage path name string obtained from all the path names of the information mentioned above can be obtained from the storage path name string obtained from all the path names of the information mentioned above, because the storage path name string can be obtained for other unit folder trees for the corresponding information using the tagging supplement function described later. , is called the first storage path name sequence to distinguish it from other storage path name sequences.

In the explanation example, for example, for information whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1\Report 1", the name of the corresponding information "Report 1" and "...\P\A\A1\Report 1" are registered, and from the entire path name, the last path name "Report 1" and the entire path of the parent folder of the conversion target folder are registered. The path name string character string "P\A\A1" from which the name equivalent part "...\" has been removed is registered as the first stored path name string.

The information management data created for each piece of information saved in the conversion target folder tree is sequentially connected as an information management data chain by its "concatenation pointer", and the address of the first data is the "information management data chain" of the conversion target folder management data. data pointer section.

The user specifies the separate designated folder on the conversion target folder tree displayed on the table management application screen 33, for example, by repeatedly clicking the icon of the corresponding folder with the mouse 14, as a known method. The icon of the specified separate designation folder is displayed with a special display indicating that the separate designation has been received (FIG. 14). In the folder tree of the illustrative example, folders whose names are "Year", "Importance", and "Creator" are specified.

The folder clicked by the mouse 14 can be identified by repeatedly comparing the clicked position on the device screen with the display position of each displayed folder on the device screen 20a, as a known method. . The display position of each folder on the device screen can be determined based on the position of the corresponding folder on the table structure folder instruction screen folder management screen and the relative position of the corresponding table structure folder instruction screen with respect to the device screen 20a.

After specifying all the separate designated folders, in response to the user's instruction of the "Execute" button 93 on the separate designation mode sub-screen 91, the system selects the separate designated folders specified in response to the above click instruction. Create separate specification data in which all path names are registered for each. Separate specification data is created in the same format as the storage path name column data mentioned above, and the address of the first data of the separate specification data that is sequentially concatenated by the "concatenation pointer" is the "separate specification data" of the corresponding conversion target folder management data. The specified data pointer is set.

In a conversion target folder tree that has been specified as separate, the user may tag information stored in one folder in one unit folder tree that makes up the conversion target folder tree using another unit folder tree. Can be done. On the table management application screen 33 displaying the conversion target folder tree targeted by this function, the user instructs the "T" button 75 on the function menu 70, and then changes the corresponding information icon to another unit. It is sufficient to repeat clicking the mouse 14 to designate a folder with a name to be tagged (tagging destination folder) in each folder tree.

In response to this specification operation, the system determines that the information icon click specification was performed between different unit folder trees, and when this determination is obtained, the conversion target folder is determined from the full path name of the tagging destination folder. Create storage path name string data that includes a storage path name string with all path name equivalent parts of the parent folder removed. The storage path name string data created for each unit folder tree are sequentially connected by their "concatenation pointers," and the address of the first data is set in the "concatenation pointer" of the first storage path name column data.

The fact that the above specification to the information icon was made between different unit folder trees can be determined by noting that the ancestor folder of the specified information storage folder and the ancestor folder of the specified folder do not share the same separate specified folder. can. Here, an ancestor folder for one folder (the first folder) is one whose entire path name matches the entire path name of the first folder, and whose folder tree is Refers to the folder located higher in the path within the folder.

In the explanation example, for example, for the information whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1\Report 1", the full path name is "...\P\A\Creator\B". ”, storage path name column data is created with the storage path name column “P\A\Creator\Otsu” set, and the created storage path name column data is replaced with the one that has already been set. It will be pointed to from the concatenated pointer of the storage path name string data in which the first storage path name string "P\A\A1" is set. In the same way, if you specify other tagging destination folders, each will have the corresponding storage path name column data.
"P\FY\2018",
"P\Importance\High"
are added, and each is sequentially concatenated to the end of the concatenated storage path name column data.

In this system, when a folder open operation is performed on one folder, information in which a storage path name string that is included in the back of all path names of that folder is selected, and then the selected information is displayed on the folder screen using a known method.

Now, if you perform a folder open operation on the folder whose full path name is "...\P\A\Creator\O", which is one tag destination folder in the above example, the corresponding storage path name string The information in the above example where the full path name is "...\P\A\A1\Report 1" is specified as the information with "P\A\Creator\B", and the icon 163 is It will be displayed on the corresponding folder screen 170 (FIG. 15). It is assumed that a second information icon 165 is also displayed on the corresponding folder screen 170 as information to which the same storage path name string "P\A\Creator\B" is added. Further, the icon 164 in the figure is not arranged at this stage.

In addition, after instructing the "Display in F" button 77 on the function menu 70, click to specify multiple folders using the mouse 14, and then click the "Display in F" button 77 to select multiple folders. When you specify the "execute button" 143 on the display instruction sub-screen 141 (FIG. 54), the path name string obtained by removing the full path name of the conversion target folder from the specified folder's full path name is as follows. The information given as the storage path name string is selected, and its icon is displayed on the multiple folder display screen 145.

For example, in the above example, a folder whose full path name is "...\P\A\Creator\B" and a folder whose full path name is "...\P\Year ¥2018" are specified. Then, the path name column "P\A\Creator\B" and the path name column "P\Year 2018" are given as storage path name columns, and all the above path names are "..." The information "\P\A\A1\Report 1" is specified, and its icon 163 is displayed on the multiple folder display screen 145 (FIG. 55). On the other hand, regarding the second information mentioned above, if the path name string "P\Year 2018" obtained from the other specified folder is not assigned as the storage path name string, then the icon 165 will be displayed in multiple folders. It will not be displayed on the internal display screen 145.

The table conversion function is performed on the folder tree for which the user has specified separate attachment. If the folder tree to be converted by this function is not displayed on the table management application screen 33, the system receives an instruction from the user using the "Call Folder Tree" button 72 on the function menu 70, and the system Based on the conversion target folder management data stored in the conversion target folder management data, a conversion target folder list 101 (FIG. 16) is displayed on the device screen. In response to a user instruction on the displayed list of conversion target folders, the corresponding conversion target folder tree is displayed on the table management application screen 33.

On the list of conversion target folders 101, for each conversion target folder, its entire path name 103 and an alternate name 105 are placed on one line, and the alternate name is a folder other than the conversion target folder. is prefixed with the name 106 of the corresponding separate folder enclosed in parentheses. For the conversion target folder in the explanation example, one line above,
“＊＊＊￥P Year Importance (A) Creator”
will be displayed.

When the user instructs the "Table conversion" button 73 on the function menu 70 on the table management application screen 33 on which the folder tree targeted by this function is displayed, the keyword specification sub-screen 95 (FIG. 17) is activated by the keyword instruction section 53. ) is displayed on the device screen, and the user specifies, on the displayed conversion target folder tree, a folder whose folder name is a keyword for selecting information to be managed on the target table as a keyword specified folder. The user can click the corresponding folder icons one by one using the mouse 14, and then click the execution button 97 on the keyword specification sub-screen 95.

When specifying a plurality of keyword specification folders, the order of specification may be arbitrary, and there is no need to specify the relationship between the keyword specification folders. A plurality of keywords specified in one unit folder tree are interpreted by taking their "sum", and keywords specified in different unit folder trees are interpreted by taking their "product". Furthermore, there is no need to specify other folders that are automatically determined as described later by specifying one keyword specification folder.

In addition, if there is no keyword specified in one separate unit folder tree, only if the separate destination folder is an ancestor folder of another specified keyword, all the keywords in that separate destination folder tree will be It is assumed that the folder is specified as a keyword specified folder.

Now, on the folder tree of the explanation example, in the child folders of folder "A", folder "A1", folder "A2", and in the child folders of folder "B", folder "B1", folder " In the child folder of "Year", the folder "2017" and the folder "2018" are specified. (Figure 18). In the above specification, by specifying folder "A1" and folder "A2", the specification of folder "A", which is the ancestor folder, is omitted, and similarly, by specifying folder "B1", its parent folder "B" is omitted. and its child folders "B11" and "B12" are omitted.

In addition, keywords are not specified for the child folders of the separate specified folder ``Creator'' and the separate specified folder ``Importance'', but first, the separate specified folder ``Creator'' is Folder "A", which is the destination folder, is an ancestor folder of folders "A1", "A2", etc., which are keyword specified folders, so all of its child folders include folder "A", folder "O", etc. Folder "H" is designated as a keyword-specified folder, and similarly, folder "P", which is the separate destination folder of the separate designated folder "Importance", is also designated as keyword-specified folder "A1", " Since this folder is an ancestor folder of "A2", etc., the folder "Large" and the folder "Normal" are also designated as keyword-designated folders as all child folders of the separate designated folder "Importance".

The above specification is based on the following condition ((A1+A2+B1) x (2017+2018)
This means specifying to retrieve information that satisfies the criteria, but the order in which each keyword is specified can be arbitrary, and there is no need to associate each keyword with "x" or "+" or to group it with "()". .

Here, as a second keyword specification example, if only the folder "B1" which is a child folder of folder "B" is specified on the folder tree of the explanation example (not shown), the alias name is " The separate folder trees for "Year" and "Importance" are both folders "P", which is the ancestor folder of the keyword specified folder "B1", so All folders are designated as keyword-specified folders, but on the other hand, for the separate folder tree whose separate name is "Creator", the separate destination folder "A" is not an ancestor folder of the keyword-specified folder "B1". Therefore, the folder in the separate destination folder tree will not be specified as a keyword specified folder.

After specifying all the keyword specification folders, the system starts the table conversion procedure (Fig. 19) in response to the user's instruction of the "Execute" button 97 on the keyword specification sub-screen 95, and converts the table management data (Fig. 20). ) is created, and first, as a process by the keyword folder designation unit 53, keyword designation data is created in which all path names are set for each folder to which a keyword designation folder designation has been given (step L1). The keyword specification data is created in the same format as the above-mentioned stored full path name data.

The folder for which the keyword specified folder is specified can be identified by repeatedly comparing the click specified position on the screen with the display position of each folder, just as in the case of the separate specified folder mentioned above. The keyword designation data thus created are sequentially concatenated by the "concatenation pointer", and the address of the leading data is set in the "keyword designation data pointer" of the table management data.

Note that the table management data created for one conversion target folder tree are linked by their "concatenation pointers" in the order of creation, and the address of the first data is the "table management data pointer" section of the corresponding conversion target folder management data. is set to When the "Call Table" button 78 is specified on the function menu 70 on the table management application 33 displaying the corresponding conversion target folder tree, the conversion table list sub-screen 110 (FIG. 21) is displayed on the device screen, A table represented by desired table management data can be displayed on the screen by instructions on the displayed conversion table list sub-screen 110. The conversion table list sub-screen 110 has a configuration in which all path names 108 of conversion target folders related to one table and specified keywords 109 are arranged on one line. Above is "...¥P A1 A2 B1 2017 2018"
It will be placed as follows.

Next, in the table conversion procedure, the table creation unit 55 creates tag name string data in which a set of folder names determined by the following method is registered as a tag name string based on the designated keyword specified folder (step L2). In step L2, first, it is determined whether or not there is a specified keyword specification folder, and if there is a specified keyword specification folder, each folder constituting the conversion target folder tree is sequentially extracted and extracted using a known method. The following tag name sequence generation procedure is performed for the folder (“current folder”) (FIG. 22). The process when the specified keyword specification folder does not exist will be described later.

In this procedure, first, among the child folders that are directly stored by the current folder, a child folder that has not been specified as a separate folder and is specified as a keyword specified folder, or , a set of names of child folders that are ancestor folders of the keyword-specified folder is identified as one tag name string (step S1).

In the explanation example, if the current folder is folder "P", its child folder "A" is an ancestor folder of keyword specified folders "A1" and "A2", and its child folder "B" is also a keyword specified folder. Since it is an ancestor folder of "B1", its names "A" and "B" are the constituent tag names of the tag name string specified with folder "P" as the parent folder.

On the other hand, the folder "Year" and the folder "Importance", which are other child folders of the current folder "P", are group-specified folders, so they are excluded from the tag name sequence with the folder "P" as the base, and the folder For "P", the tag name sequence {A, B} is specified.

