Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database and file access – Record – file – and data search and comparisons
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-30
2011-08-30
Saeed, Usmaan (Department: 2166)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database and file access
Record, file, and data search and comparisons
C707S781000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08010545
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for providing a topic-directed search is provided, which advantageously harnesses user-provided topical indexes and an ability to characterize indexes according to how articles fall under their topical organizations. A corpus of articles and an index that includes topics from the articles is maintained. For each topic, a coarse-grained topic model is built, which includes the characteristic words included in the articles relating to the topic and scores assigned to the characteristic words. A search query is executed against the index. The topics that match the search terms are chosen by their scores. The topics that match the coarse-grained topic models and the articles corresponding to the search query are presented. In contrast to conventional search engines, search results are organized according to topic and search results can be offered across multiple indexes, where part of returned results are selected from most-relevant indexes with their most-relevant topics.
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Card Stuart K.
Hong Lichan
Pirolli Peter L.
Stefik Mark J.
Inouye Patrick J. S.
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
Saeed Usmaan
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