Joerg, Werner B.

E-STRACT

A SUITE OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE TO BUILD AND OPERATE KNOWLEDGE DATABASES FOR USE IN THE RETRIEVAL OF QUALIFIED KNOWLEDGE, COMPRISING DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE TO SEARCH ELECTRONIC INFORMATION ON LOCAL AND GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORKS, TO DISTILL KNOWLEDGE FROM SUCH DOCUMENTS, TO CLASSIFY AND QUALIFY THEM, TO MAINTAIN THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE IN DISTRIBUTED DATABASES, AND TO CONSTRUCT DEDICATED KNOWLEDGE ENVIRONMENTS AND SERVERS FOR CONTROLLED DISTRIBUTION AND END-USER INTERACTION; NETWORK SOFTWARE TO CONNECT VARIOUS COMPUTERS AND USERS INTO LOCAL AND GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORKS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE; SEARCH ENGINE SOFTWARE THAT ALLOWS USERS TO SEARCH THE REPOSITORIES OF QUALIFIED KNOWLEDGE BASED ON CRITERIA SET OUT BY THE USERS;