In addition, regarding the current folder "A", its child folders "A1" and "A2" are keyword specified folders, so their names "A1" and "A2" are the tag name string whose base is the folder "A". However, since the folder "Creator", which is another child folder, is a group-specified folder, the folder name "Creator" is excluded from the tag name string related to folder "A". As for the folder "A", the tag name sequence {A1, A2} is specified.

For the folder "B", since its child folder "B1" is a keyword specified folder, the tag name sequence {B1} is similarly specified, and also for the folder "Year", its child folder "2017" and the child folder Since "2018" is a keyword specified folder, the tag name string {2017, 2018} is specified.

Next, the tag name string generation procedure determines that the current folder is a keyword specified folder (step S2), and if that determination is obtained, the tag name string generation procedure is performed for the current folder and all descendant folders of the current folder. , the set of names of the set of child folders is specified as a tag name string. However, if there is a separate designated folder in the set of child folders, its name is removed (step S3).

In this example, regarding the current folder "B1", since this folder is a keyword specified folder, the tag name sequence {B11, B12} is specified as a set of names of all its child folders.

In step L2, after completing the tag name string generation procedure for all folders constituting the conversion target folder tree, separate designated folders are sequentially extracted, and the extracted separate designated folders are added to keyword designated folders in their descendant folders. , and if the separate destination folder is an ancestor folder of the keyword specified folder, the tag name is the set of names of the set of child folders for the separate specified folder and all its descendant folders. Specify as a column.

In the case of the explanation example, the folders "Importance" and "Creator", which are separate specified folders, do not have keyword specified folders in their descendant folders, and the separate specified folder "Importance" does not have a separate destination. The folder "P" is an ancestor folder of the keyword specified folders "A1", "A2", and "B1", and the folder "A" is the separate destination folder of the separate specified folder "Creator". is the ancestor folder of the keyword specified folders "A1" and "A2", so as a set of names of all its child folders, the tag name sequence {large, parallel} and the tag name sequence {ko, (B) and (C) will be identified.

On the other hand, in the case of the second keyword specification described above, since the separate specified folder "Creator" does not have the keyword specified folder "B1" among its descendant folders, a tag name string is formed from its descendant folders. It never happens.

The system then creates tag name string data (Figure 23) for each identified tag name string, and creates tag name data (Figure 24) in which the tag names that are the folder names that make up the corresponding tag name string are set. The start data address of the tag name data chain connected by the "concatenation pointer" is set in the "tag name data pointer" of the corresponding tag name string data. The created tag name string data is connected by its "concatenation pointer", and its first data address is set in the "tag name string data pointer" of the table management data.

In this specification, the folder whose tag name string is obtained from the name of its child folder is called the parent folder or parent folder of the tag name string, and its entire path name is the "all parent folders" of the tag name string data. is set to "pathname". Furthermore, in the "parent folder hierarchy rank section" of the tag name string data, the hierarchy rank of the corresponding parent folder in the conversion target folder tree is set. The hierarchical rank of a folder in a folder tree can be determined by the number of path names that make up all the path names in the same folder tree and all the path names in the corresponding folder.

Furthermore, for a tag name string whose parent folder is a designated separate folder, the separate name, which is the folder name of the specified separate folder, is set in the "alternate name section" of the tag name string data. In the explanatory example, "Year", "Importance", and "Creator" are set for the tag name columns {2017, 2018}, {Large, Average}, and {A, O, C}, respectively. Become.

Next, in the table conversion procedure, as a process by the table data creation unit 55, for each obtained tag name column, the condition path name column, which is the data to be referenced when placed on the target table, is converted to the corresponding parent. Set based on the full folder path name (step L3).

In step L3, first, specify the separate specified folder whose all path names are included in all the path names of the corresponding parent folder, and then add the folder name of the specified separate specified folder and all the parent folders of the conversion target folder. The conditional path name sequence is obtained by removing the matching part of the path name from all the path names of the corresponding parent folder.

For example, in the explanation example, in the case of the tag name sequence {A, Otsu, C} obtained for the separate designated folder "Author", the entire path name of the corresponding parent folder "...\P\A\Creator" includes A folder whose full path name is "...\P\A\Creator" is specified as a separate specified folder with a full path name, and the folder name "Creator" is The part that is removed from the path name and matches the entire path name "...\" of the parent folder of the conversion target folder "P" from the removed remaining path name string "...\P\A" The ordered sequence of path names from which ``P\A'' has been removed is obtained as a conditional path name sequence. The obtained conditional path name string is given as a character string in which each component path name is connected by the symbol "\", and is set in the "conditional path name string data section" of the corresponding tag name string data.

In the case of the explanation example, "P" is set for the tag name string {A, B} as other conditional path name strings, and the tag name string {2017, 2018} obtained for the separate specified folder "Year" "P" is also set for the tag name sequence {large, average} obtained for the separate specified folder "importance". On the other hand, "P\A" and "P\B" are set for the tag name string {A1, A2} and tag name string {B1}, respectively, and "P\A" is set for the tag name string {B11, B12}, respectively. ¥B¥B1” will be set.

Note that if it is determined at the beginning of step L2 that there is no specified keyword specified folder, a tag name string consisting of the names of child folders is created for all extracted current folders. The condition data added to the tag name string is created in the same way as in the case where there is a specified keyword specification folder described above. A specific example will be described later.

Next, the table conversion procedure is performed by the table creation unit 55 to create a table in which the tag name strings registered in the tag name string data are arranged as headwords based on the tag name string data created as described above. Create table data representing (step L4).

Tables handled by the table management application are created according to the format shown in FIG. That is, the table consists of an icon placement column 41, a horizontal headword placement column area 42, and a vertical headword placement column area 43, and the horizontal headword placement column area 42 is arranged outside the upper end of the icon placement column 41. , the vertical headword placement column area 43 is placed outside the left end of the icon placement column 41. Note that the horizontal headword placement column area 42 and the vertical headword placement column area 43 are collectively referred to as a headword placement column area. In the headword placement column area, a headword placement column in which one tag name column is arranged is arranged one row or one column above.

In the icon placement column 41, cells, which are rectangular areas in which icons of information to be managed are placed, are arranged in a matrix, and the tag names that make up the tag name column arranged in the headword placement column area are arranged in the icon placement column. The headword characterizing the information in each cell in 41 is placed in the same row or column as the corresponding cell.

The headword placement field is also divided into cells, which are rectangular areas in which one tag name is entered, and the icon placement field 41 is divided by extensions of the ruled lines that separate each cell in each headword placement field. This will form a matrix. Tables handled by the table management application may be created freely as long as they comply with this format.

Step L4 is performed according to the procedure shown in FIG. 26, and first, headword column data is created for each headword column on the table (step A1). FIG. 27 shows the format of the headword column data. In the "corresponding tag name column data pointer section" of the headword column data, the address of the corresponding tag name string data, which is the tag name string data in which the corresponding tag name column placed in the corresponding headword column is registered, is set. The ``alternative name section'' is set with an alias given to the corresponding tag name column, and the ``direction section'' is set with a direction code indicating the direction in which the corresponding headword column is arranged. If the direction of arrangement is "horizontal direction", "0" is set, and if the direction of arrangement is "vertical direction", "1" is set.

Furthermore, the row position or column position where the corresponding headword arrangement column is arranged is set in the "row/column position section" in the "overall position section" of the headword column data. If the corresponding headword arrangement field is horizontal, the row position is entered, and if it is vertical, the column position is entered. The row position referred to here is the row position counted from the top end of the table in the relevant row, and the column position is the column position counted from the left end of the table in the relevant column. In the horizontal headword placement column area 42 and the vertical headword placement column area 43, cells in which individual headwords are entered may span multiple rows or columns.

In addition, in the "start position part" and "end position part" in the "overall position part", in the subsequent processing, the headword placement field is set in the horizontal direction as the matrix position at both ends of the layout direction of the headword placement field to be determined. If it is vertical, the column position is set, and if it is vertical, the row position is set.

The creation of headword field data (step A1) is performed according to the overall procedure shown in FIG. In the same procedure, first, the registered tag name column of the tag name column data in which the name "P" of the first folder of the conversion target folder tree is set in the condition path name column is identified as the first tag name column, and then the specified First tag name string management data (FIG. 29) is created for each first tag name string (step B1). The address of the registration data of the corresponding first tag name string is registered in the "tag name string data pointer" section of the first tag name string management data.

Each created first tag name column management data is first created for the main body first tag name column, which is a first tag name column whose ancestor folder does not include a separate specified folder. Starting with the name column management data, other first tag name column management data are sequentially concatenated using the "concatenation pointer" in the order in which the corresponding separate designated folders are located near the main body first tag name column. "to manage.

In the explanatory example, the tag name string {A, B}, the tag name string {2017, 2018}, and the tag name string {large, parallel} are the first tag name strings, and the condition data is the entire path name of the conversion target folder. It is specified as a tag name string that is the same as "...\P", and the corresponding leading tag name string management data are concatenated in the above order.

Step A1 then determines the arrangement direction and arrangement order for each leading tag name string (step B2). In the conversion target folder trees shown in Figures 7 and 8, the tag name sequence specified as the first tag name sequence is the tag name sequence whose parent folder is the first folder "P" of the main folder tree, or the conversion target This is a tag name sequence whose base folders are the top folders "Year" and "Importance" of the separate folder tree whose separate folder is the folder "P".

In this conversion target folder tree, in order to obtain visibility, the separate folder tree with the conversion target folder as its separate destination folder is placed together on one side of the main folder tree. The tag name column whose parent folder is the first folder is assigned in the "horizontal direction", and the tag name column whose parent folder is the first folder of the separate folder tree whose destination folder is the conversion target folder is assigned in the "vertical direction". shall be assigned to.

Furthermore, among the first tag name columns related to the separate folder tree, the first tag name string related to the separate folder tree that is located closer to the main folder tree is placed in a higher rank.

Based on the above determination of the first tag name column arrangement direction and arrangement order, the first tag name column management data is reconnected by the concatenation pointer according to the arrangement order determined for each arrangement direction, and the address of the first data is This is set in the "horizontal first tag name column management data pointer" and "vertical first tag name column management data pointer" of the table management data.

In the example, first, the first tag name sequence {A, B} is arranged horizontally, the first tag name sequence {2017, 2018} and the tag name sequence {large, parallel} are arranged vertically, and the first tag name sequence {A, B} is arranged vertically. Between the first tag name sequence {2017, 2018} and the first tag name sequence {large, normal} arranged in the direction, the order of placement of the parent folder on the conversion target folder tree with respect to the main folder tree is , the first tag name sequence {large, normal} is placed next to the first tag name sequence {2017, 2018}.

Step A1 next includes, for each arrangement direction, the registered tag name column of the first data of the first tag name column management data chain (referred to as the "first tag name column for each direction") and the tag names arranged below it. A headword column data creation procedure is performed to create headword column data for the headword column in which the columns are stored and arranged (step B3). The procedure for creating headword field data is shown in FIG. For each arrangement direction, a headword field is also created in the form of a tree that stores and arranges the first tag name column and the tag name columns placed below it. It is called a column tree.

At the start of the procedure, the input variable "Current tag name column" is used as an input variable to be replaced each time the recursive process is called in the procedure. Set the registered tag name column. In addition, the input variables "Current headword field start position" and "Current row/column position" are set to "0", and the "Maximum number of rows/columns" as the final return value of the entire procedure is set to "0". ”.

Here, the "current headword column start position" refers to the leftmost column position of the corresponding headword column if the "arrangement direction" of the corresponding headword column is "horizontal", and If the "arrangement direction" is "vertical", it refers to the row position at the top of the corresponding headword field.

In addition, "current row/column position" refers to the row position where the corresponding headword column is placed if the "layout direction" of the corresponding headword column is "horizontal", and If the "arrangement direction" is "vertical direction", it indicates the column position where the corresponding headword column is arranged. Further, the "maximum number of rows/columns" refers to the number of rows or columns that the entire headword field obtained by the entire headword field creation procedure occupies in the direction perpendicular to the "arrangement direction."

