Method for providing more informative results in response to a search of electronic documents
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1. A method for providing more informative results in response to a search of electronic documents in an unstructured database, where each document has a document address associated therewith, the method comprising the steps of:
- associating a parameter field with a document address of an electronic document;
determining an attribute of said electronic document;
storing said determined attribute in said parameter field;
receiving a search request including a desired attribute;
for each of a plurality of electronic documents comparing said desired attribute to said determined attribute in the parameter field for that document; and
presenting, as a search result, the document address of an electronic document having a determined attribute matching said desired attribute.
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Abstract
A method provides a more informative result to a user in connection with the search for documents in a database. In particular, the method provides augmented addresses, in the Internet environment augmented universal resource locators, which include an indication of a document attribute which may be of interest to the user. Such attributes may include an indication of the language of the document (e.g., English or Japanese) or the popularity of the document.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for providing more informative results in response to a search of electronic documents in an unstructured database, where each document has a document address associated therewith, the method comprising the steps of:
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associating a parameter field with a document address of an electronic document; determining an attribute of said electronic document; storing said determined attribute in said parameter field; receiving a search request including a desired attribute; for each of a plurality of electronic documents comparing said desired attribute to said determined attribute in the parameter field for that document; and presenting, as a search result, the document address of an electronic document having a determined attribute matching said desired attribute. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. In a method for searching for electronic documents in an unstructured database in response to a search query containing at least one keyword, an improvement comprising:
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associating an attribute of an electronic document with a document address for that document; identifying a document responsive to the search query; and presenting the document address and associated attribute of the identified electronic document. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 10)
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6. The improvement of 5 wherein said attribute identifies the language of the corresponding document.
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9. The improvement of 8 wherein said relative popularity of a given document is defined in terms of the number of other electronic documents providing links to that given document.
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11. In an unstructured database, a method for identifying an electronic document in response to a search request, the method comprising the steps of:
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augmenting a universal resource locator (URL) of a document to reflect an attribute of that document; determining a plurality of electronic documents to be responsive to a given search request; and presenting as a search result the augmented URL for each document having an augmented URL which is identified to be responsive to the search request. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for searching for electronic documents in an unstructured database, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving a search query including a keyword and a document attribute; comparing said search query to a plurality of documents, said step of comparing comprising the steps of, for each of the plurality of documents determining whether the document includes said keyword; and determining whether the document satisfies the document attribute identified in said search query; and presenting, in the results of the search, the document address of each document that is found to satisfy the search query during said step of comparing. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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