公开(公告)号：EP0922260B1

公开(公告)日：2003-01-29

申请号：EP97937389.1

申请日：1997-08-29

Applicant: March Networks Corporation

Inventor： REED, Jim ,  STREATCH, Paul

IPC: G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F17/30719 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99942 ,  Y10S707/99943

Abstract: A method of organizing electronic documents for storage and subsequent retrieval, involves storing a summary structure describing the structure of summary records associated with each document. Each structured summary record has at least one field representative of a characteristic of the document. A predetermined number of field values identify the value of the characteristic associated with the field. Predetermined keyword criteria associated with the field values are stored. Each document is analyzed to build a text index listing the occurrence of unique significant words in the document. The text index is compared with the keyword criteria to determine the appropriate field value for the document. For example, one characteristic field might be related to topic, which could have the field values of "financial" or "sports". The preponderance of certain keyword criteria, such as "money" or "shares" would identify the document with the financial topic.