Procedure and mechanism for searching for information in databases
AssigneeInfinancials SA
InventorVincent Nahum
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Abstract
The invention relates to a procedure for searching for data through a number of databases, each of which contains a large number of data items of a first given type, each associated with at least one data item belonging to a second data type. For a reference data item, the procedure covers the search for data of the second type associated with the reference data item, the number of data items of the first type associated with each data item of the second type, and then the allocation of a coefficient known as the “relevance weighting” (a function of the number of data items of the first type associated with the particular item of the second type) to each set of data of the first type associated with the data item of the second type.
Claims21
A method for searching for data through a plurality of databases, each of which containing a plurality of data items of a first given type, each associated with at least one data item belonging to a second data type, said method comprising:
- A—entering a data item of the first data type, referred to as the reference data item,
- b—searching in each database for:
- B1—data items of the second type, associated with the reference data item,
- B2—for each data item of the second type associated with the reference data item, the number of data items of the first type associated with said data item of the second type,
- B3—allocating a coefficient known as the relevance weighting, function of the number of data items of the first type, to each set of data items of the first type associated with said data item of the second type.
A method for searching for data through a plurality of databases, each of which containing a plurality of data items of a first given type, each associated with at least one data item belonging to a second data type, said method comprising:
- A—entry of a data item of the first data type, referred to as the reference data item,
- B—the selection from said plurality of databases of data items of the second type, referred to as second data type items associated with the reference data item, followed by a search for:
- B2—for each data item of the second type associated with the reference data item the number of data items of the first type associated with said data item of the second type,
- B3—the allocation to each set of data items of the first type associated with said data item of the second type of a coefficient known as the relevance weighting, function of the number of data items of the first type associated with said data item of the second type.
A method according to one of the above claims, further comprising displaying data items of the second type from all the databases associated with the reference data item, the number of data items of the first type associated with this second data type item, and the corresponding relevance weightings.
A method according to any one of the above claims, in which the first data type items are the names of companies.
A method according to any of the above claims, in which the databases reside upon a single server.
A device for searching for data through a number of databases, each of which contains a plurality of data items of a first given type, each associated with at least one data item belonging to a second data type, said device comprising:
- a search means searching or selecting the following from each database:
- data items of the second type, associated with the reference data item,
- and, for at least one data item of the second type associated with the reference data item, the number of data items of the first type associated with said data items of the second type,
- allocation means allocating to each set of data items of the first type associated with said data item of the second type a coefficient known as the relevance weighting, function of the number of data items of the first type associated with said data item of the second type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.