System and method of providing multiple items of index information for a single data object

• US 7,062,707 B1
• Filed: 12/08/1999
• Issued: 06/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thryv, Inc. (Mudrick Capital Management LP)
• Original Assignee: Inceptor, Inc. (Mudrick Capital Management LP)
• Inventors: Franklin, Martin, Knauft, Christopher L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Queler, Adam M.
• Application Number:
  US09/456,777
• Time in Patent Office: 2,379 Days
• Field of Search: 715/500, 715/513, 707/1, 707/6
• US Class Current: 715/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/31 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access

Abstract

A system and method of generating index information for electronic documents. The system includes a client and one or more information retrieval (IR) engines, such as a search engine, which are each in communication with each other via a network.

Claims

1. A computerized method of generating index information regarding the content of a data object, the method comprising:

identifying one or more sections of a source data object, wherein a search engine requesting the source data object is not authorized to access the source data object;

generating one or more network resources for each of the identified sections of the source data object;

a server computer generating a list of keywords for each of the identified sections of the source data object; and

generating an electronic document in response to a request from a search engine for a selected one of the network resources, wherein the electronic document comprises a header and a body, the header containing a description of content within the body, and the body containing the list of keywords generated by the server computer for the section source of the source data object that is associated with the selected one of the network resources.

2. The method of claim 1, additionally comprising obfuscating at least a portion of the electronic document so that the intelligibility of the contents of the list of keywords is reduced.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the network resources for each of the identified sections comprises associating a uniform resource locator (URL) with each of the identified sections.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein each of the identified sections comprises a locatable unit.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic document is dynamically generated upon a request for the network resource.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the list of keywords is customized based at least in part upon the identity of the requester for the request.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the sections comprises a chapter of a book.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the sections is selected from the group consisting of a page, a paragraph, and a sentence.

9. The method of claim 1, additionally comprising converting the electronic document from a digital image of a document to a textual image of the document.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising partitioning the list of keywords of said source data object, and creating multiple electronic documents using the partitioned list of keywords.