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| 20100169355 | Clinical Data Monitoring - Data is combined from multiple independent data stores, and is then queried using a data correlation engine. Contemplated engines preferably keep track of previously run correlations, and then makes those correlations available to clinicians for their own use. For example, a preferred system might provide a listing of correlations run by other clinicians in a particular medical specialty, or a particular community, whether geographic or otherwise. In another example, a preferred system might provide a listing of correlations sorted by popularity, so that the most frequently accessed correlations appear near the top of the list. In any case a clinician could simply view the list, and check off which correlations he/she would like to have run for his/her practice, or practice community. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100205201 | User-Guided Regular Expression Learning - A method, device, and computer program product are provided for regular expression learning is provided. An initial regular expression may be received from a user. The initial regular expression is executed over a database. Positive matches and negative matches are labeled. The initial regular expression and the labeled positive and negative matches are input in a transformation process. The transformation process may iteratively execute character class restrictions, quantifier restrictions, negative lookaheads on the initial regular expression to transform the initial regular expression into the pool of candidate regular expressions. The transformation process may execute, one at a time, the character class restrictions, quantifier restrictions, the negative lookaheads. A candidate regular expression is selected from the pool of candidate regular expressions, where the selected candidate regular expression has a best F-Measure out of the pool of candidate regular expressions. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100211586 | DATA MODEL SIMPLIFICATION THROUGH FIELD FALLOUT - Methods, articles of manufacture and systems are provided for simplifying a query building process by limiting the number of fields presented to a user for building queries. The number of fields presented to the user may be limited by hiding one or more logical fields from the user based on usage characteristics. For example, a logical field that is rarely used or has not been used within a predetermined period of time may be hidden from the user. For some embodiments, a fallout manager may monitor the use of logical fields in building queries, update usage characteristics, and mark logical fields as hidden based on the usage characteristics. A graphical user interface may not present to a user logical fields that have been marked as hidden. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211587 | APPLICATION LAUNCHING VIA INDEXED DATA - Application launching on a computer via indexed data. Based on a search term entered by a user, the computer searches an index containing metadata representative of one or more applications installed on the computer. A user interface on the computer's display has a window for displaying the results of searching the index. In addition, the user interface receives user input to select an application from the search results to be initiated. The computer is responsive to the user input via the user interface for initiating the selected application installed on the computer. A computer-readable medium including a persistent component, an index component, a query component, and an execution component embodies further aspects of the invention. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100228762 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE QUERY LINGUISTIC SERVICE - In various example embodiments, a system and method to provide query linguistic service is provided. An initial query term set is received. Phrase recognition is performed on the initial query term set to determine recognized phrases. Using the determined recognized phrases, one or more synonyms for each of the recognized phrases are determined. Results matching the initial query term set and any selected synonyms from the determined one or more synonyms are determined. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110040775 | PROACTIVE ANALYTIC DATA SET REDUCTION VIA PARAMETER CONDITION INJECTION - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for injecting parameter conditions to reduce a size of a data set to be processed. A data set may be received to be processed by an analytic routine. The data set may include results from executing a first query. Further, input may be received from a user, the input specifying a parameter specific to the analytic routine to be performed on the data set. At least one condition associated with the specified parameter may be identified. A second query may be generated from the first query and the identified condition. The second query may be executed to generate a reduced data set. The analytic routine may be performed on the reduced data set to generate an output to the user. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110040776 | Semantic Trading Floor - Review and filtering of search results is facilitated by providing additional types of results beyond links to existing documents can be provided in addition to or in place of links to existing documents. These additional results can facilitate modifying a search request to filter out unwanted documents. The additional results, when in the form of content display objects and/or application display objects, can also provide the user with varying levels of information detail. In some preferred embodiments, an ontology based knowledge base can be leveraged in order to facilitate providing and filtering the results. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110055241 | High precision search system and method - A high precision search system and method receives a full-text search request from a user and processes the full-text search request to determine the meanings of key words within the search request. The high precision search system creates a graphical representation of the search request based on the key words in the search request and the frequency with which they appear. The high precision search system accepts direct user input for modifying the graphical profile. The high precision search system also provides suggestions for adding new concepts and entities to the graphical profile and improving the search results. The system offers an extreme precision option wherein paragraphs are extracted from selected documents that match the search profile. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110060752 | TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR SEARCH QUERY REFINEMENT - Computer-implemented methods and a computing system are provided for presenting a new user interface paradigm which allows users to explore facets related to a search query term while maintaining the original state of the search query term or staying within the confines of the user defined topic. The methods and system present facets or categories of relevant topics of a user generated search query term. The user may then explore these facets in a number of embodiments while maintaining the state of the search. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110066630 | MULTIMEDIA OBJECT RETRIEVAL FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES - A method for identifying multi-media assets from a multi-media collection, and the method implemented at least in part by a data processing system and comprising the steps of: receiving a search query, the search query, or a derivative thereof, including a possessive phrase, wherein the possessive phrase includes a possessor and a possession category; identifying a denoted object referred to by the possessive phrase using a predefined relationship database that establishes social relationships between objects; identifying one or more additional possessors of the denoted object using the predefined relationship database; generating one or more additional possessive phrases for the denoted objects relating the identified additional possessors to the denoted object; and identifying one or more multi-media assets from the multi-media collection containing the denoted object responsive to the one or more additional possessive phrases. