ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,124, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Document content search index" was invented by Dong Rui Li (Beijing), Xue Lan Zhang (Beijing), Xue Xu (Beijing), Zai Ming Lao (Beijing) and Ye Chen (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer program product are configured to extract key value pair (KVP) data from one or more documents; obtain a content index for the one or more documents; and enhance the content index with the KVP data to provide a KVP content index."
The patent was filed on Sept. 1, 2023, under Application No. 18/241,302.
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