公开(公告)号：US07428528B1

公开(公告)日：2008-09-23

申请号：US10813871

申请日：2004-03-31

申请人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  Andrew M. Lau ,  Vinay B. Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter

发明人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  Andrew M. Lau ,  Vinay B. Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter

IPC分类号： G06F7/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30882 ,  G06F17/30855 ,  G06F17/30905 ,  G06F17/30979 ,  G06F17/30991 ,  G06F17/30994 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99943

摘要： A data-driven, hierarchical information search and navigation system and method enable search and navigation of sets of materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. A rules engine provides for manipulation of the content displayed to the user based on the query entered by the user. The rules engine includes one or more rules with a trigger and an action. The action of a rule is performed only if the trigger is satisfied. A trigger may be specified in terms of expressions of attribute-value pairs and is evaluated against a given query or navigation state. The actions can include various techniques for content manipulation, such as supplementing content, rendering content in a particular way, and sorting content in a particular way. An action may be specified in terms of navigation states. The rules engine may include a script for processing the rules. An integrated application allows a user to observe, in a unified environment, both the rules engine and the search and navigation system. The integrated application allows a user to see the consequences of rule changes to search and navigation results, as well as to use the search and navigation system to create rules.

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材料集。 规则引擎基于用户输入的查询来提供对用户显示的内容的操纵。 规则引擎包括一个或多个具有触发器和动作的规则。 仅当触发器被满足时才执行规则的动作。 可以根据属性值对的表达式指定触发器，并根据给定的查询或导航状态进行评估。 动作可以包括用于内容操纵的各种技术，例如补充内容，以特定方式呈现内容，以及以特定方式对内容进行排序。 可以根据导航状态指定动作。 规则引擎可以包括用于处理规则的脚本。 集成应用程序允许用户在统一的环境中观察规则引擎和搜索和导航系统。 集成应用程序允许用户查看规则更改对搜索和导航结果的后果，以及使用搜索和导航系统创建规则。

公开(公告)号：US07567957B2

公开(公告)日：2009-07-28

申请号：US11408797

申请日：2006-04-20

申请人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  David J. Gourley ,  Keith A. Johnson ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay B. Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter

发明人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  David J. Gourley ,  Keith A. Johnson ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay B. Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. 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.

公开(公告)号：US07325201B2

公开(公告)日：2008-01-29

申请号：US10272557

申请日：2002-10-16

申请人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  David J. Gourley ,  Keith A. Johnson ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay B. Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter ,  Andrew Lau

发明人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  David J. Gourley ,  Keith A. Johnson ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay B. Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter ,  Andrew Lau

IPC分类号： G06F13/00 ,  G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30873 ,  G06F17/30864 ,  Y10S707/99932

摘要： A data-driven, hierarchical information search and navigation system and method enable search and navigation of sets of materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. A rules engine provides for manipulation of the content displayed to the user based on the query entered by the user. The rules engine includes one or more rules with a trigger and an action. The action of a rule is performed only if the trigger is satisfied. A trigger may be specified in terms of expressions of attribute-value pairs and is evaluated against a given query or navigation state. The actions can include various techniques for content manipulation, such as supplementing content, rendering content in a particular way, and sorting content in a particular way. An action may be specified in terms of navigation states. The rules engine may include a script for processing the rules.

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材料集。 规则引擎基于用户输入的查询来提供对用户显示的内容的操纵。 规则引擎包括一个或多个具有触发器和动作的规则。 仅当触发器被满足时才执行规则的动作。 可以根据属性值对的表达式指定触发器，并根据给定的查询或导航状态进行评估。 动作可以包括用于内容操纵的各种技术，例如补充内容，以特定方式呈现内容，以及以特定方式对内容进行排序。 可以根据导航状态指定动作。 规则引擎可以包括用于处理规则的脚本。

公开(公告)号：US07062483B2

公开(公告)日：2006-06-13

申请号：US09998682

申请日：2001-10-31

申请人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  David J. Gourley ,  Keith A. Johnson ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay B. Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter

发明人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  David J. Gourley ,  Keith A. Johnson ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay B. Mohta ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. 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.

公开(公告)号：US20120095991A1

公开(公告)日：2012-04-19

申请号：US13230527

申请日：2011-09-12

申请人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay S. Mohta ,  Jason P. Myatt ,  Benjamin S. Scarlet ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter ,  Joyce Wang ,  Michael Tucker

发明人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay S. Mohta ,  Jason P. Myatt ,  Benjamin S. Scarlet ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter ,  Joyce Wang ,  Michael Tucker

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。

公开(公告)号：US07035864B1

公开(公告)日：2006-04-25

申请号：US09573305

申请日：2000-05-18

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

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

IPC分类号： G06F7/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30398 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F17/30873 ,  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.

摘要翻译： 数据驱动的分级信息导航系统和方法可以通过表征材料的某些共同属性来搜索文档或其他材料集合。 本发明包括采用该导航模式的数据驱动的分级导航系统的若干方面。 本发明的导航系统包括接口的特征，知识库和分类定义过程以及用于生成知识库的分类过程，用于生成数据结构的基于图形的可导航数据结构和方法，万维网 - 系统的基于应用的系统和实现系统的方法。 用户可以通过选择属性的所需值来搜索或浏览特定的文档集合。 数据驱动的层级信息导航系统和方法通过将术语与材料相关联，在术语之间定义一组分层关系，并且基于术语之间的关系提供引导搜索机制来实现该导航模式。

公开(公告)号：US08655869B2

公开(公告)日：2014-02-18

申请号：US13230527

申请日：2011-09-12

申请人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay S. Mohta ,  Jason P. Myatt ,  Benjamin S. Scarlet ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter ,  Joyce Jeanpin Wang ,  Michael Tucker

发明人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay S. Mohta ,  Jason P. Myatt ,  Benjamin S. Scarlet ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter ,  Joyce Jeanpin Wang ,  Michael Tucker

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。

公开(公告)号：US08019752B2

公开(公告)日：2011-09-13

申请号：US11271036

申请日：2005-11-10

申请人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay Seth Mohta ,  Jason Paul Myatt ,  Benjamin S. Scarlet ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter ,  Joyce Wang ,  Michael Tucker

发明人： Adam J. Ferrari ,  Frederick C. Knabe ,  Vinay Seth Mohta ,  Jason Paul Myatt ,  Benjamin S. Scarlet ,  Daniel Tunkelang ,  John S. Walter ,  Joyce Wang ,  Michael Tucker

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的计算过程，以及实现方法 前面的功能。

公开(公告)号：US07912823B2

公开(公告)日：2011-03-22

申请号：US11931345

申请日：2007-10-31

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

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

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30398 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F17/30873 ,  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.

摘要翻译： 数据驱动的分级信息导航系统和方法可以通过表征材料的某些共同属性来搜索文档或其他材料集合。 本发明包括采用该导航模式的数据驱动的分级导航系统的若干方面。 本发明的导航系统包括接口的特征，知识库和分类定义过程以及用于生成知识库的分类过程，用于生成数据结构的基于图形的可导航数据结构和方法，万维网 - 系统的基于应用的系统和实现系统的方法。 用户可以通过选择属性的所需值来搜索或浏览特定的文档集合。 数据驱动的层级信息导航系统和方法通过将术语与材料相关联，在术语之间定义一组分层关系，并且基于术语之间的关系提供引导搜索机制来实现该导航模式。