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110087686 | INCREMENTAL QUERY REFINEMENT - A method of incrementally refining queries and updating query result lists without requiring a user to provide an explicit indicator of query submission. In the method, one or more query related character patterns are defined. Entry of query defining characters by a user is monitored to detect entry of a defined query related character pattern. The user is provided with one or more suggested query refinement options and an updated query result list each time a defined query related character pattern is detected. The query related character patterns may be a character pattern that indicates a word has been input by the user. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110145269 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUICKLY DETERMINING A SUBSET OF IRRELEVANT DATA FROM LARGE DATA CONTENT - The present invention is directed to a system and method for quickly searching for all irrelevant data items in a data set based on a logical expression of an issue of interest to a user, which describes what the user is searching for. By performing this search, the size of data set that the system needs to search to find relevant documents is significantly reduced. The system is also configured to identify terms that are being used in possibly inconsistent ways with their normally accepted means so that code words can be uncovered. Additionally, the system is configured to search for Trade Terms that are not contained in any Dictionaries. In some embodiments, the system and method of the present invention utilize advanced automated search techniques including highlighting capability and use of query terms for determining subsets of relevant or irrelevant content data (in paper or electronic form). | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110153635 | Interactive Visualization of Sender and Recipient Information In Electronic Communications - An approach is provided that visually distinguishes between entity types in a communication system. A Data store with entities is queried, with entities connected to one another as senders and receivers, resulting in a query result. A node data structure corresponding to each of the entities is created and an edge data structure corresponding to each of the connections between the entities is also created. Nodes corresponding to the node data structures are displayed, along with edges (e.g., connection lines) corresponding to the edge data structures. A user selects one of the nodes that is displayed, and the selected node is visually highlighted. Different types of non-selected nodes are identified based on the selected node. Types of nodes may include sender type nodes, receiver type nodes, and sender/receiver type nodes. The types of identified nodes are highlighted in a manner that visually distinguishes each type from the other types. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110161341 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ITERATIVE DISAMBIGUATION INTERFACE - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for an iterative disambiguation interface. A system practicing the method receives a search query formatted according to a standard XML markup language for containing and annotating interpretations of user input, the search query being based on a natural language spoken query from a user and retrieves search results based on the search query. The system transmits the search results to a user device and iteratively receives multimodal input from the user to change search attributes and transmits updated search results to the user device based on the changed search attributes. The search results can include a link to additional information, such as a video presentation, related to the search results. The standard XML markup language can be Extensible MultiModal Annotation (EMMA) markup language from W3C. The system can generate an iteration transaction history for each multimodal input and updated search result. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110179055 | Controlling Presentation of Refinement Options in Online Searches - A method is provided that includes specifying enabling relationships, which map enabling sets of one or more enabling attribute-value pairs to respective enableable attributes. Responsively to the search query, a current state is designated that comprises current-state attribute-value pairs, and a result set is generated containing some of the items of a corpus. An enableable attribute of one of the enabling relationships is identified as enabled when the current-state attribute-value pairs include all of the enabling attribute-value pairs of the enabling relationship. A populated attribute-value pair is found that comprises the enabled attribute and a value therefor, and which, when added to the search query, results in an extended query that is satisfied by at least one of the items in the corpus. The result set is presented in association with the value of the populated attribute-value pair as a refinement option. Other embodiments are also described. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110208768 | SOURCING TERMS INTO A SEARCH ENGINE - Information may be presented to a user by receiving a selection of one or more terms passively displayed in a document, loading the terms to a search configuration, generating first results responsive to a user's predicted interest as expressed in the search configuration, and enabling display of the first results. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110246496 | INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD AND INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD BASED ON USER'S INTENTION - Disclosed are a method for searching information based on user's intention and a method for providing information. The method for searching information provides an editor meeting searcher's intention detected using analysis results for keywords and searches contents having metadata associated with metadata input through the editor. As a result, a search may be formed by detecting searcher's intention from information input by a searcher, inducing a detailed metadata input based on the detected intention, and using the input metadata. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110252047 | METHOD FOR MANAGING INFORMATION - A method for managing the exchange of information is provided, wherein the method includes receiving at least one information location identifier, wherein the at least one information location identifier may be associated with at least one information portal and associating with at least one network browser. The method further includes generating an information location identifier template responsive to the at least one information portal and communicating with the at least one information portal to identify resultant information. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110264680 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING ONTOLOGY-BASED DATA STRUCTURES - Systems and methods that for searching and displaying ontology-based data structures so that the essential and relevant qualities of searched subject matters may be categorized by subject indices. The system and methods described below utilize ontology-based data systems to enable a more integrated and tighter search experience while at the same time providing a natural search experience | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110276581 | DYNAMIC CREATION OF TOPICAL KEYWORD TAXONOMIES - System and methods for dynamically generating taxonomies of keywords and/or descriptors are provided. In one example, a navigation system for accessing a corpus of information provides for dynamic taxonomy generation expanding upon a topic entered by a user in a user interface. The navigation system generates, dynamically, at least one term associated with the received topic from at least one sense or meaning retrieved from a semantic network. The navigation system is further configured to present to the user the at least one term as a selectable refinement in response to receiving the topic entered by the user in the user interface. The system can also be configured to retrieve terms and/or senses from the semantic network and evaluate any retrieved terms for their informativeness. The system can further cache any information generated during taxonomy creation and update the corpus to reflect useful refinements. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110282892 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO GUIDE FORMULATIONS OF QUESTIONS FOR DIGITAL INVESTIGATION ACTIVITIES - A system and method for guiding a user in building a query are disclosed. The method includes providing an interaction space in which a user formulates a query using a plurality of query building blocks selected from a predefined set of query building blocks. The user's formulation of the query is guided. Guiding selection of at least a next building block is provided by at least one of a content-based mechanism which limits the selection of the next building block to those which will yield at least one result from an indexed collection of documents, a structure-based selection mechanism which limits the selection of the next building block to those which meet a predefined grammar, and a usage-based selection mechanism which proposes a next building block based on patterns of building blocks used in building prior queries. Each of these guidance mechanisms may be provided with the result that the next block proposed is informed by each of the mechanisms. