Patent ID: 7117198
Filing Date: 2006-10-03
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of researching and analyzing information contained in a plurality of documents belonging to a first database, searchable on a plurality of search fields and having a plurality of search field values, the method comprising the steps of: a) developing a set of search arguments relating to one or more interests of a user; b) developing a set of user-defined fields relating to said one or more interests, said set of user-defined fields being distinct from said set of search arguments; c) searching the first database using at least some of said set of search arguments so as to retrieve a plurality of retrieved documents from among the plurality of documents; d) reading each of said plurality of retrieved documents so as to extract from each of said plurality of retrieved documents a user-defined field value for at least one user-defined field of said set of user-defined fields so as to obtain a plurality of user-defined field values; e) entering said plurality of user-defined values extracted in step d) into a second database; f) entering the ones of the plurality of search field values corresponding to said plurality of retrieved documents into said second database; g) filling out a high level of abstraction (HLA) framework form so as to form a plurality of HLA clusters; and h) assigning each of said plurality of retrieved documents to a corresponding respective one of said plurality of HLA clusters.