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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:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robin Richard Walton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, GB;
Assignee:
Fujitsu Services Limited, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A computer-implemented method is described, for searching for items in an electronic catalog, e.g. an on-line catalog accessible over the Internet. A hierarchy of category names is defined, each item in the electronic catalog being associated with one of those category names. When a search page is accessed, the category names are scanned, to generate a list of words that appear in the category names at any level of the hierarchy. The list of words is displayed in the search page, allowing a user to select one. When the user selects a word from the list, a list of items whose category names contain the selected word is displayed.