Inventors:
Keshavan Subramanian - San Francisco CA, US
George Joby - Foster City CA, US
Sunil Ranka - Cupertino CA, US
Veena Bhandarkar - Belmont CA, US
Indranil Goswami - Kolkata (Calcutta), IN
Hui Li - Temple City CA, US
Robert Sego - Arcadia CA, US
Assignee:
Oracle International Corporation - Redwood Shores CA
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
Constructing a query in a natural-language format using a purpose-driven query template. A user is prompted to select one of a plurality of query purposes. User-input is received indicating a selected one of the plurality of query purposes. A first list of conditions is selected from a plurality of lists of conditions based on the selected one of the plurality of query purposes, then displayed in a format in which each of a plurality of conditions in the first list is grammatically joined to at least one other condition in the first list to form a query sentence, and wherein each of the plurality of conditions in the first list is associated with a respective set of user-selectable values.
