Patent ID: 8099423
Filing Date: 2012-01-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An automated computer-implemented method of locating documents in a database of electronic documents, the method comprising: dividing, by one or more processors of a computer system, individual documents in the database of electronic documents into different, non-overlapping fragments; associating, by one or the more of the processors of the computer system, the fragments with the document from which the fragments originated; associating, by one or more of the processors of the computer system, metadata with the fragments, wherein the metadata associated with a fragment includes metadata related to one or more topics of the fragment; receiving a query for one or more documents containing information about a topic, wherein the query includes a query term specifying the topic; comparing, by one or more of the processors of the computer system, the query term specifying the topic with the metadata associated with fragments of the documents; and locating, by one or more of the processors of the computer system, a document from the database based on the comparison of the query term specifying the topic with the metadata associated with a fragment of the located document.