Patent ID: 7266547
Filing Date: 2007-09-04
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for handling a free text search query, comprising: a grid environment comprising a plurality of computing systems each comprising at least one resource and communicatively connected over a network to share each said at least one resource through at least one grid service implemented within an open grid services architecture enabling interfacing with each said at least one resource through at least one web service; a grid management system for receiving a plurality of separate job requests from a plurality of client systems over said network and for managing distribution of said plurality of separate job requests to at least one grid service from among said plurality of grid services; said grid management system, responsive to said grid management system receiving a particular job request from a particular client system with a free text string comprising a plurality of specifications as a search query, for invoking a search service from among said plurality of grid services to perform said job request; and said search service comprising: