Apparatus and method for the frequency displaying of documents

Details Apparatus and method for the frequency displaying of documents Apparatus and method for the frequency displaying of documents

1997-11-18

2000-11-07

Alam, Hosaint T.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707200, 707526, G06F 1730

Patent

active

061449636

ABSTRACT:
A document display apparatus, method, and storage medium for realizing the apparatus and method extract data information relevant to each document of a plurality of electronic documents, count the number of the relevant documents in a given unit of time based on the extracted date information, and display the number of the counted documents and frequency information about a document containing visual information obtained based on the number of the documents in a given unit of time. A date is extracted by performing a pattern matching for a predetermined date expression. A unit of counting a frequency can be a year, month, day-of-week, or day. The visual information can be displayed by changing a color, brightness, and size of symbols or graphics depending on an intensity level obtained by normalizing a frequency. The distribution of date information contained in a plurality of electronic documents in a given unit of time can be easily obtained through a visual expression.

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