Cooperative, interactive, heuristic system for the creation and ongoing modification of categorization systems
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1. An interactive system for enhancing the searchability of data, the system comprising:
- a categorization system that associates search terms defining categories or attributes with items to be found;
a communication system for communicating with the categorization system and with a store of information from which information is to be selected based on the search terms; and
a cooperative facility associated with the categorization system that enables users to interactively and at least partially automatically, modify or supplement the search terms initially assigned to the items to be found by the categorization system.
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Abstract
An Internet-related invention comprising hardware and software constructs that operate substantially interactively and, to a degree, automatically, to produce search categories and search attributes that facilitate the creation, indexing and searching for physical and informational items stored on Internet databases and the like. Thereby, hosts of databases or the listers of information on databases, are able to interactively and dynamically, modify, augment or correct attributes based on the activity of end searchers, business needs of listers and hosts and the like.
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1. An interactive system for enhancing the searchability of data, the system comprising:
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a categorization system that associates search terms defining categories or attributes with items to be found;
a communication system for communicating with the categorization system and with a store of information from which information is to be selected based on the search terms; and
a cooperative facility associated with the categorization system that enables users to interactively and at least partially automatically, modify or supplement the search terms initially assigned to the items to be found by the categorization system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A method for searching for data items in a data store, the method comprising the steps of:
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operating a computer-based communication system that effects communications between a plurality of data searchers and the data store containing the data items;
operating a search engine that enables the data searchers to enter initial key words describing data items to be found;
receiving selected data items that are responsive to the initial key words in a given order of items, organized into successive viewable pages;
initiating a manual review of the received selected data items; and
operating an automatic clustering tool that is responsive to the items manually perused by the data searcher, including items not reviewed by the data searcher, the automatic clustering tool responding to the user'"'"'s action by interactively creating categorization criteria by which at least a portion of the received selected data items are reordered or filtered for being viewed by the data searcher, and/or by which a further search is performed and results are based thereon. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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