73 results about "Federated search" patented technology

A federated search engine groups search results from information sources using attributes of the search results. In grouping the search results, a first set and a second set of attributes are extracted from content in each set of search results received using information source wrappers. The first set of attributes defines a main clustering strategy, and the second set of attributes defines a sub-clustering strategy. A main grouping of the sets of search results received from the information sources is generated using the first set of attributes. The main grouping of search results includes a plurality of labeled groups with a plurality of search results in each group. A sub-grouping of search results is generated for each labeled group of search results in the main grouping of search results using the second set of attributes.

A joint search method for UAV multiobjective path planning in an urban low altitude environment first constructs a static safety index map based on static known obstacles. Meanwhile, based on proactively detected obstacles that are not marked on a geographic map by a UAV, the method constructs online a dynamic safety index map. Second, a multiobjective path planning problem is solved using a joint offline and online search method. Moreover, this method first plans offline the least cost path from a starting point to an end point and then invokes the online search scheme to replan online a changed path when the UAV detects unknown obstacles. Thus, the UAV can avoid dynamic obstacles effectively. The online search scheme has a small search space and can quickly replan a safe path for the UAV, thus satisfying the requirement of UAV on the real-time path planning.

A device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a mobile device user to perform a federated search across a plurality of disparate contact data stores, including a phone directory, IM store, an email address book, a buddy list, a social networking group, a SMS list, or any of a variety of other communication contact data stores. When a user inputs a character, a dynamic search is performed across the various contact data stores. The results of the search may be repeatedly updated based on additional input characters. The results of the search may be displayed on the mobile device organized by categories of the contact data stores and / or a preferred communication mechanism. The results may also indicate a preferred mechanism for communicating with the displayed name.

A persistent federated folder within a federated content management system saves the result of a search or selection of items stored in various heterogeneous datastores. The federated folder can be used to save federated search results, to act as a container in a workflow process, or a container for a set of documents or folders with similar characteristics. The search result may be shared by several application programs without performing a separate search for each application. The federated folder and its associated storage structure have the capability to save its instances persistently. The federated folder operations can selectively create, retrieve, update, and / or delete an instance of a federated folder in addition to adding, retrieving updating and deleting its parts and its members. Seamless integration with the federated query is provided to operate on the federated folder transparently regardless of the locality of the user or the datastores the user is searching. Access rights for federated folders are enforced according to user's general privileges.

A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety or sources across an enterprise, regardless of whether any of these sources conform to a conventional user role model. The architecture further allows for security attributes to be submitted at query time, for example, in order to provide real-time secure access to enterprise resources. The user query also can be transformed to provide for dynamic querying that provides for a more current result list than can be obtained for static queries.

The present invention provides a federated search tool and search methods that consolidate searches to external online accounts of a user and other people that are part of the user's social network. In some embodiments, the search tool is presented as a single search box that may appear persistently on the user's desktop display or as a toolbar embedded within another application. The search tool may be embedded as part of web page. Embodiments of the present invention may provide the results in a simple real-time display stack or a static result list, such as a web page. Blocks in the stack may indicate a result and the context of the result, such as which online account originated the result, whether the result is from a linked external accounts of people associated with the user, pointers to people and groups the user has linked to, an age of the result, and the like. The present invention may also permit the user to search the Internet generally, such as well known search engines, and to search the contents of their local machine, such as documents, emails, pictures, and the like. In addition, the present invention allows searches to be performed asynchronously to various linked external online account sites and then provides these results as they arrive.

An architecture to enable search gateways as part of a federated search supports searching for data in one or more heterogeneous data sources. The one or more heterogeneous data sources are within a computer system. Initially, a request for data is received at a federated data source. From the federated data source, data is retrieved from one or more of one or more terminal data repositories or one or more search gateway data sources.

Systems and methods enable federation of search results. An identification of a first data source associated with a first schema is received by the system, the first data source comprising data of a first type. An identification of a second data source associated with a second schema is received, the second data source comprising data of a second type, the second type different than the first type. An identification of a plurality of fields for a results set user interface, a mapping of the data of the first type to a first field of the results set user interface, and a mapping of the data of the second type to the first field of the results set user interface, are accessed. Data of the first type and data of the second type are merged and provided for display in the first field on a user terminal.

A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety or sources across an enterprise, regardless of whether any of these sources conform to a conventional user role model. The architecture further allows for security attributes to be submitted at query time, for example, in order to provide real-time secure access to enterprise resources. The user query also can be transformed to provide for dynamic querying that provides for a more current result list than can be obtained for static queries.

The invention relates to a combined search method realized on a portable learning terminal, in particular to a combined search method for realizing the search of exam papers, books, materials, vocabulary entries in multiple languages and sentences on the portable learning terminal. An exam paper database, a book database, a material database, a dictionary database in multiple languages, a sentence database that are independent from one another are stored in a memory unit of the portable learning terminal; an input device is provided in the portable learning device to realize the search functions; the input device is respectively connected to a data input end in a control circuit of the portable learning device; upon inputting the keywords to be searched by the input device, corresponding search engine will be started to find out content that matches fully or partially with the content and sequence of the keyword in the database of the memory unit and, at the same time, display the search result via a display driving device in the portable learning device.

