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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
May. 09, 2008
Tetsuya Nasukawa, Fujisawa, JP;
Risa Nishiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Hironori Takeuchi, Yokohama, JP;
Hideo Watanabe, Machida, JP;
Tetsuya Nasukawa, Fujisawa, JP;
Risa Nishiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Hironori Takeuchi, Yokohama, JP;
Hideo Watanabe, Machida, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A technology projection supporting apparatus includes a describing section extracting unit and steps for extracting a problem describing section and an effect describing section from each technical document, a technical phrase extraction unit and steps to extract a technical phrase, which indicates a matter to be achieved by a technology, from each of the problem describing section and the effect describing section, an impact determination unit and steps for determining a business impact to be made by the matter indicated by the extracted technical phrase, a naming unit and steps for naming the extracted technical phrase; and a technology map generation unit for generating a technology map. The generated technology map has axes indicating time length to be required to implement technology and business impact.