Patent ID: 6920448
Filing Date: 2005-07-19
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of performing a domain-specific metasearch and obtaining search results therefrom, said method comprising the steps of: providing a metasearch engine capable of accessing generic, web-based search engines and domain-relevant search engines; receiving a query inputted by a user to the metasearch engine and searching for documents on a selected set of said generic, web-based search engines and domain-relevant search engines which are relevant to the query; fetching raw data search results in the form of text documents from each member of the selected set; displaying the raw data on a user interface; supplying the raw data to a data mining module, wherein the data mining module forms clusters of related documents according to an unsupervised clustering procedure and wherein the data mining module, upon receiving the raw data, processes the raw data, independently of the unsupervised clustering procedure, and prepares a single list of all the documents, after eliminating documents not reachable via the web; and displaying the clusters of related documents on the user interface.