Reed Elsevier Inc.

Catherine Leininger

John Holt

Thomas Pease

David James Miller

Ray Daley

Darin W McBeath

Richard G Graham

Dale Waddell

Franz Weckesser

Minh Doan

X Allan Lu

Steven M Sever

X Allen Lu

Stephen M Sever

An associative text search and retrieval system uses one or more front end processors to interacting with a network having one or more user terminals connected thereto to allow a user to provide information to the system and receive information from the system. The system also includes storage for a plurality of text documents, and at least one processor, coupled to the front end processors and the document storage. The processor(s) search the text documents according to a search request provided by the user and provide to the front end processor a predetermined number of retrieved documents containing at least one term of the search request. The retrieved documents have higher ranks than documents not provided to the front end processor. The ranks are calculated using a formula that varies according to the square of the frequency in each of the text documents of each of the search terms.

Associative text search and retrieval system having a table indicating

Associative text search and retrieval system

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Catherine Leininger