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  Chris Maresca, 11 Dec 2003 @ 12:07pm

  
  

  Prior art...

  I actually wrote a system in 1995 that did precisely what is described in the patent. We had a query engine accessed through a web browser. It used natural language queries and would basically write a custom "query engine" for each query.

  Because the queries took so long to run (the DB was huge and we couln't hold the browser connection open for more than 3 minutes...), the results were email back to the user, along with a hyperlink to the results.

  The system was smart enough to cache queries so that duplicates were not run, you would simply be linked through to the report.
  Sounds like the same thing, and I'm pretty sure I still have the code for it somewhere.

  Chris.

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