Abstract: A method of accessing information from a collection of data includes receiving a query, augmenting the query with canonical non-terminal concepts, generating an inverse index of the collection of data, the inverse index including canonical non-terminal representations of the data and generating results to the augmented query in conjunction with the inverse index.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 2, 2000
Date of Patent:
March 9, 2004
Assignee:
iPhase.com, Inc.
Inventors:
Jane Wen Chang, Raymond Lau, Michael Kyle McCandless