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Method and system for searching and for presenting the search results in an attribute that corresponds to the retrieved documents

Patent 5857185 Issued on January 5, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject September 13, 2016. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Assignee

Application

No. 710140 filed on 09/13/1996

US Classes:

707/5, Query augmenting and refining (e.g., inexact access)707/3, Query processing (i.e., searching)715/516, Matching application process to displayed data type715/529Text attribute

Examiners

Primary: Black, Thomas G.
Assistant: Homere, Jean R.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G06F 017/21

Foreign Application Priority Data

1995-10-20 JP

Abstract

The electronic document database searching system displays search results using a display attribute that corresponds to the attribute of the string in each original electronic document. The system also displays the search results using a display attribute that varies in accordance with the frequency of occurrence of the searched string in each original electronic document

Other References

  • "Recent development in full text database applications", M. Negishi, Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan, vol. 33, No. 4, Apr. 1992, pp. 413-420
  • "Database service at NACSIS: The National Center for Science Information Systems", M. Negishi, Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan, vol. 33, No. 10, Oct. 1992, pp. 1144-1153
  • "Natural language processing in the field of information retrieval", H. Fujisawa and H. Kinukawa, Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan, vol. 34, No. 10, Oct. 1993, pp. 1259-126
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