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110295871 | Filtering and Sorting Information - Generally described, embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to sort and/or filter information contained in a summary table based on related information that may not be included in the summary table. According to one aspect, a computer-readable medium having computer executable components for filtering or sorting information displayed in a summary table is provided. Included in the computer executable medium is a category receipt and identification component configured to receive selections of categories and identify related categories contained in a dataset represented by the summary table. Also included in the computer-readable medium is a filtering component and a sorting component, each configured to control the structure and criteria upon which information contained in a category displayed in the data summary table may be filtered or sorted. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110307504 | COMBINING ATTRIBUTE REFINEMENTS AND TEXTUAL QUERIES - A user submits an unstructured query that is analyzed to determine a mapping from attributes to attribute values. One or more matching items from a structured data set are determined based on the attribute values of attributes associated with the items. The matching items are displayed. One or more refinement attributes are displayed, each with one or more attribute values. The attribute values in the refinements that correspond to the attribute values of the query are shown as selected. If the user selects any of the refinement attributes, the query is revised to incorporate the attribute values of the selected refinements. New matching items are determined using the revised structured query. The revised structured query and the new matching items are displayed. This process can be iterated, by modification of the query or the refinements. The matching items, the selected refinement attribute values and the query are synchronized. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110314038 | PERSONAL INVENTORY MANAGER - A device retrieves information associated with personal inventory from a personal inventory database, and provides for display of an input personal inventory option, a search personal inventory option, and a search loaned personal inventory option based on the retrieved personal inventory information. The device further receives selection of one of the input personal inventory option, the search personal inventory option, or the search loaned personal inventory option, and receives information associated with a new personal inventory item when the input personal inventory option is selected. The device also provides for display of search personal inventory information when the search personal inventory option is selection, and provides for display of search loaned personal inventory information when the search loaned personal inventory option is selected. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120023118 | PALEONEIGHBORHOOD HYDROCARBON SPATIAL SYSTEM - A paleogeographic search system is provided for locating geoscience data relevant to a geographic search aperture. The paleogeographic search system comprises a geodatabase, an interface, a paleogeographic reconstruction engine, and a host processor. The paleogeographic engine is configured to transform the geographic search aperture according to tectonic plate movements to a transformed search aperture that the geographic search aperture occupied in a geological age of interest. The host processor is configured to apply a paleoaugmented geographic search aperture to a geodatabase for additional oil exploration data relevant to the geographic search aperture today. The paleoaugmented geographic search aperture is defined by augmenting the transformed search aperture to include relevant proximal locations for the selected geological age of interest to create an augmented transformed search area; and transforming the augmented transformed search aperture, according to tectonic plate movements, to the paleoaugmented geographic search aperture in present day world geography. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023119 | DATA SEARCHING SYSTEM - A method of and system for searching for data, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a query from a user; ii) analysing the content of the user query received in step i); iii) presenting one or more selection options to the user based on the results of the analysis performed in step ii); iv) receiving the one or more selections from the user; v) augmenting the query in accordance with the selections received in step iv); vi) searching a data index for terms that match with the augmented query; and vii) returning to the user one or more search results which match the terms of the augmented query. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120030226 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING LEXICALLY-RELATED QUERY ELEMENTS WITHIN A DYNAMIC OBJECT FOR SEMANTIC SEARCH REFINEMENT AND NAVIGATION - A method and system for dynamically refining and navigating between alternative search query elements are disclosed. The method and system are applicable to searching an information system such as the Internet, an intranet, or any database, lexicon, or collection of documents, disk drive, images or video or audio content. A user enters their search query into a search query receiver. As the user enters their search query, they see, in real-time in a dynamically-generated object, such as a drop-down menu, iFrame, or browser window, possible matches to their search query string, and more specifically, the user receives within the dynamic object alternative semantically- and lexically-related search elements that relate to the search query string and from which the user can either make a selection to further refine their search query, or the user can proceed to view search results based on the selected query element. The relation of alternate lexical elements is based on a controlled or structured vocabulary (for example a thesaurus). | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120078936 | VISUAL-CUE REFINEMENT OF USER QUERY RESULTS - Methods and computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate refining query results using visual cues are provided. Query results are determined in response to an indication of a user query. One or more groups of query results are generated from the query results based on categories of query results that share similar features. Visual cues are associated with each of the query result groups. Visual cues, in association with query result groups, are presented to a user. Query results associated with a selected visual cue may be presented to a user. A refined user query may be generated based on a selected visual cue. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120084310 | CONTEXTUAL QUICK-PICKS - Techniques are provided for facilitating the formulation of queries by providing quick-picks to the user based, at least in part, on the context in which the query is being formulated. Quick-picks are items that, when selected, add search criteria items to a query that is being formed. The quick picks that are presented to the user are selected based on the context in which the search is being performed. For example, a user may be presented with (a) a search box for entering keywords for a search, and (b) selectable words extracted from or otherwise related to the content currently being displayed on the device that is being used to formulate the search query. When the user selects one of the selectable words, the selected word is inserted into the search box, thereby obviating the need to separately enter each character of the word. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084311 | SEARCH SUPPORT DEVICE, SEARCH SUPPORT METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - In a search support device, a first search unit searches a storage medium for at least one first string that includes a search string. A second search unit searches the storage medium for at least one second string that includes a corrected string corrected from the search string. A first choice, which is set to specify a specific first string from among the at least one first string to narrow search result, is displayed on a display unit in a first mode. A second choice, which is set to specify a specific second string from among the at least one second string to narrow the search result, is displayed on the display unit in a second mode different from the first mode. