METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUS GRAPHIC VISUALIZATION OF DATABASE SEARCH AND ITS SEARCH ACTIVITY RECORD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily search a data base while narrowing a searching range with various inquiring executions by displaying an inquiring result as plural relatively prime subsets by user selective information visualizing technique. SOLUTION: At a stage 201, an inquiry window setting the whole data base to be a searching range is prepared. At a stage 202, searching is executed based on at least one searching expression. At a stage 203, desired visual display is decided and graphical visual display within the inquiry window. At the stage 204, whether a user is satisfied with a searching result is decided, When the result is not desirable, whether to clarify a new inquiry in the same searching area is selected at a stage 206, whether to prepare a new searching area is selected at a stage 207 or whether to move by returning to a preceding searching range is selected at a stage 210. At the time of limiting a new searching area, the sub-set of searching result is decided by a stage 208 and the new inquiry window is prepared on the inner side of a preceding inquiry window at a stage 209.