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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:
Aug. 08, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
William A Woods, Winchester, MA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707-3 ; 707-6 ; 707-2 ;
Abstract
Systems and methods consistent with the present invention access information from databases having stored indexes of completed information corresponding to the databases by receiving a query identifying desired information; examining the concepts of information in the stored indexes to identify as hits the contents of the databases that match the query; determining, for each hit, a measure of a difference between the query and the conceptual information from the indexes; and combining the hits from the indexes in accordance with the determined measures.