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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. 28, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tadanobu Miyauchi, Nakai-machi, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/721 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/721 ;
Abstract
Thesauruses meeting users' purposes are generated by various operations as required. A plurality of external thesauruses,each storing a thesaurus to be retrieved are connected to a thesaurus retrieval and synthesis device,through a network,wherein the thesaurus retrieval and synthesis device,on receiving a request to define the thesauruses to be synthesized from an input unit,retrieves partial thesauruses corresponding to the request from the external thesauruses,in a retrieval unit,A synthesis unit,forms a new thesaurus from a plurality of retrieved partial thesauruses by subjecting them to product, addition, and other operations corresponding to the request.