In the procedure shown in FIG. 30, first, headword field data representing the headword field in which the "current tag name string" is placed is created, and the set input argument is set in the corresponding part of the data (step P1 ). Set the address of the "current tag name column" registration data in the "corresponding tag name column data address section" of the same data, and set the "current row/column position" parameter in the "row/column position section" of the same data. At the same time, the set value of the "current headword column start position" parameter is set in the "start position section" of the same data.

In addition, in step P1, a comparison is made between the "current row/column position" parameter and the "maximum row/column number parameter, and the "current row/column position" parameter is greater than the "maximum row/column number" parameter. If so, update the "Maximum number of rows/columns" parameter with the "Current row/column position" parameter.

The headword column data that is created is connected by its "concatenation pointer" in the order of creation for each layout direction, and the first data is connected to the "horizontal headword column data pointer" and "vertical headline data pointer" of the table management data, respectively. "Word field data pointer" is set.

The same procedure then sets the first tag name of the current tag name column as the "current tag name" parameter, which is a variable that is replaced every time the process is repeated as described below, and then sets the "cell horizontal start position" parameter as " The ``start position section'' set value of the ``current headword field data'' is set (step P2).

Next, create cell data (Figure 31) that represents the cell where the set "current tag name" will be placed, and then set the "cell horizontal start position parameter" in the "horizontal start position" of the created cell data. At the same time, the "row/column position part" set values of the "current headword column data" are set in the "vertical start position" and "vertical end position" of the cell data, respectively (step P3).

In step P3, a specific value indicating that the cell is in the headword field is set in the "classification part" of the created cell data, and character string data (Fig. 32) representing the current tag name is set. After creating it, point from the string pointer of the corresponding cell data.

Cell data created in one headword field is connected by the "link pointer" in the order of creation in the corresponding headword field to form a cell data chain, and the address of the first data is the headword of the corresponding headword. Set in the "cell data pointer" of column data. Each time cell data is created, the address of the first data is also set in the "cell data pointer" of the table management data, and it is linked to the end of the linked cell data chain by "link pointer 2". .

Next, if the tag name column is different from the current tag name column, the conditional path name column is the ``current conditional path name column'' with the ``current tag name'' added to the end of the conditional path name column of the current tag name column. The tag name string contained therein is specified as a child tag name string (step P4).

Step P4 sequentially extracts the first tag name string management data connected to the first tag name string management data chain for each arrangement direction, and starts from the registered tag name string for each extracted first tag name string management data. , the tag name strings whose parent folders are descendant folders of the parent folder are sequentially retrieved in the order of their hierarchical positions, and it is determined that the retrieved tag name strings satisfy the above conditions. The tag name string for which the determination is first obtained is specified as the child tag name string. Here, a tag name string whose parent folder is a descendant folder of the parent folder in the first tag name column is specified as a tag name string that has the full path name of the parent folder that includes the full path name of the parent folder in the first tag name column. be able to.

In creating the horizontal headword column in the explanation example, first, if the first tag name column {A, B} is the current tag name column and the current tag name is "A," then the conditional path name of the current tag name column is The condition path name column is {P\A as a tag name column that includes the condition path name column in the current condition path name column ``P\A'' obtained by adding the current tag name ``A'' to the column ``P''. A}, the tag name string {A1, A2} and the tag name string {A, B, C} are selected in this order according to their hierarchical order, and the tag name string {A1, A2} is selected as the child tag name string. be identified.

In the explanatory example, if the current tag name column is {A1, A2} and the current tag name is "A1", then as its child tag name column, for the conditional path name column "P\A" of the current tag name column, The current condition path name string {P\A\A1}, which is obtained by adding the current tag name "A1", includes the condition path name string as a tag name string that includes the condition path name string ``P\A\A1''. Similarly, if the tag name string {A, B, C} that is "A" is specified and the current tag name string is {A1, A2} and the current tag name is "A2", its child tag name is As a column, a tag name column {A, Otsu, C} is specified.

In the explanation example, if the current tag name column is {A, B} and the current tag name is "B", the current tag name "B" is added to the conditional path name column "P" of the current tag name column as a child tag name column. The current conditional path name string ``P\B'' obtained by adding ``P\B'' creates a tag name string whose conditional pathname string is ``P\B'' as a tag name string that includes that conditional pathname string { B1, B2} is specified, and the current tag is added to the conditional path name column "P\B" in the current tag name column as a child tag name string for the current tag name "B1" in the current tag name column {B1, B2}. For the current conditional path name string "P\B\B1" obtained by adding the name "B1", the tag name string {B11, B12} that includes the conditional path name string {P\B\B1} will be identified.

In creating the vertical headword column in the explanation example, first, the first tag name string {2017, 2018} registered in the first data of the first tag name string management data is set as the current tag name column, and the current tag name is changed to " 2018'', there is no tag name string whose parent folder is a descendant folder of the parent folder of the first tag name string, so the first tag name string registered in the first data of the next first tag name string management data {large, parallel} is extracted, and its conditional path name string {P} is the current conditional path name string ``, which is obtained by adding the current tag name ``2018'' to the conditional path name string ``P'' in the current tag name column. Since it is included in "P¥2018", it is specified as a child tag name string.

In the subsequent step P5, it is determined that the corresponding child tag name string has been identified in the above determination, and if that determination is obtained, the headword column data creation procedure is recursively performed in the subsequent step P6 ( Step P6). In step P6, the child tag name column specified in step P4 is set as the "current tag name column" as an argument input to the same procedure, and the "row The number obtained by adding "1" to the "/column position" set value is set as the new "current row/column position", and the "horizontal start position" of the corresponding cell is set as the new "current headword column start position". Ru.

In the following step P7, the "end position" of the child entry word field, which is the return value of the recursive execution of the entry word field data creation procedure in step P6, is set as the "horizontal end position" of the corresponding cell data.

In step P5, if it is determined that the corresponding child tag name string has not been specified, the "horizontal end position" of the corresponding cell data is set to the "horizontal start position" set value of the same cell data. is set (step P8).

In step P7 or step P9 following step P8, it is determined that there is a "next position tag name" that follows the current tag name in the corresponding tag name string, and if that determination is obtained, the current Set the "cell horizontal start position parameter" to the number obtained by adding "1" to the "horizontal end position" of the cell data corresponding to the tag name, and update the "current tag name" with the next position tag name. After doing so (step P10), the process returns to step P3.

If the determination in step P9 is not obtained, in the following step P11, the set value of the "horizontal end position" of the last created cell data is set as the "horizontal end position" of the headword column data. Once set, complete the entire procedure.

Finally, in step B3, the "maximum number of rows/columns" and "total layout width number" obtained for the two headword column trees synthesized for each layout direction are stored in a specific storage location of the table data creation unit 55. Remember.The total layout width number refers to the length that all headword columns that make up the corresponding headword column tree occupy in one "layout direction" in that "layout direction". It is expressed by the number of lower end cells included, and can be determined as the "horizontal end position" of the last created headword column data. Here, the term "lower end cell" refers to a cell constituting each entry word column located at the lowest end in the entry word column tree.

The "maximum number of rows/columns" for each layout direction is set in the "horizontal entry word column number of rows" and "vertical entry word column number of copies", and the "total number of arrangement widths" for each arrangement direction. '' are set to ``vertical headword field total width several copies'' and ``horizontal headword field total width several copies'', respectively.

In the subsequent step B4, arrangement direction information is set in the created headword column data. First, set "0" in the "direction part" of the headword field data set to "horizontal direction", set "1" to the headword field data set to "vertical direction", and set "layout direction" to "1". For each cell data pointed to by the "cell data pointer" of the headword field data in which "" is set as "vertical direction", the "horizontal direction" position information and "vertical direction" position information are exchanged with each other. The previous "vertical start position" and "vertical end position" are set as new "horizontal start position" and "horizontal end position" respectively, and the previous "horizontal start position" and "horizontal end position" What is necessary is to newly set the "terminal position" as the "vertical direction start position" and "vertical direction end position," respectively.

The arrangement direction of each leading tag name column in step B2 can be determined by, for example, the following process as a method that does not cause a large difference between the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the target table. In this process, for each leading tag name string, the total width number of the headword column tree in which the tag name strings placed below it are arranged is determined in advance as the total number of partial placement widths. The total number of partial layout widths of the headword column tree created for each leading tag name column is determined in step P4 when the tag name column whose parent folder is a descendant folder of the parent folder is determined in step P4. If it can no longer be specified, the next leading tag name string in the leading tag name string management data chain can be determined by immediately performing step P5 and then step P8 without extracting the next leading tag name string in the leading tag name string management data chain.

In this method, the registered tag name columns of the first data and the next position data of the first tag name column management data chain are respectively the top tag name column in the horizontal direction and the top tag name column in the vertical direction on the table. The parts determined by the "horizontal total width number" and "vertical total width number", which are parameters for repeating the above and below processes, and the horizontal top tag name column and vertical top tag name column, respectively. After setting the number of total arrangement widths, set the "total width number in the horizontal direction" and "total width in the horizontal direction" and " Compare the "total vertical width number", select the direction with the smaller value as the arrangement direction of the corresponding first tag name column, and compare the "total width number" ("total horizontal width") in the selected direction. The current "total width number" is updated by the number obtained by multiplying the number (or "vertical total width number") by the corresponding partial placement total width number of the retrieved first tag name column management data. repeat.

In the case of the explanation example, after the first tag name string {A, B} and the first tag name string {2017, 2018} are selected as the top tag name strings in the horizontal and vertical directions on the table, the next Since the "horizontal total width number" and "vertical total width number" when extracting the first tag name sequence {large, normal} are "6" and "2", respectively, the first tag The arrangement direction of the name sequence {large, parallel} is determined as the "vertical direction."

In addition, in the case of the second keyword instruction example described above, the first tag name string {B1} and the first tag name string {2016, 2017, 2018} are the topmost tag names in the horizontal and vertical directions on the table, respectively. After it is selected as a column, the "total horizontal width number" and "total vertical width number" when the first tag name column {large, parallel} is extracted are "2" and "3", respectively. ” Therefore, the arrangement direction of the first tag name sequence {large, parallel} to be extracted next is determined to be “horizontal direction”.

Step L2 then creates icon arrangement field data (FIG. 33). (Step A2). The row position at the top of the icon arrangement field 41 and the column position at the left end of the icon arrangement field 41 are determined by the "horizontal headword field row number" and "vertical The position is determined by adding "1" to the number set in the headword field column number of copies, and the "top position" and "left end position" in the "overall position" of the icon placement field data, respectively. is set to

In addition, the line position at the bottom of the icon placement field 41 is determined by adding the set value of the "horizontal headword column line count" set value to the "vertical headword column total width number of copies" set value. , is set to the "lower end position" in the "overall position". In addition, the rightmost column position of the icon arrangement field 41 is determined by adding the set value of the "Vertical Headword Column Lines" set value to the "Horizontal Headword Column Total Width Number of Copies" set value. , is set to the "right end position" in the "overall position".

In the icon arrangement column 41, cells whose horizontal and vertical dimensions are both "1" are arranged as a matrix, and for each cell, cell data is created with its position information set in the "position information field". Ru. A specific value indicating that the cell is in the icon arrangement column is set in the created cell data "classification section." The created cell data is connected by its "concatenation pointer", the address of the first data is set to the "cell data pointer" of the icon arrangement column data, and the address of the icon arrangement column data is set to the icon arrangement of the table management data. Set to the column data pointer. Furthermore, the address of the first data of the created cell data is pointed from the "cell data pointer" of the table management data, and is connected to the end of the cell data chain connected by the "connection pointer 2".

All the cells constituting the icon arrangement field 41 can be identified, for example, by identifying the cells on one row in the order of arrangement starting from the leftmost cell, and repeating this for all rows starting from the first row. can. The column position and row position of the leftmost cell on the first row of the icon placement field 41 are the set values of the "top position" and "left end position" in the "overall position" of the icon placement field data, respectively, The column position of the cell located on the right side of one cell on one row is the column position of the previous cell plus "1", and the column position of the cell located on the next row of one row The position is the line position of the previous line on the icon arrangement field 41 plus "1".

