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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2010
Applicants:

Uwe Freising, Frankenthal, DE;

Marit Rams, Muehlhausen, DE;

Inventors:

Uwe Freising, Frankenthal, DE;

Marit Rams, Muehlhausen, DE;

Assignee:

SAP AG, Walldorf, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30663 (2013.01); G06F 17/2785 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing a natural language interface for searching a database. One process includes operations for receiving a natural language query. One or more tokens contained in the natural language query are identified. A set of sentences is generated based on the identified tokens, each sentence representing a possible logical interpretation of the natural language query and including a combination of at least one of the identified tokens. At least one sentence in the set of sentences is selected for searching a database based on the identified tokens.


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