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120143891 | SEARCHING DEVICE, SEARCHING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A searching device including a data storage unit that stores a plurality of pieces of data, each of which prescribes search terms respectively corresponding to a plurality of attributes of the piece of data; a character input unit that is configured to input characters that constitute an input search term one by one; and an attribute specifying screen display unit that, when a next character is input subsequently to a input character that has been input by the character input unit, displays an attribute specifying screen, including a corresponding attribute corresponding to at least one candidate of the input search term to be extracted from among the search terms by inputting the next character, configured such that the corresponding attribute is specified by a user. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120158765 | User Interface for Interactive Query Reformulation - Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing methods are provided for classifying search results as either of good quality or of poor quality. Initially, a portion of the search results, such as the highest ranked documents, are selected for evaluation. A level of quality for each of the selected search results is determined using a classification process that includes the following steps: targeting features demonstrated by the selected search results to be evaluated; evaluating the selected features to generate a level-of-quality score for each of the selected search results; comparing the score against a predefined threshold value; and, based on the comparison, assigning each of the selected search results an absolute measurement. The absolute measurement indicates poor quality when the score is less than the threshold value. Upon recognizing that the selected search results are of poor quality, a corrective action that reformulates the issued search query is automatically invoked. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158766 | Method, System and Program Product for Searching a Database - A method, system and program product comprises displaying a search window comprising a selection portion and a results portion. The selection portion being configured for displaying at least selectable items in a categorical hierarchy. The results portion being configured for displaying at least a result of a search of a dynamic database. A user's selection of said selectable items is transmitted to a server in which the server conducts a search of the dynamic database using criteria of the selected items. The results of search are received from the server. The results are paginated to fit within the results portion. A page of the paginated results is displayed in the results portion. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120173559 | DATABASE SEARCHING METHOD, SYSTEM AND CONTROLLER - A method, system and controller is provided for searching a database containing data items with a user via a user inter the method comprising the steps of specifying an initial search subset of some or all of the data items in the database ( | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173560 | QUERY ROUTING - A search query is submitted to one or more information sources associated with a category of the query. The category of the query is indicated by a query ontology that relates queries to query categories. The information sources represent information sources from which a high percentage of search results for queries associated with the category are retrieved. For instance, the category of the query is identified by identifying categories corresponding to variations of the query, where each variation represents a combination of the terms within the query, and where the categories of the variations are assumed to be the categories of the query. Information sources associated with the query categories are identified, and the query is submitted to the identified information sources. Submitting the query to the identified information sources may cause search results retrieved for the query to more closely reflect search results desired by a user that specified the query. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120179704 | TEXTUAL QUERY BASED MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - A system and method are proposed for identifying multimedia files in a first database which are related to a textual term specified by a user. The textual term is used to search a second database of multimedia files, each of which is associated with a portion of text. The “second database” is usually composed of files from the databases of a very large number of servers connected via the internet. The multimedia files identified in the search are ones for which the corresponding associated text is relevant to the textual term. The identified multimedia files are used to generate a classifier engine. The classifier engine is then applied to the first database of multimedia files, thereby retrieving multimedia files in the first database which are relevant to the textual term. The user can optionally specify whether the retrieved multimedia files are relevant or not, and this permits a feedback process to improve the classifier engine. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120209870 | WEB QUERY CLASSIFICATION - A query phrase may be automatically classified to one or more topics of interest (e.g., categories) to assist in routing the query phrase to one or more appropriate backend databases. A selectional preference query classification technique may be used to classify the query phrase based on a comparison between the query phrase and patterns of query phrases. Additionally, or alternatively, a combination of query classification techniques may be used to classify the query phrase. Topical classification of a query phrase also may be used to assist a search system in delivering auxiliary information to a user who entered the query phrase. Advertisements, for instance, may be tailored based on classification rather than query keywords. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120254219 | BOOLEAN SEARCH QUERY SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA - A system, method and computer readable media for generating Boolean search queries based on a graphical user interface are disclosed. The system can provide a graphical user interface and extract search terms and relationship control element values from the graphical user interface. The system can generate a Boolean query string based on the search terms and control values. The Boolean query string can be used to query a database. The Boolean query string can be used to generate a search query agent. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120284293 | PRESENTING RELATED SEARCHES ON A TOOLBAR - Computer-readable media and computerized methods for automatically presenting keyword(s) within a search box of a toolbar are provided. The methods involve detecting a navigation action invoked by a user of a web browser and pulling from the web browser a uniform resource locator (URL) targeted by the navigation action. The targeted URL is compared against a manifest of suggested search terms to determine a match. When there exists suggested search term(s) that correspond with the URL, keyword(s) are selected from the suggested search term(s) for presentation within the search box. When no suggested search terms are found to correspond with the URL, the search box is left empty. Generally, a first search service is responsible for enabling the user to visit an online location associated with the URL, while a second search service is responsible for managing content within the search box of the toolbar. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120303649 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING USE OF A SELECTION GUIDE - A system and method functions to automatically invoke a selection guide when the search term(s) provided in a freeform search query are determined to be associated with a category of item for which a selection guide will provide the most efficient means for the user to locate items of interest. