WO2001003003A1 - Systeme pour l'internationalisation d'information d'entree de recherche - Google Patents

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WO2001003003A1
WO2001003003A1 PCT/FI2000/000588 FI0000588W WO0103003A1 WO 2001003003 A1 WO2001003003 A1 WO 2001003003A1 FI 0000588 W FI0000588 W FI 0000588W WO 0103003 A1 WO0103003 A1 WO 0103003A1
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  • the present invention relates to a system as defined in the preamble of claim 1 for the management of extensive and scattered information in a global data network.
  • CONFIRMATION con further drawback is that, due to lacking language skills and insufficient marketing skills and resources, many opportunities remain unutilized.
  • the object of the present invention is to eliminate the problems referred to above and to achieve a new type of system which is free of the drawbacks of existing systems and which is largely automated and also independent of the user's language skills.
  • the system of the invention it is possible to significantly reduce the time consumed e.g. in searching for cooperation partners and at the same time to improve the search results regardless of the line of business.
  • 'communication' refers to the processing and transmission of inquiry and response information mainly based on real-time needs of organizations, such as companies, in an internationally implemented system utilizing a global data network, such as the Internet, in such manner that the response information only includes the most appropriate candidates in the line of business in question, automatically pre-audited. Further, if the number of such candidates is still too large, additional criteria can be used to reduce the num- ber of pre-audited candidates to the desired level. After an appropriate number of candidates has been defined, then, in each advertisement of each company, the system offers a link directly to the place in the organization' s own home page which presents more detailed information relating to the subject at hand that the searcher may utilize.
  • the searcher need not even search the candidates' home pages to find the desired information; instead, he can directly access specific information via the advertisements included in the system and maintained by the users themselves and via the links included in them.
  • the system of the invention is characterized by what is presented m the characterization part of claim 1.
  • Other embodiments of the invention are characterized by what is presented in the other claims.
  • both the finding of a cooperation partner for the purposes of management of matters relating to sales, technology, training and environment and the collation of companies' synergetic needs to provide a basis for new investments or development of business activities can be implemented significantly faster and better than at present and at a low cost by using a new type of intermediary service arrangement based on a stepwise progressing structural message proc- essmg system known in itself and especially on linkages between individual items of desired detailed information associated with each step in the system.
  • the structural message processing included in the system of the invention which comprises automatic language conversion, is based on a structure modeled specifically for each line of business and each application, describing the structure in respect of both content and functions including detailed criteria.
  • the content of different lines of business and their criteria have been established in the course of years and decades, in other words, e.g. lathe work with all its options is the same in all parts of the world regardless of what it is called in different countries.
  • By using a modeled structure it is easy to choose the desired working language in each country.
  • the system takes care of automatic language conversion in conjunction w th a search for a partner e.g. in another country.
  • the system of the inven- tion provides significant advantages, including e.g. the following:
  • a search for a cooperation partner can be performed using criteria significantly more precise than at present, and the responses generated by the system are based on information updated at any time by the service or product suppliers themselves, both on the pages (advertisements) comprised in the system and on the users' own home pages linked to them.
  • Fig. 1 presents a diagram representing an arrangement according to the invention
  • Fig. 2 presents a precision search form on a display screen
  • Fig. 3 presents a form for the definition of areas of expertise
  • Fig. 4 presents a form for the definition of search criteria
  • Fig. 5 presents a form for the results of a precision search
  • Fig. 6 presents a form giving company profile information
  • Fig. 7 presents an actual sales advertisement form.
  • the system of the invention is a system working in a geographically distributed manner and used globally by utilizing a public data network, such as the Internet or equivalent, as a coherent search process in which even a narrow inquiry produces response information that, from the user' s point of view, is applicable in real time in an easy, fast and low-cost manner regardless of the working language and in which the response information contains links to evaluation information needed for the es- timation of the quality of the candidates.
  • Both the criteria and link data comprised in the system and the detailed evaluation information associated with the subject, connected to them via links on organizations' own home pages, can be updated by the users themselves with- out any intermediaries.
  • the structural line- specific and/or application-specific user information can be provided with links giving the searcher access to de- tailed evaluation information which is important in respect of response information and which is continuously changing with the growth of knowledge and know-how.
