Using multiple search engines to search multimedia data
    1.
    发明授权
    Using multiple search engines to search multimedia data 失效
    使用多个搜索引擎来搜索多媒体数据

    公开(公告)号:US5873080A

    公开(公告)日:1999-02-16

    申请号:US827318

    申请日:1997-03-26

    IPC分类号: G06F17/30 G06F17/00

    摘要: A query comprising of sub queries, each of which could be of different media types are used to search a collection of multimedia documents in a database. These sub queries are parsed according to media type and operators/functions between these sub queries are recorded creating a set of query objects and query operator objects. The query interface than passes the query objects to the appropriate application programming interfaces (API's) of the various search engines. Furthermore, it applies the query object operators to the respective interim results obtained by executing a query object. Then the interim results are combined in a global result object that is processed using a user specification to produce a single combined result list that conforms to user specified requirements.

    摘要翻译: 可以使用包括子查询(包括每个可能是不同媒体类型)的查询来搜索数据库中的多媒体文档的集合。 这些子查询根据媒体类型进行解析,记录这些子查询之间的运算符/函数,创建一组查询对象和查询运算符对象。 查询界面将查询对象传递给各种搜索引擎的相应应用程序编程接口(API)。 此外,它将查询对象运算符应用于通过执行查询对象获得的各个中期结果。 然后将中间结果组合在使用用户规范处理的全局结果对象中,以生成符合用户指定要求的单个组合结果列表。

    System and method for hierarchically grouping and ranking a set of
objects in a query context based on one or more relationships
    3.
    发明授权
    System and method for hierarchically grouping and ranking a set of objects in a query context based on one or more relationships 失效
    用于基于一个或多个关系对查询语境中的一组对象进行分层分组和排序的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US5875446A

    公开(公告)日:1999-02-23

    申请号:US804599

    申请日:1997-02-24

    IPC分类号: G06F17/30

    摘要: Topically relevant objects in an object database are first identified using any generally known methods to obtain a set of topically relevant objects (topically relevant set). Parents, and in alternative embodiments other ancestors, of one or more of the topically relevant objects are identified according to directional structural relationships that the parents have with respect to the topically relevant objects. These objects form a set of structurally relevant objects (structurally relevant set). In some embodiments, the user query identifies one or more of these structural relationships. The topically relevant objects are then organized under one or more of their respective parents to form a hierarchy level of both (topically relevant and structurally relevant) sets of objects. In some preferred embodiments, the process can iterate to create more than one hierarchy level.

    摘要翻译: 首先使用任何通常已知的方法来识别对象数据库中的局部相关对象以获得一组局部相关对象(局部相关集合)。 根据父母对局部相关对象的有向结构关系,识别一个或多个局部相关对象的父母以及其他祖先的其他祖先。 这些对象形成一组结构相关的对象(结构相关的集合)。 在一些实施例中,用户查询识别这些结构关系中的一个或多个。 然后将这些局部相关的对象组织在它们各自的父母中的一个或多个下面,以形成对象的两个(局部相关的和结构上相关的)对象的层级。 在一些优选实施例中,该过程可以迭代以创建多于一个层级。