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120323950 | EMBEDDED QUERY FORMULATION SERVICE - Systems and methods for providing and utilizing a query formulation service are described herein. In accordance with certain embodiments, an application is configured to obtain data from a target data source by interacting with a data service that makes data from a plurality of data sources available, each data source supporting a different method of query formulation. To obtain data from the target data source, the application requests a query formulation user interface (UI) associated with the target data source from a query formulation service and embeds the requested query formulation UI when it is received from the query formulation service. A user of the application then interacts with the embedded query formulation UI to formulate a query that is suitable for obtaining data from the target data source and the application sends the query to the data service for execution against the target data source. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130013629 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FROM A COLLECTION OF INFORMATION OBJECTS TAGGED WITH HIERARCHICAL KEYWORDS - As a user navigates a web site, a system can formulate or allow the user to formulate a query. The system can automatically expand the query to include additional keywords that were not present in the original query. The system can search a database using the expanded query to identify a set of information objects, each having at least one keyword that is present in the expanded query. The database may include a plurality of database tables, each describing a keyword hierarchy. A hierarchy may correspond to a subject matter category addressed by the information object. Another hierarchy may correspond to a project phase addressed by the information object. Still another hierarchy may correspond to the role or intended audience of the information object. The set of information objects thus identified can be displayed on a client computer where the user can see the results. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130041911 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SEARCH SERVICES INTERACTIVELY DISPLAYING A TYPE OF SEARCH TARGET - An approach is provided for search services. User-defined search input is received by at least one processor. At least a portion of the user-defined search input is determined, via the at least one processor, as corresponding to at least one functional keyword associated with a type of object to be searched. Classification information is generated to facilitate identification of the at least one functional keyword among at least one other portion of the user-defined search input. Search information is generated about at least one object relating to at least some of the user-defined search input based on at least some of the classification information. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130097197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS IN AN ACTIVE USER INTERFACE ELEMENT - An approach is provided for presenting search results in an active user interface element at specific location in a user interface that correspond to the desired information with respect to user interface search element. An element of a user interface receiving a search parameter enables processing of the search parameter to yield location information of the desired information. The location or locations of the desired information are then presented to a user on the user interface. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130110862 | MAINTAINING A BUFFER STATE IN A DATABASE QUERY ENGINE | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130151546 | INTELLIGENT RESULTS USING A SPELLING CORRECTION AGENT - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130204892 | BIASING SEARCH RESULTS TOWARD TOPICS OF INTEREST USING EMBEDDED RELEVANCE LINKS - Redirection (“biasing”) architecture that automates the selection of topical terms in a search query, and provides a user-selectable (e.g., clickable) interface which enables the user to quickly and easily re-formulate and execute a new query using terms that return more focused search results. The redirection of search by biasing the terms (strings) can also be performed by indicating that certain results are not interesting to the user. For example, one way using an existing search engine, is to apply a search operator (e.g., a hyphen) to indicate that certain terms must not occur in the search results (negation). Accordingly, by automatically selecting topical terms to negate, constructing a query, and embedding the negation in a link with each results page result, considerable manual and cognitive effort is saved. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130282748 | Self-Service Composed Web APIs - Individual datasets are accessed using an application programming interface (API). Multiple APIs may be combined into a composite API that allows a user to access multiple datasets using a single query. The composite API may be designed to provide a simpler way to consume information from multiple datasets in response to a particular scenario or problem. The composite API may comprise multiple levels of intermediate APIs that call on each other to access desired datasets. A user may select the datasets that the composite API accesses and/or the composite API may require certain specific datasets. The composite API may be offered for sale or use by other users via a website, such as a data market. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130304756 | Generalizing Formats of Business Data Queries and Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adapting formats of data queries into a generic format. A query requesting data stored in a business objects data source is received. The query has a generic format and includes parameters that describe a computer interface implementation configured to execute the query to identify the requested data. Based on the one or more parameters, the computer software interface implementation is identified. The interface implementation specifies an interface-specific query format. The query is converted from the generic query format into the interface-specific query format, and provided to the computer software interface implementation. The interface implementation executes the interface-specific query and obtains the requested data in an interface-specific results format. This data is converted into a generic results format, and provided in response to receiving the query. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130339379 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND NAVIGATION USING A SEMANTIC LAYER AND DYNAMIC OBJECTS - Systems and methods for information retrieval are provided that permit users and/or processing entities to access and define synthetic data, synthetic objects, and/or synthetic groupings of data in one or more collections of information. In one embodiment, data access on an information retrieval system can occur through an interpretation layer which interprets any synthetic data against data physically stored in the collection. Synthetic data can define virtual data objects, virtual data elements, virtual data attributes, virtual data groupings, and/or data entities that can be interpreted against data that may be stored physically in the collection of information. The system and methods for information retrieval can return results from the one or more collections of information based not only on the data stored, but also on the virtual data generated from interpretation of the stored data. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140040302 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING A LIST OF WORDS RELATED TO A SEARCH CONCEPT - The present invention is a method and system for enhancing the output of standard thesaurus databases. The user requires little knowledge of the meaning of a word for which he is seeking related words. The system requires at least one starter word, and it returns all synonyms regardless of meaning from multiple databases. The synonyms are then arranged in a two dimensional array, and sorted according to frequency. The user then scans the list, starting from the top, and selects one or more entries from the sorted frequency array, and the re-runs. After several cycles of running and selecting new entries, the related words having the highest relevance to the searcher will rise to top of the frequency array. The end result is a group of related words having one or more meanings, and also having a relationship to a single concept being sought by the user. