Patent Document ID: 20160012125
Application ID: 14644771
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: creating a conceptual inverted index (CII) based on conceptual indices (CIs), the CII including CII entries, each of which corresponds to a separate concept in a concept graph, the creating including for each CII entry: with respect to the concept corresponding to the CII entry, populating the CII entry with: pointers to documents selected from the CIs having likelihoods of being related to the concept that are greater than a threshold value; and the corresponding likelihoods of the documents; receiving a query that includes one of the concepts in the concept graph as a search term; searching the CII for the search term; and generating query results from the searching, the query results including at least a subset of the pointers to documents; wherein each of the CIs is associated with a corresponding one of the documents and includes a CI entry for each concept in the concept graph, and each of the CI entries specifies a value indicating a likelihood that the one of the documents is related to the concept in the concept graph.