Document Searching Tool and Method
First Claim
1. A method of automatically searching through a store of electronic documents, the method comprising, controlling a user interface to permit a user to enter a search term, carrying out a search using the search term, categorising the documents returned by the search into a plurality of distinct categories, and controlling the user interface to present the documents returned by the search, or references thereto, in a grouped manner such that documents of a particular category are grouped together, wherein the categories are selected in dependence upon the search term.
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Abstract
A method of automatically searching through a store of electronic documents comprises controlling a user interface to permit (410) a user to enter a search term, carrying out a search using the search term, categorising the documents returned by the search into a plurality of distinct categories, and controlling the user interface to present in a left-hand panel (512) the plurality of distinct categories and in a right-hand panel (514) the documents returned by the search, or references thereto, in a grouped manner such that documents, or references thereto, of a particular category are grouped together, wherein the categories are selected in dependence upon the search term.
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- 1. A method of automatically searching through a store of electronic documents, the method comprising, controlling a user interface to permit a user to enter a search term, carrying out a search using the search term, categorising the documents returned by the search into a plurality of distinct categories, and controlling the user interface to present the documents returned by the search, or references thereto, in a grouped manner such that documents of a particular category are grouped together, wherein the categories are selected in dependence upon the search term.
- 9. A server computer for assisting a user, using a remote device, to search through a set of documents available to the user stored on devices connected to the same data network to which the server and the remote device are connected, the server including means for receiving from the remote terminal a search term, means for carrying out a search using the search term, means for categorising the documents returned by the search into a plurality of distinct categories, and means for returning output data to the remote terminal which permits the remote terminal to present to the user the documents returned by the search, or references thereto, in a grouped manner such that documents of a particular category are grouped together, wherein the categories are selected in dependence upon the search term.
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