Symbol-based query mechanism
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Jun 30, 2005
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Nov 30, 2004
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May 30, 2002
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A technique for processing a query request from a terminal (TE) to a search engine (SE). A terminal user is allowed to select querry parameters by means of visual symbols, ie icons, such as a 'here' symbol (94) and a 'bank' symbol (95). Symbol identifiers (91, 93) of the user-selected symbols, and optional logical operators (92) are sent (10-2) from the terminal to a proxy server (PS) that replaces (10 4, 10-8) each symbol identifier in the query request with a plaintext description and presents (10-10) the query parameters in a query to the search engine (SE). If the proxy server (PS) detects a 'here' symbol (94), it may query a location server (LS) to get the terminal's location which it then converts to plaintext. The query results are conveyed (10-16) to the terminal (EE).
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