Patent ID: 6963865
Filing Date: 2005-11-08
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a computer environment, a method for searching data to locate a portion of said data identified by a search query, the method comprising: receiving a search query including two or more fragments expected to be contained within said data; and searching the data for a minimal portion thereof, wherein to qualify as a minimal portion a portion of the data must contain: i) all the search query fragments and ii) no more than one occurrence of at least one of the search query fragments, and a portion of the data may qualify as a minimal portion even if: i) the data portion contains more than one occurrence of other ones of the search query fragments and ii) a sequence of the search query fragments in the data portion is different than a sequence of the fragments in the search query, and wherein if a data portion qualifies as a minimal portion the method includes the step of identifying the data portion as a minimal portion.