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Method and apparatus to link to a related document

  • US 7,272,594 B1
  • Filed: 05/31/2001
  • Issued: 09/18/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method, comprising:

  • executing a search on content in one or more documents based on a content of a query, wherein the content of the query is from one or more specified fields but less than all of the fields of a reference extensible markup language document;

    generating a list of one or more related documents to the query ranked based upon relevance to a first representation of content associated with the one or more specified fields of the reference extensible markup language document, wherein the first representation includes a set of terms and one or more weighted values associated with each term in the set of terms from the reference extensible markup language document but less than all of the terms from the reference extensible markup language document; and

    mapping a link to point to a relevant field within a related document based on the relevance to the first representation of content associated with the one or more specified fields of the reference extensible markup language document for each of the one or more related documents to the query;

    generating a link for each of the one or more related documents in the list of one or more related documents, wherein each link points to a relevant field within its related documents.

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