Patent ID: 6336116
Filing Date: 2002-01-01
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of configuring a computerized searching system so that the searching system can be used to host searches of a database defined by a database provider, the database comprised of one or more documents, the method comprising the steps of:receiving, from a database provider or a representative thereof, at a host, information identifying the database; assigning a provider identifier to the database; searching through the database using the information received in the receiving step in order to identify documents in the database; indexing the data in the documents identified in the searching step; storing, at the host, indexing information generated in the indexing step, together with the provider identifier; and outputting, to the database, code which comprises the provider identifier corresponding to the database and which allows a user to enter user-specified data and to perform a search of the database for the user-specified data without requiring the user to enter the provider identifier corresponding to the database and without requiring the user to enter information identifying the database and without requiring the user to enter information identifying the host.