Step L2 then displays the icon placement field 41, the headword placement field, and the "row position" and "column position" used to represent the positional information of each cell, which constitute the table, to the logical position on the display screen. "Row break position data" and "column break position data" to be associated with are created (step A3). The logical position on the display screen is expressed as a pair of rightward position and downward position, with the origin being the upper left corner position of the table management application screen 33 that displays the management table.

The format of the "row break position data" or "column break position data" is shown in FIG. The "line break position data" is a list of the positions where each headword column in the vertical direction is separated horizontally and the positions where each constituent cell in the icon arrangement column 41 is separated horizontally from the left side. The "column break position data" is a list of the positions where each horizontal headword column area 42 is vertically partitioned and the positions where each constituent cell in the icon arrangement column 41 is vertically partitioned from the top.

"Row break position data" or "column break position data" is the predetermined "left end position" and "top end position" of the entire table, "horizontal headword column width dimension" and "vertical header column width dimension". It can be determined based on the "word column width dimension" and the "horizontal width" and "vertical width" predetermined for the constituent cells of the icon arrangement column 41. Here, the "horizontal headword column width dimension" is the vertical dimension of the horizontal headword column, and the "vertical headword column width dimension" is the horizontal dimension of the vertical headword column. .

In the case of column break position data, after setting the left end position of the table as its first configuration data,
First, create column break position data that is set by adding the "vertical headword column width dimension" to the set value of the previous configuration data. After repeating the same number of times, you can create column break position data that is set by adding the "horizontal width" defined for the icon placement cell to the set value of the previous configuration data. Just repeat as many times as you like in the horizontal direction. The number of icon arrangement field cells in the horizontal direction is obtained by subtracting the "left end position" from the "right end position" of the icon arrangement field data.

"Line break position data" can also be created in the same way. The addresses of the created "row break position data" or "column break position data" are set in the "row break position data pointer" and "column break position data pointer" of the table management data, respectively.

The width and height of the entire table determined by the above processing are determined in the horizontal and vertical directions, respectively, based on the "logical position/physical position correspondence ratio" described later and the physical dimensions of the display screen 20a. If it is significantly smaller than the appropriate value, the horizontal width and vertical width of the icon arrangement column cell may be respectively enlarged according to the ratio of the horizontal width and vertical width of the entire table to the above-mentioned appropriate value.

Step L4 then sets position information to all character string data representing character strings on the corresponding table (step A4). Sequentially extract the constituent cell data from the cell data chain pointed to by the cell data pointer of each headword column data and icon arrangement column data, and extract the string data pointed to by the string data pointer in the extracted cell data. , performs the following processing.

First, the rectangular boundary position of the cell represented by the relevant cell data is determined based on the position information in the cell data and the previously created "row break position data" or "column break position data". The left end position of the cell is the configuration data set value located in the order of "start column position" in the corresponding cell data in the "column break position data", and the right end position of the cell is the configuration data set value located in the "start column position" rank in the corresponding cell data, This is the configuration data set value located at the rank obtained by adding "1" to the number of "terminal column positions" in the corresponding cell data.

The upper end position and lower end position of the cell can also be determined in the same way based on the "row break position data" and the "start row position" and "end row position" in the relevant cell data. The character string entry position in a cell is determined based on the border position of the relevant cell and the predetermined "intra-cell character string entry margin," and the character string entry position in the cell is determined based on the character string entry margin in the cell. Just set it to the string position information.

Step L4 finally includes a border line that separates the icon placement field 41, a border line that separates the headword placement field, and a ruled line that represents a boundary line that separates each cell provided in the icon placement field 41 and the headword placement field. Create data (step A5). The format of the ruled line data is shown in FIG.

The icon placement field 41, headword placement field, and both end positions of each ruled line that separates the boundaries of each cell are the left and right end positions of the icon placement field 41, headword placement field, or cell, respectively. In addition, it can be determined based on the upper end position and the lower end position.

The left end position and right end position of the icon arrangement field 41 are the column positions set in the "left end position" and "right end position" in the "overall position" of the icon arrangement field definition data and the "column break position data," respectively. ", and the top and bottom positions of the icon placement field 41 are set to the "top position" and "bottom position" in the "overall position" of the icon placement field definition data, respectively. It can be determined based on the line position and "line break position data".

The left end position and right end position of the horizontal headword arrangement column are the column position and "column position" set in the "start position part" and "end position part" in the "overall position part" of the headword field definition data, respectively. The upper end position and lower end position of the horizontal headword arrangement field can be determined based on the "row/column position part" in the "overall position part" of the headword field definition data. It can be determined based on the set column position and "row break position data".

Similarly, the left end position, right end position, top end position, and bottom end position of the vertical headword arrangement field are also the "row/column position" and "starting position" in the "overall position" of the headword field definition data, respectively. It can be determined based on the "position part" and "end position part", as well as "row break position data" and "column break position data".

The left end position, right end position, top end position, and bottom end position of each cell that makes up the headword placement field are determined by the position information of the cell data, "row break position data" and "column break position data" as described above. It can be calculated based on

The positions of both ends of the ruled line determined as described above are set in the position information of the ruled line data of the icon arrangement field 41, each headword arrangement field, and each boundary ruled line that separates each cell. Further, as the modification information for the ruled line data, specific values predetermined for each of the icon placement field 41, the headword placement field, and the cells are set. The created ruled line data are sequentially connected to each other by a "concatenation pointer", and the leading data is set in the "ruled line data pointer" of the table management data.

Through the above processing, table data representing the table shown in FIG. 36 is created in the case of the illustrative example. The created table data is managed by the table data creation unit 55 in such a manner that the address of the corresponding table management data is set in the "table management data pointer section" of the folder tree management data to be converted. Furthermore, in the case of the second keyword instruction example described above, table data representing the table shown in FIG. 37 will be created.

Next, for each cell in the icon placement column 41 on the conversion table, the system specifies the information in which the icon is placed and displayed, and registers the specified information in the corresponding cell data (step L5). In this step, first, for each cell in the icon arrangement field 41, the headwords arranged on the same row and column as the relevant cell are identified as related tag names for each headword arrangement field. , create related data (FIG. 38) in which the corresponding tag name string in the headword placement field where the identified related tag name is placed is registered in association with the tag name string identification name that specifies it.

Headwords placed on the same row and column as the relevant cell can be found by repeatedly comparing the position information determined for the cell storing each headword against the position information of the relevant cell. Each headword placed on the table can be retrieved by sequentially tracing the cells that make up each headword placement column arranged on the table through the cell data attached to the corresponding headword column data. Can be done.

The "tag name string identification name part" of the related data contains the entire path name of the parent folder of the first folder of the folder tree to be converted from the entire path name of the corresponding parent folder, as data that identifies the corresponding tag name string. Set the path name string, and set the relevant tag name in the "tag name part" of the related data. The related data created for the relevant cell are sequentially connected as a related data chain by a "connection pointer", and the address of the leading data is set in the "related data pointer" of the relevant cell data.

In step L5, information to be placed in each cell in the icon placement field 41 on the table is selected, and the selected information is registered in the corresponding cell. In this step, first, for each cell, all related tag names are obtained by connecting the tag name column identification name and related tag name registered in each obtained related data via "\", and then From the set of all related tag names found in , an effective set of all related tag names is obtained, which is a set excluding all related tag names that are included as strings in all other related tag names in the set, and each cell is The information placed in is specified as information in which the same set of storage path name strings as the corresponding set of all effective related tag names is registered.

Cells corresponding to the headword "A", the headword "A1", the headword "Otsu", the headword "2018" and the headword "Oi" on the conversion table (Figure 36) created in the above explanation example about,
Tag name “A” for tag name column identification name “P”,
Tag name “A1” for tag name string identification name “P\A”,
Tag name “Otsu” for the tag name column identification name “P\A\Creator”,
Tag name “2018” for tag name column identifier “P\Year”,
Tag name “Large” for tag name column identifier “P\Importance”,
The related data associated with is obtained, and the next related all tag names obtained from the obtained related data,
"P\A",
"P\A\A1",
"P\A\Creator\Otsu"
"P\FY\2018",
"P\Importance\High"
A set of all effective related tag names "P\A\A1" excluding "P\A" included in "P\A\A1" and "P\A\Creator\B" from among them,
"P\A\Creator\Otsu"
"P\FY\2018",
"P\Importance\High"
is obtained, and the above information in which all path names that are given the same set of storage path name strings as the obtained set is "...\P\A\Otsu\A1\Report 1" is specified. become.

The information management data of the information selected for each cell is sequentially connected as an intra-cell information management data chain by its "concatenation pointer 2", and the address of the first data is determined by the "in-cell information management data pointer" of the corresponding cell data. section” is set.

Finally, in the conversion procedure, the table represented by the table data created as described above is displayed on the table management application screen 33 as a process by the table display unit 57 (step L6). In step L6, the character strings and borders that are the constituent elements of the table are displayed based on the created table data, and they are arranged on the table based on the created table data and the specified conversion target folder tree. Display icons for information to be displayed.

The strings that make up the table are displayed based on the string data below.
(1) Character string data pointed to by each cell data pointer of each headword column data and table management data (2) Character pointed to by the alias character string data pointer of each headword column data column data

Furthermore, the ruled lines configuring the table are displayed based on ruled line data extracted from the "ruled line data pointer" of the table management data. The positional information of the character strings and ruled lines is converted into physical positions on the display screen 20a, and then displayed at the corresponding physical positions on the display screen 20a. The positional information that constitutes the character string data and the ruled line data is first converted into a physical position for the table management application screen 33 based on a "logical position/physical position correspondence ratio" predetermined within the system, and then , is converted into a physical position on the display screen 20a by adding the arrangement position of the entire table management application screen 33 on the display screen 20a, which is stored in the system as the "relative position of the table management application screen".

In each cell in the icon arrangement field 41 on the table, icons of information registered in the previously related intra-cell information management data chain are placed within the corresponding cell at intervals determined according to the order of connection in the chain. The icons are arranged and displayed, and the name of the information is displayed at the bottom of the displayed icon as a known method. The information icon is displayed based on the icon image data registered in the data object management data in which "all path names" registered in the relevant information management data are set. Information that satisfies the conditions determined by the specified keyword will be output on the displayed table. Additionally, exploratory searches for information can be easily performed on tables created by specifying keywords that limit the search range.

In the above example, all the path names mentioned above are written as "＊＊＊￥＊＊ *￥P￥A￥A1", and the information icon 163 with the name "Report 1" to which the additional tag names "Otsu", "2018", and "large" have been added is the information name. It will be displayed in the corresponding cell with "Report 1" (FIG. 39).

When an open operation is now performed on the information icon displayed in the same cell, first, the cell containing the information for which the open operation has been performed is specified based on the open instruction position. A cell containing information that has been subjected to an open operation can be identified by repeatedly comparing the position information of each cell data constituting the cell data chain created for the table with the open instruction position.

Next, the information management data registered in the intra-cell information management data chain of the identified cell is sequentially extracted, the location of the relevant information is determined, and then, as in the case of identifying the cell described above, By repeatedly comparing the arrangement position with the open instruction position, the information management data that gave the open operation is identified. Next, a file information screen for the corresponding information is opened on the device screen using the data object management data in which all path names set in the specified information management data are set.

In the above process, the open instruction position on the display screen 20a is converted to a physical position on the table management application screen 33 based on the relative arrangement position of the entire table management application screen 33 on the display screen 20a, and is then predetermined. It is converted into a logical position on the table management application screen 33 based on the "logical position/physical position correspondence ratio", and then compared with the position information of each cell or each piece of information.

If the information associated with one cell cannot be placed in the cell, for example, a known method is to place the information in the order of registration in the intra-cell information management data chain, and then place it at the end of the placed information. , after displaying a predetermined image icon (not shown) indicating that "there is associated information other than placement information", a specific action such as a double-click by the user on the same icon is displayed. In response to the instruction, an in-cell information display screen 160 (FIG. 40) is displayed in which icons of all information associated with the relevant cell are arranged and displayed. On the intra-cell information display screen 160, icons 155 of information registered in each information management data linked to the intra-cell information management data chain of the corresponding cell data are arranged in the order of connection in the intra-cell information management data chain. Is displayed.

