System for selecting multimedia databases over networks

Details System for selecting multimedia databases over networks System for selecting multimedia databases over networks

1997-06-09

1999-07-06

VonBuhr, Maria N.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707 10, G06F 1730

Patent

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059208562

ABSTRACT:
There is provided a network server which interfaces a client with selected database sites from a plurality of database sites. The network server comprises a meta-database (including both text information and multimedia information), a search agent, and a refining module. The search agent indexes the meta-database with a user query obtained from the client, and then distributes queries, developed pursuant to such indexing, to the selected ones of the plurality of database sites. In turn, database site information (responsive to the distributed queries) is retrieved from the selected ones of the plurality of database sites. A refining module is used to update the meta-database with the database relevancy information.

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