US Patent Issued to OPEN TEXT on Nov. 25 for "System and method for subset searching and associated search operators" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,668, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to OPEN TEXT SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"System and method for subset searching and associated search operators" was invented by Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck (Waterloo, Canada) and David Alan Tausky (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that addresses the problem of query construction for finding objects that include some number (N) of a set of terms (M). Moreover, embodiments as disclosed herein may efficiently implement the searches specified by such subset operators using a subset process that combines results from a set of term ...