Patent ID: 7941431
Filing Date: 2011-05-10
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for processing inquiry messages seeking documents comprising: a. a user interface receiving inquiry messages and corresponding to one or more of a plurality of resource applications running on the system, each resource application associated with a differentiated subscription, the subscription determining a level of value-added content to which the resource application has access; b. one or more data collections on computer-accessible memory storing documents for delivery to a user in response to an inquiry message; c. one or more metadata information files on computer-accessible memory holding metadata for documents stored in the one or more data collections; d. a new document intake component storing content of, and processing, documents that are to be added to the one or more data collections, the intake component using metadata extractors to develop metadata from a new document and to store at least a portion of the metadata in the metadata information files substantially simultaneously with storing the new document as ready for user access in the one or more data collections, the metadata comprising value-added content developed at least in part from the content of the new document as delivered to the new document intake component; e. a delivery component, responsive to a resource application receiving an inquiry message, delivering, through the corresponding user interface, results documents responsive to the inquiry message wherein the content of the results documents is supplemented with value-added content of the metadata associated with the results documents as determined by the subscription associated with the resource application; and f. at least one processor for executing the components and accessing the computer-accessible memories.