Patent ID: 7296229
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for updating a plurality of dictionaries or glossaries stored within a data processing system, wherein the data processing system includes an organizational database comprising information regarding a structure of an organization, wherein each dictionary or glossary of the plurality of dictionaries or glossaries is a member of a hierarchically ordered set of dictionaries or glossaries, and wherein each dictionary or glossary in the hierarchical set of dictionaries or glossaries is associated with a respective organizational unit within the structure of the organization, wherein the structure of the organization comprises an organization level, a department level and a user level, and wherein the hierarchically ordered set of dictionaries or glossaries reflects the organization level, the department level and the user level of the organization in which the dictionaries or glossaries are used, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of: automatically scanning a datastream; automatically detecting, in the datastream, a word that does not match an indexed term or word in a dictionary or a glossary of the plurality of dictionaries or glossaries; and responsive to an indication that the unmatched word is a properly spelled new term, determining, with reference to the organizational database, a list of organizational units which utilize the new term, and a list of associated dictionaries and/or glossaries in the hierarchically ordered set of dictionaries or glossaries to be updated with the new term.