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System and method for retrieval of data from related databases based upon database association model

  • US 6,212,518 B1
  • Filed: 08/31/1998
  • Issued: 04/03/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/02/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A relevant-information retrieval system which governs a plurality of independent databases, and which presents information on a database administering information relevant to information of a search request, to a source having issued the search request for the plurality of databases, comprising:

  • a management unit managing an association model which describes a relevancy among said plurality of databases in accordance with an associative value defined between two of said databases and representing a degree of association between the two of the databases;

    a specification unit operating in a search process for a certain one of said plurality of databases, and specifying one of said databases administering information relevant to the certain database, in accordance with the association model managed by said management unit; and

    a presentation unit presenting the search request issuing source with information of the database specified by said specification unit.

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