Patent ID: 8745079
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for searching a repository of information, the method comprising: receiving at a computer system maintaining the repository of information sets of search criteria for performing a plurality of searches; and selectively performing by the computer system one or more of an attribute search and a keyword search of the information in the repository based on each of the received sets of search criteria and further based on whether the received search criteria indicates only keywords, only attributes, or both keywords and attributes, wherein the computer system executes a DataBase Management System (DBMS) and a search engine, wherein the repository comprises a plurality of tables storing the information and an index file, wherein the index file comprises a file generated and maintained by the computer system and representing contents of each of the tables, wherein the index file comprises a plurality of records, each record identifying one or more records of one or more tables, and wherein selectively performing one or more of the attribute search and the keyword search based on each of the received sets of search criteria comprises: