System and method for dynamic retrieval of relevant information by monitoring active data streams

摘要

A system and method for monitoring the content of incoming data sets and retrieving data sets that may be related to the content of the incoming set. The system and method identify in an incoming data set one or more data tokens having a predetermined characteristic, such as membership in a particular part of speech within a language. The identified tokens are used as terms for searching a database. Results of the search are displayed to the user in a desired manner, such as by displaying a list of documents containing one or more of the search terms. The user can then select one of the listed documents and view information that may be relevant to the incoming document.