Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-03-31
2000-08-08
Amsbury, Wayne
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 6, 707 2, G06F 1730
Patent
active
061014915
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods consistent with the present invention access information from databases having stored indexes of completed information corresponding to the databases by receiving a query identifying desired information; examining the concepts of information in the stored indexes to identify as hits the contents of the databases that match the query; determining, for each hit, a measure of a difference between the query and the conceptual information from the indexes; and combining the hits from the indexes in accordance with the determined measures.
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Amsbury Wayne
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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