Patent ID: 9721006
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for enabling a search of a document corpus, comprising: providing for display a graphical user interface having a first section and a second section; in response to receipt of a search string, providing for generation of semantic terms based at least in part on the search string; in response to receipt of the search string, providing for generation of an initial search query, wherein query terms of the initial search query include one or more of the semantic terms, wherein the initial search query is used to search a database and return a set of returned electronic documents for display; providing for display first query terms displayed within the first section of the graphical user interface and second query terms displayed within the second section of the graphical user interface, wherein the first query terms within the first section of the graphical user interface have a first status-indicating format associated therewith indicative of a first query status, the query terms within the second section of the graphical user interface have a second status-indicating format associated therewith indicative of a second query status, the first status-indicating format is different from the second status-indicating format, and the first query status is different from the second query status; in response to a movement of a selected query term from the first section to the second section of the graphical user interface, providing, by a computer, for generation of a revised search query based on a location of the selected query term within the graphical user interface following the movement of the selected query term, wherein the movement of the selected query term from the first section to the second section of the graphical user interface changes a query status of the selected query term from the first query status to the second query status; and providing for a search of the database using the revised search query to return an updated set of electronic documents for display.