35 results about "Faceted search" patented technology

A method and system for improved query expansion in faceted search are provided. The method includes: receiving a search query; expanding the search query to obtain query expansion terms; and receiving a facet selection for the search query. A facet profile is retrieved in the form of collected important terms for the facet; and the query expansion terms are weighted by comparing them to the facet profile. The query expansion terms are re-ranked and the method includes executing the re-weighted query expansion terms whilst filtering for the facet.

Method, system, and computer program product for indexing and searching entity-relationship data are provided. The method includes: defining a logical document model for entity-relationship data including: representing an entity as a document containing the entity's searchable content and metadata; dually representing the entity as a document and as a category; and representing each relationship instance for the entity as a category set that contains categories of all participating entities in the relationship. The method also includes: translating entity-relationship data into the logical document model; and indexing the entity-relationship data of the populated logical document model as an inverted index. The method may include searching indexed entity-relationship data using a faceted search, wherein the categories are all categories required for supporting faceted navigation.

The invention described herein solves the challenges encountered in searching for clinical and genomic information from multiple data sources. Systems, methods, and devices of the invention allow a user to search a number of dissimilar information sources simultaneously, and view, process, and perform correlations on the information. The invention uses faceted search to process clinical values, genomic data, subject characteristics, and population characteristics, thereby providing a user with an array of information useful for monitoring or improving the state of health of a subject or a subject population. The invention allows a user to evaluate clinical and research information in a subject-centric way, and analyze information at either the individual or the population level.

A data processing system receives a first user input comprising a search query. The data processing system displays in a search interface accessible across a plurality of computer application programs, a plurality of results matching the search query. The results are categorized into a plurality of categories and only a first subset of all results are displayed for each of the plurality of categories. The data processing system receives a second user input comprising a selection of one of the plurality of categories. In response to the second user input, the data processing system displays, in the search interface, a second subset of results, wherein the second subset is categorized into one or more subcategories of the selected category.

A method, system and computer program product for exploration of item consumption by customers are provided. The method includes profiling each customer with self attributes and related attributes in the form of consumed items; profiling each item with self attributes, first order related attributes in the form of customers of the profiled item, and second order related attributes in the form of items consumed by the customers of the profiled item; and indexing the customer profiles and item profiles in a faceted search engine for exploration by a user. Searching the customer profiles and item profiles is carried out by user selection of one or more attributes of the customers and/or items. The method includes refining the indexed profiles to a segment of the data in the form of a compound logic condition of the attributes of the customer and/or items.

A method of caching faceted search results includes providing a rule set and receiving system criteria. The method further includes generating at least one faceted search result based on a first faceted search using a plurality of search terms, and maintaining at least a portion of the faceted search results in a denormalized database based on the rule set and system criteria. A computer readable medium including computer readable code for executing the method steps, as well as a system including means for executing the method steps is also disclosed.

A method, system and computer program product for dynamically selecting and ordering facets and/or facet values in a user interface. A user's “preference” concerning the selection and ordering of facets and/or facet values that the user desires to be displayed in the user interface is determined. Such user's preference may be determined based on monitoring the actions of the user (e.g., online activity) as well as possibly other types of information, such as the user's input and context of the user's faceted search. Upon determining the user's preference, facets and/or facet values are selected and ordered based on the user's preference and consequently displayed in the user's user interface. In this manner, the user is provided a more relevant and insightful perspective on the data set as the user sees the “best” information more quickly while performing less work to see and apply the facets and/or facet values.

The invention discloses a faceted search system and method based on water conservancy object classification labels. The system comprises a label module and a search module, wherein the label module is used for carrying out classification labeling processing on a metadata object in a water conservancy resource metadatabase and simultaneously managing the classification label in the system; and the search module is used for carrying out search query on metadata information according to a search request of a user and faceted selection. The faceted search system and method provides a "label" management function for a water conservancy information resource catalogue service system on the basis of the water conservancy information resource catalogue service system and carries out faceted search expansion on the simple search of the water conservancy information resource catalogue service system so as to lower the requirements of the user on knowledge in a relevant field, avoid the problem that user search gets lost and improve search efficiency.

Method, system, and computer program product for faceted search with relationships between categories are provided. The method includes: having a document set of multiple documents, each document having associated categories to which it belongs; grouping multiple categories associated with a document into a category set based on a relationship between the multiple categories; associating the category set with the document; and indexing the category set for retrieval of documents from categories sharing a category set. Wherein indexing the category set includes: having an index entry of a textual representations of a category, wherein the index entry includes a single occurrence for each document to which the category is attached; adding a payload to a document occurrence of a serialization of an identifier of the category sets to which the category belongs associated with the document. Indexing the category set further includes: adding an index entry for category set data, wherein the index entry includes a single occurrence for each document, wherein a document occurrence includes a payload of a serialization of an identifier of category sets associated with the document, and an identifier of the categories belonging to the category sets.

A method, computer program product, and system for integrating faceted and predefined multi-dimensional search interfaces are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for displaying a first set of results from a search request in a faceted search interface and a second set of results from the search request in a predefined multi-dimensional search interface, and responsive to a user action in the predefined multi-dimensional search interface affecting a scope of the search request, synchronizing the faceted search interface with changes in the predefined multi-dimensional search interface without requiring a separate user action in the faceted search interface.

A method, system and computer program product for dynamically selecting and ordering facets and/or facet values in a user interface. A user's “preference” concerning the selection and ordering of facets and/or facet values that the user desires to be displayed in the user interface is determined. Such user's preference may be determined based on monitoring the actions of the user (e.g., online activity) as well as possibly other types of information, such as the user's input and context of the user's faceted search. Upon determining the user's preference, facets and/or facet values are selected and ordered based on the user's preference and consequently displayed in the user's user interface. In this manner, the user is provided a more relevant and insightful perspective on the data set as the user sees the “best” information more quickly while performing less work to see and apply the facets and/or facet values.

A computer-implemented method of guiding a user during the construction of a search query to locate an item of interest in a database, wherein a search index of the database is a hierarchical data structure that includes at least one aspect of items with the aspect having facets. The method includes receiving a search query from a user, building a search expression data structure according to the search query, expanding the search expression data structure to determine the results for at least one facet available to refine the user's search query and presenting a representation of the results of the user's search query along with the result for the at least one facet to the user, thus providing guidance to the user for development of the search query regarding the existence of valid results. The method is useful to avoid incorrect or NULL results.

The invention relates generally to video data processing and storage, including video surveillance and television, and uses video data indexing and faceted search in video data sets. The method for indexing of video data by facet characteristics is wherein the video data containing facet characteristics are written into the data storage, wherein at least one combination of at least two facet characteristics relating to the video data is generated; each combination counter is increased by at least one; and then the search for video data is run in the data storage, wherein only those facet combinations are used whose counters have positive values; the video data is removed from the data storage, wherein each facet combination counter relating to the removed video data is decreased by at least one. The objective is to lower resource demands for data search in video data sets by means of faceted classification.

A system for performing a hybrid in-memory faceted search for one or more digital objects, comprising: a media platform comprising one or more processors configured to: store an index for a data set generated using one or more indexing processes, wherein the index includes a mapping of values to identifiers for each digital object in the data set; receive an update for the index; store the index update with a timestamp independent from the stored index; and in response to a request for the stored index, apply the index updates to the index.