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Document retrieval system and search server

  • US 7,277,881 B2
  • Filed: 08/31/2001
  • Issued: 10/02/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A document search system capable comprising:

  • an associate server which is capable of instructing a document search by specifying a document database j to be searched next among a plurality of document databases based on a search result of a document previous search of a document database i;

    an associative search recording table recording the number of times xij of searching said document database j based on the search results generated from the previous searches of said document database i;

    means for sending a search result of said specified document database to a client; and

    means for changing a showing order of document databases to be searched by using data from said associate search recording table.wherein a different associate search recording table is stored for each user, and by using said different associate search recording table for each user, a showing order of document databases to be searched is changed according to said user,wherein i denotes a first document database,wherein i denotes a second document database, andwherein xij denotes a number of times of searching said document database j based on the search results generated from the previous searches of said document database i.

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