SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCH DISCOVERY

• US 20140201188A1
• Filed: 11/21/2013
• Published: 07/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ip Ot Sub Ulc
• Original Assignee: Open Test SA
• Inventors: Pidduck, Patrick Thomas Sidney
• Granted Patent: US 10,678,870 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/711
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/374 Thesaurus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines

Abstract

A search system as disclosed analyzes a file name to identify any potential tokens or words that might be relevant, and creates supplementary information for the file name. The supplementary information is indexed and searchable, thereby significantly improving the ability of a search engine to discover and return successful search hits.

Claims

1. A method for search discovery, comprising:

in response to an indexing request, processing by a search system an input string in the indexing request, the search system embodied on one or more server machines operating in a network, the processing including;

converting the input string into tokens;

determining additional index terms that supplement the tokens; and

indexing the tokens and the additional index terms that supplement the tokens.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing the tokens and the additional index terms in a single index.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing the tokens and the additional index terms in different indexes, wherein the additional index terms are stored in a supplemental index having multi-value fields.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the additional index terms represent alternatives of the tokens based on one or more rules.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the input string represents a name of a managed object in a document management system.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a query with one or more search terms, the query received by the search system from a client device communicatively connected thereto;

converting the one or more search terms into normalized index terms; and

searching an index for supplement field values that match the normalized index terms converted from the one or more search terms.

7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

determining at least one alternative of the one or more search terms in the query; and

restructuring the query into an alternative search query to include the at least one alternative.

8. A system for search discovery, comprising:

at least one processor;

a memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor to implement a tokenizer and a normalizer, wherein

the tokenizer configured for converting an input string into tokens; and

the normalizer configured for determining, based on one or more rules, additional index terms that supplement the tokens from the tokenizer; and

at least one index configured for storing the tokens and the additional index terms.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

a search engine configured for indexing a document using the tokens.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the input string represents a name of the document.

11. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

an indexing interface configured for receiving from a source device an indexing request containing the input string.

12. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

a search interface configured for receiving from a content server a query with one or more search terms.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

a search module configured for searching the at least one index, wherein the normalizer is further configured for converting the one or more search terms into normalized index terms prior to the search module searching the at least one index for supplement field values that match the normalized index terms converted by the normalizer from the one or more search terms in the query.

14. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a search system embodied on one or more server machines operating in a network to cause the search system to perform:

in response to an indexing request received from a source device communicatively connected to the search system, processing an input string in the indexing request, the processing including;

converting the input string into tokens;

determining additional index terms that supplement the tokens; and

indexing the tokens and the additional index terms that supplement the tokens.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the instructions are further executable by the search system to perform:

storing the tokens and the additional index terms in a single index.

16. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the instructions are further executable by the search system to perform:

storing the tokens and the additional index terms in different indexes, wherein the additional index terms are stored in a supplemental index having multi-value fields.

17. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the additional index terms represent alternatives of the tokens based on one or more rules.

18. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the input string represents a name of a managed object in a document management system.

19. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the instructions are further executable by the search system to perform:

receiving a query with one or more search terms;

converting the one or more search terms into normalized index terms; and

searching an index for supplement field values that match the normalized index terms converted from the one or more search terms.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the instructions are further executable by the search system to perform:

determining at least one alternative of the one or more search terms in the query; and

restructuring the query into an alternative search query to include the at least one alternative.