Answer collection and retrieval system governed by a pay-off met

Details Answer collection and retrieval system governed by a pay-off met Answer collection and retrieval system governed by a pay-off met

1996-08-28

2000-10-10

Stamber, Eric W.

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

705400, 707 1, 707 3, G06F 1500

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061310859

ABSTRACT:
The invention is a set of processes for improving the interface of a self-organizing database. This type of database stores both questions and answers. The improved interface processes enable a user who has found a (first) question in the database to enter a new (second) question and label that second question as "more specific" than the first. When a user presses an "enter more specific question" command, the system enables the user to enter a question and then stores the question and labels it as more specific than the first, and links the two questions in the database. Then, when any user has found the first question, the system enables him to "go to" the linked, more specific question by entering a "go to more specific question" command. Further, when a user has found a question, the system can present a list of all the more specific questions linked to that question. The system also enables a user to find a first question and then enter a new (second) question and label it as a synonym of the first. The system then links the two questions as synonyms in its database. Further, when any user has found a question, the system can present a list of all the linked "synonym" questions and can enable the user to "go to" a linked synonym question by selecting it.

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