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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.:

US 8219385 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2008

Computer-implemented method and system for conducting a search of electronically stored information

Applicants:

Benjamin Sprecher, Providence, RI (US);

Joshua Herzig-marx, Newton, MA (US);

Kristian Cibulskis, Somerville, MA (US);

Tim J. Fennell, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin Sprecher, Providence, RI (US);

Joshua Herzig-Marx, Newton, MA (US);

Kristian Cibulskis, Somerville, MA (US);

Tim J. Fennell, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignee:

Incentive Targeting, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Attorneys:

Rajesh Vallabh

Foley Hoag LLP

Primary Examiner:

Douglas Godbold

Assistant Examiner:

Edgar Guerra-Erazo

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01); G10L 17/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G10L 15/04 (2006.01); G10L 15/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided for conducting a search of electronically stored information. The method includes: (a) providing a user with an interactive targeting rule editor to enable the user to formulate a targeting rule to identify desired search results, the targeting rule comprising a natural language text string, the interactive targeting rule editor allowing the user to change one or more designated editable portions of the natural language text string to one of a set of specified alternate portions, delete one or more designated removable portions of the natural language text string, or add one or more of a set of specified insertable portions to form a syntactically valid targeting rule in accordance with a targeting rule grammar; (b) receiving the text string or a representation thereof from the user; (c) translating the text string or a representation thereof into an executable query; and (d) executing the executable query against the electronically stored information to generate search results.

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