Reed Elsevier Inc.

Stephen M Sever

X Allan Lu

Thomas Pease

David James Miller

John Holt

Ray Daley

Catherine Leininger

Dale Waddell

Richard G Graham

Franz Weckesser

Darin W McBeath

Minh Doan

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

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Stephen M Sever