Research System And Method With Record Builder
First Claim
1. A system for providing relevant documents from a plurality of databases, comprising:
- a search module for receiving at least one search expression;
at least one managed database including a plurality of managed documents and a plurality of search records, each search record including at least one prior search expression associated with at least one of the plurality of managed documents;
a plurality of unmanaged databases including a plurality of unmanaged documents;
wherein said search module queries the at least one managed database to determine at least one of the search records corresponding to the at least one search expression; and
wherein said search module retrieves at least one of the managed documents associated with the determined search record.
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Abstract
A system for providing relevant documents from a plurality of databases, including a search module for receiving at least one search expression, at least one managed database including a plurality of managed documents and a plurality of search records, each search record including at least one prior search expression associated with at least one of the plurality of managed documents, a plurality of unmanaged databases including a plurality of unmanaged documents, wherein the search module queries the managed database to determine at least one of the search records corresponding to the received search expression, and wherein the search module retrieves at least one of the managed documents associated with the determined search record. The search module may further query the plurality of unmanaged databases to determine one or more unmanaged documents corresponding to the at least one search expression and store the unmanaged document in the managed database.
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25 Claims
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1. A system for providing relevant documents from a plurality of databases, comprising:
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a search module for receiving at least one search expression; at least one managed database including a plurality of managed documents and a plurality of search records, each search record including at least one prior search expression associated with at least one of the plurality of managed documents; a plurality of unmanaged databases including a plurality of unmanaged documents; wherein said search module queries the at least one managed database to determine at least one of the search records corresponding to the at least one search expression; and wherein said search module retrieves at least one of the managed documents associated with the determined search record. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for providing relevant documents from a plurality of databases, comprising the steps of:
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receiving at least one search expression; querying one or more managed databases, the managed databases including a plurality of managed documents and a plurality of search records, each search record including at least one prior search expression associated with at least one of the plurality of managed documents; determining at least one of the search records corresponding to the at least one search expression; and retrieving at least one of the managed documents associated with the determined search record. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system for searching data collections, comprising:
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at least one database including a plurality of documents and a plurality of search records, each search record including one or more first search expressions each associated with at least one of the documents; a search module for receiving at least one second search expression, said search module determining at least one of the search records relevant to the second search expression and retrieving one or more of the documents associated with the determined search record; and wherein said search module is further for determining at least one of the plurality documents relevant to the second search expression and not associated with any one of the plurality of search records. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21)
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22. A system for searching data collections, comprising:
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at least one managed database including a plurality of search records, each search record including one or more search expressions associated with one or more managed documents; at least one unmanaged database including a plurality of unmanaged documents; a search module for receiving at least one search expression, determining at least one of the search records relevant to the received search expression and retrieving one or more of the managed documents in the determined search record, wherein said search module further determines one or more of the unmanaged documents relevant to the received search expression; and a document management system for storing at least one of the determined unmanaged documents in the managed database and associating at least one of the determined unmanaged documents with the received search expression in the managed database. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25)
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