Provision of search topic-specific search results information

• US 20040054673A1
• Filed: 09/12/2002
• Published: 03/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: deMent, William Sanford, Rishel, Kari Compton, Johnson, DeAnna
• Application Number:
  US10/241,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20040054673A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to information searching. Systems and methods for facilitating such information search are described. In one arrangement, a system and method for facilitating information searching pertain to receiving search content, locating a document that is potentially relevant to the search content, and providing search results that identify the located document, the search results including a search topic-specific title that is other than an actual title of the document.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating information searches, comprising:

receiving search content;

locating a document that is potentially relevant to the search content; and

providing search results that identify the located document, the search results including a search topic-specific title that is other than an actual title of the document.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of receiving search content comprises receiving a search query that includes at least one of a word, a term, and a phrase.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of locating a document comprises conducting a word search of a database of documents to locate the at least one of a word, a term, and a phrase.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of providing search results comprises providing a search topic-specific title that is pertinent to an identifiable portion of the document.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of providing search results comprises providing a search topic-specific title that is generated as a result of heuristic evaluation.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the document to a user for review.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of providing the document comprises directly presenting a portion of the document to the user that is pertinent to the search content.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a product number in the search results that is relevant to the located document.

9. A system for facilitating information searches, comprising:

means for receiving search content input by a user;

means for locating document that is potentially relevant to the input search content;

means for locating a search topic-specific title that is other than an actual title of the document; and

means for providing search results that identify the located document, the search results including the search topic-specific title.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the search topic-specific data comprise a search topic-specific title other than an actual title of the document.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the search topic-specific title is pertinent to a particular identifiable portion of the document.

12. The system of claim 9, further comprising means for providing the document to the user such that a portion of the document that is pertinent to the search content is directly presented to the user.

13. The system of claim 9, further comprising means for providing a product number in the search results that is relevant to the located document.

14. A method for providing search results specifically indicative of content desired by a user, comprising:

receiving a search query input by the user;

determining at least one of a search word, term, and phrase of the search query;

conducting a word search of a documents database to locate at least one document that is potentially relevant to a search topic of the search query;

locating at least one search topic-specific title that is associated with the at least one located document, the search topic-specific title identifying that the document contains content that is pertinent to the search topic; and

presenting search results to the user that identify the at least one located document with the at least one search topic-specific title.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of locating at least one search topic-specific title comprises locating at least one search topic-specific title generated as a result of heuristic evaluation.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising providing the at least one located document to the user for review.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the step of providing the document comprises presenting the document such that it is scrolled-down to a portion of the document that is pertinent to the search topic to pinpoint the location of the pertinent document portion for the user.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising providing a product number in the search results that is relevant to the at least one located document.

19. A search engine stored on a computer-readable medium, comprising:

logic configured to locate a document that is potentially relevant to a search query input by a user;

logic configured to locate a search topic-specific title that specifically identifies content contained within the located document that is pertinent to a search topic of the search query; and

logic configured to generate search results data that identify the located document with the search topic-specific title.

20. The search engine of claim 19, further comprising logic configured to provide the document to the user such that a portion of the document that is pertinent to the search content is directly presented to the user.

21. The search engine of claim 19, further comprising logic configured to provide a product number in the search results that is relevant to the located document.

22. The search engine of claim 19, further comprising at least one of a documents database, a product number database, and a search topic-specific database.