Patent Document ID: 7613684
Application ID: 10406439

Base Claim:
1. An information retrieval system, comprising: a search query generator, in a computer, responsive to a selection of a level within a hierarchical relationship of terms describing an organizational framework for information, for constructing a search query of terms that are based upon the selected level, and for providing the search query of terms to a search engine to search any of a plurality of information sources selected by a user; and a user interface which provides information about documents located at a user-selected information source by the search engine documents to said user.

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Claim 4:
4. The information retrieval system of claim 1 , wherein said search query generator constructs an individual query for each of a first and second hierarchy, and combines the individual queries to form a search query that is provided to the search engine, wherein the first and second hierarchy each define a different respective hierarchical relationship of terms.