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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2005

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2002
Applicants:

Kouichi Sasaki, Kawasaki, JP;

Mika Fukui, Tokyo, JP;

Toshihiro Kayama, Yokohama, JP;

Hideo Umeki, Kawasaki, JP;

Inventors:

Kouichi Sasaki, Kawasaki, JP;

Mika Fukui, Tokyo, JP;

Toshihiro Kayama, Yokohama, JP;

Hideo Umeki, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

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.


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