Documentary search procedure in a distributed system
First Claim
1. Documentation search procedure in a distributed information system, made up of construction steps of a thematic representation consisting of:
- constructing, on user computers, thematic categories each containing at least one link to a documentary resource Ui, each category being associated with a description Ci, the resources Ui of a category being considered by the user as a homogenous in terms of their thematic content and associated with at least one descriptor Ki;
constructing at least one grouping index,a first grouping index consisting of the entries Ei made up of all the access links Ui of the documentary resources, each entry Ei being associated with at least one category Ci of access links Ui,a second grouping index consisting of entries Ei made up of all the descriptions Ki of the categories Ci made up of the access links Ui of the documentary resources, each entry Ei being associated with at least one category Ci of access links Ui,and the search steps consisting of extracting from one of the grouping indexes, the categories Cj associated with at least one entry Ej corresponding to a search criteria Qj and to establish a list of suggestions Sj made up of the access links Uj ordered as a function of a score representing the importance and/or the number of occurrences of the link Uj in the categories Cj.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
The current invention concerns a document search procedure in a distributed information system, containing construction steps of a thematic representation made up of: constructing, on user computers, the thematic categories; constructing at least one grouping index, a first grouping index containing the entries Ei made up of all the access links Ui of the documentary resources, a second grouping index containing the entries Ei made up of all the descriptors Ki of the categories Ci, and the search steps consisting of extracting the grouping index of the categories to establish a suggestion list Sj made up of the access links Uj ordered as a function of a representative score of importance and/or of number of occurrences of the link Uj in the categories Cj.
-
Citations
14 Claims
-
1. Documentation search procedure in a distributed information system, made up of construction steps of a thematic representation consisting of:
-
constructing, on user computers, thematic categories each containing at least one link to a documentary resource Ui, each category being associated with a description Ci, the resources Ui of a category being considered by the user as a homogenous in terms of their thematic content and associated with at least one descriptor Ki; constructing at least one grouping index, a first grouping index consisting of the entries Ei made up of all the access links Ui of the documentary resources, each entry Ei being associated with at least one category Ci of access links Ui, a second grouping index consisting of entries Ei made up of all the descriptions Ki of the categories Ci made up of the access links Ui of the documentary resources, each entry Ei being associated with at least one category Ci of access links Ui, and the search steps consisting of extracting from one of the grouping indexes, the categories Cj associated with at least one entry Ej corresponding to a search criteria Qj and to establish a list of suggestions Sj made up of the access links Uj ordered as a function of a score representing the importance and/or the number of occurrences of the link Uj in the categories Cj. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
-
Specification