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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1997
Kazuo Sumita, Yokohama, JP;
Tatsuya Uehara, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A topic storage section organizes the addresses for an information providing sources entered from a topic managing section, the pointers to information acquisition drivers stored in an information acquisition driver storage section, and the pointers to search conditions stored in a search condition storage section into groups. The topic storage section then stores such groups by each of the topics classified hierarchically. Then, an information selecting section acquires information from the information providing source for the topic stored in the topic storage section by means of the information acquisition driver corresponding to the information providing source. Thereafter, the information selecting section compares each of the acquired pieces of information with the search condition for the topic stored in the topic storage section and chooses only the pieces of information that conform to the search condition.