Patent ID: 7058625

Claim:
In a computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for use with a database comprising a plurality of records containing text data, the storage medium comprising instructions for a database mining tool comprising: a search engine and queue generator responsive to input search criteria for accessing the database to produce a search result identifying a subset of the records in the database, the search engine and queue generator also producing a first search queue from the search result, the first search queue including a plurality of concepts, each concept in the first search queue corresponding to a unique text element contained in at least one of the records in the search result; a relevance finder for computing a relevance score for the concepts in the first search queue; and a merger for creating a compound concept by combining at least two concepts in the first search queue, the merger cooperating with the relevance finder to calculate a relevance score for the compound concept and to create a second search queue by adding the compound concept to the first search queue if the relevance score of the compound concept is greater than the relevance score of each of the at least two concepts.