US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Search based on abstracted document structure image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,364, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Search based on abstracted document structure image" was invented by Sho Ayuba (Tokyo), Mayumi Goto (Ayase, Japan) and Yoshio Horiuchi (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for searching for target documents. The approach receives an abstracted document structure from a user to use as a search source. The approach searches, based on the abstract document structure, a group of search destination documents. The approach creates a pool of target documents based on a portion of the group of search destination documents. T...