Patent ID: 9275144
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A system for metadata searching, the system comprising: a memory; a processor; a receiving module configured for receiving a search query with respect to a plurality of metadata resources, wherein each of the plurality of metadata resources comprises data describing a set of other data, and wherein each of the plurality of metadata resources comprises structural information comprising at least relationship path information between the metadata resource and at least one other of the plurality of metadata resources, wherein the search query comprises at least one keyword associated with textual information in each of the plurality of metadata resources without designating all structural information among the plurality of metadata resources; a query module configured for an output module configured for outputting the search results so as to realize a fuzzy structural search with respect to the plurality of metadata resources, the fuzzy structural search utilizing the search query, which is absent at least a designation of the relationship path information among the plurality of metadata resources, to obtain the set of search results, which comprises the complete structural information between the at least one of the set of related metadata resources and at least one of the set of related metadata resources.