Patent Document ID: 20080228468
Application ID: 12129082
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for translating an interpretation of a keyword query into a grammatically correct plain-language query statement, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring at least one keyword to perform a keyword query search upon; semantically interpreting the acquired keyword, further including the step of building a translation index to determine matching elements, wherein matching elements are derived from information comprising type names, attribute names, and atomic attributes values that are associated with a specific keyword; merging the matching elements in the event that differing keywords comprise a same matching element and type alias; providing a clause template for the customization of a plain-language sentence clause, wherein the plain-language sentence clause is based upon the matching elements that are selected for customization; generating at least one plain-language sentence clause; determining if the plain-language sentence clauses can be merged, wherein the determination is based upon the attributes matched for a given type element; specifying the plain-language sentence clauses that are to be merged, the plain-language sentence clause mergers being based upon the attributes matched for a given type element; merging the plain-language sentence clauses; generating at least one grammatically valid plain-language sentence for the keyword query from the generated plain-language sentence clauses, wherein the grammatically valid plain-language sentence is based upon differing matching elements; presenting the at least one grammatically valid plain-language sentence for the keyword query to a keyword query system user for the user's review.