Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Gengo Suzuki

Satoshi Okada

Takuya Iwatsuka

Hiroki Machihara

Akira Kanamaru

Naoya Kanou

Eiji Okada

Shingo Kurihara

A conversion apparatus improves utilization of definition information for system migration by including: a first conversion unit converting definition information about first rules for generating first data showing information about an operation of a migration source first system in a form depending on an implementation technique of the first system based on materials of the first system, according to a combination of first environment information showing an environment that the first system depends on and second environment information showing an environment that a migration destination second system depends on; a second conversion unit converting definition information about second rules for generating second data showing the information about the operation in a form not depending on a particular implementation technique based on the first data, according to the combination of the first environment information and the second environment information; and a third conversion unit converting definition information about third rules for generating third data showing the information about the operation in a form depending on an implementation technique of the second system based on the second data and the first data, according to the combination of the first environment information and the second environment information.

Conversion apparatus, conversion method and program

The method and system for retrieving information allow the user to retrieve desired information from database systems by simply specifying retrieval content and retrieval conditions using languages familiar to the user, without having to know the names for the relevant database systems or their structures or without having to interact with the platform of the meta-information, i.e., information concerning the use of database systems and accessing method. The present method allows retrieval of information from different database systems connected to a communication network, by using reference information stored beforehand to access different database systems; consulting the reference information to determine database systems which contains data to satisfy the information retrieval request by converting requested items to equivalent related words that the system can recognize. The storage locations of the data and instructions on how to acquire the data are determined using relational items to link various tables so that an information retrieval statement can be prepared by the system program on user's behalf. The databases are searched according to the acquiring method and the information retrieval content described in the system prepared statement, and the retrieved information is presented for viewing in a format that is used by the information searcher.

Method and system for information retrieval

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Yokohama, Japan

Gengo Suzuki