Patent Document ID: 7818326
Application ID: 11218167

Base Claim:
1. A method to be performed by a processor in an electronic environment, comprising: receiving a query for an object captured by a capture system, the query including at least one search term, wherein a content type of the object is determined and the content type is positioned in a content field of a tag associated with the object; hashing the at least one search term to a term bit position using a hash function; and eliminating at least one other object from the query using a word index associated with the at least one other object, the word index comprising a plurality of bits, if a bit in the term bit position is not set, wherein eliminating at least one other object from the query comprises performing a search over a tag database containing tags associated with the captured objects.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising retrieving at least one object, wherein a second word index associated with the retrieved object included a set bit in the term bit position.