Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2003-08-29
2008-10-21
Cottingham, John (Department: 2167)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07440964
ABSTRACT:
A method, device, and software for presenting search results obtained from a plurality of databases, based on an end-user specified query, is disclosed. In an embodiment, the search results are combined from results from a first index and results from a second index. The first index comprises a plurality of index entries modifiable by an administrator, and the second index comprises a plurality of index entries that are not modifiable by the administrator. In the combined search results, any search result from the second index for which an associated key field is identical to the associated key field of a matching search result in the first set of search results is discarded in favor of the matching search result in the first set of search results.
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Feindel Tym D.
Gosse David B.
Cottingham John
Timblin Robert
Vortaloptics, Inc.
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