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US 2002/0059192 A1Published application
Searching procedures
AssigneeOne-Stop.To Limited
InventorJames Richard Ling
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AssigneeOne-Stop.To Limited
InventorJames Richard Ling
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A searching procedure, particularly for searching on the Internet, using a search engine associated with a database and comprising submitting a request string comprising a locator (or URL) for the search engine and a search string including at least one search term. This will be an invalid address so an error signal is generated, and the generation thereof is monitored and used to trigger parsing of the request into the locator and the search string. The search string is then submitted to the search engine having the specified locator; and the data returned from the search engine is passed back to the user. The invention also includes a computer readable medium and a set of application program interfaces on such a medium for use in effecting the above procedure. The invention allows convenient searching from a command line.
A database searching procedure using a search engine associated with that database and comprising the steps of:
A database searching procedure using a search engine associated with that database comprising the steps of:
A database searching procedure as claimed in any of the preceding claims, wherein handling of the data includes at least one of sorting, filtering, forwarding, etc.
A database searching procedure as claimed in any of the preceding claims wherein the search string is entered in a predetermined format.
A database searching procedure as claimed in any of the preceding claims wherein a search string is entered by a user on to a computer on a computer network, the search engine is located on a different computer in the computer network, and at completion of the procedures, the results are displayed on the user's computer.
A computer program comprising program instructions for causing a computer or connected computers to perform the procedure of any of the preceding claims.
A computer program for performing the following steps:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.