ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,946, issued on July 15, was assigned to SHINYDOCS Corp..
"System and method of large file extraction" was invented by Peter Vanleeuwen (Guelph, Canada), Mark Kraatz (Waterloo, Canada), Khalid Merhi (Kitchener, Canada), Abdulrahman Alamoudi (Ottawa) and Benjamin Barth (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for extracting full text from source files of any size in such a manner that all text can be rapidly and accurately searched via search engine while maintaining satisfactory system performance. A software tool that integrates with file shares or an enterprise content management system with the ability t...