SEARCH FOR ARBITRARY TEXT AND SEARCH BY ATTRIBUTES IN ONLINE PROGRAM MANUAL DATA Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC G06F17/30 G06F12/00 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to search for arbitrary text and data attributes of an online program manual. The subject of invention includes a search engine for data of online program manual and related methods. The text search string can be standardised to searchable elements and elements interpreted as text search elements or search by attributes elements. One or more queries are created, with search conditions of different degree of complexity, in accordance with interpretation of elements of the search string. One or more search operations in data bases of the online program manual and/or network resources are executed based on interpretation of text elements and attributes, and results are assigned a value for ranking in accordance the interpretation. Combined search results can be grouped, ranked and filtered for displaying for the user. The results can also be progressively displayed as each character of the search string is entered by the user.

EFFECT: invention simplifies search in an online program manual.

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