  • the input data processed in the system consists of inquiry and response information defined in respect of structure and content, and this data is supplied with predefined or open rights from one or more terminal units into the global system, in which the input data, repre- sentmg demand and supply, can be read and updated via any terminal unit connected to the public data network.
  • the input data representing supply and demand is organized in a hierarchical and modeled fashion so that equivalent pieces of input lnforma- tion given from the user interface correspond to a single code data item in the system and that the evaluation of the information obtained as a result of a search is performed in appropriate places in the organizations' own network pages, such as WWW pages, using subject-specific links, such as Web-lmks comprised in the system.
  • the essential point is that, using criteria 2, 4, 6 hierarchically defined by the searcher, the searcher receives for each business environment (industry, trade, training, services, etc.) only the most suitable candidates 9 in the field in question, automatically pre-audited in order according to quality, and the search result 7 does not contain any representatives of any other fields.
  • Fig. 1-5 represent this stage of the process.
  • the next step in the search process is evaluation of the most suitable candidates 9 on a detailed level, which is implemented in the system in the relevant context on the basis of links 12, 14 represented by the information suppliers themselves and included in the system.
  • the supply forms used in the system have been provided with specific positions for the links, and the advertising party only fills in and tests these positions. This eliminates e.g. orthographic er- rors.
  • Typical links are e.g. circumstantial organization information from the company's or organization's standard WWW page 11 to the corresponding place on the company's or organization's own home page 15 and a link from a subject- specific data input page, such as a sales advertisement 13, to a place 16 in the company's own home page where the relevant expertise is described.
  • a subject-specific data input page such as a sales advertisement 13
  • a place 16 in the company's own home page where the relevant expertise is described.
  • the standard WWW page included in the system is called company/organization profile.
  • Another essential thing is that the user does not have to browse any electronic notice boards but only needs to input via an easy-to-use graphical interface 1, 3, 5 his lme-speciflc or application-specific criteria 2, 4, 6 defining the object being looked for or offered.
  • a company in the role of a mam supplier defines what it wants to buy.
  • a search operation together with the selection criteria 2, 4, 6 is prepared using an "intelligent" user interface 1, 3, 5 and fed into the network service system. After this, the system automatically carries out the search for companies, producing an output 7 giving both subcontracting companies perfectly matching the need and companies which, based on needs prioritized in different ways, correspond to the needs as closely as possible, including companies not completely matching the search (ranking list) .
  • the searcher can use the Web links 12, 14 included in the system and main- tamed by the supplier companies themselves to access the appropriate places on the companies' own home pages 15, 16 describing the expertise in question to decide which one or which ones of the companies found would be the best choice as cooperation partners. It is to be noted that the system is open and impartial to all users, like e.g. telephone networks.
  • the system of the invention in which each user can communicate m the language he/she likes, is based on hier- archical levels 2, 4, 6 which the user can access via a user interface over a network.
  • the hierarchical nature of the messages and the control of possible selections give the message a structured property, thus allowing language conversion as well.
  • the language conversion functions so that the communication presented to the user of the system is in the language he has used.
  • the system infers the language used by the user from the message according to the language selected by the user. Messages created in different languages are translated by the system into a so-called general coded form by using a conversion table, which it is possible to maintain and develop because of the hierarchical and structured nature of the mes ⁇ sages/know-how.
  • Table 1 presents an example of a form hierarchy that makes the system of the invention possible, in a simplified form so that only the selected criteria are shown.
  • the working language is Finnish. (For readability, an English translation is given brackets. Translator's note . ) Sovellus (Application) Koneenrakennus (Machine construction)
  • Tyyppi Type Harmaa rautavalu (Grey castiron casts)
  • Table 2 correspondingly presents a language conversion table according to the invention, applied to the example in Table 1. Certain fields, such as "Sovellus" (Applica- tion) can be assigned default values already during installation of the user interface.
  • the leftmost column in the table gives the field, the next column an ID, i.e. a code assigned to each criterion and alternative, the third column presents the Finnish term corresponding to the code, next the corresponding English term, and so on.
  • a message consistent with Table 1, coded in accordance with Table 2, is sent from the user into an internationally operated network service.
  • the coded message according to the examples is: Al, B2, D4 , G2, G78, J7 and H13.
