Patent Document ID: 8874552
Application ID: 13511382

Base Claim:
1. A method for data access, comprising: defining an ontology including a structured vocabulary of entities, types of the entities and relations between the entities, pertaining to a given sphere of knowledge; receiving in a computer a search query generated using the ontology; providing to a user of the computer at least one document in response to the query; receiving in the computer ontological tags, indicating for data elements in the document a semantic nature of the element, associated with data elements in the at least one document; and automatically updating the ontology, by the computer, responsively to the ontological tags.

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Claim 11:
11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein defining the ontology comprises defining one of a plurality of sphere-specific ontologies that are commonly associated with a super-ontology, and wherein automatically updating the ontology comprises propagating an update to the topology to one or more others of the sphere-specific ontologies via the super-ontology.