International Business Machines Corporation

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Ningbo Yinzhou Guojie Machinery Co., Ltd.

Jie Wang

Wei Yan

Jian Lu

Ying Li

Anh Quy Lu

Chuan Yang Wang

Saijun Luo

Jian Hui Chen

Shengli Huang

Yu Zhu Xu

Hailiang Song

Kecheng Li

Xiao Bo Ren

Jinjin Wang

Insulated case

Kayak

Propane torch

Torch handle

A search engine identifies external data records that describe similar entities and may each conform to a different data format or source schema. The engine derives mappings capable of translating data values between differently formatted attributes of two source schemas and uses these mappings to identify degrees of similarity between attributes and schemas. When the search engine receives a search request, the engine translates submitted search criteria into values of a first schema's attributes and then uses the mappings to map those values onto selected attributes of other schemas. The search engine then uses each schema's selected attributes to select external data records formatted in that schema. Each selected record is assigned a match score that is weighted by the similarity of the record schema's selected attributes to the search criteria. Records are then retrieved in order of decreasing match score.

Similarity-based search engine

A method and system for improving a network search query is provided. The method includes receiving a natural language Internet search request and executing a real time search with respect to a database associated with an Internet based search for specified digital information. Categories associated with the natural language Internet search request are identified and associated intent information is received. Digital attributes data identified during the real time search are identified and an associated concept is extracted. The associated concept is mapped to the digital attributes and search based software code is generated and executed. Resulting relevant results are presented and the database is configured such that the relevant results are stored within a logical partition of the database.

Network search mapping and execution

Similarity-based clustering search engine

Growing community of inventors

Ningbo, China

Jie Wang