US 6,578,022 B1 · Interactive intelligent searching with executable suggestions

Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product for interactive searching with executable suggestions are provided. The present invention provides a search engine and data management technology that can understand what users are looking for, understand the data in a database, and present immediately useful suggestions for finding the right information. Executable suggestions are presented that enable a user to further narrow or broaden a search intelligently and adaptively in real-time. Each executable suggestion describes a search and corresponding search criteria and provides information on the actual search results a user will obtain according to this search criteria. In one embodiment of the present invention, a system has a suggestion engine and one or more suggestion spaces.

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Dependent claims

A system for interactive, intelligent searching ofdata elements in a knowledge base, the knowledge base including data elements in multiple search dimensions, comprising:

a suggestion engine;
and
a suggestion space, coupled to said suggestion engine, said suggestion space having at least one data structure representative of relationships between data elements in the knowledge base;
wherein said suggestion engine interrogates the suggestion space based on received scope change-search criteria to obtain scope change search results and returns a smart tip that represents said scope change search results;
whereby an executable suggestion can be provided to a user based on the smart tip.

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