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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2009
Yue Pan, Beijing, CN;
Guo Tong Xie, Xi Er Qi, CN;
NI Yuan, Beijing, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, a method, and a computer readable article of manufacture for metadata searching. The system includes: a receiving module for receiving a search query with respect to a plurality of metadata resources; a query module for parsing the search query and searching related metadata resources and the structural information among the related metadata resources according to the parsing of the search query; and an output module for outputting the search results so as to realize a fuzzy structural search with respect to the plurality of metadata resources. The method includes the steps of: receiving a search query that does not designate complete structural information of the metadata resources; parsing the search query and searching related metadata resources to form search results that include the complete structural information; and outputting the search results.