Patent References 3670310 3909796 Associative information retrieval continuously guided by search status feedback Information storage and retrieval system and method Office correspondence storage and retrieval system Method and apparatus for digital serial scanning with hierarchical and relational access Patent #: 4429385 InventorAssigneeApplicationNo. 06/513158 filed on 07/13/1983US Classes:707/4Query formulation, input preparation, or translationExaminersPrimary: Zache, Raulfe B.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 17/30 (20060101)AbstractDatabase locations for user-supplied query keywords are individually determined. Those locations for the full set of query keywords and for successively smaller groups of such query keywords are screened for locations common to all words of a group. The screening is stopped after all query keywords have been considered and found to have been included in at least one of the tested groups of query keywords having a common database location. | |