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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:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1998
Carol Sue Christensen, Austin, TX (US);
Janice Marie Girouard, Austin, TX (US);
Nizamudeen Ishmael, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Richard Dennis Talbot, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of searching for files located in a computer system, wherein each file has at least one of a plurality of fields, by creating a search query, selecting a subset of the fields for searching wherein the subset is selected independent of the search query, and processing the files by examining the content of only those fields included in the subset for matching against the query. The fields can be selected by using a default setting. Certain fields are ignored during the processing step. An illustrative embodiment is adapted for use with hypertext markup language (HTML) files that are transmitted along the Internet's World Wide Web. The user interface may include a pop-up window that displays a list of the tags which may be embedded in the files, and allows a user to individually select one or more tags so displayed for searching.
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