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040303 | Enablement of Quasi Time Dependency in Organizational Hierarchies - Changes to a hierarchical organizational structure may be stored in different versions of a data structure depicting the hierarchical organizational structure. Each of these versions may include a validity period field representing a time period that the hierarchical organizational structure depicted in the version accurately reflects the organizational structure of the organization. Each of the versions may also be designated as active or inactive. In some instances, each of the versions may be designated as inactive except for a version that reflects the organizational structure of the organization at a particular time, which may change over time. Historical copies of versions may be stored and subsequently recalled to identify an organizational structure that was in effect at a particular time in the past. The recalled version may then be used to limit the results of a query to a selected node of the historical organizational structure. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140059070 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION SEARCH APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process including accepting input of multiple search keywords; searching streaming data in which multiple pieces of character information about multiple users are managed in time series for the character information including one of the multiple search keywords; acquiring the character information within a predetermined time range with respect to the character information including the one of the multiple search keywords, among the other pieces of character information about the user who has posted the character information including the one of the multiple search keywords, as user data; searching the user data for the character information including the multiple search keywords other than the one search keyword; and outputting the character information within a predetermined time range with respect to the result of the search in the user data as output data. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140095527 | EXPANDING HIGH LEVEL QUERIES - A received query is modified by identifying one or more words or phrases in the query that have known associations with stored data upon which the query can be executed, determining whether each of the one or more words or phrases is associated with an attribute name corresponding to stored data, determining whether each of the one or more words or phrases is associated with any constraints regarding an attribute name, determining whether each of the one or more words or phrases is associated with a rule regarding structure or syntax of the query, substituting any determined attribute names into the query for each of the respective associated one or more words or phrases, adding any determined constraints to the query limiting a determined attribute name, and applying any determined rules associated with the one or more words or phrases. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140164423 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing device may include a control unit to control movement of an image related to content within a predetermined area of a display, and a display format of the image based on at least one of a category of the content to which the image is related or meta-information corresponding to the content to which the image is related. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140258323 | TASK ASSISTANT - A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application is described. The method comprises receiving input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, interpreting the input, and providing a formatted query to the application, receiving data from the application in response to the query, and providing a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258324 | TASK ASSISTANT UTILIZING CONTEXT FOR IMPROVED INTERACTION - A method of providing a task assistant is described. The task assistant is designed to receive input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, determine the meaning of the input, and determining whether there is a context based on prior interactions with the user. The method further to generate an interpreted input based on a combination of the input and the context, and providing a formatted query to an application. The method further to receive data from the application in response to the formatted query, and provide a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output. The method further to update the context based on the interpreted input. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258325 | CONTACT SEARCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND APPLIED MOBILE TERMINAL - The present invention provides a contact searching method, including: receiving first input of a user; selecting a first grapheme from a first graphemes sequence according to the first input, the first graphemes sequence being displayed on a display; where the first graphemes sequence is associated with an initial unit of characters in multiple contact labels; receiving second input of the user; selecting a second grapheme from a second graphemes sequence according to the second input, the second graphemes sequence being displayed on the display, and the second graphemes sequence being associated with a secondary unit of characters in the multiple contact labels; and searching for and displaying a contact label on the display, where contact label is matched with the first grapheme and the second grapheme. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140280284 | PIVOT FACETS FOR TEXT MINING AND SEARCH - Provided are techniques for providing and using pivot facets for text mining and search. A metadata field is mapped to a pivot facet. In response to executing a first query, at least a first document and the pivot facet are displayed. In response to selection of the pivot facet, a second query that includes a value of the metadata field is generated, and the second query is executed to locate at least a second document that includes the value of the metadata field. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280285 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING FAILED AND SUCCESSFUL SEARCH QUERIES - Computerized systems and methods are provided for analyzing failed and successful search queries. In accordance with some embodiments, search records with character strings that are refinements of character strings of other search records are deemed related as belonging to a same user search. Minimum changed sections between character strings in related search records are determined. Correction pairs are created including the character sequences from the portions of the character strings containing the minimum changed sections. Frequencies of correction pairs in a pool of correction pairs are calculated, and the correction pairs appearing in the pool most frequently are stored in a correction log. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280286 | ASSISTED QUERY FORMATION, VALIDATION, AND RESULT PREVIEWING IN A DATABASE HAVING A COMPLEX SCHEMA - Disclosed are a method, a device and/or a system of assisted query formation, validation, and result previewing in a database having a complex schema. In one aspect, a method of a query editor includes generating a data profile which includes a set of characteristics captured at various granularities of an initial result set generated from an initial query using a processor and a memory. The method determines what a user expects in the initial result set of the initial query and/or a subsequent result set of a subsequent query based on the data profile and/or a heuristically estimated data profile. The method includes enabling the user to evaluate a semantic accuracy of the subsequent query based on the likely expectation of the user as determined through the set of characteristics of the data profile. The set of characteristics may include metadata of the initial query. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280287 | ASSISTED QUERY FORMATION, VALIDATION, AND RESULT PREVIEWING IN A DATABASE HAVING A COMPLEX SCHEMA - Disclosed are a method, a device and/or a system of assisted query formation, validation, and result previewing in a database having a complex schema. In one aspect, a method of a query editor includes generating a data profile which includes a set of characteristics captured at various granularities of an initial result set generated from an initial query using a processor and a memory. The method determines what a user expects in the initial result set of the initial query and/or a subsequent result set of a subsequent query based on the data profile and/or a heuristically estimated data profile. The method includes enabling the user to evaluate a semantic accuracy of the subsequent query based on the likely expectation of the user as determined through the set of characteristics of the data profile. The set of characteristics may include metadata of the initial query. