Abstract
An apparatus and method for a recursive document network searching system comprising a searchable document database containing multiple root and sub-root documents containing relational links to other documents where the relational links are manually created or are created by way learned functional components. An inventive aspect of this work is the ability to co-mingle the manual and learned components of such structures so that the user can have an efficient system for and method of a convenient and economical retrieval of the one desired informational item in an informational retrieval system that allows leveraging of the time and effort invested during prior information retrieval sessions; and can have an efficient system and method for a dynamic and context sensitive mapping of help items in a help information retrieval system. The documents at any point in the network can contain relational links to other documents both for the purposes of constructing a network. This...
Application number: 11/615,629
Publication number: US 2007/0150455 A1
Filing date: Dec 22, 2006
Inventors: James Neal Richter, Christopher M. Tarabochia, Douglas K. Warner
U.S. Classification
707003000