System for viewing and indexing mark up language messages, forms and documents

• US 7,401,075 B2
• Filed: 06/10/2004
• Issued: 07/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WTVIII, Inc.
• Original Assignee: WTVIII, Inc.
• Inventors: Vincent, III, Winchel Todd
• Primary Examiner(s): ROBINSON, GRETA LEE
• Application Number:
  US10/865,646
• Publication Number:
  US 20040254922A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,496 Days
• Field of Search: 707/104.1, 707/100, 707/102, 707/10, 707/101, 707/3, 707/4, 715/513, 715/234
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/83 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A system for viewing and indexing mark up language messages, forms, and documents that have been stored in a document repository. The viewer and indexer can search the document repository based on any of a variety of search parameters, including any field of each message, form or document in the document repository. The viewer and indexer can automatically configure itself based on an input schema to create a user interface having search term options that can be selected to cause a search to be performed in the document repository (and/or mirrored and local repositories) containing messages, documents and forms created based on the same input schema.

Claims

1. An apparatus for indexing and searching mark up language instances comprising:

input logic configured to receive and process one or more mark up language schemas, wherein the mark up language schemas are based on a predefined rule set and wherein the mark up language schema corresponds to mark up language instances to be indexed and searched;

interface generating logic configured to generate a user interface based on the one or more mark up language schemas input to the input logic, wherein the user interface includes one or more search term options dynamically generated based on the mark up language schema input into the input logic;

search logic configured to search one or more document repositories based on a selection of one or more of said search term options; and

display logic configured to display a result of the search on a display device.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the search logic searches a plurality of document repositories.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the document repositories are distributed over a distributed network.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interface generating logic uses schema from a mark up language instance contained in a document repository to generate the user interface.

5. A method for indexing and searching mark up language instances comprising:

receiving and processing user input relating to a search to be performed for a mark up language instance;

generating a user interface based on one or more schema input to an input logic, wherein the mark up language schemas are based on a predefined rule set and correspond to mark up language instances to be indexed and searched and wherein the user interface includes one or more search term options dynamically generated based on the mark up language schema input into the input logic;

searching one or more document repositories based on a selection of one or more of said search term options; and

displaying a result of the search on a display device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the searching further comprises searching a plurality of document repositories.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the document repositories are distributed over a distributed network.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the generating a user interface further comprises using schema from a mark up language instance contained in a document repository to generate the user interface.