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Normalizing document metadata using directory services

  • US 20040267721A1
  • Filed: 06/27/2003
  • Published: 12/30/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a computerized environment, a method of normalizing document data to improve the results of search requests, the method comprising the acts of:

  • receiving a document containing document data;

    parsing the document data into one or more document segments;

    identifying at least one of the one or more document segments as an alias that correlates with a document datum found in an alias directory service; and

    associating the received document with the document alias so that, upon request for the document datum through a search engine, the received document is returned to the requester by association of the document datum with the alias.

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