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System for managing and searching links

  • US 20030225761A1
  • Filed: 05/30/2003
  • Published: 12/04/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2002
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for link analysis, comprising:

  • a record table with a generic format having plural records of plural different record types, where the records represent real world entities or events of different types;

    a link table with links of plural link types, the links linking pairs of the records, where at least some of the pairs comprise records of different record types, and where the links represent real world relationships, according to the link types, between the real world entities or events represented by the records;

    mapping information mapping the record types to information describing or identifying the real word entities or events represented by the record types, including information mapping generic columns or fields in the record table to specific attributes or descriptions of attributes of the different plural record types, the attributes or descriptions of attributes corresponding to attributes of the respective real world entities; and

    where a first search term may be compared, for searching, to all of the records in the record table or all of the links in the link table or both, and where a result of such searching may be further searched in a similar fashion using a different search term or criteria.

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