Full text search of schematized data

• US 20060242137A1
• Filed: 04/21/2005
• Published: 10/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Shah, Divya S., Kannan, Suresh, Rosato, Stephen, Jeyaseelan, Thomas A.
• Application Number:
  US11/112,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20060242137A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/31 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

Full text searching may be made available for resources stored in a database according to a database schema. A method for conducting a search on structured data using a text search engine includes the steps of: modeling a resource stored in a relational data store as a web page; providing a locator to the resource; and providing the resource in a consumable format to the text search engine. The method may include the additional steps of: receiving a search on the resource; converting the search into a converted query consumable by the search engine; and providing the converted query to the search engine.

Claims

1. A method for conducting a search on structured data using a text search engine, comprising:

modeling a resource accessible as a relational data as a web page;

providing a locator to the resource; and

providing the resource in a consumable format to the text search engine.

2. The method of claim 1 further including the steps of:

receiving a search on the resource;

converting the search into a converted query consumable by the search engine; and

providing the converted query to the search engine.

3. The method of claim 2 further including the steps of:

receiving a list of search results from the search engine; and

rendering a result page including the results.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the step of receiving includes receiving a link to a group of resources, and the step of rendering includes querying the data store for the group of resources.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the group of resources is a sharing space.

6. The method of claim 2 wherein the method further includes receiving a request for the resource;

and

converting the results a format for a user agent.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of providing includes the steps of:

generating a URL for each resource; and

generating a list of added, changed and deleted resources.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the URL includes data describing the content of the resource identified by the URL.

9. The method of claim 7 further including the step of sending the list of added, changed and deleted resources to the search engine.

10. The method of claim 7 further including the step of returning the list of added, changed and deleted resources to the search engine in response to a request for pages to be crawled from the search engine.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the data store includes a plurality of resources and at least a portion of the resources are canonicalized.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of providing includes the steps of:

generating a URL for a group of resources and the URL includes data identifying one or more individual resources in the group of resources.

13. A method for rendering structured data searchable using a text search engine, comprising:

determining a modified resource in a data store;

creating a uniform resource locator for the modified resource;

providing the URL to a search crawler; and

generating a text representation of the resource in response to a query from the search crawler.

14. The method of claim 13 further including the steps of:

receiving a search query for information in the structured data;

converting the search query into format consumable by the search engine;

providing a converted query to the search engine.

15. The method of claim 14 further including the steps of:

receiving a list of search results from the search engine; and

rendering a result page including the results.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the search query is for a data tag.

17. The method of claim 14 wherein the search query is for a keyword.

18. A method for providing key word searching of structured data, comprising:

determining a set of modified resources in a data store;

creating a uniform resource locators for the set of modified resources;

providing the uniform resource locators to a search crawler;

generating a text representation of the resource in response to a query from the search crawler; and

receiving a search query result from the search engine.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the method further includes the step of rendering a presentation of the query result to a user interface.

20. The method of claim 18 wherein the uniform resource locator includes data identifying the resource sufficient for the rendering step to provide the query result.