US 2009/0157669 A1 · SEARCH SUPPORTING APPARATUS AND METHOD UTILIZING EXCLUSION KEYWORDS

Abstract

Facilitating a user determination of an exclusion keyword in order to specify an efficient exclusion of an unwanted piece of data when the user narrows searching objects. Exclusion is accomplished in a system having a searching object data storage for storing pieces of searching object data, a searcher for performing a primary narrowing of the search, a common keyword extractor for extracting the common keywords associated with a piece of data, an input/output device for passing a selected keyword selected the extracted common keywords while receiving and displaying a result from an exclusion efficiency calculator. The exclusion efficiency calculator calculates exclusion efficiency and indicates a level of exclusion efficiency of data that is not associated with a selected keyword for an individual common keyword.

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Dependent claims

A searching apparatus comprising:

storage means for storing search object data;
and
means for providing information for determining an exclusion keyword to be specified for an efficient exclusion to exclude a piece of data associated with a specified exclusion keyword from pieces of searching object data stored in said storage means.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage recording medium having computer code thereon said computer code causing a computer to execute the operations of:

extracting a plurality of common keywords associated with a piece of searching object data;
storing said plurality of extracted common keywords into storage means;
accepting a selected keyword selected by a user from said plurality of common keywords stored in said storage means;
calculating exclusion efficiency indicating a level of exclusion efficiency of data that is not associated with said selected keyword for an individual common keyword of said plurality of common keywords stored in said storage means except for said selected keyword when said common keyword is specified as an exclusion keyword;
and
providing said exclusion efficiency to a user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/334,062Filed 12 Dec 2008

Priority

JP 2003-13651914 May 2003

Published

18 Jun 2009

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 16/9538
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: presentation of query results
G06F 16/93
Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types: document management systems
G06F 16/951
Retrieval from the web: indexing; Web crawling techniques
Y10S 707/99933
Database or file accessing: query processing, i.e. searching

Search supporting apparatus and method utilizing exclusion keywords

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Search supporting apparatus and method utilizing exclusion keywords

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