Patent Document ID: 9047285
Application ID: 12177122

Base Claim:
1. A method for frame-based search to identify content of interest, comprising the following steps: determining, as a result of computing hardware and programmable memory, a set of logical forms, each logical form representative of a unit of natural language discourse in a first source of computer-accessible content, wherein each logical form, of the set of logical forms, is arranged as a tree, at least some trees including a logical verb root, a logical subject, and a logical object; determining, for each logical form of the set of logical forms, as a result of computing hardware and programmable memory, whether a first frame extraction rule is satisfied by a logical form and, if a frame extraction rule is satisfied, producing a first instance of a first frame; determining, for each unit of natural language discourse that invokes the first frame, as a result of computing hardware and programmable memory, a locality that includes the unit of natural language discourse; including, as a result of computing hardware and programmable memory, each locality as a record of a first database; and searching, as a result of computing hardware and programmable memory, the first database, to identify a first set of records, by identifying those records that contain at least one match to a first keyword query.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of including further comprises: indexing the records, for the first database, according to at least one role of the first frame.