SEARCH DATA STRUCTURE OF DOCUMENT INFORMATION ABOUT INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY, RECORDING MEDIUM WITH SEARCH DATA STRUCTURE RECORDED, AND APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR SEARCH OF DOCUMENT INFORMATION ABOUT INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for search of document information about industrial property that facilitates the identification of document information related to document information about industrial property by a simple structure. SOLUTION: Server storage means 350 stores family relation information and citation relation information created, from a document information database, as records each interrelating related-document-specific information specifying other document information related to given document information and relation information about a family relation or citation relation between the given document information and the other document information. On the basis of document-specific information specifying document information to be searched for in search request information acquired by search request information acquiring means 363, table data such as the family relation information and citation relation information are searched, and results are sent by reporting means 366 to a terminal device as a report. The search results can be acquired simply and quickly by a simple data structure, without a search of all the document information in the document information database. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI