JPH064392A - Information processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] Depending on the load state of referent data,
Provide a hypertext system that changes the display state of each reference. [Structure] The storage unit 1 stores nodes and links, and the display unit 2 displays the nodes stored in the storage unit 1. The link information extraction unit 3 extracts from the storage unit 1 the link information of the node displayed on the display unit 2 and the reference data based on the link information. The reference data storage unit 5 stores the reference data extracted by the link information extraction unit 3, and the load ratio storage unit 6 stores the reference information extracted by the link information extraction unit 3 and the reference information. The loading rate is stored based on the amount of data loaded in the data storage unit 5. The reference display state determination unit 7 displays the display unit 2 according to the load rate stored in the load rate storage unit 6.
Change the reference display state of.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing system, for example, a node which is a unit of subdividing data,
The present invention relates to an information processing system such as a hypertext system that handles information configured by links that represent connections between nodes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional hypertext system, whether or not data exists at the connection destination of the link (hereinafter referred to as "reference") is displayed at the start point of the link (hereinafter referred to as "reference"). Further, in the conventional hypertext system, the reference data is loaded after the link is selected by the user.

[0003]

However, the above-mentioned conventional example has the following problems. That is, in the conventional hypertext system, since the reference data of the link is loaded after the user selects the link, if the reference data has a large amount of data and takes a long time to load, after the user selects the link, , I could not display the data immediately.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is intended to solve the above problems, and has the following structure as one means for solving the above problems. That is, first storage means for storing data and link information of the data, display means for displaying the data stored in the first storage means, and display from the first storage means on the display means. The display means includes: extraction means for extracting link information of the extracted data and predetermined data based on the link information; and second storage means for storing the data extracted by the extraction means. The information processing system is configured to change the data display state according to the link information extracted by the detecting means and the amount of data stored in the second storage means.

[0005]

With the above arrangement, predetermined data is extracted from the first storage means based on the link information of the data displayed on the display means, and the link information and the data extracted by the link information are extracted. It is possible to provide an information processing system that changes the data display state according to the amount of data.

[0006] For example, with the above configuration, immediately after the node selected by the user is displayed, information processing such as a hypertext system that loads referential data of all links to which the node is a reference A system can be provided, and further, an information processing system such as a hypertext system that changes the display state of each reference according to the load state of reference data immediately after displaying a node can be provided.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration example of a hypertext system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a storage unit that stores hypertext information including nodes and links.

Reference numeral 2 is a display unit for displaying nodes and the like. Three
Is a link information extraction unit that extracts link information, which will be described later, from the storage unit 1. A link information storage unit 4 stores the link information extracted by the link extraction unit 3. Reference numeral 5 is a reference data storage unit which stores reference data based on the link information stored in the link information storage unit 4.

A load rate storage unit 6 stores the load rate of the referential data stored in the reference data storage unit 5 based on the link information stored in the link information storage unit 4. Reference numeral 7 is a reference display state determination unit that determines the display state of the reference according to the load rate stored in the load rate storage unit 6 and the link information stored in the link information storage unit 4.

Next, a configuration example for realizing the function of the hypertext system shown in FIG. 1 will be described. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the hypertext system of this embodiment. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 11 denotes a storage device, which is composed of a disk device or the like, and stores hypertext information and programs such as a processing procedure of this embodiment described later.
The storage device 11 corresponds to the storage unit shown in FIG.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a CPU, which controls the entire operation of this embodiment in accordance with a program stored in the storage device 11, and also includes the link information extraction unit 3 and the reference display state determination unit 7 shown in FIG. Realize the function. Reference numeral 13 denotes a memory, which is composed of a RAM or the like, and has a link information memory 14 corresponding to the link information storage unit 4 of FIG. 1, a reference data memory 15 corresponding to the reference data storage unit 5 of FIG. 1, and a load rate of FIG. A load rate memory 16 corresponding to the storage unit 6 is included.

An input device 17 is composed of a keyboard, a mouse and the like, and is used by the user to input link selection information and the like. Reference numeral 18 denotes an output device, which is composed of a display or the like and corresponds to the display unit 2 shown in FIG. The storage device 11, the CPU 12, the memory 13, the input device 17, and the output device 18 are connected to each other via a bus 12a.

Next, an example of the processing of this embodiment will be described.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing an example of the processing procedure of this embodiment. 3, in the present embodiment, in step S, for example, the node selected by the user is extracted from the storage device 11 and displayed on the output device 18. It should be noted that, in the subsequent processing, for the link whose reference is the node displayed in step S1 (hereinafter referred to as "display node"),
It is executed in parallel.

