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The keyword indexing capability of flexible. enterprise TM allows a user to index meta-data and data sections within a document or individual fields within a data record independently of each other.

Any keyword index created within flexible. enterprise TM can be searched using a search string, consisting of one or more keywords, operators, and parentheses pairs -- used for nesting logic. NOT OR AND + - ( ) weapons Iran “North Korea” nuclear

Keyword searching within flexible. enterprise TM supports the use of the basic unary operators “+” and “-”, as well as the unary operator “NOT”, the binary operators “AND” and “OR”, and nested parenthesis ( ( “North Korea” AND nuclear ) OR ( Iran AND nuclear ) ) AND NOT weapons ( ( “North Korea” OR Iran ) AND nuclear ) ) AND NOT weapons “North Korea” Iran +nuclear -weapons

The operators “NOT”, “AND”, and “OR” can be configured to use the appropriate words to match any language, or even to use special symbols such as “~”, “&” and “|”. Multiple configurations are possible. ( ( “North Korea” & nuclear ) | ( Iran & nuclear ) ) & ~ weapons ( ( “North Korea” O Iran ) Y nuclear ) ) Y NON weapons “North Korea” Iran +nuclear -weapons

Multiple indexes can be searched within flexible. enterprise TM and ANDed together to limit the results to produce a more accurate result set. Each index can be searched using a separate query string or using the same shared query string.

Multiple indexes can be searched within flexible. enterprise TM and ORed together to expand the results to produce a more complete result set. Each index can be searched using a separate query string or using the same shared query string.

Keyword indexes across different sections of the same document can be combined into a single index group within flexible. enterprise TM allowing the document to be searched in total as well as the sections to be searched independently. NOTE: By assigning the appropriate weighting values to individual indexes, searching the document index group produces a list of results that can be sorted by relevance.

Each keyword index within flexible. enterprise TM can be assigned its own translate table, which contains stop word, synonym, and homonym lists; and rules for root extraction used to process both original data and search strings.

By placing two separate indexes across the same data field or document section -- each with its own translate table, the user can be given the option to perform either an exact search or a less accurate, approximation search or to combine the two and sort by relevance. NOTE: By assigning a higher weighting value to Content Index 1, the search produces a list of results that can be sorted by relevance.

Keyword queries can be combined with numeric range, geo-spatial, timeline, and attribute queries within flexible. enterprise TM to accurately produce the desired result set. PRICE / MONTH MEGABITS / SEC UP TIME PRICE / MONTH MEGABITS / SEC