Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2007-01-30
2007-01-30
Choules, Jack M. (Department: 2167)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C709S217000
Reexamination Certificate
active
09872360
ABSTRACT:
A distributed network search mechanism may be provided for consumers coupled to a network to search information providers coupled to the network. Consumers may make search requests according to a query routing protocol. A network hub may be configured to receive search requests from consumers. The hub may also receive registration requests from information providers according to the query routing protocol. Information providers register with the hub to indicate search queries in which they are interested in receiving. When a query request is received, the hub resolves the query request with a provider registration index. The hub matches search query information from the query request with provider registrations to determine which providers have registered to receive search queries like the current search query. The hub then routes the search query to matching providers according to the query routing protocol.
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Camarda Thomas J.
Cutting Douglass R.
Doolin David M.
Faybishenko Yaroslav
Kan Gene H.
Choules Jack M.
Kowert Robert C.
Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel P.C.
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