Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12561360-B2
Application number	US-202418591601-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 29, 2024
Priority date	Mar 17, 2023
Publication date	Feb 24, 2026
Grant date	Feb 24, 2026

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to acquire, from a first data group, a second data group related to a person. The first data group includes a plurality of types of data. The circuitry extracts a character string indicating knowledge related to the person from the second data group and determines whether a sharing status of the knowledge is appropriate based on a third data group to obtain a determination result. The third data group is an extraction source of the character string in the second data group. The circuitry outputs information based on the determination result.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . An information processing apparatus, comprising circuitry configured to:
acquire, from a first data group stored in an organization, a second data group related to a person of the organization, the first data group including document data created or updated by the person, chat data sent or received by the person, email data sent or received by the person, and meeting data of a meeting in which the person participates; extract a plurality of character strings indicating knowledge related to the person from the second data group; associate a plurality of knowledge items indicated respectively by the plurality of character strings with the person; generate an association diagram representing an association between the plurality of knowledge items and the person; transmit the association diagram to a user terminal for displaying the association diagram on a screen of the user terminal, the screen including a button configured to request a knowledge sharing determination; in response to receiving a request for the knowledge sharing determination from the user terminal through an operation to the button, acquire a third data group that is an extraction source of the character strings in the second data group with respect to a specific knowledge item among the plurality of knowledge items; determine a ratio of document data to total data in the third data group is equal to or greater than a predetermined ratio, or a number of pieces of document data in the third data group is equal to or greater than a predetermined number; in response to determining that the ratio of document data in the third data group is equal to or greater than the predetermined ratio, or the number of pieces of document data in the third data group is equal to or greater than the predetermined number, output a result indicating that the specific knowledge item related to the person has been accumulated, to the user terminal; and in response to determining that the ratio of document data in the third data group is less than the predetermined ratio, or the number of pieces of document data in the third data group is less than the predetermined number, output a result indicating that the specific knowledge item related to the person has not been accumulated, to the user terminal.

2 . The information processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the circuitry is configured to extract the character strings in a case in which a category, to which the knowledge indicated by the character strings belongs, matches a knowledge category associated with the person.

3 . The information processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the circuitry is configured to: acquire, from the first data group, the second data group related to each of a plurality of persons; extract, for each of the plurality of persons, a corresponding character string from the second data group related to the corresponding one of the plurality of persons; estimate one or more associations among the plurality of persons based on the second data group related to each of the plurality of persons or an attribute of each of the plurality of persons; and output the information indicating an additional association between each of the plurality of persons and the corresponding character string and the one or more associations among the plurality of persons.

4 . The information processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the circuitry is configured to extract the character strings indicating knowledge related to the person based on a high term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) value.

5 . An information processing system, comprising circuitry configured to:
acquire, from a first data group stored in an organization, a second data group related to a person of the organization, the first data group including document data created or updated by the person, chat data sent or received by the person, email data sent or received by the person, and meeting data of a meeting in which the person participates; extract a plurality of character strings indicating knowledge related to the person from the second data group; associate a plurality of knowledge items indicated respectively by the plurality of character strings with the person; generate an association diagram representing an association between the plurality of knowledge items and the person; transmit the association diagram to a user terminal for displaying the association diagram on a screen of the user terminal, the screen including a button configured to request a knowledge sharing determination; in response to receiving a request for the knowledge sharing determination from the user terminal through an operation to the button, acquire a third data group that is an extraction source of the character strings in the second data group with respect to a specific knowledge item among the plurality of knowledge items; determine a ratio of document data to total data in the third data group is equal to or greater than a predetermined ratio, or a number of pieces of document data in the third data group is equal to or greater than a predetermined number; in response to determining that the ratio of document data in the third data group is equal to or greater than the predetermined ratio, or the number of pieces of document data in the third data group is equal to or greater than the predetermined number, output a result indicating that the specific knowledge item related to the person has been accumulated, to the user terminal; and in response to determining that the ratio of document data in the third data group is less than the predetermined ratio, or the number of pieces of document data in the third data group is less than the predetermined number, output a result indicating that the specific knowledge item related to the person has not been accumulated, to the user terminal.

6 . An information processing method, comprising:
acquiring, from a first data group stored in an organization, a second data group related to a person of the organization, the first data group including document data created or updated by the person, chat data sent or received by the person, email data sent or received by the person, and meeting data of a meeting in which the person participates; extracting a plurality of character strings indicating knowledge related to the person from the second data group; associating a plurality of knowledge items indicated respectively by the plurality of character strings with the person; generating an association diagram representing an association between the plurality of knowledge items and the person; transmitting the association diagram to a user terminal for displaying the association diagram on a screen of the user terminal, the screen including a button configured to request a knowledge sharing determination; in response to receiving a request for the knowledge sharing determination from the user terminal through an operation to the button, acquiring a third data group that is an extraction source of the character strings in the second data group with respect to a specific knowledge item among the plurality of knowledge items; determining a ratio of document data to total data in the third data group is equal to or greater than a predetermined ratio, or a number of pieces of document data in the third data group is equal to or greater than a predetermined number; in response to determining that the ratio of document data in the third data group is equal to or greater than the predetermined ratio, or the number of pieces of document data in the third data group is equal to or greater than the predetermined number, outputting a result indicating that the specific knowledge item related to the person has been accumulated, to the user terminal

Assignees

• Fujita Takehiro
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fujita Takehiro

Classifications

• G06F16/38 Primary

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