Patent ID: 6058398
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for automatically linking text data with image data in a computer-based search system, said method comprising the steps of:(i) inputting a search data such as a keyword;(ii) searching on the basis of the search data inputted in step (i) in a text-data memory;(iii) outputting a result of the search performed in step (ii);(iv) determining whether or not an image display command has been input;(v) loading an image-data memory when it is determined in step (iv) that the image display command has been input;(vi) determining whether or not a first link data of the text-data memory is connected with a second link data of the image-data memory; and(vii) outputting one or more images, stored in the image-data memory, linked with one or more searched data when it is determined in step (vi) that the first link data is connected with the second link data,wherein the text-data memory has both an index database and the first link data recorded thereon, where said first link data is a separate link data which is added to each of records of the index database, and the image-data memory has both an image database and the second link data recorded thereon.