When the user performs an open instruction operation on the information icon displayed on the in-cell information display screen 160, the in-cell information display screen is first opened using the same method as for the information placed in the cell described above. Based on the open instruction position in the cell, the system identifies the relevant information to which the open operation has been applied from within the relevant intra-cell information management data chain, and displays the relevant file information screen on the device using the full path name of the identified information. Open on screen.

In addition to imposing a restriction on the user not to provide folder names with the same notation but different meanings in the conversion target folder tree, the processing by the system can be simplified as follows. First, as the condition data for each tag name column, instead of the condition path name column described above, the parent folder name located at the end of the condition path name column is set as the condition name, and then the headword field data creation procedure is performed as follows.

The procedure starts by setting the folder name of the conversion target folder as a condition name, and in step P4, selecting a child tag name column for the current tag name in the current tag name column, In the path name column to which the current tag name is added to the condition name, select the tag name column that includes the condition name as a child tag name column.

In the case of the explanation example, if b, first, for the current tag name "A" that constitutes the current tag name string {A, B}, the current tag name is set to the condition name "P" of the current tag name string {A, B}. For the path name sequence {P, A} obtained by adding "A," {A1, A2} and {A, O} are selected as child tag name sequences that include the condition name. Ru.

Next, from among the selected tag name sequences {A1, A2} and {A, B}, the current tag name "A1" constituting the tag name sequence {A1, A2}, which was preferentially selected according to the above criteria. is the tag name string that contains the condition data for the path name string {A, A1} obtained by adding the current tag name “A1” to the condition name “A” of the tag name string {A1, A2}. {A, Otsu} is selected as the child tag name column.

Also, from the set of related tag names obtained for each cell, the effective related tag name is the set excluding the related tag name that is the name of the parent folder of the belonging tag name column of other related tag names in the set. In addition to obtaining the set, the storage path name column given to the information management data is replaced by the storage folder name that is the path name at the end, and the information placed in the cell is based on the effective relationship obtained for that cell. Select the set of storage folder names that are the same as the tag name set as the assigned information.

In the above example, the cells corresponding to the headword "A1", the headword "Otsu", the headword "2018", and the headword "Otsu" have the resulting related tag name set {A, A1, Otsu, 2018, Large}. The set of effective related tag names {A1, Otsu, 2018, large, } is set,
By saving all the above path names in the folder "＊＊＊\＊＊＊\P\A\A1" and adding the additional tag names "Otsu", "2018", and "Oi", The information with the name "Report 1" from which the collection of storage folder names {A1, Otsu, 2018, Oi,} can be obtained will be placed in the corresponding cell.

Information can also be saved on the conversion target folder tree by dragging the information icon to a corresponding cell in the icon placement column 41 on the conversion table on the table management application screen 33.

An icon for information whose name is "Report 2" and which is set outside the conversion target folder tree and is saved in a folder whose full path name is "＊＊＊\＊＊＊\Report Folder". corresponds to the headword "A", the headword "A1", the headword "A", the headword "2018", and the headword "O" on the conversion table (Figure 36) created in the above explanation example. When dragged onto a cell, the system performs the information saving procedure shown in Figure 41).

In the same procedure, first, the full path name of the information to be saved is "＊＊＊\＊＊＊\Report Folder\Report 2" and the name "Report 2", respectively. After creating the information management data set in "Part", add the created information management data to the end of the information management data chain that is pointed from the corresponding conversion target folder management data, as well as to the end of the information management data chain in the cell of the drag destination cell. Concatenate at the end (step Z1).

The same procedure then creates related data based on the headword placed on the same row and column as the drag destination cell on the table (step Z2). The created related data are sequentially linked by their "concatenation pointers," and their leading addresses are set in the "related data pointer section" of the relevant information management data.

Next, for each related data obtained, all related tag names are obtained by concatenating the corresponding tag name string identification name and tag name, and then, from the set of all related tag names obtained, Storage path name string data (FIG. 13) is created in which all the remaining related tag names, excluding all related tag names included as character strings in all other related tag names, are registered as a storage path name string (step Z3).

In the case of the explanation example, for the above drag destination cell,
Tag name “A” for tag name column identification name “P”,
Tag name “A1” for tag name string identification name “P\A”,
For the tag name column identification name “P\A\Creator”, the tag name “A”,
Tag name “2018” for tag name column identifier “P\Year”,
Tag name “Large” for tag name column identifier “P\Importance”,
, and among the obtained all related tag names, the all related tag name "P\A" is the all related tag name "P\A\A1" and the all related tag name "P\A". Since it is included as a character string in “A\Creator\A”, all remaining related tag names “P\A\A1”,
"P\A\Creator\A",
"P\FY\2018",
"P\Importance\High"
are each registered as a storage path name string.

The same procedure then selects a storage path name sequence whose component path names do not include a path name that has been specified as separate from the obtained storage path name sequence as the main storage path name sequence. Above, the storage path name column data in which the main body storage path name column is registered is set as the first storage path name column data, and the storage path name column data in which each of the obtained storage path name columns is registered is registered in the corresponding information management data (step Z4). In the case of the illustrative example, each of the above-mentioned storage path name strings will be registered with the storage path name string "P\A\A1" as the main storage path name string.

In this procedure, the corresponding data object management data is identified by all the path names registered in the corresponding information management data, and the symbol "\" is added to the end of all the path names of the parent folder of the conversion target folder. The new full path name obtained by adding the main body storage path name string and adding the information name to the added name string using the symbol "\" is the "all path name part" of the corresponding information management data. Set in the "full path name part" of the specified data object management data. (Step Z5).

In the case of the explanation example, the name string "*** The new full path name “＊＊＊￥＊＊＊￥P￥A￥A1￥Report 2” is obtained by adding the information name “Report 2” to “￥＊＊＊￥P￥A￥A1” is set in the "all path name part" of the information management data and the "all path name part" of the corresponding object data.

The procedure then redisplays the table including the information in each cell ((Step Z6). In the case of the explanation example, the icon 164 of the corresponding information "Report 2" is the headword "A". ”, the headword “A1”, the headword “A”, the headword “2018”, and the headword “large” are arranged and displayed in the cells corresponding to the headword (FIG. 39).

On the other hand, on the conversion target folder tree in the explanation example, if you issue an open instruction to folder 172 whose full path name is "...\P\Fiscal year\2018", the storage path name column "P\Fiscal year\2018" will be opened. ” is added to the icon 163 for information where all the path names that have already been saved are “...\P\A\A1\Report 1”, and now the save operation on the conversion table An icon 164 of information whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1\Report 2" will be displayed on the corresponding folder screen 172 (FIG. 42).

In this system, the tagging supplementary function described above can be efficiently performed by the method described below. When the user instructs the "Attach all tags button" 76 on the function menu 70, the system displays the tagging supplementary subscreen 131 (FIG. 43) and displays the folder tree to be converted in its constituent folders and tags. A folder storing information that requires supplementation (hereinafter referred to as tagging supplementary information) is displayed in a special display on the table management application screen 33 (FIG. 44).

When the user opens the specially displayed folder, only the icons for tagging supplementary information are selected and displayed on the displayed folder screen. Information that is required supplementary information for tagging means that there is at least one storage path name sequence that should be created for the folder tree related to all the separate destination folders located at the upper level of the folder tree path for the information. It can be determined that

For one folder, the separate folder tree whose ancestor folder is the separate destination folder includes all the path names of the separate specified folders registered in the separate specification data and all of the ancestor folders of the corresponding display target folder. It can be identified by repeatedly checking against the path name.

In the above explanation example, for example, the information whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1\Report 1" is first created when the full path name is "...\P\A\Created". The storage path name column data with the storage path name column "P\A\Creator\O" set is created by specifying the tagging destination folder which is "Person\O", but it is a different tag destination folder. Since the storage path name column data has not been created and registered for the separate folder tree attached to the folder "P", it is determined that the tagging supplementary information is necessary, and the storage folder "A1" is specially displayed (Fig. 44), the icon 163 will be displayed on the folder screen 171 obtained by opening the storage folder "A1" (FIG. 56).

The user opens the specially displayed folders one by one by clicking with the mouse 14 on the conversion target folder tree, and then opens each piece of information arranged on the displayed folder screen one by one. Repeatedly instructing to click and instructing the "execute button" 133 on the tagging supplementary sub-screen 131.

Upon receiving the instruction from the "execute button" 133, the system specifies the separate destination folder that is located above the path of the specified folder, and then extracts information from the separate folder tree from among the specified separate destination folders. A table in which the separate destination folder whose storage path name column is not registered in the information management data of the relevant information is identified, and the tag name column obtained from the specified separate folder tree is arranged according to the entire headword field data creation procedure. is created as a supplementary tagging table and displayed on the device screen.

In the explanation example, the information "Report 1" stored in the folder whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1" has not been tagged as instructed by the "Tag" button 75 described above. If there is no such folder, the ancestor folder "...\P" of the storage folder is used as a separate destination folder, and the folder "...\P\Fiscal Year" and the folder "...\P\Importance" are specified. , Furthermore, the folder "...\A\Creator" is identified as a separate folder whose separate destination folder is another ancestor folder "...\P\A" of the corresponding folder, and the specified separate folder is A supplementary tagging table shown in FIG. 45 is obtained in which the tag name sequences {A, B, C}, {2016, 2017, 2018}, and {Large, Average} obtained from the folder tree are arranged.

When the user uses the mouse 14 to point to a cell on the displayed tagging supplementary table that has the target tag name as the related tag name, the tag name is determined in that cell by the method according to step Z2 and step Z3 of the information storage procedure described above. A necessary storage path name column is created based on the related data and assigned to the relevant information management data.

In the above example, if a cell corresponding to the headword "Otsu", the headword "2018", and the headword "large" on the table in the same figure is specified, the effective related tag names of the designated cell are As,
"...\P\A\Creator\Otsu"
"...¥P¥FY2018",
"...\P\Importance\High",
is obtained, and all obtained effective related tag names are added to the corresponding information as a storage path name string.

Now, on the conversion target folder tree, if you perform a folder open operation on folder 172 whose full path name is "...\P\Year 2018", the corresponding storage path name column "P\Year 2018" will be displayed. " is specified as the information whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1\Report 1", and its icon 163 is displayed on the corresponding folder screen. (Figure 42).

If one row or column on the table is occupied by one headword column and only one headword is placed in it, that headword column is removed from the table and replaced. In addition, the headword may be placed at an appropriate position outside the table as a common tag name that commonly characterizes all the information on the table.

For example, when performing the table conversion function with "B1" as the specified keyword as the second keyword instruction example, instead of the table created as described above (in the case of the second keyword instruction example, the table shown in FIG. 37), , a table (FIG. 46) is created in which the headwords "B" 201 and "B1" 202 in the first row of the horizontal headword column are placed outside the table.

The deletion target row or deletion target column, which is a row or column in which the common tag name is arranged, is identified as follows. The rows or columns in the headword column of the table created by the table creation procedure are taken out sequentially from the top or left, starting from the topmost row or leftmost column. , or specify the number of headword fields located in a column by referring to the "row/column position part" of each headword field data, and if the number of identified headword fields is 1, the number of headword fields located inside it is specified. The number of tag names to be deleted is specified by referring to the tag name column registered in each headword field data, and if the number is 1, the row or column is to be deleted.

Next, common tag name data is created by associating the headword placed above the specified deletion target row or deletion target column with the tag name column identifier of the corresponding tag name column in the format of related data. Then, the created common tag name data are concatenated in the order of creation using the "concatenation pointer", and the address of the first data is set in the "common condition data pointer" of the corresponding table management data.

The pair of tag name column identification name and common tag name registered in the first common tag name data is placed on a line at an appropriate position outside the table, and the tag name registered in the subsequent common tag name data is The pairs of column identifiers and common tag names are arranged in order on subsequent rows at the same horizontal positions as the pairs of tag name column identifiers and common tag names registered in the first common tag name data. In the case of the illustrative example, in FIG. 46, a pair 201 of tag name string identification name "P" and common tag name "B" and a pair 202 of tag name string identification name "P\B" and common tag name "B1" are shown in the table. It will be placed on a line at an appropriate position outside of the .

