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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2009
Tim Smith, Waltham, MA (US);
William Kimble Johnson, Iii, Waltham, MA (US);
Rik Tamm-daniels, Boston, MA (US);
Sid Probstein, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Tim Smith, Waltham, MA (US);
William Kimble Johnson, III, Waltham, MA (US);
Rik Tamm-Daniels, Boston, MA (US);
Sid Probstein, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Attivio, Inc., Newton, MA (US);
Abstract
Techniques and systems for indexing and retrieving data and documents stored in a record-based database management system (RDBMS) utilize a search engine interface. Search-engine indices are created from tables in the RDBMS and data from the tables is used to create 'documents' for each record. Queries that require data from multiple tables may be parsed into a primary query and a set of one or more secondary queries. Join mappings and documents are created for the necessary tables. Documents matching the query string are retrieved using the search-engine indices and join mappings.