Distributed search services for electronic data archive systems

摘要

A method for searching index information in a data archive system. The method comprises: receiving a request to search a range of the index information for at least one search term; distributing different portions of the search request among a plurality of search engines, each search engine being responsible searching the index information for the search term over a predetermined portion of the range and providing the results of the search; and collecting the results from the plurality of search engines.