System and method for implementing cooperative text searching
US6185553A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 15, 1998 |
| Grant date | Feb 6, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 15, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99944
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Two or more client users, connected by one or more networks to the server, cooperatively search a database. The server has a data structure that has two or more cooperative user identifiers. Each cooperative user identifier represents one of the clients that has indicated a desired to establish a cooperative search. The data structure further has a session identifier that associates two or more of the cooperative user identifiers as session participants in an established a cooperative session. A command process, executing on the server, receives a query from one of the session participants (clients), accesses results of the query from a search engine, and distributes the results to all of the session participants. Queries of the cooperative session are related to indexed terms so that future uses will find this relationship when using similar queries. These are applications in searching for sales and service information.
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