Patent ID: 8082240
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer system, said system comprising: an electronic processor; a display device; a memory device storing a data structure comprised of information units; and a user interface executed by the processor and displayed on the display device, wherein: said data structure comprises a dictionary file having keywords related to each other according to a hierarchy, each of said information units is associated with a keyword, the user interface comprises: a text input zone for defining a search, user command for ordering a search engine to perform a search depending on content of the text input zone, a first list display zone for showing results of the search performed by the search engine, and a second list display zone for showing results from the hierarchy related to the results shown in the first display zone, and wherein the first list display zone shows keywords that resulted from the search performed by the search engine in a dictionary, depending on contents of the text input zone, and the second list display zone automatically shows keywords from the hierarchy that are lower in said hierarchy than the keyword selected from the list shown in the first list display zone, wherein the dictionary sets up the hierarchy as a star hierarchy by means of a table in which each record comprises an identification field corresponding to a keyword code and a hierarchy field corresponding to a code for a keyword from lower down the hierarchy.