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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1998
Tsunehisa Doi, Kawasaki, JP;
Ikuo Miyoshi, Kawasaki, JP;
Takeshi Sekine, Kawasaki, JP;
Tatsuya Shindo, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A information retrieving method of realizing the improvement of retrieval performance without conducting fine-grain processing and allowing a parallelizing operation for sequential retrieval engines to be conducted easily. Accordingly, the information retrieving method according to this invention is made to connect retrieving servers in parallel with respect to a retrieval managing server through the use of a parallel framework which makes the retrieving servers conduct parallel processing by integrating the functions of the retrieving servers in a manner of directly using the functions thereof without changing. The data to be retrieved is distributed or substantially equally to the retrieving servers, while the retrieval requests from clients are successively broadcasted to the retrieving servers without waiting for the retrieval results from the retrieving servers. This invention can be effectively applied for fetching necessary information from a database retaining various kinds of information.