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US11797615B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Michael Baessler · Neckartenzlingen, DE
Thomas Hampp-Bahnmueller · Stuttgart, DE
Jojo Joseph · Bengaluru, IN
Pavlo Petrenko · Hessenhöfe, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 7, 2020
Grant date	Oct 24, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 7, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/986
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for providing one or more random sample documents from a corpus of documents using a search engine is provided. The providing of each of the random sample documents comprises selecting randomly a time window from a set of time windows. A search query is sent to the search engine defining a search for documents of the corpus with time-stamps within the time window defined by the randomly selected time window. In response to the sending of the search query, a search result is received from the search engine. The search result comprises a set of the documents of the corpus with time-stamps within the time window. One of the documents comprised by the received set of documents is then selected randomly.

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