A RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEM CONTAINING A MULTIDIMENSIONAL HIERARCHICAL MODEL OF INTERRELATED SUBJECT CATEGORIES WITH RECOGNITION CAPABILITIES

摘要

The present invention is a database and a method of producing that database which can be used to determine the meaning of scientific or technical documents, such as patents and/or technical or scientific publications and/or abstracts of these patents or publications, and to assign the technical documents to one or more scientific or technical categories within a multidimensional hierarchical model which reflects the business, scientific or technical interests of a business, scientific or technical entity or specialty.