Method for selecting terms from vocabularies in a category-based system

• US 7,188,096 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2004
• Issued: 03/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Fuller, Deana R., Griffin, William James, Mazner, Jeremy Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): MIZRAHI, DIANE D
• Application Number:
  US10/996,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20050097098A1
• Time in Patent Office: 832 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure

Abstract

A system and method for categorizing a document in a document management system, wherein said document management system comprises a tree of nodes, and enables a document to be categorized in a plurality of nodes. Each node has a category label indicative of a document category. Unique vocabulary terms are listed wherein each vocabulary term represents only one node in the tree and comprises that node'"'"'s category label. A checkbox is provided for each of the vocabulary terms whereby a user may select one or more vocabulary term by checking a corresponding checkbox. From the checked terms, a set of vocabulary terms is generated for associating a document with all of the nodes corresponding to the selected vocabulary terms.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for categorizing a document in a document management system, wherein said document management system comprises a tree of nodes, each node having a category label indicative of a document category, the computer-executable instructions performing:

listing a plurality of unique vocabulary terms wherein each vocabulary term represents only one node in said tree and comprises that node'"'"'s category label;

providing a checkbox for each of the vocabulary terms whereby a user may select at least one vocabulary term by checking a corresponding checkbox; and

generating a set of vocabulary terms containing the selected at least one vocabulary term for associating a document with all of the nodes corresponding to the selected vocabulary terms.

2. The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 1, wherein the tree of nodes is provided in a first computer, and wherein the method acts are carried out on a second computer.

3. The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 1, wherein the vocabulary term may comprise a category label corresponding to at least one parent node of the represented node, and wherein the vocabulary term comprises a concatenation of the category label of the represented node and the category label corresponding to the at least on the parent node.

4. The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 3, wherein the concatenated category labels are separated by a text character.

5. The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 1, the computer-executable instructions further performing displaying the list of unique vocabulary terms in a drop-down box.

6. The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 1, wherein vocabulary terms that are checked are moved to the top of the list of unique vocabulary terms.

7. The computer-readable medium as recited in claim 1, wherein the list of unique vocabulary terms may be filtered by inputting a character string whereby on vocabulary terms containing the character string are listed.