Patent ID: 6269362
Filing Date: 2001-07-31
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A computerized method for monitoring a set of documents resulting from a first query, the documents stored in memories of server computers, comprising the steps of:submitting the first query to the search engine, the first query generating a result set of documents corresponding to the first query;generating a first abstract for each member of the set in a search engine, the first abstract including a feature vector and being highly dependent on the features of the document;submitting a second query to the search engine, the second query generating a result set of documents corresponding to the second query;generating a second abstract for each member of the result set, the second abstract being a feature vector and being highly dependent on the features of the document; andcomparing the first abstract with the second abstract to identify documents that have changed between the time the set of documents was generated and the time the result set is generated.