Patent ID: 8930386
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions, wherein execution of the one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to generate a query to retrieve a set of stored data records from a data store by performing steps comprising: providing a repository of terminology content, wherein the terminology content includes a plurality of backbone classes that form data structures representing a plurality of high level concepts, receiving an initial query comprising a set of search criteria comprising a seed concept; generating an equivalence concept query based on at least a subset of the search criteria that includes the seed concept; providing the equivalence concept query to a terminology service which manages the repository of terminology content, wherein the terminology service operates to extract, from the terminology content, a set of concepts that are semantically equivalent to the seed concept using the defined mappings; receiving the set of concepts that are semantically equivalent to the seed concept in response to submitting the equivalence concept query to the terminology service; and generating a structured query language (SQL) query for retrieving a set of structured records from an electronic data record system, wherein the SQL query comprises