For the tag name string identification name and common tag name registered in the common tag name data, character string data is created that gives a fixed position outside the table, and the address of the created character string data is "Other character string data". ” is set. On the other hand, the headword field data and cell data related to the common tag name, and the character string data pointed to by the cell data are deleted.

In addition, the set values of the "top position" and "left end position" of the icon placement column data, the position information of the cell data of the cells provided inside the icon placement column 41, and the heading related to the common tag name data The positional information of headword field data other than the word field and the positional information of cell data of cells provided therein are reduced by the number of rows to be deleted or the number of columns to be deleted.

Furthermore, the row break position data corresponding to the row to be deleted and the column break column position data corresponding to the deletion target column are deleted, and the set values of all remaining row break position data and column break position data are the same as those before deletion. The difference between the first data set value and the first data set value after deletion is subtracted, and then all character string data and ruled line data are changed to the updated row break position data and column break position data. Recreated based on.

In addition, the related data related to each cell in the icon arrangement column 41 of the table in which the common tag names are arranged as described above is obtained by adding the common tag name data to the related data created for that cell in the table. Desired. It turns out.

In this device, as a partial folder tree extraction function, on the folder tree specified as the extraction source folder tree, by specifying its constituent folders as the selected folder, the specified selection folder and the specified selection folder will be described later. Information can be extracted by extracting a partial folder tree consisting of related folders as an extraction partial folder tree and then specifying a keyword on the extraction partial folder tree.

When the user instructs the "Partial Registration" button 85 on the function menu 70 on the table management application screen 33, the system receives the instruction and performs the above-described process based on the conversion target folder management data stored in the system. When the list of folders to be converted is displayed on the device screen and the user specifies the folder tree that they wish to use as the source folder tree on the list of folders to be converted, the system creates partial folder tree management data (Figure 47). Then, the selected name input screen 121 (FIG. 48) is displayed.

The address of the conversion target folder management data that manages the specified extraction source folder tree is registered in the "source management data address" of the partial folder tree management data, and the created partial folder tree management data is stored in the area,

The user enters the name of the selected folder in the selected name input field 123 on the displayed selected name input screen 121, and also enters the name of the destination folder in which the partial folder tree to be extracted is stored in the destination folder full path name input field 125. Enter the entire path name. The selected folder names may be input in any order in the selected name input field 123.

After inputting the selected folder name, the system receives an instruction from the user by pressing the "Execute" button 127 on the selected name input screen 121, and the system selects the name input in the selected name input field 123 in the specified extraction source folder tree. Identify a folder as a selected folder. If there are multiple folders whose folder name is the input name, display a selection screen (not shown) in which all path names of the multiple folders are associated with each input name, The user is allowed to select a corresponding folder for each input name on the displayed screen.

Selection name designation data (Fig. 49) is created for the specified selected folder, in which all path names of the specified selected folder are registered in its "all path names", and "1" is set in its "division part". If there is multiple selection name specification data created, each selection name specification data is connected as a selection name specification data chain by the link pointer, and the address of the first data is the “selection name specification data chain” of the partial folder tree management data. The specified data pointer field is set.

Next, the system generates selection name specification data for the ancestor folder and descendant folder of the selected folder, the separate destination folder that is the ancestor folder of the selected folder, and all folders included in the separate destination folder. Create additional. The additionally created selection name designation data has its division section set to "0" and is added to the selection name designation data chain. In creating the selection name designation data described above, it is determined that selection name designation data has already been created for the same folder, and duplicate creation for the same folder is avoided.

Next, from among the created selection name specification data, the selection name specification data created for the folder specified as the separate destination folder is registered in the conversion target folder management data related to the corresponding partial folder tree management data. After specifying the specified name by referring to the specified separate management data, create separate specified data for the registered folder of the identified selection name specified data, and create a separate specified data chain that connects the created separate specified data. Set the address of the first data in the "separate specified data pointer section" of the partial folder tree management data.

Next, the system extracts all the registered path names of each created selection name specification data and separate specification data, including the part corresponding to the entire path name of the parent folder of the first folder of the source folder tree. Update by replacing with all the path names of the specified extraction destination folder, create data object management data by copying the corresponding data object management data, and then create data object management data by copying the updated all registered path names. Register in "All path names". Next, based on the created data object management data, an extraction partial folder tree consisting of registered folders of each selected name designation data and stored in the extraction destination folder is displayed on the table management application screen 33.

For example, if you specify "A1", "A2", "B1", "2017", "2018" as selection names on the table, the partial folder tree shown in FIG. 50 will be created and displayed on the table management application screen 33. Is displayed. In the displayed partial folder tree, the names "Importance" of the separate folders related to "A1", "A2", and "B1" specified as the selected folders, "2017" specified as the selected folder, The name of the separate folder related to "2018" is "Year", and the name of the folder that has the above relationship with the selected folders "A1" and "A2" is displayed with a special display specified by "Creator". That will happen.

Now, when the user instructs "Partial Recall" 86 on the function menu 70 on the table management application screen 33, a list of conversion target folders 101 representing folder tree management data created in the system is displayed. Above, when the user specifies one conversion target folder, the system displays a partial folder tree list 311 displaying partial folder trees created from the conversion target folder (FIG. 51). Above the partial folder tree list 311, partial folder trees in which the specified conversion target folder is registered in the "source management data address" from among the partial folder tree management data created in the system are displayed. is selected and displayed.

On the partial folder tree list 311, for each partial folder tree, its full path name 111 and selected name 113 are arranged in one row above the table, and for the selected name in the separate folder tree, the corresponding The name 115 of the separate destination folder is prefixed. One line “A1, A2, B1, B2, (year) 2017, 2018” illustrated in FIG. 51
The above is the part where the folders "A", "A1", "A2", "B1", "B2" and the folders "2017" and "2018" located in the separate destination folder "Year" are specified as the selected folders. Shows a folder tree.

When the user selects and instructs one partial folder tree on the displayed partial folder tree list, the corresponding partial folder tree is displayed on the table management application screen 33, and then the user selects "Table conversion". When the button 73 is designated, a keyword selection sub-screen 95 is displayed as in the case of the conversion target folder tree. When the user specifies a keyword on the displayed folder tree and then instructs the execution button 97, the table conversion function is executed and the created conversion table is displayed on the table management application screen 33.

On the displayed partial folder tree shown in Figure 50, when folder "A", folder "Otsu", and folder "Oi" are specified as keyword specified folders (Figure 52), the tag name strings {A}, {A1, A2 }, {Otsu}, {2016, 2017, 2018}, {Big} were created,
Condition data “P” determined for tag name string {A}
Tag name string {A1, A2} Condition data “P\A”
Condition data “P\A” determined for tag name string {Otsu}
Condition data “P” determined for tag name string {2016, 2017, 2018}
Tag name string {large} Condition data “P” determined
Based on this, the table shown in FIG. 53 is obtained.

In this device, after instructing the "table conversion" button 72, if you instruct the execution button 97 on the keyword specification sub-screen 95 without specifying a keyword, the folders constituting the target folder tree will be changed. The table conversion function is performed assuming that all of the above have been specified.

Note that the specification of the selected folder for extracting the partial folder tree shown in FIG. 50 is the same as the selection of the keyword specified folder for the folder tree shown in FIG. 6 as an explanatory example. If the "table conversion" button 73 is specified for the partial folder tree shown in FIG. 50 without specifying a keyword, the same table as shown in FIG. 36 will be created.

Next, the system determines whether the folder tree displayed on the table management application screen 33 is a conversion target folder tree or a partial folder tree, and if the determination is that it is a partial folder tree, From among the information management data registered in the conversion target folder management data that manages the source folder tree, for each cell on the table, select the information management data that has the same related data as the determined related data, The selected information management data are successively concatenated using the concatenation pointer 3, and the address of the leading data is set in the information management data pointer of the corresponding cell data. Next, the created table is displayed with each cell associated with an icon of the relevant information.

On the table shown in Figure 36 created for the source folder tree, the cells corresponding to the headword "A", the headword "A1", the headword "Otsu", the headword "2018", and the headword "large" The above information located and named "Report 1" is given the above-mentioned set of storage path name columns, and on the other hand, on the table shown in FIG. 53 created based on the extraction partial folder tree. , for the cells corresponding to the headword "A1", the headword "Otsu", and the headword "2018", the same effective effect as the above set of storage path name columns is added, including the related tag names placed as common conditions. All related tag name set "P\A\A1",
"P\A\Creator\Otsu"
"P\FY\2018",
"P\Importance\High"
Since the information icon 163 is determined, the information icon 163 is placed in the same cell (FIG. 53).

The partial folder tree retrieval function can also be performed by division of functions between the server side that manages the retrieval source folder tree and the terminal side that manages the retrieval folder tree. When the user enters a selected folder name on the selected name input screen 121 displayed in response to an instruction from the "partial registration" button 85 on the activated table management application screen 33 on the terminal side device, the input selected names are concatenated. Send the selected name data chain to the server side.

Upon receiving this transmission, the server side creates a partial folder tree consisting of the folders selected from the extraction source folder tree based on the received selected name data chain, and returns the created partial folder tree to the terminal side.

The terminal side displays the received partial folder tree on the screen, creates a corresponding table based on the instruction of the keyword specified folder following the user's instruction of the "Table conversion" button 72, and then converts each cell of the created table. The obtained related data is sent to the server side as a connected related data chain.

The server side that receives the related data chain selects information management data that matches the received related data chain from among the information stored in association with the extraction source folder tree, and performs information management that concatenates the selected information management data. It is sent back to the terminal side as a data chain. The terminal side arranges the returned information on the corresponding cell based on the comparison between the returned information management data and the related data obtained for each cell on the table.

Note that the present invention uses a program or software for realizing the above-described functions of the present invention. Such software can be installed on the system of the present invention via any medium, such as a storage medium or online. Therefore, the act of transferring a storage medium storing software for carrying out the present invention as a business, the act of installing the software on a system online, etc. are one form of carrying out the present invention.

12 Keyboard 14 Mouse 16 Internal memory 18 External memory 20 Display device 20a Display screen 24 CPU
26 Communication device 27 Communication line 30 Desktop screen 31 Main menu 32 Program menu 33 Table management application screen 35 Program button 36 Data object icon 41 Icon placement field 42 Horizontal headword placement field area 43 Vertical headword placement field area 52 Separate Attached folder specification section 53 Keyword specification section 55 Table data creation section
57 Table display section 61 Table information tagging instruction section 63 Separate information tagging section 65 In-folder information display section 70 Function menu 71 FT registration button 72 FT call button 73 Table conversion button 75 T attachment button 76 Overall T attachment button 78 Table call button 81 Setting button 85 Partial registration button 86 Partial call button 90 Name field 91 Separate specification sub-screen 93 "Execute" button 95 Keyword specification sub-screen 97 Execute button 101 Conversion target folder list 103 All paths of conversion target folders Name 105 Alternative name 106 Alternative destination folder name 110 Conversion table list subscreen 108 Full path name of conversion target folder 109 Specified keyword 111 Full path name of partial folder tree 113 Selection name 115 Alternative destination folder name 121 Selection Name input screen 123 Selected name input field 123
125 Execute destination folder full path name input field 127 "Execute" button 131 Tagging supplementary sub-screen 133 "Execute" button 141 Multiple folder display instruction sub-screen 143 "Execute" button 145 Multiple folder display screen 155 Information icon 160 Cell Internal information display screen 163 Information “Report 1” icon 164 Information “Report 2” icon 165 Second information icon 170 The folder whose full path name is “...\P\A\Creator\B” Folder screen 171 Folder screen 172 for a folder whose full path name is "...\P\A\A1" Folder screen 201 for a folder whose full path name is "...\P\Year 2018" Tag name string Pair 202 of identification name "P" and common tag name "B" Pair 301 of tag name string identification name "P\B" and common tag name "B1" First partial folder tree of conversion target folder tree 302 Conversion target folder Partial folder tree 305 included in the first partial folder tree of the tree Second partial folder tree 306 of the conversion target folder tree Third partial folder tree 311 of the conversion target folder tree List of partial folder trees

