JPS62184533A - Information service processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To speed up the retrieving and processing of information by providing each processor with an index table categorizing information held by said processor and controlling information according to integrated categories. CONSTITUTION:It is assumed that a person in charge of some business has to financially analyze companies that his corporation invests. He inputs a preset problem analysis code, etc., regarding financial analysis from the keyboard 302 of a terminal processor 3. A file processing part 32 retrieves an analysis program suitable for solving the problem and data necessary for the analysis through the index table 35. If he can find a usable information item in the table 35, he fetches the necessary information out of memory areas 36, 37 and 38 with the aid of the function of an information service processing part 33, and deals with the problem through the keyboard 302 according to system explanation and the guidance of the analysis program.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to an information service processing method, and particularly to an information service processing method that connects a central processing unit and a plurality of terminal processing devices, or between a plurality of terminal processing devices by a transmission path. In a processing system, it relates to the method of exchanging, receiving, using, and managing information.

[Background of the invention]

Traditionally, when solving problems that occur within a company,
In order for the person in charge of the company to sequentially search for information held within the company and information held by external third parties through the information service system and to solve the problem from among them. It was common practice to sequentially extract and collect data deemed necessary, prepare separate problem-solving methods and software based on the data, and perform the necessary analysis or processing.

However, individual data held within a company or provided from outside is usually collected and maintained separately from the specific problems occurring within the company.

For this reason, the above-mentioned person in charge uses the terminal processing device at hand to search for appropriate data to solve the problem from a wide range of sources, including internal and external sources, and perform analysis and processing using that data. There was a problem in that it required a lot of time, effort, and prior knowledge.

For this reason, the special application was made in Showa 1/-, 21,? As seen in the example of the Kd specification, by sharing information data with multiple interactive input/output devices and displaying the same content on each input/output device, information service processing such as information retrieval and processing is possible. There are examples of doing this.

However, this method required interactive processing with the financial institution's processing staff, and in addition, there was a problem in that the company's data itself had to be provided and disclosed to the service institution.

[Purpose of the invention]

The purpose of the present invention is to improve such conventional problems, to search for and import necessary information such as processing programs, data and program explanations, and to perform analysis and processing using them using a simple and inexpensive method. An object of the present invention is to provide an information service processing method that can be performed easily and quickly.

[Summary of the Invention] In order to achieve the above object, the information service processing method of the present invention utilizes a CPU and a terminal processing device on an information provider side and a plurality of information users installed at geographically distant locations. In an information service processing system in which a plurality of terminal processing devices are connected through a transmission path, each of the processing devices is provided with an index table in which at least the information held therein is classified and aggregated into categories unified within the system; The feature is that information is exchanged, used, and managed using the index table as a marker.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an information service processing system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, 1 is an information provider such as financial institution A.
2 is a terminal processing device of the information provider A, and 3 is a terminal processing device installed at, for example, company B, which is the information user. Financial institution A's large processing device 1 and terminal processing device 2 and company B's terminal processing device 3
are connected by transmissions 4 and 5, respectively, and company B can receive various information services necessary for company management, centering on financial information from financial institution A.

In the same figure, reference numerals 15, 25, and 35 are index tables held in external storage areas of each of the above-mentioned processing devices, which will be explained in detail later.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the processing device shown in FIG. 1.

In the figure, the large processing bag W1 is composed of an external storage area (hereinafter referred to as file) 19, a central control unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 10, and an interface unit 6.

Among these, CPU10 control unit 11. File processing 12.
Information service processing unit 13. The file 19 consists of an index table 15. Analysis program storage area 16. Data storage area 17. It consists of a method explanation storage area 18.

In addition, in FIG. 2, the terminal processing device 2 on the information provider side
is file 29. CPU20. Interface section 7.
CRT display 201. It is composed of a keyboard 202.

Among these, the CPU 20 includes the control unit 21. File processing section 2
2. It consists of an information service processing section 232, a communication processing section 24, and the file 29 has an index table 25.
Analysis program storage area 26, data storage area 27. It consists of a method explanation storage area 28.

The configuration of the terminal processing device 3 on the information user side is almost the same as the structure of the terminal processing device 2 on the information provider side described above, so a description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the relationship between one content of the index table 15 and other storage areas in the large-scale processing device 1. In the example of FIG. 3, information held in the file 19 of the large-scale processing device 1 is divided into 8 groups of analysis programs that are used for problems that occur within the company, 5 groups of data, and a method C that explains the analysis process. The analysis program a, data b, and method explanation C are registered in the index table 15.
) Registered area table 15 showing the address of the area
It consists of

The above is the index table 15 of the large processing device 1.
However, the index tables 25 and 35 of the terminal processing device 2.3 are also configured corresponding to the index table 15 described above.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of the technique data and guide table of the index table 15 of FIG. 3.

As shown in the figure, code numbers are unified under the information processing system and have a hierarchical directory structure.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the information service processing of FIG. 1.

