System and methods of searching data sources

• US 20080243785A1
• Filed: 03/30/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Innography (Clarivate Plc)
• Original Assignee: Innography (Clarivate Plc)
• Inventors: Stading, Tyron Jerrod
• Granted Patent: US 8,583,592 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

In a particular embodiment, a system is disclosed to search one or more data sources. The system includes an interface to a network, a visualization system to provide a search interface to a destination device via the network, and a search system. The search system communicates with the interface to receive a query from the destination device. The search system proxies the query to search multiple data sources, receives search results from the multiple data sources, and extracts data from the search results. The system also includes a personalization system to personalize the search results from the multiple data sources to a particular user.

Claims

1. A system to search one or more data sources, the system comprising:

an interface to a network;

a visualization system to provide a search interface to a destination device via the network;

a search system to communicate with the interface to receive a query from the destination device, the search system to proxy the query to search multiple data sources, the search system to receive search results from the multiple data sources and to extract data from the search results; and

a personalization system to personalize the search results from the multiple data sources to a particular user.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising an extract-transform-load (ETL) module to extract attributes from the search results, the search system to generate an ancillary search related to the extracted attributes or the search results.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a classifier module to dynamically assign at least one classification to each search result.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein each search result includes a relationship to a document, and wherein the classifier module dynamically assigns the at least one classification to the document.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the visualization system is adapted to provide multiple views of the search results.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the visualization system generates a graphical user interface including a selectable option to select one of the multiple views.

7. A method of searching data sources, the method comprising:

receiving search results from one or more data sources, each item of the search results is associated with a document, wherein at least one document comprises unstructured data;

retrieving ancillary information from a secondary search of at least one other data source using a query that is related to data from the search results; and

correlating the search results with the ancillary information to identify associations between search results to produce augmented search results, the ancillary information comprising associative data that is not included within the search results.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising providing a graphical user interface including the augmented search results to a destination device, the augmented search results comprising data related to the ancillary information.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one document comprises semi-structured data.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein each identified association comprise a shared attribute derived from the search results.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the secondary search comprises a structured database query.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one other data source comprises unstructured data.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein the graphical user interface comprises one or more selectable indicators related to the ancillary information, the one or more selectable indicators accessible to alter a presentation of the augmented search results.

14. The method of claim 7, wherein the ancillary information comprises time-varying information, and wherein the augmented search results change with the ancillary information.

15. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

extracting secondary data from the associated documents; and

sending a secondary query to at least one data source based on the secondary data.

16. The method of claim 7, wherein correlating the search results comprises identify relationships between metadata related to the search results.

17. The method of claim 7, further comprising generating one or more selectable indicators from the secondary data and from the ancillary information to drill through the search results.

18. The method of claim 7, further comprising generating one or more selectable indicators from the secondary data and from the ancillary information to drill down within the search results.

19. A system to search one or more data sources, the system comprising:

a visualization system to generate a search interface, the search interface comprising one or more selectable options;

a search system to receive a query related to the search interface, the search system to proxy the query to search multiple data sources, the search system to receive search results from the multiple data sources and to extract data from the search results; and

a personalization system to store explicit and implicit user input, the personalization system to personalize the search results from the multiple data sources to a particular user based on the explicit and implicit user input.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising an operations and billing system to authenticate a user, to authorize access to the search system by the user, and to manage a user session with the search system.

21. The system of claim 20, further comprising an interface to a network, wherein the operations and billing system communicates with a remote search system to query at least one other data source via the network.

22. The system of claim 19, further comprising an extract-transform-load (ETL) system to extract data from the search results and from documents related to the search results, the ETL system to store the extracted data in a document database.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the search system further comprises the ETL system, the search system to generate an ancillary search related to the extracted data to retrieve ancillary information related to the extracted data.

24. The system of claim 23, further comprising a classifier module to dynamically assign at least one classification to each of the search results based on the extracted data.

25. The system of claim 23, wherein the ancillary information comprises industry classifications related to owners of the documents.

26. The system of claim 19, wherein the explicit user input comprises explicit ratings or particular search results that are provided by a user.

27. The system of claim 19, wherein the implicit user input comprises data collected from monitoring user selections of particular search results.

28. The system of claim 19, wherein the visualization system is adapted to provide multiple views of the search results.