INDEXING AND SEARCHING OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGE TRANSMISSION THREAD SETS
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A search engine comprising:
- a compacting indexer of well-ordered threads of electronic message transmissions (EMTs); and
a query manager to search through an index produced by said compacting indexer and to identify at least one qualifying EMT of a qualifying EMT thread as a search result when provided with a query.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A method includes describing the thread configurations of a volume of well-ordered electronic message transmissions (EMT) and utilizing the thread configuration data to conduct selective searches of the EMT volume. An apparatus includes a thread processor and a query manager. The thread processor analyzes the EMT threads and records the thread configuration data. The query manager utilizes the thread configuration data to conduct selective searches of the EMT volume.
-
Citations
31 Claims
-
1. A search engine comprising:
-
a compacting indexer of well-ordered threads of electronic message transmissions (EMTs); and a query manager to search through an index produced by said compacting indexer and to identify at least one qualifying EMT of a qualifying EMT thread as a search result when provided with a query. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
-
-
14. A method comprising:
-
representing an unmodified volume of electronic message transmission (EMT) threads as a compact EMT volume; indexing said compact EMT volume into an index; searching said index; and returning EMT results from said unmodified volume. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
-
-
19-23. -23. (canceled)
-
24. A method comprising:
-
storing information describing configurations of discussion threads of EMTs; compacting said EMT discussion threads; and indexing compacted EMT discussion threads generated by said compacting. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
-
-
31. A computer product readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps, said method steps comprising:
-
representing an unmodified volume of electronic message transmission (EMT) threads as a compact EMT volume; indexing said compact EMT volume into an index; searching said index; and returning EMT results from said unmodified volume.
-
Specification