Claims (36)

Information is managed in a form that is specified by a path name that is the name of all the folders in which it is stored and its own name concatenated with a specific separator in between, and management operations for information are performed individually for each piece of information. In an information management device, operations are performed on the device screen on icons that are created and determined for each type of information.
This is an information management method using a table in which a headword placement field is provided outside a collection of cells in which rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, in which tag names characterizing information are placed as headwords. There it is,
In a combination tag name tree that combines multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree shape, specify a tag name selected from among the constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree as a keyword. step and
The tag name specified as a keyword, and
A tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which it belongs to the tag name specified as a keyword, and is not the first tag name in the tag name tree, and
For the tag name specified as a keyword, select the parent tag name that is the tag name placed at the parent position in the tag name tree from among the tag names placed at the descendant position in the tag name tree to which it belongs. After specifying the sequence of tag names to be shared as one tag name sequence ,
Among the specified tag name columns, a specific value is assigned as condition data to the first tag name column, which is a tag name column consisting of child tag names of the first tag name of each tag name tree , and other tag names are For the column, there is a step of assigning its parent tag name as condition data, and a step of assigning the tag name by direction, which is obtained by sorting each tag name tree that makes up the combination tag name tree into horizontal and vertical directions depending on the arrangement direction. In each tree group , one constituent tag name of one tag name string ( first tag name string ) belonging to the corresponding direction is set as the parent tag name , and a tag name tree group by the same direction is created for that parent tag name. Another tag name column ( second tag name column ) that belongs to , is associated as a child tag name column . A directional tag name string tree obtained by recursively repeating starting from ,
The selection of the second tag name string is a tag name string that is not already included in the tree route ancestor position for the parent tag name of the second tag name string in the tag name string tree for each direction , and
And the tag name column that is the first tag name column of each tag name column tree belonging to the corresponding direction tag name tree group , or its condition data, is the corresponding parent tag name, or Placement in the headword placement field in the corresponding direction of the tag name string tree by direction from the tag name string that is the tag name located at the top of the tree path.
After assigning each tag name column placed in each layer of the corresponding direction tag name column tree to the row or column of the same hierarchical order in the headword placement field, each constituent tag name of each tag name column is
Placement that is the same in the arrangement range and tag name column arrangement direction of the child tag name column whose parent tag name is the corresponding tag name, which is arranged on the row next to the assigned row or on the column next to the assigned column. Place it in the range,
If each constituent tag name does not have a child tag name column, the step is performed by arranging it in the arrangement range determined for the corresponding table;
As an operation of storing the information in the combination tag name tree, for each tag name tree making up the combination tag name tree, a step of assigning one constituent tag name to the information as a storage tag name;
For each cell in the table, specify the tag name placed in the specified positional relationship with the relevant cell in the headword placement column as the related tag name, and then store the tag in the specified relationship with the specified set of related tag names. displaying an information icon to which a set of names is attached in association with the corresponding cell;
A method in an information processing device comprising: 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the arrangement direction of the headword arrangement column in which the tag name belonging to each tag name tree is arranged is determined by a predetermined method. In a combination tag name tree obtained by appending one tag name tree as an alternate tag name tree to an alternate target tag name that is one constituent tag name on another tag name tree, In the first tag name column obtained from the tag name tree, the alias destination tag name is placed as a condition name, and for the alias tag name tree where no keyword is specified for its component tag name, the alias tag name is placed as a condition name. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein only when the preceding tag name is an ancestor tag name of a keyword specified elsewhere in the combination tag name tree, all affiliated tag names are made to be tabular tag names. Structure of one tag name tree Upon receiving an instruction for information to which a tag name has been assigned, storage obtained from the corresponding separate folder tree from among the separate destination folders located above the tree path path of the specified information storage folder. a step of identifying a separate destination folder whose path name column is not registered in the information management data of the corresponding information;
creating a tag name column supplementary table in which tag name columns obtained from the identified separate folder tree are arranged in a predetermined manner based on the condition data;
Claim 1: wherein the related tag name, which is not a condition name of another related tag name, is given to the information as a storage tag name among the related tag names obtained by receiving an instruction from a cell of a created table. The method described in. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein upon receiving an instruction to save information in a cell of the created table, a related tag name obtained for the instructed cell is given as a storage tag name. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein upon receiving a specific instruction for a storage tag name on a tag name string tree , an icon of information to which the instructed storage tag name is attached is displayed on a specific screen. The tag name tree is a tree of folder names of the folders that make up the folder tree in which folders that save information are arranged in a tree-like manner, and additions to the tag names of the separate tag names in the separate tag name tree are added to the separate tag name tree. The step is to store the first folder of
obtaining the tag name sequence as a set of names of child folders stored in the corresponding parent folder excluding the name of the folder designated as the separate destination folder ;
, and converts the condition data of the tag name column into a path name column in which the corresponding ancestor path name column is added to the end of the separate destination ancestor path name column, which is the ancestor path name column determined in the corresponding separate destination tag name tree. 4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the folder name is obtained by removing the folder name of the first folder of the corresponding tag name tree from . a step of assigning a condition path name column representing a path route within the tree of the parent tag name of the tag name column as condition data to the tag name column ;
setting, as related data, all related path names obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of a conditional path name column representing the path route in the tree of the parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the related tag name;
assigning to the information a storage path name column representing a path route within the tree corresponding to the storage path name, instead of the storage path name;
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein information is arranged in which a set of storage path name sequences having a predetermined relationship with a set of all related path names obtained is assigned for one cell. In the combination tag name tree , create a partial tag name tree consisting of the specified tag name, ancestor tag names, and descendant tag names of the specified tag name, and store the created partial tag name tree in the specified storage device. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information is retrieved by specifying a keyword on the relevant partial tag name tree that is stored and then recalled from the relevant storage means . Information is managed in a form that is specified by a path name that is the name of all the folders in which it is stored and its own name concatenated with a specific separator in between, and management operations for information are performed individually for each piece of information. An information management device in which operations are performed on the device screen on icons that are created and determined for each type of information,
As an information management device using a table in which a headword placement column is provided outside a collection of cells in which rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, in which tag names characterizing information are placed as headwords. ,
In a combination tag name tree that combines multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree shape, specify a tag name selected from among the constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree as a keyword. means and
The tag name specified as a keyword, and
A tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which it belongs to the tag name specified as a keyword, and is not the first tag name in the tag name tree, and
For the tag name specified as a keyword, select the parent tag name that is the tag name placed at the parent position in the tag name tree from among the tag names placed at the descendant position in the tag name tree to which it belongs. After specifying the sequence of tag names to be shared as one tag name sequence ,
Among the specified tag name columns, a specific value is assigned as condition data to the first tag name column, which is a tag name column consisting of child tag names of the first tag name of each tag name tree , and other tag names are For a column, there is a means to assign its parent tag name as condition data.
In each directional tag name tree group obtained by sorting each tag name tree constituting the combination tag name tree into horizontal and vertical directions according to the arrangement direction, one tag name column (No. 1 tag name column) as a parent tag name, and another tag name column (second tag name column) that belongs to the same directional tag name tree group for that parent tag name. A direction-specific tag name sequence obtained by recursively repeating the mapping of the tag name sequence as a child tag name sequence, starting from the tag name sequence located at the head of the corresponding direction-specific tag name tree group as the first tag name sequence. It is a tree,
The selection of the second tag name string is a tag name string that is not already included in the tree route ancestor position for the parent tag name of the second tag name string in the tag name string tree for each direction, and
And the tag name column that is the first tag name column of each tag name column tree belonging to the corresponding direction tag name tree group, or its condition data, is the corresponding parent tag name or its parent tag name. The placement of the tag names in the headword placement field in the corresponding direction of the tag name string tree by direction from the tag name string that is the tag name located at the top of the tree path.
After assigning each tag name column arranged at each level of the corresponding directional tag name column tree to the row or column of the same hierarchical order in the headword arrangement field, each constituent tag name of each tag name column is
Placement that is the same in the arrangement range and tag name column arrangement direction of the child tag name column whose parent tag name is the corresponding tag name, which is arranged on the row next to the assigned row or on the column next to the assigned column. Place it in the range,
If each of the component tag names does not have a child tag name column, a means for doing so is to place it in a placement range determined for the corresponding table;
As an operation of storing the information in the combination tag name tree, means for adding one constituent tag name to the information as a storage tag name for each tag name tree making up the combination tag name tree;
For each cell in the table, specify the tag name placed in the specified positional relationship with the relevant cell in the headword placement field as the related tag name, and then store the tag in the specified relationship with the specified set of related tag names. means for displaying an information icon to which a set of names is attached in association with a corresponding cell;
An information processing device consisting of. 11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the arrangement direction of the headword arrangement column in which each tag name tree is arranged is determined by a predetermined method. In a combination tag name tree obtained by appending one tag name tree as an alternate tag name tree to an alternate target tag name that is one constituent tag name on another tag name tree, In the first tag name column obtained from the tag name tree, the alias destination tag name is placed as a condition name, and for the alias tag name tree where no keyword is specified for its component tag name, the alias tag name is placed as a condition name. 11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein only when the preceding tag name is an ancestor tag name of a keyword specified elsewhere in the combination tag name tree, all of its affiliated tag names are tabular tag names. Structure of one tag name tree Upon receiving an instruction for information to which a tag name has been assigned, storage obtained from the corresponding separate folder tree from among the separate destination folders located above the tree path path of the specified information storage folder. means for identifying a separate destination folder whose path name column is not registered in the information management data of the corresponding information;
means for creating a tag name column supplementary table in which tag name columns obtained from the specified separate folder tree are arranged in a predetermined manner based on the condition data;
Claim 10, wherein a related tag name that is not a condition name of another related tag name is given to the information as a storage tag name among the related tag names obtained by receiving an instruction from a cell of the created table. The device described in. 11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein upon receiving an instruction to save information in a cell of the created table, the apparatus gives a related tag name obtained for the instructed cell as a storage tag name. 11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein upon receiving a specific instruction for a storage tag name on a tag name string tree, an icon of information to which the instructed storage tag name is attached is displayed on a specific screen. The tag name tree is a tree of folder names of the folders that make up the folder tree in which folders that save information are arranged in a tree-like manner, and additions to the tag names of the separate tag names in the separate tag name tree are added to the separate tag name tree. A means of doing this by storing the first folder of the file in a separate destination folder,
means for obtaining the tag name sequence as a set of names of child folders stored in the corresponding parent folder excluding the name of the folder specified as the separate destination folder ;
, and converts the condition data of the tag name column into a path name column in which the corresponding ancestor path name column is added to the end of the separate destination ancestor path name column, which is the ancestor path name column determined in the corresponding separate destination tag name tree. 13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the folder name is obtained by removing the folder name of the first folder of the corresponding tag name tree from . means for assigning, as condition data, a conditional path name string representing a path route in the tree of the parent tag name of the tag name string to the tag name string ;
setting, as related data, all related path names obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of a conditional path name column representing the path route in the tree of the parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the related tag name;
assigning to the information a storage path name column representing a path route within the tree corresponding to the storage path name, instead of the storage path name;
11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein information is arranged in which a set of stored path name sequences having a predetermined relationship with a set of all related path names obtained is assigned for one cell. In the combination tag name tree , create a partial tag name tree consisting of the specified tag name, ancestor tag names, and descendant tag names of the specified tag name, and store the created partial tag name tree in the specified storage device. 11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the information is retrieved by specifying a keyword on the relevant partial tag name tree that is stored and then recalled from the relevant storage means . Information is managed in a form that is specified by a path name that is the name of all the folders in which it is stored and its own name concatenated with a specific separator in between, and management operations for information are performed individually for each piece of information. In an information management device, operations are performed on the device screen on icons that are created and determined for each type of information.
