Patent ID: 6741979
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for flexible indexing of document content comprising:obtaining a collection of documents to be indexed; storing said collection of documents in a single document information stream; parsing each one of said documents into constituent words to facilitate indexing; creating a plurality of stem words to be indexed by stemming each word into a standard prefix; creating a first record providing an entry point into an index structure, said first record having a plurality of entry blocks, each one of said entry blocks being uniquely associated with a character out of a character set, said collection of documents being formed by characters drawn from said character set; creating a plurality of additional primary and secondary records providing character-by-character pathways for locating an occurrence of a stem word in said document information stream; creating a translation vector mapping stem words to document locations; and creating a plurality of streams for providing locations of occurrences of said stem word in said document information stream.