Patent ID: 7650330
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, from a user, a first example of target information, where the first example includes a first tuple that corresponds to the target information in documents stored in a database, the first tuple including a plurality of fields; finding ones of the documents in the database that contain the first tuple; analyzing the ones of the documents in the database to recognize a pattern, in the ones of the documents, that includes the first tuple and at least one of text that precedes the plurality of fields of the first tuple, text that occurs between at least two of the plurality of fields of the first tuple, or text that follows the plurality of fields of the first tuple; and automatically searching the database for at least a second tuple that matches the pattern, where the at least a second tuple is a second example of the target information and differs from the first tuple and the pattern.