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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110184946 | APPLYING SYNONYMS TO UNIFY TEXT SEARCH WITH FACETED BROWSING CLASSIFICATION The invention provides a method and system for returning search results based on text and associated synonyms. The system including an input module configured for receiving a text search term. A search module is configured for searching index documents with the text sea... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110184932 | SEARCH USING PROXIMITY FOR CLUSTERING INFORMATION The invention provides a method and system for hierarchical search retrieval. The method includes performing a text search on a hierarchy data structure of information. Forming a limited size hierarchy data structure using the search results. Assigning a location number... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20060173821 | Method, apparatus and program storage device for processing semantic subjects that occur as terms within document content A method, apparatus and program storage device for delimiting words is provided and requires adding an extensible vocabulary markup to a plurality of markup languages, wherein the plurality of markup languages comprises a knowledge representation, and processing a provi... | 08/03/2006 |
| 20060010381 | Method for visually indicating the quality of on-screen help messages A method in a data processing system for providing a user of the system with a visual indication of a quality of one or more features of an on-screen help message (e.g., a usefulness, an importance, or a content level of the message). The method involves a generation of... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050198582 | User interface expander and collapser A method of indicating expanded states and collapsed states of lower level expander/collapser items in a higher level visual control of a user interface display. The method includes providing, in the higher level visual control, a lower level expander/collapser indicato... | 09/08/2005 |