A method and system for federated searching that includes receiving a user query a first location, extracting terms from the user query, assigning the query a ranking based on the terms, sending the user query to a second location for resolution if the ranking of the query meets a predetermined threshold, and receiving a response from the second location. The user query is parsed, normalized and ranked to determine if terms in the user query are relevant to the search facility of the second location. In order to make that ranking determination, data representative of the goods or services provided by the second location is provided to the first location by the second location. A data structure is built to allow an original value provided by the second location and the slot wherein the original value is expected to be indexed by all possible values for the original value by determining substantially all possible values for the original value. Relevant synsets are determined for the data, wherein terms within the synsets are associated to a term that was provided by the second location, and wherein a class of the data is preserved.

An architecture and implementation of a dynamic RMI server configuration hierarchy to support federated search and update across heterogeneous datastores. The RMI server configuration hierarchy supports searching for data in one or more heterogeneous data sources within a computer system. A request for data is received at a federated data source. Then, a server is selected to process the request based on a load of the server and based on whether the server can satisfy the request for data.

The invention discloses a website navigation tool system. A user interface of the website navigation tool system adopts a classified catalog guide module with a multilayer guide structure to manage a classified catalog of network resources. According to an optimal scheme, a network resource class catalog and a network resource label list are separately displayed by using a multi-window display method, so interference of useless information is reduced to the greatest extent. Meanwhile, the website navigation tool system is provided with a website classification searching engine which can search various types of websites, forums, blogs or web pages, and the website navigation tool system is quite convenient to use. A united searching engine or an accurate searching engine can be introduced, so the website navigation tool system is high in searching function strength and convenient to operate.

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for managing federated search results in a heterogeneous environment. A user enters a search term and the search term is submitted to multiple selected search engines. Search results are gathered from each selected search engine. A search ring is generated including a ring section to represent each of the selected search engines for enabling the user to view search results from one or more of the selected search engines.

Determining a relevancy ranking score is disclosed. A query is received that includes one or more constraints. One of the one or more constraints includes an operator. A search result based on the query is received. The relevancy ranking score for the received search result is determined based at least in part on the operator associated with the one or more constraints of the query.

The present disclosure provides user-interface methods and systems for submitting search requests to search engines and presenting search results therefrom customized using content preferences learned about a user, comprising sending query information to at least two search engines, including a query identifying desired content, and user information, including context information describing the environment in which the query information is being sent, and a user signature representing content preferences learned about the user; receiving at least one set of a search result and auxiliary information from the at least one search engine in response to sending the query information, including information describing attributes of the search result that led to the search result being chosen by the at least one search engine; ordering the at least one search result based at least in part on the auxiliary information; and presenting the ordered search results to the user.

Migration of content when accessed using federated search is disclosed. A content item is received as a result of a search of a content source not natively configured to provide content type data for content items. The content item is stored as a part of a repository that is organized by content item type, including by associating with the content item a content type.

A network-accessible cyber-threat security analytics service is configured to characterize and respond to a description that includes threat indicators (e.g., IOCs), and an initial severity. Enterprises register with the service by providing identifying information, such as industry, geographies, and the like. For each threat indicator, a query is sent to each of a set of one or more security knowledge bases, and at least some of the queries are scoped by the enterprise industry / geo information specified. The knowledge bases may vary but typically include: a managed security service, a cyber threat intelligence service, and a federated search engine that searches across one or more enterprise-connected data sources. Responses to the queries are collected. A response provides an indication whether the threat indicator identified in the query has been sighted in the knowledge base and the frequency. The system then adjusts the initial severity to reflect the indications returned from querying the security knowledge bases.

A device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a mobile device user to perform a federated search across a plurality of disparate contact data stores, including a phone directory, IM store, an email address book, a buddy list, a social networking group, a SMS list, or any of a variety of other communication contact data stores. When a user inputs a character, a dynamic search is performed across the various contact data stores. The results of the search may be repeatedly updated based on additional input characters. The results of the search may be displayed on the mobile device organized by categories of the contact data stores and / or a preferred communication mechanism. The results may also indicate a preferred mechanism for communicating with the displayed name.

A method and apparatus that generates a plurality of ranked query results from a query over a plurality of separate search domains. In this embodiment, the device receives the query and determines a plurality of results across the plurality of separate search domains using the query. The device further characterizes the query. In addition, the device ranks the plurality of results based on a score calculated for each of the plurality of results determined by a corresponding search domain and the query characterization, where the query characterization indicates a query type.

The invention discloses a search and search result display method and a search and search result display system, in particular a federated search and search result integrated display method and a federated search and search result integrated display system. A method and a system for uniform search and natural display of structured data, unstructured data and semi-structured data lack in the prior art. The method comprises: firstly, inputting a search word; secondly, sending a search request to structured, semi-structured and unstructured information sources, searching and positioning information matched with the search word synchronously in the structured semi-structured and unstructured information sources according to the search word, and generating a search result by using all information matched with the search word; thirdly, performing nearreplicas detection, sequencing, sorting and aggregation pretreatment of the search result; and finally, integrally display the pre-treated search result in a natural form. The method and the system are applicable to all information system for storing and processing databases, XML files and text data.

