US 2009/0157379 A1 · Language Converter With Enhanced Search Capability

Abstract

A weighted search program is disclosed. The weighted search program may be integrated into a translation program, or the weighted search program may be used independently with an available search engine. When integrated with the translation program, setting and weighting may be combined in a single search. In one embodiment, the weighting would be used in conjunction with a Pin Yin translation program so that a user could set some terms, and allocate a search weight to the remaining terms. The invention may be applied independently in Internet searching so that a user can apply weights to multiple elements of a search term.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a computer connected to the Internet;
a translation program residing in a memory of the computer;
and
a weighted search program residing in the memory of the computer;
wherein the translation program converts hybrid and unaccented Pin Yin words to Simplified Chinese characters, Traditional Chinese characters, and accented Pin Yin words;
and
wherein the weighted search program enables a user to select a plurality of characters to be searched and apply a weight to each of the plurality of characters to be searched, so that a search is performed in accordance with the weight applied to each of the plurality of characters.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/389,806Filed 20 Feb 2009

Priority

19 Apr 2005

Published

18 Jun 2009

Term ends

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Classification4 codes

G06F 40/129
Character encoding: handling non-Latin characters, e.g. kana-to-kanji conversion
G06F 16/313
Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures: selection or weighting of terms for indexing
G06F 16/951
Retrieval from the web: indexing; Web crawling techniques
G06F
Computing and data processing

Language Converter With Enhanced Search Capability

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Language Converter With Enhanced Search Capability

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Abstract

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