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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2025
Sanjiv Kapoor, Naperville, IL (US);
Ophir Frieder, Chevy Chase, MD (US);
Sanjiv Kapoor, Naperville, IL (US);
Ophir Frieder, Chevy Chase, MD (US);
Abstract
A method in a data processing system and apparatus for organizing electronic data, structured or unstructured, with associated metalabels, on a recordable medium of a data processing system. The data items are structured in a heterogeneous metalabel search structure. Searching the plurality of metalabel search structures can then be done with a heterogenous-range query including at least one term and one range query. The query can also be specified in a natural language which is converted to the specific heterogenous-range query. Also provided is a method for searching using geometric shapes that are mapped into range-string queries where the ranges are d-dimensional hyper-rectangles or cubes that cover the geometric shape. A method to aid the selection of the appropriate shape is provided as well as a method to cost-efficiently select the hyper-rectangles and cubes to cover the shape.