Patent ID: 7228301

Claim:
In a computerized environment, a method of normalizing document data to improve results of search requests, the method comprising the acts of: receiving a first document containing first document data and a link to a second document, wherein the second document contains second document data; parsing the first document data into one or more first document segments; identifying at least one of the one or more first document segments as a first document alias that correlates with a first document datum found in an alias directory service; associating the received first document with the first document alias so that, upon request for the first document datum through a search engine, the received first document is returned to a requester by association of the first document datum with the first document alias; parsing the second document data into one or more second document segments; identifying at least one of the one or more second document segments as a second document alias that correlates with a first document datum found in the alias directory service; and associating the received second document with the second document alias so that, upon request for the second document datum through the search engine, the received second document is returned to the requester by association of the second document datum with the second document alias.