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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2005
Michael J. Dockter, Wellington, FL (US);
Jochen F. Doerre, Stuttgart, DE;
Ronald W. Lynn, Gilroy, CA (US);
Joseph A. Munoz, San Mateo, CA (US);
Randal J. Richardt, San Jose, CA (US);
Roland Seiffert, Herrenberg, DE;
Michael J. Dockter, Wellington, FL (US);
Jochen F. Doerre, Stuttgart, DE;
Ronald W. Lynn, Gilroy, CA (US);
Joseph A. Munoz, San Mateo, CA (US);
Randal J. Richardt, San Jose, CA (US);
Roland Seiffert, Herrenberg, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for improving text searching is disclosed. The method and system provides a network of document relationship and utilizes the network of document relationships to identify the region of documents that can be used to satisfy a user's request. In a preferred embodiment, the text searching method in accordance with the present invention augments a conventional text search by using information on document relationships and metadata. The text searching method and system improves upon conventional text search techniques by incorporating relationship metadata to define regions to search within. In the present invention the definition of a region is not limited to just categories as it includes neighborhoods around individual documents and sets which have been user defined.