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280288 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CONVERSATION MESSAGES - A method for managing messages is provided, including: displaying, by a first terminal, a conversation screen associated with a plurality of messages; displaying an indication that there is a link query corresponding to a first message; detecting whether the indication is selected; responsive to the indication being selected, performing a first search of the plurality of messages for the first message, the first search being performed based on a first search key that is generated using the link query; and displaying the first message when the first search is successful. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140317138 | METHOD OF FACILITATING MANIPULATION OF A DATABASE QUERY - A user of a computer system is presented an initial presentation of a database query. The query has two or more dimensions, each of which includes two or more elements, and data corresponding to n-tuples of the elements. A selection is received from the user of one or more sets of elements of one of the dimension to transform into (a) (respective) parameter(s). One or more instructions are received from the user to modify the presentation, with each instruction being confined to providing an instance of the active value of a respective parameter. The initial presentation is modified in accordance with only that/those instruction(s). | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140324902 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF A COLLECTION OF CONTENT - A content collection system receives a natural language input and identifies a type of content to be collected based on the natural language input. Items of content from multiple different digital media types are collected from a plurality of different sources and organized in an order. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140344303 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND CONTROLLER FOR SEARCHING A DATABASE CONTAINING DATA ITEMS - A method, system and controller is provided for searching a database containing data items with a user via a user inter the method comprising the steps of specifying an initial search subset of some or all of the data items in the database ( | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140358956 | EXPANDING HIGH LEVEL QUERIES - One or more computer processors identify words in a natural language query that have previously-established associations with stored data upon which the query will be executed. The natural language query is formatted to a query template that includes at least one first component and at least one second component. One or more computer processors modify the at least one first component of the a query template based on at least one link between the one or more words in the natural language query and the at least one first component. One or more computer processors generate a new query by adding one or more values to the query template. The one or more values are added to the query template based on the modification of the at least one first component. One or more computer processors execute a search based on the new query. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140372467 | CONTEXTUAL SMART TAGS FOR CONTENT RETRIEVAL - An aspect provides a method, including: obtaining, at an information handling device, user input search data; accessing contextual data; refining, using one or more processors, the user input search data based on the contextual data; searching, using one or more processors, a repository of stored tag data with refined user input search data to identify one or more stored tags matching one or more stored objects; and returning, using one or more processors, one or more results of the searching, the one or more results indicating one or more stored objects associated with stored tag data. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20150039643 | SYSTEM FOR STORING AND SEARCHING IMAGE FILES, AND CLOUD SERVER - A cloud server and a system for storing and searching image files configured to add search information for a search by a user to page images constituting an image file are disclosed. In the system for storing and searching the image files, an input display part of a user terminal displays a page image notification screen to make the user add the search information to the current displayed page image, a user-side communication part sends the search information and the current displayed page image to the cloud server, and an addition control part of the cloud server adds the search information to the corresponding page image. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150066973 | Modifying Search Results Based on Dismissal Action Associated With One or More of the Search Results - Methods and apparatus for modifying search results based a dismissal action associated with one or more of the search results by a user to whom the search results are presented. Initially provided search results may include at least a first set of search results that are associated with a first entity and a second set of search results that are associated with a second entity. In response to a dismissal action associated with one or more of the search results of the first set, the initial search results may be modified to demote and/or omit one or more search results of the first set. The user may be provided with the modified search results. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150066974 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR SEARCHING ICD CODES LINKED TO HIERARCHICALLY ORGANIZED KEYWORDS THAT ARE APPLIED TO A STANDARDS-BASED VOCABULARY - A stand-alone web-based rapid anatomical documentation (RAD) system searches for ICD codes linked to key words that are applied to a standards-based structured vocabulary. The RAD system provides a search screen divided into a plurality of display regions for selecting a search type from the search screen. The search type includes a text search and anatomy search. Based on the type of search initialed, search filters and ICD codes are made available. Selecting at least one search filter causes an update of the search filters and ICD codes available, wherein the selection of the search filters can be repeated until a number of codes available reach a minimum value. Each ICD code is linked to keywords hierarchically organized and associated with the search filters, links to defined regions on anatomical art images and clinically relevant information. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150088920 | System and Method for an Iterative Disambiguation Interface - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for an iterative disambiguation interface. A system practicing the method receives a search query formatted according to a standard XML markup language for containing and annotating interpretations of user input, the search query being based on a natural language spoken query from a user and retrieves search results based on the search query. The system transmits the search results to a user device and iteratively receives multimodal input from the user to change search attributes and transmits updated search results to the user device based on the changed search attributes. The search results can include a link to additional information, such as a video presentation, related to the search results. The standard XML markup language can be Extensible MultiModal Annotation (EMMA) markup language from W3C. The system can generate an iteration transaction history for each multimodal input and updated search result. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150095365 | QUERY BUILDING USING SCHEMA - A query building mechanism in which a query builder component assists a user in generating queries to be used to populate user interface elements. A control provides a query schema to the query builder component. The query schema identifies available query parameters that the control is capable of using to populate a corresponding user interface element. The query builder component presents at least some of the available query parameters the user, such that the user may edit these parameters. The query builder component gathers those edits and generates a query therefrom. The query parameters may be provided to the query builder component in consistent manner across a wide variety of possible user interface controls. Furthermore, the resulting query is provided in a uniform query format. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150134688 | IMAGE BASED SEARCH - Described is a system and method for enabling visual search for information. With each selection of an object included in an image, additional images that include visually similar objects are determined and presented to the user. