G06F 16/532
Query formulation
Official title: Query formulation, e.g. graphical querying
G06F16/532 (Query formulation) appears on 1,528 US grants and 1,849 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Multimedia search system using a plurality of entry path means which indicate interrelatedness of information744US 5,241,671 AEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. · 1993
- Method and apparatus for facilitating query reformulation405US 6,175,829 B1NEC USA, Inc. · 2001
- Data management apparatus298US 4,653,021 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1987
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