Patent ID: 7340450

Claim:
A method of searching for data comprising a plurality of metadata, wherein each metadata includes at least a global unique identifier, a data index and a description sentence of base data, said global unique identifier being an identifier for identifying a specific object, each of said metadata being associated with corresponding base data by said data index and being associated with said specific object by said global unique identifier, each of the plurality of metadata being capable of including the same global unique identifier, the method comprising the steps of: entering said global unique identifier; capturing a set of metadata including said entered global unique identifier; and searching for a first specific metadata based on a description sentence included in each metadata in said captured set of metadata; wherein said description sentence of said metadata in said captured set of metadata is a sequence of words, the method further comprising the steps of: (a) holding said captured set of metadata and obtaining and presenting words at the beginning of description sentences included in said set of captured metadata; (b) selecting and entering one word from said presented words; (c) holding only said captured metadata having a description sentence including a word matching said entered word among said held captured metadata; (d) obtaining and presenting a word from the description sentence of said held metadata, said obtained and presented word being at the position in the sequence next to said matching word; (e) repeating said steps (b) through (d) until the word obtained at said step (d) is the last word of any description sentence of the held metadata; and (f) presenting a metadata among the held metadata and the description sentence of which has the last word at said step (e) as the last word.