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Spatially enabled content management, discovery and distribution system for unstructured information management

  • US 8,195,630 B2
  • Filed: 10/29/2007
  • Issued: 06/05/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computerized non-event based method for effectuating a search of unstructured information to provide for rapid querying of the unstructured information utilizing spatial searching, comprising the step of:

  • providing a search tool which when programmed constitutes a particular machine used with existing documents stored in a computer having unstructured textual geographical location information, excluding previously encoded spatial metadata the search tool;

    ascertaining either implicit or explicit indications of geographical location by ascertaining from document text places or things described in the existing document;

    storing the documents in the computer with geographical location attributes as metadata;

    searching the stored documents in terms of metadata utilizing geographical location search terms; and

    ,returning documents having metadata corresponding to the geographical location search term, the particular machine being reconfigured upon performance of the ascertaining, storing, searching and returning steps, such that a non-event based method is provided that relies on document analysis.

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