This is an information management method using a table in which a headword placement field is provided outside a collection of cells in which rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, in which tag names characterizing information are placed as headwords. There it is,
In a combination tag name tree that combines multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree shape, specify a tag name selected from among the constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree as a keyword. step and
The tag name specified as a keyword, and
A tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which it belongs to the tag name specified as a keyword, and is not the first tag name in the tag name tree, and
For the tag name specified as a keyword, select the parent tag name that is the tag name placed at the parent position in the tag name tree from among the tag names placed at the descendant position in the tag name tree to which it belongs. After specifying the sequence of tag names to be shared as one tag name sequence ,
Among the specified tag name columns, a specific value is assigned as condition data to the first tag name column, which is a tag name column consisting of child tag names of the first tag name of each tag name tree , and other tag names are For columns, there is a step of assigning its parent tag name as condition data.
In each directional tag name tree group obtained by sorting each tag name tree constituting the combination tag name tree into horizontal and vertical directions according to the arrangement direction, one tag name column (No. 1 tag name column) as a parent tag name, and another tag name column (second tag name column) that belongs to the same directional tag name tree group for that parent tag name. A direction-specific tag name sequence obtained by recursively repeating the mapping of the tag name sequence as a child tag name sequence, starting from the tag name sequence located at the head of the corresponding direction-specific tag name tree group as the first tag name sequence. It is a tree,
The selection of the second tag name string is a tag name string that is not already included in the tree route ancestor position for the parent tag name of the second tag name string in the tag name string tree for each direction, and
And the tag name column that is the first tag name column of each tag name column tree belonging to the corresponding direction tag name tree group, or its condition data, is the corresponding parent tag name or its parent tag name. The placement of the tag names in the headword placement field in the corresponding direction of the tag name string tree by direction from the tag name string that is the tag name located at the top of the tree path.
After assigning each tag name column arranged at each level of the corresponding directional tag name column tree to the row or column of the same hierarchical order in the headword arrangement field, each constituent tag name of each tag name column is
Placement that is the same in the arrangement range and tag name column arrangement direction of the child tag name column whose parent tag name is the corresponding tag name, which is arranged on the row next to the assigned row or on the column next to the assigned column. Place it in the range,
If each constituent tag name does not have a child tag name column, the step is performed by arranging it in the arrangement range determined for the corresponding table;
As an operation of storing the information in the combination tag name tree, for each tag name tree making up the combination tag name tree, a step of assigning one constituent tag name to the information as a storage tag name;
For each cell in the table, specify the tag name placed in the specified positional relationship with the relevant cell in the headword placement field as the related tag name, and then store the tag in the specified relationship with the specified set of related tag names. displaying an information icon to which a set of names is attached in association with the corresponding cell;
A control program for causing a computer to implement a method in an information processing device comprising: 20. A control program for causing a computer to implement the method according to claim 19, wherein the arrangement direction of the headword arrangement column in which each tag name tree is arranged is determined by a predetermined method. In a combination tag name tree obtained by appending one tag name tree as an alternate tag name tree to an alternate target tag name that is one constituent tag name on another tag name tree, In the first tag name column obtained from the tag name tree, the alias destination tag name is placed as a condition name, and for the alias tag name tree where no keyword is specified for its component tag name, the alias tag name is placed as a condition name. 20. The method according to claim 19, wherein only when the destination tag name is an ancestor tag name of a keyword specified elsewhere in the combination tag name tree, all of its affiliated tag names are tabulated tag names. Control program to make it happen. Structure of one tag name tree Upon receiving an instruction for information to which a tag name has been assigned, storage obtained from the corresponding separate folder tree from among the separate destination folders located above the tree path path of the specified information storage folder. a step of identifying a separate destination folder whose path name column is not registered in the information management data of the corresponding information;
creating a tag name column supplementary table in which tag name columns obtained from the identified separate folder tree are arranged in a predetermined manner based on the condition data;
19. Claim 19: receiving an instruction from a cell of the created table, and assigning a related tag name among the obtained related tag names that is not a condition name of another related tag name to the information as a storage tag name. A control program for realizing by computer the method described in . 20. A control program for causing a computer to implement the method according to claim 19, wherein the program receives an instruction to store information in a cell of the created table and assigns a related tag name obtained for the instructed cell as a storage tag name. Control for realizing the method according to claim 19 by a computer, wherein an icon of information to which the instructed storage tag name is attached is displayed on a specific screen upon receiving a specific instruction for a storage tag name on the tag name string tree. program. The tag name tree is a tree of folder names of the folders that make up the folder tree in which folders that save information are arranged in a tree-like manner, and additions to the tag names of the separate tag names in the separate tag name tree are added to the separate tag name tree. The step is to store the first folder of
obtaining the tag name sequence as a set of names of child folders stored in the corresponding parent folder excluding the name of the folder designated as the separate destination folder ;
, and converts the condition data of the tag name column into a path name column in which the corresponding ancestor path name column is added to the end of the separate destination ancestor path name column, which is the ancestor path name column determined in the corresponding separate destination tag name tree. 22. A control program for implementing the method according to claim 21 by a computer, by removing the folder name of the first folder of the corresponding tag name tree from . a step of assigning a condition path name column representing a path route within the tree of the parent tag name of the tag name column as condition data to the tag name column ;
setting, as related data, all related path names obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of a conditional path name column representing the path route in the tree of the parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the related tag name;
assigning to the information a storage path name column representing a path route in the tree corresponding to the storage path name instead of the storage path name;
20. The method according to claim 19, wherein information is arranged for one cell to which a set of storage path name sequences having a predetermined relationship with a set of all related path names obtained is arranged. Control program for. In the combination tag name tree , create a partial tag name tree consisting of the specified tag name, ancestor tag names, and descendant tag names of the specified tag name, and store the created partial tag name tree in the specified storage device. 20. A control program for implementing the method according to claim 19 by a computer, wherein information is retrieved by specifying a keyword on a corresponding partial tag name tree that is stored and then recalled from a corresponding storage means . Information is managed in a form that is specified by a path name that is the name of all the folders in which it is stored and its own name concatenated with a specific separator in between, and management operations for information are performed individually for each piece of information. In an information management device, operations are performed on the device screen on icons that are created and determined for each type of information.
This is an information management method using a table in which a headword placement field is provided outside a collection of cells in which rectangular cells for arranging information icons are arranged in a matrix, in which tag names characterizing information are placed as headwords. There it is,
In a combination tag name tree that combines multiple tag name trees in which tag names are arranged in a tree shape, specify a tag name selected from among the constituent tag names excluding the first tag name of each tag name tree as a keyword. step and
The tag name specified as a keyword, and
A tag name that is located at an ancestor position in the tag name tree to which it belongs to the tag name specified as a keyword, and is not the first tag name in the tag name tree, and
For the tag name specified as a keyword, select the parent tag name that is the tag name placed at the parent position in the tag name tree from among the tag names placed at the descendant position in the tag name tree to which it belongs. After specifying the sequence of tag names to be shared as one tag name sequence ,
Among the specified tag name columns, a specific value is assigned as condition data to the first tag name column, which is a tag name column consisting of child tag names of the first tag name of each tag name tree , and other tag names are For columns, there is a step of assigning its parent tag name as condition data.
In each directional tag name tree group obtained by sorting each tag name tree constituting the combination tag name tree into horizontal and vertical directions according to the arrangement direction, one tag name column (No. 1 tag name column) as a parent tag name, and another tag name column (second tag name column) that belongs to the same directional tag name tree group for that parent tag name. A direction-specific tag name sequence obtained by recursively repeating the mapping of the tag name sequence as a child tag name sequence, starting from the tag name sequence located at the head of the corresponding direction-specific tag name tree group as the first tag name sequence. It is a tree,
The selection of the second tag name string is a tag name string that is not already included in the tree route ancestor position for the parent tag name of the second tag name string in the tag name string tree for each direction, and
And the tag name column that is the first tag name column of each tag name column tree belonging to the corresponding direction tag name tree group, or its condition data, is the corresponding parent tag name or its parent tag name. The placement of the tag names in the headword placement field in the corresponding direction of the tag name string tree by direction from the tag name string that is the tag name located at the top of the tree path.
After assigning each tag name column arranged at each level of the corresponding directional tag name column tree to the row or column of the same hierarchical order in the headword arrangement field, each constituent tag name of each tag name column is
Placement that is the same in the arrangement range and tag name column arrangement direction of the child tag name column whose parent tag name is the corresponding tag name, which is arranged on the row next to the assigned row or on the column next to the assigned column. Place it in the range,
If each constituent tag name does not have a child tag name column, the step is performed by arranging it in the arrangement range determined for the corresponding table;
As an operation of storing the information in the combination tag name tree, for each tag name tree making up the combination tag name tree, a step of assigning one constituent tag name to the information as a storage tag name;
For each cell in the table, specify the tag name placed in the specified positional relationship with the relevant cell in the headword placement field as the related tag name, and then store the tag in the specified relationship with the specified set of related tag names. displaying an information icon to which a set of names is attached in association with the corresponding cell;
A storage medium storing a control program for realizing by computer a method in an information processing device consisting of 29. A storage medium storing a control program for realizing by a computer the method according to claim 28, wherein the arrangement direction of the headword arrangement column in which each tag name tree is arranged is determined by a predetermined method. In a combination tag name tree obtained by appending one tag name tree as an alternate tag name tree to an alternate target tag name that is one constituent tag name on another tag name tree, In the first tag name column obtained from the tag name tree, the alias destination tag name is placed as a condition name, and for the alias tag name tree where no keyword is specified for its component tag name, the alias tag name is placed as a condition name. 29. The method according to claim 28, wherein only when the destination tag name is an ancestor tag name of a keyword other specified in the combination tag name tree, all of its affiliated tag names are tabulated tag names. A storage medium that stores a control program to implement the program. Structure of one tag name tree Upon receiving an instruction for information to which a tag name has been assigned, storage obtained from the corresponding separate folder tree from among the separate destination folders located above the tree path path of the specified information storage folder. a step of identifying a separate destination folder whose path name column is not registered in the information management data of the corresponding information;
creating a tag name column supplementary table in which tag name columns obtained from the identified separate folder tree are arranged in a predetermined manner based on the condition data;
Claim 28: receiving an instruction from a cell of the created table, and assigning a related tag name, which is not a condition name of another related tag name, to the information as a storage tag name among the obtained related tag names. A storage medium storing a control program for realizing the method described in . Storing a control program for realizing by computer the method according to claim 28, which receives an instruction to save information in a cell of the created table and assigns a related tag name obtained for the instructed cell as a storage tag name. storage medium. Control for realizing the method according to claim 28 by a computer, wherein an icon of information to which the instructed storage tag name is attached is displayed on a specific screen upon receiving a specific instruction for a storage tag name on the tag name string tree. A storage medium that stores programs. The tag name tree is a tree of folder names of the folders that make up the folder tree in which folders that save information are arranged in a tree shape, and additions to the tag name of the separate tag name in the separate tag name tree are The step is to store the first folder of
obtaining the tag name sequence as a set of names of child folders stored in the corresponding parent folder excluding the name of the folder specified as the separate destination folder ;
, and converts the condition data of the tag name column into a path name column in which the corresponding ancestor path name column is added to the end of the separate destination ancestor path name column, which is the ancestor path name column determined in the corresponding separate destination tag name tree. 31. A storage medium storing a control program for realizing by a computer the method according to claim 30, which is obtained by removing the folder name of the first folder of the corresponding tag name tree from . a step of assigning a condition path name column representing a path route within the tree of the parent tag name of the tag name column as condition data to the tag name column ;
setting, as related data, all related path names obtained by adding the related tag name to the end of a conditional path name column representing the path route in the tree of the parent tag name in the belonging tag name column of the related tag name;
assigning to the information a storage path name column representing a path route within the tree corresponding to the storage path name, instead of the storage path name;
29. The method according to claim 28, wherein information is arranged for one cell to which a set of storage path name sequences having a predetermined relationship with a set of all related path names obtained is arranged. A storage medium that stores a control program for In the combination tag name tree , create a partial tag name tree consisting of the specified tag name, ancestor tag names, and descendant tag names of the specified tag name, and store the created partial tag name tree in the specified storage device. A storage medium storing a control program for realizing the method according to claim 28 by a computer, wherein the information is retrieved by specifying a keyword on the relevant partial tag name tree that is stored and called from the relevant storage means .