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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
May. 16, 2000
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An information inquiry support apparatus including means for creating a profile, that is, an evaluation table about each one of plural key words expressing the information content, relating to the user's concern, on the basis of the evaluation about plural pieces of information by the user evaluating presence or absence of concern about presented plural pieces of information, means for entering the specific information for inquiry, information evaluation means for calculating the need signal quantitatively expressing the degree of concern about the specific information for each user by using the profile, and means for quantitatively evaluating the fitness for inquiry, by the magnitude of the value of the need signal, and issuing each name of the plural individual and/or group users.