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Methods and systems to facilitate searching a data resourceRelated Patent Categories: Data Processing: Database And File Management Or Data Structures, Database Or File Accessing, Query Processing (i.e., Searching)Methods and systems to facilitate searching a data resource description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060224571, Methods and systems to facilitate searching a data resource. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] The present application claims the priority benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/666,549, filed Mar. 30, 2005, which is incorporated herein by reference. TECHNICAL FIELD [0002] This application relates generally to the technical field of data communication and, in one example embodiment, methods and system to facilitate searching a data resource. BACKGROUND [0003] A user, searching an information resource, for particular information may encounter challenges. One such challenge may be that a search mechanism (e.g., a search engine) that is utilized to search the information resource may fail to present information results to the user in which the user is interested. This may occur for a variety of reasons. One reason may be that the user and an author, for example, use different language to describe the same concept. For example, in the context of a network commerce system, an author of a listing (e.g., a seller) may list a pair of slippers as "ruby slippers" and a user (e.g., a potential buyer) may enter a keyword query to search for "red slippers." This may be frustrating if indeed the user means "ruby slippers." Another example may include a buyer that does not find a listing for "ruby slippers" because the buyer failed to look in the category where the seller had listed the "ruby slippers" (e.g., "footwear"). People do not always say what they mean or know how to find what they want. [0004] Another problem may be that an information resource (e.g., the electronic marketplace) responds to the user's search by presenting items to the user that the user is not interested in acquiring. For example, a user (e.g., a prospective buyer) may include the keyword "AK" to search for items and the electronic marketplace may return Ann Klein apparel (e.g., AK--sweater) and Russian made rifles (e.g., AK 47). The user is probably not interested in both types of items and would prefer a more precise response to his/her search. [0005] It will be appreciated that the above problems may be exacerbated where an author (e.g., a seller) does not precisely author and document (e.g., identify the items to which a listing pertains). For example, sellers may list DVD players on the electronic marketplace. The manner which a particular DVD player is similar to (or different from) other DVD players may not be explicitly identified by a seller. These are important questions to answer because the electronic marketplace must determine which DVD players to present to a buyer based on the buyer's query (e.g., keyword query or browsing selection). In contrast, some electronic marketplaces require the seller to precisely identify the item they are selling by requiring a product number (e.g., Universal Product Numbers, UPN) that uniquely identifies the product. These marketplaces have precise knowledge of their inventory and need only be concerned with understanding the meaning of the buyer's query. SUMMARY OF INVENTION [0006] According to a first aspect there is provided a method to facilitate searching a data resource utilized by sellers and buyers that transact items in a network-based marketplace. The method includes receiving information, from a seller, that is associated with an item; evaluating the information in real time with a rule that includes an expression and supplemental information; if the expression evaluates true, supplementing the information with the supplemental information; and storing the information and the supplemental information in the data resource, the evaluating, supplementing and storing performed in real time to facilitate a search of the information and the supplemental information in real time. [0007] According to a second aspect there is provided a method to generate a query to search a data resource utilized by a seller and a buyer that transact an item in a network-based marketplace. The method includes receiving a keyword query, from a buyer, that includes at least one keyword; evaluating the at least one keyword with at least one rule that includes an expression and classification information; and if the expression evaluates true, including the classification information in the query, wherein the classification information is utilized to search supplemental information stored in the data resource, the supplemental information generated from information that is entered by the seller. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0008] Embodiments of the present invention are illustrated by way of example and not limitation in the figures of the accompanying drawings, in which like references indicate similar elements and in which: [0009] FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a system, according to an embodiment, to search a data resource; [0010] FIG. 2 is a network diagram depicting a system, according to one embodiment, to search a data resource; [0011] FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating multiple applications that, in one example embodiment of the present invention, are provided as part of the computer-based system; [0012] FIG. 4 is a high-level entity-relationship diagram, illustrating various tables that are utilized by and support the network-based applications, according to an example embodiment of the present invention; [0013] FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a system, according to an embodiment, facilitate a search of a data resource; [0014] FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating search applications and search related data structures, according to an embodiment, to classify an information item; [0015] FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating search metadata, according to an embodiment; [0016] FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a method, according to an embodiment, to facilitate searching a data resource; [0017] FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a method, according to an embodiment, to evaluate information with a classification rule; [0018] FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating a method, according to an embodiment, to evaluate information with an inference rule; [0019] FIG. 11 is a block diagram illustrating a system, according to an embodiment, to generate a query; Continue reading about Methods and systems to facilitate searching a data resource... 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