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Method and apparatus for performing a tone-based search

  • US 20080021875A1
  • Filed: 07/19/2006
  • Published: 01/24/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for performing a tone-based search, comprising:

  • receiving a search-request, which includes a search-term;

    for each context-term in a pre-defined list of context-terms, searching a first set of documents for the context-term and the search-term, wherein each context-term is associated with a tone;

    obtaining a list of search results from the search; and

    for each search result in the list of search results;

    assigning a score to the search result, andcreating a link which points to the location in a document of an occurrence of the search-term and an occurrence of a context-term.

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