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US 2003/0069878 A1Published application
Data search by selectable pre-established descriptors and categories of items in data bank
OwnerGidon Wiseinventor
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A searching process employs an organization of data, in terms of categories, descriptors and identities of various items, which is stored in a data bank. To search for one of the items, there is a selecting of a plurality of categories drawn from the stored categories in any of a plurality of orders to produce a sequence of categories, of which at least one category relates to descriptors of the object. In the sequence of categories, there are at least two sequential categories of which a latter category restricts a range of object descriptors of a former category by a Boolean intersection. Available categories for use in the search are displayed in a list, and a category which represents a null set of object descriptors is withdrawn from the list. Negation and OR functions are provided.
A process for navigating through categories of data in the conduction of a search for identifiable items, comprising the steps of:
A process for navigating through categories of data in the conduction of a search for identifiable items, wherein a memory stores identities and descriptors of the items, and wherein there is a first set of data categories which serve to group individual ones of the descriptors of the items via a first set of relationships among the categories of the first set and the descriptors of the items, and the memory stores the first set of relationships, furthermore wherein there is a second set of data categories which serve to group individual ones of the categories of the first set of categories via a second set of relationships among the categories of the second set and the categories of the first set, and the memory stores the second set of relationships, the process comprising the steps of:
A search system comprising a search engine, a display communicating with the engine, and data entry means communicating with the display and the engine, the system enabling a searcher to navigate through categories of data in the conduction of a search for identifiable items, wherein the engine comprises:
A process for navigating through a set of categories of data in the conduction of a search for identifiable items, comprising the steps of:
A process for navigating through a set of categories of data in the conduction of a search for identifiable items, wherein a memory stores identities and descriptors of items to be accessible by a search, the storing establishing a first set of relationships between the items and their respective descriptors, and the memory stores a second set of relationships which serves to relate individual ones of the data categories to each other and to the descriptors hierarchically, the second set of relationships being constructed in plural branches of a hierarchical tree;
A search system comprising a search engine and a memory, the memory storing identities and descriptors of items to be accessible by a search, and including a first set of relationships between the items and their respective descriptors, the memory storing a second set of relationships which serves to relate individual ones of the data categories to each other and to the descriptors hierarchically, the second set of relationships being constructed in a fashion of plural branches of a hierarchical tree;
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