US5842206 Patents
A computerized method for Searching one or more electroni cally Stored documents is disclosed. The method comprises four Steps. The first Step Searches each document for a Search expression. The Second Step analyzes each document con taining the Search expression to determine one or more Significant concepts within the document. The third Step generates an abstract for each concept of each document containing the Search expression. The fourth Step Searches each abstract for the Search expression or alternatively for related expressions or ideas as well. In a further embodiment, the method also
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