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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 28, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Thomas A. Hampp-Bahnmueller, Stuttgart, DE;

Peng H. Jiang, Beijing, CN;

Pi J. Jiang, Beijing, CN;

Yan U. Xu, Beijing, CN;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30619 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and a computer-readable medium for method for searching a plurality of documents. Each document is structured into a set of blocks and each block is associated with a block ID. The method includes receiving a search query including a search term having at least one search term attribute; identifying at least one block ID based on a correlation between the at least one search term attribute and the set of blocks; and identifying at least one document based on a correlation between the set of blocks and the documents. Methods for generating a data structure for searching documents are also described.


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