Next, in this embodiment, in step S2, the link information of the link whose reference is the display node is extracted from the storage device 11, and in step S3, the extracted link information is stored in the link information memory 14. . FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the link information stored in the link information memory 14, and the link information includes information such as a link name, a reference name, a reference data amount, and a reference display method.

Subsequently, in the present embodiment, in step S4, the reference data memory 15 and the link information memory 14 are connected.
Of the referential data indicated by the link information, and in step S5, the referential data amount indicated by the link information in the link information memory 14 and the referential data amount indicated by the link information in the link information memory 14 are used for the reference data at that time. Calculate the load rate of the arent data and load rate memory 1
The calculation result is stored in 6.

Then, in this embodiment, in step S6, the load rate stored in the load rate memory 16 is judged, and if the load rate is 100%, the jump to step S9 is performed.
If the load rate is less than 100%, the process proceeds to step S7. In this embodiment, step S7 will be described in detail later, but according to the load rate stored in the load rate memory 16 and the reference display method of the link information memory 14,
Determines the display state of the reference.

Subsequently, in the present embodiment, in step S8, the reference is displayed on the output device 18 in accordance with the determined display state, and then the process returns to step S4. 100% load rate
Then, in this embodiment, in step S9, the output device 18
After the reference is displayed in the reference display state showing the load rate of 100%, the process is ended.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of the reference and the reference, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of the reference display method table. The table shown in FIG. 6 is stored in the storage device 11 or the like, and is referred to when the reference display state is determined in step S7 shown in FIG. In FIG. 5, 501 is a display node, and the node N is displayed in the example of FIG.

Reference numerals 502 to 503 are references, respectively. As described above, the reference data linked to the references 502 to 503 is loaded into the reference data memory 15. The linked data is loaded into the memory. In FIG. 5, a blinking method is set in the reference 501 as a reference display method. As shown in FIG. 6, the blinking speed increases in proportion to, for example, the load rate. , It is possible to predict the load state of referential data.

A density method is set in the reference 502 as a reference display method. As shown in FIG. 6, the display becomes darker in proportion to the load rate. It is possible to predict the load status of the arent data. In the reference 503, another display method is set as the reference display method, and for example, the loaded data is displayed in another position as shown in FIG. Therefore, if the reference data is image data, the data loaded in a position different from the display node 501 is drawn in the order shown in 505 of FIG. It is possible to predict the data load state.

In the present embodiment, when the load rate becomes 100%, the references 501 to 50 are displayed according to a display method such as a halftone dot display, an underline display and an italic display.
Since 3 is displayed, the user can know that the reference data has been loaded. As described above, according to the present embodiment, immediately after the node selected by the user is displayed, the reference data of all links to which the node is a reference is loaded.
Therefore, according to the present embodiment, referential data can be loaded while the user is reading the information of the displayed node, so that there is no time until the data is displayed after the user selects the link. You can exclude the time.

Furthermore, according to this embodiment, the display state of each reference is changed immediately after displaying the node according to the load rate of the reference data. Therefore, according to this embodiment, the user can know the load state and the end of each referent data. For example, the user can:
Since it is possible to take measures such as selecting from the links that have been loaded, it is possible to make a hypertext system with high utilization efficiency.

The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of a single device. Further, it goes without saying that the present invention can be applied to the case where it is achieved by supplying a program to a system or an apparatus.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, predetermined data is extracted from the first storage means on the basis of the link information of the data displayed on the display means, and extracted by the link information and the link information. It is possible to provide an information processing system that changes the data display state according to the data amount of the generated data.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration example of a hypertext system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a hypertext system of the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing an example of a processing procedure of the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of link information stored in a link information memory of the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example of references and references according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a reference display method table of the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 storage unit 2 display unit 3 link information extraction unit 4 link information storage unit 5 reference data storage unit 6 load ratio storage unit 7 reference display state determination unit 11 storage device 12 CPU 13 memory 17 input device 18 output device

Front page continuation (72) Inventor Yoichi Matsuyama 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo Canon Inc. (72) Inventor Masaaki Yamada 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo Canon Inc. (72) Inventor Koichi Fence, 3-30-2 Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo Canon Inc.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A first storage means for storing data and link information of the data, a display means for displaying the data stored in the first storage means, and the display from the first storage means. Extracting means for extracting link information of the data displayed on the means and predetermined data based on the link information; and second storing the data extracted by the extracting means
And a display unit for changing the data display state according to the link information extracted by the detection unit and the amount of data stored in the second storage unit. Information processing system.