System and method for storing and retrieving thesaurus data
OwnerSongqiao Liu, Chenyang Songinventors
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Abstract
A method of retrieving thesaurus data stored on a computer system includes the steps of identifying the thesaurus term of interest to a user, retrieving a unique identifier associated with the term, constructing a folder path in a hierarchical folder system used to store the thesaurus data on the computer system, locating a folder containing thesaurus data associated with the unique identifier, retrieving thesaurus data associated with the unique identifier from the folder, and rendering the thesaurus data on a display device of the computer system.
Claims8
A method of retrieving thesaurus data in XML stored on a computer system, comprising the steps of:
- (a) identifying the thesaurus term of interest to a user;
- (b) retrieving a unique identifier associated with said term;
- (c) constructing a folder path in a hierarchical folder system used to store the thesaurus data on the computer system;
- (d) locating a folder containing thesaurus data associated with said unique identifier;
- (e) retrieving thesaurus data associated with said unique identifier from said folder;
- (f) rendering the thesaurus data on a display device of the computer system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.