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INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND NAVIGATION USING A SEMANTIC LAYER

  • US 20130339311A1
  • Filed: 06/13/2012
  • Published: 12/19/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for information storage and retrieval, the system comprising:

  • at least one processor operatively connected to a memory, the processor when executing is configured to provide;

    a collection of materials, wherein the collection of materials includes a heterogeneous collection of records stored in a computer memory, wherein each record is associated with one or more attributes having values;

    a query interface configured to access the collection of materials, wherein the query interface is further configured to access attributes and values associated with data in the collection of materials and to access attributes and values associated with virtual data; and

    a virtual object builder configured to execute a programmatic statement to create at least one dynamic virtual object containing a subset of virtual data from two or more separate collections of records configured to present at least one indirect record to the query interface, wherein the at least one indirect record includes an indirect reference to other records and is based on values in the collection of materials, wherein the virtual data of the virtual object changes when the data in the collection of materials is changed and the programmatic statement is executed.

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