Patent ID: 6434551
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
In a structured-text cataloging method for a text searching system in which a set of texts is searched for specific text contents, a character-string-index updating step comprising the sub-steps of:extracting partial character strings each having a predetermined character count, character-position information of said partial character strings in a text to be cataloged, a text identifier for uniquely identifying said text in a text database, and a context identifier of a metanode representing character-string data including said partial character strings in a structure index, from said character-string data included in said text for each of a plurality of texts to be cataloged; generating structured-character-position information that includes said character-position information, said text identifier, and said context identifier; and updating a character-string index by cataloging an associative relation between each of said partial character strings and said structured-character-position information in said character-string index.