Method and system for spatial information retrieval for hyperlinked documents

• US 20050165805A1
• Filed: 10/27/2004
• Published: 07/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Novaes, Marcos Nogueira
• Application Number:
  US10/973,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20050165805A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

A method (and system) of indexing data blocks according to a collection of subject words, includes constructing a N-dimensional coordinate space, wherein N is a cardinality of the collection of subject words.

Claims

1-17. -17. (canceled)

18. A method of navigating a database, comprising:

plotting documents in said database in space based on a content thereof.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

determining a closeness of any two documents in said database.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein said plotting comprises:

constructing a N-dimensional coordinate space, wherein N is a cardinality of a collection of subject words.

21. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

traversing document links leading to discovery of cross-subject affinities of documents.

22-39. -39. (canceled)

40. A system for navigating a database, comprising:

a plotter for plotting documents in said database in space based on a content thereof.

41. The system of claim 40, further comprising:

a determining unit for determining a closeness of any two documents in said database.

42. The system of claim 40, wherein said plotter comprises:

a unit for constructing a N-dimensional coordinate space, wherein N is a cardinality of a collection of subject words.

43. The system of claim 40, further comprising:

a traversal unit for traversing document links leading to discovery of cross-subject affinities of documents.

44-45. -45. (canceled)

46. A signal-bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform a method of navigating a database, said method comprising:

plotting documents in said database in space based on a content thereof.

47. (canceled)