Patent ID: 6999971
Filing Date: 2006-02-14
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of parametric group processing to identify relevant documents without implementing parametric queries in a structured query language, the method comprising: forming a parametric index from an indexed database by arranging categorical attributes as fields of said parametric index, each of said categorical attributes referencing any number of elements where said categorical attributes are qualitative parameters; specifying a first parametric group corresponding to a first subset of elements in said parametric index, said first subset derivable by cross-multiplying a set of one or more categorical attributes from a first field with another set of one or more categorical attributes from a second field; identifying text including at least one categorical attribute; specifying a second parametric group corresponding to a second subset of elements in said parametric index, said second subset derivable by cross-multiplying a set of said at least one categorical attribute from either said first field or said second field with another set of one or more categorical attributes from said first field, said second field or any other field; merging said first subset of elements of said first parametric group and said second subset of elements of said second parametric group to produce a merged parametric group; and extracting a parametric result from said merged parametric group, wherein said parametric result specifies a set of documents as identified by said first and said second subsets of elements.