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System and method of searching for electronic data

  • US 20020065819A1
  • Filed: 10/12/2001
  • Published: 05/30/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An electronic data search system for presenting an information browsing person with information having links to electronic data satisfying a search condition received from said information browsing person, comprising:

  • a search center and at least one authorization center, wherein;

    said search center comprises;

    a search database in which an address of electronic data opened to the public by an information disclosing person is registered, being associated with a search condition of said electronic data;

    a search request receiving means for receiving a search request, which includes a search condition, from a terminal of an information browsing person;

    a search means for searching for an address of electronic data that is registered in said search database being associated with a search condition included in a search request received by said search request receiving means from a terminal of an information browsing person, and for presenting the terminal of said information browsing person with information having a link to the electronic data of the detected address; and

    said at least one authorization center comprises an authorization registration means for registering an address of electronic data opened to the public by an information disclosing person who satisfies predetermined authorization conditions, in an authorization database;

    wherein;

    when a search request, which is received by said search request receiving means from a terminal of an information browsing person, includes not only a search condition but also a condition that authorization by a certain authorization center is given, then, said search means searches for addresses of electronic data that are registered in said search database being associated with said search condition, and, registered in the authorization database of said authorization center, and said search means presents information having links to the electronic data at the detected addresses, to the terminal of said information browsing person.

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