Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2003-10-22
2009-11-10
Pham, Khanh B (Department: 2166)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07617196
ABSTRACT:
Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for searching collections of data using context sensitive expanded term searching are provided. The collection of data may be a relational database, text document, or any other type of searchable collection of data. In either case, a query including a search condition based on a specified search term may be modified to include additional conditions based on a set of expanded (e.g., conceptually-related) search terms. For some embodiments, a user may be given the ability to control the level of expansion and the context in which the terms may be expanded.
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Buntrock James D.
Chute Christopher G.
Dettinger Richard D.
Herbeck David G.
Pakhomov Serguei V.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Patterson & Sheridan LLP
Pham Khanh B
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