Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kouichi Sasaki

Mika Fukui

Hideo Umeki

Yasuko Nakayama

Kazuyuki Gotoh

Yoichi Takebayashi

Yoshihisa Ohtake

Masayuki Horikawa

Akira Morishita

Toru Imai

Toshinari Takahashi

Nobuhiro Shimogori

Toshihiko Manabe

Hideo Numagami

Toshihiro Kayama

Yasuyo Shibazaki

Yasuko Tsutsumitake

Editing contents for the editing-object document selected from the plural documents that are inputted from the terminal devices connected to the network and that can be owned jointly via the network and corresponding message sentences for the editing contents are received, and a new renewed document is prepared by renewing the editing-object document on the basis of the editing contents, while extracting the renewed contents of the editing-object document by comparing the editing-object documents before and after the renewal with each other, storing at least the renewed contents as the history concerning the renewal of the editing-object document after preparing the contents correspondence with the message sentences, and displaying the renewed contents with the message sentences at a request by the user on the terminal device that sent the request.

Document management method and document management device

To members of a user group, messages and documents registered in the user group are presented, while, to other users than the members of the user group, documents preset as available also to other users than the members of the user group are presented, and as a registration destination of the messages, a user group where the contents of the message, or the message and messages and documents that are most similar to the contents of the documents corresponded thereto is searched and presented at request from users.

Information management method and information management device

There is disclosed a method of extracting a user related to a field corresponding to an inquiry content based on shared documents of a plurality of users and profile information including at least specialized fields of the plurality of users. A degree of communication of the extracted respective users with the user who has made the inquiry is calculated based on a history of communication using a network. The user who can answer the inquiry is selected from the extracted users based on the degree of communication.

Search apparatus, search method and storage medium for storing search program

An information sharing system using a computer so as to allow a plurality of users to share disclosed information, the system comprising, input section for receiving responses to the disclosed information from references of the disclosed information, evaluation information generation section for totalizing and processing the responses to generate evaluation information and storing the evaluation information after correlating it with the disclosed information, and evaluation information notifying section for presenting the evaluation information generated by the evaluation information generation section.

Information sharing system and computer program product for causing computer to support the information sharing system

A computer-understandable knowledge base for accumulating computer-understandable task knowledge and a know-how knowledge base for accumulating know-how knowledge understandable for a human being are provided. In accordance with, for example, a result of the process for solving a problem which has been performed by the computer-understandable knowledge base 1, know-how knowledge relating to the problem solution is automatically retrieved and presented. Since know-how knowledge relating to the problem solution is automatically retrieved and presented in accordance with the state of the problem solving process which has been performed by the computer-understandable knowledge base, a user is able to efficiently make a reference to required know-how knowledge without a complicated process for conditions for retrieving the know-how knowledge. Even if a problem cannot be solved by the computer-understandable knowledge base, the know-how knowledge is used to guide the problem solution.

Computer system for interactive help using human-understandable

A data storage means stores data in a predetermined information form. An information retrieval means retrieves the data stored in the data storage means. A reception means receives an information disclosure demand from a demander, a response rule storage means for storing general knowledge for generating a response responding to the demander and a personal relationship information associated with a unique personal relationship between a user having the data on an information provider side and a user on an information demander side. A response plan formation means, responsive to the demand received by the reception means, plans a response for exhibiting, to the information demander, data obtained by causing the retrieval means to retrieve the data stored in the data storage means on the basis of the knowledge and the personal relationship information stored in the response rule storage means. A response generation means generates the response to the information demander in accordance with the plan formed by the response plan formation means.

Information disclosing apparatus and multi-modal information

A method-to-derive-attribute-value is set of a procedure inherent to an attribute for deriving an attribute value at each attribute defined in each class in knowledge base. A data-for-value-derivation referred by the set method-to-derive-attribute-value is set at each class defined or inherited by the attribute independently from the method-to-derive-attribute-value. The attribute value is derived by referring to the data-for-value-derivation to be input as the specification of the instance by executing the method-to-derive-attribute-value when the instance is prepared as novel or altered, to thereby set the attribute value of each attribute of the instance.

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Kouichi Sasaki