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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:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jonathan M. Goldberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Tacit Knowledge Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A search is refined, where a user enters a keyword, and a database comprising terms is searched for terms comprising the keyword. Every unique member in the terms is assigned an importance value to produce a set of discriminator members. The discriminator members are presented to the user, and the user may select one or more of the discriminator members to refine the search. If the user selects any keywords, a new keyword is created using the original keyword and the selected discriminator members. A new search is conducted based on the new keyword.