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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2001
Robert Kincaid, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Simon Handley, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aditya Vailaya, Los Altos, CA (US);
Parvathi Chundi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Kincaid, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Simon Handley, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Aditya Vailaya, Los Altos, CA (US);
Parvathi Chundi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for performing domain-specific knowledge based metasearches. A metasearch engine is provided for accessing a searching text-based documents using generic search engines while simultaneously being able to access publication based databases and sequence databases as well as in-house proprietary databases and any database capable of being interfaced with a web interface so as to produce search results in text format. A data mining module is also provided for organizing raw data obtained by unsupervised clustering, simple relevance ranking, and categorization, all of which are done independently of one another. The system is capable of storing previous search data for use in query refinement or subsequent searches based upon the stored data. A search results collection browser may be provided for analyzing current browsing patterns of the user for developing weighting factors to be used in ordering the results of future searches.