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150149499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE QUERY LINGUISTIC SERVICE - In various example embodiments, a system and method to provide query linguistic service is provided. An initial query term set is received. Phrase recognition is performed on the initial query term set to determine recognized phrases. Using the determined recognized phrases, one or more synonyms for each of the recognized phrases are determined. Results matching the initial query term set and any selected synonyms from the determined one or more synonyms are determined. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150331903 | SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFICATION CODE SELECTION - A system for classification code selection is provided. In some embodiments, the system receives a geographic location indicator associated with a plurality of geographic location-based rules stored in a database. The system monitors a user input interface of an interactive user display for a user input string that includes a minimum number of characters. A suggestion request may be generated to retrieve a data set from the database that matches the geographic location indicator and the user input string based on determining that the user input string includes at least the minimum number of characters. The data set received in response to the suggestion request may be formatted as a list including one or more entries, where each of the entries has a numeric classification code and a corresponding description. The list may be output on the interactive user display for selection and further processing. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150346845 | HANDS FREE DEVICE WITH DIRECTIONAL INTERFACE - Embodiments provide a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer program code that, when executed, performs an operation. The operation includes detecting a user action requesting an interaction with a first device and originating from a source. Additionally, embodiments determine a direction in which the source is located, relative to a current position of the first device. A response to the user action is also determined, based on a current state of the first device. Embodiments further include outputting the determined response substantially in the determined direction in which the source is located. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160019258 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING REAL-TIME ANALYTICS BASED ON MULTIPLE TYPES OF STREAMED DATA - Streaming data from a plurality of streaming data sources can be received. The streaming data may not be stored in persistent storage. A query can be received from a client device. A rule can be defined based on the query. The rule can be applied to the streaming data. Alerts associated with a subset of the streaming data that matches the rule can be stored in persistent storage. A signal associated with the alerts can be sent to the client device such that the graphical user interface is updated based on the alerts. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160026680 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING A SPARQL QUERY - The present disclosure provides system and method for executing SPARQL query on a SPARQL engine. For executing the SPARQL query, a function may be instantly integrated with the SPARQL query which leads to extension of the SPARQL query. The extension may be achieved through a user friendly interface which may allow transparent integration of code (i.e., the function) in any language such as JAVA, C, C++ and the like, supporting a particular functionality. The system may integrate the code by addition of newly added code to the SPARQL library after validation. Further, the system may analyze the functionality associated with the code to optimize decision making of a user. The system may further support auto compilation and rating of the functions based on the user feedback and re-usability of the code working in a collaborative environment. Further the system may enable also enable to integrate external tools and web services. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160048557 | GRAPH BASED SELECTION OF DECORRELATED VARIABLES - A computing device to select decorrelated variables using a graph based method is provided. A correlation value is computed between each pair of a plurality of variables to define a correlation matrix. A binary threshold value is compared to each correlation value to define a binary similarity matrix from the correlation matrix. An undirected graph comprising a subgraph that includes one or more connected nodes is defined based on the binary similarity matrix to store connectivity information for the plurality of variables. Each node of the subgraph is pairwise associated with a unique variable of the variables. (a) A least connected node is selected from the undirected graph based on the connectivity information. (b) The selected least connected node is removed from the undirected graph. (c) The connectivity information for the undirected graph is updated based on the removed node. (d) (a)-(c) are repeated until a stop criterion is satisfied. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160070712 | Dynamically Modifying Geographical Search Regions - A first search is executed to obtain a first set of search results corresponding to a first geographical search area. A determination is made that the first set of search results does not meet a search results criteria. A second geographical search region is dynamically selected for executing a second search in response to determining that the first set of search results does not meet the search results criteria. The second search is executed to obtain a second set of search results corresponding to the second geographical search area. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160103871 | GRAPH REPRESENTATION OF DATA EXTRACTION FOR USE WITH A DATA REPOSITORY - A graph representation is described that may be used for data extraction for a data repository. In one example, the graph representation defines an extraction dataset from an object. A selection from a user for a root node is received. Additional are presented for selection by the user based on fields and properties of the selected root node. The root node and selected additional objects are presented as a data graph. The selected objects are joined and presented in the data graph. Finally a dataset is extracted from the object-oriented database based on the data graph. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160132552 | ODATA CUSTOM QUERY COMPOSER - A system and a method for creating an OData custom query involve retrieving properties for a data object defined in a software application, and then displaying a graphical user interface by which the retrieved properties are selected together with additional options. A plurality of partial queries are created based on the selected properties and the additional options. The partial queries are combined to form a complete OData query for the software application. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160162540 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING ONTOLOGY-BASED DATA STRUCTURES - Systems and methods that for searching and displaying ontology-based data structures so that the essential and relevant qualities of searched subject matters may be categorized by subject indices. The system and methods described below utilize ontology-based data systems to enable a more integrated and tighter search experience while at the same time providing a natural search experience | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160188658 | VISUAL SEARCH AND RECOMMENDATION USER INTERFACE AND APPARATUS - The present disclosure is directed towards conducting a search for content and results using a user interface. A number of graphical objects ( | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160378861 | REAL-TIME HUMAN-MACHINE COLLABORATION USING BIG DATA DRIVEN AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGIES - A computing system includes a vision-based user interface platform to, among other things, analyze multi-modal user interactions, semantically correlate stored knowledge with visual features of a scene depicted in a video, determine relationships between different features of the scene, and selectively display virtual elements on the video depiction of the scene. The analysis of user interactions can be used to filter the information retrieval and correlating of the visual features with the stored knowledge. | 12-29-2016 |
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