  • These codes consist of indexed addresses of memory loca- tions in an n-dimensional table, said memory locations containing the corresponding "plain" information as elements of the table.
  • the table positions are the same but the elementary information having the same meaning is in different languages.
  • memory location Al in the table in the Finnish version contains the data "Koneenrakennus”
  • the same memory location in the English version contains the data "Machine construction", and so on.
  • the table lo- cations are referred to as codes.
  • this information is coded (added to a new memory location in the table and assigned an indexed ad- dress) and the service server of the system is updated with this information in a centralized manner, in other words, the code is updated at the same time for all us- ers.
  • all users are communicating with the said service server via the Internet or a corresponding network connection.
  • Table 3 shows how the message used in the above example is seen by an English user.
  • the system of the invention comprises functional means, such as various forms in different languages for the input of information into the system and retrieval of m- formation from the system.
  • One of the functional means is a precision search form 1, which can be used to define the operating environment together with the criteria.
  • the precision search form contains links 2 to different operating environments, such as industry, trade, services, and so on.
  • the operating environment is the highest hierarchical level. Once the operating environment has been defined by clicking the corresponding link, a form 3 concerning areas of know-how is opened, and this form again contains links 4 for the selection of functions defined on the next levels in the hierarchy. If the user has selected e.g. industry, then the form will show a list of links to different branches of industry.
  • a link list for the next hierarchical level will be displayed.
  • the search is continued m this stepwise manner until reaching the area of expertise which is actually sold and bought by the en- terprises.
  • the search has been continued through four successive steps to the level of circuit boards.
  • the number of steps to be gone through varies depending on the matter at hand and the number of steps required in each practical case.
  • the search has already advanced to the last step, so the figure does not show the actual link lists obtained in the intermediate steps, but only the links 4 of different hierarchical levels which have been selected from the lists.
  • the form 3 additionally com- prises a keyword search option, which can be used to advance directly to a desired area of expertise, e.g. circuit boards, by typing a keyword m the keyword search box.
  • the next step is form 5, which contains criteria 6 of the area of expertise selected by the above-mentioned hierarchical procedure, pre-defined and presented in the language originally selected by the user. Having selected the criteria 6 in form 5, the user clicks the search button in the form, whereupon, based on the conditions defined, the system will find the optimal companies and organizations for the purpose in question. On a search result form 7 generated by the system, the companies best matching the search are presented in order of quality 8 according to a ranking list, depending on how many of the desired criteria each company meets.
  • Each company is represented by a company link 9, and clicking this link opens a company/organization profile 11 de- scribing the enterprise in question, which profile is included in the system and which has been stored by the re ⁇ spective candidate on the service server of the system via his own Internet connection.
  • the company/organization profile 11 further contains a link 12 to the company's own home page 15, which is located on the company's own server or on another server and which gives a more de- tailed description of the company.
  • the search result form 7 also contains subject-specific links 10 to sales advertisements 13 prepared and sent via an Internet connection to the service server by the com- panies themselves and containing more detailed information about the responses found on the basis of the inquiry criteria.
  • the sales advertisement form 13 contains a link 14 to a web page 16 on the company' s own server or on another server which contains more information about the subject presented in the sales advertisement .
  • Both the company/organization profile 11 and the sales advertisements 13 are filled in during a real-time Inter- net connection to the service server, which contains the required means, such as technical solutions, for the information to be fed into the system, processed and stored.

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L'invention concerne un système de gestion et d'évaluation de données géographiquement dispersées, extensives et détaillées d'interrogation et de réponse sur Internet ou sur un réseau équivalent : l'information d'entrée à traiter est constituée de données d'interrogation et de réponse fournies au système par des unités terminales du réseau, directement aux emplacements qui, sur les pages Web respectives des utilisateurs, décrivent le sujet considéré. Via des terminaux reliés à Internet, il est possible d'actualiser et de lire l'information d'entrée ainsi que les résultats des recherches et les liens pour l'évaluation de candidats. Avec une présentation hiérarchique de l'information d'entrée, on fait en sorte que les éléments équivalents d'information d'entrée fournis depuis l'interface utilisateur correspondent à un élément de données à code unique dans le système.
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