US Patent No: 7,881,981
Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000
Methods and computer readable media for determining a macro-context based on a micro-context of a user search
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Feb 1, 2011
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May 7, 2007
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11/745,346
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Abstract
A data extraction tool is provided for cataloging information in an information source for searching by a user. The tool mines information from the information source and organizes the information, or the locations of that information, within a database. A user may then query the tool for a desired type of information. The tool filters the database to provide a set of pinpoint site locations with information of the type requested in the query. These pinpoint site locations are presented to a user and indexed for future reference. The index of site locations may be updated automatically by the tool. A context system is provided for manually or automatically determining the proper context for a user's query. Thus, the data extraction tool provides information with a high probability of relevance to the user. The user obtains the information without expending much effort to refine the search.
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