Patent 7509303 was granted and assigned to Oracle on March, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Information retrieval system that allows a user to retrieve data having different attributes from different databases is provided. The information retrieval system associates a search attribute of a subject represented by a user input term, with one or more attributes of data stored in the databases. Based on this association, data whose attribute is associated with the search attribute is collected and provided to the user as feedback.