INDEX TO A SEMI-STRUCTURED DATABASE

Patent №

US 7,409,381

Granted

2008-08-05

Filed 2001

Owner

BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

Lab

AI components

1

nlp

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09744393

A method and apparatus for generating an index entry for a record in a semi-structured database involves analysing each field to identify an entry within each field and to identify a sequence of characters having a format corresponding to a predetermined format. Thereafter, the method and apparatus operate to generate an index entry for the identified entry, and for at least one field, define any characters not identified as an entry as a free text entry.

Natural languageG06F 16/83G06F 16/313Y10S 707/917Y10S 707/955Y10S 707/99933

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware0.38
Knowledge representation0.04
Machine learning0.03
Planning0.03
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

assignment · 117410630

Assignors

STEEL, SAMUEL W.D., KRUSCHWITZ, UDO, WEBB, NICHOLAS J., DE ROECK, ANNE N., SCOTT, PAUL D., TURNER, RAYMOND, TSUI, KWOK C., WOBCKE, WAYNE R., AZVINE, BEHNAM

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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