ON-DEMAND INDEXING

• US 20150178335A1
• Filed: 12/22/2013
• Published: 06/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Varonis Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Varonis Systems Ltd. (Varonis Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: FAITELSON, Yakov, KORKUS, Ohad, KRETZER-KATZIR, Ophir
• Granted Patent: US 9,842,111 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/13 File access structures, e.g. distributed indices arrangements of input from, or output to, record carriers G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/137 Hash-based content-based indexing of textual data G06F16/31
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/784 the detected or recognised objects being people
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7844 using original textual content or text extracted from visual content or transcript of audio data

Abstract

A method for indexing objects in a computerized system having an index, comprising identifying in the computerized system an at least one indexed object that meets an at least one criterion related to contents of the at least one indexed object, detecting an at least one non-indexed object having a property similar to an at least one property of the at least one indexed object that was identified, and indexing the at least one non-indexed object in the index, wherein the method is performed by the computerized system, and an apparatus for performing the same.

Claims

1. A method for indexing objects in a computerized system having an index, comprising:

based on the index, identifying in the computerized system an at least one indexed object that meets an at least one criterion related to contents of the at least one indexed object;

detecting an at least one non-indexed object having a property similar to an at least one property of the at least one indexed object that was identified; and

indexing the at least one non-indexed object in the index,

wherein the method is performed by the computerized system.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the indexing is performed responsive to detecting the at least one non-indexed object.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the indexing is scheduled to be performed subsequently to detecting the at least one non-indexed object.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one indexed object comprises a plurality of indexed object.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one criterion comprises a plurality of criteria.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one property comprises a plurality of properties.

7. A method for a post-search indexing of objects in a computerized system having an index, comprising:

based on the index, searching for indexed objects in the computerized system according to an at least one criterion received from a computer that is linked to the computerized system;

identifying in the computerized system an at least one indexed object that meets the at least one criterion;

detecting an at least one non-indexed object having a property similar an at least one property of the at least one indexed object;

providing the computer with alternatives for choosing either to demand proceeding with indexing of the at least one non-indexed object or to postpone the indexing of the at least one non-indexed object; and

receiving a choice from the computer, and according to the choice performing either indexing of the at least one non-indexed object and providing the computer with a representation thereof, or scheduling for a subsequent indexing the at least one non-indexed object,

wherein the method is performed by the computerized system.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein following the subsequent indexing a user of the computer is notified about the at least one non-indexed object that is subsequently indexed.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the representation is provided only when the at least one non-indexed object that is subsequently indexed meets the at least one criterion.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the computer is notified only when the at least one non-indexed object that is subsequently indexed meets the at least one criterion.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein one criterion relates to content of objects of the computerized system.

12. The method according to claim 7, wherein the at least one criterion comprises a plurality of criteria.

13. An apparatus for indexing objects in a computerized system, comprising:

an at least one computer;

an at least one storage device constructed with an index for objects of the computerized system,

wherein the at least one computer is constructed with a program configured for identifying in the computerized system an at least one indexed object that meets an at least one criterion related to contents of the at least one indexed object, detecting an at least one non-indexed object having a property similar an at least one property of the at least one indexed object, and indexing the at least one non-indexed object in the index.