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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.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2009
Kevin T. Rowney, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael R. Wolfe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris Jones, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dirk Kessler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hai Chen, Belmont, CA (US);
Eric Bothwell, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kevin T. Rowney, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael R. Wolfe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris Jones, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dirk Kessler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hai Chen, Belmont, CA (US);
Eric Bothwell, Redwood City, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for defining the scope of a search is described. In one embodiment, user input is received, and the scope is defined, based on the user input, for a search of free-form text for information from any random rows within a tabular structure of source data. In one embodiment, the search is intended for finding, in the free-form text, a sub-set of data fragments that matches information from any single row within the tabular structure of the source data.