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Universal pattern search on the web

Often you need no exact match for a given search criteria, or its description is so individual (e.g. detailed human diagnostic parameters) that you cannot expect to find exactly the same description on the web. In these cases it is also helpful if you can find a very similar object. This is possible by representation of the object's features by a numerical vector (a sequence of numbers), so that similarities of the objects are mapped to small distances of their vectors. An unique "pattern name" is associated with any vector and defines its meaning unambiguously. Both together, name and feature vector, build a numerical "pattern" which is machine readable and efficiently searchable. We describe this here:
Realization of universal pattern search on the web.

A medical database which uses the search concept is an application:
Design of a global medical database which is searchable by human diagnostic patterns

Keywords:
Patterns, Non-Text Search, Numerical Search, Feature Vectors, Pattern names, Domain Names, Pattern Domains, Universal Pattern Search, Searchable Global Medical Database, World Wide Web, Search Engines, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Searchable Global Medical Database