Fujitsu Corporation

Akira Horikawa

Tetsuo Aoki

Nobuyuki Hiratsuka

Yasuhiro Tameie

Kouichi Masaki

Hiroshi Aihara

Kiyoshi Inoue

Atsurou Noguchi

Naruhito Yamamoto

Hirotoshi Umemura

Masanori Kawaguchi

Akihiko Shigeta

Masahiko Senda

Kiyoshi Ohi

Terminal equipment for electronically making patent and utility patent applications. The terminal equipment converts various formats of text data generated by an external device into the internal format of the terminal equipment, retrieves the converted text data, merges the text data with a procedure, and transmits the procedure. The merging operation in which image data is merged with text data is simplified whereby the operator can make applications with a simple operation without special skill and knowledge when an application document is transmitted and received on line. The terminal equipment includes a text converting portion for converting the external format of text data into the internal format of the terminal equipment and for retrieving the converted text data, a procedure generation processing portion for merging the retrieved text data with a procedure, a text processing portion and paragraph number assigning portion for editing the merged text and image data within the terminal equipment, a text checking portion for checking the text of the edited procedure document, a transmission file generating portion for converting the format of the checked procedure document into a transmission format, and an online application portion for transmitting the data in the transmission format to the outside of the terminal equipment.

Terminal equipment for merging imaging data and text data, and transmitting and receiving the same on-line

An information retrieval system of a client/server model for executing communication between a client unit for instructing information retrieval and a server unit for accepting the information retrieval instruction. The client unit includes an abnormality-in-communication detecting unit for detecting the occurrence of an abnormality in communication. A retrieval condition holding unit holds retrieval conditions relating to the information retrieval, that have been inputted up to the point of interruption of the information retrieval, when the server unit enters the state of an abnormal end due to an abnormality in communication and when the information retrieval is interrupted. A retrieval requesting unit reads out the retrieval conditions from the retrieval condition holding unit and sends them to the server unit at the time of restart of the interrupted information retrieval, when the retrieval conditions in the retrieval condition holding unit are judged as necessary. The server unit includes a retrieving unit for executing information retrieval on the basis of the retrieval conditions so read out.

Information retrieval system

Growing community of inventors

Okayama, Japan

Akira Horikawa