US 2018/0101621 A1Published application

Identifier vocabulary data access method and system

AssigneeSpeedTrack, Inc.

InventorsJerzy Lewak, Miles Kevin Yano

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Abstract

A method of organizing, managing, and providing interactive access to data in a database is disclosed, along with a program and a system for implementing the method. Associations between each data Item and at least one ItemSelector are established and stored. A predefined (but modifiable) Vocabulary of ItemSelectors sufficient to describe each Item of the database is created. Presently selected Items are described by a combination of associations defined by an appropriate Boolean combination of each ItemSelector in a presently selected set of ItemSelectors. A user controls the presently selected set by adding an ItemSelector from a presented group, or by removing a previously selected ItemSelector. The system ideally makes available to the user all relevant ItemSelectors—those which, if added to the presently selected set, would result in a set that describes at least one extant data Item. The system ideally makes all presently selected Items available to the user.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A method of creating a Boolean expression for identifying data Items in a database, comprising:

a) initiating formation of a query using a controlled vocabulary of ItemSelectors by presenting a plurality of such ItemSelectors to a user, each ItemSelector
i) having a Boolean property associated therewith, and
ii) having been determined to describe at least one data Item in the database;
b) incorporating an ItemSelector selected by the user from among those presented as part of currently selected ItemSelectors;
c) changing the ItemSelectors presented to the user as necessary after each user selection such that each ItemSelector presented, when combined according to the corresponding Boolean properties with all other currently selected ItemSelectors, is determined to describe at least one data Item in the database;
d) repeating steps (b) and (c) until a plurality of ItemSelectors are currently selected, including
i) at least a first ItemSelector having a first Boolean property associated therewith, and
ii) at least a second ItemSelector having a different second Boolean property associated therewith;
and
e) deriving from the accepted ItemSelectors a Boolean expression encompassing the first and second ItemSelectors and reflecting the corresponding associated Boolean properties of each ItemSelector.

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Facts

Application: 15/602,001Filed 22 May 2017
Priority: 14 Jan 2002
Published: 12 Apr 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 16/9032
Querying: query formulation
G06F 16/242
Querying: query formulation
G06F 16/2425
Query formulation: iterative querying; Query formulation based on the results of a preceding query
Y10S 707/99934
Query processing, i.e. searching: query formulation, input preparation, or translation

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