Method of searching documents and a service for searching documents
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsMakoto Iwayama, Shingo Nishioka, Yoshiki Niwa, Akihiko Takano
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Abstract
This invention aims to provide an efficient means of performing a document search wherein relevance between plural document databases is examined. A summary making module and a search module are provided to document databases, and these are connected to a network as a server. A client obtains a relevant set of documents in a specified document database via this summary from a set of documents in the specified document database. The summary obtained is sent to another server, and a search is performed according to the summary in a document database in the server to which the summary is transferred.
Claims8
A document search method having a function to change over between plural document databases, and a function to search a set of documents having a high relevance to a search input from a selected one of said plural document databases in the order of higher relevance, this input being a set of keywords, fragments of a document or any desired set of documents, wherein the search results from said selected document database are used as an input for searching another of said plural document databases.
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