US PATENT SUBCLASS 707 / 5
.~.~ Query augmenting and refining (e.g., inexact access)

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707 /   HD  DATA PROCESSING: DATABASE AND FILE MANAGEMENT, DATA STRUCTURES, OR DOCUMENT PROCESSING

1  DF  DATABASE OR FILE ACCESSING {6}
3  DF  .~ Query processing (i.e., searching) {3}
5.~.~ Query augmenting and refining (e.g., inexact access)

DEFINITION

Classification: 707/5

Query augmenting or refining (e.g., inexact access):

(under subclass 3) Subject matter directed to methods of expanding or limiting access to and retrieval of data or files by techniques including fuzzy search, ranking or weighing, relevance, thesaurus, and concept retrieval.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

530+, for text document processing.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

395, Information Processing System Organization,

3, for fuzzy logic, per se, subclasses 10+ for knowledge processing, per se, including trainable neural nets and

expert systems.

704, Data Processing - Speech Signal Processing, Linguistics, Language Translation, and Audio Compression/Decompression, 1+, for linguistic data processing and machine translation.

710, Electrical Computers and Digital Data Processing Systems: Input/Output,

200, and 240+ for limiting access to system resources and access arbitrating.

711, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems - Memory,

163+, for memory access limiting.

713, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems: Support,

200+, for security in computers or digital processing systems.