Database and index organization for enhanced document retrieval

• US 8,938,458 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2013
• Issued: 01/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nelson Information Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Nelson Information Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Nelson, John M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Anh
• Application Number:
  US13/908,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20130268538A1
• Time in Patent Office: 596 Days
• Field of Search: 707/740, 707/736, 707/737, 707/802, 707/753, 707/999.204, 707/E17.083, 707/E17.09, 707/667, 707/671, 707/741, 707/746, 707/769, 707/609, 707/668, 707/E17.108
• US Class Current: 707/741
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/328 Management therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/38 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99937 Sorting

Abstract

A customized, topical database and methods for constructing and using such a database are provided. Selection and indexing of articles is done by experts in the topic with which the database is concerned. As a result, articles are indexed in a manner that allows facile, rapid retrieval of highly relevant articles with few or no false positives.

Claims

1. A method of searching a specialty oriented document database or index created from a master index of a subject matter area by

assigning one or more specialties to each document,

assigning one or more terms or codes from said master index to each document,

assembling, by computer, said specialty oriented document database comprising said documents having a selected specialty in accordance with said terms or codes whereby terms or codes of said specialty oriented document database is a subset of said terms or codes of said master index in accordance with subject matter appropriate to a specialty assigned to each said document during said creation of said specialty oriented database, said method comprising steps of

arranging, by computer, said terms or codes of said specialty oriented document database hierarchically or alphanumerically,

browsing, by computer, said terms or codes of said specialty oriented document database,

accessing, by computer, data in said specialty oriented document database in accordance with at least one of said terms or codes of said specialty oriented document database, wherein said documents are limited in number, and

linking said database to a plenary database in accordance with said terms or codes.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising steps of

assigning key words to related terms or codes, respectively,

browsing said keywords, and

accessing said terms or code using said key words.