Software for searching digital information, a system comprising a plurality of software, and a user device connected to the system
AssigneeOxide Corporation
InventorsLars Hård, Axel Stålhand
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Abstract
The present invention relates to searching in digital information. In particular, the present invention relates to a software for searching in digital information, a system 200 comprising a plurality of such software, and a user device 100 connected to such system. An object of the present invention is to provide such a software, system 200 and user device 100 that can take advantage of existing horizontal search engines, vertical search engines and other data sources, to achieve a flexible and powerful search engine.
Claims21
A software for searching and processing digital information, the software having access to external functionality for searching for digital information in each of one or more external data repositories, the software comprising:
- a search function comprising:
- a data retrieving function defining the use of the external functionality for searching, wherein running the data retrieving function will retrieve data from the external functionality for searching;
- a data transforming function defining an output format of data retrieved from the external functionality for searching, wherein running the data transformation function will transform said data according to the output format and expose the transformed data;
- an identification declaration suitable for assessing fitness between a search query and the identification declaration.
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