Patent ID: 7054859
Filing Date: 2006-05-30
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for responding to search requests for stored documents, the method comprising: providing stored documents, each of the stored documents including metadata, content, and a document type identifier for identifying a type of the document; receiving a search request including document type criteria, metadata criteria, and content criteria; identifying a first set of documents based on the metadata criteria; identifying documents in the first set that have a document type identifier that matches the document type criteria; automatically identifying a search method from a plurality of search methods for searching the content of the identified documents in the first set based on the document type identifier of the documents; searching the content of the identified documents in the first set using the identified search method and the content criteria; transforming documents in the first set that are of types that do not match the document type criteria to documents of a type that matches the document type criteria; searching the content of the transformed documents based on the content criteria; and wherein a search result includes document identifiers for transformed documents that have content that matches the content criteria.