US 7,065,518 B2Granted

Search system

AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.

InventorsShingo Nishioka, Yoshiki Niwa, Toru Hisamitsu, Makoto Iwayama, Osamu Imaichi

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Abstract

A system for displaying the results of a search provided by one of two different search systems enabling continuous searching. One search system includes a search takeover data production command used to output search takeover data articles from the search. The other search system includes a search takeover data reading command used to read search takeover data. A document identifier correspondence table associates the identifiers specified in the search takeover data. When a user clicks a search system transfer instruction button in one search system, the search takeover data producing command is executed to produce search takeover data which is passed to the other search system. The latter search system regards the list of identifiers of articles which was passed by the search takeover data reading command as the search results, and thus operates continuously.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A search system comprising:

a first search server connected to a first database;
a second search server connected to a second database;
a third server connected to said first and second search servers;
a display means for displaying a screen image representing a first search interface included in said first search server and a screen image representing a second search interface included in said second search server;
a switching means for switching connections to said first and second search servers, wherein:
said third server an electronic digital computer including a means for producing a transfer data table for converting a first ID in the first database to a corresponding second ID in the second database, said transfer data table is used to display results of a first search at said second search interface, wherein said results of the first search have been acquired by said first search interface, wherein
said third server includes a document identifier reading means for reading first document identifiers, said identifiers are assigned to the results of the first search displayed through said first search interface and the results of the first search, and
a document identifier correspondence querying means for querying said second search server about second document identifiers which are displayed through said second search interface and which are associated with the results of the first search displayed through said first search interface;
and wherein said means for producing a transfer data table includes the first document identifiers, second document identifiers, and the results of the first search.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/197,874Filed 19 Jul 2002
Priority: JP 2002-02267731 Jan 2002
Published: US 2003/0144999 A131 Jul 2003
Granted: 20 Jun 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 16/93
Details of database functions independent of the retrieved data types: document management systems
Y10S 707/99933
Database or file accessing: query processing, i.e. searching
Y10S 707/99934
Query processing, i.e. searching: query formulation, input preparation, or translation
G06F
Computing and data processing