System, method, and medium for retrieving, organizing, and utilizing networked data

• US 6,038,668 A
• Filed: 07/22/1998
• Issued: 03/14/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leidos, Inc. (Leidos Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Science Applications International Corporation
• Inventors: Warren, Gary, Karandikar, Harshavardhan M., Mankofsky, Alan, Chipman, Richard R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Peeso, Thomas R.
• Application Number:
  US09/120,182
• Time in Patent Office: 601 Days
• Field of Search: 380/255, 380/270, 380/33, 380/42, 713/201
• US Class Current: 726/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing

Abstract

A networked catalog search, retrieval, and information correlation and matching system is disclosed. The system allows suppliers to publish information in electronic catalogs, structure the information in an object oriented representation distributed across a network of computers, for example, the Internet. The system also enables customers to search and retrieve information on products and suppliers which match dynamically specified customer requirements. Through retrieving compliant HTML pages, a search engine forwards retrieved pages to an object oriented database which sorts received information by the information'"'"'s internal organization structure. By searching the information as stored in the knowledge base, a user may quickly retrieve the stored information as highly tailored to the user'"'"'s search strategy. Also, additional tools operate on the stored information so as to, inter alia, organize design trades between selected elements where additional design and selection options are provided to each user. Further, the system supports product creation as formed of constituent parts. These products may then be used as parts to be formed into higher level products.

Claims

1. A system for organizing information comprising:

a data source storing data including organizational terms;

a network connected to said data source;

a portal connected to said network for retrieving the data from said data source based on said organizational terms.

2. The system according to claim 1, said portal further comprising a storage device for storing the retrieved data.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the storage device includes a RAM.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein the storage device includes a ROM.

5. The system according to claim 2, wherein the storage device includes a video display.

6. The system according to claim 2, said portal further comprising:

a retrieval device for retrieving the data from said data source and providing said retrieved data to said storage device.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein said retrieval device retrieves the data based on Boolean criteria.

8. The system according to claim 6, wherein said portal further comprises:

an organizational manager for organizing the data based on the organizational terms, said organizational manager receiving said data from said storage device.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein said organizational manager organizes said data based on a previously stored ontology of the organizational terms.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein said organizational manager dynamically organizes said data based an ontology developed from the received organizational terms.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein the organizational terms include at least one descriptor.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the descriptor includes a class identifier.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein the descriptor includes an attribute identifier.

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein the descriptor includes a method identifier.

32. The system according to claim 2, wherein said storage device includes a fixed disk drive.

15. A system for organizing information comprising:

a data source storing data including organizational terms;

a network connected to said data source;

a portal connected to said network for retrieving the data from said data source and for categorizing the retrieved data, wherein said categorizing is based on said organizational terms.

16. The system according to claim 15, further comprising a storage device for storing the categorized data.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the storage device includes a RAM.

18. The system according to claim 16, wherein the storage device includes a ROM.

19. The system according to claim 16, wherein the storage device includes a video display.

20. The system according to claim 16, wherein said portal further comprises:

an extraction device for extracting the categorized data from said storage device.

21. The system according to claim 15, wherein said portal further comprises:

an extraction device for extracting the categorized data from a storage device,

wherein said extraction device extracts the categorized data based on Boolean search criteria.

22. The system according to claim 15, wherein said portal further comprises:

an extraction device for extracting the categorized data from a storage device,

wherein said extraction device extracts the categorized data based on hierarchical search criteria.

23. The system according to claim 15, wherein said portal further comprises:

an extraction device for extracting the categorized data from a storage device,

wherein said extraction device extracts the categorized data based on parametric search criteria.

24. The system according to claim 20, wherein said storage device stores said data in at least one of class, method, and attribute criteria.

25. The system according to claim 20, wherein said storage device receives said data from a reverse index database.

26. The system according to claim 20, further comprising:

an organizational manager for organizing said data based on a previously stored ontology of the organizational terms for storage in said storage device.

27. The system according to claim 20, further comprising:

an organizational manager for dynamically organizing said data based an ontology developed from the received organizational terms.

28. The system according to claim 15, wherein the organizational terms include at least one descriptor.

29. The system according to claim 28, wherein the descriptor includes a class identifier.

30. The system according to claim 28, wherein the descriptor includes an attribute identifier.

31. The system according to claim 28, wherein the descriptor includes a method identifier.

33. The system according to claim 16, wherein said storage device includes a fixed disk drive.

34. A method for organizing information comprising the steps of

storing at a remote location data including organizational terms;

scanning said remote location for the existence of the organizational terms;

retrieving from said remote location the data as based on said organizational terms.

35. The method according to claim 34, further including the steps of:

categorizing the retrieved data, and

storing the categorized data.

36. The method according to claim 34, wherein said retrieval step retrieves the data as based on Boolean criteria.

37. The method according to claim 34, wherein said categorizing step further includes the step of:

organizing the received data based on the organizational terms.

38. The method according to claim 37, wherein said organizing step organizes said data based on a previously stored ontology of the organizational terms.

39. The method according to claim 37, wherein said organizing step dynamically organizes said data based an ontology developed from the received organizational terms.

40. The method according to claim 34, wherein the organizational terms include at least one descriptor.

41. The method according to claim 34, wherein the descriptor includes a class identifier.

42. The system according to claim 34, wherein the descriptor includes an attribute identifier.

43. The system according to claim 34, wherein the descriptor includes a method identifier.

44. A method for organizing information comprising the steps of:

storing data including organizational terms at a remote location;

retrieving from said remote location the data; and

,

categorizing the retrieved data, wherein said categorizing is based on said organizational terms.

45. The method according to claim 44, further comprising the step of:

storing the categorized data in a storage device.

46. The method according to claim 45, further comprising the step of:

extracting the categorized data from said storage device.

47. The method according to claim 46, wherein said storing step receives said data from a reverse index database.

48. The method according to claim 46, further comprising the step of:

organizing said data based on a previously stored ontology of the organizational terms for storage in said storage device.

49. The method according to claim 46, further comprising the step of:

dynamically organizing said data based an ontology developed from the received organizational terms.

50. The method according to claim 45, further comprising the step of:

extracting the categorized data from said storage device based on Boolean search criteria.

51. The method according to claim 45, further comprising the step of:

extracting the categorized data from said storage device based on hierarchical search criteria.

52. The method according to claim 45, further comprising the step of:

extracting the categorized data from said storage device based on parametric search criteria.

53. The method according to claim 45, wherein said storing step stores said data in at least one of class, method, and attribute criteria.

54. The method according to claim 44, wherein the organizational terms include at least one descriptor.

55. The method according to claim 54, wherein the descriptor includes a class identifier.

56. The method according to claim 54, wherein the descriptor includes an attribute identifier.

57. The method according to claim 54, wherein the descriptor includes a method identifier.

58. A system for organizing data retrievable over a network from a data source, said system comprising:

a portal connected to said network for retrieving the data with organizational terms from said data source based on said organizational terms; and

,

a storage device for storing said data.

59. A system for organizing data retrievable over a network from a data source, said system comprising:

a portal connected to said network for retrieving the data from said data source and for categorizing the retrieved data, wherein said categorizing is based on organizational terms associated with the data; and

,

a storage device for storing the categorized data.

60. A method for organizing data retrievable over a network from a data source, said method comprising the step of:

retrieving the data with organizational terms from said data source based on said organizational terms.

61. A method for organizing information retrievable over a network from a data source, said method comprising the steps of:

retrieving the data with organizational terms from said data source; and

,

categorizing the retrieved data,

wherein said categorizing is based on said organizational terms.