Patent Document ID: 8131748
Application ID: 11618562

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of performing a search to identify documents within an electronic data repository that are relevant to a search query, the method comprising: receiving an electronic input initiated by a user under guidance of a graphical computer user interface, the electronic input specifying a plurality of user-entered query portions to be used in performing a search to identify documents that are related to the plurality of user-entered query portions within an electronic data repository in an enterprise resource computing system, each of the query portions comprising a preconfigured attribute and an associated value for the preconfigured attribute entered by the user, the preconfigured attribute corresponding to one of several preconfigured attributes of objects in the data repository, wherein the electronic input does not specify a logical operator between any of the query portions; generating a search query for searching the data repository, the search query being generated by: (i) determining whether two or more of the query portions each have a common preconfigured attribute, and associating any such query portions having the common preconfigured attribute with each other into a new query portion using a logical OR operator, wherein the new query portion comprises a logical sum of the query portions having the common preconfigured attribute; and (ii) thereafter associating any of the query portions that were not associated in step (i), and any new query portion formed in step (i), with each other using a logical AND operator, wherein the generated search query comprises a logical product of the query portions that were not associated in step (i) and any new query portions formed in step (i); and searching the data repository with the generated search query and presenting results comprising an identification of documents within the data repository that are responsive to the generated query, wherein the graphical computer user interface does not provide for user selection of the logical OR operator or the logical AND operator to be used in generating the search query.

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Claim 8:
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the query portions comprises at least two preconfigured attributes and associated values for the at least two preconfigured attributes entered by the user, the at least two preconfigured attributes and associated values comprising a single search statement that is displayed on a single line in the graphical user interface.