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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2005
Claude Vogel, Palm Desert, CA (US);
Paul Gardner, Jr., Escondido, CA (US);
Eric Germundson, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Joshua Michael Powers, Reston, VA (US);
Joel Wayne Robertson, Vista, CA (US);
Jon Michael Van Winkle, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Claude Vogel, Palm Desert, CA (US);
Paul Gardner, Jr., Escondido, CA (US);
Eric Germundson, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Joshua Michael Powers, Reston, VA (US);
Joel Wayne Robertson, Vista, CA (US);
Jon Michael Van Winkle, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Convera Corporation, Vienna, VA (US);
Abstract
A search system and method are provided that uses taxonomies, entities, facets, and ontologies to provide a user with a more comprehensive set of search results in response to a query. The search system has an indexing engine that performs one or more indexing steps that permit the search engine to return a comprehensive set of search results. For example, the indexing engine may index a document according to a set of synsets so that the search engine may use the synsets, during retrieval of results to a query, to return a more comprehensive set of search results.