Electronic catalog system for exploring a multitude of hierarchies, using attribute relevance and forwarding-checking

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PATENT NO 6014639
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08964564

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This electronic catalog searching system first, calculates attribute relevance (e.g., strongly-relevant, weakly-relevant, and irrelevant) for each node in a hierarchy (e.g., abstraction hierarchy, decompositional hierarchy) based on assignment constraints made at the nodes representing real-world concrete entities and then combines attribute relevance with a forward-checking parametric search to implement a hierarchical exploration scheme that can be enabled over a multitude of hierarchies residing on a base of concrete entities.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY US 10405

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Fohn, Steffen Michael Poughkeepsie, NY 9 679
Greef, Arthur Reginald Seattle, WA 14 739

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