Method and device for automatically issuing information using a search engine
First Claim
1. A method for automatically providing information by means of a search engine (7), in which information sought, together with other associated attributes, is stored in the form of data records, involving the following steps:
- a) inquiry of search arguments for several attributes stored in a data record;
b) comparison of the search arguments which have been input with search arguments stored;
c) selection of a number of hits of stored search arguments which correspond to, or most closely approximate, the respective search argument that has been input, for each of the search arguments input;
d) weighting of the selected search arguments with scores, which weighting indicates the probability with which the respective selected stored search argument agrees with the actually input search argument;
e) selection of suitable data records from the stored data records by means of the selected number of hits;
f) weighting of the selected data records with overall scores which indicate the probability of the respective selected data record agreeing with the actually input search arguments, depending on the scores of the individual selected search arguments; and
g) output of the data record with the highest overall score.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and a device for automatically providing information by means of a search engine, in which information sought, together with other associated attributes, is stored in the form of data records. The invention provides for inquiry of search arguments for several attributes stored in a data record; comparison of the search arguments which have been input with search arguments stored; selection of a number of hits of stored search arguments which correspond to, or most closely approximate, the respective search argument that has been input, for each of the search arguments input; weighting of the selected search arguments with scores, which weighting indicates the probability with which the respective selected stored search argument agrees with the actually input search argument; selection of suitable data records from the database by means of the selected number of hits; weighting of the selected data records with overall scores which indicate the probability of the respective selected data record agreeing with the actually input search arguments, depending on the scores of the individual selected search arguments; and output of the data record with the highest overall score.
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25 Claims
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1. A method for automatically providing information by means of a search engine (7), in which information sought, together with other associated attributes, is stored in the form of data records, involving the following steps:
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a) inquiry of search arguments for several attributes stored in a data record;
b) comparison of the search arguments which have been input with search arguments stored;
c) selection of a number of hits of stored search arguments which correspond to, or most closely approximate, the respective search argument that has been input, for each of the search arguments input;
d) weighting of the selected search arguments with scores, which weighting indicates the probability with which the respective selected stored search argument agrees with the actually input search argument;
e) selection of suitable data records from the stored data records by means of the selected number of hits;
f) weighting of the selected data records with overall scores which indicate the probability of the respective selected data record agreeing with the actually input search arguments, depending on the scores of the individual selected search arguments; and
g) output of the data record with the highest overall score. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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14. A device for automatically providing information by means of a search engine (7), in which information sought, together with other associated attributes, is stored in the form of data records, comprising an input device (2) for inputting search arguments for several of the attributes stored in a data record;
- a comparison device (9) for comparing the input search arguments with stored search arguments;
a selection device (10) for selecting a number of hits of stored search arguments which correspond to, or most closely approximate, the respective search argument that has been input, for each of the search arguments that have been input;
a weighting device (11) for weighting the selected search arguments with scores, which weighting indicates the probability with which the respective selected stored search argument agrees with the search argument that has actually been input;
a selection device (12) for selecting data records from the stored data records by means of the selected number of hits;
a calculation device (6) for calculating overall scores for the selected data records, which scores indicate the probability of the respective selected data record agreeing with the actually input search arguments, depending on the scores of the individual selected search arguments; and
an output device (2) for outputting the data record with the highest overall score. - View Dependent Claims (15)
- a comparison device (9) for comparing the input search arguments with stored search arguments;
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