Document retrieval

1. A method of identifying a document from multiple documents in a support automation system in response to receiving diagnostic data, the documents being stored in a database, comprising:

obtaining a document identifier for each of the documents;

obtaining each of the identified documents from the database using its associated document identifier;

replacing document identifiers for the documents stored in the database with one or more keywords extracted from the documents;

analysing the diagnostic data and retrieving, in response to the analysis, one or more keywords; and

searching the database using the one or more retrieved keywords to identify one or more documents therein.

2. A method according to claim 1 , further comprising, sorting the one or more identified documents into order of relevancy.

3. A method according to claim 2 , further comprising generating a report from the identified documents.

4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the keywords are linked to the diagnostic data by at least one of a rule, establishing a degree of similarity with a previous resolved problem, and using a statistical model.

5. A method according to claim 4 , wherein the step of searching the database using the keywords identifies the specific document or an equivalent document.

6. A method of claim 1 , wherein the keywords are obtained from a specific document.

7. A support automation system adapted to operate in accordance with the method of claim 1 .

8. A method of processing document identifiers in a support automation system comprising:

identifying a document identifier;

retrieving the document identified by the document identifier from a database storing the document;

generating one or more keywords based on the retrieved document; and

replacing the identified document identifier with the one or more generated keywords.