Browse by prompted keyword phrases with an improved method for obtaining an initial document set
First Claim
1. A method for presenting to a computer-user information from web pages containing text consistent with a search expression, said method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:
- prompting a computer-user to construct a search expression;
communicating the search expression to a plurality of web searching engines;
prompting each of the plurality of web searching engines to concurrently inspect a respective plurality of web pages and to identify web pages containing text consistent with the search expression;
linguistically analyzing the identified web pages to obtain keyword phrases therefrom; and
displaying the keyword phrases obtained from the identified web pages in a navigable cross-index.
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for identifying one of a plurality of documents stored in a computer-readable medium are disclosed. The method includes the steps of prompting a computer-user to construct a search expression, then communicating the search expression to each of a plurality of search engines located at respective World Wide Web sites. Each of the plurality of search engines is prompted to concurrently identify a respective plurality of web pages containing text consistent with the search expression and to return a respective URL for each such web page identified. Redundant URLs returned by the search engines are filtered to obtain an initial set of web pages. Each of the initial set of web pages is downloaded and linguistically analyzed to automatically identify for the computer-user keyword phrases therein. The computer-user is prompted to construct a query expression in which one or more keyword phrases from the initial set of web pages is an operand. The query expression is then used to identify at least one web page of the initial set of web pages and the identified web page is presented to the user in the form of an abstract.
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16 Claims
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1. A method for presenting to a computer-user information from web pages containing text consistent with a search expression, said method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:
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prompting a computer-user to construct a search expression; communicating the search expression to a plurality of web searching engines; prompting each of the plurality of web searching engines to concurrently inspect a respective plurality of web pages and to identify web pages containing text consistent with the search expression; linguistically analyzing the identified web pages to obtain keyword phrases therefrom; and displaying the keyword phrases obtained from the identified web pages in a navigable cross-index. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of sequences of instructions, said plurality of sequences of instructions including sequences of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause said processor to:
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prompt a computer-user to construct a search expression; communicate the search expression to a plurality of web searching engines; prompt each of the plurality of web searching engines to concurrently inspect a respective plurality of web pages and to identify web pages containing text consistent with the search expression; linguistically analyze the identified web pages to obtain keyword phrases therefrom; and display the keyword phrases obtained from the identified web pages in a navigable cross-index. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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13. A computer system comprising:
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a bus; a processor coupled to said bus; a user input device coupled to said bus; a display coupled to said bus; a computer-network access device coupled to said bus; and a memory coupled to said bus, said memory being readable by said processor and having sequences of instructions stored therein which, when executed by said processor, cause said processor to; prompt a computer-user to construct a search expression; communicate the search expression to a plurality of web searching engines on the World Wide Web via said computer-network access device; prompt each of the plurality of web searching engines to concurrently inspect a respective plurality of web pages and to identify web pages containing text consistent with the search expression; linguistically analyze the identified web pages to obtain keyword phrases therefrom; and display the keyword phrases obtained from the identified web pages in a navigable cross-index.
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14. A method for obtaining web pages containing text consistent with a search expression, said method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:
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prompting a computer-user to construct a search expression; starting a plurality of web agents to communicate the search expression to respective web searching engines; concurrently receiving in each of the plurality of web agents universal resource locators (URLs) identifying respective web pages containing text consistent with the search expression; linguistically analyzing the identified web pages to obtain keyword phrases therefrom; and displaying the keyword phrases obtained from the identified web pages in a navigable cross-index. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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16. A method for examining electronic mail, said method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:
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reading a plurality of electronic mail messages from a mail server; linguistically analyzing each of the plurality of electronic mail messages to identify for a user keyword phrases therein; prompting the user to construct a query expression in which at least one of the keyword phrases is an operand; and sorting the plurality of electronic mail messages based on the query expression.
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