The invention provides a parallel metadata acquisition system, which is improved on the basis of an existing parallel metadata acquisition frame by combining network technology, mobile Agent technology and an OAI (Open Archives Initiative) frame model to improve the metadata acquisition rate and realize high-efficiency federated search service. By adopting a grouping strategy, the parallel metadata acquisition system realizes parallel acquisition of metadata outside and in groups, thereby improving the acquisition rate on the whole. Additionally, the metadata are stored in balanced classification, so that the system can perform parallel search when responding to a search request, and the searching speed and accuracy are improved.

A CELP encoder is provided that optimizes excitation vector-related parameters in a more efficient manner than the encoders of the prior art. In one embodiment, a CELP encoder optimizes excitation vector-related parameters based on a computed correlation matrix, which matrix is in turn based on a filtered first excitation vector. The encoder then evaluates error minimization criteria based on at least in part on a target signal, which target signal is based on an input signal, and the correlation matrix and generates a excitation vector-related index in response to the error minimization criteria. In another embodiment, a CELP encoder is provided that is capable of jointly optimizing and / or sequentially optimizing multiple excitation vector-related parameters by reference to a joint search weighting factor, thereby invoking an optimal error minimization process.

The present disclosure provides user-interface methods and systems for submitting search requests to search engines and presenting search results therefrom customized using content preferences learned about a user, comprising sending query information to at least two search engines, including a query identifying desired content, and user information, including context information describing the environment in which the query information is being sent, and a user signature representing content preferences learned about the user; receiving at least one set of a search result and auxiliary information from the at least one search engine in response to sending the query information, including information describing attributes of the search result that led to the search result being chosen by the at least one search engine; ordering the at least one search result based at least in part on the auxiliary information; and presenting the ordered search results to the user.

Multilingual federated search of deep web and surface web data stores combines technologies for federated search, surface web searches, for access limited search, and for rapid translation from and to various human languages. A federated search engine accepts a search query and submits it to other search engines. The federated search engine then accepts the various search results, post processes them, and presents them to a user. The surface web is the collection of freely accessible web sites that typically get crawled and indexed by search engines. The deep web is the data that is out there on the internet but having barriers to access such as subscription or technology. Language is also a barrier to access. Multilingual federated search techniques can provide users with search results gleaned from a vast number of sources in a variety of languages.

The invention relates to searching method and system for preprocessing keywords. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving keywords input by a user; carrying out word segmentation processing on the keywords to further generate a word segmentation processing result; retrieving the word segmentation processing result in title index library corresponding to a title library by adopting afirst logical operation, thus further obtaining titles containing the keywords; and carrying out combined retrieval on the word segmentation processing result and the titles containing the keywords in a content index library by adopting a second logical operation, and outputting a search result. According to the invention, the needed content can be accurately and fast searched and the experience of a user is greatly improved by preprocessing the keywords input by the user, adopting a word segmentation technology and an index technology to directly find contents and titles entirely containing keywords input by the user, then adding the tiles into the user searching keywords for carrying out combined search, and ensuring the keywords input by the user to entirely appear in the titles of thecontents and be highly ranked in the searched results.

The invention discloses a digital library resource unified search system. The system comprises a unified search module and a federated search module, the unified search module is provided with a self-established resource integration platform SDIP, the federated search module is provided with a resource integration platform, the self-established resource integration platform SDIP is used for conducting format translating on self-established resource, establishing a KBase database, establishing similarity indexing, establishing classification and grouping and issuing and maintaining the database, and the resource integration platform is used for integrating outsourcing resources through an open agreement connector and a database access connector and conducting virtual indexing on the outsourcing resources. By means of the digital library resource unified search system, integrating and searching CNKI resources, unit self-established resources, unit outsourcing resources and internet resources can be achieved simultaneously, and one-stop searching, finding and positioning of all resource are achieved. The management platform can be combined with a CNKI digital library, a digital cleaning research platform and the like, and various kinds of personalized services are provided.

A search technique having enhanced ease-of-use is provided. A search server analyzes web contents, extracts index information (e.g., time, geographical name, personal name, and business type), and registers the index information in an index information database. A time information search unit performs search using time as a key, a geographical name information search unit performs search using a geographical name as a key, a personal name information search unit performs search using a personal name as a key, a business type information search unit performs search using a business type as a key, and a topic information search unit performs search using a topic as a key. In order to perform narrowing down search while using these search engines integrally, a federated search unit provides a user interface to specify combined search conditions for the search engines.

A persistent federated folder within a federated content management system can be used to save federated search results, to act as a container in a workflow process, or a container for a set of documents or folders with similar characteristics. The federated folder and its associated storage structure have the capability to save its instances persistently. The federated folder operations can selectively create, retrieve, update, and / or delete an instance of a federated folder in addition to adding, retrieving updating and deleting its parts and its members. Seamless integration with the federated query is provided to operate on the federated folder transparently regardless of the locality of the user or the datastores the user is searching. Access rights for federated folders are enforced according to user's general privileges.