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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Katsumi Tada, Yokohama, JP;
Kanji Kato, Tokorozawa, JP;
Satoshi Asakawa, Ebina, JP;
Akio Azuma, Kashiwa, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707-2 ; 707102 ;
Abstract
A document searching system searches for other documents having a user-specified document cited therein as its referred document to thereby uncover the latest document associated with the user-specified document. In related document searching method, document information is registered in a text storage region, a referred document table and a related document table are created, and referred documents associated with the user-specified document are searched for with use of the created tables.