公开(公告)号：US20070083505A1

公开(公告)日：2007-04-12

申请号：US11408797

申请日：2006-04-20

申请人： Adam Ferrari ,  David Gourley ,  Keith Johnson ,  Frederick Knabe ,  Vinay Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John Walter

发明人： Adam Ferrari ,  David Gourley ,  Keith Johnson ,  Frederick Knabe ,  Vinay Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John Walter

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30873 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99934 ,  Y10S707/99935 ,  Y10S707/99936 ,  Y10S707/99943

摘要： A data-driven, hierarchical information search and navigation system and method enable search and navigation of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The invention includes several aspects of a data-driven, hierarchical search and navigation system that employs this search and navigation mode. The search and navigation system of the present invention includes features of an navigation interface, a search interface, a knowledge base and a taxonomy definition process and a classification process for generating the knowledge base, a graph-based navigable data structure and method for generating the data structure, World Wide Web-based applications of the system, and methods of implementing the system. Users are able to search or browse a particular collection of documents by selecting desired values for the attributes or by searching the attribute-value pairs. A data-driven, hierarchical information search and navigation system and method enable this navigation mode by associating terms with the materials, defining a set of hierarchical relationships among the terms, providing a guided navigation mechanism based on the relationship between the terms, and providing a search mechanism that can respond to free-text queries with single-term or multi-term interpretations. In another aspect of the invention, implementations of the invention may be scalable through parallel or distributed computation.

摘要翻译： 数据驱动的层次信息搜索和导航系统和方法可以通过表征材料的某些常见属性来搜索和导航文档集合或其他材料。 本发明包括采用该搜索和导航模式的数据驱动的分层搜索和导航系统的几个方面。 本发明的搜索和导航系统包括导航界面，搜索界面，知识库和分类定义过程以及用于生成知识库的分类过程的特征，基于图形的导航数据结构和方法，用于生成 数据结构，基于万维网的系统应用，以及实施系统的方法。 用户能够通过选择属性的所需值或通过搜索属性值对来搜索或浏览特定的文档集合。 数据驱动的层级信息搜索和导航系统和方法通过将术语与材料相关联来定义一组层次关系，从而能够实现该导航模式，根据术语之间的关系提供导向导航机制，并提供 搜索机制可以用单项或多项解释来回应自由文本查询。 在本发明的另一方面，本发明的实施方式可以通过并行或分布式计算来实现。

公开(公告)号：US07617184B2

公开(公告)日：2009-11-10

申请号：US09961131

申请日：2001-09-21

申请人： Adam Ferrari ,  David Gourley ,  Keith Johnson ,  Frederick Knabe ,  Andrew Lau ,  Vinay Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John Walter

发明人： Adam Ferrari ,  David Gourley ,  Keith Johnson ,  Frederick Knabe ,  Andrew Lau ,  Vinay Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John Walter

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30873 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99936 ,  Y10S707/99943

摘要： A data-driven, hierarchical information navigation system and method enable search of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The invention includes several aspects of a data-driven, hierarchical navigation system that employs this navigation mode. The navigation system of the present invention includes features of an interface, a knowledge base and a taxonomy definition process and a classification process for generating the knowledge base, a graph-based navigable data structure and method for generating the data structure, World Wide Web-based applications of the system, and methods of implementing the system. Users are able to search or browse a particular collection of documents by selecting desired values for the attributes. A data-driven, hierarchical information navigation system and method enable this navigation mode by associating terms with the materials, defining a set of hierarchical relationships among the terms, and providing a guided search mechanism based on the relationship between the terms. In another aspect of the invention, implementations of the invention may be scalable through parallel or distributed computation. Implementations of the invention may employ master and slave servers in a hierarchical configuration.

公开(公告)号：US20060053104A1

公开(公告)日：2006-03-09

申请号：US11268868

申请日：2005-11-08

申请人： Adam Ferrari ,  David Gourley ,  Keith Johnson ,  Frederick Knabe ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John Walter

发明人： Adam Ferrari ,  David Gourley ,  Keith Johnson ,  Frederick Knabe ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John Walter

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F3/0482 ,  G06F16/00 ,  G06F16/2428 ,  G06F16/3323 ,  G06F16/954 ,  Y10S707/962 ,  Y10S707/99932 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99935 ,  Y10S707/99943

摘要： A data-driven, hierarchical information navigation system and method enable search of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The invention includes several aspects of a data-driven, hierarchical navigation system that employs this navigation mode. The navigation system of the present invention includes features of an interface, a knowledge base and a taxonomy definition process and a classification process for generating the knowledge base, a graph-based navigable data structure and method for generating the data structure, World Wide Web-based applications of the system, and methods of implementing the system. Users are able to search or browse a particular collection of documents by selecting desired values for the attributes. A data-driven, hierarchical information navigation system and method enable this navigation mode by associating terms with the materials, defining a set of hierarchical relationships among the terms, and providing a guided search mechanism based on the relationship between the terms.

公开(公告)号：US20070106658A1

公开(公告)日：2007-05-10

申请号：US11271036

申请日：2005-11-10

申请人： Adam Ferrari ,  Frederick Knabe ,  Vinay Mohta ,  Jason Myatt ,  Benjamin Scarlet ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John Walter ,  Joyce Wang

发明人： Adam Ferrari ,  Frederick Knabe ,  Vinay Mohta ,  Jason Myatt ,  Benjamin Scarlet ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John Walter ,  Joyce Wang

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30864 ,  G06F17/30994 ,  G06F17/30997

摘要： A data-driven information navigation system and method enable search and analysis of a set of objects or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials, as well as by relationships among the materials. The invention includes several aspects of a data-driven information navigation system that employs this navigation mode. The navigation system of the present invention includes features of a knowledge base, a navigation model that defines and enables computation of a collection of navigation states, a process for computing navigation states that represent incremental refinements relative to a given navigation state, and methods of implementing the preceding features.

摘要翻译： 数据驱动的信息导航系统和方法能够通过表征材料的某些共同属性以及材料之间的关系来搜索和分析一组对象或其他材料。 本发明包括采用该导航模式的数据驱动信息导航系统的若干方面。 本发明的导航系统包括知识库的特征，定义并能够计算导航状态集合的导航模型，用于计算相对于给定导航状态的递增改进的导航状态计算过程，以及实现方法 前面的功能。