Patent Document ID: 6161093
Application ID: 09164316

Base Claim:
1. An information access system comprising: a central system having a database in which information is stored, the central system including searching means for searching the database; and a terminal coupled to the central system which can access information on the database; wherein the database stores at least phonetic signal information including phoneme information and rhythm information, the central system transmits phonetic signal information stored in the database to the terminal, and the terminal receives the phonetic signal information transmitted from the central system; and further wherein said phonetic signal information are items related to publications, and the searching means is configured to search the database for phonetic signal information relating to the publications corresponding to a keyword sent from the terminal.

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Claim 50:
50. An information access system according to claim 1 wherein the keyword is attribute data expressing the attributes of the document, a relationship table expressing the relationship between the attribute data and the document corresponding to the attribute data is stored on the database, and the search means executes searches with reference to the relationship table.