Suppose now that a person in charge of business at Company B needs to conduct a financial analysis of an investee company. The person in charge inputs a preset problem analysis code related to financial analysis or a specific problem item code such as corporate evaluation analysis based on financial ratios from the keyboard 302 of the terminal processing device 3.

(Step 101).

As a result, the file processing unit 32 searches through the index table 35 for an analysis program suitable for solving the problem, data necessary for analysis, commentary on the method, know-how, etc. (step 102).

This index table 35 can hold not only the information held by itself, but also the information held by other processing devices (large-scale processing device 1, terminal processing device 2, etc.) by exchanging files in advance.

Next, the person in charge determines the presence or absence of usable information through the above search (step 103).

If an information item that is considered usable is found in the index table 35, the person in charge uses the function of the information service processing unit 33 to store the necessary information in each storage area 3.
6, 37, and 38 (step 104), and enter it through the keyboard 302 according to the method explanation and the guidance of the analysis program.On the other hand, if the required information item cannot be found in the index table 35, it is inputted from the keyboard 302 by the person in charge. The problem codes are automatically sent to the interface section 8. by the file processing section 32 or by the person in charge's keyboard operations. The data is sent to the large-scale processing device 1 of financial institution A through the transmission line 5 (steps 103, 106 and 108).

Of course, the analysis work may be interrupted at the discretion of the person in charge (steps 103, 106 and 108).

When an inquiry is made to the large processing device 1 (step 10
7) The necessary information items constituting the nuclear alignment are received and processed by the communication processing unit 14 of the CPU 10 of the large processing bag W1 (step 109).

As a result, the file processing section 12 searches the index table 15 (step 110), and the search results are sent to the file processing section 122, the communication processing section 14. Display 301 of terminal processing equipment 3 of company B through transmission line 5
will be displayed. (Step 112).

The person in charge at company B determines whether there is available information through the display on the display (step 113).

The necessary information is stored in a large processing device with a storage area of 16°17.18
If the information is found, the person in charge operates the keyboard 302 to request the large-scale processing device 1 to transmit the necessary information (step 114).

The information transmission request from the terminal processing device 3 is received by the communication processing unit 14 of the large-scale processing device 1 (step 11).
5) The information requested by the information service processing unit 13 is retrieved from the storage area (step 1.16).
The information extracted in this way is sent to the terminal processing device 3 via the communication processing unit 14 and the transmission path 5 (step 117).

The information sent from the large processing device 1 is sent to the terminal processing device 3.
The information is temporarily stored in the storage areas 36, 37, and 38 (step 104), and then sent to the information service department (step 105).

If the information required by the person in charge at company B is not held in the file 19 of the large-scale processing device 1 of financial institution A, the department in charge of information services at financial institution A will provide the necessary information based on its judgment. Collect or develop information from time to time using terminal processing device 2, and file 16.17.18
By enriching the content and registering the content items in the index table, it becomes possible to provide even higher density information services.

In this way, new information, for example regarding financial analysis, prepared by financial institution A can be provided not only to company B, which needs it for the time being, but also to a wide range of other companies.

In this case, the terminal processing device 3 of company B is the terminal processing device 2 installed in a department below the department in charge of information services in financial institution A. It can also be configured within financial institution A by replacing it with a person in charge of business outside the department.

Furthermore, a configuration in which a plurality of terminal processing apparatuses are installed on the user or provider side is also possible, and a configuration in which the terminal processing apparatuses are connected to a plurality of large-scale processing apparatuses from a plurality of providers is also possible.

Furthermore, the analysis program in this example is not limited to a data processing program, but can also include a processing program for office processing. In addition, the interface parts 6 and 7
．． For information transmission between the large-scale processing device 1 and the terminal processing devices 2 and 3, which are connected by 8 and transmission lines 4 and 5, telephone lines, optical loops, etc. are used, and modems and acoustic couplers are generally used. However, a distributed processing device having an information transfer function can also be used.

Further, the large processing device 1 can be replaced by a distributed processing device such as a personal computer having an information transfer function.

In this way, by creating theory 25.35 of the analysis program, its data, and analysis processing, which are the basic elements when using terminal processing equipment to handle specific problems that occur within a company, this index It is possible to easily and quickly search for necessary information using the table as a clue.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained below, according to the present invention, various problems that occur within a company can be solved using general-purpose terminal processing equipment such as personal computers and computers owned by the company, without the need for special processing equipment. Information necessary for processing can be easily and quickly searched for, provided, and executed, and at the same time, this information can be shared between multiple departments and companies.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an information service processing system showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the processing device of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is an index 1 in the large-scale processing device 1.
5 is a diagram for explaining the relationship between one content of 5 and other storage areas. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the information service processing shown in FIG.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In an information service processing system in which a CPU and a terminal processing device on an information provider side and a plurality of terminal processing devices on a plurality of information users installed in geographically distant places are connected by a transmission path, Each processing device is characterized in that it is equipped with an index table in which the information it holds is classified and aggregated into categories that are unified within the system, and that the index table is used as a marker to exchange and manage the use of information. Information service processing method.